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CAB concert sparks controversy SYDNEY HAUER
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An inability to be transparent led some UNI student groups to believe the University administration was exhibiting racial bias. It started when the UNI Campus Activities Board (CAB)’s Waka Flocka Flame concert was moved to Nielsen Field House. While it has since been moved back to Maucker Union, it remains closed to the public due to perceived security threats. Public tickets already sold have been reimbursed. Student tickets had been reduced to one per student, but now students can purchase two tickets. Students who purchase a ticket for a guest must accompany them to the concert. The event will take place at 8 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 16. According to UNI President Mark Nook, after the concert was initially announced, the administration and surrounding police departments were notified by UNI Public Safety of a significant safety threat and told to keep the information confidential, which led the administration to make the changes in the way that they did. “Some area law enforcement got some pretty solid evidence that gang members from different groups in our community were planning to attend the
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Rap artist Waka Flocka Flame will be performing in the Maucker Union Ballroom on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m.
event and it raised a significant safety concern,” said Nook. “We have a responsibility as administrative leadership to our students to make sure that the events are safe, and when a concern of this nature comes to us, we have to take that really seriously and act to make sure that this event is safe.” Before any of the information was made public, many students speculated that racial bias was involved in the University’s decision making and that the administration was intentionally keeping students in the dark about why the decisions were being made. According to Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) Senators Ryan Frank and Mahlia Brown, NISG as a
whole first caught wind of the changes made to the concert at their regular Senate meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 6. It was initially brought to the attention of Frank and Brown individually that previous Monday. NISG called for an emergency Senate meeting the next day, in which Brown wrote and proposed a solution for the University to consider, she said. NISG voted on it unanimously. The proposal involved the concert being moved back to Maucker Union and ticket sales being reopened to the public. Sashay Carroll, a junior communication major and member of Black Student Union (BSU) said that students in the Center for Multicultural Education
ing restrooms with others can also increase the risk of catching an illness. Improper sleeping habits or a lack of a healthy diet can also make one more vulnerable to sickness. Various illnesses are more common during the winter season, including colds, influenza and stomach viruses. Another threat is hypothermia, or as defined by Nick Wright on theprepared. com, the phenomenon “when your body’s core temperature drops below 95 degrees F, which causes your vital systems to shut down. This happens when your body loses heat faster than it’s produced.” The United States saw an average of about 1,300 hypothermia-related deaths from 1999 to 2011, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wright explains that frequent shivering, mental confusion, a sense of tiredness and irritability are signs of hypothermia. If someone is not near a medical professional, several steps can be followed in order to treat it. These include taking off wet articles of clothing and escaping wind and water. Warming the chest and neck are also useful tactics for combating the condition. People should also try to avoid movement, because once hypothermia sets in, it is detrimental to let heat escape from the limbs. As for the cold and flu, there are several tips students can use to lessen their risk of becoming infected. “A big one is hand-wash-
found out about the changes when a student had mentioned them in conversation. “There were a few of us here in the CME talking and someone mentioned that the Waka Flocka concert had actually been moved and closed off to the public,” said Carroll. “We all got together and started organizing, asking all the right questions, trying to figure out what exactly led up to this decision and who initially made the decision.” The students who organized in the CME decided to contact KWWL to release a public statement about what was happening “so that the community could be aware of it,” according to Carroll. She was a student who was interviewed. “I told them I felt as if the institution was trying to keep a group of people out and it’s imperative that we pay attention to who is being kept out,” Carroll said. Carroll said that initially when these changes were made, she took it personally as a black student. It caused her to become stressed physically, mentally and emotionally. “I’m taking a different view now, but I was taking it personally and I was very stressed out about it. The fact that I’ve been putting thousands of dollars into this university and to be here and to
not feel like my voice is being heard or not even considered.” In response to the students calling KWWL, according to Carroll, the University also called KWWL and released their own statement, which included that the Campus Activities Board (CAB) had requested the changes, even though CAB was uninvolved. Accordi ng to Co-Executive’s for CAB Live Isaiah Finan and Mackenzie Meisenheimer, they were first notified of the increase in security back in January, that six public safety officers were requested by the University to be at the event instead of the usual two. They expressed concern about how having the additional security there might appear to black students. They emphasized that Waka Flocka Flame’s contract involves its own security precautions, which involve wanded metal detection in addition to security officers. CAB was notified of the venue change on Monday, Feb. 4, and instructed to staple white slips of paper with the new information on the bottom of the posters. “All of these were not requests; they were not decisions; they were, this is happening,” said Meisenheimer. See WAKA FLOCKA, page 2
