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Opinion columnist Colin Horning argues for big businesses staying open.

The second annual Cedar Valley Women’s March took place online this year.

UNI takes down Southern Illinois 74-62 in Saturdays game.

Provost Wohlpart parts with UNI SARA QUALLEY

Staff Writer

Executive Vice President and Provost Jim Wohlpart’s decision to depart UNI to accept a position as Central Washington University’s president is a bittersweet one.

“I’m not necessarily interested in leaving UNI,” Wohlpart said. “In fact, I’m not interested in leaving UNI. It’s such a remarkable place – great faculty, great staff, amazing deans and department heads, and the students are just really, really fantastic.”

Wohlpart decided if he did leave, though, it would be for another institution that aligned with his core values and purpose. Central Washington, located in Ellensburg, Wash., emphasizes broad access to students, keeping higher education affordable and promoting diversity and inclusion. Forty percent of the student body comes from traditionally under-represented groups.

“They really want to build on the momentum of that, and that is something that I hold as a core value, that work of diversity and inclusion,” Wohlpart said, “and then also the work of equity of dismantling the systems and structures that oppress so many people.”

The university was looking for a president knowledgeable about shared governance, communication and transparency. Wohlpart has done a lot of this work at UNI and feels he can bring this knowledge and experience to Central Washington.

“When I was offered the job, I was stunned, excited, shocked … deeply humbled, and honored and grateful,” Wohlpart said. “So, I didn’t necessarily expect to get an offer, but I certainly had confidence that this remarkable institution, the University of Northern Iowa, certainly did prepare me for what was coming next.”

Wohlpart, an English professor who continued teaching

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Provost Jim Wohlpart addresses students, administration, faculty and staff at a Nov. 2015 meeting discussing discrimination and systemic racism on campus. Wohlpart will leave UNI in June to become the next president of Central Washington University.

while working as an administrator, arrived at UNI in 2015 after 21 years at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Over the past six years, he and his wife, Sasha, have

built many relationships in the Cedar Valley, which he said will make it difficult to leave when he departs depart for Central Washington University in June.

“The thing about leaving a place is it’s always the people that you will miss,” he said.

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Panthers fall to Cowboys, 20-12 DAVID WARRINGTON

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The 16 t h - r a n ke d Northern Iowa Panthers wrestling team played host to the 5th-ranked Oklahoma State University Cowboys

in a Big 12 Conference dual meet at the McLeod Center on Saturday, Jan. 30. In a matchup between two teams that are both ranked in the top 20 nationally, the Panthers put up a strong f ight, staying with

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The Panthers started out strong against the Cowboys but ultimately lost bringing their season record to 3-2.

the Cowboys for much of the meet, but Oklahoma State came out on top in the team score, 20 -12.

The Panthers were able to come out on top in four of the ten matches on the day.

The meet started off with a match in the 125 lb category with a matchup between two undefeated wrestlers. After a slow start, 18th-ranked Brody Teske of the Panthers picked up a 4 -point near fall in the second period against Trevor Mastrogiovanni, ultimately coming out on top with a 6- 0 decision victory. At 133 lb, 17th-ranked Kyle Biscoglia kept up the momentum for the Panthers, winning by decision 2- 0, giving the Panthers a 6- 0 team lead.

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COVID-19 on campus: low positivity, case counts to start spring semester FEBRUARY 1, 2021 |

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As UNI students returned to campus for the first time in two months, this week’s COVID-19 update from the UNI Student Health Center showed low positivity rates and case counts, although the number of total tests administered was also quite low.

According to data released Friday, Jan. 29 at noon, the 30 tests conducted from Jan. 25-31 through the Student Health Center resulted in less than 6 positive cases, for a 6.67% campus positivity rate.

The university also reported 7 self-reported student cases of COVID19 during the same period, with no self-reported cases from faculty. However, these self-reported cases may also

be counted in the Student Health Center weekly totals and therefore, the numbers cannot be combined for a grand total.

