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The UNI campus positivity rate sees little change from last week’s number.

In celebration of Earth Day, there will be a College Hill clean up organized by a UNI student.

UNI comes out on top in two day matchup against Loyola Chicago.

Panthers get vaccinated on campus EMMA’LE MAAS

Executive Editor

Vaccination clinics opened at the University of Northern Iowa from April 14-16 for students and staff.

Panthers received their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, a two-shot vaccination. All students and staff who participated are expected to return during finals week to receive their second and final dose of the vaccination.

The clinics were originally scheduled for April 13-16, with the April 13 clinic to have administered the one-dose vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson. However, FDA recommended a “pause” on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Tuesday, leading to the cancellation of that clinic.

Students like senior elementary major Ashlynn Averhoff chose to receive their vaccination through the university

because it was more “convenient and easy.”

“It hopefully means a little bit more normalcy, and I can hang out with family members and friends without feeling so nervous,” she said.

Freshman movement and exercise science major Hayden Amos also made the decision based on family.

“A lot of my family is older, and I want to see them, and I want to know I’m being safe for them,” he said.

Amos is a member of the UNI football team. He said his sport also influenced his decision, since he can now be more confident that “next fall I’m not going to be a risk to bring down other teammates because of COVID.”

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UNI students and staff had the opportunity to get their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on campus this past week.

Virtual Diversity Colloquium discusses health inequalities NICK BAUR

Staff Writer

Four local healthcare and human rights experts gathered in a Zoom virtual conference call on the evening of Thursday, April 15 for an academic seminar about health inequalities in the

age of COVID-19.

The event was part of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology’s Diversity Colloquium series established in 2016, sponsored by the department and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Thursday’s event brought together panelists from across the UNI and Cedar Valley communities to discuss their research and professional experiences related to health inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The panelists taking part in the colloquium— Dr.

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This was the second academic discussion the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology has hosted this semester.

Adam Froyum Roise, physician and member of the Black Hawk County Board of Health; Rev. Abraham Funchess of the Waterloo Human Rights Commission; Francis Degnin, medical ethicist and professor of philosophy; and Ashleigh Kysar-Moon, assistant professor of sociology— represented a healthy selection of specialists from across the Cedar Valley.

Adopting a question-and-answer structure moderated by assistant professor of sociology Kamryn Warren, panelists touched on a wide array of topics related to both healthcare and societal inequalities in the United States and specifically the Cedar Valley.

Kysar-Moon spoke on a theme permeating across the ninety-minute discussion.

“I will just echo again what Dr. Degnin said: it is not that the pathogen is targeting racial and ethnic minority groups, but it is because of the long-standing inequalities in the social determinants of health leading to poor COVID-related outcomes,” she said.

On the subject of vaccines and public sentiment towards them, Funchess shared his insight and experiences drawn from the communities of which he is a part.

“The risk factors associated with being in some of our communities— diabetes, asthma, cancer and all these other underlying known clinical risks— absolutely frightens some of the people I have talked to,” he said.

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COVID-19 on campus: case count, positivity rate show little change ELIZABETH KELSEY News Editor

The prevalence of COVID-19 on the UNI campus, as detected by Student Health Center testing, remained fairly constant last week, according to data released Friday, April 16 at noon.

The 55 tests conducted from April 12-18 through the Student Health Center resulted in seven positive cases, for a 12.73% campus positivity rate, as compared to ten cases and a 11.63% positivity rate recorded during the week of April 5-11.

The positivity rate may change slightly today when the Student Health Center updates last week’s data to include any tests conducted on Friday. Since the end-ofweek updates only include

data collected through Thursday, Friday numbers are added to the weekly total by noon on the following Monday and are therefore not included in the NI’s weekly analysis.

The university also reported seven self-reported student cases of COVID19 from March 29-April 4, with one from an employee.

However, these self-reported cases may also be counted in the Student Health Center weekly totals and therefore, the numbers cannot be combined for a grand total.

See page 1 for more pandemic-related coverage about UNI’s COVID-19 vaccine clinics last week. The university cancelled one planned clinic due to the pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but three others using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were held.

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As the panel drew to a close, Roise articulated some of the lessons he has learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically in relation to improvements in healthcare science.

“As we know that there are inequalities in our system, I think unless we are really cognizant about how these inequalities are going to affect the new technology, we are just going to duplicate and replicate inequalities going forward,” he said. “I think we cannot forget about this as we develop new tech-

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This particular colloquium marked the second academic discussion hosted this spring semester by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, and the third Diversity Colloquium of the academic year. The previous panels this academic year included topics such as Race, Social Justice and Policing in October of 2020 and Barriers to Family Prison Visitation, which took place in February.

