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Graduate student Christopher Frederick has been appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to the Board of Trustees for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) as the state university student member.

With the new position, Frederick will be a part of the decision making process for MnSCU and will help set policies for the system, evaluate academic and admission standards and help decide tuition rates.

“It’s exciting,” Frederick said of being named to the board. “It’s definitely an honor and I’m really grateful. Of course there’s a little bit of nerves, but that happens with anything new and exciting.”

Frederick thinks he was chosen because of his experience working with universities in the MnSCU system. The

former president of the Minnesota State Student Association and recent chair of the Minnesota State University Student Association, Frederick has worked in the system for years.

“I’ve really been able to relate to students on campus and gain insight on how MnSCU operates,” he said.

Although he applied for the job in April, Frederick didn’t receive a call for an interview until August. He received the notice of his appointment last week and his title officially came into effect Monday.

“It was absolutely nerve- racking to wait,” he said.

Frederick has an orientation September 8-9 and then will meet with the other board

members every other month. He will serve on three committees: multiculturalism and diversity,

DANNIE HIGGINBOTHAMnews editor

A student for studentsFormer MSSA President Christopher Frederick appointed to Board of Trustees

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To clean up the Minnesota River, the state needs to clean up its act. According to the Minnesota River Board, the river is one of the nation’s most polluted.

Dr. Shannon Fisher serves as director of the board and of the Water Resource Center at Minnesota State.

Despite improvements in the river’s health over recent years, “there’s still a long way to go,” Fisher said.

The Water Resource Center plays a large role helping state environmental and conservation agencies determine the condition of the Minnesota. It collects and analyzes data on the

Greater Blue Earth Watershed. The watershed empties into the Minnesota River Basin, which encompasses 15,000 square miles of Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota.

The center hires both graduate and undergraduate students from a wide range of departments, including biology, civil engineering, city planning, environmental science and geography, to assist in research. “We offer students a unique relationship of academic and practical applications,” Fisher said. “They can get an amazing hands-on experience.”

Cleaning our act to clean the earthMSU’s Water Resource Center sets its aim on the Minnesota River

JOHN FRITZ | staff writer

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Five years ago, Melissa Brandt had a vision.

After re-reading William Shakespeare’s infamous “King Lear,” the Minnesota State alumnus was inspired to pen the untold story of Lear’s youngest daughter, Cordelia. The spin-off idea proved worthy — her script, “Cordelia,” is now in the early stages of becoming a film.

An aspiring screenwriter, Brandt frequently attended workshops and submitted work to contests across the country. Although her Shakespeare spin-off was never submitted, she was discovered by Gordy Hoffman, the elder brother of Academy Award-winning Phillip Seymour Hoffman, at his Blue Cat screenplay workshop in Chicago.

Hoffman liked her work and voice, so Brandt pitched him a

couple screenplay ideas.“I pitched ‘Cordelia’ and

hadn’t even written a word,” she said. “[Hoffman] responded back quickly, requesting a draft as soon as possible, so I wrote like a crazy person for seven or eight weeks.”

Hoffman connected her to an agency from London and she eventually signed a contract with Unanimous Pictures in May, launching her script into the pre-production process of film development.

“She’s a remarkable writer and she has come up with the incredible conceit,” Hoffman said in an interview with Screen Daily. “You wonder why some fringe theatre group in Tokyo hasn’t already thought of this.”

Hoffman has signed on as the director of the project, and according to Screen Daily, Imogen Poots is attached to play Cordelia.

From script to screenFormer MSU student pens spin-off to Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

NICOLE SMITHeditor in chief

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Minnesota dWi crack down

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Continuing the trend seen throughout the summer, Minnesota State is undertaking an ambitious construction project that will ultimately result in the long-awaited replacement and destruction of Gage Towers.

The project is a continuation of what Julia Sears Hall began back in 2007 and promises to provide new housing and cafeteria options for students looking to begin their studies at MSU or to return for affordable on-campus apartments.

New dormitory wings will be added to both McElroy and Crawford halls, each extending southward toward the Memorial Library, and will together provide a replacement for the 1,200 housing units in Gage Towers. Crawford’s renovation and dormitory extension project will add approximately 420 new rooms, while McElroy’s new wing will provide an additional 200. Both projects will adhere to the aesthetic and architectural styles employed by the original

buildings. “It’s already been a busy

season for construction projects at MSU, but everyone’s pretty excited to get the new buildings underway,” said Chad Simons, a state construction worker helping to break ground for the piping and wiring necessary to support the new dorms in MacElroy. “We’ve been renovating parts of this campus for years now, but I haven’t been involved in any new building construction for a while now. Taking down Gage will be exciting, too.”

Together with Julia Sears Hall, which holds iabout 600 rooms, the new dormitory wings in the McElroy/Crawford building will make up for the 1,200 rooms that will be missing when Gage is brought down. Sears Hall, however, will take on a more on-campus “apartment” feel when the new dormitories are completed.

Carkoski Commons will also be drastically altered during the construction schedule, which looks to be taking place over the next two to four years;

the commons will essentially be rebuilt as an entirely new cafeteria in between Crawford and Sears halls. This will allow for an increase in parking spaces available on campus (they will be paved as an extension of the McElroy/Crawford parking lots), which have become a premium even for employees on campus.

“Thank God they’re putting in more parking spaces,” said Stephanie Stiles, a junior business major at MSU. “I’ve been paying to park or walking all the way from that damn free lot for two years now. I never seem to be able to get my hands on parking passes during the lotteries. It’ll just be nice to have more parking close to the middle of campus.”According to the Facilities Project Management construction schedule, some thought has been put into building a parking ramp over the current pay-parking area of campus, but no scheduling or financial commitments have yet been confirmed. If considered, a portion of the ramp would most

likely be reserved for faculty parking and visitors, while the rest would provide an increased surface area for pay-parkers. It should be noted, however, that the new parking spaces will not necessarily increase the number of spaces available on campus, but rather will “move” the lots from Gage to McElroy/Crawford.

Over the course of the next five years the new dormitory halls will be constructed onto McElroy/Crawford halls and a new cafeteria will be added in between these and Sears Hall. Around 2012, MSU facilities management hopes to begin the destruction of Gage Towers, beginning with Tower A. Tower B’s destruction will take place within the following couple years.

According to a Facilities Management construction document, “Pros and Cons have both been weighed during recent years which ultimately resulted in management concluding that having a centralized location for freshmen students, a cheaper and more efficient

cafeteria system, as well as the nullification of crossing Stadium Ave. [one of the more treacherous on campus] for students rushing to class as outweighing cons such as project costs and the short-term negative aesthetic of north campus.”

Reportedly, implosion methods will not be used for the tearing down of Gage, as the steep Stadium hill below could potentially allow debris and rubble from the explosion to fall into residential communities and other campus property. Instead, a wrecking crew (again, reportedly complete with a wrecking ball and crane) will work on dismantling the building from the top down, allowing for a more controlled and safe means of bringing down the long-lived structure. Regardless of the method employed, however, no doubt many alumni will return to witness the historic buildings return to the earth.

Construction to continue on campusNew wings to be built in McElroy and Crawford, more parking spaces to be added as Carkoski is rennovated

MATT SAUERstaff writer

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For those not familiar with “King Lear,” Cordelia is banished to France by her father and Brandt’s story picks up there.

“It’s primarily a love story because when she is banished, she is given to the King of France as a wife, but the tow of them don’t really know each other so the story is primarily about the development of their relationship,” Brandt said.

The screenplay is currently optioned, so the production company has a certain amount of time to make the movie or the rights revert back to Brandt. Although she was not able to disclose the details of her contract, Brandt said Unanimous Pictures has a few years to make the film.

Sundance award-winner Hoffman is working closely with Brandt on the screenplay revisions, a consuming and invigorating process for Brandt.

“I am fortunate enough to completely love what I do so it’s not necessarily a matter of discipline (to work on the revisions) — it feels like a privilege,” she said.

Brandt, 38, who graduated from MSU in 2008 with a

Master’s degree in creative writing, resides in Rochester with her husband and two children. She also has a Master’s in literature from MSU. Brandt valued her time in Mankato and credits the creative writing department to improving her writing.

“There are wonderful instructors in the writing

department and I think the program is great for those writers looking to develop,” Brandt said.

Author Diana Joseph took a class with Brandt at MSU, Joseph served on her thesis committee and the two have kept in touch ever since.

