A technical error meant Wheelock students were not able to vote in their individual college government elections.

This weekend the Utah track and field team is competing at home in the Utah Spring Classic and the Weber State Open meets. 

The weekend started off in Ogden as several athletes set new PRs. The first event the Utes competed in was the 100m hurdles. Ruby Jane Mathewson took second in her heat with a time of 14.28. Bailey Kealamakia competed in the event and ran a time of 14.75. Rachel Whipple ran a time of 14.76.

The next event that took place was the 4×100 relay where the squad of Lauren O’Banion, Maya LeBar, Megan Rose and Kelise Davis won the event with a time of  46.77.

In the 1500m event, Lauren Peterson came in second place with a time of 4:26.31. Ellie Lundgreen ran a time of 4:42.04, Maddie Reed clocked in at 4:46.41 and Natalie Platil finished with a time of 4:51.89. 

The next event up was the 400m dash. Oneillia Fuller took second overall with a time of 55.94. O’Banion came in right behind Fuller with a time of 56.28. Brooklyn James came in at 56.62, Jasie York at 56.75, Davis at 57.08 and Makenna McCloy at 57.70. 

The final event for the Utes was the 100m dash. Lebar won the event with a time of 12.05. Taylor Watson came in fifth overall recording a time of 12.34 and Rose came in at 12.39. 

At the Utah Spring Classic, the Utes celebrated their seniors during the meet for Senior Day. As the day got started, the 400m hurdles were up first. Bailey Kealamakia finished first with a time of 1:01.51. Ruby Jane Mathewson came in with a time of 1:01.90 and Rachel Whipple finished at 1:02.13. 

The next event was the triple jump where Delaney Gates PR’d with a distance of 10.61m. 

The 800m event was successful for the Utes as Josefine Eriksen hit a PR of 2:05.56. Simone Plourde came in second place with a finish of 2:06.39. Brooke Manson ran a time of 2:09.08 while Sophie Ryan ran a time of 2:09.89.

In the 200m event, Skyler Blair ran a time of 24.78. Taylor Watson finished with a time of 25.75 and freshman Megan Rose ran a time of 26.05. 

The final event of the day was the 4×400 relay where the “A” team that consisted of Kelise Davis, Oneillia Fuller, Lauren O’Banion and Brooklyn James ran a time of 3:45.78 to win the event. Team “C” consisting of Earl, Plourde, Manson and Ryan came in second place with a time of 3:50.79. Team “B” finished with a time of 3:53.27.

The Utes had a solid weekend competing and look to travel to the Mt. SAC Relays and Bryan Clay Invitation in California next weekend. 

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The Minnesota Gophers softball team had a successful road trip traveling to Iowa City this weekend, winning their last two out of three games to win the series against the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Game One: Iowa 9, Gophers 8

Iowa scored the first runs of the game courtesy of a Kalena Burns two-run blast in the bottom of the first. Minnesota quadrupled Iowa’s score in the top of the second, bringing home a whopping eight runs on eight hits. Sara Kinch most notably hit a grand slam to put the Gophers up 4-2. RBI doubles by Chloe Evans and Sydney Strelow extended the Minnesota lead to 8-2. Iowa in the bottom half of the second added two more runs to make the game 8-4.

After a scoreless third inning, Emily Leavitt entered the game in the fourth, relieving Autumn Pease. Leavitt fanned the Hawkeyes in order but soon lost the Gophers’ 4-run lead as Iowa managed to score a couple more runs before Burns hit her second bomb in the bottom of the sixth, sending home three runs. Minnesota would attempt to come back in the top of the seventh with a walk taken by Strelow, followed by a MacKenzie Denson pinch-running for a stolen base at second. Yet, the Gophers could not bring Denson home and the Hawkeyes would take game one, winning 9-8. Leavitt would take the loss, falling to 7-7 on the season.

Game Two: Gophers 5, Iowa 2 (8 innings)

Minnesota was the first team to break the scoreless tie in the bottom of the second with two RBIs from a Megan Dray single and a Kinch double. This gave the Gophers a 2-0 lead. Iowa would come back and tie the game with runs scored in the third and the fifth. The game would go to extra innings off of a 2-2 draw at the conclusion of the seventh inning.

