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Recycling changes coming to campus ELIZABETH KELSEY

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With Earth Day just one week away, environmental concerns are blossoming on campus. UNI community members may have noticed that the campus recycling protocol is changing.

According to UNI Director of Sustainability Eric O’Brien, the changes are the result of several related factors in the structure of the United States’ recycling system. The great majority of recycled material in the United States is not processed domestically, but is shipped overseas, mainly to China, a fact which O’Brien said may be startling for some students and citizens.

“We haven’t built the industry at a large scale to be able to handle our recyclables domestically,” he said. “We built a system where we’re not thinking about where it goes. We recycle it and we just feel better about the fact that it’s being recycled. We don’t realize it’s all going to China and that we don’t

RodCon 2019 SOFIA LEGASPI

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Rod Library welcomed about 3,000 visitors from UNI, the Cedar Valley and beyond to celebrate all things geek culture during the sixth annual RodCon on Saturday, April 13.

“It’s just really great to see all of these people come together,” said Jess Cruz, a member of the RodCon planning committee. “I know that this is an event that a lot of people look forward to every year, and to be able to see the library as both an academic space but then also a place where you can have fun.”

Cruz, who works as the exhibit preparator and outreach coordinator for the UNI Museum, is in her fourth year serving on the RodCon planning committee. Although she doesn’t consider herself to be a comic fanatic and knows that not everyone is, either, Cruz said there is something for everyone at the

mini comic-con.

“I think it gives people a space to belong. Especially I think a lot of people, when you think of comic books, you think of nerds and you think of outcasts, and it’s really easy to be isolated in that kind of mindset,” Cruz said. “And when you come together for a con, it’s like, ‘Oh, here are my people.’ [ …] So there’s a place for everyone here.”

Cruz’s words rang true, as it seemed as though anyone and everyone was present at RodCon. Visitors sported cosplay of all kinds, from more popular characters like Mary Poppins and Spiderman, to lesser-known characters from anime, video games and a plethora of other universes.

One attendee, Heather Hammersley, cosplayed as a skeleton named Sans from the video game “Undertale.”

“It takes far too long to do the makeup, and this is actually my first time ever cosplaying him in public,” said Hammersley, a UNI

senior majoring in earth science. “It’s an escape because you don’t have to be yourself while you’re in character and you can just appreciate all the other characters that you might know, that you might recognize.”

This was Hammersley’s third time at RodCon, and she said she plans to attend more cons in the future.

“I love seeing everyone else’s cosplays; it’s really enjoyable,” she said. “I like to see the stuff that people have worked on, and all the crafts and stuff that they bring.”

Among the crowd favorites of the day were the costume contests held on the main stage. This year’s RodCon offered a new category for teens, in addition to the children and adult divisions of previous years.

According to Cruz, one of the new features of this year’s RodCon were additional activities geared more towards teens and tweens, such as a facilitated Dungeons and Dragons

re-use the majority of it here locally.”

However, about 18 months ago, China began imposing tighter restrictions for contamination levels in the recycled materials it will accept.

According to O’Brien, the old standard called for approximately 80 percent of material in a load to be clean, or uncontaminated. That number has now increased to 99.5 percent.

“Basically, if there’s anything that is contamination in our waste stream,” he said, “our service provider will reject our entire load from the whole university.”

Contamination of a load can occur in several ways, according to O’Brien. The most obvious comes from garbage or other clearly non-recyclable products.

However, contamination also occurs when individuals recycle objects which appear to be recyclable — or may even be labeled as such— but aren’t acceptable in a single-stream recycling program.

“People saying ‘Well,

this pizza box is cardboard, so it is recyclable,’ but it’s covered in grease,” O’Brien said. “If there’s food waste on the material, that would be considered contamination.

And things like plastic bags might be a recyclable plastic, but they cause major problems in the recycling stream.

They will wrap around the machines and bring the whole thing to a stop.”

