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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 VOLUME 115, ISSUE 23 ‘Walk the Labyrinth’ 3 Film review: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ 4 Football at Youngstown State 6
Penguins ice Panthers, 31-10 GABRIELLE LEITNER/Northern Iowan
EMMETT LYNCH Sports Writer
The UNI football team suffered a tough loss to Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) foe Youngstown State
on Nov. 10 with blowout score of 31-10 in Stambaugh Stadium in Youngstown, Oh. This comes after a hard-fought victory against the thirteenth ranked Illinois State Redbirds a week earlier at home.
In this match, the Panther defense let very few big plays break loose, but still were unable to stop Youngstown State from scoring. UNI most certainly needed more assistance on the defensive side of the ball as they
and worldwide,” Gaies said. The lecture focused on three inf luential American leaders centered around the Midwest: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and Father Charles Coughlin. Schmalz discussed the anti-Semitic ideas they spread and how the media reacted to this language during the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. Schmalz started his lecture discussing Lindbergh, explaining his life and controversies, leading up to his disputed America First speech in Des Moines, where Lindbergh cited America’s three biggest threats pushing them into war as the British, the Roosevelt Administration and the Jews. “Reactions were not monolithic,” Schmalz said. He presented articles both in defense of and opposed to Lindbergh’s speech as he did with all three controversies. Schmalz used primary sources found through History Unfolded. He described History Unfolded as a “citizen history” database project that asks nationwide participants to look through newspaper archives for articles to upload about the preWWII Nazi threat, ran by
the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. A current exhibition at the museum entitled Americans and the Holocaust features a “Nazism in the News” section that includes data collected by History Unfolded. Schmalz used pictures from it to suppliment his presentation. The project was launched in 2015 and will continue until 2021. Schmalz then transitioned into discussing tension and xenophobia in the U.S. between the two world wars. “U.S. participation [in WWI] came at a great cost,” Schmalz said, and referenced the war’s 116,000 American casualties. According to Schmalz, the issue of U.S. being an international peacekeeper was put in question due to its rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and the fear of communism, popular isolationist ideologies and reinstating the Ku Klux Klan. Five hundred lynchings were recorded nationwide between 1918 and 1933. Schmalz explained that xenophobia in this era also led to the rise of the eugenics movement, forced sterilization and race-biased immigration quotas, which
allowed Penguins quarterback Montgomery VanGorder to complete 13 of 22 passes for 209 yards and a touchdown. The Panthers also struggled to contain the running game as they allowed running back
Tevin McCaster to break free for 142 yards on the ground. UNI would end the game having given up 401 total yards of offense to the Penguins. See FOOTBALL, page 6
Holocaust Museum speaker visits UNI CECILIA MITCHELL Staff Writer
In the wake of recent acts of anti-Semitic violence in the United States, UNI students, faculty and members of the Cedar Falls community were given the unique opportunity to learn about the media’s differing reactions to anti-Semitism between the first and second World Wars. On Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m., Eric Schmalz, community manager for the History Unfolded project at the United States Holocaust Museum, gave a lecture titled “‘The Gauntlet Has Been Thrown:’ Newspapers, Op-Eds, and American Responses to AntiSemitism” in Sabin Hall’s Segebarth Auditorium. Stephen Gaies, English professor and director of UNI’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education said that while Schmalz’s talk was scheduled weeks prior to the Oct. 27 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the contents of Schmalz’s presentation were now more crucial than ever. “We’re witnessing an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that’s affecting not only America but Europe
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Eric Schmalz, community manager for the History Unfolded project at the United States Holocaust Museum visited to give a speech on anti-semitism.
furthered prejudice towards minorities deemed “undesirable.” This era also saw a boom in mass communication. Two thousand newspapers were in daily print, the majority of which targeted specific ethnic or religious groups. Schmalz said these newspapers, along with newsreels shown before movies, were how the public learned about the world around them. Automobile tycoon Ford purchased “The Dearborn Independent” newspaper in 1919, rebranding it as “The Ford International Weekly,” and used the platform to dis-
tribute both anti-war and anti-Semitic commentary. According to Schmalz. Schmalz said that Adolf Hitler plagiarized Ford’s publication in “Mein Kampf.” After Ford gained negative media attention, he published a formal apology, retracted his statements and ceased publication soon after. Hitler later awarded Ford with the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest honor Nazi Germany could bestow upon foreign sympathizers, which Ford chose to accept in a public ceremony. See NEWSPAPERS, page 2