“Melissa is smart and funny and she’s observant,” Joseph

said. “She’s hell-bent on telling a story that’s emotionally honest. She’s devoted to her craft and I don’t know anyone more determined to make a life out of writing well.”

Brandt is evidence that talent, perseverance and hard work pays off, Joseph said. Brandt and Joseph have served as adjunct faculty in the

department.“Melissa was an effective

teacher of composition and creative writing, and she was an eager participant in all of the classes she took as a graduate student,” said MSU creative writing director, Richard Robbins.

The script is an in-depth story that involved plenty of research and an integration of contemporary life with the classic story. Brandt even traveled to London to walk through castles and research aspects of the Elizabethan period such as making coins and bear-bating — a medieval form of entertainment comparable to heinous dog fighting, but with bears.

Her characters are complicated, but Brandt said she hopes potential viewers will be able to connect with theme of family and its layered elements of dysfunction and love.

“Melissa is a master at convincing a reader to feel great empathy for problematic people,” Joseph said.

web photoBrandt was discovered by Gordy Hoffman, brother of Academy Award-winning Phillip Seymour Hoffman, at his screenplay workshop in Chicago.

SCREEN The script is an in-depth story that involveds intergration of contemporary life with the classic story of “King Lear” continued from 1


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In an effort to help preserve the memory of three automotive engineering technology (AET) students, a memorial dedication will take place Friday. In 2005 three students, Wesley Loutsch, Jamie Schlachter, and Chad Wilson were killed in a car accident on their way to a prestigious engineering competition in Michigan.

“The memorial is a little bit late in coming, but it took some planning because we

wanted to get our message right,” said John Frey, former dean of the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology. Frey was working as dean when the accident happened May 17, 2005.

The message of the memorial is to remember the students that were involved in the accident.

The memorial is a brick pedestal with a bronze plaque. It was designed by Bruce Jones and a committee. “The memorial is nice and simple; it gets the point across,” said AET

student John Albergo, Jr.The memorial service will be

held outside of Nelson Hall on Maywood Avenue 1 p.m. Friday. The public is encouraged to attend, as well as the victims’ families. The service will start with a ceremony by the memorial, then will move across the street to the front of the Performing Arts Center for a reception.

Preserving the memoriesJENNY POLLOCKstaff writer

finance, facility and technology and human resources.

“I hope to bring a lot of positive things to campus,” Frederick said. “I think I’ll bring insight as to what university students think and their take on a lot of issues.”

Frederick doesn’t think it will be hard to juggle his new responsibilities with his studies, citing his previous jobs as proof.

“I’m used to a demanding schedule,” he said. “It all comes down to time management.”

As of now, Frederick isn’t

sure what to expect from his new position, but he feels things will become much more clear once he finishes orientation and meets with the other board members.

“I’m looking forward to the opportunity,” he said. “I’m excited for the possibilities that lie ahead for the university and students.”

STUDENTS “I hope to bring a lot of positive things to campus.” continued from 1

Among other duties, students do work in wetland assessment, global information systems and bacterial and sediment analysis.

“The students and staff deserve the credit,” Fisher said. “They’re out in the field doing the research, and they’re the reason state agencies consider it worthwhile to continue to fund our center.”

Last year the center received $1.2 million to continue its applied research, which includes monitoring the water quality of the Minnesota River.

The river board’s website lists several factors in determining water quality:

-In high concentrations, nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen can cause harmful effects to plants and animals in the river.

-Dissolved oxygen is essential for aquatics animals.

-Bacterial contamination can pose health risks to individuals exposed to such waters.

-Toxics can affect the survival of riverbed-dwelling organisms.Pesticides are detected in Minnesota River Basin waterways.

Contributors to pollution include industrial and wastewater treatment plants, but also more indirect sources such as sedimentary run-off. While farmers, who make their livings from the topsoil, do their part to stem run-off, tributaries also slough off large amounts of sediment. Fisher said humans

have exacerbated this naturally occurring process by changing the soil composition over time and draining large areas, which artificially lowers and raises water levels.

He said climate change also affects the hydrology of the region. “Even if the amount of rainfall has remained constant, the way we receive it has changed. Instead of five days of half-inch rainfall we have one day where it rains three inches,” he said.

Despite pollution, people can still safely come into contact with river water and eat fish out of the river, provided they obey state mercury guidelines. Mercury contamination is a problem in all Minnesota waters. Fossil fuels emit mercury into the atmosphere (in addition to vehicle emissions, most of the state’s energy comes from coal-burning power plants), where it enters waterways through precipation. Fisher recommended eating smaller fish, which haven’t had time to absorb high levels of mercury.

Fisher still sees improvement to the overall health of the river. He is encouraged by the reemergence of some pollution-sensitive fish species not seen in the Minnesota River for decades. For the first time in 40 years fishermen report catching lake sturgeon on the river. This indicates how long the rehabilitative process can take.

“When you abuse a river for 120 years, it’s not fixed in 10. Be patient,” Fisher cautioned.

“The river has a bright future, but it’s a constant challenge to keep it bright. People want to do the right thing…but we want to live our lives and use our waterways.”

The key, he said, is controlling our impact and striking a balance between conservation and our own social and economic needs.

“We can never get the impression our job is done,” he said.

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Due to the new financial institution at Minnesota State, Wells Fargo, the university is requiring all students, faculty and staff to get new MavCARDs.

The re-carding process for the MSU IDs stirred up a bit of confusion this week, causing students to flock to stand in line for their new card, with a waiting time that ranges from a few minutes to a whopping 45 minutes.

Although there have been efforts made by the MavCARD department to reduce the complications and excess volume of students by expanding its hours and delegating students to get new cards by notifying targeted groups, i.e. returning residence hall and new orientation students, the situation still lacks adequate communication.

It is the responsibility of university members to be aware of these changes, but it also important that we are all notified of the process and its specifics.

So, for those who haven’t signed up for your new card yet or are just confused about why we need to, here’s the break down.

According to representatives from the Campus Hub and MavCARD office, not all students have to update their cards

just yet. Old MavCARDs will be de-activated sometime late fall semester, so for now, only students who use the MavCASH feature or have it linked to a bank account need to update their IDs. These features require a 16-digit number that the old TCF-branded cards don’t have.

You will start the process by filling out an application at the table by Jazzman’s Café. Following this, you will be re-directed to the Wells Fargo banking table to listen to a shameless plug encouraging students to apply for an optional account with the bank. The final step will be waiting in line to get your photo taken and at last, actually getting your new card. Students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to do this throughout the fall semester before the old cards expire.

But if you don’t need an update right now, I would advise keeping an eye on the line in the student union to catch it at a time when the wait is minimal.

Bring your current MavCARD (or photo ID and Tech ID if you don’t have one) and smile pretty — if you have any patience left.

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Dear Editor, I sincerely can believe a rise in tuition at MSU, Mankato. I think it would be very unfair of me to judge the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) for approving a raise in tuition when rising tuition is happening everywhere.

What baffles me is how the Board of Trustees could award Chancellor James H. McCormick a $32,500 bonus to his already hefty paycheck of $300,000. Let’s assume the average student pays around $3,400 dollars a semester for tuition. That means about 10 students’ tuition went directly into his pocket as a bonus! A bonus! Yeah, that’s really appropriate in this economy.

I don’t know about any of the readers of the Reporter, but I certainly don’t make $32,000 in an entire year of working. I recently responded to a YouTube video that the Chancellor’s underlings posted.

The Chancellor described that MnSCU has to make some “tough choices” regarding our financial situation. I laughed out loud when he said that “they” (everyone but him) has to

make those tough choices balancing *their* budgets. Easy for him to say, as I doubt he even needs a budget. I

don’t know how hard his job is that he has to make 300K a year. I mean, all that avoiding students and working at a desk must be really exhausting! All sarcastic comments aside, I’ll give just one example of how that money could be better spent.

He could donate it to the School of Nursing here at MSU and maybe they could accept a few more students each semester. With the demand of Nurses and a paltry 40 out of 100 qualified students being accepted each semester - it boggles my mind why anyone would be awarded a bonus while nearly every student at MSU has to suffer with rising tuition and fees. It’s simply selfish and hypocritical of MNSCU. We’re supposed to believe in them to make rational and educated choices about our financial situation and they failed us.

