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Volume 113, Issue 50

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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Columnist on Supreme Court Justice 3 Be the Match 4

SigEp SAAW Panther Portrait 5

Golf update 6

From where the bell tolls: the untold story of a uni artifact History prof says 148-year-old artifact should be relocated

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1869 - bell is first hung in the children’s orphanage

1876 - orphanage transitions to the iowa state normal school 1965 - central hall catches fire and burns to the ground 19??* - Bell is thought to have moved to old gilchrist hall 1972 - old gilchrist hall burns down 19??* - bell is moved to campanile 1983 - bell moved to be displayed at price lab 1984 - uni musuem acquires possession of bell 2006 - UNI musuem loans bell to maucker union, where it now stands * specific dates unABLE TO BE DETERMINED

Nestled between a row of gym lockers and an assortment of treadmills lies what is likely to be one of the oldest surviving artifacts from the beginning of UNI. As they make their way to class, students may not even notice the severely cracked bell situated inside a large glass case outside the Health Beat in the tunnel between the Maucker Union and Lang Hall.

However, this bell serves as one of the last physical reminders of UNI’s humble beginnings as a Civil War orphanage.

According to Thomas Connors, an associate professor of history, there was a series of orphanages built around Iowa during the Civil War, led by a woman named Annie Turner Wittenmyer, for whom there is a monument in the circle drive in front of Lang Hall.

“They put [an orphanage] in Cedar Falls in 1865,” Connors said. “The original orphanage was downtown on Main Street.

And then in 1869, they built a new building for the orphans.

And that was where the bell was hung.”

Connors explained that this

new orphanage was located in the space between where Maucker Union and Lang Hall currently occupy and that the bell was part of that original structure. However, the orphanage was only in operation for seven years before it was forced to close in 1876.

“If the war ends in 1865, your supply of orphans gets cut off in 1865 because there’s no more people getting orphaned from the war,” Connors said.

“So, by 1876, the youngest orphans would be 11. Most of

the orphans will have aged out of the system.”

Connors said that after the orphanage closed, the city fathers of Cedar Falls convinced the state government to convert the newly emptied orphanage into a teaching college — what was then known as a “Normal School.” This effectively marked the birth of UNI, as the former orphanage was later renamed Central Hall.

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The bell is currently situated on the ground floor of the Maucker Union near the Health Beat. History professor Thomas Connors wants to see the bell relocated to the site of the original orphanage, near the Center for Multicutural Education.

UNI clears Husker Invitational ZACH HUNTLEY

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Corey Hertz, sophomore sprinter, takes off in a relay.

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The men and women of UNI’s Track and Field team traveled to Lincoln, NE this weekend to compete in the Husker Spring Invitational.

Leaving in third place were the Panther women, with the men taking fourth at the meet.

In the field events, Kassidy

Sharp took third in the high jump, notching a 1.71 meter leap. Following close behind was Chaley Rath, taking fourth at 1.66 meters as an unattached competitor. In the throws, Panther Isaac Holtz chalked up a 54.13 meter discus toss to take second in the event.

Sophomore Maddie Bell continues to improve this year, as she took second in

the 200-meter dash, recording a 24.36 finish. Bell was trailed shortly behind by teammate Jasmine Blue, who placed fourth with 24.98.

Moving into the 400-meter dash, UNI finished fourth in both the men and women’s competitions. Senior Brett McCalla tallied a 48.05 finish with Madisen Irmen following with a time of 56.22.

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According to Nathan Arndt, the assistant director and chief curator for the UNI Museum, the bell was originally used as a simple calling bell for the children while the building was still operating as an orphanage. After the orphanage transitioned into the Iowa State Normal School in 1876, the bell served the additional purpose of calling the beginning and ending of the day, up until the installation of the Campanile in 1926.

Arndt said the Central Hall bell was still used after 1926, albeit in a more limited capacity, after the Campanile became the new official sound of UNI. “It was used for special occasions — if a sports team won a victory [or] to announce skip day,” Arndt said. “Records kind of indicate this wasn’t sanctioned. The bell was locked up, but the students would sneak up into the bell tower and ring it anyway to celebrate.”

The fire The bell remained in Central Hall until that building was destroyed in a fire in the early

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morning of July 22, 1965.

“In 1965, actually, one of the newspaper people was walking out and noticed smoke coming out of a window,” Arndt said.

