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UNI hosts First District Debate CALEB STEKL Staff Writer
If the stormy weather outside Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC) was to be an indication of the events unfolding inside, it did not disappoint. At 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 5 in GBPAC, Representatives Abby Finkenauer and Rod Blum took part in the first debate for Iowa’s first congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Finkenauer, 29, currently represents her hometown of Dubuque in the Iowa Legislature. She recently received her law degree from Drake University and is widely considered to be a progressive Democrat. Blum, 63, has served the in the House since 2014. He is a member of the House Tea Party and Freedom Caucuses. Also a native of Dubuque, Blum attended Loras College and owns several businesses. The opening statements from the two candidates came to define each of their approaches to the debate. “I’m running for Congress because this is personal,”
Finkenauer proclaimed confidently. “At the end of the day I grew up in a state where we were promised if you work hard, you can make it.” Whereas Finkenauer focused on working-class struggles, Blum’s focus was distinctly different. “The reasons I ran, two reasons: first of all, love of country, and I also ran because of the American dream,” Blum proclaimed. There were points of agreement for the pair of candidates, specifically on immigration policy. “It’s something Democrats and Republicans haven’t gotten right,” Finkenauer said. “Yes, we’ve got to have border security, and we’ve got to have an earned pathway to citizenship.” Finkenauer’s Republican challenger did not disagree. “My heart goes out to people who are trying to immigrate to this country,” Blum remarked. “That being said, I’m kind of old fashioned… I am one-thousand percent for legal immigration, but you have to do it the right way.” The pair also agreed that the nation’s healthcare sys-
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On Friday, Oct. 5, GBPAC housed the first congressional district debate between current representative Rod Blum and challenger Abby Finkenauer.
tem is broken, but their proposals were radically different. “We need to add a public option to the Affordable Care Act and fix it,” Finkenauer argued. “Allow Medicare to negotiate directly with drug companies to lower insurance premiums.” In true Tea Party form,
Blum argued for less government regulation and more free markets. “The miracle of the free market will drive prices down,” Blum said. “Unleash the private sector to do their thing… we overregulate it to death today.” Questions of ethics and tax cuts produced the most
heated exchanges of the debate. Blum was quick to debate the idea that tax cuts hurt government revenues. “This is a myth that cutting taxes is costing the government anything,” Blum argued. “If you want to grow government, cut taxes.” See DEBATE, page 2
UNI professors show their roots ALLISON MAZZARELLA Staff Writer
David May has put down roots here at UNI — quite literally. A professor in the department of geography, May works in his office canopied by an eight-foot Norfolk
Island Pine tree that grows on his desk. The branches graze both walls in his office in the Innovative Teaching and Technology Center. He continually has to trim the top, which reaches the ceiling. May’s late wife loved trees, and they had a house full
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Professor Dave May poses with his eight-foot Norfolk Island Pine tree in his office.
of plants. The tree in May’s office was given to his son when he was born. May had another tree that his wife gave him before they were married, but it became too root-bound in a small pot and eventually died. Because his son has since moved away, May gave the pine a home in his office. He said it can be hard to find someone to water it when he’s out of town. He once tried an automatic watering machine that pumped water from a bottler through tubes at intervals, but it didn’t work. Now, he relies on his co-workers. “My colleagues are kind of protective of it also,” said May. “They like it; they know it’s part of the office.” While repotting the tree last summer, he dropped it on his leg, badly bruising it to the point where he needed a cane. “I went limping to class the
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Professor Michael Fleming shows off his vines growing on the ceiling of his office.
