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SFC votes to defund Panther Shuttle NICOLE BAXTER Staff Writer

The Student Fee Committee (SFC) voted on Wednesday, April 10, to defund the Panther Shuttle and Weekend SafeRide bus, effective in the fall semester of 2019.

According to the SFC, the decision was made in order to abide by President Nook’s request to hold tuition and student fees “flat.”

Committee members Kristen Ahart, former Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) Vice President, and Vice President of Student Affairs Paula Knudson were present at the weekly NISG Senate meeting on Wednesday, April 24 to explain the decision. Their presentation was featured at the meeting in response to growing student opposition that culminated in a 500+ signature petition.

Beyond last week’s Senate meeting, no formal announcement has been made by the SFC to make these lost services known to the student

body.

Roughly 10 students were present in the gallery on Wednesday evening, five of whom made public comments.

“I love to see the engagement. They were respectful, they voiced different concerns, they spoke up and I am really proud of our students,” Knudson said following the Senate meeting. “These are hard decisions and you should be concerned because they affect your experience and it’s your money.”

Full-time students are charged with mandatory fees in addition to the price of tuition. These charges are known as student fees. For the 201920 school year, each student is projected to pay $351 towards student fees, a number which has remained static from last year.

According to Ahart and Knudson, that money is split up into two categories: A student activities fee and a student services fee.

The student activities fee provides funding to orga-

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nizations such as: NISG, music, theatre, the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC), intercollegiate academics, the Northern Iowan, family weekend, the Campus Activities Board (CAB), Service and Leadership Council, the Office of Student Life, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice, the Green Fund, Gender and Sexuality Services

and Military and Veteran Student Services.

The student services fee currently provides funding to Intercollegiate Athletics, the Panther Shuttle and the Weekend SafeRide. The proposed cut to the bus services leaves Intercollegiate Athletics as the sole item in the student services fee.

Based on projected enroll-

ment for the 2019-20 school year, it is estimated that each student will pay $229.50 towards the student services fee. Estimates place the total amount at $2,023,553, all of which would be given to the Intercollegiate Athletics, according to the Student Fee Committee.

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DOR explains 2019-20 dining changes ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

Rumors regarding changes to UNI dining services during the 2019-2020 school year are being laid to rest.

Next year’s updates will include taking all late meals, such as late lunch and late dinner, away from Rialto.

For Friday dinners and allday on Saturdays, only Rialto will be open and Piazza will be closed, while on Sundays, only Piazza will be open and Rialto will be closed.

Students will also be allotted 16 to-go meals per semester.

“It is hoped these changes will keep rates low so more students can afford to attend UNI and live on campus,” said Janet Despard, director of dining administration.

“On average, students who live on-campus and dine communally the first two years are more connected to campus life, persist at higher rates, graduate faster (in four years) and have higher GPAs.” Despard noted that the number one factor prompting students to move off-campus is the cost.

According to Despard,

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The Department of Residence (DOR) has addressed rumors of changes coming to the dining centers’ schedules.

all budget decisions for the Department of Residence (DOR) are made collaboratively by the DOR. They also consider input from the Residence Hall Association and university leadership.

Ultimately, budgets must be approved by the Board of Regents.

Currently, the dining rates

for fiscal year 2020 have not been approved by the Board of Regents yet and, thus, they are not final.

“I must emphasize this is not final, but the requested rate increase is lower than the expected increase in expenses,” Despard said. “Again, we are trying to keep the overall cost of attendance as flat

as possible.”

If the Iowa Board of Regents approves the requested increase, Despard says the all-access plan will increase $53, which is 1.2 percent of the current cost.

“These changes are planned because they support the university priority of keeping increases in the

overall cost of attendance (which includes housing and dining) as close to f lat as possible,” she said. “This proposal provides the cost savings needed for a balanced budget.”

Dining services are funded by a combination of dining plans, retail sales and campus catering services, according to Despard.

“DOR and Dining Services are owned and operated by UNI as a fully self-funded auxiliary,” Despard said.

“They receive no financial support or subsidy from the state or the university. All revenue comes from residence hall and dining plan fees, as well as from catering and retail locations around campus, which are also owned and operated by DOR. DOR and Dining are required to have a balanced budget and meet certain financial ratios. Unlike dining operations managed by contract management companies, DOR and Dining do not generate profits and there are no shareholders or a board of directors governing the operation.”

