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LIAM JAMES DOYLE, DAILYUniversity professor Don Wyse, co-director of the Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management, talks in the agricultural fields on St. Paul’s campus Friday morning.

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BY TAYLOR [email protected]

Rather than owing the government or a private bank thousands of dollars, Univer-sity of Minnesota sophomore Ashley Kel-len is borrowing money to cover her tuition fees from her parents.

“I can pay them back a few years after I have gotten out of college — without

interest,” she said. Kellen, like many college students and

their families nationwide, is turning to a wider range of options to finance her post-secondary education and is relying less on federal loans that come with high interest rates.

Sallie Mae, a leading student lender, re-leased a report earlier this year that shows how college students and their parents have paid for college since 2008.

The study found that the number of people financing college through borrowed funds dropped to 22 percent in 2013-14, a 5 percent decrease from the prior year and

the lowest rate in the last five years. Parent income and savings, along with

grants and scholarships, covered the larg-est amount of college expenses, sitting at 30 and 31 percent, respectively.

Kellen said her younger sister is also en-tering college soon, and her family has dis-cussed the burden of covering both of their expenses.

She said her parents are considering tak-ing out a mortgage on their home to avoid borrowing student loans, saying the inter-est rates on the mortgage would be lower.

A report found that students often fund their college education without loans.

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BY MOLLY [email protected]

Protecting the environment may be a priority for many Minnesotans, but that likely won’t be a main factor in who they vote for on Tuesday.

While policymakers and experts say the environment is becoming increasingly important to the public, voters still tend to mark their ballots based on candidates’ stances on traditional issues, like taxes and the economy. To make environmental poli-cies a priority, experts say candidates need to argue both the ecological and financial benefits.

“People are not voting for someone be-cause of their stance on environment but rather on health care or other issues,” said Steve Kelley, a senior fellow in the Univer-sity of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. “When decision time comes, voters tend to weigh these issues more highly.”

Former state Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch and former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew discussed the role environment plays in this year’s election and the struggles it brings to both

Experts say voters often mark their ballots based on issues other than the environment.

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BY ETHAN [email protected]

Neighborhood groups in the University of Minnesota community are up in arms over Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges’ proposal to put a traditional source of their funding to different uses.

For years, revenue from special tax-ing districts in downtown Minneapolis has been split between the Target Center debt and the city’s 70 neighborhoods. But Hodg-es’ proposed budget sets aside some of the funds for new endeavors, like redeveloping a barge terminal in north Minneapolis and hiring a neighborhood specialist and two communications specialists.

City leaders say the new projects would draw on funding from an increase in taxing district revenue — finance officials expect an additional $1 million in each of the next few years because of increasing property values downtown. Neighborhood groups already have about $16 million that hasn’t been allocated to projects, and city officials expect this pool to grow as more money from neighborhood investments pours in.

Mayor Hodges’ proposal would divert a traditional source of funding from neighborhoods.

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BY PARKER [email protected]

In his office, Jim Anderson lifted up a dried pennycress stem, pulled of f a pod and sprinkled its small black seeds onto his desk.

“We’ve been working on trying to kill this thing for over 100 years, probably,” said Anderson, an agronomy and plant genetics professor at the University of Minnesota.

The common weed could soon become an actual crop in Minnesota thanks to a University effort to keep more of the state’s 27 million acres of farmland covered during the winter using perennial plants and other crops.

The initiative, called “Forever Green,” seeks to diversify agricultural output, help of fset soil erosion and water pollution, and develop economically viable and eco-system-friendly crops, said agronomy and plant genetics professor Don Wyse.

A $1 million grant from the Legislature to the Forever Green program last spring was parceled out earlier this semester among seven of the initiative’s projects.

A decade of work by researchers led up to the state allocation, which will be spent over the next three years, said Wyse, who is a co-director of the Center for Inte-grated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management.

All of Forever Green’s projects are de-signed to have tangible results, he said.

Anderson heads a wheatgrass breed-ing project funded by the state grant that involves using genetic markers to select

A University initiative to help state agriculture is underway with $1M from the Legislature.

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILYAl Milgrom, long-time Minneapolis film director and University graduate, sits in his editing room at his home in the Como neighbor-hood on Monday. Milgrom has been part of the Minneapolis film scene for half a century and recently completed the first cut on his feature film “The Dinkytown Uprising.”

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BY BARRY [email protected]

W hen Al Milgrom arrived in Dinky-

town in 1940, Simms Hardware

was only halfway through its 115-year stint.

Now, the building that once housed

Simms is the site of Espresso Royale,

whose windows Milgrom, 92, faced Mon-

day afternoon as he thumbed a scribbled-in

legal pad and sipped a small McDonald’s

coffee.

Before recounting his lifelong love for

Minnesota and cinema, Milgrom unwound

a red woolen scarf from his neck, but he

kept his navy conductor cap on — one of

many hats he’s worn over the years.

Milgrom has been a University of Min-

nesota student, a soldier, and an indepen-

dent film director, and he founded the Film

Society of Minneapolis St. Paul.

“I’m very Minnesota-loyal,” he said of

his half-century as a Minneapolitan.

The local cinema icon is putting to-

gether the final cut of his feature film, “The

Dinkytown Uprising,” which condenses 40

years of footage into a 103-minute docu-

mentary about the Red Barn protests that

took place in Dinkytown more than four de-

cades ago.

He said he hopes to premiere the film

Minnesota-born Al Milgrom, a cinema icon, is wrapping up his first feature-length film on the University neighborhood.

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ST. PAUL — Minneso-ta’s Democratic candidates banded together Wednes-day for a splashy launch of a six-day statewide bus tour featuring the ticket’s biggest names, while their Republ ican opponents went their own ways in smaller-scale campaign swings less than a week be-fore the midterm.

For the Democrats, it was an attempt to gin up pre-election energy among par ty faithful and Demo-cratic-leaning independents who sometimes skip voting when it’s not a presidential race. Party leaders hope it culminates next Tuesday in the re-election of Gov. Mark Dayton and U.S. Sen. Al Franken while also sparing a shaky state House major-ity and vulnerable congres-sional incumbents.

Democrats shivered outside the state Capitol on a chilly morning as Day-ton and Franken joined

other candidates, union of ficials and suppor ters standing next to a coach bus adorned with a wrap that read, “On the Road to a Better Minnesota.”

“We are going to pres-ent the voters of Minnesota with a fateful decision in six days: Whether we want to continue making prog-ress and moving ahead or whether we want to go back,” Dayton said.

Neither Dayton nor Franken was due to be on the full tour, but they planned to join up at vari-ous stops it would make on college campuses, la-bor halls, coffee shops and satellite party offices. The tour ends Monday night with a rally in downtown St. Paul.

Jeff Johnson, the Repub-lican nominee for gover-nor, kicked off his own final push at a suburban bus ter-minal. There, he stationed himself underneath a heat-er as he greeted commut-ers. “Hi, I’m Jeff Johnson.

I’m running for governor,” he said as he extended his hand. And he repeated the drill dozens of times. His schedule had him headed later to New Ulm, Fairmont and Worthington.

After events around the metro Wednesday morn-ing, Republican Senate candidate Mike McFadden headed to Duluth as part of a swing that will take him across the state. From there, he said he’ll head up the Iron Range, meeting with miners at dawn Thurs-day before continuing to Grand Rapids.

“It’s both conver ting people and it is just driving out our base and continu-ing the enthusiasm,” Mc-Fadden said.

The GOP didn’t plan a coordinated barnstorming tour as it has in years’ past. Republican Party chairman Keith Downey said the can-didates were doing their own trips with likely inter-sections along the way.

“The th inking is i t

would actually be more ef-fective for our candidates to have their respective journeys across the state, get more coverage and hit more places along the way,” Downey said.

Back at the Capitol, Democrat ic Sen. Amy Klobuchar playfully poked fun at Franken for his whisker of a win last time — by 312 votes — after a recount and cour t battle that dragged on for seven months. “The latest polls show Al not 10 votes ahead but 10 points ahead,” she said.

Throughout this cam-paign, Franken and fellow Democrats have brought up his close margin in 2008 as a way to keep pressure on supporters to actually show up. Dayton also en-dured a recount in 2010, but he finished with an 8,770-vote cushion.

“Wow! Eighty-eight hun-dred votes,” Franken said. “Whoa! Would I kill for that.”

97-year-old woman to submit first voteafter naturalization

Minn. EMS companies preparing for Ebola


WINONA, Minn. — A 97-year-old Winona resident is pre-paring to vote for the first time after obtaining U.S citizenship.

Chengyi Pan, a retired physics teacher and middle school vice principal, emigrated from Tianjin, China, in 2009 after the death of her husband. She was granted citizenship in Septem-ber and wants to do all she can to continue to help the U.S. be-cause it’s the best country in the world, she told the Winona Daily News on Tuesday.

“I want to be a good citizen and to follow the democratic way,” she said.

Chengyi moved to Winona in June 2010 after spending less than a year living with her son in Indiana. She lived with her daughter, a recently retired Saint Mary’s University histo-ry professor, before moving into a nursing home last summer.

Chengyi has been looking forward to Election Day since she took her oath of citizenship at a ceremony on Sept. 30. Her daughter, Ting Ni, has been helping her collect all of the facts she will need to make informed decisions at the polls next Tuesday.

“Both parties are good parties, but I like the Democratic Party,” she said.

Although Chengyi already knows which party she will likely support, she feels Nov. 4 bears a much greater signifi-cance.

“I feel I’m honored to be a citizen and to be able to vote in the American election,” she said.

U.S. citizens should pay attention to global issues since their county is a prominent leader on a global scale, Chengyi said.

“American elections are not just about the U.S.,” she said. “They’re about the world.”


MINNEAPOLIS — Some first responders in the Twin Cities are tweaking and reinforcing protocols to be ready for Ebola if it hits the area.

Moves include 911 dispatchers now asking callers about fever and international travel and passing the information to paramedics, firefighters and police officers. The new procedures, which began this month, are a result of les-sons learned in other cities across the country, according to health officials.

“It’s (about) taking the appropriate precautions, but precautions based on science, not hysteria,” said Brian La-Croix, president of Allina Health Emergency Medical Ser-vices.

Ambulances belonging to several local emergency medical service companies, including Allina and Hennepin Emergency Medical Services, have also been equipped with infectious-disease kits that include protective gear like gowns, gloves, hoods, eye shields and face masks, the Star Tribune reported. The goal is to ensure no skin is exposed.

Hennepin EMS is limiting the number of personnel it sends on calls related to potential Ebola infections to keep exposure to a minimum, spokesman Robert Ball said.

“That may mean not sending in a full complement of po-lice officers, paramedics and firefighters,” he said. “There may be a single police officer or firefighter and one of our paramedics going in to assess the (patient) and remove them.”

Experience with other infectious diseases, such as tu-berculosis, SARS, Lassa fever and Middle Eastern Respi-ratory Syndrome, will help emergency responders be pre-pared for Ebola, Ball said.

“We haven’t spoken publicly about Ebola,” he said. “What we don’t want to do is feed into the panic. We are not talking a lot about it publicly, but it doesn’t mean we aren’t working to be well-prepared.”

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BY KEVIN [email protected]

Minnesota’s political sphere is facing analysis as its population continues to diversify.

The University of Min-nesota’s Center for the Study of Politics and Gov-ernance hosted a forum Wednesday on diversity in state politics. The event, which featured Minneapo-lis City Council members and political exper ts, ex-plored how a diversifying electorate influences cam-paigns and who runs for local offices.

“The City Council races last year and their results were eye-opening,” said Humphrey School of Pub-lic Affairs professor Larry Jacobs, who moderated the event. “We saw the first Latino, Hmong and Somalis elected to the City Council in its history, and I think it reflects a broader change.”

Minnesota ’s popula-tion is aging and diversi-fying, both racially and ethnically.

In the latest recent re-por t from the Minnesota State Demographic Cen-ter, the office projects that Minnesota’s “nonwhite or Latino” population will grow to 25 percent by 2035, compared to 14 per-cent of the population in this category in 2005.

Ward 5 City Council-man B long Yang and Ward 6 City Councilman Abdi Warsame, the first H m o n g - A m e r i c a n a n d Somali-American Minne-apolis City Council mem-bers, respectively, spoke at the event. They said it’s important to remove insti-tutional barriers that come with running for office.

“It’s ver y dif ficult for minority candidates to just come in and r un.

Fundraising takes a lot of time, as a candidate and of-ficial,” Warsame said. “You can’t just follow the [for-mer mayoral candidate] Mark Andrew or [Min-neapolis Mayor] Betsy Hodges route. They have a list of ready-made do-nors that Blong and I don’t have.”

Over the next 30 years, the populations of Latino, black and Asian Minneso-tans are expected to more than double. This growth is compared to an expect-ed increase of only 9 per-cent of whites, according to the state demographer report.

The reversal is because there are fewer whites moving to the state than a century ago, according to the report.

“I would say people of color are going to be able to decide elections. Whether [it’s] a Caucasian politician or someone on a bigger ticket, they’ll have to recognize and campaign towards people of color in a dif ferent way,” Yang said, noting that minor-ity groups can swing an election.

As an example , he pointed to the election he ran in last fall as a Hmong-American candidate in a predominately African-American neighborhood.

“People have that sense that the party doesn’t care that much about them if they don’t need their votes,” he said. “I think

that’ll need to change.”T h e c o n v e r s a t i o n

comes in the wake of the Brooklyn Park City Coun-cil race, in which the first

African-American candi-date is running for a seat on the all-white council, despite the fact that less than half the city is white.

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ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILYMinneapolis City Council members Abdi Warsame and Blong Yang meet at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to discuss diversity in Minnesota politics on Wednesday. They discussed last year’s municipal election as well as projections for the upcoming election.

“I would say people of color are go-ing to be able to decide elections. Whether [it’s] a Caucasian politi-cian or someone on a bigger ticket, they’ll have to recognize and campaign towards people of color in a different way.”BLONG YANGWard 5 City Councilman


MINNEAPOLIS — The Equal Employment Oppor-tunity Commission is suing Honeywell Inc. over a health care policy that requires em-ployees and their spouses to take medical tests or face monetary penalties.

