Dessa Rising

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WINTER 2018

Dessa Rising

Designer Jack Barkla makes Dr. Seuss cry

Xavier Tavera photographs Mexican-American vets Puppeteer Michael Sommers pulls some strings Artist Nooshin Hakim Javadi connects cultures Actor James Hong gets funny Maria Schneider rescues fellow musicians Michel Kouakou dances like an ocean wave

Sonja Peterson carves intricate sagas (including the one you see here) Winter 2017 U of M.pdf 1 10/17/17 8:28 PM

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The Artists 34 16 Dessa, Sonja Peterson, Michel Kouakou, Jack Barkla, Nooshin Hakim Javadi, Xavier Tavera, Michael Sommers, James Hong, and Maria Schneider

Winning Strokes 34 Terry Ganley helped usher women’s swimming into the modern era By Tim Brady

38 A New Culture The U unveils a plan to prevent sexual misconduct

41 Off the Shelf Tom Krattenmaker wonders, can red and blue talk? 43 Alumni Stories Super Bowl planners Maureen Hooley Bausch and Wendy Williams Blackshaw, architect Richard Gilyard, and a nurses’ round-robin 47 Stay Connected Alumni travel to Iceland, a teacher inspires students with Goldy plates, plus other UMAA goings on 52 Heart of the Matter A dad gambles with his family By Ben Doty 43

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Outsiders and Art FOR ABOUT SIX YEARS, I lived in an artist warehouse on the EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING Mississippi River in Northeast Minneapolis. It was referred to as President and CEO an artist warehouse—rather than a scrappy complex where some Lisa Lewis of the units didn’t have windows and people lived illegally— Editor because of the gallery on the ground floor. Jennifer Vogel This building was home to an angry carpenter and Law and Senior Editor Order fan, several entrepreneurs selling marginal products, Elizabeth Foy Larsen an out-of-work bartender, two writers, a Jamaican who cooked Copy Editor Susan Maas outside on a propane stove, and at various times a flower shop, an exercise studio, and a pirate bar started by a man who’d lost a leg in a motorcycle Contributing Writers Allison Babka accident. All of these people interacted in various ways. We shared a garden and a back Tim Brady porch, where my husband took on all comers in chess. Ben Doty But, what gave the building a certain dignity was the gallery. Art has a way of Suzy Frisch legitimizing even the most off-the-radar people and ideas. It encompasses open doors Dan Heilman and open-endedness, heady themes, a diversity of viewpoints, and an imperative to Rob Hubbard Lynette Lamb experiment. There is a built-in expectation that someone will do something daring. Kristal Leebrick Once, years ago, I thought I would be a painter. I got out my canvas and acrylics Camille LeFevre and brushes. I planned to paint a man in a chair, which seemed like a good, standard Jeannine Ouellette place to start. He’d be sitting, not squirming around creating hard-to-capture angles. Britt Robson He’d be brooding. Jon Spayde I set out, all bravado and no training—nor, it turned out, any natural skill. I painted the Art Director head, the body, the chair, but the result was as one-dimensional as a roadkill squirrel. Kristi Anderson The painting was such a failure, in fact, that I tried to save it by turning it into an abstract. Two Spruce Design I swirled over the distinctive shapes. But, that didn’t look like much either. Ah, I thought. Senior Director of Marketing I’ll turn it into a sunset, the safe haven for amateurs the world over. But, mine was an Lisa Huber ugly sunset. A brooding sunset. Advertising I shoved the painting down the garbage chute at the apartment complex where I lived. Send inquiries to So, I am not a painter. Nor am I a dancer, an actor, a singer, or a puppeteer. What I am [email protected] good at is appreciating art and its tenets. And I did so many times at the gallery in our or call 612-626-1417

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4 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 FROM THE DESK OF ERIC KALER

Give for the Good IT’S CALLED DRIVEN and, on its face, it and sustain agriculture, food, and water. We will deliver on looks and sounds like a philanthropic our land-grant mission to protect our natural resources and campaign. In fact, it’s been 18 years since feed the world safely. our last University-wide campaign. Third, Driven will help us accelerate advances in health. But Driven is more than that. To me, Our interdisciplinary collaboration—on our Twin Cities, it’s a journey and, as a fellow alumnus, I’m Duluth, and Rochester campuses—will provide better treat- asking you to help me and join me on this ment and quality of life for all Minnesotans, and pathbreaking journey that’s intended to push us from research that saves lives all over the world. being a very, very good University of We also are driven to provide a place of opportunity for Minnesota to one that’s unquestionably great. everyone. We’ll advocate for equity and opportunity and, Driven is our opportunity to raise $4 billion—yes, with a among other things, we’ll work to close Minnesota’s achieve- “b’’—together. Why? Because as an alumnus you know how ment gap and enrich our shared quality of life by bringing the this wonderful university transformed your life, and contin- arts into communities statewide. ues to transform the lives of our nearly 68,000 students on Last—and my top priority for this campaign—we will elevate our five campuses. a world-class student experience. That doesn’t mean fancy We’re doing this because all qualified students—the best dorms. It means more deserving students from Minnesota and brightest in Minnesota and beyond—should come to the and around the world who need our support will receive U, regardless of their ability to pay. scholarships and fellowships and have the chance to better We’re doing this because our faculty deserve it. They deserve to their lives . . . and ours. And it means supporting those world- have the best support and facilities. They produce the inventions class teachers and researchers who transform those students. and the cures, and they transform our students and the world. This is our first launch of a university-wide campaign since And we’re engaged in this Driven campaign because this 1999. Coincidentally, that’s exactly the year that most of our community needs us. Minnesota needs a premier university. freshmen this fall were born. So, in my view, our first-year We are that already, but this campaign will let us soar. students have benefited from the generosity of those—many How? With these priorities. of you—who contributed to that campaign way back then. First, Driven will allow our university to continue to be a force And the next generation—the ones who enter our University for change as we drive a Minnesota plan for innovation, build- 20 and 30 years down the road—will thrive because of Driven. ing on our history of invention, discovery, and job creation. To learn more and to consider giving, please go to driven. Second, we will tap some of that knowledge to protect umn.edu

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6 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 Ii Reclaiming the Castle

After decades of An actor playing John waiting, the time may Pillsbury brought history to life during a tour of Pillsbury be ripe for a renovation Hall in October. of Pillsbury Hall

HE SPACE FEELS more like a barn tors, but also to convey a message using $150,000—$4 million today—to complete than the attic of a university land- the gravity of history: Now is the time to what would become a science building. mark. But instead of haylofts and renovate Pillsbury Hall, so the Department The gift, however, had strings attached: milking cans, the massive top floor of English can finally have a home after The U needed to agree not to relocate the 1r Eddie Hoey and Zachary Doffing of Pillsbury Hall is crowded with the castoffs squatting in Lind Hall for five decades. The agriculture and mechanic arts education of the building’s former life as the home of renovation, which is expected to cost $36 schools to another location 40 miles away. the U’s department of Earth Sciences. Rolls million, would require approximately $24 The agreement secured the University’s of yellowing maps—presumably now either million in state funding. The U’s 2018 capital land grant status and stabilized its shaky out of date or digitized—spill off tables. Metal request for the upcoming legislative ses- financial situation. boxes crammed with rock samples are caked sion, which begins in February, also includes “Pillsbury Hall is a magnificent, iconic with dust. Oak flat files stand empty. $200 million for general maintenance and building much in need of interior renova- In October, a group of roughly 20 state improvements; $10.5 million to update tion,” says Madelon Sprengnether, an legislators and staff made its way through campuses in Crookston, Duluth, and Morris; English department Regents Professor the clutter to an unfinished round room and $4 million to create a matching fund to Emerita, who accompanied the legislators beneath the 1889 building’s turret. There, preserve Duluth’s Glensheen mansion. on the tour. “It is on the National Register they were greeted by an actor playing Pillsbury had a limited education—he of Historic Places, not only because of its John S. Pillsbury, the former governor didn’t go to high school or college. But architectural distinction but also because of and U regent, who moved to Minnesota when the governor sent him a note asking its significance in the history in the founding in 1855 and eventually cofounded the C.A. the businessman to become a regent, he of the University. For [John S. Pillsbury’s] Pillsbury and Company, which became the agreed. And when a new building that had untiring efforts, he was named a lifetime largest flour milling business in the world. been approved by the 1887 Legislature was regent and is known as the ‘Father of the The actor, donning a top hat and period half-destroyed by a fire, Pillsbury, by now the University.’ No building better symbol-

clothing, was on hand to entertain legisla- state’s former governor, offered to donate izes the founding of the University than Easton Green

8 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 Hall, where they struggle to accommodate the approximately 6,000 students who take English classes in a building belonging primarily to the College of Science and Engineering. Students regularly study on the hallway floors. Fake News 101 The plans for Pillsbury Hall are grand. In Anyone who uses social media is addition to housing classrooms, study spaces, likely to encounter fake news— production labs for video and digital storytell- articles, images, and videos that are produced to mislead the ing, and offices for professors and teaching public for financial or political assistants, the English department would turn gain. Want to fight back? Lindsay the building’s dusty, cluttered attic into an Matts-Benson, an instructional above-the-treetops public space for readings, designer at the U of M Libraries, lectures, and other community events. offers these tips: The English department has launched a Say no to clickbait. These are public opinion campaign in support of the revenue-generating headlines project, making the case that now—since Earth that are so shocking or juicy that you feel compelled to follow Sciences moved into the newly renovated Tate them, usually to find there’s no Hall, leaving Pillsbury vacant—is their moment. “there” there. They are encouraging supporters to write and Check the domain name. Odd- Tweet messages to legislators, tagging them looking domain names rarely with #Driven4MN and #UMNProud. result in truthful news. Avoid Supporters note that theirs is one of the addresses with unconventional top-ranked M.F.A. creative writing programs endings: ABCnews.com is real news; ABCnews.co.com is not. in the country. And, as department chair Andrew Elfenbein remarked when welcoming Look for a byline. A story legislators to the building in October, English without an author’s name may be fake news. If a website doesn’t has provided the formative training for many include author profiles, it could prominent entrepreneurs and CEOs. “Our be a sign the information isn’t Pillsbury Hall. To celebrate its restoration is alums teach your children, manage your busi- accurate. to celebrate the University itself.” nesses, lead your faith communities, and write Go for blue check marks. On Today, Pillsbury Hall is the second oldest the words Minnesotans are reading,” he said. Twitter, these indicate that the building on campus. But while the ornately “Now is the perfect time for the renovation of information is legitimate. detailed sandstone exterior—considered Pillsbury Hall. It will immeasurably benefit not Verify. Several independent the greatest example of Richardsonian only the arts and the humanities, but science organizations research and Romanesque architecture in the state—is and technology as well. We are so excited rate the veracity of the latest nothing short of stunning, the interior has about what this renovation will allow us to news stories, including Snopes.com, FactCheck.org, the hollowed-out feel of a ghost town, with contribute to Minnesota.” and Politifact.com. outdated drop ceilings and only one set of Or, as John Coleman, the dean of the For more tips, check out z.umn. bathrooms, hidden away in the basement. College of Liberal Arts, put it during the tour: edu/smartnews. That’s set to change if Sprengnether and “We live in a time where there is a need to —EFL her colleagues in the English department real- empathize. And that’s what literature teaches.” ize their 20-year dream to relocate from Lind —Elizabeth Foy Larsen

