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A whole new ballgameMSU’s newest $31 million construction proposal for outdoor facilities

could boost the university’s athletic department to the top of Division II.

RDG Planning and DesignThe new proposal from RDG Planning and Design would make for a complete overhaul of the outdoor sites, including major renovations to Blakeslee Stadium, the MSU Baseball Complex, along with constructing a new soccer field and an indoor turf practice bubble.

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Caribou coming near campus

A new Caribou Coffee location is reportedly coming to campus soon.

The Minnesota-based coffee company is looking to add their third location in Mankato. The new Caribou looks to open in Uni-versity Square after filing a bid in mid January with Fargo Moorhead Builder’s Exchange.

The building being sought, the former home to Verizon Wireless and Starbucks on the corner of Warren Street and Stadium Road, is already being cleared out and prepping for the next business to come in.

The new Caribou will be utiliz-ing the drive-through window that was part of the Starbucks.

Sources site the new coffee shop is aiming for an opening sometime in April, just in time for finals week. More info on the cam-pus Caribou will be revealed as soon as it is made available.

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Minnesota State University has proposed a $31 million con-struction project that, if done, would upgrade and reconfigure the outdoor athletic facilities as compatible to the goals and commitments of the Univer-sity as indoor facilities recently erected on campus.

MSU Athletic Director Kevin Buisman is viewing this possible expansion as beneficial to the fu-ture of the MSU athletic depart-ment.

“It’s a finishing piece of the puzzle,” Buisman said.

“A lot of our recruits come from advanced programs, places that oftentimes have artificial turf already installed. The ex-pansion will only help with this.”

Buisman also cited the con-cessions and bleachers as need-ing improvements to continue MSU’s continued rise to the up-per echelon of Division II athlet-ics.

Although the occupants of

what Buisman cites as average to below average outdoor facilities have been extremely successful as of late, Buisman contends that additions will only help the Uni-versity’s athletic success and the recent success was in spite of the facilities, not because of.

Buisman cites the indoor fa-cilities as some of the best in Di-vision II and the Taylor Center as being held in favorable esteem to numerous Division I facilities.

The next phase of the plan will be a capital plan for fund-raising, what Buisman calls a gauging of the interest of critical aspects of the plan.

Based on the time line of My-ers’ Field House renovations and the journey ahead, Buisman ex-pects an 8-10 year window dur-ing which this project can get done.

Since the arrival of Myers Field House, Otto Recreation Center and the Taylor Center in 2008, Minnesota State has de-scribed their indoor athletic fa-cilities as some of the best in the region for a Division II program.

The arrival of the facilities has facilitated the school to host several national events, as well as help take care of the needs of local athletes and students.

Outdoor facilities, however, still need help. Despite its be-ing named the 2013 Field of the Year, according to the university, Blakeslee Stadium is in need of a major overhaul.

The 52-year old field is feel-ing its age and its foundation is beginning to crumble; major renovations are needed.

The baseball, softball and track and field complexes are in need of repair as well as the women’s soccer field, which is described by the university as not suiting the needs of the play-ers and fans.

This proposal began in July when a committee of athletic department coaches and officials on the renovation plan, RDG Planning & Design, an Ankeny, Iowa company, was selected to come up with a master plan.

Buisman expressed gratitude

to the contributions and efforts the company provided.

“RDG did excellent work, very thorough,” Buisman said.

“We’re really pleased with the work they did and provided and hope this is a good step moving forward.”

The study focused on the other 15 Northern Sun Intercol-legiate Conference universities and four similar universities in the Midwest to see how the uni-versity compared.

Suggestions made in the fi-nal report, which has already been presented to the President’s University Cabinet and the Min-nesota State Foundation Board, suggests two options regarding the configuration of Blakeslee Stadium and the potential sites of a new soccer field, mainte-nance facility and indoor prac-tice bubble.

The football field, while a sta-ple of campus for over 50 years, is in need of significant renova-

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Last semester, I wrote an opinion article on student apa-thy and it’s role on our campus. However, it wouldn’t be fair of me to state that apathy has no place on campus. In fact, I be-lieve the opposite, students need time to relax and settle down if they are truly to understand themselves and their role in our world.

I’m not trying to get deep here, but it would be paradoxical for me to accuse others of being lazy. Who can honestly say they don’t like sprawling in bed and spending the afternoon watching Netflix? Who can honestly say they are better than other people for being more “active” on cam-pus? Being “active” should be a subjective term; not every stu-dent wishes to achieve the same goals as their peers.

When I was a freshman living in the dorms, there was this pre-conceived notion that one must be a “leader” in order to excel through the collegiate experi-ence. Take a brisk walk through campus, and you’ll notice that statement resonates throughout MNSU.

Posters are spread across billboards offering opportuni-ties for you, the student, to en-gage in a leadership project or partake in leadership exercises. These will often include a semi-nar featuring a guest speaker no one has ever heard of, some form of manual labor, and hopefully

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Annual Pan-African conference slated for this week

MSU to show documentaries on civil rights movement

In celebration of Martin Lu-ther King’s March on Washing-ton for jobs and freedom, the Library Services of Minnesota State University, Mankato have scheduled the screenings of two documentaries that mark the history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Both of these events will be free of charge and open to the public, MSU student or not. Prizes of parking passes for Lot 4 (the visitors’ pay lot) will be

HANNAH KLEINBERGStaff Writer

eligible for the first 50 commu-nity attendees who come to ei-ther program.

The first documentary to be shown will be “Slavery by An-other Name,” on February 25th. It will take place from 4 to 6 PM and will be in the Ostrander Au-ditorium, located in the Centen-nial Student Union.

“Slavery by Another Name” examines African American history between the Civil War and World War II. Proceeding the film, an assistant professor from the Department of His-tory, Angela Jill Cooley, will

open a discussion concerning the topics presented in the docu-mentary.

The second documentary, “Abolitionists,” will take place on March 6th between 4 and 5:30 PM in the same location. This film shows the anti-slavery movement through dramatized reenactments of the lives of people who existed during that period. MSU professor and de-partment chair of the Depart-ment of History, Lori Lahlum, will follow the film showing and open a discussion.

Both of these films are part of

a four-film documentary series called “Created Equal: Ameri-ca’s Civil Rights Struggle.” This series highlights the history of the Civil Rights Movement and was established through the Na-tional Endowment for the Hu-manities.

The two remaining parts of this documentary set, “The Loving Story” and “Freedom Riders” will also be show on our campus in the fall of 2014 and will be a part of the university’s common read program.

These films are sponsored by the Library Services, the Kessel

Institute for Peace and Change, the Department of History and Dr. T. Fagin’s Pan African Stu-dent Leadership Conference.

All that the “Created Equal” and its public programs have be-come are all thanks to a major endowment from the National Endowment for the Humani-ties, in effort of its “Bridging Cultures” initiative and also in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. For more information about these pursuits, visit gild-erlehrman.org and neh.gov.