David ‘Alison Mahoney’ Carr

MnSCU’s irresponsible financial choices

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At the end of last month many of us were moving into new places or bringing things back to our old ones. For those of us that already knew who we were living with, we probably started right where we left off last year - passed out on a couch.

There are also those newbies who are living with new roommates, more than likely in the dorms. Since MSU doesn’t have a roommate questionnaire, besides the worthless smoking or non-smoking question (since you can’t smoke in the dorms), you really have no idea what to expect. I really don’t understand why this is even a question.

“Hey guys, my roommate does/doesn’t smoke! We are going to be best friends!” I have never heard anyone ever say that.

For you sports junkies, you probably got the kid that watches Cartoon Network instead of ESPN. For you young scholars, you probably got stuck with the drunk whose BAC level is higher than his GPA. While you are drinking your energy drink to stay up and study for a test, your roommate is taking Jag bombs with that same energy drink.

How cute.No matter how different you are, both of you probably moved

in very awkwardly and were very nice to each other. Both sets of parents were talking to eachother laughing while you were thinking in the back of your head: ‘who in the hell is this kid and what are they wearing?’

During the first week he or she will probably do things that will drive you crazy the entire year… For example: Set their alarm for 5:46, snore like your 55-year-old bearded aunt, talk to themselves like a member of an insane asylum or just try to talk to you like you two are Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie.

Oh wait; they’re not BFFs anymore? What a shame. Well, getting along with your roommate is a task in its own, let

me tell you. I slept in my room maybe 10 days last year, half of which I probably passed out there by accident (because of working too hard obviously). There are certain things that you can do to make it a less painful year when living with someone that smells like sweaty socks dipped in an unflushed toilet.

First off, don’t try to make conversations if you don’t want to.

You’re not getting married and you don’t need to talk every second of every day, especially when you know it will bug each other further. If you didn’t ask to use something or eat something, don’t take it.

I once came back to the dorms after a weekend at home and noticed all my Pop Tarts and chunky soup was gone. Thanks roomy, you’re the best!

I don’t mind if you take my things, but please ask. If you want some pizza, Stephen, ask me. I will probably let you have some. And Joe: sorry, I ate your Waffle Crisp.

The worst part of being crammed in a dorm room is obviously the privacy aspect. Guys, if you bring a significant other back to your room, have fun with your roommate that’s been playing World of Warcraft for the last two weeks. I am sure the girl will be really impressed and not creeped out at all when he looks at her with his greasy hair that hasn’t been washed in a few days. The body odor is a huge turn on too, I’ve heard.

The worst is the guy that thinks he’s doing the floor a favor by playing Lil’ Wayne at full blast. Sorry man, but I don’t want to hear “Got Money” at 10 a.m. on a Sunday.

And guys, not to bring up the “unspeakable” topic, but if you are going to do something in your alone time, please, I beg of you, text/call me to tell me not to come to the room. Get your imaginations wandering here, because I am probably talking about what you think I am talking about. Just say you’re “cleaning.” I won’t judge you.

I mean seriously, what’s worse than walking in on someone doing something others should never see?

Nothing my friends, it’s awkward for both sides. Trust me.For those people that bring multiple partners back every

weekend: Don’t worry, your roommate is probably not creeped out by the awkward noises and the visual you put in their heads. Nothing worse than being up in a loft when something is freaky going on right on top of the futon your mom bought for you.

However bad it gets, just remember there’s always next year and you might even get a new roommate, and perhaps a new futon.

Lago Agrio is a depressing town that looks like the scene of a horror movie. Motorbikes ride through muddy dirt streets filled with half-naked kids playing in puddles. The humidity hit the second I stepped off the bus; a sharp contrast from the brisk weather I’d dressed for in Quito.

Elise, Cassandra and I arrived in the city on a Friday morning after what should’ve been an 8-hour bus ride. We all took motion sickness pills before we got on and slept through most of the ride, waking up whenever the bus made one of its many stops.

We were supposed to meet our jungle group and guide at a hotel it took us 20 minutes to find. Arriving early, we used this as a chance to clean up as best we could using the hand soap in the bathroom.

We met our guide Washington, who informed us our jungle getaway was only a three-hour ride and two-hour canoe adventure away.

The sign at the entrance of Cuyabeno Reserve was painted in English and Spanish. It demanded that people respect the reserve by not feeding the animals, and strictly prohibited the use of weapons, including machetes.

Each motor canoe held about 12 people, but Cassandra’s and mine didn’t have enough rain gear for

everyone. The guide figured it would be OK.

Halfway into the journey it began to downpour, so Cassandra and I stopped looking for monkeys and instead hid under a tarp. It was a bit nerve racking to be in the middle on a river in the rainforest covered by a tarp, and a little disappointing to think about all the monkeys we were missing, but the tarp ended up keeping us drier than the lucky ones with rain gear.

Our travel guide in Cuenca told us we would be without modern conveniences like electricity or running water for the entire time in the jungle. Needless to say, we were upset when we went to our room and found our

bathroom, complete with a shower and a little cockroach friend. Later, our guide informed us we had unknowingly paid extra for hot water. None of us brought soap or shampoo.

The first night we ate by candlelight and chatted with the other tourists. I met the nerdiest

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Rain in the rainforest?News editor Dannie Higginbotham ventures to the Ecuadorian jungle in part two of a three-part series

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BOSTON (AP) – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,

the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins’ bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.

For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, a powerful voice on health care, civil rights, and war and peace. To the American public, though, he was best known as the last surviving son of America’s most glamorous political family, the eulogist of a clan shattered again and again by tragedy.

His family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday.

“We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever,” the statement said.

“We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice, fairness and opportunity for all.”

Kennedy was elected to the Senate in 1962, when his brother John was president, and served longer than all but two senators in history. Over the decades, he put his imprint on every major piece of social legislation to clear the Congress.

His own hopes of reaching the White House were

damaged– perhaps doomed– in 1969 by the scandal that came to be known as Chappaquiddick, an auto

accident that left a young woman dead.

Kennedy, known to family,

friends and foes simply as Ted, ended his quest for the presidency in 1980 with a stirring valedictory that echoed

across the decades: “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.”

The third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history, Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent surgery and a grueling regimen of radiation and

chemotherapy.His death late Tuesday

comes just weeks after that

of his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver on Aug. 11.

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Kennedy’s son Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., said his father had defied the predictions of doctors by surviving more than a year with his fight against brain cancer.

The younger Kennedy said that gave family members a surprise blessing, as they were able to spend more time with the senator and to tell him how much he had meant to their lives.

The younger Kennedy said his fatherís legacy was built largely in the Senate.

“He has authored more pieces of major legislation than any other United States senator,” Patrick Kennedy said in the interview. “He is the penultimate senator. I donít need to exaggerate when I talk about my father. That’s the amazing thing. He breaks all the records himself.”


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We also met Juan Carlos. He works for a radio station in Quito and was in the jungle on vacation with his family. On our last days in Ecuador, after we flew back to Quito, Elise and I each spent a day with him when he took us to the center of Quito, the original city as it was built. We visited some of the churches and the president’s place.

President Rafael Correa is a controversial figure. He’s incredibly socialist and some, like Juan Carlos, say some of his policies border on communism. He discussed his opinions on the radio and ended up getting several angry phone calls from listeners.

He also does voiceovers

for Teleamazonas, one of the biggest television stations in the country. A couple weeks before I arrived Teleamazonas clashed with the government over its programming schedule. Government officials argued programs like “Dragonball Z” and “The Simpsons” weren’t appropriate for kids and should be moved to a time when they wouldn’t be watching TV. Teleamazonas fought back, calling it censorship, and it was a big issue for a few weeks. It sounds like a petty fight, but according to Juan Carlos it was really just the straw that broke the camel’s back after many arguments between the two.

After a while the channel changed its schedule and moved the programs to a later hour. Still, I could walk the streets at 7 p.m. and see nearly every TV in all the homes and restaurants set to “The Simpsons.”

We went on a night canoe- ride searching for caimans (alligators) and slept under mosquito nets while our lodge neighbors screamed after finding a huge spider in their room.

The next day, Saturday,

we awoke to the nerd family loudly discussing whether it was practical to bring the fanny pack on the day’s excursion (they decided it wasn’t). We visited a native village where we tried handmade yuca pan, bread made from nothing but the flour of ground up yucca, and a sour jungle beer called chicha. Later we visited a shaman who told us about healing people with herbs and the years of study and practice he went through to learn the secrets of nature. The entire time I was distracted by his cat, which had climbed into my lap and refused to leave. I would have wanted to take him home with me, but I figured it would be a really bad idea to steal a cat from a shaman. Before I left, however, I named him Weezer, because he’s my best friend and I love him.

