04-17-2014 minnesota daily

OIT cuts student repairs

TECHNOLOGY

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HOLLY PETERSON, DAILYArchitecture Graduate Student Sophia Skemp shows her final project to previous graduate student and professional architect Julie Macleod in Ralph Rapson Hall on the University’s East Bank on Monday.

Fighting to keep ideasBUSINESS

BY NICOLAS [email protected]

U ntil recently, University of Minne-

sota students didn’t have rights to

their own work.

That policy changed in February, but

business and legal experts say it’s still

important to be wary when sharing intel-

lectual property, both before and after

graduation.

Usually institutions — whether they are

companies or schools — own the intellec-

tual property of students and employees.

If taken to court, the larger establishment

usually wins. For that reason, experts rec-

ommend that students and employees keep

their ideas to themselves.

It’s “very one-sided,” said University law

professor Thomas Cotter, who researches

intellectual property law.

“Many people would say that there

ought to be more protection for the

In school and the workplace, experts say it’s important for students to know their intellectual property rights.

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BY KRISTOFFER [email protected]

If University of Minnesota students need their computers fixed, they’ll soon have to pay full price.

On May 19, the Office of Information Technology will no longer offer discounted computer hardware repairs to students through its Personal Device Repair divi-sion. Tech Stop and the support hotline 1-HELP will continue to offer tech support and troubleshooting for software.

While officials cite several reasons for closing the program — like underutiliza-tion and a growing number of nearby com-petitors — the cut has provoked mixed

BY BLAIR EMERSON AND TAYLOR [email protected], [email protected]

The University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences announced Wednesday that Thomas Hays will serve as interim dean beginning July 1, according to an email sent to CBS students, faculty and staff.

A search committee composed mainly of University deans, faculty members and students will conduct a nationwide search for current CBS Dean Robert Elde’s per-manent replacement. Appointment of a new dean is expected by July 2015.

Elde announced in September that he would step down from his post this

BY MITCHELL [email protected]

Emerald ash borers are destroying eco-systems across the state, and University of Minnesota researchers are asking for state funding to help stop them.

The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences is looking for new ways to fight the insect, a terrestrial species that infests and kills ash trees. The college is asking state legislators to ap-prove a multimillion-dollar funding request to create a “virtual center” that would study how to contain the pests.

“We’re unlikely to eliminate these spe-cies statewide, but we can make a signifi-cant impact in containing them,” said Susan Galatowitsch, head of the Fisheries, Wild-

life and Conservation Biology Department.CFANS interim dean Brian Buhr said

the new center would start operating in 2015 and exist separately from the Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center, which studies Asian carp. The University is asking for funding in its 2014 bonding request to construct a new aquatic facility in St. Paul.

Buhr calls the project a “vir tual cen-ter” because there wouldn’t be a physical

Officials say the subsidized computer fixes aren’t used, but students have doubts.

Thomas Hays will serve as interim dean; a replacement will be appointed by 2015.

With state help, the University wants to create a center to research invasive species.

CBS starts search for new dean

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To fight off emerald ash borers, U turns to Leg.RESEARCH

Honoring a healthy passionHEALTH

ALICIA MCCANN, DAILYCommissioner of the Minneapolis Health Department Gretchen Musicant received the Gaylord W. Anderson Leadership Award from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health this month. u See HEALTH 6

BY ALLISON [email protected]

Behind Minneapolis Health Commis-sioner Gretchen Musicant’s unassuming, just-over 5-foot presence is a restless go-getter who has been a driving force behind Minnesota health for decades.

Musicant, an alumna of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and the School of Public Health, received the Gay-lord Anderson Leadership Award last week for her work on state and city public health issues.

Gaylord W. Anderson was the first

Dean of the School of Public Health — the school’s most prestigious alumni award is named after him.

“Gretchen is a longtime public health advocate,” School of Public Health alumni relations director Tara Anderson said of the Minneapolis native. “I think she’s a won-derful leader and really knows how to build consensus and use collaboration to solve issues.”

Since getting her master’s degree in public health nursing in 1986, Musicant hasn’t stopped working for more than a couple of months, even during maternity leave.

But she hadn’t always aspired to work in public health.

Musicant received her first undergraduate

The U honored alumna and Mpls. Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant last week.

Out of the voidBlack Diet will debut its first album and head-

line the Hymie’s Record Store Day Block Party.

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China’s growth slows to 7.4 percent in annual first quarter

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — China’s eco-nomic growth slowed further in the latest quarter but ap-peared strong enough to sat-isfy Chinese leaders who are trying to put the country on a more sustainable path with-out politically dangerous job losses.

The world’s second-largest economy grew 7.4 percent from a year earlier in the January-March quarter, down from the previous quar-ter’s 7.7 percent, government data showed Wednesday. It matched a mini-slump in late 2012 for the weakest growth since the 2008-09 global crisis.

Beijing is trying to guide China’s economy toward growth based on domestic consumption instead of trade and investment following the past decade’s explosive ex-pansion. The top economic of-ficial, Premier Li Keqiang, last week ruled out new stimulus and said leaders will focus on “sustainable and healthy de-velopment.”

“Chinese growth held

up better than expected last quarter and there are signs that downwards pressure on growth has eased some-what,” said analyst Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics in a report.

Retail sales and factory output were weaker than in the previous quarter but im-proved in March. On a quar-ter-to-quarter basis, economic growth from Januar y to March slowed to 1.4 percent from the previous period’s 1.8 percent.

The data reflect official ef-forts to shift emphasis from investment-intensive industry to services such as restau-rants and retailing that gener-ate more jobs.

Credit growth slowed in March and the expansion of China’s overall money supply rose at its slowest rate since 1997. Housing sales in the first quarter declined 5.7 per-cent from a year earlier.

“The continued slowdown in money and credit growth is likely to keep exerting relent-less downward pressure on China’s economic growth,”

said Societe Generale econo-mist Wei Yao in a report. “Without re-acceleration of debt growth, the economy is unlikely to stabilize for anoth-er quarter at least.”

Stock markets in Asia and Europe were mostly higher, shrugging off the Chinese figures because growth didn’t slow as much as fore-cast by analysts.

The latest economic growth is below the official annual target of 7.5 percent announced last month. But Chinese leaders appear will-ing to miss that target so long as the economy cre-ates enough jobs to avoid potential unrest. In a sign of concern about employ-ment, they launched a mini-stimulus in March of higher spending on building rail-ways and low-cost housing.

“Policymakers appear comfortable with the cur-rent pace of growth,” said Pritchard. “The policy re-sponse to today’s numbers is likely to be muted.”

Some analysts said that with inflation relatively

subdued at 2.4 percent in March, the central bank might respond by easing monetary policy and inject extra money into credit mar-kets.

Domestic consumption is rising but more slowly than Beijing wants. In October, the government said consump-tion accounted for 55 percent of growth and investment for most of the rest. A govern-ment spokesman, Sheng Lai-yun, said Wednesday the ratio for the latest quarter still was being calculated.

The quarterly expansion matched the third quarter of 2012, when growth tumbled after global demand for Chi-na’s exports weakened un-expectedly while the govern-ment was tightening lending and investment controls to cool surging inflation.

The past decade’s rapid growth, which peaked at 14.2 percent in 2007, was driven by an export boom and spending on factories, apartment towers and other assets. But that model is los-ing its ability to drive growth.

Former diplomat apologizes for UN inaction in Rwanda

Sub makes second dive to search for airplane


UNITED NATIONS — The diplomat who was president of the U.N. Security Council in April 1994 apologized Wednesday for the council’s refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people.

Former New Zealand ambassador Colin Keating issued the rare apology during a council meeting to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide and examine what has been done since to prevent new genocides.

The open session elicited praise for the U.N.’s stepped-up commitment to put human rights at the center of its work but widespread criticism of its failure to prevent ongoing atrocities in Syria, Central African Republic and South Sudan.

The council unanimously adopted a resolution calling on all countries “to recommit to prevent and fight against geno-cide” and reaffirming their responsibility to protect people from crimes against humanity. It condemned any denial of the Rwanda genocide and underscored the importance of taking into account lessons learned from the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Keating recalled that New Zealand, Nigeria, the Czech Republic and Spain, supported by Argentina and Djibouti, urged condemnation of the Rwanda genocide in April 1994, the month it started, and called for reinforcement of the U.N. mission in the country, but “most” veto-wielding permanent members objected.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power acknowledged that the United States supported extracting U.N. troops rather than re-inforcing them, which could have saved thousands of lives.


PERTH, Australia — As a robotic submarine dived into the ocean to look for lost Flight 370, angr y Chi-nese relatives stormed out of a teleconference meeting Wednesday to protest the Malaysian government for not addressing them in person.

The Bluefin 21 sub surfaced early for the second time in as many missions, this time after experiencing techni-cal dif ficulties. It was sent back into the water after its data were downloaded but there’s been no sign of the plane, according to the search coordinator.

As the search continued, more than 100 relatives of Chinese passengers on the plane walked out of a telecon-ference meeting with senior Malaysian officials, an act of defiance over a lack of contact with that country’s govern-ment and for taking so long to respond to their demands.

The family members had gathered in a meeting room at a Beijing hotel where Malaysia Airlines had provided lodging and food. But they stood and filed out shortly before the call with Malaysia’s civil aviation chief, Azha-ruddin Abdul Rahman, and others as it was about to start.

“These video conference meetings often don’t work, the sound stops and it’s constantly disrupted. Is that how we are going to communicate?” said Jiang Hui, one of the family members, after the walkout. “Do they need to waste our time in such a way?”

Jiang said the Malaysian government had not met de-mands the relatives had presented to them weeks ago in Malaysia — an apology for the way they’ve handled the matter along with meetings with the Malaysian govern-ment and airline of ficials. They also have requested to sit down with executives from Boeing and Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of the plane and its engines.

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When the U is involved, Frey isn’t shy During his short time at City Hall, Jacob Frey has taken the lead on issues concerning the University of Minnesota.

BY TYLER [email protected]

Jacob Fr ey has a l -ready made a noticeable mark on Minneapo l i s and the Universi ty of Minnesota, even though he’s been a City Council member for less than four months.

Frey, who as Ward 3 C i t y C o u n c i l m a n represents neighborhoods around the Univesity, took of fice in January and said his new role has strength-ened the city’s ties with the institution.

This budding relation-ship is new and beneficial for the two stakeholders, he said. Although the part-nership existed before, Frey said his time in office has deepened the connec-tion, and University of fi-cials agree.

Specifically, Frey said he’s kept a close eye on Dinkytown development, the Central Corridor light rail project, TCF Bank Stadium construction and crime prevention ef for ts around campus.

U n i v e r s i t y c o m m u -nity relations director Jan Morlock said she talks with Frey’s of fice at least once a week about how the city and the University can work together more ef fectively — by increas-ing collaboration between University and Minneapo-lis police departments, for example.

“There’s a realization by the city and the Uni-versity that they’ve got to work together on a prob-lem that af fects both of them,” said Humphrey School of Public Af fairs political science professor Larry Jacobs.

Frey joined University administrators last Friday at a press conference ad-dressing rowdy Dinky-town crowds after the pre-vious night’s NCAA Fro-zen Four semifinal victory.

F r e y s a i d h e w a s p leased wi th how the city and University law enforcement of ficials re-sponded to the incident, but he noted that hockey fans can celebrate without “beating the hell out of property.”

Guiding changeDevelopment in the

University area is another issue on Frey’s radar.

The Venue, a new Din-kytown apar tment com-plex, is set to open by fall 2014. Frey said he’s watch-ing that project closely.

“Dinkytown is hot,” he said. “There are develop-ers who are chomping at the bit to do some impres-sive projects.”

Frey fills one of the city’s three seats on the University District Alli-ance, a group of city, Uni-versity and community leaders that meets to dis-cuss the needs of campus-area neighborhoods.

University-relevant transportation projects are also surfacing on the city level, including the light rail launching June 14.

Once it opens, Frey said, the easy commute will make jobs downtown more attractive to stu-dents.

The University area will see more changes this summer in preparation for the Minnesota Vikings’ ar-rival in the fall. The team will play at TCF Bank Sta-dium, which Frey said will benefit local businesses.

Beyond the Univer -sity, Frey has focused on desegregating neighbor-hoods by revamping city regulations to allow for a mix of housing stock.

He’s also had a hand in f ina nc ing a down -town park, changing city code to allow rideshar-ing companies to oper-ate in Minneapolis and s e c u r i n g f u n d s f o r a new school in the Nor th

Loop neighborhood.“I think Jacob brings

a spirit of engagement,” Morlock said. “It’s a good sign for [the University’s] future par tnership work with the city.”

‘Spring training’The learning curve for

new City Council mem-bers is steep, Jacobs said, adding that some new counc i l members a r e struggling to reconcile the promises they made on the campaign trail.

Seven of the 13 mem-bers were elected this year, and many are new to holding public office.

“I see this as really an adjustment period,” Jacobs said, cal l ing i t “spring training.”

New members have to get up to speed with cur-rent city projects, he said, which could potentially re-verse plans that have been unfolding for years with in-formal city approval.

For example, the 2014 City Council denied Doran Companies a permit to de-molish properties in Din-kytown, which Jacobs said affects the long-term plans of stakeholders involved.

