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In early November, a UHPD officer pointed his weapon at a student who a witness mistakenly believed was assaulting a woman on campus. The lead officer arrived to find what was reported to be an assault was actually a rehearsal. 

The incident has sparked outrage among students across campus and has only been compounded by the School of Theatre and Dance’s solution to the issue. Their answer? Distribute brightly-colored vests to students, so UHPD knows not to shoot them.

Domonique Champion, the student who was mistakenly believed to be attacking his rehearsing partner, has attended UH off and on for more than 10 years and is pursuing a master’s degree in acting and theatre. When he saw the officer bearing down on him with his gun drawn, he knew immediately it was a matter of life or death. 

“It was generations of instinct just thrust upon you, and the only thing that I could do is drop to my knees and yell: ‘We’re rehearsing!’” Champion said. “ It wasn’t until I heard the voice of a Black sergeant that I finally felt at ease.” 

The witness who reported the crime said Champion was armed. The supposed weapon was a folded piece of white paper, which he was holding in plain view above his head. Champion said the officer initially believed it to be a 3D-printed weapon.

The incident aside, the vests provided to prevent future incidents were seen as a slap in the face for students like theatre senior Brandon Sanders. Sanders quickly took the issue to social media, where it has since gained traction on platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. 

“A bright green vest will not change the color of my skin,” Sanders said. “I saw it as the utmost disrespect. These vests aren’t bulletproof. All they do is make me stand out.”

Sanders learned about the incident when he was handed a vest on his first day back in class. He felt blindsided and took the issue to the UH faculty. He demanded they inform the student body by sending out an alert to all students enrolled. 

While the School of Theatre and Dance has held several meetings for concerned students, Sanders said they had revealed more issues than they have solved. Most notably, in a video posted to his YouTube, UHPD Chief Caesar Moore said his department had not even been informed of the vest situation. 

“When I talked to the dean, there were a lot of things that came to light that I wasn’t happy about,” Moore said. “The green vests. I didn’t agree with that. I didn’t approve of that. I didn’t know about that.” 

Moore described it as a “horrible miscommunication” between UHPD and the School of Theatre and Dance. For Moore, the issues lie at the administrative level. 

“There may need to be some discussion about how higher-level decisions are made to ensure greater inclusion,” Moore said. “If that inclusion and equality are not perceived to be there, then that trust is not there.” 

Despite his procedural objections, Moore recommended students wear the vests for the time being.

For Sanders and many other students at the School of Theatre and Dance, the vests represent a much bigger issue, one of representation.

“There is no person of color on the School of Theatre and Dance faculty at all,” Sander said. “ How can your administration look like all white people when the demographics of your student body do not reflect that?”

Sanders ultimately sees the vests as the type of solution only those with the ignorance and privilege of not having to worry about the color of their skin could concoct. For him, the lime-green vest is a symbol of deep-seated institutional failure. 

Champion echoed Sander’s concerns regarding racial representation. While he generally likes his professors and believes they are qualified, he questions the extent to which the University prioritizes diversity within its staff. 

“I can’t help the fact that the faculty is white. They’re good at their jobs. They teach good shit,” Champion said. “But I know there are people out there who look like me who can do it just as well.”

Since the incident, Champion has struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal ideation. He has had difficulty eating and suffers from frequent panic attacks. 

“I was struggling with suicidal ideation,” Champion said. “I kept seeing this image of a gun and almost hoping something would happen to me. I realized it was because I was carrying this survivor’s guilt with me.” 

Champion’s survivor’s guilt stems from the pattern and history of police brutality directed toward Black Americans. He was lucky, Champion said, but many others that look like him have not been so lucky. The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers has only made it more difficult.

The moment the officer pointed his gun at him, Champion felt he was handed a responsibility. Where before his primary concern was completing school, now a cause has been thrust upon him. One which he’s not entirely sure he has the strength to carry. 

“There’s this societal expectation to be strong, to keep pushing. To keep going,” Champion said. “But I am physically, mentally and emotionally spent, and I don’t know how much more of myself to give to make sure that, whatever this is supposed to be for, actually ends in success.” 

Years of fighting, generations of struggle, and still an issue lies latent at the core of American society. Champion, already contending with issues at home and academic stress is now expected to shoulder the burden of a cause that began hundreds of years before his birth. 

Yet he is not alone. Students and friends like Sanders have given fuel to Champion’s sputtering flame and have stood up alongside him to demand better from the administration. What they want is simple: Better. They are tired of institutions failing them, tired of being swept under the rug and tired of fighting a seemingly endless war. 

“I want the students to be informed, and I want them to know how much power they have,” Sanders said. “Because they need to understand that their lives are at risk.”