Dray and Kinch would continue to be a dynamic duo in extra innings, hitting back-to-back home runs for the Gophers to take a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning. Pease, relieving for Leavitt, would stand strong in the circle during the bottom of the eighth to even the series at one game apiece. Pease would earn the win, advancing to 10-8 on the season. Leavitt pitched 4.1 innings to start the game.

Game Three: Gophers 10, Iowa 2 (6 innings)

Evans had a dazzling day at the plate, hitting home 4 RBIs including a two-run home run in the top of the first inning. Leavitt also had a memorable performance on the circle, pitching 3 no-hit innings, sending back eight of Iowa’s nine hitters in the process. In the bottom of the fourth inning, with the Gophers leading 7-0, Iowa broke the no-hitter and loaded the bases on Leavitt. The Hawkeyes would score on a sacrifice-fly but that would be all as the Gophers would make a double play to escape the inning only giving up a single run.

The Gophers would continue to hammer the Iowa pitching staff as Dray and Kinch both doubled in the fifth inning, followed by Evans bringing home two runs in the sixth inning to end the ballgame in the sixth inning due to the NCAA’s run rule. Pease would relieve Leavitt of her duties in the fifth inning and gave up one earned run. Leavitt would take the win, as she would move on the 8-7 on the season.

The Minnesota Gophers will continue their road trip next weekend in Lincoln, Neb. against the league-leading Cornhuskers who have won 12 straight games. The first game of the three-game series will start at 5 p.m. CT on Friday, April 15.

Me, the anti-Tinder swindler: A personal essay

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It’s 1 a.m. on a Friday night, and I’m messaging a 21-year-old, “6 ft if that matters” blonde — let’s call him R — on Tinder. R is a Berkeley student who also has abs. They’re hard to miss, given the four shirtless pictures on his profile — three in a bathroom mirror, one at the gym. And he’s completely unwilling to whittle it down to two.

“It’s giving psychopath,” I tell him.

“i want girls to know im like athletic,” he messages back. 

“You have four sports listed in your bio already. I promise you we get the message,” I reply. “Girls aren’t gonna wanna hook up with you if they think you could murder them.” Then a few minutes later: “Most girls anyway.”

“i don’t want a hu. i want a relationship,” he responds. 

“Then one shirtless pic is more than enough. And you’re on the wrong app,” I remind him. “Download Hinge.”

R came to me for advice back in January, not that I know the exact date, as he has since deleted the app and, with it, our messages from my phone. Maybe he downloaded Hinge, got into a relationship and erased all his dating apps. That would be the proper thing to do. 

My morals, however, are a bit murkier. I was in a relationship last January, but I committed a major modern faux pas: I kept Tinder on my phone anyway. It wasn’t for hookups though; it was to continue my semi-ironic, always professional Tinder advice page. 

Tinder had always been a joke for me, slapstick to be more specific. Something about the immediate gratification, the physical repetition of the swipe, the blatant performance, and the silent crowd, the voyeur. I logged on when I wanted to mess with somebody or flirt without stakes. I loved crafting my own image, imagining what a potential victim might find attractive (or at least interesting). I would even make my friends show me their profiles, submitting them to whatever critiques I so knowingly bestowed. Perhaps that’s what led me to think I could advise profiles professionally. One night, in a fit of boredom, I wrote the following bio: 

UC Berkeley, Good Samaritan

You’ve reached a tinder advice page. Swipe right for constructive criticism. Tell me your tinder goals for a more tailored experience

Yeah Anthony Hopkins is my grandfather what about it

And, below, the following “Passions”:

Activism, Volunteering, Feminism, DIY.

I included a few pictures as well: A selfie for algorithm appeal, a photo of my face bruised and covered in blood (thought it was funny, still do) and a close up picture with me and Anthony Hopkins. I had run into him on vacation five years earlier. Having no clue who he was other than a celebrity, I was rude enough to ask for a photo anyway, and I still regularly claim he is my grandfather at parties. It’s one of my favorite lies, and when I started my Tinder advice page, I thought it would draw clients in. 

Not that I needed the marketing; the page was a hit. Queries flooded in:

“i need to be pegged give me constructive criticism,” messaged S. 

“Hold up lemme consult my domme friend,” I replied. 

“Take out the video of you speeding down the road. You look a maniac,” I told K.

“I want people to know what I do for a living,” he insisted.

“Are you a convict?”

“No, I’m an EMT.”

“Hey Sarina, please criticize my tinder profile. I’m looking for something casual and I’m new to sf,” N sent in.

