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Doug DuBois lecture 5 Spotlight: Panther Mayhem 6
The Storm Lake Times:
a tale of how a small iowa paper received a pulitzer AMELIA DUAX Staff Writer
UNI alumnus Tom Cullen, a reporter for The Storm Lake Times, spoke on campus Sept. 7 about how the small-town newspaper, based, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. The staff at The Storm Lake Times, which prints twice a week and has an estimated circulation of 3,300, earned the award for their reporting of a Des Moines Waterworks lawsuit related to the release of nitrogen into drinking water. While the actual recipient of the Pulitzer was Art Cullen — Tom’s father — Tom Cullen was involved in the reporting and research to find the answers they needed.
The pulitzer prize is named after joseph pulitzer, a revolutionary in journalism.
In addition to explaining how The Storm Lake Times won the Pulitzer, Cullen wanted to share his knowledge about science and the media during Thursday’s lecture, which took place in Sabin Hall. Cullen, age 24, began his journalism career in 2014. He graduated from UNI in 2015 after studying economics and immediately began working on the Waterworks case. “When this all started out, it was a big lawsuit — statewide acclaim and national acclaim, even. It was covered in The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune,” Cullen said. “We knew it was big, and we also had that lens that the landscape has changed dramatically over these years. It was our idea to cover this as much as we could.” However, that process soon
became complicated. Cullen and other staff members at The Storm Lake Times ran into numerous obstacles during their research on the waterworks issue. According to Cullen, the county attorney was not hired to defend the counties when they were sued. It is still unknown as to why a county attorney was not hired. Instead, nearly a dozen drainage attorneys were hired, according to Cullen. “We were just basically banging our heads to figure out how they [are] paying these lawyers? How are they doing this? Who’s paying for it?” Cullen said. “Whatever new information we could get — and believe me it was sparse — we would run it because we were aware of how big it was.” Cullen stressed that it is
important to stay dedicated when looking through records and doing research on a big issue like the Waterworks case. Cullen said that he tries to use a step-by-step approach when dealing with scientific research and the media. According to Cullen, as long as he can understand what he has written about, then the reader should be able to understand it too. As for the Pulitzer win, it’s an award of national significance. As a result, Cullen now deals with higher expectations. “It’s an honor that I still can’t even fathom,” Cullen said. “Going day to day now, it ramps up the pressure a little bit.” See PULITZER, page 5
Six-game soccer win streak comes to an end JOEL WAUTERS
Sports Writer
The UNI women’s soccer team lost their first game of the season this past Sunday after a 2-1 loss to the Montana Grizzlies at
the Cedar Valley Soccer Complex in Waterloo. The loss ended the Panthers’ initial six game winning streak. Despite the loss, which came after the Grizzlies made a game-winning goal in the 57th minute, the Panthers continue to show
signs of a strong season. UNI kicked off their 2017 campaign on the road with a dominant 5-0 win over the Chicago State Cougars in the Windy City. The Panthers played two more road games, posting back to back 2-0 shutouts of the Nebraska-
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Kelsey Hansen, No. 18, looks ahead to get ready to pass the ball. She has seen a total of 457 minutes of play time in all seven games of the current season.
