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Opinion writer Bailey Klinkhammer reviews Joe Biden’s first year in office.

Panthers upset by Redbirds Saturday, 17-10.

Built in the late 1800’s, Central Hall was an iconic building on campus until 1984.

UNI Theatre in jeopardy Funding concerns prompts emergency department meeting, student action NIXSON BENITEZ Executive Editor

After 143 years on campus, TheatreUNI will be facing possible closure and program suspension due to a university funding crisis. On Wednesday, Nov. 3, faculty and students in the UNI Theatre Department held an emergency meeting to discuss the future of the department and the funding issues within the department.

“We’re stressed, we’re fatigued, we’re upset and we’re uncertain about the future,” Department Head and Associate Professor of Theatre Eric Lange said. “To actually waive some requirements for students, that’s not easy. I mean, that’s not something we just do casually.”

Due to a hiring freeze within the department, the Drama and Theatre for Youth Emphasis will no longer be accepting new applicants. As a result, this program will be suspended. Drama and Theatre for Youth is designed to teach theatre professionals who work with professional theaters and assist with education or youth-centered programming.

UNI PR students raise $7,500 Fundraiser organized for speech, language disability care

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In response to budget cuts and low faculty numbers, students vote at a meeting to create a group advocating for theatre.

Any students who are midway through the current program will be waived or accommodated with a replacement class to finish with their education.

“One way or another, if necessary, we’re going to find the resources to make sure that anyone who is midstream will have a pathway to finishing their degree requirements,” Lange said. “I can’t say exactly, in each situation, what that pathway will be.”

TheatreUNI currently has

close to 120 students in the program. Last year, TheatreUNI had eight full time faculty working in the theatre department with students. After the end of the 2020-2021 academic year, two of those faculty members left the department.

At the start of this academic year, two faculty in the theatre department announced their retirement in the theatre department’s emergency meeting. It was announced at the emergency meeting that

TheatreUNI will not be hiring any more faculty as the university is in the midst of a hiring freeze. In a matter of two years the department will be left with four full time faculty and will be missing four full time faculty, leaving many holes in the department.

The second decision discussed during the meeting was a reconstruction in the Com mu n icat ion-T he at re Teaching curriculum.

On Saturday, Nov. 6, fall fun seekers gathered at Hick’s Place just north of Cedar Falls for a day of food, vendors and all sorts of fall activities. However, the event was not just an excuse to enjoy the beautiful fall weather; it was all for an incredible cause.

The students in UNI’s Public Relations Special Events Planning class were the engineers of the first Fallin’ into Fun Festival, with all of the proceeds being donated to the Scottish RiteCare Early Language Program.

Alumni House, Honors Cottage saved from demolition at BOR meeting See THEATRE, page 2

Proposal can be reintroduced at future Board of Regents meeting CAROLINE CHRISTENSEN News Editor

The most historic buildings on UNI’s campus will live to see another day as the Board of Regents (BOR) did not approve the demolition of the Honors Cottage and Alumni House at their meeting Nov. 4. The university proposed razing both buildings in the BOR meeting in an effort to save on maintenance costs. Both houses are in need of renovations and updates as a result of their age. The proposal recommended the buildings be demolished with trees and grass planted over the area where they once stood.

However, according to the

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The Honors Cottage and the Alumni House (above) has been saved from demolition for now.

BOR Senior Communications Director Josh Lehman, the project is not completely withdrawn. The proposal has been tabled and can still be brought back to the BOR for consideration at their future meeting in February.

BOR member David Barker said, “There are some areas at UNI that have a surplus of space, but also areas that need additional space. I feel like I’d like to learn more about what the overall space situation is like here at UNI

and what the larger plan is before we start demolishing these structures, particularly structures with some historical significance. I don’t have a purpose for them in mind yet, but I would like to have additional study to see

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if there is use for these buildings.”

Discussion of what the two houses could be used for was also discussed. “As we learned yesterday, students need places that feel like home,” BOR member Barker said. “Perhaps these structures could serve and function like that.”

