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Trey Mewes

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Looking Back, Jacob Alexander Goes Forward

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There’s a wooden plank in the Karnak Gallery off of First Ave., hanging above ancient, ornate, astrological-looking tapestries. You have to enter the gallery through a tiny walkway first before turning around to see it and the multicolored chaos of smaller boards hanging perpendicular like wind chimes underneath the plank. By itself, it doesn’t look all that impressive. Dingy, faded looking, with browns, oranges, reds, blues, yellows, even light greens, it looks as though it …


Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver

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Pokémon—the cultural zeitgeist over a decade long and going just as strong—continues to run wild on the wallets of parents, kids, teens and twenty-somethings, having just come out with Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver but a few short weeks ago. Although this latest batch is just a remake of a previous round of Game Boy games, the quest to catch ‘em all hasn’t been as fun, or as addicting, for quite some time (yes, …


Smudging The Issues In This Election

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Once again, the election cycle is starting to turn on, its rusty gears sputtering and whirring to life even earlier than usual, as more and more candidates for political office are declaring their intention to run, dropping out of the race or simply saying nothing. Since the political machine is already underway, the issues politicians must address have taken shape, the big questions on a state and national level are already being asked and dodged …


MMA in MN Savage Combat!!!

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There was a feel of battle in the air at Neisen’s Sports Bar & Grill in Savage, Minn. on Saturday, Sept. 26. There was also beer, the stench of stink bombs, and an annoying woman yelling “elbows and knees!” to every fighter in the cage at Savage Entertainment’s latest Professional Mixed Martial Arts event.

Among the highlights of the 10-fight card were the amazing performances put on by Andy Selvig, of Lake City’s own Team …


Covering a Community?

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Take a walk through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. Amid the shops and sidewalks, around the Brian Coyle Community Center, you’ll find large congregations of Somalis and Somali Americans, whose move into the neighborhood en masse, due to almost two decades’ worth of trials and tribulations, is still creating excitement today. Yet despite being another group within Minneapolis’ vast racial spectrum, the Somali community deals …


Mediums of Media

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Believe it or not, some of the esteemed professors at the University of Minnesota spend a lot of time on Facebook. And Myspace. And Twitter. And Second Life. In spite of the obvious reasons why these professors are wasting their time on social networking sites, they aren’t griping about how silly their students are. In fact, they’re studying how their students and other people interact with …


MMA in MN: What is this Mixed Martial Arts Thing?

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If you haven’t already noticed, there’s a new sport rapidly becoming more and more popular. It involves two men, some padding, an eight-sided cage and years of practice. It’s called Mixed Martial Arts, and it’s much more complex than two men simply punching each other’s privates for 15 minutes. That’s why The Wake is covering MMA in Minnesota this semester: MMA is a rising mainstream trend, and if you don’t already know about it, you …


Political Science

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Politics may be an old man’s game, but that doesn’t mean that younger candidates are automatically down for the count when it comes to political elections. After all, one of the big political platforms every election season is how politicians can get more so-called “young people,” involved. Yet often enough, college students that participate in the political process by running for election lose out to an older, …


Wanna rant at Fun Bobby?

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Hey you fun-loving hipsters,

If you’ve ever wanted to go rant at Big Bobby B, he’s going to give you the chance. The University of Minnesota President, Robert Bruininks, is giving the annual State of the University address this Thursday, March 5, at 3 p.m. inside the Coffman Union Theater. Just do us a favor and don’t throw shoes at him if you’re angry about how expensive tuition is getting. After all, it’s not his fault …


Master Plan Revealed

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The meeting room smelled like coffee and Pine-Sol; fluorescent lights glowed overhead. From the other side of one wood-paneled wall came the shouts of hockey players and loud thumps as they tossed aside sticks and skates. Faculty members and local residents, plus a student or two, sat in rows of metal folding chairs and stared at the PowerPoint presentation being projected onto a screen at the front of the room, as words like “community” and …


Ol’ Graduate School Just Ain’t What She Used To Be

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For those of you who “get it Daily” (read: pick up the competition instead of us) yesterday’s top story on the reorganization of the Graduate School into the Office of Graduate Education was a shock for everyone involved. Yet, the competition failed to expand on the impact this reorganization will have on graduate students themselves. According to a press release by Senior Vice Provost Tom Sullivan, this change is meant to reduce costs, among other …


Seeking Peace, Demanding Justice

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IMG_3289The crowd gathered inside Coffman Memorial Theater, silent and somber. As the Hmong community and their leaders slowly filled the auditorium, tension and energy built among the assembled. These people sought vindication, healing and answers as they came up and sat down at the spot lit table on the stage. One by one, they sat and waited as a translator read their testimonies. One by one, …


U of M Master Plan Meetings

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The University of Minnesota loves having meetings. Every time they want to review something, they have a meeting about it. This week, University officials are holding forums on a review of the 2009 Master Plan for the U of M-Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. Want to complain about biking paths? You can, directly to the administrators who are planning future bike routes.

If you want to attend, here is the information on where the last two …


Grad Students Hunger for Recognition

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emaciated gopherAmidst brightly colored advertisements and various important-sounding leaflets, is a simple flier with a sorry-looking scraggly gopher. The flier, hidden in the mess of student group information on almost every bulletin board on the Minneapolis campus, shows an interestingly simple equation:

Pay – Fees = Poverty

The flier and the equation are the brainchild of the Emaciated Gopher, a group (or a network, as they like to call …


Hidden Treasue of the U

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There’s a red elevator inside Elmer L. Andersen Library, tucked behind a door that only library staff can enter. It leads 83 feet below the ground, almost level with the riverbank. On the other side of the elevator door lies the university’s collection of rare, important documents spanning from last year’s Board of Regents minutes to books hundreds of years old. Nestled in two caverns, the archives are a hidden gem of the university’s and …


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