“And it burnt to the ground that night due to faulty wiring.

They tried to save it, but at the end of it, they had to bulldoze the whole thing down.”

According to an article that appeared in the July 30, 1965 edition of the Northern Iowan (then known as the College Eye), the bell had previously been removed from the Central Hall bell tower and subsequently relocated to the attic of the building some 25 years prior to the fire.

However, despite being safely stored in the attic, the bell did not survive the fire unscathed.

According to the August 20, 1965 edition of the College Eye, the bell sustained a large crack in its side as a result of the fire that engulfed Central Hall.

This crack is still visible to this day.

Rediscovery Following the destruction of Central Hall, records fail to provide a clear history of where the bell moved next. However, according to Arndt, a past state-

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Two firefighters in the second story corridor of Old Central Hall attempt to quell the fire. The blaze would destory Old Central Hall, the oldest building on campus at the time of the fire and the founding building of the Iowa State Normal School, which would later become UNI.

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ment from Rosemary Beach, former Cedar Falls Historical Society curator, seems to imply that the bell was likely stored in the old Gilchrist Hall before that building burned to the ground in May of 1972.

The bell was then moved into the Campanile at some point, as was reported in an article that appeared in the Oct. 1, 1982 edition of the Northern Iowan. In the article, Bob Byrnes, the then-carilloneur for the Campanile, was quoted, saying, “It’s on the first floor behind the spiral staircase. It has been there for years.”

According to archival documents from the 1983 Centennial Committee Meeting for the 100th anniversary of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School, the bell was mounted and displayed at Price Lab for one year following its re-discovery in the Campanile. In 1984, the following year, the bell was donated to the UNI Museum, where it stayed until 2006.

Where it stands today According to Arndt, the UNI Museum loaned the bell out to the Maucker Union in 2006 in an effort to make objects from UNI’s history more accessible to students.

“At that point in time, the museum was sitting across Hudson in the old location,” Arndt said. “So, it wasn’t as easily accessible to students, and this was our way of kind of introducing that [history] to students.”

Arndt explained that another reason the bell was moved into its current location is that it now sits approximately underneath its original location in Central Hall. However, Arndt said he thinks the bell still needs more attention than it currently receives.

“That’s part of the reason where it’s at; it’s because that’s the original location of where it sat,” Arndt said. “So, in that sense, I love it.... On the other hand, you’re only letting a certain amount of students see it.

So, we have to kind of weigh that back and forth.”

Ellie Akers, junior anthropology major and research assistant at the UNI Museum, echoed this sentiment, saying

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“It’s in a safe location, don’t get me wrong,” Akers said.

“But, I think that it’s not getting its proper dues by being there.

I mean, you pass by it on your way to Lang or on your way to the Union, but that’s about it.

It’s not getting its proper attention that it deserves.”

The bell’s future Connors has expressed interest in seeing the UNI Museum move the bell to a more prominent location — specifically, directly above where it currently sits.

“So, I think there are two things going on. One, we haven’t marked the place where the university began,” Connors said. “And secondly, this relic of the beginning of the university — this symbol — it’s in a basement, basically. So, what we had talked about … was to landscape that area where it stood and then use the area just inside the multicultural center and the student center.”

Connors said he believes the bell should be moved to the seating area adjacent to the Center for Multicultural Education (CME), where he says the window there directly looks out on the former site of the orphanage and Central Hall.

“I thought that would be a really nice place to put the bell and interpret the orphanage,” Connors said. “That would allow a place to put the bell — a place that is more prominent and not underground. And it would also allow us to inter-

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A firefighter fights the blaze of Old Central Hall. July 22,1965.

pret and mark the site of the orphanage and maybe put a monument or a plaque.”

According to Akers, although the bell is on loan to Maucker Union, it still a part of the UNI Museum’s collection.

However, she stressed there is a potential for collaboration between the UNI Museum and other departments on campus to possibly relocate the bell and commemorate its history.

“One thing I really like about working at the UNI Museum is that every little thing has something important. It has a story,” Akers said. “And this bell has one of the most interesting stories I’ve ever encountered…. I think that having this kind of backstory uncovered [is] vital for what UNI is and how it came to be.”

Connors said he hopes such a relocation could be completed by 2019, the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Civil War orphanage that would eventually become UNI.

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The new suggested location of the Old Central Hall bell is next to the Center for Multicultural Education in the Union. This is close to the location of the Civil War-era orphanage that later became Old Central Hall.

