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STUDY ABROAD
UNI students explore living beyond U.S. borders
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UNI students flocked to booths featuring more than 60 countries Wednesday during the International Opportunities Fair in the Old Central Ballroom of Maucker Union.
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Students looking to escape Iowa’s harsh weather recently had a chance
to explore a multitude of inter national excursion options, albeit with education in mind. Last Wednesday, the UNI Study Abroad Department
organized an International Opportunities Fair in the Old Central Ballroom of Maucker Union that represented over 60 different countries.
UNI Study Abroad offers programs including Capstone courses, shortterm trips and full semesters abroad. The fair allowed students who were interested in
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Students jumpstart on diversity AMBER ROUSE
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President William Ruud gave a warm welcome to students, faculty, community members and special guests who turned out for the University of Northern Iowa’s sixth annual Town Hall on Diversity on Wednesday. “We need to celebrate each unique person to better understand ourselves as individuals and treat each person with respect and dignity,” said Ruud to the crowd in the Commons Ballroom. Following the welcome speech, keynote speaker Regina Dixon-Reeves, faculty diversity and development specialist at the University of Chicago
Medicine and Biological Sciences, spoke of the four aspects in which diversity can grow. “If students don’t connect with others they might not stay,” she said. “Allies have to be found from the highest ranks to the lowest ranks.” While discussing diversity, attendees were invited to discuss programs UNI holds to aid in the diversity of students. They also discussed areas that lacked in the aid of some minorities. One issue that came up was the Jump Start program. “With the Jump Start program, it’s meant for lowincome, multicultural, first generation students,” said Jesus Lizarraga, admissions counselor at the university.
traveling during their college career an opportunity to talk to past participants, natives and faculty. See INTERNATIONAL, page 2
SAVINGS
Finley fights financial pitfalls
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UNI student Michael Finley published, “Financial Succe$$.”
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“Even though we intend to serve those, the program itself only focuses on the aspect of multicultural students. I think it’s great, it
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works, but it could improve and expand on the missions the students are serving.”
The ‘crazy man in the pink wig’ can now add author to his title. Michael Finley, general studies major, published his book in December with help from the UNI community.
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“The study abroad programs are well known even to prospective students at UNI,” said Michelle Temeyer, junior accounting and financial management major. Students have the opportunity to participate from one or two week trips to a full semester program. Volunteers at the stations shared study abroad experiences and vouched that going abroad is an eyeopening experience. Joe Rossiter, junior marketing major, said that his experience studying abroad taught him “how to adapt.” He said students learn about entirely new cultures in different countries.
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“Clearly we have more work to do. I challenge everyone in 2014 to learn something new, interesting Chris Ogbondah, journalism professor, is leading a short prog ram to London a n d Carissa Johnson believes in a good cultural education. Ogbondah supports studying in other countries as it “broadens our world view and provides many opportunities.” With many countries to study at, the Black Hawk Recorders Office was available for students to apply for passports or to get them renewed. Additionally, Amy Grau, a representative from Iowa State University and program coordinator for ISU’s study abroad office,
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supplied information about programs ISU shares with the other universities. Grau believes studying abroad “teaches you to appreciate who you are and where you come from.” For study abroad advisor Carissa Johnson, “The most fun part of my job is to see students make memories and take away valuable experiences.” She said the decision to go abroad might help students who are unsure about their future gain a sense of direction. Johnson said learning more about a culture and making new contacts outside of the country opens the door to job opportunities and new friends. “Life happens,” said Johnson. “The best time to travel is now, while you are still in school.”