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The breakdown on police brutality MOHAMMAD RAWWAS

Opinion Columnist

The structural critique of the police remains the same: their role is to enforce a property regime necessary for the functioning of capitalism, and any collateral is quite simply that, an unintended yet quietly accepted side effect of the necessary way in which they must operate in order to fulfill such a function.

However, the phenomenological critique of incidents of police brutality, often police killings, proceeds differently, though not incompatibly. Capitalism gives rise to such a level of individuation and alienation that everyone approaches everyone else as a potential danger, purely from the perspective of what that person could do to them as an individual, whether as a benefit or as a harm, as a use or as a danger.

This is to experience your fellow human beings as pure means rather than, as Kant would have it, as ends in themselves. This phenomenological reality is what results in police killings to the extent and frequency that they do occur, and we can see this same dynamic also give rise to phenome-

non such as the racially-code suburban fear of crime, as well as the often-paranoid fear of public violence done against women (which often elides the sheer frequency of domestic violence and the reality that the majority of sex trafficking victims are male).

only with massive upheavals in society, namely in material conditions and the prevailing mode of production, can this sort of relation to each other truly flourish. Capitalism is, after all, the ideology of utility, of pursuing one’s own self-interest, of relating to

tions between things.

On another note, some have pointed out the statistical unlikelihood of police encounters ending in death, and, have wondered why people who discuss police brutality do not seem to care as much about, say, crime, which seemingly has

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Opinion columnist Mohamma Rawwas calls for discussion about police brutality and crime and the role they play in society today.

If we are to see a other people purely through more harmful effects overdecrease in police violence, the medium of the mar- all. The reality is that peothis will necessitate a gen- ket, where the only relevant ple form narratives around eral, fundamental change in question is what commodity what is politically expedient the way that society views or monetary value do you for them, and in the current itself, in the way the strang- have that I want and can discourse what is deemed ers interact with strangers trade you for. As Marx says, relevant or newsworthy, in in general. However, this is material relations between both the liberal and consera structural impossibility: people become social rela- vative imagination, usually

depends on the identities of the perpetrators and the victims.

This also speaks to a drying up of imagination of considering crime as something that is a necessary background that cannot be changed, while it is only police brutality that is unnecessary and can be remedied, when in reality they can both be addressed, as they both arise from the same source (the property regime). It is important to note that what should be considered important to discuss needs to be based on some criteria that moves beyond identity, yet also beyond mere statistics, and should really be about what can be tied to a structural critique.

Both police brutality and crime should be discussed, because they both arise from structure. There is no objective criteria, but partisan politicizing is also unhelpful. Finally, it has also been noted that telling people not to comply with police will increase the likelihood that they will die, and should probably not be advocated for. This is invariably true, though it is an unfortunate circumstance to be placed in in the first place.

Iowa’s “Back the Blue” bill demonizes protestors EMERSON SLOMKA

Opinion Columnist

On April 14, Iowa lawmakers passed Senate File 342, dubbed the “Back the Blue” bill, adding additional protections to law enforcement and raising penalties for offenses related to protesting.

The bill also expands qualified immunity, and eliminates liability for drivers who hit protesters, so long as they are not engaging in “reckless or willful misconduct.” The legal penalty for engaging in a riot is elevated to a class D felony, potentially resulting in up to five years of prison and the loss of voting rights. Other additions include adding failing to stop for unmarked police cars to the definition of eluding and increasing benefits for police officers regarding medical benefits, workers compensation and retirement.

Officers on the Brady List (a list of officers with suspect credibility compiled by county attorney’s offices) can no longer be fired for being on this list under Senate File 342.

“We are living in a time where our police officers are targets,” said Rep. Steve Holt, “There’s a level of a lack of respect that is breathtaking that I have not seen in my lifetime, toward those who ensure that law and order is maintained. We all know that without law and order, there is no freedom, there is no justice.”

Rep. Jarad Klein said, “I’ve got no problem with peaceful protests. Those are a great and wonderful thing, but when they turn violent that’s a whole different ball game, so we’re going to up the penalties and rioting and violence.”

In reality, this is a bill that targets the entire spectrum of protestors by putting all activists at risk and giving law enforcement even more power than before. By establishing a vague definition of what a “riot” is versus a nonviolent protest, it is impossible to determine where the line between the two will be drawn in practice. This extends to the section involving liability for drivers who

hit protesters; how can one determine whether or not a driver was actively intending to harm protesters?

