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VOLLEYBALL

Counseling Center sees policy update.

Theater critiqe Anna Alldredge reviews “Tales from the Bayou.”

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Panthers go 3-0 in conference play.

Panthers edge Penguins, 21-14 COLIN HORNING

Sports Writer

The Penguins of Youngstown State came into the UNI-Dome with a 4-0 record for Saturday’s matchup against the 13th-ranked Panthers, and wound up leaving with their first defeat of the season after a 21-14 loss at the hands of the Panther defense.

“Defensively, I was very pleased with their resilience,” head coach Mark Farley said.

“What I probably enjoy the most is how a defense can energize a building, and how a building can energize a defense. I thought the fans

were awesome, and that’s why the home field is so important for us. When you get into those drives like the one we had finished with a fumble, I’d say that was just as much the fan’s fumble as it was ours.”

A strong defense and timely plays on offense proved to be too much for the Missouri Valley Conference opponent, as the Panthers sacked Youngstown quarterback Nathan Mays six times and held them to only 55 yards rushing for the game.

Elerson Smith had 2.5 sacks to tie his 2018 total of 7.5 through five games thus far. Brawntae Wells added 1.5 sacks as well.

“We all thought on the

sideline that the defensive line played an outstanding, hard-effort game,” Farley said.

“There were multiple guys who hadn’t played, because going that hard for that long takes a lot of energy. That crew is very methodical and works very hard.”

The game started off slow with both teams going back and forth exchanging defensive stops. With about two minutes remaining in the first quarter, UNI’s walk-on quarterback Will McElvain threw a deep bomb to sophomore wideout Isaiah Weston for a 39-yard touchdown for the first score

of the game. Following backand-forth strong defensive showings from both sides, UNI would find the end zone again on a Trevor Allen 10-yard score, putting them up 14-0.

Youngstown State answered immediately on their next possession as Mays found wide receiver Jeremiah Braswell for a 75-yard strike to cut the Panther lead in half at 14-7.

The Purple and Gold came back with a 15-yard TD run by running back Tyler Hoosman, who punched it into the end zone for his first career TD. This put the Panthers up 21-7 at half-time.

YSU started the second half hot, scoring a touchdown on their opening drive, but the remainder of the game was a defensive battle as neither team could add on to the board.

The win puts UNI at 3-2 on the season, and 1-0 in Missouri Valley Conference play. Up next, the Panthers will travel to Fargo, N.D. for a matchup against the no. 1-ranked team and two-time defending champion North Dakota State Bison at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12.

The Panthers will return to the UNI-Dome on Saturday, Oct. 19 to face South Dakota for Family Weekend.

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SOFIA LEGASPI

Campus Life Editor

Three buildings on College Hill are sporting a new look after a wheat-pasting project was completed last week.

Crews of volunteers adhered five massive images onto exterior walls in the district on Thursday, Oct. 3 and Friday, Oct. 4.

The wheat-pasted images were pulled from Fortepan Iowa, an online archive of digitized photos based in Rod Library that launched in 2015 as the first sister site to the original Fortepan archive in Hungary. Photos in the Iowa archive, all of which are donated, are carefully curated to represent everyday life in

Iowa in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fortepan Iowa and the College Hill wheat-pasting project was directed by Bettina Fabos, a UNI professor of Interactive Digital Studies (IDS). “[We] decided to celebrate the archives through this public art project just to get people to know about the archives,” Fabos said. “We didn’t know how popular and incredible wheat-pasting would be until we started doing it.”

Wheat-pasting is a centuries-old adhesive technique that uses a mixture of flour and water to form a paste.

The paste helps the printed images bond to the building walls and creates a protective layer over the images. The process causes no harm to the

wall, and images can survive up to several months, weather permitting.

Planning for the College Hill wheat-pasting project has been underway for about six months. Fortepan Iowa received a grant from the Iowa Arts Council as well as additional funds from the Alumni Association and the College Hill Partnership. Other project contributors included local business owners and the city planning and zoning commission.

The Iowa Arts Council commissioned Fortepan Iowa to install wheat-pastings and photo exhibitions in five Iowa towns — Anamosa, Cedar Falls, Ottumwa, Sumner, and Webster City — over the next year. According to Fabos, the original plan was to put up

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the images in May 2020, however, excitement grew from the Alumni Association, and the College Hill project was bumped up to coincide with UNI’s 100th Homecoming anniversary.

