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Disciplinary hearings began in late October for a junior at Butler University in Indiana for what university officials called a libelous and threatening blog that criticized school administration. The student, Jess Zimmerman, has contended that nothing on his blog, TrueBU Blog, came close to what the university has alleged. Zimmerman, whose father and stepmother work at Butler, created the blog in October 2008 as a place to discuss goings-on at the university.

“I thought it would be fun to see if we could have open

discussion,” said Zimmerman. “Something as an alternative to websites like ‘Juicy Campus.’”

Juicy Campus is a blog that posts college gossip and, as Zimmerman said, can sometimes be negative. His goal was to create a place where positive criticism could take place. In his first blog, he stated “This is not a forum for attack. It is a forum for truth.” Zimmerman went on to say that attacks would not be tolerated.

The blog continued through December of 2008 when Zimmerman received an e-mail to his account linked with the blog. The e-mail was from a university lawyer and informed Zimmerman, who was still only known by the moniker “Soodo Nym”, that legal action was being

exercised. Zimmerman took down the blog, but a lawsuit was filed in January.

After several memos and statements by Butler President Bobby Fong, Zimmerman said that he felt he needed to “clear the air” about his blog. He felt that it was being misrepresented to school officials and the public and wanted people to know the truth. Among the things Zimmerman took offense to was Fong likening the incident to the massacre at Virginia Tech a few years ago.

Fong cited an e-mail sent to Butler Provost Jamie Comstock that threatened “more trouble” as cause for

Minnesota State has found a new reason to be one of a kind.

On Friday, ground was broken for a new, renewable energy research center on campus near Wiecking Center. The $1.8 million, 6,300-square foot building will be the Center for Renewable Energy Research and Technology

Transfer. Within the center, 1,500-square feet will be dedicated for the International Renewable Energy Technology Institute and 4,800-square feet will be dedicated to an emissions laboratory.

Before taking their gold plated shovels to the ground, President Richard Davenport, Director of Business and Industry Partnerships

Censoring the student voice

An Indiana university sues a student for opinions in his blog in the first-ever case of its kind in the country ADAM PULCHINSKIstaff writer

MARTI KLINSINGstaff writer

Breaking groundRenewable energy research center to be built on campus

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Various members of the administration, including President Richard Davenport, took part in the ground-breaking ceremony for the new energy research center alongside Sen. Kathy Sheran Friday morning.

illustration by ann reichel • msu reporter

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November is the time people start to give thanks. With the start of the holiday season it is also the time people start to think about food. According to Greg Lessard, President of Mankato Food Coop’s board of directors, November is always a good time to talk about food.

Lessard said the idea of a food co-op for Mankato started two years ago. Lessard held group meetings twice a month talking about the advantages of a Mankato food co-op. One question came up again and

again:Why doesn’t Mankato have a

food co-op?From these meetings, a

formal group formed. This group worked for the past year to put a food co-op in Mankato. According to Lessard, most of the steps involved with starting a co-op have been completed: the business has been filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State, a board of directors chosen, and a business plan developed.

“Our big push in November is to get everyone in town to

Co-operatingtogetherMankato group discusses advantages of a co-opHEATHER MOELLERstaff writer

“How do you read silences in history?” This is the question Dr. Agnes Odinga tried to answer in her presentation at the 2009 Minnesota State History Forum. Speaking to a room crammed full of attentive students and faculty, Dr. Odinga spoke about the history of venereal disease in Kenya and its effects on women.

Dr. Odinga focused on how women have been underrepresented from the start in a health system inherently male. Now, Dr. Odinga is trying to give these women a voice.

Dr. Odinga has been teaching at MSU since 2007, but her history starts long before. Born and raised in Kenya, the smart, soft-spoken professor attended Kenyada University and earned her bachelor’s and M.A. in history before going to the University of Minnesota to get her Ph.D. She taught at top schools, such as Trinity College and the U of M before coming to Mankato, where she has already made a lasting impression on students and faculty alike.

On Nov. 12, Odinga revealed her research project about Kenyan venereal disease, a project she has been working on extensively. Odigna’s key question dealt with how women and women’s roles fit into the Kenyan health-care

system. She noticed that, while digging through archival sources and interviewing people, she received a very male-oriented history. She wanted to know more about the women’s issues. Her goal is to find a way to better research and document women and their experiences, a daunting task when women are given such little power to express themselves in a traditionally male-dominated society.

Through exhaustive research, Odinga concluded that the Kenyan health-care system was inherently gendered male, from its practices to its practitioners. Most anti-venereal campaigns were pronatalist, dealing with mothers and children, and assuming that women were ultimately responsible for every venereal disease. Odinga maintains that the current health care system of clinics and hospitals is not working, and that new methods, which focus on both genders, must be implemented.

“One is forced to wonder about Africans and how they dealt with [diseases],” Odinga stated in her speech. She offered a new idea: the mixture of western techniques and traditional health remedies.

Dr. Odinga delivered a powerful message full of important facts and innovative ideas on how to help Kenya. Both students and fellow professors were impressed with what they

had heard. Clayton Kozan, a senior at MSU, stated, “[Her presentation] was very well put together [and] a great academic experience. [Dr. Odinga] is great — very knowledgeable about her topics and [able to] present them in a fun way people can understand.”

Another attendee, Dr. Christopher Corley, director of the MSU Honors Program, couldn’t have agreed more.

“It’s always nice when the history department can show the campus their research. It’s a great thing for the campus [because] kids see professors teach, but they don’t always get to see research. This way, they can see what the professor is actually doing.”

A voice for the silencedMSU professor touches on the history, effects of venereal disease in KenyaGRACE WEBBstaff writer

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take our survey,” Lessard said. The survey, found on the

Mankato Food Co-op’s website, gives community members a chance to directly influence the decisions of the co-op. Decisions such as the location of the co-op, are undecided as of yet.

Lessard said a food co-op benefits the community in different ways. First, a food co-op supports local farmers and producers and second, members of the co-op are owners as well.

“When the co-op makes money, the members, owners, all get a part of it,” Lessard said.

Lessard said the group wants to encourage the community to get involved with the co-op, whether by spreading the word, taking a look at the product availability of St. Peter’s food co-op or becoming a member. Lessard said the group also encourages Minnesota State students and faculty to get involved with the food co-op.

Lessard said a co-op is good

for people who love food and for people who want to support local producers and people who care about the influence of food choices on the environment. He said also a food co-op isn’t the cheapest source of food, but that it provides the finest quality foods.

“Where else can you get a locally grown, vegetarian-fed turkey for Thanksgiving?” Lessard said.

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Counting calories, exercising and other weight loss tricks might be in vain without a reason to stay motivated, according to this speaker.

Anne Fletcher, a nutrition expert and dietician with a master’s in nutrition science, will give her presentation “Learning From Losers: Healthy Weight Management for a Lifetime” Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Ostrander Auditorium.

The presentation will focus on ways to get motivated and maintain a healthy weight. She will also discuss a number of things successful losers have done, including weight management myths, strategies for eating to maintain a healthy weight and successful before-and-after photos.

Fletcher said people can have plenty of knowledge about how to lose weight, but if they don’t have the motivation to keep the weight off then they might gain it back.

“My approach is more psychological than anything,” Fletcher said.

Her goal is to teach people how to maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime. She has given similar presentations at other colleges and has

appeared on a number of television programs such as “Good Morning America,” “The View” and “Larry King Live.”

“What really counts is understanding how to motivate people to change,” Fletcher said. “That’s really what became the drive behind my work. It’s the psychology of behavior change.”

Jennifer Kopischke, Impact speakers chair, said this speech will help students learn to lose weight in a healthy manner, especially if this is their first time living away from home.

“This program can give students an idea of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle

Learning from losersExpert to present ways to lose, maintain weightELENA SHUFELTstaff writer

concern. Zimmerman has denied writing that e-mail but has admitted to writing one on Christmas of last year to Comstock and Dean of the College of Fine Arts Peter Alexander. In the e-mail Zimmerman wished the two “a very merry Christmas” and that he hadn’t “forgotten the abuses of power and poor leadership”.

