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Make the world a Glee-ful place KATHERINE JAMTGAARD Staff Writer

The men of the UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club were back to their holiday shenanigans for their 37th annual Christmas variety show. With one show on Friday and two shows on Saturday, the Glee Club, along with the UNI Men’s Camerata, Orchesis Dance Company, Swingfonians, S.H.O.P. and the 2014 Arthur Murder Dancers seasoned the Great Hall with the sounds of Christmas.

“This is actually my first Christmas show as a Glee Club member, but I’ve been in the past for variety acts so it was the experience of being committed to the show and being a part of the whole thing. I think that this year the biggest difference was having Panther Palms,” said Colby Campbell, senior vocal music major and Glee Club member.

Campbell, whose favorite piece to perform was ‘Silent Night’ thought it was really powerful when the Glee Club

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The UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club perform their traditional play at the 37th Christmas Variety Show. This year’s play was titled “Charlie and the Toy Factory,” written by members Jacob Ferguson (Santa), Tim Vonderhaar, and Clark Jackley.

brought Panther Palms into the mix to sign the entire song.

The 2014 Varsity Men’s Glee Club consists of 120 men representing over 37 majors.

Synthetic death KAYLEEN TURNIS Staff Writer

The University of Northern Iowa’s biology department will soon be able to enhance handson experience with synthetic cadavers.

The biology department will receive the four specimens in coffin-sized packages filled with seawater spring semester; after that, biology students will no longer dissect cat cadavers as part of their learning in the biology program.

Purchasing four “SynDavers” was made possible through a grant for nearly $1 million to the biology department from

the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust according to the biology department’s website.

“What’s cool about the synthetic cadavers is that they feel more like living tissue whereas a real cadaver is dead tissue.

They will be easier to work with than a real cadaver would be,” said Alex Meirick, senior biology major and anatomy and physiology teaching assistant.

Biology students, professors and other individuals in the department had an opportunity to see one of the human-like SynDavers last week.

See SYNDAVERS, page 3

The Glee Club’s director, John Wiles, invited Panther Palms, a sign language choir, to perform.

Katie O’Brien, an American Sign Language instructor at UNI,

created Panther Palms last year.

“We feel incredibly honored.

We know how big of a tradition the Glee Club is and the Varsity Men’s Glee Club Christmas

Variety Show is a big deal on campus and in Iowa,” O’Brien said.

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UNI holds off late GMU push BRANDON TJEPKES Sports Writer

The University of Northern Iowa basketball team escaped with a 71-65 win over George Mason University on Saturday.

George Mason started the game with the lead 4-0 before UNI gained the lead 6-4 after a couple 3-pointers from Deon Mitchell and Jeremy Morgan.

GMU tied it up, but Nate Buss and Bennett Koch teamed up for six points to acquire a 12-7 lead. Buss and Koch led the first half in scoring with six and seven points, respectively.

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Seth Tuttle (no. 10) scored a team high of 16 points and added 8 rebounds in their last win against George Mason University.

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Two UNI students pose for Morales after telling their story about sabotaging campaniling this year. “Students of UNI” is a Facebook page inspired by the “Humans of New York” project.

NICK FISHER Staff Writer

Panther Jay Morales, deciding major, is working to capture the essence of the University of Northern Iowa student body with his Facebook page “Students of UNI,” modeled after the popular “Humans of New York” page on Facebook.

For those not familiar with “Humans of New York,” the page is a photoblog dedicated to providing anonymous, brief profiles of passers-by -- mostly on the streets of New York City.

The photographer, Brandon Stanton, posts snapshots of these New Yorkers accompanied by a quotation. These profiles are known for being both light-hearted and fun or quite serious and incredibly profound.

As for Morales’ vision for his page, he sees it as an illuminated mirror of sorts– capturing the reflections of his fellow UNI students in a positive light.

“Well it’s like this kid walking here [motions to a student passing by]. Who is he? We’re peers with him.

We go to the same school.

And we don’t have to necessarily be friends with him,” Morales said, “But I think we may as well acknowledge his existence or something.”

For Morales, individual stories are important.

“This guy has a story: what’s he interested in, where’s he from, what does he do, why does he do it?

What’s been the biggest thing to ever happen to him in his life? Maybe he is writing some awesome movie right now and we have no idea that he’s going to be

huge someday,” Morales said.

The project is a fusion of two passions for Morales: his passion for people and his love of photography.

“I just like taking pictures of people and I wanted a reason to do that. I also just wanted a reason to bring an even more friendly environment to this campus, something to oppose those mean or hateful things posted on [social media sites] such as Yik Yak and the mean or hateful things people tweet about each other on Twitter; it’s just garbage. I just wanted to oppose that and do something that brings us all together.”

I think, to some extent, all of us are attracted to that humility because we have that in common whether or not we like to admit it. It’s humanizing.

Abbi Cobb

sociology and history ed. major

The page is still in its infancy–being less than a week old– but the number of “Likes” is growing rapidly, now close to 1,500, a product of students feeling a connection to the stories featured.

One student’s story in particular resonated withMorales and others who liked the page. The story was about a student and her 5th grade cubby buddy, whom she had had a crush on in grade school. One day,

he took her book back to her cubby and instead of saying “Thank you” she let slip, “I love you.”

