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SigEp raises awareness with See-SAAW LEZIGA BARIKOR Staff Writer

On Monday, April 8, the UNI chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) brought out their annual 24-hour SeeSAAW event to raise awareness for sexual assault on college campuses. It was a bright and sunny day to be seesawing, but as SigEp members rotated shifts at night, the reality of the issue of sexual assault becomes more somber.

“When you’re doing it at 2 a.m., you understand sexual assault can happen at any time,” said Ben Hirdler, a junior English and philosophy double major who has participated in the event every year. “So, it’s always been impactful.”

Hirdler said that before coming to college, he didn’t know much about sexual assault.

Since joining the fraternity SigEp, he’s become more educated on the issue.

“I’ve learned a lot talking to survivors at the Riverview Center,” Hirdler said.

Hirdler said that through doing this event every year, he’s learned more about how to be

an advocate and the resources available to survivors.

Each year, SigEp kicks off their Sexual Assault Awareness Week (SAAW), with a 24-hour See-SAAW event.

Jake Chaplin, freshman IDS digital imaging and digital advertising major, is the SigEp philanthropy chairman and director of SAAW. “We want to be those people who really stand up and talk about sexual assault and having those difficult conversations,” Chaplin said.

Coming into UNI, Chaplin said he was very drawn to SigEp’s philanthropy. He said their motto for the event was #BeTheDifference.

Chaplin also noted that for every SAAW event, advocates from the Riverview Center will be present for anyone who needs help. The Riverview Center is a nonprofit agency in the Cedar Valley that supports individuals affected by sexual assault. This year SigEp has the goal of raising $10,000 for the center, according to their Facebook page.

The See-SAAW event this year was a collaboration with

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Sigma Phi Epsilon launched off their annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week (SAAW) with a 24-hour See-SAAW event outside Maucker Union from April 8 to April 9.

UNI’s chapter of International Justice Mission (IJM). They tabled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the event to spread awareness about the issue of human trafficking.

“Our main goal was to inform people of the signs of

human trafficking and provide them with the resources to report the signs if they see them,” said Autumn Lauen, English teaching major and IJM secretary. “This specific event was a part of the Red Sand Initiative, which is a

national organization that uses sand as a visual aid to show how people can fall through the cracks in society and end up in human trafficking.”

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Schult signs with Vikings ELIOT CLOUGH

Sports Editor

After a brief stint in the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF) with the Salt Lake City Stallions, Karter Schult signed a contract with the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday, April 7.

Schult was a former defensive end for UNI (pictured here wearing the #93 jersey). He graduated in the fall of 2016 with degrees in exercise science and family services.

In his time spent with the Stallions, Schult grabbed 7.5 sacks, which ranked him second in the league.

Schult was given the Buck Buchanan award to be recognized as top defensive player, as well as being named the Missouri Valley Football Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2016. The Tripoli native earned the honors after recording 17 sacks and 24 tackles for loss as a senior.

This is not Schult’s first go-round with the NFL, having spent time with the Vikings last offseason, as well as the Browns and Panthers the year prior.

Schult will be looking to make the final 53-man roster for the first time in his NFL career.

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Student Organization of the Year This award recognizes a student organization that has displayed excellence in the dedication and development of its members and contributions to the campus community.

Recipient: Muslim Students Association

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On Tuesday, April 9, the University of Northern Iowa released its list of 2019 Student Leadership Awards.

UNI CARE Award The CARE (Creating A Responsible Environment) Award is offered to a student, faculty member or organization that has exhibited an outstanding commitment to a sustainable future.

Recipient: Lily Conrad

Diversity Matters Award This award recognizes the dedication and service to the University of Northern Iowa in regards to its diversity-related goals.

Recipients: Nadir Khan, Scott Schwartz, Yakira Sanders

Dr. Sue Follon Scholarship for Women in Leadership This scholarship is given to students who display excellent leadership qualities while at UNI and show potential to provide futher leadership for women.

