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The UNI Panther football team dominated play in the UNI-Dome for their 2018 home opener this past

Saturday against the Hampton Pirates in their final non-conference matchup.

The Panthers earned their first win of the season, after two tough non-conference losses to the Montana

Grizzlies and Iowa Hawkeyes.

With a 44-0 score, the Panthers completed their first shutout since the 2015 season.

UNI’s offense rose to the occasion putting on a stellar performance, with 414

total yards of offense and five touchdowns.

Quarterback Eli Dunne picked right back up in efficiency during Saturday’s matchup after two slow games to start the year. Dunne threw

three of the five Panther touchdowns through the air as he finished the game completing 12 of 23 passes for 191 yards and zero interceptions.

off-campus friends and family members and take meals to-go. Students will now receive “guest passes,” which continue to allow students access for friends and family.

However, students will receive only two guest passes per semester, a large decrease from the 20 f lex meals offered in previous years. As a result, the DOR increased the amount of dining dollars on meals plans to make up for some of the lost value.

Some students were critical of the change to the meal plans, especially students who utilized all of their flex meals in the past.

Hailey Johnson, a senior management information systems major, is a student who used all of her flex meals

when she had an unlimited access plan.

“I was able to bring older UNI students or non-UNI students into the dining center and it gave me an opportunity to catch up with people,” said Johnson. “It allowed me to hang out with other club tennis members and get to know them on a more personal level in a casual environment.”

According to Johnson, even after she stopped purchasing meal plans, she was able to dine at campus dining centers about five times each semester because of friends who had flex meals letting her in.

“I have four siblings and if my family came to see me, I can’t get all of them in

the dining center with only two guest passes,” said Julia Sippola, a first-year student who had heard about the decrease.

Thomas Griffin, a second-year transfer student, believes there should be closer to 10 guest passes.

“I have two sisters, so if they both came up, I would have no more guest passes,”said Griffin. Jacob Schons, another second-year transfer student, agreed with Griffin.

He went on to explain that if his sisters came for the weekend, he would only be able to provide one meal for them, then the rest of the time they would not be able to go to the dining centers.

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The DOR recently revised their meal plans and changed the 20 flex meals feature into 2 guest passes.

ADRIANA MIENE Staff Writer

The Department of Residence (DOR) recently revised a section of the meal

plans they offer to students.

In years past, on-campus meal plans included 20 flex meals, which allowed students to grant occasional dining center access to their

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#PanthersVote kicking off tomorrow JOSHUA DAUSENER News Editor

To commemorate National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Sept. 25, the #PanthersVote campaign will kick off at UNI. Several campus organizations will host activities and register students to vote tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) will host an information hub and voter registration booth; UNI’s Political Science Society will have trivia, prizes and polling; NextGen will be hosting tiebye and games; the Auditor’s Office, Proud, UNIFI, UNI Rise and the Northern Iowa Democrats will host a dunk tank where students will have an opportunity to dunk state representative Bob Kressig.

The kickoff event will be the start of a civic engagement campaign that will con-

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Some students didn’t mind the reduction.

“The number of guest passes is fine, but it’s not ideal,” said Cody Boozell, a first-year Spanish major.

Director of Dining Administration Janet Despard said, “We found that flex meals were confusing the term flex meal.”

Despard said that after they sat down with some student groups and others, they decided that previously offered to-go meals, in which students could fill a provided plastic container with food and take it with them outside of the dining center, would not be part of a typical dining plan, and flex meals would be called guest passes.

Annie Karr, the assistant director of residence marketing said, “In order to maintain the same rate, we had to reduce the amount of flex meals.”

The DOR also worked to

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tinue until November’s midterm elections.

According to NISG Director of Governmental Relations Matt Johnson, #PanthersVote campaign is a way of focusing various voter-engagement focused organizations into a broader movement.

“The Panthers Vote campaign is taking all of the different voter engagement initiatives that different areas across campus want to push and making it a campus-wide movement,” Johnson said.

He noted that #PanthersVote doesn’t just consist of political organizations, but of academic departments and student government as well. #PantherVote is not organized by a single organziation, but is a collaberation of several participants.