Whatever the way in which a load of recycling becomes contaminated, the tightened restrictions from China have slowly trickled down to affect citizens here in the United States. Like many communities and campuses, UNI sells most of its recycling to a local service provider; in this case, the university’s provider is in Cedar Rapids.

The service provider then handles the transaction with overseas centers in countries such as China. Thus, the service providers were the first to experience the effects of the change in regulations.

game.

For the youngest of geek culture fans, RodCon offered a Kid’s Zone with crafts facilitated by UNI art students, including Harry Potter brooms and Pokemon

stress balls, to name a few. The Spectrum Project also offered a quiet room for those seeking a sensory-friendly space.

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NAR conference celebrates 50 years at UNI ANNA FLANDERS Staff writer

The North American Review (NAR), is preparing for a conference to celebrate 50 years at the University of Northern Iowa. Although the NAR has been around for over 200 years—making it the oldest literary magazine in the country—it has spent only a quarter of that time at UNI. “In literary publishing, it’s hard to stay afloat because of all these [other literary] magazines,” said UNI associate professor of languages and literatures and conference co-coordinator, Jeremy Schraffenberger. “We have existed for so long that I hope this conference ignites a new energy with the really long magazine that we are able to hold some of our past, some of our identity, but the people are still able to see it as a place that has new and exciting energy.”

The conference, scheduled Friday through Sunday, April 19 to 21, is being held not

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The North American Review (NAR), a literary magazine that has existed for over 200 years, celebrates its 50-year anniversary at the University of Northern Iowa. A conference will be held on Friday through Saturday, April 19 to 21, at several locations on UNI’s campus.

sion on Friday from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Commons Ballroom.

During this session, the public will also get its first look at a previously unpublished poem from Allen Ginsberg. The poem will be featured in the next issue of the NAR. “It’s a poem that’s never been published before,” Schraffenberger said. “It was hidden away for 50 years, and it was gifted to us by an alum of UNI, Kennie Harris, who thought maybe we would be interested in taking a look at it.”

According to Schraffenberger, Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century, so it presents a unique opportunity to be able to publish a newly discovered poem, written by Ginsberg himself.

The original handwritten manuscript was penned in red ballpoint ink, so it will be published in facsimile, which, as Schraffenberger explained, is when the image of the page itself is published alongside a transcribed copy of the original text.

Gary Kelley, a visual artist who attended UNI, did a portrait of Ginsberg that will be printed on the backside of the poem itself.

This poem will also be

kept in Rod Library’s Special Collections.

This year, the keynote speaker will be author and activist Terry Tempest Williams, who will be delivering her address on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Lang Auditorium, followed by a book signing.

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only to celebrate this milestone for the NAR at UNI, but also to introduce the redesign of the magazine. In the past, the NAR has been designed to look more like a magazine, unlike most other literary journals that have a more spacious layout with heavier binding. The new look will be unveiled during the conference’s opening ses-

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The NAR partnered with Leopold Lecture series to bring Williams to the conference.

“She’s most known for her book ‘Refuge,’” Schraffenberger explained.

“She’s an acclaimed writer and a great writer, but she’s also known as an activist and a citizen. So she’s known for not just interest in creating beautiful things and creating art that is lovely, but also, art that can provoke social change and provoke political action of various kinds.”

The conference’s theme, Open Space of Democracy, was named after Williams’

book by the same name.

According to Schraffenberger, it challenges writers and artists to use their works to promote justice.

“We’ve had artists from across the country respond to The Open Space of Democracy,” explained UNI instructor of languages and literatures and conference co-coordinator, Rachel Morgan. “We’ll have 40 posters [made by these artists at the conference]. So I’m looking forward to seeing how that theme is played out throughout the conference: hearing the talks, seeing the images.”

Besides Williams, other featured writers include Adrianne Finlay, Taylor Brorby, Martín Espada, Kij Johnson, Joyelle McSweeney, Joseph Scapellato, Lauren Marie Schmidt and Sophfronia Scott. Brorby and Caspada have are contributing editors for the North American Review.