Recipient: Shaylyn Trenkamp Boots to Books Scholarship Recipient Boots to Books is a program that was designed to help facilitate the transition of veterans to civilian life and a college environment. Despite many military and veteran students being eligible for G.I. benefits, over half of them still require some type of financial assistance. The Boots to Books scholarship was created to support the future educational endeavors of military and veteran students.

Recipient: Connor Grunwald Drake Martin Gold Star Awards This award is offered to student leaders for their contributions to on-campus living at UNI. This award has been presented annually since 1989 and is the highest residential leadership award at UNI. Recipients: Kate O’Dell, Cameron Amos Dr. Charlotte West ScholarAthlete Award The Dr. Charlotte West Award is presented annu-

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Recipients: Crystal Florman, Women’s Swimming and Diving; Isaac Holtz, Men’s Track and Field NISG Above and Beyond Awards These awards are offered to faculty and staff by students for their commitment to student success. One award is focused on student learning and the other on student success.

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Student Organization Advisor of the Year This award recognizes a student organization advisor who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, dedication and service to their organization.

Recipient: Ashley Adams, Campus Activities Board, Service & Leadership Council and Panther Pantry Student Organization Program of Distinction This award recognizes significant achievements in the planning and presentation of programs by student organizations.

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Recipients: “A Rabbi, A Pastor, and An Imam: Stronger Together” (presented by Muslim Students Association), I Love Female Orgasm (presented by Campus Activities Board), Inter national Student Preview Day (presented

by International Student Promoters) Greek 360 Award This award recognizes members of the UNI Fraternity & Sorority Life community who, in addition, are outstanding members of student organizations on campus and make contributions to the community.

Recipients: Meghan Joens, Alpha Delta Pi; Caleb Gipple, Sigma Phi Epsilon Most Promising New Student Organization This award recognizes a newly emerging student organization that has exhibited motivation, innovation, creativity and perseverance.

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Servant Leader Award This award recognizes individuals who have worked for the common good of the community while simultaneously putting the needs of others before their own.

Recipients: Adalberto Castrejon, Allison Noggle, Anna Patch, Bryce Davis, Caitlyn Walte, Caleb Gipple, Emily Meier, Morgan Brus, Muhammed Butt, Trevor Fletcher Outstanding Student Leader This award recognizes students who have displayed leadership and dedication through their involvement in campus activities.

Recipients: Akanksha Sahni, Ben Vaske, Gorpu David, Lydia Richards, Siraj Acharya, Taryn Kroymann, Tristan Bernhard Lux Service Award This award recognizes the overall involvement of graduating senior students. It is the most prestigious award given to those who constantly go above and beyond, leaving a lasting impact on the university upon graduation.

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Inconsistent leadership on campus over, their efforts are scattered into various initiatives they want to achieve as individuals, doing little to carry on with the projects of their predecessors. We see this happen in the Board of Directors (formerly known as the Lower Cabinet), and in the Senate as well. This dispersed effort overloads student representatives, leads to them getting shut down by UNI’s administration and causes many of these great initiatives to fade away. Through all of this, the UNI administration has begun to delegitimize NISG, be dismissive of student-led initiatives and patronize student ideas.

A most recent example would be the Waka Flocka controversy. A student organization brought a culturally relevant artist to campus and planned a great event, yet the administration, with no input from students, changed numerous plans and placed questionable restrictions on the event, all under seemingly false pretenses. This showed a complete disregard to students’ ideas and work they put into making UNI a better place.

UNI student spirit, anec-

dotally, appears to be fading.

Enthusiasm and high regard for UNI have been replaced by feelings of animosity and apathy, and our declining enrollment numbers may be the best representative of that.

As young people, we’re told to go to school and make a difference in the world; bring about change for the betterment of society. Yet the very institution that teaches us how to do that doesn’t seem to think we should partake in change. As a student, this makes me think that the administration sees us as disposable; nothing more than a source of revenue. I want to believe that’s not true, but so many students have experienced the frustration of working with our unresponsive, ridiculously bloated bureaucratic administration that it certainly seems we mean little beyond the dollar.