Concerns about the historical significance of the buildings continued to be raised, as the Honors Cottage is the oldest standing building remaining on campus built in 1890 originally built for the university president and family.

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NISG hears from guest speaker, passes legislation NICK BAUR

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On Wednesday, Nov. 3, the Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) congregated in the University Room of Maucker Union for their 12th regular meeting of the academic year.

After a sharp bang of the gavel by the Speaker of the Senate, Sam Caughron, the meeting opened with a presentation from graduate student Isabella Perksen.

Coming from the UNI Office of Compliance and Equity, Perksen shared her work bringing the Green Dot bystander intervention program to UNI. The Green Dot program engages witnesses to interrupt situations that are imminently or potentially high-risk for violence, increases self-efficacy and provides skill building and specific strategies to increase the likelihood that trained individuals will actually intervene. By expanding the role of bystanders beyond

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Director of Public Relations Tim Perksen formally announced the launch of the new NISG website.

reactiveness, the Green Dot program trains participants to engage in proactive behaviors that model and endorse norms that are incompatible with violence. The ultimate goal is not simply to react to potential violence as it is occurring but rather to simultaneously shift community norms that support the violence that is occurring. Perksen explained to the students that the first training in this violence prevention program will take place in January 2022 for

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The NISG website has been updated.

staff and faculty then slowly be opened to interested students. Perksen also relayed the need for securing longterm funding for the project which she implored the NISG members for their help in doing so.

Following this presentation, the gathered audience was then treated to a smattering of weekly reports

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Although the program will not be eliminated, credit hours may be reduced.

The third decision discussed is the discontinuation of the the Sturgis Youth Theatre program, founded by Gretta Berghammer.

The mission of the program is to provide young people with an opportunity to explore and experience all aspects of theatre.

According to TheatreUNI, “In 2011 the Sturgis Youth Theatre expanded in order to offer programming for students on the autism spectrum. Spectrum Theatre is offered during the academic year on a variety of Sunday afternoons.” The decisions to discontinue these programs were presented to the faculty two weeks prior to the emergency meeting.

After these decisions were announced, many students

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TheatreUNI students voiced their concerns regarding the closure of theatre programs and the future of the program.

voiced their concerns.

Fifth year theatre performance major Liz McRae said, “Gretta Berghammer and the legacy she has built is a cornerstone of theater in the Cedar Falls and Waterloo community. To eliminate everything that she built as the first female department head here at UNI is an incredibly shameful and short sighted decision.”

Many students shared tears and expressed fear for

the future as the department may lose accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST).

The accreditation is an external set of basic criteria for its programs and recognizes the ability to provide a base of academic strengths and operations.

In response to these decisions, students from the department gathered together in the basement of the Strayer-Wood Theatre

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from various governmental positions. Most notably, Tim Perksen, Director of Public Relations, formally announced the launch of the new, revamped NISG website.

As the clock slowly approached 9 p.m., the NISG members turned their attention to the controversial items on the agenda consisting of four prospective pieces of legislation. The students heard for the second time, and voted on, two separate bills pertaining to the amendment of the NISG by-laws covered in this column last week. The first designated fund requests as non-controversial items on the official docket. This passed by a vote of 13-0-1. The second bill officially reestablished the Chief of Staff position. This bill passed by a vote of 12-1-1.

The students then listened to the reading for the first time of two other bills related to the amendment of the NISG by-laws once again. The first of these bills centered around Thursday, Nov. 4 to discuss some next steps and advocate for their department.

Multicultural Theatrical Society (MTS) President Bre Eigenheer, University of Northern Iowa Theatre Association (U NISTA) President Dani Schmaltz, Alpha Psi Omega (APO) President Allie Klinsky and University of Northern Iowa Theatre Technicians (UNITT) President Justine Williamson led the conversation regarding the future of TheatreUNI. All students voted (28-8-0) to establish a union known as the UNI Theatre Education Defenders (UNITED) to be organized by the four presidents of the theatre organizations to be the main executive team.