first day,” May laughed. May isn’t the only professor with a plant in his office. Michael Fleming, associate professor of family studies, has a vine growing on his ceiling in his office in Latham Hall. A few years ago, while Fleming was attempting to
transplant the vine, the contents of the pot spilled everywhere. “I had dirt all over everything,” Fleming recalled. “It’s like it was fighting me. I just put it back there and added more dirt.” See OFFICES, page 5
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UNI’s enrollment decreases OCTOBER 8, 2018 |
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The University of Northern Iowa has seen a decrease in enrollment this fall. Last year, UNI had 11,907 students. That number dropped to 11,212 in 2018. UNI is hardly alone, as the University of Iowa and Iowa State University have also experianced declining enrollment. Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management Matt Kroeger was able to give some insight as to why enrollment is down and what the university intends on doing to get the numbers back up. “The freshman class was smaller this year than what it has been before, say in Fall 2015 and 2016, and hit about a peak of nearly 2,000 freshman about a year ago,” said Kroeger. “But that’s been going down a little bit the last couple of years, and that of course has an impact not just on the number of new students, but then how many of those students are with us the next four to five years,” said Kroeger. According to Kroeger, UNI is very concerned about the decline in enrollment.
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Blum argued his case for tax cuts using two historical examples. After both the Reagan (‘86) and Kennedy (‘64) tax cuts, Blum explained, government revenues greatly increased because “we have more taxpayers and more people were making money.” What this account did not mention, though, is both the considerable increase in government spending and higher tax rates after the initial cuts in both 1964 and 1986. Finkenauer sharply criticized Blum’s vote in favor of the tax bill because of the burdens it places on social programs like Medicaid and Social Security. “When you’ve got 83% of that of that $1.9 trillion [tax cut] going to your top one L011 Maucker Union Cedar Falls, IA 50614 www.northerniowan.com northern-iowan@uni.edu 319.273.2157
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too. There’s excellent academic programs, and when you look at tuition and affordability, we offer an excellent experience for what the investment price is for students,” said Kroeger. “Making sure that enough of the students that have a potential interest in going to college and that are looking for a college that will suit their needs, and if what they’re looking for is something that UNI offers, then we need to be very vigilant in making sure that they know we want them at UNI,” said Kroeger. UNI has a few initiatives set up across the campus to start increasing the number of students that are enrolling at UNI. According to Kroeger, the university is attempting to better track students throughout the college cycle from the moment they express interest in UNI, up to when they submit their application for admission. We’re implementing a new CRM, or Constituent Relationship Management system, which is one very big initiative that will have benefits across the entire campus for students, faculty, and staff,” said Kroeger. “We are also being more proactive in our partnership
percent and big corporations, it’s not looking out for working families,” Finkenauer pleaded. “The [cuts] for working-class families are to expire, the [cuts] for the big corporations, those are permanent.” Although Finkenauer was consistently critical of Blum’s rhetoric and voting record, she failed to put forward specific policy proposals on taxes, immigration, or gun control. Reactions to the debate were mixed, but the student sentiment was strongly in favor of Finkenauer. Of the sixteen students surveyed, only one was willing to come out strongly in favor of Blum. Sashay Carroll, a junior at UNI, was excited about Finkenaur’s grassroots focus. “We need to care more about what the people have
to say, because the people who have the money make the decisions, and that’s not right,” Carroll remarked. Ryan Westhoff, a student at Cedar Falls High School, appreciated Finkenauer’s willingness to challenge Blum’s rhetoric. “When Blum tried to deflect to the resistance, Finkenauer would say ‘no, I don’t care about all that, I care about the policy,’” Westhoff noted. But not all students were convinced Finkenauer’s performance was worthy of a victory lap. Patricia Patnode, a junior at Loras College, favored Blum’s debate performance. “I thought it was awesome how [Blum] spoke almost entirely in concrete examples with what he’s done,” Patnode explained. “I thought maybe [Finkenauer] would point
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There are numerous factors contributing to the decline, such as the competition to get students directly out of high school. “There are many institutions that are offering very steep discounts in scholarships or differential tuition rates to try and lure students either to their institution or in the case of some, to lure them out of the state of Iowa and to go off to other states.” “We see that on pretty much all sides of us. There’s also quite a bit of competition not just in higher education institutions but also in the work force,” said Kroeger. Kroeger said that the option of working straight out of high school can be very tempting to many students. For students who are unsure of what they want to do as a career, community colleges are attractive options. Another option that has been a factor in the declining enrollment numbers in Iowa colleges is dual-enrollment courses in high school. “A lot of people here at the institution and the administration feel really confident about what the UNI experience is and what it can offer students
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Enrollment at UNI declined by 695 students this year compared to last.