Winter weather survival: health COLBY WEBER Staff Writer
Winter is upon us again, and its arrival brings cold temperatures, snow and sickness. While it may seem like common knowledge, reminders on how to remain safe during this chilly time can be useful. In order to stay in good shape, there are several strategies students can use to survive the winter season. Students are more susceptible to illnesses during the winter, according to Salem Fauser, resource nurse at UNI’s Student Health Clinic. “A lot of the time it’s because they’re in close-quarters, especially if they live in the dorms,” Fauser said. While living in such close proximity to others plays a role, aspects such as shar-
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ing, especially before eating, touching your face and after you use the restroom,” Fauser said. “Make sure that you get plenty of sleep and rest well. Have a healthy diet with not a lot of junk food and drink plenty of water to keep yourself hydrated.” Fauser also mentioned
the importance of exercise and disinfecting commonly-touched surfaces if a roommate is sick. If you do become sick, she recommended covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze and staying home. See WINTER, page 4
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Levang and Stites announce candidacy On Monday, Feb. 11, Jacob Levang and Jacob Stites announced their candidacy for student body president and vice president. Levang is a junior business management major from Des Moines, and Stites, also from Des Moines, is a junior economics major. “We are excited to start reaching out to people across campus to hear their stories. We want a campaign that is focused on getting everyone a seat at the table. Representation is critical to making progress on the issues that students face every day, that’s why we believe that our fellow students are the key to working towards solutions. Many of
these issues are not easy to navigate, but we have a duty to listen to each other and to work together,” they said in a press release. Their platform includes an off-campus housing initiative, making NISG more transparent to students, campus equity and inclusivity, sexual assault advocacy and prevention and mental health advocacy, among other issues. Levang and Stites will be holding a Student Success Roundtable at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14, in the Plaza Conference Room in Maucker Union, according to a press release. They will be discussing various aspects of their platform including the Liberal Arts Core (LAC) curriculum revision and NISG transparency. Mahlia Brown, polit-
ical director, and Damond Jones, deputy political director will lead the roundtable, and Stites will be present to listen and answer questions. Levang and Stites will also be tabling in the Union throughout the week and available to talk to students. Jacob Madden, senior political communication major will serve as the campaign manager. Other students involved in the campaign include Corey Jones, junior political science major, Chad Schafer, senior social science education major, Dylan Albertson, junior management information systems major, Sara Goodman, junior marketing and sales major and Kaylynne Bratton, senior elementary and middle-level education major. Candidates will campaign
from now until Wednesday, Feb. 27, and the election will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 26, and Wednesday, Feb. 27,
according to a press release. For more information, visit levangandstitesfornisg. com.
continued from page 1 According to Frank, when some students asked the administration why these decisions were being made, CAB was initially blamed by the executive team. “That was our biggest fear with all this happening and not having a say was that CAB would get the blame when we, unknowing, never wanted any of these changes to occur,” Meisenheimer said. “It was a whole new level of frustration because we had had one meeting prior to all this because we had requested that our voice was being heard because it was our event, and in this meeting we were told students would have a voice and to trust the administration because they would be there for us if we had backlash and they would make sure that people knew the decision was not ours.” According to Finan and Meisenheimer, the senior executive team did not inquire about the budget for the concert and how the loss of public ticket sales would affect
their budget before going forward with decisions. “I think another thing that the university hasn’t considered is the huge financial burden and the impact of the concert itself,” said Finan. “We haven’t been able to publicize as much because all these decisions keep getting thrown around, and if public tickets are officially off the table, we’re out thousands of dollars.” The public tickets that had already been sold accounted for $2,200, according to Finan. When CAB was approached by students regarding the issue, according to Meisenheimer, they were instructed to direct students to University Relations. President Nook expressed that having to keep it quiet resulted in a lack of transparency and communication and that one of his greatest concerns was that students would perceive their decision making as racially biased since they were not allowed to share explicit details right away. “One of the things that many of us realized was
