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Schoolhouse fashion 2
Arming teachers is ineffective 3
Jersey Boys review 4
NFL scouting 6
NISG to have runoff presidential election CLINTON OLSASKY
Executive Editor
JOSHUA DAUSENER Copy Editor
The Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) presidential election is heading to a second round after no ticket was able to secure a majority of the vote in this week’s election. NISG election rules mandate that a presidential ticket secure 50 percent of the vote plus one to win office. The runoff will be between Drew Stensland and Kristan Ahart, and Tristan Bernhard and Cole Malcolm. Seán Dugan and Chad Schafer were eliminated after finishing in third place. Tristan and Cole finished first with 46.5 percent of the vote, Drew and Kristen achieved second place with 42.5 percent of the vote and Seán and Chad came in third with 10.1 percent of the vote. The runoff election will
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Vice presidential candidate Kristen Ahart and presidential candidate Drew Stensland wait in anticipation for the election results.
Presidential candidate Tristan Bernhard and vice presidential candidate Cole Malcolm chat after the runoff election announcement.
be held next week. Polls are expected to open at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 6, and close at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7. The election commission plans to announce the results soon after polls close next Wednesday. Presidential candidate Drew Stensland spoke regarding last night’s results. “I think it really speaks to
how hard we’ve been working,” Stensland said. “We’re only down a few points [...] and I think we’re in an awesome position to really work hard over the next week, really reconnect with voters and continue the work that we’ve started over the past few days and just make sure we go out and win this.” Stensland’s running mate,
vice presidential candidate Kristen Ahart, credited their team’s work for launching their ticket into the runoff. “I’m nothing but proud for our team and the hard work that all of them have put into this night,” Ahart said. “We really have them to thank for everything. Kudos to our team.” Presidential candidate Tristan Bernhard also
expressed pride in the work his campaign has done over the last two weeks. “We’re very proud of the work we’ve put in so far, but I think these results show that we have a lot of work left to do to connect with the student body and represent their interests,” Bernhard said.
ence back to a time in life where everything was seemingly carefree. “I feel like there was a time in our lives when life was just more loose, more easy, more fun, and we didn’t get so stressed out about everything. We weren’t always in competition,” Setnick said. “When we looked in the mirror, it wasn’t like were always trying to check and see what was wrong.” Setnick continuously brought the innocence and playfulness of childhood into her speech to help show how the pressures of adulthood can take a toll on mental health. Setnick also touched on major topics such as depression, anxiety, stress and the unrealistic expectations of society. According to Setnick, hurtful or degrading words can do a lot of damage, because those words can mentally stick with
someone for a long time. Setnick’s presentation was not only full of valuable information, but also had lots of humorous visual aids and interactive questions. One of Setnick’s images in her presentation was of a birthday card that showed a baby with thought bubbles surrounding it, labeling the baby’s body with ‘fleshy arms’, ‘pudgy thighs’ and ‘saggy chest’. Setnick used this image as a way to explain how society puts negative labels on everyone, even when it is normal to have those characteristics. “What we’ve been told about our bodies can have a huge effect on how we feel about ourselves,” Setnick said. “Those things can stick, even if many years later, they don’t apply at all. It can be really hard to shake that stuff off.” Setnick also emphasized that
her presentation was for anyone, not just women. “It is so important to me that people stop thinking of body image issues as any kind of certain specific type of person, demographic, size, race or gender,” Setnick said. Setnick ended her presentation with a message about acceptance, taking care of one’s body, and ending the war on one’s body. “If you could get really comfortable with your own insecurities, then you don’t have to bully other people, or your own body,” Setnick said with a smile. “Being mean to yourself and saying those mean things that you would never let anyone else say to you or you would never say to someone else, is really still you walking around being victimized.”
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Students hear how to stop bullying their body
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Dietition and eating disorders expert Jessica Setnick talks about body positivity in her “Stop Bullying Your Body” presentation.