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allowing the Speaker of the Senate more time to appoint senators at the beginning of the academic year. The previous deadline was Labor Day, but this bill would make the new deadline Oct. 1. The second bill read for the first time concerned the removal of membership requirements for the Government and Legislative Affairs and External Relations senate committees. With no more agenda items, the meeting promptly adjourned.

NISG meets every week at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays in the University Room of Maucker Union. These meetings are free and open to the public.

Anyone interested in becoming involved in NISG and the activities of the organization can visit nisg.uni.edu for supplemental information or check back in next week’s issue for more ongoing coverage related to NISG, their initiatives and up-to-date organization news. ty school districts. So when you take (these programs) away, it not only ref lects badly on our program, but on the alums that are going to come out of here. We could lose our NAST accreditation. We most likely will because we won’t have a third track, which is essential. Reputation wise, I will be impacted by this, as well as all the people that I know need to be a part of this work.

All of the potential jobs that I could have in this area are going to be squandered now, because those connections don’t exist anymore.”

UNITED is fully prepared to keep their work going. Schmaltz welcomes everyone to advocate for the arts in higher and public education. UNITED invites all UNI students to their next meeting on Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. in the Strayer-Wood basement. For more information, email schmaltd@uni.edu.

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President Biden: Year in review BAILEY KLINKHAMMER Opinion Columnist

As of Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, it has officially been a year since Joe Biden was elected president. He was elected based on a promise. A public option for healthcare, mask mandates, protection for minority communities and protection of tribal lands. But, currently, two large roadblocks are standing in the way of any touch of progress within the American government, and they have names. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

They are self-described as moderates, people who would rather stay in the center than skew left or right.

Although some may disagree, some of Biden’s policies are progressive. They may not be as progressive as we want them to be, but, for an almost 80-year old Biden, they’re about as left as you could get. Given this, Manchin and Sinema are heavily against Biden’s “Build Back Better” policy that is sitting in the Senate right now. Originally, this bill was meant to encapsulate almost everything Biden ran on in 2020 into DEMOLITION

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The Seerley family lived in the house for a number of years until the cottage was opened as a hospital for students in 1909. In 1926 it was renovated for the Department of Teaching and the Extension Service to focus on child study and parent education. In 1928 President Seerley moved back into the house for retirement with his wife Clara Twaddle Seerley after extensive remodeling. By the fall semester of 1935, Dean of the Faculty Martin J. Nelson and his family had moved into the house along with their children and two English bulldogs, Queenie and Queenie II. In 1959 Vice President William C. Lang and his family moved into the house. In February 1971 the building was reopened as the ethnic Minorities Cultural and Educational Center. With the Center for Multicultural Education moving to Maucker Union in 2004, the Honors Program moved into the building making it their headquarters.

The Alumni House was built in 1906 on campus

one large, long change in the fields of medicine, climate and education over the course of 10 years.

Together, the two have put an almost entire full stop to the bill.

The majority within the Senate is sustained by two things. Every single Democrat agreed, as well as Kamala Harris. Without one or the other, the Senate cannot pass a single thing.

My question is, why are we relying on two Senators to pass urgent legislation? Joe Manchin has been in office for 11 years, and continually proves himself a liability to the Democratic party.

Voting against things like restrictions on coal mining, federal funding for Planned Parenthood and voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Sinema, on the other hand, is a freshman senator from Arizona who has done nothing but disgrace her constituents with her flippant attitude. Her animated “thumbs down” on raising the minimum wage to $15 earned her headlines in journals such at the Washington Post.

With a 50/50 split in the Senate, every vote counts for Democrats. Given the

intended to be the home for the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Two superintendents occupied the house until 1953 when the building was remodeled for the Department of Home Economics, which was used by the department from 1954-1984 as a laboratory. Registered students could live in the house for a part of a semester during this time. The Office of Development and the UNI Foundation moved into the building in 1984, and after renovations International Services as well as the Admissions Office took the house as their headquarters in 1997. The Office of Alumni Relations moved into the building in 2005, and the house is still headquarters for alumni relations.

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This program is conducted on UNI’s campus, and it provides assistance to people with speech or language disabilities, treating individuals from the age of 6 months to people well into their 80s.