that if we were going to say no to this because of what we were hearing, we would never be able to host a concert that involved a hip-hop artist or a rap artist, and in essence, we were going to be denying the culture of black students on our campus and taking away the kinds of entertainment opportunities that were important to them,” Nook said. “And that just isn’t appropriate to even think about. That’s a level of institutional racism that we have to avoid, and so finding a way to allow the concert to proceed and ensure a level of safety for our students that would attend and to people in and around the region was sort of the primary motive here.” Nook said that he wanted to make sure that students know that CAB was not a part of the decision making and that all of the decisions regarding changes to the concert were made by University leadership. “I want to apologize for CAB, one, because I know they took some flack from students who thought they were making these shifts when it
wasn’t CAB,” Nook said. “It really wasn’t, and we weren’t able to talk about it much. I also want to really apologize to all of our students, because we weren’t able to be as open and as transparent as I want to be.” According to Nook, University leadership intends to involve members of pertinent student organizations in future decision making. “I would like to think in the future that we would be able to bring in at least a member from the CAB board into that discussion, and if it is possible to identify a student group, in particular, that has a vested interest in the event, that we can bring them in and let them know that we have to have a confidential conversation and that we need to keep this confidential, but we need your input on sort of what these things are like. I think that’s going to be as we move forward a really important part of how we make these decisions.” Carroll said she believes the University is “being proactive in addressing the issue.” “They’ve been having
meetings constantly,” she said. “The biggest piece is that the executive team knows that they’ve made mistakes in all of this, which I can appreciate them admitting that.” According to Carroll and Brown, a group of students of color and their allies is organizing a town hall to address issues of racial bias on campus, and to give students of color an opportunity to speak out about things they would like to see changed. “The black students have really rallied together and I think in this found a sense of community that’s been greater than what’s been experienced in the past, so even though it’s a really hard and tough situation, it has led us to come together because we know that the University needs to make some changes,” Carroll said. “It’s not even about the Waka Flocka concert. That’s just one piece of a bigger puzzle that needs to be worked on and I think that as students we were kind of complacent with things being the way they were, and this kind of drew attention to the fact that things need to change on this campus.”
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Digital media bubble is an issue When you hear about some kind of bubble bursting you probably think of soap bubbles or perhaps the housing bubble that burst about 10 years ago. You probably don’t think about the Digital Media bubble that’s mid burst right now. The little-known bubble in the world of technology has some serious impacts on our society. It could drastically alter the internet and the digital landscape as a whole while also changing the world of journalism and news, too. Let me define the digital media bubble first. As the internet grew, 2000’s websites like Buzzfeed and Vice began to delve into news reporting or journalist ventures besides their normal content creation. As they become renowned for this, many websites followed, as did investors dumping billions into these websites.
Little did these investors know, they weren’t going to get the return on their investment that they had hoped for. Digital journalism isn’t a hyper profitable area, especially as Google and Facebook began to swallow as much as 89 percent of all digital ads, according to WBGH. So, most of these websites have to operate on business models that give their content away for free which means investors aren’t going to be making billions out of the industry. We are now seeing the effects of investors realizing this. About two months ago everyone’s favorite quiz website, Buzzfeed, announced some serious layoffs. The numbers are a little murky, but according to TechCrunch, 15 percent of Buzzfeed’s total staff has gotten or is getting laid off. That’s hundreds of employees, most of whom are journalists. This has already had an effect on Buzzfeed’s news cycle as their National News Desk and National Security Team
have both been disbanded due to the layoffs (Variety). Worse still, this isn’t just a Buzzfeed problem. Around 2,100 people have lost media jobs in the past few weeks. Vice announced that 10 percent of its staff is being let go. Miami’s New Times newspaper announced that 450 workers in their subsidiary papers would be getting laid off. The Gannett company, an owner of a vast network of newspapers, fired 400 some workers, according to The Cut. There’s something that almost all of these fired employees have in common as well. Almost every single one of them are journalists, according to Al Jazeera. So, reporters are getting fired left and right in the world of digital media, but why is this particularly bad? Well there’s a lot of reasons. The biggest is the simple fact that multiple news sources are good for us as a society. News organizations can easily manipulate their listeners. I won’t dive too deeply into this topic since there are piles upon
