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Professors, police chief, alum discuss race in policing.

UNI Student Theatre Association to host “Under the Stars” event.

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The MVC released the 2021 women’s volleyball schedule.

Majors in Minutes moves to Zoom AASHITA VADHERA

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dff.On Tuesday, Oct. 20, the Office of Academic Advising hosted their Major in Minutes event which took place online on Zoom and tried to make use of technology to the fullest.

Majors in Minutes started in 2009 when Angela Tudor, the academic advising and career development coordinator at UNI, first came up with the idea. Tudor, inspired by an orientation activity by other schools, wanted to change the current system at UNI which saw a faculty booth set-up.

“We started because what we used to have was a major fair where the students could talk with faculty,” said Tudor.

“Basically, they walked around the booth and talked with the faculty. It was my first year and I went to that event and I saw the students interact and it just did not seem like the best way for brand new stu-

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Over 200 students attended the first virtual Majors in Minutes to take place after starting in 2009.

dents to gather information.”

Tudor thought that rather than having freshmen talk with faculty right away, they could talk to seniors of a major instead.

“After brainstorming with our team, we came up with a kind of a speed dating concept where students would visit tables,” stated Tutor. “They would visit with seniors in

decision.

The group’s next step was to submit an appeal to President Nook, which they did on Tuesday, Oct. 20, according to UNI Students for Life representative Sophia Schuster, a sophomore history education major.

“We just explained the situation,” she said. “We told them what happened, we reiterated what Students for Life is about, and we just asked President Nook to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision.”

Schuster added that university administration had been supportive throughout the appeal process.

“I’ve had some support from the administration; they’ve been helping me get all my stuff in, because some of this stuff was kind of technical, and otherwise I would have had no idea

what I was doing,” she said.

“They’ve been helping a lot.”

UNI Public Relations Manager Steve Schmadeke confirmed to the Northern Iowan in an email Wednesday evening that university administration had received the appeal and expects to release a decision in the next few days.

“In accordance with our policies and procedures, the university will conduct a thorough review and issue a decision by the end of the week,” he wrote. “The university will ensure compliance with our policies, and with state and federal law.”

Schuster said she is anticipating a favorable outcome for UNI Students for Life.

“I’m expecting them to overturn it,” she said.

The situation has gained regional and national attention, with multiple

eight minute rotations and we would play music to kind of make it fun and they could visit as many tables in that two hour timeframe as they wanted to.”

The first Majors in Minutes event had about 40 students in attendance. Over the years, the number has increased to about 400 students at one time. Students would enter the main room where they were directed to either a separate zoom session for majors beginning with A-L or M-Z. Within those separate Zoom sessions were several breakout rooms that the students could join hosted by seniors from those majors.

Most of the students selected to speak to underclassmen felt honored to be considered for the position and to share their experiences with them.

“I felt kind of honored to be nominated by a professor,” said Jared Larson, a senior economics major. “It means you are respected within the department, which is a good thing to hear.”

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Students for Life appeals to president ELIZABETH KELSEY News Editor

Following a controversial decision by Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) to deny a pro-life group the right to form a student organization on the UNI campus, the group in question has off icially appealed to UNI President Mark Nook to overturn the decision.

UNI Students for Life, an affiliate of the national pro-life group Students for Life, was first denied the right to form a student organization by the NISG Senate during their Oct. 7 meeting. The group subsequently appealed to the NISG Supreme Court, who upheld the Senate’s decision in an Oct. 14 hearing, despite the Senate having pled guilty to violating university policy in their initial

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Steve Schmadeke, UNI Puplic Relations Manager, is expecting to release a decision regarding the case by the end of the week.

Students for Life has asked President Nook to overturn the NISG Supreme Court’s decision and allow them to be an organization on campus.

media outlets, including the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, the Des Moines Register and even Fox News reporting the story.

The national Students for Life organization has also released several statements on the situation through

their website, noting in an Oct. 16 update that legal counsel had been contacted on behalf of UNI Students for Life.

The Northern Iowan will continue to report on this developing story in subsequent issues.

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Diversity Colloquium talks policing AASHITA VADHERA

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On Thursday, Oct. 15, UNI held a virtual panel that explored the intersections of race, social justice and policing in the United States and Cedar Valley. The panel served as the October Diversity Colloquium and was part of UNI’s “Cultivating Justice: A 6-Week Quest Toward Racial Equity.”