The bill leaves this completely vague, establishing no parameters. When taking into consideration how the wellbeing of protesters is frequently ignored by law enforcement and legislators, it is not hard to imagine that the vagueness of this bill is intentional, potentially allowing nonviolent protestors to be arrested for participating in “riots” and vehicular manslaughter to be acquitted.

With the recent murders of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, it seems absurd to be applauding law enforcement and providing them with more benefits and more power rather than placing them under scrutiny. Really, in the wake of the wave of police brutality our nation has been experiencing over the past few years (but particularly within the past year), as well as the police response to protests against police brutality, it almost seems to be

rewarding such behavior from law enforcement. Rather than addressing racial injustice within Iowa, this bill aims to celebrate a major component of racial injustice without attempting to remedy or reform it.

Iowa’s new “Back the Blue”

bill does very little besides pander to law enforcement and demonize protestors without attempting to address any real issues. Ultimately, it is an attack on free speech and the right to assembly hiding behind the mask of “law and order.”

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Opinion columnist Emmerson Slomka argues that the “Back the Blue” bill primarily puts protestors at risk instead of protecting police.

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Clean up College Hill this Earth Day EMMA PISTARINO Staff Writer

On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, a clean up of College Hill and the surrounding area will take place starting from the ThreeHouse Collaborative.

The event was organized by David Hindman, a senior UNI student double majoring in digital media production and environmental science, in partnership with the Green Iowa AmeriCorps, the ThreeHouse Collaborative Campus Ministries and the College Hill Partnership, and will allow students and locals to clean up litter from the area next to UNI’s campus.

Between 2 and 4:30 p.m., participants will be given gloves and bags to collect trash that they

will later be able to drop off at Seerley Park. In order to take part in the clean up, all students need to do is show up.

“You can come in groups or you can come alone and we will put you into a group,” explained Hindman. “It will be a way to do a communal activity, it will be COVID safe and it will help make the community better.

You can come around with your friends and just kind of joke around and make fun of all the vapes that are out there.”

As part of Mayor Rob Green’s and the local government’s pre-existing effort to organize clean ups of the town this year, the city will provide bags and gloves, as well as bring the collected bags of trash to the landfill at the end of the event.

Hindman explained

that the Cedar Falls landfill is highly efficient in preventing leaking of waste into the ground, which makes bringing trash to the landfill a sustainable solution. This project is part of his larger effort towards change, which he plans to apply to his career after graduation.

“I care a lot about sustainability, and try to be very knowledgeable and active at a communal, state and federal level,” Hindman said. “I have been merging my majors to understand the communication side of things, and how to convince people of good ideas (about sustainability). My goal is to get into local politics or some sort of global governance so I can help communities be more sustainable.”

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A cleanup event for College Hill and the surrounding areas will occur this Earth Day.

Illuminate Dance Troupe presents spring 2021 shows EMMA KOEHLER Staff Writer

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The IDT dance company hosted their spring 2021 shows on April 17 and 18. The show boasted a mix of folk, studio and ballroom style dances.

The UNI Illuminate Dance Troupe (IDT) was able to present a spring production for a limited in-person audience as well as live on their Facebook page on Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18.

The show was held in Strayer Wood Theatre on UNI’s campus, where the group showcased dances of various styles and from all over the world.

Dancers prepare all semester and many helped choreograph and plan the details of the pieces they would present.

IDT presented dances within ballroom, folk and studio styles during the production. The choreography was also accompanied by a variety of pieces such as “Can’t Stop the Feeling” by Justin Timberlake, “Work Song”

by Hozier and “Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)”

by Gipsy Kings.

Dancers performed solos, duets and group numbers throughout the evening. Along with the performances, previous advisor and director Mandy Masmar presented the group’s “Light Up the Stage” award to IDT Vice President Hayden Comstock.

IDT presents two productions a year to showcase dance styles they have rehearsed throughout each semester. The group meets to practice twice a week and they encourage individuals interested in joining to stop by during rehearsal times. No dance experience is required. IDT can also be found on Facebook and Instagram for updates throughout the year.

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UNI hosts ‘Solve Climate by 2030’ webinar EMMA PISTARINO Staff Writer

For the second year in a row, UNI was chosen to be Iowa’s host institution for the Solve Climate by 2030 project. This event is organized by the Graduate Programs of Sustainability at Bard College in New York and involves 100 webinars, one for every US state and for 50 other countries.