Abbi Cobb, history education and sociology major, picked this student’s story as her favorite and reflected upon why so many connected to that particular story.

“I think, to some extent, all of us are attracted to that humility because we have that in common whether or not we like to admit it.

It’s humanizing,” said Cobb.

Cobb has long been a fan of the “Humans of New York” page and instantly saw a parallel in the more-localized version, the “Students of UNI” page.

“What I like about the “Humans of New York” page… is that New York City has such a huge population and I think it humanizes the people in an area where you can get so caught-up in the busy day-to-day life,” Cobb said.

According to Cobb, we can succumb to the bustle of everyday life even on a relatively small campus such as UNI.

People today are hesitant about getting their picture taken, and that’s because of the Internet.

Jay Morales

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“I think [“Students of UNI”] is a cool thing because I think it seems like we have a big campus–even though it’s smaller than some of the other state cam-

puses– and it just makes it seem smaller when you get to know other people’s stories. Because everybody does have a story after all,” said Cobb.

Cobb’s sentiments largely echo the feedback Morales has been getting thus far.

“There are a lot of people talking about [the page].

I’ve had people come up to me and ask me if I’ve heard of it and that’s great.

I haven’t heard anything negative yet so that’s good,” said Morales.

Some of this positive feedback stems from the tenets of Morales’s strategy for approaching those he chooses to photograph.

He stresses the importance of making the student comfortable and that the image of the student is less important than capturing them as an individual.

“I don’t want it to be plain face shots; I want it to be more than that.

People today are hesitant about getting their picture taken, and that’s because of the Internet. People thirty years ago were like, ‘Yeah, sure, hit the shutter, take a picture of me!’ but that’s not the case now. I try to have a positive energy when I approach people to make them comfortable and let them know I’m not crazy [laughs],” Morales said.

There remains one goal for Morales that he hopes to accomplish with this project.

“I ask them about some point in their life, not necessarily to expose that person to the world, but to let the world know that this is a person; who has a story just like you do,” Morales said.

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They each had their first look at the artificial bodies, which are similar in size and feel to real human muscles, vessels and organs. The biology department looks forward to working with SynDavers during lab dissections this spring.

“Hopefully the use of the SynDavers will provide students with a more optimal dissection experience, ” said Mary McDade, anatomy and physiology instructor.

UNI is the first and only university in the state of Iowa that will offer the use of SynDavers for dissection to students. According to the SynDaver website, several medical colleges around the country have begun using SynDavers rather than real human cadavers in their medical programs. Among the uni-

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versities are: the University of Arizona, Arizona State and the University of Minnesota.

I think these will greatly benefit the biology department . . . they will help bring more people to UNI for our biology major.

Mary McDade

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The website added that the U.S. Navy uses SynDavers in wound research to test various methods of treating injuries sustained in battle.

Over 500 hundred students at UNI are majoring in biology, with three quarters of the students intending to follow health-related fields after graduating from

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UNI, McDade said. All biology students are required to take a pre-requisite anatomy and physiology course. These include a lab with dissection practice.

McDade believes UNI is very fortunate to receive such state-of-the-art equipment for learning and hands-on experience with human bodies.

She said, “We think SynDavers will provide our students with a unique and top-notch dissection experience which they really need to prepare them for their professional experience in programs.”

Others in the department agree.

“I think these will greatly benefit the biology department,” said Meirick, “not only because they will be a better learning tool in the lab, but because they will help bring more people to UNI for our biology major.”

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The Board of Regents’ freeze:

a political ploy that hurts students, universities COREY COOLING coolingc @uni.edu

Last week, the headlines across Iowa read the Iowa Board of Regents had, for a third time, approved a tuition freeze. For the first time ever Iowa students will graduate with the same sticker price they paid their freshman year.

Or so it seems. In reality despite this three-year freeze, all students have regardless paid more for their education every year.

While the Board of Regents would like you to think the freeze is for the benefit of students and Iowa families, it actually leaves Iowa’s regent universities and students out in the cold. The whole spectacle of the tuition freeze is a dramatic display of politicking in Iowa that serves to make the Board and the Statehouse look good while hiding the true damage the freeze does to Iowa’s universities and students.

What is going on behind the scenes here is a careful public relations distraction to confuse Iowa students and

their families and convince them the Board of Regents, and by extension the State Government, cares about lowering student loan debt.

By enacting this freeze, they appear to be working to make college affordable. What gets slid under the rug is that the freeze only applies to undergraduate Iowa residents and that student fees have increased every year, sometimes dramatically, at all three universities.

UNI saw a one-time cash allocation while a new funding model slowly begins to roll out. Iowa and ISU weren’t so lucky and are now planning for sizeable cuts to their budget, circa 2012.

The pickle the board found themselves in was that State legislature, locked in a partisan battle about whether the state should increase or decrease overall spending, refused to increase their support for the regent schools in

What is going on behind the scenes here is a careful public relations distraction to confuse Iowa students and their families . . .

The Board of Regents, often referred to as the “fourth branch of Iowa government,” doesn’t control how much money the state legislature budgets for the regent universities, so when there is a budget crisis the only tool they have to balance the books is to raise tuition and fees.

