INSIDE: MAVERICK HOCKEY SPLIT - PG. 9 ED/OP 4 SPORTS 9 A&E 13 www.msureporter.com Minnesota State University, Mankato facebook.com/msureporter @msureporter Tuesday, October 14, 2014 WEDNESDAY High: 64 Low: 41 Partly sunny and nice THURSDAY High: 69 Low: 47 Times of clouds and sun TUESDAY High: 63 Low: 38 Clouds giving way to some sun “Radushie” welcomes you this Saturday New ISA event, Eurasian night, is the first of many this year. mnsu.edu The International Student Assocation nurtures a host of colorful events that occur at MSU. mnsu.edu Olya Jumakuliyeva, the president of ESA, who was an instrumental part of Radushie. The Centennial Student Union’s Mav Ave is alive with students tabling for all sorts of events and fundraisers. One can tell, it is certainly the beginning of an eventful academic year. The International Student As- sociation is also busy putting to- gether the first of four signature nights being organized this year – Eurasian Night will be the first. The event is organized by the Eurasian Student Association, and is being supported by the In- ternational Student Association. Eurasian night is going to be held at the Centennial Student Union Ballroom on October 18 at 6 P.M. The cost of attendance is $7 for MSU students and $9 for the community. It is free for children under the age of six. The event consists of dinner and entertainment. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket booth that is available at Mav Ave or can be purchased online at the MSU website. The ticket booth will also be available on Thursday at Highland Center as well as the International Center. The event is called “Radu- shie”, which means “welcome to our event.” The poster represents the East European culture of wel- coming guests with sweets and a cup of tea. Patties or “pirojki”, as seen in the event posters, is an important part of this culture and will be served to welcome guests. “Eurasian night has never happened before. It is going to be something new for the MSU community,” said Olya Jumaku- liyeva, president of the European Student Association. The European Student As- sociation consists of 15 coun- tries of East European and East Asian origin. The organization has been an RSO for a while but was recently narrowed down to 15 countries, not including West- ern European countries any- more. Eastern Europe and East Asia have similar cultures, due to their common history of being a part of the former USSR. Most of these countries share similar cul- ture and traditions, Russian being the commonly spoken language. MSU has a diverse student popu- lation from over 90 countries, but not all of these countries have independent RSOs. As an RSO, the European Student Associa- tion provides support and a sense of community for a lot of these countries that have a relatively small population at MSU. The organization meets on Fridays at 6 p.m. and holds open forum meetings for anyone interested to attend. “It is a relatively new organi- zation and has about 30 students so far. As we are new, we wanted to get involved, so we decided to organize our first cultural night,” said Jumakuliyeva. “It is the first event since our organization has changed. Even though we had an event three years ago, it is a different organization now,” she said. Food is a major part of any culture, and Eurasia is no excep- tion. A major highlight of this event is going to be the elaborate food menu. “It has been a lot of work but we are hoping for the best” said Food Coordinator Anastasia Stanceva. The menu includes Borhch Russian/Ukrainian cabbage- beats soup, a side of salad and a second main dish; “plov” which comes from The Central Asian part of Eurasia. “We are worried because we included a little more on the menu then we had initially planned since we had to include a little bit of each culture,” Stance- va said. The International Student As- sociation is hoping to get off to a good start with this event. The board was recently elected for the academic year 2014/15, and is working relentlessly to prove that they are student leaders for a reason. “Even though I am not in- volved in the event coordination, I will be attending the event. It is our first signature night, and I will be asking everyone to come to the event,” said Asian Liason for ISA, Byungjoo Kim. PRATAKSHYA BHANDARI Staff Writer
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INSIDE: MAVERICK HOCKEY SPLIT - PG. 9ED/OP
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
www.msureporter.comMinnesota State University, Mankato
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
WEDNESDAY High: 64 Low: 41
Partly sunny and niceTHURSDAY High: 69 Low: 47
Times of clouds and sunTUESDAY High: 63 Low: 38
Clouds giving way to some sun
“Radushie” welcomes you this Saturday
New ISA event, Eurasian night, is the first of many this year.
mnsu.eduThe International Student Assocation nurtures a host of colorful events that occur at MSU.
mnsu.eduOlya Jumakuliyeva, the president of ESA, who was an instrumental part of Radushie.
The Centennial Student Union’s Mav Ave is alive with students tabling for all sorts of events and fundraisers. One can tell, it is certainly the beginning of an eventful academic year. The International Student As-sociation is also busy putting to-gether the first of four signature nights being organized this year – Eurasian Night will be the first. The event is organized by the Eurasian Student Association, and is being supported by the In-ternational Student Association.
Eurasian night is going to be held at the Centennial Student Union Ballroom on October 18 at 6 P.M. The cost of attendance
is $7 for MSU students and $9 for the community. It is free for children under the age of six. The event consists of dinner and entertainment. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket booth that is available at Mav Ave or can be purchased online at the MSU website. The ticket booth will also be available on Thursday at Highland Center as well as the International Center.
The event is called “Radu-shie”, which means “welcome to our event.” The poster represents the East European culture of wel-coming guests with sweets and a cup of tea. Patties or “pirojki”, as seen in the event posters, is an important part of this culture and will be served to welcome guests.
“Eurasian night has never
happened before. It is going to be something new for the MSU community,” said Olya Jumaku-liyeva, president of the European Student Association.
The European Student As-sociation consists of 15 coun-tries of East European and East Asian origin. The organization has been an RSO for a while but was recently narrowed down to 15 countries, not including West-ern European countries any-more. Eastern Europe and East Asia have similar cultures, due to their common history of being a part of the former USSR. Most of these countries share similar cul-ture and traditions, Russian being the commonly spoken language. MSU has a diverse student popu-lation from over 90 countries, but not all of these countries have independent RSOs. As an RSO, the European Student Associa-tion provides support and a sense of community for a lot of these countries that have a relatively
small population at MSU. The organization meets on Fridays at 6 p.m. and holds open forum meetings for anyone interested to attend.
“It is a relatively new organi-zation and has about 30 students so far. As we are new, we wanted to get involved, so we decided to organize our first cultural night,” said Jumakuliyeva. “It is the first event since our organization has changed. Even though we had an event three years ago, it is a different organization now,” she said.
Food is a major part of any culture, and Eurasia is no excep-tion. A major highlight of this event is going to be the elaborate food menu.
“It has been a lot of work but we are hoping for the best” said Food Coordinator Anastasia Stanceva.
The menu includes Borhch Russian/Ukrainian cabbage-beats soup, a side of salad and a
second main dish; “plov” which comes from The Central Asian part of Eurasia.
“We are worried because we included a little more on the menu then we had initially planned since we had to include a little bit of each culture,” Stance-va said.