Organizations involved with #PanthersVote include the American Democracy Project, UNI’s Department

of Political Science, NISG and the Campus Engagement E l e c t i o n Project.

According to NISG’s website, student government’s role in #PanthersVote has been led by Johnson and senior Brenna Wolfe.

Wolfe conSTOCK PHOTO tinues to work The #PanthersVote campaign aims to improve student voter engagement on organizing the campaign Wolfe said that the cam- lecture series continues in the and has recently been travelpaign features three primary next few weeks. Political sciing to classes across campus goals: voter education, voter ence professor Chris Larimer to register students. registration and voter turn- will give a lecture titled “From “The classroom outreach out. the Statehouse to Your House,” has been very successful!,” said Students can visit the at 4 p.m. this afternoon in Rod Wolfe. “Not only are we get#PanthersVote website at Library 287. Political science ting a lot of students regisnisg.uni.edu/voter-registraprofessor Evan Renfro will tered, but we are also answertion for more information give a lecutre titled “Buddies ing a lot of questions about about voter registration, canand Boogeymen: Foreign the voting process. For a lot didate information and a link Policy as Domestic Politics,” of our students, this is the to voter registration forms. on October 1 at 4 p.m. in Rod first year that they will vote.”

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make the meal plans more customizable by selling booster pack options with extra dining dollars and guest passes.

“One of the goals when developing those plans was making them customizable, so the student could customize the plan to fit their needs,” said Despard.

“Last year, the Department of Residence created and administered a committee to discuss reformatting the meal plan structure for students,” said Caleb Gipple, NISG senator.

“From my previous conversa- COURTESY PHOTO/Department of Residence DOR reduced the number of flex tions with Janet, the committee The meals on meal plans. was looking at making the dinstarted the process of looking ing plan more cost effective for at the meal plan options and students and took a number of the different dining plan options things into consideration.” two years ago in order to have “We were looking at trying to them in affect this fall,” Despard simplify the plans so they were noted. easy to understand,” Despard After the drafts were finished, said. “So those were some of the the Department of Residence factors we considered as we sort sent them to the NISG and of drafted the original templates RHA for feedback. or models [of the new meal “In response to very direct plans].” recommendations from those According to Despard, this groups, we tweaked the plans,” wasn’t a quick decision. “We said Despard.

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Senators sworn in JOSHUA DAUSENER

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Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) welcomed two new senators to the legislative branch during the Sept.19 Senate meeting.

Sophomore digital media production and computer science major, Farhan Bin Amjad, was sworn in as a senator from the College of Humanities and Arts and Sciences (CHAS).

Senior social science teaching major Chad Schafer was sworn in as an at-large senator; meaning that Schafer represents the student body as a whole rather than a specific college.

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seats.

According to NISG Director of Public Relations David Konfrst, the CHAS seat was vacated in April when CJ Aldape was confirmed by the Senate to become Chief of Staff of the NISG executive branch.

The at-large seat was originally intended for the Graduate College; however, nobody ran for the seat during the spring 2018 NISG elections. Per NISG rules, the seat then become an at-large seat open to applications.

Schafer told the NI that he applied to “help the UNI community grow and succeed,” and said he hopes to pursue placing ethernet ports in recrecational and multipurpose rooms on campus and making UNI more accessible to students with diabilities.

Bin Amjad did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Spotify supporting indie artists SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 |

Let’s talk about some good news in the media world.

Spotify, everyone’s favorite music app, has rolled out a new beta program that will now allow independent artists to directly upload their music to the program for free.

Spotify is now making it much easier for lesser-known artists to get their music out into the public. This is definitely great news for those artists, as well as someone who enjoys indie music or supporting small artists.

Previously, anyone who wanted to upload anything to Spotify would have to use a label or a middleman. For independent artists, this usually involved paying a fee to a third-party service (Verge).

While this did allow anyone to upload music, it was constrictive, as the artist had to pay just to upload.

The new program is currently in beta and not available to everyone, yet; howev-

er, they will be adding more artists as the months go on.

While currently exclusive, it makes sense to only start with a small portion of artists.

It’s important to mention that this new program doesn’t work like Soundcloud.