Omaha Mavericks and the South Dakota Coyotes. Defending the Panthers’ home field in Waterloo began on Sept. 1 when the North Dakota State Bison came to town, only to fall 1-0 to the purple and gold. The Kansas State Wildcats and South Dakota State Jackrabbits met the same fate as the Bison later in the same week. In their first seven games, the Panthers outscored their opponents 13-2 and recorded shutouts in all six wins. Much of UNI’s offensive efficiency can be attributed to forwards from Brynell Yount and Sarah Brandt, who have combined for seven goal and four assists. See SOCCER, page 6
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UNI-CUE helps ‘Discover the Dream’ ANNA FLANDERS
able life and leadership skills. Each student is nominated by their teachers as displaying leadership potential that has yet to be fully tapped into. Students learn about health and well-being, civil responsibility, personal responsibility and mapping the future. These study categories include math, reading, writing, Spanish and art. The program even includes education-based field trips to museums, cultural events and colleges. Although Leadership Academy was started in 2009, Discover the Dream was conceptualized in early 2017. This summer’s Leadership Academy “graduates” are the first Discover the Dream participants. In order to be eligible for Discover the Dream, students from Leadership Academy must enroll in UNI-CUE’s Educational Talent Search (ETS) program, which is for sixth through 12th graders. Through study skills workshops, ACT and SAT prep,
career exploration, scholarship and financial aid application assistance and other opportunities. ETS helps students graduate high school and become college admissible. After a student has enrolled in ETS, he or she can become part of Discover the Dream, which means getting the chance to be mentored by UNI students from the Black Student Union, Center for Multicultural Education and the Hispanic/Latino Student Union. Mentoring will take place weekly in a variety of ways, including in person and through letters. According to Holbach, her involvement in Discover the Dream is reminiscent of her childhood years when she was involved with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. She saw the value of being mentored as an adolescent. “Even though I had an older sister, I still got involved with [Big Brothers Big Sisters],” Holbach said. “So that was a good opportunity to have
student dormitories than a standard C or R pass, giving Copy Editor a student holding a CP pass the luxury of a short walk to Throughout the summer their vehicle. and during the first weeks However, students livof the fall semester, many ing on the northern part of students have purchased C campus, including Campbell Preferred (CP) parking pass- and Lawther Hall, have found es. The passes are desig- it difficult to take advantage nated for parking lots that of their premium parking are placed more closely to privileges. “ I usually get back to campus, either from my home or from out doing stuff, usually between eight and ten o’clock at night, and every time GABRIELLE LEITNER/Northern Iowan CP Parking spaces on the north side of campus have I get back at that time become scarce since the reopening of Lawther Hall.
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This Friday, Sept. 15, 24 sixth-graders from the Waterloo area will get their first opportunity to be mentored by UNI students. This mentoring program, dubbed Discover the Dream, is organized by the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Urban Education (UNICUE). “The goal is to get [the fifth-grade students] . . . prepared for middle school, as that is a big transition for many of the students . . . [as well as] having them become a more well-rounded leader,” said Megan Holbach, the director of Leadership Academy and assistant director at UNI-CUE. These sixth-grade students come from UNICUE’s Leadership Academy. According to Holbach, the academy is a four-week summer program where fifthgrade students transitioning into sixth-grade learn valu-
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The UNI Center for Urban Education is located in Waterloo and works with students in Waterloo public schools.
someone . . . that’s not family be a mentor — and just someone to look up to. I think that if given the opportinity for every student, it’s a positive.” Leadership Academy — and by extension Discover the Dream — is solely associated with Lincoln, Highland and Walter Cunningham elementary schools. However, UNI-CUE would like to see all elementary schools in the Waterloo area getting involved — with 10 students participating in Discover the Dream attending each of the four middle schools.
Discover the Dream hopes to keep students engaged in school and help them graduate high school. Not only is this program free, but for the high school graduates who are college-admissible with plans of attending UNI, their tuition will be paid in full. “Obviously, the biggest objective is understanding the importance of education and sticking with it and knowing that if you have consistency, structure and some guidance . . . anything is possible,” Holbach said. “That’s why we say it’s ‘Discover the Dream.’”
there has never been a spot open,” said Tanner Schrad, a junior biology major and resident of Lawther Hall. According to Schrad, despite his CP privileges, he is rarely able to park in the CP parking lot next to Lawther, instead parking in the C lot north of the UNIDome. Sierra Depping, a junior TESOL/Spanish major, has also found difficulty finding a place to park. Depping borrows her boyfriend’s car from the Campbell CP lot to drive to student-teaching sessions at three different schools throughout Cedar Falls but is rarely able to return the car to the same parking lot when she returns to campus. “I will take his car from the CP parking lot by Campbell, and when I come back in an hour there will be
no spots available,” Depping said. “There was one time I drove up and down all of the lanes in the CP lot and all the lanes in the B lot, which you can’t even park in with CP, and there were no spots in either of them.” According to Schrad and Depping, they would not have purchased CP passes had they known the parking situation would have been as difficult as it has been this fall. “If I had wanted to walk as far as I’ve had to walk, I’d have gotten a C pass,” Depping said. According to the Parking Department’s website, for the 2017 academic year an R pass will cost a student $34.40, a C pass $59.40 and a CP pass $79.00. The situation was exacerbated last week when,
in an email, the Parking Department offered additional CP passes to students who had not qualified for a CP permit during the summer and the beginning of the school year. “It definitely angers me,” Schrad said. “Especially lately, they opened up CP spots to freshman and other people who didn’t get a CP spot previously, for the year. Not only are they offering more CP spots that they don’t have for this area, now younger kids can get that… it really doesn’t do me any good.” Rumors have swirled around campus that the Parking Division has sold more R, C and CP passes than there are spaces available.