“Now [developers] are pretty confused,” he said. “They don’t really know

where the City Council is going.”

Ward 5 City Council-man Blong Yang, who’s also in his first year on the council, said it takes time to learn city govern-ment and how to work

effectively with city depart-ments.

Learning quickly is part of the job, Frey said, and de-spite the challenge, the re-wards outweigh the struggle.

“It’s been an absolute whirlwind,” he said.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILYCity Council member Jacob Frey speaks to the press Friday in Dinkytown about being safe after Saturday’s Gophers men’s hockey team’s NCAA championship game.

summer, helping prompt talks of merging CBS and the College of Food, Ag-ricultural and Natural Re-source Sciences, which also had its dean position in flux.

U n i v e r s i t y l e a d e r s weighed a merger for months but scrapped the idea in February after find-ing that most stakeholders opposed it.

When merger talks died off, leaders from both col-leges said they plan to work more closely in the future. As interim dean, Hays said he will continue CBS’ col-laboration with other col-leges, including CFANS.

“I think that engag-ing the other colleges on campus is important on all fronts,” he said.

Mostafa Kaveh, College of Science and Engineering associate dean and search committee member, said it’s crucial for whoever is chosen to lead CBS to push for more crossover between the colleges with research and curriculum.

Col laborat ions have been useful so far, he said.

“It ’s something that we’ve been doing increas-ingly and I expect with the next dean,” he said.

Elde said the new dean will be charged with men-toring faculty members so they work together.

“It’s all about capital-izing on the incredible strength of our own college as well as the other colleg-es here at the University,” Elde said. “I think Tom will do that, and I think that is where our future is bright-est.”

Senior Vice President for Academic Af fairs and Provost Karen Hanson said in an email that Hays has already strengthened re-search programs in CBS, something he’s expected to continue as interim dean.

“The CBS already has a very strong research pro-gram, and he’s a very capa-ble scientist,” said genetics, cell biology and develop-ment assistant professor Anindya Bagchi. “I’m very optimistic that he will do justice and even better the research environment at the CBS.”

Hays became a Univer-sity faculty member more than two decades ago and is currently an associate dean for research and grad-uate education and a pro-fessor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development.

“He really understands the impor tance of the teaching mission of our college,” said David Green-stein, a professor in Hays’ department.

Few details about the search committee’s plan were available Wednesday, but its chair — College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Trevor Ames — said the search process will evolve in the next few weeks.

He said the committee will likely discuss with Han-son what it’s looking for in a permanent dean.

“We’re looking for a per-son that can lead us into the future [and] to capitalize on the new technologies and the new things that are hap-pening in biology, for both teaching and research,” said Gar y Muehlbauer, search committee member and agronomy and plant ge-netics professor.

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US judge overturns abortion banBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal judge on Wednes-day over turned a Nor th Dakota law that bans abor-tions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before many women know they’re pregnant.

U.S. District Judge Dan-iel Hovland said the law is “invalid and unconstitu-tional” and that it “cannot withstand a constitutional cha l lenge.” The s ta te

attorney general said he was looking at whether to appeal the decision by the Bismarck-based judge.

North Dakota is among several conservative states that have passed new abor-tion restrictions in recent years, but abortion rights suppor ters called Nor th Dakota’s fetal hear tbeat law the most restrictive in the country. A fetal heart-beat law passed in Arkan-sas would ban abortions at 12 weeks into pregnancy, but it was over turned by another federal judge. The

state’s attorney general has said he will appeal.

Nor th Dakota’s hear t-beat measure was among four anti-abortion bills that Republican Gov. Jack Dal-rymple signed into law last year with over whelming suppor t from the state’s Republican-led Legislature. Backed by the New York-based Center for Repro-ductive Rights, the state’s only abor tion clinic, the Red River Clinic in Fargo, f i led a lawsuit against the hear tbeat law last July.

FREY’S PROGRESS ON SELECTED GOALS

SOURCE: JACOB FREY

GOAL: Invest in a school for the North Loop district.STATUS: COMPLETE

GOAL: Promote desegregation of neighborhoods through more affordable housing.STATUS: IN PROGRESS

GOAL: Narrow the achievement gap between whites and minorities.STATUS: MORE WORK NEEDED

GOAL: Promote ridesharing companies to lower car dependency.STATUS: IN PROGRESS

GOAL: Connect university students with jobs downtown after graduation.STATUS: IN PROGRESS

“Dinkytown is hot. There are a lot of developers who are chomping at the bit to do some impressive projects.”JACOB FREYWard 3 City Councilman


Kill switch garners industry supportBY TAYLOR NACHTIGALAND BLAIR [email protected]@mndaily.com

Beginning next summer, most new smartphones will be equipped with a theft de-terrent.

The leading trade group for cellphone manufactur-ers announced Tuesday that companies will equip smart-phones made after July 2015 with a “kill switch” that would clear the phone’s memory and render it useless, follow-ing legislative pushes from around the country.

Minnesota Student As-sociation President Mike Schmit recently testified at the Capitol in support of a bill in the Minnesota Legis-lature that would require kill switches.

He said this technology would benefit students on the University of Minnesota campus because it could de-ter theft.

“I think the ultimate goal is the change of perception that thieves have about steal-ing from students,” Schmit

said. “Right now we’re easy targets; we’re seen as big-money robberies.”

About one-third of rob-beries in the U.S. involve cellphone theft, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

CTIA-The Wireless As-sociation, a nonprofit that represents the wireless com-munications industry and an-nounced the voluntary effort to implement kill switches, said in a press release that major smartphone manufac-turers — including Apple, HTC, Google, Sprint and T-Mobile — have all agreed to the plan.

This agreement follows legislative pushes in some states, including California and New York, and a federal version of the bill sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

The CTIA previously op-posed kill switches because of the potential for phones to be disabled maliciously, prevent-ing emergency calls.

Under the current plan, the phone’s authorized user would also have the ability to

restore the phone’s data and functionality.

In Minnesota, Rep. Joe Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, authored a kill switch bill and said he’s pleased with the CTIA’s announcement. Now, he’s contemplating whether the industr y agreement will be ef fective enough, or if legislation mandating kill switches still needs to be pushed.

“I think the agreement is a very positive step forward,” he said. “Whether or not it alleviates the need for pass-ing the law, I guess I’m still visiting with some folks, like officials at the U and the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul … and the law enforcement community.”

Minneapolis Police De-partment spokesman John El-der echoed support and said Minneapolis police backs kill switch bills at the state and national levels.

“The belief is that if we make the item being stolen not worth anything, then that should in fact drive down the demand for it,” he said.

An industry trade group plans to require the theft deterrent.

To fight off emerald ash borers, U turns to Leg.

building designated for the terrestrial invasive species research. Rather, many de-partments across the college would conduct the work.

Legislators are mulling proposals that would provide up to $5.3 million — a one-time boost — for the new ter-restrial invasive species cen-ter. In the coming weeks, they will try to compromise on an exact amount to put towards the center.

Buhr said the University isn’t requesting state dollars to construct a new research facility right now but wants funding to pay researchers and buy equipment.

If approved, Buhr said, the money would pay graduate students for their work. Each graduate student researcher receives about $40,000 per year, he said.

The center would have a faculty researcher who would report the new findings to the college’s dean and coordinate projects across departments. Researchers in entomology, plant pathology and horti-culture science would have a role in the terrestrial invasive species center as well.

“We need to come up with research priorities and focus on the issues where we can make an impact,” Galatow-itsch said.

Buhr said the new center would allow different disci-plines to hold more struc-tured discussions on other terrestrial species, like the spotted wing Drosophila. The

fly is damaging soft berries, ultimately affecting the agri-cultural industry.

The University already has partnerships with organi-zations like the Department of Natural Resources and Minnesota Department of Ag-riculture, but Buhr said cre-ating the new center would strengthen those ties.

Galatowitsch said the de-partments should prioritize the research projects based on their individual cost and level of impact.

These invasive species take a significant toll on the state’s economic well-being, she said, because they affect commercial land, ecosystems and the agricultural industry.

Gypsy moths are also destroying trees and forests throughout the Midwest, in-cluding eastern Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture plans on plac-ing a quarantine in the affect-ed area.

Buhr said invasive species affect state terrains, ranging from wetlands to prairies, and it is crucial the state provides the funding so the research can move forward to contain them.

“We are looking forward to collaborating with the state in order to address this seri-ous problem,” he said.

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MNsure names Deloitte as vendor to overhaul siteBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of release for a man who was two months shy of his 18th birthday when prosecutors say he raped and killed a teenage girl, stabbing her 29 times with a screwdriver.

In its majority opinion, the state Supreme Court found that a lower court erred when it retroactively applied a federal ruling that banned mandatory no-pa-role sentences for juveniles. The lower court changed Tony Roman Nose’s sen-tence to give him a chance to seek parole — a deci-sion the Supreme Court re-versed Wednesday.

Roman Nose, now 31, was convicted in the July 2000 killing of Jolene Stu-edemann of Woodbur y. Under state statutes he received the mandator y sentence of life in prison without release, and Stuede-

mann’s family thought he would never be free.

Years later, in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life with-out parole for juveniles was cruel and unusual punish-ment, and therefore uncon-stitutional. The court didn’t rule out such sentences for teens altogether — only the mandatory aspect. A judge could still issue a no-parole sentence, but would have to take into account “the miti-gating qualities of youth,” such as a failure to under-stand the ramifications of their actions.

The U.S. Supreme Court didn’t say whether its deci-sion was retroactive, leaving the 28 states with manda-tory no-parole life sentences to grapple with the issue.

Just last year, the Minne-sota Supreme Court found that the federal ruling is not retroactive, and Wednes-day’s decision follows that precedent.

“I’m ver y happy that the Supreme Cour t up-held his original sentence

and he’s not going to get out and threaten anyone ever again,” said Jim Stuede-mann, Jolene’s father. “I feel safer. We’ll sleep better, just knowing that there’s not this chance that he’s going to get before a parole board.”

The justices note that go-ing back in time and assess-ing whether the 17-year-old Roman Nose had mitigating factors that would warrant a different sentence is dif-ficult. Doing so “will not ensure the fair administra-tion of justice. Instead, the integrity and public reputa-tion of the court will be un-dermined if Roman Nose receives a reduced sentence simply because the passage of time prevents meaningful implementation of the (fed-eral) procedures,” Chief Jus-tice Lorie Skjerven Gildea wrote.

“In light of Roman Nose’s age, the brutal nature of his crime, and the overwhelm-ing evidence of his guilt, such a windfall would under-mine the public confidence in the judicial system,” Gil-dea wrote.

Fred Fink, criminal divi-sion chief in the Washington County Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors are pleased with the decision. Roman Nose’s attorneys did not

immediately return mes-sages seeking comment. Among other things, they had argued that if the prior sentence was reinstated, the justices would be violating the constitution in light of the new federal ruling.

The Supreme Court dis-agreed, saying the defense argument was a mischarac-terization and the Supreme Court is simply reinstating the original sentence.

Justice Barry Anderson wrote in a concurring opin-ion that there was no com-pelling reason given in this case to overrule the court’s prior decision on retroactiv-ity, but that some elements of the analysis are troubling. He wrote that it’s important to recognize that the federal decision and the varying opinions on retroactivity cre-ate disparity.

“Put more bluntly, some defendants, after decades of incarceration, will have at least an opportunity for release, and others will certainly die in prison,” he wrote.

In another concurring opinion, Justice David Lille-haug said “one can only hope” the U.S. Supreme Court clarifies the issue of retroactivity at its earliest opportunity.


M I N N E A P O L I S — Minnesota’s online health insurance marketplace an-nounced Deloitte Consult-ing on Wednesday as the lead manager to overhaul its troubled website and computer systems, citing the company’s record of suc-cess in other states.

MNsure’s contract with Deloitte is worth $4.95 mil-lion and will run through the end of the year once the fed-eral government formally approves it. MNsure’s in-terim CEO, Scott Leitz, said federal officials understand the urgency so he hopes to get that go-ahead within a week or two.

Deloitte’s main task will be to provide a better expe-rience for consumers when the next open enrollment pe-riod begins Nov. 15, as well as for the insurance plans, counties and others who also work with the system, Leitz said.

Deloitte of ficials told MNsure’s board they’ll have a better idea of what needs to be done to fulfil those goals after a 60-day assessment period, but said their team includes people

who have helped set up suc-cessful exchanges in other states.

“We’ve got a ver y ex-perienced team that we’re bringing on site and are re-ally excited to get going,” Deloitte partner Steve Dahl said.

New York-based De-loitte was one of the origi-nal bidders for the contract to build Minnesota’s ex-change, but Deloitte want-ed $20 million more than the state was willing to pay at the time. The contract went instead to Reston Va.-based Maximus Inc., but the state took back control of the project early last year amid concerns about slow progress and missed dead-lines.

Technical problems marred MNsure’s launch last October and persisted for months, fr ustrating thousands of people who tried to meet deadlines for enrolling for health care coverage set by the federal Affordable Care Act. Min-nesota’s legislative audi-tor, James Nobles, said last week that he plans to con-duct an independent review of what went wrong.

