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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
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NEWS PAGE 2
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SPORTS PAGE 6
UNI’s political science department holds virtual event discussing Supreme Court vacancies.
UNI doctoral student Glynis Worthington wins Mrs. Iowa title in pagent.
UNI student-athletes, MSALT and SAAC to hold peaceful march in protest.
UNI hosts early in-person voting EMMA’LE MAAS
Executive Editor
On Tuesday, Sept. 7, UNI students and Cedar Falls residents lined up outside the UNI-Dome to cast their early ballots. With the 2020 election less than one month away, early voting in Iowa began on Oct. 5 and will continue until Nov. 2. During the 2016 election, UNI’s campus had the highest voter turnout between Iowa’s three state universities. In fact, the campus was ranked second in the nation for student voter turnout in that election, with 67.5% of eligible students casting their ballots, according to a campus-wide email from President Mark Nook. Despite the pandemic, students are still turning out to the polls four years later. First-time voter and sophomore Madeline Hibs expressed just how important the youth vote is in this
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In-person voting may be done early in the UNI-Dome by all who are registered to vote in Black Hawk County.
election. “I hope that a bunch of young people vote. The young people’s vote is so incredibly important to
sway,” she said. “I hope that we get what we need to get done.” Senior English education major Kailey Schmidt agreed,
appealing to her peers to fulfil their civic duty. “It’s something that everyone has the right to do, and it would be negligent not
to use it,” she said. “You’re actively giving away your chance to use your voice.” Schmidt was also very excited about voting for the first time. “It’s something that I’ve been looking forward to since the last (presidential) election, since I wasn’t able to vote in the last election,” she said. Since this is early voting, this weeks voters will have to wait to see the results. This year’s large number of predicted absentee ballots and mail-in votes means that the final confirmation of the election may not come on Nov. 3 itself, and may possibly stretch weeks into November. According to the New York Times, the state of Washington is not requiring mail-in ballots to be returned until Nov. 23, 20 days after the traditional “Election Day.” See EARLY VOTING, page 2
UNI graduate receives Fulbright award ABIGAIL KRAFT
Staff Writer
UNI philosophy and sociology graduate Cade Olmstead did not initially plan on applying for a Fulbright Award, a worldwide cultural exchange program that offers opportunities for students to study all over the world. However, Olmstead ’s mind changed after making contacts at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia that left him encouraged to apply. After crafting a personal statement, a statement of purpose and gaining institutional contacts, Olmstead sent off his application for review. In spring 2020, he was awarded a research grant to study in Slovenia for seven months. Olmstead’s research is titled “The Performance of Politics in the Modern Era” and will be conduct-
ed under the supervision of Dr. Mladen Dolar at the University of Ljubljana and Dr. Alenka Zupancic at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. “The purpose of my grant is to explore how contemporary social thought functions and how politics is enacted within today’s historical situation,” Olmstead wrote. “More specif ically, I want to explore social behavior through the vocabulary of theater and performance and understand the way in which we make sense of present and historical realities.” While in Slovenia, Olmstead’s studies will take high priority. “The actual matter of my time will be spent mostly reading, writing, conducting close readings of texts with advisors, and attending a variety of academic reading groups/lectures,” he
wrote. After the program, Olmstead will return to Burlington, Vermont to participate in a teaching apprenticeship and a master’s English program. He has plans to pursue a doctoral program in the future in hopes of becoming a college professor. With everything he has accomplished thus far, Olmstead extends a thankyou to the UNI staff that have helped him along the way. “My main advisor has been Prof. Yasemin Sari in the Philosophy and World Religions Department,” he wrote. “This is in addition to the help from UNI’s Fulbright Program Advisor Prof. Elizabeth Lef ler. It is a slight disservice, though, to not name the many professors who cultivated and encouraged me throughout the whole of my time at
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Graduate Cade Olmstead set to research “The Performance of Politics in the Modern Era” while in Slovenia.
UNI.” A nyone i nterested in learning more about
Olmstead’s work can visit his website at http://emptysubject.com/