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OPINION PAGE 3
SPORTS PAGE 6
Jon Vroman encourages students to “live life in the front row.”
Columnist Jackson can’t get past his concerns with college football.
The Panther softball team fundraises during their annual Hit-A-Thon.
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October 5, 2015 Volume 112, Issue 11
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Cookie 5k-ing against cancer KATHERINE JAMTGAARD Staff Writer
LOGAN WINFORD/Northern Iowan
A participant in Dance Marathon’s Cookie 5k holds cookies in one hand and first pumps with the other. This year’s theme featured cookies, while last year’s was foam.
No one tossed their cookies at this year’s UNI Dance Marathon 5k. The annual run had cookies as the theme, with cookie stations set up at various points in the route. Whoever ate the most cookies over the course of the race would get the most time taken off of their final race time. Most runners ate between four and ten cookies during the race, but Conar Reed, sophomore leisure youth and human services major, topped everyone, consuming an impressive 24 cookies over the duration of his run. According to Tanner Bernhard, junior marketing and management major, and UNI Dance Marathon executive director, Dance Marathon wanted to do something different than the
foam run and color run that have been held in previous years. Something similar had been done at ISU with a doughnut run. “We wanted to put our own twist on it and with Insomnia Cookies just opening they sponsored us so it’s really an awesome way to kind of bring a new idea to UNI,” said Bernhard. All funds raised went toward the University of Iowa Children’s Miracle Network. “Dance Marathon is important because it helps extend and save children’s lives, Bernhard said. “It’s a movement by college students, this generation fighting for the next.” This event served as a jumping-off point to raise awareness for UNI Marathon. Bernhard hoped participants would become more aware of what Dance Marathon stood for at UNI. See COOKIE 5K, page 5
ROTC fall training Rubio hosts CF town hall KATHERINE JAMTGAARD Staff Writer
Calls of “BOOM we just hit an IED!” “Contact contact contact” “BANG BANG BANG BANG” and “LOA” rang out at Camp Ingawanis in Waverly as the ROTC held their fall semester leadership training exercise last weekend. A total of 13 cadets from UNI, 41 cadets from the University of Dubuque and 19 seniors acting as Observer Trainer Mentors (OTMs), came to the fall semester training.
The training ran from Sept. 25 to Sept. 27 and covered various simulations, operations and topics. “We do a lot of stuff tactically that actually happens. Most is to prepare them for the cadet leader course that all the juniors have to go through their summer year before they’re seniors,” said Cadet Julianna Pople, senior criminal justice major at the University of Dubuque and MS4 Cadet Captain Public Affairs Officer.
Cedar Falls received a visit from another presidential candidate this past Thursday. Instead of speaking on campus, like many past presidential candidates, Rubio opted to give his speech at local marketing firm, Mudd Advertising. When asked why the event took place at Mudd Advertising, a Rubio campaign organizer (who preferred to not be named)
See ROTC, page 4
See RUBIO, page 2
NICK FISHER
Executive Editor
IRIS FRASHER/Northern Iowan
Marco Rubio smiles as he speaks during the town hall he is hosting. The town hall was Thursday, October 1, held at Mudd Advertising in Cedar Falls Industrial Park.
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