Several out-of-court attempts were made to settle the case. One such attempt from the university would allow the suit to be dropped if Zimmerman would undergo punishment at school and sign an agreement that he not be able to appeal any university decision. If Zimmerman had done this the university would also have dropped a lawsuit it had against his father, Michael Zimmerman.

According to the website, “Inside Higher Ed,” the Zimmerman’s lawyer, Dan Altman, considered the two suits separate matters. Father and son did not agree to the terms of the

settlement which also included a confidentiality agreement.

Despite that, the suit was eventually dropped in favor of the disciplinary action, which could lead to Zimmerman’s expulsion for violating the school’s rules of conduct. Zimmerman said he hopes the hearing will be wrapped up in a couple of weeks. In the aftermath of the lawsuit, he started another blog to chronicle everything going on called “I Am John Doe”.

Ellen Mrja, an associate professor in the mass communications department at Minnesota State, does not agree with Butler’s actions in the matter.

“This was over-reaction on the part of the administrators that makes them look weak, not strong,” Mrja said. Mrja teaches a class in Mass Communications Law. “You can not stop someone from speaking their truth.”

Mrja believes Zimmerman had every right to begin his blog and showed a “great deal of courage

in continuing to publish it.” However, Mrja does point out that since Butler is a private university, the rules are slightly different than a state university when it comes to speech.

Erik Thibault, a junior at MSU, believes blogs should be taken as editorials for the most part and not as a reliable source of fact without documentation. Thibault, a business management and public relations major, said that the situation may have gone differently if Zimmerman had tried a different route.

“Maybe a student newspaper or other publication,” Thibault said. “The Internet is an uncontrollable source. There’s more legitimacy in a publication.”

Thibault also said that, while he thinks there needs to be some responsibility by the writer, “we live in America” and should be free to “say whatever you want to say when you say it.”

CENSORING “The internet is an uncontrollable source. There’s more legitimacy in a publication.” continued from 1

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Mankato-based clothing company Naturally Bamboo has made it to the finals of a Forbes.com small business contest. What started as a 500-word essay from small business owners lead to 20 semi-finalists and then a top five after Forbes.com users reviewed the business plans and voted on their favorites.

April Femrite, Naturally Bamboo’s CEO, trekked to New York City as part of the “Boost Your Business” contest to give a live presentation in front of a panel of judges. Her video, along with those of the other four finalists can be viewed on www.forbes.com. The winner of the contest will receive $100,000 in cash and advertising to grow their business.

“Right now I think my biggest competition is Ksplice,” said Femrite. “The judges seemed really impressed by his presentation.”

Ksplice, a software company based in Massachusetts, has introduced a way in which computers and software can keep up to date without taking time to reboot. Femrite’s other competition includes another Massachusetts-based company, Audissey

Guides, and NuBarter, Inc., a company out of Georgia. Earthborn Studios, Inc., a pottery company in Alabama, is the fifth finalist.

Femrite said that the experience has been “just amazing”. Not only has there been a growing support from the Mankato community, but sales have significantly increased from the exposure of the contest. More stores are beginning to carry Naturally Bamboo clothing, including a store in Vancouver.

“I guess I can consider myself international now,” said Femrite.

Though Femrite admitted the experience has also been busy and stressful. Brett Nelson, Entrepreneur Editor at Forbes, agrees.

“When the lights go on, the

stress level is high, especially during the question-and-answer sessions,” said Nelson. “But all five finalists prepared well and performed admirably. I’m proud of all of them.”

Nelson also said that this contest will make the participants “better fortified” when searching out investors in the real world. The contest gave Femrite an opportunity to present the potential of her company and get much needed feedback for her business plan.

Naturally Bamboo was started by Femrite in 2007 with the mission of being

Boosting her businessNaturally Bamboo’s April Femrite travels to NYC as a contest finalist

ADAM PULCHINSKIstaff writer

wale agboola • msu reporterFemrite, owner of Naturally Bamboo, pictured with her son.

The fourth annual Veterans Day 5k run attracted more than 130 participants, the largest crowd since it’s creation in 2005.

Hosted by the Maverick ROTC program, the 5k run provides civilians and veterans alike the opportunity to raise a little money and pay respect to all veterans. The profits of the run are used for the Michael J. Fasnacht scholarship, named after a Minnesota State graduate who was killed in Iraq June of 2005.

1st Lt. Fasnacht was stationed in Tikrit Iraq, the birth-place of Saddam Hussein and the heart of

the Sunni insurgency. He graduated from the MSU with a bachelor’s degree in microbiology. Shortly after his graduation, he began basic training for the Army.

Fasnacht went onto complete Ranger training and went into active duty in 2003. During a routine patrol 10 miles south of Tikrit, an

improvised roadside bomb detonated next to Fasnacht’s Bradley Fighting vehicle, fatally wounding the 25-year- old Army officer.

“It was very appropriate to name the scholarship in his honor” MSU cadre member Joel Stephen said.

The scholarship is given out to the ROTC

cadet showing outstanding academic and leadership achievements.

Running in remembranceROTC charity run attracts civilians, vetsSTEVEN PIROSOstaff writer

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web photoMichael Fasnacht was a graduate of MSU. He died in Iraq in June 2005.

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Which do you prefer, football or hockey? Why?

“I like hockey more, because you can drink at the Verizon Center.”

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“Hockey, because I play it and it’s more fun to watch.”

Wade WilliNger • Sr • MarketiNg

“Hockey, because of Mighty Ducks 1-3.”

“Hockey, because of Boogord.”

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You are a puppet of his shenanigans. He promised you freedom interpreted by free healthcare, free money, and free happiness. What you didn’t realize is that this is not the freedom that is embedded in our Constitution. When our fore fathers imagined freedom they envisioned a new nation represented faithfully by its elected officials, free from the shackles of constant and confusion government regulation, free to spend your money when and how you want.

Let me tell you something Barack, you are destroying and blaming the very framework that allowed you to grow and prosper in this nation. You enshrine the responsibility of all Americans and frankly you are doing a poor job at it.

I was not fooled by your crafty campaign rhetoric, but many Americans were and I can only hope that they see you are not fit to be Commander in Chief. Granted, you did win a Noble Peace Prize, but for what? For running our nation aground with absurd spending that has had little impact? After all, it’s not like the world is a better place after your

time in the Oval Office like you falsely promised.

We are all Americans and need to take a stake in the mindless words that spew from Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, the chosen one, Barack Obama. This past week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that the passing of the healthcare bill was very similar to the Medicare and Social Security programs of the past. Think about it.

Healthcare’s primary proponent claims that this healthcare bill is similar to the broken, failed, and risky programs of the Democratic agenda. These are epitome examples of Washington’s inabilities and we ought to be ashamed that we let this monster of a bill pass the House of Representatives.

I am proud of our nation’s rich history, but now more than ever we need to embrace the foundations of liberty and justice instead of voting on the basis of garbage that is illogical, unfeasible, and unrealistic (aka the Democratic agenda)

Brandon Quam

It was exciting to see that 4,307 people turned out Saturday night to watch the MSU men’s hockey team take on Colorado College at the Civic Center.

It was equally disappointing, however, to be one of the mere 1,617 on hand that afternoon at Blakeslee Field for the NCAA playoff football game against Hillsdale College.

While I understand that some people may see Division I hockey as a more prestigious ticket than the rest of the university’s Division II athletic programs, those who skipped football in favor of hockey this weekend missed an amazing game. While the result—a 27-24 overtime loss—wasn’t what we hoped for, the players on both teams reminded us how lucky we are to have championships decided on the field in Division II football.

Admittedly, MSU football teams have endured some tough years in recent history. Before the 2008 season, the Mavericks last made the playoffs in 1993 and between that season and last

year the program posted just two winning records (1994 and 2005). From 2000 to 2007, the Mavericks won just 27 games, but Coach Hoffner, his staff and the players they’re lucky to have are turning things around. Over the last two seasons, the Mavericks have gone 19-5 and won two Northern Sun Conference Southern Division titles.

