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BY NICK [email protected]

From inside a Dinkytown home Sat-urday, the only sounds challenging the house’s speaker system were drunken shouts and the buzz of conversation as the party drove steadily through the night, backlit by green and purple strobe lights.

Less than a quarter-block away, on the corner of 10th Avenue Southeast and Sixth Street Southeast, strobes were met with po-lice lights and the thud of hip-hop bass was given a whining siren topcoat.

An ambulance rushed to carry away an injured motorcycle driver who had been hit by a red sedan. But the party didn’t stop.

Sgt. Jim Nystrom, leader of the Uni-versity of Minnesota Police Department’s

Coordinated Response Team, pulled up in an unmarked vehicle as a support unit. Nys-trom leads the team’s three officers, who work mainly in shadows, driving unmarked vehicles and at times wearing plain clothes.

While last fall the team narrowed in on tackling near-campus robberies, it re-tailored its goal for this fall, Nystrom said, and is cracking down on open container violations, underage drinking and public intoxication using discrete observation and citation tactics.

When the team responded to an area near the Dinkytown party Saturday night, less than 10 minutes passed before a pair of college-age men ambled down the side-walk, open beer bottles in hand. Soon after, Nystrom wrote them a citation for an open container violation.

Over the first weekend of the semester, UMPD issued more than 90 alcohol-relat-ed citations, according to a public safety

BY ZOE [email protected]

While Southeast Como neighborhood residents’ concerns about harmful vapors in their homes continue to linger, a lawsuit against General Mills is moving forward.

On Friday, the U.S. District Court for

the District of Minnesota heard the case against General Mills, in which a few neigh-borhood residents claim the company put locals’ health and the value of their homes at risk by dumping TCE, also known as tri-chloroethylene, in the area for 15 years.

At Friday’s hearing, General Mills ar-gued that it was not the only company that previously dumped toxins in the neighbor-hood, noting that the site was an industrial area when the company occupied it in the mid-1900s.

The residents’ lawyers said at the

hearing they aren’t looking to prove that the company’s dumping was the only source of the TCE pollution, but instead that it was the main source.

The three residents are seeking a class-action lawsuit, which would unite all resi-dents who live in the affected area with the same claim. If approved, the lawsuit could include nearly 400 homes, and residents would have the option to opt out.

The case’s judge, U.S. District Judge

BY SAM [email protected]

A sea of purple enveloped Din-kytown and Stadium Village on Sunday morning before the

Minnesota Vikings played their first regular-season game at TCF Bank Sta-dium this year.

Lively tailgates surrounded the sta-dium. Throngs of cars lined University Avenue.

And once the game started, Vikings fans were treated to football outside — something they haven’t seen con-sistently since 1981, when the team moved into the Metrodome from their old outdoor venue at Metropolitan

Stadium in Bloomington, Minn.Fans seemed happy to watch NFL

football in Minnesota outside again.“We live up here,” said Marissa Lan-

dala, a fan in attendance on Sunday. “We might as well embrace the ele-ments.”

Charles Lange, a 31-year-old fan, said although he was sad to see the Metrodome demolished, he arrived at TCF Bank Stadium six hours before kickoff and said he prefers the extra tailgating options at the on-campus sta-dium.

“I think this is what football up in Minnesota should be like,” avid fan Erik Rehwaldt said. “It seemed like there’s a lot more [tailgating] spots

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JULIET FARMER, DAILYCoordinated Response Team Leader Sgt. Jim Nystrom writes a citation for a student on Saturday. The student was found carrying an open container of alcohol while walking with friends.

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILYTop: Illinois resident James Fischer, right, dances with fellow fans in the tailgating lot at TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday. Although he was born and raised in Illinois, Fischer said he has been a Vikings fan since he was 7, adding that “there is no better team in the world.” Bottom: Vikings running back Matt Asiata runs the ball against the New England Patriots on Sunday at TCF Bank Stadium.

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BY KAYLEE [email protected]

With a little more than a year until its grand opening, the site of the University of Minnesota’s upcoming ambulatory care center looks like a skeleton of its future self.

Hard hats, caged lights and dangling wires dot the concrete floors and empty steel frames that will eventually be home to a training, research and health care facility.

Donors, future physicians and admin-istrators of the facility toured the newly named, $160 million University of Minne-sota Health Clinics and Surgery Center at a private event Thursday. When its doors open in January 2016, the 318,000-square-foot building will house an outpatient sur-gery center, research labs and the Masonic Cancer Center.

The Health Clinics and Surgery Center will serve a majority of University of Minne-sota Physicians’ patients, said the organiza-tion’s chief operating officer, Mary Johnson.

Both the medical community and the pa-tients it serves will benefit from having ma-ny services centralized in a single location

BY BLAIR [email protected]

Come next year, the University of Min-nesota’s tuition freeze could cover more students.

University President Eric Kaler’s 2016-17 biennial budget proposal extends the existing tuition freeze for undergraduate students paying in-state tuition and for the first time includes graduate and profession-al students.

While some University and state leaders say the proposal is a step in the right direc-tion in alleviating student debt, others are voicing concern about the freeze’s broader ef fects and Kaler’s new plan for getting more state funding.

Kaler presented the budget request to the Board of Regents at its monthly meet-ing on Friday. Regents will vote to approve the proposal next month.

According to his proposal, graduate and professional students would pay the same amount in tuition each of the next two aca-demic years.

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President Eric Kaler’s budget proposal would freeze graduate and professional tuition rates.

The University’s Health Clinics and Surgery Center had one of its first unveilings on Thursday.

The Vikings played their first regular-season game on campus, and many fans were glad to see NFL football outdoors in Minnesota once again.

This fall, a team of U police officers aims to cut down on alcohol-related crimes.

On Friday, a court heard the lawsuit alleging residents’ health and homes are at risk.

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Corporal punishment use still widespread, but declining

LIAM JAMES DOYLE, DAILYMinnesota Vikings fans enjoy food and drink inside Blarney Pub and Grill in Dinkytown after the game against the New England Patriots on Sunday.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — Allega-tions that Minnesota Vi-kings running back Adrian Peterson injured one of his sons by spanking him with a tree branch are reviving a debate about corporal punishment in a countr y where it is on the decline but still widely practiced in homes and schools.

Here is some back-ground about the practice and its prevalence:

Q: Where is it legal?A: In every state in the

countr y, a parent can le-gally hit their child as long as the force is “reason-able.” What’s considered reasonable varies from place to place and in many instances the question is left up to a jury in a kind of community-standard test. Generally, though, the law draws the line when the force causes an injury. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child defines it as any physical

punishment intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfor t, however light.

In Texas, where Peter-son is accused, punish-ment is abusive if it causes injur y. While a blow that causes a red mark that fades in an hour is not like-ly to be judged abusive, a blow that leaves a bruise, welt, or swelling, or re-quires medical attention, could be judged abusive.

Q: How is it used in schools?

A: In 19 states, it’s still legal for personnel in schools to practice “pad-dling.” An estimated total of 223,190 students were subjected to it in the 2005-2006 school year, accord-ing to the most recent data gathered by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. That was an 18 percent decline from the previous survey.

One of those states, Alabama, entered the spot-light in September last

year when an outraged mother protested over a corporal punishment pa-rental consent form sent home by her child’s ele-mentary school. It spelled out a requirement for parents who don’t want their children physically disciplined to opt out and inform the principal on an annual basis.

A 2009 study by Hu-man Rights Watch and the American Civil Liber ties Union found a dispropor-tionate number of students struck by educators were disabled, at 18.8 percent of the total during the 2006-2007 school year.

The issue is generally left up to states and indi-vidual school districts, but in Congress, U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a New York Democrat, re-intro-duced legislation in June that would withhold federal funds from schools that permit corporal punish-ment. The bill has not ad-vanced out of committee.

Q: Are parents who were spanked as chil-dren more likely to use physical punishment?

A: In defending Peter-son’s actions, his attorney said he was only exerting the same kind of discipline he experienced as a child growing up in East Texas. That’s not an unusual sce-nario, exper ts say, and cour ts wil l sometimes consider past abuse as a mitigating factor when sen-tencing a defendant. But it shouldn’t be taken as an excuse, says Victor Vieth, an exper t in child abuse prevention training.

“Sur vivors more than others are of fended when cour ts do that because it perpetuates this myth that we are destined to continue abuse in our fam-ily and that’s not true. We do have a choice,” says Vieth, a former prosecutor who directs the Gunder-sen National Child Protec-tion Training Center in Winona, Minnesota.

Diversion group attempts to calm waters with letter

$2M bail for suspect in gas station killing


FARGO, N.D. — Opponents of a nearly $2 billion Red River flood control project that would mostly ben-efit North Dakota’s largest city, Fargo, have enlisted the support of two powerful allies, including Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton.

Dayton and another Minnesota Democrat, state Rep. Paul Marquart, have thrown their lot in with upstream residents who are unhappy that the diversion plans call for a holding area that would flood farmland, buildings and cemeteries in times when the channel is needed to protect 200,000 residents in the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota area.

The two men criticized the project after the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority earlier this summer opted to start construction on a ring dike around towns that would be in the holding area without waiting for an en-vironmental study to be completed. Dayton said it’s akin to “kicking sand in the face” of Minnesota. Marquart, of Dilworth, Minnesota, said the authority needs to change or be replaced.

Darrell Vanyo, chairman of the nine-person board, said he got the message. He sent a letter to Dayton last Monday offering to limit construction on the ring dike and delay construction on the diversion channel until the environmental review is done. He also offered to add more Minnesota members to the authority board, which currently only has two members representing Minnesota interests, including Clay County Commissioner Kevin Campbell.

“I think the letter is a step in the right direction to get this thing to work,” Campbell said. “I think the governor believes it needs to be worked out, too.”


ST. PAUL — A man accused of killing his former boy-friend and business partner at a suburban Minneapolis gas station abandoned a suitcase that contained ammunition consistent with the bullets used in the slaying, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday.

The complaint was unsealed as Lyle “Ty” Hoffman made his first court appearance since his arrest Thursday, after a month on the run. Hoffman, 44, is charged with in-tentional second-degree murder in the Aug. 11 death of Kelly Phillips, 48, formerly an attorney and vice president for the medical device company Boston Scientific.

After a series of intense manhunts in several Minne-apolis suburbs, Hoffman was caught in Shakopee. He ap-peared in court wearing a protective vest but no shirt and waved to his sister before being escorted from the court-room. Bail was set at $2 million after a brief hearing, with Hoffman assigned a public defender.