These direct uploads allow the artists to plan a release for their music. Once the music is released, the artists will be in full control of their metadata and get simple-to-understand data about their music’s streaming statistics (Spotify).

Spotify also plainly stated that artists will receive their royalty payments at the end of every month. They also claimed they wouldn’t charge the artist a fee to upload or to keep their music on the platform.

I would argue that this is really important. Spotify is easily one of the biggest music sharing platforms in the world. According to Statsia, Spotify currently has around 83 million paying subscribers.

In 2018, from just January to June, Spotify gained 13 million paying subscribers. That is a large number of new subscribers.

Previously, Spotify has been

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criticized for not providing independent artists a hospitable atmosphere. They’ve always been the top-of-thechart music streaming service.

Now with this new program, Spotify has decided to change their tune. They will still of course cater to the big music labels and famous artists, but now, new artists will have the opportunity to distribute their music to the public in an easier way, on a mass scale. That, and it makes it easier for independent artists to make money.

Think of it like this: YouTube has created celebrities via its free uploads and wide distribution. Spotify is now following that same idea, but with music. If this program continues, it could be a useful tool in helping the music world discover new stars. This is important for music consumers, and even more so if you make music or want to make music. Now, a well-reputed platform that serves as a powerful distribution tool is being opened to you.

If there is any flaw to this news, I would say it is how long Spotify took to get here.

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and only now are they deciding to become a more welcoming environment for indie artists. I think they should have done this sooner.

I’m personally excited to see where this program will go. I listen to a lot of music on Spotify--around 100,000 hours last year on the platform. Independent artists are fun to discover, and I am always happy to expand my playlist by searching for lesser-known artists.

I also know a fair amount of people who make their own music. The college atmosphere

is filled with people that have big aspirations. Some these people I know are extremely passionate about their music.

While I don’t know all of their thoughts, I have to think that any aspiring artist will find this program appealing.

How could they not?

Hopefully this beta program goes well and Spotify will launch the full service soon. We’ll see how well it works if in a year a rise of indie artists find their way to the top of the charts. Until then, we’ll have to wait and see.

Tips to remember while packing for study abroad ALVIN KONG Opinion Columnist

Studying abroad is a big decision that introduces you to many new experiences and cultures. An important thing you can do beforehand to prepare for your experience is to know what to bring with you on your journey.

I am currently studying abroad in Hull, England, but this should be a well-generalized list for any foreign country you plan to study abroad in.

Here are five important things any student studying abroad should prepare to bring before traveling: • Clothing Deciding what articles of clothing you are going to bring

is an important step to prepare you for your departure.

Although you may want to bring your whole wardrobe, I would highly suggest you bring only the necessary clothing you see fit for the country you’ll be living in. Remember to research the country’s weather before you leave, as you don’t want to pack items from your summer collection for a chilly climate. Here in Hull, the weather seems to bounce between warm and cold quite often with snippets of rain, although it always seems to be mostly cold and rainy.

Also keep in mind that at the end of your Study Abroad experience, you’ll have probably purchased clothes and accessories that you’ll have to fit in your suitcase when you travel

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back. It is highly suggested to bring only about a week’s worth of outfits and purchase more as you are abroad.

• Toiletries I feel as if this section is pretty self-explanatory, but please, please, please remember to pack the four core necessities - Shampoo, Conditioner, Body Wash and Deodorant. Those may seem like unimportant things, but once you arrive at your destination, you’ll be desperate for a shower after a long plane ride cramped up for hours around other people.

A toothbrush and toothpaste are also important things to bring, as you don’t want your first impression with someone in a foreign country to be, “wow, this person has bad breath.”

I recommend buying one of the travel cases at your local convenience store, as it already comes with both of those, as well as mouthwash.

Toilet paper and tissues are also another thing to keep in mind, as some places might not provide these things.

• Electronics Let’s face it – long plane and car rides can be pretty boring. You’re either crammed up next to some unknown stranger or stranded without any cell phone service or Wi-Fi. The things that kept me going through long travel durations were a rotation of using my

phone, laptop and Nintendo Switch. I’d suggest you download a music streaming services and download the music to one of your devices so that you can listen to it wherever you are.