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News editor bids farewell to UNI MICHAEL OASHEIM News Editor

The 2019 spring semester at UNI is quickly coming to a close, and so is my time as the news editor of the Northern Iowan.

This marks the first time I address you all as myself, as opposed to the objective voice of reason you are accustomed to reading. I’m going to do my best to maintain my journalistic integrity while simultaneously giving you a taste of who I am as a person. It’s a tough line to walk, but I feel confident that this position has provided me with the skills necessary to do so.

To tell the truth, I didn’t grow up dreaming of being an editor at a newspaper, but in my mere months of experience, I have gained more clarity in my career path than I thought was possible prior to graduating college. That is all thanks to this job. I used to think there was no chance I would ever find myself working a desk job for the rest

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make. Every job is what you make of it. If you want to hate your job, go for it, but even the seemingly most meaningless job in the world offers knowledge that cannot be found anywhere else.

I have made more mistakes in my time at the Northern Iowan than I care to admit, but I refuse to apologize for a single one (even though I probably did at the time). Failure is knowledge and knowledge is power.

There is no skill or piece of knowledge that you can acquire in your time at school, work or life in general that will hurt you. Even the worst mistake you could make will inevitably teach you something about life that you didn’t know before, and that is not something you should ever apologize for.

Thank you for allowing me to be your news editor, even if it was only for one semester. I will take the skills and knowledge that I gained here and use it in every aspect of my life for as long as I live. Good luck out there, folks, and go Cats!

of my life. Now, it doesn’t seem so foreign of a concept.

So no, I wouldn’t say I have a passion for editing the news page of the Northern Iowan, but I do have a passion for learn-

ing, and this job has provided me with an outlet where I can do just that.

I have learned something new every day since beginning this position. Sometimes, that

newly acquired piece of knowledge comes from a person I work with, a story I edit or a person I interview. This can be said about most jobs, but I think that is the point I am trying to

In an effort to keep student fees flat, the SFC was forced to make cuts in both the activities and service fee categories. According to Knudson, a total reduction of $400,000 was needed. The SFC decided to reduce the student activities fee by $150,000 and the student services fee by $250,000.

The student activities fee amounts to roughly $1 million, whereas the student services fee amounts to roughly $2 million. Ahart and Knudson said the committee is not allowed to cross funds from the student services fee to the student activities fee.

Their proposal resulted in a 100 percent cut to the bus services and a 10.4 percent cut to the Intercollegiate Athletics services.

The estimated contribution per student to keep the bus services active is $21.70. Senators during Wednesday’s meeting

questioned why one service was cut entirely while another only received a small reduction.

“That is just how the money ended up,” Knudson said. “No one came into the discussion saying let’s hold athletics harmless.”

According to the new budget proposal from the Student Fee Committee, Intercollegiate Athletics is receiving an increase in funding as a result of the cut and use of reservation funds.

Knudson said that cutting the bus service accounted for the necessary reduction and allowed more reserve funds to be allocated to Intercollegiate Athletics.

It is unclear how much of the reserve funds will be alloted to Intercollegiate Athletics or how much of the fee initially allotted to the bus will be transferred to Intercollegiate Athletics. During the Senate meeting Knudson said “a little [is going] to athletics.”

Beyond financial matters, SFC presented an additional reason for their decision to defund the shuttle. According to Ahart,

the Committee agreed the bus is not a benefit to the entire student body because the route does not cover certain areas around campus. Ahart said there is a “disparity for East Hudson”, referring to the bus’s main route of travel.

Students in the gallery who spoke against the decision accused the SFC of prioritizing athletics over education. They asked why transportation to and from class was not considered to be a fundamental right of every student.

Responding to their concerns, Ahart and Knudson cited a graph which depicted the decreasing utilization of the Panther Shuttle. According to the data, there were roughly 20,000 rides taken by students on the shuttle during the 2018 academic year. This number does not reflect the number of individuals who rode the bus, but rather, the number of rides taken in general.

Carter Williams, junior philosophy major, is a frequent rider of the Panther Shuttle.