The lawsuit was filed Mon-day in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on behalf of two Minnesota employees. The case could define how far an employer can go in shifting health care costs to employ-ees based on their behavior.

The EEOC claims Honey-well’s new health screening policy violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondis-crimination Act, the Star Tri-bune reported. The lawsuit is seeking a temporary injunc-tion to stop the biometric test-ing, which can identify smok-ing, diabetes, high blood pres-sure, obesity and other health problems. The Honeywell employee testing was slated to begin last week at a handful of sites throughout the U.S.

The screening program is designed to encourage employees to live healthier lifestyles and lower health care costs for them and the company, according to Hon-eywell. The company denies any wrongdoing because the screening and wellness pro-gram “are in strict compliance with both HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act’s guide-lines,” it said in a statement.

The EEOC alleges the Honeywell program could cause up to $4,000 in penal-ties for employees if they and their spouses don’t submit to the blood and medical tests. The agency has filed two other lawsuits in the past few months against other compa-nies that have set up similar medical or wellness pro-grams, according to EEOC attorney Laurie Vasichek. In Honeywell’s case, the tests and potential penalties are unwarranted because they don’t align with any business-related necessity, she said.

EEOC sues Honeywell over policy


at the 2015 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festi-val before finishing two other ongoing projects.

“I’m lucky I have an expe-rienced editor to assuage my insecurity,” Milgrom said, “which should not exist at the age of 92.”

‘The Dinkytown Uprising’

Despite his love affair with cinema, “The Dinkytown Up-rising” will be Milgrom’s first feature-length documentary. The film is a culmination of his on-and-off shooting over the past 40 years, he said.

“All this footage was in my basement, in cans,” he said.

The documentar y re-counts a 40-day protest that took place in 1970 where Dinkytown’s post office now stands. About 300 students, neighborhood residents and others occupied a space that had been vacated for a Red Barn burger franchise.

Demonstrators were forc-ibly removed by police, and the site was bulldozed. But the protest against the corpo-rate burger joint’s local pres-ence didn’t end there, Mil-grom said.

“Dinkytown, in contrast to a lot of American cities in the anti-Vietnam era, was not a three-day demonstration,” he said.

After the bulldozers de-stroyed the shops, the pro-testers returned to the empty lot.

“These were student ideal-ists — some of them claimed they were romantic revolu-tionaries,” he said.

In 1970, Milgrom was the man with the camera and 16-mm color film in hand. “The Dinkytown Uprising” follows six of the event’s main char-acters — including dissent-ers and the Red Barn burger franchise owner — over Mil-grom’s switch from analog film to digital.

“I’m really interested in what time does to historic memory,” he said.

By reviving historic Din-kytown, Milgrom said, he wants the film to also serve as

a reminder for current locals.“You have the intellectual

college professorship from the ’30s onward, even earlier, who shopped here, who lived here, who hung out here, who got drunk here,” he said.

Now, Milgrom said, Din-kytown a different scene.

“There is not enough hy-perbole to describe it. I mean, it’s scandalous. It’s vulgar,” he said.

Kristen Eide-Tollefson, owner of the Book House in Dinkytown, said the film’s planned 2015 release is com-ing at a great time, as she and others in the area are working to combat the new corporate businesses that have flocked to the campus area.

From what she knows of Milgrom, she said, he’s dedi-cated to connecting people’s stories to a bigger picture.

“He’s passionate about the place,” Eide-Tollefson said. “He’s passionate about Dinky-town and history.”

From stills to screenSixty-six miles up Inter-

state 35 in the small town of Pine City, Minn. — approxi-mately halfway between Min-neapolis and Duluth — Mil-grom was born to Russian and Polish immigrants in 1922.

At age 18, he left for the University of Minnesota to study journalism and feed his love for photography.

In 1943, Milgrom said, he was shipped off to Japan to

serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps in a photo lab unit. He was relieved from duty three years later, returned to the states and graduated from the University shortly thereafter.

Until the early 1960s, he wrote for a slew of national and state newspapers like the Washington Post, the Star Tribune and Stars and Stripes.

He founded the University Film Society in 1962 — now the Film Society of Minne-apolis St. Paul — while pursu-ing an advanced degree at the University.

With Milgrom at the helm, the society began screening international films at the Bell Museum of Natu-ral History, which he said exposed the campus to titles outside of the usual Holly-wood movie theater billings.

“We basically introduced Eastern European film, on block, to Minnesota,” he said.

Though he’s been pro-ducing his own still photo-graphs and motion pictures for decades, Milgrom is best known as a cinephile and an avid film screener.

He was instrumental in creating Minneapolis’ cinema scene, said local film editor Dan Geiger, who is cred-ited for his work in “Fargo,” Prince’s “Graffiti Bridge” and soon, “The Dinkytown Upris-ing.”

Milgrom estimated that the local cinema society he founded has screened 5,000

movies since its beginnings in the 1960s, exposing the Twin Cities to a global sphere of cinema.

“It was like an extension of film school,” Geiger said. “You could go there, and you could see stuff you’d never see in the movie theater.”

The society’s original home base was right in the University’s front yard, Mil-grom said.

“How many millions of stu-dents have passed through the University in 50 years?” he asked. “A certain percent-age of kids — [those] who were on the ball — caught a film at the Bell Museum.”

The site of the screen-ings has moved over the years. Once at the Oak Street Cinema, it’s now lo-cated at the St. Anthony Main Theater.

Although the location hasn’t been continual, the stream of films has been con-stant.

The screenings, along with Milgrom’s cajoling invitations, have attracted hundreds of filmmakers and theorists to Minneapolis. Among them are Milos For-man, Nikita Mikhalkov, Josef von Sternberg and Pauline Kael.

“[Milgrom] was just doing

something he loved,” Geiger said.

He is well known across the state, Geiger said. A char-acter in the Coen brothers’ recent movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis,” is named Al Mil-grom, and Geiger said he be-lieves the pair of Minnesota- born filmmakers attended the early Bell Museum screenings.

Over the years, Geiger said, plenty of young movie buffs have enjoyed Milgrom’s labor of love.

“I know at least 10 people that became filmmakers here because of [the film society], probably more,” he said.

AL MILGROM OVER 92 YEARS

SOURCE: AL MILGROM

1922 Milgrom is born in Pine City, Minn.

1940 -1943

Begins his journalism studies at the University of Minnesota

1943 Leaves for Japan to serve on the United States Army Air Corps Photography Laboratory Unit

1947 Graduates from the University with a degree in journalism

1947 -1963

Works at a variety of newspapers including the Star Tribune, Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle

1962 -1975

Returns to the University to obtain an advanced degree in humanities and film history

1962 Establishes the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Society, then called the University Film Society, and begins screening films in the Bell Museum of Natural History

1970 Red Barn protest springs, Milgrom begins shooting The Dinkytown Uprising

1975 Ends his position as a teaching assistant at the University

1975 -now

Serves as artistic director of the Minneapolis Film Society, works on and off on various films

Local legend documents Dinky historyMilgromu from Page 1

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILYMinneapolis film director Al Milgrom shows his personal photography in his house located in the Como neighborhood on Monday. He is wrapping up work on his upcoming feature-length documentary, “The Dinkytown Uprising.”

Police ready for holiday, protests

BY NICK [email protected]

W ith Hal loween on Friday and expansive pro-tests planned for Sunday’s Minnesota Vikings game against the Washington Redskins, police and Uni-versity of Minnesota staf f are gearing up for what looks to be a busy weekend.

The events should boost campus foot traf fic, said Minneapolis police Public Information Officer John El-der, and he said additional police units will patrol areas where heightened activity is likely.

But he said the bump in the number of of ficers doesn’t mean there will be an increase in crimes or arrests.

Since Halloween falls on a Friday, the upcoming weekend could be “com-parable” to Homecoming weekend, University of Minnesota police Lt. Troy Buhta said. UMPD issued 60 citations between Fri-day and Sunday of that weekend.

University police made

three alcohol-related ar-rests on Halloween in 2012 and four on the 2013 holi-day, Buhta said. Neither of those Halloweens fell on a weekend.

“We’re going to be team-ing up with our par tners from Minneapolis,” he said. “We realize it’s a big party night.”

In addition to the typical patrols, Buhta said UMPD’s Coordinated Response Team will also monitor cam-pus and its surrounding neighborhoods.

Buhta said Halloween’s activity could possibly in-fluence law enforcement’s workload Saturday night.

“I guess it matters how hard they hit it Friday night,” he said.

Thousands expected to protest outside TCF Bank Stadium

Two days after Hallow-een, thousands of people are expected to protest outside TCF Bank Sta-dium while the Minnesota Vikings play the Washing-ton Redskins on the field inside.

Protest groups have stated that as many as 5,000 demonstrators will come to rally against the visiting team’s name. But T im Busse, University Ser vices spokesman and a chairman of the Univer-sity’s group that handles large-scale special events, said his own estimates are closer to 3,000.

He said the University worked closely with event organizers from the Na-tional Coalition on Racism in Spor ts and Media and the Shakopee Mdewakan-ton Sioux Community, as well as Minneapolis and Metro Transit police, to help organize the protests and ensure that they go smoothly.

“We want them to be able to express their First Amendment rights as they do their march on Univer-sity Avenue,” Busse said. “But … balance, with that, the fact that Viking fans will be arriving at about that time.”

On Sunday morning, a group of protesters will leave from the American Indian Oppor tunities In-dustrialization Center on Franklin Avenue East and march to Northrop Plaza,

a press release said. An-other crowd, led by the American Indian Student Cultural Center, will arrive at Northrop from Coffman Union, a University spokes-person said.

Busse said protesters will then make their way down University Avenue, stretches of which will be closed by Minneapo-lis police for this influx of pedestrian traffic, depend-ing on turnout. Busse said hopefully at least one lane will remain open to car traffic.

M i n n e a p o l i s p o l i c e Public Information Officer Scott Seroka said because the protests will happen just outside of MPD’s ju-risdiction, the department will leave enforcement at the demonstrations to UMPD.

Busse said protesters will end up on the grassy area on the stadium’s south side, which will be outfitted with a stage and speaker systems.

The University supports the protests at TCF in con-demning what it calls an “of fensive and inappropri-ate” football team name, ac-cording to an Oct. 23 press release from the school.

Thousands are expected to protest against the “Redskins” name on campus Sunday.

“It would be a better fi-nancial decision,” Kellen said.

Along with borrowing from her parents, Kellen also works a part-time job to cover living costs during the year, and she works a full-time job during the summer.

“It helps to pay part of tu-ition, and then I can borrow less from [my parents] the next year,” she said.

Julie Selander, director of One Stop Student Services, said many University stu-dents are in a similar position

as Kellen and are trying to avoid hefty student loans as much as possible.

“I would certainly say their desire is to borrow less, except when they need to,” she said. “For the most part, the trend is people want to borrow less; it’s just ‘How do I do that?’ That’s the ques-tion.”

Selander said she regu-larly has conversations with students about the bal-ance between using family contributions, government loans, institutional financial aid, scholarships and work- study.

Selander said that One-Stop counsels students about the amount they will owe in

loans after graduation and what their monthly pay-ments will look like.

“I think that’s a big sur-prise for people. Students are shocked and surprised about how much student loan debt they have taken out over the course of their time here,” she said. “We want you to have a very clear idea [of what you owe] and what that means.”

Selander said the office has ramped up its efforts re-cently to improve students’ financial literacy and to de-mystify the confusion with loans.

While some students rely on their parents to help pay for school, Jessica Hartwig, a

fourth-year English student, has paid for tuition over the years through a combination of part-time jobs and federal and private loans.

But because she’s maxed out the amount she can bor-row in federal loans, she now relies on money from her two part-time jobs, food stamps and private loans.

It will take years to pay those loans off, Hartwig said.

“You’re entering the world at a disadvantage be-cause you’re taking out tens of thousands of dollars in loans so you can afford to live,” she said. “But you’re going to be spending the next decade paying off those loans.”

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Funding from Leg. covers fresh groundand breed desirable traits in the plant, like improved grain yield and disease resistance.

Agricultural researchers at the University have been developing wheat varieties since at least 1895. Since then, the harvesting sched-ules of the state’s dominant annual crops like corn and soybeans have often left fields barren during the win-ter, Anderson said.

Without plant roots pro-tecting the soil year-round, wind and water erosion can degrade the fields, he said.

“Agriculture depends on maintaining our soil,” said Mar y Hanks, director of marketing and development at the Minnesota Depart-ment of Agriculture. “One of the ways to do that … is to keep the soil covered for longer periods of time each year.”

Water that has absorbed nutrients, including nitrogen nitrate, out of agricultural fields can pollute waterways flowing into the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico, Wyse said.

Forever Green aims to address the issue with pe-rennial plants and cover crops that protect the soil during the winter.

“If you have roots out there, plants out there — all

the time — that nitrate nitro-gen is picked up by the roots and doesn’t flow through that system,” Wyse said.

Technological advances have lowered the cost of DNA sequencing and fast-tracked the plant breeding process, Anderson said.

“Things you could only do with corn or soybeans — species that had a lot of ge-nomic resources, a lot of in-vestment — now you can do with virtually any species,” he said.

His current focus is cre-ating seeds that are 50 per-cent larger — which he ex-pects to improve seed yields and make wheatgrass easier to mill.

Three out of seven state-funded Forever Green proj-ects feature wheatgrass, Anderson said, whose eco-friendly qualities have already garnered interest from food industry groups.

Developing the wheat-grass is a collaborative ef-fort, he said, adding that fellow agronomy and plant genetics researchers are developing better planting methods for it.

Xiaofei Zhang, a research associate working with An-derson, said he came to Minnesota from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sci-ences to work on breeding wheatgrass and analyzing its genes.

“I believe it is a promis-ing perennial grain crop,”

Zhang said “I want to donate my time and energy to [it].”

Funding diverse and resilient crops

Wyse said an economic pull will convince farm-ers to adopt the crops de-veloped through Forever Green, though he noted that it will take an additional educational effort to intro-duce them to new planting methods.

“People need to see how it works. They need

to experiment with it them-selves,” said Hanks, adding that expanding crop vari-ety can help farmers better adapt to shifting climate pat-terns. ”The more you can diversify what you have out there on the land … your system is becoming more resilient.”