Another thing I found handy while traveling was carrying a portable charger with me. Although there may be plugs located on the bus or plane, they might not be near where you are sitting. Having a portable charger on me made it more convenient for me to always have my phone available and fully charged.

• Money One of the worst things you can do before entering a foreign country is not having any of the local currency on hand. I HIGHLY recommend that you meet with your bank beforehand so that they’ll able to exchange some U.S. currency for some of the destination country’s currency. Also remember to arrange with your bank so that you’ll be able to use your debit or credit card abroad. This is important, because when you run out of cash, you’re able to withdraw more when you need it.

Some countries have foreign ATMs but not all do so keep that in mind. Remember to also keep in mind that some banks charge a foreign transaction fee, so I recommend checking with your bank or finding a

suitable bank that has cheap international fees. I’ve been using Veridian Credit Union while I am here in Europe and so far everything has gone well for me.

• Legal Documents This is the single most important thing on the list.

Make sure to always have your passport. While abroad, your passport is the most important document you can have. It signifies that you are a resident of the United States and also works as your identification card. I suggest carrying your passport with you but making sure it is in a safe and secure place. You’ll also need to get an acceptance letter from the university you will be attending, as that’ll be needed to get through customs.

Overall, remember to prepare a list before you leave of what you need to bring and what you do not need to bring.

A list can be a lifesaver when you are packing, as it’s easier to check things off rather than rummaging through your suitcase to see if you packed your toothbrush or not.

Also, do not wait until the last minute to pack! If you’re as forgetful as I am, you’ll want to pack at least two weeks before you leave, as you might remember some last-minute things to add to your suitcase throughout your last days before the big trip.

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IDS program teaches collaboration, digital skills SOFIA LEGASPI

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Students and faculty in the Interactive Digital Studies (IDS) program gathered on Friday, Sept. 21 in the Innovative Teaching and Technology Center to hear from IDS alumni and socialize with fellow IDS students.

IDS is an interdisciplinary program based in the communication studies department, but it spans several areas of study. IDS majors choose two bundles — minors choose one — out of eight options: advertising, computation, imaging, learning, music, history, writing and visualization.

“There’s eight departments, and we are covering every single college in the whole university,” explained Bettina Fabos, IDS professor and one of the program’s founders. “We are connecting the digital classes that are available across campus.”

IDS students take three foundations courses plus five courses from each bundle.

They complete their degree with a practicum, collaborating with other IDS students on one big project.

At the event, Fabos announced the possibility of a new web development bundle being added to the program.

“We feel like it’s the one missing link in the IDS program right now, but we need to prove it to the upper admin-

istration that it is really a need,” Fabos said.

She explained the meaning behind the word “interactive” in the program’s name.

“It’s ‘interactive’ because it’s about the web, and it’s using the web in a way so that you’re engaging with it and making things happen,” Fabos said.

Friday’s event featured a panel of past and current IDS students who had worked with Fabos on “Proud & Torn.” The award-winning online project — a 16-chapter “graphic novel put to the web,” as Fabos worded it — creatively chronicles a timeline history of Hungary.

Three students from the original “Proud & Torn” team were present in person: designer Dana Potter and web developers Collin Cahill and Jacob Espenscheid. Isaac Campbell, who worked on animations for the website, joined via video chat from Hungary, where he was working on a different project.

Also in attendance were members of what Fabos dubbed the “finishing squad” — younger IDS students who helped later on in the project.

Connor Thorson and Adrian Mitchell, who both graduated last May, called in from Portland, OR and Des Moines, respectively. Current IDS student Brendan Benson was also present to share his experiences with “Proud & Torn.”

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Students and faculty in the Interactive Digital Studies (IDS) program gathered on Saturday night to hear from a panel of alumni followed by an IDS social.

Professor promotes peace through storytelling ALLISON MAZZARELLA Staff Writer

On Friday, Sept. 21, jour nalism professor Chris Ogbondah presented “Tolerance and Unity through African American Storytelling” in Rod Library as part of the Power of Words Festival.

Rod Library hosted several events and workshops from Sept. 18-22, celebrating the life and work of human rights advocate Frederick Douglass.

Ogbondah wanted to participate in the festival because Douglass himself was a writer, orator and communicator.