The main thing is getting the ingredients in and“ just playing around with them a little bit. Ray Miller, U food processing facility coordinator, describing to the Minnesota Daily its new Row the Boat vanilla bean ice cream, which features fudge-coffee swirls and peanut-butter filled football candies. ” Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 9 REGENTS ROUNDUP

The Board of Regents approved IT’S EARLY OCTOBER and the evening light is fading. But in the courtyard the University’s 2018 capital of the College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CCAPS) on the request to the Minnesota New Tricks U’s St. Paul campus, a pile of balsam poles and two rolls of canvas will be Legislature at its meeting in turned into a traditional Sioux tipi before nightfall. A group of roughly October. The $238.5 million U courses teach 30 students have gathered here for hands-on tutorials in not just tipi capital request aims to main- tain, repair, or renovate existing the public about construction, but also how the early Dakota people kept warm and dry U facilities across Minnesota. everything from in these winter dwellings. It includes: Bill White, the tipi enthusiast leading the demonstration, traces a line genomes to race Higher Education Asset down the interior of one of the poles to show how the natural oils from relations to tipi Preservation and Replacement his finger create a path for rain to travel down to the ground, sort of like funding—totaling $200 million construction a mini-downspout. in state dollars—would maximize This lesson is part of Image, Memory, Perception: A Dakota Guide to the effectiveness and extend the life of U facilities statewide. Outdoor Survival. Organized and moderated by Harlen LaFontaine, a Bush Leadership Fellow and enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Greater MN Academic Reservation, the three-session course is offered by LearningLife, Renewal funding would renovate obsolete classrooms and an ongoing series of short classes, seminars, and one-day immer- laboratories on the U of M sion experiences offered by CCAPS for anyone who craves Crookston, Duluth, and Morris learning in an environment that encourages intellectual rigor. campuses. The request includes “LearningLife is for people who want to combine $10.5 million in state funding and personal development with academic engagement,” says $5.3 million in U investment. Anastasia Faunce, the program director at CCAPS. “It’s Pillsbury Hall Capital Renewal designed to share the intellectual resources of the U with would renovate the unused Twin Cities campus building into the general public.” In one popular offering, a U researcher modern teaching, learning, and helps participants understand the results of their 23andMe research spaces. The initiative genetic tests. In another, a book club moderated by retired includes $24 million in state fund- English and Women’s Studies Professor Toni McNaron ing and $12 million in U investment. explores race and race relations in the U.S. The Glensheen Renewal initia- For his course, LaFontaine convened a diverse group of tive would use a state invest- experts, from a forest ecologist who gave an overview of ment of $4 million to create a Minnesota’s biomes to the founders of Maritime Heritage matching program to preserve Duluth’s Glensheen mansion. Minnesota, a nonprofit that identifies, documents, and preserves sunken watercraft, including dugout canoes. An The Board also approved the appointments of ethnobiologist schooled the group in Native American plants and foods, Michael Berthelsen as vice president for from prairie turnips to choke cherries to echinacea. And a retired chemi- University Services and Allen cal engineer who is now an expert on stone tools struck one rock against Levine as vice president for another to demonstrate flint knapping, an ancient method for shaping research. Over the past year, tools. His range of knowledge was not only impressive, but also living Berthelsen has served as interim VP for University Services, lead- proof that if you’ve got the passion, it’s never too late to learn. ing non-academic operations of —Elizabeth Foy Larsen the Twin Cities campus. Since January 2017, Levine has served as interim VP for research, overseeing the U’s $900 million research enterprise across all campuses and facilities. Nee-nee-nee. Naw-naw-naw-naw. For more on the Board of Regents, visit regents.umn.edu. Entrepreneur Brian Krohn (Ph.D. ’15) speaking into a smartphone app designed to move the base of the

tongue, strengthen upper airway muscles, and alleviate snoring. The voice-controlled game, developed with EyeJoy/iStock “U colleagues, leads to “pushups for your tongue,” Krohn told the Star Tribune. The app is called Soundly.” DISCOVERIES

WO YEARS AGO, the hospital ingly common for women living in rural in Grand Marais, Minnesota—a communities, according to researchers from community far up Lake Superior’s the University of Minnesota’s Rural Health North Shore—stopped offering Research Center. In a study published last fall Tobstetrical services. Although the town in the journal Health Affairs, center research- has willing medical providers, the hospital’s ers showed that in the decade between insurance carrier would no longer cover its 2004 and 2014, 9 percent of rural counties Labor childbirth services. lost hospital obstetrical services, and that by Since that time, the expectant mothers of 2014, fully 45 percent of all rural U.S. counties Grand Marais have delivered their babies lacked such services. Pains in Duluth, a change that has forced them to “Everyone deserves care when they are Access to maternal undertake—while in labor—a twisting and giving birth and preparing to give birth,” says sometimes treacherous two-hour drive south lead researcher Katy B. Kozhimannil, associ- health care is dwindling along Highway 61, which hugs the lake’s ate professor in the School of Public Health. in rural areas shoreline. This 110-mile road, a famous scenic “Yet for a long time we’ve seen declining route, is frequently choked with tourists access to hospital care in rural communities. By Lynette Lamb or covered with snow and ice. If expectant Those with less generous state Medicaid pro- mothers prefer not to risk the drive, they grams are even more likely to lose services.” must find and pay for housing in Duluth in the The reasons behind this rural obstetrical weeks preceding their due dates. gap are complex, according to coresearcher Situations like this are no longer rare in the Carrie Henning-Smith. “There is no one cul- United States. Indeed, daunting commutes prit, nor one magic bullet to fix it,” she says.

Gerard DuBois Gerard to receive obstetrical services are increas- Among the reasons are low birth rates in

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 11 “Don’t we all want moms and babies to be healthy?”

aging rural communities; the soaring cost of malpractice When hospitals close in remote towns, there may be insurance, especially for OB care; national guidelines that an uptick in emergency births (anecdotally, researchers require obstetrical hospitals to be ready for emergency have heard of such increases). Fortunately, in Grand caesarean sections; rural areas’ ongoing struggles to Marais, physicians, EMTs, and the sheriff’s office have attract and retain doctors and nurses; and rural hospital come together to help pregnant women. “They all have closures and consolidations. each other’s phone numbers and will drop everything to To compound the problem, the researchers found that help each other and the women. It’s extraordinary,” says these gaps in rural obstetrical care are falling most heavily Kozhimmanil. “But, not all communities have that sort of on women living in counties with larger African American coordination and commitment.” and low-income populations. This finding exacerbates Now, Kozhimmanil’s team is exploring the possible an already alarming racial disparity in maternal and child consequences of those closures, such as whether health, says Kozhimannil, with black women’s maternal mor- more women are giving birth in atypical settings like tality rate now four times higher than that of white women, emergency rooms. They’re also trying to tease out infant and black infant mortality rates twice those of white infants. outcomes from this trend, says Henning-Smith. “Is the Medicaid is vital to providing maternal care for rural baby at greater risk if the mother lives in a county without women, says Kozhimannil, given that it pays for 59 per- obstetrical services?” cent of births in rural areas. “We as taxpayers are funding Solving this growing rural maternal health problem is this and should be getting good value for our money,” she complicated, says Kozhimannil, and might include ideas says. “Don’t we all want moms and babies to be healthy?” ranging from paying for pregnant women’s housing and The U.S. currently has what she describes as “horrifying transit costs to making community-based financing and disparities” in health care quality and accessibility policy changes that “acknowledge both the realities and between rural and urban areas. the strengths of rural communities.” The challenges pregnant rural women face are daunt- In Grand Marais, those strengths include a committed ing, says Kozhimannil. She thinks often of one particular medical workforce; a top-notch local clinic; lactation sup- Grand Marais woman she met, a patient with a high-risk port and birthing classes; as well as the aforementioned pregnancy. The woman must take off a full day of work emergency coordination. Says Kozhimannil, “Grand each time she has a 15-minute prenatal appointment in Marais is amazing.” Whether all rural areas can meet this Duluth. Recently, an accident closed Highway 61, forcing challenge remains to be seen. Duluth-bound motorists to take a 27-mile detour. “All I could think about was that woman,” she says. Lynette Lamb (M.A. ’84) is a longtime Minneapolis writer and editor.

Reining in Rogue Genes

A technology Despite its breakthrough Institute, who have pioneered said Michael Smanski, an modified crops into other potential to improve the lives a technology called assistant professor in the plant populations. The tech- developed at the of humans and the state of “synthetic incompatibility.” U’s College of Biological nology may make it possible U could be the our environment, genetic The approach, in a sense, Sciences, who led the study. to increase the use of crops key to controlling engineering comes with makes engineered organisms It was published in October for medication, food, feed, a major obstacle: Altered a separate species, which in in the journal Nature and fuel, and raises hopes invasive species genes could unintentionally turn are unable to interbreed Communications. that genetic engineering may breed with their natural coun- with their wild or domesti- Experts say synthetic prove useful in efforts ranging terparts and release novel cated relatives. incompatibility could be used from controlling Asian carp genes into the wild. “Our approach is expected to control invasive species, in North America to battling This scenario may be to work in virtually any sexu- crop pests, and disease- disease-carrying mosquitoes preventable, thanks to ally reproducing organism carrying insects, as well as throughout the world. researchers at the University without changing how prevent altered genes from of Minnesota’s BioTechnology they are normally grown,” escaping from genetically

12 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 DISCOVERIES

The Case for Later Neuroscience and School Start Times the Courtroom

Researchers at the University of Min- It’s a classic courtroom scenario: nesota have confirmed what parents A defendant is presented with and teachers have long suspected: evidence and answers that it’s all Students’ mental and behavioral health news to her. Whether she’s telling improves when schools start later. the truth or lying is up to lawyers to The study, which was coauthored by prove and a jury to decide. School of Public Health Ph.D. student Beyond the Salt Shaker: A technology called Electroen- (and former high school teacher) Aaron cephalography Memory Recognition Berger, SPH Associate Professor Rachel Reducing Sodium (EEG), which uses a sensor-fitted Widome, and College of Education and skull cap to track activity in memory Yes, we all know that most Americans Human Development senior researcher hotspots in the brain to determine if consume too much sodium. But a recent Kyla Wahlstrom, surveyed more than a subject recognizes a given image study conducted in three areas of the 9,000 students from eight high schools or word, may be able to improve U.S. by researchers at the University of across the U.S. on sleep and certain the justice system by sorting out the Minnesota found that the salt we add to health, academic, and behavioral issues. factual from the phony. the foods we prepare at home isn’t why The schools in the study had start times Now, a University of Minnesota 85 percent of Americans are exceeding ranging from 7:35 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. study led by law professor Francis the recommended daily limit of 2,300 Adolescents who attended schools Shen has found that jurors can mg per day. Rather, it’s the commercially with later start times reported sleeping incorporate this new type of prepared foods, including restaurant longer, which turned out to be signifi- evidence into their evaluations of meals and prepackaged foods, that are cant in light of the fact that for each criminal defendants, but not be so increasing our risk for high blood pres- additional hour of sleep, there was a 28 wowed by the technology that the sure and strokes. percent reduction in students who said neuroscientific evidence outweighs While only 11 percent of our daily they felt unhappy, sad, or depressed. the overall strength of the case. sodium intake comes from the kitchen Sleeping longer was also associated Shen and his research team at the salt shaker, Lisa Harnack, a professor with a decreased use of alcohol, ciga- Shen Neurolaw Lab, which explores at the School of Public health and the rettes, and other substances. the legal implications of neurosci- study’s lead author, says that 71 percent This research buttresses the conclu- ence, asked online participants comes from commercially prepared sion of the American Academy of to read two fictional vignettes foods (14 percent comes from natural Pediatrics, which recommends that all describing a person accused of sources, such as milk). high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a crime. By manipulating expert Harnack says the findings reinforce a.m. Today, fewer than 15 percent of U.S. evidence and the strength of the the need for the food industry to reduce high schools comply with the recom- non-neuroscientific facts against the the amount of sodium in its products. In mendation. If schools can improve defendant, they discovered that the addition, the study is another reminder adolescents’ sleep by delaying their start neuroscientific evidence was seen for consumers to understand that when times, the researchers believe that teens as one factor in a host of evidence it comes to lowering sodium in our diets, will go through high school with better that determines guilt or innocence. focusing on what we eat at restaurants overall mental health and less substance The paper was published in and purchase from the grab-and-go use, which will benefit not only their August in the Journal of Law and convenience aisles is the most effective school experience and but also set them the Biosciences. strategy. Requesting sodium content up for success in their adult lives. —Elizabeth Foy Larsen information for menu items can also help The study was published in the July consumers make more informed choices. issue of Sleep Health. The study was published in the May issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Joe Belanger/iStock Joe