For the first years of the freeze, the board recommended the State budget more money for the schools to make up the difference.

However, instead of increases to our base budget,

the budget.

The freeze is a result of the staring contest between the political images of the board and the Statehouse.

It’s a political win-win for the board and legislature: the board is keeping tuition low (for some), while the state is keeping government spending low! What doesn’t make the headlines is how first: education costs aren’t actually lower; and second: the school’s academics are squeezed by the freeze.

The Higher Education

Price Index (HEPI) is a broad measure of how costs for the educational sector go up every year, similar to the consumer price index for your groceries. For the three years of the tuition freeze, HEPI has been at 1.7 percent, 1.6 percent and 2.8 percent.

Every time there is a tuition freeze with no increase in the budget, the departments that rely on tuition suffer a budget cut of the same percentage.

At UNI we are far, far too used to being asked to do more with less and that is exactly what we’ve been doing with the freeze. Freezes limit UNI’s ability to work in pay increases for employees, not to mention recover from recent budget fiascos. At the same time, we’ve had to raise fees on students anyway to make up for budget shortfalls in everything else.

If the Statehouse really cared about reducing the student loan debt for graduates of Iowa schools, they would set aside their partisan differences and prioritize regent schools in the budget.

Blackhawk County has seen Democrats and Republicans advocate for more UNI funding, with little success. Don’t let the freeze distract you from the real cause of UNI’s bud-

get woes: State Legislature.

Students, administrators, faculty and staff at UNI are all hurt by the tuition freeze.

In the early 2000’s UNI saw dramatic double-digit tuition increases, and as long as state support doesn’t increase, large tuition increases are likely when the freeze finally ends. All the leaders of the three regent universities need to stand together and hold the State legislature more accountable rather than let the Board of Regents make promises it cannot keep.

In the meantime, we need to be serious in understanding how education is expensive.

The price of everything goes up a little every year and we should understand how marginal, small increases every year is more responsible than freezes followed by dramatic increases.

Student loan debt is a looming crisis and students should demand more than lip service from the Board of Regents and Legislature when it comes to making college more affordable. We should at least refrain from public relations games that only serve to make those in power look good and be honest about the real costs of higher education.

Finals are coming . . . study tips to get you through TAIJA TUCKER tucketaa @uni.edu

Many students are tense and sleep deprived during those hellish few days of finals. Knowing when and how to study are hard for most students because of our busy schedules, plus how much we actually care about studying. I have done research on the most beneficial study tips that are guaranteed to work.

1. Create a study guide. A variety of students do not use a study guide and choose to “wing it” for their final, but feel like crap after they find out the grade they earned. So, outlining the important information that you need for the final is helpful and can help you refer to during your studies.

2. Professors are looked at by students as scary, unreliable or wanting all students

to fail their class. But if you think about it, professors are humans too and you can ask questions if they are not on the syllabus or study guide.

Ask them questions regarding material in the respective textbook. TAs are wonderful students to go to with questions, if the professor is truly scary or unreliable.

3. Attend the review sessions. I know you think it can be useless or stupid, but being surrounded by people who are in the same boat as you can make you want to study and ask questions.

4. Start early with everything. Please do not study two days before the final and think you know everything, because you don’t. If you always start ahead of schedule, you will never be cramming the night before an exam. You’ll almost always perform better by doing things early.

5. Study things not on the study guide because everything is not on the guide and be sure to fill in the “blanks” with related information from

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the textbooks.

6. My favorite is taking a break. Breaks are designed to do whatever you want that is legal and can ensure that you reward learning with break times to recharge and relax, but not too long.

7. Quiz yourself by creating actual exam questions.

You will likely become more familiar with what you need to study. Setting expectations for what you need to focus on can potentially increase your chances of getting a better

grade.

8. Pace yourself by making sure you stay focused on the purpose of taking the exam and knowing that you will live after all this is over with.

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Men vs. women and their entitled spaces MONICA CLARK

you are taking up space. Notice how much space you’re leaving around you. Do you have enough space? Do others around you have enough space?

Are you intruding on someone else’s space? Are you taking up space that belongs to someone else? Are you talking over someone while they speak? Are you staying quiet because you feel you haven’t earned it?

Everyone: please don’t be afraid to exist in the physical and vocal space — that space is yours and you deserve it, but be courteous and kind to the bodies and voices around you — give everyone the space and room they deserve and are entitled to.

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When I went to see my family over Thanksgiving break, sixteen people were crammed into my grandmother’s house.

Both of my grandmas were there, two aunts, two uncles, my mom and dad, three cousins, two boyfriends, one family friend and me — a small house stuffed with people and food, chairs and collapsible tables from the basement and my grandma’s cat, inevitably underfoot.

It was a constant moving wave of bodies from kitchen to living room to dining room.

Lots of “Excuse me,” “Sorry, I have to get by,” and “No, you’re fine! Stay there!” But what I noticed, when we finally settled down to eat dinner and talk, was the space in which the men took up in comparison to the women in my family. The men had their legs spread out, knees apart, arms on the backs of chairs and sofas, while my mom, aunts and cousins squashed themselves in tiny spaces on the couch, legs crossed, arms tucked under legs, sometimes sitting two to a seat. Granted, the men in my family are all really tall, but so are the women — we all have to find places to put our long legs and arms.

