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Some college students have trouble reading a book for a class. It’s too much work, too long and difficult to focus.

If you think reading book is difficult, try writing one while still being a full-time student. It isn’t easy. Just ask James Clayton.

Clayton is a 25-year-old stu-dent at Minnesota State Univer-sity, Mankato. He’s had a less than ideal ride to where he is now, and in a way, that’s exactly why he decided to start writing “Underdog’s Way to Success” in October of 2009. While that was more than two years ago, Clayton’s vision and dream for the book is finally complete. As is a publishing deal.

The book is 109 pages and is about life and how to come out of it proud of what you’ve done. Clayton is just starting his journey.

“My goal for the project is

to touch a couple of lives, no matter what a person is going through,” Clayton said. “We all have a different story.”

Clayton graduated high school in the spring of 2005 and didn’t attend college right away. He wanted to be an entrepre-neur, and he didn’t think college would help him or maybe that he simply would do fine without it.

He began working at a bank in the summer of 2005 and was working 11 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. five days a week. Not great hours for an 18-year-old kid right out of high school. He then became a bank teller for a year, but enough was enough for Clayton. This isn’t what he wanted. During his lunch breaks, he would check out colleges online, and MSU hap-pened to be at the top of his list.

“I would look at college campuses,” Clayton said. “I was like, ‘man, I want to be a kid and be young.’ I didn’t want

to work like I was 45 years old. I also thought that I could network with people in college.”

Things didn’t turn around right away for Clayton, though. After getting accepted into MSU, things hit rock bottom. Clayton couldn’t find a job any-where. He soon realized he had no money and no place to live in the fall of 2009.

“I thought to myself ‘why aren’t my parents rich?’ and made excuses for myself,” Clay-ton said. “I was really down on things and not being able to get a job. I was second guessing whether or not I should even be attending school again if I can’t even eat properly.”

Super Tuesday, as it’s known in the political world, will be the Caucus Day for Colorado and Minnesota.

As caucuses continue to dominate political news, many bloggers are disappointed with the progress and results of the caucuses thus far. Disappoint-ment was found with Nevada officials who hand-counted the ballots and, instead of releasing information through the press, wanted to release the results via Twitter. Voters criticize the ef-fectiveness of releasing informa-tion in this manner.

Chuck Muth, a former Ne-vada GOP executive director, wrote on his blog, “You can say this about Nevada Republicans: they are consistent. They never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity. And hoo-ahhh…did they ever blow this one!”

The process of counting bal-lots in Nevada did not help the

fact that Iowa had reported the wrong winner one month ear-lier. Many people are upset and implying fraud with the officials and GOP system.

With the upset of how the caucus has been handled, many people look forward to Minne-sota and Colorado to learn from the mistakes of the previous caucuses.

In 2008, although Mitt Rom-ney won the delegation votes for Minnesota and a high chance of winning is predicted. Minnesota is still seen as fair game for all candidates.

While Nevada was still cast-ing and counting its votes, Ron Paul made an appearance in Arden Hills Saturday to rally up supporters prior to the Minne-sota Caucus.

While Rick Santorum won delegations in Iowa, Newt Grin-grich won delegations in South Carolina, and Romney currently leads by winning delegations in New Hampshire, Florida, and

Nevada. Romney is currently leading in support but many candidates are looking towards the middle and southern states, starting with Minnesota and Colorado, for further confirma-tion or rejection of his perceived support.

“Our goal is to get to Super Tuesday, where we’re in much more favorable territory,” said

• web photoJames Clayton , a 25-year-old MSU student, has recently published his

own novel, “Underdog’s Way to Success.”

High hopes for Super Tuesday Political analysts are disappointed with previous caucuses

STEVEN VANGstaff writer

Out of the doghouse and into reader’s handsAn uncommon underdog story

KYLE RATKEeditor in chief

Minnesota State University, Mankato students should spruce up and grab their resumes on Wednesday in order to keep their gears grinding this sum-mer.

More than 60 employers will be attending the Summer Job Fair Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Centennial Stu-dent Union Ballroom, and they are eager to meet with students looking for summer jobs.

There will be a variety of jobs presented for all majors and interests for students to jump start their careers and build their resumes with summer jobs, part-time employment and intern-ships.