Minnesota State University, Mankato will host noted scholar Molefi Kete Asante as keynote speaker at the 38th annual Dr. Michael T. Fagin Pan African Student Leadership Confer-ence, which will be held at 7 pm on Friday in the Centennial Stu-dent Union ballroom.

The theme of this year’s conference is “The Power of Education in Advancing the Pan African Community.” The con-ference will run from Thursday through Saturday on MSU’s

ALEX KERKMANStaff Writer

campus.Asante, a professor in the De-

partment of African American Studies at Temple University, founded the first PhD program for African American Studies in 1986. Asante, who has writ-ten more than 70 books and 400 articles and is the founding edi-tor of Journal of Black Studies, will be able to heard by every-one free of charge.

Asante received his doctor-ate from UCLA at the age of 26 in 1968 and was named a full professor at State University of New York at Buffalo by age 30. Asante has been recognized as

one of the 10 most widely cited African Americans. He has also appeared on a handful on well-known news programs, such as The Today Show, 60 Min-utes and MacNair-Lehrer News Hour.

Along with his own notable accomplishments, Asante is also the father of M.K. Asante, author and director of films such as 500 Years Later and The Black Candle.

In addition to Asante, other speakers during the conference include Amos Otis, CEO of So-Bran INC; John Register, asso-ciate director for the community

and veterans’ programs of the U.S. Paralympics, Lissa Jones, a radio host from the Twin Cit-ies and Raymond Asomani-Boateng and Johnson Afolayan, faculty members at MSU.

The Pan African Student Leadership Conference was founded by Dr. Michael T. Fagin in 1977. According to the con-ference’s website, its main goal is to provide an intellectual fo-rum for academics and students with posters, paper presenta-tions and panel discussions of the history, culture and contem-porary issues confronting the development and future of Pan

Africanism.Last years’ conference key-

note speaker was the honorable Judge Greg Mathis, the star of the award winning syndicated television show “Judge Mathis.” The theme of the conference was “Accepting and Valuing Di-versity in the Pan African Com-munity.”

The Pan African Student Leadership Conference will bring a close to this years cele-bration of Black History Month at MSU.

The event is sponsored by various colleges and depart-ments throughout MSU.

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Last semester, I wrote an opinion article on student apa-thy and it’s role on our campus. However, it wouldn’t be fair of me to state that apathy has no place on campus. In fact, I be-lieve the opposite, students need time to relax and settle down if they are truly to understand themselves and their role in our world.

I’m not trying to get deep here, but it would be paradoxical for me to accuse others of being lazy. Who can honestly say they don’t like sprawling in bed and spending the afternoon watching Netflix? Who can honestly say they are better than other people for being more “active” on cam-pus? Being “active” should be a subjective term; not every stu-dent wishes to achieve the same goals as their peers.

When I was a freshman living in the dorms, there was this pre-conceived notion that one must be a “leader” in order to excel through the collegiate experi-ence. Take a brisk walk through campus, and you’ll notice that statement resonates throughout MNSU.

Posters are spread across billboards offering opportuni-ties for you, the student, to en-gage in a leadership project or partake in leadership exercises. These will often include a semi-nar featuring a guest speaker no one has ever heard of, some form of manual labor, and hopefully

free food. At the end, you shake a few hands and feel like you’ve changed the world.

This is a waste of resources and time for our University. There needs to be a greater push for academic pursuits rather than extra-curricular opportunities. I don’t know why it’s so hard to grasp the notion that not every-one wants to be a leader; that not everyone wants to spend time going to these events, seeing the same people over and over again. We do not want to be pressured into becoming leaders, but rath-er, have the resources to expand our mind to better understand the world around us.

Take, for example, an engi-neering major vs. a political sci-ence major. Now, both may have the same seemingly underlying goal of graduating and finding a good job, but the paths leading to that goal might be very different. The field of engineering requires students to set strict study times; one will need an unparalleled amount of self-discipline to ex-cel in the field. There is no abso-lute emotion to portray to excel in the realm of science.

Political science majors, on the other hand, aren’t judged solely on knowledge of their field or the time the put in to projects. In the realm of political science, experience, connections, and personality will get you further than just studying different law cases in the library.

Thus, it makes sense for poli. sci. majors to aim higher in lead-

ership positions, get their name out there, and try to directly change the campus.

As author Tanith Lee once wrote, ““It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bear-ing on one’s existence.”

It’s not the people don’t care,

it’s that people don’t have the time to waste. College should, first and foremost, be the pursuit of academic knowledge that can later be translated into job skills. If a student wants to watch some movies after spending a few gru-eling hours going over schemat-ics, why shouldn’t they?

We don’t need leaders to make change. We don’t need leadership to excel in life. We, as students, deserve to spend our free time doing whatever we want, no matter how meaning-less or apathetic it may be.

Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses.

The student wakes up to a city blanketed in snow. She has lived in Minnesota long enough to be able to tell when the snow is fresh and when it has been lay-ing and melting and freezing in a cycle. All around her, she hears that a blizzard is on its way. She has apparently lived in Minne-sota for so long that she knows a “blizzard” is just a little extra wind and a little extra snow. How bad could it be, she wonders. She gets on the bus and heads over to her early morning class.

At 1:34 p.m., she receives an email that the University is can-celling all evening classes start-ing at 6 p.m. The email also says that the University, however, is open and functioning and all

University decision leaves student stranded

PRATAKSHYA BHANDARI

Staff Writer

staff members should report to work as scheduled. The student does not have evening classes scheduled on Thursdays. In spite of being a student, the second portion of the email is more of her concern. She is scheduled to work that evening. Blizzard or not, work is work, she tells her-self. “As long as the buses run and I can get home, who cares if the world is falling apart out-side,” she assures herself.

At 3:23 p.m. the student re-ceives another email. This time there is an announcement that the City of Mankato is cancel-ling bus services from 6 p.m. on. This email concerns her. She wonders if this constitutes a “weather related emergency.” Then she remembers that she is reading the email on a computer right in the building where she works. There is simply no ex-

cuse to not be at work. If it’s bad enough for buses to be cancelled, everything must surely close be-fore 6 p.m. She assures herself that if it is a concern for her, it will be a concern for the Univer-sity too. They are aware that I exist, she tells herself.

It is 5 p.m and she is still working. She looks at confused faces all around her. Students are lining up at the door to take the last bus home. Since the “last bus” could be any bus now, ev-eryone is desperate to get home. The student steals a quick glance at her email to see if the Univer-sity has allowed “staff” to leave along with the students. She can still make it on the last bus.

At 6 p.m., the student, along with her coworkers, watch exas-peratedly as the last bus leaves the building, packed to its last bit with students who aren’t staff

for the day. They are simply stu-dents, who have no classes and were soon going to be safe in their cozy homes.

At 7 p.m., the building is ghostly silent. It is a moment of truth for everyone who hasn’t somehow made it home by now. The University is still open and functioning. It isn’t a question of having a bus to ride back home anymore.

It is a question of getting home at all. Driving is no longer a privilege. In a blizzard so bad that the City of Mankato had to pull buses off the street, cars are about as reliable as cell phones running on low battery.