On Saturday afternoon, senior quarterback Ryan Fick returned from an injury and put in a courageous effort in the final game of his career. Freshman running back Jake Aberg racked up 168 yards on the ground and gave us reason to be optimistic about next season. And Coach Hoffner’s team ended up just a couple breaks short of setting a school record for wins.

It was a great day and an amazing season—and it’s only going to improve from here. You shouldn’t miss it.

Christopher TruscottM.A., Political Science

(December 2001)Eagan, Minnesota

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Free speech under fire in blogger controversyThe lawsuit against Jess

Zimmerman of Butler University could happen anywhere. Clearly an attempt to censor online speech, it could have also impact students’ rights to speak freely everywhere.

Zimmerman criticized his administration online and as a result his university is suing him — marking the first time in the nation that any university has filed a lawsuit to control online speech. Although Zimmerman said the national outcry caused Butler to drop the suit in court, the university is still putting him on trial to discipline him using campus proceedings.

The comments were posted

in an anonymous blog and apparently Butler couldn’t take the heat because they sought the man behind the words — Zimmerman — for speaking what he believes to be the truth in an open forum.

Although private universities have the ability to place certain restrictions and limitations to curtail free speech, the student exchanged his opinion on the off-campus blog site.

The blog barely got any hits initially; it wasn’t until Butler administrators spoke against it that more people were popping on the site to check out the controversy. So the school actually drew more attention to

the criticism by attacking it.If Zimmerman had actually

used slander, the libel suit might have been justifiable, but there is no proof that his words were damaging to the university. They are trying to silence this blogger’s voice and the message it sends seriously threatens free speech. Zimmerman could face major repercussions on-campus for speaking his mind, a problematic blow to the freedoms U.S. citizens have been granted.

The student was simply being critical of the ethics and morality of a situation. His opinion didn’t defame the university; it called out university officials on alleged wrongdoing, a shining example of

the importance and need for the First Amendment.

Minnesota State or another public institution might not get away with doing this, but being a private establishment should not justify hindering the free exchange of ideas. Butler’s efforts to chill free speech online — the communication hub of the world — are the real problems facing their university.

It seems that while Butler attempted to contain its opposition using Zimmerman as an example, it tampered its image on a national level, much more damage than a measly student blog could create.

Correction: In Thursday’s issue of the Reporter, two stories were mistakenly combined regarding two separate Women’s Center events. The Be You(tiful) event and the Women’s Leadership Conference were supposed to appear as separate articles. We apologize for the inaccurate message this sent to the readers as a result of our error.



This my pre-Christmas gift to a few people who have captured my attention in the last year at MSU. We’ll start with my favorite, the angry professors on campus who hold unrealistic expectations for their students. It has happened to me twice already where the most difficult part of a class isn’t the material, it’s figuring out what the teacher wants from you, which simply put, is ludicrous. It’s not conducive to my education and decadent to the psychological well-being of innocent students.

My favorite angry professor, who wore skirts that look liked table clothes from low-budget fifties diners, her directions and study guides were so abstract and unhelpful. The woman fed off my pain; I could feel it. I just could never figure out what would compel somebody to be so unreasonable in they’re teaching methods; I was constantly pissed and confused. So here’s my rebuttal to that teacher: Look I’m sorry that your social life has diminished to Friday nights with your ten cats watching “Murder, She Wrote” and wondering why nobody has responded to your E-Harmony profile, but that’s really not my fault. Maybe during finals week when that

single tear rolls down my cheek at 3 a.m after hours of studying, you can scoop it up in a mason jar titled “Steven’s Crushed Dreams.” Just don’t be surprised when you catch your students snorting lines of Ritalin in the bathroom before finals trying to squeeze out that extra percentage point.

You know, I spent quite some time reading over that first paragraph thinking of how funny I thought it was. It didn’t take long for me to realize the irony in that description of the teacher that made me so insane. I wondered why she and so many other little things pissed me off. Maybe it’s because that’s what my own social life has become; except I don’t have cats, I have a dog. I don’t watch Murder She Wrote on Friday nights, I watch “The Office”, and it’s not an E-Harmony profile I check with faint hope to find romance, it’s Facebook. After the realization that the angry professor and I have more than just a few things in common, I sat in my room thinking about my life and all the baggage from the

past that I carry with me. I stand there in the airport, bags

in both hands, afraid to check them, let them go. We are all travelers of

the world, seekers of self-acceptance and peace.

The journey is just beginning and it’s time for me to put down the old bags and let the winds of time bring a new day. I wondered many things that night in my room, how my funny rant turned out to be a carbon copy of my present life.

I wondered how the fuck I ended up in Minnesota,

where this road will lead. I wondered if the anonymous girl that I have a huge crush on feels the same way. I guess I can’t help the fact that every time we talk I feel nauseous and like I can’t formulate sentences. Just know that everyday I see you, I want to bring you roses and tell you that you’re beautiful.

To all those dudes who will read this and call me queer for saying what I just said, maybe I just don’t give a shit what you think — that’s why I wrote it.

To the teachers past and present that will treat me unfairly and make

me crazy, I hope you find peace in your heart.

To the evangelist that came to campus telling me I was going to Hell, maybe I should of just embraced you as another brother of the human family trying to find his way in the world. Instead, I spent like two hours probing the corners of my brain to make you seem false.

Finally, to that particular fellow who always leaves non-constructive and poopy comments on the Reporter website, this is my gift to you: “ It is easy for me to be cocky, and put on a show and be flooded and clouded with these feelings. But to truly express oneself, not lying to oneself, that my friend is very hard to do.” —Bruce Lee. What a few of you will call the shallow, un-newsworthy writings of a young man, I call expressions of freedom. In the end what are we, just people searching for a scrape of hope, in a sea of wonder.

— Steven Piroso is a Reporter staff writer.

An early Christmas gift

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A Reporter writer gifts out complaints and makes early holiday revelations

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John Frey, automotive engineering technology chairperson Kirk Ready, and numerous other faculty, legislators, trustees, and donors gathered in “Johnny’s Garage,” right next to the groundbreaking site, to give thanks and discuss what will come with the new center.

“This new research, testing and technology facility is a cutting-edge addition to Minnesota’s alternative energy,” said Davenport. “It will stimulate growth and development in bio-fuels and related fields, and it will keep the state at the top of the list of green energy innovators.”

The center will be designed to test emissions and efficiency for fuels for engines as well as building heating units. The center’s emissions laboratory will be the only research facility in the Upper Midwest capable of conducting biodiesel, ethanol, hybrid and other bio-fuel engine tests according to Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.

“The footprints are small, but global in terms of concept,” Frey said. “The university has a role to move forward to commercialization and building public and private partnerships [within the International Renewable Energy Technology Institute].”

Frey and State Rep. Bob Gunther began their funding quest two years ago and were approved in the 2009 legislative session. Since then, the institute has brought international attention to Mankato’s renewable energy efforts, such as speeding up the process for automakers to meet higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards by 2016, helping public agencies and private companies acquire more fuel efficient vehicles for their fleet, measuring exhaust and evaporative emissions from biodeisel and producing certifiable data that business and industry can use to improve the efficiency of bio-fuel engines.

The center will work globally starting with Sweden because of its renewable energy leadership. A Swedish representative was present for the groundbreaking and said Sweden has become such a leader in the renewable energy efforts because in “1990 the country put a carbon tax in Sweden which resulted in the rise in the price for energy so they decided to buy renewable energy sources.”

Sweden is now saving about

GROUND “Companies need a platform like this university for more bioenergy resources.” continued from 1

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 24,000 infants die daily from preventable diseases in developing countries because governments have failed to spend more on health care, an international aid group said Monday.

A report from World Vision said that where governments have shown a high level of political leadership on child health, deaths have fallen. The group cited Liberia as an example: childhood deaths there have dropped by half the last five years.

Most early childhood deaths occur in the first 28 days of life, while later deaths are caused by pneumonia diarrhea, and malaria, which together accounted for 45 per cent of the deaths, World Vision said.

Despite claiming the lives of almost 9 million children each year, infant deaths have attracted little political attention either from the worst-affected countries or at an international level, the group said.