with the UNI Center for Urban Education which is called the Panther-Promise Program. This brings students to see the UNI campus and largely these are students that might not have been looking at UNI or considering college, but they are ones that their counselors have identified as being college material…I want to say that this year we are expecting to welcome somewhere between 2 and 3,000 high school juniors and seniors across the campus,” said Kroeger. David Konfrst, Public Relations Director of Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG), also gave information on how the university is planning on bringing in more students to campus in the future. Konfrst noted UNI President Nook’s state of the university
address earlier this year where he outlined the methods that would be used to gain more student enrollment, and that there are quite a few plans set up to tackle the issue. “Some of the things that President Nook talked about was having a more unified branding,” said Konfrst. “In the past, some of the departments at UNI have had their own branding and messages that they are sending to future students, so we are trying to have it where there is a unified branding where when you think of UNI, it is one promotional message,” said Konfrst. Konfrst said that although it will take time, NISG is confident that the University has the right people working on the project to be able to develop plans to increase enrollment.
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A near-full GBPAC hosted a debate beteen Democrat Abby Finkeanuer and Republican Rod Blum on Friday, Oct. 5th.
to what she’s done in the Iowa legislature because she’s already been in office for four years.” Recent polling shows Fineknauer has a substantial lead over Blum. As of press-time, political data site The Northern Iowan is published semi-weekly on Monday and Thursday during the academic year, except for holidays and examination periods, by the University of Northern Iowa, L011 Maucker Union, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0166 under the auspices of the Board of Student Publications. Advertising errors that are the fault of the Northern Iowan will be corrected at no cost to the advertiser only if the Northern Iowan office is notified within seven days of the original publication. Publisher reserves the right to refuse any advertisement at any time. The Northern Iowan is funded in part with student activity fees. A copy of the Northern Iowan grievance procedure is available at the Northern Iowan office, located at L011 Maucker Union. All material is © 2018 by the Northern Iowan and may not be used without permission.
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UNI receives voter turnout award ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer
UNI recently received the Silver Seal from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for its high-level voter participation in the 2016 presidential election. Only campuses with 60-69 percent voter participation receive this particular award. 67.5 percent of UNI students voted in the 2016 election, which makes it the university with the second highest voter participation in the country, right behind the University of Baltimore. “We knew this was a campus that was good at that sort of thing,” said associate professor of political science Justin Holmes, chairperson of the American Democracy Project Committee. “It’s a very engaged campus. Iowa in general [. . .] is a high participation state. We’re always near the top in terms of every participation. But I’ll be darned, we sent this report into this national organization, and they retroactively gave us this Silver Seal.” UNI got involved with the challenge over the sum-
mer when Holmes attended a conference about increasing democratic participation among undergraduate students. Holmes reviewed UNI’s statistics on voter participation with Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) State Director Samantha Bayne. When Bayne saw how high UNI’s voter participation was, she suggested that UNI should participate in the ALL IN challenge. “I think it’s also important to note the high percentage of students on campus who are Iowa students,” said Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) Director of Government Relations Matt Johnson. “I think that’s really unique to our institution. We’re surrounded by elections that are happening in Iowa, so Iowa students can see their direct connection to the election [ . . .] We all have a connection because we’re here at UNI, but we also have a connection because we’re all Iowans.” Voter turnout is usually higher in presidential elections than for midterm elections, so Holmes is not expecting the same voter
participation numbers in the 2018 election. His goal is a 40 percent voter turnout among UNI students, which would be a 10 point increase from UNI’s 2014 midterm election voter turnout. “This is a midterm year, and it really, really does matter,” said Brenna Wolfe, a senior majoring in political science and public administration and who has been working with the American Democracy Project. “The research shows over and over again that youth influence vote in this election is really important and very influential. It can determine who wins our congressional seat. Jeff Danielson—he is our state senator right now and he got elected in 2008 by 22 votes.” Wolfe also encourages students to vote because state politics affects UNI and the cost of tuition. The ALL IN Challenge requires campuses to submit an action plan to the Campus Democracy Challenge. Holmes wrote UNI’s plan. One of the central priorities UNI wants to work on is coordination among different partisan groups and NISG.
