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MSA interfaith lecture 2

Conservative gun debate 3

Meals from the Heartland 4

Women’s golf places first 6

Robots take over McLeod Center SARAH HOFMEYER Staff Writer

Robots briefly took over the McLeod Center this weekend. The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition brought high schoolers from around the world to compete regionally with robots they have been building since January.

This year’s competition had a video game theme, complete with a Minecraftthemed scale in the center of the playing field. The objective was to gather “power cubes” — large yellow boxes kept in a certain area — with their robots and place them onto their team’s control switches, which were placed on either end of the scale.

Doing so earned them points.

According to the event program, they are an international organization that hopes to build teamwork, gracious professionalism, Science,

Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) literacy, and creativity and collaboration within players that attend. FIRST also sponsors over $50 million in scholarships for students in the FIRST program. They are sponsored by brands like 3M, Google and Rockwell Collins, to name a few, according to the event program.

This regional competition is the only one in Iowa; consequently, the competition brought in 58 teams, including global competitors from Turkey and Brazil.

Regionally, there were five teams from the Cedar Valley, including teams from Waterloo and Cedar Falls.

The competition ran from Thursday until Saturday, with over 1,500 students filling the McLeod Center and parts of the UNI-Dome.

Team Under Control, from Novo Hamburgo, Brazil won the competition. The team previously won the Industrial

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On Saturday, March 24, the McLeod Center hosted the FIRST Robotics Competition. The event brought high schoolers from all over the world to UNI’s campus.

Design Award sponsored by General Motors in FIRST’s 2016 competition. Paula Miiller, a student on the team, has enjoyed her experience competing with robots.

“It is a really fun way to learn, and I have made a lot of friends,” she said.

Miiller has been designing and building these sophisticated machines for three

years. She said her favorite part of robotics competition is getting to meet other students and make friends.

between submission and coercion?”

“What’s the power dynamic… and how is that shaping how they act in that situation?” Kogl said.

The idea of the power dynamic came up many times throughout the event.

As a part of this question, Helgevold brought up the Aziz Ansari case. The Ansari case involved the concept of submission and coercion, but is also tied to the #MeToo movement that has took root late last year.

This incident brought up another point related to the idea of feminine versus masculine scripts.

“Despite the ways in which we might want to say that in heterosexul situations like this, men should be able to pick up on nonverbal cues. We also have to think about whether or not they’re fully trained to do that,” Helgevold said.

From there, the event transitioned into the question of sex being a taboo topic in our society, especially in the U.S. This question brought up the topic of sex education

and the lack of it that goes on in U.S. schools and families.

“Given the rural context of Iowa, there is a lot of resistance. It is very, very difficult to do anything but abstinence only education,” Helgevold said.

Abstinence-only education was brought up several times during the discussion.

Helgevold and Kogl wanted to convey that it is better to teach safe sex rather than abstinence only.

One person in the audience said, “It seems like the schools expect the parents to teach and the parents expect the schools to teach, and neither one does it.”

After the topic of sex education, the event transitioned back into the idea of the power dynamic and consent.

“People say yes, they go along with it. It’s easier than saying no to say yes,” Kogl said. “And there could be some instances where they sign a contract. I think contracts are important, but they don’t get us far enough.”

Profs talk sexual ethics & consent

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On Friday, March 23, the UNI Philosophy Club held Pints, Profs and Philosophy at the Octopus on College Hill.

Professors Abbylyn Helgevold and Ana Kogl led discussion on sexual ethics.

PEYTON HUSEMAN Staff Writer

The Octopus was the site of the Pints and Profs event held by the UNI Philosophy Club. The event’s discussion topic was sexual ethics,

including good sex and the ethics of consent.

The professors at the event were Associate Professor of political science Ana Kogl and Philosophy and World Religions instructor Abbylyn Helgevold. At

the event, they spoke about topics like submission and coercion, power dynamics and masculinity versus femininity.

The first question that was brought up at the event was, “Where is the line

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MSA to host interfaith lecture NICOLE BAXTER Staff Writer

In a world of vast diversity, the UNI Muslim Student Association (MSA) aims to unite people from different identities to be “Stronger Together.”