“I have seen the people who recommendations to the recogride it [the shuttle] — the peo- nized student government orgaple who need it. Next year I will nizations at each university and not need the bus, but I know that those organizations may review a large number of people will,” the recommendations and prosaid Williams. “This cut is one vide comment to the president that is racist, classist and ableist. of the university and the state The people behind it neglect to board of regents.” feel that way; but the student The Senate resolution statbody as a whole does. It should ed, “[T]he committee response not be approved.” have [sic] been inadequate to On Friday, April 26, the the requests to obtain a copy of Senate posted a resolution direct- the recommendations from the ed at the Student Fee Committee. Student Fee Committee.”

It recognized NISG’s failed After the Senate meeting on attempts to acquire access to Wednesday, April 24, in which the new budget proposal after access to the proposed budget repeated requests. The resolu- was granted, the Senate began tion further stated the “pletho- making comments. ra of concerns from students” According to Chad Schafer, regarding the proposed exter- NISG Chief of Staff (19-20), mination of the Panther Shuttle the NISG Upper Cabinet met and Weekend Safe Ride. with President Nook on Friday, The Senate referenced the April 26, and presented him Iowa Code, a body of laws under with their amended proposal. the Iowa legislature, specifically The content of their proposal is as it applies to the Board of unknown.

Regents. President Nook is schedAs written in the Iowa Code, uled to meet with the Board of Chapter 262, Section 262.34B, Regents on Monday, April 29. the Student Fee Committee is At that meeting he will present required to “provide a copy of its the new budget for approval.

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Harvard’s admittance problem Harvard, the most lauded university in the United States, has come under scrutiny this past year over a lawsuit concerning the University’s admission criteria. Upon hearing this, many Americans will already have their bullhorns ready and conclusions already seared into their minds. You might be thinking, “Of course, the lawsuit is about black and brown Americans being denied access surely!” Well, no. Asian American rights groups filed the suit in early 2018.

Ivy League schools for an eternity have had mired, mysterious admissions processes. Their Mithraic admission processes are staunched in the traditional three-part criteria for admission. This

tripartite system uses I) academic achievements, II) extracurricular activities and III) “personal qualities” to determine a candidate’s aptitude. The first two categories can be measured quasi-scientifically, they determine a candidate’s overall success in high school and potential involvement on campus.

Yet, the third category is the kicker. Just what are these “personal qualities” they’re looking for and how is this category being measured?

The answer is murky, and it is in this category that the lawsuit purports Harvard’s illegal conduct to be housed.

Their core claim is that Harvard admissions policies discriminate against Asian Americans, in violation of Article VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to the case of the prosecution, external review of Harvard admissions documents proves Asian Americans have a 25 percent chance at admission to Harvard. This is contrast-

ed by a 32 percent chance for Whites, 77 percent for Latinos and 95 percent for African Americans with the same quality of applications. Thus, the prosecution argues Harvard deliberately discriminates against Asian Americans in its admission policies.

This isn’t the first that Harvard has come under fire for its pursuit of “equity.” Under the tenure of President Drew G. Faust, it was announced that the university would be banning Greek life and gender-segregated dining clubs. Students who continued to participate in their own organizations would be denied university spaces, and athletes who participated would be benched.

Both of these more recent controversies are part of a colorful, crimson history of exclusion. Be it Jews, Italians, Blacks, immigrants of all stripes and now Asian Americans, the University will have to defend its admis-

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sions policies on the national stage. The verdict, which is set to be handed down in the middle of 2019, could rewrite American universities’ affirmative action programs.

The case is interesting not just due to the possible far reaching consequences it could have for affirmative

action admission processes, but also because it calls into question the very nature of a university. That aside, it begs us to actually consider how and in what ways we can best help those our nation has knowingly kept down, but also how we might do so without committing the sins of our forefathers.

The Washington connection and third-world fascism MOHAMMED RAWWAS Opinion Columnist

On March 19, 2019, President Trump met with the fascist leader of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, to discuss plans to conduct a military coup to replace the democratically elected leader of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, with the unelected Juan Guaidó, a Western-educated and-aligned elitist.