At 8 p.m., the building comes back to life again. This time, it is with people scrambling to find a way home. The superheroes are wondering if they can walk through the blizzard. The des-

perate ones are calling for help, praying their help will not need help five miles out of home. The really desperate ones are try-ing their vague luck with a taxi. Hoping there is at least one taxi driver brave enough to take the blizzard head on. And strong enough to win.

It is 9 p.m. and the student is waiting, along with others, who have been waiting on their own, waiting for the shuttle that the functioning University could not provide, waiting for the taxi that may or may not arrive, wait-ing for friends and family who, at this point, might be stranded somewhere under tons of snow, waiting for courage to walk through the blizzard, most of them thinking of a last resort by now, in case this one fails.

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“What are your spring break plans?” Compiled byYohanes Ashenafi

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BIOLOGY“I’ll be working.”

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“Going to California and stopping at other places on the way.”

TIANTIAN HAN,FRESHMAN

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“Visiting the Twin Cities.”

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MATH“No plans, probably stay on

campus.”

ZAINAB HAMZA,GRADUATE STUDENT

IT“ I’m going to work on my the-sis and other school projects in

Mankato, .”

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It’s February in Minnesota. We just experienced a huge snowstorm, the roads are far from desirable and according to chief meteorologist for Minne-sota Public Radio Paul Huttner, this is the coldest winter Min-nesota has experienced in 30 years, which means that many of us college students have never experienced a winter this cold, ever. So, with all of this wrapped up into one frozen burrito and with March rapidly approach-ing, only one thing really makes sense; Spring Break.

I am in my fourth year of col-lege and every year I’ve watched my friends go on spring break trips. I have never been able to afford it so every year I stay in Minnesota, working, relaxing at home, and living vicariously through my friends’ Facebook photos. This year I decided to make a change. I realized I am almost done with school and was hell bent on being able to cross “Go on a Spring Break Trip” off my college bucket list.

So, I first talked my room-mate into going on this adven-ture with me, not a hard task. We then discussed where to go and easily decided on Panama City Beach, Fla. To make the trip more affordable we invited along some other friends and booked a hotel room at SeaHaven Beach

Spring Break on the horizon readies students for fun

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Hotel, located right on PCB. We knew we wanted to road trip in-stead of flying since it will be cheaper splitting gas between multiple people than each of us buying roundtrip plane tickets, plus if we road tripped to PCB I could cross off another thing on my college bucket list, “Take a Road Trip with Friends.”

With all of our trips’ main plans taken care of the only things left are minor details; what we will bring, what places we want to stop at on the way, the food, of course the liquor, but for me lays another minor detail, how my spring break trip will be original and something to remember for years to come.

Spring break at PCB has many stereotypes. One thinks of foam parties, wet t-shirt con-tests, music concerts and, of course, lots of drinking. My di-lemma is that I am only interest-ed in about two of these things, and neither of them involves be-ing covered in suds while sur-rounded by hundreds of people or participating in a contest that degrades women, so by elimina-tion you can probably assume my two interests.

I am not the only person con-cerned about the stereotypes of spring break at PCB. This past weekend I told my father about my plans for spring break and of course he had many con-cerns. I started rattling off all of the ways I plan on staying safe,

sticking with a group, drinking lots of water, yada, yada, yada, until I had him convinced that everything will be okay. After we had the safety issue under control he quickly changed his concern to what my recreational activities will be while on spring break. Even my father had these stereotypes of spring break at PCB. I reassured him by saying that I will not take part of any-thing that I wouldn’t want to tell him about and he laughed.

After this conversation with

my father I realized that part of me does want a stereotypi-cal spring break. I want to road trip with my friends, I want to stay in a hotel for a week, with no worries besides what I will have to drink and if I should go parasailing that day or jet skiing. I want to meet new people from all over the country, but most of all I want to have the stereotypi-cal “Spring Break Trip” with my own twist to it and on my own terms. Let’s see how it goes.

A trip to the warm beaches of Florida awaits a long-awaiting Minnesotan.

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PROPOSAL “The seats don’t have backs, the coaching boxes and press box aren’t considered big enough to be functional, the scoreboard could be upgraded, the ticket booth is considered substandard and the chemicals, fuels and vehicles behind the grandstand are seen as posing a potential serious threat.”continued from 1

tions. Safety issues are in place that haven’t been fixed.

The concrete façade of the stadium lies eerily close to the field. There are no hand-rails in the aisles and the cement steps become slippery when there is snow or rain.

The seats don’t have backs, the coaching boxes and press box aren’t considered big enough to be functional, the scoreboard could be upgraded, the ticket booth is considered substandard and the chemicals, fuels and ve-hicles behind the grandstand are seen as posing a potential seri-ous threat.

The report details two poten-tial solutions: construction of a new stadium surrounding the field or the construction of a new stadium at the corner of Univer-sity property at a cost of $12.8 million.

Although the report states that building a new stadium around the existing playing field would save a million dollars, the inability to share facilities and construction delays would make those savings a wash.

The proposed new stadium includes a 4,000-seat grandstand on the home side, including a team locker room, game support facilities, rest rooms, conces-sions and a team room for the soccer program.

A press box tower would be constructed on top, including press and game-day operations and private suites, which would be open to soccer for use on game-day and press operations.

The soccer facility, known as “The Pitch” would move from the south end of the property to Practice Field No. 1 just to the west of Blakeslee Stadium. The project, which is estimated to cost $2.2 million, would have a 300-seat grandstand built on the east side and an artificial play-ing surface that would serve as a practice and a game venue. Lights, a video scoreboard and a sound system would be new features. The field would also be surrounded by a fence that will corral errant balls.

The soccer field would be a close distance from the football complex, allowing for shared rest rooms, and concessions.

On the west side, a film tower would be built to help the soc-cer and football programs. The football program’s Practice Field No.2 would be just to the west.

Last season served as an ex-ample of the problems natural grass can bring. Minnesota State had to move a conference tour-nament game to the Shattuck-St. Mary’s complex in Faribault af-ter a couple of inches fell on the field. On turf, the snow could

have been pushed off and the game could have been hosted.

On the visiting side, a 2,000 seat grandstand would house a locker room, with the possibility of it being subdivided when used by high schools. A visitor’s lock-er room would also be erected for the baseball complex, located just to the south.

A hill similar to the current one would be created behind the south end- zone.

If followed through, the foot-ball team would likely be dis-placed for a year. A temporary home stadium hasn’t been cho-sen yet. The creation of a new stadium would also likely mean the installment of artificial turf, meaning Minnesota- Crookston would be the only Northern Sun school still playing on natural grass.

A new stadium would share the same responsibilities Blakeslee Stadium currently holds.

Other athletic fields on cam-pus would also see significant upgrades. The baseball stadium is proposing a 500-seat grand-stand, backstop and dugout improvements, a building that would house concession areas and a locker room, game-day and press operations area field lights and an upgraded sound and video board system.

