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Check out the Panther Portraits from Galentine’s day in Campus Life.
Columnist Boisen urges you to find out what’s on the elections ballot.
Panther men take down Loyola in Wednesday’s game, 58-39.
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February 19, 2015 Volume 111, Issue 37
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Campaign continues with debate AMBER ROUSE
Executive Editor
With the cold weather outside and less than a week to go before Northern Iowa’s Student Government elections, NISG candidates for the senate, president and vice president continued their campaign in Tuesday night’s debate. In the Maucker Union Coffeehouse Feb. 17, the candidates used their experiences in leadership and time at UNI to solidify their qualifications for becoming the next president and vice president of NISG. “All of the activities I have been involved in at
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UNI have really prepared me,” said Katie Evans, junior political science major and presidential candidate. Moderated by Jordan Adam, senior communication major, the debate kicked off with candidates running for senate seats. The senate portion of the debate was allotted 40 minutes; after a brief intermission, the presidential and vice presidential candidates took the stage. Each ticket was allowed opening remarks, first from the vice presidential candidates, then the presidential candidates.
From left to right, Tanner Bernhard, Jared Heitz, Katie Evans and Renae Beard at the NISG debate, Tuesday night.
See DEBATE, page 2
Rental code passed CATS for philanthropy final reading JOSIE ROBERTSON Staff Writer
NICK FISHER Staff Writer
The Cedar Falls City Council passed the final reading of a rental conversion ordinance 6-1, with Councilman Nick Taiber voting “no,” at Monday night’s meeting, officially adopting the ordinance. The law stipulates new criteria that will be used to determine the number of unrelated persons that may occupy a rental property. “The nature of the community is continually discussed. [Those in favor of the ordinance] are not making the leap from how reducing occupancy is going to improve the nature of the community; how reducing occupancy is going to make it easier to enforce
[rental] code…I think [the ordinance] is an easy way out to reduce the number of students who can live in the communities around here,” said Aaron Friel, a member of the senate for the NISG. Newly registered rentals will be allowed an occupancy level of two unrelated persons or a family, as defined by section 14-34 of the ordinance. Existing rental properties will remain at their current occupancy level. However, upon the sale or transfer by the owner of an existing rental property, the property is subject to review based on these requirements: See ORDINANCE, page 2
This week, Connecting Alumni To Students will start their Pay It Forward project, where gift cards will be handed out to students at random to cover their purchases at places such as Biscotti’s and the 23rd Street Market. According to Connie Hansen, advisor of CATS, schools across the nation typically dedicate one day of the year to educate their students about philanthropy. Here at the University of Northern Iowa, CATS is using the whole month of February to spread the message of generosity. The goal for this project is to motivate the students on campus to also give back for one day, as UNI alumni do currently.
ERIN KEISER/Northern Iowan
See PAY IT FORWARD, page 2
Caleb Kruse, senior leisure,youth & human services major, enjoys a meal paid for with a Pay It Forward gift card, sponsored by CATS.
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