Bolsonaro, who only came to power after the most popular Brazilian candidate, Lula da Silva, was jailed in a politically motivated witch-hunt, is a literal fascist, having decried the military dictatorship which ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 and killed hundreds of dissenters and tortured thousands more, for not killing enough of its political opponents, citing

30,000 as a good number for the amount of people he would like to kill.

Bolsonaro’s self-declared hero, Carlos Ustra, was a colonel during the military dictatorship, whose division killed hundreds and utilized rape and torture in an effort to subdue their political opponents, the communists. Bolsonaro has also declared that he would rather his son be dead than gay and referred to black people as animals. His followers have taken it upon themselves to engage in a multitude of hate crimes, from murdering one of his opponent’s supporters to attacking someone carrying an LGBT flag and carving a Swastika into her stomach with a knife. His first acts in office have been to halt action on LGBT rights and support agribusiness against indigenous people’s claims to land.

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Recently, he has been involved in corruption and other scandals, as it has been discovered that he is directly connected to right-wing paramilitary death squads and terrorist organizations operating in Brazil, who have been assassinating left-wing political opponents, including Marielle Franco, a human rights activist who was murdered on March 14, 2018. The murderers in cases like these are often current and former police and military officers. Investigations into financial corruption by the Bolsonaro family have uncovered both personal and financial connections between the family and the leaders of some of these paramilitary groups, as well as the specific killers of Marielle Franco, from being personal friends with them to putting them on official government payroll. Bolsonaro’s son has even praised these death squads for engaging in extrajudicial killings, and encouraged them to continue to do so.

It is horrifying, yet unfortunately unsurprising, that Trump would meet with such a character as an ally, or that they would work alongside each other in an effort to undermine Venezuela’s right to self-determination through escalating violence. This is unsurprising not only because of Trump’s own fascist-adjacent tendencies, which land him in the same ideological realm as Bolsonaro, but also because of the history of the United States’ foreign

policy since its inception.

As noted in the National Truth Commission’s 2014 torture report, the United States, and especially the CIA, was heavily involved in training Brazilian military officers in torture techniques that they would then use to persecute the dictatorship’s left-wing opponents, as the torture was taking place.

This training was completed at the School of the Americas, a Department of Defense installation that has graduated a multitude of Central and South American dictators and terrorists, including in El Salvador and Guatemala. In fact, recently released memos show that President Lyndon B. Johnson had directed the U.S. military and Navy to assist in the military coup that deposed the democratically elected leader of Brazil in 1964 and ushered in the two decades of dictatorship and torture, if necessary.

That is why it is important to view support for fascists and dictators by the US not as isolated incidents, but as part of an overarching strategy by the US to combat the rise of leftwing, communist movements by any means necessary, including supporting right-wing death squads and military dictatorships if necessary.

While it is heinous that Trump is meeting with Bolsonaro in such a capacity, it is nonetheless important to bring this specific event into its relevant context. Trump’s most vocal detractors, usually

quick to criticize him for the most trivial of reasons, have remained rather quiet in criticizing the Trump-Bolsonaro connection. Perhaps it is because these detractors, while opposed to Trump, still represent the military-industrial-complex status quo, and are therefore in agreement with Trump on the necessity of violently overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Venezuela, with Brazil’s support.

This is why, for all their supposed opposition to Trump, they will never be able to mount a substantive criticism, because they are actually ideologically aligned. They could never criticize Trump for allying with a dictator such as Bolsonaro, because they want to rehabilitate figures that have done the exact same thing, and are part of the same military-industrial-complex nexus. Yet publicly, they must distance themselves from Trump in order to resurrect respectability politics while maintaining the current political and economic structure. Thus is the futility of American “democracy,” in which voting against the imperialist-capitalist status quo is rendered impossible, and the machinations of both political parties continues, mainly unaffected by the general populace.

One party provides symbolic gesture that belies their true policy convictions, while the other, evil incarnate, is at least more forthcoming about its goals.

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‘VertigoMini’ a disturbing delight CECILIA MITCHELL Event Critic

There is an age-old saying that goes, “Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.”

On Thursday, April 25, I had the opportunity to attend “VertigoMini: A Night of ‘In-Case’ Performance Art” in the Kamerick Art Building. This unique event did a superb job of being both disturbing and comfortable, creating a slightly jarring ambience that made viewers relate to their shared human experience and instinctual understanding.