On Saturday and Sunday of the conference, there will be literary readings, panels and workshops on topics related to every genre of writing. Several UNI faculty members will be moderating panel discussions and leading workshops of their own.

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Ottessa Moshfegh is brilliant BRODY HALL

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What makes characters interesting these days? When I’m reading something, usually fictional, am I looking for a character with a fully developed backstory, filled with childhood trauma and steamy college romances that explain their adult psyche? Or am I looking for the heroine who is angry not only at her cheating husband, but herself, too, for allowing this situation to happen to her? Am I looking for the person who is so broken and damaged, that rock bottom has become their permanent residence?

No. Nowadays, when I’m looking for something to catch my attention and keep it, I’m wanting a protagonist in a novel who is dirty, nasty and most of all, funny.

I have read plenty of novels with these picture-perfect narrators who could never do any wrong - who are the pinnacle of what a good citizen would look like. They don’t just have a moral compass, they are the moral compass of their entire story. However, that’s not what real people are ever like. In reality, we humans are messy, we’re complicated and we’re far from perfect. All of these true elements of human nature can be found in Ottessa Moshfegh’s fiction.

I first encountered Moshfegh like the rest of the modern world did - by seeing the cover of her latest novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” plastered over Instagram, bookshelves everywhere and on top of the bestseller list of “The New York Times.” Finally, seven months after its publication, I picked up the novel at the public library and decided to give it a try.

I had read what the premise was, and at first, I was skeptical. How I understood it, “Rest and Relaxation” fol-

lowed a 27-year-old woman in New York City in the year 2001 (yes, the novel does climax during 9/11) as she tries to fix her mental state by drugging herself with psychotic medication and sleep for a year.

Completely absurd, I know, but the novel ended up blowing me away, and I knew I was in the presence of one of the greatest living writers.

“It was lunacy, this idea, that I could sleep myself into a new life. Preposterous. But there I was, approaching the depths of my journey.”

Moshfegh’s brutal honesty in the way she writes transcends how normal writers would want to convey their characters and bring the reader to a place where one, they understand that the narrator does not care what anyone thinks about them and two, that Moshfegh doesn’t care what anyone thinks about her or her craft. And what could be better than an intellectual, literary woman with a IDGAF attitude?

“I had no big plan to become a curator, no great scheme to work my way up a ladder. I was just trying to pass the time. I thought if I did normal things - held down a job, for example - I could starve off the part of me that hated everything.”

What I appreciated the most out of the unnamed narrator was that even when her feelings were unjustified, when she was doing the most crazy things, such as quitting her job in a hilarious way, or convincing her older ex-boyfriend to cheat on his current girlfriend with her, was that there was this honesty and truth that most people would never even include in their fiction.

A favorite writer of mine has a sign hanging in their kitchen that says in giant letters: “FICTION IS THE TRUTH FOOL.” If anything, Ottessa Moshfegh only wants to tell the truth, no matter how hard

that pill may be to swallow.

After finishing “Rest and Relaxation,” I had to find more of her work and consume it as quickly as I did her latest novel. I quickly checked out her first novel, “Eileen,” and her collection of short stories, “Homesick for Another World.” From there, I learned instantaneously that Moshfegh was talented from the start.

While listening to podcast interviews with her, as I often do with writers I admire, I learned that there was a lot of backlash against “Eileen,” for the way the narrator portrayed and spoke about herself.

Moshfegh, of course, defended her artwork, saying that as a feminist, it was important to give her female narrators control over how they spoke about their body, their sexuality and themselves in general. To call the titular narrator of “Eileen” a pervert doesn’t quite do her justice. Eileen is a woman with urges and thoughts of a pubescent boy, who is obsessed with the mysterious workings of sex, but not interested in people in general. She has a Peeping Tom hobby that simultaneously humanizes and dehumanizes her even more than her daydreams of sexual escapades.

“Anyway, I don’t trust those people who poke around sad people’s minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It’s not interesting.”