“The pic with the suit is great. If you can choose the order of the photos you should choose that one,” I messaged back. Then: “if you call yourself ugly in your bio someone might read it and think ‘being with this guy would mean having to give him a lot of validation’ / Not exactly a casual relationship.”

Occasionally, clients would make a move on me. “I’m gay,” I’d tell them, which is sort of true. It’s true enough that I only ever ran the advice page with my swipe filter set to “men only.” To give advice to women would seem too mean. Too real. And it wouldn’t satiate me in the way critiquing men’s profiles did.

But what way was that? Sometimes if a client had a successful hook up, they would message a quick thank you. I would send them my Venmo username with a simple “tips appreciated,” but no one ever made a donation, and I didn’t particularly care. My clients and I had a mutually beneficial relationship, if not a romantic one. They got increased matches, and I got male validation. Isn’t that the real purpose of Tinder? Even though I wasn’t dating a man, and even though I was rarely attracted to men, I craved power over them in a romantic sense. Maybe it was some Pavlovian, girlboss response knitted into me during the height of fourth-wave feminism. Maybe it was a deep-seated anger. Months ago, a male student spat at my ex-girlfriend and I as we were holding hands one night outside Moffitt Library. I was too shocked to memorize his face; I only remember the malice. He could be anyone. Sometimes, as I combed through nearly identical profiles, I imagined my clients’ faces superimposed on the shadows that evening. Any one of them could be the culprit. And although it was unlikely that I would actually come across him on Tinder, I wanted to prove him wrong anyway — whatever he was trying to say. I wanted some vague revenge on a vague offender. I wanted to prove that I knew more about love and relationships than him or anyone else on this campus.

Even though I wasn’t dating a man, and even though I was rarely attracted to men, I craved power over them in a romantic sense. Maybe it was some Pavlovian, girlboss response knitted into me during the height of fourth-wave feminism. Maybe it was a deep-seated anger.

But I couldn’t, and I didn’t, and my relationship ended, and I stopped the advice page. I got tired of myself. I got tired of being angry and of love and of lust. For a while, I practiced dating app asceticism. Self-isolation was my meditation. My stained hoodie was my hair shirt. And I fasted; I starved myself of validation.

And then I got hungry again, and I re-downloaded the app, this time for its usual use. I match with attractive people, and I briefly feel attractive myself. It’s less fun, maybe less fulfilling, but it sucks me in. Then again, much has changed since I first joined Tinder. For one, I adjusted my settings to women and men, when it used to be only women. It used to be careless. I would flirt with funny people, show my favorite matches to friends, and laugh at dumb pickup lines, but that’s not enough anymore. It’s not enough to match with someone and know that they briefly found me attractive or interesting. They have to find me smart, too, or else it doesn’t matter. They have to look past my tiny guitar clip and infer that I’m a love guru, that I’m a relationship sage, that I know more than they do about life. 

I don’t think I would go back to running my advice page. It feels too mean in hindsight, but Tinder is boring now. And scarier. With the old page, I never ran the risk of a man not liking me, as that was never on the table. Now, I could be rejected or cat-fished or, worse, ghosted. I no longer know how to operate on the app when I don’t explicitly have the upper hand, when there is no layer of irony to protect me from their watchful eyes, save for my bio which reads “Join my MLM.”

You might see me on there, in which case, shoot me your best pickup line. Or ask for constructive criticism. Any kind of validation you’re willing to give, really, I’ll take it.

Contact Sarina Bell at sbell@dailycal.org and follow her on Twitter at @sarinaring.

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When over 120 students, faculty and alumni filed into the Hatchery to celebrate the Pride Awards and Lavender Graduation March 30, they hardly looked dressed for the same event. Some donned flannel shirts, others showed out in suits and dresses. Heels clicked on the floor while Dr. Martens stomped over the sound of the “Queer Glory” playlist pumping through the speakers. Rainbow hair stood out in the sea of blondes and brunettes.

(Madi Olivier / The Emory Wheel.)

The group was encouraged to dress in what Office of LGBT Life director Danielle Bruce-Steele described as “queer chic” — a term that translates to leaving society’s expectations at the door and wearing whatever they feel the best in. 

Bruce-Steele said she wanted everyone to show up as their most “queer” and “authentic” selves, because that is exactly what they were there to celebrate. 