Nowadays, the political climate in America is incredibly polarized. It’s not hard to tell: People who identify as liberal are moving farther to the left and people who claim to be conservatives are moving farther to the right. A 2017 study conducted by the Pew Research Center found that less than 32 percent of Americans hold a roughly equal amount of liberal and conservative views. This number was about 50 percent in 2004. In the year 2019, it’s likely that the ideological divide has continued, with the effects beginning to show in the last few years. 2016 saw the election of President Donald Trump, a president who is much more conservative than most typical Republican nominees for the
presidency. However, the most recent midterm elections saw the Democrats gain 39 seats in the House of Representatives. This resulted in a large majority while at the same time taking a net loss of two seats in the Senate, which made both chambers of Congress firmly split between the two major parties (and political ideologies for that matter), all the while having a staunch rightwing president in the Oval Office. This essentially means that almost nothing will get done in the nation’s capital for the next two years unless there are miraculous bipartisan agreements from members on both sides. As the nation continues in opposite directions in terms of political points of view, it’s likely that less and less legislation will get passed at the federal level. This is partly the purpose of having a three-branch system of government: should an issue arise that people of both sides agree on, a law will be passed for
the betterment of the country. But most Americans would likely agree that they have certain issues in which they feel strongly about that have a small chance of actually being resolved with the current capacity in Washington. So how can we curtail this divide? Most of the current polarization can likely be traced back to the ease of information bubbles caused by living in the digital age. Before the rise of the Internet and the reliance of online sources for information, most American had just three network news channels and a few newspapers that they would rely on for their news. There was, of course, no way of curating your news to skew towards your political views; you read the paper in the morning and watched the nightly news. That was it. Often times journalists at these outlets held themselves to a high standard of being as unbiased as possible in order to inform the American public and aide them in deciding for themselves. The surge of solely online mediums who do not charge a subscription saw a decrease in objective journalism and an increase in information bias (from both right-and left-wing outlets) and in the social media age, these news outlets began to sensationalize headlines in order to go viral, thus increasing traffic to their websites and an increase in
piles of articles and research all talking about this. Bias can easily be formed and stories can be twisted to fit an agenda. If there are many news sources, this is less of a problem since people have options. Now, if there are very few sources, it becomes easy for a company like Facebook or Google to only show you the information they want you to see. It might sound like a conspiracy theory, but too bad we already have proof that Facebook played a major role in the 2016 election. The information that traveled through people’s Facebook feeds was manipulated to push them to vote for certain candidates, according to the New York Times. This is something that already happened with many news sources. Now other sources are decreasing which means it’s even easier for this manipulation to happen. This could potentially get worse as well. The digital media bubble hasn’t fully popped yet; it is at mid-pop. We’re still sunk deep in
some serious problems, like an overabundance of content combined with platform monopolization, to combine into an environment where investors just don’t want to spend money. That means that without any new money coming in to stay afloat, companies like Buzzfeed will start to sink since they have no strong revenue streams. Will this spell the end for Buzzfeed and their beloved quizzes? Probably not. This may spell the end for some of their journalistic efforts, or Vice’s, or newspapers’ in general. That’s the part that scares me. I don’t want all my news to come from Facebook or Google. I like having access to a multitude of news sources. That’s how I wrote this article. I’m hoping the bubble doesn’t sink the industry as badly as some predict. Unfortunately, there’s really no telling how much the world of news will be affected. The layoffs could stop for now only to continue later. Or maybe they won’t. We just don’t know.
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ad revenue. It is understandable why this would occur, but it has essentially turned news into a business geared towards getting clicks, views and shares rather than truly objective journalism. The upturn in Internet news has definitely made information easier to access than ever before, but it has made information bubbles easier than ever before as well. This is likely a big reason why we are so divided as a country: people from the left, right and even the middle are increasingly closing themselves off from the opposing points of view while at the same time consuming information that reaffirms their biases. The previously mentioned Pew Research Study claims that the American people are holding fewer views from their
opposing party, again likely due to the rise of online news. Everyone has likely been guilty of this at some point or another; the trick to avoiding information bubbles is to consciously be aware that one is doing it. It’s important to keep yourself informed on all sides of an issue and to be reasonable and tolerant of someone else’s ideas when having a discussion with them, regardless of how much you might disagree. Trying to understand why someone holds their views, rather than attempting to change them is also important. The increase in the ideological divide in America is only going to further unless we as a population make mindful attempts towards keeping ourselves reasonable and broad-minded of all ideas.