Hoffman and Phillips were once in a romantic relation-ship and had continued working together for a time in a northeast Minneapolis nightclub they had opened togeth-er. But that relationship fractured, too, with Phillips — the owner of the bar — eventually firing Hoffman and evicting him from a nearby house that Phillips owned.

According to the complaint, investigators learned Hoff-man sometimes used a downtown Minneapolis condo-minium where they found a suitcase that belonged to him. Inside, investigators found men’s clothing, Hoffman’s pass-port, prescription medication, an ammunition magazine and 13 rounds of ammunition that was the same caliber, type and brand as casings found at the shooting scene and in Phillips’ body.

Authorities weren’t sure how Hoffman eluded capture for a month even as several tips seemed to suggest he had remained in the area. Several massive searches were staged. He also was suspected of a bank robbery in Blaine on Aug. 30.

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BY ANNE [email protected]

R i g h t n o w, s o m e residents of the Venue in Dinkytown live above vacant spaces — but come mid-October, they’ll have a Starbucks and a Great Clips below their bedrooms.

The Opus Group, which developed and designed the apar tment complex, announced the project’s official completion and dis-closed its new lessees in a

Thursday press release.Erin Swendsen, leasing

consultant for the Venue, said the Great Clips location was formally announced in May, and though the Starbucks lease wasn’t disclosed to students at move-in, many heard about it through word of mouth.

“ I ’ v e h a d a l o t o f residents say that they’re going to go broke,” she sa id . “But i t ’ s a n ice addition to the Dinkytown area just because there’s

not a Starbucks over here or a chain coffee shop.”

Espresso Royale sits just around the corner of the planned Starbucks space, which Swendsen said will open the second week of October.

Espresso Royale re-gional manager Dan Ziel-ske said he has anticipated the chain coffee shop’s ar-rival for some time. There have been Starbucks and Caribou Coffee locations in Dinkytown before, he said, and Espresso Royale will make adjustments if neces-sary.

“Would it be better if

they weren’t there? Yes,” he said. “But it’s not a surprise that they’re coming.”

Once the businesses open , the Dinky town Starbucks wi l l be the seventh near the University of Minnesota. Starbucks and Great Clips locations also share a building next

to the Commons Hotel on Wa s h i n g t o n A v e n u e Southeast.

For now, the property’s retail space, which includes Goodwill’s new concept store Gina + Will, has about 2,200 square feet of vacant space, according to the release.

Dinkytown adds Great Clips, Starbucks to Venue apartmentsThis will be the seventh Starbucks and second Great Clips to open near campus. “It’s a nice addition to the Dinkytown

area just because there’s not a Star-bucks over here or a chain coffee shop.”ERIN SWENDSENLeasing consultant at the Venue

Queen to Scots: Think about future BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has made her first comments about this week’s Scottish indepen-dence vote, urging Scots to “think very carefully about the future.”

But the popular British monarch didn’t indicate a preference on how Scots should vote, carefully main-taining the neutrality that is her constitutional obliga-tion.

Still, some may interpret her comments as a sug-gestion that Scots looking to embrace independence should be cautious about severing Scotland’s long ties to the United Kingdom, which date back more than 300 years.

The queen spoke after a Sunday church ser vice near her Balmoral estate in Scotland. She made the comment to a well-wisher in the crowd.

Buckingham Palace recently issued a statement indicating her plans to remain neutral before Thursday’s vote.

She was seen as resist-ing calls from some Conser-vative Party lawmakers that she should make her views known before the historic vote because it could possi-bly lead to a breakup of the United Kingdom.

She is well known to have a deep af fection for Scotland and to spend much of her free time every summer at her extensive Balmoral estate, where she can be seen walking in the woods or riding horses.

Weekend polls have suggested the race is too close to call with both sides planning a frenetic final few days of campaigning.

Wildlife experts work to save baby opossums BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Wildlife rehabilitation ex-perts are working to keep two baby opossums alive after the mother was appar-ently beaten to death with a sharp rock.

The 2-year-old mother with two babies in her pouch was found in criti-cal condition by a security guard outside an industrial building in Fontana last week, the Press-Enterprise reported.

The mother opossum died three days later, said Karolyn Ver vi l le , who heads Sunshine Haven Ani-mal Rescue & Wildlife Re-habilitation in Riverside.

Verville has been feed-ing cat milk replacement to the hungry babies, which she says tends to suit most wildlife.

“We’re the next best thing to mom,” she told The Associated Press on Sun-day.

Police in Fontana are searching for the attacker, after a sharp rock with blood and fur on it was found near the opossum.

Animal shelter staff had hoped to save the mother opossum, which had possi-ble skull and jaw fractures, so she could continue to nurse the babies until they were old enough to release into the wild.

Verville said the babies need care for three months before they can be returned to their environment. State law requires animals to be released no more than three miles from the place where they were found, she said.

“The idea is not to pro-tect them from death — no-body can do that,” she said. “It is just to give them a chance at life.”

Donovan Frank, will make the decision of classifying the case as a class-action lawsuit, along with choosing which homes are included in the case, based on expert testi-monies.

The decision will come in 60 days, he said at Friday’s hearing.

If the case doesn’t receive class-action certification, resi-dents wishing to sue will need to pursue individual lawsuits. But Michael Hayes, a lawyer representing the residents, said that option would be too expensive for most residents.

Additionally, General Mills asked that the judge dismiss two expert testimonies on Fri-day, citing that their methods of research on the area were “unreliable.”

Though the residents will continue with the case, Frank encouraged both sides to set-tle outside of court.

“Let’s find a way to save time and money without the court,” he said at the hearing.

Neighborhood leaders hear resident concerns

Nearly a year after the state’s department of health

and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency sent letters to Southeast Como residents informing them of the poten-tially harmful vapor intru-sions in their homes, perma-nent cleanup efforts haven’t started.

Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon, who repre-sents parts of the University area and Southeast Como neighborhood, said resi-dents have continuously ex-pressed concerns about their health and the value of their homes and are asking when permanent cleanup will begin.

“[Residents] want to see the big solution, where they actually get rid of [TCE va-pors] permanently,” he said.

Last week, the Southeast

Como Improvement Associa-tion held its first TCEducate lecture series in hopes of increasing residents’ knowl-edge about the issues sur-rounding the TCE contami-nation.

SECIA neighborhood co-ordinator Ricardo McCurley said the lecture series will cover topics like cleanup tac-tics and the legal process of class-action lawsuits.

He said the discussions aim to help educate resi-dents and make them feel more comfortable about the situation.

“Something like this that is affecting your home, your health [and] the health of your loved ones is a very difficult thing to talk about,” McCurley said.

SECIA will hold its next lecture late next month.

The Minnesota Pollu-tion Control Agency is cur-rently reviewing General Mills’ plan to clean the area and find the source of TCE. The working plan, which in-cludes opportunities for resi-dents’ input, doesn’t include cleanup strategies until late 2015.

McCurley said SECIA wants residents to have suf-ficient information about the work plan so that they can make educated comments on it.

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The City Council approved a new light rail branch and bus route for 2019.

BY KATE [email protected]

As transpor tation op-tions in the metro area continue to grow, Univer-sity of Minnesota commut-er students are reaping the benefits.

The Minneapolis City Council approved a new light rail branch late last month that would connect down-town Minneapolis to its south-western suburbs by 2019 and extend the recently com-pleted Green Line light rail that runs through the heart of campus.

At the same time, plans are in the works for a rapid-transit bus route scheduled to run between downtown Minneapolis and Burnsville by 2019.

At the University, com-muter students say these projects will ease travel to and from campus.

Kosal Seak, co-chair of the University’s Commut-er Connection group, said many commuter students rely on public transporta-tion, adding that he uses it more regularly than his own car.

“I’m so happy the light

rail is open,” he said. “It opens up a bigger time frame. If you want to stay [on campus] later, you have the possibility of doing that. However, [the commute] is still pretty difficult.”

French and sociology of law sophomore Renee Rippberger said her aver-age commute to campus takes about an hour.

Unlike when she lived in a residence hall, Rip-pberger said, she finds commuting t i r ing and isolating.

“I usually end up on campus for most of the day. I have to carry every-thing with me,” she said. “My backpack feels like 5 billion pounds.”

Rippberger, who lives

just outside of Burnsville, said she would take advan-tage of the Orange Line rapid-transit bus route if it is created.

“I would be on that thing every day,” she said.

The Southwest l ight rail project may also give commuter students more options in the future.

In August, Minneapolis became the last city along the proposed route to ap-prove the nearly $1.65 bil-lion, 16-mile Green Line extension that will run from Target Field to Eden Prairie.

T h e M e t r o p o l i t a n Council projects that the Southwest light rail will have about 34,000 week-day boarders by 2030.

But before construction on the Southwest light rail can begin, federal authori-ties must give the green light to the project’s next steps and agree to cover 50 percent of its capital costs, said Laura Baenen, commu-nications manager for the Southwest light rail project.

T ranspor tat ion of f i -cials must also plan out the logistical details of the route, she said, like the stations’ designs and how to ef ficiently route pedes-trians and traf fic around the station.

“Ever y last detail has to be drawn out ahead of time,” she said. “You have to know where every little curb and gutter might be.”

update sent Friday by Vice President for University Services Pamela Wheelock.

Under the cover of Saturday night

Nystrom began the night of Black Saturday — the day he said new soror-ity members party for the first time after rushing and wear black dresses that make them easily identi-fiable — by rolling in an unmarked vehicle past fra-ternity row, the Superblock and Dinkytown.

He said he was on the lookout for individuals showing signs of pub-lic dr unkenness, minor consumpt ion or open containers.

Driving in civilian-style vehicles makes it easier for CRT of ficers to scope out such alcohol violations, Nystrom said. In the back of his car, a pair of crutch-es ser ves as a potential disguise.

Some of the team’s members have specialized training, including Special Weapons and Tactics ne-gotiation training, which Nystrom utilized during an incident Saturday.

Around 11 p.m., a bellig-erent individual was loudly protesting his friend’s ci-tation and said he had the right to ignore officers’ or-ders to stay quiet.

Nystrom called in of-ficer Josh Betts to handle what Nystrom described as a patience-testing “street lawyer.”

“ I t h e l p s m e c a l m down,” Betts said of the ne-gotiation training.

Throughout the night, the sight of a uniformed po-lice officer emerging from an unmarked vehicle to is-

sue citations turned heads.When members of the

CRT jump into action, they radio for backup squad cars — both to avoid confu-sion and to stand by for po-tential arrests, since the co-vert vehicles are used only for surveillance and aren’t equipped with the barri-ers needed to transpor t arrestees.