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Obama kicks off push to make college more accessible RENEE SCHOOF
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America needs to do more to help low-income young people succeed in college, President Barack Obama told a gathering at the White House on Thursday of educational, business and philanthropic leaders, who pledged to take on extra efforts to help more students reap the benefits of a college degree. "There is this huge cohort of talent we're not tapping," Obama said, citing research that shows that only 30 percent of lowincome students enroll in college after high school and, by their mid-20s, only 9 percent earn a bachelor's degree. With officials from 80 colleges and 40 businesses and philanthropies in attendance, the president said he talks about education from personal experience. "I grew up with a single mom," he said. "She had me when she was 18 years old. There are a lot of circum-
stances where that might have waylaid her education for good. But there were structures in place that allowed her then to go on and get a Ph.D." To bolster his point, he said of first lady Michelle Obama, who also attended the conference: "Michelle's dad was a shift worker at the city water plant. (Her) mom worked as a secretary. They didn't go to college. But there were structures in place that allowed Michelle to take advantage of those opportunities." The commitments the White House received from schools and foundations fill an 89-page document. They include efforts to help high-achieving, low-income students get into schools that are a good match and extend them support until they graduate. They also hope to increase the pool of students getting ready for college and to help lowincome students prepare for the SAT and ACT tests. Initiatives include a plan by the College Board to offer
four college admissions fee waivers to low-income students who take its SAT test. There's a $65 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and $30 million from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to help more students complete degrees in science, technology, engineering or math. Another effort calls on schools to hold summer enrichment programs, expand financial aid and take other steps to recruit low-income students. "Despite education's ability to level the playing field, there is, simply put, great inequality in our nation's schools today," said College Board president David Coleman. He said a recent study showed that at the 193 most selective colleges and universities, 66 percent of students were from the top 25 percent in income and only 6 percent were from the bottom 25 percent. "That is not because there is not great talent" in every income group, he said.
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One large g rant announced Thursday was $10 million to the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based College Advising Corps from the John M. Belk Endowment, a private family foundation in Charlotte, N.C. The funds will be used to increase the numbers of young college advisers in rural high schools in the state. Graduates of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have participated in the advising program, but now North
Carolina State University and Davidson College are joining the effort to expand the advising to 60 rural high schools in the state. Nicole Hurd, founder and CEO of the National College Advising Corps, said that the average student to counselor ratio was 471-to-1. The new grant will help expand the advising by recent college graduates who are assigned to high schools to encourage and advise.
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That argument assumes our definition of a word determines what reality is.
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In our time within the arctic vortex, our belowfreezing temperatures have been compared to those of Mars. The average temperature on Mars is -58 F. This has climate change deniers crowing. If global warming is occurring, why are we experiencing recordbreaking lows in temperature? On Twitter, Donald Trump said, “our planet is freezing,” and thus this “GLOBAL WARMING bulls--- has got to stop.” One his own website, Rush Limbaugh said a Russian ship full of climate scientists, who were going to Antarctica to prove there is no or little ice due to global warming, was stuck in the Antarctic ice that is supposedly melting. Fox News business analyst Stuart Varney claims we are experiencing “global cooling,” not global warming. I’m not arguing for or against global warming. What bothers me is that the foundation of the above
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statements is that this arctic vortex disproves global warming because it is not warm. Their entire argument against global warming rests on a commonplace definition of the word warm, meaning temperatures above a mean average, approaching hot. It is not hot outside. It is bitterly cold. Therefore, no global warming. That argument assumes our definition of a word determines what reality is. This is kindergar-
ten reasoning. The Earth’s atmosphere is of sufficient density that it retains carbon dioxide and water vapor emissions, warming our planet an overall 95 F. By these deniers’ logic, the entire planet should be 95 F all of the time. The popular discourse about global warming rests at this level of idiocy. Before one ventures to argue about global warming, certain facts must be known about how our plan-
et is warmed and cooled. First, consider Mars. It is cold because its thin atmosphere results in a surface so cold it retains its carbon dioxide — none is cycled back to the atmosphere as it is on Earth. The fact that you can see your breath on Earth is due to it’s atmosphere. Venus has an atmosphere much denser than Earth’s, retaining 96 percent of its carbon dioxide, warming Venus to an overall 86 F.