VertigoMini was the first performance art show I have attended here at UNI, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Student performance artists filled the halls, rooms and glass cases throughout the Kamerick Art Building, giving the event an ambience similar to a haunted house.

I was surprised by the sheer quantity of exhibits; even when it felt like I had seen all there was to see, there seemed to be more and more hallways to explore while the pieces I had already seen

evolved and changed into new spectacles.

This unique event did a superb job of being both disturbing and comfortable, creating a slightly jarring experience that made viewers relate to their shared human experience and instinctual understanding.

CECILIA MITCHELL Event Critic

The piece that stuck in my mind throughout the night was located in a glass case on the first floor. It featured a man tearing out pages of the Bible, chewing them up into wads and spitting them across the vitrine. It was so simple but really poignant and interesting to watch. I also enjoyed riding the elevator with an artist who cut up a plethora of onions

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while sharing their emotional thoughts. That was an immersive and thought-provoking experience that involved many of the senses.

Other highlights of my VertigoMini experience included a display from the second floor, where a nearnude woman dissected fetal rats for the audience, splaying their guts out and putting the carcasses in a pile for all to see. It had this wonderful shock factor that is unique to the performance art genre.

Similarly, another woman stood behind a table, asking passerbys if they wanted a gift, blew up bright yellow balloons for them and asked them if they wished to keep or destroy the gift. I saw attendees wearing their balloons around their wrist, but I opted to destroy mine, popping it with a thumbtack.

That was a pretty satisfying sensation.

On the second floor hallway between the two wings of Kamerick, two guys shared a bucket of spaghetti while sharing a nonsensical conversation. I watched that one for a considerable amount of time.

Directly below, I learned some sort of Naruto-inspired fight choreography and admired a fairy-like creature tending to her garden.

VertigoMini certainly created an interactive and quirky experience for students and community members alike.

Many of the performance art pieces that took place outside of the glass cases involved pairs in costumes.

These costumes had many shared motifs: haphazardly sewn pieces, tulle, balloons and large headpieces. Some of these pieces I didn’t enjoy as much; they were a bit predictable, doing odd motions and getting in passerbys’ faces. I was impressed by the construction of these costumes, but I was hoping for

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The Department of Art presented “Vertigo Mini: A Night of ‘In-Case’ Performance Art on Thursday, April 25, in the Kamerick Art Building.

something a bit more unique and didn’t spend a lot of time observing these.

Spending an evening in an atmosphere like the one “VertigoMini: A Night of ‘In-Case’ Performance Art” was odd, slightly uncomfort-

able and incredibly entertaining. Therefore, I believe the event achieved its purpose of bringing a unique, immersive art experience to the UNI and Cedar Falls community and hope to attend another Vertigo soon.

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Panther PORTRAIT: Catwalk 27 SOFIA LEGASPI

Students walked the runway during the Textiles and Apparel (TAPP) program’s 27th annual student design show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 in Lang Hall Auditorium.

The fashion show was titled “Catwalk 27: Runway to Heaven” with a theme inspired by Greek motifs.

The runway featured 59 original designs by 19 student designers, all worn by students who volunteered to

model for the show.

Each student piece was accompanied by a title noted in the program, including “Marie Kondo,” “Sparks Fly” and “Midas’ Daughter.” The program also highlighted certain pieces created with original printed fabric.

This year’s show was sponsored by the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, the Salon Professional Academy, Special Occasions Party & Event Rental and Northern Iowa Student Government.

Catwalk 28 will be held on Saturday, April 25, 2020.

tion but not have that rise in tuition.”

Although Bush sees the dining centers as a major perk of living on campus, she does not think the changes will alter her fellow students’ decisions to live on campus.

Not all students see the changes in the same light.

Some, like Amanda Bruns, are very unhappy about them.

“Even though I’m living in Panther Village next year, I prefer Rialto to Piazza,” said Bruns, who is a sophomore social science education major. “Some of my friends are going to live on the north side of campus, so I was planning to eat at Rialto once in a while.

But with my class schedule, I won’t be able to because I have classes over the usual lunch period. It’s just kind

of upsetting because on the weekend I probably would have walked down to Rialto or something.”

