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Panel discusses challenges faced by international students.

UNI Proud hosts annual Halloween drag show.

UNI Volleyball Coach Bobbi Petersen gets 500th career win.

Candidate Julián Castro visits UNI ELIZABETH KELSEY News Editor

Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro greeted more than 30 UNI students, faculty and community members in the College Eye Room of the Maucker Union at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24. Castro was the third presidential candidate to visit UNI this past week, after appearances by Tom Steyer and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.

Marketing and business management major Adalberto Castrejon introduced Castro.

“Growing up as a little kid in Iowa, there wasn’t a lot of people that looked like me [or] talked like me,” Castrejon said.

“I want to thank Secretary Castro for being that individual for others, for children who see him on the TV and think ‘He talks like me, he looks like me

and I can also be like him.’”

Castro began his speech by outlining the motivation behind his presidential campaign.

“I’m running for president because I believe that we need a country in the years to come where everyone counts,” he said. “That’s the kind of America that I want to build in the twenty-first century.”

Castro said that he believes voters in 2020 will look for a candidate with both experience and a strong vision for the country. He cited his own leadership experience as mayor of San Antonio and as President Obama’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

“I’ve been in charge of something, and I have a track record of getting things done,” he said. “Not every candidate can say that.”

In terms of his vision, Castro outlined the basic tenets of his platform. He discussed his plans to improve the public education system, including increasing teacher salaries,

providing universal pre-K education and tuition-free public state universities and integrating trade education into public schools.

Castro also mentioned his plans for the nation’s health care system.

“In my vision for America’s

Despite the Bears 1-5 record, head coach Mark Farley knew Missouri State’s defense held North Dakota State to 22 points, short of their 37 points per game average.

“They played an excellent game against North Dakota

State,” Farley said. “They’ve got very good talent. They’ve got a very good system and last week they showed that [...] Instead of looking at records, you’re kind of looking at who they are, and I think they’re a very good football team.”

health care future, we’re building out our system around Medicare,” he said. He added, however, that citizens with a strong private health insurance plan should be able to keep it: “We can accomplish both of those things.”

Castro also emphasized

the need for economic equity. He mentioned his proposed inheritance tax and wealthy equality tax, stating that these measures would help America “expect more from those who are doing well.”

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Panther thrash Missouri State 29-6 JACOB POTTER

Sports Editor

The 11th-ranked Panthers took down Missouri State 29-6 on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 26, for their first road win of the season to advance to 5-3 overall.

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The Panthers got off to a 12-0 start after two field goals and a six-yard TD run by redshirt freshman QB Will McElvain for his first rushing TD as a Panther.

A 46-yard TD strike from McElvain to sophomore wideout Isaiah Weston closed the half out at 19-0.

A 70-yard TD pass from McElvain to Weston put the Panthers up 29-0 in the third quarter, followed by closing out a 29-6 victory.

The 70-yard heave is the longest throw of McElvain’s career and the longest reception of Weston’s career.

Weston put up his fifth 100-yard receiving performance, racking up 157 yards on five catches along with two touchdowns. The St. Albert, Minn. native is the first Panther since five-year NFL veteran Eddie Berlin to score a touchdown in seven consecutive games. Weston now has 10 touchdowns in

eight games, as well as 107 receiving yards per game.

In the ground game, the Panthers held the Bears to just 16 rushing yards and saw a 61-yard rushing performance by Tyler Hoosman after a 111-yard career-high last week.

“What Tyler Hoosman did was when he got an opportunity he made the most of it,” Farley said. “He just works every day. Why you like him is because of the way he comes to practice every day. He’s consistent whether it was [against] Iowa State when he didn’t play or this game.”

On top of allowing only 16 rushing yards, the Panther defense racked up five sacks along with two fumble recoveries by Austin Evans.

Up next, the Panthers take their show on the road again to face off against the Illinois State Redbirds on Saturday, Nov. 2.

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ISSO panel discusses transitions LAUREN MCGUILL Staff Writer

On Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in Rod Library 287, Isabela Varela, director of the International Students and Scholars Office, (ISSO), gave a presentation about teaching international students. The presentation offered advice for teachers to better assist international students in the classroom, and went into depth about differences between UNI and international universities.

