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Special election brings early voting LEZIGA BARIKOR Staff Writer

There will be early voting for the Iowa Senate District 30 election this Tuesday and Wednesday on campus.

Students and Cedar Falls community members registered to vote can do so in the Maucker Union from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. There will also be polls open Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Diamond Event Center, 5307 Caraway Lane, Cedar Falls.

This sudden election comes after the resignation of former Sen. Jeff Danielson who resigned on Feb. 14. Danielson cited the Cedar Falls Public Safety Officer (PSO) program and a new position as the American Wind Energy Association’s central region director as his reason for leaving, according to reports from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

With his absence, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds had to select a date for a new election. Reynolds set March 19 as

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Democratic candidate Eric Giddens speaks at a fundraiser at the Octopus on College Hill on Thursday, March 7.

Republican candidate Walt Rogers campaigns in Maucker Union with the Northern Iowa Republicans.

the election date, which falls on spring break for many students in Cedar Falls including UNI and the public school district. There initially was no plan to allow early voting.

There are some people disappointed by the election date, including members of the NI Democrats.

Hannah Gregor, the vice president for the NI Democrats and senior political communications major said, “We were very disappointed to hear

Maucker Union to table with the NI Republicans. Rogers weighed in on the election date.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people and it’s going to affect both parties in adverse ways.

I’ve talked to a lot of people on the phones and a lot of people are out of state right now,” Rogers said. “A lot of Republicans are down south and all over the country, so I think in a lot of ways it will probably going equalize itself

Gov. Reynolds scheduled it for spring break. I think that was very intentional.”

According to Democratic campus organizer Sam Blatt, people need to request satellite voting. She helped with the push to get two days of early voting on UNI’s campus and better locations.

The NI Republicans and NI Democrats both tabled for their respective party candidates last week. Candidate Walt Rogers came to the

out as far as being good or bad for either party.”

Rogers has been in politics before as a member of the Iowa House for district 30.

He’s a Cedar Falls native, as is his opponent Eric Giddens.

“I want to get down there and represent UNI, and my record in the past eight years in the House show that I’ve been a strong supporter of UNI,” Rogers said.

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Mountainfilm On Tour makes first visit to Iowa ALLISON MAZZARELLA Staff Writer

From the mountains of Spain to the Rio Grande River in Texas, Mountainf ilm On Tour brought natural wonders to UNI’s campus on Friday, March 8.

Mountainfilm is an annual film festival in Telluride, Colo., featuring documentary films focusing on environmental, political and social issues, often highlighted through adventure sports.

Throughout the remainder of the year, the films are shown at different venues around the world. This marked the tour’s first time ever visiting Iowa.

The U NI Fi lm Appreciation Club (FAC) collaborated with the Green Project and the Philosophy Club to bring Mountainfilm On Tour to campus with funding from Northern Iowa Student Government. “[The films] provoke this desire to protect our natural world and experience

it to the level that others are experiencing it,” said Lily Conrad, a senior studying environmental science and president of the Green Project.

Many of the films deal with conservation, breaking stereotypes, pushing physical and emotional boundaries, as well as highlighting the importance of community.

“We’re hoping the inf lux of emotion that the films place upon each of the people that will be watching is enough to carry on into the future,” Conrad said, “long enough to strive to go outside themselves and push their limits and explore and experience things that are maybe uncomfortable at first.”

Members of the FAC, the Philosophy Club and the Green Project watched and ranked the films in their order of preference, selected which films they thought best to show and sent in a finalized list.

“They’re very moving,” Conrad said. “It swallows

you up and it just holds your attention until it’s done. Every story is very vibrant and engaging and meaningful.”

Around 70 people filled the auditorium to watch 11 short films that ranged in length from one minute to almost half an hour.

After a welcome from Nicole Baxter, FAC president, the Mountainfilm tour director and emcee, Crystal Merrill, introduced the films.

The lights dimmed as the voice of Wallace Stegner penetrated the quiet room.

Colorful images of trees, mountains and rivers rolled across the screen as Stegner implored Congress to protect natural lands.