The money raised will help them continue to provide these services at little to no

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Opinion columnist Bailey Klinkhammer discusses what President Biden has done since taking office.

circumstances, you would think that these two senators would be more apt to assist the party they represent. However, this seems to make these senators dig their heels in even further, becoming linchpins in passing almost every single bill. They make it almost unworkable within the Senate, creating a form of deadlock on the floor.

Perhaps a deadlock would

persuade them to compromise, yet again, they refuse.

Maybe Sinema’s polling falling drastically in Arizona would persuade her to land a compromise, and again, we find her being less than negotiable. Instead, we find Sinema weeding out important parts of the Build Back Better bill, one to note being getting rid of the proposed higher taxes on corporations.

cost to the patients and their families.

The Scottish RiteCare Early Language Program also serves as an opportunity for speech-language pathology students to gain experience in observation as well as in actually working with patients in their graduate work.

Through ticket sales and a silent auction, the group of about 20 students originally set out to raise $5,000 for the program. On Nov. 6, they had sold over 190 tickets and had raised over $7,500.

Lucas Kahler, a thirdyear public relations major and one of the student organizers, emphasized the importance of different parts of campus supporting each other as the group did with this fundraiser. “I think it worked out really well because the UNI campus really supports one another as a family. It really comes back to benefit UNI and the UNI student experience overall as students get really great experience in the speech-language pathology program, but this has also been some of the greatest experience for our careers as PR students.”

According to Kahler, the

original idea of supporting the Scottish RiteCare Early Language Program came from their professor, Gayle Pohl. The rest of the event was planned entirely by the students.

Alisanne Struck, also a third-year public relations major, detailed the planning process. “As far as the timeline goes, we’ve been working on this since the beginning of the semester,” she said. “This gave us a really good real life example of how to do everything, starting with an idea, then sourcing vendors and donations.”

The event featured food from sponsor Texas Roadhouse, live music, local vendors and yard games. There was plenty for little ones to keep busy with as well, including pumpkin painting, pedal-powered carts from Kids, Cars & More, face painting and appearances by TC and TK. Struck also noted that almost everyone involved the day of were volunteers.

The hard work of this group of students made a significant impact not only on the community, but also on the students themselves.

In seeing their event unfold, Kahler was touched by

Regardless of who Manchin and Sinema think it’s about, the answer remains: not them. At the bare minimum, they were elected to the Senate to represent their constituents. They were elected to serve and represent the Democrats. Manchin and Sinema holding the Democrats at a standstill on the Senate floor reflects poorly on the party. Bad reflections of the party mean that midterm elections for the Democrats is going to be a massacre. To sustain the success of the Democratic party from the 2020 election, Manchin and Sinema must give up their pride and actually work to create a better bill for everyone. They claim to not like the price of the bill; fine, find a way to make it cheaper without leaving your constituents in the dust.

At the end of the day, Manchin and Sinema aren’t doing their job, and their lack of work can cost Democrats the House, the Senate and in the future, the presidency.

what they created, saying, “I remember being a kid and this was stuff that I thought was so fun, so to be able to do something like this and bring so much joy to these kids and families while making memories is so cool.”

Although Saturday has come and gone, the students’ work isn’t done just yet.

On Dec. 1, the group will be partnering with Texas Roadhouse again to hold a Dine to Donate fundraiser for the same cause. Restaurant patrons can mention the Scottish RiteCare Early Language Program fundraiser to their server, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to their cause.

They will also hold a bake sale outside of Texas Roadhouse that day, and the silent e-auction will remain open until then.

Anyone interested in bidding on an item can visit fallinintofunfest. squarespace.com.

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‘Eternals’ just another cog in the Marvel machine HUNTER FRIESEN Film Critic

How is it that Chloé Zhao’s previous film “Nomadland,” about a woman wandering the Midwest in a van, is more interesting and full of life than a $200 million blockbuster filled with literal gods?

Both a coincidence and not a coincidence, “Eternals” and “Dune” share the same release window and many of the same elements. Both are technically well-crafted and beautiful films done on an epic scale featuring diversely interesting casts. Both cover vast amounts of space and time in attempts at worldbuilding for future sequels. And both share an emptiness on the page that keeps them from surviving anywhere past their runtimes.