NISG has to have an honest conversation with itself and ask if it will tolerate being dismissed by the administration, or if it will install good leaders who know when to lead and when to follow.

Leaders who know how to combine the focus and efforts

the virtues of the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, the Satyricon, Sappho’s Poetry, the Alexiad, the Bhagavad Gita, the Quran, the Tanakh, Erasmus’s New Testament and so many more! These What makes a book great? works are called “great” and Is it the number of pages? I have always accepted these The audience it is was writ- book’s status with the reliten for? How it is organized? gious glee of a border colThe art adorning the cover? lie begging for a Milkbone, Does it need to have that but what makes them truly the new book smell? All of great? these factors weigh into our I first began to wonder decision, but what does a about this dilemma when book tell us about the per- a friend of mine made a son who penned its pages? joke about a book he had I believe that what makes a to read for class. He had no book great is if its author intention of reading it and is able to go beyond their decided that it quite obviousself and communicate with ly had nothing to offer him the past for us. Like a priest of value. When I tried to in a confessional, a great raise an argument, I didn’t book should connect us with have anything real to say. something beyond just the It sparked a crisis in me: relationship of author and What value, then, do the reader. classics have? What really As UNI rewrites the does Goethe, Shakespeare or Liberal Arts Core in favor Virgil have for a 20-someof “general education” and I thing in the 21st century? enter the final inning of my The answer is communiundergrad - I can honestly cation with people who have say, I have never asked myself come before us, whose accu“why is this book ‘great’?” in mulated experience in living my time at UNI. I can list is full. plenty of “great” books that Philosopher Albert I have utterly devoured. As Camus was castigated by a self-styled street preach- the French intellectual elect er for the Humanities, I in the 1950’s for daring to could rant for hours about say that there are things to

be learned from the past.

Simone de Beauvoir attempted to eviscerate Camus in fiction via her novel, “The Mandarin.” The book is itself a “great” work. Ironically enough, de Beauvoir proved Camus right. Her novel is “great” because it is a window into the way that the last breaths of café culture, and the utter schadenfreude of the post-war French intellectual landscape.

Camus is no Homer or Lao-Tzu, as he doesn’t have the antique sexiness of a Gilgamesh, but I think this case highlights beautifully what makes a piece of art or literature “great.” If a work has the ability to lift off the page the spirit of its characters, or to connect the reader with those who have lived before them, that is an experience which only a “great” work can inspire. A “great” work should, after connecting us with the past, incite in us a better understanding of ourselves, or of the ways people have existed in this world.

Human beings have invented for themselves entire ways of being in time. This world in its intricate, petrifying beauty is truly absurd. It is strikingly hard to make sense of

Editor’s Note: This Letter to the Editor was submitted by Jacob Harberts, senior political science and global studies major.

Some institutions within UNI seem to have forgotten that leadership is an action, not a title.

Over the past few years, we as students have seen various examples of poor leadership in the Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG), and it seems the bad leadership within NISG has led to poor practice and leadership within the UNI administration.

For many years, NISG has been consumed in a perpetual cycle of power politics and impropriety. This cycle has led to ineffective and unfocused leadership at a time when the student body desperately needs good leaders.

Every year, the newly elected student body President and Vice President seem to come in and toss out all of the work of the previous student government, as if their predecessors accomplished nothing worthwhile. The executive transition period is wholly inadequate to actually preparing the incoming cabinet. When the new student administration takes

of various students, organizations and groups as a team.

Leaders who will deliver a strong, consistent dialogue to UNI’s administration so the administration can address issues with students at the table.

The inconsistent and disjointed efforts of NISG makes the organization less effective.

It is an organization where ideas rarely become reality, issues rarely become history, and students rarely turn to them for help.