AMELIA DUAX Staff Writer
Students had the opportunity to eat healthy food and hear about how to ‘Stop Bullying Your Body’ Tuesday night in the Maucker Union Old Central
Ballroom. The UNI Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness (BIEDA) organization supported the event. The speaker was Jessica Setnick, a dietitian and eating disorders expert from Dallas, Texas. Setnick began her speech by bringing everyone in the audi-
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Schoolhouse fashion flashback SKYLER SCHRUM Staff Writer
On Saturday, Feb. 24, the Friends of the UNI Museum held its sixth presentation of the Rural Schoolhouse Speaker Series at the Marshall Center School. According to the UNI website, the school was built in 1893. At that time, it served as a one-room schoolhouse to teach students from first through eighth grade. The building was used until 1986. In 1987, UNI moved the structure to its current location behind the Student Health Center to commemorate the campus’ position as a teacher’s college. The focus of the oneroom schoolhouse today is to serve as a historical site, offering educational programs for the students at UNI and the general public. Amy RohrBerg, an associate professor of theatre, is one of the board members of the Friends of the UNI Museum. RohrBerg helped organize the Rural Schoolhouse
Speakers Series. “I was surprised when we started to create this lecture series for the Rural Schoolhouse Speaker Series,” Rohrberg said. “The oneroom schoolhouse structure or system in the state was so prevalent that everyone that is still alive and lives here has a memory of it, either being a student, or knowing someone who taught [in a schoolhouse].” RohrBerg also emphasized the importance of the Rural Schoolhouse Speaker Series in reminding a contemporary audience where they came from. “You hear that phrase, ‘If you know your history you don’t repeat any mistakes,’” RohrBerg said. “It’s just interesting to know that what we have now, with all of our technology and all of the variety, that we have really started with a whole bunch of kids in a little tiny place with a teacher who might have been only three years older than they were, trying to give them an edu-
cation.” RohrBerg’s presentation focused around 1920’s apparel. According to RohrBerg, the former UNI Museum president began the research in 2002. After it had been completed, the research allowed for schools to bring their students to the schoolhouse. This could give these students an experience that resembled a schoolhouse in the 1920’s in Iowa. To do this, they would dress the students who came to the events in 1920’s apparel. RohrBerg’s research was heavily focused on recreations of 1920’s apparel as historically accurate as possible, while at the same time making it accessible for the students who came to the event, so that they could feel immersed in the experience of the one-room schoolhouse. “What we were looking for was commonalities in what we saw, and mostly it was in those photographs of the classes,” RohrBerg said. “You would see photographs
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UNI’s one-room school house is located behind the Student Health Center and plays host to different events throughout the year.
of the whole school with teachers and administrators in the back row, and all for the children in front. They may be out on the front porch or out in the backyard, and you could see commonalities about what were fashion trends that were being worn.” One of the attendees at the event was President of the UNI Museum Jim Ehmem. Ehmem is a retired elementary school teacher, who
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The Local Film and Food Festival will take place at the Hearst Center for the Arts this Saturday, March 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Hearst Center for the Arts is located at 304 W Seerley Blvd in Cedar Falls. Admission is free and all ages are welcome. The event will feature family friendly activities with something for everyone. “I think that it’s a great opportunity for [students] to learn another way of eating and [an] opportunity to learn, where does the food come from?” said Jodie Huegerich, the UNI local food program manager. “My job is really education and awareness, and to connect […] the consumers
with the local producers and the local products that we have in our area.” Students and community members can come and go as they please, attending classes, films and visiting local vendors. There will be a series of local food-themed short films screened every hour with a running time of 45 total minutes, as well as two different gardening classes offered in two different sessions. “Gardening for Water Quality with Rain Gardens” will be offered at 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. and “How to Get Your Garden Ready” will be offered at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Hansen’s Dairy, Laughing Tree Cafe, Fitkin Popcorn, two meat vendors and local bakers are some of the vendors that will be present. Representatives from
Cedar Valley-based Farmers Markets and a Community Sustainable Agriculture farmer will be there to talk about their products and to educate the public about what they have to offer. Huegerich is also in charge of the College Hill Farmers Market, which runs from May until October. “I think that this can be a great opportunity to get [students] excited and then hopefully […] that it might inspire more students to be attending,” Huegerich said. “We are always looking for more students to be shopping at the market.” More information about the UNI Local Food Program can be found on their Facebook page, and more information about the festival at CEEE. uni.edu/localfoodfestival.