It’s a shame that prestigious filmmakers like Chloé Zhao and Denis Villeneuve chose to make their least interesting films at the same time.

But before I reveal my hand too early, let’s back things up to the beginning of time, literally. “In the beginning…,” reads the opening crawl, a Celestial by the name of Arishem created the universe and all living things that inhabit it. Like the story in the Bible, this god was not perfect, as he created a monstrous race known as the “Deviants” that threatened the

natural order of life. To right his wrong, Arishem created the “Eternals” to wipe out the Deviants and bring peace. For 7,000 years the Eternals have been Earth’s watchful protectors, subtly guiding humanity to what it is today.

But Arishem’s imperfection begins to sow seeds of doubt within the Eternals.

That doubt leads them to discover the real reason they have been dispatched to this planet, which is to prepare it for the “emergence” that would bring about the end of humanity. Do the Eternals go against their maker by preventing his grand plan, or do they sacrifice billions for the idea of the greater good?

Just on paper, “Eternals” is Marvel’s biggest feature to date in terms of scope and possibility. About a dozen new characters are introduced, all with unique powers. There’s one with super speed, one that can control minds and another that flies around and shoots laser beams out of his eyes like Superman (a reference made more times than you would think within the film).

Marvel has always had a gift when it comes to casting their famed superheroes.

Robert Downey Jr. being cast as Iron Man was seen as an unnecessary gamble, and more

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Editors Note: This is from the Normal Etye published on March 2, 1895, when the administration building was called “Central Halls.”

We are pleased to be able to present our readers this week a cut of the new building as it will appear when finished. We had expected to give cuts showing the floor plans of the first and second floors, but the plans are now in Chicago and will not be returned, perhaps, for several days.

The basement and the third story will not be finished this year. When the basement is completed it will be used for gymnasium and gentlemen’s cloak rooms.

The second floor will be used for the library and offices. The library will be on the north side and will be a room ninety-five by fifty feet. The offices of the president, secretary and board will be in the south east corner and in the north west corner will be a general reception room. The second floor will be used exclusively for recitation rooms, the draw-

ing room being directly over the library. The third floor when it is finished will be devoted to the natural science department. One room will be used for a museum.

The north west corner of the new building will corner with the north east corner of South Hall and the building will stand directly in front of the space between South and Central Halls. There will be three entrances. One on the east; one on the south; and one on the north. A corridor two stories high will be built along the north side of the South Hall from the new building back as far as the hall windows. Doors will be placed where these windows are opening into the corridor.

Gladbrook brick will be used in the construction of the building and when it is finished it will be very attractive. Much of the brick and stone has been hauled and work will be begun early in the spring.

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Film critic Hunter Friesen says the new Marvel movie “Eternals” is “different in a refreshing way.”

eyebrows were raised when unknowns Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston were cast as Thor and Loki, respectively.

Just two months ago, Simu Liu proved all the doubters wrong with his terrific turn as Shang-Chi. But while all those risks have paid off, this large bet doesn’t bring back the expected return on investment. A few names, like Salma Hayek, Barry Keoghan and Angelina Jolie are either miscast or not good enough for their roles.

And for those that are good, such as Gemma Chan as Sersi and Richard Madden as Ikaris, their characters are too flat to inspire anything memorable about them except their names and what powers they have.

But there are a few wins within this cast that should be championed, such as the

first hearing-impaired superhero in Makkari, and the first openly gay couple in Phastos and Ben. There’s also the first Marvel sex scene, lasting all of eight seconds. While celebration should be in order, these inclusionary acts are still baby steps for the Mouse House, who have always embodied the urban dictionary term of “passive progressive.”