This coordinated effort has been branded as the #PanthersVote coalition. “There [had] been different organizations that have been doing their own thing as well as NISG doing their own thing,” Johnson said. “But Drew [Stensland] and Kristen’s [Ahart] platform and vision for their administration has been a lot more campus engagement, so it was a perfect opportunity to mix election engagement with campus engagement [. . .] I wanted to make it a campus push for everyone who wanted to be involved in campus engagement. Because despite the different groups who were involved, voter engagement is a non-partisan issue, but we all have the same vision in getting people registered to vote.” On National Voter Registration Day, Sept. 25, the #PanthersVote coalition encouraged students across campus to register to vote. “I’ve been really, really pleased with people registering,” Johnson said about the outcome of Voter Registration Day. “But not only that—it’s been really, really great overall to see the overall campus work and see all the different people step up and not view it as their personal platform to push stuff politically but pushing stuff civically, getting people to vote.” Only 17.1 percent of people in the 18 to 24 age bracket voted in the 2014 midterm election, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Holmes believes a major reason for
these statistics is that college students move every year. Each time a person moves they have to re-register to vote, so voting can be more work for college students. Holmes also thinks that young people usually aren’t as informed on politics. “Often times when you’re a high school student, you can’t vote, so you’re not following current events,” Holmes said. “So a lot of college students haven’t been following politics up to that point, and it is confusing, just knowing the basics of what the parties stand for. What do I think is good policy? What do I stand for? Who do I think lines up with what I stand for? That’s a challenge.” Holmes suggests that students who want to become more politically educated should take a few minutes each day to read the news from at least one news source and follow news sources on social media. “There’s older people [who] think that youths won’t go out and vote,” Wolfe said. “Research does show that we don’t go out and vote, so let’s prove them wrong.” The next phase of the #PanthersVote coalition is encouraging students to take advantage of the satellite voting that is happening throughout October in the Union, Redaeker Center and Schindler Education Center. Satellite voting is for voters registered in Black Hawk County, but it is possible for students to register right before they cast their ballot.
The Friends of Sartori Memorial Hospital will again be hosting the very popular
Jewelry Sale Monday, October 8, 2018
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
West Dining Room Sartori Memorial Hospital Masquerade, a nationally known $5 jewelry company, will be selling a wide variety of quality jewelry and accessories for men, women and children including rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, jewelry sets, wallets and watches — and everything is $5. Cash, check and credit cards will be accepted. Associates can use payroll deduction. Parking and Entrance Guide All proceeds will go toward Friends of Sartori Memorial Hospital future projects and health care educational scholarships. Directional signage will be posted in hallways and at stairs/elevators to guide shoppers.
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UNI recently recieved the Silver Seal from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for its high voter turnout.