This Thursday, March 29 at 5 p.m. the organization will be hosting an interfaith dialogue between a rabbi, a pastor and an imam, each of whom will gather in the Maucker Union Ballroom to lead a discussion about the three Abrahamic faiths they represent.

Partnering with various community and campus organizations, sponsors and donors, MSA plans to provide a space for open dialogue about religion.

Nadir Khan, vice president of MSA, said the event seeks to highlight the similarities people share while celebrating their differences in identity.

According to Khan, MSA’s mission as a student organization is “to promote diversity on campus.”

“I don’t think it is wrong

to say that there are only three big groups here on campus that show a lot of diversity, and MSA is one of them,” Khan said.

Expecting a crowd of over 250 people, leaders of MSA said their main objective for the evening is to bring community members from different backgrounds together.

“There is no political agenda, no political strings attached; it is actually really coming from our hearts,” said Shehreen Iqtadar, president of MSA. “I personally look at it like a community service kind of thing.”

Iqtadar said the event is not a place for debate or an interrogation from one faith group to the other.

“I put dialogue in the title because we do not intend to reach a conclusion of ‘this is right and this is wrong,’” Iqtadar said.

MSA has had a presence on UNI’s campus for over 15 years, according to Khan.

He said their current membership is active and full of diverse individuals even within the group.

As a student organization dedicated to providing stu-

dents, faculty and the community with a place to discuss their differences safely and respectfully, MSA promotes unity through curiosity.

According to Iqtadar, talking about identity and providing different perspectives helps people learn the importance of diversity, while also encouraging them to find pride in their own.

“It’s about bringing community together and being stronger together,” Iqtadar said. “To see we do have differences, but we all have individual identities and we should respect our identities.”

The three faith leaders serving as panelists at Thursday’s dialogue will be: Rabbi Rebecca Kushner from Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Waterloo, Reverend David Glenn-Burns of Three House in Cedar Falls and Mohammed F. Fahmy, an imam from Al-Noor Islamic Center in Waterloo.

Serving as a moderator between the three faith leaders and audience members is MSA advisor, Cara

Seitel to speak on PR and nationalism Public relations practitioner, analyst, professor and author Fraser Seitel will be on UNI’s campus Tuesday, March 27, to give his speech titled “Public Relations in the Age of Nationalism.” The speech will take place in Rod Library’s Scholar Lounge at 7 p.m.

Seitel is known internationally for his work and has been on TV, radio and blogs where he discusses a number of issues that America faces today. He has written three books, “The Practice of Public Relations,” “Ideawise: How to Transform Your Ideas” and “Rethinking

Reputation.” Seitel also founded and became president of Emerald Partners, a communications management consult company in Newark, New Jersey.

Seitel was chosen to speak at the university by the Hearst Lecture Series Committee who brainstormed ideas of people who share interests for their individual areas of emphasis in the department.

The committee also asked for input from Communications Studies faculty. Then the committee spent several hours organizing the list of people they came up with to determine which seven would be invited to UNI. “The one thing about public relations is we are about

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The Muslim Student Association will host the interfaith lecture this Thursday at 5 p.m. in Maucker Union Ballroom.

Burnidge. Burnidge is an assistant professor of religion in the department of philosophy and world religions.

The dialogue, set to run until 7 p.m., will be available to view online through a video livstream feed to MSA’s Facebook page.

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“Although it is a competition, it feels like being with friends and learning together,” Miiller said.

The competition certainly builds a sense of community between competitors.

Dressing up was encouraged, and the STEM students showed their creativity with outfits, including lab coats full of team buttons, black and green tutus and turkey costumes. This spread to the judges and team leaders, with Judge Josh winning “Most Tricked Out Judge” for his brightly colored costume, featuring a cape and elaborate hat. One team even remixed Walk the Moon’s “Shut Up and The Northern Iowan is published semi-weekly on Monday and Thursday during the academic year, except for holidays and examination periods, by the University of Northern Iowa, L011 Maucker Union, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0166 under the auspices of the Board of Student Publications.

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For all in attendance, MSA is providing food through UNI Catering. The menu features Halal chicken, cookies and refreshments.

More information about the event is posted on their Facebook page, along with video interviews of the evening’s guest speakers.

Dance” to “Get up and Build with Me!” In the award ceremony, students showed their sportsmanship by cheering for each other while many teams won smaller awards like “Judge’s Choice,” going to Team Swartdogs from Cedar Falls. Many teams won similar awards, including evaluations of creative design, engineering thought and best safety design.