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DACA: failure from the start After much internal deliberation, I’ve decided to write this column with hopes of giving people a fresh perspective on the controversy surrounding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. President Donald Trump made the move Tuesday, Sept. 5, to end DACA, making the announcement with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. This move, I think, was an error because it put more ownership on the shoulders of the Trump administration. DACA was introduced in June 2012 via an executive order from former President Obama. It is an important distinction to make — this was Obama’s doing, not simply his “administration.” This distinction is essential in understanding why it was held up in the courts. The executive order was an overreach of power that belongs to Congress. Winning the presidency, but losing the Congress, meant Obama couldn’t get away with later convincing Congress to enshrine DACA into legislation. Essentially, Obama made a promise to the unauthorized migrant
population that he had no way of keeping. As a side note to clarify my terms, I will be referring to “illegal immigrants” as unauthorized migrants or unauthorized immigrants. The inaccurate term “undocumented immigrant” implies a clerical error on the part of the government and doesn’t address the legal situation accurately. Further, the IRS officially refers to such individuals who are not US citizens or who are US nationals as “aliens.” In addition, the IRS refers to aliens who either enter illegally or enter legally but overstay their legal status as “illegal aliens” or “undocumented aliens.” They don’t fall under the legal definition of “immigrant” nor “nonimmigrant,” which would be the status of UNI foreign exchange students. Now back to the issues with DACA. Not only was the use of an executive order an overstep, but it also caused backlash from members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the time. They claimed Obama “violated his congressional mandate to carry out immigration enforcement laws,” according to a 2014 USA Today article. One of the ideas that Trump supporters pushed was that a Trump presidency would be a return to the rule of law. Supporters like
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After the Trump administration announced the ending of DACA last week, campus life editor Leziga Barikor calls for strict and clear immigration policies that may require case-by-case deportations.
Ann Coulter have criticized the president for not being tougher on immigration or ending DACA as soon as he took office. Like it or hate it, it is an issue within the executive purview. But when it came to DACA, Trump could’ve done nothing, and still we would be where we are now with the program because the courts were striking it down. The Supreme Court split 4-4 on June 23, 2016 regarding whether the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Lawful Permanent Residents programs were an executive overreach by Obama. This left the injunction against the programs from the Texas lower court’s decision in place. Trump’s appointment to the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, all but assured that the DAPA and DACA programs would come to an end. More suits from conservative states were coming, and that is what inspired Trump to make a decision, according to the Sept. 5 issue of The New York Times. Regardless of what programs were still in place, there is still a major issue that I must highlight. These unauthorized immigrants had no path towards citizenship through the DACA and DAPA programs. They trusted the Obamaera programs with their identities, and I think they deserve justice for that. But illegal immigration is not the victimless crime activists claim it to be. If your parents make millions through bank embezzlement and then get caught,
your sudden change in economic status, although not your fault, is still a consequence you must face. Protests have mentioned the loss of these unauthorized migrants from the workforce as a reason to not pull the plug on the program, but I say that’s exactly the problem — the workforce is the victim. Before these programs legalized unauthorized migrants to work, they were still participating in society and that required more illegal acts.