The novel as a whole shocked me. It follows Eileen in the last week of her “first life” as it leads up to the events that force her to give up her original life, leave her town and family and start anew in New York City. Moshfegh hints what the big surprise is that could drive a person to abandon everything they know, but the events themselves don’t become present until the very end, which are disturbing, disgusting and deplorable.

However, to say that those

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Copy Editor Brody Hall encourages readers to check out the author Ottessa Moshfegh, who has written books such as the “New York Times” bestseller, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation.”

kinds of things don’t happen in the current American society would require some sort of delusion.

“Homesick for Another World,” was filled with snapshot-like episodes that could have been fleshed out as whole novels. Each time I came to the end of a story, I was left wondering what happened next.

There were ones that made me laugh (“Mr. Wu,” “Bettering Myself ”), ones that left me disgusted (“Nothing Ever Happens Here,” “Malibu”) and ones that left me just plain confused (“The Beach Boy,” (“The Locked Room”).

From reading her short story collection, I found that Moshfegh had an eye to capture the parts of the human experience that seem mundane, could appear profound and ultimately be brilliant pieces of what life is like for people - funny, dangerous and all-out weird.

Who else could write about an

old man who is attempting to catfish a young bartender to go out with him? Or a teacher at a Catholic high school who is not-so-secretly an alcoholic?

Or another teacher who, on her summer vacations, uses meth very recreationally?

Ottessa Moshfegh is brilliant for the way her fiction describes the parts of society we usually don’t want to hear about. She takes the normal situation, puts it under a microscope and puts that image in an IMAX theater, where everyone can see all nasty parts up close and personal.

If you need something to read, then this is definitely a sign that you should pick up anything by Ottessa Moshfegh. She might make you feel uncomfortable and she’ll definitely make you laugh, but most of all, she’ll make you feel like your life is actually pretty tame (unless, of course, it’s not).

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Daniel Franzese doesn’t even go here SOFIA LEGASPI

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The third time really was the charm for Daniel Franzese as his “Yass, You’re Amazing” comedy tour made its long-awaited stop at UNI. Best known for starring as Damian Leigh in the 2004 cult classic film “Mean Girls,” Franzese had previously been scheduled to visit UNI in January, then in February. Both times were postponed due to severe winter conditions.

The weather finally cooperated on Wednesday, April 10. After a short opening act by comedian David Burdge, Franzese walked on stage in the Maucker Union Ballroom greeted by cheers from the audience. His stand-up routine included stories about his life with Italian parents, his fears about animals with STDs and getting frozen in an embarrassing pose during a volcanic eruption.

Franzese ended the evening with a question-and-answer session open to the audience. Queries ranged from lighter questions like “Is ketchup a jelly?” to several questions about his “Mean Girls” experiences.

One student asked Franzese what it felt like to be a reaction meme.

Damian’s shady call that “She doesn’t even go here!” is one of the many popular lines from the “Mean Girls” script.

“I love it; I think it’s so funny. Like, all I ever wanted to be when I was 12 was relevant,” Franzese said, eliciting laughter from the audience.

“I always meme myself,” he continued. “If you try to have a meme battle with me, eventually I send you memes of myself and I win.”

Franzese struck a more serious note when a student asked him about the personal significance of being a part of such a popular film. He told the story of an impactful fan letter he received years ago, one that encouraged him to come out as gay and one that made him realize the significance

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“We chose nine featured writers and these were people we kind of wanted to claim as ours in some way,” Schraffenberger explained.

“We’re rebranding ourselves.

We’re redesigning ourselves, and these are people whose works we want to honor, sort of to say, ‘This is our new magazine; These are the peo-

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of the character of Damian.

“He was like, ‘Thank you for giving me something in the media that I could identify with proudly,’” Franzese recalled. “And I realized how impactful Damian was because he was the first queer character — and especially the first queer character of size — to be in a movie where his head wasn’t flushed down the toilet, and he wasn’t shoved in a locker, and he wasn’t called the F-word and all these other things. And he got to live without fear and how impactful that was for

so many people of color, of size, of different abilities, of everything to see somebody who was different survive.”

