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SPORTS COLUMN

A tarnished legacy Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died Sunday morning, and while many will remember him for his 409 career victories, Brennan Acton explores how his failure to act when his defensive coordinator was sexually abusing children will affect his legacy.

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BRANSTAD PROPOSES $25 MILLION EDUCATION PLAN TIMELINE FOR BRANSTAD’S EDUCATION REFORM PLAN Immediately after passing: <Kindergarten

By July 1, 2013: <Establishment of a statewide parent advocacy network, with at least

By Jan. 1, 2013: <Schools will

readiness test will go into effect <Prospective teachers will be required to have a 3.0 grade-point average

adopt new state teaching and administrative standards.

one representative from each district. <Creation of pilot programs for evaluation of teachers and administrators <Completion of a state value-added assessment system <Adoption of third-grade literacy initiative, which requires students to pass a reading test or demonstrate mastery of reading with a portfolio of work before being moved up to fourth grade

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STUDENT VOICES

Students react to Newt’s victory Students weigh in on Newt Gingrich’s victory in the South Carolina primaries through Facebook and Twitter. < See PAGE 7

By Oct. 15, 2012: <Task forces will report

By July 1, 2012: <The probationary

time for new teachers will be five years, instead of the current three-year probationary time.

findings from studies of educator pay, teacher and administration evaluation methods and length of the school day and year to state officials

By July 1, 2014: <Adoption of a teacher evaluation system <Development of a system for tracking

student achievement in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools <End-of-course exams for high school students will be created and a policy for putting these exams into state high school graduation requirements will be adopted

By July 1, 2015: <Creation of a model K-12 curriculum that coincides with state standards; school will have the option of using this curriculum

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Experts disagree on reform proposal LINH TA Government Writer

OPINION

Rethinking social change Stef McGraw looks at what activists can learn from Martin Luther King Jr.’s radical methodology. < See PAGE 4

On Jan. 14, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds released their final recommendations for Branstad’s Education Reform Blueprint, according to the Des Moines Register.

In the plan, Branstad proposed various education

reforms such as enforcing a literacy test for third graders, exit exams for high school students and compensating teachers based on evaluation and students’ standardized test scores rather than on seniority or number of degrees.

The price tag for all of this: $25 million.

H o w e ve r, Ly n Countryman, interim director of Malcolm Price Laboratory School, believes the price is worth the potential outcome.

“If we spend $25 million on education, we’ll get that tenfold back,” Countryman said. “We’ll have more educated students that will be getting better jobs, who will be paying more tax money.

It is a cycle that starts with education.”

If the Senate and House approve the plan, Branstad hopes that in the next 10 years, Iowa will be number one in the country and 10th in the world for quality education.

FACULTY

Marketing professor wins best paper award OLIVIA HOTTLE Staff Writer

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Late first-half rally lifts Panthers over Braves UNI’s “cat” defense proved too much for Bradley Friday as the Panthers pounced ahead and never looked back. < See PAGE 9

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A paper researching the truthfulness behind student evaluations of teachers led to an unexpected award for University of Northern Iowa marketing professor Dennis Clayson.

Clayson received the Best Paper Award of 2011 from Marketing Education Review, a journal for marketing educators. He co-authored the article “Are Students Telling Us the Truth? A Critical Look at the Student Evaluation of Teaching” with Debra Haley, associate professor of marketing at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

“We were really surprised on winning the award on that, < See CLAYSON, page 3

Nick Pace, associate professor of education and leadership at the University of Northern Iowa, believes achieving a higher ranking should not be the priority for the plan.

“We might be able to produce numbers that would give us a certain ranking, but I don’t equate that with kids who are capable, confident, successful, creative and looking forward,” Pace said. “You < See REFORMS, page 3

FUNDING

Dannen, Walrath confirm source of all-expense paid trips is NCAA LINH TA Government Writer

SCOTT KINZTEL/Northern Iowan Archives

University of Northern Iowa marketing professor Dennis Clayson speaks on grade inflation at University Book and Supply on Nov. 9, 2009. Clayson recently received the Best Paper Award of 2011 from Marketing Education Review, a journal for marketing educators.

According to Troy Dannen, the director of the University of Northern Iowa Athletic Department (AD), the AD does not fund all-expense paid trips for student body presidents and vice presidents. UNI alumnus Mitch Lingo made this claim in a letter to the editor in the Jan. 12 issue of the Northern Iowan.

“The National Collegiate Athletic Association funds travel,” Dannen said. < See TRIPS, page 2

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“There’s no institutional money or any student money. The NCAA basically provides the hotel, provides the housing, provides the meals, provides everything for us in the institutional travel party.”

In his letter, Lingo claimed current student body president Spencer Walrath and current vice president Ian Goldsmith received such SPENCER all-e xpense WALRATH paid trips from the AD. Walrath also confirmed the AD did not pay for his or Goldsmith’s trip.

According to Walrath, the NCAA provides money for a travel party of 100 people to the NCAA tournaments, while the Missouri Valley Conference provides money for trips to the MVC tournaments.

“As part of that, both the MVC and the NCAA stipulate that the student body president and vice president are welcome to join them,” Walrath said.

Walrath said he thinks Lingo’s claim “comes from an ignorance on how funding and budgets work at UNI.” “I think it may also partially stem from some bad blood between him and myself — when I burned a bridge with him when I supported a candidate that he didn’t support for student government,” Walrath said.

In his letter, Lingo also said student services money formerly paid for 20 percent of the AD’s budget. According to Walrath, the AD now receives a small portion of the student services fee, compared to what it previously had.

“The student (services) fee used to be the second-largest fee out of all the fees, and now it’s the fourth-smallest,” Walrath said. “Any sort of foul play towards athletics — they’re really barking up the wrong tree on that one.”

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WEDNESDAY

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM PREPARATION WORKSHOP Center for Multicultural Education, 109A 12-1 p.m.

Graduate students can learn about the types of presentations at the Symposium, benefits of presenting, tips for presenting, judging criteria, prize information and how to start preparing.

WEB AND SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING WORKSHOP Business and Community Services, room 33 3:30-5:30 p.m.

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can have a great test score, but not much else, so that emphasis makes me a little nervous.”

Instead, Pace believes there are other things in the K-12 education system that need to be looked at.

“I think we always can work to improve student engagement. That’s almost a dealbreaker,” Pace said. “You talk to a lot of students, and if NICK PACE that relationship and that connection is there, then everything else comes with little difficulty.”