UNI students in attendance enjoyed the competition, as well. Brandt C u lb er t s on , s en ior Interactive Digital Studies major, said, “It’s exciting.

I wish I had been into this more [in high school].”

Winners of this competition will go onto the Detroit championship in April.

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Resource officers are not the answer shot the perpetrator, who was later pronounced dead.

This was a success story; no one is arguing that. But this is rare. A month ago, in the Parkland shooting, the school resource officer did not have active shooter training and remained outside while 17 students and teachers were shot dead. SROs are not always the heroes of the day.

Since Columbine in 1999, there has been a skyrocketing trend of SROs around the country. Before Columbine, there was hardly any police officers in schools.

According to David Tomar, editor of The Quad magazine, in 2007, there were 17,000 officers in schools. Now there are 46,000 full-time and 36,000 part-time officers in schools.

Between 2013 and 2014, 42 percent of all public schools in the U.S. were visited or patrolled by SROs. This is a dramatic increase in school policing that has occurred over two decades.

We are now witnessing some of the consequences — namely, increased confrontations with law enforcement and underage students. In 2016 in Collingswood, New Jersey, a nine-year-old was interrogated without their guardian or legal counsel. A typical dispute over sharing brownies in a thirdgrade classroom now involved a law enforcement officer.

The Prosecutor’s Office handed down instructions for that school to involve police

officers for even name-calling incidents. This is over-policing.

Typical school disturbances should be dealt with by teachers and principals. Police officers should enforce criminal laws, not school policy.

A similar incident occurred in 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina where a fourteenyear-old boy was interrogated by the police for over an hour without alerting his parents.

This is unethical and illegal.

This lack of training is hurting our children. According to Tomar, the majority of SROs indicated that they received fewer than 10 hours of juvenile justice education and training across their entire careers.

This means that SROs are literally trained to treat children as adults: to use force and arrests as the solution. We cannot treat our children as adults.

We are also observing arrests for nonviolent disturbances. In Columbia, South Carolina in 2015, a 16-yearold girl was being disrespectful and using her phone in the classroom. The SRO came in and violently threw her to the ground during the arrest.

This is a matter for school principals; she was nonviolently disturbing a classroom.

This is a typical high schooler, and now she was attacked and arrested for violating school policy. She now has a permanent police record for being on her phone in class.

In 2014, the youngest school arrest happened to a

recent Time magazine cover for April that was recently released online. It features Parkland students Emma Gonzalez, Jaclyn Corin, Alex Wind, Cameron Kasky and David Hogg. They all support gun control meaToday I want to give a plat- sures and are anti NRA. But form to voices that are being, they aren’t the only students at the very least, ignored and, who have been politically active at worst, demonized. The since the tragedy occurred.

Patrick Petty, 17 years old, media coverage of the stulost his 14-year-old sister Alaina dents of Marjory Stoneman Petty during the Parkland Douglas High School where shooting.

He and his family the Parkland, Florida shooting have been vocal supporters of occurred have not been covered Second Amendment rights. He evenly in the media. tweeted at his fellow classmate This is most evident in the Gonzalez during the March For Our Lives event to, “please stop using my sister’s name to push your agenda, she DID NOT and WOULD NOT support it.”

This prompts a deep moral question that I don’t see the student protestors considering as TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE they claim to speak Campus Life editor Leziga Barikor criticizes the for all the victims March For Our Lives movement for misrepresenting of gun violence. conservative Parkland students.

How can they speak for those who have died and misrepresent what they would’ve lived for?

Petty and his father Ryan have been actively going to Congress and their local politicians to promote legislation to make schools safer. But their solution does not involve seeking a ban on assault weapons like those of the students featured in Time. They both support the Second Amendment.

Pew Research Center found in an April 2017 poll that 39 percent of people between the ages 18 to 29 said protecting gun rights is of chief importance. Pro-gun high school students exist and are highly underrepresented in the “objective” news media, but more characteristicly right leaning places like Fox News are speaking with them.