According to Minnesota State baseball coach Matt Magers, work will begin after this sea-son on mesh netting and walk-in dugouts as well as a brick back-stop, as opposed to current dug-outs that are below field level.

The softball field would see $1.1 million in improvements. The backstop and playing sur-face would see an upgrade. Lights would be added and a video scoreboard would be in-stalled, giving the complex more of a collegiate look.

The home dugout would see a new rest room, with expanded team rooms and batting cages. The new grandstand is projected to hold 500 fans.

The new track & field faciil-ity hosted it’s first event in 2012, but a grandstand was absent. The proposed improvements pegged for $1.4 million includes per-manent seating for 1,200 fans, lights video board, a press box and sound system, providing the facility an opportunity to attract state and regional competitions.

Throwing areas would be located on the south end of the track.

The tennis courts would be to the west of the current site, which would be torn up. The current site doesn’t serve as competitive ground, instead it is used for education and recre-

ation purposes.The maintenance building

that houses equipment, fuels and fertilizer, would be relocated to the north of the softball complex, which would likely cost $2.7 million. The new building would be 12,000 square feet, a 2,000 square foot expansion.

Smaller maintenance build-ings would be located across campus.

An indoor turf practice facil-ity is included under this pro-posal. The bubble would reside at the site of Practice Field No.

3 and the present-day tennis courts.

The facility would cost $6 million for the bubble and $187,500 for upgrades to Prac-tice Field No.2 located between the soccer stadium and the in-door facility.

The bubble would serve as a practice area in case of inclem-ent weather, an issue in the past few falls, which have seen their seasons run into December and spring sports that start signifi-cantly sooner than when practice fields would allow.

Congestion at Myers Field House would be relatively eased for intramural and recreational activities and a is planned for joint use by the community and university.

An additional $1.7 million is being proposed for other up-grades, including parking, pe-destrian circulation and land-scaping.

The look and functionality of the complex would improve by lighting, paving and wayfinding improvements.

MSU Reporter ArchivesBlakeslee Stadium’s grandstand is need of major improvements with insufficient press box space, back-less seats and no handrails in aisles.

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Fifteen years after Columbine, more questions remain Common misconceptions and errors remain in one

of the deadliest shootings in US history.SAM WILMESNews Editor

Fifteen years after one of the worst school shootings in American history, Columbine, misconceptions, speculation and errors in judgment remain on the motives of the two shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

The findings of the FBI in the years following the April 20, 1999 Columbine High School shooting would portray a picture far darker than even the most disturbing images produced by bullying, a reason pegged by the media in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Harris served as the ringlead-er while Klebold served as a fol-lower, someone who saw himself as a loser and not worthy of love.

Harris and Klebold never had plans for Columbine to be solely a school shooting. On the day of the shooting, the two had placed heavy propane tanks in the caf-eteria. They would wait until lunch hour, when hundreds of students and staff would be eat-ing lunch.

Were the propane bombs to have gone off, at least 500 peo-ple would have been destroyed in the blink of the eye. The two teens had arrived late and set up their car in the parking lot di-rectly in front of the cafeteria to revel in the looming terror.

Once they had learned of their botched attempt, they en-tered the school and began open-ing fire on anyone and everyone.

Harris, an extremely trou-

bled teenager, was a diagnosed psychopath. This runs directly against public perception of a bullied youth pushed to the edge by the hands of a bully.

Harris and Klebold were actually bullies, not solely the bullied. Harris spoke proudly of calling younger members of the school “fags” and his desire to kill freshman so they would know who was “boss.”

Amazingly, the same reason why Harris had hatched and car-ried out the plan would be the same reason why the death toll didn’t rise any higher.

Psychopaths get bored easily. Upon entering the library, Har-ris and Klebold had the perfect opportunity to up the death toll they were obsessed with. Harris, however, wasn’t solely interested in killing. He wanted the victims to scream, he wanted the oppor-tunity to laugh.

As the cops circled the param-eter, Harris began to get bored. The two set up their dream sce-nario- they wanted to unleash gunfire on the cops and go down in a blaze of glory.

Ultimately, they would end up killing themselves in the same room that they had unleashed devastation on innocent kids.

The signs of what was to come seemed far too many to miss. Some of Harris’ journal writings were too gruesome to believe. He spoke of the raping of women- his sick fantasy and his comparing them to animals.

In a journal entry dated April 12, 1998, Harris described his

plans for the human race.“No one is worthy of this

planet, only me and who ever I choose, there is just no respect for anything higher than your fucking boss or parent. Everyone should be shot out into space and only those people I say should be left behind,” Harris said.

This god-like description of himself is a common trait for a Psychopath, according to vari-ous media sources.

He spoke of his addiction to the video game Doom. He want-ed the world to come down to a doomsday scenario, where only the strongest could survive, a Natural Selection of sorts.

That was Harris’ fantasy- his fundamentally flawed belief of the concept. He spoke of his hatred of everyone, from the el-derly to Black people to country people to the disabled.

We can’t comprehend this kind of anger, hatred and pure evil because Psychopathic peo-ple have no empathy, the only emotion they feel is usually an-ger.

Klebold was a depressive. He lacked the courage to ever approach any of his crushes, he had a quick fuse and spoke of his desire to kill himself.

He even had the chance to end the shooting before it had began. Klebold had alerted Brooks Brown, a friend, that Harris had been operating a web site dedi-cated to his plans of destruction and anger.

Brown’s mother had filed a report with the Columbine Po-

lice Department of that and other incidents that involved Harris.

Unfortunately, the police de-partment failed to respond in a timely manner related to the web site.

Although Harris and Klebold had been apprehended in con-nection to an electronics rob-bery, Harris showed the calm-ness and charisma typical in a Psychopath. He fooled the judge, his anger management counselor and others.

Klebold on the other hand came off as unmotivated and not charming. He was painfully shy, a perfect tool for a far more cun-ning mind to mold to his wants and desires.

Describing this tragedy as being caused by bullying is dis-respectful to the victims of the crime.

Paying attention to the real causes- psychopathy and depres-sion, can lead to more of a focus on these two major issues. FBI hostage team members change their negotiation tactics if they learn that the holder has Psycho-pathic tendencies.

Having stricter gun laws would help. Unfortunately, this isn’t the only step needed. More mental health awareness and attention to the details unfortu-nately missed fifteen years ago can help in a future circumstance where lives may be at stake.

Web PhotoEric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right).

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ANNUAL PUBLIC HEARINGParking & Transportation Policies, Budget,

and Capital ImprovementsWednesday, March 5, 2014

Armstrong Hall 316 • 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

www.mnsu.edu/parking/hearing

HEARING DOCKET:1) Opening statement establishing ground rules for Annual Public

Hearing on Parking & Transportation Policies, Budget and Capital Improvements.

2) Introduction of volunteers serving on Parking Advisory Committee and the independent Parking Citation Appeals Board.

