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Cedar Valley gets a ‘Taste of Culture’ LEZIGA BARIKOR/Northern Iowan

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Rod Library was teeming with UNI students, faculty and Cedar Valley community members at the International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) “Taste of Culture” event on Monday, Nov. 11.

“It’s not what I expected at all,” said Alexa Lloyd, a junior leisure, youth and human services major.

The event featured tables from around 23 countries according to Isabela Varela, director of ISSO. At each table, students from their respective nations had their

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traditional culture on display through food, clothing and various other artifacts.

At the Japan table, there was traditional artwork and traditional clothing available to be worn by attendees.

“I’m studying international cultures in my country,” said Yuri Murata, an international student from Osaka, Japan in her first semester at UNI. “I want to re-learn Japanese culture myself.”

Murata said her favorite items on display were the Japanese artwork.

“They’re very beautiful,” Murata said.

Students got a stamp in their “passports” for each country they visited, which gave them a chance to win a prize. They were also able to sample food and performances from different cultures.

“I really like whoever put noodles and potatoes together,” said freshman deciding major Riley Elenz, regarding pierogies, a dumpling filled with mashed potatoes originating from Europe.

Event coordinators made an effort to have all the food come from a different continent, according to Varela.

They had originally ordered enough food for 300 people, but ran out halfway through the event, which ran from 4 to 6 p.m.

As they ate their food, attendees also enjoyed cultural showcases. These included a bagpipes performance as well as a set

by UNI’s International

Dance Theatre (IDT) Dance Company covering folk dances from Romania, Mexico, Israel and other countries.

In the final hour of the event, there was a ukulele lesson. Students were given ukuleles to practice and soon were playing Top 40 hits together, such as Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover).”

times all it takes is the spoken word to bring them to life.

On Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m., members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association shared their stories with an audience in Bartlett Hall.

To start the event off, English professor Vince Gotera informed the audience that November had been declared as Speculative Poetry Month.

When describing speculative poetry, Gotera stated that it’s not too far from

other forms of poetry with which people may be familiar.

“The difference has to do with topic,” Gotera said.

“Speculative poetry incorporates magic, science or the supernatural. Actually, though, speculative poetry has been written as long

as poetry has existed. For example, the medieval poem ‘Beowulf ’ that you might have read in high school portrays encounters with monsters and dragons. When people think of ‘Literature’ with a big L, lots of that poetry includes speculative elements. So speculative poetry is not that different from regular poetry; it’s all poetry.”

Once Gotera had finished introducing the genre, several guest readers shared their tales of mystery, technology and horror.

The featured reader of the night was Bryan Thao Worra, a Lao-American poet and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Wearing steampunk goggles around his neck and a green scarf, Thao Worra approached the podium in order to read his poems and explain what poetry meant to him.

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Poetry speculates fantasy, myth, science COLBY WEBER Staff Writer

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Students unleash animal camouflage UNI. Behrens maintains a blog Staff Writer that is focused on camouflage.

He was inspired by Lemanski’s Animal camouflage is on series of animal works and full display at the Hartman decided to get in touch with Reserve Nature Center, thanks her to collaborate. to the work of UNI graphic “I didn’t know about Anne design students. Their work Lemanski until about a year is inspired by the artist Anne and a half ago. So, one of the Lemanski. things I try to do is to locate The idea for the show current artists who are experbegan with Roy Behrens, a imenting with camouflage graphic design professor at and I happened to run across Lemanski’s work,” Behrens said. “I loved it; she’s using packaging patterns and graphic design patterns, so I did a little blog about her work.”

As Behrens explored Lemanski’s work, he thought that students in his graphic design class would be able to relate to her art.

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time, the Hartman Reserve Nature Center asked Behrens to give a talk about animal camouflage.

“I thought it would be so great to put all the elements together; to do a class project that was also contributive to the community,” Behrens said.

“I am just floored by the pieces the students made. There are things in there that just couldn’t be any better.”

Behrens said that the student exhibit received several compliments from naturalists who saw the show.

“It makes me kind of sad that I’m retiring,” Behrens said. “This is probably what I enjoy most about teaching — to see the fantastic things that students produce.”

