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Nick Taiber explains Libertarian stances on issues including, military power, immigration and minimum wage. Taiber and Eric Cooper discussed the meaning of Libertarianism and how they approach political issues.
SARAH KELZER Staff Writer
Very few people can define Libertarianism. With this fact in mind, Nick Taiber and Eric Cooper explained to students the fundamen-
tals of the libertarian political philosophy in Maucker Union on Oct. 14 as part of an event hosted by the University of Iowa Young Americans for Liberty. “People who adopt Libertarian views tend to
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FREE Program to aid teachers CATHERINE AU JONG Staff Writer
The University of Northern Iowa Center for Energy and Environmental Education has been working on a program entitled Fabulous Resources for Energy Education in order to provide teachers with energy education resources. Pat Higby, the outreach coordinator of UNI CEEE, founded the program The FREE program allows schools K-12 and student groups to ask for a loan in order to purchase the materials needed to teach about energy efficiency on a deeper level. The CEEE also loans out solar panels, wind kits, hydrogen fuel cells, motors and generators that can improve the learn-
ing process. Higby says that teachers see the lack of funding for materials as the main obstacle to teaching about energy resources in schools. “In order to teach energy well, you need the materials. How can you teach students about photovoltage if they don’t have one to actually experiment with?” said Higby. The program has already been implemented in several schools in the WaterlooCedar Falls area. Brice Jensen, a senior earth science major who works with FREE, estimates that the program has helped over 15,000 people through various events, workshops, educational videos, student See FREE, page 4
be happier – it’s fun to be a Libertarian, its fun to believe in freedom,” said Taiber, a member of the Cedar Falls city council and the highestranking elected Libertarian in Iowa. See LIBERTARIANS, page 3
Motorcycle fatalities increase throughout Iowa KARYN SPORY
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Motorcycle travel represents only 1 percent of travel, but it represents 12 percent of travel fatalities, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. According to the Department of Public Health, motorcycle-related deaths rose from 46 in 2005 to 61 in 2006 and continue to
rise. The University of Northern Iowa recently saw one of these fatalities as student Kyle Welch, 23, died on Oct. 8. Welch was riding his motorcycle eastbound on University Ave. near the Hudson Road intersection where he hit a pole, Welch was pronounced dead on the scene. CATHERINE AU JONG/Northern Iowan Students examine the components of an intelligent fuel car. The FREE See MOTORCYCLE DEATHS, page 3 program will provide K-12 schools with energy-efficient resources.
UNI to launch Center for Violence Prevention SARAH KELZER
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The University of Northern Iowa will launch its Center for Violence Prevention in January 2011. The center will develop best practices for responding to and preventing interpersonal violence at Iowa’s three
state universities. “UNI is really emerging as a leading education institution in the state for violence prevention education,” said Stacey Christensen, communication relations manager at University Marketing and Public Relations. The CVP will provide education and criminal jus-
tice programs to train people to know what to do in emergencies. The University of Iowa is also exploring ways to implement it in their nursing programs. “We will be able to enhance UNI students’ curriculum and field experiences with training and education in violence prevention
so that they will be prepared with these skills,” said Christensen. A recent press release about the CVP stated that the center’s activities will include victim support services, a conference focused on the role of men in ending violence against women and presentations at national
training institutes for campus police, student affairs staff, faculty and students. A mandatory education video for all first–year students about gender violence is currently available. The video, on Inform.net, is given to first-year students at all three state colleges. See CVP, page 4
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Libertarians want a high degree of personal freedom combined with a high degree of economic freedom. Eric Cooper, the vice chairman of the Iowa Libertarian Party and associate professor of psychology at Iowa State University, explained that government is allowed to use force and physical violence in order to maintain society. Libertarians want the government to be involved in only four activities: protecting people from body crimes (rape or murder), protecting people from property crimes (pollution or theft), enforcing the terms of contracts and providing public goods (such as lighthouses or maintaining roads). “The reason we say this is because the government is a monopoly who has a very little incentive to please its customers and to be cost efficient. When we give more and more to the government we are giving to the least efficient institution in our society,” said Cooper. There are two key concepts to Libertarianism. The first is that there should be limited government intervention. Therefore, the government does not need to collect any more taxes than it needs to fund the four previously mentioned activities. If they had the choice, Libertarians would eliminate most taxes. The second concept is that we live in a free society. Therefore anyone who is considered to be a mentally capable adult and has not committed any body, property or contract crimes can do whatever they want in life. Libertarians believe that if someone is capable and in a position where they can make themselves happy, by all means that person should have the freedom to do whatever they want. If a person believes that using marijuana outweighs the
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risks, then that is their choice. It is the same concept with prostitution, gambling and smoking. Nevertheless, according to Cooper, there are three things libertarians don’t agree on: euthanasia, abortion and capital punishment. “There are good Libertarian reasons for taking either side of those issues. That’s why our platform doesn’t take a position,” said Cooper. Other issues can be seen in relation to other political parties. On economic issues, Libertarians, are more extreme than the conservatives. Cooper gave the example that conservatives might say they do not want to see a rise in property taxes. Libertarians on the other hand, think property taxes should not exist in the first place. The market should have the final say, not the government. “Libertarians love markets, but we do not live in a totally efficient market because of government intervention,” said Taiber. However, Libertarians think markets are the most efficient way of organizing human activity. This is part of the reason they want limited government involvement. For example, before the smoking ban, the market allowed smoking in restaurants. The majority of restaurants did not allow smoking. The market catered to the people who did not want smoke while the minority still had a place to go. Then, after the government voted with the majority against smoking, the ban was created, and minorities lost. Libertarians disagree with the ban, believing the minority should have a say and a right to smoke. In essence, it is all about happiness. Libertarians want others to follow what makes them happy in a peaceful way. “Happiness is the point of life,” said Taiber. “There’s a Libertarian streak in all of us.”
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Eric Cooper, vice chairman of the Libertarian Party, explained what Libertarians want from government and how much they should be involved.
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While most transportation fatalities are dropping significantly, motorcycle-related deaths are continually on the rise in Iowa. In fact, in other states across the country, like Missouri, motorcycle fatalities have fallen by almost 21 percent, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.
Iowa is one of four states, including Illinois, Colorado and New Hampshire, that have no helmet laws. Missouri, on the other hand, has full helmet law, requiring helmets to be worn at all times by all age groups when operating a motorcycle. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, almost half of motorcycle-related fatalities are a result of brain injury. Ninety-five percent of those drivers were not wearing helmets.
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visits, games and the loans for materials. Jensen believes that the materials the CEEE loans out to schools help improve students’ creativity.
