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Kaitie Borneke was crowned as Miss Mankato 2014 in the Miss Mankato Scholarship Pag-eant, a preliminary contest to the Miss America pageant. It was “A Night to Sparkle.”

Borneke, a junior majoring in Communication Disorders with a minor in Psychology, plans on advancing for her Master’s de-gree and eventually get a Doc-torate Degree. Her plan is to be-come a Speech Pathologist.

She participates in National Student Speech Language Hear-ing Association on campus. Also, she balances school with working about 20 hours a week.

“I started pageants when I was really little, and I had an older cousin participating in them,” Borneke said. “My dad also encouraged me, and I want-ed to make him proud.”

Borneke and other women were judged in the categories of interview, lifestyle and fitness, talent and evening gown.

She has been in seven Miss America Organization pageants before. Miss Mankato was dif-

Borneke crowned Miss MankatoASHLEY GERKENStaff Writer

compete in Miss Minnesota.Last year’s Miss Mankato

was Gabrielle Chavers, also a MSU Student. She attended this year’s pageant along with Miss Minnesota, Rebecca Yeh and other local titleholders.

The Miss Mankato Scholar-ship Organization made more than $2,100 in scholarships available to women in the area. Scholarships are also rewarded to winners in the Miss Minneso-ta pageant. Miss Minnesota 2013 was awarded $8,000.

The Miss Minnesota Schol-arship Pageant is a non-profit organization intended to help provide scholarships to help advance women academically and professionally. Participants have achieved major success in fields including medicine, law, business, broadcast journalism, theater, politics, literature and more.

Borneke also said anyone can have an equal opportunity to participate in pageants. Teen pageants are open for ages 13 to 16, and Miss America pageants are open for ages 17 to 24.

Other contestants were Andi Zimmerman, Kirsten Malcolm, Kami Patrin, Alyssa Sandeen,

Gianna Schiller, Lauren Stra-chan and Ashlie Tisland.

Former MSU Maverick bas-ketball player and Harlem Glo-betrotter Jermaine Brown was

a judge, and emcees for the pag-eant were KARE 11 News Re-porter Bryan Piatt, and former KEYC News Reporter Jennifer Hudspeth.

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MSU named gold-medal award winner in Gage implosion

SAM WILMESNews Editor

Minnesota State University’s Office of Alumni Relations has been given a Pride of CASE V Gold Award, based upon the ef-forts of the team in planning the June 29th implosion of Gage Towers.

The University won gold in the subdivision of “Excellence in Special Events, Individual Event,” an award that recogniz-es outstanding programs and a single event. Judges decide the event’s amount of success, and met objectives, met in a creative fashion.

“Gage Goes Boom: Planning for an Explosive Experience,” was selected over silver and bronze award-winning Michigan

State University, and Honorable mention University of Wiscon-sin-Madison.

The 2013 awards will be giv-en at the CASE District V An-nual Conference, which will be held on Monday, December 16th at 4:15 p.m. at the Sheraton Ho-tel and Towers in Chicago, Ball-room I and II.

All campus planning efforts for events dealing with Gage Towers’ implosion were con-ducted by the Alumni Associa-tion.

Support from staff was given on the account of numerous de-partments and offices across the campus, in accordance with more than 20 volunteers.

$2,500 was given from lo-

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MSU has been awarded due to the campus planning efforts around Gage’s implosion on June 29th.

ferent than the others.Her platform had recently

changed to “Stop, Look and Lis-ten: Driving Safety,” which is based on driving alertly and in an undistracted fashion. Three months ago, she was involved in a car accident. This accident led her to the idea for her platform.

For Miss Mankato, Borneke practiced interviews and her talent in preparation. The girls practiced Friday night and con-tinued until the start of the com-petition on Saturday.

Interviews started at 1 p.m., during which she said she was asked questions about her plat-form and some accomplish-ments. In other pageants, she has been asked questions about major issues.

The Miss Mankato pageant started at 7 p.m. with an opening number.

Borneke performed a skit for her talent about a 16- year-old who had taken her driver’s test.

Her next step after being crowned is to promote her plat-form, in which she plans to talk at schools, as well as promoting and raising money for Children’s Miracle Network. In June, 22 girls, including Borneke, will

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The “Kato Krusher” climbing competition will be held this Sunday, Novem-ber 10th from 10:00am until 7:00pm at the rock wall on campus. With large crowds expected this year, the com-petition will be split in two: beginner and intermediate levels, then expert climbers.

MNSU’s Adventure pro-gram has been praised as one of the best services for students. Offering a high ropes course, a climbing tower, and belaying outside during the warm season, indoor programs include team-building activities and two state-of-the-art climb-ing walls.

“Kato Krusher” repre-sents the third such compe-tition to be held on campus. With around seventy-five competitors expected to par-ticipate, it’s no wonder why people are buzzing about the Climbing program.

Sam Steiger serves as

Program Director for the Adventure Education Pro-gram and the climbing walls. “Climbing is really explod-ing here at MNSU – last year the indoor climbing wall had an astounding 15,000 climb-ers!”

Steiger emphasizes the welcoming community and explains the competition in detail, “It isn’t challenging to you as a timed event, the competition challenges to climb what we call ‘clean’, meaning competitors cannot slip off a hold, and not use a hold for your hands or feet that is not ‘on’ (marked with a color coded route tape).”

Spearheaded by the MNSU Adventure Educa-tion Program, the event has found sponsors, both lo-cal and international, such as Pub 500 and Vibram, to provide prizes and support. “There are many other stu-dents and volunteers that will work hard to make this event a success.” Steiger ex-plains, “The MNSU climb-ing community is really

strong!”Open from Sunday until

Thursday, 6:30pm-10:00pm, the rock walls located in the Myers Field House are prov-ing to be a great place to let out stress, improve your climbing, and meet new friends. The community sur-rounding rock climbing on campus has grown substan-tially in the previous years.

Anyone, from students to community members, inter-ested in joining the compe-tition is welcome to register, however, unless you were registered before October 31st, you won’t be guaran-teed a shirt. The event starts at 10:00am, with the first climbing session starting at 11:00am, the second start-ing at 2:30pm, and the finals beginning at 6:00pm at the climbing wall.

If you’re interested in the Adventure Education Pro-gram, check out www.mnsu.edu/adventure and like them on Facebook at www.face-book.com/mnsuadventure.

Climbing competition slated for this weekend3rd annual event gives students the

chance to compete in a fulfilling fashion.

In my last Op-ed, “More Student Involvement Needed to Grow Experience”, I talked about the problem of apathy on our campus.

To sum it up: leaders need to find creative ways to engage our peers and let them know of all the opportunities on campus. But how is that achievable? It’s simple really; get the Bullpen to serve students and faculty alco-hol.

Not only would serving alco-hol encourage students to come to campus during the weekends, but it would also open a plethora of other benefits.

To start, serving alcohol on campus would give the Uni-versity an enormous amount of money. Not only would students be buying drinks, they’d have the opportunity to play pool or rent shoes for bowling.

The money gained in turn could be spent on maintaining the free lot, giving more money to clubs and organizations, or even towards scholarships.

If alcohol were to be approved for the Bullpen, think of all the fun events there could be; pool and bowling championships, sports watching parties, movie nights, speed dating.