Lemanski, whose animal artwork series can be found on her website, was impressed with the works that Behrens’ students have created.

“Roy included my work on his camouflage blog a couple years ago and wrote a bit about camouflage as well, which I love,” Lemanski said. “He contacted me about doing the

project with his class a month ago and I was all for it. I was interested in doing it because my first interest was graphic design.”

She received a few photos of the student artwork and said she was impressed with what they came up with.

“It’s always interesting to see what people will do with your images, and I look forward to seeing the other pieces,” Lemanski said. “I won’t be able to come see the exhibit, but I am in love with the photos I’ve seen so far.”

Lemanski said she would be interested in similar collaborations in the future. Currently, she is working on a life-sized tiger and wants to continue incorporating animals into her work.

The exhibit opened to the public on Thursday, Nov. 1 and will be open to the public until the end of December.

“Poetry, for me, isn’t just a question of words on a page,” Thao Worra said. “Poetry is a question of souls talking to souls. That’s when your poetry will gain the most power.

How do we confront the chaos and uncertainty of the world and not be paralyzed by it?

We have to show people how to take a step towards it.”

Despite the focus on the spooky and otherworldly, Thao Worra wished for everyone to know that speculative poetry isn’t removed from our everyday experiences. He cited “Dante’s Inferno” as an exam-

ple. In that poem, corrupt officials in the author’s own life were given their just rewards in hell.

“Part of my work is to challenge what is foreign and what remains foreign,” Thao Worra said.

While his poetry mentioned various events from his childhood and wars, he also speculated about what a LaoAmerican future might look like. As he moved from poem to poem, Thao Worra mentioned a zombie Buddha, Lao artificial intelligence running cities and “Laostraunauts.”

Thao Worra believes that poems should be able to survive in multiple formats. He

sees written poetry as a guideline which can be adjusted during spoken word performances as needed. This flexibility can also be carried over into the creation of the poetry itself. One of the newer styles of poetry is graphic poetics, in which artists incorporate images into their poems.

According to Thao Worra, virtual reality may soon be used to enhance the meaning of a poem through technology.

Bringing the event to a close, Thao Worra wanted the poets in the room to reflect on their poetry careers.

“Throughout this whole time as a poet, despite all our

best efforts, no one can guarantee that we’ll be read 1,000 years from now,” Thao Worra said. “No one can guarantee that we’ll be read 100 years from now. No one can even guarantee that we’ll be read 10 days from now. However, if you do not write or create, then your grandchildren will

think that the most important people of this time were Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton.

I’ve had the honor of having my work presented at the Olympics. Even so, my book has been outsold by ‘Taken by the T-Rex (Dinosaur Erotica).’

You should write to the very limits of your imagination.”

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We must count every ballot NOVEMBER 15, 2018 |

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“The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged.

An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!”

-@realDonaldTrump 11/12/2018 While the 2018 United States midterm elections were held last Tuesday, Nov. 6, several highly competitive races in Georgia and Florida are still too close to call. Amongst accusations of voter suppression, long-wait lines at the polls and misplaced ballots, both Georgia and Florida face re-counts this week.

If the accusations of suppression are true, Democrats were shorthanded this election cycle. In the race for the senate in Florida, incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D)

fell behind former Governor Rick Scott (R) by 0.14 percent in ballot counter late Tuesday night. With similarly close margins, in Florida’s guber natorial election, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D) also trailed Ron DeSantis (R) by 0.4 percent.

Under Florida state law, both elections are subject to a recount. With a margin of victory of only 0.25 percent, Florida’s senate race is headed to a recount by hand while a machine recount was automatically triggered the governor’s race once the margin fell below 0.5 percent.

While the recount process must be completed by this Thursday, officials have already spotted abnormalities in tallied ballots.

In Broward, the second largest county in Florida, some ballots raised red flags.

Tara Golshan, a political reporter from Vox, wrote about Broward’s missing ballots on Monday. She found that, “Roughly 25,000 ballots tallied in the county had the Senate race left

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blank — more than almost every other statewide race on Broward ballots — and it’s a mystery why.

Some have said it’s because of how the ballot is formatted, putting the Senate race on the bottom of the page under a long block of voting instructions. But a lawyer for Nelson thinks it’s a machine error that would be rectified with a hand recount.”