I’ve noticed this sort of space infringement elsewhere as well.

In my classes, a man will unconsciously take up more room, spreading his feet far apart, where I will take up as little room as possible and move by bag and legs out of the way. In restaurants when a large group of friends get together, I’ve observed that the women will cram themselves three or four to a bench, while the men in our group will demand more space.

When in movie theaters, doctor’s offices, or transit systems, men will monopolize armrests

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been taught to grow in. You learned from our father how to emit, how to produce . . I learned to absorb. I took lessons from our mother in creating space around myself.”

And something that makes me especially angry once I realized I too do this almost every day: “I asked five questions in my genetics class today and all of them started with the word ‘sorry’.”

Why have I always done this? Where was I taught to do this? I’ve always felt like I was intruding. Disrupting the class.

Being a nuisance. I’ve felt that the space I was throwing my words out into was not mine — like I hadn’t earned them.

It might just be a Midwestern habit, and yes, it is a stereotype, but we do tend to be a genuinely nice and friendly group of people. We smile. We say “thank you.” We speak quickly in case we are taking up too much of another person’s time.

We say “sorry” when it isn’t even our fault, but I do think this habit and Lily Meyers’ take part in runs deeper than simple niceties.

As a whole, women are typically pressured to be smaller, to lose weight, to shrink themselves, while men are typically pressured to be larger, to buff up, to expand themselves. And to be fair, this perspective of ideal body size is changing for men and women. Steadily, body positivity is spreading and body types that do not fit into society’s beauty standards are being validated and praised, but still, we are fighting for our right to take up room, especially in regards to conversation space.

I don’t want this to turn into a blaming game.

I do want all of us to notice our positive and negative spaces, however. Notice how well your body takes up space — notice how other bodies around

9. Color coding is more for the creative or organized students out there. Create a system that allows you to colorcode material that is going to be on the exam by the most important to the least important.

10. Take the time and visualize the questions and answers in your mind. This can help make you feel confident in what you are re-teaching yourself.

11. And last but not least: make it fun. Congratulate yourself that you made it through your semester and know that Christmas is just around the corner.

It is very nice that we as students and faculty have a wonderful winter break to bingewatch Netflix, eat unhealthy food and know you survived with a grade that you wanted.

Know that if you were not able to do half of these tips, we have a whole other semester that will be more gruesome and harder as this one next year.

of biological impulses and external influence, many of us, myself included, associate the value of our time spent with future returns in material possessions, higher status and more sex partners; the third being the most overrated.

Imagine the feeling of receiving returns in your hard work and your next chapter in life promising even higher returns in personal happiness, but one day being told by a doctor you are going to die before that next chapter has a chance to begin. Not being alive to see your future returns renders them completely worthless.

Everything you had done to that point would be for nothing. That’s kind of a downer isn’t it?

I admit that, at first, Hill’s upbeat attitude and comforting words mystified me. I was happy she seemed to be taking it in stride, but I just couldn’t wrap my head around how

it was possible. But then the words of now-deceased literary critic, D.G Meyers, dawned onto me. In his last blog post titled “Choosing Life in The Face of Death,” Meyers told his readers a lesson he learned during his six year ordeal with cancer: “life is not a matter of peak experiences, of amazing sights, and even more amazing thrills, but of small pleasure . . .”

Hill’s description of her first basketball moment as a college athlete isn’t the words of a young grief-stricken woman seeking comfort in her situation.

Rather, they reflect her reevaluation of how she cherishes time. Hill is cherishing her time in the present instead of being saddened by the prospect of there being no future. By doing so, Hill has acquired an insight and happiness that some people who live 70 years never get the chance of experiencing.

So I ask my fellow college

students to take Coach Hill’s play and apply it in their lives.

Instead of seeing study-time for upcoming finals as an obstacle to a future job or status, see it in its present value. By studying for your final, you are gaining knowledge and insight on a particular subject.

Death, no matter how terrifying, will never be able to take this insight away from you.

Cherish moments with your loved ones that you would usually take for granted. Don’t just cherish them on days where our bellies are filled with turkey and presents are under a tree.

A sign on my mother’s porch door reads, “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by every moment that takes your breath away.” If Lauren Hill’s attitude teaches us anything, it’s that the things we normally overlook do exactly that.

-Alonzo Beckham, junior economics major

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and I’ve had to apologize and move my elbows. Women will typically cluster together; men will usually space themselves out. And it’s not just a Midwest, Iowan thing — I’ve noticed this all across the country.

What made me think about this idea--about the space we take up — is from a poetry performance I found on YouTube by Lily Meyers called “Shrinking Women.” She illustrates this picture of her mother steadily shrinking while her father grows, how her brother is allowed unfiltered comments while she has to edit before she speaks. She talks about this idea of space entitlement and how she struggles with her right to exist comfortably without compromise — without having to justify her physical existence.