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Never forget: Court seat was stolen On Monday, Judge Neil Gorsuch became Justice Neil Gorsuch as President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee was sworn in at the White House Rose Garden.

The ceremony marked the end of 14-month partisan struggle to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

I do not have a problem with Neil Gorsuch himself.

Gorsuch and myself are divided by a Grand Canyonesque crater in terms of ideology, but there is no questioning that he is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court.

Gorsuch attended Columbia, Harvard and Oxford; then clerked for the still-serving Justice Kennedy. Gorsuch had served on the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit since 2006, and the American Bar Association gave Gorsuch their highest rating, “Well Qualified,” to serve on the Court.

What there is a problem with is the treatment of former President Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, by Senate Republicans throughout 2016.

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he explained his reasoning for the unprecedented and destructive stonewalling of Garland’s nomination.

McConnell told host Chuck Todd, “…the tradition had been not to con-

firm vacancies created in the middle of a presidential year. You’d have to go back 80 years to find the last time that happened.”

The supposed 80 year “tradition” McConnell speaks of is not a tradition, but a coincidence. In the time frame McConnell describes, several Supreme Court seats have been filled on presidential election years. Benjamin Cardozo was nominated by then President Herbert Hoover and confirmed by the Senate in 1932. In 1940, FDR nominated Frank Murphy, who was confirmed. Dwight Eisenhower appointed William Brennan in 1956.

Lastly, Ronald Reagan nominee Anthony Kennedy was confirmed by a 97-0 vote in 1988. It should be noted that the mentioned seats filled by FDR and Reagan were vacated the year before the presidential election year, and were simply confirmed during the election year. But would McConnell have been willing to confirm Garland in 2016 if Scalia had passed in 2015 rather than 2016?

The one scenario that is similar to 2016 took place in 1968. In June 1968, Chief Justice Earl Warren announced that he intended to retire. President Lyndon Johnson nominated current Justice Abe Fortas to become the new Chief Justice, and nominated Homer Thornberry to replace Fortas. Johnson’s nominees were met with stern resistance. Though there were questions regarding confirming appointees from a lame-duck president, Fortas’

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(Left) Justice Anthony Kennedy swears in Neil Gorsuch as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court April 10.

(Right) Merrick Garland, chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was nominated by former President Barack Obama in March of 2016 to fill the vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. A Republican majority Senate refused to hold a hearing or vote on his nomination, insisting that the vacancy on the court be filled by the next elected President.

nomination ultimately fell through for several reasons including ethical questions, prior decisions and ties to President Johnson.

Warren eventually delayed his retirement.

One incident in 1968 is surely not an establishment of a tradition, especially as vacant Supreme Court seats were filled during presidential election years before and after 1968.

McConnell insists that the American people should have the chance to select the president who would appoint Scalia’s replacement. The American people did choose that president when they elected Barack Obama in 2012. Article II Section 1 of the Constitution is clear when it states that the president serves a four-year term, not a three-year term.

McConnell also told Todd, “The American people decided they wanted Donald Trump to make the nomination, not Hillary Clinton,” another dubious claim con-

sidering that Trump lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes. It appears the American people wanted Clinton to make the nomination, not Trump.

Senate Republicans, at the very least, ought to have held hearings and a vote for Garland. Why didn’t they?

Garland, just like Gorsuch, is a well-qualified nominee for the Court. It seems that Republicans would have been unable to delegitimize Garland himself, given his qualifications, especially once people got to know more about him during confirmation hearings.

Instead of trying to delegitimize Garland, Republicans instead delegitimized the act of Obama nominating anybody in the first place. The argument, “Should nominees be considered in an election year?”, favors Republicans far more than, “Is Merrick Garland qualified to sit on the Supreme Court?” The answer to the first is debat-

able, the answer to the second is clearly “yes.”

There is a difference between holding hearings and voting “no,” and refusing to even hold hearings. The former is far more honorable and in line with Constitutional procedures. Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley and Senate Republicans pulled some very dirty tricks to deny Merrick Garland his rightful seat on the Supreme Court, and their actions should not be forgotten.

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Org advocates for marrow donors SYDNEY HAUER Staff Writer

UNI Be the Match is holding their first annual “Cheek Week” event this week, from April 10 to 14. The purpose of the event is to spread awareness of the organization and to help students sign up to be bone marrow donors so they can aid in saving the lives of leukemia, lymphoma and blood cancer patients.