When we got back we were all incredibly desperate for a shower and begged our other guide, José, for soap. Graciously, he lent us his shampoo, and we all rushed back to our room, not caring that we would smell like men after our showers. About three days later one of us would have

an allergic reaction and get a rather unfortunate butt rash. For the rest of the time in Ecuador we would make jokes about Ecuadorian man shampoo.

We also went on a night hike to look for spiders and other animals. The only flashlight we gringas possessed was a tiny keychain one, so we followed Washington very closely. We saw tarantulas and other little bugs, then he spotted a wolf spider– a skinny, spindly thing about the size of an apple. He held it in his hand while Elise and Cassandra screamed, and then put it down so we could look for others.

I found one on a leaf and asked him what the name of it was.

“That one?” he asked, but he wasn’t pointing where I was.

“No, here.”“That one?” I realized he was

pointing to my leg and looked down to see the wolf spider hanging out.

Elise and Cassandra screamed again and I freaked out a bit, but calmed down when I realized the spider wasn’t poisonous and was on the edge of my poncho and not really on

me.Until the spider scaled me

and climbed into my ear. Then I started freaking out.

Washington laughed and flicked it off me.

We got back to the lodge as the mother of the nerd family complained about the rainforest weather (“I didn’t know it would rain so much!) and the lodge’s food (“We’re Americans, we need milk!)

On Sunday there wasn’t enough time to do anything but make the journey back to Lago Agrio, where we would fly to Quito then Cuenca. The airport was incredibly fitting for the small town and the plane ride made me incredibly sick. Thankfully, we only had a short wait in Quito before we got returned to Cuenca.

The jungle ended our first month in Ecuador. A couple weeks later we went to Ingapirca, the largest Incan ruins in Ecuador. Not long after that I celebrated my birthday by going to the bar and discotheque with friends. I’ve got to say, it was pretty cool to go to the bar on my twentieth birthday.

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When that first stage is tested, it will be mounted horizontally. The engine will fire, shake and make lots of noise. But by design, it will not leave the ground. The same could be said for NASA’s plans to go to the moon, Mars or beyond Earth orbit. It’s not so much a physical challenge for engineers as it is a financial challenge for budgeteers.

The $108 billion program to return to the moon by 2020 was started five years ago by then-President George W. Bush. But a special independent panel commissioned by President Barack Obama concluded that the plan cannot work on the existing budget schedule because it’s likely to cost at least an extra $30 billion through 2020.

Even NASA’s soon-to-be-retired space shuttle fleet has proved that getting off the ground isn’t a given, with two launch scrubs this week of a mission to the international space station.

The space station is finally

finished. Yet NASA’s long-standing plans call for junking the outpost in about seven years. If the agency keeps that schedule, it would mean that in the next decade NASA’s astronauts could be going nowhere if there’s no moon mission.

Obama’s special panel looked at other options available for the space program — such as skipping the moon and going directly to Mars or an asteroid, or just cruising in the solar system. But they kept using words like “least worst scenario” during their final public deliberations earlier this month. In their report due Monday, they will also give advice about the end of the shuttle and space station programs.

The White House told the panel to aim to stay within current budget estimates.

“If you want to do something, you have to have the money to do it,” said panel member and former astronaut Sally Ride. “This budget is very, very, very hard to fit and still have an exploration program.”

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“The problem is the size 14 foot in the size 10 shoe,” said American University public policy professor Howard McCurdy, author of several books about the American space program. “It’s just really hard to fit it all in. A lot of the assumptions made in 2004 (for the Bush plan) have just not materialized.”

The panel will not tell the president which choice to make. That will be up to Obama. Until NASA is told to change course, it will continue with the Bush plan.

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That rocket will be taller than the space shuttle, illustrating an agency eager to launch something new.

“NASA has been like a star athlete that’s broken world records back in the 1960s and

NASA program to return to the moon by 2020 put on hold by President Obama due to budget shortfalls

is stuck in the bleachers ever since, unable to suit up for what it does best,” said space scientist Alan Stern, who quit last year as NASA’s associate administrator for science.

But, as has been the case since about 1971, money is holding engineers back, Stern said.

“Bush never delivered on his promise to up NASA’s funding,” Stern said. He added that the previous NASA administrator “tried cannibalizing NASA (to pay for exploration) but that wasn’t enough.”

While the Bush administration cut some spending, the “real killer” came in Obama’s first budget, which starts in October, said Scott Pace, the No. 3 at NASA during the Bush administration. Obama cut $3 billion from projections for future spending on exploration, with even more

cut when inflation is factored in, said Pace, director of space policy at George Washington University.

The administration gave the agency an extra $400 million, however, as part of the stimulus package.

Former NASA associate administrator Scott Hubbard said if the United States invited other countries, including Russia and perhaps China, on the next space journey, it would keep America’s costs lower. It’s an idea the panel and some in the Obama administration have discussed.

Some kind of change is needed in NASA plans, said Hubbard, a professor at Stanford University: “What we ended up with now is clearly unsustainable.”

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Representing Maverick pride, the new Red Bull dining facility in Basra, Iraq, will be the first to display Minnesota colors.

Lieutenant Colonel Ronan of the 34th infantry division in Basra emailed the Minnesota State R.O.T.C program searching for a symbol to remind soldiers what awaits them upon their return home.

The flag will be flown along side 18 other university banners including the University of Iowa, Purdue, South Dakota State University, Notre Dame, Florida and Auburn. Lt. Col. David W. Ronan is senior advisor for the 34th infantry division and is a 1982 graduate of the Minnesota State R.O.T.C program.

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“It’s a good thing, the guys over there will see the flag hanging and be able to talk about the memories they have of Mankato and of MSU, it will help keep there minds at ease.” said Lieutenant Colonel Joel Stephenson, Professor of Military Science at MSU.

In such a demanding environment, a little piece of home goes a long way.

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More police officers are on the lookout for impaired drivers as part of a campaign that started Friday.

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He died without seeing his dream of universal health care come true. From his sickbed earlier this summer, he had worked the phones, making a final push for what he called “the cause of my life” in a rousing speech at the Democratic convention last August.

After Chappaquiddick especially, Kennedy gained a reputation as a heavy drinker and a womanizer, a tragically flawed figure haunted by the fear that he did not quite measure up to his brothers. As his weight ballooned, he was lampooned by comics and cartoonists in the 1980s and ‘90s as the very embodiment of government waste, bloat and decadence.

But in his later years, after he had remarried, he buckled down and came to be regarded as a statesman on Capitol Hill, seen as one of the most effective, hardworking lawmakers Washington has ever seen.

A barrel-chested figure with a swath of white hair, a booming voice and a thick, widely imitated Boston accent, he coupled fist-pumping floor speeches with his well-honed Irish charm and formidable negotiating skills. He was both a passionate liberal and a clear-eyed pragmatist, unafraid to reach across the aisle to get things done.

Over the decades, he managed to put his imprint on every major piece of social legislation to clear the Congress. In fact, for all his insecurities, he ended up perhaps the most influential liberal voice of his time.

“There are very few people who have touched the life of this nation in the same breadth and the same order of magnitude,” Obama said in April as he signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act into law.

He arrived at his place in the Senate after a string of family tragedies so terrible it sometimes seemed as if the Kennedys — America’s foremost political dynasty — were as cursed as they were charmed. He was the only one of the four Kennedy brothers to

die of natural causes.Kennedy’s eldest brother,

Joseph, was killed in a plane crash in World War II. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in Los Angeles as he campaigned for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination. John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash at age 38 along with his wife in 1999.

It fell to Ted Kennedy to deliver the eulogies, to comfort his brothers’ widows, to mentor fatherless nieces and nephews. It was Ted Kennedy who walked JFK’s daughter, Caroline, down the aisle at her wedding.

Tragedy had a way of bringing out his eloquence.

Kennedy sketched a dream of a better future as he laid to rest his brother Robert in 1968: “My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”

After John Jr.’s death, the senator eulogized the young man by saying: “We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father, he had every gift but length of years.”