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SYDNEY HAUER Executive Editor
The trouble with Kavanaugh Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted, if not raped, multiple women. These charges alone were immediately disqualifying. But one important question has not been asked either by members of Congress or those in the media. What if his past was impeccable? This question needs to be asked for two reasons. First, judges appointed to the Supreme Court serve life terms. There is no popular vote on either the appointment process or in choosing the pool of candidates. There is also no feasible recall function to remove judges. Secondly, often the decisions Supreme Court justices make affect the entire nation. They are lawmakers and are no less politicians than are sitting Senators. In light of this, let’s examine Brett Kavanaugh’s
voting record. According to FiveT h i r t yE i ght , Kavanaugh would be only the second most conservative member ever to be appointed. The most conservative justice? The currently serving Clarence Thomas who has his own history of sexual assault and rape allegations. Kavanaugh has voted against mandating insurance providers cover the cost of birth control, in favor of allowing employers to deny workers the right to picket, and
Brett Kavanaugh is going to be a disaster for women, the working class and healthcare. CALEB STEKL
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in favor of allowing the Federal Communications Commission to further privatize the internet, according to Politico.com. With or without sexually
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assaulting multiple women, Brett Kavanaugh is going to be a disaster for women, the working class, and healthcare. It is clear conservative men and women alike blatantly do not care about sexual assault — Donald Trump had much more concrete evidence of his disgusting past and he was elected President of the United States. This begs the question, should we really place our futures into the hands of nine unelected, unremovable judges whose decisions are binding over the entire country? In light of election season, the predictable answer to this would be that we need to vote! But as Karl Marx once said, ‘history repeats itself, first as farce, then as tragedy.’ One need only peer back in time to 2009 when Barack Obama and the Democrats had total control of the House, Senate, and the White House. For three years, from 2009 till 2011, we had ‘Progressives’ in control of the government. In that time, Obama put two
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judges on the Court. We did our job and voted. But where are we now? We have first row tickets to our own destruction. Obamacare is rapidly being destroyed. Roe v. Wade will likely be repealed in the near future. Had Obama and the Democrats done their job, they could have passed single payer health care, with a universal right to abortion, they could have packed the court, democratic norms be damned. They had their chance and they
failed. Voting isn’t the answer. The Democrats have not and will not save us. They even refuse to punish those Democrats who voted in favor of Kavanaugh’s nomination. Brett Kavanaugh is not the problem, liberal-electoral democracy is. In the future, even if we don’t get an outright rapist in Kavanaugh, we will simply get another conservative swaddled in sheep’s clothing.
Online echo chambers reinforce political beliefs COLIN HORNING Opinion Columnist
Like most college students and people of my generation, I find myself spending a lot of time on the Internet. It’s fast, easy and keeps us constantly connected to everything current and new in the world. We have access to instant
news, entertainment, gossip, our friends and anything else that we have an interest in. With the concept of smartphones, I never have to log off from my connection to information. For a news junkie like me, the Internet and smartphones are perhaps the greatest thing ever invented. Never before in the history of the world has humanity had this much access
to this much information literally in the palm of your hand, and constantly being updated 24/7. But with this constant flow of news and memes comes echo chambers, or having your beliefs reinforced by only paying attention to what you want to hear and disregarding information that might debunk or disagree with your current values. We’re all guilty of it, wheth-
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er on purpose or not. But when it comes to online discussion of politics, echo chambers really start to take shape. This is because the Internet makes it so incredibly easy to live in a bubble of ideas. We follow an account that we agree with politically, then another, then another, and before we know it our feeds are filled with 10 different like-minded accounts. While this is going on, we become completely shut off from the opposing side of the argument, which leads to difficulty understanding their point of view. I for one tend to lean towards the more conservative/libertarian end of the political spectrum, so naturally my social media feeds are filled with conservative/libertarian accounts that share my same political views. The issue here (that I admit I’m somewhat guilty of) is sealing yourself off from the other side of the political spectrum that disagrees with you. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat, Republican, progressive, conservative, anarchist or communist, it can never be hurtful to expose yourself to views from all over the ideological sphere in politics. So if you’re a fellow right-winger like me, it’s okay to surround yourself with like-minded news outlets and ideas, but don’t be afraid to read some Huffington
Post and watch CNN from time to time (you’ll survive, trust me). Conversely, if you skew towards the liberal side on most issues, by all means pay attention to CNN and others, but try to expose yourself to Fox News, Breitbart, etc., even if what they say makes you want to yell at the TV. In order to be completely informed citizens, we have to expose ourselves to ideas from all over, even (or especially) if we disagree with them. It may be difficult to do this, but only then can we be truly open-minded about issues that affect our daily lives, the country, and the world.
CORRECTION In the last issue of the Northern Iowan, a letter to the editor was published titled “The evidence backs up Ford’s credibility.” The author of this piece was published as Mohammed Rawwas, UNI professor of marketing. This was incorrect. The author of the LTE was Mohammed Rawwas, a senior MIS major. The Northern Iowan apologizes for its error.
