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NISG holds presidential elections Boeding and Greene ELIZABETH KELSEY News Editor

Elle Boeding and Rachel Greene are running for student body president and vice president, respectively, for one reason: “For the Students.”

“We’re really here for the students. It sounds corny because it’s our slogan, but at the core of it all, I want to make sure that we can listen and learn and improve our candidacy as well as have a good free-f lowing set of ideas,” said Boeding, a junior political communication and philosophy major with minors in sexuality, women and gender studies and politics and law.

Boeding and Greene announced their candidacy on Monday, Feb. 10, via

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their website, www.elleandrachel.com/, and social media platforms.

“I’ve been raised that if you are willing and able to take responsibility to lead, do it,” said Greene, a junior economics major with a minor in professional writing.

Both she and Boeding have already taken on a variety of leadership roles on the UNI campus, which they said prepared them for the positions they are currently seeking.

Boeding was elected as an NISG senator for the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (CHAS) in spring 2018. She now serves on multiple NISG committees, including Campus Relations, Government and Legislative Affairs, External

Relations and Recruitment.

She also advocates for UNI on Iowa’s Capitol Hill as a member of Legislative Liaison Team (LLT).

“As a senator, I’ve gotten the opportunity to advocate on behalf of students very directly to university administration,” Boeding said.

“That’s something that felt very daunting to me at first, but […] these are individuals that should be accountable to us. I think that’s something I have grown to be very comfortable with.”

Her time as a Resident Assistant (RA) and member of Student Admissions Ambassadors (SAA) has also imparted in her a “deep care” for UNI and its students.

there’s snow on the ground and it will be a little chilly.

It’s an ideal condition.”

Cross country skiing is not the same as traditional downhill skiing most people are familiar with. Cross country skiers mainly rely

on their own strength and momentum to traverse many different forms of terrain.

Cross country skis are attached to the skier’s boots only at the toes, while the heel is free to move away, allowing for longer strides.

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Outdoor Rec Center hosts ski event ANTHONY WITHEROW Staff Writer

Looking to get an early lead on your Valentine’s day weekend? UNI’s Outdoor Recreation Center will be hosting a Valentine’sthemed cross country skiing event on Feb. 13 at 5 p.m.. Attendees will meet in the outdoor recreation office WRC 174 and head out to the trails shortly after.

“It’s nice to be out of your comfort zone with someone you care about,” said Nicholas Chell, graduate assistant at UNI Outdoors. “Struggling together can kind of make it fun. I think it would be a great way to start the Valentine’s weekend.”

The event is free to the public. Everyone is welcome, regardless if alone, with a friend or on a date. Skis, boots and headlamps will be provided by staff members.

Attendees are encouraged to

arrive 10-15 minutes early.

Skiers will break into groups and loop around the pond near the WRC and through the woods before making their way back.

There will be red luminaries lighting the entire route. Coordinators will be spread throughout the trail to guide you along the way, provide assistance and hand out candy.

Combating the cold February weather can sometimes be difficult. On top of attendees dressing for the cold, staff members will provide hot chocolate and marshmallows once they have finished the trail and made their way back to the WRC. The Outdoor Recreation center hosts cross country ski nights every Tuesday night from Jan. 28–Feb. 25. These events take you through the same trail as the Valentine’s event. Unlike the Valentine’s event, these ski

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nights cost $5.

“We try to do it every year,” Chell said. “The hardest part is the weather can be dicey, sometimes a little warm. Sometimes it’s too cold. More often than not the snow is melted. This year

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“Being an RA has really brought to my attention that there’s a lot of students out there who are struggling that we may never know,” she said. “My residents will tell you that first and foremost, I love them. […] I take ownership of how they’re feeling and how they’re doing and that’s something that I hope would translate well into the student body president role, that care and that love that I have for the students that I work with.”

Like Boeding, Greene is also a member of SAA and LLT, and she has also served as a Peer Mentor and WRC fitness instructor. She said her range of involvement will allow her to connect with, and advocate for, diverse groups on campus.

“It balances it out so that we’re not just super saturated with one type of experience,” she said. “We cover a lot more bases.”

“Rachel is a continuous advocate for the people around her, regardless of if they share the same identities as her or not,” Boeding added. “It makes me really excited to be running with someone like her.”