3) Proposals for Change • 7 Year Capital Improvement Plan for summers 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,

2018, 2019, 2020. • Proposed Income and Spending Plans for 2014-15 - $1,555,516 Income

Forecast; $1,213,616 Spending Estimate. • 3% rate increase proposed for permits. Annual 3% rate increases

are tied to 7-Year Parking Capital Improvement Plan. • Additional 5¢ per credit hour added to existing 85¢ mandatory “Green

Transportation Fee.” The $15,000 estimate generated from the 5¢ increase would help cover costs of a 30 minute earlier start-up time (7 AM instead of 7:30 AM) for Routes 1, 8, and 9 (Stadium Heights). Earlier start will help spread out the demand that now hits at 7:30 AM. Student riders with 7:30 AM classes will be better served by the buses.

• New 410 stall parking lot (designated 'Lot 2') to be divided into 47 Golds (North Curb) and 363 Dark Greens (west curb of Ellis Ave. South) near new lot would lose 15 stalls, east side would be turned into Gold Permit parking.

4. Open forum for input from public.5. Adjourn the Annual Hearing on or before 1:30 PM.

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Parking Advisory Committee

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Mavericks repeat as conference champions

For the seventh time in the last nine seasons, the Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s basketball team has found its name at the top of the NSIC conference standings.

In a turn of events that was nearly identical to last year the Minnesota State mens basketball earn their second-straight regu-lar season conference champion-ship and seventh in the last nine years.

Entering the final game of the regular season, the Maver-icks were on pace to finish in a tied with Winona State as atop the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Champions. How-ever the Mavericks earned sole possession of first place after ending the season riding a nine-game winning streak while Win-ona lost its regular season finale.

The Mavericks finish the regular season with 25-4 record overall, while posting a 19-3 mark in the NSIC. MSU’s nine game winning streak is the lon-gest of the season. With the most important games still to come,

the Mavericks have built some momentum that they hope to carry into the post season.

“We got to take care of busi-ness when it is this late in the season. You never want to lose when it is at the end of the sea-son. Those four away games were tough, but you know we are a tough team and we showed it,” senior forward Tanner Adler said.

The Mavericks won their eighth and ninth straight game over the weekend with a 103-101 win over Sioux Falls Friday and a 78-66 win over Southwest Min-nesota State Saturday.

Friday the Mavericks got the win in a tightly contested contest against Sioux Falls that came down to the final shot. MSU’s starters accounted for 95 points including a career-high 27 points from Senior Forward Connor O’Brien.

Junior forward Assem Marei recorded his 15th career dou-ble-double with 21 points and

13 rebounds while Junior Zach Monaghan added 21 points and nine assists, just missing the dou-ble-double.

In the final two minutes of the game the Cougars went on an 11-3 run to pull within on point of the Mavericks with 5 seconds remaining. However, the Mav-ericks were able to pull out the win after the Cougars’ attempt at a game tying layup rattled out as regulation time expired.

Saturday the Mavericks earned their ninth-straight win and the regular season confer-ence championship after earning a 12-point win over Southwest Minnesota State. Adler led the MSU offense with 22 points, including a four three-pointers. Marei finished with 16 points and six rebounds, while Monaghan notched 15 points, seven assists and six rebounds.

“We knew we needed a win and we came out and just ‘D’ed up and hit our shots and ended up winning.” Adler said.

With the regular season in the past, the Mavericks will begin what the hope is a long

post-season with the NSIC Tour-nament. The tipoff the tourna-ment Wednesday when they host Minnesota Crookston in the first round at the Taylor Center with opening tip set for 8 p.m. Min-nesota Crookston is an eight seed while the Mavericks has earned the top seed in the tournament. Minnesota Crookston enters the tournament with 4-12 record overall while finishing 3-11 in the NSIC.

The Mavericks should come into the game with the confi-dence from the 82-55 win over Minnesota Crookston less than two weeks ago. However the main focus for the Mavericks go-ing forward will continue to be the fundamentals and things that they can control.

“We just got to focus on de-fending rebounding and playing together and if we do that, the sky is the limit for us,”

The winner of Wednesday game will play the winner of Augustana and Northern State in the quarterfinals Saturday in Sioux Falls.

David Bassey • MSU ReporterSenior guard Gage Wooten (right) had a typical Gage weekend scoring in double digits (11 and 13) and grabbing five boards on Friday and eight on Saturday.

Arnold Bagamba • MSU ReporterThe Mavericks have played behind their floor general in junior point guard Zach Monaghan (left) throughout the whole 2013-2014 regular season.

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The no. 20 Mavericks completed the streak with an 82-72 win over Sioux Falls and an 89-58 victory over the

Mustangs of Southwest Minnesota State.

Teams that will make a run for the NCAA championship trophy aren’t necessarily the teams with the best record; it’s the teams that heat up before the post season commences, and the Mavericks are one of them.

With two wins this past week-end, the no. 20 Mavericks end their NSIC regular season tour on a 10-game win streak just five days from the first round of the NSIC tournament. After taking an 82-72 victory over the Sioux Falls Cougars on Friday, the squad dismantled the Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs 89-58.

The Mavericks, who fin-ished the regular season sharing the third spot in the conference standings with Concordia-St. Paul, traveled to Sioux Fall, S.D. on Friday. After trailing 43-33 at halftime, a compilation of runs took place, including a 32-13 run 10 minutes into the second half. The Cougars brought their deficit back down to four with 4:35 re-maining, but the Mavericks made the stops with they needed to and came out with the W.

All the Mavericks needed on Saturday night was a big run, and they got it. When trailing 9-5 early in the first half, the squad put up 20 unanswered points and never looked back.

“It was just an all-around team effort,” junior forward Ja-mie Bresnahan said. “We built our momentum in the first half and kept it going in the second. Everyone stepped up, everyone did their part to get a good team win.”

The Mavericks’ shooting troubles were left at Minnesota, Crookston from last weekend as they shot 49.1 percent from the floor, including 9-for-20 from behind the arc and 26-for-30 from the line. Senior forward Ali Wilkinson led the Mavericks of-fensively with a team-high 14 points and three assists. Bresna-han was right behind her with 12 and grabbed five boards while going 2-for-2 from behind the arc. Sophomore forward Lexie Ulfers came off the bench and supplied 9 points to go with her three as-sists and three swipes.

Even though both opponents

JOEY DENTONSports Editor

Wisconsin bests Mavericks in

two-game series

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The Minnesota State, Manka-to women’s hockey team unrav-eled this past weekend as they dropped their last two contests of the regular season to No. 2 Wisconsin at All Seasons Arena. In a dual opportunity to improve their situation in the standings, the Mavericks utterly failed at producing anything more than a sputter of offense. The home team gave up eight total goals

and produced only two of their own in 5-1 and 3-1 drubbings by the Badgers.

On Friday night, MSU saw its four-game unbeaten in regulation streak come to an end. Wiscon-sin came out guns-a-blazing to kick off the final weekend of the regular season.

At 5:44 of the first period, Wisconsin sophomore forward Rachel Jones stuffed her own re-bound into the right side of the goal past Mavericks senior goal-tender Danielle Butters to put the

Badgers up 1-0. Towards the end of the opening period at 14:02, another second chance attempt was put through Butters’ pads by Wisconsin junior Brittany Am-merman for her team-leading 22nd goal of the year.