Varela was joined by a panel of three professors: biology professor Shoshanna Coon, history professor Louis Fenech and technology professor and department head Lisa Riedle. Four international students also gave insight: Kehan Guo, Ahlam Laouar, Precious Joshua Osoba and Luma Khalid Yasin.

Varela started off the presentation by addressing some communication differences international students may face. While not holding eye contact may seem rude to us,

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“In this country, we celebrate people’s success, but we also want to make sure that everyone has a chance to succeed, and that’s what my plan does,” he said.

Castro also stated that he would rejoin the Paris Agreement on greenhouse gas emissions, fix the nation’s “broken” immigration system

it is a sign of respect in other countries. Furthermore, class participation is vital in most U.S. classrooms, but in other cultures, asking questions in class is frowned upon as many of the students are afraid of being wrong. Other differences international students sometimes encounter are popular culture references, acronyms, anecdotes, jokes and phrases.

Another problem many international students face is plagiarism. The students don’t commit these acts with ill intent, but instead are used to another way of learning.

While sharing information with one’s classmates could be considered cheating in the United States, in other countries it may be seen as simply helping them out. In addition, while not citing direct sources in papers is considered plagiarism here, the uncited information may be viewed as “common knowledge,” not requiring citations in foreign countries.

Varela asked her panel of teachers what challenges they’ve encountered with

international students and how they addressed them.

“The biggest challenge I’ve had in my classroom is plagiarism. One student copied a lab report off the Internet, and another turned in the same report from last semester,” said Coon. “To fix the problem, I explained the consequences of their actions and said how they would fail the class. It helps to have very clear communication, and sometimes start from scratch.”

The international students also weighed in on challenges they faced. Yasin, a finance major and native of Saudi Arabia, shared some of the struggles she faced during her years at UNI. “Citations are a very big thing here, [but] we never did them back home,” she said. “I also felt people were very hesitant to talk to me unless I made the first move.”

Laouar, a women’s and gender studies major, had a similar experience.

“Classmates were a problem for me as well. I felt that my classmates were in their

own bubbles and weren’t very open to me,” Laouar said.

Even though there are many difficulties faced by international students, those at the presentation expressed gratitude at how hard their professors tried to make the transition as easy as possible.

In addition, professors shared tips that they found helped their students the most.

Riedle said she limited misinterpretation of directions by keeping her sentences short, very clear and very stated. Fenech said that

and strengthen the American foster care system.

Castro’s mention of foster care was particularly striking for UNI math education professor Adam Feldhaus.

Feldhaus and his wife, both of whom attended the event, have a personal connection to the foster care system, having adopted their son out of foster care.

“The fact that [Castro] has a plan to improve the foster

care system, that’s not something I’ve heard a lot from the other candidates,” Feldhaus said.

Castro emphasized that another factor distinguishing him from the rest of the Democratic field is his willingness to take strong stances on divisive issues.

“I haven’t been afraid of speaking up about this very sensitive issue that other candidates are afraid to tackle,” he said, referencing his “First Chance” plan to reform the U.S. criminal justice system.

After taking audience questions, Castro ended the event with an appeal for monetary and promotional support. The campaign is at a “critical stage,” he said, as he works to earn a spot in the November Democratic debate.

Earlier this week, the Castro campaign released a statement that unless the campaign can

raise $800,000 by the end of October, Castro will be forced to drop out of the presidential race. In the most recent Des Moines Register poll, Castro was polling at less than 1% among Democratic candidates in the state of Iowa.

After the event, Castro posed for pictures with attendees.

“I thought it was very informative,” Feldhaus said. “I thought he did a really good job answering questions, and I thought he was very personable.”

Heden Perez, a sophomore TESOL major, also found Castro’s talk informative.

“It cleared up a lot of questions that I had about him […] his policy, and what he actually believed in, which was very clarifying,” Perez said.

As a Mexican American student, Perez said he feels Castro’s representation of the

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he began to bring in more Arabic literature, as many of his international students are from Saudi Arabia.

At the end of the presentation, the audience broke into small groups and discussed how best to handle situations involving international students.

“It’s very important to stay away from cultural assumptions. At the end of the day, all cultures are the same, [and] communication happens in the same way,” said Varela.

