The Wake

It’s a big world outside. Terrific new bands from every corner of the world pop up each day. Keeping up with all the hot new bands in your home city, let alone entire continents at large, can be maddening.
Often times I’ll think about all the American bands with whom I’m currently enthused. I realize that, as good as they are, many will soon be forgotten. Given that only a handful of foreign bands hit it big each year in the States, I conclude that an unimaginable number of delightful songs will never reach my ears. It’s with this in mind …

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The people of this petroleum-addicted world-gone-to-hell are soon to be faced with an unprecedented number of environmental problems due to rapid resource consumption, pollution, and climate change. The planet’s ecosystems are crumbling before the eyes of the human race and the biggest tragedy about it is that few seem to be aware of just how bad these problems really are, and are not attempting to remedy the situation. Luckily, there is a bright and shining ray of hope beaming down through the carbon dioxide-saturated atmosphere. A group of progressive faculty members, administrators and students at the University …

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On a prominently displayed whiteboard in the Gopher football department of Dinkytown’s Gibson-Nagurski Complex, a brief and cryptic message is scrawled in dry-erase marker.

Recruit! 24/7. 365. E.D.S.

The series of letters and numbers may seem like gibberish to some, but to Tim Brewster it represents the most important expectation he has placed on his newly assembled staff.

Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Eat, drink and sleep recruiting.

“I was committed to putting together a staff that, one through nine, were going to be outstanding recruiters,” Brewster says. “I wasn’t going to have one recruiting liability on my staff.”

The emphasis on …

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