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The Utah Opera cast shone in a heartwarming rendition of Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment.” The opera is a story of unconventional familial love and loyalty amid the Napoleonic wars.

A Show for All

From Jan. 14-22, the Utah Opera put on a show for all ages in downtown Salt Lake City’s historic Capitol Theatre.  The origins of the ornate venue center around the late-19th, early 20th-century practice of Vaudevillian entertainment. Vaudeville, a farce with music, serves as an apt cousin to the production “The Daughter of the Regiment” as this is a comedic opera. The Utah Opera tweaked the script to allow for some modern style slapstick satirical comedy to be featured. While comedy was a central component of the show, it left room for the voices of the performers to remain the main characters.

1 Daughter, 20 Fathers

The audience is given time and place context in the opening scene where we encounter a group of Francophone villagers in the Tyrol region in Austria. The villagers watch with great anticipation as a battle with Napoleonic troops break out. The audience is then introduced to the French regiment under the control of Sergeant Sulpice (Matthew Burns), who acts as one of many stand-in father figures for our lead, Marie (Madison Leonard).

As the story unfolds, we realize that Marie, thought to be an orphan of one of the late regiment soldiers, was raised unconventionally within the regiment. Thus, she is considered to be the daughter of the entire regiment. Her many father figures are shown as protective of Marie when she falls for a local young man, Tonio (Jack Swanson). This protectiveness against her suitor pales in comparison to what the regiment then feels when they run into The Marquise of Berkenfield (Elise Quagliata).

The regiment recognizes Berkenfield as the name of the woman who was Marie’s mother. The Marquise claims that this was not her but her sister, and insists on taking in the young Marie.

Marie, who has only known battlefield life with the regiment, has trouble adjusting to a life of fine dresses, proper “ladylike” manner and new suitors. The Marquise makes a deal with the Duchess of Crakenthorp (Anne Cullimore Decker) to marry Marie off to the son of the Duchess, and Marie begrudgingly agrees.

Right before the wedding however, the regiment, with Tonio now a member, comes to rescue Marie. She and Tonio are gifted their happily ever after.

Opera: a Cultural Necessity

While the theatre was accommodating to American viewers with the implementation of English subtitles for the French arias, it was almost unnecessary. The operatic company made language barriers dissipate with their soulful performances. Though everyone in attendance was properly dressed for the Utah winter, it is unlikely anyone was left without chills.

Each transition from tenor to soprano melody was more impressive than the last. While each performer was a bright light in the show, Leonard was the north star. Her energetic portrayal of Marie made the painted backdrops believable as the snowcapped Alps. Her angelic voice was a reminder that visits to the opera are not an amusement of the past, but a current cultural necessity.

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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported the first net gain in energy production from a nuclear fusion reaction last month, meaning this long-pursued energy source could reach utilization in the medium-term future. In a time when plentiful fuel availability and minimal carbon emissions are both top priorities, nuclear fusion supplies an opportunity, if our engineers and public leaders are up for the task.

Back in October, I wrote about current nuclear fission energy sources in consultation with Todd Allen, professor and chair of the nuclear engineering and radiological sciences department at the University of Michigan. I spoke with him again, this time about nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fission and fusion may sound similar, but they can be thought of as opposites. As Allen explained, fission happens when a heavy atom is split apart, generating a lot of energy. Fusion, on the other hand, involves forcing two very light atoms together, which can generate a tremendous amount of energy, he said.

The trouble with forcing two very light atoms, such as hydrogen, together is they tend to repel each other like two magnets of the same charge. “The only way to get them to join is to get them going tremendously fast,” Allen explained.

There are two ways to get the atoms going fast enough to fuse: by getting the atoms very, very hot, or by compressing them together. He said getting the atoms very hot and trying to contain them with magnets has proved difficult. However, the way that the Livermore National Lab achieved it was different.

“They essentially compressed a little target with 192 different lasers around it, all pointing at it. And they’ve got to get all those lasers to fire at the exact same time. So you compress uniformly,” he said.

Allen noted this is not the first time physicists have achieved nuclear fusion, but in the past, it has always taken more energy to get the atoms to fuse than the fusion itself produced. This news is a great step forward, but Allen cautioned that the use of nuclear fusion energy in businesses and homes is still a ways off.

For a new source of energy to be viable in the energy market and helpful for us in reaching for energy independence and flexibility, it needs to be safe, deliverable and readily available. We have seen what happens when these important parameters break down.

Safe, clean, abundant energy

In terms of safety for both people and the environment, nuclear fusion is a lot safer than one might expect.