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IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, under a bright A team of U engineering and other students recently blue sky, U of M President Eric Kaler unveiled a new solar car, the 13th created by the U’s announced the public phase of Driven, Solar Vehicle Project. With support from 3M, Ford the U’s first major, system-wide fund- Motor Company, and others, the team drove it across Australia as part of a competition in October. raising campaign in 18 years, and only “We build a car, but we mostly produce people who the third in its history. The campaign, are better at their job, people who go out in the which launched an initial phase in 2011, world and make it better,” says the project’s director aims to raise $4 billion by 2021—it’s of engineering, student Graham Krumpelmann. already more than halfway there—and promises big accomplishments. The effort will support the U’s “There are a lot of problems in the world, ability to “change lives throughout but there are also a lot of solutions,” says Minnesota and around the world,” said Cayla Ebert, a U law school student who Kaler, standing outside the McNamara worked as a translator for the Asylum Law Project, which provides pro bono Alumni Center, surrounded by a brass assistance to political refugees. She is band, cheerleaders, and various mas- the recipient of several scholarships. cots including Goldy. It will fund faculty and research, outreach, and student education, allowing the U to engage “fully with the community to make this Ned Patterson, U alumnus and associate professor a better place to live.” in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is research- Driven will support endeavors in a ing innovative methods for treating epilepsy in both humans and dogs. “One of the hardest parts variety of areas, including agriculture, of epilepsy is the unpredictability,” says Patterson, water availability, human and animal who received scholarship support as a student. health, and addressing the state’s “You’re fine 99 percent of the time, until you’re not.” achievement gap. But a top priority, according to Kaler, is to assist students through scholarships, fellowships, and experiential learning programs. Already, As a John and Nancy Lindahl Leadership Professor in the U’s Department of Family Social Science, since 2011, contributors have funded Abigail Gewirtz studies issues affecting some 700 new undergraduate scholar- military parents who return to their families ships. “Students remain at the core of following deployment. “They could be physi- our mission,” Kaler said. “We transform cally injured, they could have traumatic brain injury, they could have post-traumatic stress their lives so they can transform our disorder,” she says. “The least we can do is communities, our state, and the world.” provide them with what we know works best.” Photos, from top: Gopher Athletics, Brady Willette, Rhonda Zurn, Liz Banfield, AHC Communications, Dawn Villella Liz Banfield,Dawn AHC Communications, Rhonda Zurn, Willette, Brady top: Gopher Athletics, from Photos, Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 15 Rapper, singer, writer, and rising empresaria Dessa finds fuel in philosophy

16 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 THE BRAIN OF DESSA DARLING has always been turbocharged by a fascination with language.¶ Her father remembers his Rapper, singer, writer, and rising empresaria Dessa finds fuel in philosophy 3-year-old toddler greeting a family friend who stopped by their south Minneapolis house DESSA’S BRAIN on short notice for the first time in more than a month. “Mark!” Dessa exclaimed. “I haven’t seen you in a fortnight!”¶ Dessa herself recalls making up definitions for the objects her elementary school bus passed by. “For example, a hydrant might be: ‘hydrant, noun, municipal faucets on corners to be used in case of emergency by authorized persons.’” ¶ Even her name was fair game for wordplay. Dessa was born Margaret “Maggie” Wander, but confesses she never felt like a Maggie and imagined different monikers growing up. The one that stuck grew out of her participation in poetry slams as a young adult. Dessa Darling: rhythmically stylish, with a bold- ness that seems subtly undercut, and thus protected, by a smidgen of self-deprecation.

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Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 17 As it turns out, that’s also a pretty good description of interpretations of her music, resulting in two sold-out, Dessa the rapper, singer, nonfiction prose writer, poet, well-received performances last April. For 2018, the year and teacher. Or, to use her umbrella term, the nationally Dessa turns 37, expect a book of her creative nonfiction renowned figure in “the language arts.” essays from the venerable publisher, Dutton. Given that she came out of the U of M with a degree in philosophy (’03), language was always going to pay The influence of the U Dessa’s bills and crystallize her self-identity. And her The imprint of her parents is certainly evident in both the appetite was always going to be omnivorous, comfort- work ethic and disparate interests Dessa has cultivated. ably blending “high” and “low” culture, business and art, Her father, Bob Wander, went from being a lute player of ferocity and compassion. 16th century music to a day trader on the grain exchange She was a technical writer for a medical device com- and then a commercial glider pilot who wrote books and pany after college, copping her mother’s wedding ring taught others how to fly. Her mother, Sylvia Burgos, is a in an effort to appear older. When a roommate dragged Puerto Rican who grew up in the Bronx, loves theater her to that first slam poetry competition, she saw it as a and music, and sells grass-fed beef on a farm in Wiscon- creative outlet, setting in motion the whipsaw similes and sin while also, until recently, managing communications razor’s-edge narratives that propelled her to become the for a private foundation. lone female rapper in the seven-member hip hop collec- When Dessa was a junior in high school, Wander thought tive known as Doomtree. she was taking his dictum—talent x work = output—way too Dessa took the lead in professionalizing the Doomtree seriously. Dessa has a close bond with her younger brother, brand and the Twin Cities-based collective’s business Maxie, who was 8 and took it hard when Bob and Sylvia operations, first as CEO and now as president, without divorced. Dessa, at 14, was fiercely protective. In interviews, dismantling the practice of consensus among members. she consistently describes her high school experience as that All have released records under their own names but of a loner. Wander saw that she was maniacally competitive Dessa also put out chapbooks of poetry and prose, one on the volleyball court and driven to excel in the International published by Doomtree, another by the literary magazine Baccalaureate program at Minneapolis’s Southwest High. Rain Taxi, two others as limited-edition inclusions to the But she didn’t seem like she was having any fun and he first buyers of her music as a solo artist. pulled her aside one day to say it was okay to ease up. “My self-concept is very cerebral and language-based because I do all my thinking in words.”

Put simply, she churned on all fronts. The favorite artist “I wanted her to be happy and well-adjusted, and she of your teenaged daughter as well as the hip tastemakers was putting so much pressure on herself,” says Wander. on Facebook and Pitchfork was suddenly also on the “I said, ‘You can step back a little; you don’t always have cover of Minnesota Business magazine, signed to teach to be the best.’” at the McNally Smith College of Music, a regular on MPR Dessa patiently told her father she planned to be vale- and public television programs, and asked to speak at dictorian of her class. A year later, that’s what happened. Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference on innovation and at Dessa chose to attend the U because it was urban, a Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Augsburg College. the in-state tuition was inexpensive, and it had strong That local ubiquity has led to more rarefied contacts programs in liberal arts and philosophy. Her high school and grander projects over the past year. Lin-Manuel IB program enabled her to shave off a year of credits Miranda called asking Dessa to contribute to the Ham- and she finished her coursework before turning 21. ilton Mixtape alongside heavyweights like The Roots, The experience was meaningful enough that she inter- Alicia Keys, Chance the Rapper, and Sia, then gushed rupted Doomtree’s first European tour, flying in from over her version of “Congratulations” on social media last Paris one night and out to London the next, in order winter. He also tapped her talents for a benefit song for to give the commencement address at the College of Puerto Rican victims of Hurricane Maria. Liberal Arts in spring 2012. The New York Times commissioned her to write an “The brilliant instructors I had at the U are not people impressionistic travel story about New Orleans for with whom I am regularly grabbing coffee,” she says, its Sunday magazine last March. And the Minnesota while grabbing coffee at a Starbucks in Madison, Wiscon- Orchestra invited her to collaborate with them on sin, the morning after a show. “But the world that they

18 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 exposed to me is the world in which I base my whole life.” Two stood out. One was Thomas Haley in creative writing. “He was young and hot, so we were all attentive,” Dessa says. Haley unveiled the world of creative nonfiction, a prose form she had never heard of but which was an ideal fit—true-life narratives told with the artistry of a novelist. The best examples came “from a bunch of white guys named David,” including David Foster Wallace, David Sedaris, Dave Eggers, and David Rakoff. Dessa believes this is the way she wields language best, and searing stories about her brother, her father, and a lover she met while traveling in South America, along with the New Orleans piece in the Times, back her up. The other, perhaps even more influential professor was Valerie Tiberius in the philosophy department. One day in her Wisdom and Wellness class she put a philosophical theory on the board and asked her students to try to debunk it. Dessa, in full volleyball kill-shot, reigning vale- dictorian mode, laid out its flaws in a wonderful rebuttal. “I thought I had ‘won,’” Dessa remembers, relishing the cerebral jujitsu Tiberius had executed. “I think it was a Platonic argument she had put up—I’m not sure—but anyway, I had figured it out, and therefore, at age 20, I’m better than Plato! But then she said the philosopher isn’t here to defend himself so the onus is on us to muster our collective intelligence and actively defend his argument against our critiques. Tiberius called it “My self-concept is very cerebral and language-based because I do all my thinking in words.”

‘charitable interpretation’ and it was a phrase and a figure—part tomboy Valkyrie, part smoky chanteuse—but lesson I knew I would keep in my breast pocket.” tweaks it with heartfelt anecdotes and asides that hint at The exercise initiated “a minor but significant shift” in her vulnerabilities. Dessa’s thinking. Her facility with language allows her to At a sold-out show at Icehouse in Minneapolis this past be very comfortable with arguments; “they unfold before September, she tossed gummy bears to the same crowd me like clock parts,” she says. But thanks to Tiberius, she from which she accepted shots of whiskey, ceremoniously now strives to learn more than to “win.” twirling each glass in a circle around her head before tipping One aspect of this shift is that Dessa doesn’t seem to it down her throat. One minute she was shouting, “Let’s start define herself by what she’s against. She believes “it is a mother----ing rap show!” and the next she was referring to more honorable to be persuasive than be right, and that herself as a gushing soccer mom-type who had abandoned happens by understanding the logical or moral through- her rap-cool veneer while watching Doomtree cohort Sims line of what someone is thinking.” If you can agree on play the same Icehouse venue the previous week. common premises, your ability to persuade is enhanced. “Where my asthmatics at?” she cried, searching the It’s an approach that deepens the impact of her artist- room for solidarity as she took a hit from her inhaler. “No, ry. She’s always going to be driven, but she has mitigated I’m not a cokehead, I’m a latchkey kid!” it in the best way possible. She’s a control freak with an “I love the dualism between her brute strength and her inclusive generosity of spirit, a potent combination that tenderness,” says good friend and vocalist Aby Wolf, who has helps explain the cultural breadth of her fan base. known Dessa since before Doomtree and is a frequent col- The clearest manifestation of this is probably Dessa’s laborator on her projects. “She really tries hard to connect with onstage music persona. She cuts a commanding every member of the audience no matter how big the room.”