In the plan, Branstad proposed a required exit exam that high school students must take before graduation. This exam would analyze high school seniors’ competencies. If students do not pass the exam, they must retake their senior year of high school, and take the exam again.

“If a student is a senior in

high school and fails this graduation exam, why would they want to see all their friends leave and have to go back to school?” said Kyle Woollums, a junior studying Spanish and French education. “That would be a really embarrassing thing for them. We need to find other things for students throughout high school, just to make sure they’re progressing.”

Instead of paying teachers based on seniority or amount of degrees, Branstad proposes teachers’ compensation be based on evaluations by principals and “master teachers” and student test scores. This will also show what teachers can improve on.

According to the governor’s website, teachers will be put into four tiers: master teachers, mentor teachers, career teachers and apprentice teachers. The governor’s website describes master teachers as “outstanding teachers who will be mentors.” They will make up 5 percent of the teacher population.

“We need to close the gap between teachers, not create

NEWS a bigger one,” Countryman said. “Rural schools are 50 to 60 percent of Iowa. Maybe only two of those teachers in that school are ‘masters,’ but instead of taking time to have the best teachers teaching, they are evaluating other teachers.”

Pace finds issues with competitive pay for teachers.

“On one hand, the governor’s plan has talked about getting teachers to collaborate. I have a hard time seeing how I could effectively collaborate with the teachers around me if I’m also competing with them for my kids scoring the best, and I’m going to get a raise according to that score,” Pace said.

Overall, Countryman believes it is time for education reform.

LYN “ We ’ ve tried to rest on COUNTRYMAN our laurels,” Countryman said.

“Iowa schools have been good and they continue to be good, but we need to push the envelope.”

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Nicole Torgerson, a University of Northern Iowa freshman criminology major, reads “A Program: Redefining Pretty” during her individual performance in the poetry division in the second round of the annual Henderson Invitational Speech Tournament. The tournament took place on Jan. 21 in Lang Hall. The tournament is named after Bill Henderson, who was the director of forensics at UNI from 1978-1997. Schools from Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska participated in the tournament.

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because you know, it’s a fun article, and it’s kind of interesting, and, I mean, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do this,” Clayson said.

Clayson said he did not know an award existed for his article or that his paper was even being considered. “... We just got an e-mail that said from the editor of this journal, ‘Just wanted to let you know that your article has just been picked as the best article of the year,’” Clayson said.

The editor of the journal also told him they had rejected about 90 percent of the articles that had been submitted to the journal.

Clayson has been studying student evaluations of teachers since 1990. He and Haley have been colleagues since that time. “(Haley is) really fun to work with — she’s one of those kind of bubbly people with a nice personality. I do statistics and stuff really well, and she does kind of the human thing, talking people into taking the assessment,” Clayson said. “So it worked out really well.”

Clayson’s article looks into the truthfulness behind what students write on studentteacher evaluations, such as those students take towards the end of the semester to assess their instructors. “... Every source that we could find made the automatic assumption that students were being perfectly truthful when they filled out student-teacher evaluations,” Clayson said.

“We were able to find a few (articles), out of these thousands that had been published, that even looked at the idea of ‘would students be honest when they filled them out,’ and so we decided to do a study on that.”

Clayson also said he sees discrepancies in the use of student-teacher evaluations. “... There’s been more and more evidence that teacher evaluations don’t measure whether a person is a good teacher or not, and yet more and more institutions continue to use them at the same time,” Clayson said. “So, as the evidence becomes more negative, the number of schools that use them has actually increased.”

Clayson used surveys to research this topic. “(I) can’t go find studentteacher evaluations, and then find the students and say, ‘Did you tell the truth?’” Clayson said.

According to Clayson, there are different ways to measure

the truthfulness of the evaluations.

“One is to ask people what they do, and then (another) is to ask them what other people do,” Clayson said.

The respondents to Clayson’s surveys estimated that 30 percent of submitted teacher evaluations contained information that a student knowingly falsified.

Clayson followed up by asking people why they would do this. Some responses were positive, such as a student trying to protect or reward a teacher they liked by writing a positive review. However, most responses were negative, such as a student trying to punish a teacher.

Clayson said he and other professors he knows have had personal experiences with students falsifying their evaluations. For example, he said professors have had students tell them directly that they will get back at them in their evaluation.

Clayson found that 40 percent of his respondents thought lying on student-teacher evaluations was not cheating.

“The average student didn’t think it was immoral to lie on the student-teacher evaluations, which I thought was really interesting, because, in fact, it’s a violation of one of the Ten commandments,” Clayson said. “Part of the Ten Commandments says, ‘Though shall not bear false witness,’ and this is the perfect case of trying to hurt someone or give them something by telling something that’s not true.”

Clayson said his research has shown that student-teacher evaluations measure only a likability scale; therefore, how much a student likes a professor isn’t related to how much they will learn in the class.

Clayson posited that while most research on teacher evaluations proves no link to how much a student can learn, some research might show evaluations are negatively related to how much a student can learn.

“Students who take a prerequisite class from a teacher they like, (or) in other words, somebody who gets high evaluations, on average, those students will do worse in the next class than the students who took a prerequisite class from a teacher who got poorer evaluations,” Clayson said.

However, he says there is an exception to this new research.

“I think, too, that we’ve all had experiences learning a lot from a teacher we love,” he said.

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ACTIVISM

Rethinking social change

WILLIAM J. SCOTT JR/KRT

Martin Luther King J. delivers his famous “I have a dream” speech, Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. At the time, many viewed King as a radical who broke laws, staged boycotts and wasn’t afraid to step on toes to share his message.

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hough I regretfully could not attend his entire talk, I had the privilege of hearing Ellis Cose, journalist and author of several books, speak very briefly during lunch after the Martin Luther King Day of Service last week. He spoke about King’s legacy, saying all the usual things that one would expect of someone honoring this important man, but then made a remark that struck me: that even though King is now regarded as a relatively uncontroversial figure, he was not viewed this way during his time.

This is an important point that is generally overlooked when it comes to studying King and his leadership style. While everyone recognizes him as being a non-violent, peaceful voice of the African-American civil rights movement, many fail to consider the fact that he was still a radical who broke laws, led marches, staged boycotts and wasn’t afraid of stepping on toes to get his message across.

His “I have a dream” speech was no doubt inspirational, but that alone could not have created the sweeping change his leadership helped promote.

What really made a difference were things such as arranging sit-ins, leading marches and helping to orchestrate a bus boycott that eventually hurt the bus system financially. And during the Birmingham Campaign, in which blacks were encouraged to break as many segregation laws as possible for the purpose of overflowing jails, King was quoted as commenting, “The purpose of ... direct action is to create a situation so crisispacked that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.”