When Bruns heard about the changes last week, she switched her meal plan for next year from all-access to a 120-meal block.

Bruns is also concerned for her friends who currently work in Rialto. The changes will affect their shifts as there will be more limited hours available. However, according to Despard, the dining services do not anticipate any shortage of work opportunities for students.

Current dining employees have been informed of the changes and have planned their work schedules for next year accordingly. The dining hours for next year will be available online by the end of the semester.

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Some students, like Hanna Bush, appreciate the effort to keep costs down.

“In terms of convenience it will [affect me] but overall, I think it’s important to look at the bigger picture,” said Bush, a sophomore majoring in elementary and middle-level education. “As long as one [dining center] is open at all times, I think that’s fine. Like I said, definitely more inconvenient. But is it something that if we had regular hours like that we do now and it increases our tuition because they’re having to pay the students to provide that food, then I think maybe it’s better to go to those more limited hours to still have that food available but just in a different loca-

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Panther’s season ends in MVCs TENNIS

ELIOT CLOUGH

Sports Editor

The Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Tournament officially ended this weekend in Cedar Falls, as the Illinois State University defeated Stony Brook in the finals, 4-3.

UNI came into the tournament as the six seed and matched up with the three seed, Bradley Braves. This was

the second straight matchup with Bradley, having played the Braves in their final regular-season contest of the season, falling 6-1.

In singles competition, while several matches went unfinished, the three contests that did make it to completion went to the Braves, as Reghan Lynch (6-4, 6-4), Claudia Toledo (6-3, 6-2) and Nikki Perlwitz (6-3, 6-3) all went down in two sets.

The combinations of Lynch

and Toledo and Valentina Caro and Harri Proudfoot also fell in the double’s competition. Lynch and Toledo in one set (6-4) and Caro and Proudfoot in two (7-6, 7-4).

Olivia Fain and Daisy Phillips gained the lone victory in the MVC tournament for UNI, winning by a final score of 6-4.

Lynch is the only senior leaving the Panther tennis squad at the end of the season.

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UNI competes at Drake Relays, Heitland third TRACK AND FIELD

COLIN HORNING

Sports Writer

The 2019 Drake Relays took place this past weekend from Wednesday through Saturday, April 24-27, at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.

The four-day long event pits some of Iowa’s top high school track athletes against each other, as well as college track programs from around the country.

The UNI track & field team

participated in numerous events over the weekend, many resulting in strong showings.

The Panther women received a ninth-place finish overall in the University team rankings, while the men placed 11th overall.

Northern Iowa freshman and Manchester, Jamaica native Patrice Watson earned a sixthplace finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.43, while five Northern Iowa relay teams were able to finish with

top-eight finishes on the last day of the event.

The Panther women picked up a fourth-place finish in the 1,600-spring medley with a time of 3:59.96 with a team of Taylor Raines, Jasmine Blue, Maddie McCalla and Lyndsie Schinkel.

They also secured a fifthplace finish in the 4x100 shuttle hurdle relay, logging a time of 60.04. Members of the relay team included Hannah Schau, Brooke Lorenz, Patrice Watson and Erica Loussaert.

The Panther men also had a strong showing in the relays, clocking in at 3:13.30 in the 4x400 meter relay which was good enough for a fourth-place finish. The team was comprised of seniors Bryce Newcomb and Corey Hertz and sophomores Sven Van Den Bergh and Conor Blough.

A time of 1:27.02 in the 4x200 meter relay also earned the purple and gold a second finish in fourth-place. Blough and Van Den Bergh took part in

this relay as well, partnered with Eli Hicks and Tayshaun Cooper.

Austin Heitland also placed third in the decathlon with a final tally of 6,644 points over the ten events.

Up next for the UNI track team is the Wisconsin Twilight meet held in Madison, Wis., on Friday, May 3.

This will be their final meet before the Missouri Valley Conference Track and Field Championships are held on May 10-12 in Terre Haute, Ind.

in the country for pitching, so she’s definitely on her A-game.

She has a couple no-hitters and perfect games this year, I’m pretty sure, so she’s on it and it’s her senior year too,” said the senior center-fielder.

“She has a lot behind her with a great hitting team behind her that can help support her on the offensive side.