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Because our atmosphere is not as thick or thin as other planets’, and our amount of greenhouse gasses varies, our climate is naturally unstable compared to those monoclimates found on Mars and Venus. Climate is an overall average for the globe, whereas weather is patterns in different parts of the planet. Globally, it is getting warmer. Earth’s weather is tied to the temperature of our atmosphere, and as it warms, freak weather patterns increase. Whether this is irreversible or not, what’s to be done about it and how reliable the numbers are, can all be argued. However, to say there is no global warming because it’s cold right now doesn’t approach logic, much less scientific reasoning.
Let’s say goodbye to lectures LAURA HEBBELN hebbelnl @uni.edu
Lecture-based classes have been a staple of higher education for centuries, and the University of Northern Iowa is not an exception. Although the university boasts smaller class sizes, which incites us to infer that more individualized learning occurs, many classes involve a professor standing in front of a group of students and speaking for fifty or ninety minutes. Since this is the case, does it really matter if there are twenty or a hundred students in the classroom? A study conducted by professors Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish from Indiana University, which can be found at http://ideas.time.com, found that students have a 10-18 minute window of optimal
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focus, and after that, students experience a lapse in focus. Now, many people might scoff at this and blame texting and Twitter for this small window, but the study performed by Middendorf and Kalish was conducted in 1996, before such distractions existed. Another interesting find was that students were able to recall information from the beginning of a 20 minute presentation better than information from the end of it. This suggests, once again, that after the 10-18 minute window, students just cannot concentrate
on a lecture anymore, no matter how interesting and eloquent of a speaker their professor might be. Despite this evidence that lectures are ineffective, most universities across the country stick with the traditional form of teaching. David Daniels argues, in his essay “College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening?” that when people get together to learn, passivity should be replaced with interactivity. Only then will students learn to think critically and creatively. Daniels has a sad but true theory as to why lectures are still alive and well in universities across the country. “Lectures are easier on everyone than debates. Professors can pretend to teach by lecturing just as students can pretend to learn by attending lectures, with no one the wiser, including the participants,” Daniels said. “In a classroom where everyone
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contributes, students are less able to hide and professors less tempted to engage in intellectual exhibitionism.” While I believe the University of Northern Iowa and many of its professors are headed in the right direction, I have still taken plenty of classes during my career at this uni-
versity that fit with Daniels’s above scenario. Just because lectures are a centuries-old tradition does not mean that it is the optimal form of teaching. It is time for us to stop ignoring the facts that researchers like Middendorf and Kalish are giving us and leave lectures in the past.
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Newspapers keep UNI safe from corruption LINH TA
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Newspapers serve as a watchdog and an overseer to expose corruption, fraud and issues that are imperative for the public to know. The Northern Iowan is starting a new series of watchdog investigative stories with the intent of spreading transparency at the university. However, to start the series, you, the public, must come forward. Inspired by the Des Moines Register’s Reader’s Watchdog series, the NI wants to encourage UNI students, staff, faculty, alumna and administrators to come to it with issues of injustice they are facing or have heard about. Think you were unfairly arrested or that perpetrators on campus weren’t arrested for a crime? Contact the NI. Do you think unfair regulations are placed on faculty but not on the admin-
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Music will soon fill the air as the University of Northern Iowa School of Music dives into their upcoming concerts at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center and Russell Hall. Aside from group performances, junior and senior music majors are required to give recitals. Guest performers are also occasionally invited to the university. “Guests are selected based on a faculty member’s selection (or sometimes a committee vote) and the decision that the guest would be a great example for our students in some aspect of their music education,” said Caroline Boehmer, communication and operations coordinator for the School of Music. These aspects include performance, conducting, composing and education. In addition to their performance, guests sometimes offer a class to students. When deciding on a performance schedule, Boehmer said