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 19 Finally, on “Call Off Your Ghost,” while again wandering into the audience, Dessa asked everyone to sit down and hold up their phones the way baby boomers once used lighters. She delivered the song’s sad, incisive lament about being unable to shake the heartache of a bygone relationship. The phones created a ghostly, campfire glow. Dessa has sardonically remarked on more than one occasion that heartache is her “niche.” She has admitted to tenaciously loving someone for a decade’s time, long after the relationship had physically ended. It is the one riddle in life she has been unable to parse. “Perhaps heartache for Dessa is the thing she can’t escape but it fuels her to create something beautiful, like a grain of sand inside an oyster becoming a pearl,” says Aby Wolf. “Dessa is beautiful and giving and kind, but also pretty complex,” says fellow Doomtree rapper and friend, Sims. “She can also be driven and demanding, and it might be hard to remain in a relationship with somebody that way. We have a good but complicated friendship. There are months that go by where we don’t get along because I can be as uncompromising and foolish—and as thoughtful and kind— as she is.” If so, then maybe there’s hope, because Dessa regards the way Sims and his wife Sarah love and interact as a model for the type of connection she aspires to have.

In the lobby of Dessa’s brain A highlight of Dessa’s successful shows with the Minnesota Orchestra last April was the clever way she set the scene for “Call Off Your Ghost.” Weeks earlier, she had sent a letter to the U, stating that she wanted to find out from a The night after Icehouse, Dessa played a block party in scientific, physiological perspective why her heartache downtown Madison. Although she was an opening act, the refused to fade. The result was extensive work with the U’s crowd size and enthusiasm for her performance eclipsed Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, including MRIs that of the headliner. Performing outside before more and multi-day studies in which researchers attempted than a thousand people, the songs from the stage were to pin down the exact locations in her brain that induced delivered vigorously. But there were stark moments of her heartache. Dessa put up a huge image of her brain intimacy that sealed the connection. scans and referred to it at various points in the concert. In one, Dessa stood on the metal fence separating The wisecrack of the performances occurred when the crowd from the stage. After finishing a song, she Dessa, chronicling her angst, remarked, “Now that I knew was afraid she’d look silly climbing down and demanded where all the love is, all I had to do was take it out.” that everybody turn their backs and face the Capitol Suffice it to say, barring a life-and-death circumstance, no grounds. “I’m not kidding!” she hollered so passionately scalpel is getting within a country mile of Dessa’s brain. It’s that everybody knew she was camping it up, but almost proven to be a singular source of insight, wit, artistry, and everybody turned anyway. curiosity. And about 13 years ago, for a few terrifying days, For “Children’s Work,” a wonderfully fragile and intense Dessa found out what it was like to have it malfunction. tribute to the relationship Dessa has with her brother The emergency began when she had an ovary Maxie, Dessa jumped into the audience and asked that removed, screwing up her body chemistry, physically and everyone with small children bring them down close. mentally, in a manner that medication couldn’t correct. Then, she rap-sang to them, her phrases illuminating the “My self-concept is very cerebral and language-based night like so many rising Chinese lanterns. because I do all my thinking in words,” Dessa says. “If I

20 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 had to make a list of personal attributes, my facility with language would be at the top of the list—plus it is what I love doing. So when I couldn’t find words to use effectively and L O S T quickly, it felt like more than a rug coming out from under me; it felt like I was sewn to that AND rug being pulled out.” It took about a year to feel fully “normal” again. FOUND Since then, of course, Dessa’s brain has roared back with a mighty vengeance. In a short piece for Twin Cities weekly City Pages a few years ago, Dessa herself perfectly described the joy of engaging with that organ between her ears: “It’s a great privilege to report to work each morning in the lobby of my own brain and punch the elevator button that reads Invisible Universe of Ideas.” The elevator keeps going up.

Britt Robson, once Rudy Perpich’s speech writer, covers the Timberwolves and all forms and styles of Dancer and teacher HE BEGINS WITH the bent-knee, straight-back stance Peterson: Courtesy Sonja Peterson • Kouakou: Sara Rubinstein Sara • Kouakou: Sonja Peterson Courtesy Peterson: music for a variety of local and national publications. Michel Kouakou practiced by his tribe, the Baule people of Africa’s Ivory Coast. Then, Michel Kouakou ripples his torso, embodies a world “to bring in movement that’s graceful,” he explains. of movement Next come shoulder shimmies, which he learned while in Senegal; the flexible legs and open hips of By Camille LeFevre Cameroon; then the rotating pelvis he picked up in the Benin Republic. In an instant, this aggregation of West African dance styles finds fluid and dynamic expression in Kouakou’s compact body, kinetically reaching out across time, space, and tradition like ocean waves washing eternally between continents. These movements are the foundation from which Kouakou, assistant professor of dance in the University of Minnesota’s Theatre Arts and Dance department, PAPER CUTS choreographs and teaches. “I’m captivated by the spiri- For the photos on this issue’s cover and tual, ritualistic, and meditational aspects of traditional previous pages, we invited Dessa to visit African dance,” he says. “That’s where it all began.” the studio of fellow big thinker and inter- But as a youngster, he was also captivated by the preter of complexities, Sonja Peterson moves of Prince, MC Hammer, and Michael Jackson. (M.F.A. ’09). “I draw people in with beauty and capture them,” Peterson says. Her “Every young African man, while growing up, has a win- intricate paper carvings, which often start dow in their sights to the Western world,” he explains. as drawings and are hand-cut with X-acto “The craft and ease of their dancing, combined with knives or a router, explore heady themes their talent and hard work, created something that like how society interacts with nature. felt—to me—like something out of this world.” Peterson grew up on a rural property near Rochester, where she had dogs, So Kouakou began mixing traditional African dance cats, hermit crabs, a lamb, and a horse she with that of the pop icons. But he wanted more. He left rode bareback through the woods. “My Africa in 1999 to lead a nomadic existence in search of work has a precariousness or fragility to art and inspiration around the globe. He emigrated to it that echoes the fragile balance we find Europe where he studied and performed modern and ourselves in,” she says. Dessa explores Peterson’s “Intersections and Islands” post-modern dance works. He discovered the still, series on pages 16-17, and is moved by “Submerged” on 19 and 20. Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 21 “To effect change, you have to bring something uniquely you.”

purposeful slowness of Butoh in Japan. He performed with Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group in Brooklyn, where he absorbed Wilson’s “grounded, weighty movement,” he says. By the early naughts, Kouakou had integrated it all into a style he calls AFASAM (derived from the first two letters of Africa, Asia, and America). “Combining it all together was a challenge,” he explains. During his travels, “I had allowed myself to be lost.” While learning new styles, “I allowed myself to copy others.” Then, he says, “I decided not to take class for five years. Finally, things started making sense in my body.” Today, he encourages his students to “be open enough to build a creativity that’s their own. Because, in this life, each individual has an important role in effecting change. To effect change, you have to bring something uniquely you.” He tells them “to be humble with movement first,” which means “finding the right weight, the right balance of movement in the body. It’s not about forcing the movement to do what you want, but letting it tell you when it should start, be, and end.” For Kouakou, finding oneself in movement “is like language,” he says. “You have to start with a language of your own, which for me was traditional African dance, in order to translate and integrate a world of dance” into a way of moving that’s unique. Then, as he tells his students, “dance like no one can see you.” Sara Rubinstein Sara

22 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 WALKING INTO JACK BARKLA’S at the Minnesota Opera, Minnesota 1960s-era rambler in the Linden Dance Theatre, the Cricket Theatre, Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis and Mixed Blood Theatre. is like stepping into a shadow box A set and production designer DESIGN filled with trinkets from nearly every since the 1960s, Barkla (B.E. ’65) is a theater stage in the Twin Cities over Twin Cities legend. He already had AS A the last five decades. Framed scale hundreds of designs to his credit models of sets from the 1982 produc- when then-Governor Rudy Perpich LABOR tion of Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas at declared December 7, 1989, Jack the Children’s Theatre Company and Barkla Day in Minnesota. Today, that OF LOVE the balcony scene from the Guthrie’s number is closer to 1,400 and grow- 1971 Cyrano de Bergerac hang in ing. Though at 77 Barkla is well into The legendary the dining room. A finely detailed retirement age, he still consults on pri- replica of one of Christopher vate architectural projects. In fact, he Jack Barkla has Columbus’s ships, built for an exhibit had recently completed the drawings designed sets for at the University of Minnesota, is for Macy’s annual spring flower show nearly every theater suspended from the ceiling in the when the company announced the living room. The studio is filled with closing of its downtown Minneapolis in the Twin Cities posters and drawings from Dayton’s location, effectively ending Barkla’s By Kristal Leebrick department store’s eighth-floor 40-year run with the event. Christmas and spring flower shows, As a child, Barkla was fascinated as well as sketches from productions with magic and illusion. He was a Mark Luinenburg Mark

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 23 ART AS INVITATION bright kid, but struggled in school because he has dyslexia, a Nooshin Hakim learning disability he learned about later at the U while earning Javadi explores the a degree in art education. He connections between repeated fourth grade twice and people and cultures spent a lot of time alone painting, drawing, and “making up things,” By Jeannine Ouellette he says. In high school he was drawn to theater, but preferred making scenery to performing. At the U, he took a singing class from the late Paul Knowles, founder of the U’s Opera Work- shop. Soon, he was down in the basement of Wulling Hall building a theater for the workshop. But it was a summer spent at the Bayreuth Festival Master Classes in Germany that ultimately convinced him to leave behind his plan to teach art and go into set design. In Bayreuth, he studied the stage lighting work of Wieland Wagner, grandson of composer Richard Wagner. “It redefined the stage,” Barkla says. “It changed my life.” In 1968 he left graduate school to work for the Children’s Theatre, and by 1975 Barkla was resident designer at the Guthrie. Over the next three decades, it was not uncommon for him to juggle multiple productions simultaneously. At the height of his career, he was the go-to set designer in the Twin Cities, the man who painted scenery and built props on top of designing the set. Among his many accolades is a framed note from Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who said Barkla’s work on the 1980 Children’s Theatre production of The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins made him cry. “Theater is a group art form,” Barkla says. “It’s an act of love to care so much about doing work that is done for other people.” Sara Rubinstein Sara