That advocacy will come in handy for the three main prongs of the pair’s platform — Advocacy, Access and Academics.

Under the first prong, Advocacy, Boeding and Greene hope to work closely with Diversity, Inclusion

and Social Justice (DIS) services on campus to advocate for marginalized populations such as students of color and LGBTQ+ students.

“As a woman of color on this campus, it’s not easy to be taken seriously at times,” Greene said.

She said that, if elected, she and Boeding would work to establish training for staff to recognize and eliminate microaggressions in the classroom, as well as adding pronouns, pronunciations and chosen names to all class rosters to “eliminate that level of embarrassment.”

“We want to make sure that we value all UNI students to be students,” she said.

In terms of Access, Boeding said the pair’s platform includes a focus on mental health and sexual assault support resources.

“Currently, we have no [sexual assault awareness] training for mandatory reporters, whether that be faculty, staff [or] RAs,” Boeding said.

She said that she and Greene, if elected, hope to implement such a training.

Their platform also emphasizes increasing student awareness of the resources available through the UNI Counseling Center and the mental health excuse notes program established by current president and vice president Jacob Levang and Jacob Stites.

Finally, addressing the third prong of the platform,

Academics, Greene emphasized the importance of extending the campus academic community to include off-campus students such as those at the UNI-CUE in Waterloo and on the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) campus.

“We’re creating a greater campus community, and that doesn’t just mean the zip code of 50613 in Cedar Falls,” she said. “If you are a full time, part-time, grad student, whatever, you’re a student and your voice matters.”

Boeding emphasized the representation that their platform brings, with two women and Greene as a woman of color.

“This is something that I never thought I could do,” Boeding said. “It’s been very rare that we’ve seen women in these leadership roles within NISG. Just a few years ago, there were hardly any women in NISG.” Although NISG has had female presidents in the past, if elected, Greene will be the first female of color to serve as NISG president or vice president. However, she said that potential to make history isn’t uppermost in her mind.

“I’m doing this because I genuinely care,” Greene said. “I don’t care if I don’t ever put it on my resume, I don’t care if people are going to forget about this in a year if we were to win, I don’t care about any of that type of recognition. I’m not doing this because I want

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NISG elections will be held Feb. 25-26, when students will have the opportunity to vote in MyUNIverse for presidential/vice presidential and senatorial candidates. Boeding and Greene are currently running unopposed, after competing ticket Kristin Rasmussen and Triet Ngo announced Wednesday morning that they were suspending their campaign.

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found out that running for this position was a larger order than I could undertake, and has caused unforeseen mental health issues that I need to prioritize as well as my academics. We are grateful to those who have helped us start this journey, and while we will no longer be running for a special position, we will continue to be advocates for students and continuing the conversation about student representation and transparency in Student Government.”

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Sinn Féin and political counter-trajectories MOHAMMED RAWWAS

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On February 8, 2020, the Irish general election was held.

Following the disappointing results in the U.K. general election just two months ago, this election was to be an important signpost of the future of politics in the region. And considering the ramifications of Brexit on Ireland, the results of this election would point to which party the populace trusts to deal with a potentially upcoming referendum on the border between Ireland and the U.K. Prior to this election, the two right-wing parties in Ireland, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, held 47 and 45 seats, respectively, forming a coalition government in order to govern, those 92 seats being greater than the 80 required for a majority. Sinn Féin held 22 seats. After the election, Sinn Féin now holds 37 seats, having received the plurality of the votes. Most importantly, however, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have been deprived of their coalition majority, as

they now stand at 35 and 38 seats, respectively. It is unlikely that they will be able to form a coalition, considering that most of the other parties that hold seats, such as Green, Labour, Social Democrats and Solidarity-PBP, are all left-ofcenter parties unlikely to align with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

Currently, Sinn Féin is working on creating a coalition government and it seems possible that they will be able to achieve this.

There are a number of reasons that contributed to Sinn Féin’s success. Perhaps most instrumental to Sinn Féin’s success is the failures of the leading Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil coalition to address the issues facing Ireland. By presiding over an austerity regime and catering to the oligarchic class to the detriment of the majority, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil refused to do anything in regards to reducing homelessness in Ireland, scoffing at such proposals to expand public housing as “unrealistic”.