“Kids can make it as basic as possible and as advanced as possible,” said Jensen. In the future, FREE is looking to be a self-sustained program instead of depending on others’ funding. Jensen said the group is trying to expand the
program by involving students from other areas of UNI. FREE is looking to expand its staff by adding someone from the business department who will better know how to market the program. Higby believes that the
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program has improved the Cedar Valley community and hopes to continue its progress. The CEEE invites all students who are interested to get involved in the program. “Every year I have new students who work for me. Anyone who is up for the challenge is able to join the program. And any student that wants to use the materials to teach is welcome to borrow them,” said Higby.
“When a student comes on campus, they get some basic background on how to avoid sexual assault, what can happen, how to help a friend or how to find resources if something like (gender violence) happens to you on campus,” said Annette Lynch, the director of CVP. Along with Lynch, Alan Heisterkamp will be director of the Mentors in Violence Prevention activities. The MVP program will be an important asset to the CVP. According to a press release, the MVP program takes a gender violence, bullying and school violence prevention approach that encourages young men and women from all socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds to take on leadership roles in their schools and committees. Karen Mitchell will be serving on the advisory board for the new center and is the director of the Students Against A Violent Environment Forum Actors. She says that the CVP will work on projects such as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, LGBTQ PRIDE week, MVP training and Take Back the Night. Along with that, a part of the CVP will focus on educating and making sure students understand the ways UNI’s sexual misconduct policy is handled on campus. “The new Violence Prevention Center is an exciting addition to this campus, given the history UNI has as a leader among Iowa regent universities for campus gender violence prevention,” said Mitchell.
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Digital bullying: a growing concern among students By JEWELETTE BOTELLO
Panther Leadership Service Club lends a hand By ARIEL HAWKINS
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Death by suicide has become all too common for high school and college students in our nation, and the cause of these deaths is often linked to bullying and online bullying. Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, recently took his own life after being bullied online. Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, streamed video of an intimate encounter between Clementi and another man on the Internet. Shortly after, Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River. Ravi and his friend, first-year student Molly Wei, were charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy. Clementi’s death is just one of many involving online bullying. According to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, suicide is the second most common cause of death in youths ages 15 to 24. To shed light on the issue of digital bullying, Bettina Fabos, associate professor of visual communication, said, “This is a moral conversation that needs to happen.” “This isn’t to say that the technology is completely changing the way we are.
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With the growth of online and digital communication, more teenagers and college students are falling victim to cyberbullying.
There has been bullying for centuries -- this is just a new form. It’s being expressed in a different way, in a much more public way,” Fabos added. Digital bullying is not the cause of all suicidal deaths on college campuses, but the growing numbers indicate a correlation. A comprehensive study including 70 universities and 26,000 students found that more than 50 percent of students had thoughts of suicide at one time or another. The
study included graduate and undergraduate students. Father Ken Glaser, a priest at St. Stephen’s Catholic Student Center, said in the past year he knows of five high school students who have died by suicide. He will be visiting with students in the coming week, and he said he already knows he will address the issue of suicide. “It is during the last year of being a high school student and the first year of being a college student that you have
to be more alert,” he said. “Some behaviors to notice are when at first someone seems very outgoing, happygo lucky and all of a sudden they become reserved.” Today, online social connections have replaced some face-to-face connections, and text messages have often replaced phone calls. Some of these digital encounters can be negative, and students often feel like they have no one to speak to. See BULLY, page 8
UNI Alumni Association, CATS to host Amazing Race Traditions Challenge By ERIN TRAMPEL Staff Writer
Lace up your running shoes and grab your camera this Homecoming week, because the race is on. This Thursday, Connecting Alumni to Students and the Alumni Association are putting on the first-ever Amazing Race Traditions Challenge. According to CATS vice president Katie Hood, the Amazing Race is an event “designed to take students around campus based on picture clues to designated spots that are significant to campus and the Traditions Challenge.” Students can participate in the Traditions Challenge by finding and taking photos of events on the list at their own time and pace. Hood said there are more than 25 possible challenges that can be completed throughout
Homecoming week. The Traditions Challenge is a fairly new development at UNI. Students are given small scrapbooks that include a short history about the University of Northern Iowa from its founding in 1876 all the way to 2007. The book also describes different university organizations, including CATS and Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow, and has a list of all of the campus traditions, along with pages to place photographs of you completing the traditions. The Traditions Challenge section of the book also describes the goal of the challenge, which is to “give you the opportunity to become a ‘True Panther’ and show you exactly what the University of Northern Iowa has to offer.” And these challenges aren’t all for the fun of it. If you complete 25 challenges by graduation, you get to wear a
Traditions Challenge lapel pin during commencement, and if you complete 45 challenges, you receive a Traditions Challenge medallion to wear at commencement. The CATS website calls the Traditions Challenge a ”must-do” list of campus activities that everyone should participate in before graduation. “The scrapbook is to remember the good old days of college,” said Connie Hansen, UNI assistant director of outreach and engagement. “Let it serve as a guide for your explorations and search through it when referencing past and current information about your campus.” To sign up for the Amazing Race Traditions Challenge, meet at the Alumni House before 6:30 p.m. Thursday, and be sure to have a camera ready.
The University of Northern Iowa Panther Leadership Service Club can be a great way for students to get involved on campus. The main goal of the club is to fundraise for charity groups and hold events to help the community. The group’s next meeting is Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Curris Business Building room 121. The organization is open to all majors on campus. PLSC was started by professor Heidi Noonan-Day, who is now it’s faculty advisor. The organization began as a basic idea and has now formed into a group focused on helping the community as much as it can. There are three main components to the club, each of which fundraises for a specific organization. They fundraise for Big Brothers, Big Sisters, the Northeast Iowa Food Bank and the Cedar Bend Humane Society. According to Patrick Luensmann, president of PLSC, the group participates in a number of events throughout the year, and each member is expected to lead or co-lead one event per year. So far, the group has participated in a yard work service day, a pop can collection, a bake sale and more. Admiral Arleigh A. Burke once said, “Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.” The PLSC can be a great way for students to develop these skills. Students looking for a way to gain experience, help others and become better leaders should consider joining PLSC. For more information, contact PLSC president Patrick Luensmann at luensmap@ uni.edu or attend the group’s next meeting Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Curris Business Building.