24 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 IRANIAN-BORN ARTIST Nooshin Hakim Javadi grew up in I love to bring those elements into my war. When she was a girl in the city of Qazvin, two hours art.” Also important—crucial, even—to northwest of Tehran, Iran’s capital, she was terrified by air Hakim’s art is her passion for bridging raids. “My mom would pull my three siblings and me to the gap between disparate groups of her belly and sing a lullaby for us,” she says. “I could feel people, which is partly why she and her my mother’s fear—the tension in her body, the pounding husband, Pedram Baldari, dream of of her heart—yet her singing voice would vibrate through someday founding an artists’ residency. her body into mine, and that soothed me so much.” “The idea would be artists from very Hakim (M.F.A. ’17) recounts this early experience different backgrounds collaborating with of how emotion and human understanding can travel one another on projects,” Hakim says. through one person to another. We are sitting under a “I have been so influenced by the artists canopy of golden maple leaves on the banks of the Mis- I’ve collaborated with—Derek Glenn sissippi River discussing her work in both performance Martin, Aida Shahghasemi, and Katayoun and sculpture, along with her most compelling inspira- This pair of shoes, Amjadi, and of course, my husband, Pedram. It’s transforma- tions and motivations as an artist. encrusted with blue tive when you see two cultures merged together.” crystals, embodies Already, at age 34, Hakim’s accomplishments the hope and dif- This theme of bridging gaps between people impress. Her work has been shown nationally and inter- ficulty intrinsic to the crystallized gorgeously in Hakim’s 100 Lullabies project nationally, in Iran and Germany. In 2017, she received refugee experience. at “Humanly Possible: The Empathy Show” at Instinct both a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship Gallery in Minneapolis in 2015. There, she and her and a prestigious Outstanding Student Achievement in collaborators invited opening night guests to sing and Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International record a lullaby for a refugee child. The inspiration Sculpture Center—plus, a residency at Grounds for came from conversations between Hakim and her Sculpture in New Jersey. husband, who is Kurdish, and their friends. Making art that emerges from sociopolitical themes, “We were all so upset about what was happening in Hakim explores the spaces between individuals and Syria—we kept asking, ‘what can we do, what can we cultures. She has ground down an entire airplane wing, do,’ but we felt there was nothing. That’s when I went excavated a dead tree root from its earthly bondage, back to my own childhood in war and remembered my and grown crystals on shoes using root killer. Hakim’s mom’s voice singing lullabies.” At the gallery, the lullaby work is curiosity-fueled, testing the elasticity and singers were given private rooms in which to record their boundaries of both ideas and materials, from maps to offerings, and the artists assured singers that only the backpacks to steel, and increasingly, nature. recipients would hear them—one lullaby for each child. As for Hakim’s inspirations, she credits her artistic “We wanted to make it safe and private, so that people peers and teachers. “I was so close to giving up so could really put their hearts into it, sing how they wanted many times,” she says, “but this community was amaz- to sing, without being afraid or self-conscious,” Hakim ing. I can’t say thank you enough times to my advisers says. Ultimately, 40 lullabies were recorded in various lan- and mentors, especially Chris Larson and Mark guages—English, Chinese, Turkish, Farsi, and more—and Knierim. And I’m excited to be teaching adjunct at the given to Syrian refugee children in German hospitals. U of M spring semester.” “I like when the artists make the work, but invite During her elementary years, Hakim was fortunate others to be a part of the art making,” she says. “In my to attend a private school directed by her architect own studio, I become selfish, so I need that back and father. “And my dad was supportive of my art, as well. forth.” As for what will next manifest from that pendulum That mattered, because in Iran, when you decide swing between self and other, Hakim doesn’t like to plan, to become an artist, it’s a very hard road, financially. but she knows she will keep exploring—and working to Iran has few foundations for the arts and little to no narrow—the spaces between us. government support, while here I have many more “Art is an invitation to something,” Hakim says. “You opportunities and far less alienation.” invite people and then you see how they respond. It Hakim’s mother worked as a teacher of sewing and doesn’t belong completely to the artist.” fashion design. “Her work was something I really looked down on back home,” Hakim says. “Only after I moved Jeannine Ouellette, whose essays and fiction have been widely away from my family did I come to appreciate and love published, is the founder of Elephant Rock, a creative writing the fabric and the creativity of sewing and design. Now, program in Minneapolis. She recently completed her first novel.

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 25 WHEN XAVIER TAVERA (M.F.A. ‘17) battlefields of World War II, Korea, moved to the Twin Cities in 1996 from and Vietnam. Many of Tavera’s sub- Mexico City, he swapped a future jects enlisted in order to become law career for life as a photographer. U.S. citizens, only to see their rights But he also underwent an even undercut when they returned more profound personal transition. home. Some felt abandoned by the “In Mexico, I’m nothing,” he says, country they fought to protect. referring to the fact that he can’t Documenting their stories turned easily be labeled in a society where out to be profoundly moving for so many of his fellow citizens look Tavera, who also teaches photog- like him and speak his native tongue. raphy at the U. “Being Mexican, I “But here, I’m Mexican and an was always very cautious about the immigrant and a person of color.” military and was very anti-war,” he AFTER Understanding how that experience says, sitting in his office in the Regis has impacted his fellow Latinos and Center for Art on the West Bank of THE WAR their Minnesota subcultures has the Twin Cities campus. It’s the day Photographer Xavier Tavera become a guiding force for his work. after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake His most recent show, “AMVETS struck his hometown, and while he captures the lives of Mexican- Post #5,” which is at the Minne- knows his family is safe, he’s got his American veterans sota History Center through April, phone on his desk in case anyone By Elizabeth Foy Larsen includes 35 portraits of Mexican needs to contact him via WhatsApp. and Mexican-American military “I realized that it’s easy for me to be veterans who have returned home anti-war when I’ve never personally to St. Paul’s West Side from the had to see the horrors of war.”

26 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 Clockwise from top left: Lorenzo C. Rangel, U.S. Marines from 1952 to 1954 Sebastian J. “Sam” Hernandez, U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1954 Peter F. Franco, U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960 Rosemary Campos Crowe, U.S. Marines from 1969 to 1971 Luis Alvarado, U.S. Army

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 27 The kids in the audience recognize Molly’s predicament as a nightmare come to life. The adults understand that her dev- astation is also a send-up of the plugged-in culture they hate but helped create. What’s unusual about this scene isn’t the dual-audience appeal—that formula has made Pixar billions. Rather, it’s the fact that this all-too-human scenario is being performed not by actors but by puppets who bounce across a stage that’s no bigger than a television set. A papier-mâché computer boasts about his whizbang fabulousness, until he, a tablet, and a cardboard iPod start to lose their juice. “No power,” he moans, his keyboard flapping up and down like a mouth. “Shutting down. Lights . . . fading.” Welcome to the Driveway Tour, a free and freewheeling summer series of puppet shows put on in Twin Cities parks and yards by Open Eye Figure Theatre, a nationally acclaimed company led by U Theatre Arts and Dance Associate Professor Michael Sommers and his wife, Susan Haas. “I love the idea that with puppetry you can take people into miniature STRINGS worlds and explore gigantic ideas,” says Sommers, gesturing toward Open Eye’s ATTACHED intimate mainstage in its 90-seat theater in south Minneapolis. “Puppets aren’t real—they’re papier mâché and cloth. So Theater professor Michael they can live and die and come back to life right in front of you.” Founded in 2000, Open Eye’s whimsical but also deeply emotional and Sommers animates the inanimate challenging works—many are created only for grown-ups—are part of a By Elizabeth Foy Larsen lively puppetry scene that’s taken hold in the Twin Cities. The community got its start in 1973, when In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre brought its massive folk-art puppets to theaters and the streets “MOMMY AND DADDY are off toNapa !” That’s the first of Minneapolis’s Powderhorn neighborhood. The company’s public of many moments when the adults crack up during workshops, which reach peak capacity every year before the MayDay Molly And the Magic Boot, a performance where Parade and Festival, have exposed several generations of Twin Citians to a little girl is left at her grandma’s farm only to real- the basics of puppet making and maneuvering. ize—the horror!—that she’s forgotten the charger for It’s a tight-knit community, where everybody seems to know every- her electronic devices in the car that is now joyously body. “Puppeteers in general aren’t competitive with each other like

speeding toward California wine country. I’ve seen in other art forms,” says Liz Schachterle (B.A. ’07), who goes by O’Leary Patrick

28 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 the stage name Liz Howls. “There is an older generation that’s really supportive because they want to see the form continue. And there are resources. If I’m doing a show and I need something, there is a network of people who are eager to jump in and make it happen.” “In the Heart of the Beast and Open Eye have created a synergy and a place where people can not just watch puppetry, but do it as well,” says Gülgün Kayim, the director of arts, culture, and the creative economy for the City of Minneapolis. “The richness that brings to our community is huge.” Today, you can see the influence of both companies throughout the Twin Cities in theaters and events that include the BareBones Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza along the Mississippi River, the Art Sled Rally in Powderhorn Park, and artist Christopher Lutter-Gardella’s stories-tall moose and wolf, which lurk above the crowds at events like the Holidazzle Village in Top left: a scene from Loring Park and Northern Spark. Open Eye Figure nerds,” eventually creating the Full Moon Puppet Show, Sommers started his artistic life as a set designer, a Theatre’s Molly and a monthly cabaret/puppetry slam that she transported pursuit he began in his small-town Wisconsin high school the Magic Boot. Top around town in a Burley trailer pulled behind her bike. Full when he realized that “getting goo all over my pants, right: Sommers’s Moon is now on hiatus, but occasionally makes an appear- production of the [which were] from the Sears catalog, appealed to me.” Brothers Grimm fairy ance on Open Eye’s roster. After he and Haas moved to the Twin Cities, he worked tale The Juniper Tree. Theater graduate Justin Spooner (B.A. ‘11) is carrying on in theater, primarily for the then-upstart Theatre de la Open Eye’s mission both through his work as a puppeteer Jeune Lune, where he did everything from creating sets and as a high school teacher at the St. Paul Conservatory to performing supporting roles to scrubbing toilets. for Performing Artists. “Michael has a low-tech aesthetic As his career progressed, Sommers was drawn to that’s about using what’s available and around you,” he says. puppetry as a way to tell narratives that rely more on In a class he teaches about “object theater,” Spooner brings gestures than text—to animate the inanimate. In Open in a box of junk—anything from books to Silly Putty—and Eye’s oeuvre, chairs float, plates magically slide across asks his students to arrange the items according to how tables, and burlap sacks have sad smiles. The aesthetic smart they are. “I’m teaching them how they can turn veers from retro and sweet to downright creepy. objects into characters,” he says. “A white mug from a diner While his work draws on Eastern European puppetry tra- has a personality that’s different than a white tea cup.” ditions, Sommers is self taught. But he sees teaching others It’s a lesson that would delight his former teacher. as central to carrying on the traditions he and Haas have “Why are we bothering wiggling around pieces of wood nurtured at Open Eye. “Michael and Susan have been huge attached to string at a time when you can create anything influences in my work,” says Schachterle. After graduating on CGI?” Sommers asks, pushing his fingers through a from the U, she spent time refurbishing puppets for the flash of white hair that seems to have a life of its own. He Driveway Tour, an experience she describes as a revelation. doesn’t answer the question. But he doesn’t need to. His “The puppets were falling apart and I’d remake them in work is the best answer there is. Michael’s hand,” she explains. “It taught me so much about specific things, like how to carve feet or how to make a Elizabeth Foy Larsen (M.F.A. ‘02), author of 111 Places in the Twin Cities foot land better by putting a weight in the toe.” That You Must Not Miss, edits and writes for a host of local and

Courtesy Open Eye Figure Theatre Figure Eye Open Courtesy Schachterle went on to work with other “puppet national publications. She is Minnesota Alumni’s new senior editor.