“It is shameless that we as civil society throughout the world would allow so many children to die every day,” World Vision global ambassador Dean Hirsch said during the launch of the World Vision Global Child Health Campaign.

Thousands of children die daily from preventable diseases

environmentally friendly and socially responsible. The clothing offered by Naturally Bamboo is made from natural bamboo fiber. Bamboo fiber is hypoallergenic, absorbent and biodegradable to name a few benefits.

The company’s goal has been, according to their website, to manufacture everything right here in the United States, provide employees with a livable wage, and be “eco-efficient”

in their office practices.The company uses recycled

paper, soy and vegetable-based inks, and as little packaging as possible. One goal Femrite has is to move the production of the bamboo to the states. Currently the bamboo is grown in China and then imported to the United States and Canada.

BUSINESS One of Femrite’s goals is to be eco-efficient ... she also wants to eventually grow bamboo in the Unit-ed States, rather than China where it is currently grown

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and give people a boost of motivation for when they get back from Thanksgiving/winter break and want to start getting in shape for spring break,” Kopischke said.

Fletcher is now a full-time writer living in Mankato, but earlier in her career she did clinical work in an obesity treatment program. She has been studying people who have successfully overcome

problems for more than 15 years. Her books include the “Thin for Life” series, “Sober for Good” and “Weight Loss Confidential.”

The presentation is cosponsored by Impact, Campus Recreation and the MSU Wellness Committee. This is a free event.

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80 percent with bioenergy and their industry now holds 43 percent of all turnover of energy. “Companies need a platform like this university for more bioenergy resources,” said the representative.

In addition to research, the center’s goal is to provide technology transfer that will move new products toward commercialization, increasing the manufacture of products in Minnesota.

The new center will also allow automotive engineering technology students and other engineering and science students to do top-level “green” energy research with faculty members in all elements of renewable energy.

The center is expected to be completed in mid-2010. It is funded through federal, state and private sources, including the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Minnesota Department of Economic Employment Development, the Department of Energy, the Minnesota Corn Growers, Fagen, Inc., AgStar Financial and other partners.

“We are grateful to the Minnesota Legislature, the federal government and the private donors for making this new building possible,” Davenport said.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An African took over as director of Greenpeace Monday, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

Greenpeace was founded 38 years ago by activists who wanted to stop the United States from conducting underground nuclear tests in a region off Alaska that harbored endangered sea otters. Kumi Naidoo, the new director, said he still had much to learn about the group’s current agenda, from protecting whales and forests to stopping nuclear tests and toxic dumping. But he has already grasped the issues around global warming, an increasingly overriding concern of Greenpeace and other environmental groups.

“We either get it right and all of humanity comes out on the other side with a new world,” Naidoo told The Associated Press in an

exclusive interview before he took the Greenpeace helm. “Or we get it wrong and all the world is going to sink.”

Gerd Leipold, his predecessor at Greenpeace, said Naidoo’s appointment is a watershed, both because he is the first African and because he is the first executive director to come from outside the organization.

After battling apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s, Naidoo led global campaigns to end poverty and protect human rights. Recently, he has led the Global Campaign for Climate Action, which brings together environmental, aid, religious and human rights groups, unions, scientists and others and has organized mass demonstrations around climate negotiations.

“Previously, environmentalism was seen as for the privileged few,” said Tasneem Essop, a South African environmentalist who has known Naidoo since their days as student anti-apartheid

activists. She said the new Greenpeace chief will help rally other human rights and development workers to the climate cause.

As Naidoo puts it: “If the whole planet is under threat ... what’s the point of not addressing that and saying we’ll do other development work?”

Naidoo, 44, has fought for the rights of women and children, among the most vulnerable when droughts bring hunger or floods disrupt livelihoods. He has pushed to strengthen international cooperation and ensure the concerns of poor countries are heard when rich nations plan the future.

Naidoo took part in nationwide student protests as a 15-year-old, and by 16 had been kicked out of school for participating in peaceful protests against a system that denied nonwhites basic rights and economic opportunity. Greenpeace says he completed his high school studies at home,

earned a law degree in South Africa and received a doctorate in political sociology as a Rhodes scholar from Oxford.

Following Nelson Mandela’s release in 1990 after 27 years in prison, Naidoo returned from Britain to work for the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid groups.

Naidoo — who earlier this year went on hunger strike for a month to protest human rights abuses in Zimbabwe — said Greenpeace is committed to dialogue, but knows when to stir people into action and sticks to peaceful means.

Last month, Greenpeace activists dumped 18 tons of coal in front of the Swedish government’s headquarters in a protest meant to pressure European countries to close coal-fired power plants. In Britain, they scaled the Parliament building to wave flags and banners drawing attention to calls for cuts in carbon emissions and investment in renewable energy.

“Governments, sadly, are

unlikely to change as fast we need them to unless they are pushed,” Naidoo said.

Greenpeace will be there when negotiators sit down next month in Copenhagen to try to draft an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. World leaders said Sunday it is unrealistic to expect an international, legally binding agreement to emerge from Copenhagen. Instead, the goal is a political framework, with a fully binding legal agreement left to a second meeting next year in Mexico City.

“Anything short of a binding treaty in Copenhagen must be read as a failure of leadership on the part of the political class,” Naidoo told a news conference on Monday. “We can’t change the science. The science is clear. We have to change the politics. If we can’t change the politics, then we have to put our energies into changing the politicians.”

Greenpeace gets new directorFormer opponent of apartheid becomes first African as chair


For someone who makes films for a living, it might sound disconcerting that Jason Reitman finds no answers in the language of the big screen —only questions.

“I don’t think there are answers,” Reitman said, his knack for philosophical discussion as apparent as it is in his films. “The only thing I’m fairly confident in is that life is infinitely complicated.”

Coming off of the successes of cult comedy “Thank You For Smoking” and international sweetheart “Juno,” Reitman’s

new picture, “Up in the Air,” which he both wrote and directed, aims to pose equally challenging questions about love, home, belonging and self in a similarly entertaining, non-aggressive, comical manner.

A story about a man who travels two-thirds of the year for his career, played by George Clooney, “Up in the Air” is as personal a film to Reitman as it could get.

“I really cherish my time in the air,” he said after rattling off more than two-dozen cities he’s traveled to in promotion for the film.

Starting as a commercial director and transitioning into

feature productions, he said he’s always been accustomed to traveling, and that the detached, stringless lifestyle represented by the main character is something he can very much relate to.

Based on a Walter Kirn novel (whose preceding work, “Thumbsucker,” was also made into a feature film), “Up in the Air” is an adaptation that Reitman tried to keep as close to the original as the new medium would allow, taking into account the differences between the two.

“I always contact the authors

web photoJason Reitman sat down with the Reporter and other college publications at the Grand Hotel in Minneapolis to talk about his new film, “Up in the Air,” starring George Clooney, J.K. Simmons and Jason Bateman.

JACOB BOHRODstaff writer

web photoJerry Seinfeld showed he’s still among the best in comedy at the Orpheum Theatre Saturday night.

Behind the scenes

Grounded in the airMuch more than a sitcom

In the 11 years after ending arguably the greatest television show of all time, Jerry Seinfeld has remained suspiciously quiet.

Aside from making “Comedian,” a 2002 documentary about stand-up comedy, and 2007’s animated “Bee Movie,” Jerry Seinfeld seems to be retaining the public’s favor by doing the one

thing he’s always been best at: being Jerry Seinfeld.

Seinfeld performed at a packed Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis Saturday night, proving that no matter how overshadowed he is by his work on “Seinfeld,” the legendary comic still deserves his place at the top of the comedy totem pole.

Despite the fact that much of

JACOB BOHRODstaff writer

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Motown’s Berry Gordy, Geffen’s David Geffen and even Jimmy Fallon’s character in “Almost Famous” all were successful music industry members. But they didn’t just magically project into the upper

hemisphere of music moguls; they started from humble beginnings (except for Fallon’s character, he wasn’t real).