The positivity rate may decrease slightly today when the Student Health Center updates last week’s data to include any tests conducted on Friday. Since the end-of-week updates only include data collected through Thursday, Friday numbers are added to the weekly total by noon on the following Monday and are therefore not included in the NI’s weekly analysis.

New this semester, the NI will also be tracking the number of COVID-19 vaccines administered by both Black Hawk County and, once administration begins on campus, by the UNI Student Health Center.

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“That broader view of how a university operates and how a university can achieve its vision

and mission and strategic plan has been instrumental, and that work has been really critical to the work I’ve done here at UNI,” Wohlpart said.

Reflecting on his time at UNI, Wohlpart feels proud of the teams the university has built that he believes have done remarkable work around the campus. He commended them for engaging challenges and collaborating for the betterment of the UNI community.

One such team tackled the state legislator changing Chapter 20 bargaining laws in Feb. 2017, reducing unions’ abilities to bargain. This team of department heads, associate deans and deans rolled a contract into a handbook, an impressive feat amidst a challenging situation, Wohlpart shared.

Wohlpart looks forward to the relationships he will build at Central Washington. He’s already engaged with many students and faculty, whom he says are fantastic.

“What I’m really looking forward to is getting there and helping to elevate the work that

they are already doing and do it at a higher level and build those teams and lead with purpose and passion so that all of us can come together around that,” Wohlpart said.

He also looks forward to the scenic views in Washington.

The university is nestled in the eastern slope of the Cascades, a great location for Wohlpart, who enjoys hiking.

Higher education faces a variety of challenges, including handling budgets and funding, building an inclusive environment and evaluating unfair systems and structures.However, Wohlpart is familiar with this work from his time at UNI and feels prepared to lead Central Washington in tackling it.

“I always think of challenges as opportunities, not challenges,” he said. “This is a really challenging time in higher education, but also an exciting time, and I think as long as we come together as a community, we can do amazing and remarkable things.”

Many UNI students have touched Wohlpart’s heart, and he said he carries them with

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During his time at UNI, Wohlpart has served in many leadership roles: department head, associate dean, dean and then provost, as well as interim president for seven months starting in summer 2016. With each rank, he had the opportunity to see the bigger picture of the whole university.

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As Central Washington’s next president, Wohlpart hopes to apply skills he has honed at UNI.

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Sexual assault reported on campus

Trigger Warning: The following article contains mention of a report of sexual misconduct.

On Friday, Jan. 29, the UNI student body received an email regarding a rape reported to UNI police by a student.

The email stated that the assault was committed by an acquaintance in a residence hall between 6 p.m. and midnight on Thursday, Jan. 28.

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sible for sexual assault is the perpetrator.

According to the email, “the most common type of sexual assault is not committed by a stranger but by someone known to the victim, typically a date or other acquaintance.”

Survivors of sexual assault or misconduct can contact UNI police at (319)-273-2712 and can also seek support by contacting the Riverview Center’s 24-hour sexual assault crisis line at 888-557-0310.

him as he prepares to leave for Washington. He hopes students recognize that they’re blessed to be at an institution where faculty and staff care about them.

“They really care about you as individuals; they care about your journeys. Recognize that, honor that and thank them for that as you go through this

process and even as you leave,” he said.

Wohlpart encourages the next provost to listen to fellow faculty, collaborate and be inclusive and transparent.

“When you build that team and that trust and that community, you can do amazing things like we have done for the last six years,” he said.

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“Recovering” is not what we need

TYLER MONTGOMERY Opinion Columnist

A lot has happened in America within the past month, and citizens of this country are wondering if we as a nation can recover from Jan. 6, 2021. What is the desire to recover from the insurrection? What does even “recovering” something mean? Recovering and learning do not always go hand in hand. A lot of the time, it seems they are counterintuitive to each other. Our society should start creating the process of progressively understanding a situation instead of recovering from it.