Furthermore, following the global 2008 financial crisis, the ramifications of which are still

being contended with, people are less likely to blindly accept neoliberal dogma, which is all Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have to offer, both in terms of rhetoric and policy.

Furthermore, the issue of Brexit certainly affected the vote. Since Northern Ireland is in the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom leaving the European Union means that a border would have to be established between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Given the strife history of Ireland, this could prove problematic, to say the least, and could lead to the eruption of violent tensions. The fact that Sinn Féin won a plurality of the vote is a clear indication that the people of Ireland favor reunification with Northern Ireland, rather than the establishing of a border. With Sinn Féin’s influence now both in Northern Ireland and Ireland itself, they have the capacity to preside over whatever process will ensue in regards to the European Union and the establishment of a border. Most likely, this will come down to

a referendum, and if the most recent election results are any indication, it seems that Ireland is more in favor of reunifying Ireland than establishing a border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. But a vote for Sinn Féin is also a rebuke of Boris Johnson and the Brexit vote itself, considering that it was Brexit that forced Ireland into the difficult position that it now finds itself in.

However, an interesting question does appear, which is how did Sinn Féin manage an electoral victory where Labour in the U.K. failed? Sinn Féin was dealing with many of the same structural issues facing Labour, such as an entrenched mainstream media apparatus that was hell-bent on smearing any leftist movement with patently ridiculous accusations. In the case of Sinn Féin, this clear media bias manifested itself in multiple ways, including in Sinn Féin party leader Mary Lou McDonald originally being left out of the televised national debates, before polls showing Sinn Féin in first place and pop-

ular outrage forcing the network to rescind their decision.

Yet, despite these structural barriers, Sinn Féin still managed to win a plurality. I don’t think there is a clear answer here, although the dynamic of Brexit certainly has different ramifications for Labour as it did to Sinn Féin. More broadly, however, Sinn Féin managed to orient themselves towards the working class in a way that Labour, despite its well-received Manifesto, was not quite able to.

Finally, with the rise of far-right populism and demagoguery and outright fascism emerging from Brazil to Poland, it is reassuring to see counter-trajectories, as in the case of Ireland. Even moderate social democracy in power is a good bulwark against this rising tide.

Perhaps this is a sign of things to come, although fighting back against fascism does not occur without work in local organizing. However, this could be a good sign that if we continue in our organizing efforts, we can bring about a resurgence of the left.

Synesthesia: feeling and tasting the color red EMERSON SLOMKA

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What is red? Of course, you know what red looks like.

When you imagine red, it likely appears as an image in your head. However, can you tell me what red is? With words?

The literal definition of red is a color next to orange on the color wheel and across from green. However, can you describe it without comparing it to other colors? Some may attribute red to the color of a flame, a firetruck or a ruby,

comparing it to an object. Some may describe red as passion or anger, in the form of an emotion. Others may see red as being hot or velvety, seeing red as a tactile characteristic.

Is it the warmth radiating from a fireplace? Is it the smell of cinnamon? Perhaps, is it the letter A? Needless to say, putting something as intangible as a color into words is an extraordinarily difficult task.

However, those with a curious neurological disorder may be able to experience intangible concepts as sensory input; they

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may taste H, smell 3 and touch Beethoven’s Fifth. As confusing as it may be to an outsider, those with synesthesia have brains wired to transmit senses to improper receptors, causing them to associate senses with other senses.

There is no known cause for synesthesia, but it seems to be a relatively uncommon disorder. It is often co-morbid with conditions such as autism and ADHD, but is often presented in people with no such disorders. As previously mentioned, synesthesia is caused by an “improper wiring” of the brain, causing senses to be combined and/or switched. For example, if a person with synesthesia was listening to a song, the part of their brain controlling perception of sound would activate, but the part controlling perception of taste may too activate, causing the song to “taste like cherries,” while the part controlling visual perception may cause the song to “be teal.” The most common form of synesthesia is grapheme-color, which is the confusion of letters with color. Many different senses are perceived as color for someone with synesthesia, but often things such as personification can occur as well. People with synesthesia tend to have exceptional memory skills, as their ability to associate comes naturally. While this is an obvious advantage, even those without synesthesia can harness the power of it for practical use, causing their

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Opinion Columnist Emerson Slomka explains synesthesia, a neurological disorder that relays intangible concepts as sensory input.

memory skills to improve, as well as their ability to write creatively and to produce art.