Back-to-school citation spike

The new, enhanced enforcement initiative is

aimed at keeping students safe, Nystrom said, add-ing that most of more than 90 citations issued in the star t of September came between 10 p.m. and mid-night.

At the beginning of the semester, he said, more students are sent to the hospital for alcohol poison-ing and other alcohol-re-lated problems, with about two to three students hos-pitalized over the average weekend.

I t ’ s a l so an even t -

packed season, he said, so during those months, CRT and other UMPD of ficers patrol not only campus, but venture to the Dinky-town, Southeast Como and Marcy-Holmes neighbor-hoods.

Residence halls’ com-munity advisers have also worked with UMPD to develop in-house alcohol enforcement techniques, freeing up officers to focus on off-campus areas.

“The campus is usually our focus, but the people

are our focus too — and the people are of f cam-pus,” Nystrom said. “We try to supplement the Min-neapolis police, with their blessing.”

While upholding safety is his job’s main focus, Nystrom said the under-the-radar nature of CRT’s operations means they si-multaneously surveil while they patrol.

During one encoun-ter Saturday, Nystrom stopped two individuals but didn’t issue a citation.

Instead, he noted their be-havior and vehicle descrip-tion in case it became rel-evant in the future.

As the weather turns bitterly cold, he said, late-night crime tends to dip. Until then, his team will continue staking out cam-pus crime invisible to the casual observer.

“It’s really about social engineering, changing be-havior,” Nystrom said. “So that someone will make a better choice and nothing bad happens to anyone.”

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JULIET FARMER, DAILYCoordinated Response Team Leader Sgt. Jim Nystrom writes an open container citation for a student on Saturday. The student was caught carrying an open container of alcohol.

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TCE lawsuit inches forward, Como organizes outreach efforts BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — Min-nesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson’s booking on a child abuse charge Saturday has created another crisis for the em-battled NFL, already derided for not responding strongly enough to acts of domestic violence by its players.

It also has touched off a national debate about the role of corporal punishment in parenting.

In the eyes of a Texas grand jury, Peterson crossed the line when he repeatedly struck his son with a tree branch, or switch, in May. Peterson’s attorney has said he has never run from what happened — and that Peter-son was inflicting the same discipline he endured as a child.

“Obviously, parents are entitled to discipline their children as they see fit, ex-cept when that discipline ex-ceeds what the community would say is reasonable,” Montgomery County Pros-ecutor Phil Grant said about 12 hours after Peterson was booked and released from jail on $15,000 bond. He is charged with causing injury to a child age 14 or younger.

Peterson, one of the NFL’s most popular players and widely considered one of the best running backs to

ever play, flew from Minne-sota to Houston in the early morning hours after authori-ties indicted him on Friday evening. He has a home in both locations.

The Vikings almost im-mediately decided to deacti-vate him for Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots, and NFL spokes-man Brian McCarthy said on Saturday that Peterson’s case “will be reviewed under the NFL’s personal conduct policy.”

The situation comes as the NFL proceeds with a self-commissioned investiga-tion by a former FBI director into how it handled the case of Ray Rice, who knocked his then-fiancee unconscious in an Atlantic City elevator. Rice was released Monday from the Baltimore Ravens after a video surfaced that showed the violence. The NFL said it hadn’t seen the video before then, but a law enforcement source told the AP it was sent to a league ex-ecutive’s office in April and provided a voice mail con-firming it was received.

Unlike Rice’s situation, Peterson’s case is compli-cated by his stance that he meant his son no harm but rather was applying the same discipline he experi-enced growing up.

“Adrian is a loving father who used his judgment as a parent to discipline his son.

He used the same kind of discipline with his child that he experienced as a child growing up in East Texas,” Peterson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, said.

S t e v e E u d e y, w h o coached Peterson as a young boy in Palestine, Tex-as, and has remained a fam-ily friend, said he has heard stories from Peterson about his father Nelson “being a firm disciplinarian.”

“Some of the things his dad did to him was to make him tough,” Eudey told The Associated Press.

Eudey said he had yet to speak to Peterson since his arrest, but said his actions were consistent with the type of upbringing he had.

“I will go to my grave de-fending Adrian, but at the same time you can’t harm a child, either,” Eudey said. “I know that was never his in-tent.”

Grant, the Texas prosecu-tor, said the grand jury felt the charge was warranted after spending several weeks reviewing “lots of evidence.”

It’s not unusual for people subjected to physical disci-pline as children to use cor-poral punishment against their own children, experts say, and courts will some-times consider that as a miti-gating factor when sentenc-ing an abuser. Peterson faces up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine if found guilty.

Peterson case adds new crisis for NFL

U police crack down on alcohol, open containers

“Something like this that is affect-ing your home, your health [and] the health of your loved ones is a very difficult thing to talk about.”RICARDO MCCURLEYSECIA neighborhood coordinator


Doctors get a look at new care center

BY SARAH [email protected]

Despite the intense fighting that shook Gaza this summer, most Jewish students at the University of Minnesota are not letting the potential danger get in the way of visiting their homeland.

University Jewish or-ganizations are recruiting students for this year’s trips to Israel. And while some students and their fami-lies have hesitations about traveling to the area, most say the importance of ex-periencing their homeland outweighs any possibility of danger.

Each year, thousands of Jewish young people travel to the area for Birthright Is-rael — a free 10-day trip to experience and learn about the country. University Jew-ish organizations work with the international organiza-tion to help students plan their trips.

Rabbi Y itz i Steiner, co-director of Chabad, a University Jewish stu-dent group, said although students and parents have expressed concerns about safety, the group is trying to reassure students that it’s safe to visit Israel by educating them about the

ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

“Part of what we need to do is [help students] feel confident [about visiting Is-rael] and also safe,” Steiner said. “And the only way to do that is by educating them and explaining to them what’s going on there.”

Benjie Kaplan, director of Hillel, a Jewish student center at the University, said like Chabad, Hillel is encour-aging students to go on the Birthright Israel trip, and that for many years, the pro-gram has had no incidents.

“Bir thright and Hillel take security very serious-ly,” he said, adding that the program has an excellent safety record.

Steiner said he was in Israel this summer during the “heat of it all” and is as-suring students that they shouldn’t worr y and the area is safe to visit.

Eliav Perez, Hillel’s fel-low from the Jewish Agency for Israel, acknowledged students’ concerns about the potential dangers in Israel but said, “If you are Jewish, Israel is probably the safest place you can be,” noting that security guards and trained medics accompany each group.

The Bir thright Israel trip also does not include

tours to Gaza, according to its website, but sched-ule changes are possible when permitted by security authorities.

Campus Jewish organi-zations are using the atten-tion surrounding the con-flict to educate students and share Israel’s “side of the story,” said Ezra Strohm, vice president of Hillel.

Throughout the school year, Hillel plans to work with the University student group Students Supporting Israel and other communi-ty Jewish groups to provide on-campus discussions about the conflict and its effects on the Jewish com-munity, Kaplan said.

E v e n t h o u g h s o m e hesitations linger, most students say the allure of visiting their homeland to fur ther explore their religion and background t r i u m p h s o v e r s a f e t y concerns.

Strohm said his two visits to Israel have helped him connect with his cul-ture in a way that no other experience could do.

“When you go to Jerusa-lem, you’re able to actually see and touch and feel all the things that you’ve been learning about and all the impor tant aspects of the Jewish religion,” he said.

on Fulton Street Southeast, Medical School Dean Dr. Brooks Jackson said.

“We hope to be able to create more of a one-stop shopping visit for patients,” Jackson said.

The center will ser ve three roles, he said. By providing care, training the next generation of health professionals and con-ducting groundbreaking research, the center repre-sents the “future of health care,” Jackson said.

The Health Clinics and Surgery Center will be open 12 hours a day and briefly on the weekends. This is dif ferent from the current operating hours at the Phil-lips Wangensteen building, which houses the Masonic Cancer Center, said Dr. Bobbi Daniels, CEO for University Physicians.

To make its ser vices more affordable than in the past, the clinic will run on a “different economic model” from other University cen-ters, she said.

“Not only will there be a great building or really great care,” Daniels said, “but it will be more acces-sible and a greater value to our patients.”

Jackson said the clinic’s opening will introduce pa-tients to new experimen-tal therapies and medical devices.

“It will really change the way we deliver health care and enable us to test out new care models,” he said.

Construction on the site, which began in December 2013, has steadily moved forward despite some un-expected weather, said Jen-nifer Radniecki, assistant project manager for Mc-Gough Construction, the company overseeing the project.

Most of the building’s six steel-framed levels should be walled in and win-dowed by December, said Rick Steinberger, a super-intendent for McGough. By mid-October, he said, the structure will have a roof.

At Thursday’s event, Steinberger described how serpentine glass walls will

encase some of the now-empty floors and the first two levels bridged by a mas-sive staircase.

The clinic will also have the “latest and greatest” in technology, Johnson said.

“Not only [will] technol-ogy change the experience for our patients,” she said, “but [it] will change the ex-perience as well for our phy-sicians as they interact with each other in much more ef-ficient ways.”

The University is still

working out some logis-tics, like transporting staff and patients to other cam-pus buildings, Johnson said.

“If you think about the pressure that health care and the medical industry is undergoing, there’s a lot of responses that we as an aca-demic medical center and academic system need to make,” Daniels said. “A lot of that is embodied in the changes represented in this building.”

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILYA group of physicians, administrators and donors tours the University Health Clinics and Surgery Center’s first open house Thursday. The $160 million clinic will open for patients in January 2016.

Centeru from Page 1

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILYDonors, administrators and future physicians see the construction process for the new clinic. Construction has proceeded at a consistent pace, despite some unexpected weather.


ST. PAUL — Bursting at the seams, executives at surgical device maker Car-diovascular Systems Inc. knew they needed to dou-ble their physical space and double their workforce. The big question was where.

After scoping dozens of sites, including four out-side of Minnesota, the firm landed close to home in New Brighton amid a pock-et of north suburban med-tech companies. The new 125,000-square-foot corpo-rate and manufacturing hub isn’t done yet, but hiring of skilled workers earning an average of $40 per hour has begun.

It’s happening thanks in part to $2.75 million in state loans and grants plus a healthy dose of city assis-tance. But there’s a catch: To unlock much of the state money, the company first must follow through on a pledge to gradually add 200 new employees at the $30 million plant.

“It helped make our de-cision to stay here easier,” Cardiovascular Systems corporate communications director Jack Nielsen said of the incentive package.