“It is literally an issue that, as a country, we can no longer afford to put-off or ignore,” said Catherine Zeman, one of the moderators of the panel and an environmental health professor at UNI. “I think (UNI’s involvement) illustrates the level of societal and campus concern for this topic.

Many people feel that it is time to stop talking about the dangers of climate change and start talking about moving toward the solution.”

The goal of this series of webinars is to instruct the public, including high school and college students, on how to address issues relating to climate and the environment in their own communities.

It is part of a larger effort led by the United Nations to make rapid reductions in carbon pollution by the year 2030.

Researchers identified a 10-year window for this to happen before the global climate is severely destabilized, which would lead to an increased in severe weather and natural disasters all over the world.

Three expert panelists, all from the Cedar Valley area, were able to share their

Vaccination

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The UNI Student Health Clinic partnered with Allen College for seven shot stations, as well as multiple paperwork stations for those who forgot theirs.

Following their shot, participants were asked to wait on the bleachers until their 15-minute waiting period had concluded, ensuring their safety.

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Three local speakers shared steps that can be taken to solve climate issues with students and faculty on Wednesday, April 14.

knowledge with the audience and inspire them to make their communities a greener place to be.

Matt Hein, energy services manager for Cedar Falls Utilities, was the first panelist to be introduced. During his talk, Hein described local green energy options and energy efficiency as some of the foundational values of Cedar Falls Utilities.

When speaking of what we can all do to be environmental stewards in our communities, Hein was able to describe simple measures we all can take in our own homes.

“Step number one is to just turn it off. Whether it is a lightbulb or an AC, the best thing you can do for the environment is turn those off.

Another option is to turn them down, meaning lowering the temperature on your thermostat or setting up a Several students, including Amos, felt relieved after getting their dose.

“It’s kind of like a weight is lifted off my shoulders.

There feels like there’s light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.

As of press time, the availability of more vaccine clinics on campus remains unclear.

However, local pharmacies such as Walgreens, CVS and Hy-Vee have been offering shots to the public by appointment.

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COVID-19 vaccination clinics opened on UNI’s campus from April 14-16.

smart thermostat so it can do it itself. Beyond controls, we can start looking at the equipment and make it more efficient,” he said.

As an energy engineer, Hein was also able to suggest using different energy sources, such as solar photovoltaic, solar panels and wind energy, among others, which are already used in the Cedar Valley.

According to Hein, Cedar Falls Utilities has a program named “Simple Solar,” which aims to make it easy for customers to convert to solar energy by purchasing a unit out of Cedar Falls Utilities’ installation in downtown Cedar Falls.

The next presenter was Chris Schwartz, a Black Hawk County supervisor.

He discussed areas on which the county has been working during the past years in order

to improve the environmental impact of the Cedar Valley.

These include solar panels, vegetable production, water and methane gas.

While telling about the steps forward the board of supervisors has taken since his first term, Schwartz expressed his support for the Green New Deal and the economic stimulus that he believes can come through an investment in green energy.

He also expressed his ideas regarding the importance of communal engagement in local and federal politics.

“What I want people to take away is that you have to be persistent with this stuff,” he said. “You have to be engaged in all levels of governance, be as informed as you can be. So much can happen at the local level if the citizenry is educated, active and engaged.”

The final panelist, Ellen Bluth, Vice Chancellor for Workforce and Economic Development at the Eastern Iowa Community College District and principal investigator for the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center, focused on green job training and workforce development.

At the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center, the goal is to push high school graduates to get involved with the environmental area so they can learn the skills and knowledge that are needed in the field and that employers are looking for.

“A lot of time, we hear that if we cut down on fossil fuels we will lose so many jobs.

If you look at the statistics, there are many more jobs in clean energy, particularly in wind and solar energy right now. The fastest growing jobs in 12 states were in renewable energy,” said Bluth.

After the three panelists had a chance to speak and answer questions, the audience was split into breakout sessions. Community members, led by a group leader, were able to express their ideas regarding what the panelists had discussed and how to make those changes a reality in their everyday lives.

“Be a part of the solution. Be informed. There are always different solutions for our problems and as long as you don’t talk about the big scary stuff, it can motivate people to be a part of the solution,” said Madison Johnson, the student moderator of the webinar.

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Panthers take 3 of 4 vs Cyclones, Ramblers DAVID WARRINGTON

Sports Writer

This past week, the UNI Panthers softball team played four games, taking on the Iowa State Cyclones on Wednesday, April 14 as well as a three-game series against the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers on Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17. It was a very successful week for the Panthers, taking down the Cyclones in dominant fashion and taking two out of three games against the Ramblers.