Think about a time when you lost something, your car keys or a wallet, and you eventually recovered the item and moved on. What are people trying to achieve when they recover? The correlation with the past is a unique thought process; there are always these memories stuck in our minds, and people seem

desperate to retrieve them – but why? The obsession with recreating or re-imagining what was is a strange phenom that everyone feels.

On Jan. 6, a group of insurrectionists, or really terrorists, believed that storming the U.S. capital would bring back the “old America” and restore what had been lost. They were trying to recover something, whatever they believe previous America was and should be. However, it was not brought back after the insurrection. So, what is the national recovery process for the aftermath?

The idea of recovery first should be reinterpreted as a progressive understanding. An understanding is the ability to comprehend.

Understanding a situation is fine, but how does one move on from it? The mindset that everyone should be in is this: how can a society take a new stance on recovering?

Instead of pondering the outcome of the past, people

should look at how to move a conversation forward, while discussing all the possibilities of new outcomes. Where is the beauty in remembering an event or idea that you can no longer grasp? To progressively understand is to acknowledge the past but also recognize the beauty in creating something entirely new. Whatever this “old America” was is now lost, but not forgotten. The idea still lingers in the back of people’s minds as an easier time for them, although not an easier time for minorities.

This idea of recovery is a selfish one, one that thrives within an individualistic society. Recovering who you are or what you have lost will never create a forward motion.

You’ll only go backward in time, while you cease to exist, and living in some kind of fantasy world. There is nothing wrong with fantasy itself, but when someone creates a false reality, then problems of delusion begin to settle in.

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If you are seeking an answer and wish to recover something from your past, then maybe that’s okay, but wouldn’t it be easier to understand how something works, or how the event could have happened and then creating new conversations to avoid history repeating itself twice?

There is no clear answer or solution right now that can be given, but there does seem to something off-putting about recovering what “I” have lost, and not seeking to create a society where a majority of the people understand and fix the problem in a forward motion.

Appreciate the essential worker, no matter the business COLIN HORNING

Opinion Columnist

Over the course of COVID19, there has been the debate over the concept of governments closing down certain sectors of the economy in order to prevent the spread of the virus, while at the same time keeping other ones open that they deem to be “essential.”

One of the economic industries that was allowed to stay open, (for the most part), was the retail industry.

More specifically, retail chains that sold groceries and other items like toilet paper and diapers. Other retailers, like shoe and clothing stores, had to shut their doors. Of course, this all depended on the orders and measures taken by each specific state government, so there are varying degrees of who was allowed to stay open and who had to close. But virtually across the board, large retailers like Walmart, Target and Costco were allowed to stay open and conduct business as usual. These stores offer people everything that they need, especially in times of economic uncertainty such as the last 10 months or so. But soon after COVID-19 swept through, the debate began over how it was ethical for billion-dollar retailers to stay open while thousands of small businesses had to close down, and in some cases close down for good. I’m

not here to debate this specific issue over which businesses should have been allowed to open. Rather, it’s the rhetoric and messages surrounding this issue from prominent political figures that I want to cover.

For context, I currently work in retail and I have worked in retail since I was 15 years old. I started working at Hy-Vee in high school and now work at Target up in Cedar Falls. During the initial quarantine period for COVID-19 last spring was when I started working at Target. Being one of the largest retailers in the world, Target was deemed an “essential” business and was allowed to stay open during the pandemic and conducted business as usual, in a relative sense of course. The same goes for places like Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Hy-Vee and basically every other brick and mortar store. It didn’t take long for people to begin to take issue with this. On Dec. 5, social media influencer Rogan O’Handley, who has over 365 thousand Twitter followers and over 1 million Instagram followers sent out the tweet: “Crazy idea: Let’s shutdown Walmart, Amazon, and Uber Eats in this next round of lockdowns and only allow small businesses to be ‘essential’ I know...crazy.” Other influencers, on both the right and left sides of the aisle, showed similar support for such an idea:

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Columnist Colin Horning argues the importance of keeping big businesses open for essential employees.

closing down massively large retailers and letting small businesses stay open. Don’t get me wrong – many small businesses definitely got the short end of the stick when things had to close down. The fact that anyone would think closing down Walmart or Amazon would be a good idea is beyond me.