The list goes on and on, and with older students coming on campus rather than going down-town, IMPACT could come up with oodles of events to cater specifically to them.

Clubs and organizations could rent out the area during hours where alcohol would be permitted.

They could pay a fee for the

night, and the Bullpen would be open for them to use and host events. Perhaps a percentage of revenue gained from the alcohol sales could be put towards a spe-cific organization each weekend, encouraging the group’s leaders to bring people to campus that otherwise wouldn’t come.

Perhaps the most important benefit from this idea would be the added safety for students. Bouncers would be a standard to check IDs at the doors, and there would be periodical transporta-tion to take students from cam-pus to downtown or, if imple-mented, directly home.

This service would be paid by the alcohol sales and in turn would encourage students to come to campus rather than trav-el downtown.

Of course, there are many op-posing viewpoints to this, and being a school under the MNS-CU system means that it would be almost impossible. There would be a list of steps and pro-tocols that would need to be completed before the idea even went to the right people, and when it would the chances of it being passed are limited at best.

However, a simple Google search will yield results of bars on campus being a positive influ-ence and a place of tradition.

This idea may not sound feasible to some, and there are many problems that could arise from this. But in order to combat the problem of apathy, campus leaders have to look outside of the box and put themselves in the roles of their peers.

What would an older student want to do during the weekend? Go jump on a giant trampoline in the CSU or go have a few beers with their friends?

Opinion: campus

needs to take steps to improve student

participation

RYAN BERNDTStaff Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — They loved it. Now they hate it.

A growing number of ce-lebrities, athletes and self-pro-moters are burnt out and sign-ing off of Twitter. Many have gotten overwhelmed.

Some people built big au-diences on the short messag-ing service only to have their followers turn against them. Others complain that tweets that once drew lots of attention now get lost in the noise.

As Twitter Inc. begins trad-ing publicly Thursday, the company is selling potential investors on the idea that its user base of 232 million will continue to grow along with the 500 million tweets that are sent each day. The company’s revenue depends on ads it in-serts into the stream of mes-sages.

But Wall Street could lose its big bet on social media if prolific tweeters lose their voice.

Evidence of Twitter burnout isn’t hard to find. Just look at the celebrities who — at one time or another — have taken a break from the service. The long list includes everyone from Alec Baldwin to Miley Cyrus to “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof.

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt lamented “all the nega-tivity” she saw on the service when she quit, temporarily, in July. Actress Megan Fox left nearly a million followers dangling when she checked out in January, explaining that “Facebook is as much as I can handle.” Pop star John Mayer deleted his account in 2011, saying Twitter absorbed so much of his thinking, he couldn’t write a song.

“I was a tweetaholic,” he told students during a talk at the Berklee College of Music.

If Twitter turns off celebri-ties who have a financial in-centive to stay in close contact with fans, how can the compa-ny prevent average users from becoming disenchanted?

For some users, Twitter tiredness sets in slowly. At first, they enjoy seeing their

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — They loved it. Now they hate it.

A growing number of ce-lebrities, athletes and self-pro-moters are burnt out and sign-ing off of Twitter. Many have gotten overwhelmed.

Some people built big au-diences on the short messag-ing service only to have their followers turn against them. Others complain that tweets that once drew lots of attention now get lost in the noise.

As Twitter Inc. begins trad-ing publicly Thursday, the company is selling potential investors on the idea that its user base of 232 million will continue to grow along with the 500 million tweets that are sent each day. The company’s revenue depends on ads it in-serts into the stream of mes-sages.

But Wall Street could lose its big bet on social media if prolific tweeters lose their voice.

Evidence of Twitter burnout isn’t hard to find. Just look at the celebrities who — at one time or another — have taken a break from the service. The long list includes everyone from Alec Baldwin to Miley Cyrus to “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof.

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt lamented “all the nega-tivity” she saw on the service when she quit, temporarily, in July. Actress Megan Fox left nearly a million followers dangling when she checked out in January, explaining that “Facebook is as much as I can handle.” Pop star John Mayer deleted his account in 2011, saying Twitter absorbed so much of his thinking, he couldn’t write a song.

“I was a tweetaholic,” he told students during a talk at the Berklee College of Music.

If Twitter turns off celebri-ties who have a financial in-centive to stay in close contact with fans, how can the compa-ny prevent average users from becoming disenchanted?

For some users, Twitter tiredness sets in slowly. At first, they enjoy seeing their

tweets of 140 characters or less bounce around the Web with retweets and favorites. But new connections soon get overwhelming. Obligation sets in — not only to post more, but to reply to followers and read their tweets.

Many users conclude that Twitter is a time-sucking se-duction and turn away. One who calls herself patrilla$$$thrilla excitedly tweeted “first tweet, wocka wocka” just after she joined in July.

On Wednesday, 161 tweets and 27 followers later, the ro-mance was over. She quit to “fully enjoy the little details in life I miss because I’m too busy here,” she tweeted.

The cacophony creeps into everyday life. Twitter fanatics tweet from the dinner table, during a movie, in the bath-room, in bed. Vacations can seem like time wasted not tweeting.

The over-doers suffer from a “fear of missing out” (or FOMO), says Tom Edwards, vice president at themarketin-garm, a Dallas-based adver-tising agency. “Managing our virtual personas, including all of the etiquette that comes with, can be tiresome, espe-cially for those with large fol-lowings.”

It happens —even to people who ought to know better. Just ask Gary Schirr, an assistant professor who teaches a course on social media at Radford University.

In August, while vacation-ing on a beach, Schirr felt a pang of withdrawal because he had stopped tweeting to his 70,000-plus followers. Then he saw an old condemned house about to be washed away and posted a photo to Facebook and Twitter. He felt relieved when the likes and retweets rolled in.

“You feel forgotten if you’re not out there,” he says. “It’s another sign of addiction. You feel bad if you don’t tweet.”

Prolific tweeters stay en-gaged partly because there are real benefits to a big following, which usually requires tweet-

ing a lot.Journalists who have large

Twitter followings have used them to land better-paying jobs because every click on stories can make more money for their new employer. Actors can land roles on TV or the movies if their digital audience is ex-pected to tag along.

Matt Lewis, a columnist with The Week magazine, says his Twitter following is like “portable equity” that gave him an edge over more established writers earlier in his career. He’s now got nearly 33,000 followers.

Even so, one of Lewis’ more popular stories is titled “Why I hate Twitter.” It goes into why the social network became, for him, “a dark place” overrun by “angry cynics and partisan cranks.” He became demoral-ized by the criticism, but he couldn’t pull himself away.

“It’s also like a prison. You can’t check out,” he says.

Today, Lewis rarely inter-acts with his followers and hopes the service will come up with new ways to filter out the hate tweets. “Why should I be harassed if I look at my @ but-ton?” he says.

But he remains amazed at how Twitter has helped him reach new readers, and after some 67,000 tweets, he isn’t giving it up.

Others find that as more people join the service, the deluge of tweets can drown out individual voices.

So says Bob Lefsetz, a mu-sic industry analyst who writes an email column titled the Lef-setz Letter.