Hoping to follow in their footsteps are the members of the Music Industry program at Minnesota State, who are learning what it takes to put on a good show with their concert

Wednesday at Johnny B’s.Over a month-long period

in their music management and concert production course, Cole Bawek, Abbie Christensen, Justin Gehrke, Lee Henke, Gena Johnson and Benjamin Wieman have worked under the guidance of professor Dale Haefner in order to gain some

real hands-on experience in the music industry field and put on a quality concert.

“For this project, the class learned how to: Identify talent for the performance, Define a target audience, Select an appropriate venue for the performance, Create a project-planning schedule of tasks

needed to promote the event utilizing traditional and social media methods, Perform those tasks, Develop an advertising budget,” Haefner said.

Although it was a group effort, the small group of six that makes up the class broke

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photo courtesy of Minnesota State Theatre & Dance DepartmentEbenezer Scrooge (Craig Daniel Stastny) is a ruthless businessman and won’t allow his employee Bob Cratchit (Mathias Becker) to be with his family on Christmas Day.

As people get older, Christmas often loses the magic it once had, falling way to overspent checkbooks and unequaled advertising. Even Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is so commonplace every holiday season that it has become a cliché, beaten ragged by remakes and television specials. But watching the Minnesota State Theatre and Dance Department’s adaptation Saturday night, and listening to a particular child belt out “Noel” over all the rest, I can safely say this secular holiday play has been rejuvenated.

Taking a darker approach than certain previous renditions, MSU’s “A Christmas Carol” adapted by Paul J. Hustoles, attempts to capture Dickens’ true original text in a darker, more haunting demeanor.

“I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me,” reads Dickens in his 1843 dedication to the play. “May it haunt their houses pleasantly …”

Aside from the tribute to the original text, the main modification is in the play’s music as this adaptation includes twenty traditional Christmas carols dating back to Dickens’ time. From “Silent Night” to “Noel,” Hustoles chose songs Dickens himself would recognize in his play.

The cast, led by Craig Daniel Stastny as Ebenezer Scrooge, brings excellent song and energy to two 50-minute sections of well-paced theatre. The chorus is also of honorable mention as J. Alexander Coe, Lauren Mikeal

Parsons and Jason Garton are superbly entertaining and a delight to watch.

If nothing else, the stage directing alone is impressive. Being innovative, however minimal, the scenes come together like high-speed Tetris, actors quickly blending in and out of moving pieces.

Overall this play in many ways is no different from the original text, using the same dialogue cut with Christmas carols, but through fresh talent and unyielding song has overcome the cliché we expect from Christmas consumerism.

“A Christmas Carol” is continuing its production at the the Ted Paul Theatre, located in MSU’s Performing Arts Center, Nov. 19-22 and 28-29. Tickets can be purchased online or at the Performing Arts ticket booth.

SAM CAMPBELLstaff writer

photo courtesy of Minnesota State Theatre & Dance DepartmentEbenezer Scrooge (Craig Daniel Stastny) gets visited by the ghosts of time, Christmas Past (Kim Steffen).

Worldwide wine party

For one night, happening this week, wine lovers all over the world will have something in common in celebrating the release of Beaujolais Nouveau wine.

St. Peter will be joining in on the worldwide celebration with a release party at Patrick’s on Third Thursday night.

“Beaujolais Nouveau is really a celebratory wine perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years,” said Joseph Strong, wine representative and event planner for Bellboy wines. “It gives a chance for people to get together.”

Beaujolais wine is produced in the Beaujolais region of France where there are an estimated 4,000 grape growers. Beaujolais is released every year during the third week of November and is made from Gamay grapes grown in about 30 villages in the Beaujolais region. These grapes must be hand picked and, unlike many other wines, is permitted to be sold with in the same year it is

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selling this wine five years ago when they teamed up with WJ Deutsch, sole importer of Yellow Tail, the number one imported wine brand in U.S. and Georges DuBouef, the Number one French wine brand in the U.S.

This will be the fifth year that Patrick’s will be hosting this wine release event. Through the years that Patrick’s has been partaking in the event, there has been a consistent turnout of wine fans.

“The first year we did it, there were about 45 people, last year there was about 40,” Strong said. “We usually try to limit the attendance to 50.”

The wine celebration will take place from 8-10 p.m. Tickets for this event are $20 and those in attendance will get samples of two Beaujolais Nouveau wines, a hand painted wine glass, and an array of appetizers provided by the St. Peter food Co-op and Patrick’s.

Full bottles of Beaujolais wine will be available at this event as well.

ASHLEY JOHANSENstaff writer

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immediately,” he said of using others’ work as a jumping-off point in both “Thank You For Smoking” and “Up in the Air.” “Simultaneously, I want them to understand that there is a difference between a book and a movie.”

While managing a close relationship between the authors he works with — having them on set, showing them drafts of scripts, remaining upfront about what the film will be — Reitman strikes a very personal cord in reaching a final product.

The filmmaker attributes his success with both audiences and critics alike with the personal connection he makes with his work; he believes the more important the message is to him, the greater the chances

the film has for reaching people.

“Up in the Air” is at once a highly personal account of a man always on the move and, at the same time, a broad reflection of the economic hardship currently facing everyday people.

After writing the screenplay during an economic boom, Reitman found later in the filmmaking process that the scenes showing Clooney performing his job of firing people had lost their accuracy.

“At that point, I thought the most authentic way to approach this recession was to find real people,” he said.

He said the decision to use real people who had lost their jobs in the film changed the entire tone of the production.

Reitman found 60 people from the hardest-hit cities in the nation and performed mock firings with them, telling them to say what they did when they actually lost their job or what they wish they had said, and the result became a central figure in the film.

The characterization of “Up in the Air” was another focus for Reitman, not inasmuch as the characters would be perfectly relatable to audiences, but in that they would be vehicles for the very relatable questions that inspired him in making the film.

George Clooney’s character, Ryan Bingham, is much like the protagonist of “Thank You For Smoking,” a smooth-talking, suave, devilishly handsome man who is capable

of convincing anyone of nearly anything, a character type that Reitman is drawn to writing for.

“[It’s] probably because I’m not that person in real life,” he said.

He said he makes his characters models of articulation, debonair individuals who always know the right thing to say, in order to make up for his own shortcomings. In other words: when given months to scrutinize what his characters say, it’s going to be perfect.

And when casting actors to fit the parts, they better be perfect, too.

Reitman said eight of the leading roles in “Up in the Air” were written specifically for the actors who would play them.

“I find it easier to write once

I’ve identified the voice of the actor I’m writing for,” Reitman said. “I think that’s why I have a better hit rate [in casting].”

“I like to work with people who I like,” he added matter-of-factly, acknowledging how simple finding the right actors can be.

Reitman’s ultimate goal in challenging audiences to a real, emotional, humorous piece of life is to offer more than escapism.

“I’d like my films to serve as a mirror,” he said; expressing his want that audiences merely partake in the questions he poses, not look for the answers.

“Up in the Air” will have a limited theatre release on Dec. 4 and will go nationwide Christmas day.

the show contained rehashed material used on his last tour, Seinfeld’s act remained fresh and engaging, primarily because of the pure comedic charisma that he is so good at employing. Even old jokes felt satisfying, the truth of which not any less accurate as it was the last time.

A centerpiece of the act revolved around the difference between things that suck and things that are great, a difference, Seinfeld pointed out, that is smaller than you’d imagine. The comedian’s knack for breaking down social barriers and grasping at the truth, or at least a form of it, drives the bit, which basically

proposes that life is ultimately stupid and silly and redundant — a proposal only funny because we know it to be true yet deny it day in and day out.

Seinfeld’s signature brand of self-realization has become more apparent than ever, as he pointed out how the act of coming to his show was only in an attempt to convince ourselves that our lives don’t suck.

“My life doesn’t suck, I went to a show last night,” he said, briskly walking across the stage in impersonation of the audience.

Seinfeld spent a lot of time on food — how it defines our life, how it advertises itself and

how the Pop-Tart is better than any high-class restaurant meal around.