We need a just system that works and makes sense. That may not look like mass deportation, but it might look like case-by-case deportations. Leziga Barikor
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Before I could even fully accept my admittance to UNI, I had to bring at least three different types of identification into the Registrar. To my surprise, I had to apply for a new social security card that reflected my new citizen status. All those documents you might forget about as part of school and work application processes need to be legitimately or illegitimately produced at some point. Our justice system sends business professionals to jail for working without the proper licensing — how much more for not being a lawful resident of the
nation in which you work? But I’m not without empathy for people faced with that choice, and neither is the government. As protests continue, Trump, who has no legal standing to keep these programs alive, is asking Congress to put DACA-like legislation in place. Re p u bl i c a n s and Democrats want to find a fair solution and pathway for unauthorized immigrants to get in line for US citizenship. The issue of unauthorized immigration needs to be handled seriously and strictly, especially when viewed through the lens of human trafficking. One tragedy the DACA program created was the massive surge of Central American children to the US. These children hoped to be reunited legitimately with their families, but being young and traveling alone made them perfect targets for human trafficking during Obama’s second term, according to a PBS article from March 7, 2016. We need to demand Congress to be strict and clear on immigration — no more promises that can’t be kept and no more policies that put people in danger. We need a just system that works and makes sense. That may not look like mass deportation, but it might look like case-by-case deportations. If there’s going to be a path to citizenship, it needs to run uniquely from the normal channels. And if Trump really wants to make unauthorized mig rants legit, he needs to research more and tweet less.
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On Thursday, Sept. 7, students and professors alike gathered in the Kamerick Art Building to hear a lecture given by New York photographer, Doug DuBois. UNI is currently holding an exhibition for his three main bodies of work in the UNI Gallery of Art. DuBois is an associate professor at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, so he is well practiced in giving lectures. However, what allowed him to hold his audience’s attention was the way he divulged the intimate details of his photographs and what inspired
something he continuously worked on over the course of his career. DuBois talked about how “All the Days and Nights” was largely influenced by his father’s near fatal accident and how this is reflected in each very personal image. However, some elements of the book are embellished. “We’re all very unreliable narrators,” DuBois said. “This book about my family is a memoir, which means things are embellished.” “All the Days and Nights” is split into two parts, based on the before and after of his parents’ divorce. “It’s a way to reconcile things, it’s all repressed and comes out in weird ways,”
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The pieces from “In Good Time,” an exhibition by artist Doug DuBois, will be on display until Sept. 30 in the UNI Gallery of Art.
him in creating them. “To make a picture is not to understand a picture,” DuBois said. DuBois spent the course of the lecture discussing his three main bodies of work. He began by discussing “All the Days and Nights,” a memoir and dedication to his family, which was shot over two decades. Then he moved on to talk about “Avella,” which featured scenes from a mining town in Pennsylvania, from where his grandmother originateed. Finally, he discussed in the greatest detail, “My Last Day at Seventeen.” This book was developed from portraits of working-class Irish youth in the aftermath of the Celtic Tiger. DuBois said that when he began creating “All the Days and Nights,” he lacked camera knowledge. “When I made that picture, I didn’t really know what I was doing,” DuBois said in regard to an iconic picture of his father packing a suitcase. “I just said, ‘Dad do something in the light.’” This was a popular technique for him in his early years of photography and is
DuBois said. DuBois moved on from discussing his first book to talking about his interest in photographing a mining community in Pennsylvania, where his family originated. His grandmother took him to the town and this inspired him to make a series of portraits, which eventually turned into “Avella.” “This was the first time I set photos up,” DuBois said. In the final half of the lecture, DuBois discussed his work in Cobh, Ireland, where he photographed youths for five summers. “I wanted to photograph what it meant to be coming of age in Ireland,” DuBois said. DuBois became interested in a rough area of Ireland known as Russel Heights, and the images he took of the neighbourhood kids there inspired him to write his latest book, “My Last Day at Seventeen.” Darrell Taylor, director of the UNI Gallery of Art, is largely responsible for the presence of DuBois’s work in the UNI Gallery of Art. “I was approached by the Aperture Foundation, maybe even two years ago,
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On Sept. 7, New York artist Doug DuBois spoke at the Kamerick Art Building.
and they wanted to offer us an exhibition here in our space,” Taylor said. “And so we began a negotiation with them. Based on that initial negotiation, we started working with our photography professor and we looked at a range of exhibitions that we could bring here. When we looked through this set of exhibitions, we knew exactly who we wanted to bring here and that was the Doug DuBois exhibition.” Throughout his lecture, the audience appeared interested in what DuBois had to say, with many sticking around at the end to ask questions. “We’ve talked about Dubois in class and I’m interested in him because I’m an art major,” said Allison Bentzen, freshman graphic design major.