Pa nelists included UNI alumnus and local social justice activist Ryan Stevenson, who works for Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer, along with Waterloo Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald and professor of criminology Gayle Rhineberger.

Ashleigh Kysar-Moon, assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology (SAC),

served as moderator.

Kysar-Moon started off the discussion by stating that the Diversity Colloquium series was created by SAC in 2016 in response to police brutality incidents nationwide, specifically the protests that took place in Ferguson, Mo., after the death of Michael Brown.

She mentioned that five years later, the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have left many people feeling that not much has changed. The three panelists felt that while there is a lot that still needs to be done, there is a drastic amount of change that has occurred.

Stevenson specif ically mentioned the advancement of technology and use of camera phones to capture incidents of police brutality.

“What has long been the Black experience is now visualized for everyone,” he

said.

According to Stevenson, the main issue which has not been addressed within police departments and unions across the nation is more cultural.

“You can look at police departments such as Minneapolis; a lot of things were within their policy already,” he said. “If you look at them as a department head, they have probably done a lot of the right things. But regardless of policy, the culture is still there.”

He said if there are no penalties for misconduct and brutality, then it continues to breed the cultural belief that perpetrators can “get away with it.”

Fitzgerald agreed with Stevenson. He discussed the massive upheaval in the law enforcement community, which, from his perspec-

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The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology hosted the October Diversity Colloquium, in which professors were joined by a local activist and the Waterloo Police Chief to discuss race, social justice and policing.

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tive, stems from the case of Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Stanford, Fla. He said that simply placing a policy without integrating it into the culture of the place is detrimental for society.

“It takes a lot of courage for one to come into an organization and promote the kind of cultural and paradigm shift needed to create the culture of accountability, and (some) leaders aren’t willing to do that today,” Fitzgerald said.

He added that because of this, situations arise in which the community believes that the police do whatever they like to do without repercussion, forcing police officers to defend their entire industry.

“I think that there are leaders out there now that want to do the right thing and want to change the face of policing,” he said. “This should never be seen as an attack on policing, but rather a movement towards shaping policing more in the vision of what the community sees as a police department.”

Rhineberger emphasized the importance of talking about race, especially for white people.

“By not talking about race, we’re actually saying it doesn’t matter, and we need to intentionally talk about it,” she said.

According to Rhineberger, too often parents try to raise “colorblind” children, hoping that this will prevent them from becoming racist, but often it causes more problems than it does good.

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She said it is imperative for parents to talk to their children about race and color to help them better ref lect and understand.

In her classes, Rhineberger said she wants to ensure that her students understand implicit bias and are able to self-ref lect.

“Until our white population looks into the mirror and (starts) being honest about what they have done, even if they don’t want to be, because most people don’t want to be racist, there isn’t going to be much of a change,” she said.

Although the panel was centered around issues in policing, panelists agreed that policing is just one part of a larger systemic problem.

Rhineberger mentioned that issues concerning quality of life, such as mental health, drug treatment programs, violence programs and homelessness, should not fall under the police department’s jurisdiction, as police do not have the academic or the professional training to handle all of these issues.

Fitzgerald also mentioned issues within education, stating that he felt that many historical issues relevant to the modern conversation around racism and social justice are not adequately taught in schools.

“I remember learning about slavery but never about Juneteenth,” he said.

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Treat mental health seriously ADDI SEYBERT

Opinion Columnist

“Oh my God, he’s a psycho!”

“Ugh, this Iowa weather is so bipolar.”

“I hate it when my room is messy; haha I’m so OCD.” Funny phrases used to emphasize meaning – we’ve all heard them, and chances are, we’ve all used them. However, what many people don’t realize is that these phrases are incredibly harmful to the psychological community as well as those afflicted with the cited disorders. Using psychological terms so colloquially (and incorrectly) increases the stigma surrounding mental illness and promotes the spread of misinformation to the public.

Within the field of psychology, these terms are used to describe legitimate mental disorders that have been diagnosed by a trained clinician. The diagnoses come as a result of debilitating symptoms and interference with daily life.

For some who are truly struggling with a clinical mental illness, hearing other people use their diagnosis

as the butt of a joke is both harmful and offensive.

Take OCD, for example. OCD stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is an anxiety disorder characterized by an intense compulsion in order to get rid of persistent, unwanted thoughts.

The most commonly used form of OCD in media refers to those who suffer from OCD with obsessive thoughts of germs crawling on their skin or getting them sick, accompanied with an intense compulsion to clean or wash their hands. While this can certainly be an aspect of someone’s OCD, that is not the only thing it means.