Bernhard’s running mate Cole Malcolm commented, saying that he has enjoyed the spirited debate of the campaign so far. “The campaign process has been very positive so far. It’s been a pleasure to debate different ideas with Drew and Kristen,” Malcolm said. “They’re both fantastic leaders, and we’d love to continue to work with them and, you know, next week we’ll see how it ends. I think all four people are great candidates.” “We appreciate the positive nature of the campaign so far, and we hope that that continues,” Bernhard added. Seán Dugan and Chad Schafer were disappointed to miss the runoff, but appreciated the opportunity to run for office. “I’m really disappointed that we lost, but we’re really happy that we were able to get our
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received both of his degrees from UNI. He spoke about his reasoning for becoming a friend of the UNI Museum. “Part of it has to do with the history,” Ehmem said. “How are we to maintain the history of education? [...] It goes back to the same point of, we can’t just throw things away from our past; there has to be way to maintain them and being able to utilize them to learn from our past.” voice heard, change the dialogue and get new thoughts and ideas to the table that were previously not thought of,” Dugan said. “We wish both Tristan and Cole, as well as Drew and Kristen, the best of luck in this upcoming week.” “Honestly, I’m pretty happy,” Schafer said. “I’m disappointed that we didn’t make it, but at the same time I’m really happy, and I’m really looking forward to working with the next administration, whoever it may be. I’m just really excited to continue working.” In addition to the presidential and vice presidential election, the results of the various senatorial campaign races were also announced on Wednesday night. The full results for the senatorial seats can be found on the NI website, at northerniowan.com. — News Editor Jacob Madden contributed to this story. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Arming teachers won’t stop shootings School in Parkland, Florida, is the fact that it was a tragedy and shouldn’t have happened in the first place. 17 civilians are dead and 15 more were sent to the hospital because of this tragic event, and yet legislators on both sides of the aisle can’t come to a feasible and practical solution to the gun control situation in America.
As a future educator, I’m appalled by the responses I’ve seen in the media saying that a good teacher with a gun could stop a ‘bad guy’ — a.k.a., a school shooter with a gun. First of all, I will never The only thing carry a gun. Americans seem to agree I will never shoot a gun. on following the horrific In or out of my profession, school shooting at Marjory it’s against my morals. I Stoneman Douglas High would do almost anything to protect my friends, family and students — except for owning and knowing how to shoot a gun. Teacher s have enough on their plates as is. Parents and principals expect teachers to be more than just an educator of children. They expect us to be teachers (obviouscoaches, LANEY KRAUS-TADDEO/Northern Iowan ly), s u p e r visors Opinion columnist Albie Nicol discusses the recent responses in the media following the Parkland, Florida shooting that have called for arming teachers across America. for extracur-
ricular activities, part-time parents, tech experts, mentors and fundraisers. Right-wing civilians and legislators across America now seem to think adding ‘gun-slinger’ to the list makes sense and will prevent mass death in the event that a shooter should enter my classroom. But what good does a gun do, hanging on my hip, if I refuse to ever use it? None. I’m also tired of gun violence being chalked up to mental health — and solely mental health. A lot of people deal with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, but a lot of people who deal with those issues live their whole life without devastating a hundred other lives by way of a school shooting, or a mass shooting in general. Educators are trained on the warning signs of mental health and learn how to spot a student who is struggling with it. However, although we can often spot something and help a student get the help they need in a timely
manner, that’s not always the case. And even if we do get a student the help they need, how often does it continue to help them? Are we to blame if we miss one student, one warning sign? Saying the gun issue is based on the mental health issue blames, in a long-distance way, teachers for failing to spot these warning signs. Blaming gun violence on mental health alone is simply inaccurate and detrimental to the fight for more gun control and less mass shootings. In short, we, as a country, need to find a more effective and thorough solution to the lack of gun control in America. I understand we have a sad little thing called the Second Amendment, but that was made for a country born a long time ago — a country that has grown out of the foundations it laid for itself. It’s time to crack down on gun control, without arming our teachers.