Fabos’ team for the proj-

ect included students in the IDS program, professor and interim communication studies department head, Chris Martin, and lead wheat-pasting artist Isaac Campbell.

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Counseling Center sees policy change ELIZABETH KELSEY

The UNI Counseling Center has altered its scheduling policy for the 2019-2020 school year.

Counseling sessions, which had previously been unlimited for students under the mandatory student health fee, are now limited to five per year. Any additional visits must now be billed to the student’s health insurance.

The reason for the change is partially based in declining enrollment, according to Shelley O’Connell, Executive Director of Health and Recreation Services.

“The mandatory student fee is a significant portion of our budget,” she said. “Less students means less fees to support services. We provide a very comprehensive program, so [we thought about] how to continue to meet the demands of student needs. Families are already paying for the [health insurance] coverage of students, instead of us raising or implementing a fee to cover a service.”

Under the Affordable Care Act and Mental Health Parity Act, all health insurance plans are mandated to cover mental health diagnoses, “just as if it were a cold or diabetes,” according to O’Connell. Every student with health insurance will have coverage for counseling visits.

For those without insurance, the cost of each fifty-minute session beyond the five included yearly visits is $199 for the first visit and $114 for each subsequent visit.

Ricki Hall, senior sociology and philosophy major and President of UNI Active Minds, believes that the five included sessions are insufficient.

“Students need counseling, and if they know they’re only going to get five, why would they go?” Hall said.

As president of Active Minds, a student organization committed to changing the conversation and breaking the stigma around mental health, Hall works with the Counseling Center through Active Minds’ adviser, Brian Nissen, who is

the Suicide Prevention Educator at the Counseling Center.

However, Hall said the two organizations are not affiliated, and her group had no involvement with the changes to Counseling Center services. She learned of the changes during spring 2019, along with other campus leaders in NISG and the UNI Mental Health Council.

“It was devastating, honestly,” she said. “For the students who really need it the most, five is not enough. Sometimes, students were being seen twice a week. That’s only two and a half weeks of counseling. And even then, I don’t think you could make a connection and be able to solve anything.”

Jennifer Schneiderman, Counseling Center Director, said that the five-session threshold was chosen based on Counseling Center surveys, which indicated that 64 percent of students who use Counseling Center services use five or fewer sessions per year.

“And we didn’t just pick one year,” said O’Connell. “We can go back and run reports for years, and that’s a pretty consistent statistic.”

Hall also worries about students who don’t have health insurance, as well as those that do but don’t want to involve parents or family members in their Counseling Center visits.

“If you’re in severe need of it, and you don’t feel comfortable going to your parents, your insurance is going to get billed and therefore your parents would know,” she said.

She also said that in her own experience, the deductible for a counseling session is higher than that of a regular doctor’s visit.

O’Connell and Schneiderman acknowledged these concerns and mentioned several options for students wishing to avoid billing sessions to health insurance. If initial assessments indicate that it is clinically appropriate, students may qualify for one of the Counseling Center’s six weekly therapy groups, which are included in the mandatory student fee and will never be billed to students’ insurance.

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The Counseling Center has increased its group therapy offerings and now offers at least one group each weekday. Topics for the groups range from anxiety to social connection to family relationships. Every Counseling Center staff member is in a group, another change from last school year, O’Connell said.

This ensures that students who previously saw a certain staff member for individual sessions can join that staff member’s group if they wish to continue working with them.

As another alternative to avoid billing sessions to health insurance, if clinically appropriate, students may see one of the Counseling Center’s interns, who are current graduate students in UNI’s counseling master’s program.

“Interns cannot bill insurance,” Schneiderman said. This means that students who have paid the mandatory health fee have access to unlimited sessions with interns.

For students without health insurance, Student Wellness Services has a case manager who can help students explore resources and enroll in an appropriate health insurance plan.

In addition to the changes in scheduling for the Counseling Center, the UNI Pharmacy, which had served students since the 1960s, permanently closed on June 20, 2019.

Hall said that this closure is detrimental to students with

mental health diagnoses.