In the following f ilm, much in the same vein, Ben Masters discussed “mother nature’s wall,” as he paddled between the canyon walls of the Rio Grande, while in the background, a crowd could be heard chanting as President Trump spoke of building a wall.

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NISG election voting results released

and Sciences, but it yielded the same result as Levang and Stites received 53.9 percent of the vote compared to Amjad and McCutchan’s 46.1 percent.

Katie Wempen (68.2 percent), Ethan A. Vance (60.0 percent), Kristin Rasmussen (63.5 per-

cent), Elle Boeding (72.9 percent) and Timothy Dirksen (54.7 percent) all secured Senate seats. There were 490 total responses.

College of Education: It was a lopsided victory for Levang and Stites as they won

the College of Education by a margin of 41 percent. Trevor Fletcher secured a Senate seat with 85.4 percent of the vote.

There were 288 total responses.

College of Business: Levang and Stites received 64.2 percent of the vote in the

College of Business as Amjad and McCutchan mustered just 35.8 percent. Alissa Wade (56.6 percent), Laura Jimenez (63.9 percent), Allison Noggle (70.1 percent) and Lucas Gremler (59.7 percent) all secured Senate seats. There were 288 total responses.

Graduate College: Levang and Stites were only able to acquire 25 percent of the vote in UNI’s Graduate College, while Amjad and McCutchan received the other 75 percent.

There were 32 total responses.

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences: The thinnest margin of the NISG election was provided by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, with Levang and Stites earning 52.1 percent of the vote and Amjad and McCutchan trailing behind by only 4.2 percent with 47.9 percent. Chad Schafer (54.3 percent), Sasha Nagle (50.7 percent), Mahlia Brown (62.8 percent) and Ryan Frank (54.6) were all able to secure Senate seats. There were 282 total responses.

In addition to education, Giddens’ platform also includes building strong communities.

“I have a strong background in education and environmental work, and I’ve done a lot of work on trying to improve our community here in the Cedar Valley and

other communities as well in Iowa,” Giddens said. “And that’s what I’m most passionate about—improving communities.”

Both candidates discussed UNI’s funding as part of their campaign pitches. Giddens highlighted how tuition increases are in response to low state funding and said he wants to fight to fully fund UNI. “We’ve seen chronic underfunding from the state legislature for UNI for a number of years now,” Giddens said. “If we wind up having to raise tuition because we’re not getting adequate funding from the state, it makes it harder and harder for our students in Iowa to attend UNI. So in the long run, underfunding of state universities like UNI hurts Iowa overall.”

Rogers detailed how he plans on supporting education

in the state of Iowa as a whole including lower, middle and higher education.

“I’ve been criticized for not being a supporter of education which is totally false,” Rogers said. “I’ve been part of giving a record dollar amount to schools in the past several years. I’ve never cut education.”

Brenna Wolfe is the NI Democrats social media officer and is supporting Giddens in this election.

“I’m supporting Eric Giddens because he values things that I support,” Wolfe said. “He’s pushing for wind energy. He’s also on the school board, so he has a record of supporting education.”

President of the NI Republicans and sophomore finance major Nicholas Schindler is supporting Rogers.

“He’s a great candidate for

UNI because when he was in the Iowa House, he increased our funding by 28 percent when the other state schools, Iowa State and Iowa, only went up by 2 percent each year,” Schindler said. “He’s been in this community, he bleeds purple, so he’s great.”

The NI Democrats have been canvasing the community and tabling for Giddens and held a day of action on Saturday, March 9. Blatt has also been helping people register to vote. The NI Republicans have also volunteered for Rogers campaign and helped with phone banking.

Students and community members can vote early at the satellite locations March 12-14 or on election day March 19 at their respective polling place. People can register day of with proof of residence and identity.

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On Thursday, Feb. 28., Jacob Levang and Jacob Stites secured the win over Farhan Bin Amjad and Micah McCutchan for student body president and vice president, respectively for the 2019-2020 school year.

Last week, the voting results, which illustrate how each candidate faired by college, were released, in addition to who secured Senate seats in each college.