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Many students also took the time to explore the exhibition beforehand and had positive feedback. “He was really interesting, it was great to see the artwork of his family,” said Taylor Hansen, sophomore art education major. When asked his motivation for offering a lecture about his work, DuBois joked that it was for the money. “I got paid to be here… that’s honest,” DuBois said. He added that he offered the lecture because he likes doing it and because he was honored UNI offered to take his work and put it up in an exhibition. “The exhibition is here and I also teach...I don’t take the commitment lightly, or the money it costs to bring it here and put it up,” DuBois said.
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According to David Velasco, Parking Manager at the UNI Department of Public Safety, these rumors are not true. In an e-mail, Mr. Velasco stated that the Parking Department does not sell more R, C, and CP passes than there are spaces available. When asked about the Campbell CP lot in particular, Mr. Velasco said that the lack of space was due to CP pass holders concentrating in Campbell lot. “Purchasing a CP permit allows a resident to park in any CP lot,” Velasco said. “The permit is not specific to a particular lot. Naturally, if a student lives in Campbell, he/she wants to park in the Campbell CP lot. However, there is adequate CP parking in the area of Campbell, Dancer and Bender, but it may not be exactly where a student wishes to park. As a side note, the Campus Street CP area is usually underutilized and has available parking.” Remedies to UNI’s parking woes that were tossed around in discussions with students included new parking ramps, redesignating the letter assignments of lots to accommodate more CP parking near their respective dorms and allowing CP pass holders to downgrade to a C pass in exchange for a refund of the additional charge. “Personally, I believe that, behind the health center, and over by the old white schoolhouse, there’s a parking lot back there, and I think you could turn some of that into CP, or turn the B lot next to Campbell CP lot into CP,” Schrad said. “I think that would be very nice.” Velasco said that the Parking Division is always working to accommodate a changing campus and student population. “We are always evaluating the evolving needs of the campus population, including lot designations,” Velasco said.
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FILM REVIEW
‘Wind River’ will chill your heart CLINTON OLSASKY
Executive Editor
A young woman runs, distraught, across a vast, snowy wasteland, as the hypnotic words of a poem ominously reverberate against the wintery landscape. This, the opening scene of Taylor Sheridan’s new murder mystery “Wind River,” serves as only a brief preview of the pain and suffering that mark many of the individuals’ lives throughout the rest of the film. “Wind River,” which takes place in the Native American reservation of the same name in Wyoming, revolves around the mysterious death of Natalie Hanson, an 18-year-old girl whose frozen body is discovered in the wilderness by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner). From there, Lambert assists visiting FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizebth Olsen) in solving the apparent murder, all while painful memories from Lambert’s past continue to haunt him. Directing: 5/5 Taylor Sheridan, who wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed crime thrillers “Sicario” (2015) and “Hell or High Water” (2016), assumes the director’s chair this time around for the similarly-themed “Wind River.” Along with “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water,” “Wind River” operates as an intensely violent and emotionally moving final chapter in Sheridan’s de-facto crime trilogy. Sheridan’s directing style
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Drake Eserhaut, a junior movement and exercise science major, was one of the many UNI students who attended Thursday’s lecture. “[Cullen] described how
is not unlike his writing: visceral, poetic and challenging. He isn’t afraid to linger on certain shots, forcing the viewer to fully absorb the breathtakingly stark landscapes that all too often engulf his characters. In fact, these static compositions often serve as visual representations for the lack of agency that typifies many of the characters in the film – for example, Lambert’s inability to move past his painful memories. At the same time, Sheridan injects the otherwise leisurely-paced “Wind River” with short bursts of intensity and violence. These isolated sequences of frenetic action feel entirely alien when juxtaposed with the restrained pace with which Sheridan allows the majority of his film to unfold. And perhaps that’s the point. After all, violence of any sort should come across as alien to us. Sheridan simply communicates this truth in “Wind River” through carefully crafted visual compositions. Writing: 4/5 With “Sicario,” “Hell or High Water” and now “Wind River,” Sheridan has proven himself to be one of the most talented screenwriters working today. Although his films often take place within bleak and violent worlds where moral corruption runs rampant, his characters, while flawed, still remain deeply human. This is clearly evident through Renner’s Cory Lambert, who receives several layers of emotional complexity thanks to Sheridan’s independent journalism is suppressed by big corporations and companies that would be hindered by the facts of the reporting on a local scale,” Eserhaut said. “It was nice to see someone who is working that hard to present his findings.”