Additionally, activists on social media have claimed thousands of mail-in ballots were found ‘stacked inside a mail distribution center’ days after the election.

In Georgia, former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D) narrowly trailed Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) on election day by two percentage points. While Kemp declared victory, Abrams refused to concede, citing voter suppression and election tampering as the reason for her loss.

The Associated Press reported last month that Kemp, as the Secretary of State, purged over 53,000

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Opinion columnist Jack Ave discusses the recent recounts in Georgia and the importance of making sure every ballot is counted.

voter registrations, 70 percent of them from black applicants, because they failed to clear an ‘exact match’ process.

According to Golshan, “The race in Georgia is a story about voter access.

Kemp, who until last week was still the Secretary of State in Georgia, tasked with overseeing the elections — including his own — has been embroiled in allegations of voter suppression, scrutiny from voting rights

groups.”

While the full results in Florida and Georgia are unknown, it is crucial for election officials to count every ballot. The cornerstone of our democracy is an informed public who have free and equal access to participate in politics, especially through voting. Any official that undermines this premise is betraying their duty as a servant to the public, rather than a mouthpiece for the elite.

Alibaba will give Amazon a run for its money Singles’ Day is a Chinese holiday observed by young people to celebrate being single. The last Singles’ Day, Nov. 11, was a record-breaking day for the internet giant Alibaba. It was so big that it smashed sales records across the world. It even dwarfed Amazon’s biggest weekend, but there’s still doubt about whether or not they’ll come to the US. Alibaba is a big deal, but

there’s a lot of Americans that don’t know what this company is. Many refer to it as “the Amazon of China,” but that’s not accurate.

While Amazon is the closest comparison possible to Alibaba, there are still some significant differences that need to be recognized.

One of these differences is how Alibaba works.

Amazon, as we all know, has massive logistics and distribution channels to get products from point A to point B. According to Shopify, Alibaba instead uses a model where customers ship to other customers using 3rd parties to move

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Opinion columnist Sam King writes about Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba and their recent success on the Chinese Holiday Singles’ Day. King believes that it will only be a matter of time before they join the U.S. market.

the product. This creates a “middleman” problem, as many sellers of products on Alibaba are actually just reselling someone else’s products.

Alibaba is the world’s largest ecommerce group on the planet. They have pretty much everything on their platform from cloud computing, electronic payments, news media, film, retail, digital media and more. There was even a time they tried to sell Uranium. They really do have everything.

Amazon by comparison, isn’t very big. If eBay and Amazon were to combine, they would still be smaller than Alibaba. The scale of their company is unrivaled.

It makes sense for them to hold the record for the biggest sales day.

30.8 billion dollars in sales on a single day. To put this into perspective, Amazon’s last Black Friday weekend including cyber Monday was around the 14 billion mark. Alibaba made 1 billion dollars in the first minute of Single’s Day (Verge). That’s insane.

It’s more than enough to prove that Alibaba doesn’t need the U.S. in addition to their current market, but will they ever come over to

the US? This won’t be a question of whether or not Alibaba comes to the US, it’s a question of when. This new record is good news for the company. A 30 billion day is more than a lot of companies make in a year. On top of that, most of those sales were just the Chinese market. It’s clear Alibaba doesn’t need to go to the U.S., but it’s a huge market they have yet to tap into.

Fortunately, we don’t have to speculate too much.

According to Bloomberg, Alibaba has retracted its plans to break into the US market amid the current tariffs on China. They planned to bust into the market, challenge Amazon and bring 1 million jobs to America.

While I’m sure Alibaba could adapt well to the US with some effort, I’m sure the added tariffs make it difficult. I wouldn’t count them out as a future contender, however. The U.S. market is lucrative and could bolster Alibaba’s profits even further. When they do decide to enter the market, things are going to change for us.

Many fields, including digital media, would be changed by Alibaba’s entry into the US. They own and

operate in so many areas, it would be silly for them to not continue to do the same here. They are a true Internet giant that is more than a match for Amazon.

Imagine what would happen if the two of them went head to head.

Ideally, good things would happen. I don’t think either company is going anywhere anytime soon.

Some competition would be good for both of them and the consumers. I think that’s the real good news here.