Nearly 190,000 Minne-sotans have signed up for coverage through MNsure, however, and the exchange offers some of the lowest premium rates in the coun-try. Minnesota was one of 14 states plus the District of Co-lumbia that opted to set up their own exchanges instead of sending their residents into the federal exchange.

MNsure’s announce-ment pointed to Deloitte’s success in designing and developing exchanges for Connecticut, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Washing-ton state, which it called “national models of simple design, ef fective technol-ogy, and stable websites.”

Minnesota joined Mary-land and Nevada in turn-ing to Deloitte for help with their struggling exchanges. Maryland decided earlier this month to scrap its badly flawed system and replace it with technology Deloitte developed for Connecticut. Oregon’s severely troubled exchange terminated a limit-ed contract with Deloitte for advice on future technology options and is considering switching to the federal web-site instead of adopting tech-nology from another state, but Deloitte still remains involved with Oregon’s turn-around efforts.

Leitz told reporters that MNsure is not currently considering replacing its system and is focusing in-stead on making the neces-sary improvements.

And Leitz deftly ducked a question about whether MNsure should have picked Deloitte in the first place — a decision made long before he was brought in.

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employees or students,” Cotter said. “But in the United States, rightly or wrongly, we leave it up to the individuals to protect themselves.”

Employees — espe-cially those fresh out of school — often don’t have a choice. Carlson School of Management senior lecturer Rand Park said companies usually write intellectual proper ty re-strictions into employment contracts — something that’s especially true in creative vocations. He said it’s a good idea to check the employment contract.

“You’d usually be ver y much on notice that the work that you’re doing is going to be owned by your employer,” he said.

But having employees sign over their intellectual proper ty can be counter-productive for both sides. A study published this year in the Harvard Busi-ness Review found that motivation suf fered dra-matically when subjects signed over ownership of their ideas.

The study offered more than 1,000 par ticipants paid work and placed them

into two groups: those with ownership of their work and those without.

O f t h e n o n - o w n e r -ship group, 61 percent simply gave up on their task and sacrificed get-t ing paid. Non-owners were also twice as likely to make mistakes and spent less time on their work.

The study said not al-lowing people to keep their ideas sapped them of their desire to exert themselves and develop their skills.

In many other coun-tries, Cotter said, employ-ees have laws protecting inventors, stat ing that they are due a minimum amount of compensation no matter what an employ-ment contract says.

“Maybe our laws ought to be more favorable to [individuals],” he said.

In February, the Board of Regents approved a policy change granting University students the rights to work they create in classes. The old policy required students to dis-close their inventions to the Office for Technology Commercialization before securing this right.

But the policy still re-quires that the University receive a percentage of roy-alties if the invention starts making money, Park said.

“The University wants to incentivize future scien-tists to make new things,” he said. “But they can’t just let scientists invent things and walk out the door and have no opportu-nity to recoup some of the costs.”

Park said professors and researchers at the University have had “a lot” of intellectual prop-er ty con f l i c t s in the past.

Still, he said, institutions “definitely have deeper pockets” than individuals.

Companies may also swipe an idea or concept from a business proposal or job interview, Park said, and those fresh out of col-lege are the most suscep-tible.

“There are ver y few entry-level applicants that are going to have the re-sources to fight back,” he said. “Plus, it would be pretty hard to prove. But does it happen? Yeah, it probably can happen.”

Park said if someone is asking too many leading questions, it could be a sign to be careful and only speak in generalities about an idea.

“If you feel like you’ve got a killer idea or in-vention,” he said, “the best protection is not to share it.”

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HOLLY PETERSON, DAILYFirst-year architecture graduate student Sam Clausen works on a project Monday in Ralph Rapson Hall on the University’s East Bank.

OIT cuts discounted student repair service

responses from students.“The [University] book-

store’s got it; the private sector’s got it,” said Vice President and Chief Informa-tion Officer Scott Studham. “The University shouldn’t be spending students’ tuition money on offering the same services from multiple loca-tions.”

The decision to cut Per-sonal Device Repair is the second instance in a year that OIT has eliminated a subsi-dized technology program for students. Last summer, the University stopped offer-ing students a discount on Microsoft Office products because sales had fallen al-most 50 percent since 2010.

Associate CIO and Infor-mation Technology Director Craig Bantz said the device repair program was “very small.” He said OIT decided to end the service due to decreasing demand and the growing number of nearby businesses that offer similar services.

“There’s kind of a pleth-ora of other services provid-ing this around the campus and even on campus,” he said. “They’ll fix your phone, they’ll fix your game console, they’ll come to your house. We don’t have any expertise in any of those spaces.”

Personal Device Repair isn’t supposed to turn a prof-it, Bantz said — just break even.

The ser vice has been around in various forms since the mid-1990s and op-erates on a budget of approx-imately $150,000, User Sup-port Service Director Donna Edelen said in an email.

For now, the program em-ploys one full-time employee and six students, she said, and on average repairs about 90 devices a month.

While they will no longer

be repairing hardware, Edel-en said in the email, all seven employees will be offered jobs to continue working in IT support, although she didn’t specify doing what.

“Nobody is being laid off,” Studham said.

The employees will no longer repair hardware, he said, but will instead be as-signed different jobs “in user support,” like troubleshoot-ing with students over the phone for 1-HELP.

“We’re trying to meet what the students are asking for,” Studham said. “So the stu-dents are asking for more soft-ware support, and there’s less asks for hardware support.”

Computer science sopho-more Karteek Agarwal said he doesn’t buy that Personal Device Repair has little stu-dent demand.

“If you’re telling me that the service is being under-utilized, I find that hard to believe,” he said. “I always see some people standing [at Tech Stop] in line. I had to wait 15 minutes just to get served.”

Information Technology senior Adrian Chum worked for Personal Device Repair

for about nine months with a dozen other students, he said, before leaving for an in-ternship last month.

He agrees with OIT of-ficials that the service is un-derutilized, but he said that’s mostly because students don’t know it exists.

“No matter how many suggestions I’ve suggested to my manager about mar-keting, nothing ever hap-pened,” he said. “How could students know about our service if we never advertise about them?”

Students would often go to a well-known repair ser-vice like Geek Squad instead, Chum said, or buy a new computer entirely.

Agarwal said both he and a friend have gone to Tech Stop for hardware issues, and his friend got his laptop fan fixed for only $50. He said ending the service alto-gether is going to be “a big issue” for students if they’ll need to start getting their repairs from more costly alternatives.

Bantz said it may seem like students are losing out on a discounted service, but it could save them money in the long run because service subsidies like Per-sonal Device Repair could increase tuition and fees.

The University should reduce their operation costs, Agar wal said, but “there’s no point in closing it entirely.”

Chum said he sees it as a rather simple transaction to reduce cost and simplify the departments.

“It’s all business,” he said. “If we don’t profit from our computer repairs, which a lot of the time we didn’t, then why keep the program?”

Editor’s note: Minnesota Daily web editor Jeff Hargar-ten is also employed by OIT’s Personal Device Repair divi-sion. He was not involved in the writing or reporting of this story.

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Obama, Biden announce $600M in grants to spur job creationBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAKDALE, Pa. — Em-phasizing skills training as key to a growing middle class, President Barack Obama on Wednesday an-nounced $600 million in competitive grants to spur creation of targeted train-ing and apprenticeship pro-grams to help people land good-paying jobs.

“When it comes to train-ing our workers, not all of today’s good jobs require a four-year college degree,” Obama said. “But I prom-ise you, there’s not a job out there that’s going to pay a lot if you don’t have some spe-cialized training.”

With the economy recov-ering and unemployment still stubbornly high at 6.7 percent, Obama portrayed skills training as critical to maintaining the U.S. compet-itive edge in a global econo-my that has rapidly changing

technology and competition from countries like China.

Commerce Secretar y Penny Pritzker, who trav-eled aboard Air Force One with Obama, said business-es spend $400 billion a year to train their workers. She said a goal of the new pro-grams is to encourage em-ployers to make that train-ing available to others.

Obama announced two programs, the larger of which will put nearly $500 million toward a job-train-ing competition run by the Labor Department and de-signed to encourage com-munity colleges, employ-ers and industry to work together to create training programs for the jobs em-ployers need to fill. Applica-tions were to be available starting Wednesday and due by July 7.

The program is part of an existing competitive grant program for community

colleges that train dislocated workers for jobs.

A priority will be placed on par tnerships that in-clude national entities, such as industr y associations, that pledge to help design and institute programs that give job seekers a creden-tial that will be accepted by employers across a particu-lar industry.

Under the second pro-gram, scheduled to begin in the fall, the Labor De-par tment will put an ad-ditional $100 million in grants toward rewarding partnerships that expand apprenticeship programs.

This competition will focus, in part, on partner-ships that create programs in high-growth fields, such as information technology, health care and advanced manufacturing, as well as programs that provide col-lege credit or industry-wide skills certification.

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L i k e m o s t college stu-dents, I ’m

v e r y i n v o l v e d with multiple so-

cial networking websites like Twit-ter and Facebook. Of course, these websites are a great way to keep in touch with my family and friends, but I’ve also fostered my own am-bitions outside of the classroom and have found more uses for these same online tools. As young people, we should take advantage of the open resources online.

Obser ving my own circles, I found it common for college stu-dents to have a passionate and entrepreneurial mindset, but it sometimes seems as though our time and resources are limited. It’s clear why. Outside of being a full-time student, I run my own online magazine, and I am also a musi-cian. While working two jobs and taking classes, it can be difficult to find time to go to the studio or set up a board meeting, but changing the way I’ve traditionally used so-cial networking, I have been able to pursue both my music and my business while still maintaining my credit load.

I have seen many students use the Internet to build their own online stores, sell products, share their talents and even bring in revenue, all while still pursu-ing their studies. College student Gerald Edwards Jr., who went to high school in Minnesota, is the founder, CEO and designer of Never Stop On Dreams Clothing. He’s found success promoting his business online through a huge Instagram following, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.

A recent survey shows 95 per-cent of college students use Face-book, 80 percent are on Twitter and 73 percent use Instagram. Social networking platforms have become one of the best resources for startups, especially for college students who live and breathe it. Social networking makes it easy to locate one’s target audience, cre-ate ef fective marketing strategies and tell stories on young people’s level.

While many students are on so-cial networking sites, many do not use them to market themselves to the world. Utilizing these tools with an entrepreneurial attitude could lead to a job or even use your education in new and inter-esting ways.

Tiffany Trawick welcomes comments at [email protected].

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The Internet opens our business prospectsYoung people should use social media sites for more than just chatting.

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TUITION

A new kind of indentured servitude

O f the approximately 20 mil l ion Ameri -cans who attend col-

lege each year, 60 percent take out loans to cover their education.

Today, student loan debt in the United States totals be-tween $902 billion and $1 tril-lion. The average borrower owes just over $24,000.

This problem is one that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wis., are seeking to tackle with a new bill, the Investing in Student Success Act of 2014.

The bill hopes to autho-rize the use of income share agreements that allow two parties — a student and an investor — to enter into a con-tractual agreement in which the investor finances the stu-dent’s postsecondary educa-tion. In return, the student pays a percentage of their post-graduation income for a set period of time.

Several companies such as

UpStart and Pave work as on-line crowd-funding platforms similar to Kickstarter and al-low investors to connect with students. This bill hopes to set up a legal framework for these types of operations.

The clear distinction be-tween income share agree-ments and private loans is that there is no actual loaning going on in an income share agreement.

Students wouldn’t actu-ally be indebted to their investor(s) upon graduation in the sense that there would be no balance to pay off each month.

Of course, this is where the catch is for the investors.

Because they are not simply receiving repayment for a private loan, investors have a chance to capitalize on their human investments.

Since the program would tie repayment of the agree-ments to a student’s future income, it’s in the best inter-est of investors to invest in students who are planning to major in desirable science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. These de-grees will presumably lead to high-paying jobs and a great-er return on investment.

Ultimately, students may end up paying back far more than what their education ac-tually cost. Of course, they may end up paying less, too, but smart investors will likely know which students they can capitalize on.

Some critics likened in-come share agreements to in-dentured servitude, claiming they give all the power and profit to the investor and lit-tle protection to the student. However, this isn’t entirely true.

For one, a student’s fu-ture income cannot be more than 15 percent. Additionally,

an income share agreement cannot exceed more than 30 years initially, though parties may extend the agreement if students can’t make mini-mum payments.

Furthermore, the investor has no actual control over the individual. Investors cannot force graduates to take certain jobs or make certain career or financial moves so that they see the greatest return on their investment.

Although I would never enter one, other students might find that the advantag-es of an income share agree-ment far outweigh the risks.

For instance, students could have a professional mentoring relationship with their backer throughout their education and beyond. Oth-ers might see a debt-free life as the main draw.

Ultimately, I’m open to any plan that of fers a solu-tion to the student debt crisis in this country, and this plan does just that — it’s just not for me.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at

[email protected].

A new bill seeks to set up the path for investors to invest in the higher education of students.

LUIS RUUSKAcolumnist

Revisiting Rice’s invitation to speak

In response to the invita-tion to bring Condoleezza Rice to speak at the Univer-sity of Minnesota this week, a faculty petition has been generated in protest. I write to make clear that some of us who signed on would do the same if the invitation had been extended to some-one from the current White House administration or President Barack Obama, who has executed more “suspects” via drones and de-ported more undocumented immigrants than George W. Bush ever did.