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Tom Cullen, a reporter whose work with The Storm Lake Times helped earn the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize, spoke at UNI last Thursday.
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Elizabeth Olson stars as FBI Agent Jane Banner in the new crime drama “Wind River,” directed by Taylor Sheridan. The film has received critical acclaim and currently carries an 86 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
deft and intelligent writing. While Lambert initially appears as the morally righteous and upstanding local law enforcement agent, Sheridan complicates him through the aforementioned trauma that continues to haunt him from his past. Much of the film’s supporting cast is similarly presented as round and relatively complex characters – in other words, human beings. The only complaint one could make with Sheridan’s screenplay is how little the film explores Jane Banner’s backstory, which does somewhat limit her character’s emotional depth. However, Olsen more than makes up for this slight narrative misstep with a generally terrific and convincing performance. Acting: 5/5 In addition to Olsen,
Renner delivers one of his most impressive performances in recent memory – likely his best since his star-making turn in 2009’s Best Picture recipient “The Hurt Locker.” Renner fully commits to the emotional complexity that defines his character, resulting in a truly harrowing and heartrending portrayal of an individual adversely affected by loss. In a way, then, by virtue of Renner’s performance, “Wind River” becomes a poignant examination of grief and the never-ending struggle to overcome past trauma. Other standouts from the cast include Gil Birmingham as Martin Hanson, the grieving father of the recently deceased Natalie, and Julia Jones in a small, but pivotal role as Wilma Lambert, Cory’s estranged wife.
Overall: 4.5/5 From the outset, “Wind River” sets itself apart from other murder mysteries and police procedurals through its poetic and ethereal tone. Although interrupted at times by highly intense and tautly scripted shootouts and fight scenes, the large majority of the film unfolds carefully and thoughtfully. As a result, the misery, pain and anguish that invade many of the characters’ lives are allowed to resonate more plainly. In short, “Wind River” moves with the emotional weight of its characters. The film’s slow and deliberate pace is not unlike that of the titular river, swallowing us up in our grief and carrying us away in one last gust of air.
Alik Lorenz, a junior computer science major, was also in attendance at the lecture. Lorenz said that he was surprised that a prestigious award like the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to such a small-town newspaper. “I had personally never heard about it,” Lorenz said. “It’s a big deal.” As for journalism, both students agree that it is still an important aspect of today’s society. “For somebody like Tom Cullen and those kinds of people, it’s really good to have someone reporting the facts of the people and what the people are feeling, rather than just a major news corporation,” Esherhaut said. “The [Storm Lake Times] is actually involved with the local community and hunts down [the] kinds of issues that are
arising and how they can go about fixing things.”
not majoring in journalism, both said that they appreciated Tom Cullen’s lecture on science and the media. Cullen also mentioned that The Storm Lake Times has gained numerous new subscribers across the country thanks to his and his father’s efforts. Even after gaining such nationwide recognition, Cullen said he continues to follow the Waterworks story closely, with hopes of exposing the truth to the public. Finally, in addition to his own experience as a journalist, Cullen addressed the current state of journalism in the US and the mistrust that the public still has for the media. “You always have to have this idea in your head that you’re just a reflection of what’s going on,” Cullen said. “Just tell the truth and let the chips fall.”