Some examples of registrants include YMCA, LEEP, Val-leyfair, National Parks, Ameri-Corps, Mankato Golf Club, and multiple camps throughout Min-nesota as well as resorts, and recreation agencies, health care and early childhood develop-ment organizations, food service and retail/production businesses.

With more participants than past years, the fair is expected to bring opportunities that would be shameful to miss out on.

Students will be able to wan-der the ballroom, speak one-on-one with employers and hand out their resumes.

It is suggested to dress pro-fessionally and come prepared to meet potential future employ-ers because often times speak-ing with them is a form of an interview.

“I’m hoping to find hands-on experience to be sure I would like a career in the nutrition field,” said dietetics major Bri-anna McLaughlin.

Just by attending the fair stu-dents can win gift certificates, t-shirts and sweatshirts. Pop and popcorn will also be provided for those who attend.

“It is a great opportunity that is easy to access and completely worth just taking a quick peak,” said recreation, parks and leisure services major Angela Ku-kowski.

This event is sponsored by the recreations, parks and leisure services department and is free for all MSU students.

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While some degrees like History or Gender and Women Studies are straightforward and based on facts, other degrees like Business and Market-ing are highly affected by the ever-changing world economic systems.

Students in the College of Business at Minnesota State University, Mankato need to be able to apply the knowledge they are learning to real-word situations, and with two new programs that give students these opportunities.

“The College has been look-ing at redesigning the curricu-lum for roughly two years now. Last year, we came up with the general concept and started to refine it,” said finance chair Joseph Reising. “By the end of the year, we had the idea that we wanted to run it and we spent the fall working out the kinks and getting all the parts moving together.”

The Integrated Business Ex-perience is a program designed to teach students the practical knowledge they need to learn to run their own business.

The 12-credit program is a

combination of three required core classes and a three-credit practicum. The classes are business finance, principles of management and productions and operations management.

“It’s what we call the practicum,” Reising said. “It’s where the students are going to develop, finance and run a business.”

Because the program is com-posed of four distinct classes, the students all have different instructors as well.

“Instead of just having them take the [classes] at various times whenever it fits into the schedule, we’re coordinating the

times of these particular sec-tions,” Reising said.

He said that he did not work with the students for the first few weeks of class because they need to focus more on ideas and teamwork than finance con-cerns.

“After the first day, I didn’t teach for a few weeks because they didn’t need to know finance for the first couple of weeks of what they were doing,” Reising said. “They needed to develop teamwork, work on communications, work on their management.”

Reising said that the students do need to understand finances,

just not right away. “Finance comes in somewhat later weeks. We have a large focus on that because they need to develop those skills for their business plan, to get financing,” Reising said.

While the curriculum for the required courses have not changed, the order in which the material is being presented has been moved around in order to fit the needs of the students at any given time during their experience.

“We don’t change the content of the classes much, but we design when we teach. We do some reorientation of things as

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While students of all majors are allowed to apply for the program, it is often difficult for these students to sign up for all 12 credits in one semester, as the program requires.

This is the first semester the program is being offered and applications for Fall 2012 are currently being accepted through April 10.

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That’s why Clayton decided to write his book. There had to be others like him, right? Had Clayton actually hit rock bottom or was it simply in his head? Most college students can relate to exactly what Clay-ton was going through, and although it didn’t look promis-ing for Clayton at the time, he’s now an author of a book. While he’s no Edgar Allan Poe quite yet, it is certainly an accom-plishment.

“I was going through a difficult time,” Clayton said. “Everything was closing in on me, but I realized I wasn’t the only one. I saw others that had to go through trials and tribula-tions… I might have been going

through a difficult time, and people may not seen my vision, but they will after reading the book.”

Clayton received help from adjunct professor David Clis-bee. Clisbee teaches college courses at MSU and at Rasmus-sen College.

“I mostly did grammar, punctuation and helped with the flow,” Clisbee said. “He worked a lot on revising… The fact that he’s a young 20-some-thing deciding to not only going about writing a full manuscript and then taking the steps to publish it himself, that shows tremendous initiative… That’s something I would consider relatively uncommon.”

Uncommon. That’s a word Clayton is certainly familiar with, as his ride to where he’s at now has certainly been differ-ent, and still not over.