One such student is Kyle Kashuv, a 16-year-old who also attends the Parkland high school and is friends with Petty. He has been very vocal in his support of the Second Amendment and has gone to many news sites and to Congress. And his talks with

In the wake of the Maryland shooting last week, people are turning to school resource officers as the solution to school shootings. This sounds like a good idea in theory.

If there is violence in schools, we should put police officers there to stop it, right?

However, school resource officers (SROs) are not adequately trained for interactions with children. What we are seeing in schools is the increase of resource officers in urban areas, excessive force, racial bias and the reinforcement of the school to prison pipeline.

First, let us define what a school resource officer is.

They are sworn, certified law enforcement officers but are not required to be trained by or registered with the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO). Because this certification and training is not required, unfortunate student-police incidents are happening in our schools.

The Maryland and Parkland shootings are bringing SROs to the front of the national debate about gun violence. Are they the solution?

In the Maryland shooting, the shooter shot two other students before the school resource officer intervened. The officer

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Opinion columnist Brenna Wolfe says that additional school resource officers are not a viable solution to school shootings.

four-year-old in Virginia. A child with special needs was acting aggressively toward the principal and director of special education.

The sheriff arrived, placed the child in handcuffs, put him in the back of the police car, put the boy into a jail cell and put leg shackles on him. Instead of the school handling an angry four-year-old with disabilities, the sheriff traumatized the child by locking him up.

This is how the school to prison pipeline is occurring.

Children are being arrested for violating school policies.

In the United States, the data shows that black students make up 27 percent of the students referred to law enforcement, even though they make up only 16 percent of the school population (Education World, 2012).

In addition, black students

are also making up 31 percent of the school-related arrests.

We are literally pushing black students out of schools and into jail for normal, age-appropriate disturbances.

Washington University Law Review found that the odds of a student who has committed a low-level offense being referred to law enforcement are between 1.38 and 1.83 times greater in schools where there is a SRO presence.

Without properly trained school resource officers, we are hurting our students and creating an unsafe environment.

SROs are not the answer to gun violence.

More problems are being created with school policing.

Instead of increasing the amount of police officers we have in schools, we should properly train the ones that already exist.

legislatures are having some results.

Kashuv and the Petty family were both at Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 13, to celebrate the passing of the Stop School Violence Act in the House. The House republicans’ message in passing that bill was the same as the Time cover. As Senator Orrin Hatch’s official account tweeted out, enough is enough.

“Guns aren’t the issue,” Kashuv told Fox News Insider.

“It’s everything surrounding acquiring a weapon.”

It would seem that this is the common ground that the left fails to concede. Students like Gonzalez and Hogg call NRA members and Second Amendment supporters horrible names and liken them to fictional characters like “Voldemort” in the Time article where the writer admits their comments were “unprintable.” That is not a debate within the realm of reality.

People who support the Second Amendment are also affected by gun violence, and they hate seeing it happen. No one wants children to get shot at school.

Assuming bad motives will make debate unfruitful every time.

Students like Kaskuv saying, “If you’re against that, then get out,” doesn’t bring about any progress.

The March for Our Lives mission statement said that school safety is not a political issue, only for the movement to then advocate for political action.

“The marchers don’t understand all the facts they’re talking about,” Kashuv said in another Fox News interview.

The common complaint people on the political right have about the gun debate is that the left doesn’t bother having clear suggestions or show any knowledge on the subject.

Even with knowledge on the topic, the level of mockery used is adding to the frustration of people who want to have a productive discussion.

So please, have productive discussions. Don’t assume bad motives. And if all the ideas you hear are similar to the ideas you hold, it may be time to start searching for those other voices.

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FILM REVIEW

Reviewer wrecks ‘Wrinkle in Time’ CLINTON OLSASKY Executive Editor

You know that feeling you get when your mega-smart astrophysicist father disappears for years at a time while studying the mysteries of the universe, only for you to be guided to his extra-dimensional location by three mystical travelers, one of whom inexplicably morphs into a giant spinach leaf ?

If your answer to that question is “no,” then you’re not alone. While watching “A Wrinkle in Time,” the latest big-budget blockbuster put forth by Walt Disney Pictures, it was all I could do not to yell out at the screen in frustration as a result of the sheer incoherence on display.

To put it simply, I have rarely felt as utterly disconnected to a film as I did while watching “A Wrinkle in Time.”

