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Constitution Day Address confronts slavery’s legacy SOFIA LEGASPI

Campus Life Editor

UNI and Cedar Valley community members packed the Great Hall of the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC) on the evening of Monday, Sept. 16 to hear Nikole Hannah-Jones deliver the UNI 2019 Constitution Day Address.

A Waterloo native, HannahJones works as an investigative journalist for The New York Times Magazine, where she covers topics of civil rights and racial injustice.

“Tonight’s lecture is part of a much bigger effort which aims to increase dialogue across the state about complex public issues and to equip students, faculty and staff with the skills to build a shared understanding of challenges, to empathize with experiences very different from our own and to create positive change from collaboration,” said UNI President Mark Nook as he introduced the speaker.

Originally, HannahJones’ planned lecture was

titled “Separate and Unequal: Considering Modern Day Segregation and the American Constitution.” However, as she began her talk, Hannah-Jones told the audience that she would be going “a bit rogue” and would not be speaking on school segregation, but instead on the 1619 Project.

At the mention of this, the audience erupted into applause.

The 1619 Project is an interactive collection of essays and other works, organized

by Hannah-Jones and The New York Times, in observation of the 400th anniversary of American slavery. HannahJones said the topic of her lecture, while seemingly unrelated to the anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was “perfect timing.”

“So much of the 1619 Project is talking about how our Constitution failed many of the citizens at our founding,” she said, “and how it has actually been black Americans who have worked the hardest to make the ideals of the Constitution true.”

Hannah-Jones outlined a history of slavery in the United States, from its inception in 1619 to its legacy that prevails today. She asked the audience to consider their misconceptions about American slavery.

“We are taught that slavery was marginal to the United States, that slavery was not that unusual,” she said. “And that is simply not the truth. Slavery was foundational.”

She painted a picture of Thomas Jefferson penning the well-known liberating words of the Declaration of Independence with a young Robert Hemings sitting beside him — his halfblack brother-in-law, serving him as a slave. The original draft of the Declaration had actually mentioned slavery and criticized it, she said. However, some founders disliked the implications of the criticism — namely, that their newborn nation would have to abolish slavery or else face accusations of hypocrisy — and struck the passage from the Declaration.

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The fondest memory for many UNI fans will be brought to the forefront again as the 2009-10 men’s basketball team that took down the No. 1-ranked Kansas Jayhawks will be inducted into the UNI Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday September, 26. Nearly a decade later, the team will be back in Cedar Falls to be enshrined in UNI history, as well as being honored during halftime of the football game when the Panthers host Idaho State at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Panther Nation went wild when Ali Farorkhmanesh hit the biggest shot in UNI’s history. Farokhmanesh’s risky three-point shot paid off big

for the Panthers as they took a 4-point lead at 66-62 with 35 seconds remaining. Tensions were relieved for UNI when the final buzzer hit with the score of 69-67 to clinch the first Sweet 16 berth in the school’s history.

The historic upset put UNI on the map as Farokhmanesh graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, decorated in purple and gold. Not only were the Jayhawks the No. 1 seed, but they also had current NBA veterans Marcus and Markieff Morris on the team.

Following the exhilaration of taking down the top dogs, UNI faced Michigan State led by Draymond Green. The Panthers couldn’t advance to the Elite Eight as they fell to the Spartans, 59-52.

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Presidential candidate and California senator Kamala Harris will visit UNI on Friday, Sept.

20. She last visited campus in October 2018, when she campaigned for Iowa Democrats who sought election to state offices in last year’s mid-term elections.

Since last year’s visit, Harris has announced her candidacy for the 2020 presidential election. Her Sept.

20 visit is part of a series of campaign events in central

and eastern Iowa, including the LGBTQ Presidential Candidate Forum at Coe College at 7 p.m. on Sept.

20.

The UNI visit will be held in the Old Central Ballroom in Maucker Union. Doors will open at 4 p.m. and the program will begin at 4:45 p.m.

Harris will discuss her “3 a.m. agenda,” defined by the Des Moines Register as “the problems that keep Americans up at night.”

The event is free, but the public is encouraged to RSVP for the event by visiting kamalaharris.org.

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Kamala Harris addresses students during a campus visit in October of 2018. The California senator and 2020 presidential candidate will return to UNI on Friday, Sept. 20.

“This is our founding paradox,” HannahJones said. “At that moment, we decide that we are going to enter as a brand-new country in the world, based both on the idea of individual freedom and also on the idea of absolute bondage.”