What I find particularly objectionable is the official rationale for the invitation from the Humphrey School of Public Af fairs. Rice’s talk, President Eric Kaler explains, “will be speaking about her personal story of overcoming adversity as a black woman who faced discrimination growing up in the segregated and racist South. Her appearance on campus is part of the Hum-phrey School’s yearlong series about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

I can’t help but be re-minded of another Wash-ington operative, also with blood-stained hands: Robert McNamara, who, as a key architect of the U.S. war in Vietnam, also, in subsequent years, tried to repaint himself in softer, warmer hues. Un-like McNamara, however, Rice attempts to do so on the backs of those who realized one of the noblest moments in the history of the demo-cratic quest in the U.S.

As someone who also grew up in the world of Jim Crow, I see nothing remark-able about her story — in fact, it is “ordinary,” as she

conceded in her 2010 auto-biography. Hers is a narra-tive about how a particular black family coped with, and refused to be broken by, that system. I, too, could claim such a story, along with hun-dreds of thousands — if not millions — of others. Much more inspiring are the sto-ries of those who went from strategically coping and/or exiting to outright pub-lic resistance. In 1963, Bir-mingham, Ala., was ground zero for the then-8-year-old Civil Rights Movement. The 9-year-old Rice had op-portunities that others of us could only have wished for: to make history. But she was missing in action. Some es-timates say that 90 percent of her cohorts made the de-cisive contribution for the victory, the Children’s Cru-sade, when the masses took to the streets — the turning point in that historic epic. She claims, no doubt true, that her parents prevented her from taking part. But many of the participants did so against parental wishes. There’s nothing in her ac-count to suggest that she, too, wanted to be so rebel-lious.

The class divide in Bir-mingham’s black commu-nity and its implications for the movement — lamented in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” — probably best ex-plains her absence. I recog-nize, of course, that we’re not responsible for the fami-lies that we’re born into and the politics they may have. I was privileged to have had parents who supported my youthful steps into the fight against Jim Crow in New Orleans. But we can be held accountable for choices we make as we grow into adulthood.

So what was Rice’s later trajector y? How did she advance the civil rights struggle that would warrant such a lucrative invitation, $150,000, from the Hum-phrey School? Since she missed — through no fault of her own, I’m willing to con-cede — the decisive fights that led to the overthrow of officially sanctioned Ameri-can racial segregation, where was she when the opportu-nity arose to take part in the next stage of that fight — the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa? It lasted from about 1976 to 1994, but there is not even a hint in her autobiography that she embraced it, despite the fact that it was then that she began to see herself as a cosmopolite.

What about the domestic struggle, especially in the world in which she oper-ated — the fight to diversify the academy? She rightly acknowledges that she was a beneficiary of affirmative action. But when she became provost at Stanford Univer-sity, from 1993 to 1999, she opposed efforts to employ affirmative action when it came to granting tenure.

Can those who extended the invitation to her provide any evidence, aside from im-proving Stanford’s financial picture, that her time as pro-vost improved the diversity of its tenured faculty?

Unless the inviters and their defenders know some-thing about her civil rights record that’s not available to the public, they are sim-ply enabling her rehabilita-tion campaign and need to explain why.

August Nimtz Jr.University professor of

political science and African American and African Studies

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EDITORIALS

Course evals should be made publicA proposal before the Faculty and Student senates would allow students to look up course ratings.

I n 2003, student government leaders at the Uni-versity of Minnesota pushed to make student course evaluations accessible to the students.

More than a decade later, the evaluations may fi-nally go public.

A Faculty and Student senate proposal would allow students to see what others have to say about a certain course on the University website, the Minnesota Daily reported this week.

Teacher evaluations are private data under state law, and public colleges cannot release them like other state documents. Under the proposal, students would only be able to see the course ratings.

Releasing course information but keeping evaluations about teachers private makes sense. Course ratings will give students sufficient infor-mation about classes without establishing a popu-larity contest among faculty.

However, as we stated in a March 10 editorial, the state Legislature should revise the law so that willing parties could review teacher evaluations under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. It doesn’t make sense that we give teacher evaluations so much protection.

Critics say that making course evaluations public will result in courses catering more to stu-dent satisfaction than the quality of education. Whether classes change because of student evalu-ations is up to the instructor, but when students are paying $463.85 or $704.24 per credit at the University, depending on their residency, it’s im-portant they have enough information before en-rolling in classes for the semester.

There is an assumption that students merely evaluate courses on whether it was an easy class or not, but this is false. Students routinely recom-mend classes on the basis that it was a fulfilling learning experience and that they enjoyed the material.

We hope the senates approve the proposal and give students more information for selecting courses.

Minn. should reconsider anti-gay therapy banLawmakers should have passed a bill to ban sexual orientation change therapy for minors.

M innesota minors may not get the protection they deser ve regarding sexual orientation identity now that a

bill to ban anti-gay therapy fell short in the state Legislature.

Support for the bill grew after two Univer-sity of Minnesota political science students cre-ated an online petition requesting its introduc-tion. The petition received more than 110,000 signatures.

The Minnesota Daily Editorial Board supported the bill and suggested it would be easy to get bipar-tisan support for an issue that affects Minnesota minors in such a personal way. Unfortunately and surprisingly, there was not enough support for a hearing of the legislation. Lawmakers cited lack of information and knowledge of impact as the main reasons for blocking the bill.

We are disappointed that the bill did not get a hearing and are puzzled that a clear-cut issue of protecting minors from psychological duress has somehow turned into a gray area in the minds of lawmakers.

While we agree that a full ban on conversion ther-apy would be excessive, a ban on this kind of therapy for minors makes sense. The bill would protect chil-dren who may not have a choice from undergoing potentially harmful mental and emotional stress.

We hope that lawmakers reconsider their posi-tion in the future and continue to actively work with University students to foster greater education and advocacy for the cause.

BY ZACH [email protected]

A f t e r a l o n g , h a r d d a y o f recording and relaxing, Min-

nesota native Mod Sun un-winds with some mangos, his go-to in the munchies department.

That fruit choice em-bodies the peace-loving, positivity-infused musical energy that emanates from Mod Sun. The long-locked rapper will open for Earl Sweatshirt and Mac Miller in next weekend’s Spring Jam. Hailing from Bloom-ington, Minn., he’s the only headliner with local ties, adding a dimension of psychedelic happiness to the festival’s main event.

Mod Sun, aka Dylan Smith, has made music since he was 17, pulling from a variety of influenc-es, including Miles Davis, Jim Morrison and G-Eazy, as well as local artists.

“ A t m o s p h e r e h a v e been doing it for 20 years

without managers or labels and even before social me-dia,” he said. “It’s beautiful.”

It’s no surprise Smith derives a lot of positive les-sons from his Minnesota background.

“At 6 a.m., going to school when it was still dark and zero degrees out-side, standing at the bus stop — it teaches you that no matter what, you gotta learn to enjoy it and learn to enjoy ever ything,” he said. “You just gotta close your eyes and imagine you’re on a beach some-where.”

Smith’s music as Mod Sun sends a resounding message of positive think-ing. However, it wasn’t al-ways this way for the self-proclaimed “hippy-hop” pioneer.

Before turning 19, he was the drummer in two successful rock bands — Four Letter Lie and Scary Kids Scaring Kids — both with screamo and post-hardcore leanings.

But for Smi th , the jump from darker, more angst-ridden songs to sun-soaked hip-hop was a sim-ple one.

“[The transition] boils down to one thing, a point

of reinvention: the law of attraction, when mentality becomes reality,” he said. “The universe is unbiased and gives you ever ything you ask for … I found out about it at age 19 and overnight, [it] completely changed my identity.”

When Smith tossed aside the drum sticks for an emcee’s mic, he did away with producers and record labels, opting to chase his hip-hop dreams on his own.

Exactly how he pres-ents his message varies. On “Tye Dye Everything” with Schoolboy Q, Smith opts for a fuzzy, syncopat-ed beat to back his rapidly delivered desire for more tie-dye.

He goes even more low-fi on the anthemic “My Hippy,” where he asks anybody who sees him to say, “What’s up?”

This isn’t a surprising request, given that he calls his fan base his “friend base.” Regardless, Smiths weed-rap lovefest message remains the same, and it’s all embodied by his name — which stands for “Movement-On-Dreams

Stand-Under-None”.Smith tells listeners to

empower themselves and to “become the exact per-son that you want to be and control your own life.”

Smith has always want-ed to play Spring Jam. He’s attended the festival many

times and knows countless students at the University of Minnesota, which made his enthusiasm palpable.

“Minnesota is one of the greatest states in the entire world,” he said. “[I] can’t wait to come back and play.”

BY GRANT TILLERY [email protected]

L eagues are a band of happenstance. They’re proof that things happen

when you pick up the phone.When Leagues formed,

guitarist Tyler Burkum and drummer Jeremy Lutito were touring with last year’s Spring Jam headliner Mat Kearney. Playing in Kearney’s band created a serendipitous domino effect leading to Leagues.

“We [Burkum and Lutito] got a phone call from a mu-tual friend, a friend of mine who was going to start a band with [lead singer Thad Cockrell],” Burkum said. “[He] said, ‘I want to get this guy Tyler and see if he wants to be a part of this.’ Thad was like, ‘I want to get this guy named Jeremy.’”

Burkum’s friend called him and Lutito separately, and it turned out both were interested in joining Leagues. Burkum was curi-ous about who would be the

drummer and was floored to discover it was Lutito.

“I was like, ‘We’re on the road together right now,’ ” Burkum said.

The road and the stu-dio are the only time when Leagues are together. Though Leagues is an indie rock band with a Southern twang, the members hail from various parts of the country — Burkum lives in New Brighton, Minn., while Lutito and vocalist Thad Cockrell represent Nash-ville, Tenn.

Cockrell attended Liber-ty University in Lynchburg, Va., before setting out on an alt-country career.

Burkum hails from a mu-sical family — his younger brothers are Minneapolis-based troubadours, the Cactus Blossoms. He was a guitarist with Grammy-winning Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline and has played with alt-country bands and the Backstreet Boys. But Burkum dismiss-es these gigs as uninspiring studio work to pay the bills.

“I’m tr ying to make [Leagues’ music] absolutely nothing like Christian rock at all,” Burkum said. “This is a chance for me to play what I wanted to play for years but never got to do that.”

Leagues are thankfully a departure from the mem-bers’ previous gigs, com-bining the jangly psychedel-ica of The Black Keys with the twee peppiness of Ben Folds.

Hints of Nashville are evident on their debut album, “You Belong Here.”

A 10-track af fair, it was named one of Amazon’s “Top 100 Albums of 2013,” despite garnering little critical and popular atten-tion. It features Cockrell’s signature succinct, whimsi-cal songwriting, which he honed during his country days.

The opening track, “Spotlight,” is particularly catchy. It sounds like it should have been on The Black Keys’ “El Camino.” The immediate drumbeat is struck with fervent con-viction and is bolstered by the simple two-chord guitar lick. The first verse is pared down to drums and vocals, creating a ceremonial chant ef fect. The band jumps back in with subtle bom-bast at the refrain, and the guitar solo in the middle of the track is pieced together with vocabulary from The Allman Brothers Band’s Dickey Betts.

Their home-cooked Southern unpretentious-ness makes Leagues an in-triguing choice for a Spring Jam act, a sharp left turn from the radio-friendly, adult alternative image of the Mowgli’s, the irrever-ence of Earl Sweatshirt and the driveling Mac Miller. Leagues were caught of f-guard when asked to play the festival, something Bur-kum was at loss to explain.

“Whoever put it together may have heard our music,” he said.

Despite their indie rock status, Leagues are rock ‘n’ rollers aiming for fame.

“We would love to be able to play an arena and not make music for tiny groups of people,” Burkum said.

Fame or no, Leagues are bent on dismantling the mis-conception that Nashville is merely a country town.

“The country music is the shiny part — it gets all the attention,” Burkum. “I’ve been working in Nash-ville for almost 20 years. There’s a reason why The Black Keys and Jack White live there; you can actu-ally touch the roots of rock ‘n’ roll there, whereas a lot of other places, it’s faded away.”


PHOTO COURTESY OF RICK POONLeagues are a little bit country, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll.

PHOTO COURTESY OF PAT BROWNMod Sun reps locks larger than your nearest smithy.

This ain’t bush leagueLeagues prove that there’s more to Nashville than country and rockabilly.

SPRING JAM

Leagues

Where Coffman Union When 9 p.m. April 25Cost Free

Mod Sun oozes positivity, raps fast and loves lifeSPRING JAM

The Minnesota native will open for Mac Miller at Spring Jam’s headlining concert.

Spring Jam headlining show

Where Mariucci Arena, 1901 Fourth St. SE, Minneapolis When 7:30 p.m. April 26Cost $20-45

RADIO K TOP 71. Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, Little Fang2. Mac DeMarco, Salad Days3. Tycho, Awake

4. Future Islands, Seasons (Waiting on You)5. St. Vincent, Digital Witness6. Tune-Yards, Water Fountain7. Sisyphus, Rhythm of Devotion

ASSISTANT A&E EDITOR Joe Kellen [email protected]

A&E EDITOR Spencer Doar [email protected]


“Hamlet” It’s the Bard’s age-old psychological thriller. Something’s awry in Denmark, and the skull-touting prince must face ghosts, foreign armies and the weight of his own existence. This production puts the play in a dystopian universe with the entire cast acting as a theater troupe putting on the play. Barbra Berlovitz directs a legion of theater students in this interpretation of the famous tragedy.