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Spaghetti Ramen Lasagna
Ramen noodles are a staple food for college students. They’re cheap, fast and pretty tasty. But even a college student can get sick of them. Revamp this college essential into something just as easy, but way more delicious! This recipe makes for a great, filling supper that anyone will love! Spaghetti Ramen Lasagna Serves: 2 Ingredients: 4 slices of bread 2 packets of ramen noodles 2 cups of marinara sauce 1 cup shredded cheese 2 Tbs. butter or margarine parmesan cheese garlic salt deep cooking pan (bread pan recommended) Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. LIQUID LIBRARY 2. Toast slices of bread. Butter and sprinkle garlic salt on top. 3. Place 2 slices on the bottom of the pan (set aside other 2 pieces for later). 4. Cook ramen noodles according to the package directions. Exclude the seasoning packet and drain water from noodles. 5. Mix marinara sauce and shredded cheese into the noodles. 6. Spoon noodle mixture on top of toast. 7. Place 2 other pieces of toast on top of noodles. 8. Cover pan with foil. 9. Place in the oven for 15 minutes. 10. Remove foil for the last 3 minutes until the bread is golden brown. 11. Take out of oven, serve, and enjoy! *Hungry Hint: Looking for something a little heartier? Brown ground beef and remove grease. Mix ground beef with 1 cup of marinara sauce and layer ground beef on the toast, spoon on noodle mixture and then top with the last 2 pieces of toast!
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Texting in school at ‘epidemic’ levels By PATRICIA ALEX
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They text in their pockets, they text the person sitting next to them and they even text their parents. “It’s addictive,” said Joshua Ortiz, a senior at Clifton (N.J.) High School. “During class and in between classes and even when there’s a teacher around.” Texting in class has become widespread -- more than 40 percent of teens say they do it despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of schools ban cellphone use, according to a recent survey. Anecdotally, some teens say the percentage may be higher still, and educators concede that the phenomenon may be here to stay. “I’m not naive. I’d like to think they don’t do it, but I know they do,” said Jack Hurley, principal of Rutherford High School. Hurley said he runs a “tight ship,” confiscating phones when students use them during school. Still, it can sometimes feel like swimming against the tide. “It’s epidemic,” he concedes. Cellphone use is ubiqui-
tous. A Pew survey last year found three-quarters of teens and an even higher percentage of their parents have cellphones. And for teens, texting is the thing. “It’s the norm, it’s just part of our culture,” said Drew Olanoff of textPlus, which conducted the survey that found 43 percent of teens text in class. The Californiabased company offers a free texting application for phones and other devices. The survey found that 17 percent of the kids who text in class said they did so “constantly” and more than half say they text friends who are sitting in the same class; 22 percent said they’ve texted answers to classmates struggling to answer a teacher’s question. “It’s a new spin on an old story: Parents will remember when they slipped little paper notes from one desk to another,” said Michael Yaple of the New Jersey School Boards Association. It was the “covert nature” of texting that spurred its widespread adoption by mostly young people, said Hugh Curnutt, a communications See TEXTING, page 7
Cedar Bend Humane Society to host Barktoberfest By ALEX KOOLBECK Staff Writer
The Cedar Bend Humane Society is letting the dogs out by hosting the seventh annual Barktoberfest Oct. 22 from 4 to 7 p.m. “This is a great event because all the money that is raised goes to the neglected animals that come in our door,” said Stephanie Erb, events and community relations director of the Cedar Bend Humane Society. “It directly benefits the animals. It’s also a good opportunity for those that have adopted animals to come meet others who have adopted and to meet the staff.”
Activities during the event will include a bonfire for hot dogs and s’mores, a haunted barn, a jumping castle, face painting, bobbing for apples, sack races, a costume contest and a pumpkin patch. Admission is $5. “It brings in a lot of money for the shelter,” Erb said. “It’s just a good family fun event.” The Cedar Bend Humane Society is a nonprofit organization. They give shelter to homeless animals and provide animal control services to Black Hawk County. Approximately 10,000 animals are brought into the shelter each year.
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professor at Montclair State University who has studied social media. Texting allows for a relatively unobtrusive way to communicate -- more stealth than note-passing, and it even has its own coded language. The vast majority of teens surveyed said they’ve been able to fly under the radar while texting in class. “I haven’t gotten caught,” said Adrianna Gonzalez, a senior at Leonia High School who estimated she texted friends a couple of times per period, usually during “busy work.” Gonzalez said she would never text during a test but the pastime helped her get through the day. “You need some time to zone out rather than constant school work.” Parents apparently need their texting to get through the day as well. Two-thirds of teens said their parents texted them during the school day. At Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J., students are required to leave their cellphones in their lockers. But even the afterhours use of texting can take away from productive school work, said Principal Anthony Orsini. Texting has accelerated adolescent gossip and educators routinely come across exhausted students who have stayed up too late texting, unbeknownst to their parents. “As far as an educational distraction -- it’s huge,” said Orsini. “Socially it’s a distraction, too -- we’ve had more teasing and bullying issues involving texting than involving Facebook.” But some educators now say it may be time to look for more ways to tap into the medium that has become so integral in their students’
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lives. It’s not so much a case of ‘if you can’t beat ‘em then join ‘em’ as it is a recognition that things have changed, they say. “We’re trying to look for ways to embrace it,” said Arthur Powell, chairman of the urban education department at Rutgers-Newark. “It’s a piece of technology that has utility, and it’s not going away.” There have been fledgling steps around the state with using students’ cellphones to set up “live response” systems in class; teachers could blasttext students with relevant information and reminders. Smart phones now give students the capability to carry what is essentially a personal computer in their pockets. “When you think of the options it might open up ... it would be silly not to have the discussion,” said Dave Janosz, supervisor of technology at Northern Valley Regional High School in Old Tappan, N.J. “I see the potential for information at your fingertips,” said Janosz, who heads the state association of technology educators. Of course, he said, the potential for distraction is also great -- for every educational app, there are 10 more for entertainment. “We’d really have to do this responsibly,” he said. Olanoff, from the texting application company, said discussions have begun around the country. “We need to shift the conversation from prohibitions to boundaries,” he said. “We’re seeing things evolve: First it was no cellphones in school, then it was no cellphones out in class. It will be interesting to see how teachers use (the technology) in the future.”
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Report says 75 percent of Americans unfit to serve in military By RICK MONTGOMERY MCT Campus
Chalk up another national-security threat -- this one looming with each excess pound, failing grade and drug bust affecting young adults. An alarming 75 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 would not qualify for military service today because they are physically unfit, failed to finish high school or have criminal records. So says a new report from an organization of education and military leaders calling for immediate action on the early-education front. While some experts voiced doubt that obesity and other societal ills would keep three out of four young adults out of the ranks, the report titled
“Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve” was endorsed by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, former NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark and top retired admirals and generals. “The armed services are meeting recruitment targets in 2009, but those of us who have served in command roles are worried about the trends we see,” retired Rear Adm. James Barnett said. “Our national security in the year 2030 is absolutely dependent on what’s going on in kindergarten today.” Military recruiters in Kansas City report turning away prospective recruits “in every office, every hour, every day” for reasons including girths too large and credit ratings too low.