Some people believe they must flick the light switch three times before leaving or their mother will die, and some people cannot step on any sidewalk cracks or they have to start their walk entirely over again. Obsessions and compulsions vary significantly from person to person.

OCD is incredibly debilitating; it interferes with people’s abilities to maintain relationships, hold down jobs, arrive on time and many other daily activities. Many people

with OCD would do anything to not have to act on their compulsions, but society treats them as though they’re choices. So, while you might really like a clean room or you prefer to have your books stacked a certain way, you probably do not have OCD and need to stop treating it like a cute personality quirk.

Another disorder used frequently in colloquial terms is narcolepsy. Take a second to picture a narcoleptic person. Chances are, you’re probably picturing someone falling asleep in the middle of their conversations, passed out face-first in their bowl of soup. Haha, how hilarious; they can’t stop falling asleep. So funny. But have you ever stopped to learn about what narcolepsy actually is? Narcolepsy is a sleep and autoimmune disorder that affects the brain’s sleep cycle, which causes the afflicted person to get stuck in the REM stage (the stage in which dreams take place) and therefore not ever get restful sleep.

As a result, people with narcolepsy constantly feel as though they haven’t slept for 48 hours,

no matter how much sleep they get. This can result in excessive daytime sleepiness, memory loss, weight gain, physical and mental exhaustion and much more. This does not necessarily mean people with narcolepsy just pass out with no warning – some do, some don’t.

Everyone’s symptoms are different.

While there are some medications on the market, they are very expensive and do not always help, as narcolepsy is a lifelong disorder with no cure. Yet despite the bleak prognosis, those with narcolepsy have been able to overcome the stigma of their diagnosis by defying the odds; they are doctors, teachers, lawyers, judges ... and even your favorite opinion writer, yours truly.

Psychological disorders are real, not to mention scary, painful and deeply misunderstood. People with mental disorders struggle enough with the stigma surrounding their realities; the last thing they need is for someone without a mental disorder to use their diagnosis in a colloquial fashion, let alone as the butt of a joke. OCD does not mean clean, the same way narcolepsy does not mean sleepy.

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Addi Seybert discusses the mental health stigma.

Using psychological terms colloquially is incredibly harmful and only adds to the stigma surrounding them. Next time you’re making a joke, take a second to think of the psychological community. Are the words you’re about to say harmful to someone or their condition (inadvertently or not)? If so, don’t say it – even if you’re not sure. Just by thinking twice before you speak, you could help make a difference.

Watch your words today for a more inclusive tomorrow.

The election is not the end of the world

Election season in the United States can be a contentious and stressful time. Political ads fill the airwaves on every TV and radio station. They are played before every YouTube video, in between social media posts and constantly surround topics of discussion by our peers in the real world.

Everywhere we look, we see messages from campaigns and non-partisan groups urging us to vote like our life depends on it. This all is to be expected when two parties are desperately trying to either gain power or hold onto it, but election season can a lot of times cause emotions to run high in our country. The constant reminder that there’s an election coming up

and that we need to vote can bring stress along with it. Especially when we’re constantly bombarded with political ads proclaiming that the fate of the nation depends on which politician you vote for, it’s easy to see how people can get so emotional during election season.

Most people nowadays have started treating their political parties similar to their favorite sports team: we cheer for them no matter what and despise our opponents.

It’s natural for humans to be wary of their competition; our opponents, from a primitive standpoint, are seen as a threat to our well-being.

Of course, the opponent of our favorite team is not actually a real threat to our well-being, and most people know this. Sports are a fun way of holding intense

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The Student Health Clinic has many tests available and can provide up to 175 testing appointments per day! Testing is

often available the same day that students call after feeling sick or being exposed. When scheduling your appointment after an exposure, remember: if you haven’t experienced symptoms yet, the nurse will schedule your test four days after your exposure so that your test results can be as accurate as possible.

If you receive a positive test result, you should isolate for 10 days from when your symptoms started or your test date, if asymptomatic. The university strives to keep everyone safe and healthy. A contact tracer will be in touch with you to ask how

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competition in society while knowing that the outcome of the game won’t affect our lives in the end.

Unfortunately, politics are not like this. Politics, similar to sports, are competitions between two sides, gearing it out to decide an eventual victor. Different from sports, however, politics has become something that people actually see as a threat to our well-being if the outcome doesn’t go our way. Individuals on social media are threatening to leave the country, march in the streets or even resort to violence if the results of the election don’t go the way they would have liked.