Where Rarig Center, 330 S. 21st Ave., MinneapolisHours 7:30 p.m.Cost $6-16

TYTE JEFF Album Release Show The Plastic Constellations have been broken up for a long time, and TYTE JEFF is the project that’s risen from their ashes. Their sound is reminiscent of TPC, but with bigger choruses, deeper sonic layers and a prevalent crunchiness that feels a bit rawer than the previous outfit. This show is bound to have surplus energy for you, making it a Saturday night choice that will certainly involve some grooving.

Where Turf Club, 1601 University Ave., St. PaulHours 8 p.m.Cost $5Age 21+

Beenie Man Let’s not kid ourselves — we’re all aware of what will be going on at the Cabooze on 4/20. The Daily doesn’t condone drug use, but if you check out reggae superstar Beenie Man on the widely celebrated stoner holiday, it’s a safe bet that you do. Of course, we shouldn’t generalize. Beenie Man is a talented artist with a lot of chops in the scene. His 2000 record “Art and Life” scored him a Grammy, and his amiable demeanor will guarantee a show full of good vibes and cheer.

Where Cabooze, 917 Cedar Ave., MinneapolisHours 8 p.m.Cost $23-30Age 21+

Friday Saturday Sunday

CULTURE COMPASS / By Joe Kellen

WEALTHY RELATIVE & SAYTH

HIPPO CAMPUS VIOLET EYES MALE MODELSTREADING NORTH

WEALTHY RELATIVE &

SAYTH

MALE MODELS

HIPPO CAMPUS

BY ZACH [email protected]

Editor’s note: Alex Breyfogle, Griffin Fillipitch and Jenny Ackerson of Male Models work at Radio K where Zach Simon currently volunteers. Fillipitch and Breyfogle are also former Daily employees.

A t the Spring Jam Battle of the Bands next Friday, five stu-

dent bands will slug it out for the chance to play in front of their largest crowd ever — opening for the festival’s headliner, Mac Miller.

The closest thing this competition has to a Vam-pire Weekend sound-a-like, Hippo Campus brings a high-energy indie pop that the rest of the acts lack. Verging on indie folk, the quartet creates a ner-vous energy for listeners. Their sound is downright cloudy but in a big-white-cotton-ball way. As the fog machines settle, these high flyers are looking to come out on top. And they may win “Most Intriguing Name,” too.

The musical style of this self-proclaimed “dream-funk” seven-piece isn’t to be trifled with. With vocals from Gabe Rodreick remi-niscent of Tom Waits, the roaring jazz saxophone of Tyler Croat, smooth guitar licks and a heart-thumping bass, it might be hard to fathom that these cats have never played in any musical competition before. Their strong yearning style feels like treading water in a smooth, yet frantic, doggy paddle.

Wistful wordsmith Dan Forke, or Wealthy Relative, is no stranger to perform-ing in front of large masses offered by Spring Jam. Hav-ing competed in last year’s Battle of the Bands as a solo act, Forke is excited to show judges what he can do now that he has childhood friend Eric Wells, Sayth, by his side. The duo creates an existential and eccentri-cally moody rhythm, form-ing a concrete foundation for melancholy skyscrapers made of the pair’s lyrics.

With just a Facebook page and a YouTube chan-nel marking their existence online, these five rockers have their work cut out for them. Only recently con-ceived, the fledgling band augments their indie rock style with various covers, most notably a rendition of The Black Keys’ “Lonely Boy.” With a slight punk twist, the group showcases screaming guitar solos from Grant Marks and pow-erhouse vocals from lead singer Maeve Moynihan.

A soothing tide of indie rock and pop flows from Male Models, a four-person band of musicians from the University of Minnesota. With wildly different vocal styles, dual lead singers Alex Breyfogle and Griffin Fillipitch change not only the tempo but the mood of their songs as they switch of f. This platoon of versa-tile musical assassins is an indie garage band one sec-ond and a slowed, almost countr y-rock outfit the next.

A musical Friday night fightA&E takes a look at the five acts in Spring Jam’s Battle of the Bands.

José James rebels against constrictions of ‘jazz’MUSIC

BY GRANT [email protected]

M inneapolis na-tive José James is revolting against jazz.

Though considered a jazz vocalist, James rejects the label because he says it narrowly typecasts him and leaves no room for growth or permutations of outside influ-ences.

“The major artists who we consider the creators of jazz got to a point where they stopped using it,” James said. “Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane — they reject-ed the term because they felt that it got to a point where it limited them. It immediately sums up one of two things — pop like Michael Bublé or 1950’s bebop. It’s difficult to use the term and present

something new because peo-ple say, ‘This isn’t jazz.’”

James’ music is neither. He channels rich vocal tradi-tions established by Billie Holiday and Nat King Cole and fuses them with hip-hop.

Despite James’ father’s career as a tenor saxophon-ist, James never gave music a serious consideration until he was a teenager.

“My voice changed when I was 14, and people would say, ‘Why don’t you try singing?’” James said. “I joined choir be-cause there were a lot of girls in it.”

Though James is not a mu-sician looking for validation, he gleefully admitted this de-cision proved fruitful.

“I wasn’t tall enough to play basketball, so you have to do something,” James said.

Joining Minneapolis South High School’s re-nowned jazz band further imbued the love of the mu-sic in James, setting him on a trajectory that led him to the New School for Jazz and Contemporar y Music in

New York City. Though he was only there for one year thanks to a record deal, the school gave James oppor-tunities to play with other star-power talent (alumni include Brad Mehldau, Roy Hargrove and Robert Glasper) and an endless web of connections.

The New School made James realize jazz existed be-yond the narrow, media-safe definition of the genre. It’s not just the dictionary defi-nition of “jazz” James finds pejorative, but the audience’s unchanging perception of the word.

“Depending what coun-try you’re in, jazz has a dif-ferent meaning,” James said. “For me, jazz means a high level of artistry and musicianship, and some form of improvisational ex-pression. It’s splintered off into hundreds of subgenres. I don’t think there’s any one definitive movement or per-sonage the way it has been historically.”

By that definition, James

is a jazz musician. But label-ing him is a fool’s errand, since he draws inspiration from countercultural pop lu-minaries. His latest album, “No Beginning No End,” melds the R&B slickness of Bilal with the testimonial power of Frank Ocean and the minimalism of James Blake.

James also has a deep love of classic R&B. Marvin Gaye is one of James’ musi-cal heroes, and he’s attracted to Gaye’s sleeper albums — jazzier, funkier records that weren’t chart toppers.

“My favorite Marvin Gaye album is ‘I Want You,’” James said. “It’s such a full album, and I love Leon Ware’s writ-ing. He] came from jazz, and you can hear the complexity. I love the lush harmonies.”

Beyond his American peers, James draws elements from international music trends. He’s been surprised by places such as Finland and London, which have excel-lent, little-known jazz scenes.

“They’re aware of the

American jazz scene, but they’re also free to do what-ever they want,” James said. “They don’t have the same cultural weight.”

James is also fascinated by the jazz culture in Japan, where it has more youth ap-peal than other countries.

“Japan has something called club jazz — I’ve ac-tually considered club jazz over there — and it’s more connected to DJ culture and playing the club,” James said. “You’ll find a lot of musicians working with DJs, working with different setups, and it’s not about long solos and improvisa-tion. It’s about dancing and making music that grooves hard.”

Making music that grooves hard is James’ strong suit and is what he aims to continue doing on his next album, “While You Were Sleeping,” set to re-lease June 10 on Blue Note. It dif fers from the rest of James’ oeuvre because it was written mostly on

guitar, which James picked up during a touring lull last year.

“Wr i t ing on gu i t a r lends itself more toward rock, singer-songwriter or folk, and it felt re-freshing,” James said. “I wanted to make an al-bum that felt more of its time and rocked a little harder.”

Appropriating these ele-ments furthers James’ cru-sade, taking him one step closer to the genre-less world he envisions.

“What’s happening now is that people are more into ar tists and not genres,” James said. “What I would love is that people would lis-ten to music without think-ing about, ‘What is it?’”

José James proves that modern jazz transcends its constricting definition.

José James

Where Cedar Cultural Center, 416 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapolis When 7:30 p.m. MondayCost $20-25

LISA PERSSON, DAILYEccentric rap duo Dan Forke, left, and Eric Wells, right, pose for a portrait on Wednesday.

SPRING JAM

BY JACKIE RENZETTI [email protected]

G arrison Grouse didn’t expect to find himself be-ing chased by

chickens after waking up in a tent in Austin, Texas. But for the bassist, it was just another part of the ride.

After just one year of play-ing together, the six-piece Minneapolis band Black Diet is facing a whirlwind of success.

“It came out of nowhere,” vocalist Jonathan Tolliver said.

After being named one of the seven “Best New Bands of 2013” at First Avenue in January, Black Diet quickly garnered attention. Ulti-mately, they landed a spot in Vita.mn’s “Are You Local?” contest and won first place and a trip to play at SXSW.

This Saturday, the group will headline the Hymie’s Re-cord Store Day Block Party and celebrate the release of their first album, “Find Your Tambourine.”

Authentic soul and Mo-town elements are abound throughout the album, espe-cially on the first track, “Don’t Sleep Alone,” in which mini-mal keys accompany a four-part harmony sung into an omnidirectional microphone.

At the same time, Black Diet puts their own twist in soul. David Tullis’ drum-ming, Mitch Sigurdson’s guitar riffs, Sean Schultz’s groovy keyboard parts and Grouse’s bass mix garage

rock sounds with the fer-vent passion of Tolliver and back-up vocalist Margaret “Mugsy” Keller.

The band still vividly re-calls a time before a dozen emails a day, a period of play-ing as much as they could, wherever they could. Though there were small victories here and there, all of their work seemed to be going un-der the radar — until January.

“It was basically like we were shouting into a void for

the longest time, and then someone yelled back,” Schul-tz said.

“Thank you for shouting back,” Keller added.

Since Tolliver first began his quest in 2011, members have come and gone — the current combination has been together for roughly a year. Tolliver wrote the songs on “Find Your Tambourine” before all the present-day members were together, but each individual’s experience

and talents helped develop their current sound.

“This music is organic to us,” Tolliver said.

The group doesn’t seek to recreate picturesque suit and tie soul music, but rather to perform the type of music they enjoy while skillfully making it their own — a senti-ment corroborated by the fact that most of the members’ other bands are R&B- and blues-focused.

“We’ve played this set,

like, come on, how many times? And it’s exciting every time,” Tullis said.

However, the group is ex-cited to be more involved in the creative songwriting pro-cess for a future album, which is currently in the works.

“Now we get a chance to interact with a song in its most infant stage,” Keller said. “This new [future] al-bum will involve all of us much more.”

Though most were absent

for the origins of the tracks, each member has a chance to shine on “Find Your Tambou-rine,” which epitomizes the group’s aim for perfection with room for personable quirks.

The album’s fifth track, “It’s No Secret,” is a jam ses-sion that was recorded by ac-cident.

This spontaneity con-trasts sharply with the struc-tured nature of the other songs, in part because of their age.

The album was recorded on a 2-inch analog tape three different times for the sake of improvement. The group opted for minimal editing, leaving in human moments such as vocal peaks on the mics, two coughs and a bot-tle being thrown.

Though it reps some fine-tuned songs, the album itself is an almost untouched re-cording of a live performance in Garrison’s basement, com-pleted in one day.

Despite their growing lo-cal acclaim, band members remain modest with a sense of humor.

“I just want people who aren’t my friends to like [the album],” Schultz said.


Flower pots

We’ve been experiencing colder days this week, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be accepting the fact that we’re almost out of winter’s op-pressive grasp. It’s time to experiment with that potential green thumb of yours and start gardening. Take a class at the Northern Clay Center, or try to make some ceramic art on your own. Your front porch will look incredible when the sun comes out and those flowers sprout up.

Grilled asparagus

We’re going to reiterate this until our faces turn blue — it’s SPRING, everybody! All of these “second winter” jokes are totally out of the question now. That’s why it’s time to break out the grill and start cook-ing veggies until you have a feast on your hands. Asparagus may get a bad rap, but we’ll be damned before we admit that those green rods aren’t delicious. What are you waiting for? Grab some charcoal.

@ConorTripler

Twitter is stupid. @ConorTripler revels in this stupidity better than most participants in the “Weird Twitter” community. This user doesn’t acknowledge his goofy musings, instead opting to stay in character. Tweets like, “this kid david once tried to convince me some mushrooms growing in the woods were his cousins and i just now realized david was cool as f**k,” sum up @ConorTripler’s stories.

Make this: Eat this: Follow this:

CULTURE to CONSUME / By Joe Kellen

Out of the void Black Diet will debut its first album and headline the Hymie’s Record Store Day Block Party.

MUSIC

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILYSix-piece Minneapolis band Black Diet, photographed in Minneapolis on Tuesday evening.