When she recreates a dialogue with her brother, about how their relationship with food differs, she says, “You have been taught to grow out, I have

LETTER TO THE EDITOR In front of a sold out crowd in Cincinnati, Lauren Hill scored on the opening layup to put the Mount St. Joseph women’s basketball team up on Hiram 2-0. One year earlier, Hill was diagnosed with DIPG; an inoperable brain tumor with a zero percent survival rate.

Amidst a standing ovation, the 19-year-old freshmen finally realized her dream of playing basketball at a collegiate level weeks before her expected death. Hill told reporters she does not view her moment in the limelight as her last as a collegiate athlete. Instead, she views it as her first; I respectfully disagree.

Not only was this Hill’s first game as a college basketball player, it was also her first game as a nationally televised coach.

Over the years, we have seen inspirational stories like Hill on the news and have been moved by the courage of people at death’s door.

Some of us have been unfortunate enough to witness the gradual demise of people very close to our hearts. For me, the loss of my beloved mentor in 2013 still aches at times.

Regardless of our exposure, I think the emotions commonly associated with such events overlook valuable lessons the dying teaches us about life.

The fact of the matter is that Hill’s story leaves a playbook against something that we all have to confront eventually despite our best efforts to be blissfully ignorant; our mortality.

Regardless of current status and future ambitions, we’re all on this campus for functionally the same reasons: to grow into the people we want to be in life.

We may have different paths and definitions of what our ideal self is, but day after day we all slave away in the hopes of brighter tomorrows.

Through a combination

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CAB celebrates the seasons Amanda Schueller Staff Writer

UNI’s Campus Activity Board held its annual Celebrate the Seasons in the Union last Thursday.

“It’s really fun for all the students,” during a “really stressful time” to be able to hang out with friends in a big group setting and get free stuff, said Zoe Mckimpson, senior communication major and CAB’s Celebrate the Seasons’ activity coordinator.

Some activities looked similar to last years’ event but others were tweaked. These changes were considered after evaluating the event from past years. Mckimpson said some activities were not as popular as they had hoped in the past.

The one event that stayed was making stuffed animals which was the most popular activity during the event.

Mckimpson said that this activity is what brings people into the event.

One major change was handing out raffle tickets to students rather than having

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The addition of the Panther Palms opened up the Christmas variety show to the deaf community.

“It’s their first time at this performance because they’ve never had really access to this performance before,” O’Brien said, who had been speaking with a few people in the deaf community after the concert.

Abigail Stecker, sophomore communications disorders major, said the addition of Panther Palms was a pleasant surprise. She liked that

them stand in line as they have done in the past. Despite the change, the line for this activity began about an hour before the start time.

Numbers were called periodically throughout the event.

This was done in hopes of getting people to try out the other games and crafts instead of leaving right after they built their stuffed animal.

A photo booth filled with dress-up items such as hats, candy canes and ties was another popular activity.

Holiday crafts and games were set up in every corner of the Union. Sugar cookies, caramel corn and hot drinks were snatched up and gone shortly after the event began. Holiday music filled the room as eventgoers made their rounds to the multiple activities.

Ugly Christmas sweaters accompanied some of the guests including Levi Bostian, senior computer science major.

Bostian has come to this event every year he’s been at UNI. “This is a once a year event, you’ve got to sit down and enjoy yourself,” Bostian said.

Jackie Sonnet, junior accounting major, and Owen Hoke, sophomore music education major, make stuffed animals during the event. CAB hosted the annual Celebrate the Seasons event last Thursday in Maucker Union.

the Glee Club decided to be more inclusive in their performance.

The addition of the Panther Palms to the show was not the only pleasant surprise of the evening. During the intermission of Saturday’s final show, Thomas Kesten, senior social sciences teaching major, proposed to Lisa Schneider, senior elementary education major.

The night of music include songs such as “Ave Maria,” “We Need a Little Christmas,” “Lo, How A Rose E’re Blooming” and “The First Noel,” as well as “Carol of the

Bells,” “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” and “The Gift Within.”

Aside from the music, members of the Glee Club performed the traditional Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Chirstmas Can-Can and a skit entitled “Charlie and the Toy Factory,” which was written by members Jacob Ferguson, Tim Vonderhaar and Clark Jackley.

“The play always surprises me just because it’s so creative and so different every year,” said Emily Gardner, junior sociology major. “It’s always amazing and I really love to

Shelbi Grommon, freshman elementary and middle education major, spent her first Celebrate the Seasons making a stocking and building a bear.

She went all out wearing an ugly Christmas sweater. It’s a great time to “relax and unwind,” Grommon said. She plans on coming again in the years to come and had fun at

this event. “[It’s a] really great way to connect with the UNI community…pull everyone together…and make a good time of the seasons,” Grommon said.

A lot of help went into planning this event. UNI Catering and Union staff played a major role. They set up the Christmas tree and

made sure the Union and food were ready for students when they arrived.

Mckimpson expressed her appreciation of CAB members, the CAB committee directly involved, Essentials, Union staff and UNI catering for help in planning and executing a successful Celebrate the Seasons.

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Three members of the Panther Palms interpret “Jingle Bells” in American Sign Language. It was the first time the Panther Palms worked alongside the UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club for the Christmas Variety Show.

see them every year and it’s my favorite thing.”