If my favorite team loses, I won’t be particularly happy about it, but life goes on. After all, there’s really nothing I can do about it anyways. Similarly, if an election outcome doesn’t go my way, there’s not

a whole lot I can do in the immediate aftermath either. Again, life goes on. Sure, the candidate I voted for might have lost, but there will be another election in a few years and maybe things will swing my way that time around, similar to how my favorite team might have better fortunes in their game next week. I worry, however, that an increasing number of people are beginning to treat the outcome of one election as a life-or-death situation.

Much of the political rhetoric going around these days is indicating that the 2020 election is the most important election in American history, which indicates to people that if their candidate doesn’t win that life as we know it might be taking a turn for the worse. Regardless of the way in which one leans, if your side

doesn’t win, life goes on.

Sure, the politicians in office might not be ones we agree with.

But there are options as well.

Holding those in power accountable and getting involved politically for the next election cycle are just a few things. But rather than treating an election outcome as a threat to the well-being of the nation itself or acting like our lives have taken a turn for the worse just because of one election result, we need to remember that the world keeps turning. Sure, the bounce didn’t go our way this time around, but general elections are held every two years at the national level. So instead of treating an election outcome as the end of the world, we should start to treat it like a football game in which the bounces didn’t go our way.

To test or not to test, that is the question you are doing and gather close contacts on and off campus.

As the semester continues, the temperature is starting to move away from the nice 70-degree days, and everyone will be staying inside more often. It is going to be even more important to remember that we should still practice social distancing, wearing a cloth face covering and complete hand hygiene during the cold months.

On Oct. 19 the SHC began billing students health insurance for the rapid COVID-19 testing. If a student receives a rapid test, as determined by

the clinic’s healthcare providers, it will now come at a moderate cost. To cover the cost, the clinic will bill the student’s insurance company $80 for the test. However, as part of our commitment to supporting students, the university will cover the cost for those whose insurance will not pay, as well as the cost for uninsured students.

If for any reason the claim is denied, UNI will apply the cost to a student’s U-Bill, and then provide resources from the UNI Together Scholarship to cover the fee.

The clinic will continue to

offer a free non-rapid option.

Students can indicate their preference for COVID-19 testing when they call the Student Health Clinic to be assessed for their test.

Remember to complete the Panther Healthy Survey that is sent daily to your UNI email address. It is very helpful for everyone to take it when working, studying, and learning on campus. Completing the survey every day ensures accuracy in COVID-19 numbers and analytics as we continue #ProtectingOurPanthers this semester!

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Panther PORTRAIT: fall 2020 blood drive

ANTHONY WITHEROW

Campus Life Editor

The UNI Office of Community Engagement collaborated with the LifeServe

Blood Center to bring the Fall 2020 Blood Drive to campus.

Normally held in the Maucker Union Ballroom, this semester saw the lower lounge of the WRC hold the

event.

Proper COVID-19 guidelines were implented. Stations for donors were spread six feet apart and all donors were required to wear masks.

Katie Crow/Northern Iowan Students and community members gathered in the WRC for the Fall Blood Drive.

show night.

The upcoming UNISTA Under the Stars event will showcase a reading from the Halloween favorite “Hocus Pocus.” Attendees will have the option to participate in the event.

“We have created an internet for more students to tell us what roles they would be interested in reading, and we will draw names from a hat that night” said Maycie Stanbro, Artistic Director of UNISTA. Stanbro further stated that if a student wants to read but did not fill out the form, they are still welcome to add their name to the drawing when they arrive.

There will also be some UNI Theatre Alumni participating in the event. These students will be filling in the roles of the Sanderson Sisters.

“We are hopeful that this will help first year and

transfer students make connections to the theatre world outside of the UNI Theatre Department,” says Stanbro.

The event will also have a ton of Halloween-themed decorations to celebrate the upcoming holiday and get everyone in the mood for the celebration.

“We are so excited to be putting on ‘Hocus Pocus,’” said Stanboro. “We are encouraging students to wear costumes inspired by the movie as well! Students who come in costume will be allowed to enter their name twice for any characters they would like to read for before the show.”

To comply with COVID19 guidelines, according to Stanbro, the event will require students attending to wear masks, in addition to a grid of 6x6 boxes with every other box marked off to ensure that everyone is at a safe distance.