Twitter, he wrote in July, is “toast.” ‘’Over. Done. His-tory.” His follower count isn’t rising as quickly as before, al-though it’s still a respectable 57,000-plus. And his tweets don’t see as much action as in the past, which he attributes to too many people tweeting “too

much irrelevant information.”“In the old days, I’d get 20

retweets. Now I’ll get none,” Lefsetz says. “It makes me not want to play.”

Along with the potential for burnout, there’s also the risk that Twitter becomes uncool to the younger generation, es-pecially when services such as Pinterest and Instagram are a tap away.

Devon Powers, an assistant professor of communications at Drexel University, says many of her students have moved on to Snapchat. But there can still be pressure to keep up with the other services.

“There’s all these new ob-ligations to update and report and check in,” she says. It can make dropping offline feel like a relief.

“If I get really busy, the first thing I stop doing is checking Twitter,” she says. “I’m living my life. I’m not having a com-mentary about it.”

User burnout could threaten

Twitter’s prosperityAs some celebrities are beginning to quit the popular social

media site, some are questioning the site’s long-term prospects.

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“How do you feel about winter driving?”

Compiled byYohanes Ashenafi

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ENGLISH EDUCATION“Crazy drivers not being patient

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Perhaps I am showing off my nerdy side, but right now the words of Eddard Stark keep flashing across my mind:

“Winter is coming.”With Tuesday night’s first

snowfall of the year, winter is already here. For many people this means building snowmen, drinking hot chocolate and not changing out of sweatpants for three days. For me however, winter means one thing: terrible drivers.

Mankato is notorious for its horrible driving, and most likely this won’t improve now that the roads are slick. Normally I recite the Lord’s Prayer every time I have to get behind the wheel in Mankato in the winter. However this year I have decided to do something more practical.

Ladies and gentlemen, count yourselves lucky, as I am about to “reveal” 5 major tips that can keep all safe and sound on the roads this winter. Those of you who are bad drivers (and you probably don’t know who you are) should pay close attention.1. Check the weather ahead of time

People are often “surprised” to be caught in the middle of a blizzard, as if the weather wasn’t available instantaneously by phone or computer. Unless you have to work, or something else really important comes up, make

Five easy tips on Winter drivingReporter writer gives free advice on

how to make a winter road a safer one.ALEX KERKMANStaff Writer

sure you check the weather be-fore you drive- don’t go on a Taco Bell run at midnight if there are 6 inches of snow falling.2. Wipe off all your windows, not just the front ones

This one goes out to the guy who clears two small holes straight ahead of him, and ne-glects his side windows and rear view window. Yes this person exists, and frankly there are too many of them. Let’s not suffer from tunnel vision this winter. There are more things to worry about on the road then what is straight ahead of you.3. Wipe off your head and tail lights

This is a major pet peeve of mine. Too many people only clear their windows, and not their lights. Supposedly we are either supposed to telepathically un-derstand your intentions on the road, or make an educated guess on when you’ll break suddenly. It takes two seconds to clear off your taillights, compared to the few weeks of not having your car if I rear end you when you break suddenly.4. Stay in your lane

Just because the snow has fallen doesn’t mean the roads have suddenly shrank from two lanes to one. All too often cars decide they can travel right down the center of a two-lane road. If catch you doing this, I will drive to your house and park smack dab in the middle of your driveway. Good luck trying to pass me.

5. Do the speed limitLast I knew Vin Diesel and

Paul Walker did not attend MSU. Unfortunately every Tom, Dick and Jane on campus with a souped up Mustang thinks they were a stunt double in the Fast in the Furious. How about you just stay the speed limit and leave the crazy driving for Hollywood and Audi commercials.

There you go people. These

were five easy steps to keeping the roads of Mankato safe for everyone this winter. And fair warning, anyone who I catch breaking these rules will be confronted with an angry mob carrying torches and pitchforks. Don’t believe me? Well if you know your history you’d under-stand that the students of MSU have a knack for flipping cars over.

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US trashes, sells its unwanted gear in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The withdrawing U.S. military is destroying most of the equipment it is leaving be-hind in Afghanistan after 13 years of war, selling the scrap for millions of dollars to those willing to buy it.

The policy stands in stark contrast to the Americans’ withdrawal from Iraq, when they donated or sold still-usable items worth about $100 million.

The equipment is being trashed, U.S. officials say, be-cause of fears that anything left behind in Afghanistan could fall into the hands of insurgents and used to make bombs. Leav-ing it behind also saves the U.S. billions of dollars in transporta-tion costs.

Afghans are angry at the policy, arguing that even furni-ture and appliances that could improve their lives is being turned into useless junk.

“They use everything while they are here, and then they give it to us after breaking it,” said Mohammed Qasim, a junk dealer in the volatile southern province of Kandahar. He ges-tured toward the large yellow frame of a gutted generator, saying it would have been more useful in somebody’s home, given the lack of electricity in the area.

The twisted mounds of met-al, steel and industrial rubber scattered over a vast field had once been armored vehicles, trucks and huge blast walls that protected troops from suicide bombers. Giant black treads were pulled from tanks. Even air conditioners, exercise ma-chines and office equipment were crushed and stuffed into multicolored shipping contain-ers piled on top of each other in the junkyard.

In the last year, the U.S. has turned equipment and vehicles into 387 million pounds (176 million kilograms) of scrap that it sold to Afghans for $46.5 million, according to Mimi Schirmacher, a spokeswoman for the military’s Defense Lo-gistics Agency in Virginia.

The scrapped material was too worn out to repair or not worth the expense of carrying it

back to the U.S., officials said.Not everything in Afghani-

stan was destroyed. Coalition forces have handed over $71 million in equipment intact to the Afghans, said Col. Jane Crichton, a public affairs offi-cer for U.S. forces in Afghani-stan. She said $64 million of that came from the U.S.

“We work closely with the Afghan National Security Forc-es to determine what equipment they need, if it is in good condi-tion, and ensure they are capa-ble of maintaining it,” Crichton said in an email.

Spokesmen for President Hamid Karzai said the govern-ment has “repeatedly” asked U.S. officials to neither destroy nor remove its military equip-ment from Afghanistan when its combat troops leave.

“We oppose the destruction of any of the equipment and hardware that can be of use by the Afghan security forces,” deputy presidential spokesman Fayeq Wahedi told The Associ-ated Press in an email.

Between September 2012 and the end of 2014, when most U.S. troops will have left, the Americans will move an esti-mated 50,000 vehicles — tens of thousands of them hard-ened to make them resistant to mines.

They will also ship an esti-mated 100,000 metal contain-ers — each about 20 feet long. Placed end-to-end, the contain-ers would stretch nearly 400 miles (600 kilometers).

The military faced a simi-lar logistics dilemma when it pulled out of Iraq in 2011, but it left most of the equipment with the government, including wa-ter tanks, generators, furniture and armored vehicles. Nearly $100 million in equipment was donated or sold to the Iraqis as of 2010, military officials said at the time.

Crichton said the Iraqis were better prepared to receive and maintain the equipment.

“Iraq had a higher number of military and police personnel, and they had a more developed infrastructure at the end of op-erations to support the equip-ment,” she said.

The lessons learned from Iraq included how to save mon-ey by dismantling, relocating and disposing of equipment it didn’t want to ship home, she said, as well as earning money by selling it as scrap to the lo-cals. The U.S. deployed an esti-mated $33 billion in equipment to Afghanistan.