S imi la r dea l s have been inked across Minne-sota lately involving both homegrown f ir ms and out-of-state recruits, many eagerly touted by Demo-cratic Gov. Mark Dayton’s

administration as proof gov-ernment can play a key role in priming economic de-velopment. His Republican challenger, Hennepin Coun-ty Commissioner Jeff John-son, argues it says more about softness in the state’s economy and trouble with its business climate that subsidies are so pivotal.

As Dayton tries for a second term, his handling of Minnesota’s economy is a central issue. The gov-ernor is adamant that a turnaround on his watch is undeniable and that more jobs are on the way, helped along by incentive programs like the new $24 million Minnesota Job Cre-ation Fund and a supersiz-ing of the loan-based Min-nesota Investment Fund he helped launch 30 years ago.

“It’s not welfare,” Dayton told The Associated Press in an interview. “They’re do-ing something in return for the assistance we are pro-viding. They’re providing jobs.”

In the new program’s first eight months, state offi-cials have committed nearly $12 million to 20 compa-nies. Those companies, in turn, have promised to add at least 1,300 people to their payrolls and put $224 mil-lion into capital expansions. Awards can be up to $2 mil-lion, but few reach even half that. The more the new jobs pay — salaries must be at least $26,000 per year —

the bigger the potential re-bate for companies.

And compared to the predecessor JOBZ pro-gram, which gave qualify-ing companies years of tax-free status in designated distressed zones, the new one requires more proof that jobs are created and held in place for at least a year.

“We want to be support-ive of the expansions,” said Depar tment of Employ-ment and Economic Devel-opment Commissioner Ka-tie Clark Sieben, a Dayton appointee. “But it also has a great balance of no money leaves the state until we know for sure that a com-pany has met those goals.”

According to Pew Chari-table Trusts researchers, each state has at least one tax incentive program for economic development — and most have several — that gobble up billions of combined tax dollars per year. Studies of some states’ programs have found in-stances where subsidies cost taxpayers tens of thou-sands of dollars per job or simply rewarded compa-nies for jobs they would add regardless.

At Good Jobs First, a left-leaning think tank that has produced reports skeptical of such programs, execu-tive director Greg LeRoy has detected a shift to-ward pay-for-performance designs.

Despite some safety concerns, many students believe that visiting their homeland is an important life experience.

Jewish students continue planning trips to Israel

In governor race, different views on incentive programs

“Not only [will] technology change the experience for our patients, but [it] will change the experience as well for our physicians as they interact with each other in much more efficient ways.”MARY JOHNSONUniversity of Minnesota chief operating officer

Editorials & Opinions6 Monday, September 15, 2014

O ver the past several centuries, saints and mystics around the world have encouraged people

to meditate to find inner peace. Even sci-entists have recently found evidence to suggest that everyone could benefit from more meditation. As a result, a practice once used as a mystical way to understand the forces of life is becoming a popular method to relax and to attain a peaceful state of mind.

Though there are many kinds of medi-tation, almost all of them involve concen-trating on an object. The object might be a thought, image, internal energy or God. However, the act of concentration and self-withdrawal remains the same.

Zoran Josipovic, a professor from New York University, published a study in which he obser ved Tibetan Buddhist monks’ brain activity while they were meditating. He found that the monks had higher brain connectivity, which means that their brains are able to communicate between different lobes more effectively than they normally would.

This confirmed an earlier study con-ducted by Eileen Luders at the UCLA School of Medicine. Her research sug-gested that long-term practitioners of

meditation have the capacity to change the physical structure of their brains by repairing white matter and forming new neurological connections. Test subjects were given a cognitive exam, and re-searchers examined whether the time the subjects spent meditating impacted how well they scored. The cognitive test measured the efficacy of the neurological connections between the dif ferent lobes of the brain.

This research has many implications. It suggests that meditation could help repair par ts of the brain and thus help treat or prevent mental disorders. With meditation increasing the neuroplasticity of white matter, the brain experiences an improvement in its self-regulatory mech-anisms. Michael Posner of the University of Oregon explains that most mental dis-orders are due to the brain’s inability to self-regulate.

Research has also indicated that medi-tation can improve concentration. The University of North Carolina showed in a study that students at the school were able to increase their concentration by

meditating for about 20 minutes a day for four days.

Fur thermore, meditation has been shown to reduce stress. The University of Ottawa found that meditation was effective in lowering patients’ stress levels in the hospital setting.

Although meditation might not com-pletely remedy our daily anxieties, it is definitely an area that all people, includ-ing college students, should explore. As University of Minnesota students return to their studies, stress levels are likely to increase. Meditation is a good way to rem-edy this.

Students can achieve significant in-creases in focus simply by meditating for 20 minutes each day. In our own ways, all of us are scientists. We should all experiment to see whether meditation has any place in our lives.

Anant Naik welcomes comments at

[email protected].

L ast Friday, a federal appeals court reinstated Wisconsin’s voter photo identification requirement, which

had been ruled unconstitutional by a lower court in April.

This is troubling news for Wisconsin-ites, as roughly 300,000 registered voters in the state will be disenfranchised. Minori-ties, college students, the poor, the elderly and the infirm are at the highest risk.

Supporters of the law may say that recent procedural changes will make it easier to ob-tain proper voter identification. Regardless, this law means that there will be fewer regis-tered voters able to cast ballots in Wisconsin.

Some “procedural changes” will not suddenly re-enfranchise 300,000 citizens before the next election. Moreover, there is no plan to inform disenfranchised individu-als that they are no longer eligible to vote, nor is there a plan to help those that are un-able to meet the identification standards.

We should not forget the fact that sup-

porters of voter ID laws are trying to fix a nonexistent problem. Voter fraud does not exist in Wisconsin, nor does it exist in the rest of the nation.

Why, then, are Republicans, such as Wis-consin Gov. Scott Walker, adamantly support-ing voter ID laws? The answer is that it ben-efits them politically, as the law will box out more liberal voters, rather than conservatives. It’s a shame that a few Republican-appointed appeals court justices unethically violated the rights of more than 250,000 registered voters.

Voter ID laws, acting under the guise of preventing voter fraud, suppress voters’ rights for political reasons. For the sake of democracy, they must be abolished.

Ronald Dixonwelcomes comments at

[email protected].

Many studies show benefits of meditation, including increased focus and decreased stress.

Restrictive voter ID laws are back in Wisconsin, despite lack of evidence of voter fraud.

ANANT NAIKcolumnist

RONALD DIXONcolumnist

SCIENCE

Why everyone should begin to meditate EDITORIALSNew budget may freeze tuition

Big Ten finances might get boost

Approval would benefit many, including some postgraduates.

More money and travel may result in an academic liability.

I f approved, President Eric Kaler’s bud-get request will extend the University of Minnesota’s current resident under-

graduate tuition freeze through the 2016-17 school year and expand it to include gradu-ate and professional students.

The proposal asks the state Legislature for more than $1.3 billion over two years. Annually, that includes a $127 million, or 10.6 percent, increase in state funding from the current budget. If approved, the Uni-versity’s budget will equal the all-time high it reached in 2008 before cutbacks caused by the recession.

Before it goes to state lawmakers, the budget request must first pass the Board of Regents, which reviewed the proposal during its monthly meeting Friday. Some regents at the meeting showed approval for Kaler’s plan.

The University’s in-state tuition freeze began in 2012, and the current yearly tu-ition for a student on the Twin Cities cam-pus is $12,060.

If the tuition freeze continues, incoming freshmen will save at least $2,133 over four years. Graduate students seeking a two-year master’s degree would save about $1,600 over the course of their program, while stu-dents attending medical school would save approximately $5,000 in four years.

We support the extended tuition freeze, as we feel hopeful about its ability to ease the financial burden that graduate and profes-sional students assume when they choose to attend the University. Graduate and pro-fessional students are an integral part of the student body — it’s time they enjoyed the same tuition benefits as undergraduates.

A Minnesota Daily project on Thurs-day presented an analysis of Big Ten finances for recent years and how

the conference’s revenues are projected to grow with the addition of two new teams — Rutgers and Maryland.

Tapping into the large East Coast mar-kets around Rutgers and Mar yland is expected to increase teams’ revenue via advertising and subscriptions to the Big Ten Network. Gophers head football coach Jerry Kill projected the per-team revenue growth to be as high as $40 million over four years, although the University of Min-nesota athletics department could not con-firm that estimate.

The University’s athletics revenue and spending have both increased steadily throughout the past decade.

It’s a safe bet that as Big Ten TV con-tracts become more valuable, the Univer-sity will put those dollars back into athletics. With the possibility of sending teams to con-ference games in Maryland and New Jersey, travel costs may be higher than ever before.

As these college teams’ revenues and travel distances continue to grow, it will be increasingly important for athletics of-ficials to consider the athletes’ academic responsibilities.

With the increased revenue from a larger Big Ten, we hope the University will take some of that money to help ensure the academic well-being of its student-athletes as they embark on lengthier road trips than in past years.

EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENTEditorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.

US strategy for combatting ISILIn the growing era of drones and techno-

logical warfare, it is simple, from the Ameri-can perspective, to write off the enormity of unintended civilian casualties as mere collat-eral damage statistics that scroll by on your news feed. Conversely, to young Sunnis on the ground in Iraq making the decision to back the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or Iraqi security forces, even one death of a friend or family member at the hands of an American bomb will quickly turn them from a potential ally to a guaranteed foe.

This leads us to the second and best-conceived piece of President Obama’s strat-egy from his speech on Sept. 10. This piece largely outlines the U.S. plan for ground in-tervention in the fight against ISIL. Obama stated, “We’ll also support Iraq’s efforts to stand up National Guard Units to help Sun-ni communities secure their own freedom from ISIL’s control.”

The repercussions of this statement are massive. For those unaware, Shia commu-nities represent a population majority in Iraq, though Sunni communities have also held a significant amount of power in Iraqi governance. Similarly, it is these same Sun-ni communities who make up the majority of ISIL’s fighting force.

The key to destabilizing ISIL in the re-gion is not to eliminate ISIL fighters from the sky in a game of attrition, but rather to convince Sunni communities within Iraq that their interests are better served by inheriting a larger role in the reimagined Iraqi parliament. No easy task, but I think that Sunni communities are not necessar-ily enamored with the extremist represen-tation of Islamic law imagined by ISIL, but are rather discouraged by a continued Shia dominance of government in Iraq.

A certain amount of cash and parlia-mentary titles directed toward appropriate

Sunni leaders in Iraq would yield a rapid cessation to the advance of ISIL for a fraction of the cost, both financially and in terms of human life. I feel confident making this statement because history is on my side.