The recent allegations against Amazon mistreating their workers and some of the scandals surrounding the mass counterfeit scams operating on Alibaba proves that uncontested giants of commerce need something to keep them in check. If the government won’t do it, the next best thing is introducing competition. That way, customers can choose to take their money elsewhere.

While it’s clear Alibaba can sustain itself without going into the U.S. market, this Single’s Day boom proves that, they will still likely try once the opportunity arises. Once that hits, it will be interesting to see how Amazon reacts.

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‘Spider’s Web’ is as lifeless as its setting HUNTER FRIESEN Film Critic

After watching “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” all I could think about was how badly this film tried to be a James Bond movie. There’s the dark protagonist who uses questionable methods to serve justice, the villain who wants to control the world and the underdeveloped love interest who always gets in the way.

“Spider’s Web” even has an opening title sequence, akin to those from the Bond films.

One could say that the only thing the 007 films have that this film doesn’t is a sense of quality, which in the end makes “Spider’s Web” a pale imitation of its far superior predecessors.

Directing: 2/5 “Spider’s Web” is directed

by Fede Álvarez, who previously proved himself with the horror thriller “Don’t Breathe.” Unfortunately, he brings none of those thrills to this film as it ends up being a boring slog. Álvarez really tries to make this a hard action flick, which totally goes against the source material. Lisbeth is treated here as a heroine who is able to fight off five guys at a time when really, she’s a tortured anti-hero who uses

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her genius skills to stay ahead of her enemies. Álvarez also relies heavily on action set pieces in order to mask the overall drabness of the story.

Unsurprisingly, the set pieces are just as drab as everything else. The car chases and stunt work are by-the-numbers and difficult to watch as the editing jumps around at a frenetic pace.

Writing: 2/5 Going along with the theme of unoriginality is the writing.

The main TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE MacGuffin plot fol- Fede Álvarez’s “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” a sequel to the 2011 crime thriller “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” was lows Salander as she released on Nov. 9. The film received a 41 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. tracks down a laptop containing a program that It’s a crazy shift that rips more like an object to move an edge by being playful and can control the world’s supply the film of any tension and the plot forward rather than menacing, but it backfires and believability. an actual human with feel- ends up making her perforof nuclear weapons.

Filling the boring world ings. mance laughably bad.

The plot feels more are some equally bland charLastly, Christopher in line with a cheesy 80’s acters.

Many either don’t have Acting: 2/5 Convery plays August, a kid Schwarzenegger flick rather a name or are so basic you’ll The one good thing about who gets trapped in all this than a modern thriller. It also forget their names immedithis film is Claire Foy, who mess.

Granted, he’s only just goes against the hard-groundately after hearing them.

The fearlessly dives into the role starting out his early career, ed tone the film tries to convey. Lisbeth deals with her writers try to make each one of Lisbeth Salander. Her but Convery was terrible in inner demons in one scene, cool by giving them super accent is on point and she the role. His painful delivand in the next, she is trying skills like fighting or hacking, brings a good amount of grit ery ruined about every scene to stop a nuclear holocaust. but they forgot to give them to the character. It’s a shame he was in (which was a lot) personalities. Each one feels that her talent is wasted on and immediately crushed any such lousy material. hopes of sympathy for his The rest of the supporting character. cast fails to make an impact and feels cut and pasted from Overall: 2/5 any typical action movie.

Just like its setting, “The Lakeith Stanfield plays Girl in the Spider’s Web” Edwin, an NSA agent who is cold and lifeless. Save for hunts down Salander in a Claire Foy, everything in the game of cat-and-mouse. film ends up being a cheap Stanfield has done much bet- knockoff of other generic ter work than this and just action thrillers. Instead of doesn’t seem to really care watching a film that tries to — and really, who can blame be James Bond, just watch NOV. 28 - DEC. 1, 7:30 PM him? a James Bond film. At least Sylvia Hoeks plays the those are pretty good.

DEC. 2, 2:00 PM archetypal villain who wants STRAYER-WOOD THEATRE to hold the world hostage.

