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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
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FILM REVIEW
ELERSON SMITH
NEWS PAGE 2
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4
SPORTS PAGE 6
Assistant Professor Philip Hopper embarks on experience in Israel.
Defensive end earns second MVC Player of the Week award.
Film critic Hunter Friesen reviews “Joker.”
Rachel Bearinger drops debut album SOFIA LEGASPI
Campus Life Editor
UNI alum Rachel Bearinger released her debut album “Spirals” last month. The album features 10 tracks written by Bearinger. She described “Spirals” as a “folk-rock-jazz album,” but said it could not be labeled by one particular genre, incorporating elements of different genres all throughout. Overall, it took about a year-and-a-half to write and produce the record — although Bearinger didn’t do it alone. While her first release in 2017 (an EP titled “We Were Well”) was produced solely by Bearinger, the singer-songwriter collaborated with several people to make “Spirals” a reality. “With this project I said, ‘I want to make it as big and cool as I can, and in order to do that I need other people to play more instruments and help me with
the recording process and the mixing and the mastering and all that stuff,’” said Bearinger, who graduated last December with a degree in instrumental music education. The artist’s primary collaborator was Patrick Cunningham, who earned his music theory and com-
position degree from UNI. Cunningham acted as “a sort of producer” for the album, recording other musicians in his apartment studio and adding these elements to the Bearinger’s vocal and guitar parts. Bearinger recorded her end of the project in a studio in Minneapolis, where
she now resides. Once all recording was complete, Cunningham drove up to Minneapolis where he and Bearinger worked with recording engineer Mason Meyers, another UNI School of Music alum, to mix the tracks. Bearinger emphasized the fact that every instruCOURTESY PHOTO/Rachel Bearinger
ment heard on the album was played either by a current or past UNI student. Musicians included Clayton Ryan on bass and guitar, Kevin Boehnke on guitar and trumpet, Rishi Kolusu on trumpet and vocals, Chris Hansen on slide guitar, David Meyers on guitar, Abram Miller on tenor saxophone, Abigail Moore on violin and viola, Kelsey Chidley on cello, Jason Adriano on trombone and Andrey Floryanovich on clarinet. “I kind of see it as a time capsule preserving the way that we all sounded at this point in our lives,” Bearinger said. While the album was produced largely through collaboration, each song’s melody, chords and lyrics were purely by Bearinger. The title “Spirals” alludes to the “thought spirals” the songwriter has had over the years. See SPIRALS, page 5
Women’s golf place first at MVC Preview BRIELLE KIEWIET Sports Writer
The Panther women’s golf team notched a first place victory at the Missouri Valley Conference Preview as they near the end of their fall schedule. The Panthers carded a total of 942 in the preview held in Burlington, Iowa that spanned Sept. 23-24. Last year, the young group of golfers took second place at the MVC Championships in Chesterton, Indiana. Hungry for more success, the team worked hard in the off-season and it paid off at the preview. “Oh gosh, I’m really proud,” head coach John Bermel told Panther Sports Talk. “You know, going into the deal, we thought we were the best team, and we proved it. A couple of guys asked
me, ‘Well, you must have played really well.’ I said, ‘I think we’ve got better than that.’” The Panthers sat in first place from the beginning in Burlington where they ended day one with a team total of 621. Juniors Hannah Bermel and Emily Snelling tied for first place at the Preview with final scores of 229. Snelling missed the first tournament of the season due to injury, but still came back to tie for first. Mason City native Sydney Eaton tied for 25th place, carding a score of 241. Annika Patton tied for 42nd, with Cedar Falls native Hailey Bermel to follow, tying for 61st. Coach Bermel said the team, “is still trying to get better each week.” Burlington has hosted golfers Gene Elliot and
Mike McCoy, two of the best amateur golfers in state history, during the Iowa MidAmateur Championship.
Next year, the city will hold the MVC Championships. Up next, the Panthers will travel to Manoa, Hi.,
for the Rainbow Wahine Invitational from Oct. 28-30 to finish off their fall schedule.
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