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‘A Star Is Born’ hits every note HUNTER FRIESEN Film Critic
“A Star Is Born” is one of those classic Hollywood films that has stayed close to each generation that has experienced it. Whether it be the original from 1937 or the remakes in 1954 and 1976, people have adored the timeless story that preaches the value of hope and perseverance in the face of adversity. Now, in 2018, a fourth version of the film has been made, this time with director, writer and star Bradley Cooper teaming up with Lady Gaga to tell the classic tale to a modern audience. The film follows the relationship between music superstar Jackson Maine (Cooper) and aspiring singer Ally (Gaga). They quickly fall for each other after meeting and set out to share their love and music with the world. Ally’s career starts to take off while Jackson’s begins to crumble beneath his feet as he battles alcoholism and addiction. From this point their lives begin to irreversibly change. They try to hold onto each other, but it becomes more and more difficult as they go down their own separate paths. Directing: 5/5 Bradley Cooper is a natural director and it is astonishing that is his debut feature. It probably helps that over the past decade, he’s had the opportunity to learn from veteran directors like Clint Eastwood and David O. Russell. Cooper possesses a ton of confidence and a keen eye for great visuals. The concert scenes are the highlight of the film, blooming with bright colors and original music. It feels like we’re right there on stage with the main characters as they profess their love for each other while pouring their
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Fleming enjoys having plants both in his office and at home. “That’s kind of my mental health thing at home,” Fleming said, referring to his plants and garden. In his office, a philodendron vine that he has had for ten years sits in a pot on top of his bookshelf near the ceiling. As it grew, it cascaded down the bookshelf. To keep it out of the way he has started pinning it to the ceiling. Today, the vine spreads across his entire ceiling. “I’ve joked at times that at some point, [people will
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emotions into songs. Cooper uses several closeups of the characters’ faces in order to tell the story. He also does a good job at letting scenes play out in a natural order rather than cutting them up. This creates a feeling of authenticity and rawness as the characters are allowed to feel like real people, rather than the fictional stars that have been portrayed so many times before. Writing: 4/5 It’s a well-known fact that Cooper directs and stars in this film, but what’s most surprising is that he also contributed to the script, along with Eric Roth and Will Fetters. The dialogue between Cooper and Gaga is some of the most authentic speech you’ll find in a film today. Every emotion possible is put on display as their contrasting journeys play out. They feel say,] ‘Where’s Fleming?’ and I’ll be in the office, the vines wrapped around me like [something from] the Rocky Horror Picture Show,” Fleming laughed. Fleming’s ceiling vine often takes visitors by surprise. “Each person does their office their own way,” Fleming said. “It makes the office a little homey.”
like a real couple as they try to manage their relationship and the strain that fame has put on it. In addition to the main plot, there is a subplot between Maine and his older brother Bobby (Sam Elliott), who has acted as Jackson’s caretaker all his life. The brothers share a strong bond as they look back on their rough childhoods and re-examine how their relationship has changed over the years. The subplot provides a good break from the main story and packs an emotional punch, but there needed to be more of it. The interactions between the brothers are few and far between, and by the end it feels like a lot more could have been explored. Acting: 5/5 The legacy of “A Star Is Born” has been built on great acting from the leads,
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such as Judy Garland and James Mason in 1954 and Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson in 1976. Cooper and Gaga more than live up to expectations and will surely be compared to the greats preceding them. Cooper probably gives his career-best performance as a country star fighting his own personal demons. With his lowered voice and grizzled face, Cooper’s character is a sad spectacle that exudes sympathy as his journey takes him lower and lower. He also lends his voice to some great music as he and Gaga light up the stage together. While Cooper is terrific, the show belongs to Gaga as Ally. Even though she’s a superstar singer in the real world, Gaga hides all of that behind her transcendent performance as an every-girl trying to get ahead. She’s the
heart of the film as she delivers each line with perfection. Her chemistry with Cooper is second to none as they simultaneously explore the effects that stardom has on a person. Lastly, Elliott also gives a career-best performance as Bobby. He doesn’t get much screen time, but he makes every second count as he plays a character battling his past and the effects it has had on his life. Overall: 4.5/5 “A Star Is Born” has everything going for it: great directing, a powerful story, amazing original songs and two leads who couldn’t be closer. It’s the best film of the year (so far) and will become an instant classic, one that will be played and remembered by this generation for years to come.