She tries to give her character

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Music class performs as ‘The Mod Squad’ SOFIA LEGASPI/Northern Iowan

SOFIA LEGASPI

Campus Life Editor

The Mod Squad performed at 12 p.m. during Maucker Union Live on Wednesday, Nov. 14.

The six-student band, which includes guitars, a bass, a cello, percussion and vocals, was brought together by the class “Modern Band and Creative Music Making.” Instructed by associate music professor Kevin Droe, the class meets every Thursday evening to learn instruments with modern songs.

“It’s more learning about the modern kind of skills in modern music versus — a lot of the UNI School of Music is about classically trained singing and classically trained instruments,” said Siena Fah, a senior music major. “So it’s a really cool way to get a new experience in music.”

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“I’m really impressed people are listening, asking good questions and are interested in the countries students are coming from,” Varela said.

The Columbia table chose to feature Gabriel Garcia Márquez, a 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient. His most famous work in Columbia, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” was on their table surrounded by yellow butterflies.

“It’s important to highlight: all the butterflies represent magical realism,” said LEZIGA BARIKOR/Northern Iowan

marily functions as a vocalist for the band, she also played bass during their performance and has grown her skills on the drums and guitar through the class.

“The way it works with this band is we all just started at the introductory level, learning all of the instruments,” Fah said. “So the whole point of it is to get us all to experience each aspect of being in a modern band, and it’s been a really cool thing.”

Other students in the Mod Squad were Daniel Benson, Hiroto Ishihara, Kaleb Mast, Haley Nicholson and Joley Seitz. Their set lasted about 30 minutes and included “Little Black Submarines”

by The Black Keys, “I’m Not The Only One” by Sam Smith and “Let It Be” by the Beatles, among other songs.

The group’s final performance will take place on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. in Bengtson Auditorium, Claudia Jimenez, a graduate assistant in the languages and literatures department who was co-running the Columbia table.

There were bonus tables representing Midwest culture and one specifically for Iowa culture, featuring the popular expression “ope” in its presentation.

For Lloyd, the best parts of the event were the food and talking to the students manning each country’s table.

“The purpose is to learn about the culture and international students,” Varela said. “Just to bring the community together.”

Russell Hall.

While the current Mod Squad will disband once the semester ends, Fah emphasized that the class would be offered again next semester.

“If you ever want to learn an instrument, you should

definitely consider this class,” Fah said. “This is the perfect class if you’re not sure about, you know, how you can learn how to play something, but you want to try it out — this is definitely the class you should take.”

The class is open to both non-music majors and music majors and can be found under the course name “MUS ED 3159.” Students seeking more information can email Kevin Droe at kevin.droe@ uni.edu.

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UNI competes at Grand View Open FRANK WALSH

Sports Writer

The Panthers wrestling team relied on a set of lucky 13 competitors during the Grand View Open in Pleasant Hill, Iowa on Saturday.

Ten of the 13 competitors were able to place. Similar to the Harold Nichols Open in Ames a week earlier, the tournament was organized into a freshman/sophomore division and an open division with eight Panthers competing in the freshman/sophomore division and five competing in the open division.

Champions to win the freshman/sophomore division included Kyle Biscoglia, Jacob Schipper, Michael Blockhus, Cayd Lara and Tyrell Gordon.

Biscoglia and Schipper both competed at 125 pounds and both forfeited to be tied for first place.

“I feel as though I competed very well,” Biscoglia said. “I felt very comfortable on the mat and it showed.”

At 141 pounds, Blockhus, a freshman, plowed through the competition and picked up

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The Panthers will compete in their first dual meet of the season on Nov. 17 at the University of Pittsburgh. UNI compiled a 6-5 overall record and 3-2 record in dual meets in their first season as an associate member of the Big 12 Conference.

two pins and a technical fall as well in the process. Blockhus was able to pin Scott Fulsos of Nebraska in the first minuteand-12-seconds of the final round.

At 157 pounds, Lara was able to win a title as well. He showed true strength as he took down everyone in the field while picking up four pins to show total domination en route to pinning Dalton Jensen of

Grand View University in the finals.

In the 197-pound bracket, Gordon picks up his second championship of the season by defeating Hunter Dejong of Iowa State in the finals.