“Eternals” is also the most interesting Marvel movie on a purely technical level. That’s not to say it’s the best, but that it’s different in a refreshing way. Zhao, newly armed with Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, makes the most radical departure from the plastic formula that has engulfed this franchise for the better part of its life. Along with DP Ben Davis (who also shot the first

“Guardians of the Galaxy,” as well as “Doctor Strange” and “Captain Marvel”), Zhao leans for a desaturated, naturalistic look, similar to that of her previous features. The plains of South Dakota and the jungles of the Amazon are filled with beauty as she always seems to find and harness the magic hour But those moments of visual originality are brief and sporadic. Once the special effects and action set pieces inevitably barge their back way in, it’s back to business as usual.

This bait-and-switch act begs the question: if even the most independent-minded filmmaker like Zhao can’t break free from the corporate chains, who can? It’s a question that I don’t want to think about, as the answer is the one I fear the most: nobody can. That gloominess I feel may not be shared by those that have stayed loyal to this rewarding franchise. For those that came into this clinging on to the last bits of hope that someone could shake things up, this movie may very well be the death knell to that. But at the end of the day, did I truly expect anything different in Marvel’s 26th entry?

Overall: 3/5

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According to Rod Library archives, the Iowa State Normal School determined a need for additional classrooms, offices and facilities that required the university to in 1892. This led to the creation of Central Hall.

Central Hall was aptly named for its location, as it stood between North Hall and South Hall, the latter of which later became Gilchrist Hall.

In 1905, Central Hall was renamed to the Administration Building.

In 1895 President Seerley wrote an article, printed in the Normal Eyte, about the plans for the Administration Building. Seerley described the architecture as a mix of Greek, Roman and Renaissance.

There were Gothic arches, mosaic tile, classical stonework and even turrets topped with conical pinnacles and crenelations.The ceilings were of “steel stamped with artistic patterns.” The walls and ceilings were painted in many colors, including olive, lavender, blue, pink and shades of terra cotta.Seerley loved the library

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due to its natural lighting and open spaces.

As more buildings were added to campus, programs were given office spaces in those buildings. The size of administration grew and lots of new offices moved into the building, including the offices of the Dean of the Faculty, the Business Office, the Bureau of Research, the Curriculum Laboratory and the Audio Visual Center.

By the 1930s the building was showing its age and required renovations to keep it running. Due to the Great Depression, these changes weren’t able to be funded. In 1947 President Price wanted to develop the campus, the Administration Building and some other buildings. He wanted $772,000 to demolish and replace Central Hall, Gilchrist Hall and the Administration Building, but there was no funding for that either. Ten years later Registrar Marshall Beard, the campus planner at the time, had a similar plan to take down the old buildings.

In 1965 the current Gilchrist Hall was finished and a lot of departments moved in. The offices included the registrar,

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the president, college relations and the business office.

On July 22, 1965, Central Hall, the original orphans’ home and the school’s first building were destroyed by fire.

The campus still needed space in the old administrative building, so in the 1970s and 1980s, it housed classrooms, offices, campus radio station, print services and an animal laboratory.

In the summer of 1983 the old Administration Building was scheduled for demolition. There were estimates to remodel the building, but it would cost between $700,000 to $1.7 million.

Through spring 1983 many students, faculty and local citizens protested this decision.

They argued that the architecture should not be destroyed.

Many letters of protest appeared in the Northern Iowan.

The demolition also included the preservation of selected items of historical value, but the preservation took much longer than expected and demolition was delayed. In January 1984 the Board of Regents delayed demolition six months

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in order to give protestors time to raise $2 million for the renovation. They wanted the building to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, but the plan failed.

After a few appeals to other

organizations the Board of Regents approved the building’s demolition. In July 1984 work began to salvage fireplace screens, doors, wainscoting, clocks and other artifacts.

Bulldozers razed the building in September.

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MONDAY 15TH SAC Tabling in MAU (11-1pm) in Maucker Union Kick Off (2:30-3:30pm) in Maucker Union Ballrooms (RSVP Encouraged) Fullbright Information Session (3:30-4:30pm) Zoom/Online Movie Night "Howl's Moving Castle" (6-8pm) in LIB 287 Ballroom/Swing Club Dance Lessons: Lindy Hop (8pm) in WRC 85 Northern Iowan Article Release

TUESDAY 16TH SAC Tabling in CBB (11-1pm) in Curris Business Building Learn to Cook with Nino (1-2pm) in The State Room CETL Panel (2:00pm) in The Scholarspace at ROD Library Taste of Culture (4-6pm) in the Maucker Union Ballrooms PeaceCorps Panel + Discussion (7-8pm) Zoom/Online

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Top photo: The old Administration Building completed in 1896.