“For one night, we’re just going to share all the great things we’ve done together as a community and celebrate accomplishments,” Bruce-Steele said. “For the lav grads, making it four or five or six or seven years here at this university and kind of making it to the other end. So, it’s a celebration before we move on out into the world where sometimes it’s a lot less friendly than it is here on campus.” 

The Pride Awards are a major part of Bruce-Steele’s plan to make campus welcoming to queer students. Following a year of anti-LGBTQ legislation, the event was an act of resistance for queer students and staff. 

At the forefront of the nationwide wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation is the Parental Rights in Education Bill, commonly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which was passed in Florida March 8, and bans lessons on sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade. In Georgia, Senate Bill 613 was introduced shortly after in an attempt to ban “developmentally inappropriate” discussions about sexuality and gender identity in some private elementary schools. If passed, Emory would not have to change its curriculum because it is a private University.

“People are a lot of times focused on just looking for votes, and so sometimes I think it’s easy to pick on people who are most marginalized in society,” Bruce-Steele said.

Associate professor of religion Sara McClintock, who identifies as nonbinary and bisexual, said the law would harm students by forcing them to essentially “erase” people, such as a gay or transgender parent, from their lives once they step into the classroom. 

“We already know how gay and transgender young people are more susceptible to bullying, depression, suicide,” McClintock said. “All these risks are there, so to enshrine this kind of discrimination into law strikes me as extremely dangerous.”

Bruce-Steele said while the event was meant to be a happy one, she could not ignore the “hurtful” bills and the struggles of the LGBTQ community. 

“As strides toward equality have been made each year, so have attacks against our existence,” Bruce-Steele said during her speech at the Pride Awards. “This year has been no different, yet in some ways they feel especially hurtful given the backdrop of the profound loss of the last two years.”

She also noted an increase in transphobia, such as the nationwide fight against transgender women in sports. 

“We can tune it out a lot of times, but then when it starts to come from so many places at once, it’s a heavy burden, and I think our students feel that burden,” Bruce-Steele said. “Emory may be a bubble, but it’s not impenetrable.”

However, the LGBTQ community on campus has been celebrating their accomplishments in the face of oppression for decades, Bruce-Steele said. She explained that the event started about 29 years ago with Saralyn Chesnut, the inaugural director of the Office of LGBT life. Chesnut created the Pride Awards banquet to celebrate the progress made during that year with a sit-down dinner and keynote speaker. 

“So much of who we are is this battle, it always feels like we’re ready for the next battle, the next challenge to us being who we are,” Bruce-Steele said. “The Pride Awards are meant to be this time to celebrate, to genuinely be excited and happy and be who we are.”

When Bruce-Steele took over about a decade ago, she established the Awards, which are given to students, faculty and alumni. 

“It’s also really neat to read about these people and all their accomplishments and then get to see them and chat with them really quickly, even if it’s just for a few moments, to be like, ‘Wow … the form I fill out when I go to the doctor, you helped change the language so that my experience and my family is reflected on this form so that I can receive better care,’” Bruce-Steele said.

Dr. Elizabeth Collins won the Chesnut LGBT Person of the Year Award, while Rev. Letitia Campbell was honored with the Reverend Dr. Susan Henry-Crowe Keeping the Faith Award. Athena D.F. Sherman was then presented with the Outstanding Transgender Advocate of the Year Award. The final award that was presented before the event shifted its focus to students was the Alumnus of the Year Award, which was given to Stephen Urbrock (88C). 

Student awards included the Berl Boykin Fierce Leadership Award, Excellence in LGBTQ Writing Award, Emory Pride Member of the Year and Gay and Lesbian Alumni (GALA) Leadership Award.  

Bruce-Steele added that the awards celebrated the “awesome” things queer students were going to achieve in their future, despite the pandemic interfering with their college experience. 

“The things that they’re doing are incredible,” Bruce-Steele said. “There’s going to be a [neonatal intensive care unit] nurse, and someone’s over here doing oncology research and playwrights and all these fellowships.”

She added that 52 students signed up to be lavender graduates and receive a rainbow cord at the event, which is the most Bruce-Steele has seen in her 22 years at Emory.

The Lavender Graduation and Pride Awards also featured a year-in-review slideshow, which reflected on the different events that the Office of LGBT life hosted this year. From plant swaps and crafts to gender-affirming clothing drives and discussion sessions for identity groups within the LGBTQ community, Bruce-Steele said these events helped bring students to the Office and create a safe space. 