Campbell said he hoped people left moved and refreshed in the holiday spirit.

“A lot of bad stuff happens

in the world, as we all know, and my goal of this concert was to take people away from that for a little while and kind of make the world a better place,” Campbell said.

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Tim Vonderhaar, senior social sciences education major, holds 100 balloons for a skit during the Christmas Variety Show. There were three performances that were held this past weekend.

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Jingle and Mingle took main streets motto- “Where Good Friends Meet” to a new level. Every shop, bakery, eatery and brewery on Main Street participated in a Cedar Falls-wide celebration for the Christmas season.

The event was hosted by Cedar Falls Downtown, a non-profit organization.

With lights lit up, fresh evergreens and shops open, Jingle and Mingle took place last Thursday evening. From 5 to 8 p.m. there was a hustle and bustle to get the best deals at all 160 merchant shops, meet Santa Claus, ride in the free trolley, listen to carolers and even watch the live nativity scene.

“It was fun to see and enjoy and everyone’s sprits were high,” said Brenna Lantz, senior textiles major and employee of LBL, one of the stores downtown.

“And I encourage everyone to come down to Main Street and support the local shops.”

Jingle and Mingle started 12 years ago as a way to draw customers to local shops and celebrate the Christmas

Season as a community. The event is designed for Cedar Falls as a whole to celebrate what we have.

“The Molly Trolley was my favorite. I loved meeting Santa and seeing baby Jesus,” said 5-year-old Elise Washburn. She was with her mother, father and younger brother.

There were a variety of special deals, door prizes, discounts and gifts for everyone to enjoy. After it was over, participants were encouraged to stay and appreciate what the downtown atmosphere, dining opportunities and the local bars had to offer.

The Jingle and Mingle was only one of many activities that Cedar Falls’ Main Street has to offer during the Holiday Hoopla.

Holiday Hoopla is a monthlong event hosted by a cast of volunteers and businesses around Cedar Falls. The purpose of the event is to give everyone a memorable holiday season.

Holiday Hoopla has a range of activities yet to come including: Breakfast at the North Pole, a Cheer Contest, Santa’s Snow Shuffle 5K Fun Run/Walk, Baby It’s Cold Outside and Movie Magic.

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The score was tied up two more times in the first half, but GMU was not able to acquire the lead. UNI finished the half strong as Koch and Wyatt Lohaus scored consecutively. The first half ended with UNI in the lead 27-23.

“In the first half, I thought we played great [defensively.]” Koch said.

Paul Jesperson drained a three early in the second half to put the lead at 30-24.

UNI was able to score but was subject to quite a few fouls.

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The lead slowly rose as Tuttle, Morgan and Jesperson fought hard to give UNI a 50-38 lead with 6:35 remaining in the game.

The Patriots began to fight back to diminish the lead but it seemed to take too much time. A Nate Buss dunk at :28 remaining gave UNI the lead 57-51. GMU put in two straight 3-pointers while UNI only had two free throws down the stretch.

Tuttle reclaimed the lead with six seconds remaining but a foul was called on Wes Washpun with two seconds left.

GMU’s Marquise Moore made both free throws and regulation ended with a tie

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The Patriots committed two fouls to open overtime.

Tuttle and Marvin Singleton each put in one of two free throws.

GMU was able to tie the game once again but could never seal the deal. Jesperson drew three fouls in the last 26 seconds and made all six free throws to finish it 71-65.

“Defensively, it felt like we did a good job again,” Coach Jacobson said. “I felt we did the right things in terms of being physical and playing hard.”

UNI will travel to Colorado to play the University of Denver on Wednesday Dec. 10.

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Wes Washpun (11) recorded team-highs in both rebounds with nine and assists with six against GMU.

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UNI’s championship aspirations are now officially over after losing to Illinois State 41-21 Saturday. A stifled 303yard outing by the offense was complemented by a sieve like defense that allowed 564 yards.

The one bright spot was David Johnson, who set the record for yards rushing and total touchdowns in a single season. He also tied for most rushing touchdowns in a season, all this with 16 yards net rushing.

The first quarter started off quickly with ISU scoring a touchdown in under four minutes.

UNI went three-and-out in the ensuing drive, struggling to produce offense all afternoon.

ISU scored another quick TD, this one on the ground

by Marshaun Coprich who burned UNI for three touch-

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The UNI defense allowed 564 yards to the Illinois State offense in the 41-21 loss on Saturday. The Panthers surrendered 153 rushing yards to Redbird running back Marshaun Coprich (27).

downs earlier in the season.

Another three-and-out ended the first quarter for UNI who possessed the ball for less than two minutes in the quarter.

ISU scored quickly in the second as well, going up 21-0 within a minute to the start of the second quarter.

Strong defense from there

on, including a blocked field goal by Xavier Williams and a blocked punt by Tate Omli, held ISU to a half ending 45-yard field goal.

UNI went into the locker room for halftime down 24-0.

Sawyer Kollmorgen took over for Brion Carnes after the second half kickoff and led UNI into the endzone on a three-yard scramble on the opening drive.

ISU answered with a field goal on the next drive. The third of four Tre Roberson passing touchdowns was set up by yet another Panther three-and-out.