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International students and UNI faculty shared experiences and advice for how to help international student transition to life in the U.S. classroom.

Latino community could be both valuable for citizens and beneficial in terms of voting power.

“I feel like if he is the Democratic nominee, he has a fairly decent chance of winning,” Perez said. “A lot of the younger Latino generation is grown up, and I feel like we have more power […] I feel like it will motivate them to vote, seeing a Latino man run for president, fighting against the poor excuse of a president we have now.”

“What really struck me is that he wants to move forward America,” Perez added, referencing a point made by Castro at the conclusion of the event.

“I don’t want to go backward. I don’t want to make America anything again,” Castro said. “I want to go forward. I want to make us better than we’ve ever been in the years ahead.”

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The impact of the printing press KEVIN WIGGINS

Opinion Columnist

We often don’t even think of the technology that we use in our day-to-day lives, even of the human heroes whose genius created it. I ride my bike to class without even thinking of the human ingenuity that created a system of gears, inflatable tubing and the metallurgy went into creating a vehicle that only weighs 17 pounds. Or even that from my phone, I have access to more of the accumulated body of human knowledge than any person who came before me. Not only has the Internet changed us, but it has changed the very ways in which we encounter human learning. Podcasts present a revolution in human encountering of information in a way that Johannes Gutenberg couldn’t have even fathomed.

A crew of wealthy, educated (what would later be called “bourgeois”) Italian and Greek refugees in the mid-1400s began the process of what would become the Renaissance. As the Roman Empire crumbled in the wake of the Ottoman Caliphate,

Greek scholars such as Gemisthos Plethon, John Agyroupolos and Demetrios Chalkokondyles fled west to Italy. The vast majority of these refugees ended up in the Republic of Venice, the city provided shelter to them and there was even a lively community which was highly visible until as late as 1806.

These men carried with them a number of manuscripts of ancient Greek texts that had been lost in the West. This happened to occur just as a German man finished what would change the horizons of civilization and truly what would prove the greatest challenge to statists, the written word.

Johannes Gutenberg finished his first press in 1439. By 1500, there were dozens of presses active across Europe, but the technology was slow to be adopted. Many, the Church included, were wary of what such easy access to information could do or inspire. For the Humanists, however, nothing could have been more of a godsend.

The first Greek press was created in Venice by Anna Notaras, a noted benefactor of letters, and the grand-

daughter of the last Megas Dux of the Roman Empire, Loukas Notaras. In a few short decades, the inheritance of the Western world from antiquity spread across Europe like wildfire. Now, this sketch I’ve painted here is, of course, one-dimensional. It isn’t my claim that this is precisely how the access to printed books was born.

Rather, it goes to show what a concentrated and highly innovational invention can do for a community. The Venetian Greek community’s access to the printed word in their native tongue and the ability to print their own literature was a central aspect of their survival as a community.

This empowering and utterly precious phenomenon is at work in our times.

The Internet itself is a sort of Gutenberg revolution. Having access to all of humanities knowledge in our pockets is one thing, but how information is even consumed is breathtaking. First, we had papyrus scrolls, then the codex, then the printed book, but now, podcasts are changing the very way in which we interact with knowledge. Reading, until as

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late as the 1800s, was an audio-visual happening. One would read aloud to themselves. This hangover from times past was the basic structure in which a text was encountered and it was a dedicated stationary affair.

Now, with podcasts, audiobooks and their ilk, a human work can be encountered on the go and in our found time.

Someone such as Joe Rogan, who conducts 2-3 hours long interviews, can have contact with people across the globe. The average episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” is downloaded two million times and paired

with hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. Even more, institutions such as Yale, Oxford and Cambridge have begun to release their freshman courses as audio files. Johannes Gutenberg gave the world unfathomable access to information in the 1400s.

Today, not only access has been democratized in unfathomable ways, but the very way in which information is encountered has been changed forever. We are living through the greater revolution in human learning than ever before, and we should be in awe of that fact.

The positive and negative effects of social media ABIGAIL BENNETHUM

Opinion Columnist

When people talk about social media, it can be perceived as either positive or negative. Social media can be used for a variety of reasons including growing businesses, self-promotion, self-improvement and even fame and fortune. However, it can also be a very negative and toxic thing as well.