Hannah-Jones described slavery as an “American endeavor,” with all branches of government and all aspects of the U.S. economy and society coming together to uphold the institution.

She noted that American slavery was the first to establish heritable servitude based solely on race, with slaves treated as property and experiencing a perma-

nent “social death.”

Moving on to the Civil War, Hannah-Jones struck down the misbelief that the U.S. was a leader in abolition, noting that only two other countries in the Americas took as long to end slavery, and only one other country, Haiti, required a war to do so.

“We were the only other country that literally had to have a civil war, the bloodiest and deadliest war in the history of our country, to end slavery,” Hannah-Jones said. “This tells you how important slavery was to us.”

Hannah-Jones also exposed the hypocrisy of Abraham Lincoln, the “Great Emancipator” who planned to have emancipat-

ed slaves shipped out of the U.S. “And instead, black Americans do this thing that really logically doesn’t make sense,” she said. “Instead, we said, ‘we are going to stay here and we are going to fight to perfect this democracy.’ Because black Americans actually believed in the ideals of the Constitution, even when the founders did not.

That’s the most beautiful thing to me. And so they fought.”

After a brief 12-year period of Reconstruction during which black Americans served in government roles and key pieces of civil rights legislation were passed, federal troops withdrew from the South, and white southerners took

over and reinstituted a “quasi-slavery” through racial terror, Hannah-Jones said.

During the second civil rights movement in the 1960s, black Americans found themselves fighting for rights which had already been guaranteed in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments a century ago.

“Laws that are not enforced are just words on paper,” Hannah-Jones said.

She went over the major legislative landmarks of the time, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. These laws and others established during the second

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civil rights movement left a lasting impact for future movements, including the gay rights movement, women’s movement, immigration rights movement and disability rights movement.

“When black Americans fought for civil rights, they never fought for civil rights only for their own,” she said.

“Because people on the bottom understood more than anything that no one values freedom more than those who have never had it. And so, instead of selfishly trying to only get rights for themselves, they understood that as long as any person, any group was being oppressed, that their own freedom was in jeopardy.”

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Print news creates informed minds COLIN HORNING

Opinion Columnist

This may be an unpopular opinion, but newspapers are wonderful. Now, I may have a bit of a bias towards them, being that I work for one and greatly enjoy doing so. But newspapers, especially hard copy versions of them, are something that I find as a valuable part of our modern society. However, they are quickly becoming a relic of the past due to the rise of the Internet and the information era.

It’s highly unlikely that if you’re of the millennial generation or generation Z that you’ve read a print newspaper recently.

Of course, there are exceptions, but a Pew Research study from 2017 shows that less than 10% of people age 18-34 pick up a print newspaper at least once per week. Coinciding with that statistic is the steady overall decline in newspaper ad revenue, overall decline in circulation in print versions and an increasingly aging audience is troublesome for the newspaper industry. Practically every single large and mid-sized print

outlet has developed an online version offering digital subscriptions, but these sales do not gain enough revenue to offset the declining sales of print versions.

On top of all that, almost all newspapers have a paywall for their online versions, which has a tendency to deter a lot of potential users to other free, ad-supported websites across all political ideologies around the Internet. But newspapers are valuable, informative and provide the highest-quality journalism of any other news outlet available.

Most people, especially broke college students, are not willing to pay for news nowadays. After all, why would someone spend their hard-earned money on journalistic content that they can find for free on places like blogs, websites and podcasts? The answer is actually quite simple: you get what you pay for. Most news websites and cable TV channels will often cite reports from the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal and regurgitate the information for their own reports. These

papers, as well as others, are often times the first news outlets to break an important story that will captivate the national press for days and weeks at a time. They are also the main sources of information for many top government officials within the United States, including the President. Information provided specifically in the New York Times is important to deciding how politicians and members within the President’s cabinet will act on foreign policy, national security, and the economy.

As citizens, it’s important to be informed and to be in the know with what’s going on in our country and in the world. And as college students, it’s important for us to get into the habit of reading the news on the daily in order to become said informed citizens. To sweeten the deal even further, papers like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times offer discounted digital subscriptions, which oftentimes go for about $4-$5 per month, which is chump change in relation to the cost of most textbooks (and of course,

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the Northern Iowan is free of charge).

Credible journalism and a free press are cornerstones of the United States and a guaranteed right that we have all been bestowed upon in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.

It’s easier now more than ever to get the news from a clickbait, ad-reliant website rather than taking time and money to support a high-quality newspaper. In fact, many people nowadays run across, or “bump into” news stories through social

media feeds on Facebook and Twitter instead of actively seeking them out.