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Panther PORTRAIT: sienna schilling SOFIA LEGASPI
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On Thursday, Oct. 4, freshman elementary education major Sienna Schilling sang a variety of pop and film songs during the noon hour for Maucker Union Live. “This is a big crowd, but
before, Sienna has performed in front of 20,000 people,” said Student Life Team member Siraj Acharya as he introduced Schilling. That performance had taken place during a missions trip in Africa, Schilling later explained. Schilling began her per-
formance with “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele. The remainder of her set included “Cups” from “Pitch Perfect,” “7 Years” by Lukas Graham, “Tightrope” from “The Greatest Showman,” “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri and “Let It Go” from “Frozen.”
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Despite it being early October, Schilling also performed several popular Christmas songs. “Originally I wasn’t going to, but one of my friends asked me to sing it and then another one did,” Schilling said, adding that her birthday is on Christmas.
Schilling sang “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and “Mary, Did You Know?” as well as “Jingle Bells” at the suggestion of an audience member. “I thought I was going to be crazy nervous, but I wasn’t, surprisingly,” Schilling said after her performance. “I feel good; it was fun.”
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Swim and dive sunk by Nebraska PRESTON JENSEN Sports Writer
The UNI Panthers swimming and diving team hit the road for their first two meets of the season in Nebraska. The purple and gold first took on the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks on Friday night and barely snuck past the Mavericks by a final score of 157-143. Junior Madison Rinaldi claimed victory in the 100-yard backstroke, swimming it in 1:00.01, and the 200 backstroke finishing with a time of 2:04.85. All-conference swimmer Katie Taylor took home wins in the 50 freestyle, 200 breaststroke and the 200 individual medley (IM), which she is the reigning conference champion. Moriah Ross won the 100 breaststroke, Crystal Florman claimed first in the 100 freestyle, and Kylie Engstrom dominated the 500 freestyle swimming at 5:12.22. The 200 medley relay team of Taylor, Ross, Florman and Lauren Havertape took first place with a time of 1:46.12 and Florman, Ross, Havertape and Abby Meyer won the 200 freestyle relay. In the diving well, Jayden Lovell took fourth on the onemeter springboard with a team high score of 220.72. Lovell also led the Panthers on the threemeter springboard taking third place with a 226.12 score.
On Saturday, the Panthers continued their road trip into Nebraska as they moved on to Lincoln to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. UNI gave it their all against the Cornhuskers, but were unable to get their second win of the season falling 16677. Despite the loss, there were some amazing individual achievements made by the Panthers. Taylor was able to clinch victory in both the 200 IM and the 200 backstroke. Florman managed to win the 100 freestyle for a second straight day as well as take home the win in the 50 freestyle as well. In the 200 medley relay, Havertape, Florman, Taylor and Ross managed to place second in the event with time of 1:45.21. Matching their efforts, Meyer, Havertape, Natalie Nelson and Lauren Kacmarynski were fast enough to finish in second place for the Panthers in the event. UNI’s divers had some success on the boards. Lovell took fourth place on the onemeter springboard while freshman Madison Schoppe finished right behind her in fifth place. The Panthers next meet will be on Sat. Oct. 13 as they host the South Dakota State Jackrabbits, Western Illinois Leathernecks and Valparaiso Crusaders.
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The Panthers kicked off the 2018-2019 swimming and diving season this weekend with two meets at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Sophomore diver Jayden Lovell (above) took home fourth in the one meter springboard and third in the three meter contest against Nebraska-Omaha. She also took fourth in the one meter competition at Nebraska.