Increasingly, applicants are disqualified for having asthma or for taking pills for depression or attention disorders. Nearly one-third of all young adults have health issues other than weight that could keep them from serving, according to the report of the group Mission: Readiness. If you’re the single parent of a dependent child without a support network, you’re out. If you’re carrying too much debt, you’re out. The military doesn’t want recruits who will be hounded by creditors and lawsuits. Some applicants without a high-school diploma can get a waiver to serve if they earn a GED or score high on the military’s entrance exam. But See MILITARY, page 8
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If a situation like this occurs, Glaser said, “I am very well acquainted with the people at the Counseling Center, and some considering suicide need to be listened to. So I won’t leave them alone, because they are afraid of being abandoned.” “I would never make them walk over (to the Counseling Center) by themselves,” he added. With online bullying on the rise, it is important for people to think about what they post on the Internet. “The online world is tricky because people often do not realize when they post something online that it is now public, and since it’s online, it can be shared,” Fabos said. “It becomes part of our moral conversation and becomes the growing pains of new technology,” she added. Fabos said students need to be careful when forwarding an e-mail not meant to be forwarded, posting and tagging a person’s picture on Facebook and posting a video on YouTube.
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such waivers are granted to fewer than 2 percent of applicants. “What we allow waivers for, and for whom, is like an opening and closing gate depending on our needs. We can adjust our policies if we have to,” said Douglas Smith of the U.S. Army
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“These are private situations that become public. We need to recognize that with the web nothing is private and that can have incredible ramifications,” Fabos said. National examples linked to suicide by digital bullying include Megan Meier, who killed herself at age 13 after a Myspace hoax was played on her by young girls. Phoebe Prince, an international student from Ireland, killed herself at age 15 in Massachusettes after being bullied on Facebook. “We have these repeated tragic cases and I guess what we have to learn from this is that kids need to be smarter about what they do online, and this isn’t to say that kids haven’t been affected by bullying before, but now they are being affected in a new way,” Fabos said. For further information on suicide prevention, contact the Black Hawk-Grundy Mental Health crisis hotline at 319234-2893 or visit the National Alliance on Mental Illness for Iowa website, www.namiiowa. com.
Recruiting Command. As a slumping economy increases interest in military service, more people with obvious deficiencies are contacting recruiters. “We’re no longer so much saying, ‘Try back in 60, 90 days and see if you can qualify,’” Smith said. “It’s more like ‘We’re sorry ... and don’t come back.’’
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All right, I admit it. I used to be one of those guys. I hate those guys. You know, the kind of person they warn you about at orientation -I based my major on how much money I was going to make; I refused to major in Philosophy because it wasn’t practical enough; I asked English majors what they were going to do after they graduated. Looking back, I don’t know what I was thinking. An education isn’t job training. It’s a chance to learn; to have your mind liberated. It’s about making a better life for yourself -- and that doesn’t depend on the size of your paycheck. It’s an end in itself and not a means towards a better job. It took me far too long to realize that. This obsession with the utility of an education is far-reaching. The Board of Regents touts the extra mil-
lion dollars earned in a lifetime for a college graduate. The University of Northern Iowa, like all schools, flaunts its job placement. Students are the worst offenders. Many have no interest in learning; they’re focused on graduating and finding a job. The Liberal Arts Core is a speed bump in their quest for a diploma.
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An education isn’t about job training. It’s a chance to learn; to have your mind liberated. It’s about making a better life for yourself -- and that doesn’t depend on the size of your paycheck. It’s upsetting. I understand wanting to focus on a major because you enjoy the content, but let’s be honest. Most students will change their majors at some point and even after graduation, most will change their career choice as well.
If a university education was about job training, it would be largely useless. But it’s not -it’s about an education, and an education will stick with you even when your career choice doesn’t. An education is about reading Albert Camus and having your eyes opened to the absurdity of life, reading John Stuart Mill and considering your own political beliefs. It’s about gaining an appreciation for psychology or economics. It’s about becoming a better citizen. I’m not making the claim that our Liberal Arts Core is perfect -- I’m looking at you, Personal Wellness -but I am saying there is value in it. Part of the distaste for liberal arts classes probably comes from a campus that does little to support it. Professors get no reward for teaching huge intro sections, even though the time demand for office hours and grading is exponentially higher. In many departments, professors have no interest in teaching mobs of freshmen with no interSee LIBERAL ARTS, page 10
Election 2010
Are Dems doomed? KEVIN HOWARD khoward@uni.edu
With just two weeks left before the 2010 midterm elections, Democrats are fighting harder than ever to prevent the ousting of incumbency that seems to favor Republicans significantly. Democrats hold the majority of seats in both the House and the Senate, which means they have a lot at stake on Nov. 2. Democrats have been weary of the midterm elections for quite some time now. For example, Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, stated back in July that “there is no doubt that there’s enough seats in play” in the House to make it possible for “Republicans to take control.” The Republicans need to win at least 40 seats to obtain control of the House of Representatives. This is most definitely achievable. Obtaining a majority in the Senate will be a little more challenging for Republicans,
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Iowa House District 19 representative Bob Kressig, left, and Iowa governor Chet Culver, right, spoke to students about the 2010 elections on Oct. 9. The Democratic incumbents will be up for reelection on Nov. 2.