But far and away, the best method of informing oneself and keeping up to date on current events is through high-quality daily newspapers. The price tag may be daunting and the time commitment might be hard to come by, but the return on investment is much more valuable than a few bucks and an hour of one’s time. A lifetime of knowledge and information is easily worth it.

Bush would have lost the state, and thus the election by foreseeably as many as 97,000 votes in Florida.

The mechanical structure of a rank-choice system is that voters are allowed a certain number of lines to fill in. Essentially a “pick one” and if they fail to garner a majority a “pick two.” So, in 2016, if my first choice was the Johnson/Weld ticket, but they failed to win a majority of votes my second choice of “Clinton/Trump” or any other third party would be what is counted.

This is where the system produces what are called “instant run-offs.” The design, in theory produces majorities which are suitable to the preferences to the largest number of people. The beauty of this is that it would do much to relieve the alienation that people across the United States feel from the political process, by ennobling their influence in it.

The “democracy movement” that Lessig advocates for consists in Technicolor.

Ranging from conservative and libertarians to Progressives, rank-choice is just one of a numerous and growing list of proposed reforms. Other proposed

reforms such as a “national popular vote” advocate for the complete elimination of the Electoral College, others approaches such as “fair representative voting” would restructure districts to ensure that gerrymandering was eliminated nationally. Whatever the solution, the United States must have the conversation, nationally over election reform.

As debates, town halls, and conversations between Americans happen over the next year, election reform should be should be at the forefront of both parties’ platforms.

Ranked choice voting has gained some ground in the United States, especially in more progressive locales of the United States in the last couple of years. For example, the cities of St. Paul, Mn., San Francisco, Ca., and Cambridge, Ma., have all approved and implemented it. However, the only state which has fully implemented the system is Maine which uses it for the elections of both federal and state office.

As the political temperature in the United States continues to rise, perhaps democracy reform is exactly what is needed for voters to find meaning in our politics.

The democracy movement and rank-choice KEVIN WIGGINS

Opinion Columnist

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig has made a jump into this digital desert we inhabit with his podcast “Another Way.” The show is dedicated to a burgeoning “democracy movement” that is slowly growing across the United States. Lessig hosts a number of academics, activists and others for discussions on best to cure the feeling of a cancerous growth that is overtaking the political process in the United States. The basic tenets of the movement are centered on finding solu-

tions to this problem, and there exist a number of proposed solutions. Due to this growing, cancerous feeling towards politics by Americans, democracy and election reform should be a key aspect of national discourse in the years to come.

For example, the 2000 election has been an oft cited example of the birth of these frustrations. For many, had Ralph Nader not run then the Florida map would have looked incredibly different. That said, he did, and in that environment, there was no way to add nuance to a citizen’s voice. So, if we could

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somehow magically dissect a Ralph Nader voter, they could almost assuredly be assumed to have preferred Gore to Bush. This is supposedly where the genesis of a feeling of “alienation” from the political process came in to the United States. Essentially, a Nader voter might think “if neither Bush nor Gore represent me, my vote is a ‘throw away.’” More simply put, these types of voters felt alienated from the American political process.

Take for example the political mono-culture that is the state of California.

No Republican has carried the state since it was lost to Clinton in 1992. That being said, there are numerically more Republicans in the state of California than in every other state in the U.S. The same can be said of Democrats and progressives across the middle of the country, rank-choice voting would give to all the ability to see themselves in our political process. In the current system, the voices of more marginal, or third-party voters is completely cut off from the final result. To carry forward with the election of 2000, had a rankchoice system been in place,

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FINANCIAL LITERACY 101

COLBY WEBER Staff Writer

Financial literacy is a skill that plays a key role in any college student’s life.

Managing your finances is an essential part of setting yourself up for a successful future. In order to accomplish this, students must learn about the various aspects that play into money management.

Understanding what credit is and how you can increase your credit score is a key element in gaining proficiency in financial literacy.

“Credit is a numerical value that is assigned to your ability to borrow debt,” said Kyle Vic, branch manager at Hy-Vee Wilson Avenue. “It’s a reflection of your ability to repay a debt.”

This value is commonly measured with a figure called your FICO score. However, one can also get scores from three different credit bureaus.

These include Trans-Union, Equifax and Experian. FICO scores can range from 300 to 850; the higher the number, the better one’s credit rating is.