The thing that differentiates between these positives and negatives is how people use it. When really thinking about social media, it’s not the application itself but the content that individuals

provide on the application.

Different applications provide different ways people can share and contribute to the world. Twitter in this day and age seems to be one of the most influential applications to share anything and everything while connecting with almost anybody. Topics of discussion are almost limitless ranging from memes to self-improvement threads, all the way to politics and controversial issues.

Something that has been trending for a while on Twitter is #weloveyouMeghan. This hashtag was started in support

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of Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, after an interview with ITV News about her early days of motherhood. Many news stations and reporters have seen the internal struggle that she portrayed during the interview.

Many people have found commonalities with Meghan and her newfound role as a mother and the mental and physical exhaustion that comes along with it. This interview hit home with many mothers, not just the ones in the spotlight, all expressing the feeling of judgment and dislike.

During the interview, Tom Bradby asked about the impact of the pressure of this new stage in her life and how her mental and physical health is doing. Markle explains how, in general, while being pregnant, you feel vulnerable and added being in the spotlight emphasizes the vulnerability and strain she has been experiencing.

Something I noticed about the interview was she had trouble forming her words into what she was trying to say. However, I feel like the people who watched it knew exactly what she was trying to say. In the end, Markle

cut off her own line of commentary and switched to thanking Bradby for asking her how she was. Markle expressed that not many people have asked her if she was okay.

I think this interview really resonated with a lot of people besides mothers, especially when she said, “Not many people have asked me if I was okay.”

We all felt our hearts breaking because of the pain we saw in her eyes and her courage to portray a strong front, immediately we all thought back to a moment in our lives where we had to do the same. The personal touch this interview unknowingly had and what it has brought onto our social media platforms is insane, in a good way. We see people left and right of all ages, demographics banning together with words of encouragement and kindness.

Even though there were encouragement and kindness presented, scrutiny and judgment followed quickly, trying to make this movement of positivity towards somebody who needs it a joke. Many people followed the interview making their own videos and demeaning

tweets towards her and the struggles she is facing. To that, I think it is extremely unfair. Everybody has their own trials they are confronting every day. Through these social media platforms, people have turned such a gut-wrenching situation into something beautiful and uplifting. Others are seeing that and squashing the beauty of a community coming together in a positive way. Not only with Meghan’s situation, but anything that could possibly be expressed.

That is what is wrong with social media.

As we head into this next week, and all the weeks after, I challenge everybody on this campus to do something that will spread a little love.

Check up on your friend you haven’t heard from in a while, hold the door open for somebody, support somebody, or just offer a smile. Carry this encouragement and positivity to your social media platforms, make it a place where people feel inspired and lifted up, not somewhere people feel broken down.

“Be pitiful, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.” – Ian Maclaren

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Fast Forward trains in digital media SOFIA LEGASPI

Campus Life Editor

Nearly 30 industry professionals gathered at the 2019 Fast Forward Digital Media Workshop to share tips and tricks with students from UNI and other schools.

The event took place in Lang Hall on Friday, Oct. 25 and concluded with a keynote address and special session with Ben Hagarty, who has worked with several big clients in Los Angeles since graduating from UNI. Fast Forward is an annual workshop organized through the digital media major in the Department of Communication Studies. Its first iteration was held 15 years ago with about 40 participating students.

According to professor and event director Paul Torre, this year’s event included students not only from UNI, but also Luther College, Hawkeye, Iowa Central and Kirkwood Community Colleges and Marshalltown, Cedar Falls, Dike and Ballard High Schools.

“We are all here because we care about and are interested in media — journal-

ism, television and film production, radio, social media and all the technology that goes along with that,” said Interim Department Head Chris Martin to the crowd as the day began. “And you’re going to be getting a lot of that today.”

Fast Forward attendees were able to select three among 11 different panels to attend throughout the day, ranging from a radio vocalization master class and discussions about news and social media to demonstrations of video and lighting equipment.

One common theme throughout the day was the importance of collaboration, connections and creativity.

In a panel titled “Why Journalism isn’t Dying,” four editors and directors in the news industry discussed challenges faced as journalism shifts from print to digital.