though. Of the seats on the ballot, Republicans would need to hold on to every seat they currently have at stake and fill at least 10 of the remaining 19 currently held by Democrats. It would be a tough task, but it is not impossible. The Democratic-led Congress has an average approval rating of 26 percent over 32 Gallup polls. Former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey, who once headed the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, stated, “The poll numbers and the enthusiasm on the right ver-
sus the lack of the enthusiasm on the left suggest a pretty big Republican night,” in an article by The Associated Press on FoxNews.com. The CNN Poll of Polls indicates that 47 percent of likely voters would choose a Republican candidate for Congress if the election was held today (Oct. 15), as discussed by CNN’s Rebecca Stewart. Now, I will be the first to admit that the prior administration should not go without blame for the current climate of our country. The fact that the Bush Administration is See DEMOCRATS, page 11
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From the editorial staff
Don’t drink your way to danger
Every 21 hours a rape occurs on a college campus in America. Up to 90 percent of all campus rapes occur under the influence of alcohol. Of these occurrences, only 10 percent of victims report being raped to authorities. Up to 1,825 college students between the ages of 18-24 die every year from an alcohol-related unintentional injury. These statistics are alarming. These statistics are reality. These statistics are preventable. With University of Northern Iowa Homecoming so close we can taste it, it is important for us to examine how our behavior during Homecoming has the possibility of alter our futures entirely. Homecoming is that time when UNI traditions are at their best. Students go campaniling at midnight, the marching band does their annual nightly parade around campus and this year TC will introduce to us his little, and likely spunky, sister. While all this seems harmless, these activities aren’t the problem, they are just the pre-show. After all the fun, innocent Homecoming happenings, the party will just be beginning for most. From students throwing parties at their apartments to enjoying nightlife on the Hill, things will be in full swing. And for college students, full swing often means full swig. Alcohol violations have been an increasing problem on the UNI campus in the past year. According to the 2010 UNI Department of Public Safety crime report, there were 238 more disciplinary referrals regarding a liquor law violation in 2009 than in the previous year. While the number of total arrests for the violations stayed the same, it is clear that more alcohol is being consumed on UNI campus. And yes, these statistics are over the course of an entire year, but nonetheless alcohol is a campus-wide problem that is greater than ever. The topic of rape is often tiptoed around. However, statistics show that on college campuses it is directly linked to the consumption of alcohol. Not only do 90 percent of the rapes on campuses happen under the influence, but alcohol is one of the top four predictors of a college woman being raped. Some of you may be thinking this seems like a stretch, that you have heard of very few, if any rapes at all being reported on the UNI campus. According to crisisconnectioninc.org, only 25 percent of women who are raped will describe the sexual assault as rape and only 10 percent will actually report it. Because of this, the UNI crime report shows very few statistics regarding this, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before, or won’t happen. Perhaps this subject seems a little harsh to address the week of Homecoming, and maybe it is. However, it’s reality. These topics need to be addressed and conquered. This coming weekend will be full of fun, but it also has the potential to be dangerous. To prevent these things, avoid drinking with people you don’t know or trust. Don’t go home with anyone you don’t know, and ask friends to keep an eye on your actions. If possible, don’t drink at all. Homecoming is meant to be a weekend of enjoyment, a weekend of displaying pride for your school, a weekend of celebration. Do you really want to end up arrested? Or do you want to end up in a hospital getting your stomach pumped, or engaging in sexual intercourse against your will? The answer is no. Your years at college are supposed to be the best of your life; avoid making decisions that will make them seem like the worst.
This editorial reflects the position of the Northern Iowan’s editorial staff: John Anderson, Leah Jeffries, Brad Eilers, Cassie Tegeler, Anna Schreck and Kari Braumann. All other articles and illustrations represent the views of their authors.
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est in their field. At larger institutions, the teaching of these courses is pushed off on under-qualified teaching assistants and grad students. None of this contributes to appreciating other fields. Regardless, your education is what you make it. Last week, columnist Michael Dippold urged readers to take ownership of their education outside of the classroom. I’m urging you to take ownership inside the classroom. Who cares about your professor and the rest of your class; make the most of your classes. I wish I had. I skated through most of my liberal arts core. I scouted RateMyProfessor.com for three years to find the easiest Our Musical Heritage offered at UNI. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t get much out of the class. I robbed myself of a part of my education. That’s not a mistake I’ll be making again. I only have one more semester at UNI, but I plan to make the most of it. I’m not going to spend it counting down the days until graduation. I’m going to learn. I’m going to give everything I’ve got to my education and have something to be proud of when I’m done. I hope you’ll join me in doing so.
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This past week I attended “The Laramie Project” at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. It was an incredibly emotional night and the production was very well done. “The Laramie Project” is about the Tectonic Theater Project going to Laramie, Wyo., following the murder of Matthew Shepard and conducting interviews with more than 200 people around the town in the aftermath of the murder and trial of Matthew’s killers. The only real issue I had wasn’t with the production itself, but with the idea of hate crimes, as this was a fairly large focus and at the end, and one of the lines was that Wyoming still hadn’t adopted hate crime laws. I can perfectly understand why people want hate crime laws, especially when considering what happened to Matthew Shepard. And hate crime laws obviously aren’t just for homosexuals, but for many if not all minorities. A hate crime, as stated by the FBI, is “a criminal offense committed against a person, property or society that is motivated, in whole or in
part, by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or ethnicity/national origin.” The problem that I have is that these things are already against the law, so why does more need to be added?
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What I truly wish is that we could all come together, forget these things that divide us into those who are victims of a hate crime and those who are not, and to call a crime just that: a crime that is unacceptable no matter who the victim is. In the past few years, the attitude has seemed to be that if you’re not in favor of hate crime laws, then you are homophobic, racist, etc. However, I refuse to engage in buzzwords or try to say that hate crime laws are bad, because it’s very easy to see how they could be useful. I do want to question the idea, not because of a condoning attitude of these crimes, but because of the idea that all people are equal in the eyes of the law. Imagine that there are two murders and both are
committed by the same person. One victim was killed as part of a robbery and the other victim was homosexual, also killed during a robbery, but the killer was found to be against homosexuality, so the one murder was classified as a hate crime. According to the Partners Against Hate website, the purpose of a hate crime law is to impose a harsher penalty for such an offense. So in this case, there are two dead, but there would be harsher penalties for the death of the homosexual, so does that mean one life is more valuable than the other? The argument against the scenario I just used is that it’s not just about murder, but other crimes too. That’s a fair point, but there are already laws and penalties for threatening someone, like harassment, assault, etc. Do we really need harsher punishments, or do we need to actually enforce the laws already on the books -- enforce them equally and when the crime warrants it, to the fullest extent of the law. The main problem is, if you’re not in one of the groups protected in a hate crime law, then the offender can certainly be prosecuted, but prosecution to the full extent of the law doesn’t seem to be the priority. Possibly the biggest argu-
ment against hate crime laws, especially in regard to the Matthew Shepard case, is that there were no hate crime charges and there wasn’t much more that could have been done for sentencing. Matthew’s two killers, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, each received two consecutive life sentences, meaning neither is ever going to leave prison. The only sentence that really could have been added was a death sentence. However, Matthew’s family intervened, asking that the death penalty not be applied. What I truly wish is that we could all come together, forget these things that divide us into those who are victims of a hate crime and those who are not, and to call a crime just that: a crime that is unacceptable no matter who the victim is. In the words of Martin Luther King Jr; “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be selfevident: that all men are created equal.’” And this dream I hope we can all share, in hopes that it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight, what color you are, what ethnicity; the only thing that matters is that we are people, and everyone deserves justice, equally.
