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October 5, 2017
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Volume 114, Issue 12
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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Post-grad employment 2 You have purpose 3
Panther Portrait: HOCO picnic 5
The ‘Juice’ is loose 6
HOmeCOMING kick-off & pride cry
KIRBY DAVIS/Northern Iowan
SARAH RITONDALE staff writer
The Maucker Union was flooded with hundreds of students ready to show their Panther Pride through songs and dance moves on Monday, Oct. 2. Monday’s Homecoming Kick-Off event played host to UNI’s annual Pride Cry competition, which consisted of 12 groups of students from different student organizations who performed a song and dance routine.
Each Pride Cry group competed to be one of three finalists to perform on Friday, Oct. 6, at the Homecoming Pep Rally in the West Gym. The three finalists are The Movement, Camp Adventure and SAA & CATS. “I went last year but I didn’t really know anyone, so this year was much more entertaining,” said Abbey Browning, sophomore elementary education major. “I will try to go every
year because I think it is a fun way to kick off Homecoming week and get everyone excited to cheer the Panthers on. I might even participate in it next year!” Pride Cry has several rules, one of which stated that no sound equipment could be used. However, each group had to have one song based around the Star Warsinspired Homecoming theme of “Panthers Awaken,” as well
MONIQUE SMITH
Sands Wright Hall in honor of David Sands Wright, one of the first two professors at what was then the Iowa State Normal School. “60 years ago, it was named for David Sands Wright, who taught for 50 years,” Campbell said. “Wright was one of the original faculty of the university, and he actually taught the first class at the university, which was an English class.” Campbell went on to say that Wright Hall was the 13th building built on campus. However, many of the older buildings are no longer in
existence. “Wright Hall is older than any of the dormitories, the Campanile and various other modern buildings,” Campbell said. “However, the auditorium and the physics building are older, and so is Sabin.” According to Campbell, Lang Hall was formerly known as the Auditorium Building. It then became known as the Old Auditorium. The exterior of Wright Hall remains nearly the same today, even 100 years after it was first built.
Wright Hall turns 100 Staff Writer
Wright Hall is a part of the legacy of UNI, as familiar to students as the Campanile, and the building is about to celebrate its 100th birthday. According to the UNI website, construction for Wright Hall began in 1915 and was completed in 1917, with the total cost reaching $109,566. According to Associate Professor of Mathematics Russell Campbell, in 1957, the building was named David
See WRIGHT HALL, page 5
as the UNI fight song. This meant that not only were students dancing, but singing as well. The emcee for the event was comedian Peter Lee. The crowd of students in attendance cheered on the various Pride Cry groups, as chatter and laughter filled the Union in between each performance. As Lee announced each competing group, the group member, as well as their sup-
porters, would yell and cheer as loud as they could, adding to the school spirit on display. Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Phi used a confetti cannon at the end of their performance, eliciting an excited response from the crowd. Though each group did not have props like a confetti canon, they all had something special to contribute to the event. See KICK-OFF, page 4
GABRIELLE LEITNER/Northern Iowan
Wright Hall, located near Rod Library, was named after a former Iowa State Normal School professor.
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