LTE: Trump’s tax plan will lead to economic debacle Editor’s note: the following letter to the editor was submitted by Steve Corbin, professor emeritus of marketing at UNI. The looming question for the next decade is will Trump’s tax reform legislation make our economy better or worse? The tax package gives individual taxpayers ‘temporary’ relief during 20182025, while the corporate tax rate is ‘permanently’ lowered by 40 percent from the uncompetitive 35 percent to a constructive 21 percent. Although the law added $1.5 trillion to our bloated $20.5 trillion federal deficit ($62,805 debt/person), Congress promised the cost will be made up by economic growth during the next decade. Adding $1.5 trillion to the unrestrained federal debt and ‘hoping’ economic growth will occur was not wise.
The non-par tisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget calculates the $1.5 trillion tax cost means the national debt will be larger than our economy in just 10 years. Without budget cuts, the federal deficit will grow $10 trillion in the next decade. When you hear the White House and Republicancontrolled Congress propose to cut back Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid funding, you’ll know why — the new tax reform package is costing us dearly and something has got to go. Several issues are currently going against longterm economic growth: 1) America’s trade deficit has dramatically risen to $50.5 billion, the largest imbalance in nine years, 2) borrowing interest rates for consumers and businesses are increasing, 3) credit-card debt has hit a record high $1.021 trillion, 4) consumer saving’s
rate is at a 12 year low, 5) higher inflation is being observed, 6) company valuations and venture capital investments are dropping and 7) manufacturing productivity is declining. We have other economic growth warning signs: 1) U.S. Treasury’s borrowing has hit an eight year high, 2) new company creations are in dramatic decline, 3) only 14 percent of CEO’s surveyed by Yale University said their companies plan to make immediate capital investments and 4) Trump’s explicit condemnation statements about our trading allies, dropping our 12 nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade commitment and possibly pulling out of NAFTA has caused a multitude of economists to predict we will enter some form of recession during the next few years. According to the conservative Wall Street JournalNBC News survey, only 24 percent of Americans feel positive about the child tax credit increase, doubling the standard deduction and lowered corporate tax rate. What is of paramount importance is not polling numbers but payoff downthe-road. We can only dream wise decision-making will be forthcoming from Trump,
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Steve Corbin, professor of marketing at UNI, pens a letter to the editor criticizing President’s Trump’s tax law, which he says is likely to become the worst legislation in history.
Congress, our 46th and 47th Presidents and future Congressional delegates. Our only real hope rests with the business community. According to Peggy Noonan, conservative columnist for The Wall Street Journal, “the tax bill gives corporate America more than a boatload of money, it offers a historic opportunity — a timely and perhaps final one.” Noonan contends corporations have two choices. They can become self-serving by taking the tax cut gift, hire a few more employees for PR sake, buy back stock to make the wealthy stockholders wealthier and increase shareholder profits. Or, businesses can expand their technology prowess,
data analytics and employee base, upgrade equipment, become marketing gurus and “repay America” the $1.5 trillion cost of the current tax bill. As a pro-business centrist, I know America’s 27 million small business and 18,586 large-scale company owners concur with me in that we need to step up to the plate and demand Trump abandon his reckless populist-authoritarian-nationalism stance so businesses will once again have an opportunity to trade globally, dignify capitalism and save America’s economy or play the public relations game and watch Trump’s tax law become the worst legislation and economic recovery debacle in the history of the world.