“That’s what I’m working on every day,” Bruce-Steele said. “How do we continue to make this place even better, so that students have a great experience when they’re here, not in spite of being queer or trans, but in part because they are queer and trans?”

The Pride Awards were dedicated to fostering community and fun among queer students, faculty and alumni. It included stations for creating buttons and quilt squares, which will be hung up in the new LGBT Life Space when the University moves their identity spaces from Alumni Memorial University Center into Cox Hall in fall 2023. 

Preparation for the Pride Awards began at the end of the last semester, when the Office began gathering registration for lavender graduates and nominations for the awards. The event’s usual location — the Miller-Ward Alumni House — was under renovation, so the celebration was moved to the Hatchery. 

“That was a new and exciting challenge,” Bruce-Steele said. “We really enjoyed working with the folks at the Hatchery, and we leaned into their really fun, quirky space. We were like, ‘LGBT Life and the Pride Awards are fun and quirky, so it would be a great fit.’”

Bruce-Steele credited the Office of LGBT Life’s student staff for helping set up the event, as well as for keeping the office afloat the past year. She explained that they were short staffed this year, leaving just her and program coordinator Jacqueline Veliz, so the students stepped up to help keep programs running. 

Veliz presented the student staffers — including Soju Hokari (25C), Isabella Montealegre (21Ox, 23C, 24B), MJ Brown (25C), Paul Cruz Jr. (24C), Crescent Alcid (22PH) and Destinee Gulley (22C) — with gift bags during the Pride Awards and thanked them for their dedication to the Office of LGBT Life.

As Veliz presented the awards to the students, her voice shook with emotion.

“Thank you for being the absolute best people to work with,” Veliz said. “I could not have made it through this return to campus without each single one of y’all.”

Seeing so many queer students and allies leave the hate behind to come together as their authentic selves at the Hatchery — even if it was only for a brief moment in time — made the preparation worth it for Bruce-Steele. 

“Sometimes the accomplishment is having existed, to have been authentic in who you are and to have navigated this place, and contributed your existence and your truth to a space,” Bruce-Steele said. “That’s worthy of celebration.”

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2022’s Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival debuted at Kingsbury Hall on Feb. 22 and ran through Feb. 25, but it will eventually tour nine provinces and two territories in its native Canada and 39 U.S. States. Each night’s lineup is charmingly named after a species of tree — Larch, Maple, Spruce and Pine. Feb. 24’s Spruce Lineup included six films ranging from six to 49 minutes.

Originally offering drama classes in the Canadian Rockies, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity was founded in 1933. The Banff Centre has since evolved into a leader in curating and developing outdoor films with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, which began in 1976. Now almost 50 years later, the festival is going strong with its annual presentations of achievements in outdoor filmmaking.

Outdoor film festivals, mountain film festivals, adventure film festivals — whatever you want to call them — are no rarity in the Mountain West. Many in the region feel a deep connection to the geography. These festivals connect local and global communities of outdoor enthusiasts. 

The Hits

The two strongest films of the night came from Redbull Media House — “A Foreign Native” and “Markus Eder’s The Ultimate Run.” “A Foreign Native” followed Austrian skier Fabian Lentsch as he moved to Iran. It was an outdoor film that was only half concerned with the outdoors. Lentsch’s determination to assimilate painted a sweet human interest story as he stayed in Tehran through COVID-19’s first wave, learning Farsi and Tanbur, a traditional Iranian instrument. At 49 minutes, “A Foreign Native” was the longest film of the night and by far the most memorable.

“Markus Eder’s The Ultimate Run“ was about as straightforward as anything from Redbull could be — 10 straight minutes of a pro freeskier hitting tricks around Zermatt. That being said, the short was well filmed and mesmerizing. Creative touches like Eder skiing through an ice cave and a castle separate “The Ultimate Run” from other edits. 

The Misses

The night began with “Never in the Way,” a six-minute short of bike messenger Nico Deportago-Cabrera on a solo trip through Arizona. “Never in the Way” was an easy opener for the rest of the lineup, but was lacking in substance.

The second-longest feature “Deep Roots” came from Red Bull’s Reel Rock series. It followed Indigenous athlete Lonnie Kauk’s mission to connect with his father, climbing legend Ron Kauk. Lonnie Kauk shifted his focus from snowboarding to rock climbing to follow his father’s path in climbing Yosemite’s hardest routes. “Deep Roots” adequately acknowledged the lesser-known Indigenous history of Yosemite but missed the mark as a re-watchable documentary.