In southern Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban where a stubborn insurgency still flourishes, the policy is having unintended consequences.

At a junkyard less than a mile (kilometer) from the sprawling Kandahar Air Base where tens of thousands of NATO and U.S. soldiers were stationed at the war’s peak, eth-nic Pashtuns grumble at getting scrap instead of working equip-ment.

Schirmacher, the Defense Logistics Agency spokes-woman, said a big reason for trashing the equipment before selling it to the Afghans is to remove its potential to be used for bombs.

Even the most innocu-ous piece of equipment, like a treadmill, a stationary bike or household appliances, have timers or copper wiring that can be used to make roadside bombs, she said.

“Removing those timers or other potentially dangerous in-ternal components renders the property inoperable, and so it is scrapped,” she said, adding that her agency sells the scrap to three Afghan firms. The U.S. military decides what gets turned into scrap, Schirmacher said.

Inside the junkyard office, a half-dozen men sipping green tea scoffed at the concern, say-ing insurgents can get cheap timers and other bomb-making material in any village market-place.

“These timers can be bought over there,” dealer Mir Ahmed said, pointing out a grimy win-dow to a row of electrical shops.

“They can buy them cheap. They can buy a bunch of cheap watches with timers for noth-ing, but even if they have lots of money and are using this equip-ment to make bombs, what

about the washing machines? What can they do with those?” he said

“These are things we can use at home with our families or in our business. But instead they turn everything to junk and then they give it to us,” he added.

Ahmed, who said he has paid as much as $4,000 for a large container of junk, said the contents can be kind of a lot-tery.

Daoud Shah, a rotund man with a long gray beard, com-pared the impending pullout of

U.S. and NATO combat troops to the 1989 Soviet military withdrawal after a 10-year oc-cupation.

The Russians were better. At least they didn’t leave us junk. They didn’t destroy everything and then leave,” he said, remov-ing his turban and scratching his bald head.

Shah said he had fought as a mujahedeen, or holy warrior, against the Soviets in a war that was heavily funded by the U.S. and other Western countries.

“But now we’re in even worse shape,” he added.

While Afghanis are angry about the practice, the US claims it’s meant to deter the threat of bomb making.


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MSSA meeting recap RYAN BERNDTStaff Writer

The MSSA Meeting on No-vember 6th was largely un-eventful, with the majority of the time spent discussing IM-PACT and concert planning for next semester.

Cassie Urbano, Chair of the Concert Company branch of IMPACT, presented informa-tion gathered from a study con-ducted about possible musician choices next semester. Urbano led a study via OrgSync, as well as meeting with students in the CSU to discuss opinions on se-lected acts and ticket prices.

Urbano emphasized that she wants to meet the recommen-dations of students by hosting a large concert, which can be considered a huge risk.

Urbano mentioned that with risk comes fun, and presented a list of musicians such as All American Rejects, Capital Cit-ies, Easton Corbin, and more.

It was noted, however, the study had some discrepancies in the wording and only 250 people responded.

Much of the discussion after-wards was devoted to speaking

on whether or not MSSA would support the move to encourage a larger concert with a larger risk.

After an argument for and against, a motion was passed that MSSA would encourage students to express their opin-ions to IMPACT and would support the decision for a big-ger concert.

However, further discussion will be needed before MSSA can commit to a larger role in the concert planning, and it is anticipated that a lengthy dis-cussion will occur about the financial details in a later meet-ing.

Senior Emma Deppa was inaugurated as an Off-Campus Senator for the rest of the year. Deppa brings leadership skills from her positions within her sorority, Sigma Sigma Sigma.

Announcements were kept brief, and started with President Collins discussing the upcom-ing delegates and reminding people to keep up-to-date with information. Collins also em-phasized that MSSA will start talking about decisions that will make an impact on MNSU in the next ten to fifteen years.

cal businesses, and music was provided on the day of the event from Radio Mankato.

6,000 community, friend and alumni members came to watch the slightly over 12-second im-plosion, which garnered news coverage from across the coun-try.

Free breakfasts, cafeteria tray giveaways, photos, buttons, t-shirts, a ceremonial plunger, alumni merchandise, Gage mail-boxes, and more were given away.

A Gage demolition video posted online has received more than 13,000 hits. According to a quote taken from a University press release, “Our Alumni team planned this event for months

and months, so it was only fitting that we would submit our hard work to CASE,” Interim Direc-tor of Alumni Relations Jen My-ers said.

“We felt we did a ‘bang-up’ job capturing the emotions of our alumni and what Gage meant to them. The judges must have also seen that we pulled out all the stops for this once-in-a-lifetime event. We are thrilled to be recognized as the best event in our region!” Myers continued.

According to the same quote, “The planning of the Gage im-plosion event was unique; no one in our Alumni Relations team had experience with the physi-cal or emotional ramifications of experiencing a building – a

home – coming down with such orchestrated precision.

“All the details, from sav-ing mailboxes to creating a video scrapbook, were new territory for us and I’m proud to say that we, and CASE, realized the hard work we did and decisions we made led to thousands of alumni and community members having an unforgettable experience.”

MSU’s gold rating was estab-lished out of 482 entries from institutes in many areas- fund-raising and development, special events, diversity programming, marketing and communications, alumni relations.

45 categories decided the awards.

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Computer repair for stu-dents is offered at the Informa-tion and Technology Services on the third level of Memorial Library. If programs or acces-sories need to be purchased, the Campus Computer store offers these services to the students on the lower level of the Centennial Student Union.

Electronic Repair Service Center is part of ITS which pro-vides equipment services and problem solving to the Campus Community with a 24-48 hour turnaround time for repairs and replacements. Some services are provided because of the student fees, which is addressed in tu-ition costs.

“We provide antivirus and basic support with trouble-shooting,” said Mitch Waller-stedt, assistant Chief Infor-mation Officer for Customer Services. “We also help take care of computers infected by a virus.”

ITS wants to help students resolve the issues they can move on with what they need to do.

ITS also offers services that may come with a charge, which includes system installations, hardware repairs, computer cleaning and many others. The prices can be viewed on the Minnesota State University af-filiated site for Electronic Re-pair.

Out of warranty repair and upgrades on all brands for com-petitive price is also available.

Hours for the Electronic Re-pair Service Center are

• 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday

• 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Friday

• 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday

Specialized opportunities for support are also provided for students living in the resi-dential communities. Carkoski Commons is home to ResTech, which offers similar services as ITS, but caters to on-campus students.

ResTech helps students con-nect to the network of MavNet, remove Malware, troubleshoot hardware and software, install and configure antivirus soft-ware, remove viruses and more. These services are provided by the student fees that students living in residential communi-ties pay for in their tuition.

ResTech has hours that are convenient to students living

on campus. IResTech is open 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.

Support does not include de-vices such as printers, scanners or PDA’s.

The Campus Computer Store provides a place to pur-chase software as well as acces-sories and computers. Students can purchase items where pric-es are modified for the students.

There are accessories, ca-bles, parts, computers that are already approved by the college of business, drives, iPad soft-ware and other miscellaneous items. The store does offer war-ranty service on Apple and Dell products.

Students can shop in store or online, and the store also is likely to order a product that can’t be found for purchase. The profits are all re-invested into the University.