College of Undecided/ Interdisciplinary/General Studies: Levang and Stites garnered 57.4 percent of the vote with Amjad and McCutchan trailing with 42.6 percent. Joe Link was able to secure a Senate seat in the College of Undecided/ Interdisciplinary/General Studies with an overwhelming 93.4 percent of the vote. There were 61 total responses.

College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences: It was a closer race in the College of Humanities, Arts

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Rogers also said during his eight years in the House, he helped increase UNI’s state funding by 28 percent.

Comparatively, Rogers said it, “Overshadows tremendously what percentage increases that ISU and Iowa both got.”

Giddens is a current UNI faculty member and the Energy and Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Energy and environmental education department. He also serves on the Cedar Falls School Board.

Giddens said March 19 is not a good election date because of spring break.

Along with UNI, the local school district will be on break.

“We would’ve preferred a different date,” Giddens said.

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Border security is common sense MARCH 11, 2019 |

Security at the southern border with Mexico has been a hot-button issue for the last few years and has since escalated with the election of President Donald Trump.

During his campaign, it was perhaps his most talked-about issue and garnered countless hours of media and Internet attention from journalists across the entire political spectrum.

Citing illegal immigration and illegal drug trafficking, Trump’s call for border security has been looked at by some as one of the primary reasons he took the 2016 presidential election. Everyone in America, including people who didn’t follow along with the news, knew about Trump’s promise to “build the wall,” but

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building said wall has proven to be a lot more difficult than one would think over two years into his term.

With a Democrat majority in the House of Representatives and President Trump in the Oval Office, it’s clear that practically no legislation relating to border security will make it to Trump’s desk to sign. This is understandable, as gridlock happens frequently in Washington.

However, it wasn’t too long ago that many Democrats were resoundingly in favor of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Back on the campaign trail for president in 2008, then-Senator Hillary Clinton said “the Mexican government’s policies are pushing migration north. We need to secure our border with technology, personnel, physical barriers in some places,” and during her 2016 campaign said that she supported a barrier on the border numerous times as a Senator.

Current Senate Minority Leader Chuck S c h ume r s a i d during a speech back in 2 0 0 9 , “ w h e n we use phrases like undocumented wor ke r s,

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Opinion columnist Colin Horning discusses previous initiative by Democrats for border security, and the decline of that support during the Trump Administration.

we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration.”

It is clear that many across the aisle are willing to change positions in order to see our president Colin Horning

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President Bill Clinton called the abuse of America’s immigration system “wrong and self-defeating” in a speech to Congress during his time as President, and received a standing ovation.

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and numerous other high-ranking Democrats have also used similar rhetoric regarding illegal immigration in the past. So, one

would think that President Trump would have no problem receiving the $5.7 billion he asked for to cover a portion of the border, especially since that is pocket change compared to the total amount of taxpayer money that Uncle Sam brings in.

Based on what prominent Democrats have said in past years and how much money our federal government spends elsewhere, passing border-security legislation would be a no-brainer. However, it is clear that many across the aisle are willing to change positions in order to see our President fail.

The need for border security is common sense if we are to have a thriving nation.

By all means, I support legal immigration so long as it’s done with process and order.

After all, we are a nation of immigrants and the various aspects of cultures from around the world is one of

the reasons why our country is great. But when we lose sight of the legal immigration process, we start to see horrible things happen to our country. According to FBI archives from 2010, “The Southwest border (SWB) of the United States is the principal arrival zone for most of the illicit drugs smuggled into the United States. Moreover, large sections of the nearly 2,000mile land border between Mexico and the United States are both vast and remote, and this provides additional smuggling opportunities for Mexican DTOs.” It’s clear that a border wall would be able to help border patrol agents in covering the “vast and remote” land border. By preventing, or at least limiting, the smuggling of illegal substance into our country, our law enforcement will be more inclined to focus on matters within our borders.

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History Month ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

Since the 1980s, the United States has recognized March as Women’s History Month.