The weakest films were “Izembeck” and “Always Higher.” “Izembeck” felt like an academic journal article turned into a 14-minute documentary. This is unsurprising, considering it came from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “Always Higher” followed Québécois high-diver Lysanne Richard’s record-breaking javelin dive from 22m. The short made a solid effort to build tension, but the dive itself was an unexciting climax. As selective as festivals can be, Banff did fall a bit short at Kingsbury on Feb. 24.

The Banff Film Festival continues on its World Tour with virtual selections and international screenings through Spring 2022, which you can follow here.

n.west@dailyutahchronicle.com

@NicolineWest

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Former USC water polo Head Coach Jovan Vavic was found guilty by a federal jury in Boston. His charges include conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery. 

Prosecutors said Vavic received around $250,000 in bribes for accepting under qualified recruits into the water polo program. 

Vavic led the USC men’s and women’s water polo teams to 16 national championships and won Coach of the Year 15 times during his tenure at USC. He was fired after his arrest in March 2019.

Vavic’s defense incorporated his past coaching success in their argument, asserting that officials at the school demanded that he do whatever he could to raise money for his championship-winning program. They further claimed that Vavic had never lied or taken a bribe. 

His defense also argued that USC has a “pervasive culture” of accepting wealthy students who could later donate money.

The jury convicted Vavic on all counts after a “half-day of deliberations.” 

The “Varsity Blues” investigation ended with 57 people charged in a conspiracy to secure college admission for children of wealthy and famous parents. William “Rick” Singer, the California college admissions consultant who conducted this operation, bribed Jovan Vavic, according to prosecutors.

Singer pleaded guilty in 2019 to all charges, including facilitating cheating on the SAT, and is cooperating with the government.

Prosecutors said the money included $100,000 designating the son of John Wilson — a former executive at Staples and Gap — as a water polo recruit. In addition, Singer paid Vavic $120,000 to cover the private school tuition of his sons. 

Despite USC’s involvement, prosecutors were careful to note that all the universities involved with the scandal are “unknowing victims of the fraud.”

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued a new policy Tuesday that will go into effect Friday and will change the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) search warrants requiring officers to knock and announce their presence before entering.

A press release from the office of the mayor said the new policy would add layers of accountability. However, some local activists do not think MPD will become more accountable.

When officers are executing search warrants they will be required to knock and announce their presence, then wait to enter. During the day, officers will be required to wait 20 seconds before entering, and at night they will be required to wait 30 seconds. In the past, no knock warrants could be used if approved by a judge, meaning officers could enter before announcing their presence.

According to the proposal, officers still can enter without knocking and announcing themselves if exigent circumstances arise that would require the officer to immediately enter. Exigent circumstances include preventing imminent harm or danger, preventing the escape of a suspect or when the suspect is being pursued by officers.

Michelle Gross, president of Communities United Against Police Brutality, said she talked to Frey about this policy and wanted to make sure that people had enough time to get to the door before the police entered, and suggested police officers wait at least 30 seconds, no matter the time of day.

Under the new policy, officers will be prohibited from executing no knock warrants, except under exigent circumstances. The policy was enacted after Mark Hanneman shot and killed Amir Locke during the execution of a no knock search warrant that Locke was not named in.

Hanneman was placed on a leave of absence after he shot and killed Locke, but has returned to his position. On Wednesday, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County attorney Michael Freeman announced that Hanneman would not face criminal charges.

Gross said she was disappointed that the new policy did not ban no knock warrants completely, and thought giving MPD the ability to execute no knock warrants under exigent circumstances would provide a loophole for these warrants to stay.

“I don’t feel like they have defined it well enough in the policy,” Gross said. “No knock warrants are an antiquated practice that really have very little reason to exist.”

Frey worked alongside the Interim Director of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department, Alberder Gillespie, MPD leadership, constituent groups and Campaign Zero, an organization focused on reducing police violence, to create the new policy.

“This policy is among the most forward-looking and extensive in the nation and will help keep both our residents and officers safe,” Frey said in a press release.