The International Student As-sociation is hoping to get off to a good start with this event. The board was recently elected for the academic year 2014/15, and is working relentlessly to prove that they are student leaders for a reason.
“Even though I am not in-volved in the event coordination, I will be attending the event. It is our first signature night, and I will be asking everyone to come to the event,” said Asian Liason for ISA, Byungjoo Kim.
PRATAKSHYA BHANDARIStaff Writer
2 • MSU Reporter News Tuesday, October 14, 2014
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What magazines are really telling you
bodyconfidentbeautifulme.blogspot.comOne of the many promotional posts for Love Your Body Day, which encourages not only young women, but men to see their body in a positive light.
Magazines today are promot-ing an extremely negative body image for both women and men. To combat the negative images
that are being promoted by the media, the Women’s Center will be participating in Love Your Body Day. On Love Your Body Day, the Women’s Center will be tabling in the MavAve. This day encourages people, largely women, to throw away maga-
zines, and to love the body that they have.
“The Women’s Center is try-ing to promote healthy body im-age no matter what body shape you have, regardless of age, race, or body type. We want to pro-mote a positive body image for
all people” stated Kelsy Goe-man, the activist chair intern at the Womens’s Center, and Ra-chel Eaton, the Graduate intern at the Women’s Center.
The Women’s Center will also be hosting an event called What Magazines are Really Telling You. Students are encouraged to stop by the table in MavAve and write headlines that poke fun at the negative headlines surround-ing body image.
“They will be making up their own headlines to point out the negativity of magazines and the image that it promotes about women,” said Goeman and Ea-ton.
The Womens’s Center will have a table in MavAve on Wednesday, October 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. They will be giving out tattoos and buttons to promote a positive body image, and also encouraging students to bring their magazines and throw them away. They promote stu-dents to throw away magazines to fight the negative images that magazines are supporting.
“Magazines start anxiety and insecure thoughts about how people look. They start to feel too anxious about how they look,” stated Goeman and Eaton.
The Women’s Center is hop-ing for a large student involve-ment, and are looking forward to countless students coming to
participate. The Women’s Cen-ter wants to create a positive en-vironment for everyone to feel comfortable.
“We love everyone, and want everyone to participate. We want everybody to feel comfortable in their body, and not be insecure, or feel bad about who they are,” said Goeman and Eaton.
The Women’s Center will hopefully help students to feel more comfortable with them-selves, and promote a positive self-image. Students feel that it will help change the attitude that has developed in society.
“It is a good idea for the im-age to be changed because the magazines tips aren’t really help-ful. Society has made the goal for people to be a Barbie, and has set unreachable and unhealthy goals. It will hopefully help what people think about magazines, and make people realize the negative connotations that come with magazine tittles about body image,” stated student Haley Carver.
Through creating awareness for body image and love, the Women’s Center hopes to change the way people view themselves, make them more comfortable with their body image, and pro-mote a positive image towards body shape.
ANDREWVANDEN BROEKEStaff Writer
Secular Student Alliance looks to dispel atheism stigma
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Secular Student Alliance looks to dispel atheism stigma
legendsoftheheathentable.wordpress.comThe Secular Student Alliance hopes to bring atheism and agnosticism to a different light.
Science, critical thinking, re-ligion; these are just some of the main topics that the Secular Stu-dent Alliance (SSA) cover each week in their meetings at MSU.
David White, president of the SSA’s Mankato chapter, explains the group’s mission best.
“We’re here to promote secu-larism, the separation of church and state,” White said. “Anyone who is willing to question any-thing is welcome. No thought is beyond criticism.”
Though deep thinking is im-portant, it is not the group’s only goal. White wants to change the way people view Atheists and Agnostics.
“We also want to change the image of atheists, and that negative stigma that sometimes comes with it. We invite people of all beliefs to join us in a judg-ment-free discussion,” White ex-plained.
The group has been on campus for a number of years as various names. The group was originally known as the Campus Atheists and Agnostics (CAA) and then the Maverick Atheist Agnostic Secular Students (MASS) before changing the name this year.
“We wanted to associate our-selves with the national Secular Student Alliance,” White said.
“We had been loosely associated for several years with the group, but this last year we officially aligned with SSA. It meant going over our group constitution and reformulating and reorganizing our group.”
Becoming a chapter of the SSA meant benefits for the group. The Mankato chapter now has access to libraries of group activities, successful projects run by other chapters across the country, and graphics used by the SSA.
“It’s basically a giant jump-ing off point,” White exclaimed. “Joining up with the SSA grants
us so much more access to differ-ent thoughts and ideas.”
The group has events planned over the course of the school year besides just meetings. The group was recently contacted about bringing an author to campus.
“We were recently approached about bring Dr. Kim Socha, a noted author to campus,” White said. “She is an animal rights ac-tivist and atheist, who talks about the ethics behind civil rights and animal rights, and how they in-tersect.”
White was still in talks at the time of print, but he hopes to bring Dr. Socha in sometime
near the end of October.The group will also be cel-
ebrating events in coordination with SSA chapters across the country. This includes Darwin Day, celebrating Charles Dar-win’s birthday, considered by many to be the most important evolutionist in world history, on February 12, and National Ask An Atheist Day on April 17. White expects Mankato’s chap-ter to have tabling set up in the Centennial Student Union for both days.
The SSA meets once a week, every Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. in 288 Wissink Hall. Though
the group members tend to lead towards atheist and agnostic be-liefs, they are not exculsive and invite anyone willing to ask questions.
“Why is this, why do we think this? Those are some of the ways we try to think in the SSA,” White said.
Those interested in joining the SSA have many ways of doing so. Apart from the just showing up at the meetings on Wednesday nights, you can also find infor-mation on the groups Facebook, Twitter and MavSync pages.
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A psychology class that I am taking this semester has over 150 students. I took a large sized class like this last semester as well. The common characteristic of these big classes is that profes-sors normally allow students to use their electronic devices such as their laptops, tablets and even smartphones during the session.
The reason these electronic devices are allowed to be used is simple: because of the profes-sors’ effort to give students more freedom and responsibility of their studies.
However, most of the students don’t seem to appreciate these professors’ flexibility and pro-gressiveness in the class. From my experience so far, there have been only few students who actu-ally used their laptops and other devices efficiently.
In other words, most of the students are easily distracted from their devices during class. Even though they start taking notes with their laptops, they end up with checking their social me-dia such as Facebook and Twitter and losing their concentration on the lecture.
Some students are even worse.
They seem to decide not to pay attention to the lecture at all from the beginning. While pretending to take notes, they actually do their assignments for another class or watch a movie.
Our generation—the Millen-nials—is so attached to technol-ogy. Some people are even so obsessed with their electronic devices that they have to check their phones every single minute or even more frequently. It’s like an addiction.