Finding the humor in Raisin Bran’s ever-present claim of larger, deeper scoops of raisins in each box or the tendency of everyone to devour a whole sleeve of cookies is not a terribly accomplished feat, but the precision and motion of each joke that served for 80 percent of the humor is something only Seinfeld could pull off.

A highly philosophical, recognizably Buddhist bit was about the condition of garbage, that everything in life is merely in transition to become junk. The crowd roared as Seinfeld

explained the steps all things take on their way to the landfill, including humans, who he urged to be buried with their belongings.

“Take your junk with you!” he said to an explosive laugh.

Watching Jerry Seinfeld perform comedy is like watching Michaelangelo paint or The Beatles play music. Even when the material has been heard before or would bomb in the hands of any

other, Seinfeld’s persona, his embodiment of funny that spans all age groups, wins through and before you know it, you can’t stop laughing.

Good comedians can point out the humor of everyday life. Great comedians can convince you of the humor in everyday life. Jerry Seinfeld is a great comedian.

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“Going Rogue: An Ameri-can Life” (HarperCollins, 413 pages, $28.99), by Sarah Palin: There should be a feeling of palpable glee running through Sarah Palin’s memoir: Now, finally, she gets to talk, unfil-tered and unedited.

This is, after all, a politician convinced that the media twists her words, who says she’s been parodied and mocked by establishment elites, and who complains she was muzzled by her own party.

“Going Rogue: An Ameri-can Life” offers her a chance to answer back, without pesky interference from the likes of Katie Couric or GOP handlers. It is, to steal Nancy Reagan’s memoir title, “My Turn.”

So why is there so little bloodletting, why no mustn’t-miss gory bits? Her book, writ-ten with an assist from Lynn Vincent, is less the revealing autobiography of a straight-shooting maverick and more a lengthy campaign speech — more lipstick, less pit bull.

The book can be roughly divided into two halves — the years before she was asked to join John McCain’s ticket and the time since. The second half is the more lively: It’s got her take on the designer clothes embarrassment; the vice presi-dential debate with Joe Biden; and the “campaign profession-als” she blames for losing the White House.

From the beginning, Palin seems determined to prove she has always been maverick-y

and never a mental lightweight. She says her nose was always in a book while growing up and the first big word she learned to spell was “differ-ent.” She casually mentions that Mount McKinley rises to 20,320 feet, and she quotes Plato, Thomas Paine, Lou Holtz, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Sowell and Mark Twain. She says she was riveted by Water-gate at age 10.

Her five children make ador-able cameos and her husband Todd arrives with great prom-ise — he “roared” into her life in a Mustang — but then largely disappears. He never becomes a flesh-and-blood man, only a remote repository of manly goodness. Ronald Reagan is more of a presence here, constantly evoked and cherished.

Other things missing: No dissection or prognosis of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq (though her eldest son is a vet-eran), no Iran, Israel, China or Russia. No race relations, Hur-ricane Katrina or Bush policies, either. McCain emerges unsul-lied, Dick Cheney is mentioned only in passing and Hillary Rodham Clinton gets an open invitation for coffee.

More often than not, Palin spends chunks of time reciting campaign pablum. Not sur-prisingly, Palin, like a former beauty contestant, considers America’s most precious re-source to be our children. Oh, and the Constitution.

There are a few moments of candor, such as her ini-tial, fleeting reaction in New

Orleans to discovering she was pregnant with her fifth baby — “I’m out of town. No one knows I’m pregnant. No one would ever have to know” before snapping out of it to choose to have the child.

But just as quickly, the curtain falls back down. Of finding out that her unwed 17-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant, she writes that the family prayed and then made preparations for baby’s arrival into the family. That’s about it, except for saying that with God’s help, good would come from it all.

Other than a few smarmy asides directed at Democrats and the media, Palin reserves most of her attacks for Mc-Cain’s advisers, with their em-phasis on packaging. She says she was told to stick to a script and spout nonanswers, which remain unanswered in her book. She says she preferred her “simpler style” because she did not need “to spin.”

Maverick musingsBACKSTAGE Music Industry majors get a feel of what it takes to put on a concert Wednesday at Johnny B’s continued from 11

apart to attack the different facets that make up a successful concert production.

Henke and Gehrke each did promotion for the bands. Wieman and Bawek collaborated in making the concert poster and newspaper advertisement, Johnson aided in attaining and budgeting the specs of said advertisement. Christensen, who also currently works writing press releases for Haefner’s Performance Series events at MSU, wrote press releases and promoted the show on Eventful and Greater Mankato Events.

Going through the extensive and applied process that constitutes a concert production may have left the industry greenhorns exhausted, but they only had positive things to say as they near their project’s finish line.

“Making the most of what we had to work with, learning the ins-and-outs of it all means a lot toward learning to perform in this part of the industry,” Christensen said. “Having the guidance of someone such as Dale, who has so much experience with this stuff, really helped.”

“It’s satisfying to get real hands-on experience and something great to put on a résumé,” Wieman said. “It’s much better than just reading a book and taking a test like in other classes.”

The project, which will be graded on aspects such as professionality and overall composition, will feature bands

Beg For Justice as well as Dr. Lee and the Terminally Chill, each of which have ties directly to the project. Henke is the frontman and namesake of Dr. Lee and Gehrke plays banjo, guitar and sings for the rootsy Beg For Justice.

Even the host of the event has connections to the group and their goals.

“John Mueller (owner of Johnny B’s) is a personal friend of mine, I have known John for over 25 years,” Haefner said. “He was involved in the production side of the music industry at the national level, so he understands how important it is for these students to receive hands-on, real-time experience in the field.”

And if the hard work of fellow students and members of the faculty or the high quality of performers doesn’t sell you, perhaps the location and accessibility of the whole thing will.

“Johnny B’s is the closet venue to the campus,” Haefner said. “It is my understanding that those not of legal drinking age can be in the establishment while it is serving food.”

And since Johnny B’s typically serves food until 9:30 p.m. and the concert runs from 7 - 8:45 p.m., there should be ample time for music lovers of all ages to witness first-hand the start of six careers in the music industry.

You might just be witnessing the start of the next Berry Gordy’s career.

MARK KENNEDYAssociated Press writer


PLAYOFF WOES AND BLOWSThe Mavericks saw two seasons come to an end

photos by dan moen • msu reporterBoth the football team and the soccer team fell in the first-round of the NCAA tournament. The MSU football team fell to Hillsdale at home, while the soccer team fell to UMD on the road.

Hillsdale 27 Minnesota state 24 (OT)

Minnesota state 0 Minnesota dulutH 2

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Minnesota State’s quarterback Ryan Fick sat in the press conference after Saturday’s game against Hillsdale with tears rolling down his cheeks.

When the Mavericks fell in overtime to the Chargers 27-24, the fifth-year senior and the rest of the Mavericks had seen their season, and for some, career, flash before their eyes.

Just two weeks ago the Mavericks were 10-0 and on top of the world. Fick had fought back from two major injuries this season (broken leg and collarbone) only to come back in the Mavericks’ most important game.

The senior envisioned different results. “We were rolling this year,” Fick said. “I

know our goal wasn’t 10-2. My goal wasn’t 10-2. We did some nice things and made some strides for the program. We were roll-ing and just came to a halt.”

Redshirt freshman running back Jake Aberg ran in the first touchdown of the game from 14 yards out to give MSU the first score and lead of the game.

Bill Kanitz would answer back for the Chargers in the first quarter to tie the game at 7-7.

Fick hit Vinny Flury on a great pass-and-catch play from 21 yards out to put the Mavericks up 14-7 just five seconds into the

second quarter.Kanitz would again answer back for the

Chargers from one yard out, his second of three touchdowns on the day.

Freshman kicker Sam Brockshus would hit a field goal going into half, putting the Mavericks up 17-14.

The second half was a different story for both teams. The Chargers had scored on a six-yard touchdown run from Vinnie Panizzi to give them their first lead of the game. Af-ter an interception from Fick, the Chargers then hit a 20-yard field goal to put them up by a full touchdown with 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

Fick led the Mavericks down the field against the wind, showing no signs of previ-ous injuries, and eventually hit junior receiv-er Omaar Balton for a 22-yard touchdown. This would send the game into overtime.