Elected students need to carry on a consistent message across multiple student administrations, and they have to work as a team that puts students first and focuses on a few key issues until they are resolved.

We have to understand that good leaders don’t make the change — they organize and unify the people who make the change. Good leaders don’t have followers under them, they have teammates beside them. They put the needs of the team and the goal first. They ask for criticism, ask for guidance, admit faults and recognize they don’t always know the answer. They don’t encircle

themselves with “Yes-people,” people who fraternize or people who seek glory. If you want to be a leader for the benefits, glory or power, you can seat yourself in the bad leader section. Leadership is an incredible burden because it is physically, mentally, morally and spiritually arduous.

A good leader makes sure their team eats before them and will sacrifice their food for those whom they lead. If we want meaningful change, we need leaders who actually understand the meaning of leadership.

This article is not to say good leaders don’t exist in NISG, nor say NISG doesn’t do incredible things. So many hard-working, talented and innovative students join NISG and do great things there, but the absence of the leaders who bring all the power and strengths of NISG together is causing student voices to go unheard and issues to remain unresolved. We have to move past seeking the title of leader and begin to actually lead. We are the future of this world, we have a voice, we have ideas and we have solutions. Now we need good leaders.

What is it that makes the classics great?

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Opinion Columnist Kevin Wiggins discusses the properties that make a book great, and the importance of actually taking the time read the books assigned in Humanities class. Pictured: Albert Camus

things which are beyond us, and “great” works should not only pull us out of our “self,” but should, in doing so, remind us of how people have done the same things we’re trying to do now for millennia. To be alive is potential. Humans are beings who are blessed with decision, the ability to seek new ends and possibilities in our lives. “Great” works should not only inspire new possibilities, but should remind us of how others were able to find new ways forward throughout history.

Just as Coltrane and Offenbach used their music to inspire, to effect change in their times, great books

should be able to either show us how to, or remind us that people have found new ways to navigate this absurdly wonderful world we call home. That is the beauty of art, “great” works and of the Humanities, and I pray that “general education” will keep this in mind.

If the most painful aspect of the LAC was that it forced interaction with the wisdom of the people who have come before us, then I think that is more than valuable. As the Nietzschean adage goes, “What doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger,” and that, my friend, is why you should have read Hamlet for you humanities class.

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Library prepares for RodCon 2019

Rod Library will host the sixth annual Rod Con, a mini comic convention, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 13. The event will feature multiple vendors, panels, costume contents and more.

event, including an “Artist Alley” featuring vendors who work in different mediums. There will be two video game rooms, a kids’ zone, a photo booth, trivia and more. Costume contests will be held for both children and adults, and the winners of the adult contest will receive tickets for an OK Go concert.

The event is sponsored by 93.5 The Mix and The CW 7.2. Cedar Rapids Ultimate Super Heroes will be collecting donations for the Cedar Valley Food Bank, and those who donate will receive additional entries into door prize drawings.

“Every year we try to make it better,” Beland said.

“We try to gain feedback from the attendees and add things such as the Spectrum Project Quiet Room. The kids’ zone — that’s a collaboration with the students in the Education Department.

They will be using their lesson-planning in the events and helping that day.”

Beland believes that a part

“It’s nice to see as men too that they see the importance of sexual assault and spreading awareness for it,” Petrich said.

The next day of SAAW included a Survivor Panel Presentation, co-sponsored by the Northern Iowa Feminists and moderated by a Riverview Center advocate.

On Wednesday, SigEp hosted a Starbeck’s BBQ dinner at the Wesley Foundation for $7 to raise money for the Riverview Center.

Today, April 11, there will be a self-defense class at 3 p.m. in the Oak and

University room taught by the UNI and Cedar Valley police department.

On Friday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. SigEp will have a Baked Goods Giveaway in the Maucker Union. A donation is recommended and all proceeds go to the Riverview Center.

“I think people are confused that we’re only raising money, but we’re also raising awareness,” Hirdler said.