Directing: 2/5 It’s a shame that “A Wrinkle in Time” is such a visual mess, given that its director, Ava DuVernay, had previously impressed with the critically acclaimed historical drama “Selma” and the award-wining documentary “13th.”

All told, DuVernay simply relies too heavily on CGI to depict the multi-dimensional landscape of “A Wrinkle in Time.” Everything from the terrain to even the characters’ wardrobe appears distractingly synthetic and artificial.

In addition, beyond a handful of visually impressive camera movements, DuVernay’s direction is largely muddled.

Instead of framing her subjects with the grace and sensitivity she exhibited in her past films, DuVernay’s work in “A Wrinkle in Time” suffers from an overabundance of nonsensical cutting and unmotivated close-ups.

Still, some praise should be directed towards the film’s creative set design, which is admittedly eye-catching at times. Unfortunately, DuVernay’s jumbled direction and overreliance on CGI ultimately detracts from the film’s ability to impress visually.

Writing: 1/5 Despite DuVernay’s weak direction, “A Wrinkle in Time” undoubtedly suffers the most from its frustratingly disjointed screenplay. The film’s script, which was adapted by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell from Madeleine L’Engle’s popular novel, is riddled with plot holes and populated with a mess of thinly drawn caricatures.

In a nutshell, the story of “A Wrinkle in Time” centers on Meg Murry, a young girl searching for her missing father, who is a renowned scientist. Along the way, she is aided by the help of three magical beings who lead her and her brother across the universe to find the long-lost Dr. Murry.

Now, given the nature of

the source material, DuVernay and company could have easily focused in on Meg and her relationship with her father, which could have resulted in a touching familial drama set against a unique science fiction backdrop.

In the end, though, the film opts for style over substance, offering little in the way of meaningful character motivation or emotional investment.

As a result, not one character in “A Wrinkle in Time” comes across as a fully realized human being. Instead, they merely serve as vehicles for DuVernay to use to jump from one poorly executed set piece to the next.

Acting: 2/5 Sadly, the film’s painfully one-dimensional screenplay is equally matched by an array of similarly one-note performances.

Even the inimitable Oprah Winfrey is curiously uninspiring as Mrs. Which, the leader of the three astral travelers who aid young Meg. Perhaps it can be attributed to the screenplay’s inauthentic dialogue, but Winfrey’s character did little more than regurgitate the most derivative and hackneyed of motivational phrases — not unlike what one would find in a cheaply produced fortune cookie.

Likewise, both Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling were nauseatingly dull as Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Who, respectively. Neither character offered anything

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The film adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time” is directed by Ava DuVernay featuring an all star cast. It has a 41 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes

memorable to the film, notwithstanding Witherspoon’s aforementioned metamorphosis into a giant piece of leafy produce. But lettuce digress.

Next, we come to the child actors in the film, who fared admittedly better overall.

In his deceptively clever performance as Meg’s prodigious little brother Charles Wallace, Deric McCabe was still hampered by a tendency to overact — a common symptom among many child actors.

Levi Miller, on the other hand, was simply horrendous as Calvin O’Keefe, a boy in Meg’s class who joins her on her cosmological journey. Miller’s character sorely lacked a personality, as well as a perceivable reason to even be in the film, other than to serve as the catalyst for a

baffling and, frankly, uncomfortable romantic subplot for the adolescent Meg. As for Meg herself, Storm Reid turned in a commendable performance as the young heroine. It was apparent that despite such a poorly conceived screenplay, Reid really tried her best to bring her one-dimensional character to life.

Overall: 1.5/5 Between the muddled direction, insipid screenplay and flat acting, Disney’s latest big-budget literary adaptation is a considerable misfire that fails to inspire or even entertain.

And as a result, “A Wrinkle in Time” is a massive waste of just that — time.

Packing Meals from the Heartland on campus SOFIA LEGASPI Staff Writer

Meals from the Heartland will be hosting a food packaging event from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, in the Commons Slife Ballroom.

The food pack, organized by the Office of Community Engagement, is sponsored

by National Association of College and University Residence Halls (NACURH), National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) and UNI Residence Hall Association (RHA).

Meals will be distributed to those with food insecurity in 16 counties across northeast Iowa through the Northeast Iowa Food Bank’s mobile food pantry program.