“I guess after that [the touchdown], I felt pretty good,” Fick said. “I thought for sure we’d win in overtime. I thought the game was ours in overtime. But that’s why you play it.”

The Mavericks got the ball first in the overtime and Fick hooked up with redshirt freshman receiver Adam Thielen in what looked to evolve into a big play. Thielen would end up getting the ball hit from behind him, resulting in a fumble that the Chargers recovered, instantly putting them in field goal position.

“It wasn’t Adam’s fault,” Fick said. “It wasn’t anyone’s fault. Mistakes happen.”

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A tough battle in the first round of the NCAA Division II Women’s Soc-cer Tournament ends the Maverick’s season.

The Friday afternoon game in Denver, Colo. against conference rival University of Minnesota-Duluth was a hard fought effort for a team that was looking to make something out of a relative humdrum season.

“We know that these teams are ones that will give us a challenge,” said senior goalkeeper Sheila Reynolds.

That was exactly the case in this match as the Bulldog’s defense was too much for the Maverick’s high powered offense.

The Bulldogs came out firing and put the Mavericks in a hole early. At the 25:30 mark the first goal was scored and shortly after the Mavericks found themselves facing a two-goal deficit.

Not lying down without a fight, the Mavericks clawed back and posted seven shots on goal, hitting the post on one, but were unable to find nylon.

The Mavericks ended their 2009 season with a 13-5-2 record and third consecutive national tournament ap-pearance.

A season that started with so much promise started to fizzle half-way through the season.

The Mavericks entered the season as the overwhelming favorites to win the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Confer-ence Title as they had their starting goalkeeper (Sheila Reynolds) and leading scorer (Laura Leber) from the previous year returning.

After a 5-0 start the team ran into a 1-2-1 slump has they faced the meat of the NSIC. The team ended the regular season on a 7-1-0 run.

They finished fourth in the confer-ence and faced University of Mary in the opening round of the conference tournament. The game ended with a Mavericks win and the first shoot-out since the 2007 national tournament.

After the first round win the Maver-icks faced Winona State and lost. They were bounced in the second round by a team that beat them only a few weeks prior. The loss surely meant the team would be done but the NCAA selection committee seemed to favor the Maver-icks granting them the at-large bid over Winona.

The opening round of the national tournament ended in a 2-0 loss against conference foe Minnesota Duluth.

The Mavericks will graduate 10 seniors and will bring back 19 players from this season’s squad.

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After finishing the regu-lar season with a win against Mary, the Minnesota State women’s volley-ball team would now have to wait to find out their fate on whether they would be invited to the NCAA tourna-ment. The No. 14 Mavericks fin-ished the season 26-6 and 16-4 in conference play.

The strong record and the national ranking made it seem like the chances were good that the Mavericks name would be called to compete in the 64 team tournament. However, af-ter starting their NSIC schedule with ten straight victories, the Mavericks struggled at times down the stretch going 6-4 in their final ten matches.

“If we focus on ourselves then the other stuff will take care of itself,” said MSU head coach Dennis Amundson.

The Mavericks great start proved that they were worthy of post-season play and the Mavericks learned Sunday night that they would be a part of the tournament. After a one year absence from the tourna-ment a year ago, the Mavericks

will return in 2009 for seventh time in school history and the third time under Amundson.

MSU is 2-6 all-time in the postseason with their last victory coming in 2002. The Mavericks will want to change that going into this postseason but will have their hands full

in their first match.

The fifth-seeded Mavericks will travel to Saint Paul, Minn. to take on fourth-seed-ed Wayne State. Wayne State shut-out the Mavericks

three weeks ago in a match where MSU never seemed to be able to get into rhythm.

The Mavericks will get a second chance to show the Wildcat’s that they are a better team than what they showed before.

The Mavericks will have to do a better job of countering the Wildcat’s strong defense. Wayne State has two All-NSIC players in middle blocker, Jennifer Hefner and defensive specialist Shannon McGowan. The two are among the confer-ence’s best defensive players. Both have some of the best statistics in digs and blocks and they are a main reason why Wayne State has been so suc-cessful defensively.

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erin spartz • msu reporterThe Mavericks are making an appearance in the NCAA tourney after per-haps getting snubbed last season.

MSU should have the right players to counter that with their All-NSIC outside hitters Amanda Beekman and Chelsea Fogarty. The Mavericks also have All-NSIC setter Brittany Stamer who is one of the nation’s leaders in assists and all-conference right–side hitter Ally Kwikkel who is one of the few Mavericks to have been in the post-season before.

“We need to play at our top level,” said Kwikkel. “The quicker we can shut them down the better.”

One thing the Mavericks have struggled with late in the season is winning on the road. The Mavericks will play away from the Taylor Center the rest of the season, a place where they have only lost once this year. MSU finished their final five road games with a sub-par 2-3 record.

Everyone’s regular sea-son record can be thrown out. The postseason marks a chance when everyone has another op-portunity. Amundson expressed

early in the season that this group has the chance to be “really good.” The Mavericks will now have the opportunity they have worked all year for.

In what has been a successful regular season, one can count on MSU not wanting to clean out their lockers just yet.

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For the way the Minnesota State men’s hockey team has played lately it’s a bit of a surprise to see it parked at 10th place in the bottom of the conference standings, a place usually reserved for Alaska-Anchorage or Michi-gan Tech.

But after getting swept by No. 7 Colorado College over the weekend at the Verizon Wireless Center in Mankato, the Mavericks still only have three conference points after eight WCHA games.

The first-place Tigers won 1-0 Friday in overtime and added a 3-2 victory Saturday to complete the sweep and move their road record to 3-0-1.

The Mavericks haven’t played like a 10th-place team thus far, although they haven’t quite played like a team in the mix for home-ice contention during the playoffs, either. The goaltending has im-proved for the Mavericks and the defense has been acceptable, but the offense. Oh, the offense.

What has plagued the Maver-icks for most of the season hurt them again against the Tigers, as they left too many scoring chances on the ice. The Mavericks average just 2.30 goals per game, tied for last in the conference.

“I thought we had a lot of good opportunities,” said Mav-ericks coach Troy Jutting after Friday’s overtime loss. “I thought their goaltender made some great saves.”

The Mavericks were almost guaranteed a point Friday night, as goaltenders Austin Lee and Joe Howe matched each other save-for-save for the first 60 minutes. But then the Tigers caught a break.

With barely more than a minute remain-ing in overtime William Rapuzzi crossed the blue line and into the Tigers’ attacking zone when he was bodied by Nick Canzanello, who was called for a holding penalty. It might have been the correct call, but it was also a tough one to call on the home team with a minute left in overtime. And to make the penalty call even more controversial, Rylan Schwartz scored just 10 seconds later to give the Tigers the win.

After the game Jutting had no comment for the penalty on Canzanello, saying, “I’m not discussing the penalty; I thought [Canzanello] played a good game.”

Howe made 31 saves in his first shutout of his career.

“Joe Howe stood strong and made some great saves,” said Tigers coach Scott Owens. “He al-lowed us to hang around and win a game that probably should have been a tie at best for us.”

Howe did it again Saturday night, this time by making 28 saves and stopping plenty of MSU scoring chances. The Tigers had a 3-1 lead early in the third period when Howe was at his best. The

freshman made a few momentum-swinging saves — just like he did in the first period against Tyler Pitlick a couple of times — and even stopped Zach Harrison on a penalty shot to preserve the Tigers’ two-goal lead. Channing Boe added a late goal for the Mav-ericks at 15:35 to make it a 3-2 game. He was assisted by Kurt Davis, who also assisted on Mike Louwerse’s first-period goal along with Kael Mouillierat.

Lee finished with 28 saves after making 26 the night before.

The Mavericks (3-6-1, 1-6-1 WCHA) continue WCHA play this weekend in Alaska-Anchor-age, and need their offense to come alive to earn points from the Seawolves.

“I think we’re getting better,” Jutting said. “As a team we’re playing better hockey. But we have to score goals — it’s the object of the game.”