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 29 THE ENTERTAINER

Actor James Hong considers his legacy By Allison Babka

JAMES HONG is a man of many talents, as one might expect from a guy who has earned nearly 600 film, television, and voiceover acting credits spanning seven decades. But he has a few additional skills that perhaps aren’t so obvious. “I’m 88 now—89 pretty soon— and still can breakdance!” Hong says with a laugh. Long before he became known for his roles in top Hollywood vehicles like Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, and the Kung Fu Panda franchise, Hong grew up above his family’s herb store in the now-gone Chinatown area of downtown Minneapolis. After graduating from Central High School, Hong studied civil engineering in the early 1950s at the University of Minnesota, where, when he wasn’t studying, he entertained friends with his impressions of Clark Gable and Groucho Marx. He also did celebrity impressions on famed Minneapolis broadcaster Cedric Adams’s radio show, “Stairway to Stardom.” Hong moved with his family to California just as his senior year at Clockwise from top left: Minnesota was getting underway. comedy team Hong And that’s when it became clear and Parker; Hong as that acting—not civil engineering— Hannibal Chew in Blade was his true path. Along with his Runner; Hong with Jack Central High friend Don Parker, Nicholson; at a reception with Nicole Kidman Hong began performing in Hol- of film today. He recently saw Blade artistic,” he says. “It didn’t excite me lywood nightclubs and theaters, Runner 2049, the sequel to the 1982 as much, even though it had all the eventually becoming one of the sci-fi film in which he played eyeball special effects, which were wonder- most prolific actors in history. geneticist Hannibal Chew. He’s not ful—probably the best I’ve seen.” With that kind of longevity, Hong sure the movie lives up to the original. Hong is an expert at entertaining has a bird’s eye view of the enter- “I think the sequel is trying to be a audiences. His recent turns include

tainment industry and the state little bit too philosophical, a little too Star Wars: Rebels, Kung Fu Panda: Hong James Courtesy

30 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 Legends of Awesomeness, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and the upcoming Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes with Johnny Depp. He says his Minnesota upbringing honed the observational skills that led to more than a few Hollywood opportunities. “All that time practicing in front Jazz composer Maria of that Minnesota bathroom mirror Schneider fights for paid off,” Hong says. When he was musicians’ rights in being considered for the 1977 film The World’s Greatest Lover, director the age of YouTube Gene Wilder, who was also the film’s By Rob Hubbard star, needed a character called “Yes Man #3” to play opposite actor Dom DeLuise. He asked Hong if he could do any accents. “I said, ‘Oh, yah, sure, I am from Minnesota,’ in my Swedish-Minnesota HEADING accent,” Hong remembers. “[Wilder] said, ‘That’s it! That’s it!’” With a full plate of acting work, UPSTREAM Hong doesn’t make it back to MARIA SCHNEIDER (B.A. ’83) has made it in the music business. She’s become Minnesota often, but during a visit one of the world’s most celebrated jazz artists, a composer and bandleader in 2014 he noticed how much the U who picked up her fourth and fifth Grammys in early 2016. of M campus had changed. “There Soon after moving to New York City in 1985, Schneider started gaining are more buildings of course,” he a strong reputation as a composer and arranger. She formed her Maria says. “And the wonderful river flats Schneider Orchestra in 1992 and has recorded nine albums with the group, the are gone. That’s where we used to most recent, The Thompson Fields, inspired by her upbringing on the plains of park our car and climb up the hill. southwestern Minnesota. She also collaborated with soprano Dawn Upshaw In those winter months, you had and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on 2013’s Grammy-winning Winter Morn- to park way down there where the ing Walks; worked with the late David Bowie on some of his last projects; and ice was blowing across your face received an honorary doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2012. and walk up those steep hillsides But, Schneider warns, the industry in which she has thrived is ailing. to the campus.” Fundamental changes in its structure and economics are endangering the Hong eventually graduated livelihood of musicians and songwriters to such an extent that an exodus of from the University of Southern talent is already underway. Schneider is worried enough about the future of California. But he says he’ll always the industry that she’s become an advocate for the musicians who are making be a Gopher at heart. “I would love little from popular recordings and swimming in red ink. As Schneider sees it, to get an honorary degree from the their dual nemeses are behemoth streaming services Spotify and YouTube. University of Minnesota,” he laughs. The vast majority of the content on video-sharing website YouTube is

Courtesy Maria Schneider Maria Courtesy “I deserve it, you know.” uploaded to the site by users. In the case of music, that’s usually in violation

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 31 of copyright law. Neither they nor those who watch YouTube (despite calling the video site a “rogue enabler the videos typically provide monetary compensation of content theft” the year before) and the three largest to the artists who originally created the music. “To me, music companies—Sony, Universal, and Warner—cutting YouTube is just a big cesspool of illegally procured deals to offer their music on Spotify in exchange for stuff,” Schneider says. equity in the streaming service, while also making deals In response to criticisms like Schneider’s, Christophe with YouTube. It’s a situation that’s drastically shrinking Muller, head of YouTube International Music Partnerships, the revenue that goes to most musicians. wrote in a 2016 blog post, “Today, thousands of labels and “In the old days, the record companies were paying for rightholders have licensing agreements with YouTube to the records,” Schneider says. “And only one out of 12 records actually leave fan videos up and earn revenue with them.” actually made its budget and was paying for itself. That’s Meanwhile, Spotify is a streaming service for music, why record companies largely took a bigger amount of the video, and podcasts that is offered free with the option profit, because they were like banks, paying for all these los- to upgrade to a subscription model. A song played by a ing records. Musicians now are mostly paying for their own records. We’re the bank. We’re taking on the financial risk.” The cost of creating an album varies widely, from the “Many have this glorified image tens of thousands to the hundreds of thousands of dollars. “All of my records cost about $200,000 to make now,” of the starving musician, but you Schneider said, “and we definitely can’t go above that.” Schneider has found financial success by creating and can’t both starve and live.” releasing her records via the crowdfunding ArtistShare label. But those who record for Sony, Universal, or War- Spotify user earns an extremely small fraction of a penny ner, which Schneider says reap up to 80 percent of the (in the thousandths), and that’s often split between many world’s recorded music sales, are at the mercy of Spotify. entities, including performers, songwriters, publishers, “Streaming is driving the technology,” she says, “so much and record companies. so that they aren’t putting CD players in cars or computers “A recent U.S. Copyright Office report said that 80 anymore. And people aren’t even wanting downloads any- percent of the songwriters in Nashville have left the more. So everybody wants to stream, but it’s not financially business since 2000,” Schneider says. “Songwriters just feasible to pay for your record with it. What’s that going can’t make a living anymore. to do to music, to classical music and jazz? Who’s going to “A lot of the stars on these streaming sites are being fund it? How long can that go on, throwing money at things given huge advances, and then the pie is decreasing for that can’t possibly make the money back?” everyone,” she says. “I’ve asked people: Name one clas- Schneider says there are steps the average music fan sical or jazz album that’s made its budget back through can take to make sure musicians get fairly paid. “If you streaming on Spotify and YouTube. Nobody can name love someone’s music, find their own website and see one. I know a young hip-hop musician who had a song where they steer you to buy the music,” she says. Some that was played 70 million times on Spotify. He never got musicians will list several options. “Go to where they ask a check for more than $60 in any pay period. Many have you to go first. A lot of times, they sell from their own site. this glorified image of the starving musician, but you If you can buy directly from the musician, go for it. Do it can’t both starve and live.” at their website or at the merchandise table at a show.” So, Schneider is fighting back. She and others in New Schneider encourages visiting MusicAnswers.org York have started MusicAnswers.org, which represents to learn more about supporting musicians. “Congress the interests of songwriters, composers, performers, wants to rewrite copyright law and that’s huge,” she says. and producers—“the ones who aren’t getting paid while “We need a force of people writing to their congressio- these companies are making billions of dollars,” she says. nal representatives, saying, ‘This is important to us.’ Then Their goal is to educate the public and young musicians, maybe we’ll have some power. We need to be like Paul many of whom don’t even know what they’ve lost, about Revere, galloping from house to house saying, ‘Quick, what’s happening in the business. The site contains join the force. It’s now or never.’” a videos, articles, and calls to action. How did the economics of music become so unfavor- Rob Hubbard, author of Brave New Workshop: Promiscuous able to musicians? Schneider points to two key business Hostility and Laughs in the Land of Loons, writes about arts for the deals as doing the most damage: Google purchasing St. Paul Pioneer Press.

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UNIVERSITYD . OF MINNESOTA riven too·1scover '" northrop.umn.edu Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 33 Minneapolis kid and a fresh graduate of the U. Freeman had moved directly from the lanes to the gutters, and in fact had coached Ganley at Ascension. Now, she was guiding the Gopher women for the princely sum of $50 a year. This was before a 1972 amendment to the federal Civil Rights Act, known as Title IX, forced sports programs across the country, including at the U, to invest in women’s sports. In the ’70s, competing as a gifted female athlete erry Ganley, senior associate was strictly a DIY endeavor. “There were no lockers avail- coach of women’s and men’s swimming at the U of M able to us at Norris,” says Ganley. “So, everyone carried and the U’s first All-American female athlete, is a bit of what they needed in their backpacks: towels, shampoo, a throwback. In a world where modern champion swim- swimsuit, makeup. There were about 30 women, swimmers grow as tall and square-shouldered as building mers and divers, on the team. We all just made do.” cranes, Ganley is more slight than buff, and no taller than By the time Ganley was a junior, she and her team- your average Y lane swimmer. mates were privileged to get one night a week swim- She’s unassuming in manner and speech, too. ming at the Cooke men’s pool. “We got use of the lanes Walking through the swim team offices, deep within on Thursday nights beginning at about 6:30, when the the state-of-the-art Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center guys had finished their practice,” she says. on the Minneapolis campus, wearing maroon and gold There were no scholarships for female swimmers, so sweats, she speaks of her many years with the Gopher Ganley had to work part-time while carrying a full load program as though unaware she is delivering a history of study at the U and swimming endless training laps. No of women’s sports at the U. money existed for team travel, which meant that though “I started swimming as a kid in North Minneapolis,” Gopher women’s teams competed at Big Ten Conference / Ganley (B.S. ’79) says. “Went to Ascension Church, went Championships, they couldn’t afford meets against to Ascension School, and swam with the Ascension other conference competitors. Women’s teams would Swim Club in the [Amateur Athletic Union] program. schedule events with local colleges instead. There was no girls’ swimming team for high school Her freshman year, Ganley took first place in the but I was a pretty good AAU swimmer and wanted to 50-yard backstroke (this was pre-meter swimming) at the continue swimming when I entered the U.” That was in Big Ten championships, and scored high enough in other fall 1973. The country was in the middle of an oil crisis events to account for 46 of Minnesota’s total 199 points. and embroiled in the Watergate scandal. “I was still She qualified for the national championships of the living at home, so every day I took the 5 bus from North Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Minneapolis downtown to Block E and transferred to (AIAW). At the time, the National Collegiate Athletic the 16 bus to go to Norris Hall on campus.” Association (NCAA) had no interest in women’s sports— The women’s team practiced in a pool at the Norris whether basketball, swimming, or track—so female “ladies gymnasium,” which was older and smaller than the athletes competed within the AIAW. Schools like the pool used by the men’s team in Cooke Hall. But they had U were hardly more interested in women’s sports than a talented new coach, Jean Freeman, herself a North the NCAA was. The entire budget for all of women’s WINNING STROKES WINNING