Ogbondah, who is originally from Nigeria, said that the things Douglass spoke of resonated and agreed with his own beliefs. He wanted to convey these same messages while bringing in his own cultural flavor of storytelling.

According to Ogbondah, in Nigeria, storytelling is the major medium of conveying

information; they even have professional storytellers.

“My interest in the things [Douglass] preached — unity, peace, living together harmoniously — they resonated with some of the African folk tales my grandpa told me growing up in Africa,” he said.

The world has become a global village.

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Ogbondah had the small group of people in attendance introduce themselves before he began sharing a folk tale.

In the story, the farmer invited a number of animals to his farm to help him work.

Smaller animals agreed to come on one condition: that the farmer would not invite bigger animals to the farm that may endanger them. The farmer agreed, but did not

follow through on his promise.

Eventually, all the animals gathered on the farm to work. When the larger animals saw the smaller ones, they began to chase after them to eat them. The scene quickly turned to chaos before the farmer finally calmed them down. “‘Why are you all trying to eat up each other?’ the farmer asked,” Ogbondah spoke animatedly. “‘You ELLY FLENKER/Northern Iowan can live in this place in Chris Ogbondah discussed “Tolerance and Unity through African American peace and unity; please Storytelling” during the Frederick Douglass Power of Words Festival. don’t try to devour learned from the farm story. their day’s labors, almost each other […] be tolerant “The object lesson our every evening the people of each other.’” grandpa told us this story would gather around the tree Ogbondah smiled broad- conveyed was the need for to listen to stories. ly; his lively and descriptive everyone to live together in Ogbondah’s hope for the methods making the stories peace. Do not destroy one festival was that students come to life. another,” Ogbondah said. would be educated on the tolAfter Ogbondah’s grandOgbondah shared how, erance of others. In this way, pa would share these sto- growing up in Nigeria, each he believed, the world would ries, he always asked what compound had a large tree. get to a place of peace. lessons could be learned. In After all the fishermen, farmlike manner, Ogbondah asked ers and everyone else finished his audience what could be See STORYTELLING, page 5

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Students tell all at UNISTA event ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

At 10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, the University of Northern Iowa Student Theatre Association ( U N I S TA ) hosted “UNISTA Tells All!” in the Communication Arts Center. Audience members were invited to sign up right before the event began to share an embarrassing story.

Around 30 students attended the event, many of them wearing pajamas. “[UNISTA] thought it was a really interesting experience because sharing old diaries from middle school or love letters you wrote to a crush or a really embarrassing story—it’s cathartic,” said Zoe Sneed, a sophomore theatre performance and theatre for youth double major and UNISTA’s marketing director. “As people heavily involved in the arts, we believe in catharticism. That’s part of what the deep meaning of tonight is. Even though we’re all going to be wearing pajamas and eating popcorn and sharing silly stories, it’s got that essence of the theatre in it.”

“UNISTA Tells All!” was first held three years ago.

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The common theme of the evening was teamwork and collaboration.

“You take one person, you start adding these magnificent people, and all of a sudden, you start building something that you could have never done by yourself,” Fabos said.

Campbell discussed the incredible work ethic and ambition of each team member.

“It became very apparent early on, working with this team, that there wasn’t an opportunity for mediocrity,” Campbell said. “I mean, every person was taking what they were doing and learning and pushing it forward and making it more excellent and

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The event was inspired by the documentary “Mortified Nation,” which is all about adults sharing embarrassing moments from their childhood and adolescence in front of an audience. Every year since then, students have asked UNISTA to bring back the event, according to UNISTA’s executive director Hannah Twitchell, a senior majoring in theatre performance.

“I feel like week five has been kind of rough for everyone,” Sneed said. “Especially in the [theatre] department right now, we have a lot of rehearsals and shows going on and monologues needing to be memorized and stuff like that. So [this is] just a night for people to come

in their PJs to relax and do something fun, so they can get their minds off of that for a little bit.”

Everytime someone shared a story, they sat down in the “hot seat” in front of the room. Some of those sharing utilized the projector for pictures or videos, while others spontaneously decided they had a story they wanted to tell.

Some participants shared embarrassing videos from middle school, including a show choir performance and a clip from a high school musical production of “Anything Goes.”