To get back to Cose’s comment, I agree that people today see him in a different light than people saw him back then. Why is this important to note? Because knowing this can help

STEF MCGRAW mcgraws@uni.edu

us analyze views regarding today’s social movements and predict how our attitudes and actions will be seen in 50 years.

Take the gay rights movement going on now, for instance. As an avid supporter, I’ve heard countless people make remarks questioning why I’m so passionate about it. “Worry about more important things.” “Don’t talk about gay marriage; someone might get offended.” “Calling people just annoys them.” “Can’t they just be happy with civil unions? What’s the difference?”

Hypocritically, most of these same people who see current social movements as too “in-your-face” also see King as an important, inspiring figure of justice and social change. It’s easy to see why this happens — we’ve all grown up with legal racial equality, and thus tacitly support the person who helped make it happen. We don’t have to give it much of a second thought, because the ‘60s civil rights movement never inconvenienced us.

Its positive effects have been there our whole lives.

By contrast, we may have to deal with being bugged by a phone call supporting economic justice, or being made uncomfortable in a conversation about immigration, or being offended by someone drawing Muhammad to protest anti-blasphemy laws.

But while our days may be made slightly easier without these inconveniences, these small inconveniences are what make social change occur.

Without being “in-your-face” every once in a while, nothing happens;

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Journalist and author Ellis Cose speaks in Maucker Union on Jan. 16, 2012. Although King is now regarded as uncontroversial, Cose said he wasn’t viewed that way at the time.

society becomes static. To be effective, social movements have to get on people’s radars by getting them talking. For instance, while the Occupy movement’s protests have been said to inconvenience some big cities, it has gotten people to take note of economic inequality in America. And like the ‘60s sit-ins that gained more attention when the police brought out fire hoses and attack dogs to use on the demonstrators, more people have sympathized with the Occupy message since the protesters have been victim to police brutality such as pepper spraying and violent arrests.

My hope in bringing this up is that the next time people are tempted to tell an activist to “live and let live,” think about King’s philosophy and methodology, and how our current social movements will be seen in 50 year. When your grandchildren ask you with disbelief, “Could gay people really not get married when you were young?”, be proud that you argued the topic, offended some people, inconvenienced someone’s day and helped create social change.

Stef McGraw is a senior in philosophy

and Spanish from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A lapse in security I am writing this to bring forth an issue I have encountered with the university’s dorm security. I currently live in Noehren and frequently use the skywalk connecting Redeker Center and Noehren to avoid walking outside.

Over the past several months of my first semester on campus and now at the beginning of my second, I have noticed that the skywalk is not locked at 9 p.m. like the rest of Noehren and all other residential buildings on campus. This may sound like a silly thing to be concerned with, but if the Department of Residence takes pride in the housing options on campus and uses the security of them as a confidence-builder for concerned parents, then an effort should be made to lock these access points into the dorms as well.

On any other occasion when trying to enter Noehren from the outside, I am forced to pull out my keys and use them to unlock the doors, verifying that I live in that dorm.

This should apply to the skywalk as well. Anybody, from students attending the university to complete strangers walking off the street, can access Noehren Hall. Walking through the doors of the Redeker Center, up the steps on the south side of the building, and right across the skywalk allows anybody access to the building after hours.

The skywalk access to Noehren Hall needs to be locked after 9 p.m. nightly.

I could outline a horror story of what could happen, but I think we can all imagine the potential consequences here. I just hope that something can be done to change this lapse in university security before such a story becomes reality.

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The 5 million dollar question

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ff campus, in Reality, when a business finds itself with an increased demand for their services, they will typically examine the most costeffective way to maintain the consumer’s need for that service. Very rarely is the conclusion reached that a $5 million expansion is the best course of action.

In the case of the Redeker Center, specifically Piazza, the problem is seating availability — a service that can only be provided while the consumer is within the walls of the establishment. This means someone who wants to increase traffic during any given 24-hour period is left with two options: increase the size of the facility or increase the hours the service can be provided.

The most beautiful part about this for the Department of Residence is the fact that increasing dining center hours can be tested. They could try extending meal hours by 30 minutes before and after the current time frame. They could use those surveys that everyone is so crazy about and ask students what times they typically eat certain meals, then adjust their dining center hours accordingly. Five-million-dollar decisions are usually good ones to troubleshoot.

Once upon a time, I lived in the quad, from fall 2009 through spring 2011, and therefore ate most of my meals in the Piazza. There were many instances where I would miss certain meal times because of class or participation in other activities.

It was difficult for me to accept the fact I was just so different from the typical student that the DOR couldn’t possibly accommodate my abnormal schedule. I ended up attempting to eat 87 meals between Thanksgiving break and the end of fall semester in 2010.

But hey, I sought help, I accepted it, I moved on. That’s life… or so I thought.

I began to meet other students who, like myself, operated on a non-DOR approved schedule. I no longer felt alone because I knew there were others who shared my (hunger) pain.

My point is there are plenty of students who would appreciate extended dining hours. So why will the DOR spend $5 million to fix a problem that could potentially be solved by increasing dining center hours?

One theory is because it will look pretty. Think about it: we are a society so intertwined with the media that most individuals are indistinguishable from the general consumer.

Because all advertising works the same way — as an appeal to emotion — we become susceptible to impulse buying.

NATE KONRARDY konrardy@ uni.edu

This is relevant because a college visit doesn’t walk you into a classroom to experience a lecture; you are paraded through the workout facility, basketball court, student union and dining centers. They show us fancy new dorms and the expansion of on-campus convenience stores and we can’t help but be impressed. All of these things appeal to one’s senses and emotions.

For some people, they choose the university at which they’ll pursue their higher education because of a campus tour.

When they pay to attend that university they see it as paying for their education, where the university more likely sees it as means to create more fantastic facilities that attract wide-eyed students with loan money to spend.

I understand there is a difference between paying tuition and paying room and board, but I won’t have to worry about waiting in line to eat on a college campus if there aren’t enough professors available to teach classes to keep me here.

The priority projects should be those that help fulfill a university’s mission statement.

Last time I checked I was supposedly being offered a worldclass university education, not more tables in the Piazza.

That being said, I do understand that there is more to the project than just the expansion of the Piazza. I recognize that an increase in students living on one side of campus requires certain changes in accommodations. Fresh Beginnings and Biscotti’s would be expanded along with a reorganization of the DOR and potential expansion of the computer lab.