“I expect people to gain from it, kind of like what they al-ready know, they may not have thought of information,” Clay-ton said. “Success doesn’t mean

having $1 million. Success is doing something you want to, and think you need to do.”

Clayton will be speaking at various colleges during the next few months. His book is avail-able at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

CLAYTON “Success doesn’t mean having $1 million. Success is doing some-thing you want to, and you think you need to do.”

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Taught by John Hylle, the portfolio manager for feder-ated insurance, the class gives students knowledge about stock and industry analysis. The stu-dents review investment topics and present recommendations to finance professionals.

“It is challenging. There is a fair amount of responsibility. You’re expected to go out and talk to people,” Reising said. “Obviously, you’re using Uni-versity money, so you need to report back to school officials.”

Students who are enrolled in the class will offer a body of work to show potential employ-ers, the potential for industry contacts and give the students applied investment experience.

Student investment funds can be founded at universities across the country. While some universities offer the class as part of a Master’s degree, oth-ers, like MSU, offer the course to undergraduates.

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Blame it on Pitchfork.One day, not too long ago, the division

between the haughty independent scene and the vapid world of dancefloor pop was miles wide. If you listened to At the Drive-In, you would never even touch a Britney Spears record without doing so out of irony or derision.

But something changed.Slowly, the underground rock press

started to find an appreciation for the glitzy production values and lyrical simplicity of pop music. Maybe it was the gradual transi-tion from industrial grind, or from hip-hop, or the commercialization of once sacredly secretive counter-cultural acts. Whatever the reason, critics that once made fun of the bubblegum pop world started to admit joy at listening to “Toxic” and “Ignition” and “Umbrella.”

It was only a matter of time until the process worked in reverse. Until someone caught on to the idea that instead of bloggers absorbing mainstream pop they could make a pop star just for them, marketed to the indie scene with all the sensibilities of a megastar pop singer.

Suddenly, the controversy surrounding Lana Del Rey has become clear.

After months of debate and speculation, Del Rey’s debut album, Born to Die, has finally arrived, and, surprisingly, it answers all our questions. The truth is, it’s never been about the singer’s looks or her admittedly dreadful stage performances, at least not consciously.

It turns out, people were rebelling against the notion that someone might take advan-tage of a cynical generation’s newfound, unironic appreciation of pop. We had finally come to terms with our pretensions and started to shed them and call a truce with Lady Gaga and Beyonce and Rhianna, when suddenly the labels tried to infiltrate this new sales market from within.

Like white blood cells attacking an unknown substance it assumes is a virus, bloggers turned on Lana Del Rey. Read a comment thread on her SNL performance, and it’s rarely about her songwriting or her voice, but more about her appearance and the speculation that she might be an industry puppet, a product of her rich father designed to make money.

The only logical explanation for this kind of angry diatribe, for the

outrage over the sort of

complaints anyone could level against sing-ers like Katy Perry but critics rarely mention, is that it’s an attack on marketing. It has noth-ing to do with music; if Lana Del Rey got play on Top 40 radio before she hit the blogs, she might have been able to straddle the line. But because “Video Games” made its way through the indie scene and The Current, the backlash has been vitriolic and, ultimately, unwarranted.

Honestly? Born to Die is surprisingly enjoyable, if you accept it as a pop album. It’s lyrically void, but no more so than anything by any of the world’s best-selling singers. “Come on take a walk on the wild side/Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain/You like your girls insane,” she coos on the album’s title track. It’s not poetry, but it’s not unacceptable.

What makes the album work is its pro-duction. The strings that open “Born to Die” are straight out of The Arcade Fire’s “Empty Room.” Industrial beats litter every song and give the tracks an air of sadness that still retains dance-ability.

Vocally, Del Rey is like a love-sick Fiona Apple; occasionally she waivers in a broken-hearted sort of way (“Video Games”), sometimes she takes on a straight-singing pop star tone (“Diet Mountain Dew,” “Off to the Races”), and still other times she seems to float above it all as if lost in thought.

Songs about eternal love, getting money, and clubbing might seem an odd fit for the music’s wistful tone, but the juxtaposition gives Del Rey a flavor, a unique style that sets her apart for anyone willing to give her even the begrudging notion of individual talent.