“And so now I lean into it and I celebrate it because I know how much it means to my people,” Franzese concluded, with the audience applauding.

One of the last questions of the evening addressed Franzese’s favorite “Mean Girls” scene to film: singing Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” during the Winter Talent Show.

“People don’t realize that when I was singing it, the

only person in the audience was my mom,” he said. “And it was really fun to perform for her.”

When another student requested he reenact the scene, Franzese answered, “Only to you; come up here.”

Franzese also called up the first student who had asked about his favorite scene, and the trio sang together.

After inducting the audience into the “House of Glen Coco,” Franzese con-

cluded his performance.

Following the show, audience members were able to get autographs and take photos with Franzese and Burdge during a free meet-and-greet.

“Mean Girls”-themed refreshments including pink lemonade and Kalteen Bars were provided.

The “Yass You’re Amazing” comedy tour’s stop at UNI was sponsored by the UNI Campus Activities Board.

ple we want to honor. This is our new identity.’”

Although the NAR selected these nine featured writers, they also put out a call for submissions from writers, teachers, and artists from across the country. Hundreds of these people will be discussing their work on Sunday.

The detailed schedule for all these events is available on the conference website at nar-conference.uni.edu.

The website also contains a place for attendees to register. All of the conference sessions are free and open to the public due to support from UNI’s Office of the Provost, the Department of Languages & Literatures, College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences and Humanities Iowa.

Morgan hopes that the conference will be an eye-opening experience for even local peo-

ple who may not have been aware of the NAR and its historical significance. The magazine has published local and well-known authors alike, including John Steinbeck, Flannery O’Connor, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

“One of the things I hope the conference will do is invite people who live in the Cedar Valley, who live in Iowa,” Morgan said. “They’ve

heard of this conference, and they’ll come and they won’t have known about this, about the North American Review ,or that it was here to begin with. And they’ll buy a copy.

They’ll subscribe. And they’ll share it beyond the writers and artists in our community already want to expand our reach, but also just reach people who might not feel like they are invited into the conversation.”

“Mean Girls” star and stand-up comic Daniel Franzese visited UNI on Wednesday, April 10 as part of his “Yass You’re Amazing” comedy tour.

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“Throughout this academic year, we at the Office of Sustainability have been talking about ways we could change our system, knowing full well that we would roll something different out for the 2019-2020 school year,” O’Brien said. “Then the service provider made a change based on their company policies and said, ‘Things have to change now.’”

The biggest change for current UNI students, especially those who live in the dorms, is that, beginning immediately, students must not place their recycling into the campus dumpsters in plastic bags.

Previously, O’Brien said, the Cedar Rapids service provider had specifically requested that the campus use bags so that contaminated bags could be individually removed without rejecting an entire load of recycling. But now, the new regulations mean that any loads of recycling with plastic bags will not be accepted.

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This year’s RodCon featured a total of 52 vendors — both new and returning — selling art, books, games and more.

Ongoing events throughout the day included a green screen photobooth, trivia of all kinds, board games and video games, the Wall of Comic Art, a silent auction and an “escape room in a box.” Attendees were able to enjoy demonstrations from the UNI Sword-Fighting Club, witness a “Hogwarts Potions Class” by the UNI chapter of Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society and hear music from the UNI Pep Band. Various panels and presentations covered topics ranging from “Women in the Comic Book Industry” to “Black Panther and Black Excellence.”

The full day of activities was completely free and open

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Students should instead place recyclable products loosely into the recycling dumpsters.

For many UNI students, this won’t be a drastic change in their current recycling habits. Nick Steffens, a freshman digital media production major who lives in Campbell Hall, says he never used a plastic bag for his on-campus recycling simply because his hometown recycling program didn’t use them.

The new elimination of plastic bags might not be such a radical behavior change for students. However, what might be a bigger behavior change is the reduction of what O’Brien terms “wish-cycling,” or placing an item in the recycling stream even if citizens are not completely sure it is recyclable, in the hopes that it is. Wish-cycling is a common practice and an example of “good intentions gone bad,” according to O’Brien.