Frey campaigned to ban no knock warrants, and reformed them in November 2020, but stated that the reform that restricted the use of no knock warrants was not a ban, according to the Minnesota Reformer. When Locke was killed by an MPD officer, many activists pointed to this and began calling for a ban on these warrants. Shortly after Hanneman killed Locke on Feb. 2, Frey announced a moratorium on no knock warrants.

Jae Yates from Twin Cities Coalition Justice For Jamar said they were disappointed with the new policy because it did not have concrete language that would ban these warrants outright.

“I think that Mayor Frey wants constituents to feel like he has the police under control, but he doesn’t, there’s no evidence to suggest that he is either able or interested in exercising his executive control over [MPD],” Yates said. “It’s really important that we start kind of exposing this cycle of announcing a big, supposedly transformational action and then not actually doing anything to stop the police from not following the law.”

Toshira Garraway is the founder of Families Supporting Families against Police Violence. Garraway said while the policy can be viewed as a step forward, change should start with state legislators addressing the problem and creating solutions, such as new laws.

“This is a state of Minnesota problem,” Garraway said. “Until we understand that this is a statewide problem and more than a city of Minneapolis problem, that’s where we’re gonna get stuck.”

Dr. Laura Delbrugge has been officially confirmed as the new dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University. Interim dean Dr. Jonathan Leib will be stepping down from the position on July 9. 

“Dr. Delbrugge is a proven leader in higher education. Her significant expertise includes shared governance, leading a state-driven effort to integrate teams from multiple universities, and providing crisis leadership in response to the pandemic,” said Austin Agho, ODU’s provost, in his email to the university on Wednesday. “Collaborating with faculty, students, staff, alumni and the arts community, Dr. Delbrugge will build on Old Dominion’s research and creative prominence in the arts and help us reach new heights.” 

Delbrugge’s strong background in education comes through her experience as a professor. Delbrugge obtained a B.A. from Central College in Iowa in Spanish in 1991. She built upon this with a M.A. and then Ph.D. in Spanish at The Pennsylvania State University in 1996.  Her focus throughout was Spanish medieval literature. She has published scholarly editions of works originally by Andrés de Li from the 1400s, in addition to presenting her work at domestic and international conferences. 

Delbrugge obtained tenure at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) as a professor teaching Spanish. Rate My Professor reviews described her as “passionate, caring, and overall one of the best professors I’ve ever had.” 

Another said of her class: “She’s extremely nice and funny and it’s obvious she enjoys what she does. She pushes you to do well and it pays off.”

Her strong passion for teaching was reflected in the high marks her classes received. However, teaching was not the only function Delbrugge performed during her time there. She has filled a vast array of academic leadership roles over the course of 20 years. 

Chosen as dean’s associate of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, she then went on to chair the Department of Foreign Languages. She was also provost’s associate for Academic Programs and Planning. In 2013, she helped lead the Reaffirmation of Accreditation with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education at IUP. Additionally, she oversaw an assessment of IUP’s student learning outcomes and academic program review to help ensure students were meeting educational requirements. Her leadership in university planning helped to revise faculty promotions and curricular approval processes.

Delbrugge also has an impressive track record promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Staunchly supporting student accessibility and advocating for equality in education has been a priority for Delbrugge. She has also contributed to ensuring safety for victims of abuse. She worked closely with Carion County, Pennsylvania, serving on the board of directors for SAFE (Stop Abuse for Everyone). 

The position of dean for the College of Arts and Letters was selected by a special committee chaired by Dean Gail Dodge. Dr. Laura Delbrugge was selected from a diverse pool of strong candidates. Delbrugge will begin her new role July 9.

Watch UFC 273 Live Stream : UFC 272 Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie Online Here’s How & Where?

Check All Reddit Options to Watch UFC 272 Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie Online Tonight, UFC 273 fans are going to enjoy a dozen fights in the Octagon at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. There, at UFC 273, two championship titles are on the line as Alexander Volkanovski and Aljaman Sterling will both be defending their belts. The main card is a pay-per-view event, so if you’re planning to watch the UFC 273 live stream online, you’ll need to sign up for ESPN+ to do it.

Date: Saturday 9th April 2022

Main card: 10pm ET / 3am BST / 1pm AEST

Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie: 12.30am ET / 5.30am BST / 2.30pm AEST

Venue: VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville

US: UFC 273 live stream – Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie

ESPN+ has the exclusive rights to UFC 273 in the US. It’s a pay-per-view, and requires an ESPN+ subscription (from $6.99 a month). There are two ways to watch:

1. Existing annual ESPN+ subscribers can order UFC 273 for $74.99.

2. New ESPN+ subscribers can get a special deal that includes one UFC PPV event (in HD) plus an annual ESPN+ subscription for just $99.99.