This year, an extra event will be happening on Monday, April 15, at 6 p.m. as UNI alum Vanessa McNeal is showing her documentary film, “Gridshock” about sex trafficking in Iowa.

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Superheroes of all kinds will be teaming up this Saturday as Rod Library hosts its sixth annual RodCon. “RodCon is a mini ComicCon that is free and open to the public,” said Rod Library Public Relations Coordinator Melinda

Beland. “It’s supposed to connect the UNI community to the public by celebrating comics and heroes and the arts. It’s really just a family fun and free event where people can come and learn more about diversity and other pop cultural issues using comics to support that.”

Several events and activities will be featured at the

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Lauen said that the collaboration with SigEp made sense because a large portion of human trafficking is sex trafficking.

Camille Petrich, junior psychology major and fellow member of Greek life in the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, rode a seesaw for the first time ever this Monday.

Everyone who paid to ride the seesaw had their money donated directly to the Riverview Center.

Petrich pointed out how her male friends in SigEp take the issue very seriously.

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of their growing success is due to the fact that being around for a longer amount of time will draw more people in. This year, they were approached by a tarot card reader who will be at the event. Panther eSports also requested a room, and they will be offering a chance to play games such as Super Smash Bros Ultimate and Super Mario Party.

When it comes to her favorite part of the event, Interlibrary Loan Assistant Andrea Smith says she enjoys seeing the different outfits people wear.

“I love the costumes, even outside of the costume contest,” Smith said. “Seeing other people walking around in cosplay and getting excited about seeing another person from their fandom is so cool.”

Several speakers will be presenting at RodCon 2019.

These include a “Women in the Comic Book Industry” panel hosted by Marybeth Stalp, UNI professor of sociology, anthropology and

criminology, with featured guests comic book artists Kat Leyh and Clara Meath.

A panel on “Black Panther and Black Excellence” will discuss black culture and its contribution to the making of the “Black Panther” movie. Lastly, Joyce Boss will cover the 65-year old history of “Godzilla” and its fandom.

Smith hopes that the attendees of the event have a good time and look forward to coming next year.

They judge the success of their events based on attendance, and those who come to the event may obtain a different perspective on pop culture.

“Through comics and pop culture, they tell us a lot about society and what’s happening in society,” Beland said. “Seeing that reflected through different genres allows you to pause and think about that.”

RodCon 2019 will be held in various locations in Rod Library from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 13.

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‘Pet Sematary’ is uneven horror experience HUNTER FRIESEN Film Critic

What if you had the option to bring someone back from the dead? Would you seize the opportunity to get a second chance or would you turn away and leave the dead as they were?

Author Stephen King posed and gave a grisly answer to this very question with his 1983 cult-classic novel, “Pet Sematary.”

Centering around the Creed family and their patriarch, Louis, the story begins with them having just moved to Maine. They live in a quaint country home that just so happens to have an eerie burial ground for long-deceased pets that sits in their backyard.

Just days after moving in, the family cat, Church, is found dead. Not wanting to upset his daughter, Louis decides to bury the animal before she finds out. Lending a hand is neighbor Judd, who shows Louis a spot above the burial ground that possesses power beyond human reason.

Suddenly the cat is back from the dead, but this time it is much meaner and mangier.

After some time, another major tragedy strikes the family. Distraught from his loss, Louis goes back to the supernatural spot in order to bring his loved one back.

Louis does get his wish, but it doesn’t turn out the way he wanted, resulting in a lesson that teaches that death always wins in the end.

Directing: 3/5 Directed by partners Kevin

Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, “Pet Sematary” is a film that tells a tale of two halves in terms of pacing and excitement.

The first half turns out to be quite boring as the story is slowly unfolded in order to touch on the most minute of details. After the pivotal moment that climaxes the buildup, the second half picks up speed and is able to be the horror film it wants to be.

Just like the runtime, the scare tactics used in the first half very much pale compared to the latter half.