I am a big believer in causeand-effect relationships, the idea that nothing happens in a vacuum. It’s like the idea of “you are what you eat,” or how an organization can only be as good as its members, so you must recruit with the integrity you want your members to exhibit. If a university wants to be known as a powerful academic presence, they must set that standard for their incoming students as opposed to attracting them by putting on a beauty pageant.

Then again, education may not be your calling if you take your motto from Titus Maccius Plautus when he says, “You must spend money to make money.”

Nate Konrardy is a junior in

interpersonal communication and philosophy from Durango, Iowa.

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FROM THE STUDENT BODY VICE PRESIDENT

BACK TO THE FUTURE NISG’s exciting upcoming plans

I am a naturally nostalgic person. I have this habit of consistently reminiscing on what I was doing a year ago from the present time. This time last year, I was getting excited for the RA conference, preparing to approach the Athletic Department about a relatively unknown dance called the Interlude and (not unlike this year) trying to stay warm. But perhaps my biggest focus was the upcoming 2011 Northern Iowa Student Government elections.

It’s hard to imagine that it has already been almost a year since my good friend Spencer Walrath and I ran for student body president and vice president. What’s even more unimaginable is that we are soon approaching the end of our year-long term.

As I nostalgically browsed through our campaign website www.spencer-ian.com, I recalled the excitement and passion we shared toward NISG and the University of Northern Iowa’s possibilities.

As we enter the final three months of the current term, we continue to channel the same fervor for “working for the YOUniversity” that we had a year ago. There is still plenty we wish to contribute at all different lev-

IAN GOLDSMITH Student Body Vice President

els. I will highlight some of our primary objectives: < President Walrath has been in contact with student organizations about constructing a permanent and durable suggestions box for the student government. This will allow students and staff to submit their suggestions to NISG on improvements for UNI, ensuring that students have an efficient stream of communication to all future student governments. The box will be installed in the Union within the next couple weeks. < In further effort to connect students and their government, Spencer and I will partake in regular “tabling” this semester. Every Monday over the lunch hour, please stop by our table and ask us a question, give an opinion on an issue, or simply say hello! < Last semester, I helped form a committee to develop the program Panther Points.

Panther Points was one of the “big ideas” from our campaign. It will be an incentives program in which students

can earn points for engaging in UNI events and activities. Then we “trade in” these points for incentives, such as prizes and discounts. I will reveal more details of the program later in the semester. < Director of Governmental Relations Rhonda Greenway has spearheaded lobbying initiatives.

She and Director of Public Relations Morgan Johnson have created postcards as friendly reminders from UNI students to our state legislature about the importance of funding our university.

Rhonda has also helped plan a lobbying video as well as the annual Regents Day at the state capital, a day when potentially hundreds of students from the Iowa, ISU and UNI will come together to ensure our voices are heard.

She will also be traveling to the capitol on a regular basis. < Director Johnson, Webmaster Adam Shannon, and I will work to continue improving and revitalizing the NISG website for more appeal and easier access to information. < President Walrath and others will continue to work on sustainability programming and long-term strategic < See NISG, page 6

2012 NISG Budget Process Does your student organization need money for events or activities you plan to have next year?

Northern Iowa Student Government will be starting its annual budgetary process SOON.

Dates to Know Tuesday, January 24th and Thursday, January 26th - 6-7 pm NISG will be hosting Budget Informational Meetings in State College Room (Maucker Union).

It is required that one rep from your organization attend at least one of these meetings or schedule a private meeting.

Tuesday, January 31st - 8 am Bud Budget applications will be available online at www.uni.edu/nisg/funding Wednesday, February 15th - 5 pm Budget applications are due.

If you have any questions about the process please feel free to contact Dakotah Reed with NISG at 319-273-3394 or dakotah@uni.edu

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New Year’s resolution

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Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich smiles as he addresses supporters at the Hilton Hotel in Columbia, S.C., following his victory in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Winning Our Future, a pro-Gingrich super PAC, is planning to run anti-Romney ads in Florida.

elcome to a new year. There is something profound about being part of a new year, making new marks on Earth’s blueprint and being part of history’s upcoming presidential elections.

I am elated to be a part of the new year. So much so, that I have convinced myself to make a New Year’s resolution and encourage you to join forces with me to pull it off before the upcoming election.

Actually, I was convinced by watching the debates. I would like to reduce elements of expected hatred we have between the political parties. Why is it called a party when there is no gaiety?

Seriously, how can politicians attack each other so ferociously and leave with respect for themselves? I was convinced that these European-Americans (the African-American candidate is no longer running) were bulldogs disguised as white upper-class political figures and I began looking for the one most attacked. I found that person was Mitt Romney. Romney’s presence was as welcome as President Obama’s. Once the main attack dog sprung, the others followed.

Mitt Romney knows now what it feels like to be a female in a CEO position in corporate America.

He probably has an inkling of what it is like as a minority, I thought. After hearing him bet-

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ting Rick Perry a meager $10,000 on something I now cannot recall, I retract that he knows how it feels to be anyone but the privileged and wealthy.

One of the attackers, Newt Gingrich, with three marriages and god (purposefully lowercased) only knows how many affairs to his credit, wants to put poor and minority children to work as assistant janitors. Why not encourage men like himself to be mentors for these children? I cannot see why he is so adamant against nontraditional marriages; being a Baptist and committing adulterous acts, he is destined to face God’s wrath himself.

I do not think the fight among them would be as fierce as the fight between parties. On the other hand, Ron Paul advocated for the battle between parties to end. People applauded his heartfelt words for the two parties to come together. But, open attack is leveled against Paul on charges of being a racist. Talk about digging up old bones: Paul has to defend himself once more.

What do we do when looking for the right candidate to represent us? They can attack each other, leave the race, and join

forces with the same individual they attacked. What does that tells us?

Well, for the person holding office at present: “But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace… what I strive to do… pray to do… as President of the United States — I’m also someone who deeply believes part of the bedrock strength of this country is that it embraces people of many faiths and of no faith,” President Barack Obama said on CBN.com.

To honestly see all citizens as the strength of our country regardless of religion, gender, color or other adjectives we use to stereotype each other, there would not be a need for tolerance because respect would be in its place. So, my New Year’s resolution is to see you not as a Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, Libertarian or whatever, but as strength to our country. I’m curious to know: do you think Rick Perry or Mitt Romney, when they are no longer running, would give their $10,000 to help with my student loans or pay down the deficit? I bet you $10,000 they would not.