UK: UFC 273 live stream – Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie

UFC 273 – Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie – will be live on BT Sport 1 in the UK.

Cord-cutters can live stream the prelims and main card with a no-contract BT Sport Monthly Pass (opens in new tab)(£25 a month). The pass lets you watch instantly on the BT Sport app or BT Sport webplayer. No contract, cancel anytime.

Existing BT TV subscribers can access BT Sport channels for £10 per month. BT Broadband customers can enjoy the BT Sport app and watch on the go for the same price.

Sky TV users can also add BT Sport to their existing package from £25 a month. Here’s today’s best Sky TV deals.

EU: UFC 273 live stream – Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie

MMA fans in Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain can watch a UFC 273 live stream on DAZN(opens in new tab). Subscription to the streaming service costs €29.99 a month (around £25 / $35 / AU$48).

You don’t have to stay up late, either. DAZN will replay Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie throughout Sunday.

Australia: UFC 273 live stream – Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie

Volkanovski vs Jung costs a hefty AU$54.95. The main event is is expected to start around 2.30pm AEST on Sunday, 10th April 2022. Or you can watch one of the many replays at time that suits you.

How to Stream UFC 273 Live in the United States

The UFC 273 main card streams exclusively on ESPN+ in the United States. Current subscribers to ESPN+ ($6.99 per month or $69.99 per year) or the Disney bundle (which includes ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu’s ad-supported tier for $13.99 per month) can stream UFC 273 for an additional $74.99. New subscribers to ESPN+ can get a year of the service plus UFC 273 for $99.98.

UFC 273 is headlined by two title bouts, including the main event with Volkanovski defending his featherweight title against Jung. Defending bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling will also face challenger Petr Yan in a rematch of their UFC 269 fight. Other fights on the main card include a welterweight match between Gilbert Burns and Khamzat Chimaev, and a women’s strawweight match between Mackenzie Dern and Tecia Torres.

All subscribers to ESPN+ can stream the preliminary bouts at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET, and the early preliminary bouts will stream on UFC Fight Pass ($9.99 per month or $95.99 per year) at 3:15 p.m. PT / 6:15 p.m. ET.

Bypass Geographic Restrictions With a VPN

If you live outside the United States or are traveling abroad, and you still want to access the ESPN+ or UFC Fight Pass broadcasts of UFC 273, the best strategy is to use a VPN. With a VPN, you can bypass geographical restrictions and stream UFC 273 on its designated platforms.

ExpressVPN is our choice for the best overall VPN and the best VPN for streaming. It’s a quick and simple way to watch UFC 273 anywhere you’re located. Here’s how to get started:

1. Download ExpressVPN.
2. Connect to a server located in the United States.
3. Head to ESPN+ and purchase the main card broadcast, or sign in to your ESPN+ or UFC Fight Pass account to watch the preliminary bouts. You will need to supply a valid U.S. ZIP code.

ExpressVPN also offers a free trial, so if you aren’t satisfied with the service, you can cancel right after watching UFC 273.

UFC 273 full fight card

Main card

Alexander Volkanovski (c) vs Chan Sung Jung – Featherweight

Aljamain Sterling (c) vs Petr Yan (ic) – Bantamweight

Gilbert Burns vs Khamzat Chimaev – Welterweight

Mackenzie Dern vs Tecia Torres – Women’s strawweight

Alexey Oleinik vs Jared Vanderaa – Heavyweight

Prelims

Aspen Ladd vs Raquel Pennington – Women’s bantamweight

Ian Garry vs Darian Weeks – Welterweight

Anthony Hernandez vs Josh Friend – Middleweight

Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs Marcin Tybura – Heavyweight

Tale of the tape – Volkanovski vs The Korean Zombie

Name: Alexander Volkanovski vs Chan Sung Jung (“The Korean Zombie”)

Nationality: Australian – Korean

Date of birth: 29th Sept 1988 – 17th March 1987

Height: 5ft 6 – 5ft 9in

Reach: 71 inches – 72 inches

Total fights: 24 – 23

Record: 23-1 – 17-6

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