“I think I competed fairly decent,” said Gordon. “Moving forward, I can improve on every aspect of my wrestling. I think the main thing I need to work on is upping the number of

attacks I hit during matches.”

For the open division at this tournament, the Panthers were able to pick up two bronze medal finishes from Austin Yant and Derek Holschlag.

In Holschlag’s third-place match, he was able to defeat Justin Atkinson of Indiana Tech picking up a 13-5 major decision.

Yant showed great potential as he was able to pick up two

technical-falls and one pin en route to defeating Nathan Walton of Cumberland University for an 8-7 win.

“I felt like I competed decently well,” said Yant. “I did some things well but I still have a lot to work on.”

The Panthers will be back in action on Saturday, Nov. 17 as they compete in their first dual meet of the season at the University of Pittsburgh.

BASKETBALL

Panthers split season openers in Preseason WNIT PATRICK HANSEN

Sports Writer

The UNI women’s basketball team started the season strong, hosting the University of Delaware Blue Hens in the first round of the Women’s NIT (WNIT).The Panthers won by a score of 79-67.

Delaware started off impressively on a 6-0 run over the Panthers, but UNI had a strong response as they scored 12 straight to go up 12-6.

From there on, the Panthers never trailed Delaware for the remainder of the game.

Four of the Panther players recorded double-digit points.

Sophomore guard Karli Rucker led the way with 25 points,

followed by Megan Maahs with 17 and Ellie Howell and Abby Gerrits tallying 15 points each.

Maahs also recorded her first double-double of the young season, adding 10 rebounds to go along with her 17 points.

UNI led in nearly every statistical category for the game. They tallied a 39.3 field goal percentage, 26.3 percent from behind the arc and shot a solid 86.7 percent from the free-throw line. They also led in rebounds 46-41. The only category they fell behind in was steals where they tallied one and gave up 10.

After moving on from the first round of the WNIT, the Panthers traveled to

Milwaukee, Wis. to take on the 19th ranked Marquette Golden Eagles, who came off a huge 48-point win over Montana State. Marquette started out on a 7-0 run and things just kept rolling for the Golden Eagles from there.

Three Panthers were able to score double figures in the 102-61-point loss. Ellie Howell led the team with 15 points, followed by Bre Gunnels and Abby Gerrits both tallying 12. It was a special game for Howell as she joined the career 1,000-point club.

The Panthers as a whole recorded a 31.8 percent shooting percentage and 31.3 percent from beyond the arc.

UNI also shot 80 percent from the free throw line.

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The Panthers will be placed in a consolation game in the WNIT after falling to 1-1 on the season. They will travel to Dekalb, Ill. to face

the Northern Illinois Huskies, who fell to Iowa State in the second round. The game will be played on Sunday, Nov. 18 with a tip-off time of 2 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL

MVC tournament approaches as season winds down PRESTON JENSEN Sports Writer

The UNI volleyball team had their brooms handy as they swept both the Missouri State Bears and Southern Illinois Salukis on Nov. 9 and10.

The Panthers got it rolling on Friday, Nov. 9 against the Bears and didn’t look back. UNI won each

of the first three sets with scores of 25-18, 25-13 and 25-21.

Piper Thomas and Karlie Taylor lead the charge to defeat Missouri State.

Thomas recorded an attack percentage over .400 for the 13th time this season, while Taylor contributed a three-set double-double with 18 kills and 12 digs.

Between the two, they also

added six blocks.

On Saturday, Nov.10, UNI honored their seniors Lexi Astor, Kendyl Sorge and Piper Thomas during senior night against Southern Illinois. The three were sent off in style as the Panthers defeated the Salukis in a three-set sweep, 25-16, 25-19 and 26-24.

Thomas had 10 kills and

6 blocks in her final home match. Kate Busswtiz lead the team in kills with 12, as well as blocking three shots.

Up next, the Panthers travel to Evansville, Ind. to battle the Purple Aces on Friday, Nov. 16. UNI has had success against them, winning all three sets in the last match.

UNI will conclude the

regular season on Saturday, Nov. 17 against the Indiana State Sycamores.

The Panthers look to keep their momentum going as the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament quickly approaches. With an overall record of 21-8 and 15-1 in conference play, they still have an opportunity to clinch the tournament’s number one seed.

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