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Each day is Valentine’s Day for Rick Truax and Anelia Dimitrova. This June, the two of them will celebrate 23 years — 8,400 days — of marriage. They have viewed each of those days together as a celebration. “We don’t put hardly any emphasis on birthdays and celebrations; we don’t even put emphasis on Valentine’s Day,” Truax said. “It might not sound very romantic, but what we do is we emphasize every day.” For the past two decades, many students in the communication studies department have studied under Dimitrova, Truax or both. Dimitrova, an associate professor, teaches classes such as journalism, law and ethics and advanced reporting. Truax is an instructor whose courses include photojournalism and editing and design. Both hold other jobs outside of UNI. Truax works as a web developer and Dimitrova as an
editor for several newspapers across northeast Iowa. The two of them met in 1992 as journalism graduate students at the University of Missouri. They were in the same class: statistics with Professor Sanders. “It was the most unromantic class you could possibly take,” Dimitrova said. Truax lived down the street from Dimitrova. He would see her walking to school in the mornings, sometimes with her eight-year-old son in tow. She, her son and her mother had moved from Bulgaria to the United States a year ago and had no means of transportation. One day, Truax offered them a ride. Dimitrova said it was this generosity that struck her. “I thought Rick was very noble […] and was genuinely very generous,” she said. “At the time, he was almost 37, I believe, and had never had a family before and was so welcoming and literally had open arms.”
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“And I would like to say that Truax’s colleague from the togetherness. he cooked every Friday night,” Columbia Daily Tribune drove “In my line of work as a Dimitrova added with a smile. up to photograph the event, journalist, I see a lot of people “We had burgers.” catered by Hy-Vee. in their worst circumstances Truax became further The couple knew few peo- and their best circumstances,” acquainted with Dimitrova and ple in the Cedar Falls area; Dimitrova said. “And I know her family after they agreed to their only wedding guests were that every moment should be be his subjects for a photojour- a news anchor and a camera- treasured, and there is no one nalism project. man from KWWL. John Butler, way or formula for happiness “It was truly a quintessential UNI’s communication studies or success.” story of people in this country: department head at the time, After successfully navigating an immigrant family moves, a read a simple prayer and gave a marriage for so many years, woman with a child and grand- Dimitrova away. both Truax and Dimitrova had mother tries to make it through “Just the likelihood of all of some well-earned wisdom to graduate school with very little it coming together: the teach- share about making a relationresources,” Dimitrova said. er listening, her having that ship last. Truax spent hours working opportunity and wanting to “I think what makes a marin their home, returning to take share, then inviting complete riage work is being yourself, photographs at various times strangers literally in her home,” and not having to pretend to be of the day. What began as a Dimitrova said. “She made it someone else,” Dimitrova said. professional favor between two really special […] As modestly “To me it’s pretty simple,” students eventually developed as we were dressed, and as few Truax said. “It’s empowering into something more. expectations as we had, it was your partner.” From the beginning, their absolutely a huge gift that we An example of this empowrelationship was an unconven- never forgot.” erment occurred several years tional one. It was a special way to jump- ago, Truax said, when he unex“We have a little joke start two decades of marriage pectedly announced a desire between the two of us that we and counting. to learn the electric bass and never dated. And it’s a joke, Anelia responded with but yet it’s actually true,” “absolute affirmation.” Truax said. “We were both Truax now performs in our 30’s. She had a child; regularly with the Cedar her mother was here living Rapids-based classic with her. So, it wasn’t this rock band, Quarter Past sort of adolescent teenage Five and acoustic duo romance in that way.” The Buskers. They were married At the same time, in June 1996. Like their Truax has steadfastly courtship, their wedding supported Dimitrova’s was unconventional. career aspirations. He By that time, Dimitrova said that he jokingly, but had moved to Cedar Falls also earnestly, encourand begun teaching at UNI; ages her to consider Truax had stayed behind law school and pursue for a year in Missouri. her growing interest in Dimitrova’s son, Vesselin, First Amendment law. mentioned his mother’s “Because as you get upcoming wedding to his older, you really realize middle-school English how quickly time goes teacher, Ms. Zischke. by and the moment is Courtesy Photo “And Mimi Zischke took Comm studies faculty Anelia Dimitrova and Rick now,” Truax said. “And the time to give me a call Truax in Arolla, Switzerland during a 2017 hiking trip. if you don’t do it now, and say, ‘Hey, I hear from it’s passed.” your son you’re getting marThey’ve climbed some amazNo matter what the future ried. I know you don’t have ing mountains together — lit- holds for them, for better or for family here; you don’t have any- erally. Their family of three worse, Truax and Dimitrova body here. Why don’t you come frequently embarks on hiking plan to experience it together. and get married in my house?’” trips and has traveled across “I think our biggest accomDimitrova recalled. Europe on several occasions. In plishment has been empowerThe couple was originally 2017, they completed the Haute ing each other and really develplanning an outdoor wedding Route: a 100-mile, 12-day trek oping ourselves,” Dimitrova in Seerley Park, but it rained on across the Swiss Alps. said. “And not thinking of ourthe big day and they took Ms. Despite their numerous selves as just one thing or one Zischke up on her offer. adventures — the couple is cur- profession, but really evolving It was a simple ceremony. rently collaborating on a book and collaborating as a couple Truax’s parents traveled from compiling their travel experi- […] and embrace the chalSan Diego; his father bought ences — both maintain that lenges around us as something him an outfit from Von Maur one of the biggest highlights that we thrive on rather than the night before the wedding. of their marriage is their daily something we are afraid of.”