Each song has treasures to explore; the lovely melody of “Radio” is uplifting and catchy (the odd use of profanity and pronun-ciation of “vitamin” notwithstanding), while “Million Dollar Man” has a classic nightclub sorrow that’s very fetching.

But any pleasure derived from Born to Die requires the listener to let go of the no-tion that Del Rey is a self-made singer-song-writer, or that she’s some label mannequin, or that she’s some millionaire’s daughter. Forget where she came from or what she represents. You have to extend the same benefit of the doubt to Lana Del Rey that you might extend to Gaga, to Spears, to R. Kelly, and listen to the songs for what they are: Beauty in a shiny package, sadness on the dance floor, pop creation filtered through indie sincerity.

Because it was inevitable that Lana Del Rey would come into this world. Let’s not act so surprised that she’s here and finally let that last grip of ironic cynicism slip away.

Lana Del Rey’s 2011 was a busy one, becoming a word-of-mouth phenomenon among websites and bloggers alike. There was criticism and praise along with panning of performances and anticipation for the release of her debut album. What was thought about Lana Del Rey (born Lizzy Grant) throughout 2011, whether it was negative or opti-mistic was focused on something else more important last week: the music.

With the release of her major debut album titled Born to Die crit-ics had to focus on the album, not the botched Saturday Night Live performance and most certainly not rumors of possible cosmetic surgery. It seems that image and perception has always played a huge part, not just in Lana Del Rey’s career but many others, if not every artist’s career. However, she is a singer, so we’ll take a step back from percep-tion for a second to examine what she does for a living; sing.

On Born to Die, Lana Del Rey has chosen to be backed by soft strings and sweeping instrumenta-tion that is perfect for her voice, which whispers and quietly croons listeners into her hypnotizing world. The track “Dark Paradise” possesses an enthralling build, complete with subtle piano and invigorating charm. She then puts the song into over-drive by delivering slick lines such as “There’s no remedy for memory of faces like a melody.”

The song “Summertime Sadness” crawls with a desperado guitar and elegant march giving the effect of subtlety and mesmerizing converg-ing.

“National Anthem” finds the singer moving into a blend of signa-ture sound and hitting a place where pop music lives, singing “Tell me I’m your national anthem.”

The excellent “Off to the Races” boasts hip-hop drums, with backing effects that are intriguing and well placed. The song is something that is winding and twisting, taking you on a journey through its seductive path. The songs on Born to Die are interesting and great. Though, simi-lar in sound,

they contain the components that make the album as a whole, some-thing that is fitting for an enticing listen.

The standout track on the album is an auto-biographical testament titled “This is What Makes Us Girls.” Floating effortlessly over the lush background placement, it is a drawing song that pours senti-ment that is equally catchy as it is glorious and celebrated. “Remember how we used to party up all night, sneaking out looking for a taste of real life?” she sings earnestly. The chorus is most telling in the songs statement with the lines “This is what makes us girls; we don’t stick together cause we put love first.” On the refrain she explains what makes us girls is that “we all look for heav-en and we put love first, something that we die for it’s a curse. Don’t cry about it.”

The album’s other undeniable standout is the previously released “Video Games.” Much like a lot of the album’s material that features string accompaniment, “Video Games” sticks with the listener long after the album has finished playing. There is something that is innocent and knowing about the track that was the first introduction to Lana Del Rey, for many.

Lana Del Rey is an illustration for how we perceive individuals around us. Most times, we find that what is rumored or criticized is either false, or, possibly, what makes the piece so interesting to begin with. Is Lana Del Rey the best singer to ever live? That is up to the listener and their perception of the music at hand. Throughout criticism or praise one thing remains clear at the end of the day. The music is either good, or it sucks. It plays and you can listen to it, or you can’t. Born to Die is a debut album by a relatively new singer that is both good and playable. Still, many might come to the conclusion that Lana Del Rey is hype, untalented or un-relatable. The first words uttered on Born to Die from the title track are “feet don’t fail me now, take me to the finish line.” Who can’t relate to that?