The method I will be introducing to you is one utilized by many teachers to help their students improve memory skills — a form of “induced synesthesia.” First, observe what it is you are attempting to memorize. Perhaps, they are chemistry formulas, fingerings for an instrument, vocabulary for Spanish class or anything involving the power of memory to learn. Next, scan the material for any “obvious associations” you may see — these are the things you can associate with something else naturally. Even people without synesthesia have natural associative tendencies and these are the first that should be channeled. Perhaps your Spanish vocabulary words resemble English words of the same meaning (known as cognates). As for those that don’t come naturally, you can force

association to occur by applying the intended connotation.

For example, music notes may have no color to you inherently, but if you begin assigning them colors (C being yellow, A being red, E being blue, etc.), you may instantly recognize the color when you see the note on your sheet music, and will instantly know which note to play. Association does not benefit everyone, but for those who struggle with memory, this “induced synesthesia” can be extremely beneficial in its ability to form connections between recognizable and unrecognizable ideas.

In the end, red might just be a lot of things. Red is the color next to orange and across from green, it’s a glistening ruby, it’s the crunching of autumn leaves beneath your boot, it’s the smell of cinnamon potpourri, it’s the letter A, and it’s even the very embodiment of passion. So, what does red mean to you?

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best. It goes to show that the Academy is getting a little more predictable year after year, following trends already set in the months leading up to the show.

Film Critic

Well, it finally happened.

After months of releases and campaigning, the 92nd Academy Awards took place this last Sunday, signaling the end of the 2019 movie season. Now that the dust has settled and the speeches have been made, it’s time to recap everything that went down. Here are just a few storylines and tidbits that best summarize all that happened on Hollywood’s biggest night.

“Parasite” makes history.

It’s taken 92 years and 11 other films to try and fail, but “Parasite” has become the first-ever foreign language film to win Best Picture. It all started back in May when director Bong Joon-ho’s wildly entertaining tale of classism in his home country of South Korea premiered and was awarded the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. From then on, the question on everyone’s mind was if “Parasite” would be able to break the curse that had stopped so many before it, most notably “Roma” just a year before.

Thankfully, “Parasite” had the juice to beat out its main rival, “1917,” and took that stage to collect the ultimate prize.

Bong Joon-ho has the biggest night.

Undoubtedly having the biggest night of any person was Bong Joon-ho.

Besides his film winning Best Picture, Bong also picked up the awards for Best

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International Feature, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director in a slight upset win over predicted winner Sam Mendes. Bong has been on the campaign trail since May, charming voters with his wit and friendliness. Just like his film, he more than deserved to pick up the awards he received.

Unfortunately, due to a technicality where Best International Feature Film goes to a country and not a person, Bong’s three wins came just one short of tying Walt Disney for the most Oscar wins in a single night.

One silver lining is that the four wins by “Parasite” tied the record for most by an international film in one night.

The show itself wasn’t very good.

With the show lasting just as long as “The Irishman” (209 minutes) and having

quite a few missteps along the way, The Oscars proved for the second time that a host doesn’t make or break a show.

The evening started well with Janelle Monae kicking things off with a song and dance number, followed by Steve Martin and Chris Rock rattling off the usual jokes a host would do.

After that, however, things went downhill quickly as the show seemingly turned into the Grammys with its never-ending stream of musical performances. Eminem performed in what seemed to be a desperate move to get some social media buzz.

And even when talents like Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig took the stage, they were hampered by lazy writing and bits that seemed to drag on forever. With the ratings at a new record low (down 20% from last year), the time is now for award

shows to reinvent themselves.

It was a pretty predictable night.

Adding onto the feeling of monotony produced by the show itself was the lack of any surprise winners in each of the categories. Every nominee for Best Picture walked away with at least one award, except for “The Irishman,” which sadly went 0-10. Even with the big win by “Parasite” (which seemed more likely as the season went on), each winner had been one of the odds on favorites for the months preceding. Bong Joon-ho winning for Best Director was maybe the only upset, but even that wasn’t too surprising considering all the love Bong had received this season.

Yours truly even went 20/24 overall with the predictions, setting a personal

History was made on all fronts.

Yes, “Parasite” winning Best Picture is the most notable record. But there were also many notable achievements made in other categories: •Barack Obama became the first president to win an Oscar as he and Michelle Obama produced the Best Documentary, “American Factory.”