“If you are prescribed something, anything, whether that’s your birth control or anxiety medication, if you don’t have access to it, that’s going to stop you from going sometimes, especially if you don’t have a vehicle to get there,” she said. “If people aren’t getting the medication they need, their grades can suffer dramatically. It’s just added stress to an individual who’s already not in the right frame of mind.”

Although students can no longer pick up prescriptions at the Health Clinic, Schneiderman said, any professional at the Counseling Center can prescribe medication. Prescriptions are then electronially sent to a nearby pharmacy, of which there are plenty, O’Connell said.

“One factor that helped us to really cement the decision [to close the pharmacy] is that there are seven pharmacies within four miles of campus, and at least two will deliver,” O’Connell said.

Although she is disappointed, Hall said she understands the financial concerns.

“Obviously, it’s funding,” she said. “You can’t just be negative about it and not try to find a solution, so I know they’re trying to find different ways to fix things and help the situation.

It’s just a hard and sad reality. That’s why we think Active Minds should be growing just to get people aware of what’s

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happening, because a lot of students don’t even know there’s not a pharmacy anymore. I also think it should be stated when you’re enrolling at UNI in general.”

The desire to make resources and information more accessible to UNI students is what ultimately unites Hall, O’Connell and Schneiderman. All three discussed the work that Active Minds and the Counseling Center are doing, especially in the face of these changes, to promote Student Wellness initiatives such as Mental Health Ally training and QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) training for students to help peers who may be having suicidal thoughts. “[We need] more education in general,” Hall said.

“Sometimes it’s not as complicated as some people think it is.”

Wellness Services staff have also recently provided resources for faculty and staff, to equip them to help students and “create a culture of care,” according to O’Connell.

She also mentioned Wellness Coaching, covered under the mandatory student fee, where students work with Wellness staff rather than therapists to address health goals.

“We’re in the process of continued evaluation of where we’re going, and we will respond appropriately,” O’Connell said.

“We’re trying, and we will continue to try, because student needs are always changing.”

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Mental health deserves more ABIGAIL BENNETHUM

Opinion Columnist

As a society, we have done some amazing things to destigmatize the topic of mental health. In 2019, it is more accepted and more people are being educated on how to either help a loved one or help themselves. People are realizing that it is not a light switch that you can simply switch off, and how we all need to band together and show others that they are loved and meant to be here. Even though we are making amazing strides as a society, we are also lacking, lacking in the resources where people can turn.

Iowa is ranked as one of the worst states for mental health care in the U.S. “A 2017 report from the Treatment of Advocacy Center gave Iowa a D- for its mental health bed shortages, as well as the treatment of inmates with mental health issues” (National Alliance on Mental Illness).

If we know anything from being in college, it is that a

D- is not the best grade letter to receive, especially in a situation as serious as somebody’s mental health.

Another issue that our society faces is budget cuts, more specifically cutting funding to support individuals that suffer from mental health. Some of the services that have been eliminated or downsized consist of: supportive housing, access to medications, assertive community treatment and so much more. From this information, we can see that even though we have made strides, it is not enough to just talk, but we need to act. Being in college, we are in the midst of the most stressful time of our lives. We are navigating unknown territories with maybe not a lot of help, all while having financial struggles. Each and every one of us is struggling with something, and that is okay to struggle, however, we are going to continue to struggle without the resources we need to beat this continuing epidemic.

Resources need to be eas-

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Opinion Columnist Abigail Bennethum expresses why Iowa needs to do better in regards to mental health. The UNI Counceling Center recently cut counceling sessions down to five per year due to budget cuts.

ily accessible and affordable for anybody. It is not enough to offer a couple of free sessions, and chalking it up to “having a stressful season of your life” or “just being sad because of ‘x, y, z,’” but to really take into consideration what an individual might be experiencing and how it is

affecting them and how it might have affected them their whole lives.

So, the question presses: what do we do? We need to ban together as a campus and a community and make it known that we need more than what we are receiving.

Showing people that this

issue isn’t something to make a profit off of or make it so people have to bend over backward to get the care that we all need and deserve. More funding needs to be poured into departments such as this, instead of continuously funding departments that are already well off.

Be mindful of the effects of climate change KEVIN WIGGINS

Opinion Columnist

Sexing up history is something that historians have struggled with for generations. Of all the dogmas of history, the fall of Rome has been a focal point of Western fascination since time immemorial.