The audience reacted loudly during a performance of an original rap about Severus Snape from Harry

Students shared embarrassing stories, photos and videos during “UNISTA Tells All!” on Friday, Sept. 21.

making it as good as it could [be].”

Immediately following the panel was a root beer float social. Students were able collect and don buttons for their respective bundles and mingle with other IDS students.

One such student was Monica Dhumne, a junior IDS major with visualization and marketing bundles.

Dhumne first came to UNI as a business major but switched when she heard about IDS. Dhumne stressed the importance of reaching out to instructors and classmates.

“I know it sounds really cliche—but I feel really within this major, it kind of drives us and forces us to be the creative person that we want to be,” Dhumne said.

“And in order to do that, you

have to really reach out and go out of your comfort zone and say, ‘Hey, I have this idea.

How can we make this into something bigger?’”

The IDS seed was first planted in 2007, when John Fritch, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, hired Fabos to establish an IDS program. It officially launched in 2012.

“We sort of built a program on the cheap because most of the classes were already existing,” Fabos said.

“So it was very good for the university, but it was also very innovative because most students really like customizing their interests; they like being able to choose areas within a larger area and that’s what IDS really offers.”

Fabos was quick to mention that she wasn’t the only

one contributing to the program launch.

“Don’t ever give me credit for it; I was an instigator, but I was not the only person,” Fabos said. “There was a lot of us who met regularly and we created bundles and we worked with each other.”

According to Fabos, UNI’s IDS program is unique to region institutions. Hawkeye Community College has a similar program; however, it is more skills-based than UNI’s.

“What we’re doing is we’re really making sure people understand digital citizenship,” Fabos said. “And we are trying to mold the kind of student who is curious student, [. . .] who is a self-learner, who becomes very confident with technology and very adaptive.”

Potter. She said she wrote the rap as a high school freshman, inspired by the musical drama film “8 Mile,” starring Eminem.

One student shared her grandma’s Facebook post on the origin of liberals and conservatives, describing it as “a dramatic interpretation of the post that made me mute my grandma on Facebook.”

Another read four poems she wrote about an ex-girlfriend, each one representing one of the four seasons.

Some people shared embarrassing injury stories.

One person recounted how she broke her arm while

sledding down a hill on a radio flyer wagon. Another told the story of how she fell out of her mom’s car as a kindergartener and rolled down the street.

Twitchell hopes that UNISTA Tells All! becomes an annual event.

“I want UNISTA to have a big community event to be like, ‘That was really fun last year. I want to do that again,’” Twitchell said. “And the fact that it’s been three years since the last one happened and every year people are like, ‘Bring it back!’ So if we can make it annual, I don’t think it will ever get boring.”

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Not only did Ogbondah want to see the festival provide this for current students, but he also expressed the hope that graduating students would take this knowledge with them.

“The world has become a global village,” Ogbondah said.

He wants graduating students to take these values with them as they go out into the world.

“I suggest tolerance,” Ogbondah said. “This is essentially what Frederick Douglass preached. For a person who had gone through all [that Douglass did], I could see how tolerance would be a mantra for him.”

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Running backs Trevor Allen and Marcus Weymiller both notched a rushing touchdown, with Trevor Allen breaking for a 49-yard score in the second quarter.

Allen’s run was the longest touchdown run since Dec. 5, 2015, where Tyvis Smith broke for a 59-yard score to cap off a 29-17 victory over Portland State in the FCS Playoffs in Portland.

Freshman receiver Deion McShane had a breakout game from the slot receiver position, tallying 117 yards on seven receptions.

Tight end Elias Nissen kicked off the game with a 12yard touchdown catch early in the first quarter, while sophomore wide receiver Nick Fossey emerged into the light with a 19-yard touchdown reception late in the third quarter, putting the Panthers up 34-0.

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Running back Trevor Allen (25) takes it to the house on a 49-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. Allen finished with five carries for 55 yards and one touchdown in the 44-0 Panthers win.

The Panther defense rose to the occasion as well, forcing five turnovers in the game. A number of Panthers tallied up interceptions against Hampton quarterback Delmon Williams, including defensive starters in Xavior Williams, Roosevelt

Lawrence, A.J. Allen and Chris Kolarevic.