Allen explained that nuclear fusion is inherently safer than nuclear fission, and it is also a zero-carbon energy source. He said because nuclear fusion requires very precise conditions to happen, it is a very easy reaction to stop. That, paired with the fact that the fuel that goes into nuclear fusion — hydrogen or helium atoms — are very safe sources shows nuclear fusion has an inherent level of safety that few energy sources can boast about.

Allen also said radiation containment would likely not be much of an issue. Because the reaction can be stopped easily and the original fuel sources are safe, “there’s not a thing like a runaway fusion,” Allen said. Any radiation produced by nuclear fusion plants in the future, Allen said, could be dealt with using existing radiation safety measures.

“Radiation safety programs deal with this and it’s very simple,” he said.

The fuel required for nuclear fusion is also readily available. Hydrogen and helium atoms would likely be the primary fuel sources for nuclear fusion energy production, as they are the two lightest atoms in existence.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element on Earth (there are two hydrogen atoms in every molecule of water), and helium can be produced through nuclear fusion of hydrogen. The sun, which is mostly made up of hydrogen gas, uses nuclear fusion to produce energy, light and helium gas.

Considering that nuclear fusion of hydrogen produces helium — another possible fuel — it is possible that some of the byproducts of nuclear fusion energy could be recycled. However, as the atoms produced get heavier, the fusion process becomes more difficult because larger atoms have higher amounts of resistance to fusion.

Some engineering required

Allen cautioned that the biggest barrier to delivery of nuclear fusion energy to the market is likely the engineering it will take to make the process more efficient, and make it possible to capture the energy and transport it to destinations that need it.

“First, you’ve got to figure out how to just repeat it,” Allen said of the current state of nuclear fusion work. The news out of the Livermore National Lab is excellent, but this process needs to be repeatable before we get too excited about seeing nuclear fusion as a source of household energy.

“The second thing is, even though you measure that the energy released was more than you put in front of lasers, you have to figure out a way to capture that in a way that you could turn it into useful energy,” Allen said. He noted that, due to some funding limitations and how long it has taken to get to this stage, not enough progress has been made for strategies to increase efficiency and containment of the energy output for use down the line.

Allen said that practically speaking, it could be 10 years or more until we see nuclear fusion energy hit the market. He noted there are privately funded fusion companies that claim to be working on the issue, so it could be sooner, but it is hard to say because these companies have been pretty tight-lipped about their developments.

At the end of the day, the key to moving forward with nuclear fusion energy to the point of welcoming it into widespread use will be to bring the public into the fold, Allen said.

“Whether it’s nuclear fission or fusion, it’s bringing people in, showing them how this works, making it visible,” he said.

Would you like Allison to follow up on this topic or explore something specific? Contact her at aogren@mndaily.com with questions, comments or story ideas.

Several protests, a memorial and a vigil have taken place in Boston after the death of Tyre Nichols. Protests across the nation are forming in response to the events seen in the police’s body camera footage of their altercation with Nichols, released by the City of Memphis on Jan. 27. 

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Unlike the overtime affairs with their most recent opponents, this series against No. 15 Michigan State was clockwork for the second-ranked Minnesota Gophers.

Close shuts out Sparty for a second time

On Friday, Michigan kept a tight watch on stud forward Logan Cooley. After the first faceoff, you could tell Michigan State didn’t have the same plans. Cooley won possession of the puck and lurked in the middle of Michigan State’s zone for a score nine seconds in.

“They’re having a good season too,” said head coach Bob Motzko about his opponent they have beaten handily on a consistent basis. “This is just one that went our way.”

That was how the game played out, a complete Gophers avalanche over a team they’ve consistently dominated. Everyone cashed in from the blue line down to the crease. Jimmy Snuggerud notched a goal exactly where his linemate Cooley scored his first.

Connor Kurth from the left crease, Matthew Knies tipped one in, Mike Koster banged a blue line bomb, Jackson LaCome sniped a slapshot, Huglen completed a 2-on-1 and freshman forward Garrett Pinoniemi notched his first goal as a Gopher. Eight goals to none.

“Obviously Pino scoring … all the guys love him, he’s the best and it was fun to see him get on the board,” captain Brock Faber said on Pinioniemi’s first score.

Justen Close completed his fifth shutout of the season (20 saves), which ranks fifth in the nation (second against the Spartans this year).

“It’s every game … he’s always calm no matter what,” Koster said about his goaltender. “I think he was actually really big tonight. There were a few times where we got caught, we were extended and he was able to freeze the puck … he played really good tonight.”

Snuggerud scores twice as Gophers complete season sweep

Unlike in Friday’s shellacking of the Spartans, Michigan State came out with something to prove on offense in game two on Saturday, shooting the game’s first nine shots out of ten on goal. Finally in the second period, on a Minnesota powerplay, Michigan took a 1-0 lead, which would only last for about a minute in a back-and-forth affair for the rest of the period.