Hymie’s Record Store Day Block Party

Where Hymie’s Vintage Records, 3820 E. Lake St., Minneapolis When 11 a.m.–9 p.m. SaturdayCost Free


‘Lord build me a sculpture’Local artists Chad Rutter and Amy Toscani open up about their new exhibits at the MIA

ART

PATRICIA GROVER, DAILYMinnesota artist Amy Toscani arranges her sculptures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on Tuesday in preparation for Thursday’s opening of the exhibition.

BY MELANIE RICHTMAN [email protected]

A m y T o s c a n i doesn ’ t take herself too seri-ously, and that’s

why the local artist decided to commission some chain-saw art for her upcoming exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

One year ago, she and fellow Minnesota ar tist Chad Rutter found out they would be producing work to be displayed at the Min-neapolis Institute of Arts. Though they had never met and their work is themati-cally dif ferent, their pro-posals were hand-selected from a highly competitive pool by the Minnesota Art-ists Exhibition Program to each produce a brand-new exhibit.

“The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program is an in-teresting model because it’s based solely on the merit of that one application,” Rutter said. “It’s given opportuni-ties to a lot of artists who wouldn’t get the opportu-nity otherwise.”

Chad Rutter’s first solo museum show, “Flood-plain,” is an exploration of how humans interact with landscapes using referenc-es to natural disasters and construction.

“The show itself is about both physical and philo-sophical events and pro-cesses that force change,”

Rutter said. “So I decided to name it ‘Floodplain’ be-cause a floodplain is a natu-ral feature that is both the evidence and promise of change.”

The backbone of Rut-ter’s installation is “Pond,” a programmed highway

message board with excerpts from “Walden” by Henry Da-vid Thoreau. This piece ex-emplifies Rutter’s interest in cultural geography.

Toscani analyzes land-scapes in a dif ferent ca-pacity. The MAEP gal-ler y adjacent to Rutter’s

houses “CHASTUSHKI,” seven sculptures that To-scani describes as folk art you might find in a yard in Middle America. Toscani used what she found at thrift stores as the pieces’ material.

“CHASTUSHKI” has

a humorous, playful aes-thetic, much like the artist herself.

“’Chastushki’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means something like ‘little lyric’ in Russian. It’s just ridiculous and absurd,” Toscani said. “It’s actually

better not knowing what it means. Although I think the association with tchotchke is fitting.”

Toscani talked excitedly about two pieces in particu-lar, mostly because they incorporated chainsaw art, which Toscani recently fell in love with.

“I commissioned this guy to make a bear out of wood using a chainsaw to use in ‘Sugar Bear,’ and now I’m going to have to star t doing some chain-saw ar t,” Toscani said. “It’s so violent. It’s kind of fun.”

One of Toscani’s pieces, titled, “Lord build me a cab-in,” features deconstructed landscape pictures placed around a sign that says, “Lord build me a cabin.” The whole array rests on a log.

“The name ‘Lord build me a cabin’ is a line from a religious song, and I thought that was a hilarious name for a song,” Toscani said. “Maybe I should’ve named my piece ‘Lord build me a sculpture.’”

“Floodplain” and “CHASTUSHKI”

Where Minneapolis Institute of Arts When Opening reception 7-9 p.m. Thursday; exhibit runs April 18-June 29.Cost Free

BY JOE KELLEN [email protected]

G arrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, won’t ever for-

get the first time his band G. Love and Special Sauce came to Minneapolis.

The guitarist, harmonica player and vocalist for the funky three-piece said play-ing in Minneapolis almost feels like playing in the band’s hometown of Phila-delphia.

“The first time we came out here, we played the Up-town Bar, and there was a big line down the block,” he said. “We were so confused and asked people what the [expletive] was going on, and they looked at us and were like, ‘This is for your show.’”

The nostalgia is especially strong now that the original lineup is back together for the first time in eight years.

Formed in 1993 with drummer Jeff Clemens and bassist Jim Prescott, G. Love and Special Sauce found suc-cess in the ’90s, scoring a hit on MTV with their single “Cold Beverage.” Their sig-nature mix of hip-hop, blues and jam rock netted them an international fan base. Af-ter touring all over for years, Prescott officially called it quits in 2008.

Things changed in 2013.

Dutton didn’t see Prescott for five years, until the group was drafting plans to record their latest album, “Sugar.”

“We had a heart-to-heart, and he said he would love to do some recording,” Dutton said.

After playing a session together and having “an incredible time,” Prescott agreed to come back, and the original lineup was in-tact once again.

“A band’s chemistry is fueled in a way that’s a lot like how people describe falling in love,” Dutton said. “Musically, Jim, Jeff and I share that same continuity.”

It’s audible on “Sugar.” With Prescott back in the studio, the band recorded tracks live. The record brings back memories of their self-titled 1994 debut. Lazily delivered rap sec-tions, funky guitar grooves and free-flowing, scale-soaring solos color the col-lection.

G. Love and Special Sauce have some tricks up their sleeve, too — on tracks like “One Night Ro-mance,” Dutton duets with legendar y “Gimme Shel-ter” backing vocalist Merry Clayton. With the repeated mantra “Come get un-lonely with me,” the song captures the passion and playfulness that G. Love and Special Sauce have always emitted.

“I push for a euphoric thing when I play, when everything is hanging out and the bass cuts in and ev-eryone in the room is con-nected through that,” Dut-ton said.

As far as getting back on the road again, Dutton said the group couldn’t be more pleased with the re-sults. They’ve been play-ing two sets each night, the first of which is a play-through of their first re-cord. Their second set is a collection of songs from “Sugar” and selected jams from the rest of their discography.

After more than 20 years in the music business, Dut-ton said he wouldn’t leave it for anything.

“Ever ything else is bullshit. The money, the lifestyle, the traveling, the industry, all that,” he said. “Music is the only thing in your life that’s never gonna lie to you.”

MUSIC

Mixing the sauce back up

G. Love and Special Sauce’s sloppy brand of blues rock has only gotten looser after more than 20 years.

G. Love and Special Sauce with Ethan Tucker

Where First Avenue, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis When 7:30 p.m. Thursday 29, 2014.Cost $25Ages 18+

BY DAVID [email protected]

The Gophers men’s golf team ended its fall season on a sour note with three of its last four tournaments ending in eighth-place fin-ishes or worse.

But with the way the team has played this spring, it seems the flowers aren’t the only things starting to blossom.

“When we won at Se-ton Hall [in October], that win has really propelled us to thinking more like win-ners,” said head coach John Carlson. “I’ve got a bunch of really confident guys right now.”

Minnesota freshman Jo-se Mendez has helped lead the Gophers to three con-secutive podium finishes.

“I think our leader on the golf course is Jose Men-dez,” Carlson said. “He’s certainly the best freshman in the Big Ten, and he plays like it every week.”

Mendez has been a rev-elation for Minnesota. He’s produced the best round av-erage for the team in the fall

and has followed suit so far in the spring season.

“I found something in my swing that made me feel better [and] more con-fident,” Mendez said.

Mendez’s confidence is certainly showing after he tied for first in Oregon in late March and took third at Iowa a week ago.

Gophers fifth-year se-nior Jon Trasamar, who pairs with Mendez on road trips, has helped his devel-opment. Still, Trasamar has produced his own impres-sive numbers over the past couple of weeks.

“Jon Trasamar’s played very solid,” Carlson said. “I expected him to have a good spring. He’s had three top-20 finishes, and that consistency has really been important.”

Though Minnesota can celebrate its success, Carl-son said he recognizes the team is far from a finished product.

Now the Gophers have their sights set on the Rutherford Intercollegiate in Pennsylvania and the opportunity it gives them to improve before the Big Ten championships in two weeks.

“We expect to go to Penn State and win,” Carlson said. “We now expect that every time we tee it up.”


Sports

Mable, Nordquist prepare for NCAAs

GYMNASTICS

CHLELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota’s Lindsay Mable executes her balance beam routine at the NCAA regional competi-tion April 5 at the Sports Pavilion. Mable won the all-around competition and qualified for the NCAA individual meet.

Minnesota will play for the conference championship in two weeks in Indiana.

@MNDAILYSPORTS

BY DAVID [email protected]

Hanna Nordquist spent the last month of her sopho-more season unable to com-pete due to illness.

She worked on her bal-ance beam routine just three times before competing in front of a Sports Pavilion crowd at the Big Ten meet, trying to earn a spot at the NCAA meet.

“If anyone has it in her, it’s Hanna,” head coach Meg Stephenson said. “I think that shows the kind of mental strength and belief in herself she has.”

Minnesota’s raucous fan base intensified at the confer-ence meet when Nordquist finished her routine and dis-mounted, landing a 9.9 score and securing a spot at nation-als.

“I was proud of myself, but I really couldn’t have done it without the team,” Nordquist said. “They were just amaz-ing.”

Now, with two weeks worth of practice, Nordquist has been able to get a few more reps in before head-ing down to Alabama for the NCAA meet.

“It’s been good for Hanna to get some more [practice] in,” Stephenson said.

Gophers sophomore Lind-say Mable will join Nordquist at the NCAA meet after win-ning the all-around competi-tion at the Big Ten champion-

ships two weeks ago.Mable remained a consis-

tent cog in Minnesota’s suc-cess this season, participating in every meet.

In the last month alone, she scored the first 10 of her collegiate career and broke Minnesota’s all-around re-cord — twice.

“Lindsay’s been amazing since freshman year,” Nor-dquist said. “She definitely holds her own out there. She’s kind of a beast.”

The duo has been very impressive as sophomores, which isn’t a surprise after the production they brought as freshmen.

At last year’s competition, Mable tied for fourth and fifth on floor exercise and vault, respectively, while Nordquist tied for second on balance beam.

“They came in ready to play,” Stephenson said. “It just speaks volumes for them to have made it in again.”

Though Mable and Nordquist produced impres-

sive numbers a year ago, Stephenson said she’s asked them not to dwell on those results.

“It can be a distraction,” Stephenson said. “If you’re thinking about the outcome, you’re going to maybe not do as well as [you] need to do.”

Though both gymnasts have done their best to fol-low their coach’s instruction, Mable said there are some benefits to remembering last April.

“It could be a helpful fac-tor to remember how the competition felt, what the equipment was like, what the atmosphere is like,” Mable said. “It’ll be good because when we get there, it won’t be a surprise.”

Mable said she’s excited for the weekend, but she and Nordquist are trying to not put too much pressure on themselves.

“We’re just going to do ev-erything we can do to put on a good showing for everyone there,” Mable said.

The Gophers did not qualify for the team portion of the NCAA meet.

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1 p.m. Sunday in Birmingham, Ala.

PREVIEW: Minnesota sophomores Lindsay Mable and Hanna Nor-dquist head to Alabama this weekend to represent the Gophers at the NCAA meet after qualifying two weeks ago.Mable will compete in the all-around competition following her first-

place finish while Nordquist performs on beam after winning the event with a 9.9 score.Nordquist tied for second on that event at last year’s NCAA champi-

onships. Mable, on the other hand, took fourth and fifth place for her performances on floor and vault, respectively.

NO. 14 MINNESOTA NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

Gophers play in final tune-up tournament

MEN’S GOLF

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All day Saturday and Sunday at State College, Pa.

PREVIEW: Fresh off a third-place finish at the Hawkeye Invitational, the Gophers travel to Pennsylvania for the Rutherford Invitational. It represents Minnesota’s final event on its schedule before the start of the Big Ten championships in May.Gophers freshman sensation Joes Mendez has put up solid num-

bers this year and should continue that success in Pennsylvania.

MINNESOTA

RUTHERFORD INVITATIONAL

BY MEGAN [email protected]

A fifth-grader tearing through a 400-meter dash, afro blowing in the wind as he leaves his competition in the dust, may sound like the epitome of fun.

Rashawn Fountain didn’t think so at first.

After his family moved from Detroit to Eden Prai-rie, Minn., his father began coaching a track and field team. He didn’t give his son much of a choice about par-ticipating.

“He goes, ‘Hey, son. You want to come check out practice today?’” Fountain said. “I go, ‘No, I don’t.’ He goes, ‘All right, cool, get in the car.’ So I got in the car.”

And when the team want-ed to see how the coach’s son stacked up, there also wasn’t much discussion.

“He said, ‘Hey, son. You want to jump in the 400?’” Fountain recalled. “I was like, ‘No, I don’t. I don’t want to be here right now.’ He was like, ‘All right, jump in lane eight.’”

It turns out that father does know best. As reluc-tant as Fountain was at first, he was hooked on running after that race.

A current redshirt fresh-man on the Gophers men’s track and field team, Foun-tain needed a similar push when switching events this year. His coach asked if he’d played wide receiver in high school and deemed Foun-tain athletic enough to be-come a hurdler — an event in which he didn’t have much experience.

It seems to have turned out for the best again.

In just a few short meets as a 400-meter hurdler,

Fountain is already sixth on Minnesota’s top-10 all-time list. He said he plans to con-tinue to climb that list before the end of the season, with goals to break 52 seconds at next weekend’s Drake Re-lays and 50 seconds by the Big Ten championships or NCAA regionals.

These are lofty goals for a program that hasn’t had a strong tradition of hurdlers in several years — the last Big Ten champion and All-American in the event was in 2002.