His own legacy was blighted on the night of July 18, 1969, when Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island, on Martha’s Vineyard. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker with RFK’s campaign, was found dead in the submerged car’s back seat 10 hours later.

Kennedy, then 37, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence and a year’s probation. A judge eventually determined there was “probable cause to believe that Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently ... and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”

At the height of the scandal, Kennedy went on national television to explain himself in an extraordinary 13-minute address in which he denied driving drunk and rejected rumors of “immoral conduct” with Ms. Kopechne. He said

he was haunted by “irrational” thoughts immediately after the accident, and wondered “whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.” He said his failure to report the accident right away was “indefensible.”

In 1980, Kennedy took the extraordinary step of challenging a sitting president, Jimmy Carter, for the party’s nomination. Kennedy’s left-of-center politics made him an unlikely choice. But Chappaquiddick — and lingering suspicions that the famous Kennedy money and clout had gotten him out of the trouble — damaged his chances, too.

Kennedy’s speech in accepting defeat to Carter electrified the Democratic convention and turned out to be a defining moment. At 48, he seemed liberated from the towering expectations and high hopes invested in him after the death of his brothers, and he plunged himself into his work in the Senate. He never again made a serious run at the presidency.

First elected to the Senate in 1962 to his brother John’s seat, easily re-elected in 2006, Kennedy served close to 47 years, longer than all but two senators in history: Robert Byrd of West Virginia (more than

50½ years and counting) and the late Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who put in nearly 47½ years. Kennedy’s career spanned 10 presidencies.

His legislative achievements included bills to provide health insurance for children of the working poor, the landmark 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Meals on Wheels for the elderly, abortion clinic access, family leave, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

He was also a key negotiator on legislation creating a Medicare prescription drug benefit for senior citizens and was a driving force for peace in Ireland and a persistent critic of the war in Iraq.

Kennedy did not always prevail. In late 2008, he unsuccessfully lobbied for niece Caroline’s appointment to the Senate from New York.

Wildly popular among Democrats, Kennedy routinely won re-election by large margins. He grew comfortable in his role as Republican foil and leader of his party’s liberal wing.

President George W. Bush welcomed Kennedy to the Rose Garden on several occasions as he signed bills that the Democrat helped write.

“He’s the kind of person

who will state his case, sometimes quite eloquently and vociferously, and then on another issue will come along and you can work with him,” Bush said shortly before his first term began in 2001.

But Bush was also the target of some of Kennedy’s sharpest attacks. Kennedy assailed the Iraq war as Bush’s Vietnam, a conflict “made up in Texas” and marketed by the Bush administration for political gain.

Kennedy and his niece Caroline shook up the Democratic establishment in January 2008 when they endorsed Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton for the nomination for president. The ailing Massachusetts senator electrified delegates when he made a surprise trip to Denver last August to address the Democratic convention and press for Obama’s election.

After Obama won in November, Kennedy renewed words once spoken by his brother John, declaring: “The world is changing. The old ways will not do. ... It is time for a new generation of leadership.”

Born in 1932, the youngest of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children, Edward Moore Kennedy was part of a family bristling with political ambition,

CAMELOT Kennedy was a key negotiator on legislation, creating a prescription drug benefit for senior citizens, a force for peace in Ireland and a critic of the war in Iraq continued from 8

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BEIJING (AP) — China has launched a national organ donation system to try to reduce its dependence on body parts harvested from executed prisoners, who make up the majority of donors, state media reported Wednesday.

Organ transplantation in China has long been criticized as profit-driven and unethical, with critics arguing death row inmates may feel pressured to become donors, violating personal, religious or cultural beliefs.

The World Health Organization and international human rights groups welcomed the new system, saying it was in line with best practices in other countries and would likely help meet the needs of all patients.

The move is China’s latest step to better regulate organ transplants. Medical officials agreed in 2007 not to transplant organs from prisoners or others in custody, except into members of their immediate families.

But in a rare disclosure about an industry often criticized for being opaque, the China Daily newspaper said Wednesday that more than 65 percent of organ

donors come from death row.Though the figure could

not be confirmed with the government, Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu has publicly acknowledged in recent years that most organs used for transplants are taken from executed prisoners, though only with prior consent.

Condemned prisoners are “definitely not a proper source for organ transplants,” the China Daily quoted Huang as saying.

With the new donor system, launched Tuesday, the Health Ministry and Red Cross Society of China want to reduce that proportion by encouraging the normally hesitant general public to donate organs after they die.

WHO’s top transplantation official in Geneva, Dr. Luc Noel, praised the Chinese move, saying: “We’re eager to see the results and are very supportive.”

Noel said a few other countries occasionally extract organs from executed prisoners, though he did not specify which. China’s “reliance on organs from executed convicts was certainly not an option that could withstand time” and opened the

way for abuses, he said.Nicholas Bequelin, Asia

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no system in place for organ donations.

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about to be executed, you do not have a real choice, especially in a system ... (that) is completely untransparent and notorious for abuses against prisoners, as the Chinese system is.”

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Round-cheeked Teddy was thrown out of Harvard in 1951 for cheating, after arranging for a classmate to take a freshman Spanish exam for him. He eventually returned, earning his degree in 1956.

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In the summer of 1978, a Gallup Poll showed that Democrats preferred Kennedy over President Carter 54 percent to 32 percent. A year later, Kennedy decided to run for the White House with a campaign that accused Carter of turning his back on the Democratic agenda.

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The digital age of music has certainly been a tremulous experience. From the day Napster broke ground in the digital world in 1999, illegal downloading became an Internet phenomenon that record companies and upset musicians such as Lars Ulrich demanded be fixed and harshly penalized.

Just a short two years later, Napster was shut down, yet numerous illegal downloading services remained in operation.

Then, led by iTunes, legal downloading became available at the modest price of $1 per song or an entire album at a set price. Yet, the largest group of digital music downloaders, college-aged youths and younger, still find it hard to manage the balance between

their love of music and the discretionary funds they have available to pay for said music.

Even Napster, under new management, has joined the fray of legal online music downloading. Yet many users of Napster, as well as Yahoo! Music, complain of songs being encoded with Digital Rights Management (DRM), severely hampering the usage of purchased music by limiting the playback and ownership ability of each song.

Liam Ó Móráin, a member of the business development department at Northern Ireland University’s Deri Enterprise Research Institute argues that “DRM manages freedom the same way a prison system manages freedom.”

A new digital music downloading service named Amie Street, however, has

come to the rescue of budget-conscious and DRM-hating downloaders alike.

Three former Brown University students, Joshua Boltuch, Elliott Breece and Elias Roman, started what would be Amie Street while in school by creating a business plan, speaking to professors, advisers, business people, friends and family and hiring computer science students to help build the first version of the site.

On July 4, 2006, the trio and their crew launched an alpha version of Amie Street just over a month after graduating from Brown.

Three years later, Boltuch, Breece and Roman, along with new members Peter Asbill and Lucas Hrabovsky, they live and have offices in New York

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Tuesday sentenced Chris Brown to five years’ probation and six months’ com-munity labor for the beating of Rihanna and ordered the R&B singer to stay away from his former girlfriend for the next five years.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg told Brown that he could be sent to state prison if he violated any terms of his sentence, including an order to stay 100 yards away from Rihanna unless they’re at-tending music industry events.

A probation report pre-pared for Tuesday’s sentencing describes two previous violent incidents. It said the first hap-pened about three months before

the February beating while the couple was traveling in Europe; Rihanna slapped Brown during an argument, and he shoved her into a wall. In the second instance, Brown allegedly broke the front and passenger side windows on a Range Rover they were driving while visiting Bar-bados, Rihanna’s home country. Neither attack was reported, the probation report states.

Brown will serve his sentence in his home state — Virginia — and his community labor will be overseen by the police chief in Richmond.

The judge said she wanted to ensure that Brown, 20, per-forms physical labor instead of community service, such as mentoring young people. He will

also undergo a year of domestic violence counseling.

Rihanna did not attend Tues-day’s sentencing.

At one point, Brown, who was accompanied by his mother, agreed to the terms of the sentence before Schnegg had finished going through them all.

The hearing had been planned for Thursday after-noon, but Brown’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, asked to move up the singer’s sentencing to Tuesday. A previous attempt to sentence Brown was postponed when Schnegg said she hadn’t received adequate assurances that Brown would perform physical labor if allowed to serve probation in Virginia.