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Bottom Photo: The Adminstration Building in 1984 before they tore it

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SPORTS NOVEMBER 8, 2021 |

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Panthers upset by Redbirds in overtime, 17-10 HUNTER FRIESEN Sports Writer

This weekend saw the UNI Panther football team travel to Normal, Ill. to take on the Redbirds of Illinois State. This game was the first of a twogame away scratch against Missouri Valley Conference opponents. Coming into this matchup, UNI and ISU were sitting with inverse records at 5-3 and 3-5, respectively.

And despite coming in with the better record (both overall and in-conference), and being ranked 13th in the FCS standings, the Panthers were unable to take care of business, dropping to Illinois State in overtime in a low-scoring affair, 17-10.

It was a punting contest to start the game as UNI and ISU both went four-and-out on several occasions without picking up much yardage. ISU’s defense picked up the slack as they intercepted Panther quarterback Theo Day

and returned it for a touchdown with 4:35 left in the first quarter.

UNI wasn’t able to take back the momentum immediately after. Their offensive struggles continued into the second quarter, and they ended up punting it out on each drive in the first half. Illinois State’s offense didn’t fare much better, but they were able to come away with a field goal as time expired, extending their lead to ten points.

The third quarter was one to forget for both offenses.

Neither team was able to enter the opposition’s red zone, and every drive ended in a punt.

Better late than never, UNI’s offense was able to put some points on the board in their first drive of the fourth quarter. The drive started at their 38-yard line, and Day was able to keep it alive on multiple occasions with a few scramble rushes. Eventually, they got down to the Redbird red zone, settling for a field

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Following two big wins against FCS top-10 teams, the Panthers fell short on the road in overtime to Illinois State by the score of 17-10.

goal by Matthew Cook.

A few punts between the two teams occurred after that.

That is until four minutes were left in regulation when Day was able to connect with wide receiver Isaiah Weston on a 60-yard pass. Weston was injured on the play and had to come out as UNI was

now on the Redbird doorstep with time running scarce. Day made sure Weston’s catch was not in vain, as he completed a four-yard touchdown pass to redshirt sophomore running back Sam Schnee. Cook converted the extra point, tying the game up. Each team had one more drive to take the

win, but both came up short.

ISU had the first possession of overtime, and it only took them two plays to score a touchdown on a 27-yard pass. UNI tried to answer back with their running game, as Bradrick Shaw rushed it five consecutive times. The final two plays were pass attempts by Day, but both were incomplete. Unable to answer back, overtime concluded with Illinois State as the victors.

UNI’s loss stung even more considering they beat the Redbirds in nearly every offensive statistic, with close to twice as many total yards (315 v. 164) and first downs (13 v. 6).

The Panthers will have a chance to come away from this road trip with at least one win as they take on No. 17 Missouri State next Saturday.

UNI leads the series between the two teams 35-6 but lost in their last matchup 13-6 back in March.

VOLLEYBALL

Panthers win back-to-back home games against Salukis, Bears DREW HILL out. The first set was a tight

battle, featuring eight ties early on. UNI then took a 14-11 lead, which Southern The UNI volleyball team Illinois matched with a threeplayed two games at home point run. After that, UNI went over the weekend, facing on a run that saw them take the Southern Illinois on Friday, set 25-17. The second set saw Nov. 5, and Missouri State on Southern Illinois lead most of Saturday, Nov. 6. UNI came the way. UNI did tie it at 16 into Friday night with a 9-16 and took an 18-17 lead, but record, while Southern Illinois Southern Illinois pulled back came in 5-23, and Missouri in front to win the set 25-22.

State entered with a 14-13 The third was another backand-forth set. With the score record.