Gloria Sumpter is a graduate

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sustainable planning for UNI. < Chief of Staff EmilyAnn Brueck has collaborated with Director of Greek Affairs Luke Hanson and Ellyn Konrardy and Director of Campus Activities Zach Fisher to plan for the annual Alcohol Awareness Week, coming up in March. Director Brueck has also worked with Director of Volunteerism Kelsie Fruchtenicht to organize a toiletry drive. < I have collaborated with Senator Nate Konrardy, Chris Apling and others in initating the first annual UNIty Week, happening in March.

UNIty Week is centered on

promoting inclusive action in order to come together as Panthers and as people. I will provide more information later. In the meantime, we are hosting a preview event for UNIty Week this Thursday in the Maucker Union at 8 p.m.! Gay-Straight Alliance, an improv troupe, will perform and then lead a Q-and-A discussion. Hope to see you there!

This laundry list is only a brief highlight of what NISG continues to work on every day.

Never hesitate to contact us with questions or suggestions at nisg@uni.edu or individually.

We do not have a DeLorean machine to help us see what the future holds, but I look forward to it every day!

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ANTHONY MITCHELL and KATIE HUNT

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Relationship question?

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How social media can make or break a relationship TEHRENE FIRMAN Editorial Staff

Way back in ancient times before 8-year-olds had cell phones and Britney Spears was pumping out Billboard hits instead of babies, relationships were a lot simpler.

Yes, even before singles had the option of being able to “creep” on someone before they agreed to join them on a date.

Numbers were exchanged, perhaps an email or two were sent and eventually after a few dates, the couple was exclusive. Then something happened that would forever change the world of love and relationships as modern society knew it – Facebook was born.

After 2004, when Facebook slowly caught on and became increasingly popular among college students, couples took the big step of listing themselves as “in a relationship.” From the first click of an accepted relationship invite, the couple allowed the world to see that they were no longer on the market – they were (for now at least) electronically bound to one person and one person only.

As more and more couples jumped on the Facebook bandwagon, it became “shady” if a couple didn’t list themselves as “in a relationship.”

According to “The bytes and the bees: Love can transcend anything (even Facebook)” on USA Today College, if they weren’t in a relationship on Facebook, it was as if they weren’t in a relationship at all. Gossip stirred and people wondered if one of the two involved was trying to get

some action on the side or if they were just embarrassed to be dating each other. What were they trying to hide?

Then, the wall action began. This discussion can go both ways. Unbeknownst to many, there is such a thing as too much P.D.A. (public displays of affection) even if it’s just showing up in everyone’s News Feed. When couples continually post cutesy (a.k.a. gag-worthy) messages to each other, it’s clear that there’s a reason why Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s cocreator, enabled private messaging.

According to “Facebook relationship problems: How social networking and jealousy affect your love life” on The Huffington Post, wall action can also create problems in relationships. Who’s that blonde chick posting smiley faces on your boyfriend’s wall? Why is your boyfriend not returning the favor when you post funny cat videos on his? This can all lead to jealousy, fights and the feeling that just because your significant other isn’t showing their affection online, it means the relationship isn’t working offline.

Blaine Koenig, senior psychology and exercise science double major, has seen this happen numerous times.

“People may take wall posts the wrong way,” said Koenig. “Say a guy writes on a girl’s wall that he can’t wait to see her tonight. Her boyfriend may see it and get jealous, not trust or get mad at his girlfriend.”

Koenig says even if the guy and girl have “zero attraction” and “no intentions,” it could still look bad

to those who see it.

While jealousy has been a huge issue in how social media can complicate relationships, so is trust. While many only consider cheating as getting physical with someone other than a significant other, finding out that private, inappropriate messages have been being sent to someone other than the person the sender is romantically involved with can also create some heated relationship drama.

Leah Poe, recent University of Northern Iowa graduate, said that an exboyfriend “checked my past messages when I didn’t sign out.” Although she knows there was nothing to hide, it still stirred some controversy when it seemed as though he looked because he didn’t trust her.

Paul Harkin, senior social sciences major, brings up another issue that can create problems.

“When you say something (online), the other person can’t tell your tone,” said Harkin. “They can’t tell if you’re joking or serious.”

When conversing with someone in person, it’s usually easy to tell if they’re being sarcastic or joking around from the tone of their voice.

But according to “Are social media making us tone deaf ?” on The Denver Post, when reading something online, comments made can be misinterpreted and create trouble down the road.

Unfortunately, Facebook isn’t the only social media network that has taken a toll on relationships. Twitter, < See SOCIAL MEDIA, page 9

I’ve been dating a guy for six months now and I really like him a lot, but there are some things I just can’t get past. He hates my cat, he makes immature jokes and he smokes (but only when he drinks). I ignored all of these things at first, but they’re really starting to bother me. Is it worth it to talk it over or should we just call it quits?

He said: No relationship is going to be 100 percent compatible, especially when it comes to the small stuff. We all put on a face early in the relationship.

It’s the polished, polite and patient side that we truly are maybe a quarter of the time, simply because we don’t want them to see the other side – the bad side, the ugly side.

I’m honestly surprised that you were able to keep your cool for six months. That is

a long time to not mention anything about what bothers you. Granted, no one likes demanding people to change because it comes off as way rude and controlling and the chances of any changes actually being made are slim to none.

This isn’t break-up ground yet, especially since you haven’t said anything about these things. The bottom line is that you have to say something if it’s bothering you at this point. To be honest, however, I am sure that there are some little things that bother him, too. It has to be a two-way street for change for the better. Get as good as you give… or something like that.

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@JoshWilson_LIVE Josh Wilson I think the media played a role in the speaker’s victory. Bringing up his ex-wife and family helped him more than it hurt.

Wes Jones I expect the race to be tossed between the remaining candidates (maybe not Santorum after Florida). This is most likely due to the fact that there is no satisfactory candidate to most American voters. It is rare to hear a voter excited by their choice of who to support with the exception of Ron Paul supporters.

Andrew J. Miller As a political scientist I would wager that unless Romney recovers quickly it will a drawn out nomination race. Conservatives are still looking for that not Romney candidate. A bloodied candidate will likely end up facing Obama. Romney would be the only one to fear from the democratic perspective. Even if Romney won nomination he would likely be defeated by the Obama machine.

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Many students who are part of the Northern Iowa Anime Association fondly remember the days when shows like “Pokémon” were popular and use their meeting times to wax nostalgic about the shows that shaped their childhoods.

The Northern Iowa Anime Association is a club on campus where students with an interest in Japanese cartoons, or “anime,” come together to watch and talk about their favorite anime shows.