Known as the “Anbar Awakening” in late 2006, key Sunni leaders in the most heavily contested provinces of Iraq turned against al-Qaida and began to cooperate with and advo-cate for U.S. policy. The Anbar Awakening is often overshadowed by the U.S. troop surge in early 2007 as the event that turned the tide of the war in Iraq. But it is the Anbar Awak-ening, not the U.S. troop surge, that was the true catalyst for change in the Iraq War.

We need a similar awakening strategy that guarantees Sunnis a permanent role in Iraqi governance. Only by degrading ISIL from within, not from above, can the West-ern world hope to achieve any sort of stabil-ity in Iraq and the broader region.

Craig Shaver Sergeant in the United States Marine

Corps Infantry, University student

Sen. Franken’s record may be catching up to him

Democratic Sen. Al Franken showed up on the University of Minnesota campus on Sept. 3. He spoke to a crowd of mostly college Democrats, but one wonders if he expected to see the man in a chicken suit at the speech.

Franken’s words about how college stu-dents care about just about everything ring hollow, given the fact that he only got into a few specifics of policy actions.

If Franken truly believed that students here at the University and elsewhere cared about “just about everything,” then why did he decline the Minnesota Student Associa-tion’s invitation to debate Republican chal-lenger Mike McFadden?

McFadden was more than willing to come, so why did the Democratic incum-bent turn down a debate in the liberal-friendly territor y of the University of Minnesota, and the Twin Cities area at large?

Perhaps Franken realizes that college students can’t be led along like dogs on a leash forever.

Perhaps he realizes that President Barack Obama’s low approval ratings, cou-pled with the fact that Franken votes with the president much of the time, might be something he can’t avoid.

Perhaps all he cares about is getting as many college students to vote for him by acclimation, rather than taking the time to explain himself in front of them.

The sign accompanying the man in the chicken suit asked, “What is Al Franken afraid of?”

It seems like he might be afraid that his record is catching up to him.

After all, the less often he debates, the less he can be called out in front of a crowd for working with Washington rather than for Minnesota.

College students do care about just about everything, but Franken won’t talk to them about those issues.

Anders KoskinenUniversity student

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Although meditation might not completely remedy our daily anxieties, it is definitely an area that all people, including col-lege students, should explore.


BY JACK [email protected]

Every time Mitch Leidner dropped back to pass in Min-nesota’s 30-7 loss at TCU on Saturday, pressure seemed to come from all sides.

TCU’s talented defense sacked the Gophers quar-terback multiple times, and Leidner rarely had time to cleanly get passes off.

“Games are won up front. We’ve got to do a better job up front,” Gophers head coach Jerry Kill said Sunday. “We’ve just got to do a better job of protecting when we throw the ball to let the quar-terback step into things.”

Two of Leidner’s three interceptions weren’t neces-sarily his fault. One of his passes was picked off after being tipped into the air by a receiver. On another play, he had Maxx Williams open

deep, but the ball’s path was altered when a defender got to the Gophers quarterback as he threw.

But Leidner telegraphed a pass to Donovahn Jones that TCU intercepted. He al-so fumbled while on the run.

“We need to make better decisions, too. I mean, you can’t fumble the ball. … That bothers me as much as any-thing,” Kill said.

Senior running back Da-vid Cobb also uncharacteris-tically fumbled Saturday and didn’t look like himself, rush-ing for just 41 yards after top-ping 200 yards the previous week.

“We knew if we were go-ing to stop Minnesota, then we had to stop Cobb,” TCU head coach Gar y Patter-son told reporters after the game.

Kill later revealed that Cobb wasn’t 100 percent healthy. His ankle swelled up last weekend, and he didn’t practice the Tues-day before the game. He practiced with a limited con-tact green jersey Wednesday.

On Sunday, Kill said the lack of practice impacted Cobb in the game.

“I’ve got to do a better job,” Kill said. “Sometimes when they don’t practice as much, get those reps they need, you [play him] be-cause he’s your best player. But then he’s not as sharp as he should be.”

TCU’s stellar defense, which Kill compared to Michigan State’s, contribut-ed to Cobb’s struggles.

“The scheme that coach [Patterson] has put us in the best position to make plays. It’s as simple as that,” TCU senior linebacker Paul Daw-son told reporters after the game.

Before the contest, Min-nesota offensive coordina-tor Matt Limegrover said he’d look for ways to get redshirt sophomore tight end Maxx Williams more involved. With its usu-ally effective running game struggling, that’s exactly what the Gophers did.

Williams was targeted 11 times, but he came down

with only three catches for 26 yards. His final reception came from a Chris Streveler pass for Minnesota’s only touchdown of the game.

S t r e v e l e r r e p l a c e d Leidner in the fourth quarter after the Gophers’ starting quarterback came up hob-bled by a hit.

Kill said he was unsure if Leidner would be ready for

Minnesota’s next game. But the Gophers are almost cer-tain to have an unpleasant time looking over last week’s film.

“We aren’t playing the same schedule we played a year ago. It’s different, so we’ve got to step it up a bit. I think once they watch the film, they’ll go, ‘Oh shit,’ ” Kill said.

BY JACK [email protected]

Highly touted basketball recruit Jarvis Johnson com-mitted to the Gophers on Friday to give Minnesota its first marquee local recruit in the Richard Pitino era.

Johnson, who wielded of-fers from UCLA, Michigan State, Wisconsin and more, couldn’t pass up the oppor-tunity to play close to home for the Gophers’ budding head coach.

“My family’s the most important thing to me on this earth,” Johnson said. “I gave much thought and time into my college decision, but in the end, I realized it was important to come back to where I started the process.”

Johnson joins Kevin Dorsey, Jonathan Nwankwo and Dupree McBrayer to likely fill out the Gophers’ 2015 class.

Over the summer, Pitino said he was building stron-ger ties with recruits in his second season at Minnesota. Assembling a full and talent-ed class of players by mid-September is proof of that.

Johnson has had success at DeLaSalle High School, where he’ll tr y to win a four th consecutive state championship this spring. After that, Johnson will likely spend ample time in the weight room to prepare himself for the physical de-mands of Big Ten play.

“I know what it takes to go to East Lansing and win or go to Columbus, go to Ann Arbor. You can’t go in there without your body being at an apex level,” said Johnson’s high school coach, Dave Thorson. “He’s not weak, obviously, but I’m talking about being a fresh-man in the Big Ten and be-ing able to handle the sort of physical play he’ll see.”

Despite being listed at 6 feet 1 inch, Johnson can finish at the rim with ease, often dunking on taller de-fenders. But Johnson is also listed below 180 pounds on some sites and will need to bulk up if he’ll be an impact player right away, Thorson said.

Johnson could have the opportunity to earn big min-utes right out of the gate, with Minnesota’s senior backcourt of Andre Hol-lins and DeAndre Mathieu likely gone when he gets to campus. The Gophers have two other point guards,

Nate Mason (class of 2014) and Kevin Dorsey (class of 2015), with whom John-son will likely share playing time.

Gophers assistant coach Ben Johnson, who played at DeLaSalle and Minnesota, likely had a big hand in land-ing Jarvis Johnson.

“I talk to Ben John-

son ever y day,” Thorson said. “He’s one of my best friends. ... He’s going to be a Division I head coach someday.”

But for Jarvis Johnson, playing for a program that appears to be on the rise in front of his family was the biggest factor in his decision.

“It came down to just knowing that these four here can come to any game that they want,” Johnson said, referencing his broth-er, sister and parents seat-ed next to him. “I can’t wait to work with the coaches and teammates to bring a championship back to the U.”

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ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner runs past San Jose State on Sept. 21, 2013, at TCF Bank Stadium. Leidner struggled in Minnesota’s loss to TCU on Saturday.

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILYDeLaSalle High School senior Jarvis Johnson announces his commitment to play basketball for the Gophers on Friday afternoon at DeLaSalle.

Mitch Leidner, David Cobb and other players have nagging injuries.

The local recruit had offers from UCLA and Michigan State, among others.

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TCU TD 13:50 Josh Doctson 7 yd pass from Trevone Boykin (Jaden Oberkrom kick)

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TCU TD 9:01 B.J. Catalon 1 yd run (Jaden Oberkrom kick) 0 24

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4TH QUARTER MINN TCU

MINN TD 10:56 Maxx Williams 12 yd pass from Chris Streveler (Ryan Santoso kick)

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TCU 30, Minnesota 7Saturday, Sept. 13Fort Worth, Texas

RECAP

The Gophers started their first road game of the season slow and never caught up as they lost to TCU 30-7. Redshirt sophomore quarter-back Mitch Leidner started for the Gophers after battling a left knee injury throughout the week. Leidner couldn’t get it going, though, as he went 12-for-26 with 151 yards and three costly interceptions. Leidner also fumbled.Minnesota’s rushing attack that

produced 284 yards last week was only able to muster 99 yards against a stout TCU defense. Senior running back David Cobb

only amassed 41 rushing yards and also fumbled. Cobb was hindered by an ankle injury the week leading up to the game, which limited his effec-tiveness on Saturday. Redshirt freshman Chris Streveler

replaced Leidner in the fourth quarter and found Maxx Williams for Minne-sota’s only score of the day.After a quiet first two games, the

Gophers made an effort to get Williams involved. He was targeted 11 times, but was often swarmed by TCU defenders and only had three receptions.Junior receiver KJ Maye also had a

solid outing, finishing with two catch-es for 65 yards, but the Gophers of-fense couldn’t get much else going.

IT WAS OVER WHEN:

Leidner fumbled the ball on the Gophers’ first possession of the second half. After forcing TCU to punt to start the half, all possibili-ties of a comeback were lost with the turnover.

KEY PLAY

TCU wide receiver Josh Doctson made a one-handed catch for his second touchdown of the day early in the second quarter. Doctson had a solid day, catching six balls for 64 yards and two touchdowns.

UP NEXT

Minnesota returns home to host San Jose State on Saturday at 3 p.m. The Spartans had a bye last week and are 1-1 on the season.The Gophers beat San Jose State

43-24 last season, and the Spartans are without star quarterback David Fales, who is now in the NFL. Leidner broke out last year against

the Spartans, running for 151 yards and four touchdowns that game. But Leidner may not play this week after being hobbled by nagging injuries.

FIVE OBSERVATIONS

1. The Gophers are very much a one-dimensional team. Leidner never looked comfortable

and consistently missed open tar-gets. If a team takes away the run, like TCU did Saturday, it will be hard to win moving forward.

2. Maxx Williams finally got involved.The redshirt sophomore is one of

the Gophers’ best receiving threats, but he had only four targets head-ing into Saturday’s game. Against TCU, Williams had three catches for 26 yards and a touchdown, but he also had the ball thrown his way numerous times. The Gophers need to continue this trend in order to be successful moving forward.