•Hildur Guðnadóttir became the first woman to win Best Original Score since 1997.

•Bong Joon-ho’s win for directing now makes Damien Chazelle the only American to win the award in the 2010s.

•Joaquin Phoenix’s win for Best Actor marked the second time an actor has won for playing The Joker.

Also, each actor who has portrayed the character has won an Oscar sometime in their career.

•Laura Dern gifted Netflix its first acting Oscar with her win in Best Supporting Actress •With her win for the animated short, “Hair Love,” director Karen Toliver became the first black woman to win an Oscar in any animation category.

•Taika Waititi (“Jojo Rabbit”) became the first indigenous person to be nominated and win Best Adapted Screenplay.

Ninja U to host “Ninja Warrior” competition

COLBY WEBER Staff Writer

In a similar fashion to the television show “American Ninja Warrior,” UNI students will be competing with one another in an obstacle course on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. The course is available to all genders and skill levels and those who participate will get a special t-shirt. The event is being hosted by Ninja U, located at 5911 University Ave. #350 in Cedar Falls.

According to Intramural Sports Coordinator Cindy Klatt, this is the first time that the event has been held. She was approached

by American Ninja Warrior Contestant and UNI student Jackson Twait to see if they could do an intramural event with Ninja U. Although a $20

UNI Intramural Play Pass is required to participate, competing in the event is free. If students would like to practice beforehand, the course is open from Monday through Thursday 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. for a discounted student rate.

Although registration is supposed to close after February 12th, Klatt said that those who are interested can still contact her at cynthia.klatt@ uni.edu if spots are available.

During the competition, one to two points will be offered for clearing each obstacle. The two-point obstacles are more challenging and because of this they have half-way points where one point can be scored.

The exact course will not be known to any of the participants and it will involve a full-body workout.

“It’s set up so there’s a

different set-up each time,” said Klatt. “There’s a lot of climbing and jumping.

Whether or not they fall into a pool, I don’t know. If the contestants have a strong upper body and athletic ability, they’re one step ahead.”

Klatt is hoping that the event is something that UNI’s campus can do for years to come. As time goes by, she hopes that the event grows. Currently, they have two women and one man registered for the event and she would like to see three to four of each. She mentioned that with their program of Canoe Battleship, it took a few years to take off.

Coordinating with Ninja U for the event was a tricky part of the planning process for Klatt.

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A tale of two English professors SOFIA LEGASPI

Staff Writer

A romance that began in an East Coast graduate school continues 27 years later at the University of Northern Iowa.

UNI English Professors Jim O’Loughlin and Julie Husband met as doctoral students at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in September 1992.

In those days before PDFs and online readings, the couple’s first meeting took place in a reserve reading room.

“Julie always did all of the required reading, even then,” O’Loughlin said. “[Her] intelligence and warmth were what first drew me to her and still do today.”

The class that brought them together centered around the Civil War, an ironic inception for their budding love story, Husband said.

“Jim said very smart things in class, connecting books to cultural or political issues of the day, with implications for the present,” Husband said.

“I looked forward to talking during breaks. He also had these fabulous blue eyes and a kind way of interacting with people. He was a big hit with my young nephews, when they met him later, because he had a million games to play,” she said.

They started dating the next semester. The couple and their tight-knight cohort — which still keeps in touch and beget half a dozen couples, O’Loughlin said — collaborated on several projects, including a digest of American literature journal

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“It was a challenge to come up with the time and day,” said Klatt. “We had to stay off of Saturdays and weekdays. During the week, students have classes. Sunday during the evening is what we ended up going with. We also needed to know that it would be cheaper for students to practice with their college student discount.”

When UNI students attend the event, Klatt hopes that they’ll consider giving it a try in the long run. She thinks that the event is an

articles and an intramural soccer team.

During their time in school, Husband worked as a writer in the President’s Office while O’Loughlin served as the president of the Graduate Student Association during a work action against the university.

Husband called it “a testament to our resilience as a couple.”

In June 1996, they were married. They left their East Coast roots — O’Loughlin is originally from Connecticut, Husband from New York — and found themselves at UNI, where they began teaching in the fall of 2000.