The Mavericks retaliated in the second period. After a lonely puck found its way into the Wis-consin defensive zone from a partial clearing attempt by MSU, Wisconsin senior goaltender

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Badgers up 1-0. Towards the end of the opening period at 14:02, another second chance attempt was put through Butters’ pads by Wisconsin junior Brittany Am-merman for her team-leading 22nd goal of the year.

The Mavericks retaliated in the second period. After a lonely puck found its way into the Wis-consin defensive zone from a partial clearing attempt by MSU, Wisconsin senior goaltender

Alex Rigsby tried to clear the puck out along the boards. But MSU senior forward Kelsie Scott swooped in and intercepted the clearing attempt and beat Rigsby high on the right-hand side at 7:24 for an unassisted tally to cut the Badgers lead in half.

The 2-1 score from the sec-ond held up until the final 10 minutes of regulation when Wisconsin broke the game wide open. Badgers senior forward Madison Packer took advantage of a Maverick turnover and beat Butters high and off the crossbar on a shot from the slot at 11:11. Junior forward Blayre Turnbull then put the game away for Wis-consin with back-to-back short-handed tallies at 12:34 and 15:37 to make it 5-1. Despite giving up five goals, Butters was stellar most of the night for the Purple and Gold, stopping 45 of 50 shots and denying the Badgers on four power play chances.

On Senior Day and in game number 400 in MSU women’s hockey history, Saturday’s sea-son-ending tilt was written in similar fashion as the night pre-vious.

The first period saw close and intense action on the ice as neither team could manage to draw first blood. The Mavericks had two power play chances but the Badgers defense and their freshman goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens stood firm. Butters, starting in her last regular sea-son game as a Maverick, turned away all 11 Badger shots in the period.

At 4:49 of the second period, Wisconsin tallied a five-on-three power play goal after MSU re-

ceived back-to-back penalties for high-sticking and too many play-ers on the ice. Sophomore de-fenseman Courtney Burke beat Butters with a slap shot from the blue line that found its way in-side the right post, putting Wis-consin up 1-0.

MSU struck even with Wis-consin at 2:05 of the third pe-riod when Scott and sophomore forward Katie Johnson teamed up with a flurry of passes before feeding the puck to fellow senior forward Lauren Barnes who was lurking behind the Wisconsin net. Barnes then snuck around to the goalmouth and tucked the puck past Desbiens to knot the game at one a piece.

It was not long after however, that Wisconsin’s offense ignited and retaliated with goals from freshman forward Sydney McK-ibbon at 6:54 and sophomore forward Erika Sowchuk just 10 seconds later to put Wisconsin in front 3-1. Despite a strong effort by the Mavericks late in regula-tion, the Badgers held on for the 3-1 victory.

In her last regular season ap-pearance, Butters shone brightly despite taking the loss. She re-corded a game-high 41 saves for the Mavericks while stopping four of five Wisconsin power plays (seven of eight on the week-end). The Maverick offense was denied on all three of its power play opportunities.

Despite the disappointing losses this past weekend, the Mavericks do get a chance to compete in the WCHA Playoffs by virtue of league rules. The Mavericks now sit at 12-21-1 overall, including a 7-20-1 re-

were on the struggling side of the NSIC, the Mavericks have beaten 10 NSIC teams in a row, which has been quite the task.

“Through the 10 games we have really taken steps forward and we know defensively what we need to bring every game and how that translates into our offense,” Bresnahan said. “I think that’s what is really going to help us going into the post-season.”

Not to mention it’s quite the

momentum booster. “It’s a whole lot of momen-

tum. It’s good momentum going into conference play,” Bresna-han said. “This what we grind out all season for and this is what we needed to have going in there, bouncing off our last loss and having 10 wins going into this is something we really need behind us.”

“March Madness” will ac-tually start in February for the Mavericks, playing their first

round of the NSIC tournament at home against the University of Minnesota, Crookston. Tip off is at 6 p.m., and the Maver-icks know what they need to do to keep this streak going.

“We just have to focus on our defense,” junior guard Ashley Olson said. “We know offense will come so we’ve just got to focus on pushing the ball and getting those stops in the end.”

BASKETBALL continued from 10

HOCKEY “On Friday night, MSU saw its four-game unbeaten in regulation streak come to an end.”continued from 10

cord in conference play, and are in seventh place in the WCHA to end the year. That record is good enough for a seventh seed place-ment and a round one best-of-three game date against the No. 2 seeded Badgers once again this coming weekend.

MSU will have its work cut out for it as it goes to face a

No. 2 Badgers squad that it has not beaten this season, with the Badgers taking all four regu-lar season contests between the two squads. After receiving solid goaltending from Butters and backup sophomore goalten-der Erin Krichiver the last few games, it will be up to the Mav-erick offense to forge a chance to

compete against Wisconsin after submitting only four goals in its last three games.

This time the Mavericks will head to Madison, Wis. to face the Badgers. The puck drops for the first round of WCHA Playoff ac-tion this Friday evening at 7:07 pm at LaBahn Arena.



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MOVIES | Celebrating three weeks as the #1 movie in North America has its perks. The LEGO Movie, produced for a paltry sum of $60 million (by Hollywood standards) has been a rousing success, scoring $181 million domestically since its release, so naturally a sequel has already been greenlit. Warner Bros. has hired Jared Stern (Mr. Popper’s Penguins) to pen the screenplay, and reportedly have locked in a May 26, 2017 release date for the sequel. LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller will likely return in a pro-ducing capacity, but the direc-tor’s seat remains vacant.

The Indonesian action film The Raid is one of the most cel-ebrated films of the last decade, and American company Screen Gems, who acquired the remake rights years ago, is now actively developing it. Reportedly, Pat-rick Hughes (Expendables 3) will take the helm of the ad-aptation, with a script by Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace), and are seeking Chris and Liam Hemsworth for starring roles. The original The Raid followed a S.W.A.T. team entering a build-ing that is the gangster hub of the entire city, tasked with bringing in the leader, whose domain is at the very top of the building. The floor-by-floor climb becomes perilous as they face bullets and

swords by the buildings inhabit-ants. The Raid 2, directed by Ev-ans, is slated for limited North American release next month.

Other notable projects cur-rently in prep: 20th Century Fox and Ride Along director Tim Story are developing Diplomats, a movie based on the friendship between ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman and North Korean dic-tator Kim Jong Un. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are adapting another big property, this time from an upcoming nonfiction book. Console Wars: Sega, Nin-tendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation, written by Blake Harris, is set for release this Au-gust, based on the big Nintendo vs. Sega wars of the 90s. Sony Pictures has tapped Rogen and Golberg to write/direct the movie adaptation.