Sarah Pearce, a senior chemistry and physics double major, explains how she became interested in anime.

“I started watching (anime) on Toonami on TV in middle school,” said Pearce. “I then got more into it in high school and when I came here, I knew there was an anime club so I decided to come.”

Chance Frerichs, senior communication major and president of the club, says he became interested in anime by “watching ‘Pokémon’ and

‘Digimon’ and stuff.”

Frerichs became president in June last year after the former president stepped down.

Since Frerichs took over as president, he says he has seen a growth in the number of people attending meetings.

“Usually around 25 to 30 people show up on a regular basis now,” he said.

During its meetings, the club watches various anime shows on a projector screen.

Every meeting has a theme associated with it which corresponds to the anime shows the club members decide to watch. After watching the theme-based anime, they switch to an anime series they watch every meeting.

Sarah Pearce also encouraged students to check out the club, saying, “There are all different kinds of anime for all different sorts of tastes. Whatever you want to watch, you can find in anime.

It’s interesting for everyone.”

Meetings for the Northern Iowa Anime Association are on Saturdays at 4 p.m. in Seerley room 115. To find out more about the club, search them on Facebook.

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which entered the complicated world of dating in 2006, minimized relationship drama into a 140-word tweet, hashtag and all.

Celebrities are a prime example of how easily things can be misinterpreted. For example, take Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber. Less than a year ago after they tweeted a simple, friendly picture together, rumors of the two dating (which was definitely

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to be delicate and not too demanding when you do decide to address it. If he is completely resistant to changing to benefit you, that may be a bad sign. The endgame should be compromise. The smoking and immature jokes, for example – see if you can at least establish that these things should be done when you are not around. If you can reach a common understanding, you’ll be ok.

She said: What I’ve found is that every situation, big or small, is worth talking over. Sometimes the small things need to be talked about right away before they get bigger. Your best bet is to address the issues because you may come to find that he will be more than willing to change these nasty habits of

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illegal) spread worldwide.

Eventually it became clear to everyone that Kim K. wasn’t into kids with sideswept bangs that still hadn’t hit puberty, but nonetheless, the damage was done.

Recently, Russell Brand tweeted an unflattering picture of then-wife Katy Petty right when she woke up in the morning, no makeup, bedhead and all. The picture was taken down by Brand not long after, but not before it was picked up by every top celebrity gossip blog in the country, which

probably led to him sleeping on the couch for the next couple nights.

Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter, social media certainly has had an effect on the livelihood of relationships, in the glitzy world of Hollywood or right at home in Cedar Falls.

The next time anyone is ready to begin a new relationship, think twice – if it ever ends, a new dimension of awkwardness is about to go down when it comes time to see who will change “in a relationship” to “single” first.

hating your cat and smoking.

Also, you’ll get a chance to test your relationship to see where he ranks your happiness in his priorities. If he chooses to continue to do these things after you’ve expressed your concern, chances are you’re not at the top of his list.

While all of those things are fairly small problems, they still exist and the little things will inevitably build up. Also, in time, you may find yourself looking for little flaws without even realizing it.

You’ve been dating for six months, which is definitely enough time to get to know each other well enough and develop strong feelings for each other, but it hasn’t been multiple years of commitment binding you two together.

While it’s always important to first try to fix the problems and make compromises, don’t get discouraged if you find that after months of trying,

it’s just not working out. At least you can say you gave it a shot.

I’m sure that if he had issues with things you do, you would want him to tell you rather than just keep it inside. I honestly think the number one key to a successful relationship is communication. Without it, everything just seems to fall apart. And you need to learn to be able to communicate effectively with one another early on. Otherwise, later in your relationship, you may find that you still have no idea how to talk to the other person.

Without communication, messages will be misconstrued and conflicts will get covered up (and eventually resurface).

So, tell him how you feel and look at how he reacts. If he understands and wants to work towards making these changes, then you know that your relationship is worth the fight.

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PTS: Seth Tuttle (13) REBS: Austin Pehl (6) ASTS: Jake Koch (3)

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PTS: Kurt Alexander (21) REBS: Rayvonte Rice (6) ASTS: Jordan Clark (2)

Defense propels UNI to 66-52 victory over in-state rival Drake BRAD EILERS Sports Editor

The University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team held the Drake University Bulldogs to 38.2 percent shooting en route to a 66-52 victory over their in-state Missouri Valley Conference rivals.

“I thought we defended pretty well tonight… when we did settle in with our defense in the half-court I thought it was good, and for the most part we did a good job of rebounding the basketball,” said UNI head coach Ben Jacobson.

With the victory, UNI completed a season sweep of all three in-state universities (Iowa, Iowa State and Drake) for the third time in school history.

“Somebody told me prior to the game that it had only happened twice for us and it’s hard to do because of

the quality of the other three teams; obviously, this year is no different,” said Jacobson.

“It’s important … it doesn’t happen that often and it’s something all our guys can be proud of.”

UNI (14-7, 4-5 MVC) also used a balanced scoring attack to snap their two-game losing skid. The Panthers had 10 players who scored in the game, something they hadn’t accomplished all season.

“Another key of the night was the play of the bench,” said Jacobson. “The last eight minutes of the first half, those five guys on the bench were in for probably five or six of the eight minutes and I thought they did a great job.”

UNI was led in scoring by freshman center Seth Tuttle, who recorded his second straight double-digit scoring game with 13 points. Junior forward Jake Koch was the

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Anthony James (52) works the ball inside the arc while Jake Koch (20) holds back Drake’s Rayvonte Rice (24) and Kraidon Woods (22) Wednesday in the McLeod Center. James was one of 10 Panthers to score, with nine points.

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Five UNI wrestlers crowned champs at Flash Flanagan Open

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The University of Northern Iowa wrestling team secured five individual titles at the Flash Flanagan Open Saturday afternoon in Dubuque. Cruse Aarhus (125 pounds), Joe Colon (133 pounds) and Cody Caldwell (174 pounds) took sole possession of their weight class championships, while Riley Banach and Jarrett Jensen (165 pounds), as well as Blayne Beale and Cody Krumwiede (285 pounds) were crowned as co-champs.

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UNI uses late first-half rally to defeat Bradley 71-57 JAKE BEMIS

Sports Writer

K.K. Armstrong scored a game-high 25 points, including 15 in the second half, to lead the University of Northern Iowa women’s basketball team to a 71-57 victory over Bradley University Friday night in the McLeod Center. UNI (12-6, 5-2) used an 8-0 run to end the first half and never looked back.