Along with the state appropriations from ear-lier this year, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has also supported Forever Green, Hanks said.

The three years’ worth of investment from the state came at the right time, Wyse said, though he hopes the project can eventually gain permanent funding.

“It isn’t … that you need a lot of money at one time,” Wyse said. “You need a cer-tain amount of money over a long period of time to go through cycles of selection.”

He sa id each pro j -ect could apply for up to $150,000, a sum that would allow them to bring more graduate students onto Forever Green ’s teams.

“We need early support from the public sector to bring these [projects] along until they can be picked up by the private sector,” Wyse said.

LIAM JAMES DOYLE, DAILYProfessor of agronomy and plant genetics Jim Anderson stands in the Agronomy Seed House on the St. Paul campus Friday morning.

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BY ANNE [email protected]

TargetExpress and Gina + Will took the spots below the new Venue at Dinkytown and the Marshall apartments this summer, bringing a wave of new costumers to the area with their arrival.

A few months later, Tar-get and Goodwill’s strategic decisions to open the stores in the University of Minne-sota neighborhood alongside the rest of Dinkytown’s long-standing businesses has prov-en to be successful, which business leaders say is due to the area’s market.

Dinkytown Business Al-liance President Mike Mul-rooney said the new shops, along with the incoming Star-bucks and Great Clips, make for a more diverse collective in the area. He thinks the businesses will attract desired attention.

“All business is good for Dinkytown, as long as they can complement each other,” said Mulrooney, who owns

Blarney Pub and Grill.The Book House, which

has sold books to the Uni-versity community for nearly 40 years, is one of few busi-nesses in the area that doesn’t serve as a bar or eatery. Own-er Kristen Eide-Tollefson said the store has seen almost no impact from the new stores but supports them.

They’re an experiment, which is a common theme in Dinkytown, she said.

“We still think it’s impor-tant that businesses can start up in Dinkytown. We think that’s really important — that this remains a center for entre-preneurial innovation,” Eide-Tollefson said, “which I per-sonally consider the Goodwill and Target enterprises to be.”

Goodwill chose Dinky-town because it had an oppor-tunity to be successful there, said Danielle Stager, Gina + Will’s general manager.

The company’s low price point, diversity in items and ability to change its selection based on feedback make it popular with area students, Stager said.

“I think the feedback that we’ve been getting from our neighbors, as well as custom-ers coming in, is ‘I love this store,’ ” she said, “which has made us so proud because we’ve worked so hard to have a store that we think would be a good fit.”

Stager said she feels the Dinkytown community has welcomed the store.

The new stores chose the campus area to experiment with their business models, and with good reason, said Carlson School of Manage-ment assistant professor Dan-iel Forbes, who teaches en-trepreneurship and strategic marketing.

Big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Kmart are fading fast in the retail world, he said. Pressure from online shop-ping and the Apple Store are pushing bigger stores to learn more about a specific market

and gear their stores more di-rectly toward one community.

A college campus, Forbes said, is the perfect place to try such an experiment because it has a high concentration of people with a similar demo-graphic profile.

College students also tend to provide feedback to stores via social media, Forbes said, which provides insight for companies into what does and does not work.

Target spokeswoman Kristen Emmons said the company chose the Univer-sity’s campus because there was a demand company offi-cials thought the store could meet, adding that it was im-portant for it to be close to cor-porate headquarters in down-town Minneapolis so officials could measure its progress.

Emmons said she could not comment specifically on the reason Target chose Din-kytown rather than other ar-eas near the University.

Mulrooney said Target employees will attend the alliance’s meetings in the coming months. He said he believes that big businesses can coexist with independent stores if the shop owners and corporate newcomers are open to it.

Dinkytown newcomers fit in well


AURORA, Colo. — The strange journey of three suburban Denver girls who authorities say tried to join Is-lamic State militants in Syria has many in their close-knit east African community wor-ried about whether their own children will be the next to be lured to terror.

The girls’ voyage has mystified many in the U.S., and has been even more troubling among Aurora’s Somali and Sudanese immi-grants, thousands of whom fled civil war and forged new lives in the Denver suburbs, where refugees easily find jobs driving cabs or working in the meat industry.

But while the girls’ par-ents were working to give them a better life, being a Muslim teenager isn’t easy in an American high school, said Ahmed Odowaay, a community advocate who works with youth. It’s easy to feel like an outsider, even as a U.S. citizen.

Even his 10-year-old

daughter gets taunts of “ter-rorist” when she wears her hijab in school, he said.

“This community is out-cast. They feel like they don’t belong here. They’re frustrated,” Odowaay said from his seat at Barwaaqo, a restaurant hidden in one of Aurora’s low-slung strip malls, where other men dined on goat and spaghetti, a favorite east African dish. “I’m worried their frustra-tions will lead them in the wrong direction.”

Young people in com-munities like this across the country are vulnerable to extremists in Syria and else-where who reach out to them online, promising the glory of battle, the honor becom-ing a wife, or just acceptance.

The girls likely won’t be charged with a crime and are safe now, but the father said he is still troubled by lingering questions about their intentions, who re-cruited them online and how they were so easily able to board a plane and head overseas.

Girls’ jihadi quest stirs fear in Colo. Muslim communities

More than five new establishments have taken an interest in the area.

NEW SHOPS IN DINKYTOWN

SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING

July TargetExpressAug. Gina + WillSept. Great Clips and

Starbucks (announced in a press release)

Nov. Pizza Studio

Jan. D.P. Dough (expected)

2014

2015

FOREVER GREEN MINNESOTA LEGISLATIVE FUNDING PER PROJECT

SOURCE: DON WYSE

IMPROVING WHEATGRASS PRODUCTION $97,473

GENETIC MAPPING OF WHEATGRASS DISEASE AND TRAITS $149,559

WHEATGRASS FOOD APPLICATIONS $150,000

INTEGRATION OF FIELD PENNYCRESS AND CAMELINA WITH FIELD CORN PRODUCTION $149,310

LEGUME COVER CROPS ANALYSIS $150,000

PROPAGATION OF HYBRID HAZELNUT FOR MINNESOTA $147,887

PERENNIAL SUNFLOWER DEVELOPMENT FOR FOOD PRODUCTION AND WILDLIFE SERVICES $149,825

FOREVER GREEN PROJECT FUNDING SOURCES OVER THE PAST FOUR

FISCAL YEARS

SOURCE: DON WYSE

$5.43MTOTAL FUNDING

$450,000Private industry

$1.8M*Federal agencies

$1.15MMinnesota Department of Agriculture

$1.03MUniversity of Minnesota

$1MLegislative funding

*Includes U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, and Department of Energy.

Editorials & Opinions

P eople don’t wait until they have a broken bone to see a doctor. If you had a chronic cough, you wouldn’t

wait for debilitating pain before getting it checked out. But when it comes to mental health, it’s astonishing how quickly people dismiss their own needs. Most people demonstrate compassion toward those who struggle with mental illness — except themselves.

Mental health is an issue that few are willing to talk about, so the conversations that do happen are extremely influential. Efforts to normalize mental health at Tues-day’s Cirque De-Stress were one of the most important University of Minnesota-sponsored events of the year.

Cirque De-Stress is so successful be-cause it seeks to include the entire Univer-sity community in a dialogue about mental health. It’s a normal event that “normal” people go to. The event isn’t reserved for outliers in the population, and neither is mental illness. Cirque De-Stress and other mental health awareness events help us re-alize that nobody is really “normal.”

Cirque De-Stress is so powerful because

it addresses the roots of stigmas against mental health issues. For too long, men-tal health care has been thought of as a “special” treatment. It’s considered to be a dire, last-call solution for those with severe illnesses.

The language surrounding mental health care indicates the stigmas that we unknowingly hold. People ominously refer to meeting with a therapist or psychiatrist as “getting help,” not “getting a checkup” like we would with a physical doctor.

This language creates invisible and un-necessary barriers around pursuing mental health care.

People still criticize those with severe mental illness, but this stigma is lessening with the younger generation. We’ve come a long way in recognizing and in supporting members of society who truly are mental health outliers. But the most pervasive stig-ma is that mental illness has to be severe in order to be worthy of treatment.

Mental health issues — severe, mild or

in between — will affect almost everyone sooner or later, often during college years. Stress and change, two trademarks of col-lege life, can lead to mental illness if they aren’t managed. These are issues that can be addressed in mental health treatment or with any of the stress-reducing strategies presented at Cirque De-Stress. In fact, 40 percent of college students seeking treat-ment suffer from only “mild mental health concerns.”

You don’t have to be on the brink of de-struction to make an appointment at Boyn-ton Health Service. Everyone deserves to feel calm, relaxed and happy. Mental health isn’t an Olympics of suffering: Everyone qualifies. That’s the most important mes-sage that Cirque De-Stress spreads.

Stigmas about our mental health en-compass more than judging or criticizing those with chemical imbalances or clini-cally diagnosed disorders. The next hori-zon in mental health care is recognition of mental health’s broad and all-encompass-ing spectrum. Nearly all of us could seek out mental health care at some point in our lives, and we must be brave enough to recognize it.

Camille Galleswelcomes comments at

[email protected].

E arly this week, the Canadian Broad-casting Corporation fired Jian Gho-meshi, the host of the popular radio

show Q, due to multiple allegations of sexu-al harassment.

Considering the fact that this story has sparked considerable controversy, espe-cially on progressive blogs, it’s time to dis-cuss how we can strike a balance between the rights of the accused and the concerns that major companies face when they deal with controversy surrounding one of their employees.

In unfortunate situations where a fa-mous employee is dragged through the court of public opinion, employers seem to side with the critics and either fire the al-leged perpetrators or suspend them until the issues are resolved.

Their reasoning is certainly understand-able — deciding to keep a controversial worker on the job may negatively impact a business. However, there are some factors

to consider before companies make this decision.

For example, are there any criminal charges or police complaints? Is the indicter a credible source? Does physical evidence of wrongdoing exist? Did the accused have their say in court? In Ghomeshi’s case, the criminal justice system never analyzed evi-dence or even heard any complaints.

To balance fairness with employers’ worries, companies should temporar-ily suspend any accused workers with pay and promise to bring them back if they clear their names. This ensures a balance between the rights of the accused and the legitimate concerns of the businesses.

Ronald Dixonwelcomes comments at

[email protected].

Mental health services could benefit all students, especiallyas school stresses students.

Should Jian Ghomeshi really have been fired from his job before a verdict was reached?

RONALD DIXONcolumnist

STUDENT LIFE

Cirque De-Stress breaks down stigmas EDITORIALSMpls. schools must do more

Haunted House off to a good start

Hmong International Academy protests show a need for action.

Student fundraising for the less fortunate is encouraging.

I n protest of unstable leadership and con-stantly shifting educational goals, the parents of students at Hmong Interna-

tional Academy marched to the Minneapolis School District’s headquarters last week.

The academy has been unable to retain a principal for more than a year over the past several years. Parents said at a meet-ing with school officials that the district is ignoring the cultural and educational needs of Hmong students.

The protest is one of many problems in the Minneapolis School District this year. Dropping enrollment numbers — only two new students enrolled for the 2014-15 school year — and a large achievement gap have the district facing budget cuts and questions about the future of its schools and students.

The district has tried to address these problems, in part by rolling out a new stra-tegic plan to help close achievement gaps and ensure “college and career ready” stu-dents. District officials are also planning to “market” their schools to parents to im-prove enrollment. But it’s too soon to judge how effective the plan will be at improving education for Minneapolis students.

Regardless of enrollment or budgeting problems, the educational instability faced by thousands of students in Minneapolis schools is a more serious issue. We hope the new strategic plan will be effective in improving student performance and edu-cational experiences for current students, not just future ones. The district must make sure that the focus remains on helping stu-dents learn, not merely on bolstering the image of Minneapolis schools through mar-keting or other means.

W ith Halloween coming up on Fri-day, students have a range of choices for how they’ll spend their

night. Typically, Halloween staples like the Soap Factory’s Haunted Basement in Marcy-Holmes and Scream Town are scary, entertaining options.

The Students Against Hunger and Wesley Foundation’s haunted house, which promises to scare you while raising money for a good cause, is in its third year and is quickly be-coming a popular option for students to enjoy.

It costs only $5, and the proceeds are going toward providing meals for schools and orphanages around the world that are struggling. According to the vice president of the Wesley Foundation, Rachael Ace-vedo, one meal can be made out of just a quarter, so any profits yielded from this at-traction could go a long way.

We feel that the combined ef forts of these student groups are commendable and should be lauded. It’s easy to get caught up in self-indulgent festivities and parties this time of year.

By providing aid to those in need while having fun, we are pleased to see that many University of Minnesota students are con-tinuing to act selflessly.

And in continuing with this positive spir-it around Halloween, it’s crucial to consider whether costume choices could be deemed offensive to other students who may have a culture different than yours. If the costume is problematic, avoid it.

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

U students should build on the legacy of our anti-racist past by protesting on Sunday

On Sunday, the University of Minnesota will become host to the largest protest on cam-pus in several decades. A coalition of national groups, anchored by local organizations like the American Indian Movement, are coming to campus to demand that Washington chang-es its football team’s name. Students need to join with AIM and others in protesting racism on our campus and demand that our adminis-tration lives up to its promise to improve diver-sity and provide an inclusive campus climate for minority students at the University.

University students have a proud history of opposing racism on campus and of making these kinds of demands on our administra-tors. This weekend, we need to build on this legacy instead of standing on the sidelines or resigning ourselves to political apathy. Like

the students who came before us, we need take a stand against racism on campus.

In 1969, dozens of black students with the Afro-American Action Committee seized and occupied Morrill Hall to demand former President Malcolm Moos to live up to his promises and increase diversity at the Uni-versity. They demanded an African-American studies department and increased scholar-ships for black students. They won these de-mands through protest, and that 1969 Morrill Hall takeover represents the birthplace of our current African and African-American studies department at the University.

Similarly, in 1971, Chicano students with the Latin Liberation Front demanded a more open curriculum, one represent-ing their histories and identities, from the University’s administration and eventually staged an occupation of Morrill Hall when the administration proved too slow in put-ting its words into action.