Minnesota assistant coach Paul Thornton said the decision to groom Foun-tain as the new face of Go-phers hurdling was a matter of finding where Fountain’s strengths most helped the program.

“It was a lack of people in that event on our team,” he said. “This provides him with the greatest opportu-nity to be able to score at a conference meet.”

Fountain’s roommate, sophomore Goaner Deng, said the two often muse about where they can propel their team.

“We always sit in our apartment and talk about the condition of our team and what it will look like moving forward,” he said. “For our program to begin to have an in-depth group of hurdlers, it’s going to start with a guy like him.”

Thornton said there was no question that Fountain could become a leader on the team. And Fountain said he thinks he can start a hur-dling trend in the next four years.

He added that he’s on the early side of the learning curve and has much room for improvement — promis-ing, considering he’s already broken into the top-10 list in his first year of competition.

“He’s going to continue to get better,” Thornton said.

While Fountain is mak-

ing great strides in his ca-reer on the track, he gets some flak from his team-mates off the track — for his fashion sense.

Fountain likes clothes. His roommate, Deng, likes shoes. So one-upping each other’s outfits is common-place.

“I am pretty shallow when it comes to shopping,” Fountain said. “I spend money on a lot of things I probably shouldn’t spend money on.”

Fountain said one of his weaknesses is the athletic clothing store Lululemon.

“I get made fun of a lot for it because a lot of the guys think it’s just a female brand,” he said. “It’s totally not.”

In fact, at the large ware-house sale Lululemon held at the Minneapolis Conven-tion Center a few weekends

ago, Fountain bought golf shirts, jackets and skull caps — no yoga pants.

Deng said his room-mate’s father influences Fountain a lot, but there’s one thing he didn’t inherit: persuasion.

“He tried to drag me along [to the warehouse sale],” Deng said. “I told him, ‘I’m not coming. You couldn’t give me a million dollars to go.’”

Fountain surges in his first seasonTRACK & FIELD

Rashawn Fountain has already become a key contributor on the track team.

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All day Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday in Walnut, Calif., and Northfield, Minn.

PREVIEW: With Thursday’s St. Thomas TomCat Twilight canceled because of weather, the Gophers will focus mainly on the Mt. SAC meet in California.Minnesota won nine titles at the Hamline Invite, four titles at the

Holst Invitational and one title from sophomore long jumper Trevor Yedoni at the Sun Angel Track Classic last week.

MINNESOTA

MT. SAC MULTI-EVENTS

CARLETON RELAYS

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All day Saturday in Northfield, Minn.

PREVIEW: The Gophers women’s squad will take this week relatively easy at just the Carleton Relays.Minnesota won three events at the Hamline Invite and four at the

Spec Towns Invitational in Georgia last week.

MINNESOTA

CARLETON

RELAYS

“For our program to begin to have an in-depth group of hurdlers, it’s going to start with a guy like him.”GOANER DENGSophomore

BY JACE [email protected]

The Gophers women’s tennis team has been un-predictable at the top of the lineup this season.

Tereza Brichacova, Na-tallia Pintusava and Jessika Mozia have experienced peaks and valleys at the No. 1 singles, No. 2 singles and No. 3 singles spots, respectively. The trio has delivered huge wins for the team but has also suffered through its fair share of struggles.

But amid the inconsis-tency at the top, Minnesota has been one of the steadi-est teams in the Big Ten, reaching six conference victories for the first time since 2003.

That’s because the Go-phers have had a strong anchor at the bottom of the lineup, holding things down when times are tough.

Minnesota junior Aria Lambert is a stellar 15-5 this season, doing most of her damage at the No. 5 singles spot. And for a team that’s won two of its past three matches via a 4-3 tally, ev-ery point matters.

“It means a lot to me,” Lambert said of her suc-cess. “If you can get a point on the board, it means so much.”

Lambert hasn’t always been such a consistent source of positive results. She’s been a major con-tributor since her freshman year, but the junior lingered around the .500 mark in each of her last two sea-sons.

These days, though, wins are expected of her and losses are few and far between.

Lambert said this year she’s been taking com-mand of points instead of

letting her opponents seize control. That mentality has yielded improved results.

“That’s the goal — as I get older, I want to play bet-ter,” she said. “I’m definitely reaching my goals.”

Lambert said this is the best tennis she’s played in her collegiate career. It’s al-so the most confident she’s felt all season.

Now, even when Lam-bert loses, she pushes her opponents to the limit — three of her five defeats this season have come in third-set tiebreaks, including the only two losses in her last 10 matches.

“She’s doing a great job,” head coach Chuck Merz-bacher said. “She’s playing every point really hard and just sends that message.”

Merzbacher said perfor-mances from Lambert and junior Julia Courter have established the bottom of the lineup as the Gophers’ strength, but the two need help from the players at the top.

“Those guys [at the top] aren’t going to go away — they can play with anyone,” he said, “but we’re happy to have such a strength [at the bottom].”

Lambert and her team-mates at the bottom of the lineup seem more than ca-pable of carrying the load, pushing Minnesota close to an NCAA tournament bid.

“We have such a deep lineup — everyone’s good, ever yone’s playing well,” Lamber t said. “It’s just been great.”

Lambert emerges in third yearTENNIS

Aria Lambert, 15-5 this season, has served as a key cog in the lineup.

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3 p.m. Friday and noon Sunday in Evanston and Champaign, Ill.

PREVIEW: The Gophers (11-10, 5-4) hit the road after winning two home matches last weekend, likely needing at least a weekend split to improve their NCAA tournament hopes.It’s not an impossible task. Minnesota swept Illinois and Northwest-

ern in the same weekend last season — when both teams were again ranked higher than the Gophers.Leandro Toledo continues his hike up the Intercollegiate Tennis

Association rankings. He moved into the No. 39 spot in the singles rankings this week, up two spots from a week ago.

WOMEN’S TENNIS PREVIEW


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3 p.m. Friday and noon Sunday at Baseline Tennis Center

PREVIEW: The Gophers wrap up their regular season at home with a pair of matches against ranked opponents. A weekend sweep would dramatically help Minnesota’s NCAA tournament chances while lock-ing up a share of third place in the Big Ten.This season marks the first time since 2003 that the Gophers have

notched at least six conference wins.Minnesota’s bottom of the lineup continues to carry the team this sea-

son. The Gophers are 50-15 at the No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles spots.

NO. 59 MINNESOTA NO. 43 ILLINOIS NO. 13 NORTHWESTERNBY JARED [email protected]

In the midst of the best regular season in program history, No. 13 Minnesota will face a huge test this weekend when it travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., for a three-game set with the third-ranked Wolver-ines.

Michigan sits atop the Big Ten with a 12-0 conference record and hasn’t lost a game since March 7.

Still, if there’s one team in the conference capable of stopping that run, it’s Minne-sota.

The Gophers have used stellar pitching all season to crawl their way up in the na-tional rankings.

That pitching staff, which earlier this month went six consecutive games without allowing an earned run, will face Michigan’s stacked lineup over the weekend. The Wolverines feature five batters with averages of .400 or higher. Among them is sophomore shortstop Sierra Romero, whose .515 average is the highest in the nation.

Minnesota sophomore catcher Taylor LeMay said she’s excited to see her team’s pitching staff take on Michigan.

“We have great strikeout pitchers,” she said. “And they have a couple great players we all want to strike out.”

Gophers freshman pitcher Sara Groenewegen said she won’t be intimidated facing a top-five team on the road.

“I don’t care about the rankings,” she said. “I think all that matters to me is that there’s a field to play on.”

She’ll have a field to play on — weather permitting — and will share it with a num-ber of stars from both squads.

Two players from each squad are finalists for the USA Softball Collegiate Play-er of the Year award.

Gophers junior infielder Kaitlyn Richardson — whose .451 batting average is second in the Big Ten, behind only

Romero of Michigan — and senior pitcher Sara Moulton occupy that list for Minne-sota.

Romero and senior pitch-er Haylie Wagner, whose 0.95 ERA is the best in the Big Ten, are the two representa-tives from the Wolverines.

Minnesota utility player Hannah Granger said the key to this series will be respect-ing Michigan as an opponent but remembering that her squad is also elite.

“Michigan has a great team, and they’ve always had a great team,” she said. “We just have to be aggressive and remember that we are great, too — and capable of beating anybody in the country.”

A huge piece of that po-tential to win comes from the dominant pitching staff, Go-phers head coach Jessica Al-lister said.

“They really give us the chance to beat anybody in the country any day of the week,” she said.

This weekend will play a pivotal role in the way the rest of the season plays out, as both programs are fighting for a conference title.

“A Big Ten champion-ship,” junior Tyler Walker said. “That’s been our goal all year. We’re excited for this se-ries, and we’re ready to take it to them.”

BY BETSY [email protected]

There wasn’t any ques-tion of who would star t for the Gophers behind the plate heading into this season.

Minnesota senior Matt Halloran was supposed to be the team’s primar y catcher. That was the plan, at least.

Halloran had an arm in-jury that flared up during the first game of the sea-son, and he hasn’t caught a game since.

As a result, the position has been a revolving door of sorts for the Gophers.

Minnesota freshman Austin Athmann, Halloran’s backup, got off to a hot start until he went down with an injur y of his own last month. He returned behind the plate Tuesday for the first time since March 9.

With Athmann out, ju-nior Mark Tatera took over most of the catching du-ties. Troy Traxler did some catching as well, and even Matt Stemper, who head coach John Anderson said hadn’t caught since early high school, played the position.

In late March, starting pitcher Ben Meyer said it was an adjustment with dif-ferent catchers behind the plate because the staff is so used to Halloran.

“It’s kind of a learning process for both us and the catcher, but it’s gone pretty smoothly so far,” Meyer said.

Now, with Athmann back, the Gophers might re-gain some normalcy.

“He was doing a ver y good job for us before he got hurt,” Anderson said. “Mark Tatera’s done a very nice job for us, but Austin was recruited here to be our catcher.”

Athmann went 3-for-3 with a walk, a run scored and an RBI in during Tues-day’s win over North Da-kota State.

Anderson said he’s go-ing to be cautious with the freshman catcher, making sure to not rush him back.

“We have to protect his arm,” he said. “If we don’t, he’s going to end up back in the same place.”

Anderson said he’s hop-ing Athmann can catch one game a weekend to start.

Athmann’s return might be slow, but the Gophers are happy to have him back.

“It’s just good to have a guy back there who’s done quite a bit of catching and can help us defensively and offensively,” first baseman Dan Olinger said.

Tatera has started all but one game this season play-ing both corner infield posi-tions — first base and third base — as well as catcher.

Athmann is strictly a catcher.

Halloran has served as a mentor to Athmann, and Athmann said he tried to help others while he was out with injury.

“I was kind of trying to do [Halloran’s] part like he did for me, just trying to help the catcher … be the

best catcher they can,” he said.

His head coach said Ath-mann picked up a thing or two while on the bench.

“He’s paid attention, he’s watched the game,

he’s watched the way peo-ple are pitching people,” Anderson said. “You can learn a lot by watching if you pay attention and ap-ply some of the things you learn.”

Though he lear ned while watching from the bench, Athmann is more than ready to be playing again.

“It feels absolutely great to be back,” he said.


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6 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa

MINNESOTA: Minnesota will return to Big Ten play seeking a bet-ter result than it had against Nebraska last week. The Cornhuskers swept the Gophers at home last weekend. This weekend, they will travel to Iowa to take on the Hawkeyes.As of April 13, the Hawkeyes were the top-hitting team in the conference,

with a .300 team batting average. Minnesota is second to last at .239, but it sports a better team ERA at 4.01 to Iowa’s 4.74.IOWA: The Hawkeyes are 5-7 in conference play. They took two of three games from Northwestern last weekend.Minnesota won the series against Iowa last year, losing the first

game and winning the second two.

MINNESOTA IOWA

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5 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

MINNESOTA: No. 13 Minnesota currently sits second in the Big Ten with a 32-6 overall record and 10-3 conference mark.Gophers junior infielder Kaitlyn Richardson’s .451 batting average is

second best in the conference, behind Michigan’s Sierra Romero.Minnesota’s pitching staff has been dominant this year: Senior Sara

Moulton, who just broke the program record for strikeouts in a career, holds the second-best ERA in the Big Ten, and freshman Sara Groe-newegen’s rate of 11.4 strikeouts per seven innings is the fourth best in the country.

MICHIGAN: No. 3 Michigan currently sits atop the Big Ten, sporting a 12-0 conference ledger and a 33-6 overall record. The Wolverines have won 19 games in a row. Michigan sophomore shortstop Sierra Romero is the only hitter in the

country with a batting average over .500 — hers currently sits at .515.

NO. 13 MINNESOTA NO. 3 MICHIGAN

Minnesota welcomes Athmann’s return

Gophers ready for a test

BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

Austin Athmann missed more than a month of action with an injury.

COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONSGophers catcher Austin Athmann swings at a pitch Feb. 21. Athmann recently returned from an injury.

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota’s Sara Moulton pitches during a doubleheader against Wisconsin on April 7, 2013, at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.

Minnesota will take on Big Ten leader Michigan in a crucial midseason series.