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PARKS & RECREATION
There are also activities that Fauser advised against doing, such as eating in places where you are exposed to germs. She suggested not going out into the elements unless you are bundled up in proper clothing for the weather. Another piece of advice she gave is to avoid
other people until you’re feeling better if you have the flu or another contagious illness. Fauser recommended checking out local television stations in order to stay safe. “Our local news stations do a pretty good job of giving you a time frame as far as how long you should be outdoors and how much you should limit your time outdoors based
on the wind chill,” she said. “That’s always a good guideline to follow.” Red or painful extremities are indicators that you have been outside for too long. Fingers and toes are especially vulnerable to the cold. Students can care for their bodies by being aware of how cold it is and taking proper precautions.
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UNI competes in Doc Halverson PATRICK HANSEN
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Panther Softball season is officially underway as UNI hosted the annual UNI-Dome Classic this past weekend, Feb. 8-10. Head coach Ryan Jacobs announced Saturday morning that the tournament would be renamed the Doc Halverson Classic, named after longtime supporter and fan of Panther athletics. According to unipanthers. com, the teams who participated in the tournament included Drake, Saint Louis Univesity, Southeast Missouri State, South Dakota State and Toledo. Teams were able to avoid the freezing wind and snow outside as they took the field inside the UNI-Dome. The Panthers are looking for redemption this season as they are coming off a .500 performance from last year. The Panthers took on Southeast Missouri State twice, Toledo, Drake and South Dakota State once to start out on a 3-2
record. The Panthers split games the first day of the tournament falling to Southeast Missouri State 5-1, but bounced back and shut out Toledo, 5-0. In the first loss for the Panthers, Brooke Craig allowed five earned runs through her three and two-thirds innings. Despite the lack of performance by the Panthers’ starter, this allowed the team to place two different freshmen to fill in for the rest of the game, giving experience to the younger athletes. Hannah Kelley was the first called in to relieve as she pitched one strikeout in two and a third innings, and Erica Oler came in as the closer for the final inning, with neither of them sacrificing a run. The Panthers quickly bounced back as they took down the likes of the Toledo Rockets. Sophomore Emma Olejniczak notched the complete game shutout, recording the fourth of her career. The Panthers got hot in the bottom of the third as Sammey Bunch got the Panthers a
two-run home run following a single from Brittney Krodinger, extending the Panther lead 2-0. The Panthers put the game away in the bottom of the fifth as Brittney Krodinger hit a two-RBI double extending the lead to 4-0 and was later driven in from a single hit by Olivia Brooks. UNI split games once again on day two of the tournament as they took down St. Louis 9-4, and fell to SEMO for the second time during the tournament, (160). In game one, the Panthers were trailing 1-0 after the top of the first but quickly responded, evening the game back out at 1-1. Both teams held each other scoreless in the second inning, but UNI had the bats explode as they scored a total of seven runs over the next two innings. The Panthers eventually became too much to keep up with as they defeated St. Louis, 9-4. On the final day of the tournament, the Panthers took
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on the Jack Rabbits of South Dakota State University and added another win to their series history, as UNI leads all time, (14-2). The women of UNI were unstoppable as they came out strong and put on a hit parade, led by Courtney Krodinger with three. The Panthers were able to
score enough runs for the mercy rule, as they capped the tournament off with a 10-2 win in five innings. Up next, the Panthers head south to warmer weather, competing in the Osprey/Dolphin Invitational in Jacksonville, Fla. The tournament will be held Friday through Sunday, Feb.1517.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Panther women travel west, devour Crusaders JACOB POTTER
Sports Writer