I get the concept of what these people are trying to say.

Walmart, Target, Costco and Amazon all had record-high stock prices in 2020 and profited handsomely over being able to remain open during COVID-19. But to suggest closing down these companies

would have massive ramifications that would only cause more economic peril for millions of hard-working people.

Let’s take three companies for example: Walmart, Costco and Target. Those three retailers have a combined 2.1 million employees as of the year 2020.

Having worked in retail for almost six years, I can confidently say that retail workers are some of the most diligent and hard-working people that I have ever met. They work long hours, overnight shifts and have to oftentimes work on weekends and holidays when most people have off of work. The

pandemic was no exception to this. Retail workers were asked to put themselves on the frontlines during a global pandemic in order to ensure that the rest of the population was able to get the items they needed during times of extreme uncertainty. The people I work with show up to the store long before the sun rises in the morning and make sure the shelves are stocked with basic necessities for other people. So, when I see people suggesting that these companies need to shut their doors, let’s just say it doesn’t leave a good taste in my mouth.

Myself and millions of other hard-working people happen to work for a billion-dollar retail chain that was able to remain open during a pandemic.

We shouldn’t be punished for that, nor should anyone else be based on where they chose to work. In fact, these massive retail chains were able to succeed during COVID-19 because of their frontline workers who worked day in and day out and made sure that everything was promptly received and stocked for the rest of the populous to be able to purchase. I’m confident that most of the people calling for these types of businesses to shut down have never worked a day of retail in their lives, because if they had, they would grow to appreciate the millions of hard-working American that they seem to take for granted on a daily basis.

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Life after college: the job hunt journey ELLE OLTHOFF

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Finding a job after college can seem like a daunting task, especially in today’s trying times, but it doesn’t have to be. These experts and real-life sources offer their tips and tricks to success after college, sharing how they found work during a worldwide pandemic.

Recent 2019 Iowa State graduate Mason McGrauth knows all too well just how hard the job hunt can be leaving college. As a criminal justice and sociology major, McGrauth was looking to go into the law enforcement career after college but felt that his degree hadn’t really prepared him for what his real life job would be like.

“I feel like a lot of the classes I was forced to take did not actually apply to my career choice at all, or even my degree for that matter. The professors teaching most of my classes did not ever do my job choice; they only studied it, so they really had no idea what it is like,” he said.

On top of all that, he was entering the workforce at the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic and had to deal with that additional stress while simultaneously applying for jobs. In fact, one job he applied for was cut, and they decided not to hire anyone at that time. Job opportunities he thought he had were eliminated right in front of him.

McGrauth is not alone in his search and struggle; every student leaving college will have to face the task of getting a job at some point. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the months of March to April of 2020,

unemployment rates rose from 4.4% to 14.4%. This increase in unemployment stemmed most directly from the rise of the global pandemic.

With the pandemic still affecting people all over the world, students leaving college for years after 2020 may still feel the effects of this situation. However, all hope is not lost. There are still many things students can do to find jobs after college, and there are many ways to overcome them during this time.

Matthew Nuese, the Associate Director of Career Services at the UNI, has many pieces of advice to help students prepare for life after college and offers insight on how to remain positive amidst the coronavirus.

“What most people do wrong in their job search is they go to a job board and type in a title plus location.

By doing this, the job seeker is passive, waiting for an opportunity,” said Nuese.

“My advice for any student entering a tough job market is to broaden your search from a specific location. So, if you were thinking of just Des Moines, you might also consider Minneapolis. In addition, if you are trying for a very specialized career path, you might broaden that slightly.”