One of the most recent and brilliant products of this fascination is Kyle Harper’s “Fate of Rome” which sets him up not only to be an iconoclast, but as a historian whose work inspires action for our own moment as much as it un-conceals

the past. Through newly collected climatological data, anthropological findings and the writings of the Romans themselves, Harper reimagines the greatest orthodoxy of western history, while still inspiring his readers to think of the world they find themselves in.

The traditional narrative of the fall of Rome reads something like this: internal power-politics weakened the empire, and rabid barbarian hordes poured over the borders. Thus, the “dark ages” began, and the church was the only institution from which light could shineth in

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the darkness. Harper challenges this notion by arguing that recent developments in multiple scientific fields, when paired with primary sources suddenly shape a dramatically different picture of what weakened and ultimately caused the “fall” of the Roman Empire. So then, what is this classicist’s answer to this seemingly unanswerable question?

Climate change, and the consequences which accompany it.

Environmental history is one of the more recent trends in academic circles, but climatological data can entirely refocus our understanding of the past. Roughly between 250 B.C. – 400 C.E., the average temperature of the Mediterranean world increased gently. Tree rings from Italy, Alpine glacial records, mollusk shells from Iceland and Iberian pollen indexes all point to a period of dramatic warming that peaked in approximately 150 A.D. and ending around 400 A.D. The warming that occurred had dramatic effects on population. Not only was food more readily available, but the Mediterranean world became dramatically more interconnected. Trade, provincial migration, tourism and the Roman bureaucratic machinery all made travel possible that had been inconceivable before.

Climate played a major

role in this change. Wheat for example, a crop the Romans relied on heavily could suddenly be planted in northern France, Britain and Hungary.

Population rose, and urban centers began to pepper the Mediterranean landscape.

Yet, along with this interconnectedness came the inevitable threat of disease and weakness to parasitically driven catastrophe. Recent analysis of femurs from the 3rd century has given rise to theories that present trade as the origin of a number of infamous plagues that decimated the Roman Empire’s population. The “Antonine” and “Justinianic” plagues are arguably two of the most devastating plagues in European history besides the Black Death. Both decimated the Empire’s population and resulted in a century of instability. Swift temperature changes resulted in widespread famine, which further lowered the population of the Empire and affected its border regions severely.

It was into these centuries of instability that the “hordes of Barbarians” entered Roman history on stage left. The results of changing global temperatures yielded large swathes of the Eurasian steppe uninhabitable for tribes who subsisted off of grazing their immense herds on steppe grassland. Massive displacements of peoples such as the

Scythians, Alans, Magyars, Slavs and the infamous Huns all were displaced and began migrating across the central Asian steppe. These peoples and those they came in contact with such as the Goths, Vandals and Longobardii all found themselves on the borders of settled peoples.

Migratory tribes caused the Chinese to build the Great Wall, but in the case of the Romans massive population loss caused by disease had thinned the ranks of the Roman army to the point where they could not be replaced. Changes in temperature meant that crop yields gradually became smaller and smaller so that by the 4th century, the Empire was a shadow of itself and no longer able to defend itself from outside threats.

What Harper’s account inspires is not only a reimagining of the fall of Rome, but it serves as a window into the effects of climate on civilizational events. Not only does it make sense of the church fathers who foresaw the end times in the 5th century, but it invites us to be cognizant of the effects of climate on civilizational collapse. Any good history should engender pregnant reflection on one’s own times and, while “The Fate of Rome” is not yet ours, Harper inspires us to wonder about the future of our own civilization.

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Rose shares ‘Tales from the Bayou’ ANNA ALLDREDGE Theatre Critic

Spoken word poet, community activist and writer Donney Rose performed in the UNI Interpreters Theatre on Friday evening, Oct. 4.

Much of the Baton Rouge native’s work reflects upon the issues of police brutality, racial violence, black masculinity and what it means to be black in America.

To start off the night, Rose shared poems about police brutality and the broken cultural standard of black masculinity.

“The first thing you learn about being a black boy is that being vulnerable is a sin,” Rose said. “Anger is your first right of passage.”