“If you look at something and you don’t know for certain that it’s recyclable, it’s better to put it into the trash,” he said. If the item turns out to

have been recyclable, “it’s one recyclable item that made its way into the landfill. But on the other side, if it is something that’s not recyclable and they throw it into the recycling stream, it has the potential to cause an entire week’s worth of recycling from UNI to be rejected and end up in the landfill.”

Plastic food containers from on-campus retail stores, for example, can theoretically be recycled, but must be completely clean and dry, something which O’Brien says is almost impossible with containers which have held salads and other food residue. If unsure, students are better off throwing it into the trash, he said.

O’Brien said that decreasing wish-cycling is a “behavior change” that will take time, but one that needs to take place on campus and in communities nationwide. This is an issue in flux, and the current changes to the campus recycling program will likely not be the last.

“Right now, we’re trying to address [the changes]

to the public. Cruz stressed the crucial role of sponsors in keeping it that way.

“We rely on a lot of businesses to help us out, and we’ve been able to grow a lot because of that,” she said. “And so, we really appreciate all of that support that we’re getting both on campus and off campus.

RodCon 2019 was sponsored by The CW Cedar Rapids, 93.5 The Mix, Video Games ETC!, Copyworks,

the Cedar Falls Tourism & Visitors Bureau, the College Hill Partnership, The CORE, Escapology and GallagherBluedorn Performing Arts Center.

Although RodCon’s average yearly attendance of 3,000 appears to have library bursting at the seams, Cruz says the planning committee hopes to continue expanding the event.

“We might look at different ways that we can use the

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Changes in the United States recycling industry are affecting the guidelines UNI community members must follow. The most immediate change is that recyclable products must not be placed in dumpsters in plastic bags.

without a lot of extra burden on the students, faculty and staff for the remainder of the school year, but we do know things are going to look different next year,” he said.

Regardless of the future for the recycling program, students can ensure that the UNI campus is able to continue recycling by making the necessary changes and following the new guidelines.

“We are a big campus and

we do make such a decentsized portion of the Cedar Valley community, so if we don’t recycle, that’s just going to cause more damage to the Earth, especially when there’s really no more space for landfills,” said Kristina Huling, a junior public relations major who lives in Panther Village.

“I think it’s pretty important for us to actually listen to those emails and actually do what they’re saying.”

library, possibly partner with other places on campus to actually have a bigger footprint for it would be really great,” she said. “We want it to keep

growing and keep being a big thing.”

The seventh annual RodCon will be held on March 28, 2020.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Heims breaks world record in discus JACOB POTTER Sports Writer

Paralympic games medalist and UNI sophomore Jessica Heims broke the world record for the furthest discus throw under the F64 classification (lower limb prosthetic), launching the discus 105 feet 7 inches (32.19 meters).

Along with Heims’ accomplishment, UNI had 38 top-three f inishes at the Musco Twilight meet in Iowa City on Saturday, April 13.

Putting the world record in perspective, Heims threw a 4.4-pound discus 35 yards.

Additionally, Heims notched the best time in the

world this year for the 100meter dash under the F64 classification at 15.30.

On the men’s side, Isaac Holtz posted an impressive distance of 188 feet 11 inches in the hammer throw. The throw moved Holtz into third place in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) rankings.

Connor Ham and Evan Long also moved up in the MVC rankings. Ham posted a time of 14.10 in the 110 hurdles, the fastest time in the MVC and a personal best by one hundredth of a second. Long finished third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 21.38, moving him up to the second spot in the MVC.

Additiona l winners included Katie Nimrod in the 400 hurdles (1:03.33), Lyndsie Schinkel in the 800 -meter run (2:10.72), Alex Jackson in the 3,000meter steeplechase (9:16.42) and McKayla Cole in the 3,000-meter run (10:08.30).