The store and hardware re-pair used to be located together in the lower level of the CSU. “Two years ago, Computer Re-pair was relocated to be more relative with the rest of IT and provide more consistency,” Wallerstedt said.

If software is purchased, ITS will also help students with installing it for free if they do not feel confident doing it themselves.

There are many services

provided by ITS, but if there are any questions contact Customer Service. ITS is open to help stu-dents achieve more from their

college careers.The ITS Service Desk is the

first point of contact with ITS, and it will help with email, file

storage, network access and oth-er challenges. Need help? The ITS Service number is (507)389-6654.

ASHLEY GERKENStaff Writer

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ARNOLD BAGAMBA • MSU ReporterInformation and technological services, located on the third floor of the library, provides needed IT help.


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An anonymous protestor took to the CSU mall on Tuesday wearing a mask, and holding up a sign saying ““End the fed-stop the war,” to protest the 100th an-niversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve. The protester, whose main message was pro-claimed in his sign, said that he was marching against the cor-ruption he saw in the Federal Reserve.

“They are nothing but war profiteers,” the man said. “They use quantitative easing, in which they give money to their bank-ing buddies, freeing capital. By the time the money, which is not backed up by any hard currency, hits the people, inflation occurs.”

“The banks come out as win-ners in any situation, whether it be through loans to the military industrial complex, or to the de-feated to rebuild.”

The protestor, who drew his political views and anger from his service in Afghanistan from 2003-2010, is a Political Science major.

“When I was over in Afghan-istan, I realized that we could easily be seen as as the terror-ists,” he said.

the market.”The protestor’s first step to

“Fixing” the Federal Reserve is to “Audit it and find out where our money is at.”

Some of the protestor’s views are not in touch with mainstream thinking.

“I know for a fact 9/11 was a conspiracy,” he said.

We know for a fact Saddam Hussein commissioned our help for Kuwait, but we didn’t want

to get involved. Six days later, Hussein invaded Kuwait, those documents got classified and all of a sudden he was an enemy.”

He insists that several presi-dents need to be brought up on war crime charges.

“George H.W. Bush was the first one I would have tried,” he said.

“He lied to congress, didn’t tell the people about Saddam’s letter of peace.”

He wants former Presi-dent George W. Bush and Dick Cheney brought up on charges involving the Iraq War, and Pres-ident Barack Obama for “Violat-ing the War Powers Act of 1973.”

According to the protestor, Obama changed it to a humani-tarian mission before dropping more bombs and Obama failed to inform congress, a constitu-tional duty.

Protestor takes aim at Federal ReserveSAM WILMESNews Editor

He was dismayed when peo-ple got sent to Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 and were frequently denied their rights.

“The Neo-conservatives al-ways have to have an enemy to feed the military industrial com-plex, they have lobbyists from military industrial companies lobbying for war,” he said.

He mentions the Iraq War, begun in 2003, and the first two no-bid contracts that went to Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company Haliburton.

“While we are viewed as the bullies of the world, it’s really only our corporate forces.”

The protestor mentioned the Rothschild bankers and J.P. Morgan as part of the problem, along with the Federal Reserve’s creation in 1913.

He credits the creation of the Federal Reserve with some of the taxes he doesn’t support to-day.

“Here we are with the income tax, the IRS and the Central Banking System,” he said. He also credits the bubble of the 20’s and the collapse of the banking system in a major way to the cre-ation of the Federal Reserve.

He mentions Charles Lind-bergh’s mention of the Great De-pression as an “Overextension of

SAM WILMES • MSU ReporterA protestor holding up his sign of defiance to a system he does not support.

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ADAM MILLERStaff Writer

An alumnus is back on cam-pus to direct the Department of Theatre and Dance’s third Main-stage show of the 2013-14 season, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a story about a widowed man and his daughters in 1950s America.

The first show opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ted Paul Theatre and will run two week-ends.

Back to direct the play is alumnus Lou Bellamy. Bellamy was an associate professor at the University of Minnesota for 38 years. Bellamy has won many awards for his work in the the-atre, including an OBIE Award for directing.

Bellamy is also the founder and artistic director of Penum-bra Theatre in St. Paul. Pen-umbra has produced 35 world premieres, with one of the more notable plays to premier at the Penumbra being August Wilson’s first professional production.

The play is something that Bellamy has wanted to do for a long time but something always got in the way, he admitted in an interview that was posted to MSU’s IT service page, Mav-TUBE.

The show is about recently widowed Godfrey, played by third-year MFA acting candidate Reginald D. Haney, and his two daughters, Ernestine and Er-mina. Ernestine is played by Ga-brielle Chavers, a senior theatre generalist student, and Ermina is played by Kristin Marie Am-brose, a sophomore theatre gen-eralist.

Told through the eyes of one of the daughters, Godfrey is not sure how to handle life as a newly single parent. He moves the fam-ily from Florida to Brooklyn in search of a better life and turns to religion for answers. As the is-sues of the late 1950s start to es-calate, so do the personal issues between Godfrey and his sister-in-law Lily, played by Carnetha Anthony, a third-year MFA mu-sical theatre candidate.

“In order to do what I ask an actor to do they have to have a tremendous amount of craft,” Bellamy said in the interview on MavTUBE. “She (Gabri-elle Chavers) has a tremendous amount of god-given talent. We can take talent and push it to an-other level by training, and show

them how best to exhibit the tal-ent. But you can’t put it there if it isn’t there already. So she brings a tremendous amount to the equation, as do many of the actors.”

The On Stage interview with Lou Bellamy can be viewed at http://mavtube.mnsu.edu/aca-

demics/theatre_dance.html.Tickets for the show are $16

for regular tickets but $11 for cur-rent MSU students. Tickets may be purchased online at MSUThe-atre.com, or by calling or stop-ping by the Theatre and Dance Box Office in the Lobby of the Earley Center from 4-6 p.m.

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Batman: Arkham Origins is quite the conundrum. Like a fa-mous cover act, Origins is con-tent to retread on what made the originals great and provide only little spurts of its own ideas to mixed effect. It’s praise that can be taken either way but, in the end, things pull together. After all, if you love everything about “Walk this Way” by Aerosmith, you’ll probably enjoy listening to someone perform it that has the same love for it, even if you know it’s not the real thing.

Set early in his crime fighting career, Batman: Arkham Origins sees Batman at a turning point when on Christmas Eve, notori-ous crime lord Black Mask puts a 50 million dollar bounty on the dark knight’s head. With the likes of Bane, Killer Croc and Death-stroke after him, along with a corrupt Gotham police force, Batman must race against the clock to see what Black Mask’s true intentions are and just what this person known as “The Joker” has to do with it.

It’s clear from the opening level that we’re in for a similar gameplay experience as the first

two Arkham games but with less time spent polishing the final product. Missing right up front are the atmospheric openings of Asylum and City. Instead of slowly marching into the creep-ing depths of the asylum or fac-ing the hopeless monstrosity that is Arkham City, the beginning of Arkham Origins literally drops you headlong right into action but to significantly lesser effect.

That, essentially, speaks vol-umes about Origins one true flaw -- it’s rushed. The amount of glitches and bugs present are a dead indicator, as is the low qual-ity graphics in the cutscenes typi-cal of a quick release.