3. Briean Boddy-Calhoun was a bright spot. On a day when the Gophers were

overmatched, the redshirt junior recorded eight tackles and an inter-ception.

4. Speed kills. TCU seemed to be working in a dif-

ferent gear that the Gophers simply didn’t have. This was surprisingly evident for Minnesota’s solid defen-sive backs. But TCU’s receivers, many of which are track athletes, blew by them.

5. It is time to move on. The game is over and the Gophers

played poorly, but they can’t dwell on this defeat.

QUOTE OF THE GAME

It’s one game. … You look at

the Big Ten right now, I don’t think anybody is dominating.

Gophers head coach Jerry Kill

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available here than at the Dome.”

While many Vikings fans enjoyed their team’s temporar y stadium, they likely weren’t pleased with the product on the field.

Minnesota lost 30-7 to the New England Patriots as Vikings quar terback Matt Cassel threw four in-terceptions.

Despite the loss, Vi-kings defensive end Brian Robison appeared appre-

ciative of the fan support Sunday.

“I thought they came out; I thought they were loud and suppor ted us all the way through the game,” Robison said. “Our fans … have always been behind us. They’ve always made our home atmo-sphere a place we can call home.”

Vikings tight end Mar-Queis Gray played all four of his collegiate seasons for the Gophers and said he expected the atmo-sphere to be crazy.

“Other than the out-

come of the game, it ’s always great to be back home,” Gray said.

While Gray may have felt at home Sunday, the atmosphere resembled a traditional Vikings contest, not a Gophers game.

The notorious Viking horn was on the sidelines. Temporar y Vikings ban-ners hung throughout the venue, and the field was painted purple and gold.

Minnesota players even ran onto the outdoor field through thick wooden doors.

George Broshears, a

51-year-old fan at the game, said TCF Bank Stadium is a great venue for football, but it could be a little big-ger for NFL games.

“College [football] is special. … There’s more pageantr y with college,” he said. “I think the Vi-kings will have to build up the outdoor experience. I think the Gophers have already figured out how to do it well, while the Vi-kings are learning.”

While fans said they enjoyed being outside to watch the game, some acknowledged that their

op in ion could change when the frigid tempera-tures and snow arrives this winter.

“I guess we’ l l have to bundle up then,” said 20-year-old fan Emily Van-Pratter.

BY RACHEL [email protected]

Junior outside hitter Daly Santana ended the Di-et Coke Classic on Saturday night with a kill that won the Gophers the match and tournament.

Santana, the tournament MVP, led the Gophers to a 3-0 victory.

Santana’s father attend-ed Saturday, playing the national anthem on trumpet before the night’s game. Daly Santana said the per-formance reminded her how she got to where she is today.

“It gave me a lot of ener-gy for the game and the sea-son to come,” Santana said.

The Gophers concluded the tournament with a vic-tory against Iowa State.

Minnesota star ted out strong, winning the first two sets, but fell to the Cy-clones in the third set.

But the Gophers pulled out a victory in the fourth ZACH BIELINSKI, DAILY

Gophers outside hitter Daly Santana hits the ball against Tulsa on Friday evening as part of the Diet Coke Classic at the Sports Pavilion. Santana was named tournament MVP.

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILYTop: Vikings cornerback Shaun Prater jumps to avoid receiver Adam Thielen as he’s tackled by a New England Patriots player Sunday at TCF Bank Stadium. Left: Vikings receiver Cordarrelle Patterson shakes hands with a New England Patriots player after the game, which the Vikings lost 30-7. Right: Vikings quar-terback Matt Cassel holds on to the ball on Sunday during the game. The Vikings fell to 1-1 with the loss. Visit mndaily.com/multimedia/slideshows for more images of the game.

With three wins this weekend, Minnesota improved its record to 7-1 this season.

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J erry Kill, welcome to football hell.

A f t e r t h r e e weeks of abysmal quar-terback play, the head coach of the 2-1 Go-phers is in an unenviable situation.

With a contest against lowly San Jose State on the horizon, Kill faces a season-altering decision: who to start at quarter-back next weekend.

He could choose to stay with redshirt sopho-more Mitch Leidner. After all, Leidner helped lead the team to a bowl berth last year and proved he’s capable of being a game-changer under center.

This year, however, Leidner has been disap-pointing, and the Gophers are last in the Big Ten in passing yards per game.

That said, if Leidner produces a quality game against a subpar team op-ponent like San Jose, the performance could be the one that kick-starts his year.

Or Kill and his staf f could opt to start redshirt freshman Chris Strev-eler. Though he holds zero starts under his belt, Streveler played OK in limited action against TCU on Saturday and helped the Gophers get on the board late in the game.

If I was in Kill’s posi-tion Monday morning, I would be letting Streveler know he’s my quarter-back next Saturday.

Throughout the past three games, Leidner has looked timid, indecisive and unconfident standing in the pocket and throw-ing the football.

His passes have been erratic and poorly timed, failing to establish a con-sistent connection with any of his receivers.

Frankly, healthy or not, I’m not sure I would have suited up Mitch Leidner against TCU.

Now, with a weak opponent like San Jose State, Kill will have the opportunity to let Leidner sit.

The young quar ter-back needs to take a step back for a game and try to regain some of the mojo that allowed him to go 3-1 as a starter for the Go-phers last season.

Leidner is a better and more experienced quar-terback than Streveler.

However, with the Gophers unable to score while Leidner was on the field, the “it” factor of his game should be ques-tioned.

If I’m Kill, I’m sitting Leidner so he can be away from the pressure for a game and look at the field from a different angle.

And who knows, may-be Streveler turns in a phenomenal performance and starts the Gophers’ Big Ten opener against Michigan.

From my perspec-tive, star ting Streveler against San Jose State is a low-risk, high-reward scenario.

Even if Streveler fal-ters, Kill’s defense should be able to contain San Jose State’s of fense on its home field and maybe even put up some points itself.

Whatever Kill decides to do, he needs to do it with conviction. His team just got thrashed 30-7, and it could have been a whole lot worse had TCU not been prone to turnovers.

Minnesota has one more game to shore up its offensive deficiencies and decide exactly who its savior is going to be.

David Nelson welcomes comments

at [email protected] or on Twitter.

@DavidNelson18

VOLLEYBALL RESULTS


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“We live up here. ... We might as well embrace the ele-ments.”MARISSA LANDALAVikings fan


BY AIDAN [email protected]

It was only a matter of time before the Gophers captured their first victory of the season.

Minnesota, led by red-shir t junior Becca Dy-son, scored 29 points and edged out BYU by six to win the BYU Autumn Clas-sic on Saturday.

Dyson f inished sec-ond overall with a time of 18:02.9 — seven seconds of f the lead of BYU’s An-drea Harrison.

Dyson was the first of five Minnesota runners to crack the top 10.

Fellow redshir t junior Liz Berkholtz finished sev-enth as the third Gophers finisher.

“It’s great for the team to come away with a win,” Berkholtz said. “We ran a smar t race. I think we pulled of f a great team effort.”

H e a d c o a c h S a r a h Hopkins said the upper-classmen helped keep ev-eryone relaxed on Minne-sota’s first road trip of the

season.“[The upperclassmen]

have traveled a lot,” Hop-kins said. “We had to keep it light and relaxed. … I think the underclassmen [handled] it about as well as you could ask them to.”

Hopkins said the team has a good amount of time to get their training in for their next meet, the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 27.

“We have to be smar t this week coming of f of travel,” Hopkins said. “I like the way our schedule is playing out.”

Berkholtz called the up-coming Roy Griak Invita-tional the team’s first mid-term and said Minnesota is in a great spot heading into it.

“[The] Griak is our No. 1 focus at the beginning of the season,” Dyson said. “We didn’t want to have

any race that would put us in a well where we’re not able to train for two weeks.”

Men win UC Riverside Invitational

Like the women, the men’s team also had suc-cess this weekend.

Minnesota edged out Souther n Utah by f ive points to win the UC River-side Invitational.

Junior Aaron Bar tnik led the Gophers with a time of 24:07.1. He placed second overall, 11 seconds behind Central Arizona’s Harry Mulenga.

“I felt strong,” Bartnik said. “I’m excited to see what I’m capable of as the team progresses.”

The surprise of the day came from redshirt fresh-man Charlie Lawrence, who placed fifth overall in his first of ficial race with

Minnesota. “I ’m pleased to this

point — knock on wood — at how smoothly things

have gone,” head coach Steve Plasencia said. “For [Lawrence] it was a good race.”

BY BETSY [email protected]

The Gophers wrapped up last season as one of the most successful teams in program history.

They’ll try to build of f that on Monday as they be-gin their 2014-15 campaign with many of last year’s key golfers and several fresh faces.

“I think we definitely have good momentum. I think we know what it takes to get to where we want to be, so we know how much time we have to put in and we know what worked from last year and what didn’t,” senior Anna Laorr said.

The Gophers finished 11th at their NCAA regional

last season and return ma-ny of the key members of that team, including Laorr and Carmen Laguna, two of the team’s top golfers.

Minnesota graduated Banchalee Theinthong, a strong contributor, but gained a highly touted freshman class that in-cludes Celia Kuenster, a two-time Minnesota Class 3A state champion.

Kuenster has worked herself into the l ineup for the Minnesota Invita-tional. She said she has some nerves heading into her first collegiate tourna-ment, but she’s mostly ex-cited.

Head coach Michele Redman hasn’t placed any expectations on the talent-ed freshman.

“I want her to get better and grow as a player here, and I know she’s going to do that,” Redman said. “I just want her to grow as a player and get better

every week.”Kuenster said the coach-

es haven’t placed any pres-sure on the freshman class — which also includes Heather Ciskowski and Sa-brine Garrison — but there is an internal pressure to succeed.

“I want to play well and want to help the team, and I want the team to keep get-ting better,” Kuenster said.

Kuenster will have a chance to do that on Mon-day. Kuenster, Laguna, Laorr, senior Sarinee Thiti-ratanakorn and sophomore Sophie Kitchen make up Minnesota’s lineup for the first tournament.

Redman said the team was able to play three quali-fying rounds, which helped her get a sense of where the team is.

“It’s going to be inter-esting to see who’s in the lineup each week, because i t ’s probably going to change a bit until I figure

out what five play well to-gether,” she said.

At this point, Redman said the most impor tant thing for Minnesota is to keep improving, as it has done the past three sea-sons.

“When [we] do that, then ever y th ing e l se just takes care of itself,”

she said.Laorr said a long-term

goal for the team is making it to nationals. But before that, there’s a lot of work for the team to do.