The match with Southern tied at 15, the Panthers took Illinois was a back-and-forth the lead and did not relinquish series that was close through- it, picking up a 25-21 win. The Sports Writer

fourth set saw UNI come back after a quick Salukis’ lead to take the set 25-22 and win the series 3-1.

Taylor Alden had her second triple-double of the week for the Panthers with 16 kills, 24 assists and 14 digs. Jenna Brandt reached a career milestone by reaching 1,000 assists in her career en route to getting 23 assists.

Kira Fallert was the leader in digs with 16.

The Panther women were back on the floor the next night against Missouri State.

The Panthers used big runs to

change the dynamics of each set. In the first set, UNI got out to a six-point lead before the Bears made it interesting by cutting Northern Iowa’s lead to 18-16, but UNI closed the game on a 7-0 run to win 25-16. The second set went back-and-forth until UNI went on an 11-2 run to open up a big lead, and held on to win 25-17. The third set saw UNI get behind but rally from a 12-10 deficit with another 7-0 run. UNI finished the set and series with a 25-18 win.

The Panther women led a balanced attack as Fallert,

Emily Holterhaus and Igna Rotto all led in kills with eight each. Alden and Brandt once again led the way on assists, with 20 and 17, respectively.

Peyton Ahrenstorff had the most digs with 15. Rotto and Carly Spies reached career milestones in blocks, with Rotto earning her 300th block in her career and Spies her 200th as a Panther.

UNI will face its next opponent on its last road trip of the year. They play Indiana State Friday, Nov. 12, and Evansville the next day. Both games will be on the road.

BASEBALL

World Series recap: Braves win first title in 26 years DAVID WARRINGTON

Sports Writer

For the fourth time in franchise history and the first time since 1995, the Atlanta Braves are baseball’s world champions. They secured that title Tuesday night when they defeated the Houston Astros 7-0 in game six, winning the series four games to two.

The Astros hosted the opening two games of the series at Minute Maid Park. The Atlanta offense came ready to play as Jorge Soler led off the series with a solo home run to left field. The Braves scored one more run in the top of the first, one in the second and two more in the third to take a 5-0 lead after three innings.

They held on to win 6-2.

In an unbelievable showing of toughness, Braves starting pitcher Charlie Morton stayed in the game after taking a line drive to the leg. He threw 16 more pitches, getting all three batters out including two strikeouts, before leaving the game for good. X-rays after the game found that he had a fibular fracture in his right leg.

Houston bounced back in a big way in the second game of the series. Tied 1-1 in the bottom of the second, the Astros went on a hot streak, scoring four runs in the inning to take a 5-2 lead. Solid pitching allowed the Astros to hang on the rest of the way, taking the 7-2 win and tying the series at a game apiece.

The series moved to Atlanta’s Truist Park for games three, four and five, the first World Series games ever at the stadium the Braves have called home since 2017.

The pitching was the story for the Braves who held a combined no-hitter into the eighth inning. Starter Ian Anderson pitched five shutout innings, followed by four other pitchers each pitching one shutout inning, giving Atlanta the 2-0 win.

Game four was another low scoring affair. Houston led 2-1 going into the bottom of the seventh, but backto-back solo home runs by Dansby Swanson and Soler gave Atlanta a 3-2 win, giving them a 3-1 lead in the series.

Game five of the series was a much higher scoring game.

Adam Duvall hit a grand slam in the bottom of the first to give Atlanta an early 4-0 lead.

However, the Astros offense bounced back, scoring two runs in both the second and third innings, three in the fifth and one more in both the seventh and eighth to force a sixth game with a 9-5 victory.

The sixth and final game was back in Houston, and Soler continued his monster series when he hit a three-run home run, his third bomb of the series, to give Atlanta a 3-0 lead in the third inning.

Dominant pitching as well as some more offense allowed the Braves to clinch their first World Series championship

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Jorge Soler was named the 2021 World Series MVP.

since 1995. In an unsurprising move given his dominant performance throughout the series, Soler was chosen as the World Series Most Valuable Player.

KARLA DE BRUIN Managing Editor

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