faculty artists can pick their own recital dates. Students, however, don’t have as much freedom. “Student recitals are scheduled based on a student’s academic degree standing … or their desire to perform extra, nondegree, recitals,” Boehmer said. Alyssa Adamec, junior viola performance and communication disorders double major, will play four concerts throughout February, March and April. She also hopes to partake in the Spotlight Series: Performance Competition Finals in March. “As music majors, playing in concerts or giving recitals helps us grow as musicians and challenges us as performers,” said Adamec. “Every concert is different, but all performers need to have a 100 percent dedication and commitment mindset to perform to the best of their ability and learn how to be stronger musicians.” To prepare for recitals, ensembles begin practice
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Finley, the creator of the Financial Literacy Program wrote the book, “Financial Happine$$,” to assist students with not only their finances, but also their life. “While it may help you accumulate wealth, more importantly I believe it may help you achieve that elusive thing called happiness,” Finley said. “Financial Happine$$” has taken the structure of a blog and formed that into a book, or a “blok,” according to Finley. “I would encourage anyone to read this book because it could help anyone in different stages of their life and it’s not just some boring personal finance book that’s going to help you get rich,” Finley said. The book took four years to come to fruition. During that time, Finley has been writing a newsletter for the Financial Literacy Club. He said it has helped him write his book. “But I would probably tell
the first week of classes. Individuals begin months in advance to work with their instructor on repertoire, collaboration with other musicians and promotion. Individuals pick the music for their own performances. Faculty, however, choose the selection for group performances. Boehmer believes there are benefits to live music for both the performers and the audience. “I think that live performances give musicians the chance to speak their language to a group of people eager to hear and understand that language,” Boehmer said. “It’s a learning experience for both sides.” A complete list of upcoming performances and recitals is available at the School of Music’s web page under calendar of events.
you it took me 25 years from the time from which I started learning about money to the point where I actually published the book,” Finley said. In 1989, when Finley was 25, he was in Germany serving in the U.S. Army. He said the first financial book he read, “Wealth Without Risk” by Charles Givens, was influential. “It was that awakening moment in my life where I realized I knew nothing about money and I had better start learning before it was too late,” Finley said. Finley said Givens taught him something crucial. “I am the answer to my financial life and that message alone got me started reading and learning from others,” Finely said. Strangers have influenced Finley along his journey the most, he said. He also learned about finances through authors like Jane Bryant Quinn and Eric Tyson. “As I’ve read from them and learned from them, it quickly
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NOW THAT YOU’RE TWO WEEKS IN, WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SEMESTER?
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helped me to formulate my approach on how to deal with money,” he said. Finley dedicated his book to his dad, Owen Finley. “My dad was the one who gave me the boot. He told me I needed to get on with my life and I was able to pay him back,” Finley said. Finley said the last chapter, “The Beginning,” might have the most important information. “It kind of explains what this is all about, which is not only helping yourself, but helping others,” he said. Finley said that becoming financially literate is easier than it seems. “The average person can learn about money and use it, use the knowledge to really improve their life, not just their financial life,” Finley said. “It is a mindset which has to be, ‘I can do this. I am the answer.’” “Financial Happine$$” is available for purchase on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and at thecrazymaninthepinkwig.com.
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PANTHER PORTRAITS CAB Event: Jamie Lono and Oxygen Bar
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Road Rage
Panthers blow another lead, fall to 1-9 on the road
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After losing their last two games on the road, the University of Northern Iowa is 1-9 in true road games this season. On the opposite side of the spectrum, the Panthers are undefeated at the McLeod Center.
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There’s no place quite like home, and for the University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team, there’s nothing worse than being on the road. The Panthers dropped two more road games last week against Bradley University and Loyola University Chicago to drop to 1-9 in true road games this season. In their past three road games, the Panthers have held a lead or have been tied in all three, but could not pull out a victory in any of them.