Using technology itself is helpful enough. However, the problem is that most of college students are using the technology recklessly in the classroom. This is not only disrespectful to the professor providing the lecture, but also disruptive in that their behavior affects other students in the class and distracts them.
In contrast, proponents ar-gue that they can take notes fast enough so that they can keep up with the lecture. In my opinion, however, when they have extra time after taking notes faster than other students taking notes with their hands or even faster than professors explaining the lecture, they just turn their atten-tion to exciting online activities in their laptops. After all, they will eventually lose their concen-tration and interest completely on the lecture.
Another argument the pro-
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ponents are making is that they can study more efficiently with the electronic devices while searching for additional infor-mation which might help them to understand the lecture.
I believe that communica-tion with professor in the class is more important than finding other information related to the lecture. If additional informa-tion is needed or they have ques-tions in the middle of the class, they can wait till the class ends and ask the professor their ques-tions. They should stop making any excuses to use their laptops or smartphones, and try to learn
while communicating with pro-fessors. That is the reason they decided to go to a university.
In this respect, I firmly be-lieve that using technological tools in the class, except the special case when these are needed for using a program for the class, is not efficient at all. The more college students get used to using technology in the class, the more accustomed they get to having a lack of commu-nication with their professors and their classmates. Although using them is convenient, this is not efficient for themselves to learn something in the class.
ELECTRONICS “They seem to decide not to pay attention to the lecture at all from the be-ginning.”continued from 4
Honorable candidates receive Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, are stark contrasts in many ways, but share a common goal in trying to improve the lives of children and advancing childrens’ rights and have been recognized by the Nobel Com-mittee as this year’s joint Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Yousafzai first came to the world’s attention when she was shot in the head by the Taliban while advocating for the edu-cation of Pakistani girls. At 17 years of age she is the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and had been in Chemistry class in England when she was noti-fied that she had won. Yousafzai stated, “I’m proud that I’m the first Pakistani and the first young woman or the first young person getting this award.”
Sharing the prize with Yousafzai, 60-year-old Satyarthi is an Indian Hindu that has cam-paigned for the right to schooling for children for his native coun-try and globally since his child-hood when he saw that some kids were sent to school while others were sent to work. The founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan
or the Save the Children Move-ment, Satyarthi has followed in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi in leading and organizing peace-ful protests against what the No-bel Committee called, “the grave exploitation of children for finan-cial gain.”
The committee highlighted the differences between the two award winners in that one was of import to note that an Indian and Pakistani, a Muslim and a Hindu had joined in a common cause for the education of children and against extremism.
There had been 278 nominees for this year’s Peace Prize, which set a record and included Pope Francis, Edward Snowden and the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta although the complete list of nominees is kept secret. The winners share a monetary prize of approximately 1.1 mil-lion dollars awarded through a trust fund established in the will of Alfred Nobel which stated that five awards be given in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Litera-ture and Peace to “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest ben-efit on mankind.” Nobel made the majority of his wealth with the invention of dynamite and
factories producing dynamite and other munitions throughout Europe, the Americas, Austra-lia and South Africa. Nobel held more than 350 other patents and had the element nobelium named in his honor.
The Nobel Committee has come under criticism in recent years for awarding the Peace Prize for the intent or promise of promoting peace rather than for accomplishment. In 2013, the Organization for the Pro-hibition of Chemical Weapons was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work in eliminating chemical weapons, namely the then upcoming effort to depose of Syrian stockpiles, which it declared 97 percent complete in 2014. It later became known that other chemical weapon produc-tion facilities and stockpiles were still in existence and the OPCW is in discussions with Syria about these discrepancies.
In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the prize after less than a year in office, having been nominated eleven months prior, to mixed reactions from commentators and editorial boards across the United States.
Two share the prestigious award.NICHOLAS JOHNSONStaff Writer
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It is estimated that 556 mil-lion people become victims of cyber crime every year. That is a new victim every 8 seconds.
In honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, IT Services will be conducting our own Cyber Security Awareness Campaign kicking off this week.
The Vice President for Technology, Ed Clark, released a statement saying, “The goal of the campaign is to raise campus awareness of best practices for avoiding online risks, common phishing scams, and dangerous files, among other subjects. We hope to cover the most relevant topics for students, staff and faculty.”
On the MSU website, under ITS and information security, information can be found on hoe to protect yourself from falling to cyber security. This includes mobile devices. The links go to physical, cyber, and computer security.
Physical security encompass-es things like mobile security, operations security, and spatial security. Cyber security cov-
ers online security. From your online identity, to phishing, this covers a wide gamut of topics. Computer Security covers the security of your computer. From making sure your antivirus is up to date to ensuring you lock your screen, computer security is where you find suggestions on what to install and what not to install.
“As part of this campaign, we have established a special website with the following information pertaining to cyber security: phishing, passwords, email security, mobile device security, locking your computer, and sharing personal informa-tion.” Explained Vice President Ed Clark.
Campaigns promoting Inter-net safety can be seen on the site and around campus. Questions like, “Would you share your ATM pin?” and “Would you touch a hot stove?” puts some-times-foreign ideas of Internet security into perspective. It is all found on the MSU website for students and faculty, as well as others who would like to be educated.
“The Internet is certainly an amazing service and has become a part of everyone’s daily life.
As a member of the Minnesota State Mankato community, your computer and mobile devices have become critical parts of your academic and working experience. However, being constantly connected brings an increased risk of theft, fraud and misuse. Do you know how to protect your data and devices?”
Of all the cyber attacks, viruses, malware, worms, and Trojans comprise of 50% of the
attacks. Second highest were Criminal insiders, at 33% of attacks. The largest number of attacks comes out of Russia, with an estimated 2.5 million. Also leading is Argentina and Taiwan.
Looking at who is attacked, 71% of men fall victim while only 63% of women are.
“We invite you to look for the QR codes on the cyber secu-rity awareness posters around
campus or visit the Information Security website for more in-formation about how to protect your devices from becoming compromised. Also, “like” IT Services on Facebook, follow @ShanePDwyer on Twitter and join the Cyber Security group on Yammer to see new tips and advice about being safe online with your devices.”
Experience will give students a third-person perspective of house party.
Never experienced a real col-lege party? Now is your chance to encounter a house party in a safe and sober atmosphere. Thursday, October 16, the 12th annual “House Party” will be hosted by Phi Delta Theta and is sponsored by the university.
Students will have the op-portunity to see actual drinking games such as beer pong and Edward 40 hands. Volunteers there will be giving out statisti-cal information about the preva-lence of high-risk behaviors. They want to educate students to better keep themselves and their friends safe if they do choose to
drink. While there will not be
any alcohol at this party, the students volunteering will be demonstrating scenarios that people may encounter at parties where drugs and alcohol are present. The idea of hooking up and one-night stands are just a couple scenarios that will be played out. They will be stress-ing the importance of always getting a sober ride home, and friends helping friends. Students will tour the house while these scenes are played out.