TELEVISION | The CW channel has already locked in a number of series renewals. Arrow, the channel’s top rated program, will return for a third season. The Vampire Diaries, another ratings success, heads into its sixth season, and Super-natural hits ten years on the air next fall with its season ten com-mission. New series Reign and The Originals have also been re-newed for second seasons to de-but fall 2014. The fate of Beauty and the Beast, The Carrie Dia-ries (season finale already aired), Hart of Dixie, and The Tomor-row People remains undecided.

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BEST PICTURE

Who Will Win: Too close to call between American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave

Who Should Win: 12 Years a Slave

The Academy has a clear choice to make here: reward fluff or recognize importance. It’s not the first time this choice has come into play.

American Hustle is a fun movie that screams Oscar bait by letting its acclaimed cast go wild and do whatever they damn well please. It’s a fun movie for that reason alone and it may be what’s throwing off critics and Acad-emy members alike who think it has any more depth beyond that.

Meanwhile, 12 Years a Slave is an unflinching look at a topic we as Americans would rather shy away from. Not only is it a movie that veers into required watching territory, it’s a pretty great film at the core.

The race between these two is neck-and-neck, with the preced-ing Screen Actor’s Guild Awards

going the way of Hustle, while the Producer’s Guild and BAF-TAs went for 12 Years a Slave. Gravity is still in the mix but seems destined for wins in tech-nical awards and director.

Come Monday morning, this could be the category that makes or breaks the ceremony as a whole.

BEST DIRECTOR

Who Will Win: Alfonso Cua-ron

Who Should Win: Alfonso Cuaron

Gravity was a five-year ordeal for Alfonso Cuaron, one that made for a pretty mind-blowing movie. There’s a crazy amount of symbolism going on in the film but you’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice anything beyond the stun-ning visuals of space. Cuaron is generally attributed with being the guiding light of the film, all aspects of this lovechild center-ing around him, and most awards up to now have recognized that.

BEST ACTOR

Who Will Win: Matthew Mc-Conaughey

Who Should Win: Leonardo DiCaprio

McConaughey has performed a coup on the category previously thought to be a lock for Chiwetel Ejiofor. His drastic weight loss in Dallas Buyers Club coupled with his impressive lineup of films this year is just the kind of come-back story the Academy loves.

But it’s honestly going to make puppies cry if McCo-naughey takes home an Oscar for one great year of roles as opposed to Leo DiCaprio’s best role yet. DiCaprio’s sheer presence in The Wolf of Wall Street is brilliant, mastering three hours of snappy dialogue and showing a hidden talent for physical comedy. The irony here is that DiCaprio’s most award-worthy performance to date is the one where he threw caution to the wind and didn’t try for one.

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Final 2014 Oscar Predictions

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Season three of The Shahs of Sunset will be coming to a close Tuesday night at 9 p.m. The hit Bravo TV show follows around a group of wealthy Persian friends while they go through triumph and drama.

Part two of the reunion will wrap up with the cast members Reza, Mike, Lilly, GG, Asa and MJ answering viewer questions and questions of host, Andy Co-hen. This season wasn’t short of silly and catty drama but it was coming in strong with in-dividual revelations. A few of those personal struggles came to the surface when Reza, Mike, GG, MJ and Asa took a trip to Turkey. Asa and Reza faced the truth when Turkey was the closest they could get to their home- Iran. Asa, being a politi-cal refugee and Reza being Gay, the Turkish border was the clos-est they could get. Lilly decided to opt out of the trip because of a past fight that left her feeling like none of the cast members were her true friends.

Part one of the reunion also took a focus between the friend-ship between Mike and Reza who recently took a new endeav-or of being business partners. When the partnership didn’t turn out as planned, their friend-ship started taking a turn for the

worst. The bull was taken by the horns during part one when they were questioned about what ex-actly went wrong in their part-nership. We will find out where their friendship and partnership stands during part two. On the other spectrum, this season GG and MJ have been on a friend-ship roller coaster, one episode they are best friends and the next they are vicious enemies. It came out in part one of the reunion that although they fight and hit each other below the belt sometimes, they love each other like family and so they fight like family. Not only did we see more of GG fighting with MJ but also with her sister. When her sister stayed friends with MJ, GG felt betrayed by her true blood. This season Asa tried to stay out of the pointless drama and was very focused on her new product of “Diamond Water.”

Another cast member that was all about her career this sea-son was member Lilly Ghalichi. Ghalichi focused on her swim-suit line and hair extension line and didn’t seem too concerned about if the other cast members were with her or against her. To-night questions will be answered and reconciliations may happen. On BravoTV.com you can find a convenient spot with all the casts social media and follow along with them as they watch the reunion too and see their re-actions.

Who Will Win: Cate Blanchett

Who Should Win: Amy Ad-ams

Cate Blanchett is a treasure to acting and her performance as a social climber coming apart at the seams in Blue Jasmine has been getting rave reviews. The SAG awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAs have all seen eye to eye on this and Blanchett’s win is something of a foregone conclu-sion.

It might just be due to the film and its performances being a huge letdown, but Amy Adams shines like crazy in American Hustle. Unlike her co-stars, Ad-ams creates a character and car-ries through on it while keeping things reeled in. It’s a refreshing turn from another great actress and the one performance in the film worthy of praise.

BEST SUPPORTING AC-TOR

Who Will Win: Jared Leto

Who Should Win: Heck, why not Jared Leto

Like recent years, Best Sup-porting Actor this year is packed with more great performances than you can shake a stick at. Every nominee turns in a perfor-mance that is showy or a break-through and nearly every per-formance is worthy of the win. But given that Jared Leto has won practically every precursor award this season, his drastic transformation into a transsexual AIDS patient in Dallas Buyers Club is assured towards a win. No surprises here.

BEST SUPPORTING AC-TRESS

Who Will Win: Lupita Nyong’o

Who Should Win: Not Jenni-fer Lawrence

Lupita Nyong’o’s turn as Pat-sy, the tormented favorite slave of Epps in 12 Years a Slave, is heartbreaking. It’s the role of a

lifetime for a relative newcomer and Nyong’o has her moment in the sun. She’s just one of the great performances in the cat-egory that come off as organic, like June Squibb in Nebraska and Julia Roberts in August: Osage County. On the other end of that spectrum is Jennifer Law-rence’s performance in Ameri-can Hustle, one of several actors in the movie who is left run wild and leave any actual character-ization behind.

BEST ORIGINAL & ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Who Will Win: Original – Her

Adapted – 12 Years a Slave

Who Should Win: Original – Nebraska

Adapted – The Wolf of Wall Street

Spike Jonze has already taken home a Golden Globe for his smart, intuitive script for Her, as well as a WGA award. It’s no shocker, really, because it is such a good script. However, just as much cleverness, heart, satire and wit can be found in Bob Nel-son’s script for Nebraska, all of which embraces a degree more of subtlety.

Meanwhile, John Ridley’s adaption of Solomon Northrup’s memoire, 12 Years a Slave, is riv-eting and carries societal impor-tance. It would clearly be the best choice if not for the whip-smart comedic writing found in Ter-rence Winter’s adaption of The Wolf of Wall Street, another film that’s no less relevant to today’s society.