Nuese also laid out a timeline of when students could begin to do certain things to improve their job search success. If a person is set to graduate in May, they should begin the process the October before. They should start in October by discovering interests, attending job fairs and building a network.

After doing that, they can

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begin to apply and interview throughout the winter months.

If by February they haven’t received an offer, they should extend their search.

By April, the person should expect to have received an offer, and if they haven’t, they should begin to look for short-term work to take over until they can find a full-time position.

For Sarah Solt – a former UNI student who graduated this past December with a degree in elementary education – her process hadn’t looked exactly like that.

Graduating after finishing up her final round of student teaching, Solt hasn’t found a job yet, but feels confident about her abilities in the field.

“I haven’t done a whole lot of job searching since I am still in my student teaching, but some advice I’ve been given moving forward is that looking for a job is a whole lot about connections, who you know,

how you act and treat others in your internship, student teaching and taking initiative. People will notice and they will want to vouch for you moving forward,” Solt said in December.

Solt also feels that COVID-19 pandemic has even helped her in her job search. Since the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for teachers, substitutes and paraeducators has gone up due to sickness or early retirement.

Solt believes that this will help her in her job search since most schools will be in search of people to either take over or do long-term subbing and she would be happy doing either.

It also appears that Solt’s approach to get a job after graduation may ring true for many other young students graduating soon. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 60% of new hires in the last 12 months were to new graduates. Coming right out

of college may be the best time to find a job. Although the process can be daunting and scary, it is entirely possible.

McGrauth has now found a police position in the small town of Pocahontas, Iowa, where he has been able to learn and grow within his field. Although he faced job cancellations, the COVID19 pandemic and feeling underprepared by his college courses, he overcame those challenges and found the job he was looking for.

“I did a lot of ‘pros and cons’ lists and took advice from other people that were in my field,” McGrauth said.

“I would say that my biggest tip would be to start looking for jobs now. You don’t have to apply yet, but start looking. Also, go do internships and shadow people at their jobs. You never really know until you do the job yourself, but watching other people do those jobs definitely helps give you a better idea.”

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Community marches virtually for equality NICK BAUR

Staff Writer

The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be no problem for the second annual Cedar Valley Women’s March as the group, like so many others this past year, took their mission online on Saturday, Jan. 30.

The virtual event, held at 11 a.m. via Zoom, brought together a wide array of community members from all ages and backgrounds.

The online format offered the ability to gather and listen to local women speak on current issues facing other women in the area while simultaneously empowering others in attendance to get involved if they have not already.

Co-organizer and LGBTQ+ Student Services Coordinator for UNI Gender & Sexuality Services Kalyani Kannan explained the thought process she and other organizers undertook leading up to this year’s Cedar Valley Women’s March.

“We tried to consider ways to harness the energy of an in-person march and how best to channel that into a virtual format. That’s why we decided to keep the focus on highlighting community voices, to hear firsthand from people who are involved in this work and generate some awareness and momentum,” she said.

Kannan, along with co-organizers Staycie

acknowledge that we’ve always been here. We must acknowledge and address the harsh reality that the very foundation on which this country was established was established on a race contract and that every institution is infused with that lifeforce that says people of color are less than their white counterparts… We must admit this horrific truth in order to make any gains, any inroads in dealing with and dismantling this system.”

Creighton-Smith then pivoted to point out the shared characteristics of this complex system of oppresCourtesy Photo/Cedar Valley Women’s March sion while invoking Brazilian The annual Cedar Valley Women’s March had a different look this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the march was held virtually. educator and philosopher Paulo Freire.

Lyman, Noah Andrew and can reimagine a society in profit directors and commu“Freire says it this way: Melody Kosobucki from the which all people are free and nity members.

‘We must proceed with the Dr. Belinda Creighton- reality of oppression, not as UNI Women’s and Gender able to care for and nurStudies program, spearhead- ture their family and com- Smith, an adjunct instruc- a closed world from which to ed this year’s iteration of munities, however those are tor at UNI and pastor at exit, but as a limiting situaFaith Temple American tion that we can transform,’” the march. The event was formed.”