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Mavericks continue early struggles

JOSH BERHOWstaff writer

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dan moen • msu reporterAustin Lee has gotten six of the Maverick’s 10 starts and is averaging 2.81 goals per game.

Making a pointUM 4MSU 1

UM 1MSU 1

LEE HANDELstaff writer

After two intense games against the third-ranked Minne-sota Golden Gophers, the Min-nesota State women’s hockey team left All Seasons Arena on Saturday with every reason to be proud of the way they battled a very talented Gophers squad. The Mavericks managed to take one point from the weekend se-ries and could have come away with more.

The Gophers (9-2-1, 7-2-1-1 WCHA) came to Mankato looking to bounce back from being swept by the Wisconsin Badgers in Madison two weeks ago. The sweep had accounted for the Gophers’ only two losses of the young season. They were also well rested, as they had last weekend off. The odds appeared to be stacked heavily against the Mavericks. However, the Mavericks always seem to raise their intensity level and come ready to play when they host the Gophers.

“It is always a pretty big rivalry,” said senior forward Christina Lee. “They always have a solid team and we always try to play well against them.”

Friday night’s game started off with both teams feeling each other out, as the two teams skated to a scoreless first period. The mighty Golden Gopher of-fense woke up with a vengeance in the second period, tallying three goals in the period to take a commanding 3-0 lead on the Mavericks with one period left to play.

Sophomore Maverick goal-tender Alli Altmann had kept the

high-powered Gophers offense in check until late in the second period, when the Gophers broke the game open with their second and third goals. Both goals came with less than three minutes left in the period.

The Mavericks were able to take back some of the momen-tum when sophomore forward Emmi Leinonen notched her team-leading sixth goal on the power play just over a minute into the third period, pulling the Mavericks to within two goals 3-1. The Gophers would finish the scoring later in the period, tacking on an insurance goal to go up 4-1. The three-goal lead was more than enough for Minnesota’s standout goaltender Noora Raty, who continued her solid season by saving 30 Mav-erick shots.

The Mavericks would deal the first blow on Saturday after-noon, jumping out to the early 1-0 lead when junior forward Nina Tikkinen got behind the Gopher defense and slipped the puck past her fellow countryman Raty.

The Gophers would not score until midway through the third period, tying the score 1-1. The score would remain tied through the end of regulation and overtime, sending the defensive struggle to a decisive shootout period. The Gophers would later prevail in four rounds.

Altmann played outstanding in both games, saving a total of 33 shots.

“Our defense was able to get the puck out of the danger areas and Alli was huge between the pipes,” said Lee.

Despite the shootout loss, the Mavericks (3-4-3, 1-4-3-1 WCHA) were able to pick up one much-deserved point on the weekend.

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The Maverick’s last chance was that the Chargers Mark Petro would miss the 34-yard field goal to win the game. Unfortunately for the Mavericks, that didn’t happen.

“I was hoping something would happen,” said MSU head coach Todd Hoffner on the pos-sibility of a missed or blocked kick. “He made a field goal when it counted, hats off to him. If we lose to a team, we want to lose to a classy team. Hopefully they go all the way.”

The Mavericks ended their season with a 10-2 record, losing in the first round of the NCAA DII Playoffs. They also won the NSIC-South Division title.

The MSU basketball team opened up their season against Monmouth on Sunday.

The Mavericks won the game 90-57, mainly because of a 53-31 surge by MSU in the second half.

Transfer Forward Jefferson Mason led the Mavericks with 17 points and 12 rebounds.

Preseason All-American center Travis Nelson added 14 points, while transfer Jermain Davis scored 11.

Point guard Marcus Hill scored 10 points and had a team-high 8 assists.

FOOTBALL Mavericks drop last two games of year to end 10-2 continued from 15

STATS: 69 tackles (3), 7 interceptions (1), 12 passes deflected (1) two blocked kicks (2) ... Hamilton tied the single season record for intercep-tions in MSU history. He was not only a force as a defensive back, but many of his tackles came on special teams. Finished out the season with 14 total tackles and an interception against Hillsdale. HONORABLE MENTIONS: Dan Fehlberg (89 tackles, 2 sacks),Matt McQuiston (74 tackles, 2 sacks), Troy Jones (38 tackles, 6 interceptions)

STATS: 188 carries, 1201 yards (1), 10 rushing touchdowns (t-1), 9 receptions, 152 yards (5), 1 receiving touchdown ... Aberg was the main ingredient in a run heavy offense. The redshirt freshman’s speed was second to none on the team and not only opened up the run game, but also the passing game. HONORABLE MENTIONS: Vinny Flury (519 receiving yards, 6 TD’s), Chris Nowlin (525 receiving yards, 5 TD’’s), Ernest Walker (485 rushing yards, 10 TD’s)

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STATS: 11-14 on field goals, 3-5 from kicks beyond 40 yards, 51-55 on PAT’s ... In just his first game, Brockshus hit a 46-yard field goal against Truman State. The freshman was a consistent force kicking extra points and gave the Mavericks the option of going for three rather than punting the ball. If Brockshus continues to improve, it wouldn’t be outrageous to see him hitting 50-yard field goals. HONORABLE MENTIONS: Adam Thielen (21 catches, 204 yards, 1 TD) Junior Aumavae (25 tackles, 1 fumble forced) , Ross Jirgl (17 tackles, 1 sack, 1 interception, 1 pass deflection)

ROOKIE OF YEAR

BROCKSHUS

REPORTER AWARDS FOR MSU FOOTBALL

STATS: 24 yard average on kick returns (1), 1 kick return touchdown (1) ... Rodgers was normally kicked or punted away from, but when he wasn’t, he was very dangerous. Rodgers also returned an interception and a fumble for a touchdown. In addition to being the main return man for the Mavericks, Rodgers also had three interceptions as a defensive back. Also blocked three kicks and punts combined. HONORABLE MENTIONS: Sam Brockshus (below), Gerard DeWet (40.4 yard punt average, five over 50 yards, no punts blocked), Kevin Klug (three blocked kicks or punts)

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RODGERS

(*) = TEAM RANK

KYLE RATKE - SPORTS EDITOR

MSU wins season opener

STATS: 25 total points (1), 11 goals (1), 3 assists(t-3)Last season’s conference player of the year Leber struggled by her stan-dards but led the Mavericks in goals, points and game-winning goals (4). She is the offensive powerhouse this team looks to for a crucial goal and will be exciting to watch next season. HONORABLE MENTIONS: Paletta, Henry, Ann Kincaid (6 goals, 1 assist, 13 total points), Kate Nielsen (5 goals, 10 total points)

STATS: 23 total points (2), 7 goals (2), 9 assists (1) Paletta not only scored but she facilitates her teammates better than any-one on the field by leading the team with nine assists. The deal breaker for us is Paletta’s drive, it seemed like she never tired and her willingness to never give in. HONORABLE MENTIONS: Laura Leber (11 goals, 3 assits, 25 total points), Brittany Henry (5 goals, 3 assists, 13 total points), Shelia Reynolds (.68 goals per game, 8 shutouts, record as a starter was 12-5-2)

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PALETTA

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STATS: 13 total points (t-3), 5 goals (t-4), 3 assists (t-3) This award goes to the new face that made the biggest impact on this years squad and it goes to freshman forward Brittany Henry. In Henry’s first season as a collegiate player she shined, posting five goals, three assists and fell behind Leber for the team’s lead in game-winners with three. Henry is arguably the face of Maverick’s soccer for the next four years. HONORABLE MENTIONS: Nielsen (above), Cassie Weik (1,083 minutes, played in all 20 games)

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HENRY

REPORTER AWARDS FOR MSU SOCCER

STATS: .68 goals per game (1), 8 shutouts (1), record as a starter was 12-5-2 (1) Reynolds set the career shut-outs record only four games into the season and stands alone on top that list with 20 career shut-outs. She led the team to a 12-5-2 record behind her 75 saves. Reynolds is without ques-tion a potential Hall of Fame Maverick. HONORABLE MENTIONS: No honorable mentions.

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REYNOLDS

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