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NASA scientist visited campus, explains Hubble telescope, star creations.
Columnist Gravert reflects on missed opportunities and wants to hear from you.
Lock homers as Panthers split weekend double header.
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April 13, 2015 Volume 111, Issue 49
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Yellow brick road to hope AMBER ROUSE
Executive Editor
Lions, Tigers and Cancer, Goodbye! Many groups and participants of this years Relay For Life, hosted by the American Cancer Society, donned attire and team names reflecting the theme: Wizard of Oz: There’s No Place Like Hope. From 6 p.m. Friday night to 6 a.m. Saturday morning students, professors and community members walked the concourse of the McLeod Center to fight for a cure against cancer. At the opening ceremony, cancer survivors in attendance walked the first few
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laps around the concourse, then the rest of the participants joined in the night’s festivities. Participants who wished to sign up as a team registered before Relay’s events on Friday and raised money to be donated to cancer research. Throughout the night, various donation opportunities were available; proceeds of the night went towards finding a cure for cancer. At the closing ceremony, Relay organizers announced how much money was donated and raised, which totaled in $62,398.53.
Students lap the upper level of the Mcleod Center to raise awareness for cancer over a 12-hour period.
See RELAY, page 4
Progressing through the ages Day the music dies NICK FISHER
TAYLOR HINZ
Associate Executive Editor
Staff Writer
Bringing Pride Week to a close, dancers tore up the dance floor at the second annual Progressive Prom on Friday. “Progressive Prom is for all UNI students and community members to celebrate the end of Pride Week. It also gives students and community members a chance to go to prom if they missed the opportunity, were unable to truly be themselves at prom or simply relive their high school prom,” said Jak Kuder, sophomore criminology and psychology double major. The prom was held in the Commons Ballroom and was free for anyone to attend, not only UNI students. They had a photo area, refreshment table and a dance floor. This year’s theme was ‘Decades.’ See PROM, page 5
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A student shows off her moves at the Progressive Prom, held in the Commons Ballroom.
Ed Gallagher Jr., known as an attorney, philanthropist and most notably as a purveyor of the fine arts on UNI’s campus, passed away April 5 at the age of 89. According to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Gallagher had suffered a fall and had been hospitalized earlier in the week. Gallagher and his wife, Cathy, along with Carl and Peggy Bluedorn, donated a naming gift to the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center in the spring of 1999. The center cost $23 million to construct, according to the GBPAC website, and was funded 50/50 by state and private funds (with approximately 1,400 private donors across Iowa).
His death occurred one day shy of the 15th anniversary of the GBPAC’s official opening in 2000. “I think most people will tell you that what they like most about him is that he was a doer. The giving was part of it, but really what he did — I think — is he challenged you to go further … And not always comfortably! But always, always, always valuably,” said Steve Carignan, executive director for the GBPAC. Carignan knew Gallagher both professionally, through the GBPAC, and personally, as a friend. They would often converse while walking their dogs. Carignan said that Gallagher had always had an intense passion for music, and was musically talented himself. See GALLAGHER, page 2
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