UNI combated being outrebounded 49-33 by forcing 27 turnovers, which led to 23 points. Armstrong also recorded a career-high eight steals, and was just three rebounds short of a tripledouble.

“Our defense is playing for our offense, and that’s a good thing going into the end of the season,” said Armstrong.

The Panthers held Bradley to 10 points below their season average of 67 points per game, even with Leah Kassing and Kelsey Budd both recording double-doubles for the Braves.

Amber Kirschbaum kept UNI in the game from the start, shooting a perfect five-

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UNI redshirt freshman Brooke Brown scored 12 points off the bench for the Panthers. Brown was three-for-five from 3-point range.

for-five while the rest of the team was 0-14 from the field.

“I was just really focused.

We all knew what we had to come out and do, and we all stayed focused even though my teammates’ shots weren’t going in. They knew they were going to go in, and they just kept shooting,” Kirschbaum said.

After trailing by one at 15-14 with just under eight minutes left in the first half, UNI went into a full-court press defense, which resulted in 15 first-half turnovers

by Bradley. That sparked a 19-9 run to end the half. The Panthers never trailed in the second half.

“I thought we really changed the momentum the last four minutes of the half,” said head coach Tanya Warren. “We went to our ‘cat defense’ to really try and change the tempo and create some turnovers.”

Bradley narrowed the lead to six early in the second half, but the Panthers used a 7-0 < See WOMEN’S, page 13

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Joe Paterno 1926-2012:

A Tarnished Legacy

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Joe Paterno was the head football coach at Penn State University for 46 years from 1966-2011. Paterno was dismissed as head coach in November after long-time assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child sex abuse charges.

BRENNAN ACTON Sports Columnist

Normally when one of the best coaches in the history of a sport passes away, the world can come together and honor his or her career. Joe Paterno is a sports legend.

That is undeniable. His 409 career victories is the record for most wins by any Football Bowl Subdivision coach in history. Penn State University has even built a statue in his honor.

Yet, his image will always be tainted after failing to act in one of the most disturbing atrocities imaginable. Paterno failed to take action when his defensive coordinator was sexually abusing children. He overlooked the behavior of the defensive coordinator for years.

On Nov. 9, 2011, Paterno

was fired from PSU for his lack of action. The University began to clear out staff shortly after and is doing everything they can to survive this daunting scandal.

Paterno’s failure to act is inexcusable. His lack of understanding the seriousness of the situation is a cancer on a school that was once a leader to universities nationwide. That school is doing everything they can to salvage their once beacon-like prominence.

Joe Paterno died Sunday morning after dealing with medical complications from lung cancer. He struggled in his fight against the disease for months, and was admitted into hospitals on Jan. 9, 2012.

He fought hard at the end and will certainly go down in sports history. His ability to coach until the near end of his

life shows how committed he was to working.

The problem becomes how to honor a coach who changed the very nature of a sport in his 46 years as Penn State’s head coach, and a whopping 61 years at the school.

Paterno was one of the toughest, most powerful and effective coaches ever. Like his university, he became the standard for going beyond what was asked. That’s what made his failures in the past months even worse. The nation looked at Paterno as one of the greatest role models for students. He was one of the most praised sports figures in history.

Perhaps it was that pressure that stopped the coach from reporting Sandusky’s 10 sexual assault cases in 15 years. Paterno fell quickly from his ivory tower, and rightly so. Taking action in this disaster should have been obligatory for a coach who was so highly praised for his dutiful demeanor in the past.

While some may find it sad that the media will not be able to focus on the triumphs, the uplifting attitude, and the achievements Paterno accomplished, we must realize the magnitude of his errors. It would be more tragic to do so without showing the ugly side as well.

His long and successful career was shining with accolades and love and support.

This was quite clear from the Paterno family’s press release shortly after Joe Pa’s death on Sunday morning, which read “As the last 61 years have shown, Joe made an incredible impact. That impact has been felt and appreciated by our family in the form of thousands of letters and well wishes along with countless < See PATERNO, page 13

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Black Hawks goalie Eamon McAdam collected 28 saves against the TriCity Storm this weekend.

DUSTIN WOODY Sports Writer

After last Friday’s matchup with the Tri-City Storm, the Waterloo Black Hawks have officially hit the midway point of the 2011-2012 United States Hockey League season. The Black Hawks currently sit in fourth place in the Western Conference, with just six points separating the team from first place. The Black Hawks have played three fewer games than the conference-leading Omaha Lancers, so the possibility to make up those six points still exists.

The Tri-City Storm managed to split their weekend series with the Black Hawks despite being in last place in the Western Conference.

Friday’s game went to the Black Hawks with a 4-2 score, and Tri-City returned the favor Saturday night in Kearney, Neb., with a 3-2 victory.

Special teams played a part in two of Waterloo’s four goals on Friday. At the 15:12 mark of the first period, Aaron Pearce found the back of the net for a shorthanded, unassisted tally. Ryan Papa added a goal from Mark Naclerio at the 14:01 mark of the second period, and James Hansen was assisted by Jamie Hill and Tony Cameranesi at the 7:23 mark of the third.

Tri-City showed life when Brian Ward and Brad Schierhorn assisted on Josh McArdle’s goal at the 15:29 mark, and when Tyler

Amburgey scored from Joshua Henke and Trevor Moore at the 16:06 mark.

However, Tyler Zepeda answered with an empty-net goal from A.J. Michaelson and Mitch Witek at the 19:39 mark of the third period to seal Waterloo’s 4-2 victory.

On Saturday, Tri-City’s fortunes were reversed as Tim Bonner got the home team on the board first at the 5:13 mark of the first period.

Bonner’s goal was assisted by Henke and Andrew Dorantes. Taylor Cammarata answered for Waterloo when he scored off of Max Edson and Vince Hinostroza’s helpers at the 7:51 mark.

However, Henke added a goal of his own at the 8:26 mark of the first period to give the Storm a 2-1 advantage. Bonner extended the lead to 3-1 just 29 seconds into the second period when he scored from Bryan Sinz and Adam Wilcox. Aaron Pearce gave Waterloo a boost at the 11:58 mark of the third period with help from Naclerio and Eddie Wittchow, but the Black Hawks couldn’t complete the comeback, falling 3-2.

Waterloo’s next two games are on the road before returning home on Jan. 29.

Thursday the Black Hawks take on the Youngstown Phantoms, and on Saturday the Black Hawks face the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.

The Black Hawks return home to square off with the Des Moines Buccaneers Sunday at 3 p.m.