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THEATER REVIEW
Jukebox musical has talented cast SHELBY WELSCH
Theater & Event Critic
“Jersey Boys” is a hit jukebox musical that is presented documentary-style and follows the formation, success and eventual breakup of the 1960s rock ‘n’ roll band, “The Four Seasons.” The musical ran on Broadway from 2005 to 2017 and has received much critical acclaim, including four 2006 Tony Awards (one for Best Musical), and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The musical came to life when Bob Gaudio, an original Four Seasons member, sought to create a musical that shared the true story behind the band’s success and to emphasize how difficult it
was for the boys to receive the acclaim they deserved. Their story highlights the true rags to riches archetype, with some of the boys having served jail time, and how they cleaned up their act and made something out of their talents. Songs like “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man” and “December, 1963 (Oh What a Night),” are all popular Four Seasons originals that each have a chance to shine within this show. The Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC) hosted three performances of “Jersey Boys” on Friday, Feb. 23 and Saturday, Feb. 24. The theater group has been traveling for months now and will continue to travel to perform this popular tale
around the globe well into summertime. The acting and singing in this production was phenomenal. While all of the actors that played the boys in the “Four Seasons” sang beautifully together, I was particularly blown away by Jonny Wexler who played Frankie Valli. Wexler may not have been the best actor on the stage that night, but the guy sure did have some wicked good pipes. And he sounded so similar to the real Frankie Valli that I was seriously wondering if Wexler was actually his clone. Valli is famous for his chilling falsettos and distinct twang in his voice, and Wexler was able to execute this unique sound nearly per-
fectly. It was fun to be able to hear familiar songs that I grew up listening to, and a couple that I particularly enjoyed seeing on stage were “December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” Both had that fun doo wop sound and energy that got the audience members’ shoulders bouncing, feet tapping and fingers snapping along to the beat. Some criticism I could offer is in regards to the mix of the sound system. The singing parts sounded great, almost so great that they sounded like recorded tracks. However, when it came to the plain speaking parts, it seemed like the mics needed to be cranked up a hair or two more, because
I could only catch around 80 percent of what was being spoken. Yes, it is a musical, and thus I would much rather have the songs be louder than the speaking parts. But, when the curtains rolled down at the end of the show, the only regret I was left with was that I wished I didn’t have to focus so incredibly hard on the speaking just to simply decipher what was being said. All in all, I had a great time seeing “Jersey Boys” live. With bird-like singing and fun, familiar song choices, I often wondered throughout its duration if I was still in Cedar Falls, Iowa in the beautiful Gallagher Bluedorn, or if I had been transported back in time to a 1960s nightclub in New Jersey.
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Pictured from left to right are the cast of “Jersey Boys”: Chris Sfevens, Corey Greenan, Jonny Wexler and Tommaso Antico. “Jersey Boys” is a multiple Tony Award winning musical.
Bosnian native explores neighbor relationships in play SARAH HOFMEYER Staff Writer
“Live Thy Neighbor,” a play written and directed by Milica Njezic, a master’s student in the communications department, will be presented March 1, 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the UNI Interpreter’s Theatre. The play is a creative thesis meant to explore the act of neighboring, according to Njezic. Njezic, a native Bosnian, has experienced both individualistic and collectivist cultures, and the way neighbors interact is different to her. “I come from a collectivist culture; back home, everyone is always together. When I came here for school seven years ago, I did not feel that same community,” Njezic said. “I felt like there was a distance
between myself and all my neighbors. Back home, kids play soccer on the street, and people are always out. Here, it is so quiet. I began wondering, what is the difference in how we perform neighboring?” Njezic argues that neighboring is a verb; it is something people actively “do” or “do not” do. “Live Thy Neighbor” is performed from the perspective of Bosnian people, starting with Njezic’s perspective. Much of the play is based on her experiences in Bosnia and the United States, including the experiences of her family and neighbors back home. She also interviewed Bosnian refugees in Waterloo to add depth to the performance. The play is a cohesive story that is set in present-day Cedar Falls-Waterloo. Memories are also written into the play to discuss the history of Bosnia
and Serbia’s wars in the 1990s. Njezic notes that Bosnian history is complex, and the play explains that complexity. Njezic’s mother is a BosnianSerb, and her father is a Bosnian-Muslim, so her identity is also explored throughout the play. “Live Thy Neighbor” features a cast of 11 students, including a mix of undergraduate and graduate students. Njezic’s directing stresses flexibility with actors, allowing them to take on and grow into the roles she wrote. “It is wonderful to see them shape their characters in the way they see the characters, even though they are based on people who live and breathe,” Njezic said. “They can stay true to the stories of these people, but still create characters how they see fit.” Together, this mix of writing and directing allows for a unique creative thesis that reflects on an important topic. Neighboring is an ever-relevant topic on UNI’s campus as administrators try to make UNI and Cedar Falls home for international students. Njezic’s questions echo many
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UNI communications master’s student Milica Njezic wrote and directed the play, “Live Thy Neighbor,” about what it means to be a neighbor to people.
other students. “I am a foreigner here, but I am not a foreigner at home,” Njezic said. “Are there people, like me, who feel in between? Do they understand and perform neighboring the way I do?” There will be a talk-back session following the play that Njezic encourages students to stick around for. Audience members are asked to stay and discuss themes and concepts from the play.