Through this occupation, the Depart-ment of Chicano and Latino Studies was born. These protests — while polarizing at the time and seen by some as crossing the boundaries of acceptable political speech — were effective in expanding access to education for non-white students and in-creased diversity at the University. Now we too are faced with a similar situation.

President Eric Kaler has been outspo-ken about his opposition to the Washington football team’s name. However, the admin-istration is acting in an overly cautious man-ner, and its strong rhetorical stance against racism on campus has yet to translate into equally strong actions. On Sunday, I hope that all University students will carry for-ward the historical legacy that anti-racist protests have had at our university — by both participating in the rallies and march-es against the Washington team and by de-manding action from our administration.

Matthew Boynton Ph.D. candidate in American studies

Students for a Democratic Society

Comment on Election GuideWhen reading the Election Guide in Tues-

day’s paper, I was disappointed to find that only Democratic and Republican candidates were interviewed. Of the eight races focused on in the guide, six had third-party candi-dates that were left out. A variety of choices in an election is critical for a healthy democracy. Media coverage is of dire importance for win-ning an election in today’s political environ-ment, and it is up to news organizations to inform the public on their choices as voters.

Erik PetersonUniversity student

Comments on ‘More shootings highlight need for new gun control laws’

You also forgot to mention that the guy in Canada was killed by a “good guy with a gun.”

lostoncampus via MNDaily.com

While technically correct, the implications of your phrase “a good guy with a gun” is a bit off; he was killed by the sergeant-at-arms of the Parliament, not an armed civilian.

jimbrowski via MNDaily.com

I disagree with Editorial Board on ‘Staple food ordinance’

The board’s conclusion in its recent edi-torial does not consider the possibility that healthy food distribution options will emerge to meet the demand created by the ordinance.

For example, the University of St. Thom-as and some community partners are pilot-ing a project embedded in academic activi-ties that aims to deliver high-quality, low-cost fruits and vegetables to Minneapolis corner stores. The staple food ordinance will make this and similar ventures more feasible for other nonprofits and small businesses.

I applaud the Minneapolis City Council for working to address the current inequity in food access and health across Minneapo-lis neighborhoods. Given that 94 percent of Minneapolis corner store customers would buy fruits and vegetables from corner stores if available and affordable, I think the ordi-nance can help make a significant difference to the food environment in our community.

Adam Kay Director of Environmental Science

University of St. Thomas

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Questions result from firing of Q


CAMILLE GALLEScolumnist


BY GRANT [email protected]

While the Gophers were struggling on the ice during an early-season se-ries against Minnesota-Du-luth, Mar yanne Menefee could only watch the game unfold from the bench.

The junior for war d f r om Lans ing , Mich . , didn’t play in the season’s first two series due to a de-cision by head coach Brad Frost.

“You always want to be on the ice when [your team is struggling],” Menefee said. “You definitely learn from it, and I’m happy to be back on the ice.”

Menefee returned to action when the Gophers swept then-No. 1 Wiscon-sin, but she failed to find the score sheet.

However, she notched two goals during Satur-day’s 5 -0 victor y over North Dakota.

“It felt really great to finally get back and con-tribute. I think it is a role I have to play especially because we have a lot of in-coming freshmen that are playing, so we need some production,” Menefee said.

Menefee is one of Min-nesota’s top retur ning scorers from a year ago, as she recorded 37 points last season, including 18 goals.

“[Menefee] is who she is,” Frost said. “She has very good hands, and she is incredibly smar t, and she gets to the net to score goals, which has been a huge strength of hers.”

Coming out of high school, Menefee was a member of the U.S. Un-der-18 national team and

made an immediate im-pact for the Gophers dur-ing her freshman season, recording 38 points on 16 goals.

After putting together two fairly consistent years at Minnesota, Menefee said she is looking forward to taking the next step and improving her numbers while helping the Gophers win.

“I played with Hannah [Brandt] these last two seasons, and I know we have similar styles of play because we both like to pass the puck a lot,” Mene-fee said. “But I think shoot-ing the puck more would

be better for me and lead to more scoring chances.”

Frost said if Menefee can maintain her fitness level, she could continue to see improvements in her game.

“She just has to con-tinue to buy into who we are as a team,” Frost said, “[and continue] with her fitness level so she can sustain a high pace of play for 60 minutes.”

Brandt and Menefee are in their third season as linemates, and both scored twice in Minnesota’s last game.

After the game, Brandt s a i d t h e c h e m i s t r y

between her and Menefee provides the Gophers with an advantage.

“The b iggest th ing with us is that we just see each other ver y well on the ice,” Brandt said.

“Knowing where each oth-er are [on the ice] is huge. You hardly have to look sometimes.”

Ben Gotz contributed to this report.

BY BEN [email protected]

In the early part of the Gophers’ season, there have been two constants: Adam Wilcox in net and success on the power play.

Head coach Don Lucia said Wednesday that the team needs to play better 5-on-5 hockey. But with a man advantage, the Go-phers have been strong.

So far, the Gophers have scored six goals of f the power play in 17 opportuni-ties, and they’ve scored at least one power-play goal in each of their four games — all of which were victories.

“Our specia l teams [have] been good to begin with,” Lucia said. “We have six power-play goals, so right now … that’s strong.”

Sophomore for ward Taylor Cammarata said the team’s power play was “discombobulated” a few weeks ago, but it has since become one of the team’s strengths.

Power-play goals were crucial in the Gophers’ sweep of Bemidji State, with the team scoring four goals in 10 opportunities.

One of the reasons the power play has been so strong this season is the unit’s continuity. The Go-phers’ top two power-play units boast veteran skaters who are well-versed in the team’s systems.

Returners accounted for 34 of the team’s 35 power-play goals last year.

The team’s top power-play line over the week-end — senior Kyle Rau, sophomore Hudson Fas-

ching and senior Travis Boyd — scored more than half of its combined goals on the power play last year.

Rau said returning the same power-play lineup as last year has helped the unit achieve early success.

“Familiarity with each other and chemistry [are] there,” Rau said. “At the same time, we’re shooting pucks, and Travis Boyd’s been putting the puck in the back of the net, so that’s been the success to our power play so far.”

The Big Ten named Boyd its First Star of the Week on Tuesday, after he scored two power-play goals over the weekend. Boyd also scored the first shorthanded goal of his col-lege career Friday night.

“First time for ever y-thing, so might as well be tonight,” Boyd said Friday. “Hopefully [scoring] kick-starts me, and [I] get a lot more to come.”

Boyd was on the team’s power-play unit last year, and Lucia said maturity has helped Boyd develop a big-ger role on the team.

“He’s been in good spots,” Lucia said. “He’s al-ways been a good penalty killer. Last year he moved onto the power play, and his shot is much improved.”

Rau has also taken no-tice of Boyd’s improved shot and said his work over the summer seems to be paying off.

“He’s just in the right spot shooting the puck. He’s got a good shot [and] he can place it well,” Rau said. “He’s having a good year.”

The Gophers power-play unit will face a steep test this weekend against St. Cloud State, which has been stingy on the penalty

kill thus far.But Lucia said the Go-

phers have worked on improving their weak-nesses this week, not their strengths.

“Right now, I think we’re too easy to play against,” Lucia said. “I don’t think our 5-on-5 play is where it needs to be right now, so that’s been a big point of emphasis this week in prac-tice.”

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Gophers exhibit early power-play skillMEN’S HOCKEY

JULIET FARMER, DAILYGophers forward Travis Boyd controls the puck on Oct. 4 at Mariucci Arena against Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.

PATTY GROVER, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota forward Maryanne Menefee brings the puck around Minnesota-Duluth’s net on Feb. 22, 2013, at Ridder Arena.

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Minnesota scored four power-play goals in a sweep last weekend.

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BY JACK [email protected]

Zach Lofton has been dismissed from the Go-phers men’s basketball program “for failing to meet the expectations and obligations of the team,” head coach Richard Pitino announced Wednesday night.

“While decisions like this are always dif ficult, we felt it was in the in-terest of our program to move for ward at this time,” Pitino said in a statement. “We wish Zach nothing but the best in the future.”

Lofton can stay at the University under scholar-ship for the remainder of the 2014-15 academic year, according to the release.

The junior guard was redshir ting this season after transferring from Illi-nois State.

In his only season at Illi-nois State, Lofton averaged 11.3 points per game and three rebounds per game.

Before that, the St. Paul native played a season at San Jacinto College.

While Lofton was in-eligible to play during the 2014-15 season, Pitino re-garded him as someone who could contribute in fu-ture years.

Pitino has praised Lof-ton in the past for his high potential.

“The sky is the limit for Zach. He has all the tools and talent to be a big-time guard. Phenomenal ath-lete, great length and has the ability to get his shot of f at any time. We need him to be ready next year,” Pitino wrote in a blog over the summer.

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“First time for ev-erything, so might as well be tonight. Hopefully [scoring] kick-starts me, and [I] get a lot more to come.”TRAVIS BOYDSenior forward


BY SAM [email protected]

The Minnesota Daily met with University of Minnesota athletics director Norwood Teague on Wednesday for the second edition of “Talkin’ with Teague.”

Teague discussed Go-phers coaches, Gov. Mark Dayton’s letter regarding the athletics department’s ticket bundling policy for this year and other topics.

The University recently extended deals with Nike and Bauer. What factors played into these deci-sions?

They’re great partners. They’re great brands. Our student-athletes love the partnership, and it really just works well for us on a num-ber of different fronts.

[Was Minnesota] ap-proached by other compa-nies?

We only extended [the deals] with them. We didn’t rebid it. Really, the only time you probably get approached is when your contract ends, so we didn’t get approached by anyone.

The football team is on the brink of the top 25 and is in contention for the Big Ten West. How would you grade [head coach] Jerry Kill’s performance in re-establishing the program?

Jerry continues to man-age the program in an in-credible way. I’ve said on many occasions that I wish people could see him dur-ing the week and how he conducts and manages the program — and that means from a recruiting standpoint, from a practice standpoint, from just everything he does to run it. … The results of that show on the field, and

we’re at a great position. It’ll be a fun year as we play the last four games.

The “M” Club [Hall of Fame] just inducted 14 more members this month. How important are alumni relations for the athletics department?

They’re tremendously important. Our “M” Club is very interwoven into every-thing that we do. We’re in a major metropolitan area, and there [are] so many athletic alums that live in the area that support us. To honor them, and to have a conduit for them to be involved in what we do, is very important. …

Gov. Dayton wrote a let-ter to the University this month denouncing the decision to sell bundled season tickets to students. The policy was subse-quently changed. Was this a learning experience for the athletics department?

I think more than any-thing, we learned we have to communicate better the “why” of what we’re doing. And the reason why we did that was to package together tickets to reward our very passionate and loyal fans. That was the sole motivation.

Many times, what you do can be misconstrued. But that was the “why” of what we did. We need to commu-nicate that better moving forward.

Have you been in contact with Gov. Dayton about improving the athletic department’s communi-cation strategies moving forward?

No. When I say commu-nication, I mean just broad communication to ever y-body to tell why we’re doing it and what we do. We want-ed to reward rather than punish in that situation.

Brad Frost and Don Lucia are two of the most suc-cessful current coaches in college hockey. How high

are the expectations for the two hockey teams?

I’m thrilled with where they are. We’re both No. 1 in the country. Can’t ask for more at this point in the season.

I think those two guys are doing a terrific job. It’s going to be a fun year. They both have talented squads, and they do a super job.

As far as expectations are concerned, I want them to run their program at a high level, and that means across the board. If they can do that, everything will take care of itself.

How important is it for you to have two of the top college hockey coaches coaching in [Minnesota], the “state of hockey?”

It’s thrilling for me be-cause Gopher hockey is that important to the University and to the state. Those are two programs that a lot of people follow, to say the least,

and we owe that, big time, to our fans. So yeah, it’s thrill-ing to have them here.

Are you going to Puerto Rico for the Armed Forc-es Classic?

I’m not going because we play Ohio State [in foot-ball] the next day. To get back here in time would have been tough. And [head men’s basketball coach Rich-ard] Pitino and I talked about it. He said, “You should prob-ably stay here since we’re playing Ohio State.”

What does a game like that do for the program’s recognition?

First of all, it’s on na-tional TV. It’s on ESPN. And that’s now viewed by about 110 million homes. Being on ESPN is a huge benefit, not just to the athletic de-partment, but to the Univer-sity as far as branding and marketing is concerned.

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[Pitino] is playing his dad. That’s more intriguing, so the viewership numbers will be even higher because of that. It’ll be a lot of fun.

It doesn’t just help ath-letics; it helps the Univer-sity as well.

What have you seen from [head women’s basketball coach] Marlene Stollings since her arrival? Have you discussed any goals with her for her first year?

Marlene is doing a great job. Marlene is ver y fo-cused and passionate about what she does. [Stollings] and her staf f have an in-credible work ethic. They really get after it. They re-cruited well. I’m thrilled about what they’ve done, and it’s going to be a lot of fun watching them on the floor.

As far as her goals, I know her goal is to get in the NCAA tournament and advance. She’s going to

have high goals. Marlene is demanding of herself, so it’s going to be a fun ride.

Was it a priority to bring in an up-tempo style to the women’s program?

I think the kids enjoy [it], and it’s easier to recruit to an up-tempo program. But that wasn’t the only reason we hired Marlene. I’ve seen her in two dif ferent jobs do a really masterful job at programs that were chal-lenging. And before that, she was at high Division I [programs], and I knew her there. So I’ve watched her grow, and when we were looking at coaches, she rose above the rest. It was an easy decision.

Have you had any involve-ment in the [Washington] Redskins discussion?

I have not. It’s been more of a University issue. I’ve stayed on the sidelines with that.

BY BEN [email protected]

While Gophers play-ers speak highly of playing home games at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium, the open road has been pretty good to the team, too.

After the Gophers swept Maryland and Rutgers over the weekend, they improved their home conference re-cord to 3-3-1.

But on the road, the Go-phers are an impressive 4-1 in the conference so far, with one game remaining on the schedule at Northwestern.

The Gophers already have a spot in the Big Ten tournament, but they are in a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference.

One more victory could result in a more favorable matchup next week in the conference tournament in West Lafayette, Ind.

The Gophers’ road victo-ries haven’t come easily, but they’ve kept the team in the hunt for the postseason.