The organization has tabled in Maucker Union each day this week from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., helping students sign up.

Be the Match is a national registry of volunteer donors, which is operated by

the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).

UNI’s Be the Match is a fairly new organization on campus, having just started in February. UNI is the fourth school in Iowa to get a Be the Match organization, after the University of Iowa (UI), Iowa State University (ISU) and Drake University. UNI Be the Match is currently made up of 20 students.

“Our main mission is to connect leukemia, lymphoma and blood cancer patients — or anyone in need of bone marrow — with students or people in the Cedar Falls community that are committed and willing to donate their bone marrow to save these

people’s lives,” said Michelle Matchell, the president of the organization and a sophomore biology and biochemistry double major.

“When someone registers, they fill out a packet and we swab their cheek. That’s why we call it ‘Cheek Week,’” Matchell added.

She explained that the packets are then sent to the UI to be run through a DNA matching program. From there, a person’s human leukocyte antigen (HLA) type is taken and entered into an international registry.

According to Matchell, when someone has a cancer that requires help from a bone marrow donor, they go into

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Senior communications major Taylor Petersen swabs his cheek at the Be the Match table in the Union to see if he qualifies to donate bone marrow.

the registry and try to find a match. Finding a perfect match is incredibly rare, with

only a one in 540 chance.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Kong’ not exactly a barrel of monkeys CLINTON OLSASKY

Associate Executive Editor

You know the old saying: If it ain’t broke…go ahead and break it. Oh, wait. That’s not a saying?

Well, nonetheless, that must have been the motto that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts had in mind when he chose to bastardize one of the most heralded film franchises in history with the monstrosity of a monster movie known simply as “Kong: Skull Island.”

Taking the original 1933 setting of “King Kong” and replacing it with the volatile Vietnam War era of 1973, “Kong Skull Island” serves as a reimagining of the story of the titular giant ape and his famous home.

The film follows an expedition led by a skilled tracker and

a US government agent who are accompanied by a Vietnam War helicopter squadron to a mysterious isle known only as “Skull Island.”

Literally moments after arriving on the island, the group has their first encounter with Kong, resulting in numerous deaths and countless explosions.

Although visually eye-catching, the overreliance on spectacle and action here, and throughout the movie, ultimately throws a giant monkey wrench into what could have otherwise been an enjoyable popcorn flick.

Directing: 2/5 The film does somewhat deliver the goods in the visuals department, at least when it comes to the natural landscapes of Skull Island and some of the more breathtak-

ing action sequences.

However, the pervasive use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) quickly becomes all too apparent, and the overall synthetic look of the film is sure to draw the viewer out of the story just as a quickly as it brought them into it.

In addition, Vogt-Roberts often opts for excess when filming all the various action sequences. Vogt-Roberts’ proclivity for confusing close-ups, quick cuts and exaggerated zooms result in a jumbled, disorganized mess.

The overindulgence in unnecessary and unmotivated editing prevents the viewer from having a chance to breathe, let alone to become emotionally invested in any of the multiple character deaths that transpire throughout the film.

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“Kong: Skull Island,” starring John Goodman, serves as a reboot to the “King Kong” franchise. The film has garnered generally positive reviews from most critics, as it currently holds a 77 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Writing: 1/5 As for the characters themselves, they serve merely as vehicles through which to drive much of the excessive and redundant action on screen. This isn’t to say that action can’t enhance a movie; on the contrary, well-executed and emotionally driven action sequences can turn a good movie into a great one.

However, the action in “Kong: Skull Island” is so devoid of any real human emotion that all the bloodshed and fiery explosions ironically leave the viewer feeling cold and unsatisfied.

The film’s narrative structure also tends to sway between mindless summer blockbuster and epic adventure drama. These rapid tone shifts come in the way of piecing two extremely polarizing scenes back-to-back, such as when the film’s climactic giant monster battle is immediately followed by a poorly-shot and poorly-acted home video of a war veteran returning to his estranged wife.

It appears as if the filmmakers became aware of their overreliance on action and attempted to ameliorate these narrative flaws by haphazardly throwing together scenes they thought conveyed real human emotion. Instead, these pathetic excuses for character development only serve to magnify the film’s inherent shortcomings.