Courtesy Photo/UNISTA The UNI Student Theatre Association will be hosting a public reading of the Halloween classic “Hocus Pocus” for all students as a part of their “Under the Stars” series.

UNISTA to host ‘Hocus Pocus’ reading AASHITA VADHERA

Staff Writer

On Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m., the UNI Student Theatre Association is hosting their “UNISTA Under the Stars” event where students get to participate in theatre in a fun and socially distanced way. Originally set to take place at the Arts Triangle Courtyard, the event will now be held at the StrayerWood Theatre due to unexpected cold temperatures.

The first UNISTA Under the Stars event took place on Oct. 9 when Lindy Rublaitus, a communications and theatre arts student, directed a play called “10 out of 12,” that she had originally sent in to be considered for the 2020-2021 season before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rublaitus had the opportunity to precast the character of Herschel and hold a few Zoom rehearsals prior to

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social distancing and the fact that they are able continued from page 1 to host this large numMichele Peck, Assistant ber of students without Director at the Office of exposing any of them to Academic Advising felt any health risks. Another that there were a fair positive is that it removes share of positives and the nerves some students negatives with the event may have when it comes going online. Peck stat- to being in a large envied the positives include ronment.

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someone who was very introverted or very uncomfortable, it’s maybe traumatic for them to go to a large event and they might find something like this acceptable and they are able to part take in the event,” said Peck For the negatives, Peck mentions that a lot of students want a more

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face-to-face experience, and it is hard to replicate what they want over an online Zoom setting, in addition to some minor technical errors.

There were over 200 students in attendance.

Tudor and other members of the Academic Advising Office were very happy with the turnout.

“It has been a great event,” said Tudor. “This is the first time we have ever tried to do it on Zoom, so it is a learning experience, but we still wanted to make sure students had the opportunity to hear from seniors.”

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VOLLEYBALL

MVC releases 2021 volleyball schedule COLIN HORNING

Sports Writer

The Missouri Valley Conference has announced the 2021 schedules for women’s volleyball with the season to be played in the spring semester due to the postponement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fall athletics for every Missouri Valley Conference school are expected to be played in the spring semester, along with football, wrestling, men’s and women’s basketball, along with any other fall sport.

The women’s volleyball schedule is scheduled to begin on Feb. 7 and will conclude

on March 28. The MVC tournament is slated to be played from April 1-3, hosted

by Illinois State University.

Regular-season games are scheduled to be played in pairs on back-to-back days, with eight matches on Sundays, seven on Mondays and one on Saturday. The conference schedule for the Panthers will begin on Sunday, Feb. 7 through Monday, Feb. 8 at the University of Evansville.

Their home opener will be the following week of Sunday, Feb. 14 and Monday, Feb. 15 against Missouri State, before a two-game set against Southern Illinois on the road in Carbondale, Ill. the following week.

UNI’s remaining home games will be against Indiana State on Feb. 28 and March 1, Illinois State March 7-8 and Loyola March 21-22. Their final regular-season set will be on the road against Bradley on March 27-28 before the MVC tour nament begins on April 1.

Head coach Bobbi Petersen will be at the helm for her 21st season.

She has led UNI to 15 NCAA tournament appearances, nine regular-season conference titles and nine MVC tour nament championships. The Panthers will be looking to replace a large portion of their

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The Missouri Valley Conference released the 2021 volleyball schedule. The Panthers begin play on Feb. 7 at the University of Evansville.

starting lineup from a year ago, following the depar-

tures of Karli Taylor, Abbi Staack and Rachel Koop.

SOCCER

Women’s soccer schedule announced for spring 2021 COLIN HORNING

Sports Editor

The fall schedule for the 2021 Missouri Valley Conference women’s soccer season has been announced.

The season is set to begin on Feb. 27 and conclude on April 7, with the conference tournament set to begin April 10-11 and the championship game being played on April 17.

UNI will play an eightgame conference schedule with four games being played at home and four on the road. All

Northern Iowa home games will be played at Memorial Stadium in Waterloo, IA. The Panthers will open the season on the road against Evansville for a 5 p.m. start on Friday, March 5. They will then return home to host Loyola on Wednesday, March 10 followed

by Missouri State on Saturday, March 13. They will hit the road again for the next two games, with the first being on March 19 in Carbondale, Ill. against Southern Illinois and against Illinois State on March 25 in Normal, Ill. UNI returns

home against Valparaiso on March 28 before their final road game against Indiana State on April 4. The regular season will conclude for the Panthers on April 7 at home against in-state rival Drake.