Wednesday, UNI faced BU for the second time this season. In their first match, the Panthers defeated the Braves by over 30 points. It was a different story the second time around, as the Braves hung on to their lead down the stretch to defeat UNI 69-65. The Panthers tied the game with a Jeremy Morgan 3-pointer with just under two minutes remaining in the game. They tied again with Seth Tuttle free throws with one minute left, but BU’s Walt Lemon Jr. scored four of his 28 points in the final
minute to keep the Braves ahead for good. Tuttle notched the 1,000 career-point mark in the loss. The Panthers were back in action Saturday against LUC, who was ninth in the Missouri Valley Conference heading into the game. UNI led by as many as eight points in the second half, including a six-point lead with under two minutes left, but the Ramblers rallied late to tie the score at 78-78 with 17.6 seconds remaining in the game. UNI guard Deon Mitchell was able to get a shot off in
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UNI defeats Missouri 24-10 NICK GARY
Sports Writer
On the night the University of Northern Iowa wrestling team honored U.S. troops, the Panthers showed they too have some fight in them by defeating a second top-10 ranked opponent. Like they have done all season, UNI got off to a quick start on Friday, winning the first three matches en route to a 24-10 victory over seventh-ranked University of Missouri in front of a packed West Gym. See WRESTLING, page 9
the final seconds but could not hit to give the Panthers a lead. Tuttle had two open chances for a tip-in as time expired, but could not hit on either, which sent the game into overtime. It was all LUC in the extra period. They never trailed after Devon Turk hit a 3-pointer in the opening minute. The Ramblers hit seven of eight free throws in overtime to help seal the 93-87 win. Mitchell led the Panthers with 23 points — all in the second half. UNI returns to action
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Keitel scores career-high in Panther win over Bradley Sports Writer
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NICK ALVARADO
With its win over Missouri, UNI is now one of just three undefeated teams remaining in the top-10 rankings.
Wednesday for a much-needed home game against the University of Evansville. Despite their road woes this season, the Panthers are 7-0 in the McLeod Center. Tipoff for Wednesday’s game is set for 7 p.m.
University of Northern Iowa head coach Tanya Warren must be pleased with her team. In a game that included eight ties and 16 lead changes, the Panthers managed to get hot late in the second half and pull away with a 78-65 victory against Bradley University. “(There) was a six-minute stretch where it was
probably the best six minutes we’d played all year,” Warren said. “Our execution was great.” UNI went on a 9-0 run in the last eight minutes of the game that included several key stops, some late sharp-shooting from Stephanie Davison — who scored eight of her nine points during the run — and the finishing touches in the paint by Jen Keitel. See WOMEN, page 9
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UNI enjoys luxury of having 4th-year athletes ERIN KEISER/Northern Iowan
Jen Keitel (above) scored a career-high 25 points in UNI’s 78-65 win over Bradley.
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Matt Morrison (21) is one of two seniors on the Panther basketball team. Morrison has made an appearance off the bench in 17 games for UNI.
BEN LLOYD
Sports Columnist
It’s college basketball season, and with it comes the joys of watching rim-rattling highlights, smooth 3-point swishes, thrilling buzzer beaters and miraculous upsets we get to enjoy all winter long. Unfortunately, most of the top recruits we see performing these highlights are only going to be around for one year. Due to National Basketball Association rules stating that to be eligible to be picked up by an NBA team, an athlete must be 19 years of age and removed from high school for one year, most athletes tend to spend that one year playing for a university. The main problem with this is that it’s only for one year, giving up any chance of making a long-term impression on a college team’s capability. Can you imagine how many titles Syracuse University could have won if Carmelo Anthony would have stayed for more than one year before opting for the pros? An even bigger problem with this dilemma is the programs that embrace and encourage such behavior. The University of Kentucky has become a hotbed for blue-chip recruits because the Wildcats’ head coach John Calipari encourages the idea of players coming in strictly to serve him for one or two years maximum. College basketball purists are sickened by the growing situation because it takes away from the possibility of teams growing chemistry and really
developing skills as players, not to mention it corrupts the ideal model of the label student-athlete. Luckily for UNI fans, we get to enjoy getting to know our players, as they typically stay all four years of their careers and get educations alongside us, all while maintaining a good reputation on the court. In 2010, when UNI made their highly-remembered March Madness run, their starters featured four seniors that all averaged 20 minutes per game. This year’s UK team features only two seniors on the entire roster, both of who are
averaging less than seven minutes a game. Maybe it’s time for the purists to accept that this is now college basketball and just live with it, or maybe it’s time for the one-year experiment to end and let kids go to the NBA straight out of high school, preserving college basketball as a team sport. Either way, the fact is that at UNI you get to see a team that can reach a greater potential through a growing chemistry. You also get to enjoy the company of the players you root for year after year. That, if nothing else, is worth being proud of.