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In the ’70s, athletics at the U in 1973-’74 was around $35,000. Men, Terry Ganley’s wrestling, who were holding their state tourney at the meanwhile, had about $2.2 million to play with. same time. Star swimmer and coach had to find accom- Not surprisingly, when it came time to send Ganley champion modations out in the wilds of central Pennsylvania. to the AIAW finals at Penn State in 1974, there was no women’s swim Competing against the top swimmers in the country, funding for the trip. To raise money, Ganley and Free- team had to some of whom had swum in the Munich Olympics a year man sold T-shirts in the lobby of Cooke Hall. They raised and a half earlier, Ganley finished 12th in the backstroke $550, which they figured was plenty. sell T-shirts to and in the top 20 in three other events. She became, Asked whether the disparities between the men’s pay for meets in the process, the first woman to earn All-American and women’s swimming programs ever bothered her, By Tim Brady honors in any sport in the history of Gopher athletics. Ganley provides a sporting answer. “[Freeman] and I Photo by Eric Miller Two years earlier, Title IX had passed, stipulating that always respected the men’s program,” she says. “We “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of didn’t want to put anyone down. We just wanted to lift sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the our own team up.” She still wants to do that, taking any benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under opportunity to laud the talents—and dedication and any education program or activity receiving Federal hard work—of today’s student athletes. financial assistance.” For all its legalistic clauses, no Ganley and Freeman set out for Happy Valley. Unfor- single measure has done more to revolutionize the tunately, no one told them that attendees of the AIAW participation of female athletes in sports. championship swim meet would be competing for It began affecting budgets at the U during the summer hotel rooms with rabid fans of Pennsylvania high school of 1974. A complaint filed by the Twin Cities Student

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Kokomo,” she says. Training tables were held beneath whatever Golden Arches they passed along the way and inside an old van with a weak heater, which required the women to sit on each other’s feet to stay warm. Ganley is not the sort of coach who brings up the hard knocks of the old days in order to put her swimmers in their places. But when the temptation does arise, she acknowledges that “I’ve probably been thinking of that trip.” Ganley in 1974: She Ganley came from a family of eight, including her was the U’s first female All-American athlete. parents. She was the youngest of the bunch and three ~\\ ~\\\\?Ttca of her brothers served tours in Vietnam. Harboring grudges is not in her nature. “For me, I just wanted to ,,. compete,” she says. “I just wanted to swim. I know the bigger thinkers like Jean [Freeman] were more aware of the disparities of our circumstances. She saw male swimmers at my skill level getting recruited, getting scholarship offers from around the country, and she Assembly with the federal Office for Civil Rights helped understood the basic unfairness of it all.” prompt an immediate boost in funds for the women’s ath- Ganley was hired as Freeman’s assistant in 1977. It was letic department, from a projected $50,000 to $115,000. the beginning of a 40-year stint as a swim coach for the It was far from the 42 percent of the total athletic budget Gophers. During that time, she witnessed the growth the assembly sought for women’s sports, but it was an and evolution of women’s swimming, and the whole of improvement. For the first time, seven of the nine women’s women’s athletics at the U. Budgets increased and so sports programs at the U would have full-time coaches. did salaries for women’s coaches, boosted in part by Even before the Title IX changes took effect, men’s Rajender v. University of Minnesota, a lawsuit settled in athletics administrators chewed their nails about its 1980 that enjoined the U from engaging in employment coming effects. In 1973, Athletic Director Paul Giel wor- discrimination based on gender. ried that it would be “men’s athletics that pay the bills.” Cooke Hall became available to the women’s team on U Vice President Stanley Wenberg echoed that senti- a more equitable basis and then, in 1990, the Freeman ment, saying “it would not be fair to saddle our present Aquatic Center was built. Meanwhile, the Gopher swim athletic department with financial responsibility for any team, under the guidance of Freeman and Ganley, kept part of the cost of women’s intercollegiate athletics.” improving. In 1999, it won its first Big Ten Conference But the very fact of their concerns made it feel like the Championship. It won again the following year. wheels were turning in the direction of women’s sports. In 2004, Freeman retired from coaching and Ganley, In late 1975, a separate women’s intercollegiate athlet- after 27 years as an assistant, was named co-head coach ics department was established at the U, and the first of the Gopher women’s swim team, along with Kelly women’s athletic director, Vivian Barfield, was named Kremer, who had been coaching the Gopher men. a year later. The U substantially boosted its funding More Big Ten championships followed and in 2006, request of the state legislature for women’s sports and Ganley and Kremer were named co-Big Ten Coaches for the first time, a small sum was set aside for need- of the Year. The men’s and women’s teams have since based scholarships for female athletes. combined to form a single entity with Kremer as head For Ganley, who still had three years of swimming eli- coach and Ganley, who has chosen to focus on the / gibility remaining after her first national championships, development side of the program, designated senior the hard work continued. So did the accolades. She associate head coach for both men and women. would earn All-American honors three more times at Ganley helped take women’s swimming to the top of Minnesota and would continue to relish her association the Big Ten Conference, first as a swimmer and then as with her Gopher teammates, even as they continued to a coach. Today, men and women swimmers at the U are train and swim under spartan circumstances. distinguished mostly by the cuts of their suits. Ganley remembers a trip to a Big Ten tournament in Indiana. “The whole team wound up staying together Tim Brady is the author of five books, including His Father’s Son:

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take actions that express our priorities.” Skip Sterling

38 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 Over the past several years, the Twin Cities campus has been the setting of a string of disturbing incidents: The problem of sexual Former U Athletic Director Norwood Teague resigned in 2015 after sexually harassing female employees; former student and Sigma Phi Epsilon member Daniel misconduct is “primarily, but Drill-Mellum was convicted in 2016 of rape; five football players were expelled or suspended (five additional players were cleared through the U’s disciplinary process) not exclusively, caused by following an alleged assault in 2016; and former head football coach Tracy Claeys was fired in early 2017 for his support of players threatening a boycott in the incident. people who identify as male “We are at a tipping point at this university,” says School of Public Health Dean John Finnegan, who is charged with implementing Kaler’s initiative. “In the past, we have and are trying to outdo other done good work here at the U in providing services for survivors,” he says, singling out The Aurora Center for men at being male.” Advocacy & Education and Boynton Health. “This is now the University saying, we need to go upstream. We need to really look at the issues of changing our culture and preventing this kind of activity in the future.” In October, Finnegan released a report documenting or incapacitation since enrolling at the U. That was in what the effort might look like. It will likely entail training line with the aggregate rate found across the other 26 for students and all staff and faculty, and a public health universities included in the survey. awareness campaign that would include posters and A 2016 study commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of T-shirts, based on a model implemented at other col- Justice Statistics found that an average of 10 percent of leges, called “It’s On Us.” The approach, devised partly women were assaulted during a single academic year by the U.S. Department of Education, “works to educate, across the nine campuses examined by researchers. engage, and empower students and communities . . . to “One of the biggest takeaways was the amount of do something, big or small, to end sexual assault.” The variation [in rates of assault] from one school to another,” report also includes recommendations for surveys and says coauthor Christopher Krebs, a criminologist with other methods of assessing the success or failure of the North Carolina-based RTI International, a nonprofit that initiative and suggestions for generating useful research. provides research and technical services to governments The cost totals around $540,000 over two years. and businesses. “We really think schools need to under- While the plan’s fine points are yet to be worked out, in stand their problem. They need to know the problem in October, the Board of Regents made a policy change their community if they hope to address it.” requiring the U to “adopt procedures on each campus The dramatic differences in single-year rates between for providing training on prohibited conduct to all schools—from 4 percent at one to 20 percent at members of the University community.” another—suggest that campus culture matters. Krebs “What we are talking about is the full spectrum of says figuring out which factors or actions lead to a school microaggression and harassment and inappropriate being safer is the “hundred million dollar question.” He gender-based remarks all the way over to the criminal did find that sexual assault and harassment, which he side, assault and violence,” says Finnegan. “This all gets in places on the same continuum and considers part of the the way of why we are here as a university.” same culture, tended to be higher at schools where staff Measuring rates of sexual misconduct is notoriously and students viewed leadership as ineffectual at dealing tricky, since the crimes are believed to be underre- with sexual misconduct. “It sounds like the U of M is try- ported and even the definition of assault can be subject ing to be proactive and do the right thing,” he says. to interpretation. A 2015 Campus Climate Survey on In mapping an approach that is “community- Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct found that assessment-based and evidence-driven,” Finnegan’s 23.5 percent of responding female undergraduates October report proposes widespread online sexual on the Twin Cities campus reported experiencing misconduct prevention training followed by face-to- nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force, threats, face or department-based training—some targeting

Winter 2018 MINNESOTA ALUMNI 39 especially vulnerable groups, like LGBTQIA When it comes to risk reduction, and international students—perhaps led Charlene Senn, a professor of applied social by facilitators. The effort is expected to be psychology at the University of Windsor underway by early 2018. in Canada, has devised one of the more The report was generated with input promising approaches. The training, which from over 300 faculty, staff, students, and she calls “resistance education,” is delivered advocates, including Trish Palermo, presi- in small-group settings. It teaches first-year dent of the Minnesota Student Association, university women to assess risk, recognize which has launched its own sexual assault and resist coercive behavior, and take task force to work alongside the President’s action—whether leaving a room, yelling, Initiative, and Katie Eichele, director of the pushing, or kicking. “Research shows that Aurora Center, which provides free and when women use even one tactic,” there is confidential support to those coping with a 60 percent chance of foiling a potential relationship violence, sexual assault, or stalk- rape, Senn says. Her program also includes a ing. “I’m excited that our campus is ready to positive sexual education component. take the next step forward, which is preven- The training, which studies show reduces tion,” says Eichele. “I know we can do it.” victimization, “makes sure every woman has In addition, the report was devised with a strategy that she would feel comfortable advice from California-based psychologist using.” To those who view this type of and consultant Alan Berkowitz, who made a instruction as blaming or unfairly putting the presentation at Coffman Union in September. onus on women to fend off male behavior, Speaking to a mostly full auditorium, Senn says, “If we know something that we Berkowitz advocated for a multifaceted know from evidence is effective and we approach. “You don’t create the problem,” don’t tell women, that is not feminism.” he said. “But the environment either inhib- Beyond training, the U plans to create its the problem or it permits the problem.” a campus-wide public health awareness He suggested that training be different campaign that emphasizes the need for The SMARTEST for men, focused on rape prevention, than bystander intervention, suggesting how and for women, focused on risk reduction. when to step in—expanding on earlier efforts PLACE TO STAY “Because the men who sexually assault by the Aurora Center. “We know bystanders care more about what other men think, can have a huge impact,” says Finnegan. The Stay in the heart of campus at and also because we want to create a safe exact contours of the campaign are yet to Graduate Minneapolis, formerly The environment for victims to come forward, be determined. The trick, he says, will be to Commons Hotel, next time you’re in the research is clear that separate gender develop a theme that everyone, including town to relive your Gopher glory days. programs led by same-gendered facilita- graduate students, undergraduates, faculty,