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Yesterday’s solution

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Travel and adventure calls to you. Keep the big picture in mind. Does this trip forward the dream? Set long-term goals.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 6 — Get into the details today and tomorrow. Consider resources and supplies, logistics and team management and finances.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Let your partner drive. Collaboration gets you farther than playing Lone Ranger. Practice your arts and beautify your surroundings.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Practical considerations hold your concern. Follow safety rules and high standards. Sort through feelings as they arise.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Lay down the law. Make every attempt to follow the rules. Even if you make mistakes, you’re charming. Work out kinks in private.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Home and family take priority today and tomorrow. Settle into your nest. Good deeds you’ve done bring benefits.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — It’s easier to learn for the next two days. Study instructions first. Talk to someone who’s been there, done that. Creative work pays well.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Pay attention to finances. Fill orders and rake in the money. Schedule a sit down meeting. Pull strings to get a compromise.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 5 — Generate enough to cover expenses in a test of your frugality skills. There’s more money coming your way.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — There’s more work and the pressure’s rising. Take a philosophical view. You’re making an excellent impression.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Get together with friends today and tomorrow. Share emotional support and laughter. Invent new goals and reaffirm previous ones.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — Career matters occupy your time now. There’s a rise in status available. Prepare for a test or challenge today and tomorrow.


Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

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32 Cruise shipconveniences

33 Chill out34 AMA member?:

Abbr.35 “Ruh-roh!” pooch39 Give up40 Comedic Martha42 Grinds in anger,

maybe43 Flavor45 Modern address46 Some are light-

emitting

49 “Cathy,” for one50 Skewed51 “The Amazing

Race” network52 Flash, perhaps53 Get rid of54 3-D images55 USAF Academy

home56 Swindle, in

slang60 March girl61 Baby-viewing

responses

Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

By Stu Ockman 4/17/14

(c)2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 4/17/14

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at [email protected].

What did you overhear? 4Post submissions on the “Overheard at U of M”Facebook group. 4Visit mndaily.com and look for the “Connect with the Daily” boxon the homepage.4Email submissions to [email protected].

overheard crossword

dr. dateDr. Date,

My boyfriend has a really stressful job/class schedule this year, and he gained about 40 pounds. I feel bad for saying this, but it’s really, really bother-ing me. I don’t find it attractive, and hon-estly, I think his stress is just an excuse. I exercise every day and eat healthy, and I don’t think it would be that hard for him to do the same.

How can I motivate him to lose some weight and get back to being the guy I started dating?

—Annoyed

Weighting For Change,Well, I’d avoid berating him. I guar-

antee you he’s well aware of his weight gain and is likely pissed at himself/the situation, especially if he knows how un-attractive his girlfriend finds him.

See, you’ve been working out and eating healthy for a while, right? Your boyfriend, on the other hand, needs to appropriate what is probably a new, for-eign habit — diet and exercise.

Lord knows I’ve been acquainted with some dudes who never exercised, got away with eating nothing but gas sta-tion food and were frickin’ nailin’ in the hot bod department.

If those cats suddenly gained weight, they wouldn’t have the tools at their dis-posal to deal with the fat. Give him time to establish new habits.

Also, I wouldn’t be so quick to call him out on the stress rationale. It’s a very real phenomenon. (Has he started eating worse at the same time?)

If it’s a deal-breaker — no matter how superficial it may make you — it’s a deal-breaker. Staying in a relationship be-cause you feel like you have to is just as destructive.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,I’ve been in a stable, loving relation-

ship for about a year. My boyfriend is great, and we’re in love.

Sounds great, right? Well, it is, and I should be really happy, and there are definitely times when I am. But lately, I’ve been feeling more and more rest-less. This sounds cliché, but I used to have a pretty exciting life. I dated a lot of guys, went out a lot with my friends and basically did whatever I wanted

-whenever I wanted. Since I started dat-ing my boyfriend, though, most of my time is spent with him. We spend most nights together, eat most meals together and have boring conversations about the same stuff we always talk about.

My eye is starting to wander, and I feel awful about it. But I’m also annoyed at my boyfriend — and myself — for let-ting things get so dull.

Is my relationship over? Am I giving up too easily?

—Bored

Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself,

The first step is to regain some of the space that he’s taken up. You shouldn’t feel bad if you start ar-ranging things with just your friends. There’s the very definite chance that he is clingy and suffocating — give yourself a taste of the former fun that characterized your life, and take it from there.

But honestly, you’re full of crap and clearly don’t get it. Why don’t you quit lamenting your former ballin’ lifestyle and figure out why you’re so dead set on sabotaging something (supposed-ly?) good in your life?

You’re a chaos addict. You thrive on drama and want it back. That’s not his fault, though it’s not necessarily yours, either. Some folks are built on crazy — just the way the cookie crumbles.

Were you the kid who asked for a shiny new bike for Christmas, got it and then bitched because it wasn’t the right shade of baby blue? Because you sure sound like it.

I don’t get why people say they’re in love and then follow up with how boring and lame their significant other is. The heck kind of love are you practicing? You don’t like his company anymore, you feel like he’s detracting from other opportunities and you’re eyeballing oth-er options — do you think it’s over?

I do. I also think you’re giving up too easily. But that sounds like exactly what you want to do.

Relationships are work. Put in the work, and you’ll be rewarded. Sit on the sidelines wondering what could be, and of course this thang won’t be success-ful.

—Dr. Date

Professor: “Sixty-five degrees and you guys act like oversexed teenagers!”

—STSS

Officer: “We’re gonna need more cars.”

—Dinkytown

Drunk guy being chased by riot police: “DUDE, I SAID NO TAGBACKS!”

—Unknown

“If we win, we riot. If we lose, we riot. If the U cancels Spring Jam over this, we riot.”

—Coffman Union

Two elementary school boys look-ing at Northrop: “Wow! It’s the WHITE HOUSE!”

—Northrop Auditorium

Person 1: “Why’s it called the Frozen Four?”

Person 2: “It’s precisely how many fro-zen f**** I give.”

—Unknown

Guy: “Identity theft is so difficult to do. I mean, someone could just mug me and take my driver’s license.”

Girl: “Does that have your social secu-rity number on it?”

—Keller Hall

“You were supposed to use Wolfram Alpha to bring balance to the equations, not destroy them!”

—Tate Lab of Physics

“No, no, no. All I’m saying is I think that several years from now, we are going to look at ‘50 Shades of Grey’ as a post-modernist classic.”

—Unknown

Student: “So which exceptions are we catching?”

Professor: “For now, we’re gonna catch ’em all ...”

—CSCI 1933

“I just don’t get why they were chant-ing USA?! We’re all from the same coun-try.”

—Dinkytown


Alumna health commissioner honoreddegree in biology from St. Cloud State University and considered becoming a teacher. But after trying out a job in a nursing home, she learned health-focused jobs fueled her passion.

That passion has en-dured. In the past 30 years, Musicant has had a career that she describes as many “stumbles in the right direc-tion.”

Many of her past jobs, which have ranged from pe-diatric nursing to lobbying for public health issues at the Capitol, sprang out of the ties she built in the community. Public health was where she fit, she said, because it incor-porated society, politics and health in one job.

Musicant passed those passions on to her son Max Musicant, 30, who said he was knocking on people’s doors talking about health and local politics before he entered college.

“She is just like everyone else, but she has a responsi-

bility to be more than that,” he said.

One of Gretchen Musi-cant’s first jobs was pediatric nursing at the University. Her patients intimately wel-comed her into their lives, she said, whether it was to assess everyday symptoms or help a family overcome a child’s illness.

These days, she is wel-comed into a much larger cultural and geographic community — the city of Minneapolis — to solve problems as a public official, speaker and listener.

Since she began as com-missioner in 2005, Minne-apolis teen pregnancy was reduced nearly in half in a five-year period, child vio-lence dropped dramatically and lead poisoning fell by 80 percent since 2002. Her department has confronted a wide range of issues, in-cluding teen violence and environmental health dis-parities.

But it wasn’t a smooth road to the job, she said.

In 1999, Musicant’s hus-band died of kidney cancer after living with the disease

for five years. She continued with her career but dedi-cated her efforts to parent-ing Max, who was 15 at the time.

“I think having some-one die gives you a sense of the preciousness of each day, and if you want to ac-complish things, you might as well try to do them right

now,” she said. “I think it gave me, as a professional, kind of a special kind of ur-gency.”

Musicant’s coworkers agree that her professional determination is evident.

“Gretchen’s very forth-right in her opinions,” said Minnesota Council of Health Plans director Janny Brust,

who has served on different committees with Musicant for more than 20 years. “In my view, that’s a good thing because you know her opin-ion and then you can either agree or disagree.”

She has a unique ability, Brust said, to make public health issues understand-able to everyone inside and out of the health community.

“I understand that pro-cesses are necessary some-times to get people lined up and thinking in the same di-rection, and I believe in that, but I’m also anxious to get busy addressing pressing problems,” Musicant said.

Keeping her alma mater in mind

Musicant remains in-volved with the University long after her graduation.

“My education, both in the School of Nursing and the School of Public Health, has provided me with such strong foundations that as a student I didn’t fully recog-nize,” she said. “It gives me frames for almost everything I encounter.”

As a past School of Public

Health alumna board chair, Musicant has worked on the school’s advisory commit-tees, written grants with the school’s faculty and men-tored students and interns.

In a recent mentoring experience, Brust said, Mu-sicant helped a University graduate student present a complex health topic before a group of health officials.

Musicant treated the stu-dent more like a colleague, Brust said, and she offered several thumbs-ups and smiles during the presenta-tion.

Anderson said many of the school’s students go on to work in administrative po-sitions for the city and state department of health.

Students should be inter-ested in their community’s role in health, Musicant said, because health is relative to everyone’s work.

“It’s more clear now than it has been for some time that so many things influ-ence health,” she said, “and whether or not it’s your frame of reference, health is one way to measure how successful we are as a city.”

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BRUSSELS — NATO is strengthening its military footprint along its eastern border immediately in re-sponse to Russia’s aggres-sion in Ukraine, the alli-ance’s chief said Wednesday.

Secretary General An-ders Fogh Rasmussen

said NATO’s air policing aircraft will fly more sor-ties over the Baltic region west of Ukraine, far from the tensions in the east-ern part of the country. He said allied warships will also deploy to the Baltic Sea, the eastern Mediter-ranean and elsewhere if needed.

NATO’s supreme com-mander in Europe told re-porters that ground forces could also be involved at some point, but gave no details.

NATO members Poland and the Baltic countries Lithuania, Estonia and Lat-via have been wary follow-ing Russia’s annexation

of the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula, demanding a more robust military pos-ture to counter neighboring Russia.

Rasmussen said the new NATO deployments are about “deterrence and de-escalation” in the face of Russia’s aggressive behav-ior in Ukraine, which is not

a member of the 28-nation alliance.

The move was supported by the White House.

“We fully endorse the ac-tions the alliance has taken to reassure NATO members and to bolster NATO’s pres-ence in the Baltic nations,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

Military presence increased in the East Boston Marathon prospected to be safeBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — The arrest of a man with a rice cooker in his backpack near the Boston Marathon finish line led police to step up patrols Wednesday, while organizers sought to assure the city and runners of a safe race next week.

The actions of the man, whose mother said he had a mental disorder, rattled ner ves as Boston pre-pared for the annual race, but authorities said they did not consider it a secu-rity breach. Officials also expressed confidence in heightened security mea-sures for Monday’s event while acknowledging the challenge of protecting an estimated 1 million spectators and 36,000 run-ners across 26.2 miles and eight Massachusetts communities.

Security plans include thousands of uniformed police, hundreds of plain-clothes officers and about 100 strategically positioned video cameras that will monitor the crowds. Police also strongly discouraged spectators from bringing backpacks.

“I believe this will be the safest place on the planet on April 21,” said Dave McGil-livray, the long-time race di-rector for the Boston Athletic Association.

Boston police detonated the suspicious backpack Tuesday night, along with a second backpack that was later found to have been left behind by a journalist cover-ing the day’s remembrances, Police Commissioner Wil-liam Evans said.

Neither bag was deter-mined to have explosives.

The 25-year-old suspect, Kevin “Kayvon” Edson, was arraigned Wednesday on several charges including threatening battery and pos-session of a hoax device. Bail was set at $100,000 and a judge ordered that Ed-son be evaluated at a state psychiatric hospital.

Evans said that Boylston Street, where the finish line is located and where twin bombs killed three people and injured more than 260 others last year, was not in lockdown when Edson walked down the street barefoot in the pouring rain, wearing a black veil and paint on his face. Along with the rice cooker, a robot mask was also found in the backpack, officials said.

“That individual, like any-one, had the right to basically walk up the street,” Evans said. Because he was acting suspiciously, however, police quickly intervened, he said.

GRETCHEN MUSICANT’S MILESTONES

SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

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Received bachelor’s degree in nursing at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.

Worked as a government affairs specialist for the Minnesota Nurses Association.

Received master’s degree in public health nursing from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Worked as vice president of community health for the Minnesota Hospital Association.

Appointed director of public health initiatives at the Minnesota Health Department.

Appointed Minneapolis health commissioner.

Received Paul and Sheila Wellstone Public Health Achievement Award.

Designated as one of the 100 Distinguished Alumni by the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing.

Received Gaylord W. Anderson Leadership Award from the School of Public Health.

04-17-2014 minnesota daily

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