She ended her introducto- Baptist Church in Waterloo, she quoted. also supported by community and university groups ry statement expressing the headlined the Cedar Valley Finally, Creighton-Smith such as the Northern Iowa importance and service of Women’s March as the key- ended her speech appealing women in the Cedar Valley note speaker of the day. She to those at the meeting.

Feminists and UNI Proud. began her address highlightKannan kicked off the area specifically.

“I admonish you to please “I am pleased today to lift ing the current racial climate join in this work, for there is teleconference, stressing inclusivity, solidarity and up the voices of women in of the United States and much work to be done, and what it means to be a woman our own Cedar Valley com- questioning the causative until we deal with it, it will while simultaneously shin- munity whose work embrac- factors leading to this cur- not be reconciled,” she said. ing a hopeful light on the es the spirit of the freedom rent condition.

More information on and equity that underpins “In every social index, upcoming events for each of future.

“We must recognize that the Women’s March plat- (Black people) fare worse the organizations involved in than their white counter- the Cedar Valley Women’s what it means to be a woman form,” she said.

Kosobucki then took the parts,” she said. “How did March can be found at their has never been static, and those that seek to impose reins and introduced a num- we get here? How did we respective Facebook pages. a monolithic ideology of ber of speakers working get to a point where COVID These groups schedule womenness are those who and advocating for women’s is ravaging our communities events year-round and have look best in their narrow issues in the Cedar Valley, of color? How did we get several upcoming events definition of what we can ranging from state legisla- here?” open to community members She continued, “We must and students. be,” she said. “Together, we tors, business owners, non-

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After the Panthers got the early momentum, the Cowboys responded by winning the next five matches in a row, two of which were by major decision, with the other three coming by regular decision. In these matches, three of the five Cowboys

were ranked in the top 15, with both Boo Lewallen at 149 and Travis Wittlake at 165 ranked No. 4 in their respective weight classes.

This strong stretch gave the Cowboys a 17-6 lead with three matches remaining.

Next up was a matchup at 184 lb between Parker Keckeisen of the Panthers and the undefeated and ninthranked Dakota Geer of the

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A top-25 wrestling matchup between UNI and Oklahoma State had its ups and downs for both squads. The visitors from Stillwater, Ok came away with the win.

Cowboys. In the closest match of the day, Keckeisen led 2-1 after the first period, picking up a takedown while Geer managed an escape. Geer picked up another escape early in the second period, putting the score at 2-2, a score that would hold until the end of the third period. In sudden victory, Keckeisen managed a takedown to come out on top 4-2, handing Geer his first loss of the season.

The Panthers and Cowboys split their last two matches. At 197 lb, Oklahoma State’s 14th-ranked AJ Ferrari defeated UNI’s Keegan Moore by decision, 10-4, and in the 285 lb heavyweight category, UNI’s 11th-ranked and undefeated Carter Isley defeated Austin Harris by decision, 3-0. The Cowboys would win the dual meet by a final of 20-12.

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The UNI wrestling team fell in a hard-fought matchup against Big 12 opponent Oklahoma State last Saturday.

more there. Guys just have to believe it,” UNI head wrestling coach Doug Schwab said after the meet. “Sometimes when it’s safe at the end it’s like now I’ll really show what I can do. It can’t be when it’s safe; it’s gotta be from the start, and we’ll keep working on that. I like how our team competes, and I thought it

was a fun dual.”

With the loss, the Panthers fall to 3-2 on the season. UNI will hit the road for a dual meet at Northern Illinois on Friday Feb. 5. They will finish the regular season with three home meets on Saturday, Feb. 13, taking on Central Michigan, Northern Colorado, and Iowa State.