The purple and gold finished the meet strong by winning both 4x400-meter relays. The women’s team posted a time of 3:52.58, while the men’s team notched a time of 3:13.22.

Up next, the Panthers will travel south to Columbia, Mo., home to the University of Missouri, to participate in the Tom Botts Invite from Friday to Saturday, April 19-20.

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Bunch claims single-season home run record ELIOT CLOUGH

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UNI shortstop Sammey Bunch is having herself a season for the Panthers.

The Crusaders of Valparaiso University came to town for a Missouri Valley Conference matchup this weekend with UNI, and were made well aware of that.

In the first of two contests held on Saturday, UNI was able to cut the games short with a five inning, 17-1 victory, and a six inning win by a final score of 8-0.

Going into the first game of the double-header, Bunch sat just behind the single season record for homeruns in a season for UNI at 13.

Struggling initially and ultimately ending the game with two strikeouts, Panther fans were eyeing their next game for Bunch to tie the record, but the UNI shortstop had other ideas.

With the Panthers already up by a score of 9-1 in the fourth inning and three runners on base, Bunch lifted her 14th home run of the season, tying the all-time record with a grand

slam, and extending the lead to 13-1.

Centerf ielder Courtney Krodinger and catcher Ashley Chesser also hit the ball past the fence in the first matchup of the day.

Emma Olejniczak pitched the game from top to bottom, allowing six hits, one earned run and striking out four batters.

The big hits were a trend all day for the Panthers, as three home runs came all in the second inning of game number two of the double header.

The first two came in back-to-back fashion off the bats of pinch hitter Emma Valainis and first-baseman Brittney Krodinger. Then, the now-holder of the single season record for home runs, Bunch came to the plate, sending a laser to center field to grab sole-possession of the record.

“It feels pretty good, but honestly I’m just glad we got two wins,” said Bunch after the contests. “I’m just out here playing softball, trying to do my best every game and help my team win

a conference tournament at this point.”

Waterloo native Jaclyn Spencer had a stellar performance on the mound, going the full six innings, striking out seven batters and only allowing two hits.

The third game of the series proved to have more of the same for UNI, ultimately earning a third conference win in a row, finishing off the Crusaders in the fifth inning by a score of 11-3.

Bunch added to her single season total, reaching 16

home runs for the year in the third game. B. Krodinger and Valainis all hit the ball deep in this contest as well.

“I think it’s just a different mindset [this year],” said head coach Ryan Jacobs. “[Bunch] is closing in on tying the record of home runs we hit last year as a team by herself. It says a lot about what we’ve done to change our hitting approach and our hitting style.”

Jacobs continued to heap the praise on the Panther shortstop, crediting her hard work in the offseason.

“She’s really been a beast in the weight room. She’s really taken that part of her training to the next level and it’s starting to show up on the field for her. What you do in the weight room takes a little while to show up, and it really has for her this year.”

Junior pitcher Brooke Craig earned the win in the third contest for UNI, pitching four innings and allowing seven hits.

Up next, the Panthers will head south to take on the Iowa State Cyclones this coming Tuesday, April 16, for a non-conference, in-state match up.

Panther women finish eighth in Terre Haute JERRIUS CAMPBELL Sports Writer

The UNI women’s golf team finished in eighth place after a tough outing in Terre Haute, Ind., as the Panthers

teed off at the country club of Terre Haute on Saturday, April 6.

Senior Sarah McMichael scored the team best 18 holes with a 75 tally. After two days, McMichael had UNI’s best total score of 152. She

finished the invite at 18th overall. Sydney Eaton was the next best finisher for the purple and gold with a score of 77 and 156.

The Panthers finished with a final score of 612 after two days. With the Missouri

Valley Conference championships coming up, UNI hopes to turn things around. After finishing second last year, the purple and gold look to make a run for the championship.

The Bears of Missouri State are the returning

champions and are favored going into the championships, followed by Bradley, Southern Illinois and then the Panthers. The championships will be held in Saint Louis, Mo., Sunday, April 14, through Tuesday, April 16.

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