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October 6, 2016
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Volume 113, Issue 12
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Athletics are majority of student fees JACOB MADDEN Staff Writer
MOVIE REVIEW Movie critic says “Masterminds” is dumb but the good kind. CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 6
VP DEBATE Columnist scrutinizes the vice presidential debate that occurred Tuesday night.
OPINION PAGE 4
VOLLEYBALL Panthers take it all against the Sycamores. SPORTS PAGE 8
Editor’s note: the Northern Iowan receives nine dollars per student from the Student Services Fee. This past weekend, thousands of students packed the UNI-Dome for UNI’s Homecoming football game. While students may have enjoyed free tickets to the game, they had already, in fact, financially contributed to the football team – and UNI’s athletic department as a whole – through mandatory student fees. In addition to the price of tuition, students are charged with mandatory fees every year. Danielle Massey, junior business administration major and director of administration and finance at Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG), explained what student fees are and how they are used within the university. According to Massey, the decision process begins with the student fees committee, which recommends total student fees to the president of the university. The president then recommends these fees to the Board of Regents, who have
60.8% 5.6% 8.9% 5.6% the final decision on public university spending. “It’s a very hard process, which is good,” Massey said. “If you’re going to be charging students a bunch of money, you should probably make sure it’s an [appropriate] amount.” The Student Fees Committee is made up of the NISG president, the chairperson of the NISG organization and finance committee, three at-large student seats and five at-large faculty and staff seats, according to
Massey. The faculty and staff are appointed by the university president, while the students are appointed by NISG. Both the NISG President and the NISG finance director serve in non-voting roles due to NISG receiving their funding directly from student fees. “Student fees is a giant, two years out, kind of plan,” Massey said. “All the line items allocate their money how they see fit. So, for example, [NISG] allocates its
money through organization finance committee through me.” Student fees are divided into two categories: the student activities fee (SAF) and the student services fee (SSF). The SAF contains the NISG budget, which is allocated to student organizations, as well as allocations to the GBPAC, the music and theatre departments, the office of student life and the center for multicultural education, among others. See FEES, page 2
Student opens up about alleged racist incident Exectutive Editor
to the Northern Iowan’s multiple requests for comment.
Kem Lieth didn’t expect the attention when she tweeted out an accusation against a former member of the UNI track team, JC Abrahamson. She was just angry. “Tonight he called me a nigga, literally spat at my face and said ‘go back to where you came from,’” reads Lieth’s tweet, posted at 2:35 a.m. Friday. Abrahamson did not respond
Lieth’s account The night began with a Homecoming tradition. Lieth, who’s in her second season as a member of the UNI women’s rugby team, had wrapped up a nursery-rhyme-themed scavenger hunt with her teammates. Clad in a cow costume (portraying the cow jumping over the moon in “Hey Diddle Diddle”), Lieth, a senior psychology major, took to the Hill with her friends after dropping
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off some of her teammates. The group found themselves outside of Domino’s on the Hill after a night of bar hopping. They encountered Abrahamson and his friends there just before 2 a.m. Lieth said she first addressed a friend who was with Abrahamson, but Abrahamson approached her. After Abrahamson approached her (he appeared to be intoxicated), Lieth said, she brought up derogatory comments he had made to her at an earlier date while at a party.
“He [had] said, ‘I heard you like tall white guys. I’m a tall white guy,’” Lieth said Abrahamson had told her on an earlier occasion. She indicated that he was referencing the size of his genitals. According to Lieth, Abrahamson doubled down on the earlier statement. “He said, ‘Oh, if you don’t like tall white guys then you can go back to where you came from,” Lieth said. “And I was like, ‘You can go back to where you came from. This is native land; it’s not any of ours, ya know?
And he’s like, ‘Whatever, you’re just a n-word.’ “And I was like, ‘Excuse me? Say that again.’ And I did get in his face [...] And that’s when he spat at me.” Lieth said she grabbed him by the shirt then, and friends of both parties interceded. “It all happened so fast and I was so angry,” she said. Lieth said the group got the attention of a Cedar Falls police officer across the street at Kwik Star and he intervened. See INCIDENT, page 3
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