“I would love to hear audience members’ experiences in terms of neighboring, including different periods of time and areas,” Njezic said. “The ideal purpose [of the play] is for the audience to reflect on their relationships with their neighbors.” Njezic also sees a contemporary connection to U.S. politics and poses the question: “This is such an interesting political moment; who do we allow to be our neighbor?”
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FILM REVIEW
Best Picture nominees recap CLINTON OLSASKY
Executive Editor
This Sunday, March 4, the world will be watching as the best films of 2017 will be honored (and likely snubbed) at the 90th Academy Awards. In preparation for Sunday’s big night, I’m providing a recap of the nine nominees for Best Picture. What follows is a ranked listing (in descending order) of my favorites to win the coveted top prize. 9. “Darkest Hour” A stagy and ultimately uneven World War II drama, “Darkest Hour” is a commendable, albeit stiflingly safe, companion piece to the more daring “Dunkirk.” Following British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the days leading up to the famed evacuation on the beaches of Dunkirk, “Darkest Hour” largely serves as a platform for Gary Oldman to showcase his jaw-dropping transformation into the beloved British leader. Sadly, outside of Oldman’s impressive performance, “Darkest Hour” offers little in the way of strong character development or storytelling, making it one of the least likely contenders for Best Picture. 8. “Call Me by Your Name” Thanks to Luca Guadagnino’s assured direction and a memorable performance by Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name” succeeds as an enjoyable coming-of-age drama. Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Northern Italy in 1983, Guadagnino’s film tells the story of 17-year-old Elio and his romantic relationship with Oliver, a man studying under Elio’s father, during his summer vacation. Unfortunately, “Call Me by Your Name” fails to truly differentiate itself in this year’s Best Picture category, as the film too often relies on its coming-ofage genre trappings and rarely achieves the same level of emo-
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One student who attended Setnick’s presentation was Carissa Rainey, a senior health promotion major. “I personally grasped a lot from this presentation. I don’t have an eating disorder myself; however, I feel that it is normal, especially in society today, to occasionally have negative thoughts about our own bodies,” Rainey said. “This presentation provided me with the tools in order to distinguish a bad thought from a good thought, and how to think more positively
tional resonance that most of the other nominees possess. 7. “The Post” Legendary director Steven Spielberg’s new historical drama is a late career highlight that explores the gripping factbased story of the Washington Post’s controversial decision to publish the highly classified Pentagon Papers. Featuring typically gripping performances by Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, a taut and tightly constructed screenplay and some of Steven Spielberg’s best directing in recent years, “The Post” succeeds as both an enlightening history lesson and as a suspenseful political thriller. Still, despite the film’s technical mastery and thematic poignancy, Spielberg’s film simply plays it too safe to stake a realistic claim for Best Picture on Sunday night. 6. “Get Out” Jordan Peele’s breakthrough film is as bitingly funny in its satire as it is absolutely terrifying in its horror. “Get Out” centers on Chris, a black man whose introduction to his white girlfriend’s extended family reveals some truly dark and disturbing secrets. While not quite enjoying the status of cinematic masterpiece that many critics have erroneously assigned it, “Get Out” is still an incredibly impressive directorial debut for Peele and a near flawless horror film, as well. In short, “Get Out” is certainly a deserving contender for the Best Picture crown, and, while not likely, a victory here would undoubtedly be a historically and culturally significant moment. 5. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” With themes of retribution and redemption coursing through its deceptively simple story, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” offers a wholly satisfying depiction of loss and the often unex-
about ourselves and how to help others as well.” Another student who went to the presentation was Megan Steim, a junior psychology major and a member of Alpha Sigma Tau. Steim was asked by Joan Thompson, who works for Student Wellness Services, to help sponsor the event since she is the vice president of community relations in the sorority. “I know for me personally, growing up I didn’t have the best body image, so it’s great to hear other people’s stories on them having the same issues because when