“Within the Department of Residence, we are really passionate about making sure everyone in our community is living the best life that they can, and any way we can help

with that is what we want to do,” said Glenna Whiteman, a senior social science education major on the team planning the event.

This is the Office of Community Engagement’s second year partnering with Meals from the Heartland.

“This year we wanted to do an even more extended version, so we upped the meals from 20,000 to 30,000,” said senior communication major Paige Cowing, also involved in the event-planning.

To reach the goal of 30,000, volunteers will be grouped into teams, each forming an assembly line.

The event will feature educational videos and speeches, as well as free pizza and meal-packing challenges to boost morale.

“I’m most looking forward to just the hype and the energy that will be there,” said event-planner and junior math education

major Cameron Amos. “Just the excitement everyone will have to know that they’re making an impact on other people’s lives in the Cedar Valley community and in northeast Iowa.”

“I’m also looking forward to seeing the different cross-sections of people across campus, from professors and families to Greek life, to Department of Residence residents coming and doing this awesome cause together,” Whiteman said.

“The cooperation with the meal-packaging program and working as a team to do the assembly line not only helps serve others but also helps grow their collaboration skills and communication skills,” Amos said. “So [students] can look at it as both a service opportunity and a learning opportunity to further develop their own leadership skills.”

Those interested in vol-

unteering can RSVP by Monday, March 26 t h r o u g h Eventbrite or by emailing cowingp@uni. edu.

For those who are unable to attend the food pack but still wish to contribute, Meals from the Heartland takes donations and volunteer signups through their website.

Whiteman also mentioned Cedar Falls food pantries NI ARCHIVES — including There will be a food packaging event from 5 p.m. to one located at 7:30 p.m. in the Commons Silfe Ballroom tomorrow. the Lutheran donations specifically for Student Center — that accept food-insecure UNI students.

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Why I relay

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A collection of stories of why students decide to relay for life

I relay for my grandpa Frank who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2015. The day my family told me was incredibly hard, as thoughts of what will happen in the next few months flooded my mind. I never thought anyone in my family would personally be affected by cancer since there was no history of cancer in my family, but that soon changed. I remember my dad taking a large amount of days off of work just to take my grandpa to his chemo appointments and other check ups because he was too weak after the treatment to drive the 15 minutes home. Months and months went by of these types of treatments, and it was heartbreaking to see a man who had so much energy slowly turn into a man who was too tired to get off the couch.

2016 rolls around, and we were told that my grandpa had almost won his battle. He had one more check-up, but the doctors told our family that we had nothing to worry about. Cancer, however, had a different plan, and at the next check-up we were told the cancer was back and spreading faster than ever. When my grandpa told our family he had six more months to enjoy, our lives turned upside down.

After hearing this news, I decided to spend the month of August back home to enjoy time with my family and grandpa before a new, busy semester began. Before I was able to come home, the doctors noticed a tumor. The doctors said the operation could kill him because he was so weak already, so my grandpa chose to be with his closest family during his last few days.

Cancer doesn’t just affect the person diagnosed with it; it affects family and friends as well. Treatments are hard and draining, and the side effects are heartbreaking to watch. I chose to relay because I now understand the effects of cancer and the impact that the American Cancer Society has on advancing cancer treatments and research. I relay so that families don’t fear the words “I have cancer.” I relay so that in the future families can be confident that they will fight, and win.

—Karla Peterson, senior psychology major PHILOSOPHY

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As the event came to a close, the idea of a power dynamic really came to prominence. Helgevold and Kogl wanted the audience to think of power as a relationship and that it is a dynamic that switches depending on the situation.

“If we think of power as

a relationship then we don’t back ourselves into these corners,” Helgevold said.

After the event, Connor Latteyer, a senior at UNI, had this to say: “Most kids don’t get good sex ed from school, so it’s nice to talk about how sex and dates can be a natural and good thing, especially with all of the controversy and movements going on today in America.”

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“Students can learn something and enjoy hearing a speaker who knows what he’s talking about and has a sense of humor about approaching it,” said Melissa Beall, co-chair of Hearst Lecture Series.

“Going to school is not all about going to classes. Going to school is about enrichment and opening your mind to different ideas and different ways of doing things.” Pohl said. This way you are going to meet the real life person who knows about life but can be serious enough about it to laugh about it.”