Despite continuous changes in technology, panelists agreed the need for journalism was stronger as ever.

“It’s exciting right now really because we’re all trying different things,” said Tony Baranowski, director of local media for Times Citizen Communications. “Some are

succeeding and some are getting thrown out the window, and you move on to the next.”

Katie Brumbeloe, news editor for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, agreed adaptability was key.

“It’s important to be able to balance the two,” Brumbeloe said. “Being able to experiment and try things, and being able to let go of the things that don’t work as fast as you can is really important. You’ve got to be willing to be innovative […] And when it doesn’t work, don’t be discouraged. Know that you tried to do it and that you learned to take the next step forward for the next thing you’re gonna take a risk at.”

During another panel about crafting a brand through social media and video, former UNI student Devin Harschnek expressed a similar sentiment regarding the value of failure and resiliency.

“I have done a lot of failing in my career, and I would look at that as a beautiful thing. Look at it as a gift and look at it as a learning opportunity,” said Harschnek, who now works as a photographer and video producer for VGM Forbin. “Because I have not gotten to where I am — I don’t think anyone has gotten to where they are now — without a lot of failure, learning and continuing to improve.”

“The more you can learn and the more you can pull from your strengths and work on your weaknesses [the better]. You just never know what your job is going to entail and where it’s going to lead,” said Michelle Van Dorn, a former journalist who is now UNI’s first social media coordinator.

These themes continued through Hagarty’s keynote address, where he outlined his story from creating videos as a student at UNI, to moving to Los Angeles and sleeping on air mattresses in friends’ homes, to becoming the main videographer for Beyonce & Jay-Z on their world tour.

Hagarty shared three pillars he believed contributed to his success. The first was the

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UNI’s digital media program hosted its 15th annual Fast Forward workshop on Friday, Oct. 25. College and high school students from across the state heard from nearly 30 industry experts, including keynote speaker and UNI alum Ben Hagarty.

concept that it takes 10,000 hours to master a craft.

“I only think about filming and making content 24 hours a day,” Hagarty said.

“I literally live to learn, and even though I’ve been out of school for a while […]

I consider myself always a student in this game; everything’s always changing […] so you constantly have to be on your toes.”

The second point involved adding value to a project with no expectations in return.

Hagarty gave an example of helping director Andrew Sandler with Chris Brown’s documentary, “Welcome to My Life.” After putting a great deal of voluntary time and effort toward the project, Hagarty was eventually given credit as co-editor for the film: the beginning of his snowball into success.

“By finding ways to add value, you create a network,” he said. “And that network will remember the value that you give.”

Hagarty’s third piece of

advice was to “exceed all expectations” by searching for gaps and needs and taking the initiative to fill them. The creator related these three points to the importance of meeting people and making connections.

“This is super key in almost every field. Networking, right?” Hagarty said. “If you do something really good and go above and beyond for someone, and the next time someone asks that person if they know someone that does something kind of like what you do, you’re going to be at the top of that list.”

By adhering to his three mantras and making the right connections, Hagarty said, he was able to get his foot in the door and break into the Los Angeles media business — a feat that, for many, takes years to accomplish, if at all.

“I hauled through and I never stopped running,” he said. “I don’t know how to tell you how important it is to take advantage of those opportunities, to seize those moments.”

As a final thought, Hagarty urged his audience to remember the importance of collaboration — a concept he valued so highly that he created “Black with No Cream,” an online community for creators to gather and learn together.

“Collaboration is the most key thing I’ve ever found to really jumpstart any project,” he said.

Those interested in Hagarty’s online community can visit BWNC.com/join.

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‘Zombieland’ returns without brains HUNTER FRIESEN Film Critic

When the first “Zombieland” came out in 2009, it was a pleasant surprise. The zombie genre was in its initial rebirth stage and self-referential humor hadn’t reached its peak just yet. It became the talk of every middle and high school around the country, creating a rabid fanbase that launched the careers for several of its stars and creators.

Now ten years later, the gang is back, still making their way through the undead infestation within America.

But slaughtering zombies proves to create human relationship problems, ones that the survivors all thought they left behind. Also, there’s a new breed of zombie on the loose: tougher and smarter than ever before. With the physical and emotional danger ramping up by the day, the bond holding the misfit family together will soon be tested.