Down 34-7 and one quarter to go, the defense tried to help best they could as Jake Farley forced a fumble on two consecutive possessions, setting up two UNI touchdowns.

Johnson scored on a twoyard run before a Kollmorgen connected with Brett LeMaster for a 20-yard score.

Both defenses held firm until ISU scored their last touchdown to put the final at 41-21.

The Panthers finish the season with a 9-5 record, their most wins since the 2011-12 season.

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The Panthers finished 14th overall at the Cliff Keen Invite in Las Vegas, NV over the weekend. UNI had three wrestlers medal on Saturday.

UNI had their hands full at the two-day Cliff Keen Invite this weekend in Las Vegas, NV. With twenty combined wins in the ten separate weight classes, only four wrestlers were able to push their way into the Saturday brackets. Out of those four, three Panthers medaled, placing UNI 14th overall in the tournament.

Panther Dylan Peters started off the invite undefeated in the 125 pound weight class on Friday, winning by fall against No. 9 Nathan Tomasello of Ohio

State in 4:36.

Unfortunately, Peters fell to No. 5 Joey Dance of Virginia Tech in 3:20 and forfeited his next two matches, finishing sixth overall.

Jarrett Jensen earned UNI’s only major decision of the invite, finishing Friday with four wins and a loss in the 157 pound weight class.

Although he fought hard the day before, Jensen lost to No. 20 Justin Staudenmayer on Saturday by a 4-1 decision and did not place overall.

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From The Sidelines One-on-one with UNI wrestler Cooper Moore PANTHER PROFILE

ZACH HUNTLEY Sports Writer

NI: Personal background: CM: Jackson, Minnesota.

Moved there in 4 grade, lived in Oklahoma and Colorado before that. One of seven children.

NI: Determining factor to come to UNI. CM: I mean really, to tell you the truth, my determining factor was where I could grow my faith — and that was the number one thing. It wasn’t school, it wasn’t wrestling, my faith was the number one choice in my decision. I wanted to go to a place where I could be a rock for God, and I remember saying that through high school and I thought that UNI was the best place to do that.

NI: What campus ministry are you involved in?

CM: A wrestling Bible study, but we do a lot of things with the Navigators. Ken Clingman has always had a foothold with the wrestling team and he got stuff started and got us affiliated with the Navigators.

NI: How has your faith impacted with wrestling in general, and is there anything you’d like to add with that?

CM: Before I got to college, I thought I had a strong relationship with God, but when I got here I truly found Him. Because we develop our own way of thinking here at college and I really had to rely on Him to be my source of everything in my life. Also, with wrestling, just knowing my identity is in Christ and not my sport or my outcome, I think that also eliminates a lot of stress for me, allowing me to enjoy the sport and have fun. So, overall, my faith has been impacted to utilize my God in all aspects of my life and to rely on Him through everything. And especially with wrestling, my job

and school, it can get very busy during the season. And knowing and relating back to Him, I can always go back to Him to have power, and know that He’s not going to put anything on me more than I can bear. He definitely has become closer to me since I came here.

NI: What are some goals you have for this year’s season, or a match that may be a little more difficult that you are anticipating?

CM: There are several matches that come to my mind, but one tournament is the Cliff Keen invite in Las Vegas. I really want to compete well in that, there are a lot of good guys in my weight there, and that’s a huge step to me in getting ready for the NCAA tournament. There’s going to be a lot of top ten guys there, top fifteen and that’s where I really can step up and set my foundation there. So, I just need to get myself ready for the NCAA tournament. So I’m really looking forward to that tournament. I’m also looking forward to the MAC tournament as well, trying to win that tournament again.

NI: How do you plan to reach those goals?

CM: Definitely being on top of my weight. And just making sure I’m ready to compete when I step out on the mat. Just last weekend I lost a match because I wasn’t ready to compete, I overlooked it, I guess you could say. I have to be ready to compete against anybody, even if it’s the number one ranked guy, or even if he’s not ranked, I have to treat everybody the same and really focus in and get my mind set.

NI: How do parents feel about your success?

CM: When I started looking at colleges, they really wanted me to look around and make sure that my heart

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Cooper Moore (right) qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season as a redshirt-freshman after winning the MidAmerican Conference. Moore went undefeated in MAC duals on his way to an overall record of 27-8.

wanted to go to that place; so they’ve been very supportive in every choice that I’ve made.

Just with the success that I’ve had, you know, win or lose, they’re always supportive, and always joyful. They’re loving parents, I’m thankful to have them. They understand the sport in itself, so.

NI: What are you looking forward to the most this season? Maybe a match or something else?

CM: I’m definitely eager to get back in the NCAA tournament. That’s something for me that did not sit well last year with my performance there. It really ate at me throughout the year, through my [offseason] training. It’s just something I want to get back to and perform well at; and to be on top of that podium because I know I can win it.

NI: What are works-outs for wrestling like? (hours, favorite work-out and least

favorite) CM: I guess during season, you start wrestling a lot more, kind of tapering off from the lifting. I definitely like to wrestle live. There’s a practice we have, we scrap; we call it ‘scrap day’. So it’s nice to have those days and those are probably my favorite days. Even though they are tough and challenging, it’s a day where you can get better and can feel yourself getting better. My least favorite workout is the lifts we do. They can be very intense and grueling; but it’s all a part of training and it is all well worth it.