Both co-chairs encourage students to come to the free event.

“I think his lecture will have significance for anyone

interested in current issues in our country,” Beall said.

“His interviews and writings on a variety of topics show his interest in how ideas and attitudes affect our everyday lives now and in the future. I expect a thought-provoking

talk from someone accustomed to speaking to audiences large and small. He also has a great sense of humor, and it will be interesting to show him our campus and introduce him to our students.”

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OPINION

NFL offseason: a tale of Winners and Losers

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WILLIAM RIEPE

Sports Writer

March 20 marks the first wave of free agency coming to an end in the NFL. Some of the teams with the bigger needs seemed to have forgotten the value of the dollar, spending large amounts of cash on top name free-agent signings.

The Cleveland Browns landed players such as quarterback Tyrod Taylor, and receiver Jarvis Landry.

To me, Taylor is largely overrated, but I am sure he will flourish under a solid Cleveland Browns’ line.

Other teams, such as the Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers, have failed to make any signings to bolster a struggling receiving core.

With such large names in free agency, such as Allen Hurns and Jarvis Landry,

the Bears and Panthers failed to give their quarterbacks any big name weapons. Both teams allowed their best receivers to leave last season.

Former Bears receiver Alshon Jeffery left the team to embark on a journey of finding himself in Philadelphia, winning a Super Bowl ring behind back up quarterback Nick Foles.

The Panthers let injury prone receiver Kelvin Benjamin leave for a mid round pick. However, this did not seem to phase quarterback Cam Newton, as he performed well, managing to knock off the New England Patriots.

This offseason has looked bleak for the Patriots, as they failed to act on their positions of need. They failed to re-sign both of their starting

offensive tackles, leaving an aging Tom Brady unprotected. With a linemen like Ndamukong Suh and Leonard Williams getting two shots a year at Brady, this could prove to be dangerous.

Additionally, the Patriots began last season with the worst defense in the league over the first five games, and were picked apart by backup quarterback Nick Foles.

They addressed this issue by signing Jason McCourty from the Cleveland Browns, but gave away a draft pick for the 30 year old.

The winner of the offseason for me would be the New Orleans Saints, the same team I predicted to win the Super Bowl back by the beginning of the playoffs. The Saints were easily the best drafters of the last season, landing both

the offensive and defensive rookies of the year.

And their off-season decision making proved to be just as good. They landed Alex Okafor, to a pass rush an already featured Cameron Jordan, as well recruiting Patrick Robinson and Demario Davis.

The Saints defense was already dominant this year, but adding this talent further tells me that the Saint front office knows what they are doing.

This offseason may prove to be the season where the Cleveland Browns turn it around, grabbing an experienced quarterback that can actually throw a football, and a star, big name wide receiver may prove to be what the Cleveland Browns needed.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Case Keenum took the Vikings deep into the

playoffs after Sam Bradford dominated during the first game of the season. Sam Bradford was the number two ranked quarterback in the NFL. So naturally, the Vikings cut both of them.

They did, however, sign expensive free agent quarterback Kirk Cousins.

Cousins is a fantastic quarterback, however, the Vikings already have some huge contracts on players such as Anthony Barr and Xavier Rhodes. This hurts the Vikings for any needed improvements or contract extensions next year.

The offseason will never be easy; teams need to balance their budgets, which often means cutting players, but need to improve their roster.

We will see how this balancing act works out when the preseason begins in early August.

GOLF

Women’s team wins ORU/SFA Spring break invitaional DYLAN PADY Sports Editor

On the weekend of March 19, the UNI women’s golf team came in first place and won the entire ORU/SFA

Spring Break Shootout in Trophy Club, Texas.

11 teams, total, entered the tournament, but UNI as a whole came out on top after impressive efforts by Paige Van Dyk, Maddie Bertsch

and Emily Snelling. Van Dyk achieved a second place finish after sinking four birdies on the final day of the tournament.

Bertsch recorded two birdies as well. She finished in

fourth place, marking her third consecutive top-ten finish.

Finally, Snelling was the third Panther to place in the top 10. She finished the evening in eighth place, shooting

just seven over par.

Following the Spring Break Shootout, the Panthers will travel to Weaverridge Golf Club in Peoria, Illinois, featuring the Bradley Spring invitational at the end of March.

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