Arctic Monkeys have never been a slow-building band. The first track on an Arctic Monkeys album sounds as though the group started playing a few lines before the engineer even had a chance to hit ‘record’.

Nor have they been known to slow down and take it easy. In four years they’ve released

three albums, two EPs, and seven singles.

Even their sales are notoriously swift; their 2006 debut, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not was the fastest-selling album in British history, breaking a record set by The Beatles by pushing just under 120,000

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ability to compete with local businesses.

The bar features a menu ranging from Mediterranean favorites, lamb and beef gyros, to American crowd-pleasers, pizza and burgers. Savoy has a short but amicable list of foods sure to please. With any gyro, wrap or sandwich and a side for under ten bucks, the

Homme-produced Monkeys album a sphere of success

CHRISTIAN HAGEN | staff writer

Chris Brown gets five years probation

Mediterranean with a twistSavoy brings new take on downtown diningSAM CAMPBELLstaff writer

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Monkeys / page 21Amie / page 22

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It is a rarity to find an actress that can essentially do no wrong, but Meryl Streep has once again proven that she is the exception.

Her newest film, “Julie and Julia,” is about two women, Julie Powell (Amy Adams) and Julia Child (Meryl Streep). Streep is a dead ringer for Child, which must have been quite a feat seeing as though Streep normally stands at 5 feet 6 inches tall and appeared in the film as Child’s height, 6 feet 2 inches tall.

Streep is absolutely charming and irresistible, capturing Child’s carefree, laid back and often comical persona. She personifies the film’s light-hearted feel, overshadowing Powell and seemingly making her struggle meaningless. She steals the film with a performance that leaves the audience wanting to learn

more about Child’s life and numerous recipes.

The script is based on both Powell’s 2005 memoirs, “Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen,” and Child’s autobiography, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” Switching between the two women’s lives, the film displays the differences they have in personality and lifestyle.

The film opens with a much younger Child. In her youth, her life seems almost enchanted.

It is 1949 and she and her husband Paul Child (Stanley Tucci) move from the U.S. to live in Paris as per Paul’s new job working as an American ambassador. The scenery is beautiful— Child even describes the apartment as reminiscent of Paris’ Palace at Versailles. Child is enamored with France and revels in the French scenery and French cuisine that later inspires her to cook.

Nearly 50 years later, Powell

lives an un-charmed, slightly mundane life. She and her husband Eric Powell (Chris Messina) move into a small studio apartment in Queens, NY. Powell works as a client relations representative, a job that entails answering phone calls from victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Unsatisfied with her life, Powell decides to write a blog, one that will share her loves of cooking and Julia Child. She comes to the conclusion that she will cook her way through Julia Child’s revolutionary cookbook, planning to cook the book’s 534 recipes in 365 days.

Food, of course, would have to be considered the third main character of this film, as delicious looking meals and difficult recipes take center stage, causing even the audience to gasp with sounds of sheer delight when each meal Powell created was finished.

Norah Ephron, who also wrote the screenplay, directed “Julie & Julia.” Although the film is advertised as focusing on Powell, Ephron highlights Child and her vivacious personality. Often throughout the film, Powell is portrayed as flawed in comparison to Child and she even says, “Oh Julia, you make it sound so simple.”

The film would not have been a success without

Streep as Child. She brings out an essence of sheer joy that encompasses the film’s upbeat feel and creates a desire to learn more about this insatiable woman and her delicious

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Amy Adams portrays blogger Julie Powell in “Julie & Julia.”

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MONKEYS British “it” band grows up, but doesn’t stop showing listeners a good time continued from 19

copies in a single day. Musically, they’re fast, tight,

occasionally melodic, and always bombastic, almost to a fault.

How fitting then that the band’s third album, Humbug, is, against all expectations, slower, dirtier, looser, and, one might say, sultrier.

Likely due to singer Alex Turner’s affinity for Jimi Hendrix and Cream, the Monkeys have returned with a classic understanding of the guitar rock swagger that has carried through every generation of popular music for the past five decades. Another trend that can be traced to Turner’s musical tastes, the band appears to have been washed in the runoff of the singer’s most recent side project, Last Shadow Puppets, whose songs each sound like they would fit in

perfectly as the theme to a Bond movie.

Many of the tracks slide smoothly from a challenge to a come on, soaked in the musk of danger and possibility. It takes a certain confidence to be so daring, and this band seems to have it in spades.

But of course, this is still audibly Arctic Monkeys, and the key elements are all in place. Turner’s voice, though smoothed a little and often dropped into an almost unrecognizable lower register, is still sharp. His native English accent sneers through every word and makes plain that he will do what he wants no matter what anyone thinks of him.

Bassist Nick O’Malley and guitarist Jamie Cook are given more of a chance than ever to shine, taking the group’s signature sped-up alt-punk

and smudging it, muddying the chords and squeezing out careful yet powerful solos. Best of all, drummer Matt Helders, one of the great unsung masters of this oft-ignored instrument, is still able to take a song and make it vibrant through a simple application of bass, snare, and hi-hat.

Still, Humbug is hardly what we’re used to from this young band. Known for injecting heavy doses of punk and personal experience into otherwise straightforward rock tunes, much like the Strokes have done in the U.S., it’s as though they’ve seen the light of an entirely new era.

The sunny and lovesick “Cornerstone” is more “Summer of Love” than “The Year in Hell,” as Turner tries, unsuccessfully, to find a woman who will meet his

approximation of the one who got away. Only two songs away, “Pretty Visitors”, after a lilting organ opening, jumps into a tongue-in-cheek punk shouting fest straight out of the Sex Pistols and CBGB’s.

After that, it’s a grunge stomp, which makes much more sense when you realize that the album was produced by Queens of the Stone Age front man Josh Homme, some of it in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

Barren locales aside, clearly Arctic Monkeys have moved to a new sphere of musical appreciation. The barely-sung lyrical stories are still there, but we’re no longer given tales of young lawbreakers and dance floors. Rather, we get relationships gone sour, bitterness unbidden and justified. Backup vocals are still present, but gone are the gangs

of young men straining to be heard and understood in a world where the deified youth are represented by the dimmest and ruled by the cruelest. In their place, we get wafting “oohs” and “aahs”, as on the captivating “Fire and the Thud”. There is a pall over the album, a general unease that is only broken when a song is released into its full potential, which almost all of them are. It’s artfully done, though it’s hard to say whether this new direction is taking the band somewhere worth going, or whether we’re just speeding through a detour towards the riot that’s been in progress for the last four years.

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“It’s very different from The Nile,” Bati said, and encourages anyone who enjoyed The Nile to try it for them self.

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“We created a really easy and fun rewards system that gives you credit for more downloads when you recommend songs that become more popular,” Boltuch said. “The more a song increases in price after it’s been recommended the more credit you receive, so if you recommend a song when it’s free and it subsequently gets more popular and gets up to $.98, you get that $.98 back into your account to spend on more

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Boltuch encourages music lovers everywhere to start an account on Amie Street to start downloading cheaply and legally. Boltuch said, “I hope people use the site because it’s a really easy way to find great new music.”

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This ’70s French flick was a psychedelic and intelligent achievement in science-fiction and animation.

Said to be based on the Russian occupation of the Czech Republic, the film follows a human who lives in a world where humans are ruled and treated as pets by giant humanoids called Ohms.

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Tryin’ to stay on topThe MSU soccer team won the NSIC tournament

last year and is predicted to finish on top this season. Ranked 15th in the country, the Mavericks seem to have

all the pieces in place.LEVI ZIMMER | staff writer

High expectations are on the agenda for the 2009 women’s soccer season. The team was chosen as the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) preseason favorite. They finished their 2008 campaign with a 16-4-2 overall and 10-2-1 conference record.

Last season was the team’s first as a part of the NSIC. In its inaugural season, the team captured the conference tournament championship, defeating the regular-season champions Winona State.

It was also the first season for head coach Peter McGahey, who led his team to its second straight NCAA tournament appearance and only the fourth appear-ance in the teams history.

“The beauty of being at Minnesota State is that the expectations are always high,” McGahey said. “I think the efforts and accomplishments of the other stu-dent athletes in the other sports certainly set a high standard for us in women’s soccer, and we set a high standard for ourselves. We are certainly aspiring for consistent improvement throughout the season and hopefully achieve some great things.”

Success is imminent for a team re-turning a majority of its starters, includ-ing arguably one of the greatest players to don a women’s soccer uniform.