BEST ANIMATED FEA-TURE

Who Will Win: Frozen

Who Should Win: Frozen

Not that it’s a tough race in this category but saying Frozen is a lock to win seems like a pret-ty sure bet. The retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen has won over critics and general audiences of all ages, and is closing in on a billion dollars worldwide. No disrespect to oth-

er nominees like The Wind Rises and The Croods (conversely, with all the disrespect towards Despi-cable Me 2) but Frozen is here to snow on your parade.

BEST VISUALS

Who Will Win: Gravity

Who Should Win: Gravity

Much like Life of Pi last year and Hugo the year before, Grav-ity has been the favorite in most of the visual categories since it was released. The mind-numbing visual effects are a lock for a win and cinematography has a hefty shot at gold too. Smaller catego-ries like Best Costume will prob-ably go to a film like American Hustle and Best Makeup seems like an award destined for Dallas Buyers Club, but at the end of the night, Gravity will be the reign-ing king of visuals.

BEST SCORE

Who Will Win: Steven Price, Gravity

Who Should Win: Steven Price, Gravity

The score to Gravity is like a third character of sorts. With the absence sound in a space envi-ronment, Stephen Price’s score steps it up to become the harbin-ger of doom as deadly space de-bris is hurled about. All the other nominees get the job done but the score to Gravity goes above and beyond.

BEST SONG

Who Will Win: Let It Go

Who Should Win: Let It Go

Come on. Like you haven’t been singing this out loud for months. The cornerstone tune of Frozen has become some kind of cultural phenomenon, and for good reason. There’s a free-ing quality to the song that can connect with everyone on some level, which it apparently has.

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In the most surprising, and unnecessary, TV news of the week, on Friday NBC announced Heroes Reborn, a 13-episode mini-series “event” that will continue the legacy of the channel’s fleet-ing success series, Heroes, for 2015. Heroes, created by Tim Kring (Crossing Jordon, Touch), centered on a group of seemingly normal people as they develop superpowers, and choose between helping the world with their gifts, or shunning it. The first season was a runaway success, both across the board ratings and critics-wise, but as the se-ries continued, the creativity plummeted and by the fourth and last season, even the die-hards fan welcomed its de-mise. Kring is back to produce the new mini-series, although NBC is keeping details under wraps concerning any if at all return appearances from Heroes actors, or what ex-actly the plotline will center around. A digital series will launch prior to the premiere of Heroes Reborn, to introduce, or re-introduce, characters and its mythology.

“Caddyshack.” ‘’National Lampoon’s Animal House.” ‘’Ghostbusters.” ‘’Groundhog Day.” ‘’Stripes.”

Those titles are some of the most beloved and widely quoted comedy classics of the last thirty years. They’re also Harold Ramis’ filmography.

Ramis, the writer-director-actor who quietly and often off-screen created an unparalleled and hugely influential body of laughs, died Monday. He was 69.

He suffered for several years from an autoimmune disease that caused inflammation and damage to his blood vessels, and died at his home in the Chicago suburbs, surrounded by family and friends, his talent agency said.

His rattled a modern comedy world Ramis helped build. His legacy as a father figure to genera-tions of comedians was appropri-ately captured in Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up,” in which Ramis was cast as Seth Rogen’s father, he said, “because we all saw him as the dream dad.”

“Harold Ramis made almost every movie which made me want to become a comedy director,” Apatow said. “These films are the touchstones of our lives.”

Chevy Chase, whom Ramis directed in “Caddyshack” and “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” called him “a great man who shunned unnecessary Hollywood-type publicity.”

“It was Harold who acted out and gave me the inspiration for the character of Clark Griswold,” Chase said Monday. “I was really copying Harold’s impression of Clark.”

Admittedly lacking the dash-ing leading-man looks of some of his peers, Ramis was memorably

nebbish: curly haired, gangly and bespectacled. He played Ghost-buster scientist Egon Spengler (naturally, the one with all the ideas), and Bill Murray’s Army recruit buddy in “Stripes.”

But Ramis, a Chicago native and early member of the improv comedy troupe Second City, was a far larger force behind

the camera. He co-wrote and di-rected “Caddyshack,” ‘’Ground-hog Day,” and “Analyze This.” He also helped pen “Meatballs,” ‘’Stripes” and “Ghostbusters.”

Ramis could be reasonably credited with making more peo-ple roll in the aisles from the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s than most anyone else. Murray, Ramis’ fre-quent collaborator, said in a state-ment: “He earned his place on this planet.”

With a Baby Boomer anties-tablishment bent, Ramis — who escaped Vietnam service, he claimed, by checking every box on the medical-history form —

pushed against institutions: the college dean of “Animal House,” the country club members of “Caddyshack,” the drill sergeant of “Stripes.”

He was known to have a spiritual pull, on full display in the wry but earnest existential-ism of “Groundhog Day” (1993), in which Murray re-lives a day

until he finally gets it right. His “Ghostbusters” co-star and Sec-ond City mate Dan Aykroyd said: “May he now get the answers he was always seeking.”

The son of Chicago shopkeep-ers, Ramis was born Nov. 21, 1944, in Chicago. After graduat-ing from Washington University in St. Louis, he briefly worked in a mental institution. He often said, seriously, that the experience helped prepare him for working with actors.

Ramis would help recalibrate the epicenter of American com-edy at Second City, which he joined in 1969. He was soon fol-

lowed by many of his later col-laborators: John Belushi (“Animal House”), Murray and Akroyd. In 1976, he became head writer for the Canadian-based comedy show Second City Television, or SCTV.

Chicago, he later said in the book of interviews “And Here’s the Kicker,” conditioned him to living “slightly on the outside of the mainstream.”

“New York and L.A. were the real centers of culture in America, and we were kind of a sideshow,” said Ramis. “There’s always more comedy in being alienated than in fitting in.”

He soon moved on to bigger projects — the legendary 1978 comedy “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” With Murray as the comic lead, the Second City alums paired up for numer-ous projects: 1979’s “Meatballs,” 1980’s “Caddyshack” and 1981’s “Stripes.”

Perhaps the most well-known of their collaborations was “Ghostbusters.” Ramis helped write the 1984 movie, in which he stars commonsense member of a group of parapsychologists who try to catch ghosts.

“The best comedy touches something that’s timeless and uni-versal in people,” Ramis told The Associated Press in a 2009 story about the 50th anniversary of Sec-ond City. “When you hit it right, those things last.”

His last hit was “Analyze This,” the therapist comedy star-ring Billy Crystal and Robert DeNiro. Some of his last efforts (2000’s “Bedazzled,” 2009’s “Year One”) were notable flops. A third “Ghostbusters” has long been rumored, but was yet to ma-terialize in any substantial way.

Ramis is survived by his wife, Erica Ramis; sons Julian and Daniel; daughter Violet; and two grandchildren.

Veteran comedy writer, director Harold Ramis dead at 69

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press

MOVIE/TV “The CW channel has

already locked in a number of series renewals.

Arrow, the channel’s top

rated program, will return for a third season. ”

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