By: Nicolas Hallett

Ten Dinkytown property owners say the city and business leaders have excluded them as the district continues to outline its future with a burgeoning small-area plan.

The Dinkytown Property Owners Group organized after the possibility of obtaining historical designation for the four-block business hub arose in November.

In a letter to the city, the group said plan organizers have ignored them throughout the process and believe any historical status would diminish the value of their properties and prevent future development.

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By: Roy Aker

State legislators introduced a bill last week that would ban licensed therapists from providing sexual orientation change efforts to children, following a petition authored by two University of Minnesota students last semester.

Political science sophomores Alec Fischer and Gabe Aderhold  requested that state legislators introduce the bill after the students’ petition garnered more than 110,000 online signatures.

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By: Roy Aker

State legislators introduced a bill last week that would ban licensed therapists from providing sexual orientation change efforts to children, following a petition authored by two University of Minnesota students last semester.

Political science sophomores Alec Fischer and Gabe Aderhold  requested that state legislators introduce the bill after the students’ petition garnered more than 110,000 online signatures.

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By: Steinar Schenk, University student

As a Norwegian exchange student at the University of Minnesota, I’ve been asked to compare the American alcohol culture with the one I know from home.

Alcohol plays an important role in Norwegian cultural and social functions, thanks to the time when Norwegian Vikings ravaged Europe. Viking sagas by Norwegian poet Snorri Sturluson introduced the Gulating Laws, some of the oldest laws in Norway. These laws demanded that landlords brew mead; noncompliance may have warranted a fine or even land confiscation.

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After 19 months in a St. Cloud, Minn., men’s prison, transgender woman CeCe McDonald was released last week. McDonald’s story, one that is all too common for transgender Americans, made national headlines.

In 2011, a bar patron yelled racial, homophobic and transphobic slurs at McDonald and hit her in the face with a beer glass. When Dean Schmitz pulled McDonald away from the ensuing brawl, McDonald stabbed him. Schmitz later died in an ambulance. McDonald pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges.

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By: Jace Frederick

Florida State’s only two losses came against two top-15 teams when it headed into its matchup with Minnesota.

Now, there’s an outlier.

An unranked Gophers team looked like a top-tier squad Tuesday night, and it put away the Seminoles 71-61 at Williams Arena.

“Of all of our games we’ve played, that’s the toughest we’ve played,” Gophers head coach Richard Pitino said. “To be able to get that type of win … they showed a lot of heart.”

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By: Jack Satzinger

Mere minutes after the Gophers’ 14-3 loss to Michigan State on Saturday in East Lansing, Mich., head coach Jerry Kill walked into a trailer that had been converted into a makeshift media room.

That trailer was stuffed with reporters who had just witnessed what Kill called a “very physical football game.” Minnesota played a hard-nosed brand of football that kept the team in the contest until the final minutes.

That brand also resulted in a couple of key injuries.

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By: Samuel Gordon

In the 1980s, every kid in Burlington, Ontario, wanted to be Wayne Gretzky, but Brad Frost wanted to be a gym teacher who would “hopefully do some coaching.”

Now the Gophers’ head women’s hockey coach, Frost had no idea he’d lead a Division I hockey program to 62 consecutive wins and back-to-back national titles.

He had no idea he’d become an ambassador for an entire University or that his team’s achievements would be fundamental in the emergence of women’s hockey.

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By: Jessica Lee

On a cold, gray afternoon last month, a man with a handgun robbed a University of Minnesota student studying in Anderson Hall.

During the dark hours of a November night, a man wearing clothes that resembled a police officer’s sexually assaulted a student after offering her a ride in Marcy-Holmes.

Last Wednesday, a student was the victim of an attempted kidnapping near TCF Bank Stadium.

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By: Alex Bitter

The University of Minnesota braced for heavy snowfall and arctic temperatures as a winter storm approached the Twin Cities on Tuesday.

The front began with light rain midday. Weather watchers said they expected the first of 6 to 9 inches of snow to arrive late Tuesday and continue into Wednesday.

The first major snowfall of the season has everyone from commuters to grounds care anticipating the change.

Temperatures were expected to fall as well, with Tuesday’s lows in the 30s giving way to single-digit highs by the weekend.

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