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Decriminalize it JEFF KRUEGER Guest Columnist
Chances are you know somebody who eats it, smokes it, deals it or uses one of the many products made from it. Yes, I’m talking about the wonderful, magical, medical herb we, as a human race, cultivated long before the invention of synthetic fibers. It predates paper made from papyrus, and even the biblical creation of Earth. If you’re still oblivious to what I’m reefer-ing to, I’ll spell it out for you: M-A-RI-J-U-A-N-A! Yet, with such a long history of success, we have chosen to outlaw the plant because of almost nonexistent dangers. Why? The same reason we burned witches, fought desegregation and repress homosexuals: Fear! This calls for a story! Once upon a time in a not-so distant land (the United States of America), drugs of all varieties roamed almost completely free and unregulated, and most could be bought at the local drugstore with no questions asked. At the time, “marihuana� was almost unknown to the population at large. They knew it as “hemp� or “cannabis,� a strong fibrous plant used to make a large variety of products from rope and clothing to medicines and teas to the paper on which Thomas Jefferson
drafted the Declaration of Independence. Not until the rise of jazz in the 1920s and ‘30s did “marihuana� take footing as a popular recreational drug. Then came Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate and creator of “yellow journalism.� Together, they put together a sensational anti-marijuana campaign that could drop you to your knees with laughter. Here is a brief sampling of their propaganda: “Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man....� Or how about this racist cockand-bull story: “There are 100,000 total marihuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.� White women with Negroes! No wonder ignorant Americans – which constituted the majority – ran head over heels to outlaw the plant in all
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its forms. In the last five years, police have made over 4 million marijuana arrests, most for simple possession. At a
time of such economic hardship and budget
cuts, these non-violent offenders are bogging down our court systems, preventing police from attending to violent crimes and costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars every year. All for what? A simple lifestyle choice with which the law currently disagrees. It’s time to change our attitude toward this harmless plant. Our own Board of Pharmacy has suggested that the Iowa legislature remove marijuana from Schedule I and place it in Schedule II, making it available for medical research. Let’s take it a step further and call for our legislatures to decriminalize marijuana. We’re
all grownups here, so let’s help a neighbor smoke a joint if she wants or grow a plant in her garden without worrying about police busting in on the scene. And to those who fear my words: Cash out your old, worn rhetoric and pack a fresh bowl of lighten-the-F-up. Like Ben Harper told me, “If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around ‘cause I’m gonna burn one down.�
mean the policies they have implemented left with them. Enough is enough, though. Too quickly we forget that the Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress for the past four years. Furthermore, for the past two years, Democrats have not only controlled the House and the Senate, but also, the White House. This is significant. I think Congress and the Obama Administration should take more responsibility for the unemployment rate that still hovers around 10 percent. I’m craving more clarity on the passed health care reform bill that Nancy Pelosi insinuated needed to be passed so people could figure out what it included. Finally, I want the staggering national debt to be taken more seriously by any politician who can comprehend its mass. These are just a few of several issues on my mind, and the minds of many Americans. As I have stated, the blame of the current climate in America should not be placed solely on Democrats, but I am ready for Republicans to be in control of something so bipartisanship has to take place in order for legislation to be passed.
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Brad’s Sports Blurb
Reliving a spring break for the ages
By SAM JEFSON Sports Writer
The No. 14-ranked University of Northern Iowa volleyball team defeated Illinois State University 3-0 on Thursday and Indiana State University 3-1 on Friday to extend their conference win streak to 27 straight matches. Against Illinois State, Northern Iowa rolled to a three-game victory with scores of 25-19, 25-22 and 25-11. The Panthers exhibited strong defensive play to shut down the Redbird attack. Not a single Illinois State player finished with 10 kills or more due to a mere .110 hitting percentage on the night. Three UNI Panthers had double-digit digs for the match. Senior Ellie Blankenship led the way with 13 saves, Amy Braun snagged 10 and Chelsea Saunders rounded out the trio, saving 10 opportunities. The Panther defense clicked during game three, as the team held the Redbirds to only 11 points and a zero hitting percentage. Braun continued her strong play against Illinois State offensively, finishing with 12 kills. Krista DeGeest followed closely behind her teammate in the kill department, ending the night with 11 put-aways. Friday, the Panthers took out the Indiana State Sycamores in four games with scores of 25-12, 25-8, 23-25 and 25-14. The defense stepped up for the second night in a row with Blankenship finishing with 25 digs and teammate Braun compiling 19. The solid defense held the Sycamores to a dismal .101 hit percentage on the night. With the win, UNI has now won 13 matches in a row, carries a total match record of 18-2 and possesses an unblemished 9-0 Missouri Valley Conference record. UNI returns to the McLeod Center on Friday and Saturday for Homecoming. The Panthers will take on the Drake University Bulldogs and the Creighton University Blue Jays.