UNI head coach Bruce Erickson will begin his fourth season as coach of the Panther women’s soccer team. Last season, UNI went 5-11 but will be returning a young cast of players along with a strong freshman class for the 2021 season.

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UNI women’s soccer is set to begin on March 5 on the road against Evansville.

OPINION

NFL week six: are the Titans contenders?

NICHOLAS SCHINDLER Sports Writer

Week six of the NFL confirmed many things we knew already about teams and left us scratching our heads about what we thought we knew about others.

Let’s start out with two things we thought we knew and were confirmed after week six of the NFL. For starters, the Dallas Cowboys need to give quarterback Dak Prescott a contract extension. This week, the Cowboys were the most prepared of any week so far this year, according to head coach Mike McCarthy, yet were trounced 38-10 at home against the Arizona Cardinals. Backup quarterback Andy Dalton could not get it done at all and the mistakes made by the Cowboys were so numerous you could just tell the team was deflated. Since Prescott (their starting quarterback) is out for the season, they

are no longer Super Bowl contenders.

The second thing we confirmed from week six is that the Tennessee Titans are for real, and again they proved how good they are on Sunday. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill led a comeback against the Houston Texans, throwing four touchdown passes with a passer rating of 122.4, leading the Titans to 42-36 victory in overtime. The Titans were in the AFC Championship last year and seem poised to reach the championship game again this year.

Something that surprised the football world was the Green Bay Packers losing by 28 points against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Green Bay started up 10-0, but once Aaron Rodgers threw an interception returned for a touchdown the game got out of hand. The Buccaneers scored 38 unanswered points, and the Packers didn’t score again. The final score was 38-10 with the Tampa Bay

defense led the way, holding the Packers to a season low 201 yards on offense. The Buccaneers look like legit contenders now that they have more chemistry on offense, and their defense is one of the best in the NFL. Another thing that surprised us is that the Chicago Bears are now 5-1 and in first place in the NFC North after the first six weeks.

In a year where they benched their starting quarterback Mitch Trubisky for backup Nick Foles, the Bears have rode their defense and some clutch plays by Foles to the second best record in the entire NFC and looking to contend for a top seed in the NFC.

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Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill has led his team to a 5-0 start so far this season.

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1 Mongolian desert 2 Traffic sound 3 Jump over 4 Ancient Peloponnesian state 5 Winds (one’s way) through 6 Some advanced college courses 7 Surrounded by 8 Prince Harry’s dukedom 9 Without much detail 10 MPs’ concern 11 Bad review 12 Steam 13 German article 21 __-dieu 22 Unwelcome word from a barber 25 Catch in a lie, say 26 NutraSweet developer 27 Accounting giant __ & Young 28 Courtyard that may feature glass elevators 29 Pod-bearing trees 30 Consumed 31 60 minuti 32 __ corgi 36 R-V link 38 Excuses 41 Casting calls 42 “__ Ben Adhem” 44 “Stat!”

45 Skins, as a knee 48 Strolled 49 Taking it easy 53 Finished 54 In need of guidance 55 “This Is Us” role for

Chrissy Metz 56 Micro or macro subj.

57 Cabinet div.

58 __ Bath & Beyond 59 “Selma” director DuVernay 60 Nevertheless

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1 Abruptly end a relationship with by ignoring texts, calls and such 6 European airline 9 Uninspiring 14 Pizazz 15 Flightless bird 16 Not in the dark 17 Prickly shrub 18 Prefix with match or fire 19 One with no hope 20 Spotify category for courageous Motown lovers?

23 Alpine lake 24 Fair-hiring initials 25 “The Waste Land” monogram 28 One hiking in a Maine national park?

32 Org. for the Williams sisters 33 Blood fluids 34 Damascus native 35 Says 22-Down, perhaps 37 Octane Booster brand 39 Loan figs.

40 “Field of Dreams” actor 43 Cy Young stats 46 Final: Abbr.

47 Weekend in the Hamptons, say?

50 Pinafore letters 51 Hebrew for “day” 52 Small fruit pie 53 Like a delivery truck blocking your car, maybe ... and a hint to 20-, 28- and 47-Across 58 Gulf States inlet 61 Bagel go-with 62 Flower child’s greeting 63 Track meet part 64 Cooperstown winter hrs.

65 Legally bar

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