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Panther men take game one against SIU, 74-62 COLIN HORNING

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Missouri Valley Conference play continued for the UNI Panthers over the weekend, as they traveled down to Carbondale, Ill. for a two game matchup with the Southern Illinois Salukis.

The Panthers, coming off of a 10-point victory over Division III Coe College last Monday, came into the matchup with SIU with a 2-6 record in the MVC and 4-10 overall, and Southern Illinois came into Saturday’s game with a 1-5 record in league play and 7-5 overall. Both teams have had rough starts in Valley play and were looking to get back into the thick of the standings with the two game, Saturday-Sunday slate. In game one, the Panthers came away victorious with a 74-62 victory.

The first and second

halves of the game were two very different stories. The first half saw the Salukis shoot 48% from the field and hit four three-pointers, while the visiting Panthers only hit 10-30 shots, and only one made three. Despite the drastic differences in shooting percentages, the halftime score was only a slim 30-27 margin for Southern.

The final 20 minutes saw the game completely flip in favor of the Panthers.

They hit 18-26 shots in the second half, good enough for a blistering 69% from the field and hit four of eight shots from behind the arc. Meanwhile, the hosts saw their shooting go cold.

A stout Panther defensive effort in the second held Southern to only 37% from the field and two of ten from the three-point line.

The Salukis also struggled mightily from the foul line, as they made only 48% of

their free-throw attempts, leaving 13 points at the line.

Three Panthers scored in double figures for the contest. Sophomore Noah Carter led the way with 21 points to go along with 12 rebounds. Freshman Bowen Born followed with 17 points and senior Trae Berhow put in 16 with seven rebounds. Junior Austin Phyfe grabbed 13 rebounds and put in seven points of his own. True freshman Tytan Anderson played 15 minutes in his first ever collegiate game, coming off surgery and rehab to start his UNI career. He scored six points and had two steals and a blocked shot.

Northern Iowa dominated with 42 points in the paint, in contrast to Southern’s 28. There were 13 lead changes in the game, with the contest being tied

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UNI defeated Southern Illinois 74-62 on Saturday in the first game of a two game matchup between the two teams. They play again on Sunday, Jan. 31.

six different times.

T h e w i n m ove d U N I t o 3 - 6 i n l e a g u e p l ay and dropped SIU to 1-6 a n d l a s t p l a c e o ve r a l l i n t h e c o n f e r e n c e. T h e

Pa n t h e r s n ow s i t at 5 - 1 0 o n t h e ye a r w i t h t h e S a l u k i s at 7 - 6 . T h e t w o teams will square off aga i n o n S u n d ay, Ja n . 3 1 at 5 p. m .

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Panther women fall on the road to Drake, 96-79 NICHOLAS SCHINDLER proving to be too much to

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The UNI women’s basketball team traveled to Des Moines last Wednesday for a matchup against Drake, falling by the score of 96-79. The Panthers fell down by as much as 19 points in the first half,

overcome. They drop to 8-8 on the year and 5-4 in Missouri Valley Conference play. UNI’s leading scorer was Cynthia Wolf with 18 points, shooting 8-11 from the floor and had two rebounds. She was followed

by Maya Mcdermott with 15 points on 6-9 shooting with two assists as well.

Junior Megan Maas had 12 points, five rebounds, and two blocks.

Leading the charge for Drake (who are also 8-8 on the season) was Grace Berg who has 21 points on 8-16 shooting with seven rebounds, two assists and two blocks. Drake’s Kierra Collier was second in scoring with 17 points, two

rebounds and three assists.

The Bulldogs shot 56% from the floor as opposed to the Panthers shooting 44%. Perhaps the biggest difference in the game was Drake shooting 55% from beyond the arc while UNI only shot 27% from three.

The Bulldogs also capitalized on turnovers with 23 points off takeaways as

opposed to UNI only having 14 points off turnovers.

The next game for the Panther women’s basketball team will be on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. hosting Evansville in the McLeod Center. The Purple Aces are 5-9 on the season and are coming off a win against Indiana State.

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