They will also have the op-portunity to learn what to do in certain uncomfortable scenarios such as, if a fight occurs, or if they get offered to smoke
marijuana. Understandably, parties with alcohol and drugs often end up being busted by cops. Mankato Public Safety will be on hand to help act out certain scenes where 911 may be called and explain some of their policies. They will offer their advice about underage drinking and how to be safe if someone decides to drink. They will also be issuing sobriety tests and breathalyzers for those people who have not witnessed one in the past.
“It’s Alcohol Awareness week, so it a great opportunity to get out and teach people how to be safe if they find themselves in a situation where they may be drinking. It’s basically a tour
of a house party, but everyone is hanging out having a good time,” said Phi Delta Theta member Ryan Von Wald. “It’s a good chance to get out and so-cialize while supporting safety of others. Whenever we have hosted one of these it has been a pretty big deal in the community and there is always a good turn out.”
All students are welcome. If you’re curious about what happens at college parties or just want to get out meet new people, then come check out the 12th Annual, “House Party”. There will be a variety of prizes and mini games. Everyone attending will receive something at the door.
The party will be This Thursday, October 16 from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at 639 South 4th Street. There will be a shuttle bus from Julia Sears and Preska beginning at 8:30 p.m. The shuttle will run every 30 minutes. There will also be a shuttle picking up from Stadium Heights and the Free Parking Lot 23 at 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. This is a university-sponsored event and alcohol is not permit-ted. Students are expected to follow guidelines associated with any other Minnesota State University, Mankato event.
JOE OLKIVESStaff Writer
Illusionist coming to campus
Magic is in the air here for students. On Tuesday October 21, at 8 p.m., Cru will be spon-soring an illusionist. The illu-sionist, Jim Munroe, uses his act to share his story about being diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and how it brought him closer to God. This is the second time this illusionist has been to Minnesota State University, Mankato. The day of the show Jim Munroe will be at the school doing street magic to advertise his show.
The illusionist will be per-forming magic tricks for the first half of the show, and the second half of the show he will be using his magic tricks to demonstrate his faith, and he begins to tell his story of being diagnosed and cancer-free.
“When he begins to share his faith with the crowd he invites people to leave, but it is a great show that tells his story through God, and I encourage people to stay for the entire show,” stated
Kyle Fast, a full time intern for Cru.
Jim Munroe, also known as Maze, was diagnosed with leu-kemia. He became a member of a blood donor data base. Within that data base of seven million people, there was only one donor that had a perfect blood match for him.
Jim Munroe is featured on the website ‘I am Second’, which promotes the idea that God is first, and that person is Second. Jim was featured on the website for telling his story, and shar-ing how he was diagnosed with
leukemia brought him closer to God, and that the nineteen year old girl that donated blood to him, lives in him now. He states that the girl is the greatest bless-ing that has ever happened to him, and that the girl is now a part of him.
“He wasn’t sure what he be-lieved before being diagnosed, but after he was told he was cancer free he knew what he believed and he wanted to use magic to share what he believes,” said Fast.
The show will be a mostly student audience, and will take
place in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom. The last time Jim Munroe was here, the ball-room was full, and it can hold 850 students. Cru expects the same amount of students to at-tend this year.
“His story is extremely pow-erful. It really shows how God has impacted his life, and can impact everybody’s life, plus it is a really good show to watch. We expect it be just as full as last year, if not more so,” explained Fast.
Cru is a nondenominational group on campus and around
the United States. They are ac-cepting of everybody, and want students to feel welcome to the group. They meet Tuesday nights at 9 p.m., in the Centennial Stu-dent Union, room 253.
Jim Munroe is currently on tour around the Midwest, go-ing to schools and continuing to spread the word about his rela-tionship with God. Of you would like to know more about him, go to his website at whatisthemaze.com or to the ‘I am Second’ page and search cancer in the topics.
The MAZE will open eyes and inspire wonders.ANDREWVANDEN BROEKEStaff Writer
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MSU grad looking to represent Nicollet county.
mankatotimes.comDave Kruse, Republican in Nicolett county, speaking at one of the many events he attends.
Dave Kruse has plans for this November. He is focusing on the House of Representatives seat 19B, will be open for the first time since 2006.
Democrat Kathy Brynaert has held the seat for eight years, hav-ing been reelected in 2008, 2010, and 2012.
Kruse would change the House by adding another seat for the Republican Party. He has identified three goal areas: the economy, education, and health-care.
Kruse has stated, “Minnesota needs to become business and job friendly.”
A lifelong resident of Manka-to, Kruse grew up in a small home with his three older siblings and parents. His father was a minis-ter and his mother was a nurse. A 1997 graduate of Mankato West High School, in 1998 he earned a Liberal Arts Associate’s Degree at Bethany Lutheran College, and later he got his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Minne-sota State University, Mankato.
With his four small children, Kruse has started to direct his
focus on the next generation. Knowing firsthand the difficul-ties of raising a family in the modern world, he hopes to bet-ter the economy to protect the future.
After being asked what his political ambitions were, Kruse responded saying, “I have a fer-vent passion for freedom and liberty. The wonderful life I live is due in large part to those who have sacrificed their time, mon-ey, and energy into preserving our Republic, not the politically ambitious.”
Last May, the Republican del-egates of District 19B, which in-clude Mankato, Eagle Lake and Skyline, unanimously endorsed Kruse to represent them.
Chair of the Blue Earth Coun-ty Republicans, John Hollerich, made a statement on the endorse-ment. “The voters of Minnesota House District 19B deserve to be represented by someone who un-derstands the needs of this area. Dave Kruse is an individual who will support fiscal responsibil-ity, which is sorely needed in St. Paul. I’m happy that the Repub-lican Delegates of 19B are stand-ing strong behind Dave Kruse!”
Since, Kruse has campaigned in the area, stressing his goals of
Minnesota once he potentially takes seat. In the conversation of education, Kruse states that he wants equal per-pupil spend-ing around the state, parent in-volvement in budgets, rights for teachers and students, and school choice. While discussing tuition-freeze in a recent debate, Kruse stated, “While we have that tuition freeze in place like we have here at MSU–Manka-to. That freeze is being enacted meanwhile the colleges aren’t re-ally giving the tools to actually reduce the increasing costs of education.”
As for health care, Kruse wants to uphold the right of citizens to choose what is best for them. He hopes to protect the choice of doctors and health plans. In a recent debate, Kruse stated, “What we need to be do-ing is allowing competition. Al-lowing folks to buy insurance like they would car insurance. I know that’s a hard thing to get back to that point. It’s been a transformative couple of years in health insurance and I hope we can go back to a better and more stable system. But we need to get back to real competition.”
