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January 23, 2017
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Volume 113, Issue 30
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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8
Weekly scoring big BRENNAN WHISLER
Sports Columnist
MOVIE REVIEW Movie critic has mixed feelings about prohibition era movie, “Live By Night.” CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4
WOMEN’S MARCH Columnist pens about her experience participating in the D.C. Women’s March.
OPINION PAGE 3
MEN’S BB UNI men’s basketball succeeds in a hardearned win over Loyola. SPORTS PAGE 6
At 5’7” senior point guard Madison Weekly is the smallest player on the Panther roster. She is also a team leader as well as a conference leader in many different offensive categories. As of Jan. 23, Weekly is ninth in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) for threes made (32), fifth in minutes per game (32) and free throw shooting (78.8 percent) and third in assists per game (4.2) and points per game (15.8). Perhaps her most impressive stat is her assists to turnover ratio — 75-29 or 2.6 assists for every turnover. It’s the best in the MVC. When asked about her substantial minutes per game, her response was simple and honest. “I like that just because I’m able to help lead his team,” Weekly said. She does more than dominate the statistic books — she leads her team by example. Weekly came into her senior season as the only consistent starter from the 2015-2016 campaign. With all eyes on her to start the season, Weekly said she felt
very little pressure. “The coaches did really good keeping the pressure off of me,” Weekly said. “They never said ‘you’re the only one coming back so we need you to do this.’” However, she did come into the season knowing things would be different. “At the end of last year[…] they [coaches] mentioned I would have to step up as a leader,” Weekly said aboutthe plans for this season. The team is currently in the middle of a 10-game winning streak putting them tied for first with Drake in the MVC. Weekly said the team doesn’t focus on the streak as a whole. “We tune it out[…] Every game day is ‘win today. At the end of the day we want to be 1-0.’ That’s our motto,” Weekly said. The streak sprang from the ashes of an 88-39 loss to Iowa. “It wasn’t that we lost the game, it was the margin we were disappointed in[…] We had to learn from it […] we’ve moved and have used those lessons to get the wins,” Weekly said.
Games played
15.4 31.8
Pts/ game
minutes/ game
NI Archives
See WEEKLY, page 6
“Uncommon” play a success CLINTON OLSASKY
Campus Life Editor
Courtesy Photo/GBPAC
“Uncommon Sense,” a play commissioned by the GBPAC, shines a light on the autism spectrum. The play took place in the GBPAC last weekend. University of Northern Iowa
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“If you’ve met one person on the spectrum, you’ve met one person on the spectrum.” This quote, which is featured in the new play “Uncommon Sense,” highlights how each person’s experience on the autism spectrum is uniquely individual – a theme that would repeatedly emerge throughout the play. “Uncommon Sense,” the first play commissioned by the
Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC), was co-written by Andy Paris and Anushka Paris-Carter of the Tectonic Theater Project, a theater company based in New York. The play premiered at the GBPAC this past weekend, on Saturday, Jan. 21 and Sunday, Jan. 22. The show revolves around five distinct stories featuring characters whose experiences on the autism spectrum are as wide and varied as the characters themselves.
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It should be noted that all the stories in “Uncommon Sense” were based on real experiences from Iowan families with family members are on the autism spectrum. Paris and ParisCarter, the play’s co-authors, had previously spent a yearlong residency in Iowa interviewing families in the autism community and working with UNI’s theater department to develop what would become the show that premiered this past weekend.
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