The team’s conference road games have all come down to just one goal. Four of the five matches were de-cided in overtime, with two going into double overtime.

“I think a lot of it just comes down to our grit and our wanting to really win on the road,” senior captain Olivia Schultz said. “The games have been really good, and I think the ones that we have lost, they’ve been close enough that we’ve played well.”

Sophomore midfielder Josee Stiever said the team set a goal at the beginning of the season to not lose in overtime.

While the team hasn’t been able to reach that goal,

the Gophers have won more games in over time than they’ve lost, with all three overtime victories coming on the road.

“Every time we get into over time, we know what it takes, and we’re ready to make our goal happen,” Stiever said.

T h e G o p h e r s h a v e steadily improved on the road throughout head coach Stefanie Golan’s tenure.

In 2012, her first year coaching the team, the Go-phers ended up below .500 on the road overall and in the Big Ten.

This season, the Go-phers are guaranteed their first winning record on the road under Golan, both in

conference play and overall.But for now, Minnesota

is focusing on its last regu-lar-season game.

Northwestern will pose a dif ferent challenge be-cause the team plays on turf. The Gophers are plan-ning to practice on tur f Thursday to adjust before leaving for Evanston, Ill.

“We feel like we’ve ac-complished a lot to this point, but we still want to continue our season as long as we can. And we know that Northwestern is a very difficult team to play against,” Golan said. “Play-ing them on their field is a challenge. [It’s] one we’re looking forward to.”

Teague discusses bundling, coaches

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY FILE PHOTOGophers athletics director Norwood Teague answers questions in his office at the Bierman Field Athletic Building on Sept. 18.

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Minnesota sees success on the road Minnesota falls to Hoosiers in four sets

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ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY FILE PHOTOGophers players Josee Stiever and Taylor Wodnick play at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium on Friday.

The Gophers have only one regular-season contest remaining this year.

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BY RACHEL [email protected]

The Gophers dropped just one match in 11 noncon-ference games, but the Big Ten hasn’t been as kind to them.

Minnesota lost its sev-enth conference match in 11 opportunities to Indiana on Wednesday night.

The Gophers were look-ing for their first conference road victory, and though they won the first set, they weren’t able to keep the mo-mentum and dropped the match in four sets.

Minnesota has now lost four of its last five matches.

Consistency was the issue for the Gophers on Wednes-day, head coach Hugh Mc-Cutcheon said.

“When we come out strong, we have to stay strong throughout the whole match,” said junior outside hitter Daly Santana.

Santana said the team needed to be more consis-tent with its serves and its energy.

Minnesota led the Hoo-siers in the first set, gain-ing a quick 8-3 lead. Indiana fought back, but the Gophers ended up taking the set.

The second set was a dif-ferent story — the teams went back and forth, with five lead changes. But Indi-ana eventually took a 20-16 lead and finished the set strong to get a victory.

Sophomore setter Ka-tie Schau suf fered an in-jury in the second set, and sophomore Erica Handley replaced her. Schau didn’t return for the rest of the match.

Indiana brought its mo-mentum into the third set,

and even though the Go-phers came close to taking an edge, the Hoosiers out-played them.

“There was just a bunch of little things that didn’t re-ally click,” Handley said.

To adjust, Minnesota replaced sophomore Han-nah Tapp in the middle with freshman Molly Lohman for the fourth set.

T h e s m a l l c h a n g e seemed to work for the Go-phers, as they came out with a 6-3 lead on Indiana.

The set was tight all the way through, and a service error by Adrianna Nora put the Hoosiers at match point.

Despite that, the Go-phers rallied back to tie it at 25-25.

The fourth set went into extra points, and the Go-phers came alive at the end of the set.

But on an ace, Indiana ended the long set and match at 35-33.

“We had a chance to turn it into a fifth, but it just didn’t go our way,” McCutcheon said.

The Gophers’ defense struggled at times through-out the match.

“[It was a] little bit fran-tic back there, [but] other times we were doing well,” he said. “We got caught in the moment. We got away from the plan a little bit.”

Handley said the Go-phers needed to keep focus-ing on the next point and stick with their plan.

“Essentially, it comes down to us being a little more consistent,” McCutch-eon said. “We could have performed a little better.”

The volleyball team dropped to 4-7 in conference play on the season.

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ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY FILE PHOTOGophers freshman Brooke Zeiger swims the 500-yard freestyle against North Dakota at the University Aquatic Center on Friday.

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 DAVID [email protected]

A f t e r b e i n g h o m e -schooled in her home state of Rhode Island, Blake Zei-ger made a huge transition with her decision to attend the University of Minnesota and join nearly 29,000 other students.

A few years later, her sister, Brooke Zeiger, made the same decision.

While the change of scenery might have fright-ened some students, the Zeiger sisters’ performanc-es in the pool show that the women from the smallest state in the country have had no trouble making the switch.

“They work extraordi-narily hard,” head coach Kelly Kremer said. “They’re kind of what you want in a student-athlete. … They’re exactly what you’re look-ing for as a coach to build a program.”

However, the Zeigers weren’t always swimmers.

Senior Blake and fresh-man Brooke Zeiger traded their gymnastics leotards for swim caps and goggles when they were intro-duced to swimming about a decade ago.

“We were gymnasts first, and then I got hurt,” Blake Zeiger said. “We star ted on a summer [swimming] team. We both really liked it, so we decided to tr y club.”

Each of the sisters dem-onstrated the swim talent they inherited from their par-ents — both of whom raced for the University of Maine — early in their careers.

“It just clicked,” Brooke Zeiger said.

When the time came for Blake to make a college decision, Minnesota was in the back of her mind be-cause she wanted to stay closer to home.

A phone call with Kre-mer changed that.

“It was really cool talk-ing to Kelly on the phone,” Blake Zeiger said. “So I de-cided to give it a shot and go for a trip.”

When Blake arrived on campus, Kremer said he could foresee there being trouble with her transition.

“For Blake, that was a much tougher adjustment than she thought it might be her first year,” Kremer said. “But she got through first semester, and then she got her feet on the ground.”

Since then, Blake Zei-ger has been a standout for Minnesota, posting three top-13 times at last year’s

Big Ten championships.“ H e r i m p r o v e m e n t

curve is exactly what any-body would want,” Kremer said. “It’s literally been perfect.”

Now, Gophers fans get the opportunity to watch both Zeigers produce when Brooke dives into the pool.

“When you look at the scope of what Blake’s done here, it’s really incredible,” Kremer said. “And Brooke has all that in front of her still.”

In three meets this sea-son, Brooke owns victories in seven races.

“[I’m] not surprised [by Brooke’s early success],” Kremer said. “We can put her in [any event], and she’ll just go right to it. I’m really happy that she’s done whatever we’ve asked her to do to this point.”

Blake Zeiger owns one individual event victor y this season, as well as two

victories as a member of re-lay teams.

While both Zeigers ad-mitted they’re friendly with one another on dry land, they have a bit of a sibling rivalry in the pool.

“I could see her a couple of lanes over last Saturday when we were racing,” Brooke Zeiger said. “I did not want her to beat me.”

But a year from now, when her older sister grad-uates, Brooke won’t be able to keep as close of a watch on her pace.

Whi le Blake might be behind her little sis-ter in the rivalry when it comes to event victories this season, she has a strong resume that she’s built over the past three years.

“She’s been a multiple-t ime All -American and been in lots of finals at Big Tens,” Kremer said. “She’s so critical on the Gopher re-lays and [in] Gopher sprint relays that we’re sure go-ing to miss her when she graduates.”

Blake Zeiger is a senior, and her sister, Brooke, is a Gophers freshman.

BY MATT [email protected]

After resting its top runners last weekend, the Gophers women’s cross countr y team should be fresh for the Big Ten championships in Iowa City, Iowa, this Sunday.

Head coach Sarah Hop-kins said the meet is going to be impor tant, but she doesn’t want her runners to overthink it.

“A lot of doing well is just relaxing and let-ting your body do what it’s capable of doing. It’s all about perspective and knowing that this isn’t the be-all, end-all.’ If they build it up into something more than it is , that ’s when you have some prob-lems,” Hopkins said.

Redshir t junior Becca Dyson said the field, which includes No. 1 Michigan State and No. 4 Michigan, will be very competitive.

Last year’s team took third place at the Big Ten championships.

The year’s group is more unexperienced, as only Dyson and redshir t junior Liz Berkholtz ran at the meet last year.

Minnesota wil l send four underclassmen to the meet.

Dyson said if the young group can work together, it should put up a good performance.

“ We ’ r e l o o k i n g f o r them to work together as a group and to push them-selves. I think they’re fully capable. … They just have to have a little belief in themselves,” Dyson said.

Redshir t junior Kaila Urick said people overlook the team because of its in-experience.

But despite that, she said the Gophers are go-ing to perform well.

“A lot of people didn’t think we’d be doing as well as last year. [That is] kind of fueling a lot of us on the team,” Urick said. “We’re going to come to Big Tens and run a lot bet-ter than people expect.”

Men’s team also heads to Iowa

The men’s team will seek to overcome what head coach Steve Plasencia called an “off” performance at the Wisconsin adidas In-vitational two weeks ago.

Plasencia called the meet “another challenge.” But, like the women, he said he doesn’t want to make the meet bigger than what it is.

“You [have to] let the chips fall where they will. I

don’t think we do anything special … just go out there and control all the factors you can control,” Plasencia said.

The Gophers finished fourth at the Big Ten cham-pionships last year, and red-shirt junior Aaron Bartnik said the Gophers must have a good team performance to have a podium finish this season.

“We have nine guys go-ing down there to race, and any one of those could be in our scoring five. We have a lot of leadership in Blayne Dulian, a lot of experience with Christian Skaret, and a lot of young talent in Obsa [Ali] and Charlie Lawrence,

and out of everyone there, I feel confident that we’re go-ing to perform well,” Bart-nik said.

Redshir t junior Adam Zutz said he thinks the youth of the team will put up a good performance at the meet.

“Our younger guys have shown they can handle the competition and put togeth-er a good race. That’s en-couraging for us older guys to see the young guys run-ning well,” Zutz said.

Bar tnik said the team will come out fast and hard at the meet.

“We want to go out there like we have some-thing to prove,” he said.

Both teams will face stiff competition in the conference championship field.

“We’re looking for them to work together as a group and to push themselves. I think they’re fully capable. ... They just have to have a little belief in themselves.”BECCA DYSONRedshirt junior


BY GRANT TILLERY [email protected]

C ameron King-horn and Reid K e n n e d y b e -lieve that suc-

cess lies in a name. The lead singer and drummer of Minneapolis soul-jazz sextet Nooky Jones were intent on encapsulating the band’s sexy, seductive sounds in its moniker. But at times, brainstorming proved too taxing an en-deavor.

“We tossed bands back and for th that have ter-rible names that are real successful,” Nooky Jones’ drummer Reid Kennedy said. “I told [Kinghorn] Hoobastank, [for exam-ple]. They probably had a gold record, and no one cared what their name was.”

Kennedy and King -horn decided on Nooky Jones after a month of deliberation. Trumpeter Adam Meckler (a Univer-sity of Minnesota alum-nus) formed the band in

2013, and he asked King-horn — who also studied trumpet at the University — to provide vocals for the group. The name says it all: Nooky Jones plays music people want to get naughty to. They’ll bring

their sensuous sounds to the 7th Street Entr y for HELLOween with #Mpls.

“So far we haven’t set up our own show,” Ken-nedy said about Nooky Jones’ ease in f inding gigs. “We just keep getting

invited to other people’s.”N o o k y J o n e s ’ b e d -

room soul sound evokes the melodies of Mar vin Gaye and Robert Glasper. There’s a slight hip-hop

BY JACKIE RENZETTI [email protected]

A f ter nearly 20 years of inac-t iv i ty, Br i t i sh shoegaze band

Slowdive has hit the road again for a new destination in their career.

Slowdive, composed of Rachel Goswell, Neil Hal-stead, Christian Savill, Nick Chaplin and Simon Scott, first formed in the United Kingdom in 1989 and re-leased three albums before breaking up in 1995.

When the group was of-fered a spot at Barcelona’s 2014 Primavera Sound Fes-tival, the members decided not only to take it, but also to reunite for a multi-conti-nent tour following the fes-tival. Minnesota band Low will open for Slowdive for

most of their nearly sold-out North American tour, including a stop at the Fine Line Music Café on Friday.

“I think [reuniting] was something we were think-ing about, but [Primavera] focused our attention. That kinda gave us a goal,” gui-tarist Christian Savill said.

The members found themselves star ting from scratch on a project that be-gan nearly 25 years ago.

“We hardly had any equipment,” guitarist Chris-tian Savill said, noting that bassist Nick Chapman no longer owned a bass guitar. “It was like totally starting again, really.”

After acquiring the in-s tr uments , S lowdive ’s next step was to get back in shape. Their rehearsal process preceding the tour spanned five months, partly

because the members now live in dif ferent par ts of Britain.

“Some of the songs we could remember, but a lot of them we were like, ‘Oh God, I can’t remember how to play that — you know what guitar change was that?’ But that was part of the fun,” Savill said. “And it was brilliant because we’d play and we’d go out. Those are some of my happiest memories, just the five of us together.”

Almost all of their North American tour dates are sold out, and Savill says they’ve received enthusi-astic responses from coun-tries they previously never had the chance to tour.

Upon arriving in Taiwan, the band realized their gear hadn’t arrived yet because of a typhoon. They used

social media to spread word, and audience mem-bers happily lent them their instruments.

“It was like a party,” Sav-ill said. “It’s just been crazy, really.”

The widespread positive feedback contrasted sharp-ly with their experiences at the end of their initial career. In 1995, the public didn’t take the shoegaze genre seriously. After the release of their third album, “Pygmalion,” the band re-ceived numerous negative reviews and their record la-bel dropped them.

“When we finished the band, [shoegaze] was kind of just like nothing; it was almost derided. But now … it seems to be a pretty big scene, relatively speaking,” Savill said.

Savill said he believes

their fan base comes from listeners who enjoy bands that cite Slowdive among their influences. As a result, their audiences have con-sisted of primarily young people, as opposed to the band’s expectation of most-ly original listeners who are now middle-aged.