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Crossing the Great Divide

Can Red and Blue Talk to Each Other? By Jon Spayde

NYONE WHO HAS attended an office Press before exchanging the newsroom for the meeting, a rally, or a holiday dinner university press room, handling communications lately knows that as a culture, we have and PR for Princeton, Swarthmore, and Lewis and become profoundly divided. The media Clark College in Portland, Oregon, while writing isA full of stories of angry public confrontations, family religion-themed columns for USA Today. (Today rifts, and trending Google searches like “psychologist he’s a communications director for the Yale Divinity near me.” It’s become harder to talk to people with School, and is still a columnist.) whom we disagree. “I really had a burr under my saddle when it came Enter Tom Krattenmaker (B.A. ’83), who as a to evangelical Christians, whom I just equated with confirmed agnostic, recently published a memoir the Christian right,” he says. A professor who taught about crossing religious and political boundaries. in the master’s program in religion and public life he Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower completed at the University of Pennsylvania chided explores Krattenmaker’s admiration for him for his prejudice—but it took personal interac- £onf essions of a Jesus Christ while imparting insights into tions to really bring him around. contemporary American culture. “I met a couple of evangelicals in Portland who SECULAR Krattenmaker is a journalist who cares shattered my stereotypes,” he says. “I found out about deeply about the topics he chooses to projects they were engaged in that I thought were Jtsus :follown cover. When he was at the Minnesota Daily really impressive and even inspiring, and they were as an undergraduate journalism major, he so refreshingly different from the stereotype. It was FINDING ANSWERS IN JESUS wrote about draft registration on campus great material for columns and eventually a book, The FOR THOSE WHO DON 'T BELIEVE and protests against Honeywell’s work Evangelicals You Don’t Know. It was meaningful per- (1011 Kra11en11aker with the Department of Defense. Later, as sonally, too, because this informed some of my own a reporter for the Orange County Register, ideas about engaging with public issues, challenging he covered televangelist Robert Schuler, my own stereotypes, and reaching across divides.” whose Crystal Cathedral megachurch was He’s quick to point out that these people were embroiled in controversy. Without realizing it at the so-called “new evangelicals,” more liberal than most— time, he had found the subject that would turn him and yet for the resolutely secular Krattenmaker, there into an author: the role of religion in public life. was still a divide to be crossed: He had to put his Confessions, published by Convergent Books, is Krat- disagreements with their theology on hold. He would tenmaker’s third book on the topic—and a second-place ask them respectful questions about their faith rather winner at the 2017 Religious News Association Awards. than try to score debating points. In it, he describes how, in the course of his reporting “I asked them things like, ‘What does the idea career, he came to respect people whose evangelical that God loves you mean to you?’ I learned that they beliefs were 180 degrees from his own. A recent would appreciate and even trust the secular perspec- conversation with the author yielded some pointed tive, as long as they knew that I wasn’t against them suggestions for how people on all sides of the yawning personally and that I was committed to understand- political divide might begin to open up to one another. ing them,” he says. Krattenmaker’s awakening, he says, came mainly Does Krattenmaker think that such an attitude as the result of stories he wrote and people he met. can translate into crossing today’s brutal political After the Register, he worked for the Associated battle lines? His answer is a qualified yes. He has also

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Maureen Hooley Bausch (left) and Wendy Williams Blackshaw (right), Super Bowl planners extraordinaire Super Bowled-Over

N FEBRUARY, the Super Bowl will draw an Bausch created the Bold North idea as a expected 1 million-plus visitors, thousands way to highlight the Twin Cities’ singular blend Two U of M of members of the media, and the eyes of arts, culture, business, entertainment, and alumnae lead of the TV-watching world to Minneapolis love of the outdoors in all temperatures. “I Ias the game is played in the new U.S. Bank want the Super Bowl to be more than a game,” preparations Stadium downtown. The Twin Cities will host an she says. “I want people to have a good time for hosting the enormous menu of events and parties over the and walk away being amazed at how sophisti- Super Bowl 10 days surrounding the game, including the cated and alive Minnesota is.” NFL Experience in the Minneapolis Convention Planning an event of such magnitude By Suzy Frisch Center and Super Bowl Boulevard on Nicollet Mall. means marshalling a plethora of resources Of course, February is the heart of winter in and mastering thousands of details in a short Minnesota. So, the nonprofit Super Bowl Host amount of time. “The Super Bowl is such an Committee, the brain center for preparations, enormous undertaking,” says Blackshaw. “There is embracing the cold with its branding theme, are so many facets and so many moving parts. the “Bold North.” Leading the effort are That’s what makes it overwhelming at times but two U of M alumnae, Host Committee CEO exciting and a challenge. We’re working with Maureen Hooley Bausch (M.A. ’88) and Senior the NFL, the city, and sponsors. Plus, you’re Vice President of Marketing and Sales Wendy building an organization while you’re managing

Mark Luinenburg Mark Williams Blackshaw (B.A. ’82). all of these constituents and moving parts.”

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Fortunately, Bausch and Blackshaw have ample experience in prominent roles. Both spent years working at Mall of America, with Bausch joining the team in 1990, before the mall opened. She rose to the role of executive vice president of business development—essentially general manager—and successfully transformed it from a retail center to the state’s biggest tourist attraction. Bausch majored in elementary education at U of M Duluth and taught for a few years. Then, she helped her dad grow the family’s Stillwater grocery store into part of the Cub chain. She returned to the U and earned a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in marketing from the Carlson School of Management. After 13 years in the grocery business, Bausch was ready for a new challenge when the Mall of America opportunity presented itself. Blackshaw, who earned a speech communications degree at the U and also was a hockey cheerleader, handled MOA sponsorship sales and marketing for a decade before becoming vice president of marketing and sales at Sun Country Airlines. A master of organization, Blackshaw says she excels when leading a team. She says her “amazing team” at the Host Committee is composed of 20 percent U graduates. “They are all multitasking experts who cross The People’s Architect over into many different areas. My job is to RICHARD “DICK” GILYARD believes in the his focus for more than a decade: keep this organization moving ahead.” transformative power of good ideas. The Prospect Park 2020. That’s an effort Blackshaw calls Bausch a visionary 77-year-old architect has spent decades to redefine the look and feel of one of who comes up with “out there” ideas and spearheading projects that are ambi- the city’s most iconic neighborhoods, makes them happen. When Bausch asked tious and modern, yet human-centric. He where Gilyard lives, which is located Blackshaw to join the Host Committee, worked on Cook County’s Lighthouse near the U’s Minneapolis campus and she didn’t hesitate, considering it a dream Keepers Museum, for example, and close to the St. Paul border. Gilyard come true to plan a Minnesota Super Bowl, a design for an extension of I-35 near is the president and architect of the and with her friend to boot. Duluth that saved historic buildings. nonprofit looking to transform what If Minnesota makes a stellar impression Gilyard (B.A. ’61, B.Arch. ’64) is retired, is now an underutilized industrial before, during, and after the Super Bowl, but you’d hardly know it from the long area of Prospect Park into a vibrant, the two believe more people will come days he spends emailing, calling, and innovative development for residents back to do business, visit in another meeting people to discuss a variety of and businesses, while making the most season, or host an event. Ultimately, they projects. Partly that’s just the nature of of its proximity to the Green Line light say, the effort could boost Minnesota’s the profession. “Architects don’t retire,” rail corridor. Funding has come from economy. “When they see how much we he says, “they just move to a different sources like the McKnight Foundation enjoy the outdoors and how wonderful the drafting board.” But it’s also because Gil- and Funders Collaborative. people are,” Bausch says, “that is what will yard is passionate about what he does. “We’ve said 2,500 housing units, and

bring people back over and over again.” One initiative in particular has been let’s stack ‘em up,” says Gilyard. “We want Halbritter Jayme

44 MINNESOTA ALUMNI Winter 2018 to see maker spaces, libraries, and a variety of design styles. It could be a living laboratory of 21st -century, sustainable, regenerative development.” Gilyard’s dedication to this and other visionary projects is a testament to his inquisitive, forward-thinking nature. A graduate of Minneapolis’s North High School, he always enjoyed drawing, but entered the U as a journalism student where he wrote for The Minnesota Daily. He switched to architecture after a brief talk with late, legendary Minneapolis architect Ralph whose members forged their bond while living together in a Rapson, who was then dean of the Friendships dormitory for nursing students School of Architecture. that was eventually razed to Over time, Gilyard developed what Built at the U make way for a U hospital build- he calls a modernist style marked by a ing. Their letters are a testament cleanliness of line and an eye for con- IN THE AGE of status updates to the power of enduring friend- and “reply all,” it’s hard to remem- ships and a chronicle of chang- temporary touches. His signature proj- ber that until very recently, ing times. There are concerns ects have included the Demontreville long-distance relationships were about how the field of nursing Jesuit Retreat Center in Lake Elmo and maintained by pen and paper. If has become more impersonal the U’s Veterinary Diagnostic Labora- you want proof, just ask the U of in the age of computers, details M School of Nursing’s class of about political awakenings, tory, along with a number of residential, . ~ v...-~ 1952, whose graduates have been updates on children, and, now corporate, and institutional buildings. keeping each other updated on that the “Robins” are in their late ~ Work he did for the U.S. Courthouse ~, 80s, bittersweet discussions of life’s ups and downs through a " ~ _ 0-.,.A.-.o Construction Program between 2005 round-robin letter that’s been hospice, memory loss, and the and 2008 earned him honors from the going strong for 65 years. death of spouses. I.. ~ e,Ji, C:..,_iLJ. American Institute of Architects for his A round-robin is a collection of For classmate Alice Arnold letters written by every member Litton, who hasn’t returned to --'--=~ ~ leadership in advancing design excel- of the group (of the initial 15 gradu- Minnesota since the class of ’52’s lence in federal architecture. ates, nine are still alive). When one five-year reunion, the round robin And though Prospect Park 2020 member receives the package, has provided a decades-long involves working with a daunting number she reads all the letters, replaces bond with other nurses. “The of stakeholders, including the U, the city her earlier correspondence with connection with the people who a new update, and sends it to the were related to my profession of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and next person on the list. was very meaningful,” she says. “I about 7,700 area residents, Gilyard’s faith While there have been lean felt like a part of the community in the project is unrelenting. “This neigh- years, it’s a method that’s clearly even though I wasn’t there.” borhood is eclectic, everything from worked for the class of ’52, —Elizabeth Foy Larsen Carpenter Gothic to Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary work,” he says. In the end, what keeps Gilyard glued to his drafting chair is an abiding passion for design and how it can enhance We pay as much tuition as and define the areas where people live. “The enduring question for me on everybody else and so we want to any given project is, ‘What do we really “ want to have happen here?’” he says. “Development is going to happen. Is it have the same rights. going to happen to us, or are we going Jack Baker, speaking in Out North: MNLGBTQ History, a TPT documentary that to help shape it?” premiered in October. Baker (J.D. ’72), while the U’s student body president,

Courtesy Kay Hatlestad Kay Courtesy —Dan Heilman championed one of the first college gay rights organizations ”in the nation.

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