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Ali Farokhmanesh and the Panthers shocked the sports world last March with a thrilling 69-67 upset over the No. 1-ranked and heavily-favored Kansas Jayhawks in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
By BRAD EILERS Sports Editor
“And on the first day of spring, No. 1 has fallen.” Those words from Kevin Harlan still resonate in my ears. I was sitting on press row at mid-court witnessing one of the greatest college basketball upsets of all time. The University of Northern Iowa Panthers had defeated the No. 1-ranked and heavily-favored Kansas University Jayhawks in front of a capacity crowd of 16,000 spectators (mostly KU fans) at the Ford Center
in Oklahoma City. I remember being in the Schindler Education Building four days before my trip to Oklahoma City to watch the CBS NCAA Tournament Selection Show. I don’t know if I have ever been more disappointed in my entire life as when I saw that UNI had received a No. 9 seed and that they would have to face KU in the second round if they got past the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in the first round. My excitement from a 28-4 regular season was gone because I was truly
hoping UNI would get a No. 6 seed. On March 18 my parents and I took off for Oklahoma City, a 15-hour drive from my hometown of Gladbrook, Iowa. The whole drive to Oklahoma City I was just hoping that we would get to witness at least one UNI victory along with a good showing against the No. 1 team in the country. We stopped in Lawrence, Kan., the home of Kansas University, to get a bite to eat on the way to Oklahoma City, and I remember all the weird looks we were getting
from the Jayhawk fans that were there. You could tell what they were thinking, “Are they really traveling all the way from Iowa to see their team get whipped by the Jayhawks?” No, we were traveling to Oklahoma City to support our team. Win or lose, we were going to support the Panthers. We arrived in Oklahoma City around four o’clock so my parents and I had a little bit of time to relax in the hotel before the UNI vs. UNLV game took place at 6:10 p.m. However, for those
goal unit may have redeemed themselves in the eyes of Panther faithful. Coming into Saturday’s contest, UNI was converting less than half of its field goals. The Panthers did not possess a lead for most of the game. Hallgren’s third field goal, his longest at 42 yards, gave UNI a 9-7 edge midway through the third quarter. A three-yard Tirrell Rennie touchdown run and a 31-yard Hallgren field goal in the fourth quarter boosted the Panther lead to 19-14. The Coyotes gave UNI a scare in the game’s final
moments as they completed a 38-yard touchdown pass with four seconds remaining. However, the Panthers were able to relax after recovering the ensuing onside kick. The late touchdown was South Dakota’s first since they put up the contest’s opening score in the first quarter. UNI’s offensive attack produced 434 total yards. Rennie threw for a gamehigh 265 yards while running back Carlos Anderson also compiled a game-high with 82 yards rushing. Cor nerback Andre Martin intercepted a Coyote pass and posted seven
tackles, and linebacker Jamar Thompson led the Panthers in tackles with nine. The win puts UNI at 3-3 overall, while USD fell to 3-4. With a 2-1 conference record, the Panthers are tied for second in the Missouri Valley Football Conference with Indiana State University. Western Illinois University sits atop the conference with a 3-1 MVFC record. UNI will host conference foe Illinois State University next Saturday for a 4:05 p.m. Homecoming match.
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Panthers kick their way to 19-14 victory over South Dakota By TIM GETTING
Sports Writer
University of Northern Iowa place kicker Billy Hallgren produced 13 of the Panthers’ 19 points as UNI topped the University of South Dakota Coyotes 19-14 Saturday at the DakotaDome. The four-for-four field goal performance was a careerhigh for Hallgren, who is also just six points shy of being the school’s all-time scoring leader. Despite fumbling the snap before a potential 40-yard field goal during the game’s opening drive, the UNI field
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Ryan’s Rant
Looking back at Panther legends By RYAN FRIEDERICH
Sports Columnist
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Kansas’ Marcus Morris remained on the floor dejected after the Jayhawks’ 69-67 loss at the hands of the UNI Panthers.
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of you that don’t know me, I get very anxious before sporting events, so that two hours consisted of me pacing around the hotel biting my fingernails. After seeing UNI come away with a hard-fought 69-66 victory over the Runnin’ Rebels of UNLV, I was satisfied with the trip to Oklahoma City. I got to see UNI win their first NCAA Tournament game in 20 years. What more could I ask for? I just hoped UNI would leave it all on the floor two days later when they met up with Kansas. My parents and I spent the next day celebrating the UNI victory (and my mother’s birthday). The day consisted of a tourist trip around the city, but the most memorable part of the day was going to the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. It was very moving experience and being there just gave me goosebumps. It’s a place I recommend stopping to see if you are ever in the area. After our day of touring the city we returned to the hotel to get a good night’s sleep. What we woke up to the next morning was unexpected. There were probably five inches of snow on the ground. Yes, snow! It was nearly 80 degrees the day before and the next day there was snow. Needless to say we didn’t do any sightseeing that day; we just stayed in the hotel and watched other NCAA Tournament games as we waited for the UNI vs. Kansas game at 4:40 p.m. We arrived at the game and as I mentioned before, the Ford Center was packed, particularly with KU fans. I knew if UNI was going to stand a chance at pulling off the upset they would have to jump out to an early lead to take the KU crowd out of the game, and that’s exactly what happened. UNI jumped out to an early 10-2 lead and maintained the lead throughout the first half, taking a 36-28 lead into the locker room.
I remember going up to the third deck of the Ford Center to talk to my parents at halftime. We were all pleased with the outcome so far, but hoped UNI still had some magic left because they were going to need it to hold off the Jayhawks. The second half started and UNI was able withstand KU’s renewed energy coming out of the locker room. It didn’t really hit me until there was about 12 minutes to go in the game and Jake Koch had just hit a three-point shot that put the Panthers up by 12, that UNI could pull off the upset. About that time however, the Jayhawks switched into their full-court press and the UNI lead started to dwindle. I remember feeling sick to my stomach as I watched UNI turn the ball over time and time again. With just 42 seconds remaining UNI held a slim one-point lead. The Panthers had had trouble breaking KU’s press so I was pleased when Kwadzo Ahelegbe got the ball ahead to Ali Farokhmanesh. This was perfect: UNI could hold onto the ball and wait for the Jayhawks to foul them or, worst-case scenario, UNI could take the game clock down to seven seconds remaining and they would still have a one-point lead and a chance to defend a last-second shot attempt from the Jayhawks. Boy was I wrong. Farokhmanesh got the ball and fired a three-pointer. I remember thinking, “What are you doing?” Swish. The ball split the net and I went crazy along with the rest of Panther Nation. I had a Big 12 Conference representative talk to me after the game to remind me that there’s no cheering on press row, but I couldn’t help it. The Panthers went on to seal the game with free throws and knocked off the No. 1-ranked team in the country 69-67. The trip to Oklahoma City was well worth it and it made for a spring break that I will never forget.
Here at the University of Northern Iowa we have found ourselves to be receiving quite a bit of face time in the national media within the past year, mostly thanks to one Ali Farokhmanesh, who last March made millions of grown men cry as they crumpled up their busted brackets and cursed the senior from our fine university. What a lot of our students don’t seem to understand, however, is that Farokhmanesh isn’t the greatest sports figure to ever don the purple and gold. We actually have quite an impressive list of highprofile athletes and coaches that call UNI their alma mater and make, or have made, national headlines on a regular basis. It is no secret that UNI produced its greatest athlete in Kurt Warner, the twotime National Football League MVP and winner of Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000 with the St. Louis Rams. Warner wasn’t exactly the prototypical star here on campus, as he was the thirdstring quarterback until his senior year when he went on to be the Gateway Football Conference Offensive Player of the Year. Warner struggled a little after his days as a Panther, but after a stint with the Iowa Barnstormers and the Amsterdam Admirals he was well on his way to becoming a football legend.