Instead of adapting to keep up with newer shoe-gaze bands, Savill said, “We just coast along doing our own thing.”

As opposed to their ear-lier career, they can now instantly receive feedback and feel support from their listeners through social me-dia.

Low joined the tour largely because of a Twit-ter interaction. When both bands happened to play at a show in Iceland, Slow-dive members noticed that

Low retweeted an audience member’s tweet saying that Low should open for Slow-dive. Savill said this was a push to see if they were in-terested.

“We’re all big fans of Low. … We’d never consid-er asking Low to open for us because in our minds, they’re like this amazing band who kind of wouldn’t open for us,” Savill said.

Alan Sparhawk of Low also cited Twitter as an in-fluence but said he had no idea their retweet propelled the collaboration.

“I remember seeing one of them tweeting about be-ing excited to see us, and I thought … ‘Wow, I didn’t even know they knew who we were,’” Sparhawk said.

The early years of Low collided with the end of Slowdive’s initial run. Spar-hawk said that he recalled listening to their records while driving on tour.

“Even though we defi-nitely sound different, they were one of the bands we were listening to that was sort of reassuring,” Spar-hawk said, referencing the bands’ shared use of female and male vocals and loose structure. “It’s not so much an influence as much as it was a camaraderie.”

Both Sparhawk and Savill said their respective bands had been musing about doing something spe-cial in light of Halloween for their Minneapolis show, but they had no concrete plans yet.

Savil l said “the fact that people are coming is amazing,” explaining that his band was hesitant to book larger venues for fear of poor attendance. The band especially has looked for ward to their North American tour and plans to create a new album when their time frees up afterward.

“Even when everything was really pretty horrible back home in the U.K. … the people were really re-sponsive, and some of our best gigs were in America,” Savill said. “But we just didn’t anticipate the kind of response we’ve had, really.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF LOUDHAILER PRESSSlowdive reunited after nearly two decades and will play at the Fine Line Music Cafe with Low as part of their North American tour.

ZACH BIELINSKI, DAILYNooky Jones drummer Reid Kennedy, vocalist Cameron Kinghorn and trumpeter Adam Meckler pose for a portrait Wednesday afternoon on campus.

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Slowdrive to play at the Fine LineThe band reunited after 20 years for a worldwide tour and will play at the

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BY JARED HEMMING [email protected]

F or silkscreen print a r t i s t R i c a r d o Levins Morales, where art ends and

activism begins is difficult to define.

Born in Puerto Rico in 1956, Levins Morales has dedicated his career in poster design to promoting political grassroots movements that aim to change the civil rights climate.

Soon after moving to Min-neapolis in 1976, he started the political art group North-land Poster Collective, which dissolved after 30 years in 2009.

On Saturday, Levins Mo-rales is showcasing his work at the Festival de las Calav-eras, a Day of the Dead cel-ebration of the Twin Cities Latin American communities, where he will discuss North-land Poster Collective’s moti-vations behind the art.

“The desire to change the world was a big one,” Levins Morales said. “We slowly learned what that meant — how you use art to do that.”

Despite his Latino heri-tage, Levins Morales has de-signed posters for numerous race and civil rights issues, including a woodcut depicting civil activist and fugitive An-gela Davis when she was still in hiding in 1970.

“I feel like I have a rela-tionship with certain commu-nities and cultural groups,” Levins Morales said. “I have faith that if I simply create something from deep in me, it’s going to resonate with them.”

One of his more famous posters, a stark, black-and-white design of Trayvon Martin, represents a pattern of shootings in the country, Levins Morales said.

“In the case of the Tray-von poster, there was a lot of frustration in the black and activist communities, kind of like, ‘My God, does this never end?’ ” Levins Morales said.

Martin’s brother request-ed a signed copy of the poster.

“Part of [why] people

Ricardo Levins Morales’ politically edged poster designs have stood up for the little guy since the ’70s.

Slowdive with Low

Where Fine Line Music Café, 318 N. First Ave., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. FridayCost $25-45 (SOLD OUT)


bent to bassist Andrew Foreman and keyboard-ist Kevin Gastonguay’s Fender Rhodes-infused jazz chord progressions that outline smooth R&B songwriting. Kinghorn’s hazy yet rich vocals share inflection with neo-soul crooners like D’Angelo and Maxwell.

“D’Angelo is one of my favorite artists of all time, and I listen to ‘Voodoo’ all the time,” Kinghorn said. “With ‘Voodoo,’ it’s sometimes a l itt le less structured in that it was what was coming to him. There’s hooks and every-thing, but there aren’t as many direct melodies, but it’s such a heavy groove. What we’re doing isn’t quite that, but it’s definite-ly in there.”

Despite the intricate melodies, Kinghorn and Kennedy won’t call Nooky Jones a jazz group, even though all the members come from a jazz back-ground.

“The music is really jazz-oriented. The harmo-nies are not what you find in top 40,” Kennedy said. “But we’re still tr ying to write catchy hooks and make it lyrically appealing. If you call it jazz, people automatically go, ‘It’s too weird for me.’ ”

Were the paradigms of jazz modernized, Kennedy said, Nooky Jones would fit better in the genre.

“Jazz is dead — you hear that all the time,” Kennedy said. “Jazz is dif-ferent; that’s what I would say about it. There [are] not people playing big band music all the time like there used to be 50 years ago, but jazz wasn’t meant to be one thing

forever. It’s been evolving for 100 years. What people associate as being jazz in the past isn’t what jazz is now.”

The jazz label gets knocked around fur ther thanks to Nooky Jones’ sharp, polished horn sec-tion composed of Meckler and University trombone major Ryan Christianson. Unlike many horn-based bands, Nooky Jones for-goes the saxophone to m a i n t a i n t h e i r s a s s y, brassy sound.

“Adam was in charge of putting together the horns and the sound for i t ,” Kinghorn said. “Jokingly, [Meckler] said, ‘I don’t want any saxophone play-ers stealing the trumpet solos.’ ”

S e t t l i n g i n t o t h e i r groove doesn’t mean that Nooky Jones plans on re-cording an album any time soon. They’ve released two tracks through You-Tube, with more in the pipeline. Kinghor n and Kennedy both said there’s no rush to do so and that the band is intent on exer-cising patience and doing it right.

“A lot of groups are re-ally anxious to put out a record,” Kennedy said. “In my experience, the lon-ger you wait and play to-gether as a unit, the better it’s going to sound. If you play gigs for a year and the music starts to fit like a comfortable pair of slip-pers, the album’s going to sound that much better.”

BY JARED HEMMING [email protected]

D espite his tongue-in-cheek lyricism and near -con-stant snicker, it’s

clear that Minnesota native Sean Tillmann takes his Har Mar Superstar project seriously.

Har Mar Superstar’s fifth album, “Bye Bye 17,” sees Tillmann abandoning his faux-R&B style — as evidenced in songs like “DUI” and “Power Lunch” — for a more genuine, per-formance-driven foray into old-school soul.

“My job is to be an en-tertainer, so that’s what I do,” Tillmann said. “I think most people do a poor job of it, especially musi-cians. So that I can come out and actually be fun to watch is what sets me apart.”

In support of the album, Tillmann is bringing Har Mar Superstar back to Min-nesota with a show at First Avenue’s Mainroom on Saturday.

Tillmann said the new album and show reflect his love of theater, which he honed while in high school at the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley.

“I came from a back-ground of theater and mu-sic, and I’ve studied more theater,” Tillmann said. “Being onstage and putting on a show is what’s impor-tant. I don’t really care what your band’s songs sound like; I’ll stay at home and lis-ten to them. But if I’m going

to go to your show, you bet-ter be fun to watch.”

Tillmann, who began per forming in the 1990s with his noise band Calvin Krime, began releasing al-bums in the Internet era, which he said is detrimental to the performer-musician.

“The ’90s happened, and everyone got boring,” Tillmann said. “I think it’s Internet culture: People are so flash-in-the-pan, they don’t get a chance to be-come good yet, and then

they get forgotten.”Though Tillmann made

a name for himself with his Ron Jeremy/mer r y prankster image, Har Mar’s success has been a dream come true for him.

“I always wanted to do plays and be an actor of some sort,” Tillmann said. “And then I talked myself into the idea that it’s unre-alistic to try to be an actor because there’s no way to make it. So I chose music. ... At the time, it seemed

like a much easier path.”When he first decided

to pursue music, Tillmann formed Calvin Krime with his Perpich classmates.

The band saw success, eventually getting signed to an independent label, Am-phetamine Reptile Records.

“I saw a future for my-self,” Tillmann said. “But you can’t explain getting signed to an indie label to your parents [as] being something that’s going to change your life for the bet-

ter. It takes getting written up in the ‘Pioneer Press.’ ”

To appease his parents’ fears, Tillmann attended the University of Minnesota for a year, though he said he experienced the college lifestyle at his performing arts high school.

“After going to Perpich, I had already lived in dorms. I had already learned how to drink, take acid and smoke weed,” Tillmann said. “I felt five years older than everybody.”

M e a n w h i l e , C a l v i n Krime took up most of Till-mann’s time, distracting him from schoolwork.

“I felt like I was wasting time at college,” Tillmann said. “The whole time I was touring and skipping school and waiting to leave. I knew college wasn’t going to help me do what I wanted to do.”

Af ter Calv in Kr ime broke up, Tillmann started performing as Har Mar Su-perstar as a way to blend his love of goofy, theatri-cal performance and light-hearted pop.

“Calvin Krime was a real band; we’d go to the prac-tice space every other day and work on songs togeth-er,” Tillmann said. “Eventu-ally, Har Mar was the more pop side of that. I was al-ways finding my voice. I’m still finding it.”

Today, Har Mar Super-star’s hometown return to First Avenue is a victory lap for Tillmann, who succeed-ed in making a career out of, as he puts it, “just being weird.”

“It was what I wanted to do, but who knew?” Till-mann said. “You can’t really anticipate becoming Har Mar Superstar.”

“Hocus Pocus” If you’d prefer to keep your Halloween celebration low-key, a movie night would do the trick. If you had a childhood, you’re likely familiar with the famous 1993 Disney flick. As a refresher, high school student Max accidentally resurrects a deceased witch trio and steals their spell book. The trio sets out to find the book so that they can magically steal life from children. Highlights include a lovable talking cat, an adorable teenage romance and an epic performance of “I Put a Spell on You” by the witch trio.

Where Coffman UnionHours 7 p.m. FridayCost Free for students

Dia de los Muertos The traditional Mexican holiday Day of the Dead celebrates life as much as it pays tribute to those who have passed away. The celebration inside the Bedlam involves live music, poetry, dancing and food. It’s worth mentioning a traditional Day of the Dead food is the sugary bread “pan de muerto,” which is pretty amazing. On a more serious note, the event encourages you to wear clothing from a loved one who has died or to bring remembrance items.

Where Bedlam Theatre Lowertown, 213 E. Fourth St., St. PaulHours 7 p.m.Cost $5

The Generationals Come on, the party doesn’t end on Saturday. The Generationals consist of Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, whose dance floor-ready tunes include “Put a Light On” and “Gold Silver Diamond.” The latter appears on the group’s recently released album “Alix.” Esteemed producer Richard Swift deemed “Alix” tracks as album-worthy before he stepped in to spice them up — a testament to the duo’s grooviness.

Where 7th Street Entry, 701 N. First Ave., MinneapolisHours 7:30 p.m.Cost $12

Friday Saturday Sunday

CULTURE COMPASS / By Jackie Renzetti

Har Mar Superstar to play First Ave.MUSIC

Sean Tillmann began Har Mar Superstar to explore his Minnesota-raised theatrical side.

PHOTO COURTESY OF GUY EPPELMinnesota native Sean Tillmann put forth a serious soul effort with Har Mar Superstar’s new album, “Bye Bye 17.” Har Mar Superstar is playing at the First Avenue Mainroom on Saturday.

JULIET FARMER, DAILY Ricardo Levins Morales stands in his shop, the RLM Arts Studio, on Tuesday. Morales designs posters that reflect social change, and his art will be featured at the Festival de las Calaveras on Saturday.

Nooky Jones (with #Mpls)

Where 7th Street Entry, 701 First Ave. N., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. FridayCost $10Age 18+

Har Mar Superstar and the Pizza Underground

Where First Avenue Mainroom, 701 First Ave. N., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. SaturdayCost $15Age 18+

Festival de las Calaveras: Day of the Dead celebration

Where Pepito’s Parkway Theater, 4817 S. Chicago Ave., Minneapolis When Noon SaturdayCost $12 (for concert)

respond is they feel the humanity of this kid show-ing through in the sketch,” Levins Morales said.

Part of Levins Morales’ perspective comes from his family’s emigration from Puerto Rico to Chicago when he was 12, after his pro-inde-pendence parents were black-listed from Puerto Rican jobs.

“I think every generation has to learn [rebellion] on its own,” Levins Morales said. “A lot of times, what you have are kids rebelling against the traditions of their families. In my case, I absorbed it be-cause my parents taught by example.”

In Chicago, Levins Mo-rales moved out of his family’s

house when he was 15 and dropped out of high school a year later.

“Fortunately, there were a lot of pathways for getting involved in things that were positive,” Levins Morales said.

He describes his politically charged work as “medicinal art,” expressions that kept Levins Morales from spiral-ing down a self-destructive course.

“Trauma is when some-one’s power is taken away from them,” Levins Morales said. “Healing is a process of restoring that power, whether it’s in an individual who was abused as a child or people who are traumatized by colo-nialism or racism.”

To heal this trauma, Levins Morales said he likes the poster as a medium

that balances straightfor-ward phrases with indirect imagery.

One poster depicts Earth as a sprout with the phrase “The future is in the seeds.”

“I think metaphor is a way to be direct,” Levins Morales said. “A lot of these images are nothing that would happen in the real world, but if you put them together symbolically, people instantly know what you’re trying to say.”

Festival de las Calaveras director Deborah Ramos said Levins Morales and his work speak to the festival’s goal of reflecting the Latino and La-tina community by highlight-ing issues among undocu-mented workers struggling in the labor movement.

“It’s really highlighting that aspect of who we are,” Ramos said of Levins Morales’

posters. “You can’t separate the art out of the people.”