March 8 is celebrated around the world as International Women’s Day, but the United States reserves the entire month for recognizing that women have often been disregarded for their contributions to history. “[Women’s History Month] reflects two related but distinct cultural shifts,” said Cara Burnidge, a professor of philosophy who is featured in Women Also Know History, an online database dedicated to female historians. “First, recognition that history classes and textbooks largely neglected or ignored women as full participants in our nation’s history. Second, an expansion of who produced knowledge about our country’s past — more women were able to become professors, writing new scholarship and textbooks.

These changes helped to raise awareness of a multiplicity of ‘founders’ to American history and lift up out of obscurity the stories of women and people of color who made significant contributions to American life.”

When this celebration of women started under President Jimmy Carter in 1980, it was only a week long. Due to

the petitioning efforts of the National Women’s History Project, the week was expanded to an entire month in 1987, according to History.com In the years following the first Women’s History Month, Congress passed resolutions requesting the president to continue holding Women’s History Month. In 1988, Ronald Reagan issued the first presidential proclamation regarding Women’s History Month. Every president since Bill Clinton in 1995 has made an annual proclamation to designate March as Women’s History Month, according to WomensHistoryMonth.gov.

“For me, Women’s History Month is so important because for so long women were kind of an outlier, especially in learning about history,” said Sara Naughton, a programming graduate assistant for Women’s and Gender Studies. “Even today when you take a history course, there’s no such thing as ‘men’s history.’ History is just a history course unless you’re taking U.S. women’s history or European women’s history.

So Women’s History Month is kind of a way to make women front and center.”

International Women’s Day has the same goal, Naughton said, except it takes a less ethnocentric perspective by cel-

ebrating women beyond the United States and across the globe.

“As we all know, women have actually suffered a long issue of inequality in terms of political and then social, economic standards and all that,” added Joyceline Amoako, who is also a programming graduate assistant for Women’s and Gender Studies. “A lot of women in the past really fought for this cause. Women’s History Month is more like celebrating how far women have come in terms of rights and then what others have done in the same course.”

Every year, Women’s History Month has a theme, which is published by the National Women’s History Alliance. This year’s theme is Visionary Women: Champion of Peace and Nonviolence. The theme is meant to recognize women who have helped to end wars, violence and other injustices and sought to change society through nonviolent means, according to NationalWomen’sHistoryAlliance.org.

“I think around this time of year, there’s a lot of backlash about Black History Month and Women’s History Month,” Naughton said. “[People say,] ‘Where’s White History Month? Where’s Men’s History month?’ And I think people who feel that way

— this is definitely a good time for them to reflect on why we might have months that recognize marginalized populations.

If they have any questions, they’re welcome to contact Women’s and Gender Studies. I think that’s why the months are there. That’s why they’re designated for people to take time to reflect and celebrate.”

Despite all the progress women have made, Naughton was quick to acknowledge the change that still needs to take place.

“When we look at history, marginalized populations such as people of color and women have not been considered equal

on most forefronts, if not all,” Naughton said. “We’ve come really far but to say that we’ve reached equality or equity is a little bit delusional.”

“Many people continue to think that women are ‘side’ characters rather than movers and shakers,” Burnidge added. “Many people question whether or not the changes made to history textbooks to include women were necessary or merely ‘politically correct.’

Additionally, there is plenty of research demonstrating the depth of gender biases within universities.”

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program has created a master calendar encompassing all campus events scheduled for Women’s History Month.

It can be found at csbs.uni.edu/ womenstudies/events.

On Monday, March 11 there will be a panel discussing the recent documentary series “Surviving R. Kelly.” “[The panel] is to discuss how the #MeToo movement, in all of its ability to bring sexual assault to the forefront, has kind of ignored women of color and girls of color,” Naughton said.

On Tuesday, March 26, New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Bond, author of the novel “Ruby,” will be speaking in Sabin Hall. Bond will also hold a meet-and-greet in the Center for Multicultural Education on Wednesday, March 27.

Some of the other events include women-focused student organizations such as Women in Business and Women and Computing. These groups will be having their regular meetings with a special focus on recognizing Women’s History Month.

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‘Ezra’ offers witty social commentary CECILIA MITCHELL Staff Writer

This past weekend, the cast and crew of “Ezra and Me” transported the UNI Interpreters Theatre seven years into the future onto the set of a dystopian game show named “In Jeopardy.”