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In discussing today’s continuing battle for equality, epitomized in the Black Lives Matter movement, Hannah-Jones placed herself in the context of history. Ten years before her birth in 1976, it was legal to deny her housing, and it was illegal for her to exist in some states since her black parents could not legally marry. Fourteen years before her birth, it was legal to say she couldn’t use a library, a swimming pool, a park or a school.

“I am not an old woman; this is not ancient history,” she said. “So when we understand that I am part of the first generation of Americans since 1619 who

was born in a country with full legal citizenship rights, then we should not be astounded that we have so much progress to be made.”

Hannah-Jones said she initiated the 1619 Project to reveal aspects of American life demonstrating the lasting legacy of slavery — everything from the nation’s high sugar consumption and its low rate of labor union membership to its broken educational system and dysfunctional politics.

“I want people to understand: you can’t contain the harms of our original sin,” she said. “We think that those harms only hurt black people, but they actually hurt all Americans because our fates are intertwined together.”

Hannah-Jones brought

A person’s credit score can be separated into tiers. For example, a credit score within a certain range can get you a specific rate on an automobile loan. With a higher credit rating, it’s possible to get a better deal. According to Vic, a score in the 700 range is ideal.

Even though people may know what credit is, they may not know how to build it.

“The biggest thing is taking out loans or having a credit card,” Vic said. “Paying your bills on time also helps.

You have to take out debt to build credit.”

Vic emphasized the importance of having a credit history. It influences your buying power for homes and cars. In fact, it can even affect your career if your credit score is checked as a part of the job interview process. When applying for loans, they may not give you a loan if your history shows that you’re unable to pay it back. With a lower score, you will also get a higher interest rate.

By keeping your credit score high, you can get a lower interest rate.

Credit scores are calculated using five different parts.

“Thiry-five percent of it is payment history,” said Vic. “That’s about whether or not you’ve made your payments on time. Next is capacity at 30 percent, which is how much you’re able to borrow.

If someone has $1,000 on a credit report and another person has $40,000 on a credit card, that one has more available credit. Recent debt makes up 10 percent. If your debt is more recent, it will have a larger impact on your score. Age is 15 percent of it, because newer debt has a more negative impact. The last one is a mix of debt.

By diversifying your types of

debt with auto loans, mortgage loans and personal loans, you can increase your score.”

There are several things that can make someone’s score drop. Missing payments, the frequency of missing payments and the severity of a missing payment can affect a person’s score. Maxing out a credit card can also be detrimental. As long as a score is kept at 50 percent or less of your credit card’s limit, it should help you to keep your credit score positive or neutral. Closing a credit card line after it has been paid off may also have negative consequences. As a final tip, make sure not to apply for loans multiple times in a row in a short amount of time.

Credit is necessary in order to buy a house or a car.

“I’ve seen people try to buy an auto loan or a home loan and having to ask their parents to cosign, sometimes they see it as disheartening.

College students should know that credit is important,” Vic said. “They should go somewhere to educate themselves about financial literacy. They can go to their local bank or financial institution to take an extra step if they don’t understand.”

her speech home by pulling up a screenshot of a news article titled “Waterloo confronts list’s label as worst area to be black.” While she joked that the Waterloo mayor would be aghast that she had mentioned the article, she also lamented the label and called for change.

The audience was left with a charge to “reframe” the way they see black Americans: to see them not as a problem, but as “perfectors of democracy.”

“We have fought for democracy to turn this country into the country of our ideals,” she said.

“What a powerful country we would be if everybody in

this room actually believed in the America that black people have believed in, and treated all of our citizens as if we are all worthy of the country that we are trying to build.”

Hannah-Jones was met with a standing ovation, cheers and whistles resounding through the nearly full auditorium.

Following the lecture, audience members were able to participate in a 20-minute question-and-answer session with Hannah-Jones. In the GBPAC lobby, the League of Women Voters of Black Hawk & Bremer Counties had a booth where people could register to vote.

Monday’s event was sponsored by the American Democracy Project, Chief Diversity Officer Gwenne Berry and the Office of the Provost.

What a powerful country we would be if everybody in this room actually believed in the America that black people have believed in.

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES New York Times reporter

Panther|Preview leland wilson lecture

open melt day

some assembly required improv auditions

thursday, Sept. 19 7 p.m.

Friday, sept. 20 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Saturday, sept. 21 1 p.m.

lantz auditorium mccollum science hall

industrial technology center, room 80

threehouse: wesley foundation

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Study Abroad Fair SOFIA LEGASPI

Campus Life Editor

Thirty-nine different programs were represented at the Study Abroad Fair in the Maucker Union ballroom on Wednesday, Sept.