The second piece Rose shared was a powerful examination of state-sanctioned police brutality. He used a number of devices in his work to convey his experience. Imagery, metaphor and the cadence of his speech all contribute to the audience’s understanding and integration with the poem.

In a chilling line, Rose said, “nothing compliments his right to remain silent quite like dying.”

The audience was suspended in time as Rose’s words hung thick in the air.

What Rose speaks of are not comfortable topics. They are, however, experiences and stories that need to be shared with a wider audience in America. His words are familiar and close to home for those who can see themselves reflected in his work.

They are perhaps even more important for those who can’t. Rose’s writing opens a passage to understanding.

Art, especially in this form, is a unique and effective strategy to promote

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An IDS program alumni and a current graduate student at UNI, Campbell spent a year in Hungary as a Fulbright Scholar with the original Fortepan archive, where he learned the wheat-pasting process. “[This project is] such an exciting way to showcase the complexity of Iowa,” Campbell said, “and really highlight what makes our communities different and special.”

The College Hill installations are wheatpasted onto the south side of Copyworks, the north side of Octopus and the east side of Little Bigs.

social change. It does what news articles simply cannot: it draws listeners into a personal experience. It encourages thoughtfulness and compassion and it leaves a lasting imprint on listeners.

This kind of art is essential to foster understanding and a recalibration of values among those who remain outside the artist’s sphere of experience.

After sharing several spoken word pieces with the audience, Rose provided a bit of insight into what shaped his recent creative work.

“Baton Rouge is an interesting place,” he said. “It is the capital of Louisiana but it is more or less in the shadow of New Orleans. It doesn’t necessarily have a definitive culture like New Orleans or Lafayette to the west. It’s kind of almost bland.”

Although Rose had been writing poetry for years, it was during the last half of 2016, a point of turmoil and immense grief for the city of Baton Rouge, that he took on the role of social activist in his community through writing.

That summer, Alton Sterling, a black man, was shot at close range by Baton Rouge police officers. Protests ensued, and area police took on a militarized front. Soon after, three police officers were shot and killed. As if this was not enough, a state of emergency was called with the summer floods, which caused widespread panic and resulted in 13 casualties.

Amid all of this, Rose faced another, more personal tragedy: the loss of one of his close students.

Everything good seemed to shatter for Rose. Still, he kept writing. In a grieving city, he connected commuOne image in particular holds a special place in Fabos’ heart. A one-and-a-half story tall cutout on the wall of Copyworks depicts a 12-yearold girl named Shirley Dean holding a birthday cake. Now 81 years old, the subject of the image captured in 1937 still lives in Cedar Falls as a resident of the Western Home.

“I hope that people end up taking pictures next to Shirley Dean when it’s their birthday,” Fabos said.

Dean and other Western Home residents visited the project site last Friday as her photo was being installed.

Fabos presented Dean with a birthday cake.

Although the first phase of the project is nearing com-

nity members through his art. In hard times, Rose’s work articulated the feelings that many could not find the words to convey.

This whirlwind of emotion led Rose to explore larger initiatives concerning the commencement of slavery in the United States, in congruence with The New York Times’ 1619 Project, which marked 400 years since the beginning of slavery in the America.

Rose previewed his forthcoming multimedia spoken word project, “The American Audit.” The American Audit explores the extended metaphor of America as a business, as black Americans audit the nation 400 years after slavery began. In his piece, America owes black Americans a debt; an understanding of the implications of slavery are just beginning to come to fruition.

The creative project layers photographs, stories and spoken word poems.

Though originally scheduled to be completed in December 2019, Rose has extended this project to February 2020 in order to conduct more research and interviews and to integrate historical evidence into the presentation.

The second half of the night allowed for audience members to ask questions about Rose’s work. His candid and open responses helped to open a larger conversation around race relations and art as a form of social activism.

To him, art is a way to purge feelings of grief and frustration, as well as to find a common ground with his audience.

Rose finds inspiration in past poetry and poetry describing the black experience in America. However,

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Spoken word poet, activist and writer Donney Rose shared poetry and addressed racial inequality at UNI Interpreters Theatre on Friday, Oct. 4.

he explained that it is also disheartening to find himself addressing the same issues that black people have been for over 40 years.

He said, “We often find ourselves, because history is cyclical, writing the same narratives over and over again.”