After the win, Allen complemented his team for completing the shutout.

“You feel like you did your job,” he said. “It’s a great feeling in college football.”

UNI picked up one fumble recovery after Blake Thomas

forced the loose ball and Isaiah Nimmers picked up the ball to give the Panthers it with under a minute to play to close the game.

“This was a great learning experience,” said head coach Mark Farley. “It was a very good start. It’s what we needed at this point.”

The Panthers will travel to Indiana State to take on the Sycamores to begin Missouri Valley Football Conference play. UNI is 27-5 all-time against the Sycamores and looks to continue a stream of on-field dominance at 6 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 28 in Terre Haute, Indiana.

TENNIS

Gopher Invite provides tough challenge for UNI JOEL WAUTERS

Sports Editor

The UNI Panthers women’s tennis team took the trip up to Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend to take part in the Gopher Invite, hosted by the University of Minnesota.

After a stellar start to the season at the Drake Invitational a week earlier in Des Moines, the Panther ladies looked to continue momentum through the fall season. Competiting against teams such as the Arkansas Razorbacks, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Drake Bulldogs, Iowa State Cy-

clones, South Dakota Coyotes and the North Dakota Hawks, the Panthers found trouble recapturing their spark the had a week earlier.

Freshman Kate Merrick was the only Panther to pick up a win in the singles competition, defeating Shwetha Prabakar of Arkansas 6-2, 4-6 and 6-2. Olivia Fain took South Dakota’s Nanette Nylund to three sets before falling 6-3, 4-6 and 6-1, while Olivia Philips was swept by the Coyotes’ Laura Janickova, 6-0 and 6-0.

UNI was able to find some success in the doubles competition winning, two matches.

Claudia Toledo and Daisy Philips teamed up to defeat Minnesota’s Tiffany Huber and Kalyssa Hall 6-4, while the freshman duo of Harri Proudfoot and Valentina Caro were 6-1 winners over Zahra Finnigan and Masha Lobanova of North Dakota. Proudfoot and Caro would ultimately drop their second doubles match to Iowa State’s Savannah Williams and Margarita Timakova, 6-4.

The Panthers will be back in action Oct. 5-7 in Springfield, Missouri as they compete in the Missouri Valley Conference’s Individual Tournament.

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Panthers defeat Iowa State for first time ever SOCCER

JERRIUS CAMPBELL

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The UNI women’s soccer team played their second home game of the season on Friday, Sept. 14 against the Northern Illinois (NIU) Huskies.

NIU first got on the scoreboard with a goal in the 37th minute by Trudy Quidzinski off a corner kick. The Panthers would strike back with a goal

by Maddie DePrenger after a deflection off the goal. Hannah McDevitt would add another goal in the 70th minute and would end the contest with three shots on the goal.

To put the game out of reach for the Huskies, Genevieve Cruz scored off an assist from Sophia Conant in the 74th minute to give the Panthers the 3-1 victory.

Senior goaltender Jami Reichenberger had an outstanding outing in the net with five deflections.

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UNI (4-3-2) opens up conference play against the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers before hosting the Missouri State Bears on Sept. 29.

UNI brought the same level of intensity and momentum from their last game against the Huskies to the road against Iowa State. This is the first time in the history of UNI’s women’s soccer program that they have beaten the Cyclones. From start to finish, the Panthers gave a 100 percent effort in Ames on Sept. 16.

Reichenberger continued her

stellar play as she faced 16 total shots all game, not allowing one goal into the net. Iowa State’s goaltender Dayja Schwichtenberg faced ten shots from UNI with six shots on the goal. Prior to this match, UNI led the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) in goals against average with 0.82 per game.

Reichenberger’s dominant net play and MVC leading .885

save percentage helped the Panthers run away with the lead and ultimately, the 1-0 win. Jordyl Rolli would score the lone goal of the game in the 48th minute.

The Panthers look ahead to defend their home win streak of two games versus the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers in MVC action on Sunday, Sept. 23 and the Missouri State Bears on Sept. 29.

NEXT HOME GAME

Sat. Sept. 29 Missouri State Bears 1:00 p.m.

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