In jobs and economy, Kruse states, “To support Minnesota workers, I will fight for fiscal responsibility and work to re-duce corporate income taxes and harmful government regulation.”
Kruse also supports an idea of sensible spending for the state and Mankato area.
He will be running against Democrat Jack Considine in elections Tuesday November 4 towards seat 19b in the House of Representatives.
The Minnesota State Univer-sity, Mankato Mavericks girls’ soccer team continues to knock on the door of the number over-all ranking in NCAA Division II with a 12-0-0 start to the season, and 9-0-0 in conference play. This past weekend, they had two road games at Minot State University, and the University of Mary. The weekend resulted with winning both games, and continuing to dominate this sea-son with relentless attacks on goal, and suffocating defense on the other end.
The first game was on Satur-day at Minot State. The Maver-icks got the 3-1 win, putting the Beavers’ season record at 4-5-2 and 3-4-1 on the league circuit. Senior Emily Moris got the goal party started for the Mavs, with
a booming shot of a kick from about 20 yards out that found its way to the left corner of the net to put the Mavericks up 1-0 at the 25-minute mark. Minot State would fire back-and rather quick-ly-in the 32nd minute with Kris-tin Long getting one by MSU goalkeeper Molly McGough to level the score 1-1. That is how the first half ended, with both teams deadlocked. With the scored tied up, the Mavericks were still dominating in the stat line, with a 15-3 edge in shots on goal and 6-0 advantage in corner kicks.
The Mavericks finally took the lead for good with Rebecca Pederson, scoring her first goal of the season from a nicely set up pass from senior Sydney Temple. That happened in the 73rd min-ute, and barely five minutes later sophomore Sidni Trotter added the third goal unassisted in the
78th minute to put the icing on the cake with a cherry on top for Minnesota State. The Mavericks again dominated in the stat line, with a 29-4 advantage in shots and 10 shots-on-goal. They also tallied up 10 corner kicks, with-out allowing any to the Beavers. The defense looked tenacious as usual, as senior goalkeeper Mol-ly McGough moves to 9-0-0 as she did not record a save during Saturday afternoon.
Minnesota State traveled to the University of Mary on Sunday, as they won their 12th-straight game of the season and continued to flex their muscles with a 3-0 shutout. With the win, the Mavericks currently stand second in the overall rankings, 12-0-0 and 9-0-0 in conference play. The Marauders fell to 3-6-
Trevor Cokley • MSU ReporterThe Mavericks outscored their opponents 6-1 in their two-game sweep this past weekend.
The MSU women’s soccer team already has 12 wins with just six
regular season games left.
Mavericks split season opening series in OmahaA four-goal second period allowed the Mavericks to earn two points for the weekend.
DEREK LAMBERTStaff Writer
The Maverick men’s hockey team from Minnesota State Uni-versity, Mankato hit the road this past weekend for their first series of the 2014-2015 season. Playing at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, the Mankato Mavericks came away with a series split ver-sus the Mavericks in red.
On Friday night, things looked to be going well for MSU when senior defenseman Zach Palmquist tallied his first goal of the year to go up 1-0, just 44 sec-onds into the game with assists going to Bryce Gervais and Matt Leitner. UNO didn’t let the goal kill their momentum at home, though.
Eden Prairie native and UNO freshman defenseman Luc Snug-gerud scored his first collegiate goal to even the score at one apiece before another Minnesota product put one in the net. For-mer Hill-Murray standout and Woodbury native Jake Guentzel
put away a goal on the power play and put the red Mavericks up 2-1 to close out the first period.
The second period saw the UNO power-play strike again as Austin Ortega netted a goal
from Snuggerud and Guentzel to extend the lead to 3-1 until sophomore Casey Nelson scored an MSU power-play goal to close the gap.
MSU freshman Brad Mc-Clure scored his first collegiate goal in the third period to tie the game, but Omaha just had more firepower that night. Ortega would strike again on the power play with Guentzel getting the lone assist, then Dominic Zombo collected a late empty net goal to give UNO a 5-3 Friday night win.
Saturday night’s game went a little differently for these two teams.
After two first-period Omaha goals from Duluth native Jake Randolph and Guentzel, MSU Head Coach Mike Hastings pulled goaltender Cole Huggins down 2-0. Junior Stephon Wil-liams played the rest of the game between the pipes.
Down 2-0 after a period, Minnesota State exploded in the second period.
Gervais scored his first of the year to cut the lead in half, then
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Football team dominates Winona on big stage
Trevor Cokley • MSU ReporterThrough six games, the Mavericks have outscored their opponents 292-67.
The Mavericks used 421 total yards and two interceptions to move to 6-0 on the season.
The Minnesota State Univ-eristy, Mankato football team rolled over Winona State 44-24 in the televised game last Thurs-
day. The Mavericks improve their
season record to 6-0 and jump up one spot in the AFCA poll to number two. They remain the highest-ranked team in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference with Minnesota Du-
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luth still hot on their trail as they jumped up a spot from fourth to third. The team previously at the second-ranked spot was Colora-do State-Pueblo and it lost its last game, which dropped brought its
AFCA ranking to 14 this week. Defense was king in the Mav-
ericks victory at Winona Thurs-day night. They held Winona to 71 rushing yards and 292 passing yards. MSU also didn’t allow a single rushing touchdown in the game, but let Winona’s quarter-back throw three.
Josh Gordon was in the quar-terback’s face all game as he tal-lied four sacks and four tackles for a loss of 18 yards. For Gor-don’s efforts Thursday, he was awarded the NSIC Defensive Player of the Week honor and is
the third MSU athlete to be given that honor. Gordon was one sack short of the Mavericks single-game record for sacks and has 12 so far this season. He is on the fast track to beating the single season sack record, which is 13.5 sacks in a season.
Tyler Henderson, Colt Nero and Shonquille Dorsey each posted a quarterback sack and Nero also had a forced fumble. Justin Erickson also had one forced fumble, and in the second-ary, Nathan Hancock came down with an interception as well as six total tackles, Rob Myers led the team with seven total tackles.
On offense, Nick Pieruc-cini completed 4 of 7 passes for 98 yards and two touchdowns. Ricky Lloyd also saw some time at quarterback for the Mavericks as he completed 9 of 15 passes for 163 yards and one touch-down, but he also threw two in-terceptions.
Dorian Buford proved to be a reliable option for the Mavericks as he pulled down six catches for 136 yards and two touchdowns. Buford’s longest reception went for 56 yards and Bryce Duncan had three receptions for 20 yards and one of them was a touch-down.