Announced back in April un-der a different studio, WB Mon-treal has the groundwork of the previous game’s system but does little to add to it, instead making it feel like a condensed retread of the previous two games.

Gotham City has never been a bigger, more accessible play-ground for the caped crusader but it feels abandoned and emp-tier than it should. There’s still a plentiful amount of side mis-sions to add to the experience but Origins lacks the cool easter eggs and hidden details that make the previous two games special.

The combat and stealth sys-

tems of the Arkham series – argu-ably the two aspects that propel the gameplay so much – thank-fully remain intact. Pummeling or sneaking up on thugs hasn’t lost its gusto and continues to be a saving grace for Origins. How-ever, the new gadgets or abilities Montreal has added don’t fulfill much of a purpose other than to provide an easy way out (shock gloves) or perform the same function as a different gadget we’ve seen before (glue grenades, concussion bombs).

Since they are so integral to

the game, it’s far too easy to rip into those parts, while forget-ting the things that keep Origins above the run-of-the-mill studio game. Montreal made the right call in not messing with the regu-lar gameplay mechanics and did provide one major area where Origins bests its predecessors: boss battles.

The level of variety in how Batman now combats his sig-nificant foes is highlighted in an incredibly brief scrap with the Electrocutioner, followed by a challenging duel with Death-

stroke, capped off later with an epic battle against Firefly atop the Gotham Bridge that may as well have taken a page from a Spider-Man game. This is one area where players can say they feel like they’re living the Batman ex-perience more than before.

Although it’s brief and may feel contrived at points, the main storyline is an interesting Bat-man story, showing how Bruce Wayne’s crucial first encounters with certain enemies escalate his

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Panic! At the Disco return again with a bit of a change in musical style but continue to show a strong work ethic for creating songs they care about.

Leading the album, “This Is Gospel” showcases Brendon Urie’s vocals with harmonies and a heartbeat kick drum that coincides with the lyrics, “This is the beat of my heart.” A triumphant chorus and puls-ing verses combine to create a good start to the album.

“Miss Jackson” contains a repetitive chorus of the song’s title which does get a little ob-noxious after a few listens.

“Girl That You Love” fea-tures heavy synthesizer parts and compressed drums that combine to create an effect that is reminiscent of 1980’s new wave music. The elec-tronic sound and constant high hat on the chorus combine to compound the intended effect.

A personal favorite on the album, “Nicotine” has dual guitar parts in different oc-taves that form a strong lead into the percussion heavy verses. An ambient and under-played piano part is combined with additional instrumenta-tion provided by tastefully ar-ranged strings. Panic! at the Disco gives their bass player a nice showcase in the funky

lead into the chorus.Continuing with modulated

and auto-tuned vocals, “Girls/Girls/Boys” contains yet an-other catchy chorus and a nice switch to a half time feel around the last quarter of the song. The auto-tune seems to have been added to aid with vocals on the chorus in this particular instance.

Moving to a darker tone and type of subject matter, “Casual Affair” is a syncopated song with sustained synthesizers on the chorus and more violin parts. Auto-tune is present for an effect in the song, as op-posed to its use in the previous track. The whispered line, “I did it”, adds to the song’s dark and mysterious allure. Ending with a solo piano part, “Casual Affair” is another stand out on the album.

“Far Too Young To Die” is another new wave-esque, synth-pop song featuring digi-tal loops and a building vocal approach during the verses.

An upbeat dance number, “Collar Full” will get your pulse racing and feet tapping. The vocal lines and harmonies stand out on this one.

“The End of All Things” wraps up the album with a somber piano and vocal com-bination. Legato lines and a flowing melody join Urie’s modulated and haunting vocals to raise hairs and cause chills in this track’s simple beauty.

Listeners will find a lot in common with Fall Out Boy’s release from earlier this year, Save Rock and Roll. The two bands have always been simi-lar but this almost seems like an album of left over songs from Fall Out Boy’s album. However, the songs aren’t bad, just seemingly unoriginal,and perhaps that is just due to the timing of the two releases. Panic! At the Disco contin-

ues to grow and refuses to be placed in a niche. Clocking in at a little over a half an hour, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! is a collection of synth-pop songs that are self-con-tained and doing just what they need to. While not ambitious, there are definitely good songs on this album. I would recom-mend just buying individual songs over the entire album.

crusade to clean up Gotham and make him realize how im-portant allies are in his jour-ney. Side missions, including Batman combating the efforts of Enigma (soon to be known as The Riddler) to harvest blackmail info and using the snazzy new crime scene in-vestigation replay tool to track down murderers, act as some beautiful world building and are occasionally more fun than the main story.

Arkham Origins doesn’t quite stand neck and neck with its predecessors due to its hap-dash nature, nor will it win any game of the year awards but by repeating the winning aspects of before, it succeeds in the end. Had Origins not kept the winning combat, stealth and layout formulas of Asylum and City, things likely wouldn’t have shaken out the same.

60 dollars is pushing it for a mostly-good cover version of a classic game series but if an opportunity arises to pick it up at a discount price, jump on that because Batman: Arkham Origins still packs some punch.

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ANDREW SIMONStaff Writer

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is filled with more passion, vigor and creativity than most of Hol-lywood. Trouble is, the tremen-dously inventive and fun work he releases tends to appeal to a very small niche of the movie market.

Rodriguez writes, scores, edits and directs movies that make him happy, first and fore-most, movies that live in their own world with its own rules and own plausibility. Above all, Rodriguez loves telling stories and, like British director Edgar Wright, enjoys telling them in the most creative way possible.

It’s with this understanding of Rodriguez’s work that one enters Machete Kills, the sequel to 2010’s Machete, which itself was a big screen presentation of a trailer-sized idea that was right smack in the middle of Grind-house, the bloated 2007 love child of Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, that the world is Ro-driguez’s plaything, and the au-diences are in for a wild ride of bombastic action, clever kills, unbelievably gorgeous women, and indestructible leading man.

Machete Cortez (Danny

Trejo) is the Jason Vorhees of action heroes – no matter how insane and disbelieving the stunt or action sequence is, where by any normal laws of the world he would undoubtedly perish, it in-stead makes him stronger and, well, cooler. He’s a ruthless and renowned killer with a sizable bounty on his head and nearly every world cartel wants a piece

of him but the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen, billed as Carlos Estevez) has oth-er plans for the Mexican myth. The President employs Machete with a mission to kill Marcos Mendez (Demian Bichir), a mad-man threatening Washington, D.C. with a nuclear missile to exterminate the American gov-ernment.

Accompanied with a handler, the beautiful Blanca Vasquez (Amber Heard), Mendez is on a race against time with twenty

four hours to go before the bomb explodes. While in hot pursuit by an assassin (Walton Goggins/Cuba Gooding, Jr./Antonio Ban-deras/Lady Gaga) and a crazed brothel owner (Sofia Vergara), a new villain reveals himself in the light of technological advance-ment, Luther Voz (Mel Gibson), who aims to destroy Machete, once and for all.