UPCOMING HOME ATHLETICS EVENTS Mon. Oct. 8: Volleyball vs. Evansville
Tues. Oct. 9: Soccer vs. Western Illinois
Sat. Oct. 13: Swim & Dive vs. South Dakota State/Western Illinois/Valparasio
Sat. Oct. 20: Football vs. South Dakota State
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Panthers fall to NDSU run attack, 56-31 JOEL WAUTERS
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What started as an optimistic first half for the UNI Panthers football team ended with a crushing performance in the second half by the North Dakota State Bison. The Panthers were nearly shut down in the final 30 minutes of play, scoring only seven points in the second half in their 56-31 loss on Saturday at the UNI-Dome. In a recently competitive rivalry, the Panthers and Bison took the field both with 1-0 records in Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) play looking to pick up a big win against a challenging conference opponent. The Bison, ranked number one in the nation for much of the past half-decade with six national championships in the last seven seasons, looked to continue their dominate play. UNI looked to capitalize on momentum coming off backto-back shutout wins over Hampton and Indiana State in the past two weeks, combining for a total score of 77-0. UNI’s last win over the Bison came in 2014 in the UNI-Dome when they held NDSU to a field goal in a 23-3 win. UNI got out to a fast start
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The UNI offense was able to quickly jump onto the scoreboard in the first quarter 14-0, but the North Dakota State running game was too strong down the stretch as the reigning national champions cruised in the fourth quarter to a 25 point win Saturday in the UNI-Dome.
on offense as quarterback Eli Dunne found Briley Moore for a 69 yard catch and run for a touchdown on the third play of the game to take the early 7-0 lead. After forcing a Bison punt on their first possession of the game, running back Marcus Weymiller broke free for an eight-yard touchdown run to
put the Panthers up 14-0 after two possessions on offense. The Bison would manage to find the end zone shortly before the end of the quarter as quarterback Easton Stick connected with Darrius Shepherd for a 20-yard touchdown pass. At the end of one quarter, UNI led 14-7. Momentum began to swing
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in the Bison’s favor when Dunne threw an interception near midfield, which set up a three-yard touchdown pass from Stick to running back and Waterloo native Lance Dunn to tie the game at 14. UNI responded the next drive as wide receiver Jaylin James caught a 19-yard pass from Dunne with two defenders on him to give the Panthers the lead once again. With a devastatingly strong running game between Dunn and Bruce Anderson, the Bison tied the game quickly with an eight-yard run after a pitch throw from Stick. The Panthers were able to tack on a 32-yard field goal by Austin Errthum to end the half and give UNI the 24-21 halftime lead. Coming into the third quarter, the Bison came out strong. “They had us on our heels in the first half,” said Bison head coach Chris Klieman. “This is a tough place to play.” Klieman, a former member of UNI’s defensive team in his college career knew the Panthers system well, emphasizing to his team to take on adversity. The Bison grabbed their first lead of the game with a 22-yard touchdown pass from Stick to Sheppard, his second score of the game to take a 28-24 lead. UNI struggled much throughout the second half in stopping the running juggernaut of Dunn and Anderson as the Bison ate away at the game clock. The Panthers were able to snag the lead back on the final play of the quarter with Dunne
finding Deion McShane for a 24-yard touchdown pass to put the purple and gold back on top 31-28 heading into the final period of play. In immediate response to the Panthers retaking the lead, NDSU struck back on the first play of the fourth quarter with a one play, 75yard catch and run touchdown play from Stick to Anderson to go up 35-31. From there on, the Bison never looked back as they continued to pound the running game onto the UNI defense. “Our defense didn’t do good enough,” said head coach Mark Farley. “To score 31 points and not win is disheartening.” Stick, who finished the game completing nine of 15 passes for 179 yards and four passing touchdowns, broke into the end zone with a oneyard run on the Bison’s next possession to take an 11-point lead, 42-31. NDSU would add one final exclamation point to their dominating second with a 25-yard touchdown run by Adam Cofield to ice the game and hand the Panthers the 25-point loss. “It was a heck of a football game,” Farley said after the loss. “We played our tails off.” UNI (2-3) will be on the road next weekend as they travel to Vermillion, South Dakota to take on the South Dakota Coyotes (3-2) at the DakotaDome. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. The Panthers will return to Cedar Falls on Oct. 20 for their homecoming game against the South Dakota State Jackrabbits.
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