Directing: 3/5 Directed by Ruben Fleischer, helmer of the first film and Tom Hardy’s “Venom,” “Zombieland: Double Tap” is a breezy 99-minute comedy. The atmosphere is light and joyous as the characters retain their sarcastic attitudes even in the most perilous of times.

That carefree attitude is also a symptom of the story’s lack of depth and purpose.

Fleischer frames the narrative as a road movie, but without

a meaningful destination or compelling journey to bring it all together. The comedy set pieces here are closer to separate entities rather than part of a whole piece.

Fortunately, some of those disjointed scenes contain some great action as Fleischer embellishes in the gory fun of killing (or re-killing) the undead. Slow-motion and excessive blood and guts soak the screen and make for an amusing watch. And even though guns are the primary weapon of choice, there is one top-notch tracking shot sequence that deserves credit for its creative methods for killing.

Writing: 2/5 Written by the original duo of the first movie with the addition Dave Callaham, “Zombieland: Double Tap” still contains the same amount of self-referential humor of the first. This time though, the meta-jokes aren’t as fresh and are served through overly-expository narration. Just like the carefree atmosphere, this fault is part of a larger problem: staleness.

Ten years ago, this story and these characters were original. But now with “The Walking Dead” and umpteen amount of video games, the zombie genre has run itself into the ground.

“Zombieland” writers don’t try to solve this problem and merely just try to joke around it.

That’s not to say that the jokes are bad; some of them

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drag-a-ganza GABRIELLE LEITNER

Executive Editor

On Friday, Oct. 25, about 50 UNI students and community members gathered in Maucker Union for UNI Proud’s annual Drag-A-Ganza.

Performers danced to songs such as “Look What You Made Me Do,” “Your Love Is My Drug,” “Can’t Be Tamed” and “The Greatest Show.”

Proceeds from the event

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went to Iowa Safe Schools and their annual Pride Camp, which, according to the Iowa Safe Schools website, provides an experience for LGBTQ and allied youth to learn, grow and connect with their peers. Each $100 raised is able to provide a scholarship for one student to attend Pride Camp. By the end of the evening, patrons raised enough money to send 10 students to the 2020 Pride Camp.

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“Zombieland: Double Tap” was released on Oct. 18 and stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. The film received a 68 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

are quite good. The chemistry between the cast is just as good or even better than the original. It’s just a shame that all that talent is buried under a little-to-nothing plot that only serves the purpose of shuffling them between set pieces.

It’s fine and all to watch the same great characters do funny stuff, but a story to tell is also necessary. The lack of a story here showcases the prime reason this film was nothing more than an unnecessary cash grab.

Acting: 3/5 Ten years older and all Academy Award-nominated, the cast returns to do more of the same.

Jesse Eisenberg is his usual fidgety and neurotic self as he spatters out his rules of survival.

Woody Harrelson takes the top spot among the group and seems to be enjoying himself the most. It’s almost unfair to the others that he gets the best lines, but he makes the most out of them and is the main reason most of the jokes land.

Emma Stone, away from serious roles for a little bit, also seems to be reveling in the zombie carnage. It’s nice to see her let loose, especially since she does have a knack for snarky comedy.

Lastly, Abigail Breslin gets the short end of the stick as she isn’t given any-

thing funny to do or say, even if she’s pretty good in her scarce moments to shine.

Overall: 2.5/5 “Zombieland: Double Tap” has some good moments, but they’re not enough to make it a good movie. Still, its inoffensiveness delivers just enough laughs to service those who have fond memories of the first one.

Just like how “Ghostbusters II” isn’t remembered to this day, I feel this sequel will come and go without leaving the same lasting mark that the superior original was able to make all those years ago.

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Women’s basketball 2019-20 season preview 20 season.

“Overall, practices have Sports Writer been going very well,” head Coming off of last coach Tanya Warren said. year’s first-round defeat “We’ve done a lot of teachin the women’s National ing, and I’m very pleased Invitational Tournament, with the competitiveness.” the UNI women’s basketball Four of last year’s five team returns a strong core starters are returning this of key players as well as season, including redshirt a talented group of young junior center Megan Maahs, players going into the 2019- who suffered a season-endCOLIN HORNING

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ing injury eight games into last season.