So, we just [have to] play our game and just compete.”

Jones was placed 26th on the victories list for NCAA D1 softball at 18-7 prior to the series against the Panthers. Jones is also second in the Missouri Valley

Conference in wins, and fourth in ERA at 1.83.

To combat the Saluki’s strong pitching, Krodinger simply said, “Just going out to the box not scared, swinging hard and having fun.”

Jones only gave up one run in the opener with that offense behind her as Krodinger mentioned, scoring four of their six runs in the first two innings.

UNI’s only run came off of Courtney Krodinger’s seventh home run of the season (career-high) in the seventh inning to avoid the shutout, finishing the game off 6-1.

Freshman pitcher Erica

Oler also notched a careerhigh with six strikeouts.

The nightcap of Saturday’s doubleheader went 12 innings with Jaclyn Spencer pitching the entire game at just under 200 pitches.

Down 2-0 in the bottom of the sixth, UNI tied the game on a two-run single by left-fielder Kohl.

Kohl came up big for the Panthers again laying out for a crucial diving catch with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the ninth to give the Panthers a chance at a walkoff.

UNI wasn’t able to rally

the troops to tie or walk-off after a two-run homer by center-fielder Jenny Jansen, putting the Salukis up 4-2.

The Panthers weren’t able to get revenge in Sunday’s matinee game that went extras again, falling by a score of 7-5.

The Salukis scored two runs on an error in the top of the eighth, while UNI wasn’t able to tie or walk-off to avenge the series.

Up next, the Hawkeyes will travel to Cedar Falls to take on the Panthers in the last home game of the season for UNI on Tuesday, April 30.

Panthers chased down by the Salukis, swept 0-3 SOFTBALL

JACOB POTTER

Associate Sports Editor

The power of the Southern Illinois softball team proved to be too much for UNI as they went 0-3 against the Salukis over the weekend, placing the Panthers at 22-22 for the season.

Senior outfielder Courtney Krodinger previewed the tough pitching the Panthers knew they would face going into the weekend in an interview with Clough and Q Sports Talk on KULT radio.

“Brianna Jones (21-7) is the pitcher. She’s been up for top 25

NBA Playoff predictions, Warriors fall in semis OPINION

PATRICK HANSEN

Sports Writer

It has been two weeks and here we are, finally through with the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Round one started out with two milestones with the Brooklyn Nets notching their first playoff win since game four of round one in the 2015 playoffs, and the Orlando Magic marking their first playoff win since the first round of the 2012 playoffs.

Both the Philadelphia 76ers and the Toronto Raptors snapped back into their regular

selves as they went on a fourgame win streak to win their series.

The Portland Trailblazers were able to send Russell Westbrook, Paul George and the rest of the Oklahoma City Thunder storming back home.

The Blazers took the Thunder down twice at home before traveling south where they pulled off one win in Oklahoma City.

Coming back to Portland, the Blazers knew they needed just one win to advance, but the Thunder refused to go down without a fight as they brought game five down to the wire.

Damian Lillard proved to be lethal in game five, scoring a playoff-high 50 points and hitting a ridiculous 37-foot fadeaway three from the logo to send the Blazers to the second round set to face the number two seed Denver Nuggets who took down the Spurs in 7.

In other news, did someone say grab the broom? That’s what Milwaukee and Boston were saying going into game four against their respective opponents, the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers.

These wins will create an exciting series as the Bucks and

Celtics are set to take on each other in round two where one of these contenders will have to go down. Will the one-seed Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo come out on top or the fourth-seeded Celtics and Kyrie Irving?

I think that this will be the series to keep your eyes on the most. My guess is it will be a back-and-forth matchup, but the Bucks will pull out ahead, taking down the Celtics in Boston in six games, 4-2 (the Celtics currently lead 1-0).

Out in California, it was a crazy six-game series between

the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers. The Warriors did not seem up to par as they were struggling to take care of the eighth-seed to start their playoff run. . The Warriors move onto face the fourth-seeded Rockets who had the chance to rest following their 4-1 series win over Utah.

This is another series that should be fun to watch, although the Warriors do not seem strong enough to take down Harden and the Rockets. My guess is Harden stuns Golden State and wins the series in game five on the road, 4-1.

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