“We cast our fortunes to the wind when looking for academic jobs and were lucky enough to wind up at a place like UNI, where we’ve been very happy,” O’Loughlin said.

O’Loughlin currently serves as the Interim Department Head of Languages and Literatures; Husband was the department head from 2012 to 2017. Her classes include 19th-century American Literature and Multicultural Literature, while he teaches 20th-century American Literature, Fiction Writing and Electronic Literature.

Few people enjoy the privilege of learning and working alongside their partner, but O’Loughlin and Husband have done so for over two decades now.

“We are fortunate in being able to spend more time together than most working couples, and we’ve co-written a book together,” O’Loughlin said. “It’s also nice to talk

interesting and fun way for athletes to compete.

“It’s a different way of showing off your skills,” said Klatt. “You may not be the best basketball player or the best volleyball player, but you’ve got some talent.

It takes some talent and some concentration. Even Jackson, when he was on TV and he blew it right there at the beginning, if he could redo that he would.

Sometimes you lose concentration. It’s one of those things where there’s no guarantee. You could be the best of the best and then with one little slip you’re in the water.”

about work with someone who can understand the ins and outs of one’s daily experience.”

First published in 2004 with a recently published second edition, the couple’s book is titled “Daily Life in the Industrial United States: 1870-1900.”

“We got to share new insights and dilemmas as we wrote each section,” Husband said. “It was common to cook together and have conversations starting with something like, ‘Did you know that there was a transition around 1890 from natural history displays to laboratories in university science departments?’”

Beyond academic and professional achievements, the pair regards their three children to be their greatest accomplishment together.

Their oldest, Nic, graduates from college this year while their second child Devin will be graduating from high school. Their youngest, Ian, will be entering the ninth grade.

“They are great kids and we are lucky to have them,” O’Loughlin said. “Nothing has been more transformational than having and raising kids.”

For Husband, one high point of their marriage was a five-week camping trip across Colorado, Utah, California and Wyoming with their children, aged 11, 7 and 3 at the time.

“At every new campground I’d take the kids for an initial hike and Jim would set up camp,” she said. “Then we would sit around the fire, tell him what we saw and

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Husband-and-wife duo Jim O’Loughlin and Julie Husband have both been teaching at UNI since 2000. In honor of Valentine’s Day, the couple shared their story with staff writer Sofia Legaspi.

make a plan for the next day.

The world seemed both very big and very wonderful.”

A couple with three children and nearly 24 years of marriage under their belts might be assumed to possess the great secret to cultivating a lasting relationship; however, they conceded there is no singular formula for success.

“Every relationship is different, and I don’t think what works for one couple will necessarily work for another,” O’Loughlin said. “But I do think that in any long-term relationship, people are going to grow and change, and to the extent that you can do that together — sharing new interests and hobbies as you can — you are better off.”

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Panthers take down Southern Illinois in overtime PATRICK HANSEN

Sports Writer

The UNI women’s basketball team was coming off a tough loss at home to Missouri State and was plagued with turnovers. The Purple and Gold turned that momentum around as the Southern Illinois Salukis came into town to face the Panthers women’s basketball team in a game that needed extra time to find a winner.

The game started out in the favor of Southern Illinois as they were able to get out to a quick 7-2 run. The Panthers would come back with a run of their own to take an 8-7 lead before taking a 10-9 lead into the second quarter.

Forward Bre Gunnels started off the second quar-

ter strong, scoring the first eight points for Northern Iowa on an 8-2 run. Despite the great start, Southern Illinois responded once again with a run of their own, capped off by a made three as time

expired to take a 30-28 lead into halftime.

The third quarter was a repeat of the first half, scoring back and forth and taking turns going on big runs as the Panther women were down eight with three minutes remaining in the third quarter, but cut the lead to just two points going into the final quarter.

In the fourth, the game came down to the final seconds as Megan Maahs continued her outstanding offensive performance by rebounding and knocking down a free throw to tie the game with 16 seconds left, sending the game into overtime, tied at 60-60.

UNI head coach Tanya Warren was proud of Maahs’s performance for the game. “I’m

extremely happy and proud for Meghan. When you’ve been sitting out for as long as she’s been out, it’s going to take time. My message to her is to stay true to the journey. You’ve put in the work, it will come.

She was able to reap some of those rewards today.”

