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Volume 114, Issue 20

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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Iowa Public Radio at UNI 2

Winter driving advice 3

Athletes suffer from CTE JOEL WAUTERS

Sports Writer

“Sports do have a risk of injury,” said Don Bishop, UNI’s director of athletic training services. “One of the key things to have in place is having trained personnel on hand to help prevent, treat and care for any problems.” In today’s sports, the threat of injury can petrify an athlete. How long will they be out? When can they come back in the game? Some injuries, however, have much more serious repercussions than some time off the field. One of the biggest injury fears in sports today is the development of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

(CTE). This disease has gained widespread attention in professional sports in recent years. COURTESY PHOTO

DON BISHOP

UNI Head Athletic Trainer

This degenerative brain disease is caused by repetitive head trauma in sports. CTE and the damage it

causes to the brain can have far-reaching consequences, as documented in the deaths of several athletes, including former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez and longtime NFL safety Dave Duerson. Several athletes have even considered early retirement from the games they love to prevent further damage to their brains, such as San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, who said an emotional goodbye to the game at age 24. Symptoms of this disease have included impulsive behavior, emotional instability, short term memory loss and, most striking of all, suicidal thoughts or behaviors.  See CTE, page 6

West African drum ensemble 5

NFL update 6

UNI student arrested for sexual abuse JACOB MADDEN News Editor

As reported by Cedar Falls Police arrest records, Brandon Charles Westendorf, 21, of 2107 College St. No. 31, was arrested on Oct. 30 at 10:44 p.m., on charges of Third Degree Sexual Abuse. He was taken to the Black Hawk County Jail. Westendorf is a junior studying business administration at UNI. On Sept. 15, Cedar Falls Police responded to a call at an apartment complex to investigate a reported sexual assault. According to a press release issued by the Cedar Falls Police, an adult victim reported being sexually assaulted while inside the apartment.

Brandon Charles Westendorf

COURTESY PHOTO/Cedar Falls Police Dept.

Westendorf was arrested on Oct. 30 as a result of an investigation linked to the incident that allegedly took place on Sept. 15.  See ARREST, page 2

THE PHOTO PANTHER LEZIGA BARIKOR

Campus Life Editor

On Nov. 4, 2013, a new big cat, in the leagues with the likes of TC and TK, prowled onto UNI’s campus to stay. That was the day Roland Ferrie of Crescoe, IA, the “Photo Panther,” started his job as the university photographer. Everything from action-packed athletics photos to candid student pictures have been taken by Ferrie ever since. “I basically decide what gets photographed, and I just love being on a campus,” Ferrie said. “There’s no place in the world that has the energy of a college campus. It keeps me feeling moderately young.” Ferrie, at only 35, is a fully self-taught photographer, and he used his college days to practice. A Wartburg 2008 graduate with a B.A. in public

relations and communications, Ferrie worked at his campus paper, yearbook and other areas at his university. After college, he worked in Waverly at Lattin Photography before starting at UNI. The only thing he says he misses about his old job is the use of medium format or film camera work. “The dark room had a certain romance to it that there’s nothing comparable in digital,” Ferrie said. “You never were going to get the same photo twice, there was a uniqueness about the dark room that you don’t have with digital photography.” The reason Ferrie was first motivated to start photography was nostalgia. “I like the idea of being able to preserve memories,” Ferrie said. Ferrie’s office in Bartlett is dim, since he rarely turns on

the florescent lights, letting in only select window lighting. All the editing Ferrie needs to do on his two 4K computer monitors means extra lights tampers with his ability to properly see the colors on the screen. Most of the university’s photography is taken and edited in 4k and is then released in standard 1080 resolution. The numbers 4K and 1080p refer to the number of pixels that make a digital image. The job of university photographer encapsulates more than simply taking photos. “I am in charge of basically creating and helping select visuals that will portray the university in a manner that’s consistent with our mission statements and in order to best recruit new students,” Ferrie said. “Whether that means still photographs or video.”  See PANTHER, page 4

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