Many truths have come to light over the last few years.

Like the American Audit is aiming to show, people are beginning to realize the lasting effect slavery has had on the United States.

“I am aware of how this system and how this nation operates,” Rose said. “I am aware that right now, the current occupant of the White House is doing things that the former occupant of the White House would have been thrown out for.”

Personal experiences, including multiple sclerosis, type two diabetes and depression have presented various challenges to Rose’s life. Despite these obstacles, Rose remains a social writer who speaks to the experi-

ence of black Americans and continue to inspire and comfort his community.

Regarding how he remains positive while writing about discouraging topics like racial inequality, Rose said, “I, much like probably everyone in this room, live a life of balance.

It is possible for us to go to the depths of our sorrow, and also go to the ultimate height of our joy. I’ve come to a point where I’ve stopped trying to avoid either end of that spectrum.”

Rose uses his platform and his art to open up a new dialogue about race in America. His art acts as a path to understanding, an articulation of his experience, and an uncomfortable, yet pertinent, truth that must be heard in America.

Donney Rose has been featured on YouTube’s Button Poetry channel as well as national and local platforms. More information about Rose’s story and art can be found at donneyrosepoetry.com.

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pletion, Fabos said her team plans to add onto the five existing College Hill images at some point in the future.

“We want images that are a little bit more representative of the student body […] We have only white representation right now and

that’s not what I wanted,” she said. “We are looking for images that have strong appeal, that mean something and that excite people, ones that have a whimsical sort of flair.”

Overall, its creators agree that the goal of the College

Hill wheat-pasting project is to bring joy its viewers and embody the celebration spirit of homecoming.

“We just think these images are really magical and just [serve as a tool] to humanize the buildings with people,” Fabos said.

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Panthers advance to 11-8, clench No. 1 in MVC BRIELLE KIEWIET

ly and defensively, hitting .313 and out blocking the Crusaders 10-1.

UNI volleyball now sits Kaylissa Arndorfer finat 5-0 in the Missouri Valley ished with 15 kills on 25 Conference after sweeping swings to finish with a .520 Valparaiso, Missouri State and hitting percentage. The Southern Illinois. Heading Waterloo native also had into conference play, head four blocks during the match. coach Bobbi Petersen knew Kate Busswitz, Inga Rotto the challenge that was ahead. and Jaydlin Seehase all added “I look at conference sea- over seven kills. Setter Rachel son as definitely a grind in a Koop had 36 assists and 12 different way,” Petersen said. digs.

“It’s a time of year where you The Panthers followed definitely have to show up, be their 3-0 win with anothfocused [and] be disciplined er sweep against Missouri match-in and match-out.”

State on Friday, Oct. 4. The The Panthers took a Panthers dominated the Bears road trip to Indiana to face with set scores of 25-23, Valparaiso, defeating the 25-22 and 25-20.

Crusaders with set scores of Busswitz and Taylor led 25-21, 25-17 and 25-19 on the team in kills with 11 and Monday, Sept. 30. The team 10, respectively. Koop continplayed strong both offensive- ued her strong play into this Sports Writer

match with another total of 36 assists and five digs. The senior setter hit a strong percentage of .800, impressing coach Petersen who called it a “huge stat.”

The Panthers had a quick turnaround travelling from Springfield, Mo., to Carbondale, Ill., overnight to face Southern Illinois on Saturday, Oct. 5. The Panthers chased down the Salukis in their third straight sweep in just a week, defeating SIU 25-16, 25-19 and 25-15. The win put UNI at the top of the MVC leaderboard with a 5-0 record against conference opponents.

Taylor and Busswitz showed up again with double digit kills at 14 and 11, respectively. Koop totaled 41 assists and 10 digs.

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Coach Petersen is looking forward to the season ahead after advancing to 11-8.

“I feel like this year we are a lot deeper than we’ve been in terms of people that can come off the bench and have

significant impact,” Petersen said.

Up next, the Panthers will take on the Bradley Braves at home on Friday, Oct. 11 and Illinois State on Saturday, Oct. 12.