“I think we definitely proved ourselves a little bit [last year],” she said. “I think now we’re more on people’s radar.”

Minnesota wins first road meet of the season

Gophers kick off new season at Minnesota Invitational

SOCCER

CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S GOLF

Both the men’s and women’s teams placed first in their respective meets.

Minnesota returns many key golfers from last season’s successful team.

set to take the match.“Lots of people contrib-

uted [to the victory],” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said. “That’s one of the great strengths of this group.”

On Friday, the Gophers defeated Tulsa 3-1, but Mc-Cutcheon said the team’s serve receive “broke down,” causing him to make nu-merous switches to com-pensate.

F r e s h m a n D a l i a n -liz Rosado star ted as the libero, but freshman Alyssa Goehner replaced her in the third set. Sophomore Erica Handley started as setter, but McCutcheon took her out for a set before she re-turned to finish the match.

Goehner and Handley continued to start for the rest of the tournament.

“We have 14 good volley-ball players,” McCutcheon said Friday. “I’m confident in all of our athletes.”

Senior opposite hitter Adrianna Nora said some-one new could start for the team every day.

“It was cool to know that [McCutcheon] … trusts us [and] that we’re able to adapt around those kind of switches,” Nora said.

On Saturday mor n-ing against Milwaukee, Goehner and Handley led the team with 16 digs apiece.

Minnesota trailed early Saturday morning but came back to win 3-1.

“[I’m] happy with the win,” McCutcheon said. “It was a battle. We had some nice lessons learned.”

McCutcheon said he’d like to see more balance on the offensive side, spe-cifically with the team’s connection with the middle hitter.

“Our of fensive rhythm got a little squirrely at times,” McCutcheon said Saturday. “[But] I think we’re still good at the pin.”

Nora stood out this weekend for the Gophers, tallying the second-highest number of kills Friday be-hind Santana.

McCutcheon said he’s been impressed with Nora’s patience on the of fensive end.

“She’s getting lots of kills in lots of dif ferent ways,” McCutcheon said. “Generally, she only gets in trouble when she wants to hit hard.”

The tournament victory contributed to the Gophers’ 7-1 record.

“It was a great opportu-nity to improve in a lot of dif-ferent ways,” McCutcheon said. “I’m just really proud of the team.”

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CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota midfielder Josee Stiever steals the ball from Louisiana State on Sept. 6, 2013, at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota’s Becca Dyson runs the final stretch of the Intra-squad 5K on Aug. 29 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

BY BEN [email protected]

The Gophers split their first two games of confer-ence play against Michi-gan and Michigan State over the weekend. Both contests went down to the wire, and one carried a little controversy.

The Gophers were tied with Michigan 1-1 on Fri-day night in overtime when a Michigan free kick from freshman Taylor Timko led to a goal, giving the Wolver-ines the victory. After the game, Gophers head coach Stefanie Golan said the Wolverines had kicked the ball before an official blew the whistle, so the Gophers were not ready to defend the shot.

“Assuming that the ball was dead, our players were not prepared to defend the ball and in turn a goal was scored ending the game,” Golan said on the team’s of ficial website. “… It is unfortunate that something beyond our control decided the winner and I’m disap-pointed for our team ...”

It was a tough finish for the Gophers, who trailed for the majority of the game but battled back to force over time. Michigan red-shirt freshman Ani Sarki-sian gave the Wolverines an early lead in the 10th minute of the game, but the Gophers tied it up in the second half with freshman Rachel McCloskey’s third goal of the season.

Minnesota lost its first two over time games this season, but the team re-bounded Sunday when it topped Michigan State 1-0 in extra time.

“It was a really exciting win, especially since it was our third game in overtime and finally we get the ‘W’ in one of them,” senior cap-tain Katie Thyken said. “We were really rearing to get the ‘W’ in this one, because we knew how bad it felt on Friday to lose in overtime. I think that motivated us even more.”

The Gophers led in shots 15-6 in regulation but weren’t able to find the back of the net. Defen-sively, sophomore goal-keeper Tarah Hobbs posted her fourth shutout of the season.

“Tarah was great in goal,” Thyken said. “She made some big-time saves in there.”

Early in overtime, soph-omore midfielder Josee Stiever scored to break the tie and give the Gophers the victory. Sophomore de-fender Ashley Pafko set up the play with a corner kick that Stiever connected on for her second goal of the season.

“Ashley was taking a corner, and she played a re-ally awesome ball,” Stiever said, “and I was able to get my head on it.”

The weekend improved the Gophers’ record to 4-4-0 (1-1 Big Ten).

“In the Big Ten, every team is a challenge. Every time, it’s anybody’s game,” Stiever said. “We were able to really bounce back, and we really wanted the win today. It’s all about grit and who wants it more, and we were able to battle today and get the win.”

Gophers split two games in MichiganAfter the weekend, Minnesota is now 1-2 in overtime games this season.

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PREVIEW: The Gophers will kick off their season with the 14-team tournament on Monday. Last year, Kent State won the Minnesota Invitational, finishing 38-over par as a team. Minnesota finished third in the tournament, led by Anna Laorr. She finished the tournament 13-over par. Minnesota is coming off one of the best seasons in program history.

The Gophers finished tied for 11th in their NCAA regional and return many key members of last year’s roster.

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dr. dateDr. Date,How do I tell someone I’m not inter-

ested without ruining a friendship or hurting his feelings? This guy keeps asking me out, and I always make up ex-cuses to avoid going on a date with him. We’ve hung out in group settings before, and I’m strictly just not into him. He’s a nice guy — just not my type.

It’s weird because we don’t really talk. He just texts me sometimes, and I try to ignore him. I don’t want to come across as a bitch, but I don’t know how to handle the situation.

—Unwanted Affection

Dear Too Kind,First, never, ever, call yourself a bitch,

and don’t stand for anyone calling you that either — which might happen when you turn this guy down.

You don’t need to make excuses. There is nothing callous about telling someone forthright that you are not inter-ested in dating. Will his feelings be hurt? Maybe. Are you to blame? Hell no. No one is entitled to romance in this world.

As far as whether this will destroy your friendship with him, who cares? He’s apparently not funny, charming or anything else you would look for in a friend, because otherwise you would be more interested in hanging out with him.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,My best friend and roommate got en-

gaged last week. I’m trying to be really happy for her — she’s been dating this guy for about two years, and they are re-ally good together — but on the inside, I’m incredibly jealous.

She’s moving on to the next chap-ter of her life, and I’m still stuck here in “20-something college land” where ran-dom hookups are the norm and substan-tial relationships are hard to find. My goal is to end up with a great guy — like my best friend — get married, have a family and settle down by the time I’m 30. But at the rate I’m going, I don’t see that happening.

How do I show my support for my friend when I have such sour feelings about the situation? Quite honestly, I wish it was me who was planning to walk down the aisle.

—Ring-less Roommate

Dear Single ’n’ Spiteful,Honey, you need to find your chill.

You need to start acting a little more like

seasons 1-3 of “How I Met Your Mother” and less like seasons 4-9.

Your friend’s happiness and your own are not mutually exclusive, so stop pinning your existential dread on what could be the most blissful moment of her life.

If you really want to get married so soon, just post an ad on Craigslist. I’m sure someone would be willing to walk you down the aisle. (Whether that aisle would be in the grocery store he’s worked at for 27 years is still up for debate.)

For now, I suggest you relish your place in life. Just keep moving on until everything else fits how you like it.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,Here’s the lowdown: I date around.

I’m not a “player” by the word’s literal sense, but I don’t ever commit to one person. It’s too restricting. I’m in a con-stant cycle of seeing different girls.

But I’ve noticed that some girls can’t handle my dating tactics. They get at-tached and weird when they find out I’m hanging out with other people.

I don’t know what to do about it be-cause I don’t want to hurt them, but I also don’t want to compromise my life-style. So tell me, doc: Isn’t the concept of dating to test the water and explore all of the fish in the sea? Otherwise, I’d be cutting myself short.

—Anonymous

Dear Player-in-Denial,Congratulations on your seemingly

successful run with the ladies. (I’m sure you’ve been waiting a while for that statement to be in print so you can show the clipping to your mom. I’m sure she’ll be proud. But what she won’t be proud of is your reckless disregard for your tar-gets’ feelings.)

It’s incredibly nice to say you “don’t want to hurt them,” but come on, it’s ob-vious that you’ve already done that.

If you want to stop being such a heartbreaker while continuing to date around, the solution is simple: Tell the girls you’re dating about your lifestyle before it becomes a surprise for them.

Right now, no matter what you think, you are a player. You are playing with people’s emotions to satisfy your sexual and romantic cravings. So stop doing that.

—Dr. Date

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

FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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BACKTALKThursday, Septemeber 14, 2006 9B

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From Panty RaidBonjour, Network. Net: Hajimimashte. It seems as though whoever is in charge of the crossword puzzle over at the Daily has neglected to number any of the across clues OR the first few down clues. WTF?? Do you think I have time for this? Net: To be fair, you probably do. There is only a certain window of time in my busy schedule to complete both the crossword and the Sudoku. Net: So you squeeze it in between watching old episodes of “Full House” and staring listlessly into space? Please be aware of this in-convenience and DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN. Net: Whatever. We don’t have to cater to you just be-cause you’re not smart enough to realize the hints are in numerical order. I’m out like Sue Jeffers in the primary. Net: Haha. She has a man’s name for a last name.

From TheGlassHalfSpiltFreshman suck! Ha I can say that now that I’m a sophmore. Net: So you sucked last year. Are you sure the suck didn’t carry over to this year? Anyways what’s the deal with the stickers on the doors of buildings that say No smoking within 25 feet of the building when there is an ashtray 3 feet away? Net: The anti-smoking groups try and make it so you have to break a law every time you smoke. Any ways on to the rant about freshman. Is it just me, or does everyone think that the freshman all seem to be so happy with life. Like they’re happy to be in school. Net: Those care-free bastards! I wanna just hit one and say shut the NUTT up. But maybe I just hate freshman. Either way they annoy me, so to all you freshman out there quit being overly gay (don’t even try to say anything net, look it up, “to be happy” is the only definition found in Webster dictionary) Net: Just give it some time. It will be about midsemester when the University breaks their will to live. and bow down to the up-

per-classmen. I’m out like Luis Castillo every time he bats.

From mjhardyDearest Net: I am weak and stupid. Humiliate me! Pleeeeeeeease!!! Net: Too easy, sucka.