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plored aftershocks that follow. The film follows Mildred Hayes (played by a fiercely committed Frances McDormand) — a mother who purchases three billboards outside the titular town that are emblazoned with messages questioning the local police officers’ efforts to solve her daughter’s rape and murder. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” succeeds on multiple emotional levels, and its deft blending of dark humor with moments of unspeakable sadness make it a worthy contender for Best Picture this year. 4. “Dunkirk” The most commercially successful film on this year’s list of nominees, director Christopher Nolan continues his long streak of quality blockbusters with perhaps his most daringly original one yet. A typical war movie on the surface, “Dunkirk” is anything but, as Nolan opts for hyperrealism and gritty authenticity over cheap romanticism. The films’ subject matter lends itself to Nolan’s refusal to romanticize wartime atrocities, as the film follows the famed evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II. The mere fact that “Dunkirk” dares to recount a retreat, rather than a rousing victory, is a testament
to Nolan’s boldness as a storyteller. 3. “Lady Bird” Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut is both an incredibly charming and surprisingly moving coming-of-age tale that focuses on the struggles of adolescence and all the messy familial drama that comes with it. The film revolves around Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, a high school senior who aspires to leave her Sacramento home to attend college in New York amidst a turbulent relationship with her mother. Gerwig clearly took inspiration from her own life experiences when writing and directing “Lady Bird,” resulting in a thoughtful and thoroughly enjoyable treatise on the complexities of youth that is just as autobiographical as it is universal. 2. “Phantom Thread” Set in the couture culture of 1950s London, “Phantom Thread” follows revered dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock as his neurotic preoccupations begin to unravel in an unexpected romance with waitress Alma Elson. In what has been widely promoted as his final film role, Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a
characteristically committed performance in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest masterwork, which also offers an exquisitely penned screenplay, mesmerizing direction and a haunting score. All told, “Phantom Thread” is an unceasingly thought-provoking character study that dares to redefine commonly accepted notions of love and self-sacrifice — all the while subverting viewer expectations by allowing its central romance to beautifully fall apart at the seams. 1. “The Shape of Water” Despite being one of the least conventional love stories of the past year, Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” may, in fact, be the most emotionally affecting. The film follows a mute custodian at a research facility who falls in love with an amphibious man, referred to only as “The Asset” by the high-ranking government officials who captured him. The care with which del Toro constructs his narrative and shapes his protagonist ultimately results in a stirring romantic drama that redefines what it means to love and be loved — easily making it my top contender for Best Picture of 2017.
you go through it yourself, you don’t think that anyone else goes through the same thing,” Steim said. “I liked hearing how Jessica specifically overcame her problems, and I liked the way she talked about how we should be talking about our bodies from now on, so I definitely took a lot from it.” Samantha Davis, a criminology major at UNI, enjoyed the presentation not only because of the positive message it projected, but also because of Setnick. “What I really loved about the entire thing was Jessica herself. She was so energetic,
so positive and her analogies were spot on,” Davis said. “She was funny and creative, and she really kept the attention of the room. I loved a lot of the points she gave me, and it made me think differently about the little voice in my head and different things that are brought up in society. It gave me a whole new perspective.” Setnick hoped that her presentation would encourage those with eating disorders or other varieties of body image issues to get help. “People with eating disorders get help sometimes and that’s nice, but there’s a lot
of people with eating disorders that don’t get any help, and there’s a lot of people that don’t even realize that they have an eating disorder,” Setnick said. “So, I have to get out into the community and find people where they are and say, ‘if this is a problem for you, let’s fix it.’”
