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/NorthernIowan

February 20, 2017

@NorthernIowan

Volume 113, Issue 38

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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8

NISG Debates

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

LIAISON City council student liaison approved for trial period. NEWS PAGE 2

Jacob Madden/Northern Iowan CLINTON OLSASKY

LETTER

Associate Executive Editor

Letter from the news editor suggests NISG has “normalized controversy.”

OPINION PAGE 3

MBB Panthers win big at home on Wednesday but fall short at Wichita State. SPORTS PAGE 6

On Thursday, Feb. 16, approximately 100 UNI students gathered in the main floor of the Maucker Union for the 2017 Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) senatorial and presidential candidate debates. The two presidential and vice-presidential tickets were Maggie Miller & Danielle Massey, and Jamal White & Tristan Bernhard. The two teams debated for nearly an hour, first fielding questions from debate moderator Jerome Soneson, associate professor and head of the philosophy and world religions department.

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Brass instruments echoed off UNI’s halls this weekend as multiple bands descended on campus. Bengtson Auditorium in Russell Hall and Gallagher Bluedorn’s Davis Hall served as the venues for the talents of world renowned jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, UNI Jazz students and many high school jazz bands this past weekend. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia held their 66th annual Tallcorn Jazz Festival and Sinfonian Dimensions in Jazz concerts (SDIJ) on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17 and 18. The festival held over 50 high school jazz bands

The second half of the debate consisted of a town hall forum in which audience members had the opportunity to pose questions to either ticket. All UNI students will have the opportunity to vote for student body president, vice president and senators all day Tuesday, Feb. 21 through Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. Students will be able to vote via their MyUniverse account. Miller, a junior political science and public administration double major, and Massey, a junior economics and business administration double major, have promoted their platform around the slogan “Teaming Up For You.” The Miller & Massey platform is separated into three areas of focus: stu-

dents, campus and community. White, a junior marketing and organizational leadership management double major, and Bernhard, a sophomore social science education major, have chosen the phrase “Making the Best, Better” as their campaign slogan. Their platform revolves around four main areas of concern: diversity and inclusivity, campus safety, student engagement and mental health. One of the first questions Soneson asked in the debate was what each ticket considered to be the greatest issue facing UNI students. White said that campus engagement and, by extension, inclusivity and diversity is the foremost challenge that stu-

dents face. “We have worked extensively on that engagement aspect, as well as the inclusivity aspect, to make sure that students are finding a place here on campus and making sure that they are getting engaged,” White said. Massey said that two of their platform’s biggest initiatives are diversity and inclusion and mental health. Mental health Mental health would become a chief focus in the debate — namely, how each ticket would work to improve the resources available to students on campus. See DEBATE, page 5

TallcornJAZZFest

between Friday and Saturday and featured a concert each night by the UNI Jazz Panthers and Jazz Band One. The SDIJ concerts featured guest artist Rosenwinkel. The Tallcorn Jazz Festival is completely run by the brothers of music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Music professor Chris Merz, the director of Jazz Band One, is involved only when it comes to selecting the guest artist and getting the judges lined up. All of the communication and scheduling with high school bands is completely conducted by the students. Ryan Garmoe and Thomas Sparks were both helped organizing the festival. “I am the Tallcorn coordi-

nator — the person who does most of the organizing for the festival,” said Ryan Garmoe, trumpet performance major and a brother in the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. “Thomas Sparks is the other coordinator. And together both of us kind of run the festival.” Garmoe said that planning the festival involves a lot of logistics and planning ahead — a process that takes months. “We use the School of Music buildings and a lot of the school of music’s gear, but we’re the ones that organize all of [it],” Garmoe said. Sinfonia members purchase the food for concessions and work the concession stands, as well as do all of the tabulation and results.

GABRIELLE LEITNER/Northern Iowan

Abram Miller, sophomore composition-theory major, jams away on his saxophone. Miller is a part of UNI Jazz Panthers.

“It started as a high school jazz festival, and back when it was getting started and the fraternity was really small, it was

about 10 or 12 people doing all of this,” Garmoe said. See TALLCORN, page 4


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