One could argue that his greatest achievement came when he was announced as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, but we will leave that up to personal judgment. Another athlete that competed as a Panther was Joey Woody, a worldclass track star. Woody attended UNI in the late 1990s and won the 400meter hurdles at the 1997 NCAA Championships. The greatest moment of Woody’s professional career came at the 2003 World Championships when he was able to win the silver medal. Although most track athletes dream of running in the Olympics, Woody was only able to place fouth at the qualifying event in 2004. This next man I mention could get me lots of hate mail, but he still had quite an impact at this university. In the mid-1980s our basketball program became the home to a future coaching great, Greg McDermott, the current head coach at Missouri Valley Conference rival Creighton. McDermott, all kidding aside, was a tremendous coach for the Panthers in the 2000s and took our program to a level where it still is today. He left Cedar Falls to go to Ames in 2006, and he found a new home in Omaha back in April. There are plenty of other great athletes that have spent time at UNI, like Bryce Paup, Mike Furrey and Terry Allen. Unfortunately I have
a limit to how long this Rant can be, otherwise I would be filling the whole sports section with other notable non-athletic alums such as Pamela Levy (AmericanIsraeli artist) and Phyllis Somerville, who played Wilma in “Over Here!” (a wonderful production I just learned about after reading the Wikipedia article on Phyllis Somerville). We really do have an exceptional list of alumni at this university, and hopefully we can keep on poppin’ them out. Until we find our next Phyllis Somerville, go Panthers!
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Kurt Warner helped lead the St. Louis Rams to a thrilling 23-16 victory over the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV. Warner was named Super Bowl MVP for his performance. Warner completed 24 of his 45 pass attempts for 414 yards and two touchdowns.
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Vandenabeele, Lageschulte lead UNI at Bradley Classic NI NEWS SERVICE
The University of Northern Iowa cross country teams were led by sophomore Thibault Vandenabeele and junior Jill Lageschulte at the Bradley Classic held at Newman Golf Course on Friday afternoon. Eighteen Panthers recorded personal-best times in the meet. The UNI men’s team claimed fifth place out of the 21 teams competing in the event. The Panthers topped Missouri Valley Conference rivals Drake, Illinois State and Bradley, and trailed only Southern Illinois from the conference ranks. UNI totaled 168 points on the men’s side. Iowa
won the team title with 67 points. Vandenabeele placed 17th with an 8K time of 24:45. His time was good enough to improve his previous personal best in the 8K by three seconds, which came at the Bradley Classic in 2009. Sophomore Brett Egan also posted a personal-best time, taking 18th place with a time of 24:46. Junior Alex Mark was the third Panther finisher in 25:13 for 40th place. Aaron Vosberg took 46th place in 25:19 and Brady Fritz placed 53rd in 25:25. In all, 10 out of 11 UNI men set new personal records in the 8K. The UNI women’s team finished in 11th place out of 20 teams with a team score of 237. Iowa State
won the women’s team title with 69 points. Eight Panthers clocked new personal-best times in the 6K. Lageschulte led the Panthers, finishing in 27th place with a personal-best 6K time of 22:17. Carly Olsen placed 46th, clocking in at 22:42. Holly Tjaden and Hayley Thomas took 51st and 53rd, respectively. Scotti Schon rounded out the scoring in 67th place. UNI will compete next at the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships. The meet is being hosted by Wichita State University and will be run at the RAFT Golf Course in Augusta, Kan., on Sat., Oct. 30.
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(Not so) warm welcome back, Black Hawks fall to Dubuque 6-4
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The Waterloo Black Hawks returned home to Young Arena but lost to the Dubuque Fighting Saints 6-4.
By DUSTIN WOODY Sports Writer
The Dubuque Fighting Saints and the Waterloo Black Hawks didn’t exactly get along the last time Dubuque was in the United States Hockey League, and Saturday’s game was no exception. Several big hits and a total of 10 goals between the teams led to a loss for the Black Hawks, who currently sit in a sixthplace tie with the Indiana Ice in the USHL’s Eastern Conference. The Black Hawks (2-20) came into Saturday’s game fresh off a road win Friday night in Lincoln, 5-3. This score was identical to Waterloo’s win the previous Saturday. The Black Hawks’ firstyear forward Tyson Fulton feels that this is a good momentum-starter. “It’s always good getting a road win, and it’s even bigger to win our first on the road,” said Fulton.
“I think it gave us some confidence in our offense, because we put five goals in and offense was the biggest question of our club. I think this game showed that if we play the systems and do the little things, we will be able to win more games, and this defiantly made our mood change into, ‘We can be one of the top teams in the league.’ ” In Saturday’s home game versus Dubuque, the visitors were on the board first and let the Black Hawks hold the lead for just 11 seconds the entire game. Dubuque’s Tyler Lundey beat Jay Williams at the 2:33 mark of the first period, accepting a pass across the front of the net. Waterloo’s Tyler Zepeda scored while the team was shorthanded at the 15:51 mark of the first period to tie the game. Dubuque would add two quick goals in the second, with Zemgus Girgensons and Scott See BLACK HAWKS, page 16
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Wamzganz scoring at the 11:04 mark and the 11:21 mark, respectively. Waterloo marched back quickly, however, as Alex Guptil added two scores, at the 15:29 mark and 17:17 mark, to tie the game at 3-3 going into the final period. At 12:16 in the third period, Tyson Fulton notched a goal to pull the Black Hawks ahead, but the Fighting Saints’ Riley Barber put in two goals at the 12:27 mark and 13:51 mark to put the visitors ahead for good. Girgensons scored an empty-net goal at 19:35 to cap off the scoring, sending the Black Hawks to .500 on the season after a 6-4 defeat. Until Saturday’s game, the Black Hawks hadn’t faced Dubuque this year. Fulton offered his insight on how the team ought to better prepare for their next meeting. “The next time we play Dubuque, we first off have to come out ready to play. Giving up a goal in the first five minutes at home allows the road team to gain huge momentum. For our next game, I would say we need to use our speed and play more physical. We just need to keep it simpler by doing the little
SPORTS things.” Saturday’s game was the last home game in October. The Black Hawks kick off a three-game road set this coming Friday in Green Bay. Fulton offered his opinion on how his mindset would be different, as well as the team’s. “It’s going to be a little different; we know that playing on the road is tough. This is really going to be a tough test for this team. We’re going to have to really focus and battle through adversity. It will be huge to get road wins and then come back with momentum in our barn in November. I believe if we do this we could really take off.”
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“The next time we play Dubuque, we first off have to come out ready to play.” Tyson Fulton Waterloo Black Hawks Forward
Waterloo’s next home game is Nov. 5 versus the Youngstown Phantoms. Waterloo plays again at home on Nov. 6 versus the Chicago Steel. These nights are college nights, where any college student can get any seat in Young Arena for just $7.
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