Levins Morales said he strives for community involve-ment with his work.

“In community, the nutri-ents are stories, messages and values that circulate among people,” Levins Mo-rales said. “That’s the rich-ness of this festival: It creates a space where you get a high concentration of nutritious cultural stories.”

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BY JACKIE RENZETTI [email protected]

T he Contenders’ goal isn’t as ambi-tious as their name may suggest. They

embrace their lives’ abnor-malities and deliver their soul-ful harmonies and illustrative lyrics to an audience.

The Contenders, a folk-country-rock outfit composed of singer-songwriters Jay Nash and Josh Day, officially began last December. After Day played drums for Nash’s solo shows throughout 2013, the two decided to create their own EP titled “Meet the Contenders,” which debuts on Nov. 18. On Oct. 15, the duo embarked on a 21-city tour with a stop at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.

Both Nash and Day led separate musical careers prior to the Contenders. In the past 10 years, Nash has worked as a solo singer-songwriter, while Day has drummed in various bands, including those of Sara Ba-reilles and Jennifer Nettles. Nash also previously worked for Room 5, a music club in Los Angeles, and he met Day when he booked Bareilles and her band.

Their rapport progressed as they shared bills on vari-ous shows. Eventually, they

discovered a mutual deep respect for classic Canadian rock group the Band — a fandom that proved to be a game-changer.

“Our initial brotherhood came over talking about the Band,” Day said.

The pair prides them-selves in creating songs that tell a story, keeping with the songwriting style of Levon Helm and Bob Dylan. They said their musical influences also include Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. The duo max-imizes their sound by simul-taneously harmonizing as lead vocalists as Nash plays guitar and Day drums.

The EP’s opening track, “The Contender,” exempli-fies their storytelling and folk-country-rock style remi-niscent of the Band. Nash said the song derives from the struggle of their song-writing peers.

“Some might be house-hold names, and some might be completely unknown, but [they are] folks that are com-pelled almost by their DNA to make music,” Nash said.

After writing the song, Nash said the pair realized they fit that description as well.

“[We] both kind of count ourselves among them in that we’re not in it for the money, necessarily; we’re not in it for fame,” Nash said. “We’re in it to make music and achieve that connection with listeners.”

The duo said that in ad-dition to paying tribute to musical trailblazers and fic-tional musings, their songs

also originate from real-life experiences, especially those from their travels.

“I think every day of our lives touring on the road is weird,” Day said. “Weird is the norm for us.”

On one night of their ongoing tour, a man whom Day believed to be homeless approached him, request-ing to join the band. Instead

of avoiding the situation as some folks might, Day lis-tened to his story. As Nash said, this experience will like-ly make its way into a song.

“By and large, I don’t think [the songs] would even happen without the road. They feed each oth-er,” Nash said. “The whole act of going out and touring provides all this experience,

inspiration and father for writing songs.”

The duo plans on con-tinuing the cycle of weird-ness for as long as they can.

“We’re in this thing for life, you know, for better or worse. Making records, touring and getting that connection with audiences is what we live for,” Nash said.

BY LAINI DEVIN [email protected]

A photograph of an abandoned fun-house with the phrase “It’s fun

to get lost” informed direc-tor Doug Varone’s vision for the Minnesota Opera’s production of “Hansel and Gretel.”

Varone’s show, which opens this weekend, is set in a carnival-esque scape — “a place that’s both se-ductive and scar y,” said David Zinn, the set and costume designer.

The production’s theme takes audience members to a place that captures both fear and delight.

Based on the Broth-ers Grimm classic, the opera has music com-posed by Engelbert Hum-perdinck. The production first premiered in Weimar, Germany, in 1893.

The six-person cast comprises f ive women and one man. Per former Stephanie Lauricella plays Hansel.

“I love being able to play the many different charac-ters that opera has to of-fer,” she said. “And for me, that means being a boy or a girl.”

Lauricella said it is dif-ficult to find the physicality of her character.

“As a woman, I tr y re-ally hard to have excellent posture and not slouch,” she said. “While playing a young boy, I need to forget about my needs and think of how a little kid would walk around or play.”

Altering her body isn’t an easy feat; Lauricella us-es the orchestrations of the show to assume her char-acter in its fullness.

“As soon as I hear the music, my mind and body automatically switch into the character,” she said. “Once we get onstage, I ful-ly expect to become the kid that is scared of the creepy

candy lady and all of her clowns.”

Per former Marianne Cornetti plays “the creepy candy lady,” also known as the witch. She portrays the mother of Hansel and Gre-tel, too.

The witch character brings the chilling effect that the circus theme mirrors as the show takes audience

members through the im-poverished urban city set-ting of the 20th century.

Z inn d id ex tens ive research — both collab-oratively with the direc-tor and lighting designer and on his own — to pres-ent a graphic and visual world that comes alive on stage.

“I’ve always loved old

circuses and pictures of them, so it’s been really fun to dive into that world and bring some of that gor-geous research to life,” Zinn said.

He looked at the deso-lation of old amusement parks, speci f ica l ly fo -cusing on carousels, for inspiration.

“ S o m e t i m e s f a d e d ,

abandoned beauty is the best,” he said.

Together with Varone’s corps of dancers and the orchestration, the creative team takes the audience through an event in ways that are both beautiful and creepy, Zinn said.

“This is the only opera that still makes me cr y,” Lauricella said.

Warmth

This may come as a surprise — it certainly was for me — but there IS a place to drink on campus, and it’s on the fourth floor of Coffman. “Whaaa?” you’re saying. It’s the Campus Club, and as the name implies, you have to be a member (and pay the ensuing dues) to gain entrance. It has that snooty, old-white-guys-playing-golf-drinking-single-malt type of vibe, but its incognito presence is worthy of note. As a student, you stand to drop $204 for the annual experience.

@NeinQuarterly

Eric Jaronsinski gained attention this past year for his tweets as Nein Quarterly — a fictional German magazine that produces zero issues per year. For his display picture, he uses a cartoon of the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, whose comically stern appearance complements Jaronsinski’s philosophical and grammar musings. Fit especially for people studying German, English, history or philosophy, his nihilistic humor may appeal to anyone.

High Fives

Commemorate the origin of the high-five before its birth month of October ends. On Oct. 2, 1977, the supposedly first massively witnessed high-five took place between Dodgers baseball players Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke following Baker’s 30th home run of the season. Baker was the fourth Dodgers player to score 30 or more home runs. And to celebrate, Burke inadvertently made the gesture. Despite the fact it wasn’t televised, the high-five spread like wildfire.

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CULTURE to CONSUME / By Jackie Renzetti

The Minnesota Opera’s Hansel and Gretel

Where Ordway Center When Nov. 1-9Cost $25+

Hansel and Gretel reinvented

Contenders seek connections, not fame or money

OPERA

MUSIC

The Minnesota Opera brings “Hansel and Gretel” to their recently renovated home at the Ordway.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANNA ULERYJay Nash and Josh Day have hit the road for their first tour as the Contenders.

The Contenders

Where 7th Street Entry, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. ThursdayCost $10-12

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILYStephanie Lauricella, right, and Angela Mortellaro practice for “Hansel and Gretel” at the Minnesota Opera on Saturday. “Hansel and Gretel” will be performed at the Minnesota Opera from Nov. 1-9.

The Contenders focus on storytelling in their folk-rock songs.


BY CECILIA MAZUMDAR STANGER cmazumdar [email protected]

C ooking with red beets resembles vegetable mur-der. The bright

juices are sure to stain your food and leave you red- handed.

Beetroots have a distinct sweet, earthy flavor. They are delicious roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper — a preparation that stands on its own or serves as a val-ued addition to salads and sandwiches.

Often relegated to a few familiar recipes — like borscht — beets are actu-ally quite versatile. Add some color to your palate, because pink is the flavor.

BorschtFew soups look as

hardcore as borscht. The broth’s red hue seeps into all the vegetables, making an elegant bowl of demon blood. Despite its rich color and hearty list of ingredi-ents, this Eastern European soup is light and refreshing.

3 grated beets 1 diced large onion

3 smashed and minced garlic cloves

2 cubed potatoes 3 sliced carrots

1 cup peas (fresh if available)

1 cup sliced green beans (fresh if available)

1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1. Coat the grated beets with one teaspoon of salt to preserve the color.

2. In a large pot, sauté the onions and garlic in butter until translucent. Add the rest of the vegetables, ex-

cept the beans, and pour in enough water to cover.

3. Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Cook until the vegetables are tender. To maintain their crispness, add the green beans during the last minute of cooking.

4. Season the soup with lemon juice, pepper and ad-ditional salt, if needed.

5. Garnish with dill and sour cream or fresh cheese.

Rose tinted cupcakes

This formula was adapted from a Diva’s Can Cook red velvet cupcake recipe. Add more pureed beet to the bat-ter for a brighter red and an earthier flavored cupcake. Strain the beets out of their cooking liquid and use the pink water (or plain hot wa-ter) instead of beet puree if the vegetable’s flavor is unap-pealing to your palate — the resulting cupcakes will look and taste chocolatey.

1/4 cup grated red beets1/4 cup hot water

1 cup sugar1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons

vegetable oil1 egg

1/2 cup buttermilk1 teaspoon vanilla

extract1 teaspoon vinegar

1 cup cake flour1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt2 tablespoons unsweetened

cocoa powder

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2. Simmer grated beets, salt and water in a saucepan. Pu-ree when the vegetable has softened to the consistency of a cooked potato.

3. Mix together the sugar and oil in a large bowl until well combined.

4. Beat in eggs until mixture is uniform in color. Whisk in the buttermilk, vanilla ex-tract, vinegar and 1/4 cup of

the hot beet puree.

5. Whisk in the flour, then add the rest of the dr y ingredients.

6. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners, and pour 1/4 cup of batter into each liner.

7. Bake for 18-20 minutes, and let sit in the pan for 5 minutes before transfer-ring the cakes to a cooling rack.

Makes 1 dozen cupcakes.

College Kitchen: Bring the beet inFOOD

LIAM JAMES DOYLE, DAILYA blood red beet and vegetable soup garnished with feta cheese and fresh dill.

Red roots put your love on top.

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BACKTALKhoroscopes

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

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10/30/2014

sudoku

Yesterday’s solution

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 9 — Friends offer fantastic suggestions. Reinforce the structure of your idea. Research supplies and materials.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Establish your platform and endorse your community partners. Create flexible structures. Abandon old fears. Disagreement can be okay.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Keep your treasure buried. Plan your vacation over the next few days. Imagine an adventure in an exotic locale.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Take practical steps to realize a financial dream. Review your budget today and tomorrow. Research options, plot and scheme.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — The truth comes out, and your theory is confirmed. Get expert advice over the next two days to forward a home project. Let your partner drive.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — The next two days get busy. Gather support from practical friends. Narrow your focus to put out fires and handle urgencies.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Duty and tradition provide advancement potential. Take an older person’s advice on methods with a proven track record.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — A friend offers direct support on a home project. Engage in the battle. Cultivate the most practical options.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — You have stores set aside. Study and practice today and tomorrow. Plan for publication or public display.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Today and tomorrow can be quite profitable, especially if you work up a sweat. Someone who seems weak actually isn’t.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Make a professional commitment and get empowered. Go ahead and celebrate with confidence today and tomorrow.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Make sure your partner is on board with the plan. They can provide the practical information you need.

17Thursday, October 30, 2014

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

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dr. dateDr. Date,

So here’s the deal: I’m a senior at the University in CSE, male, and quite frankly, I’m lonely. Despite the fact that I’m graduating soon, I’ve never had any form of companionship — no girlfriend, no date, nothing — and not for lack of trying.

Admittedly, for a long time, a lot of it had to do with anxiety issues. But those are less prevalent now. I’ve found that even though I’m now able to actually talk with people and get to know them, I still have had absolutely no luck trying to make anything work in terms of begin-ning a meaningful relationship.

It kind of seems like any girl who I’m actually interested in — and who more often than not is receptive and recipro-cal — is already committed to someone else. Although I don’t mean it to be so, the following may sound shallow, but it feels like all the good ones are taken in a way. And I don’t really know how to meet more of them.

I’m not the kind of guy who does par-ties or anything like that. I’ve gotten to know girls in my classes, but then the aforementioned issue raises its ugly head. I don’t intend to solicit attention at bars or anything like that, and most of my friends are in CSE, so they aren’t exactly able to set me up with someone either.

I kind of wish it were acceptable to just start talking to a random person who seems attractive and/or interest-ing. But I imagine that’d be construed as strange, so I avoid it.

But yeah, I guess I’m turning here, because why not? I’m just kind of sick of being alone. I want the intimacy and closeness of having someone else in my

life, but I feel stuck in a lot of ways. I’m a good guy, smart, have plenty of good friends, a great cook — all that. And it’s disappointing that I’m having so much trouble. Do you have any advice that could help me get that connection and relationship I’m looking for?

—Anonymous

CSlonEly,What you presume is strange could

actually be the first and most important step to make. Just talking to random people who you’re attracted to is how almost every relationship begins. Of course, you don’t want to be an asshole on the street and catcall, but if you meet a girl you enjoy in your classes, chat with her.

You say that you don’t do gatherings and you’re not a fan of parties. Unfortu-nately, you’ll have to get over that and start making your way to a get-together or two, or find an alternative location where people hang out. If you’re a great cook, try to meet folks by taking a cook-ing class in Minneapolis. If you’re willing to look into realms outside your comfort zone, the options are limitless.

I know it’s frustrating to find yourself in this position, especially when you see yourself as someone who makes the effort to connect. The sad truth of romance is that you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time. You could be the most dashing dude and still fail to find someone you click with if the timing is not right.

Be patient. Put yourself out there, and don’t feel afraid to confidently pur-sue someone you’re interested in. Dr. Date believes in you.

—Dr. Date

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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 38October 27, 2005

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

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 30, 2014

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HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO: [email protected]

Halloween is coming up fast. What are you go-ing to be Networkia?