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NCAA: potential violations uncovered JOEL WAUTERS
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Just as fans prepare for another season of March Madness basketball excitement, gray clouds have rolled in and darkend the mood. Over the last several years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has conducted a probe in the NCAA with the intention of uprooting corruption and bribery within the governing body of American college sports. The investigation focused on former NBA player agent Andy Miller, along with his former partner Christian Dawkins and his sports agency ASM Sports. By monitoring and intercepting over 4,000 phone calls over the last year and tracing their financial reports, the FBI began to put together a case. In the last week, Yahoo! Sports managed to obtain access to several documents from this investigation. The documents released and published by Yahoo! Sports indicate that several highly prominent
Division One men’s basketball programs may have violated NCAA rules recruiting players. Some of the schools mentioned include “blue blood” national powerhouse teams such as Duke, North Carolina, Michigan State, Kansas and Kentucky. The Cyclones down the road at Iowa State are named in these documents, as well as UNI’s former Missouri Valley Conference rivals Wichita State and Creighton. Early reports from these documents indicate that these schools potentially provided extra benefits to star basketball players and/or their families to ensure that they would sign to play for their program. If proven true, these schools could face serious repercussions to their programs. “These allegations, if true, point to systematic failures that must be fixed and fixed now if we want college sports in America,” said NCAA President Mark Emmert in a statement he released last Friday. “Simply put, people who engage in this kind
of behavior have no place in college sports. They are an affront to all those who play by the rules.” Some players had taken money to sign with highly prominent teams, including former North Carolina State guard and current Dallas Maverick Dennis Smith Jr., former Washington Huskie and NBA number one draft pick Markelle Fultz and current Michigan State Spartan forward Miles Bridges. Of all the accused schools, the biggest to be named to this point is Arizona. Head coach Sean Miller did not coach the Wildcats’ game at Oregon last Saturday. Probe documents indicate from a wiretapping of Miller that the program had planned to pay five-star recruit DeAndre Ayton up to $100,000 to play at Arizona. The NCAA defines these extra benefits that were allegedly being offered by these programs as “any special arrangement by an institutional employee or an athletics representative to provide a prospect or a student-athlete (or
the prospect or student-athlete’s relatives or friends) with a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation.” Examples of these kinds of benefits include discounts, free food, presents and, of course, money. The debate of whether college athletes should be paid or not has raged on for years, with some arguing that student-athletes should be paid for bringing in revenue to college athletics. Others argue that colleges are not meant to be a place for athletes to earn money and that, college is the place to earn an education and prepare for the future. If the allegations of these extra benefits are true, the implications could be disastrous for college sports. Universities could be at risk of heavy financial penalties, postseason bans and even potential firings of staff for a lack of institutional control of their programs. For example, one of the biggest college men’s basketball scandals occurred in the early 2000s when the University
of Michigan men’s basketball team was stripped of its NCAA tournament runner-up statuses from 1992 and 1993, as well as their 1997 NIT and 1998 Big Ten Tournament championships, all from accepting extra benefits from a university booster. As the conference and national tournaments quickly approach, this cloud of shady dealing is expected to linger over the world of college basketball for the remainder of the season, and likely into the next.
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WILLIAM RIEPE
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With the 2018 NFL draft approaching, the Scouting Combine is coming up on March 1. This is a showcase
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fly scouts in from around the United States to the event in Indianapolis, Indiana. Evaluating athletes that have caught the eye of scouts is a top priority for NFL coaches. 2018 is the year of the cornerback and the quarterback, each of which is critical for teams in the hunt for a championship. Quarterbacks are needed in many organizations, including three of the teams in the top four picks of the draft. The top four quarterbacks in the draft are all projected to be drafted in the first round, unheard of in an era which has largely lacked slam-dunk talent at quarterback. The talent to keep an eye on is Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield. He has great speed, arm strength and the ability to extend the play with his legs, but faces questions over his personality traits this year for comments and actions during a game earlier this season. Iowa’s Josh Jackson is currently ranked the number one cornerback prospect in the draft going into the combine. The football world will be watching to see if his athletic ability can match his size and ball hawking ability He will be the highest drafted Iowan since Brandon Scharef in 2014. I have my top three prospects in the draft picked out
before the combine. Number one is running back Saquan Barkley of Penn State. Barkley will easily fall in the top three of the draft and has shown promise everywhere on the offensive and will surely slot easily into any team’s offensive. Second is safety Minkah Fitzpatrick from Alabama. Fitzpatrick is easily the safest pick in the draft. Unmatched as a defensive back, dominant against the run and pass, Fitzpatrick will surely find himself on a team in the top five of the draft. Finally, and most exciting, is quarterback Sam Darnold from the University of Southern California (USC).
Darnold has decided to not throw at the combine, but is still easily the number one quarterback in the draft for me. He has the talent to stay in the pocket and complete passes at all ranges. As many teams have some need for a quarterback, there will surely be a spot on any roster for Darnold. The combine only comes by once a year, and in no way is the best predictor of how a player will preform. However, it is always entertaining to see all the different athletes perform in events like the 40-yard dash. We will have to see how those who shine in the combine perform at the NFL level.
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Sam Darnold (14), USC quarterback, walks off the field after a 24-7 loss against Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.
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