Keitel’s post-presence led to a game and career-high 25 points. The Panther forward shot 79 percent from the field, missing only three of her 14 shots. Keitel also contributed five rebounds and two blocks. “My shots were all in the paint, it felt like, so I was just doing what I should be able to do,” Keitel said. “Coach challenged us at halftime and we stepped up and took that challenge.” Hannah Schonhardt had her second consecutive double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds, and Brooke Brown tied her career-high of 18 points in the win. The late UNI effort nullified a flurry of firsthalf scoring from Bradley’s Michelle Young, which
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Chip Rank (above) has started in 14 games for the Panthers this season. Rank is second on the team with 30 3-point field goals made.
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With the victory, UNI became one of only three top10 ranked teams to remain undefeated. The other two are Penn State University and Cornell University. To begin the meet, Dylan Peters won his 22nd match of the season with an 8-4 victory over Barlow McGhee. At 133 pounds, Joe Colon retained his undefeated UNIcareer record with an 8-1 decision over Matt Manley. Joey Lazor also hit an impressive career milestone, earning his 76th career victory in a tough battle with Trevor Jauch, winning in a 5-4 decision. At 157 pounds, Jarrett Jensen earned a vital victory for the Panthers in a 4-1 decision over Joey Lavallee. Entering as the second-
resulted in a 16-point first half from the Braves’ guard. UNI managed to slow her down in the second half, however, as she finished with a total of 21 points on the night. “We talked about forcing (Young) left because she scored every time going right,” Warren said. “We didn’t do a very good job of buying in to the scouting report in the first half, but we did a much better job in the second half.” The Panthers have now won five of their last six games. They have worked their way back to .500 with a 9-9 overall record and they also boast a 5-2 conference record. UNI returns to action Sunday when in-state rival Drake University comes to the McLeod Center. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m. ranked wrestler in the MidAmerican Conference at 165 pounds, Cooper Moore took down one of the MAC’s best, Zach Toal. Moore took full advantage, defeating Toal in a 6-2 decision. At 174 pounds, Cody Caldwell got over .500 in conference competition with a 10-7 decision over Mickey England. Ryan Loder, who hasn’t lost in a dual meet since 2010-11, may have done his best work on Friday. Tenth-ranked Johnny Ellen fell victim to an incredibly motivated Loder, who pinned Ellen just 25 seconds into the match. Blaize Cabell finished the meet on a high note for the Panthers, defeating Devin Mellon in a 6-5 decision. UNI will be back in action Feb. 1 when they host a triangular meet against Ohio University and South Dakota State University.
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Today’s Birthday (01/27/14). You’re strong and getting stronger this year. Grow health, fitness and service before August. Fun with children, family, friends and community provides the joy that flavors your work to greatest profit. Fix up your place and gather the clan in springtime. A new phase of romantic partnership begins after the 6/10 eclipse. Take peaceful time to balance the pace. Quiet your mind, and enjoy your garden. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Capricorn (Dec. 22 -- Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- A roommate helps you understand. Share the pertinent facts. Your input is appreciated. Dexterity solves a problem. You’re on a roll. Keep saving as much as you can. Introspection and quiet prove soothing. Aquarius (Jan. 20 -- Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Have a private conversation with a supervisor or at home. Allow yourself to get persuaded. Ask questions and take notes. Run errands. Watch for hidden agendas. Work smarter as you assimilate new ideas. Pisces (Feb. 19 -- March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Work on the plan you made. Gather new information. Use your wit and charm. Friends keep you on track to profit. You’re gaining respect. Contact your team and
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