From TheFrailicherDear TiceIsNice. You are an idiot. Net: C’monnow, don’t sugar coat it. Mike Tice should havebeen fired over a year ago. There was nowhomping over the Pack and I repeat you arequite possibly the biggest douchebag (Evenmore so that the whistling guy, Kevin Federline,Greg Kuehne, and Ryan Cabrera combined) ifyou think otherwise. Net: That’s a lot ofdouche. Now I’m with you that the Vikes are thegreatest football team in the NFL Net: As re-flected by their record. however we possess themost gigantic fecal-smeared coaching staff inthe United States (even worse than the Bad-gers!!) In conclusion, if you were being facetiousI applaud you for getting me riled up. If youweren’t, you and I will have to compete in a dou-ble-elimination street fight to the death. Net:Wouldn’t it be single elimination by default?

From SickofCarlsonAssNUTTsCher Réseau (Dear Network), Net: Your Paris-talk does not impress us. I’m tired of not see-ing any articles about Carlson NUTTs. Net: Fun-ny you should ask. Check page 3A. Damn we’regood, that’s two days in a row. I do enjoy con-versations with them though, about how greatthey are because they worked hard in highschool and how ‘hard’ their classes are now.Net: Putting together a snappy designer outfitand perfectly coiffed fauxhawk every day takesa lot of work. I’m sure Business Statisticsranks right up there with IT Physics in level ofdifficulty. I’m tired of hearing their douchebagmouths flapping about how prestigious theirschool is. You’re a NUTT that can’t add so whynot go NUTT off and go take your Basic Englishclass. Net: English, shmenglish. Money is the

universal language. Go ahead and gloat your in-flated GPA that includes classes like Fundamen-tals of Federal Income tax, The Business Plan,Managerial Physiology, and Math for Retards.Net: Don’t forget about CSOM 3456 AdvancedMiddle Management: Getting Others To DoYour Work For You. We hear it’s a doozy. TheUniversity should sink more money into this jokeof a school; really it would make us great. Forgetcutting GC we should cut CSOM.

From Only OlafHey der Netwerkt, how’s it going? Net: Gee gollythings are swell. Uff da, I been noticin’ all danegitive comments in da paper der lately, don’tcha know, and I tink that maybe we should alljust take a breather, eh? before we go rightin’ in-to the ol Netwerkt column. Some people can’thelp the way they are, eh? Net: That’s why weneed to help them to help themselves. we can’tall be lutefisk eatin’, ice fishin’ Lutheran Min-nesotans, don’t cha know. Why don’t we all tryta be a little more Minnesota nice, eh? Thenmaybe when yer sittin in dat der lecture classand a nice person comes and asks if da seatnext ta ya is open, you can say, “oh ya, youbetcha” and then ya can talk about da cold win-ter comin’ or da big Gopher game, or if they tinkthey’re going ta serve more hotdish in dat dercafeteria. Net: Mmm hotdish … the mysterytreat. Okay, well...I guess I’ll talk ta yalater...okay...say hi to the family, eh?...Ya maybeI’ll bring you some leftsa from da potluck on sat-urday, eh? okay....yeahbye.

From Studly McStudlysonHey Net-man, I forgot to mention it the other day,but thanks for the gum. Net: You’re welcome.You owe us big time, and don’t think we won’tremember.

BACKTALK

Dear Dr. Date,There are so many guys out there who only

know what it’s like to be the “nice guy.” After I gotout of a very long term relationship where I foundout those horrible “nice guy” habits turned out tobe “perfect boyfriend” habits, I learned the frus-trating fact that I was now another “nice guy” onthe dating scene. Despite the fact that I am in IT, Ihave no problem talking to beautiful members ofthe opposite sex. With a little wit and good conver-sation I was able to date here and there. This isnice an all, except every girl has agreed: I’m such anice guy…some girl is going to be really lucky tohave me someday … she wants to get to know meas a friend … and plenty of other things I neverwanted to hear from the girl I have a crush on.

Trying to use the IT smarts for something social-ly useful, I learned from these situations. By be-coming that mysterious, cocky, self-absorbed guy Igot a lot more affection (read: action — no alcoholinvolved) from the ladies. I learned this has twooutcomes: First, although she may be interestedenough to pursue me, the shallow abundance ofgetting ass and the depressing lack of a personalconnection make the “relationship” pointless. Ifthat isn’t the case, the type of girls this attracts aresimply (tr)ucked up in the head.

Doc, I’m stuck choosing between being “such agood friend” and “shallow … but makes up for it inbed”? I hope neither has to be the case so I’ll pro-pose one more option: College girls are just asconfused as guys when it comes to approachingrelationships. If “nice guys” start to man up and askgirls on dates and “good girls” start to appreciatebeing treated with the romance they deserve thenthis entire campus could enjoy a chance to be inlove. On a sad note, that would mean your col-umn would have half as many people writing inand I would have to pay attention in class.

Sincerely— Troilus

Dear Troilus,Sing it brutha! Your cautionary tale is one every nice guy out

there needs to hear, but at the same time everycocksure rapscallion should also take notice.

It’s tough to maintain that balance between Bil-ly Idol (hard-ass, confident brute) and Billy Eliot(lilting, sensitive fellow), and often you’ll find your-self too far to one extreme. When you should bethe nice guy, you’re saying “(Tr)uck off, I’m busy,”and when you’re supposed to be the jerk, you’reasking her how she feels.

Neither persona is necessarily perfect for deal-ing with any given situation, and you make an im-portant point — fellas and ladies are in the sameboat when it comes to this.

Girls have to be one of the guys, but also, pure-ly female. Guys have to be sensitive to their lady’sneeds, but at the same time, cocky and, well, men.

Frankly, I don’t know that your letter needsmuch more response, it speaks for itself.

I will say this though; let us hope you find yourCressida.

— Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,Hey good doc, I’ve got a problem. My girlfriend

loves going to strip clubs with her friends, and itmakes me insanely jealous. In a way, I feel likeshe’s cheating. I try not to get on her case becauseI know that it’s typical girl behavior, but inside, it’skilling me. Am I being silly?

— Bada Bing (Name provided by theGood Doctor)

Dear Bada Bing,Now, I’m going to assume you mean she’s

headed to Banana Hammocks or Grape Smug-

glers or Footlongs (read: Chippendale’s-style stripclubs), and not down to Sheik’s or the Vu. If thatwere the case, this would probably be a letter de-voted to you (rightfully) bragging.

Seeing as it is probably fellas swinging theirthings that she’s after, you should know one thing— there’s no sex in the champagne room.

If you’re going to see chicks or dudes, no strip-per is going give you much more than the oldtug-and-pull (or the female version of that).Frankly, at the all-male revue, I doubt it evengoes that far (I could be wrong).

So your girlie has some dude’s coin purse inher face, doesn’t mean it’s going to end up on herchin. I’d say let it go, it’s only the strip club.

It could be worse; she could be headed downto Loring Park each weekend…

— Dr. DateP.S. I don’t know that loving to go to the strip

clubs all the time is generally thought of as “typi-cal girl behavior” … just a heads up.

Dear Dr. Date,You have to help me! There is this guy I know

who is in the ROTC program, who looks verynice in his tight uniform, has the most gorgeouseyes, the cutest smile and is also very smart. Rightnow I am playing the “we’re just buds” role butI’d like to become more with him but sometimeswhen I do that with guys they don’t get the clueand I wind up losing them to other girls, thenthey ask me for advice about their girlfriends.What should I do? Is there some sort of self-helpbook out there with a title like “How to movefrom friend to girlfriend in 10 short steps?” I needto know your advice if I ever want to have aboyfriend.

— Ivana Hurry Love

Dear Ivana Hurry Love,First off, I don’t have to help anyone, I do

however, choose to help you. That being said,let’s just get right into it.

Top 10 ways to go from late-night con-versation to morning-after conversation:

10. When you’re talking about some chick helikes, be sure to mention how you heard she hasextra cheese on her taco, if you know what Imean.

9. “I’m not wearing any panties.” Again, he willnot only date you but probably also marry you.

8. Just tell him you want something more.(Warning: the doctor is getting tired and resortingto clichés)

7. Casual touching when you’re talking. Itstarts on the arm, but it moves in toward thebody — super sign there’s something there, and,I think, understood by even the dumbest ofdudes.

6. Start dressing like a slut. Subtle, very subtle.5. Knock him over the head caveman style.

Drag him back to your dwelling by the hair, andI’m fairly certain he’ll get the idea … or run awayscreaming.

4. Cut the friend shi(r)t. Don’t act like a bitchto him, but let some slack off on the leash, so hedoesn’t think you’re just that chick from “MyGirl,” and you’re more like that chick from “MyGirl 2.”

3. Tell his buddies you’ve got a thing for him.Odds are they already know it and have beengiving him shi(r)t about it for weeks.

2. Drain and rinse the favas and chickpeasand put them in a food processor. Add the onion,parsley, cilantro, garlic, baking powder, salt,cumin and crushed red pepper. Pulse, scrapingdown the side of the bowl, to form a coarsepaste.

1. Just let him know what’s up.— Dr. Date

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


The M ar cy - Ho l m es Neighborhood Association, which has received about $284,000 in special district revenue since 2011, sent a letter of protest on Tuesday stating the organization’s op-position to the mayor’s plan. The group sent the note to a member of the city’s Neighborhood and Com-munity Engagement Com-mission, a group of elected and appointed neighbor-hood representatives that advise Hodges and the City Council.

“We hope they change their mind,” said Melissa Bean, executive director of the Marcy-Holmes Neigh-borhood Association.

The tax districts’ revenue that has traditionally gone to neighborhood groups is de-signed to cover “neighbor-hood revitalization” — the definition of which is vague to some, said Sandy Chris-tensen, Minneapolis’ deputy chief financial officer.

But some elected officials said the change wouldn’t take money from neighbor-hood groups.

“Neighborhood associa-tions are not — with a capital ‘N’ — being defunded,” said Ward 3 City Councilman Jacob Frey, who represents neighborhoods near the University.

Funding that the budget proposal doesn’t allocate to neighborhood groups could be used for essential city services, Frey said, like road repair and affordable housing.

The proposed budget would increase neighborhood

funding to cover inflation but do little more, said Phill Kel-ly, interim executive director of the West Bank Commu-nity Coalition, the local orga-nization for the Cedar-River-side neighborhood.

Kelly said his neighbor-hood’s association, which has received about $320,000 since 2011, is well-funded, but only from an administra-tive point of view.

The group can pay for staf f members and of fice supplies but doesn’t have enough to support youth programs and activities, he said.

Southeast Como’s neigh-borhood organizat ion, which has received about $189,000 in the last three years, is watching the city’s funding discussion with bated breath, said Stepha-nie Hankerson, a commu-nity organizer for the South-east Como Improvement Association.

“We’re operating with near shor tfalls, whether it’s programs or our of-fice,” she said. “We’re

concerned.”The University of Min-

nesota area has received about $139,000 since 2011, but the area doesn’t have a neighborhood associa-tion. The City Council’s Ways and Means Commit-tee approved a plan ear-lier this month that would reallocate unused money for the area to another neighborhood.

Although there are no official plans for millions of neighborhood group dol-lars, it doesn’t mean those funds will go unused, Neigh-borhood and Community Relations Director David Rubedor said at a city com-mission meeting Tuesday.

Several neighborhood organizations are planning to use their unallocated funds, Rubedor said, point-ing to Southeast Como’s proposal to apply about $20,000 to homebuyer assistance.

A City Council committee will discuss Hodges’ plan for neighborhood funding at a meeting Nov. 3.

voters and candidates on Wednesday as part of the Institute on the Environ-ment’s “Frontiers in the En-vironment” lecture series.

“It is true environment is stated as a critical issue for Minnesota, but it rarely reaches the top tier for vot-ers,” Andrew said.

During her time in the Senate, Koch, a Republican, was at the forefront of many environmental policy chang-es. She promoted initiatives like the 2008 Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amend-ment, which increased state sales taxes to support proj-ects like water restoration, wildlife and the arts.

When it comes to the is-sues politicians choose to promote, voters’ opinions play an important role, Koch said, but “voter concerns often revolve around their pocketbooks.”

She said both main-stream parties typically care about both environmental and economic issues, but they need to pair the two to-gether to garner support for the environment.

“Both sides are interest-ed in efficiency,” she said. “They want to conser ve resources while saving money.”

For example, she said, solar energy has become more popular nationally as a source of power because it has environmental and

financial benefits. “Politicians and other

advocates for the environ-ment need to work on ways in which it is economically good for the country and environment to take action on these issues,” said Kelley, who is also a former DFL state legislator.

Andrew said maintaining a balance between the two is essential to pass environ-ment policies.

“Pushing ideas is a bal-ancing act,” Andrew said. “You can’t push for some-thing so hard that you end up losing your credibility, or even the election.”

That idea is depicted in the heated debate sur-rounding the PolyMet Min-ing controversy.

PolyMet is proposing to mine iron and copper from parts of the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. Advo-cates argue it would create jobs and boost the econo-my, while opponents wor-ry about its ef fect on the environment.

Gov. Mark Dayton, who is running for re-election, hasn’t taken a stance on the issue, while Republican

challenger Jeff Johnson has publicly supported the proj-ect — and that may draw some voters to one candi-date or the other.

“Balancing job opportu-nities with protecting the environment will play a sig-nificant role in the outcome of the race,” Kelley said.

While the environment typically hasn’t been ranked as a top priority for voters, Koch said debates over is-sues like the PolyMet proj-ect are increasing the role the environment plays in elections.

“I believe this year’s election is going to be a tip-ping point for the environ-ment,” Andrew said.

Environmental science junior Louis Mielke, a mem-ber of the student group Fossil Free Minnesota, said a candidate’s stance on en-vironmental issues, like re-newable energy, is a huge factor in who he will vote for on Election Day.

“We have the tools to transition towards becom-ing more energy-efficient; we just need to elect the right people into power,” he said.

Green plans often left off campaigns

Groups denounce budget

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NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDING FROM SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS

SINCE 2011

SOURCE: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

Cedar-Riverside$320,232.09

Marcy-Holmes$283,762.51

Southeast Como$188,696.11

Prospect Park$218,504.71

UNIVERSITY AVENUE SOUTHEAST

WASHINGTON AVENUE SOUTHEAST

“Politicians and other advocates for the environment need to work on ways in which it is economically good for the country and environment to take action on these issues.”STEVE KELLEYSenior fellow, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

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