From twoblueforcounterspellHey Net, how’s goes it on this fine day in September? Net: Not so good. We just — That’s good. I’m writing today not to correct grammar, or enflame arguments, but rather to shed light on something that’s lacking in many (read: most) of this fine college’s student’s lives. Net: A sense of self-worth? No, it’s not a fresh-man honey to hold onto your muscular arm, or an-other 40 of Colt 45, and not even another crave case of jalepeno cheeseburgers from White Castle. No, the lacking ingredient in a staggering majority of this campus’ student’s lives is no other than Magic: The Gathering. Net: Congratulations. You just made our day. Now don’t go writing some witty comment about nerds, dorks, or geeks, Net: Oh we won’t. Loser. be-cause I think the great minds of the future will be forged in the Plains, Forests, Swamps, Mountains and Islands of Dominaria and all the other planes of exis-tence. Net: So all the “planes of existence” except reality? Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it, and come to me once you have, because I’ve played my room-mates like ten trillion times, now. Net: And they’re probably really sick of indulging you. I’m out (of con-trol) like a two-card, Niv-Mizzet/Curiosity combo. Net: That sounds like a kung-fu move Bruce Lee would use on a cat.

From YoungHola Network. What is up with Dr. Date always tell-ing people to use lubrication? Real men use Ajax and a Brillo pad. Net: Then we don’t want to be a real man.

Need relationship advice? E-mail Dr. Date at [email protected].

Dearest Doctor,I have several problems with my current boy-

friend. We fight almost constantly, even now that he’s in Morris. I’m on the verge of giving up. I’ve tried everything I can think of for this to work.

Here are a couple things I can’t solve: He tells me I shouldn’t have to change for him, but he’ll bring up certain traits of mine, like indeci-siveness and my tendency to be reserved, and get upset about them. Obviously, I feel com-pelled to do something about them, and lately I’ve been trying harder than ever to avoid those tendencies.

He’s also extremely contradictory, and I often feel like he’s being very devious and doing it on purpose. For example, he’ll tell me he’ll drive when we go somewhere, but he actually means, “I’ll drive because I don’t want to sound like a jerk, but I’m really hoping you’ll deny me and force me to go in your vehicle, and of course the whole time I’ll be fighting you, but really... it’s what I want. Oh, and if I end up driving, I’ll hold it against you until the day I die.” Or something like that.

I’ve tried talking to him about it, but to no avail. It’s also very difficult for him to get over things that have happened in the past. Every-thing from my previous relationship almost nine months ago... to my most recent mistakes. All the apologies and explanations in the world couldn’t convince him to forgive me. All of it is held over my head like a golf-ball-sized hail-storm, ready to pelt me.

No matter how many problems we have, the worst part is we can’t openly discuss it in a ra-tional conversation. It ends up being a blaming contest. I feel like my attempts are hopeless.

He’s coming home this weekend for my birth-day, which also happens to be our eight-month anniversary. I’m afraid that I’m so frustrated by this I’ll end up walking out on him if another fight occurs. What a way to spend a birthday/an-niversary... But what else can I do?

— Lost, Lonely Lover

Oh Lost,First, realize you’re in a time of flux as you

transition from (I assume) being around each other to going to different schools. The result? Added stress.

But, if the fighting has long been this fierce, it’s another story. You’ve exhausted the logi-cal options (yay for you) but left me with diddly squat to tell ya (not so yay for you).

Honestly, this dude sounds like a drag. If you’re at your wit’s end, I say lay it out for him. Tell him you’re tired of his trash. You don’t have to give him an ultimatum, but realize (and make sure he knows) you don’t deserve to be — and more importantly, don’t have to stay — with some boy who makes ya feel bad.

The doc believes the most important thing is your happiness, and that might mean life with-out your current lova. Try to enjoy the birthday and best of luck.

— Dr. Date

Dear Date Ph.D,So I work at a place that is about half college

students, and half high school students. I have worked there since I was a junior in high school, and I am now a sophomore here at this great University.

So a new girl is hired named Amanda, and the first day I saw her I immediately thought she was pretty ugly. But the next time came and I helped her out, and saw that she was very pretty and has a cool personality. Now we get along very well, and when our eyes meet, we both can-not hold back the huge smiles that always come across our faces.

Your thinking, “well ask her out you damn fool,” but there is a problem. On her neck re-sides what to me is undoubtedly an old hicky, and she is 17, a senior in high school. I am 19.

My two part question is as follows: a: Is the age gap a problem? To me she seems very mature, but the hickey would disagree with me. And b: Seeing as how she does indeed have an old hickey, do I assume she is seeing someone and not give it a shot? Who knows she might have been passed-out drunk when someone gave it to her.

What to do, what to do?— high school sweetheart

Hey Sweetheart,Normally I’d call ya a cradle robber, but two

years really isn’t a gigantic age gap. That said — you two are in different stages of your lives (and legal statuses, as a minor of consenting age and an adult).

If you two really have the hots for each other, you likely can wait ’til post-grad to get hot and heavy. But nothing says you can’t spend QT together (as friends or otherwise) in the mean-time.

Keep in mind that while you find her work-place personality a perfect match for yours, this doesn’t necessarily mean it carries through all areas of her life. (READ: Don’t be surprised if she still listens to Nick Lachey, has biweekly fights with her best buds and can’t wait ’til prom — or for the craziness of her freshman year of college.)

Now about that hickey. Um yeah, you’re right — a large percentage of hickeys indeed are giv-en to passed-out drunk girls. In fact, that boosts her to “babe” status in the good doc’s book. Or not.

Let me be clear: I’m not advocating beddin’ this high school babe. But when it comes to ask-ing her out, just freakin’ go for it. Really, what’s the worst that could happen — besides her cap-tain-of-the-football-team boyfriend kickin’ your ass and her parents thinkin’ you’re a creepoid?

— Dr. Date

My beloved readers, Sometimes even the ol’ docta could use a

second opinion. And while this is usually a monologue and not a dialogue, I thought it might be helpful to hear what this reader has to say. Here goes.

— Dr. Date

Doc Date,(re: Anxious Agnostic)I was reading your column, and was more

than slightly dismayed to see that you answered Anxious Agnostic’s letter by stating that religion is rarely a problem in the dating sphere. From my perspective, that is one of the biggest and most frequent problems, having the biggest af-fect on the parties involved.

When, say, a Christian is involved with some-one, it shouldn’t matter at what stage you are at in your relationship. Whether you are just start-ing to date, have been bf/gf for a year, are en-gaged, or even married, your beliefs affect every aspect of that relationship. And, in this Chris-tian scenario, being in a relationship with a non-believer is frowned upon in the bible. It’s not a healthy thing to do.

When you say “healthy debate,” what comes to my mind is one person trying to change the other. Either intentionally or unintentionally. And to me, putting yourself in a position that would compromise your beliefs like that is anything but healthy or good. So, instead of saying “love conquers all,” I would say tread lightly.

— between The Rock and a hard place

“We think that’s an ex-traordinarily important step to take, and we’re requesting the Legislature fund us ap-propriately so that we’re able to do that for Minnesota stu-dents and their families,” Kal-er said at a Wednesday news conference.

School of Public Health Dean John Finnegan said he doesn’t think a tuition freeze for graduate and professional schools is necessary because institutions nationwide make their rates based on the changing market.

And because of the many factors involved in setting prices, an across-the-board tuition freeze isn’t the best op-tion, he said.

“It puts [the School of Pub-lic Health] in a very difficult situation,” Finnegan said, add-ing that tuition rates for his school aren’t overly burden-some on students compared to other institutions.

Lowering tuition rates for graduate and professional stu-dents was a goal the Graduate and Professional Student As-sembly set for this year, GAP-SA President Alfonso Sintjago said.

“When you’re starting out this path for medical school, it’s a big burden to take out all these loans,” said Ann Berg-strand, a third-year medical student and member of the graduate and professional stu-dent government.

Bergstrand said she has accumulated nearly $100,000 in student debt, adding that the proposed tuition freeze is a success for graduate and professional students.

The tuition freeze would save a typical graduate stu-dent about $1,600 over the course of a two-year master’s degree, and a typical medi-cal student would save about $5,000 in a four-year degree program. The tuition freeze would also save incoming undergraduate students any-where from $2,133 to $2,565 over four years, depending on their campus.

Council of Graduate

Students President Andrew McNally said the proposed freeze was a good first step, but he said he’s concerned that it doesn’t include students paying out-of-state tuition.

Sintjago said GAPSA rep-resentatives plan to boost graduate and professional stu-dent attendance at this year’s “Support the U Day” — an annual event where students flock to the State Capitol in support of the University’s legislative goals — so they can share their enthusiasm for the tuition freeze with legislators.

Some University admin-istrators said if the proposed tuition freeze passes, the bud-get plan would attract more students to their colleges.

Vice President for Health Sciences and Medical School Dean Dr. Brooks Jackson said the proposed tuition freeze could benefit more low-income students.

“If you’re a student [who] comes from a low-income family, these [tuition rates] can seem so daunting,” he said.

This year, in-state tuition for first-year medical students is $25,248.

“I worry that really good students won’t even apply, because it’s just way too ex-pensive and we have very few scholarships,” Jackson said.

In total, Kaler’s budget proposal asks the Legislature for more than $1.3 billion over the next two academic years. This request would put the University’s funding levels on par with those it received be-fore the recession in 2008.

In the proposal, Kaler also asks the state to invest an additional $5 million for each year of the request. In exchange, the University

intends to reduce its request from the Higher Education Asset Preservation and Reno-vation fund — which provides state money for facility main-tenance and upkeep — by a matching $5 million each year.

“For whatever reason, we haven’t been able to be successful in bringing the HEAPR funds that the cam-pus needs,” Kaler said at the news conference. “The defi-nition of insanity is you keep trying to do the same thing and it fails.”

Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, said he supports the tuition freeze for the Univer-sity, but he doesn’t approve of the new approach to request

HEAPR funding, based on the school’s sometimes inap-propriate requests in the past.

“There have been ques-tions raised about how the University has prioritized HEAPR,” he said.

Also at Friday’s Board of Regents meeting, Kaler presented the University’s strategic plan, which contains goals like addressing “grand challenges” and recruiting di-verse faculty members.

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ZACH BIELINSKI, DAILYThe Board of Regents reviews University President Eric Kaler’s 2016-17 biennial budget proposal on Friday morning at the McNamara Alumni Center. The presi-dent’s plan extends the existing tuition freeze for students paying in-state tuition and includes graduates and professional students.

Kaler aims to broaden tuition freezeRegentsu from Page 1

“We think [the freeze is] an extraordi-narily important step to take, and we’re requesting the Legislature fund us appro-priately so that we’re able to do that for Minnesota students and their families.”ERIC KALERUniversity of Minnesota president

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