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MSU sinks No. 25 Vikings in OT, gets mauled by No. 4 WildcatsWomen’s Basketball

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It’s hard to imagine a much more polarizing weekend for the Minnesota State, Mankato women’s basketball team. The weekend began on Friday with what could end up being MSU’s biggest win of the season, a 98-95 upset of No. 25 Au-gustana, but completely turning around the following night when the Mavericks suffered an 83-45 blowout loss to No. 4 Wayne State. While the split will probably help the Mavericks in the big picture, it’s hard to understand what exactly to take away from the weekend after seeing such completely different games. The biggest surprise was Fri-day night’s win over Augustana, a team the Mavericks match up

well against, but one that still managed to edge MSU 62-57 back in December. “We had a really good week of practice and we knew that we played them close last time, so we weren’t intimidated by them,” said MSU head coach Pam Gohl. The Mavericks got off to a hot start, shooting a blistering 48.6 percent in the first half, while the Vikings struggled from the field while going 0-9 from behind the three-point line. “From the start of the game we were making our shots and it’s really pretty amazing how, when your shots are going in, you start working a little harder on defense and everything seems to get a little easier,” Gohl said. The Vikings were able to claw their way back, but the Maver-

icks were able to hold off the run enough to take the game into overtime, with the score knotted up 86-86 at the end of regulation. After three back-and-forth minutes of overtime, Augustana

managed to once again tie the game 95-95 with less than two minutes left. But after shooting 9 of 27 from the free-throw line the Saturday

before against Upper Iowa, the Mavericks pulled ahead 97-95 with a pair of clutch free throws by freshman Jamie Bresnahan before senior Jennie Noreen stuck in the dagger by adding an-

other with 14 seconds remaining, giving MSU a 98-95 lead that proved enough to ice the game. “We came up with some clutch free-throw shooting,” Gohl said. “We shot over 80 percent on Friday and that ended up being a key for us.” But the win was short lived. After suffering through a 20-3 run midway through the first half, the Mavericks found themselves in a 46-20 halftime hole against the No. 4 team in the country, the Wayne State Wildcats. “We knew going into the game that the most important thing for us to do would be to score,” Gohl said. “We knew we wouldn’t be able to stop Wayne State every time on defense but we needed to be able to score

against their zone. We knew what we wanted to do but we just couldn’t come through and do it.” MSU’s offense remained cold throughout most of the second half, and there was little the Mavericks could do to slow down the Wildcats or save themselves from the 83-45 loss that was recorded following the final horn. But in the big picture, the 38-point loss will ultimately appear as just another “L” on MSU’s final record, while Friday night’s win adds an unexpected “W”. “I’ve been telling them to just forget about it so we can move on,” Gohl said. “We’ve got bigger things to worry about this weekend.”

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Maverick offense, Cook end Friday blues The junior goalie turned away a season-high 43 shots on Friday.

JOEY DENTONstaff writer

This past weekend the Min-nesota State, Mankato men’s hockey team finally got over the Friday hump, winning its first Friday game in the second half of the season by defeating the Michigan Tech Huskies 5-3. Saturday was a different story. Friday after the Mavericks jumped out to a 3-0 lead at the end of the first period, the Hus-kies bounced back and scored three unanswered goals in the second period for a 3-3 tie. “I think our first periods have been our worst periods all season plus-minus wise, so pop-ping three even-strength goals was huge for us,” Junior goalie Phil Cook said. In a 3-3 tie at the start of the third, the Mavericks got back the momentum with a slap-shot goal from freshman forward Matt Leitner past Josh Robinson at the 1:16 mark of the period. Freshmen Zach Palmquist and Jean-Paul Lafontaine were credited with the assists on the power play goal. Then sophomore forward Johnny McInnis gave the Mavericks a bigger cushion at 5-3, scoring his sixth goal of the season with eight minutes to go in the game. Cook, in his sixth consecu-tive start in front of the net, got his fourth win in those starts and stopped a season-high 43 shots. The Mavericks won their

first Friday game of 2012, end-ing a drought dating back to early December in a 4-2 win over Alabama-Huntsville, and Friday’s win wasn’t easy. “You have to give (Michigan Tech) credit, they came out in the second and put us on our heels,” head coach Troy Jutting said. “I’m pleased the way the kids responded to it though.”