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Hometown dream for former Panther Ahelegbe JACOB POTTER

Sports Editor

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Having grown up in Oakdale, Minn., just outside of St. Paul, former starting point guard for the 2010 Sweet 16 team Kwadzo Ahelegbe realized a dream come true in 2016 when he became a video coordinator for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

“It’s amazing,” Ahelegbe said. “Obviously growing up seeing the culture, seeing the history, and now I’m a part of that history and culture.”

Entering his fourth season with his hometown Timberwolves, Ahelegbe is working his way up, as he was promoted to assistant video coordinator/player development for the team.

“It’s on that path of grinding it out,” Ahelegbe said. “My

furthest accomplishment is to be a head coach, so it’s a part of that grind up.”

Ahelegbe’s journey to become a part of his hometown team started at Tartan High School in Oakdale and would take him to UNI to eventually accomplish a historic upset.

Ahelegbe was an integral part of the 2010 Sweet 16 team, which was inducted into the UNI Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, Sept. 21.

“It’s always great to be recognized for the accomplishments that your teammates and you have done for years and years going forward,” Ahelegbe said.

After graduating in 2010, Ahelegbe played overseas in Austria, the Netherlands and Germany before joining the Timberwolves staff in 2016.

Along the way, the former

Panther has passed by players from the Kansas team that UNI took down, including current NBA veterans Marcus and Markieff Morris.

“I’ve seen quite a few of those guys in [NBA] Summer League and stuff like that,” Ahelegbe said. “We spoke about it [the upset] once, but it’s a distant memory for them.

It’s more like a ‘who cares, one single game’ type of deal, but it’s all fun and games.”

After growing up watching the Timberwolves’ prime era with 2004 NBA MVP Kevin Garnett, Ahelegbe got the opportunity to meet the 2008 NBA champion.

“My mentor Chris Carr played for the Timberwolves, so I’ve met KG [Kevin Garnett] several times, which was cool,” Ahelegbe said.

Ahelegbe has also worked

alongside several other allworld talents from the current face of the franchise, from twotime All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns to former MVP Derrick Rose.

“That’s my guy,” Ahelegbe said about Rose. “He’s an amazing person first and foremost, and he’s a hard worker. It’s always refreshing to see guys like that who have obtained and accomplished everything and still work the hardest in the NBA and even in the world.”

Life has come full circle for Ahelegbe, from growing up watching the Timberwolves to now being a part of the franchise’s future.

“Changing the culture, changing the narrative of Minnesota basketball from top to bottom,” Ahelegbe said.

“It’s been cool.”

SOCCER

Panthers drop three, slide to 4-7 on the season PATRICK HANSEN Sports Writer

The women’s soccer team has fallen into a slump lately as they have struggled to get back to their winning ways,

dropping three games in a row.

The Panthers took a road trip to Macomb, Illinois for a matchup with Western Illinois on Monday, Sept. 23, ending in a tight 3-2 win for LINDY RUBLAITUS/Northern Iowan

the Leathernecks.

Western Illinois came out strong against the Panthers, taking just 15 minutes to find the back of the net. The Leathernecks were able to grab one more goal before halftime for a 2-0 lead.

In the second half, WIU put their third goal on the board, giving them a big advantage over the Panthers.

The Purple and Gold fought back and scored in the 78th and 84th minute, but were unable to get a third goal to tie things up.

Following the one game trip, the Panthers made their way back to Cedar Falls to host Illinois State for the

first conference matchup of the season on Saturday, Sept.

28.

Coming into the matchup, head coach Bruce Erickson knew the challenge that was ahead.

“Illinois State was certainly as good as advertised,” Erickson said. “They’ve got the best player in our league by a landslide. I think she’s in the top five in the nation for goals scored.”

The Redbirds took just three minutes to score their first goal against the Panthers. In the next ten minutes, the Panthers allowed two more goals to Illinois State to fall to a quick 3-0

deficit. The second half saw UNI allow two more goals.

The Panthers couldn’t get on the board as they fell 5-0.

Another conference game loomed with a shot at redemption as the Panthers traveled to Chicago to face Loyola on Saturday, Oct. 5.

The first half was quiet with no goals scored on either side, but the action picked up in the second half. The Ramblers’ offense stepped up their game with three goals in 10 minutes, taking the 3-0 win over UNI. Up next, Indiana State comes to town on Saturday, Oct. 12 for a 1 p.m. matinee matchup.

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