Written and directed by graduate student Jim Keane, I was thoroughly impressed by the show’s witty social commentary, unique presentation and consistent energy.

“Ezra and Me” was an immersive theatrical experience that put its audience right into the action and story. Evangelical Zealotry and Reasonable Accountability, or EZRA, is a future entity that kidnaps outspoken religious but sinful celebrities and pits them against each other in a game that puts their body parts and lives on the line. In order to win, the involuntary contestants must provide more “true Christian answers” to moral and political questions than their opponent. The loser is sent to face “the Hand of God” at the end, facing physical torture in retribution for their wrongdoings.

“Ezra and Me” depicts the Lenten episode of the dark web broadcast. It features Bert Ronaldson (Austen Carnahan), an NFL all-star who thanks God for his on-field success but is a predator towards women in real life, and Reverend John

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The next documentary highlighted a climbing group called “Brothers of Climbing,” in which several AfricanAmerican rock-climbers from New York seeking to break stereotypes about climbers and work to create an inclusive climbing environment.

In “Break on Through,” the audience watched Margo Hayes, at the age of 19, become the first woman to climb a difficulty grade of 5.15.

Kayla Hollis, a junior studying leisure, youth and human services, reflected on the film’s impact.

“Part of it makes me wanna drop everything and just go and live life,” she said.

There was a brief intermission, followed by a film exploring what it meant to be a Sherpa in the Himalayas. It highlighted those who risk their lives to help others adventure due to their need to provide for their families, but who couldn’t afford education. It ended with

DuPrey (Easton Carber), a greedy televangelist who convinces well-meaning religious people to fund his billionaire lifestyle with their donations. Alex Sage, the show’s host, is depicted by Keane himself. His assistant, Kim Harbinger (Brittanee Leege) explains the rules and procedures from behind a desk of controls while the show’s interns, Angela (Lexi Bibbs), Stanley (Richard Campos) and Jackie (Cara Hassenstab) facilitate the game, sometimes with force.

The play’s audience was joined by a lively chorus ensemble (Ray Smith, Maggie Brown, Mallory Park, Ernie Toutant III, Preston Ellsworth, Alissa Dengler, Cecilia Cerja) who portrayed a live studio audience, making the experience as a theatre-goer more participative as Gemini (Gannon Haile) is called up to spin the question wheel.

Later, characters emerge from within the crowd itself to add more com-

mentary and realism to the show. I especially enjoyed this audience participation aspect; this destruction of the fourth wall made for an engaging experience with an element of surprise.

Going into the black box theatre setting with only basic knowledge of the show from its promotional material, I was worried that a play with these circumstances could be preachy and absurd, or even offensive.

None of this was the case for “Ezra and Me.” Sure, being an abstraction from the reality we live in now lent itself to some comic oddity, but the humor of the piece was genuine and well-constructed. It provided commentary on the political leanings of some American Christians by examining the rhetoric used to justify their stances on topics like the border wall and gay marriage, in contrast to the teachings of Jesus in the Bible. The show did not disprove right-lean-

a quote from Apa Sherpa, the film’s central character, saying, “The true beauty of Nepal isn’t the mountains, but the people who live in their shadow.”

UNI alum, Brendon Leonard, directed the evening’s feature film titled “How to Run 100 Miles,” documenting his and his friend’s journey to run an ultramarathon. Several opening scenes featured UNI’s own campus.

“The thing I gained from these is perspective,” Leonard said of all the evening’s films.

“Perspective is the best thing

you can offer. Our film in particular is about persistence; that’s a thing a lot of Iowans know already.”

After a short question-and-answer time with Leonard following his film, the evening ended with “A New View of the Moon” by Wylie Overstreet. The juxtaposed scenes of individuals from different cities gazing into a telescope, no matter who they were or where they were from, all resolved to the same reaction: awestruck faces at the luminescent moon overhead.

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“Ezra and Me” was written and directed by James Keane, a graduate student in the communications studies department.

ing logic in a way that condemned Christianity; rather, it pointed out the individual hypocrisy of some Christians, condemning their un-Biblical ideologies.