The first hour consisted solely of identically structured jump scares that became more and more predictable as they kept happening. But once the recycled startling is over, the real horror sets in as Kölsch and Widmyer do great work by authentically building up terror through the atmosphere and actor performances.

Writing: 2/5 Almost identical with the quality of the directing is the writing by Jeff Buhler.

Despite being a pretty simple concept for audiences to grasp, Buhler spends a fairly large chunk of the film tediously explaining every fact surrounding the narrative. This incessant need for overly expositive storytelling grinds the film to a crawl and made me feel like I was in a glorified lecture where the professor would never stop talking.

Before, I had mentioned that the first hour is filled with recycled jump scares.

While some of that blame

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Based on the 1983 horror novel by Stephen King, the second film adaptation of “Pet Sematary” was released on April 5. Directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, it received a 58 percent rating on Rotten Tomateos.

can be put on the directors for not trying hard enough, much of it goes to Buhler for not giving the directors enough to work with. Each scare consisted of the same steps: a character would hear a noise coming from a low-lit area, they would slowly walk over to it, open a door or cupboard, the music cuts out and then suddenly a loud noise jolts you.

You would think adapting a Stephen King would give Buhler a good supply of material to scare people with and stop him from writing a series of mindless startles that everybody experiences on a daily level, but it turns out you’d be wrong.

Acting: 4/5 Contrary to most horror

films, “Pet Sematary” boasts some quality acting within its tight-knit cast.

Jason Clarke does a respectable job as the tormented father Louis. Even though his character is the most boring — which is attributable to the writing — Clarke is able to develop his character past the limitations posed onto him.

Amy Seimetz does great work as Rachel Creed. Her character has an interesting backstory that she uses to its fullest potential, especially in her closeup reaction shots.

John Lithgow plays the neighbor, Judd, and turns in a good performance as a weathered old man who unintentionally starts and eventually gets caught up in the bloody mess.

Finally, considering the amount of work she has to do and the quality of the material given to her, child actor Jeté Laurence ends up being surprisingly outstanding as the young daughter, Ellie.

Overall: 3/5 Just like the concept it explores, “Pet Sematary” is a film that lays dormant in its first half but is able to resurrect itself and deliver on the thrills and chills it promised. You could do worse at finding a horror film that chews up a few hours out of your day. But you could also do better.

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Today we spell redemption: U-V-A OPINION

COLIN HORNING Sports Writer

When we think of Cinderella teams in March Madness, we think of the teams that made improbable runs who had no business making it that far into the tournament. A lot of times, these are the teams that casual basketball fans have never heard of.

Teams like the 2010 Butler squad that came oh-so close to knocking off Duke, the Final Four-bound Loyola-Chicago team from last season or the Virginia Commonwealth team of 2011 will both forever be remembered in NCAA tournament history.

It’s understandable to think that a one-seeded team winning the national championship would have no business being in consideration of a Cinderella team, but the 2018-19 Virginia Cavaliers can now be chalked up there with the Butlers and Loyolas of NCAA lore.

As most basketball fans will recount, last season’s Virginia team became the first ever one-seed to lose to a 16-seed at the hands of the Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers, or UMBC. They didn’t lose by a slim margin either - UMBC

clocked the tournament’s top overall seed by 20 points. Virginia became a laughingstock and UMBC was on top of the world for the few days following their victory.

In the press conference following his team’s historic upset loss, head coach Tony Bennett was quoted saying: “We’ll have to get past that. For some reason this is what we’ve got to deal with, and my job now will be to say hey, how do we bounce back, our players and all that.”

Returning with household names like Ty Jerome, Kyle Guy, DeAndre Hunter and Mamadi Diakite, who no doubt had a bad taste left in their mouths following last season’s tournament loss, the Cavaliers did in fact bounce back - all the way to become national champions.

Many analysts and writers considered the ACC to be the best conference in college basketball this season, with three of the four one-seeded teams coming from the conference.