Machete Kills drops the in-terfering political mumbo-jum-bo from the first film in favor of what the series should have been from the beginning: a grindhouse-esque action film of brutal mayhem and outrageous insanity. The way Machete dis-patches bad guys – electrocuting them with his sword, slicing their heads off with helicopter blades, tying them to a helicopter to blow up while they scream “MA-CHETE!” in a squeaky voice, using a switch blade sword to

butcher a man in the groin, etc. – is all cartoonish and extravagant in their execution, but that’s the point of the series. Anything goes. There are vehicles inspired by Star Wars, a face-changing assassin, hidden drivable tunnels underneath the Mexican/U.S. border, Machete riding a rocket and Machete being blasted off into space for a proposed third

and final film. The amount of fun and wide-grinning going on while watching this film is inde-scribable.

Danny Trejo, in his eleventh collaboration with Rodriguez, just needs to sneer and his per-formance is automatically awe-some. Jessica Alba reprises her role from the first and, thank-fully, barely sticks around. Am-ber Heard and Charlie Sheen are clearly enjoying themselves, being paid to be over-the-top in-stead of trying to act and the qua-

druple work of the face-changing assassin, played by Goggins, Gooding, Banderas, and Gaga, is the best sort of hammy fun.

But none can top Mel Gibson, who pencils in every clichéd, megalomaniac villain quirk in the book. It’s difficult to feel for certain if this role is the low point of his career, or the first step in a self-satire that just might save him, Tom Cruise-Tropic Thun-der style. And Sofia Vergara was hired for one purpose and one purpose only, and it wasn’t her acting chops.

Because of Rodriguez’s small, marketable niche and the dimin-ished box office returns of the sequel compared to the original, the chance of seeing Machete grace the screen again is a slim one, although if there’s one di-rector who could do a space battle and do it well on a limited budget, Rodriguez would be that man.

If Machete Kills is truly the end of the Machete saga, it could not have ended better. Without a hint of a serious bone in its body, Machete Kills is all style, hot girls, and brilliantly illogical ac-tion bits. A more enjoyable trip to the cinema couldn’t be asked for.

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New WCHA makes it’s way to Mankato After talking about the seperation of the WCHA for a year, the Verizon Wireless Center will host

it’s first revamped WCHA matchup this weekend. DEREK LAMBERTStaff WriterThe Bowling Green State Uni-

versity Falcons will be in town this weekend to face the Min-nesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team in what could shape up to be a new rivalry. The Falcons joined the Western Collegiate Hockey Association this season after playing in the Central Collegiate Hockey As-sociation since 1971, winning a national championship in 1984.

Last season BGSU finished with a record of 15-21-5 and have struggled the past few seasons to find themselves among the top half of the CCHA but are off to a good start in 2013.

With an overall record of 4-2-2 including 2-0 in conference play after last weekend’s sweep over Alaska-Anchorage, the Fal-cons look to be a more competi-tive team in the WCHA. So far

this season, the Falcons haven’t had too much trouble putting pucks in the net, which could cause some trouble for the Mav-ericks.

For the most part, the Mav-ericks’ goaltending hasn’t been quite up to par with what was ex-pected of them. Sophomore goal-tender Stephon Williams was pulled from the game against Providence in the opening week-end after giving up five goals and last weekend freshman Cole Huggins got the start on Satur-day night in favor of Williams. However, the real struggling point for the Mavericks has been their goal scoring.

The Falcons have scored 27 goals through eight games this season, while the Mavs have scored a meager 14 through six games. Leading the Mavericks are sophomore forward Bryce Gervais and senior forward Johnny McInnis who each have

four points through six games, while Bowling Green has six players on their roster with more points than the Maverick leaders. Also, 19 Falcon players have re-corded at least one point on the season.

For a team that is expected to rely on their depth, the Mavericks may have found their match in the Falcons. Sitting at 3-3 overall and 1-1 in conference play. The Mavs aren’t in a bad spot right now. Two of their losses came at the hands of a then underrated Providence team who is now the number six ranked team in the nation; while statistically the Falcons look to be a very com-petitive team, which they might, one must not overlook their op-ponents.

Last weekend’s sweep over Anchorage is good for confer-ence points, but as a long time

David Bassey • MSU ReporterSophomore goalie Stephon Williams, the New York Islanders’ fourth round pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, has stopped 105 shots so far this season. MEN’S HOCKEY • Page 13

Mavericks return the favor to Minot State in first round of NSIC Tourney

David Bassey • MSU ReporterThe five goals the Mavericks scored is tied for the third most goals in one game this season.

After being knocked out of the NSIC tournament in 2012 by the Beavers, the women’s soccer team didn’t forget and

eliminated Minot State Wednesday. LUCAS RYANStaff Writer

Two hours later than expected at a site an hour away from the home field they earned, The Min-nesota State University, Mankato women’s soccer team kicked off the post season looking to re-spond from their first loss to an NSIC opponent in more than two years.

The November snow Tuesday night forced the No. 1 seeded Mavericks to play the quarter-final of the NSIC tournament at a neutral site in a sports bubble (Dane Family Field House) at the Shattuck-St Mary’s campus in Faribault, Minn.

Minot State had not allowed more than one goal in the first

half all season long, but the Mavericks started the game at-tacking and put the ball past the

Beavers goalie three times in the first 40 minutes en route to a 5-3 win Wednesday afternoon.

Junior midfielder Emily Mor-ris struck first for MSU scoring 13:49 into the match on a free kick from 25 yards out. It was a relief to see the Mavericks strike early on a team that really prides themselves on defense.

“It was really nice to get that goal early on to open up the play,” Moris said. “They play re-ally defensively so getting that they started pressuring us more, and it was easier to get behind them.”

The Scoring continued in the 34th minute when sophomore

forward Korey Kronforst scored her 18th goal of theyear with se-nior forward Courtney Vallarelli credited with the assist. The Mavericks finished the half with anothergoal when freshman for-ward Maddy Smith blasted the ball into the net on a pass from midfielder Kianna Nickel to-make it 3-0 at the halfway mark.

In the second half Minot State started fast, scoring two goals in the first 15 minutes past junior goalkeeper Molly McGough. The Mavericks answered back with the final two goals extend-ing their lead to 5-2. Some slug-gish play let the Beavers back into the ball game, but the Mav-ericks adjusted and kept their

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College Gameday

Minnesota State (9-0)at Sioux Falls (5-4)

1 p.m., Saturday • Bob Young Field

RECAP: It only took less than seven minutes for the Minnesota State University, Mankato football team to take a 21-0 lead and pretty much Wayne State’s hope of a victory this past Saturday. In a 45-3 win, senior quarterback Jon Wolf became the first player since 1997 to rush, pass, and catch for a touchdown, and they were all 43 yards or longer. The Mavericks’ 251 rushing yards marks the team’s seventh game of 200 or more yards on the ground this season, and through the air, Wolf wasn’t the only Maverick to hurl the ball. To go with Wolf’s 159 yards on 10 completions, senior receiver Dennis Carter tossed to Wolf for a 46-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Defensively, the NSIC total yards allowed leading Mavericks only let the Wildcats move 176 total yards, and also prevented their opponent to rush over 100 yards for the sixth week in a row. As senior defensive end Chris Schaudt led the Mavericks in sacks with 1.5 for 16 yards, sophomore cornerback Justin Otto was all over the field and collected a team-high 10 tackles, four of them solo. Junior cornerback Kelend Smith and sophomore cornerback Patrick Schmidt helped prevent the Wildcats from a comeback with an each intercepting a Zach Osborn pass.