Needless to say, the screenplay for “Kong: Skull Island” is sorely lacking in characterization. It seems that as soon as the film begins, we are quickly thrust into the plot with little to no explanation of many of the central characters’ backstories or motivations. As a result, nearly all of the characters in

the film come across as nothing more than thinly-drawn outlines of real human beings.

Acting: 1.5/5 To be sure, the subpar acting on display doesn’t help the film’s poorly developed script one bit. This is truly a shame, given the all-star cast of such widely acclaimed veterans and newcomers, including Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman and 2015 Academy Award winner Brie Larson.

Indeed, the cast seems to only fluctuate between painfully wooden acting and equally wince-inducing ham-fistedness. It almost appears as though the cast was unsure of what kind of movie in which they were starring, as the uneven acting styles reflect the film’s aforementioned uneven tone.

John C. Reilly proves to be the only bright spot in the cast, whose natural charisma elevates his character’s initial role as comedic relief to one of the more well-rounded characters in the entire movie.

Overall: To put it simply, “Kong: Skull Island” is a giant failure of a film. This reimagining of the story of the famous ape simply fails on all levels to recapture the magic from the franchise’s previous film adaptations — whether it be the innovation and wonderment of the 1933 original or the epic scale and emotional depth of the 2005 remake.

Visual excessiveness, narrative incoherency and a painful lack of any real human connection ultimately makes “Kong: Skull Island” less fun than a barrel of one giant monkey.

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Panther Portrait: CLINTON OLSASKY

Associate Executive Editor

On Monday, April 10, Sigma Phi Epsilon (SipEp) kicked off their fifth annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week (SAAW) with a 24-hour See SAAW. Members of the organization see-sawed outside of the Maucker Union as a way to raise awareness and show support for sexual assault sur-

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vivors.

In addition, SigEp hosted a bags tournament at 4 p.m. on Monday. The tournament started out on the roof the Maucker Union, and all proceeds from the event went to the Cedar Valley Friends of the Family.

Other events from the week included a self defense class, “Teal Tuesday,” mentors in Violence Prevention training and a talent show and raffle.

sexual assault awareness week

Tonight, SigEp will host “Speak Up, Speak Out, Speak Now” at 7 p.m. in Sabin Hall.

The event will feature a series of shorts on sexual assault with speakers from UNI, as well as members from the LGBTQ community in Cedar Falls.

SigEp will wrap up the week on Friday when they hand out free cookies outside Maucker Union from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Sigma Phi Epsilon hosted a bags tournament Monday afternoon on the top of Maucker Union, the proceeds from which went to the Cedar Valley Friends of the Family.

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Brandon Lynch (left) and Alex Crum (right) see-saw during Sigma Phi Epsilon’s 24-hour See SAAW event on Monday, which marked the beginning of the organization’s fifth annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week.

Panther|Preview free sexual health screening

Poetry reading with wyatt townley

guest piano recital: Edisher Savitski

thursday, April 13 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

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student health clinic

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adults are more likely to donate stem cells, and those who are assigned to children are more likely to donate bone marrow.

“You stay overnight and they just make sure that everything is good. Everything is paid through the University of Iowa, so no expenses come to the donor,” Matchell said.

“Wherever [donors] are in the state or the world, the University of Iowa will pay for them to come back to the University of Iowa if they’re called to donate.”

Anyone can join UNI Be the Match, from students to community members.

Matchell said she thinks there are a lot of misconceptions about the process of bone marrow donation, which can cause people to shy away.

“You don’t have to be in the registry in order to be part of the organization because, obviously, donating bone marrow is a huge thing, and it’s a huge commitment,” Matchell said. “But if people still want to be a part of saving lives, they can help us table [and] help us fundraise, as their way of helping out.”

Roberto Estrella, junior electronic media major, said he was inspired by a former class-

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“Someone who signs up from UNI to be in the registry could match with someone all the way across the world and save their life,” Matchell said.

“It’s really special.”

If a match is found, they are contacted to schedule a physical examination, involving a blood test to make sure that the person is an absolute match. If it turns out that they are, the UI contacts them and schedules a time for them to donate.

Donors that are assigned to

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We’re so thankful that these people are willing to step up and help us save lives because you never know who could be that one match.

Michelle Matchell

UNI Be the Match President

chance at life, right?”

“We’re so thankful that these people are willing to step up and help us save lives because you never know who could be that one match,” Matchell said.