Maahs, who earned firstteam all Missouri Valley Conference, MVC all-defensive team and MVC all-tournament team during the 2017-18 season, looks to give the Panthers a strong presence on the inside.

Also returning in the starting lineup are junior guards Karli Rucker and Nicole Kroeger, junior forward Bre Gunnels and senior guard Rose SimonRessler.

Last season was a breakout year for Rucker as she earned first-team all MVC in her first full year as the starting point guard for Northern Iowa.

The early-season schedule has some tough matchups, including games at Wichita State and the University of Missouri, as

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well as at home against the University of Iowa on Nov. 17.

The Panthers will also travel to Las Vegas near the end of November for the South Point Shootout, facing Alabama and Ohio State.

Coach Warren is heading into her 13th season at the helm for the Panthers.

As the all-time winningest women’s basketball coach

in UNI history, Warren is looking for another strong season.

“I really like how well our young women are communicating,” Warren said.

“Our attention to detail isn’t where I’d like it to be, nor should it be at this point in the season. But overall, I’m very pleased with our effort going into the start of the season.”

VOLLEYBALL

Panthers win away for Petersen’s 500th career win BRIELLE KIEWIET Sports Writer

The Panther volleyball team notched two wins in Indiana to clinch 500 career wins for head coach Bobbi Petersen.

The Panthers took down Indiana State 3-0 on Friday, Oct. 25, followed by edging out Evansville 3-2 on Saturday, Oct. 26. The win moves UNI to 16-9 overall and 10-1 in conference play.

The 3-0 sweep against Indiana State to give coach Petersen 500 career wins made her only the second UNI volleyball coach in history to do so.

The Panthers took

all three sets against the Sycamores on Friday night with set scores of 25-19, 25-9 and 25-19, respectively.

Senior Karlie Taylor led the way offensively in kills with 12 and a .226 hitting percentage. Kate Busswitz and Kaylissa Arndorfer were close behind, each with 11 kills. The team recorded a hitting percentage of .337 on the night.

Senior setter Rachel Koop totaled 32 assists in the match, marking 2,500 career assists and ranking her 10th in UNI history.

Abbi Staack was also a key player during the match with a team-high 17 digs.

Saturday night saw the Panthers take a trip to Evansville, In., to take on the Purple Aces, winning in five sets. This is the third time this season the Cats have played to five sets, they took the match 3-2.

After falling in the first two sets, the Panthers came back strong and ended with a .260 hitting percentage.

Taylor served as a key player again both offensively and defensively, recording 22 kills and 21 digs. Arndorfer fell close behind with her season-high 19 kills.

Koop continues to lead the country in total assists with 61 assists in five sets, and Staack finished with 15

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digs.

The Panthers return home to the McLeod

Center for matches against Souther n Illinois and Missouri State on Nov. 1-2.

SOCCER

Panthers fall short to Evansville in final home game PATRICK HANSEN

Sports Writer

In need of a win to make the MVC tournament, the Panther women’s soccer team took on Evansville in the final home game of the season, falling short 1-0. Coming

into the match, head coach Bruce Erikson noted the stakes at hand.

“It is a big weekend coming up with our two opponents [Evansville and Valparaiso],” Erickson said. “We are all in the same boat where winning is paramount to getting into

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the conference tournament.”

The Panthers and the Aces went back and forth throughout the first half, trading shot after shot, but strong play by both goalies kept a shutout on both sides.

The Panthers kept it close throughout most of the second half, but in the 83rd minute, midfielder Amanda Disilva snuck a shot past the Panther defense for the deciding goal.

The Purple and Gold drop to 5-10 overall for seventh place in the conference standings, which is currently one win short of making the conference tournament starting Sunday, Nov. 3.

Up next, the Panthers

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will close out the season at Valparaiso in a Halloween night showdown on Thursday, Oct. 31.

The matchup against the Crusaders is a must win for the Panthers’ chances at the

tourney and UNI will also need help from Indiana State.

If the Panthers win, and Indiana State ties or loses, the Purple and Gold will clinch the final seed in the tournament.

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