Maahs opened up extra time on fire hitting the first six points to put the Purple and Gold up by five, 66-61 before the Salukis tied the game up once more. Coming down the stretch in overtime, the Panther defense controlled the floor, forcing the Salukis to miss seven of their shots in the final 60 seconds of the game.

The Purple and Gold also strived on the offensive side as they hit four of their five free throws in the final minute,

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finishing the game 71-66.

The Panther women will hit the road for away games at Indiana State on Thursday, Feb 13 and Evansville on Saturday, Feb 15.

SOFTBALL

UNI takes final two games of UNI-Dome Classic COLIN HORNING

Sports Editor

After a rough start to their six game, season-opening slate of games, the UNI softball team would bounce back in a big way during their last two games on Sunday of the Doc Halverson UNI-Dome Classic.

With a doubleheader matchup against DePaul University and the University of South Dakota to round out the final day of the tournament, the Panther women found a way to rally in both games and to

even their overall record for the weekend at three wins and three losses.

The first of the two games for the Panthers on Sunday came against the DePaul University Blue Demons, who came into the game winning three of their first four games of the season. Things started off poorly for Northern Iowa, as the Blue Demons’ leadoff hitter Angela Scalzitti doubled to begin the game, followed by a two-run homerun from DePaul third baseman Erin Andris, giving the visitors a

2-0 lead right out of the gate.

An RBI double later in the inning put DePaul up 3-0 after the top of the first inning. The Blue Demons would tack on two more runs in the middle innings, giving them a 5-0 lead going into the sixth inning.

The Panther offense would find its groove in the sixth however. UNI shortstop Sammy Bunch would connect for a three-run homerun with one out in the inning, cutting into the DePaul lead. The Panther women would scrape across two more in the sixth to knot things up at 5.

The game went into extra innings tied at 5, when DePaul scored in their half of the eighth to take a 6-5 lead. But a rally in the bottom of the eighth for the Purple and Gold was capped off by a game-winning RBI single by UNI left fielder Jenny Kohl, sealing the dramatic victory.

In game two, the story was UNI senior catcher Ashley Chesser. Her two home runs

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would help pace the Panther offense in their 9-4 victory against the University of South Dakota in the second half of Sunday’s doubleheader.

UNI took the lead in the second inning with the score tied at two, and would’t look back in this one. The Panther offense scored in six different innings for the contest, with eleven hits helping to spur

the nine-run offensive attack.

Samantha Heyer pitched a complete game, throwing all seven innings while allowing four earned runs. She struck out eight Coyotes and only walked two for the game.

Up next, the UNI softball team will travel to Tucson, Arizona for the Hillenbrand Invitational hosted by the University of Arizona from Feb 14-16.

OPINION

AP top 25 poll: why aren’t the Panthers ranked yet?

BRIELLE KIEWIET Sports Writer

After UNI’s win over Drake Sunday, they now sit at a 21-3 overall record, number one in the MVC, and a perfect 13-0 at home. While most people would assume that resume is good enough to be put in the AP Top 25 rankings, the most recent rankings released say otherwise.

Northern Iowa sat just outside the top 25 with 44 votes, following Rhode Island with 57 votes. While I understand mid-major schools do not bring

in the same hype or recruits that Power Five schools do, one thing that is for certain is that UNI can play. Just ask Kansas, Texas, or North Carolina.

One reason I can see is the fact that UNI has only played one AP top-25 team this season (a win on the road against the 23rd-ranked University of Colorado back on Dec. 10) but if you look at the number sixranked Dayton Flyers, they have only faced one as well, in which they lost. One could also look at the number four-ranked San Diego State Aztecs, who have yet to play an AP top-25 team

so far this season. UNI has not played the toughest strength of schedule so far this season, but there needs to be at least some respect for a team with only three losses this late in the year.

I think we can all agree that college basketball has been terribly inconsistent this year.

Michigan State was preseason number one, and now they are in the same boat as UNI - outside of the top 25. Northern Iowa has had votes on the map consistently increasing since week seven of the polls, and it is still early February. There is still a lot of basketball ahead

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The UNI men’s basketball team is sitting in first place in the conference and 21-3 overall, but has not yet garnered the attention of national polls.

of us and we can only play the teams placed in front of us. A

team this talented will soon get the recognition they deserve.

SIERRA STEEN Managing Editor

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