Anna Fuller, sophomore interior design major, spoke with one of the Be the Match representatives in Maucker Union, who was talking to her about the organization and saying that she would have a chance to change someone’s life immensely.

“I am always trying to find ways that I can help other people, and that is one super simple way,” Fuller said. “I have all this stuff in me; why should I not give it to someone else? I’ve been given this life for a reason.

If I don’t do something good with it, then what am I doing?”

mate to become involved with Be the Match.

“When I was younger, I had a classmate who had leukemia, and I watched a whole class rally together and get their bone marrow tested and find out if they were able to be a match for this high school student,” Estrella said. “I saw [Be the Match], and I was kind of moved. I felt motivated to see if I was a match GABRIELLE LEITNER/Northern Iowan for anyone Junior electronic media major Roberto Estrella said a because every- former classmate with leukemia inspired him to get his one deserves a bone marrow tested.

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UNI golf preps for MVC championship after swinging in the spring BRENNAN WHISLER Sports Columnist

The UNI men’s golf team just closed up the regular season for the spring portion of their schedule, and will head to the Missouri Valley Championship (MVC) on April 24-25. The championship will be held in Lemont, Illinois.

To officially finish up their regular season, the Panthers competed in a couple of April tournaments.

The first tournament was the Arkansas State University Red Wolf Intercollegiate in Jonesboro, Arkansas on April 3-4. The tournament itself belonged completely to Arkansas State as their two teams took both first and second and had the low individual score of 3-under par over the three-round tournament. It was the only under par performance.

UNI as a team finished in tenth place at 52-over par, nine strokes behind Omaha and six

better than Oklahoma Christian with 16 total teams competing.

Junior Sam DeBartolo golfed a team-best eight-over par to tie for 16th place. Senior Dustin Atkinson tied for 29th with an 11-over par total. Sophomore Davis Sutton rounded out the top part of UNI’s team by tying for 45th at 15-over par.

The regular season finale was the Tiger Invitational hosted by Missouri in Columbia on April 10-11. Missouri, ranked No. 30 in the nation, won the

invitational with a seven-under par effort. They were the only sub-par team present.

Missouri also had the individual winner as well as a player tied for second and a solo fourth. UNI was able to muster up a strong solo sixth place finish, falling one stroke behind Little Rock and finishing three ahead of Missouri State over the course of the three rounds.

The 18 teams competed in Columbia and UNI also managed a top 10 individual finish

thanks to Atkinson finishing tied for ninth at 1-over par.

Sophomore Marshall Lamb tied for 27th at 10-over par. Sutton also finished in the top half of 96 players with a 13-over par that tied him for 44th.

After starting the spring season with a last place finish, UNI has finished with strong play. They will look to improve their average score, which has them in the second-to-last-place spot in the Valley.

MVP race 2017: ‘The Beard’ or ‘Westwolf’ OPINION

DYLAN PADY

Sports Editor

The NBA playoffs will begin this weekend, with round one games consisting of Cleveland (1) v. Chicago (8), Boston (2) v. Indiana (7), Toronto (3) v. Milwaukee (6) and Washington (4) v. Atlanta (5) for the Eastern Conference.

The Western Conference (and the much more talented conference in my opinion) will feature Golden State (1) v.

Portland (8), San Antonio (2) v. Memphis (7), Houston (3) v. Oklahoma City (6) and Los Angeles Clippers (4) v. Utah (5).

This has been a great season for basketball, as a number of players have stepped out of their comfort zone and really improved their game this year.

Kevin Durant joining Stephen Curry and the Warriors was

James Harden Rockets.

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The Panthers performed especially well in the 800-meter, with the men nearly clinching first.

Junior Jordan Pingel recorded a 1:50.19 time,

frightening for most of the league at first, but Golden State was not immortal. The powerhouse of the West lost 14 games this season to teams such as the Lakers, Rockets, Grizzlies and the Heat.

That being said, a lot of players have been working hard and showcasing that they deserve the MVP award.

Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Isaiah Thomas, John Wall, Gordon Hayward, DeMar DeRozan and Damian Lillard are the top 10 players in the MVP race at the moment.

I believe that a new system needs to be incorporated as there are a handful of other talented players who are listed as potential winners but may be out of the running either due to injury or experience in the league. These players include Giannis Antetokounmpo, Anthony Davis, Paul George and Chris Paul.