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acts of kindness from people whose lives he touched. It is evident also in the thousands of successful student athletes who have gone on to multiply that impact as they spread out across the country.”

The respect he received from fans even after the Penn State scandal was massive.

Students rioted, hoping that Sandusky’s actions wouldn’t tarnish the impressive head coach’s story. Unfortunately, their coach just wasn’t as impressive as he seemed.

Paterno will never be the shining hero he could have been. His successes seem far less extraordinary and his failures all the more prominent.

Although the record books won’t have asterisks by his name, we will forever be torn when presenting his case with enthusiasm.

Joe Paterno was an American legend. As one of the most enthusiastic and exciting coaches (even in his later years) he will always have fans. Penn State will not tear his statue down. His bowl victories will not be removed.

Statistically, he is the greatest coach in college football history. Unfortunately, coaching is not a position that is judged only on paper.

Paterno was 85 years old at the time of his death. His commitment to his university was impressive, but his lack of action will always haunt the legend he could have been— the legend he should have been.

only other Panther to reach double-digits, scoring 10 points to go along with four rebounds and three assists.

The Panthers were able to contain Rayvonte Rice and Ben Simons, holding them to nine and eight points below their respective averages.

UNI trailed Drake 19-17 midway through the first half, but responded by going on a 36-11 run over the next 22 minutes to take a 53-28 lead with 12:59 remaining. Drake (12-8, 5-4 MVC) cut the UNI lead to 12 points with 5:08 left in regulation, but got no closer as UNI held on for a 66-52 victory.

“We didn’t play well for about three-quarters of the game and UNI deserves credit for that. We missed too many lay-ups early in the game and it seemed like we were missing an outside shot. We didn’t get to the free throw line enough,” said Drake head coach Mark Phelps. “There is a formula for winning on the road and we didn’t follow it tonight. Again, give UNI credit for that.”

At the midway point of the MVC schedule, UNI sits at 4-5 and is in a tie for sixth place. While UNI likely isn’t where they would like to be nine games into the MVC slate, they are just one game out of a tie for third place.

“I have told the guys, this is seven games in a row where we have played good basketball. We’ve played very well,” said Jacobson. “We are working hard to eliminate just a couple mistakes and get a little bit better at some things, especially defensively. …

We’ve played good basketball.

The key is when you have a couple (games) that don’t go your way, just stick with it.”

“We try to look at the bright side and the good things that we have done so far,” said Tuttle. “If you look at our losses, we have had pretty decent leads against good teams and we just didn’t finish them off. If you look at it, we are right where we want to be. We just need to finish some games and keep the momentum going.”

The Panthers return to action Wednesday night when they travel to Terre Haute, Ind., to face the Indiana State University Sycamores (11-9, 2-7 MVC). Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.

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run to stretch the lead back to 13 by the halfway mark and slowed the tempo down to maintain the double-digit lead.

Junior guard Mercedees Morgan picked up three fouls in just six minutes on the court in the first half, but the UNI bench was sparked by redshirt freshman Brooke Brown, who scored 12 points on three-forfive from the 3-point line.

“Brooke stepped up big time, and it was something that we needed,” said Armstrong.

“She accepted her role, and she worked for her minutes. She made a lot of key shots that kept us in the game.”

The Panthers are now 12-0 on the year when holding their opposition under 44 percent from the field, and they have won 29 of their last 32 games against Missouri Valley Conference opponents.

Kirschbaum finished the game with 15 points, and senior guard Katelin Oney finished with 11 points. With the win, UNI is now in second place in the MVC, behind only Wichita State University.

The Panthers return to action Friday when they travel to Omaha, Neb., to face the Creighton University Blue Jays.

DON’T MISS UNI vs. Indiana State

<Terre Haute, Ind. <Wed. @ 6 p.m. <The Sycamores (11-9, 2-7 MVC) are looking to snap a four-game losing streak. <The Panthers topped Indiana State 65-48 in the McLeod Center on Jan. 4. <Indiana State holds a 22-21 all-time lead in the series vs. UNI.

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UNI vs. Drake men’s basketball photos

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Johnny Moran (13) passes the ball back to Deon Mitchell (1) from under the hoop against Drake in the McLeod Center Wednesday.

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Marc Sonnen (23) takes a jumper in the McLeod Center Wednesday against the Drake University Bulldogs.

Sonnen scored eight points and pulled down four rebounds and two steals during the game.

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Deon Mitchell (1) drives down the court against Drake in the McLeod Center Wednesday. Mitchell was one of five bench players to put up a combined 19 points.

Matt Morrison (21) sinks a free-throw to complete a three-point play against Drake University in the McLeod Center Wednesday.

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ask, and then the tasks pile up.

Keep checking stuff off the list, and earn some time for yourself.

Today’s Birthday (01/24/12).

Teamwork is the bottom line.

Do more than your share, and call for reinforcements when you need them. There’s profitability in partnership, and working together grows the community.

Stick up for each other. Your friendships pay it forward this year.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your self-discipline is impressive, but you don’t have to go it alone, you know. You have plenty of friends. Everyone wants to contribute. You would do the same.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -Today is a 7 -- Focus on home and family warms the hearth.

It’s good medicine ... take as much as you can, with tea and company. Renew your spirit to go back out into the world again.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -Today is a 7 -- Changes could seem abrupt to others. Why not think it over? Handle the basics, do the routines and then take a walk to get lost in thought. No need for decisions.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -Today is an 8 -- You have this tendency to say yes when people

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- An arrogant mood could take over, if you allow it to. Grand statements from the past could echo back. Own up to them if that happens. Laugh at yourself.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Practical efforts are favored, with Mars retrograde in your sign. There could be changes. Consult with experts and partners. Rules simplify.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -Today is an 8 -- Concentrate on great service, and the orders flood in. The workload is getting intense. Consider the previously impossible, and listen to your partner.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -Today is a 7 -- You don’t need

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“no more trouble.” The love of your family is available, as long as you’re willing to harvest it.

Fixing a leaky faucet can save money.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s easier to express your thoughts or to start a new writing project. Find an answer in meditation. Others depend on you. Share your peace of mind.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Figure out new ways to bring in income, without sacrificing your core values.

Bring the money in before you send it back out. Be proud of your contribution.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re the top dog, and you know it. You’re back in control, but don’t let it make you lazy. Continue growing. Change is good now. Play with it.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -Today is a 5 -- There’s no time for procrastination now. Complete a project in private. Listen only to the positive voice in your head. Hot chocolate could be nice.

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