I believe there was a lot to be learned from this show, no matter your position on the political spectrum.

Keane did an excellent job with this thought-provoking, psychological script. He also did a great job as the host of the show.

“Ezra and Me” maintained a high level of energy the entire time and kept me entertained and invested throughout. The pace of the show was well-balanced, with commercial-like interjections from Ezra (Moriah Henkelman) added a realistic TV element that added to the dystopian anxiety the play feeds upon. This attention to detail and repetition that Keane incorporated into his script added to the

mental thrill of the play.

The show’s television studio setting and subsequent dramatic format was intriguing and perfect for the Interpreters Theatre’s black box space. The intimacy of the show furthered its message about our humanity, and the emotions I felt throughout as an engaged audience member was impactful. I find myself still thinking about its messages about ethical accountability and moral righteousness on both the right and left sides of politics.

If there were any identifiable goal for a show like this, it would be to make their audience think critically about their moral beliefs, and this show exceeds that mark of purpose. I applaud the cast and crew of “Ezra and Me” on the successful execution of such a meaningful and progressive production.

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UNI goes 1-1 pre-MVC tourney WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

“Bradley TONI FORTMANN/Northern Iowan is coming in

Sports Writer [and] they’re playing Women’s basketball at very well.

They’re very UNI is alive and well.

In a conference most- good at the ly dominated by Drake guard spot,” University, the Panthers have said Head remained competitive, plac- Coach Tanya ing second during the last Warren in a three conference tournaments press conference before behind the Bulldogs.

After stealing a win the match.

St a r t i ng over the Braves of Bradley deal. the contest and into the fourth University in the McLeod Sophomore Karli Rucker Center on Thursday, March quarter, the Panther women led UNI in scoring with 15, 7, 61-57, the purple and gold held the lead. The Braves also hauling in nine rebounds has locked in their postseason wouldn’t go away, however, and dishing out four assists. ultimately taking the first Morgan and Taylor Hagen position.

The third-ranked Panthers lead of the contest with 1:32 were just behind Rucker in will take on the likes of the remaining on a made three scoring, as Morgan ended the sixth-seeded Southern Illinois pointer. contest with 12 and Hagen Then, senior guard with 11.

Salukis in the first round.

In order to claim their Mikaela Morgan would step Following the last-second position in the MVC, the Cats up to finish off the contest, victory in Cedar Falls, the knew they would have to com- hitting a jumper to regain the Panthers returned to their pete to the best of their abili- lead and following that with home court on Saturday afterties against a tough Bradley two made free throws with six noon to take on the Redbirds seconds remaining to seal the of Illinois State. team.

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“[They have a] great coaching staff, they definitely have one of the best posts in the league in Simone Goods, they also have, who is going to be [MVC] Newcomer of the Year, [TeTe] Maggett,” said Warren before

the contest.

Unlike UNI’s close win over the Braves, this contest was a back and forth affair, having 11 total lead changes.

The Panthers led at the end of every single quarter, except the fourth.

Towards the end of the hard-fought battle, one had to determine the game would come down to a final possession for either squad.

With roughly 30 seconds remaining, the Redbirds called a timeout in order to set

up their offense in an attempt to regain the lead, down by one.

Maggett was ultimately selected to take the final shot, missing off the right side of the rim.

Considering the circumstances and some questionable calls prior, Goods likely could have been called for an overthe-back foul, but was able to haul in the rebound and put it back up, grabbing the lead and not letting up for the final 15 seconds.

Rucker put up the final shot for UNI after Warren elected not to take a time out, but was rejected by a member of the Illinois State squad.

Nicole Kroeger led the Panthers in scoring with 13, followed by Hagen with 11.

The purple and gold will head south to the Quad Cities for Hoops in the Heartland and their matchup with Southern Illinois, taking on the Salukis Friday, March 15.

Wrestling competes at Big 12 Championships WRESTLING

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Bolstering an impressive ranking of 14th in the country, UNI wrestling was strongly represented at the Big 12 Championships, with seven Panthers notching a seed and ten total wrestlers grappling on the big stage.