You always have to have this idea in your head that you’re just a reflection of what’s going on. Just tell the truth and let the chips fall. Tom Cullen
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“It’s probably hard to do nowadays, especially with technology and especially with independent journalism,” Lorenz said. “I give Tom Cullen credit for doing such a big thing.” Although both students are
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Panther Pep Crew renamed ‘Panther Mayhem’ DYLAN PADY during the initial stages of
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The Panther Pep Crew is ready to cheer on their fellow student athletes on the field or court, after renaming the group to “Panther Mayhem.” Caleb Lundeen had been a part of the student section since his freshman year at UNI. Up until last year, Lundeen has been the president of the organization along with seven other executive members on the board. Everyone involved works towards the same respective goal, however. “We not only focus on just the student section, but we focus on the game as a whole,” Lundeen said. “So not just students, but also the parents, the families and the kids to try and create a fun time for everybody.” Some minor concerns arose
the name change. It was a harmless suggestion to name the student section “Purple Mayhem.” But, after a quick Google search, AllBud.com
It was a pretty easy switch to be Panther Mayhem instead of Purple Mayhem. Caleb Lundeen
President of Panther Mayhem
defines Purple Mayhem as “an indica dominant hybrid (80% indica/20% sativa) strain [of cannabis] created through crossing the extremely rare Dark Desire X Dark Cross strains.” So now the question at hand would be what to do with this
newfound information. “Initially, we didn’t know about it or think about googling it or anything like that,” Lundeen said. “But then it was brought to our attention by somebody pretty high up… And it was a pretty easy switch to be Panther Mayhem instead of Purple Mayhem.” The initial name change circulated primarily throughout the student section officials and to others involved, but did not make its way to the rest of the student body. “There hasn’t really been any criticism on that, so we kind of caught it early which was good.” Lundeen said. The football team has already played their first two games of the season and basketball is still on the way, but everyone can still get out to support UNI student athletes and their respective sports, along with Panther Mayhem.
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SOCCER
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Because of their strong play on the attack, Yount and Brandt have etched their names into UNI soccer history as members of the
top five goal scorers in team history with 10 and 12 scores respectively. In the goaltender’s box, keeper Jami Reichenberger looks to continue her strong defense of the UNI net after facing 72 shots on goal in the first seven games, only
allowing two goals in the loss to Montana, giving her a save percentage of 93 percent. As the season progresses, the Panthers are sitting high in the Missouri Valley Conference standings and are currently posted at
#12 in the United States Coaches Midwest Regional Rankings. UNI will hit the pitch next on Friday, Sept. 15 as they face the Northern Illinois Huskies on the road. Fans of the purple and gold can catch the women’s
soccer team next at home on Sunday, Sept. 17 as they host the North Dakota Fighting Hawks at the Cedar Valley Soccer Complex. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. and fans are encouraged to wear purple for Panther Mayhem Day.
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NFL week one recap: Chiefs, Panthers and Cardinals JERRIUS CAMPBELL Sports Writer
Week one of the 2017 NFL season is in the books and the Kansas City Chiefs came out on-fire against the defending champions, the New England Patriots. Ro o k i e running-back Kareem Hunt had a slow start in his first career appearance but ended the night with an outstanding performance. His very first NFL carry resulted in a fumble that ended up in the hands of the Patriots. However, this error would not stop him from having one of the best season debuts in NFL history. The Ohiobor n player ended the game with 246 all purpose yards, 148 rushing and 98 receiving yards and finished with three touchdowns. The Chiefs beat the Patriots 42-27 on an
exciting Thursday night feature. It seems as though the Carolina Panthers found a star in their rookie running back, Christian McCaffrey from Stanford. McCaffrey was a huge part of the Panthers offense on Sunday, participating in 70 percent of Carolina’s snaps. McCaffrey also played as a fullback and lined up in the slot as a wide receiver. For the majority of the game against the 49ers, McCaffrey lead both teams in rushing yards. Carolina had an easy 23-3 win over the 49ers Sunday. Injuries are becoming a problem early on for some NFL teams. Unfortunately, the Arizona Cardinals took a huge loss Sunday with the injury of former UNI running back, David Johnson. Reports say Johnson will be out with a dislocated left wrist that will require
surgery. Johnson will be off of the depth chart for two to three months. The Cardinals were not the only team to lose someone to injury. The Jacksonville Jaguars star wide-receiver, Allen Robinson, went down with a season ending ACL tear. The Jaguars may have to rely on their rookie running back Leonard Four nette to carry the offense this season. Tonight’s game will feature the Houston Texans and the Cincinnati Bengals. Then on Sunday, some big games will include the Bills playing the Panthers, Bears playing the Buccaneers, Colts playing the Cardinals, Patriots playing the Saints, Titans taking on the Jaguars, Cowboys playing the Broncos and finally, the Packers will take on the Falcons in Atlanta.
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