Forward Laura Leber is entering her junior season has already compiled a

flurry of accomplishments. Leber was only the third player in the history of the program to be named an NCAA/Adidas All-American.

“I have to remember that what I ac-complished last year is done and over,” Leber said. “This is a new year and I’m basically starting all over. I think my hard work and dedication that I put into the summer trainings will help me in the long run.”

In 22 games, she scored 12 goals and 3 assists, giving her 27 points. Seven of those 12 goals came as game winners. She was also named to the NSIC All-Tournament Team and captured the 2008 NSIC Tournament Most Valuable Player Award. In two seasons with the Maver-icks Leber has accumulated 23 goals, 7 assists and 53 points.

“Laura’s talents and her individual ac-complishments as an All-American last year — being the third in the programs history — is a tremendous accomplish-ment recognizing her individual efforts and abilities and certainly the contribu-tion of all her teammates last year in practice and in games to push her onto those new levels,” McGahey said.

Although Leber is the All-American and arguably the face of Mavericks soc-cer, goalkeeper Sheila Reynolds is the thunder to Leber’s lightning.

archive photo • msu reporter Quarterback Ryan Fick will lead the Maverick passing game for the second year in a row.

Hitting the road

The start of an anticipated season is on the way.

After countless fall and summer workouts the Minnesota State football team will start their schedule, playing on the road against Truman State Saturday.

Truman State is located in Missouri, and no Maverick players have been on the campus before.

“It’s tough to win on the road,” said head coach Todd Hoffner. “Getting the team together on the road is challenging. You don’t sleep in your own bed. None of these guys have been to Truman.”

Truman State started last season 3-2 before dropping five of their final six games. However, the Bulldogs do play in one of the most competitive conferences in Division II football, with such teams as Northwest Missouri State and Nebraska-Omaha.

The Mavericks on the other hand, surprised a lot of teams last season by going 9-3, taking the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference by storm.

“I think we did have a successful season and Truman did play in a very good conference,” Hoffner said. “Even though their record was 4-7, they played well.”

The Mavericks will bring back

playmakers such as quarterback Ryan Fick and receivers Chris Nowlin and Vinny Flurry.

Kelvin Rodgers also returns on the defensive side of the ball and has had a huge impact on special teams.

“Going into this season, we have a lot of momentum,” Rodgers said. “That’s just the first step. We gotta go out there and do what we gotta do. We put in a lot of work during the spring. (Hoffner) has worked us very hard.”

The Bulldogs aren’t as fortunate, as they are lacking experience on the offensive side of the ball.

Junior quarterback Phillip Davis

Football / page 24

The Maverick football squad will be far from home in the season opener

Soccer / page 29

KYLE RATKEsports editor

wale agboola• msu reporterThe Mavericks are coming off of a great season and with a returning cast of playmakers,

they could repeat as champions of the NSIC tournament.

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PREVIEW: The Mavericks finished 9-3 last season and expections couldn’t get much higher for them. The Bulldogs on the other hand, are hungry after a disappointing season finishing 4-7. Don’t let the Bulldogs fool you though, as they are playing in one of the toughest conferences in the nation. The Mavericks don’t have a cake walk in the NSIC either. Minnesota-Duluth will be a big challenge in the conference.

OFFENSE: The Mavericks overpower the Bullodogs of-fensively. Quarterback Ryan Fick is solid throwing and run-ning the ball. Heaving the ball to receivers like Vinny Flurry and Chris Nowlin. Senior Julian Phipps will return at the

running back postion and will look to exceed the 599 yards he rushed for last year.

DEFENSE: This is where things could get interesting. Truman State is returning senior de-fensive back Demetrius Lavant who has a pretty full stat line — 74 tackles, 5.5 sacks, two interceptions and three fumble recoveries. The Maverick offense may have met their match.

SPECIAL TEAMS: One name, Kelvin Rodgers. This guy will have a high on him through-out the whole season because of returning skills. The defen-sive back returned either a kick, punt, or interception for a touchdown in four straight games. It will be interesting

to see if the Bulldogs kick his way — or throw.

BOTTOM LINE: The Maver-icks look to have enough tal-ent to beat the Bulldogs, but let’s not forget this is a road game and the Truman State football team is rebuilding. There could be some valuable freshman and sophomore’s that step up for the Bulldogs, but look for the Mavericks to win this one.

Kyle RatKe • sports editor

is projected to start, but last season Davis threw just eight balls, completing four for a total of 31 yards and a touchdown.

The Bulldogs’ leading rusher from a season ago is Anton Bernard, who rushed for a measly 35.3 yards per game last season.

“Obviously any college program has the chance to reload. They have an advantage since they get 36 scholarships, while we only get 24,” Hoffner said. “I don’t see anything unfair about the matchup. I would think it’s the other way around. It’s easier to acquire gifted and talented players.”

The Mavericks last played Truman State in 2006 and were victorious by a score of

34-16.Hoffner and MSU are

looking to start the season off better than last year. Central Missouri spoiled Hoffner’s debut as a Maverick coach, defeating them 29-9.

The opening loss didn’t seem to affect the Mavericks very heavily last season, and Hoffner and the rest of the team weigh each game equally.

“We haven’t won in Missouri since I’ve been here,” Rodgers said. “We want a win there. I think we gotta go down there and execute. We got a target on our back.”

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After months of hard work, the Minnesota State women’s volleyball team can finally turn their attention away from practice and onto their first match of the season. The Mavericks will travel to Omaha, Nebraska to compete in the UNO Volleyball showcase.

The tournament kicks off Friday when MSU will take on Tarleton State, the first match of a 4 match tournament. The tournament should give fans a good idea of where the 2009 Mavericks match up going into this season.

“The way this group is made up we should be good,” said head coach Dennis Amundson.

Amundson reached a four year contract extension this summer and will be guiding the Mavericks for his fifth season. There is good reason the University extended Amundson’s contract, the head coach has put together winning seasons in three of his first four years, including two appearances in the NCAA tournament.

Despite winning their final seven matches last season and holding an overall record of 20-11, the Mavericks missed out on the NCAA tournament. It was the first time since 2005

MSU has not participated in the NCAA tournament, a place they want to get back to this year.

“We just have to rebound, we can’t always control what happens away from court,” Amundson said.

MSU has a good balance of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, but only two seniors in Ally Kwikkel and Kelly Sandstrom. The team will have to rely on some of their younger players to step up on and off the court.

Besides Kwikkel and

Sandstrom, the Mavericks also have an accomplished player in junior Amanda Beekman who was an NSIC all- conference honorable mention award winner last season. This weekend’s tournament should give coach Amundson a good idea of what he can expect out of the rest of his players this season.

“This tournament will show us where we stand as a team, and what players can perform away from practice,” Amundson said.

The four matches should do just that and will be a good warm-up for the conference season. The Mavericks open conference play September 15 and the time between then will prove to be crucial to gaining momentum for a tough conference schedule up ahead.

One thing the Mavericks seem to have early on this season is plenty of chemistry. All the players seem to be on the same page which has been a plus for coach Amundson.

“In my 5 years here I’ve

never had a team with this much chemistry before,” he said. “They all just seem to click.”

Putting talent aside, strong chemistry for a team may be the most important thing they can have. The Mavericks are ranked third in the NSIC conference preseason poll, but that doesn’t put into consideration the way a team works together. This could bid well for a Mavericks team that has a goal to get back into postseason play. That journey to the goal will start this weekend.

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Starting on the topMaverick cross-country will compete for another NSIC title and

gain attention on the national level

Sights are set high this season for Min-nesota State cross-country, and rightfully so.

According to women and men coaches Jen Blue and Mark Schuck, both teams have their sight set on making it to the national championship.

“We had one of the best sea-sons last year in years,” Blue said. “We want to continue to build on last seasons’ third place finish at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) meet and seventh place fin-ish at the NCAA Regional Meet.”

The women’s team faces stiff competition conference-wise and regionally.

“Conference-wise, Augustana and University of Minnesota – Duluth will be our toughest competition,” Blue said.

Regionally, the MSU women’s team will have to face perennial powerhouses Western State and Adams

State. Nationally, Augustana, UMD, Metro State, Mesa State and Univer-

sity of Colo-rado - Colorado Springs will be the toughest competition.