I believe Harden will win the MVP race, as everyone became fearful of “the beard” this season. Harden turned the incredibly average 2016 Rockets (41-41 overall) into the third-best team in the West, as Houston currently sits 54-27 with less than one more week of the regular season to go. Houston’s organization was hungry to compete this season and traded players with the Pelicans to pick up Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon.

Both players proved to be deadly sharpshooters from downtown (Gordon won the three-point contest in New Orleans during the All-Star

game this season). Following up on the idea of surrounding Harden with other shooters, the Rockets traded Corey Brewer and a first-round draft pick to the Lakers in exchange for the 2014-2015 sixth man of the year award winner Lou Williams.

Now, with a roster full of teammates who know how to score and a more offensefocused game plan, Harden is passing the ball more. He’s running the court, pulling up from deep, getting to the foul line and almost anything he wants. He averages 29.3 points per game (PPG), 11.3 assists per game (APG) and 8.1 rebounds per game (RPG); all are career highs for Harden.

If you are not rooting for Harden to win, then it is fair to assume you either want Westbrook, Leonard or James to win. While I love watching Leonard and James play, I believe the only other true contender for MVP would be Westbrook. Westbrook is having himself a huge season statistically, but Oklahoma City finished sixth place in the Western Conference ­— their current record stands at 47-34.

Westbrook currently averages 31.9 PPG, 10.7 RPG and 10.4 APG, essentially averaging a triple double every game.

Westbrook just recently had one of the biggest games of his career against the Denver Nuggets. With 50 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists, Westbrook scored his final basket of the night with no time left and 35 feet away from the hoop. This was the game-winning basket that gave the Thuder a 106-105 win. A lot of the

players mentioned earlier contacted Westbrook on Twitter, congratulating his efforts and acknowledging his potential MVP status.

After revising my writing, it became apparent that Westbrook’s case looks a lot better on paper than Harden’s.

Harden has simply become more of a team player and this is a statistic that cannot always be recorded. On the other hand, Westbrook does have a solid team backing him up, but when you’re watching OKC play, you’re essentially just watching Westbrook play.

I believe the MVP award needs to extend into the post-season in order to truly decide the greatest player in the NBA, as the regular season by itself does not provide enough evidence. If Westbrook is named MVP but Oklahoma City loses to Houston in the first playoff series, is Westbrook still the most valuable player or is he just the most popular? What about last season? Curry was named MVP for the second time in a row, but Golden State ended up blowing a 3-1 lead and losing to the Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.

I know the award is for most valuable player, but I believe that a great player can put up big numbers and encourage teamwork and even produce a more prosperous team. This year’s race is going to be a good one, and if any of the players previously mentioned won the award for some crazy reason, I would be content (except Curry, I think he’s good but incredibly overrated). The idea of the MVP

race extending to post-season play would better determine who wants to win when the stakes are higher than a regular season game.

Furthermore, players who have been sitting out more frequently towards the end of the season have less of an opportunity to win the MVP award because they’re saving their efforts for post-season action and could care less about the regular season.

Granted, if a player is resting before the playoffs, they are already at a disadvantage of winning the award. This is because there are already players who play every game.

At the same time, I believe you need to be a playoff-contending team in order to be an MVP ­— You can’t be the best in the game if you’re not winning.

finishing just 0.16 seconds behind the victor. Both Lyndsie Schinkel and Lindsey Kite earned high marks as well, garnering second and third place with times 2:11.53 and 2:13.29, respectively.

In a similar light, the Panthers earned three top-5 finishes in the

1500-meter run. Freshman CJ May showed his colors with an incredible 3:54.80 record, and trailed the leader by one-tenth of a second — earning second place. On the women’s side, sophomore Tiffany Christensen took second, finishing with 4:41.24. She was followed close behind

by freshman Hannah Truniger, who recorded a 4:43.94 finish.

Turning around to clinch the only Panther first-place finish of the afternoon, Truniger set the 3000-meter bar at 9:56.49.

Not far behind her was UNI’s Kelsey Kirchoff, who reached the finish line in

10:24.94.

Sophomore Cole Phillips took third in the 110-meter hurdle with a time of 14.37 seconds. In the 400-meter hurdle, Jacob Smith took fourth, being only 1.44 seconds behind the leader.

Lauren Frederick notched second place in the women’s 400 hurdles with 1:03.59.

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