Ever since Christmas, the Maver-icks have definitely played their best hockey, but still had trouble get-ting in the win column on

Fridays. Of their previous four Friday games, the Mavericks had lost by one goal in three of them, including an overtime loss to Nebraska-Omaha. “It’s nice to get the monkey off our back with the Fridays and score some goals,” Jutting said. Saturday’s game started great following Friday’s triumph, then quickly turned into a nightmare. The Mavericks started the game right where they left off, scoring the first goal of the game less than two minutes into the opening period thanks to ju-nior defenseman Evan Mosey’s goal. From then on it was all

Michigan Tech. The Huskies scored six goals the rest of the first period, including five unan-swered goals. The Mavericks tried com-ing back after trailing 6-2 at the start of the second period, but the puck never bounced their way, as the final score ended 7-3 in favor of the Huskies. “They played good and we didn’t. Pretty simple,” Jutting said. “It’s the first period since Christmas where we just did not play, and they did.” MSU co-captain Tyler El-brecht agreed. “They did come out with a better jump in the first period and we didn’t play our game: doing what we needed to do,” the senior defenseman said. Overall the Mavericks had an opposite weekend than usual, finally getting a win on a Friday, but seemed to “burn out” once Saturday came around. “We had some good and some bad; we need to under-stand there’s no twenty minutes off,” Jutting said. With the split the Mavericks find themselves 10-19-1 overall and 6-15-1 in conference play. MSU has three series re-maining in the regular season, as they make the long trek to Anchorage, Alaska this weekend before wrapping up with two tough series against Minnesota-Duluth and North Dakota.

Phil Cook

MSU wrestling slams MoorheadRYAN LUNDstaff writer

MSU senior Tel Todd recorded his 17th win of the season at 157-lb., freshman Cody Quinn earned a decisive pin at 165-lb. and sophomore Nate Haynes continued his heavyweight dominance at 285-lb. as the Maverick wrestling team rolled to a 31-6 win over in-state rival MSU-Moorhead Thursday night in Bresnan Arena. Moorhead senior Corey Ulmer opened the match with a 7-1 decision win over MSU sophomore David Demo. Then MSU senior Brian Reisenauer defeated Graelin Garlington in an 18-5 decision, sparking a dominant streak of seven consecutive wins for the Mav-ericks. MSU junior Robby Fisher followed the win with a 13-4 decision victory of his own, downing Moor-head sophomore Con-nor MacGregor. Todd’s tech-fall win over Derek Lee continued the trend, before Quinn made quick work of Jacob Bennet, pinning the Moorhead junior 1:33 in. MSU sophomore Brendan Eichmann continued the streak, winning a 4-2 decision over Trent Svode, before MSU fresh-man Brandon Pederson downed Kody Kalkbrenner 11-5. Moorhead freshman Eric Lehmann defeated senior Derek Hahn 2-0, but the win would be

the last time that the Dragons would score, as Haynes rounded out the win with a 7-1 decision over Gerad Fugleberg. With the win over Moor-head, MSU improves to 1-2 in conference play and 3-7 overall. The team will have a chance to better its record this week, with back-to-back stops at the Uni-versity of Mary and Northern State on the schedule. “We’ve learned a lot over these last three duals,” said head coach Jim Makovsky following the win. “When you compete hard, when you compete at a high level, your strengths and weaknesses come out.” Their strengths were cer-tainly on display against Moor-

head, as the Mavericks recorded their most lopsided win of the sea-son. Still, with only four duals remaining in the regular season the team won’t have much time to relish the victory. Makovsky, however, remained focused on his team’s recent efforts. “It’s about staying

in the moment,” he said, “Not worrying about the past or the future, it’s about getting ready today.” MSU returns to action at 7 p.m. on Thursday, traveling to Aberdeen, South Dakota to take on Northern State. The team will head to Bismark, North Da-kota the following night for a 7 p.m. matchup with U-Mary.

Tel Todd

MSU Track and Field: Sophomore Chris Reed broke the school record in the weight throw while also taking first in the shot put.

MSU Women’s Hockey: The Mavericks were swept by the No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers in Madison over the weekend, falling 5-2 Friday and 6-0 Sunday. Forwards Lauren Smith and Nicole Germaine each had a goal on Friday.

Head to themsureporter.com for a weekend recap of MSU men’s basketball

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