18.

Students were able to speak with past participants, faculty and study abroad staff to learn about the different options offered through UNI, ranging from two-week faculty-led

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capstones to semester-long exchange programs.

“I would just say that Study Abroad can be a life-changing experience, open[ing] your mind to meeting different cultures and really putting to the test what you’re capable of,” said Ann Frenna, a staff member with the Study Abroad Center.

Fair attendees had the chance to win study abroad scholarships, participate in a photobooth and apply

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for or renew their passport with the Black Hawk County Recorders’ Office.

The Study Abroad Center recently moved from their office in Gilchrist Hall to a new location in 103 East Bartlett.

“We have lots of different programs available; we can find the perfect program for anyone,” Frenna said. “So we just want [students] to come and meet with us and see what’s possible.”

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Panthers defeat Indian Hills 14-10 SOFTBALL

PATRICK HANSEN

Sports Writer

A seven-run first inning propelled the Panther softball team to a win over Indian Hills Community College, as UNI scored 14 runs off of just 16 hits to tally a final score of 14-10. Sophomore pitcher Erica Oler took the mound, allowing three runs out of the gate in the top of the first inning, but the Panthers were quick to respond.

Senior Sammey Bunch slammed a two-run dinger to get UNI roll-

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ing. Waterloo native Jaclyn Spencer followed up with a double just minutes later to tie the game at 3-3. The offensive assault continued as Kamryn Shaffer smashed a grand slam to left field to take a 7-3 lead.

After scoring seven runs in the first, the Panthers gave up two runs to the Warriors in the second inning to bring the score to 7-5. Per usual, the Cats fought right back with a solo homer by Spencer, extending the lead to 8-5.

The back and forth affair continued with Indian Hills tying

the game at 8-8 in the third, but Adara Opiola cleared the bases with a double to regain a 10-8 lead. The Panthers scored a total of 10 runs in the first three innings, and would follow that with another run in the fifth.

With an 11-9 lead, the Panthers put up three runs in the last three innings, ultimately sealing the victory 14-10.

Up next, UNI will play at home until Sep. 28-29 when they travel to Des Moines to take on Iowa, Iowa State and Drake.

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NFL off to fast start, early Super Bowl prediction COLIN HORNING

Sports Writer

The first two weeks of the 2019-20 NFL season have been full of excitement, drama (Antonio Brown), injuries and multiple bizarre situations. We all know about the fiasco with Brown’s cryogenically frozen feet, helmet and conversations with the Raiders front office that may have involved physical confrontations.

The debacle seemed to be over when Brown’s demand to be released was met with signing on to join, who else, but the Patriots, leaving Raiders and Steelers fans, as well as seemingly everyone not from New England, shaking their heads.

All the while new allegations have surfaced involving sexual assault accusations against Brown. Meanwhile in Pittsburgh, the Steelers took another big hit as Ben Roethlisberger is out for the

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Nonetheless, the magical Sweet 16 run will always be one of, if not the biggest moment in UNI sports history.

The question all these years later is, “Where are they now?”

After a four-year basketball career overseas, Farokhmanesh made a couple coaching stops with Nebraska and Drake. The Iowa City native is now out west as an assistant coach for the Colorado State men’s basketball team.

Adam Koch, the oldest of three Koch brothers that played for UNI (Adam, Jake and Bennett), spent a few years with stints on NBA

season. The Steelers just can’t seem to catch a break.

Several other star quarterbacks such as Drew Brees and Cam Newton have also gone down with injuries, but are not lost for the season.

The crazy nature of the NFL didn’t stop there as Jets quarterback Sam Darnold will miss extended time with mononucleosis, and another franchise quarterback in Andrew Luck shocked the NFL with his retirement just before the season started.

There have also been reports of multiple Miami Dolphins players requesting trades after just one game, on top of many of the team’s star players being traded away already.

To top all of that, the Cleveland Browns won their first Monday Night Football game in over a decade, the Bears sunk a game-winning 53-yard field goal after being recently notorious for summer league and developmental league teams. Koch personified UNI’s fight best against Kansas by stealing a rebound from the Jayhawks followed by a two-handed jam to put the Panthers up seven with just over a minute left. Following his professional career, Koch followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps to become a dentist.