On the ground, MSU spread the ball out pretty evenly as they rushed for a total of 160 yards. Andy Pfeiffer had 16 rushing attempts for 57 yards and two touchdowns; whereas Connor Thomas rushed 11 times for 52
yards and one touchdown.MSU will host Concordia-St.
Paul on Friday with a kickoff time slated for 6 p.m. The Gold-en Bears have been struggling so far this season as their record is 1-5. They suffered a blow-out loss last week to Wayne State 54-14. The Golden Bears could only rush for 87 yards on the ground. Their quarterback Jared Russo passed the ball for 166 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.
The Mavericks have been red hot this year and will provide fans with a great football watch-
ing experience Friday night. This could end up being another shut-out victory for the Mavericks tough defense.
I predict MSU wins 36-0.
Volleyball squad splits in NSIC ActionMavericks struggled with no. 2 team in the nation, found a W on Saturday.
Dorian BufordThe senior receiver caught six passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns, bringing his touch-down reception total to nine on the season.
Josh GordonGordon’s four sacks helped himselft to earn the NSIC Defensive Player of the Week.
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The Mavericks used 421 total yards and two interceptions to move to 6-0 on the season.
Volleyball squad splits in NSIC ActionMavericks struggled with no. 2 team in the nation, found a W on Saturday.
Trevor Cokley • MSU ReporterThe volleyball team plays host this week with Upper Iowa coming tonight at 7 p.m. and Wayne State and Augustana make their way to Mankato this weekend.
The Maverick volleyball team was unable to figure out the num-ber two team in the nation this time as they were swept by Min-nesota Duluth on Friday, but was able to bounce back with a win over St. Cloud State on Saturday in St. Cloud.
The Mavericks took the trip north to Duluth to battle a Bull-dog team that was sitting at 15-1 (8-0) record, and Duluth showed why they are ranked second in the nation. Right out of the gate UMD jumped up 3-0 on the Mavericks. MSU was able to keep the game close, being down only 11-9. UMD then turned it on and went on a 6-1 run, pulling away to a 17-10 lead. The Maver-icks did what they could to battle back, but the Bulldogs were able to catch fire on a late 5-2 run to win set one 25-15.
Set two was not as convinc-ing as a win for the Bulldogs. The Mavericks were able to take the set into extra points. UMD jumped out to a 7-4 lead, but the Mavericks were able to use a 5-2 run to tie things up at nine. UMD used a small run of their own to take a one point lead, but the Mavericks took three-straight points to get their first lead of the evening 15-14. Points were traded back-and-forth and a kill from Krista Hassing gave MSU some momentum, earning a 20-19 lead. UMD swiped the momentum right out of the build-ing, taking the next three points. MSU wouldn’t let the run get to them, and used two UMD errors to knot things up at 22. Two more UMD errors helped boost the Maverick lead to 24-23. UMD looked to have the set wrapped up, but a kill from Sydney Powell tied the set up at 25. Going into extra points, the Mavericks took the early point lead. The Bull-dogs were able to use two; two-point runs to earn a 29-27 win in the second set.
Dropping the first two sets of the evening, the Mavericks had their work cut out for them. UMD wanted to make sure that no comeback was in thought, taking an early 8-2 lead. MSU was able to battle back and cut that early lead down to four. UMD then took the next three points, and extended their lead to 15-8. MSU then used a 4-1 run, including two kills from Pow-ell to what looked like a start of some momentum. With the score at 16-12 in favor of the Bulldogs, UMD took five-straight points to kick off a 10-2 run. The Bull-dogs took set three 25-15 and the match 3-0.
“We played fairly well at times, but their program is just a more mature than ours at the time,” head coach Dennis Amundson said.
The Mavericks were led by Powell who registered 9 kills, followed by Hassing with 7. El-lie Van De Steeg led the team with 24 assist. Haley Fogarty led MSU with 13 digs, and Haley Doran chipped in 6 digs of her own.
The Mavericks had no break after the tough match Friday, as they took the court Saturday to take on the Huskies in St. Cloud. MSU was able to win the match 3-1.
St. Cloud State controlled set one early, leading 12-9. The Mav-ericks went on a 6-2 run and took at 15-14 lead. The Huskies then took the momentum and scored five-straight points, taking a commanding 19-15 lead. MSU wasn’t done yet; they went on a late run of their own to get back in the set, tying things up at 24. MSU was able to lead 26-25, but SCSU took the next two points. Down 27-26 the Mavericks got a kill from Chandra Honebrink,
and were able to close the set out with a kill from Vikolia Meade winning the set 29-27.
After the extra-point set, the Maverick s took to set two. The Mavericks were in an even battle, being tied seven times before the Huskies went on a run. Tied 11-all the Huskies went on a 10-1 run, leading 21-12. The Huskies never looked back after that, winning the set 25-18.
Set three started slow for the Mavericks. They were down 7-3 and were set to battle back. They cut the lead down 13-10, before the Mavericks were able to score on four straight points, taking a one-point lead. Then with the help of a 6-2 run, including three Hassing kills, the Mavericks took a commanding 20-16 lead. The Huskies used a late run to cut the lead to one, but the Mav-ericks were able to close the set out 25-23.
The Mavericks started fast in set four, taking a quick 12-4 lead with the help from four-straight Mavericks points on kills from Jenna McNallan and Honebrink. SCSU cut the lead to four with a 5-1 run, but the Mavericks were
able to hold off any run from the Huskies. MSU finished the set off with three straight points in-cluding back to back kills from McNallan to end the set with a 25-15 and the match 3-1.
Honebrink led the Mavericks with 20 kills, followed by Has-sing with 19 of her own. Van DeSteeg put together an im-pressive 57 assist. Fogarty led the Mavericks with 14 digs and Haley Doran added in 13 digs of her own.
“We were able to put back to back day matches together and played well against St. Cloud,”
Amundson said. “It was nice to go up to St. Cloud and get a win after they beat us last year.”
Amundson is also pleased with how the team is coming along.
“I thought we finally started to use our serve as a weapon, and we took some quality swings on the ball in the St. Cloud match,” Amundson said.
The Mavericks take the court on Tuesday in the Taylor Center, to take on conference foe Upper Iowa at 7 p.m.
LUKE LONIENStaff Writer
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MEN’S HOCKEY “We learned a lot as a staff about our team,” Hastings said. “I think we learned a lot about ourselves being down 2-0 on the road and coming back and having the second period we had.” continued from 9
Palmquist scored his second goal in as many nights to even the score at two. Later in the period, McClure also scored his second of the weekend to give MSU the lead with assists
going to J.P. LaFontaine and Sean Flanagan. Senior captain Chase Grant gave MSU an insurance goal to spot a 4-2 lead heading into the third period.