Snuggerud corralled the puck and fired home his fifteenth goal of the season. But the Spartans wouldn’t back down as they perfectly executed a 3-on-1 breakaway.

“Stick to our game that we played yesterday,” said Snuggerud in the locker room message following the opening period. “They had a hot start today, and we just needed to get back to our game.”

Minnesota quickly told Sparty to sit down with five unanswered goals. Pinoniemi managed to score again, successfully following another goal review, which didn’t go the Gophers’ way earlier in the period off a Knies rebound attempt. Bryce Brodzinski would bump in a backhander to end the second and Ryan Chesley would start the third period by sending the puck bar down. Knies made his team-leading 17th goal of the season while Snuggerud shot his second score.

“It obviously helps to get that first goal away,” said Pinoniemi on his confidence after a nice weekend. “Luckily, I got one tonight too, so I hope I can continue that.”

Minnesota finished the regular season outscoring Michigan State 25-6, tallying five scores or more in each game featuring two shutouts.

“Michigan State came to play tonight,” Motzko said. “Everywhere we turned in the first period there was a green jersey between us…we played better as the game went, but we made some plays…bailed us out and you can’t always rely on that.”

Snuggerud (37) and Cooley (36) are now the highest-scoring freshman duo since Jay Barriball (43) and Kyle Okposo (40) in the 2006-07 season. The linemates will try to continue their other-worldly numbers in Madison, Wisconsin, on Feb. 10-11, taking on the bottom-placed Badgers on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 5 p.m. In December, Minnesota outscored Wisconsin 13-5 en route to a sweep at Mariucci.

What To Expect From College Basketball This Season

The college basketball season is quickly approaching, and fans have begun the countdown. It’s the time of year filled with tenacity, excitement, and emotions as teams take to the court to prove their skills on the hardwood. 

With recruits arriving on campus eager for a shot at greatness, old rivals going head-to-head in epic matchups, and alumni reuniting over their shared love for the game, there’s no shortage of entertainment during this time of year. 

As conferences prepare to tip off their respective tournaments and invite teams to vie for league championships, hoop fanatics everywhere can barely contain their anticipation. The college basketball season is almost here — get ready!

This season promises to be an exciting one, with many talented teams and players vying for a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Basketball fans around the country are already drawing up their brackets as this year’s college basketball season is rapidly approaching. With some of the top teams and players returning to their respective schools, we are set to witness arguably one of the most intense and exciting seasons in recent memory. 

Several teams boast impressive lineups and rosters, making competition throughout each conference more heated. In addition, several promising freshman recruits promise to make an immediate impact on their soon-to-be squads, adding a fresh dynamic to matchups between rival teams. 

This year is sure to be an exciting one for all college basketball fans as many talented organizations battle for a ticket to the NCAA tournament.

Some of the top teams to watch out for this season include Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Gonzaga.

College basketball fans everywhere have all the reasons for the excitement this season- the stakes are higher than ever with an action-packed lineup of the top teams in college ball. Many predict that Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Gonzaga will lead the way throughout the season, offering intense competition with some of the nation’s most talented players. 

With a combined total of 7 national championships, these powerhouse programs have continually delivered success year after year. Therefore, this season will surely bring us plenty of exhilarating moments as we look to see which team finishes on top.

These teams are all loaded with talent and have the potential to make a deep run in the tournament.

Each team that has qualified for this tournament boasts impressive rosters filled with talented and experienced players. They all can surge past their opponents and make a real impact in the playoffs. 

Although each one may have some weaknesses that could be exploited, each team’s overall determination and skill level makes them a strong candidate to reach far into the playoffs. The potential is there, and it’s sure to be an exciting tournament as we witness which teams live up to their potential.

Be sure to catch all the action this college basketball season!

If you are a college basketball fan, you should be hyped up for the fun and thrill of the game by now! Many of the top teams are returning with key players ready to compete for the championship. Whether you like high-scoring games or close and intense battles, you’re sure not to miss any excitement as the NCAA tournament edges closer. 

The best part? You can catch all of it on television, streaming videos, or by going to the games yourself! And for betting fans, the games are back, and we’re sure all betting platforms will get updated with the best college basketball odds for you to predict and win.

With some great matchups taking place already, don’t wait and get your ticket today. You don’t want to miss out on all the hard-fought games that will determine which team takes home the championship trophy!

All In All

All college basketball fans can attest that this season is among the most highly anticipated in recent history. Why? Because this year’s NCAA tournament is sure to be one for the ages! With an outstanding lineup of players and teams, it’s anyone’s guess who will take home the championship. Make sure you don’t miss a minute when competition begins in late February – we can guarantee that every game promises pulse-pounding excitement!

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