In their opening game of the week, UNI hosted the Iowa State Cyclones. The Panthers entered the game with a record of 18-13, while the Cyclones entered 23-15.

After allowing no runs in the top of the first, UNI got off to a fast start offensively, with Sammey Bunch hitting a leadoff home run to open the bottom of the first. The home run was her 18th of the year, breaking the UNI record for most home runs in a season.

Bunch also held the previous record with 17.

The Panthers were consistent offensively throughout the evening, leading 5-2 entering the bottom of the sixth.

UNI put up five more runs in the inning, capping off the

game with a bases-loaded triple from Bunch to score three runs and end the game via run-rule. The Panthers came away with a dominant victory against the Cyclones, 10-2, to improve to 19-13.

The Panthers then traveled to Chicago for a threegame series against the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers.

Loyola entered the series with a record of 7-20. In game one, UNI managed to score another first inning run when Adara Opiola hit a single to drive in a run. A sacrifice fly in the second inning and a two-run fourth inning gave UNI a 4-0 advantage through four innings. Loyola managed to get on the scoreboard in the sixth, bringing two runs across the plate, but the Panthers still came away with a 4-2 victory.

Game two of the Friday double header was back-andforth all the way throughout.

UNI held a 2-1 lead after the first inning, but Loyola pulled ahead with a four-run second inning. UNI bounced back with a three-run top of the third, before Loyola scored another three runs in the fourth inning. Trailing 9-5 heading into the sixth inning, UNI managed a comeback to tie the game. Runs were

scored via a two-run double from Madison Parks, an RBI triple from Bunch, and a sacrifice fly from Opiola. However, it wasn’t quite enough as Allyson Ivey hit a solo home run to lead off the sixth inning, and the Ramblers ultimately came away with a 10-9 victory.

In the final game of the series, the Ramblers struck first when Ivey hit an RBI double to give Loyola a 1-0 lead. The Panthers managed to tie things up in the top of the fourth, courtesy of an RBI double from Sammy Moss. Through the full seven innings the score remained 1-1, forcing extra innings.

UNI finally managed to break the tie in the top of the ninth when Opiola hit a two-RBI single. The Panther defense forced a three-and-out in the bottom of the ninth, and UNI came away with a 3-1 win.

After the three victories, the Panthers improve to 21-14 on the season. They will be back in action this coming Tuesday, April 20 when they travel to Des Moines for a doubleheader against the Drake Bulldogs.

They will then return home for a three-game weekend series against the Bradley Braves on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25.

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The Panther softball team had a successful week of games, first defeating Iowa State on Wednesday, then taking two of three from Loyola-Chicago.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Women’s tennis falls to Mo. State on senior night

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UNI’s Valentina Caro was one of four Panther seniors who were honored for their last home tennis meet of their career.

NICHOLAS SCHINDLER Sports Writer

The Northern Iowa women’s tennis team took on Missouri State on Saturday in the final match before the conference tournament.

Since this was the final home match of the year, it was also senior night for the Panthers.

Seniors for UNI on this senior night were Harri Proudfoot, Madeline Doherty, Valentina Caro and Morganne Borsh.

UNI first lost the doubles by a score of three to zero, getting beat in first through third doubles. Their first doubles round was close,

with partners Emma Carr and Oliva Fain losing 7-5 to the Missouri State tandem of Ellie Burger and Claire Martin. Next up for the Panthers was the six singles matches to be played.

Unfortunately, the Panthers lost all six singles matches as well, with a combined score of 6-0.

The first singles match for the Panther women was close, with Emma Carr losing by a score of 3-6, 2-6 to Missouri State number one singles player Hana Sisirak.

The fourth singles match was also close for the Panthers, with singles player Oliva Fain

losing 3-6, 4-6 to the Bears’ Mary Houston. Despite the unfortunate outcome of the match, the Panthers will have another chance to keep playing in the conference tournament next week.

The Panther women finished the regular season winning only two games on the season, compiling a 2-13 overall record and an 0-5 record in the Missouri Valley Conference. They will be hoping to make something happen in the MVC tournament, where they will be competing this Friday, April 23 through the 25 in Springfield, Mo.

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Puzzle Answers

What if there were a pill that could help prevent HIV? THERE IS.

SUDOKU ONE

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) is a way to prevent people who do not have HIV from getting HIV, by taking one pill every day as prescribed.

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SUDOKU TWO

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