HISTORY: These two south division squads have only met once in their school histories, and the Mavericks took that one as to give head coach Aaron Keen’s one of his 22 wins in 23 games dating back to week one of last season. At Blakeslee Stadium, the Mavericks took a 20-3 lead before halftime and never looked back, winning 27-13. Wolf completed 11 of 19 attempts for 200 yards and ran for 31 yards with two combined touchdowns. Former receiver Adam Thielen led all receivers with 93 yards on five catches.

MSU NOTES: The 9-0 Mavericks come into this NSIC matchup with a no. 1 ranking in the AFCA and Division2.com polls for the third straight week. The squad stacks up at fourth in the conference in scoring with 39.2 points per game, and the defense has only allowed 15 points a game, the lowest in the NSIC. This defense has been relentless the past two weeks, only allowing 13 points combined. This strand of three games has shown the best football in all aspects of the game with an average winning margin of just more than 33 points. Not only has the defense allowed the least amount of points in the conference, they aren’t letting teams in the NSIC move the ball on them either. In a conference leading 272.9 yards allowed per game, their last two opponents, Winona State and Wayne State, only achieved 361 yards combined. Individually, Wolf has been a workhorse all season on the ground and through the air, compil-ing 2,189 yards (1,425 passing and 764 rushing). Sophomore running back Connor Thomas is second in both carries (101) and rushing yards (698). Sophomore defensive end Josh Gordon continues to anchor the defensive line with 5.5 sacks on the season, with three of them coming in their 44-10 win over Winona State. Schmidt’s interception last Saturday bumped him up to tied for second in the NSIC with five on the season, joining junior safety Nathan Hancock.

USF NOTES: As the University of Sioux Falls becomes the 10th team to try to give the Mavericks’ first tally in the loss column, the Cougars are currently tied for second in the NSIC-South with a 5-4 record. This squad has gone back and forth with wins and losses so far this season, just coming up short in their last game 30-28 to Upper Iowa, the Mavericks’ last opponent of the regular season. Sitting in the top half of the conference both on offense and defense, they’ve put up 34.6 points a game while giving up 25.9. Right in front of the Mavericks, the Cougars bring the second best rushing attack in the confer-ence led by Nephi Garcia, a third year running back out of Palm Desert, Calif. Garcia’s 1,068 yards on the ground proves to be the fourth most in the conference. The passing game has a platoon quarterback system with Luke Papilion and Carrington Hanna splitting time under center. Papilion started the season as the starter while Carrington lined up as a receiver until week seven when Harrington was given his first start at quarterback and threw 407 yards and four touchdowns. From then on, the two have switched as the team’s hurler and it has been effective. Defensively, the Cougars are led by linebacker John Batinich, who leads the team in tackles (77) and sacks (3). They have only picked off four passes this season but have a knack at knocking the ball out of position player’s hands with 10 fumble recoveries in nine games.

PREDICTION: 3-1 at home, the Mavericks are heading to an environment that the Cougars are more comfortable, but that seems to be the only edge they have. The quarterback combo might help out to keep them fresh, but the Maverick defense is just too good right now for the Cougars to get enough points to knock off the top dog in the NSIC. 35-13 Mavericks.

member of the WCHA, Anchor-age is a team that finishes among the bottom half of the conference on a yearly basis. Bowling Green has also beat Colgate and Ohio State, but both of those teams are pretty average among this year’s college hockey landscape.

Still, the Mavericks will have to play a very discipline style against the Falcons, who have 10 power play goals on the season. If the Mavs can stay out of the box, they can eliminate these chances. Playing steady defense will also be a must as the Falcons have seven players with two or more goals, including senior Bryce Williamson and sophomore Ben Murphy who each have six.

Who will start in goal for the Mavericks this weekend? My guess would be Williams will be between the pipes come Friday night. He has proven himself as a go-to goaltender despite a slower start this season. If Williams can play to his potential and the Mavs can find an answer to get on the scoreboard more consistently, then they should be able to walk away from this weekend with a two-game sweep over Bowling Green.

Friday night’s contest will start at 7:37 p.m. at the Verizon Wireless Center in downtown Mankato with Saturday night’s series closer beginning at 7:07 p.m.

David Bassey • MSU ReporterChase Grant (right) and company possess a 3-3 record after splitting their first WCHA series up north against Bemidji State last weekend.

David Bassey • MSU ReporterThe Maverick defense has only allowed 13 points and 361 total yards combined in their last two games.

MEN’S HOCKEY “For a team that is expected to rely on their depth, the Mav-ericks may have found their match in the Falcons.” continued from 12

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lead in check till the final buzzer.“In the second half I think we got a little bit passive and maybe fell asleep a little bit,” head coach Brian

Bahl said. “To Minot’s credit, they really came at us and attacked well there in that second half.”Bahl was relieved to see their offensive attack back in full swing after being shutout by Winona State

last Sunday.“To bounce back and put five up is really encouraging. That’s something I think has been a strength for

us all year so we want to make sure to continue pushing that forward and capitalizing on the opportunities we get,” Bahl said.

This game helped the Mavericks put in perspective that nothing is going to be easy from here on out, and they saw that yesterday.

“In the postseason you’re going to face some adversity and you have to be able to respond to those, and they did that today so I’m proud of them for that,” Bahl said.

With the win, the Mavericks are now the host school of the remainder of the NSIC tournament -- if weather allows. The Mavericks will meet Upper Iowa Friday afternoon for the semifinal of the NSIC tournament.

MSU downed Upper Iowa 3-0 less than a week ago ( Nov. 1), but the 15-4 Peacocks will have a chance for revenge Friday. Upper Iowa is the second best scoring team in the NSIC (Mavericks lead the NSIC) with junior forward Aimee Wronski’s leading the way. She ranks just one spot under Korey Kronforst in all of DII women’s soccer with 15 goals this season.

Defensively, the Peacocks have allowed less than one goal per game (.95). After their first meeting with the Peacocks, the Mavericks won’t take them lightly.“They’re a dangerous, well coached team. They’ve had a great year, and they really gave us some fits,

especially in that first half the first time we played them,” Bahl said. “Fortunately we were able to break the game open in the second half. We know we will get their very best shot.”

Moris agreed.“It will be a tough conference match, and hopefully we can just take what we got from this game to

the next,” Moris said.The Mavericks dropped two places to the sixth spot in the newest NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA

Division II Poll, but will have no trouble qualifying for the NCAA tournament. The Mavericks are the highest seeded team in the region and will almost certainly host the first weekend of play. At the moment MSU is in position to host the NCAA Central Region tournament.

While the games over the weekend will not stop the Mavericks from being selected to the NCAA tournament, this will be the final tune up before single game-elimination rounds of the NCAA Division II tournament begin. The NCCA tournament will start Nov. 11 with the selection show next week.

SOCCER “To bounce back and put five up is really encouraging. That’s something I think has been a strength for us all year so we want to make sure to continue pushing that forward and capital-izing on the opportunities we can get,” Bahl said.continued from 12

NSIC Tournament Schedule

Friday (3) Minn. Duluth vs. (2) Winona State 11 a.m.

(4) Upper Iowa vs. (1) Minnesota State 2 p.m.

Championship Sunday UMD/WSU winner vs. UIU/MSU winner 1 p.m.

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