“I didn’t see guys pulling apart at the seems,” Hastings said. “That’s a positive.”There wouldn’t be any scoring in the third period, and Williams would make all ten shots he faced to
secure a win for the purple Mavericks. It was an important win for MSU to avoid starting the season 0-2, and a road split isn’t a bad way to get things going. Hastings was happy to split, but wasn’t pleased with Friday night’s effort.
“We should have had a lot left in the tank after [Friday],” Hastings said. “There weren’t a lot of ice bags handed out.”
Heading into this weekend where MSU will play a tough Minnesota-Duluth team, the purple Maver-icks may have a better feel about their team identity with a couple games under their belts.
“We learned a lot as a staff about our team,” said Hastings. “I think we learned a lot about ourselves being down two-nothing on the road and coming back and having the second period we had. “
MSU heads north to Duluth for Friday night’s series opener at Amsoil Arena before coming back to Mankato for Saturday night’s game. Puck drop is at 7:07 p.m. in Duluth Friday, and 7:07 p.m. Saturday night at the Verizon Wireless Center in downtown Mankato.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER “The Mavericks’ next game is scheduled to be against Wayne State University (1-10-1 overall, 0-9-0 conference) at home on Oct. 18th. The game is set to begin at 1 p.m.”continued from 9
3 and 2-5-2 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. MSU got the game rolling im-mediately, as in the 12th minute of the game senior Emily Moris placed a corner kick in front of the net where junior Korey Kro-nforst cleaned it up with her tenth goal of the season. The first half ended in a 1-0 score. The Mav-
ericks outshot the Marauders 7-1 with three shots-on-goal.
The girls were able to capital-ize on widening the lead in the second half, as sophomore Dana Savino got her sixth goal of the season off of a penalty kick. The goal was scored in the 54th minute, as it went into the lower right side of the net. The Maver-
icks finished off the game with their third goal on a rebound that was scored by true fresh-man Jenny Hoerter with the initial shot coming from senior Rebecca Pederson in the 82nd minute. The Mavs outshot the Marauders 15-2 with a 7-1 shots on goal advantage. MSU also led in corner kicks again, with
a 7-3 margin. Senior goalkeeper Molly McGough improved her record to 10-0-0 and only had to save one shot on the day.
The Mavericks’ next game is scheduled to be against Wayne State University (1-10-1 over-all, 0-9-0 conference) at home on Oct. 18th. The game is set to begin at 1 p.m. This team could
be on the brink of cracking the number one ranking in NCAA Division II, so keep an eye out on this team’s incredible play this season.
Ten horror games that will get you in the Halloween spirit.
Gamers, ghosts and ghouls
MSU event offers music, laughter, and the freedom to express yourself.
A second chance Lavender dance
TEREASA HATTENStaff Writer
On Thursday, October 9, the LGBT center held the first an-nual Lavender Prom in CSU 253/4/5. The event was hosted to give people a “second chance” at prom, and was described by as-sistant director Tiffany Lane as “Fab and Formal,” though for-
mal attire was encouraged, but not a requirement. The goal of the event was to allow guests to feel comfortable and be them-selves—an opportunity some did not have at their high school proms.
The range of people at Lav-ender Prom was great: singles, couples, and friends made up the roughly 60 attendees; for the
first hour of the event we were hesitant to fill the dance floor, but after a few slow songs every-one was dancing. The music had good variance – fast songs, slow songs, and the important line dances: the Cupid Shuffle and Cha-Cha Slide. Like any prom, guests were able to get their pic-tures taken in the back of the room; some were serious, some were funny, and others were downright silly.
The décor was kept simple, with pretty centerpieces on the tables and several bright balloon towers spaced along the walls that helped to give a casual and fun atmosphere to the event. There was also a food table with cheese and crackers, hummus, fruit, cookies, and punch.
People were very enthusiastic about Lavender Prom, one at-tendee shared their thoughts on
the event:“It was amazing because I
felt like I could express myself and have a great time…and I got to wear a bowtie.”
Event volunteer Kevin gave his opinion on the night as well:
“It’s been great fun and I’m very impressed with the turn-out.”
Between the food, the danc-
ing, and the other shenanigans, there were many laughs and choruses of “I’m having so much fun.” The event ended around 10 p.m. and just about everyone stayed for the entire night. The hard work of the event coordi-nators and volunteers resulted in an extremely fun event that we will look forward to seeing again next year.
MATTHEW EBERLINEStaff Writer
Well, it’s that time of year again. Halloween is almost upon us and with it comes the surge of interest in scary movies, haunted houses, and spooky costumes. It’s also the best time to check out some of the most chilling titles in gaming.
Here’s a rundown of the top
ten horror games to play this Halloween season:
Dead SpaceEA’s sci-fi horror title, Dead
Space, sticks you in the shoes (or boots) of spaceship engineer, Isaac Clarke, who finds himself stranded aboard a massive deep-space mining vessel, the USG Ishimura, infested with an as-sortment of grotesque, undead aliens. Using only the few min-ing tools and weapons available
to him, Clarke must find his missing girlfriend and es-cape the nightmar-ish creatures that plague the ship. With twisted mon-sters, the most grue-some weaponry, and an Aliens kind of vibe, Dead Space is a must-play for any fan of the freaky and macabre.
F.E.A.R.A truly unnerv-
ing experience, F.E.A.R. is the game that proved first-person shoot-ers and survival-horror can, indeed, go hand-in-hand. You play the point man of a Special Forces unit known as F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) created to respond to various supernatural phenomena. Your mission is to uncover the secrets of a spooky and psychic little girl known as Alma. Though the entire game is a thrilling ride in
its own right, the nightmare se-quences are where the game’s horror elements truly shine, as your character experiences some of the most vivid and disturbing hallucinations in the history of the horror genre.
System Shock 2This one’s an oldie, but a
goodie. Released in 1999, Sys-tem Shock 2 is the spiritual pre-decessor of Irrational Games’ hit masterpiece, Bioshock. Set
in the year 2114, players as-sume the role of a military of-ficer assigned to duty aboard two ships linked together — the UNN Rickenbacker and the Von Braun. Upon waking in a cryo-tube with no recollection of past events, the player must fight his way alone through a variety of mutants and other strange en-emies to determine what exactly
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Allen Eskens debut novel, The Life We Bury, is an exercise in the meticulous execution of tried and true literary devices that is reflected from his exten-sive career as a criminal defense attorney, but the novel ultimately leaves the reader hoping that Eskens had risked more when constructing his tale of youthful discovery, tragic pasts, first love, un-righted wrongs and mistak-en identity. From the opening pages, where the reader is told the nursing home's name doesn't reflect the truth of its existence, the reader is treated gently by Eskens and eased into the story with foreshadowing, a likable underdog and an internal voice that is well spoken, reflective and wise beyond its years.