Captain for the women’s team this year is junior Jenny Hoese. Re-turning to the

team are seniors Lindsay Brougten, Amanda Dettman, Natalie Lyster and Meagan McCon-nell, sophomores Jennifer Duley

and Jen Lang, along with freshman Ash-ley Soper.

Blue said the team expected to win the conference is Augustana.

“Ideally, we would like to

win the meet,” Blue said of the conference championship.The squad took third last season.

Augustana is returning quite a few athletes from their conference championship team

from last year. “If we focus on team unity

and work together, we can get to our goals,” said senior captain Jenny Hoese.

On the men’s front, re-

turning this year is conference-winning senior James Krajsa, and other seniors Jon Stoltman and Denise Mokaya. Junior Jeff Lombardo and sopho-more Nick Jamnick also return.

“Our goal is to win the conference cham-pionship,” Schuck said. Regionally, Schuck hopes the team will be in the top-five for the national championship and to be in the top-10 in the country.

“These are realistic goals. They are worthy of working towards,” Schuck said.

For conference, the toughest competition for the men’s team will be Augustana, UMD, and Wayne State. Schuck said that even though these teams are tough competition, MSU is expected to the NSIC.

“Basically all the meets are in prepara-

tion for conference,”

Schuck said.Schuck’s overall goal

for the team is to win the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown consists of win-ning the championship in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track.

“The last time we won the Triple Crown was back in the 1970s,” Schuck said. Schuck is the men’s coach for all three sports.

Both teams open the season on September 11, with the men’s team headed to Collegeville, MN for the St. John’s Invitational and the women’s team headed to the Oz Memorial at the University of Minnesota.

photo courtesy of Sport PixBoth cross-country teams made a huge impact last year while both finished in the top-three of the NSIC. They hope to remain succesful.

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The Minnesota Twins are finally on a roll, and so is Delmon Young.

Michael Cuddyer doesn’t think that is a coincidence.

Young’s fourth hit of the night scored Cuddyer in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 7-6 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night.

Justin Morneau hit his 29th homer of the season for the Twins, who have won five games in a row for the first time all season as they chase the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox in the AL Central.

A notoriously slow starter, Young hit .241 in April and .236 in May, but has rebounded nicely of late. Over his last 10 games, Young is hitting .292 with three homers and 13 RBIs to raise his average to .266. His four hits on Tuesday night tied a career high.

“He’s been swinging great this month and we need that,” Cuddyer said. “Since he’s been swinging great, we’ve been playing better. I think that’s a direct correlation.”

With two outs in the ninth, Cuddyer hit a liner off a diving Brian Roberts’ glove at second base to get things started. Kam Mikolio (0-1) then walked Jason Kubel before Young hit one the opposite way. Cuddyer

easily beat right fielder Nick Markakis’ throw home and the jubilant Twins mobbed Young at first base.

“The last couple weeks, we’ll give up some runs early,” Young said. “From what the guys have been saying, this is the best offense they’ve had here in the last 10 years, so we know we can score runs and we know we can do it with one swing of the bat.”

The Twins (63-63) moved into a tie with the White Sox, who lost to Boston, for second place in the division.

Michael Aubrey had a double and three RBIs for the Orioles, who led 5-3 going into the sixth, but never were able to come up with the big hit to put the game away.

Jose Mijares (2-2) pitched one inning for the win and the Twins bullpen allowed only two runs over the final 6 1-3

innings in relief of Armando Gabino, who was shaky in his major league debut.

Gabino became the 22nd pitcher used by the Twins in a year plagued by injuries and riddled with inconsistency. The club record for pitchers used in a season is 23 in 1989.

Gabino lasted only 2 2-3 innings, giving up five hits and four runs with three walks, but the Orioles could

have had so much more. Before the game, Orioles manager Dave Trembley

spoke of the importance of staying on the 25 year old and taking advantage when he struggled.

“If you get a chance early, you better not let them off the ropes,” Trembley said. “You’ve got to go after him. You’ve got to get him early.”

Baltimore stranded eight runners in the first four innings and left the bases loaded in the third and fourth innings.

“I don’t feel like we gave it away, I feel we didn’t

take it,” Trembley said. “It was there for us to take, and we didn’t take it.”

Those missed opportunities allowed the Twins to scratch their way back into it, even though Gabino and Philip Humber combined to walk seven hitters in 3 2-3 innings.

Morneau, in his second

game back after missing six with an inner ear infection, hit a solo homer in the third inning. It was his first since Aug. 2, a span of 51 at-bats.

Alexi Casilla’s two-run double off Brian Bass highlighted a three-run sixth inning that tied the game 6-all. Orioles starter Brian Matusz gave up three runs on seven hits with three strikeouts and two walks in five innings.

“A guy goes out there and gives us a three run lead in the last four innings,” Bass said. “You’re expected to hold it and win the game. Unfortunately I coughed it up and didn’t get it done.”

Denard Span had a triple and two RBIs for the Twins.

NOTES: Roberts went 0 for 5 and did not reach base for the first time in 27 games, snapping the longest active streak in the majors. ... Orioles CF Felix Pie made a brilliant lunging catch on a gapper by Carlos Gomez in the second inning. He also had a baserunning blunder in the sixth when Morneau caught a ball in foul territory and doubled Pie up trying to advance to third base. ... Lefties were 0 for 8 against Matusz in his previous five starts of the season. Twins lefties Span, Mauer and Morneau combined to go 3 for 9 with a homer and three RBIs.

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Tickets will go on sale Sept. 2 at 10 a.m. at the Taylor Center box office. Tickets can

also be purchased through Ticketmaster.

The Oct. 4 game will mark the third time in the Wolves’ history they have played a preseason game in Mankato. The last was in 2001.

Men’s Cross-CountryThe Mavericks men’s cross-

country team has been ranked

fourth in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll.

There are three other teams from the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference that are in the top-10, including Augustana (5), MSU-Moorhead (9) and Northern State (10).

The Mavericks have also been picked as the favorite to win the NSIC by other

conference coaches.MSU won the NSIC last

season and took eighth in nationals out of 24 schools. The Mavericks received all nine first place votes and tallied 81 points, 11 ahead of Augustana which had 70 points.

Women’s cross-countryThe women’s team is also

in top-10 nationally, ranking sixth. Three other teams from the NSIC are also in the top-10, including Augustana (2), Minnesota-Duluth (4) and Winona State (8).

The Mavericks were predicted to finish third in the NSIC.

They finished seventh last season in the NCAA Central Regional.

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You’re from Nebraska, how excit-ing is that? Boring. Omaha was fun to grow up in, but it was time to go.

What do you think would a rea-sonable goal for the team this year? Honestly a reasonable goal would be going to the final four and winning conference for sure.

Any superstitions? I do the exact same thing before game. I put on my left shin guard before my right, and left shoe before my right. And listen the same set of songs.

What have you done to improve over the offsea-son? We have set up a program for everyone to run and lift everday. Most of the girls have played in leagues over the summer.

How was that question? How was the answer?

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SOCCER “We just have to focus on one goal at a time. We can’t overlook the small steps that it takes to achieve the big one.” continued from 23

Leber

— Compiled by Kyle Ratke

There’s an old sports apho-

rism: “Offense wins games but defense wins championships.”

If that holds true, this team is well on their way to capture some more hardware. Reynolds, a senior, set a school record last year by posting the lowest goals - against - average, 0.60, in school history. She was in the net for all but one game

with a record of 16-3-2 and 11 shutouts.

“We have Sheila Reynolds returning in goal. She had the game of her life when we played Creighton a week ago,” Leber said. “I think her abilities will continue to help us through the season.”

Her 12 career shutouts puts her third on the Mavericks’ all-time list with her senior season

still ahead of her.

The 2008 season pro-pelled this program into the national spotlight, resulting in a slew of fresh-men recruits. Leading the 2009 freshman

class is Minnesota’s Ms. Soccer Brittney Henry of Stillwater. The team welcomes 11 new women to the roster: three from Minnesota, three from Wiscon-sin, two from Colorado, one from South Dakota, one from Iowa and one from Nebraska.

“As long as everybody does their part, the opportunities are endless,” Leber said. “We just have to focus on one goal

at a time. We can’t overlook the small steps that it takes to achieve one big one.”

The season opener is Friday against Ferris State at The Pitch behind Gage Towers at 3 p.m.

The Maverick’s start confer-ence play Sunday at home against Minnesota Duluth.

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