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December 5, 2016

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Volume 113, Issue 26

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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Rugby: Successful, invisible

POEM Columnist writes a poem to express his views on Christmas greetings. CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 3

EVALUATIONS Columnist pens piece discussing shortcomings of student evaluations.

OPINION PAGE 3

VOLLEYBALL UNI volleyball ends for the year with an overall positive season. SPORTS PAGE 6

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The UNI Women’s Rugby team (UNIWB) has gone viral on social media. Eileen Lieb, co-captain of the UNIWR team, shared her frustrated sentiments about how the team is successful but must pay their own way to tournaments and games.

ALLYN OXLEY Staff Writer

Recently on social media, attention has been drawn to the continued success, but lack of visibility, of the UNI Women’s Rugby team (UNIWR). Having competed at the national championship in New York, team members are looking to make their presence known on campus and in the community. Eileen Lieb, co-captain of the women’s rugby team, stated in a Facebook post that, “UNI Women’s Rugby is the only UNI sports team to hold

a national title.” Lieb’s post also stated that, “UNIWR is the only UNI sports team to make it to the playoffs 14 of the past 15 years.” These statements were confirmed by the former UNIWR team advisor, Jennifer Murra. “All the girls on the team are full-time students. Most of them have jobs on top of that,” Lieb said. “We have to pay dues to play rugby and then we have to do a bunch of fundraising on top of that, and we have to do our workouts and we have practice. So it’s really busy, and then we had to fundraise more since we found out we were going to nationals

— so it’s just a lot of stuff we have to do.” On top of school, work and team practices, UNIWR pay dues in order to keep sufficient funds for the team. For veterans, dues are around $250, which is turned in by the first game. For newcomers, dues are $100, due by the last game. Eileen stresses that the team is flexible should students need more time to come up with their assigned dues and payment plans can be made. As a sport club team under Recreation Services, Women’s Rugby is allotted funds set aside for all 20-plus sport club teams at UNI. The rest of their

funds are supplied by alumni, local businesses and other supporters. “It’s a partnership between recreation services and the clubs and we’re always looking for different ways that clubs can do fundraising,” said Tim Klatt, associate director in recreation services. According to Klatt, the fundraising aspect of club teams may seem intimidating, but there are plenty of resources to make sure the team’s needs are met. Those resources are extremely important when club teams make it to nationals.

KATIE BAUGHMAN

children in the audience at each of the three shows. This ticketed event was worth the price, according to some in attendence. The Glee Club ran onto the stage from behind the audience, shouting, clapping and high fiving each other to set the mood for the rest of the show. One of the highlights of the matinee show on Saturday afternoon was a marriage proposal by Glee Club member Nick Vanderah. Santa pulled his fiancé-to-be, Lauren Vickers, up onto the stage to ask her what she wanted for Christmas, to which she replied that she wanted “to spend Christmas with the love of her life.” Vanderah took that opportunity to propose on stage, to which the crowd exploded with cheers of excitement for the newly engaged couple. The songs were a mix between traditional holiday

songs like “Ave Maria” and upbeat, amusing songs such as “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.” Between these group songs were other acts, one featuring instruments like the mandolin, guitar, ukulele and tambourine. Josh Burk, Alec Walker and Will Lubaroff pulled the ensemble together, singing “White Winter Hymnal.” Orchesis, a long time UNI dance company, tap danced and wooed the audience while performing to the song “All I want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey. UNITUBA, a musical ensemble comprised of solely tuba players, performed “Christmas Eve/ Sarajevo 12/24.” The SingPins, an acapella group consisting of Glee Club members, made their debut on the Christmas Variety show stage as well.

A Gleeful Christmas Campus Life Eitor

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Santa stands on stage in the GBPAC. He was one of several guest performers to join the Christmas variety show.

Christopher Walken, Dora the Explorer, Batman and other famous figures performed, along with various UNI groups, on the GBPAC stage this weekend. The Varsity Men’s Glee Club kicked off the holiday season with their 39th annual Christmas Variety Show. The Glee Club is a non-auditioned, men’s choral ensemble that has been an organization on campus since 1960 and is currently under the direction of John L. Wiles, associate professor of choral conducting. The show consisted of traditional Christmas songs, Glee Club favorite tunes, a play called “A Very Goonies Christmas” and even an appearance from Santa Claus, who interacted with a few

See RUGBY, page 6

See GLEE, page 5


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