When most of us filled out our brackets, we likely were hesitant to pick Virginia to go very far after what happened to them the season prior, especially with their ACC rivals Duke and North Carolina sporting impressive squads themselves. But

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the more the public doubted them, the more UVA proved them wrong.

Nearly every game on their route to the championship was a hard-fought grind. Their f irst-round win against Gardner-Webb saw the Cavaliers struggle in the first half, trailing by double-digits to a 16-seed (again). Their second-round victory against Oklahoma never really seemed like a sure victory. They had to grind out a three-point win, mostly on the defensive end, in the Sweet 16 against Oregon. In the Elite 8 versus Purdue, they trailed right up until time expired

when Diakite tied the game to force overtime. And they squeaked out a Final Four win against Auburn with hardly any time remaining (the foul or no-call debate is a different story).

So, it was only natural that their national title matchup against Texas Tech would be a hard-fought game that would need the extra five minutes to determine the winner.

Both of these teams would have been deserving national champions. Texas Tech cruised through their region, held off Big Ten champion Michigan State and their defense was easily

one of the best in basketball. Being that it was their school’s f irst ever Final Four and national championship appearance, it would have been a great story for them to have cut down the nets.

But this year’s Virginia team had just a little more Cinderella magic (or help from the officials, depending on how you view it).

One year ago, the Virginia men’s basketball team was laughed at, forgotten and slept on. Now, they are national champions and will go down as one of the greatest success stories in sports.

Panthers go 2-1 versus Redbirds, 0-2 vs Drake SOFTBALL

PATRICK HANSEN the purple and gold plenty of

Sports Writer

The UNI women’s softball team started a five-game stretch on the road, meeting Illinois State and Drake University on the way.

On Saturday, April 6, the Redbirds hosted the Panthers in a doubleheader and would fall to UNI in both games, 6-2 and 5-0.

In game one of the double-header, the Panthers took the lead in the third inning with a two-run home run from the third baseman, Adara Opiola. The score remained the same until the Redbirds tied the game in the bottom of the fifth.

Catcher Ashley Chesser then replied with a solo homer to lead off the top of the sixth, followed by shortstop Sammey Bunch giving

breathing room as she hit a three-run home run to push the lead to 6-2, which ultimately became the final score In game two, pitching was key for the Panthers as starter Jaclyn Spencer threw a complete game shutout, allowing just five hits and two walks.

The women of UNI gained the lead in the second inning off a fielder’s error and managed to get two, two-run homers by Bunch, as well as Courtney Krodinger, to finish off the Redbirds 5-0.

In the third game of the series, the Panthers were unable to complete the sweep as they fell 6-5.

The pitching never really got going in the loss as Emma Olenjniczak came on to start, but was relieved after walking the first two batters she faced. Spencer and Brooke Craig both came into

the game to relieve but both allowed two earned runs.

The Panthers started to make a comeback as they were down two in the final inning, with Bunch recording her fifth straight game with a home run as she brought the game within one in the seventh.

The effort wasn’t enough to propel UNI to the win.

Following the three-game series, Bunch was named MVC player of the week.

This was the fourth time in her career she has claimed that award.

On Tuesday, April 9, the Panthers traveled to Des Moines to take on conference-best Drake in a doubleheader. Olejniczak had a tough outing as she lasted just two innings, walking five batters and allowing three runs (two earned).

UNI had a tough time

coming through with runners in scoring position as they stranded seven runners on and struck out 12 times in the 3-1 loss.

The Panthers struggled to find comfort while pitching in game two as Spencer allowed six runs in two-and-athird innings, followed by Hannah Kelley and Craig pitching in relief with a combined five allowed runs.

The purple and gold were able to get their first run in the fourth off a walk, and back-to-back homers in the fifth, but fell to Drake 11-3 in five innings.

The Panthers return home Saturday and Sunday, April 13 and 14, for a three-game homestand against Valparaiso.

TONI FORTMANN/Northern Iowan

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