UNI women’s basketball engaged in a matinee battle against the Crusaders of Valparaiso University on Sunday, Feb. 10. The Panthers left Indiana with a 64-56 victory led by the versatile forward, Bre Gunnels, and their leading scorer, Karli Rucker (14.1 ppg). Gunnels notched a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds, while Rucker had
a team-high with 14 points and also brought down seven boards. Rucker’s counterpart in the backcourt, Nicole Kroeger, scored 11 points, followed by eight points each from Abby Gerrits and Heidi Hillyard. In a team effort, all nine Panthers scored, with three players scoring in double figures. With the win, the short-handed Panthers walked away with their second-straight road victory after defeating Loyola in Chicago
and Valpo in Indiana. The two road wins advance the purple and gold to 15-8 on the season. “For us to be able to go on the road and win two without Ellie [Howell] is a huge testament to this team,” said head coach Tanya Warren. Megan Maahs, Rose Simon-Ressler and Kam Finley were all missing from the line-up for the Panthers. Prior to the matchup, Warren listed the keys to a victory, “[We have] got to continue to rebound the bas-
ketball. I think for the most part we’ve done a pretty good job of that.” Warren continued, “We [have] got to defend without fouling. Then, obviously the big thing, we have to take care of the basketball, and we [have] got to get ourselves to the free throw line. We [have] got to get back to that.” The Panthers hit on three of the four keys set out by Warren. The battle on the boards was essential for the purple and gold edging Valpo on the
glass, 44-31. UNI dodged a bullet on Warren’s most important key, emphasizing, “We have to take care of the basketball.” The Panthers turned the ball over 19 times, leading to 15 points off of turnovers by the Crusaders. Up next, UNI seeks revenge against a Drake team that handed them an 88-64 blowout loss on Jan. 18. The Panthers look for their thirdstraight win on the road again when they take on the Drake Bulldogs on Friday, Feb. 15.
OPINION
NBA All Stars pick - Team Giannis or LeBron? JERRIUS CAMPBELL Sports Writer
Who is the greatest player to play in the NBA in 2019? This question looms after two All-Stars were allowed to create their own dream roster for the 2019 All-Star Game that will be played in Charlotte, NC, on Sunday, Feb. 17. A cream-of-the-crop roster was created by team captains Lebron James of Los Angeles Lakers and Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks.
A new format was added to the NBA All-Star Game to boost ratings starting in 2018. In the All-Star Games prior, teams were made up of the best players from each conference, east versus west. Many fans and critics alike decided that the NBA All-Star Game need to be more interesting. As of late, many athletes seem to lack interest in the AllStar Game, resulting in zero defense being played. Thus, the change has brought a more playground-like atmosphere to the big game.
Without a doubt, I could have guessed that both captains would choose from the best team in the NBA, the Golden State Warriors (41-15). Lebron, choosing his rival, Kevin Durant, was not a surprise for me. Durant, who is arguably one of the best players the NBA has seen, will appear next to Lebron since the two entered the NBA -- this duo showcased its talent last year as the pair put together a last- second win in this contest. Giannis, on the other hand, chose Stephen Curry.
Curry’s three-point shooting has been well showcased in his tenure with the Warriors and is very crafty in his efforts to score. After rebuilding in Oakland, Curry has seen the whole Golden State roster transform into an NBA championship team. The tough task for Team Giannis is who will guard the dangerous mad man with the beard, James Harden. The captain of the Houston Rockets currently leads the NBA in points per game at 36.6.
He adds a twist to any team he’s on with nifty step backs and incredible range from the deep. From my point of view, it seems like Antetokounmpo went with more length on his side. By adding Blake Griffin, Dirk Nowitzki, Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid, his team is set to protect the rim at will. Hopefully this relatively new format will continue to change the pace of the NBA All Star game making it more fun to watch. I believe Team Lebron will walk away victorious after the showing we saw last year.
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