The Wisconsin native now practices in Green Bay. If you happen to catch a Timberwolves game just three hours north of Cedar Falls in Minneapolis, you may recognize a familiar face in former Panther point guard and current Timberwolves video coordinator Kwadzo Ahelegbe. The Oakdale, Minn., native played high school ball just a few miles east

kicking problems and one game has already ended up in a tie. At this rate, NFL fans are in for a historically exciting season.

Right away, it’s clear that the defending champion Patriots are the team to beat in the AFC. The duo of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick alone are good enough to warrant a formidable opponent week-in and week-out.

Pairing the two future Hall of Famers with arguably the best receiving core in the league and a solid defense makes this team an easy favorite.

However, that was all before the signing of Brown; adding him alongside Julian Edelman and Josh Gordon gives New England without a doubt the best lineup of receivers in the league.

Few teams in the AFC can compete on the level of the Patriots, but expect the Ravens and Chiefs to compete with New England

for the AFC championship. Baltimore’s top-notch defense can carry them far into the playoffs, and the Chiefs simply have too many offensive weapons to be slowed down.

A rematch of last year’s AFC title game seems likely again this year. Expect the Chiefs to overcome last year’s disappointment and pull off the upset against New England.

In the NFC, the field looks more balanced and uncertain than the AFC. The NFC West already looks very competitive with the Rams, Seahawks and 49ers all looking exceptional.

Expect Seattle’s postseason experience, star players and coaching to lead them to the NFC title game.

The NFC South and NFC North both look weaker and unlikely to produce a Super Bowl champion this season.

The Dallas Cowboys look strong so far this year, and

the division title just being a race with the Eagles will make it easier for them in their path to the postseason.

This may be the season for the Cowboys to overcome their playoff woes and finally make it back to the NFC title game, this time to face Seattle.

This matchup is very intriguing, but the Seahawks have the offensive tools and defensive players necessary to take out Dallas and get back to the Super Bowl.

A Chiefs-Seahawks Super Bowl would match an offensive powerhouse against a defensive juggernaut making for one of the most exciting Super Bowl matchups.

This game could easily come down to the wire, but Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offensive firepower will be too much for Seattle to handle, giving Kansas City their first Lombardi Trophy since Super Bowl IV.

their stories, but Johnny Moran, Lucas O’Rear, Jordan Eglseder and company will join the aforementioned

Panthers to reunite with coach Jacobson and the coaching staff to celebrate a historic moment in UNI history.

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of Minneapolis, and returned to his hometown team after making history with UNI. These are just some of

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31 Tops of waves 32 Small batteries 33 Pleasing to look at ... or a phonetic hint to a two-letter sequence in 16-, 20-, 51- and 56-Across 39 Bash into 40 Rapscallions 42 Soak (up), as gravy 45 Halves of qts.

46 Look over again 47 Like Goldilocks’ first bowl of porridge 49 Send to the canvas 50 Code-breaking org.

51 Expatriate American poet arrested for treason in 1945 53 Tiresome grind 55 Had a smoke 56 Aztec emperor 60 One-eyed “Futurama” headliner Across character 19 Corn serving 1 Activist Parks 5 First bird to attack in 20 Very focused, as an 61 Earnest request 62 Dog food brand athlete “The Birds” 63 LAX landing list 22 “Of course!”

9 “¿Qué __?”

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Down 1 Koothrappali on “The Big Bang Theory” 2 Common bill 3 Low-crime part of town 4 __ Romeo: sports car 5 “Gosh!”

6 Opens, as a parka 7 Rhone cathedral city 8 At the back of the pack 9 Swindler with a scheme named for him 10 Cooks’ wear 11 Earlier 12 “Gunsmoke” actor James 15 Leaks slowly 17 Like an overtired child, perhaps 21 One may be hidden under a welcome mat 22 “Grey’s Anatomy” network 23 “__ goes nothing!”

25 Fall back on 28 Beast of burden 29 Scroogean scoff 32 20s dispenser 34 “Old Town Road” rapper Lil __ X 35 Cry after a stunning

I asked my doctor for some tips on how to help my sleeping problems, and he told me to start sleeping in my fireplace.

So I did, and now I sleep like a log!

performance 36 Slangy assent 37 Happening later 38 Moments, briefly 41 Caribbean music 42 __ Artois: Belgian beer 43 More slimy 44 Stout relative 45 Dad 46 Original “SNL” cast member Gilda 48 Lugs 49 Small hill 52 Baseball’s “men in blue” 54 Guns from Israel 57 Univ. aides 58 UFC fighting style 59 Egyptian snake

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