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November 5, 2015 Volume 112, Issue 20
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Hit by car? No free tuition KILEY COPPOCK Staff Writer
SEX ROBOTS Columnist discusses the future of robot and human interaction and technology. OPINION PAGE 4
LECTURE PREVIEW Lecture series attempts to educate voters about Islam before caucuses. CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 7
CROSSFIT Sports columnist discusses the CrossFit movement in the Cedar Valley. SPORTS PAGE 8
Students are all too familiar with the sound of screeching tires. The Northern Iowan Student Government has been looking into whether or not the Hudson Road crosswalk (from the Towers to student parking near the Dome) is safe for students and faculty members to use. This discussion has been prevalent with the members of the Employee Safety and Employee Health and WellBeing Committee for a number of years as well. Therese Callaghan, chairwoman of the Health and Safety committee, expressed her concerns about the dangers of this crosswalk. “The Health and Safety Committee want to address university safety concerns that come up,” Callaghan said. “And this was [a concern], especially because there are a number of staff members that work in the WRC or work outside of campus that have seen what they call ‘near misses.’” ‘Near misses’ can be described as those students or faculty members that come close to being hit by cars while
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Students hurridly cross Hudson Road coming from the student parking lots near the Dome. Cars stopping for pedestrians can cause accidents for unsuspecting drivers behind them.
crossing the intersection, but are not actually injured. “[Faculty members] happen to see them, particularly in the morning hours, with 8 a.m. classes and traffic, includ-
ing university traffic, as well as other city traffic as people try to get to work on time,” Callaghan said. Callaghan went on to say that, although the speed limit
in that area is 35 mph, many drivers tend to go 45 mph. A number of students agree that this crosswalk is dangerous. See CROSSWALK, page 3
ARCTICenter: the new ‘cool’ thing SHELBY WELSCH Staff Writer
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Associate Professor Andrey Petrov is the head of the arctic studies program. UNI’s Arctic research center is one of the few not in the Arctic.
Cold research just got colder for the UNI arctic studies major. On Thursday, Oct. 22, the Board of Regents unanimously voted to expand the arctic studies program at UNI and to recognize a new campus facility in the works as the ARCTICenter. The Arctic Social and Environmental Systems research lab was established in 2011, and the program has
been waiting since January for papers to go through so they can be recognized as the Arctic, Remote and Cold Territories Interdisciplinary Center, or ARCTICenter. The group has mainly worked in Arctic regions, but this addition means the students will be working with other cold and remote areas, such as high mountains, Antarctica and even some places in the continental United States fall into the categories listed in the acronym. Andrey Petrov, associate professor of geography and
head of the arctic studies program, believes this implementation will have a major impact on Arctic research. “Although we had a lot of Arctic research before the center was approved, now we will certainly have more capacity to do so,” Petrov said. According to Petrov, the vision of the ARCTICenter is to advance the interdisciplinary knowledge about socio-economic and social-ecological systems in the polar, remote and cold regions. See ARCTICENTER, page 2
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