An undesirable assignment for a college biography class sends the book's main charac-ter, Joe Talbert, in search of an interesting story and he finds his way to a man named Carl Iverson who is both a Vietnam war hero and a convicted rapist and murderer. While unravel-ing the story of Carl, Joe must juggle dealing with an abusive alcoholic mother, caring for his autistic younger brother, finish-ing school, and nurturing a re-lationship with his standoff-ish
neighbor, keeping the pace of the book moving straight through to the satisfying, but somewhat predictable ending.
Finishing the book, you feel it was an enjoyably reliable expe-rience – like eating a chocolate chip cookie. As you sit digesting the book-cookie, you can't help but wonder if it would have been improved with some walnuts of discontent thrown in. Joe Talbert is completely and utterly nice, a functional, self-reliant guy. He feels bad for a situation that is out of his control, sees the beauty in people even when they've made mistakes, takes on responsibil-ity, can handle himself in a fight and cries when good art reflects life. You can't help but like Joe and maybe the fault in him as a literary character is that he's too good to be true. You put the book down and think, “Good for Joe, glad things worked out for him” without ever doubting he was go-ing to come out all right in the end. Eskens wants the reader to like his protagonist, and in crafting him as a contemporary Wally Cleaver, he doesn't trust enough in the forgiveness of his audience—thus condemning Joe to being shallowly constructed and liked, versus flawed and pos-sibly loved.
Much of the book is like Joe Talbert in that the good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, and
the things that happen to them along the way are unfettered by the idiosyncrasies of life and character that might have taken the book from a solid first deliv-ery to something more endear-ing. It is time and money well spent for a well-written mystery, but does not present a challenge to the reader.
The Life We Bury is published by Seventh Street Books and is available today from a fine pur-veyor of books near you or on-line. Allen Eskens is an alumnus of MSU's Creative Writing MFA program and lives near Mankato with his wife and daughter and is working on a follow up to The Life We Bury.
Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre will present a perfor-mance of “Echos of Spain,” a concert full of vibrant tradi-tional flamenco dance, guitar and singing, and featuring an ensemble of critically, master-ful performers, at 7 p.m. Satur-day, Oct. 18, in the Ostrander
Auditorium of the Centennial Student Union. Zorongo is hosted by the Department of Theatre & Dance. The concert is free.
Inspired by the “Avante Garde” revolution in Paris in the early 1900s, in which the glamour and fire of Spanish dance ignited the art scene, this performance will present songs, music and dances that echo the past while bringing forth contemporary spirit and
virtuosity. Artistic Director Susana di Palma directs master gypsy guitarist Chuscales, powerful flamenco singer Vicente Griego and dancers Jesus Munoz, Deborah Elias and Colette Illarde in an eve-ning concert that you will not forget.
This activity is made possi-ble in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropria-tion by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minne-sota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
Dance company brings traditional dance to MSU.
Echoes of SpainAllen Eskens’ debut novel a safe and
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Boo York HORROR “[Halloween is] the best time to check out some of the most chilling titles in gaming.”
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happened to the ships and their crews. Though the game hasn’t aged well in terms of visuals, the gameplay is still as fun as anything released today and the narrative con-tains one of the most inter-esting stories ever told in the sci-fi genre. This is a definite must-play for any fan of hor-ror, science fiction, or the Bio-shock series.
Resident Evil 4A classic entry in the be-
loved Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil 4 is the game that revitalized the series as a tour de force of horror. Set in and around a rural village somewhere in Spain, Resi-dent Evil 4 places you back in the shoes of Leon S. Ken-nedy, the protagonist from the second game. Tasked with rescuing the U.S. President’s kidnapped daughter, Leon must fight his way through a variety of frightening locales and enemies, including para-site infested villagers, insane cultists, and even a giant lake monster, among other freaky abominations. If you’re a fan of other games in the series, or if you’ve ever wanted to harpoon a frighteningly large
salamander, this is the game for you
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Set in a city overrun with serial killers and psychopaths, Condemned: Criminal Ori-gins is a psychological horror game that redefined the first-person genre. With a heavy focus on melee combat over gunplay, players assume the role of Ethan Thomas, an FBI agent investigating a series of grisly murders occurring throughout the fictional Metro City. Framed for the murder of two police officers, Thom-as must track down the serial killer responsible in order to clear his name. Along the way, players will encounter a num-ber of frightening criminals and psychopaths who repre-sent the most twisted fringes of human society. This is a great game for anyone inter-ested in more realistic horror or the psychology of vicious serial killers.
Check out Thursday’s edition for the final five ter-rifying titles!
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's bad old days are here again — in a Halloween haunted house, that is.
"Nightmare: New York," staged in a Lower East Side building, depicts the ugliest, scariest vision of 1970s- and '80s-era Gotham. Subways are awash in graffiti, creeps and crime. Menacing punks roam the streets. And the "characters"
of Times Square don't look any-thing like Elmo or SpongeBob SquarePants.
Visitors wander through a 13-section maze of New York's dark side, starting with a black-out, followed by scenes amid flashing strobe lights or a fire. Characters include a psychotic, Son of Sam-style serial killer, a urine-stained homeless man, a deranged woman crawling on
the floor and tunnel-dwelling "mole people" whose grotesque faces suddenly pop up from dark corners.
"When someone screams, that's our applause," says Timo-thy Haskell, the off-Broadway director who created the show. "But I also want them to ap-preciate the real-life stories that seep into your bones. Startles are ephemeral, haunting is forever."
To be sure, there is still plenty of real crime and creepiness in New York City. But the very idea that people would need to visit a haunted house to experience the worst of the "bad old days" is just what city officials like to hear. They repeatedly tout the steady drop in the city's crime rate in the past two decades, say-ing New York is now the safest big city in America. Last year, 333 homicides were recorded, down from 2,245 in 1990, ac-cording to police statistics.
The 38 actors starring in this in-your-face, interactive attrac-tion crank up the fright factor
for visitors who mark their fac-es with a blood-red X, a signal that they allow themselves to be touched by performers trying to scare them out of their wits.
"The best will be when they grab her," says Matthew El-gandy, looking at his girlfriend as they wait to enter. "I'm pretty sure my ears will be destroyed after she screams."
Before even entering the
spooky spectacle, the couple was startled by a man with a ny-lon stocking mask who popped out of nowhere and whispered threats in their ears.
"Nightmare" is in its 11th season, with themes changing each year. It runs through Nov. 1. Tickets range from $30 to $60, the latter allowing the spectator to skip what's often an hour-long line as Halloween approaches.
"I come every year and I'm still scared, but I come again," Anthony Seala says. "Every year they push the envelope a little more."
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