Prior to the championships, Head Coach Doug Schwab previewed the weekend, “Looking forward to Big 12’s, team [is] ready, had a good week of training. Now it’s really [about] not changing too much, just going out and letting in fly. Go out and compete man. I don’t think, there’s probably nothing in their life that they’ve put more time into. So, you should be prepared and ready.”

The purple and gold were well-prepared and ready to roll resulting in Jay Schwarm (125), Bryce Steiert (165),

Taylor Lujan (174) and Drew Foster (184) all advancing to the semi-finals, with Lujan and Foster advancing to the finals.

Schwarm and Steiert were bumped from the semifinals to the consolations after both lost to no. 2 seeds.

Schwarm pinned three of his opponents to move up to no. 7 on the all-time career pins list in UNI history dating back to 1923. The junior wrestler now has 33 pins in his career.

Schwarm finished 3-2 in the 125-pound weight class.

Steiert finished 3-1 for a third-place bronze medal in the 165-pound weight class earning his first Big 12 medal.

No. 1 seed Josh Alber finished 4-1 after losing his first match to Chris Sandoval (University of North Carolina).

The senior wrestler started a new winning streak, clos-

ing out the tournament with four wins after Sandoval ended Alber’s 15-match win streak. Alber finished in third place in the 141-pound weight class for a bronze medal.

Both ranked seventh in their respective weight classes, Lujan (174 pounds) and Foster (184 pounds) are both looking to bring home backto-back Big 12 individual championships.

Coming in as the underdog, No. 3 seed Lujan will take on the No.1 seed, Jacobe Smith (Oklahoma State), to determine who will be crowned the champion of the 174-pound weight class.

Foster (No.2 seed) will also confront a No. 1 seed, Sam Colbray (Iowa State), in a battle of Cyclones and Panthers. The match will decide who takes home the title at the 184pound weight class.

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Lujan and Foster look to represent the purple and gold strongly as reigning champions.

After day one, the Panthers are in third place as a team with 62.5 points behind 15th-ranked Iowa State (92.5 points) and second-ranked Oklahoma State (129.5 points).

A different kind of March Madness awaits as the NCAA

Wrestling Championships are just around the corner. They will take place Thursday through Saturday, March 21-23 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Six Panthers (Jay Schwarm, Josh Alber, Max Thomsen, Bryce Steiert, Taylor Lujan, and Drew Foster) will take center stage under some of the brightest lights in college wrestling.

bounced back with a 7-0 performance in singles and doubles over the Warhawks.

Harri Proudfoot defeated Paige Nierman 6-2,7-5 at the number three singles spot for UNI. Valentina Caro worked hard for a win at the number five singles spot, defeating Elisa Ha 6-2, 1-6, 1-0 (11-9).

Proudfoot and Caro competed in doubles together

on Saturday, winning easily 6-1.

In their next match, the Panthers will take on the Drake Bulldogs at home on Friday, April 5, starting conference play.

After Drake, UNI will face off against Missouri State and Valparaiso before the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, starting Friday, April 26.

Tennis wins 7-0 over Wisconsin Whitewater TENNIS

JERRIUS CAMPBELL Sports Writer

The UNI women’s tennis squad hit the road over the weekend to face off against UW Whitewater and the Milwaukee Panthers.

On Friday, March 8, UNI battled against the Milwaukee Panthers, getting shot down 6-1 in seven matches.

Claudia Toledo held the single win for the Panthers after beating Nicole Clark of Milwaukee, 6-3,6-1 in two matches at the two-spot for the Panthers.

In her first start for the purple and gold, freshman Davi Patterson fell short 7-6, 4-0, 6-3 at the number six singles spot.

At the number four singles spot, Daisy Philips went

to the tie breaker set before falling short 2-6, 6-0, 6-2 to Agata Jurczak.

Daisy Phillips and Olivia Fain earned a 6-3 victory in the doubles.

On the Saturday, March 9, the tennis team would headed to Wisconsin Whitewater with victory in mind.

After coming off a rough match at Milwaukee, UNI

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