NI: How do you de-stress?

CM: The sport is very stressful in itself, but for me right now it’s just knowing and having confidence in what I worked for and knowing that takes the stress off a lot. And knowing that I am going to compete to my fullest ability is absolutely enough. That eliminates a lot of stress, and

any doubts really, just being confident in my training and confident in myself that I am able to compete hard and be able to win.

NI: Funny story about yourself (can include wrestling, doesn’t have to) CM: Last year, we were traveling, and I lost this game, and I had to do a dare. We were at Dallas Fort Worth airport; and my dare was, I had to wear my underwear outside my pants, have a cape and I had to run through ten terminals yelling ‘I’m Red Lighting,’ because I have red hair. It got people on their phones taking pictures of me and I had to scream it repetitively. I’ll never forget that one.

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lost his next two matches, placing 8th overall.

UNI also competed in the Buena Vista Open this weekend in Storm Lake, IA. Wrestlers Josh Alber, Jake Koethe, Taylor Berger and Adarios Jones all titled in the 133, 141, 165 and 265 weight classes respectively.

This coming weekend, Saturday Dec. 13, UNI will host their own open in the UNI Dome starting at 9 a.m..

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Four Panthers won their respective weight classes at the Buena Vista Open on Saturday. Josh Alber, Jake Koethe, Taylor Berger and Adarios Jones all titled in the 113, 141, 165 and 265 weight classes, respectively.

The only tech fall of the invite came from Cooper Moore in the 165 pound weight class. Moore went undefeated on Friday, including No. 11 Taylor Massa of Michigan by medical forfeit.

Saturday morning, Moore lost to No. 2 Nick Sulzer from Virginia by 13-6, but won his next match and finished fourth overall with a loss to No. 3 Michael Moreno from Iowa State by fall.

Heavyweight Blaize Cabell won his first two matches on Friday, but lost his third to No. 2 Nick Gwiazdowski from North Carolina State. Moving into the Saturday bracket, Cabell won his first match against Michael Hughes from Hofstra with a fall in 3:25, but

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Applies to select regularly priced Sprint monthly data service.

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Use Employee Corporate ID: GVSIA_WCA_ZZZ

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Student Corporate ID: GSTDT_ZST Call: 866-639-8354 Visit a local Sprint Store: sprint.com/storelocator

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**Monthly charges exclude taxes and Sprint Surcharges [incl. USF charge of up to 16.1% (varies quarterly), up to $2.50 Admin. and 40¢ Reg./line/mo. and fees by area (approx. 5–20%)]. Surcharges are not taxes. See sprint.com/taxesandfees.

Activ. Fee: $36/line. Credit approval required. Plans: Offer ends 1/15/2015. No discounts apply to access charges. Includes unlimited domestic Long Distance calling and texting. Data allowance as specified.

Third-party content/downloads are add’l charge. Int’l svcs are not included. Max of 10 phone/tablet/MBB lines. Mobile Broadband devices excludes Routers, Laptops and notebook computers. Data: Includes shared data across all subs. Amount of on-network data allowance depends on selection and 100MB off-network data usage. Add’l on-network data usage: 1.5¢/MB. Add’l Off-network data for tablets/MBBs: 25¢/MB. If conflicting share data allowances are applied to an account, the majority on account or most recent change may be applied for all lines. Mobile Hotspot Usage pulls from your data allowances.

Monthly Access Charge: After 12/31/2015, customer will be charged applicable data access charge per device in addition to data allowance charge which varies by selection. To avoid charges, customer must contact Sprint to make changes. Sprint Easy Pay obligations will still apply if applicable. Usage Limitations: Other plans may receive prioritized bandwidth availability. To improve data experience for the majority of users, throughput may be limited, varied or reduced on the network. Sprint may terminate service if off-network roaming usage in a month exceeds: (1) 800 min. or a majority of min.; or (2) 100MB or a majority of KB. Prohibited network use rules apply — see sprint.com/terms and conditions. Sprint Easy Pay: Req. 24-mo. installment agreement, 0% APR, and qualifying device and service plan. If you cancel wireless service, remaining balance on device becomes due. SDP Discount: Avail. for eligible company employees or org. members (ongoing verification). Discount subject to change according to the company’s agreement with Sprint and is avail. upon request for select monthly svc charges. Discount only applies to data service for Sprint Family Share Pack. Not avail. with no credit check offers or Mobile Hotspot add-on. Other Terms: Offers and coverage not available everywhere or for all phones/networks. May not be combined with other offers. There is no minimum term applied on the Sprint Family Share Pack, but the Service Agreement applies and automatically continues on a month-to-month basis unless you contact us to inform us of any changes, including cancellation. There may be a minimum annual term applied or continued based on a discounted device purchase. Sprint 3G network reaches over 281 million people. Sprint 4G LTE network reaches over 250 million people. Restrictions apply. See store or sprint.com for details. ©2014 Sprint. All rights reserved. Sprint and the Sprint logo are trademarks of Sprint. Other marks are the property of their respective owners.

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