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Discovery Channel to feature UNI’s STEM initiatives UNI ON THE PROFILES SERIES When: Friday, Oct. 21 Time: 6 a.m. Central time BLAKE FINDLEY Staff Writer

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Phase I of Panther Village, seen above, will open in the fall of 2012. Phase I includes 204 bedrooms in about 60 apartments.

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anther Village, an on-campus apartment complex for University of Northern Iowa juniors and seniors, will open in the fall of 2012. Larson Construction Co., Inc. is currently working on Phase I, which consists of 204 bedrooms in about 60 apartments. Phase II has recently begun construction and will be ready for students in the fall of 2013.

“This is all designed so that if there is a lot of demand for

these apartments, we can build a Phase III, which will be another 200 and some bedrooms and a Phase IV can be on the west side,” said Joe Tripp-Rieks, construction project manager for Panther Village. “If this is the type of housing that students want and the demand is there for it, it’s set up so it’s easily expanded.”

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An employee of Larson Construction Co., Inc. works on a kitchen in one of the apartments in Phase I of Panther Village.

‘OCCUPY’ MOVEMENT

Protesters camped out in Overman Park RACHEL ZIDON Staff Writer

October’s chilly weather hasn’t stopped some University of Northern Iowa students and members of the Cedar Falls community from protesting corporate greed in downtown Cedar Falls.

Since Oct. 15, protesters have been camped out across from City Hall in Overman Park as part of a growing Occupy

Cedar Valley movement, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began this September.

So far, the protesters have not encountered problems with the city of Cedar Falls.

They said that next week, city officials will decide if they will allow protesters to remain in the park for a more extended period.

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Protesters in the Occupy Cedar Valley movement camp out at Overman Park Oct. 15.

CIty officials will decide next week if the protesters will be allowed to stay in the park for a more extended period.

The University of Northern Iowa’s work on science and mathematics initiatives have earned it a segment on the Discovery Channel.

The network will feature the university’s work in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in a half-hour special edition of the Profiles Series, hosted by actor Louis Gossett, Jr, on Oct. 21 at 6 a.m. Central time.

Chad Heinzel, chair of UNI’s STEM Education committee, explained that one reason for the TV segment is that UNI recently signed on to a statewide committee with the Iowa governor’s office. UNI president Benjamin Allen serves on the committee, as co-chair with Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds.

“The committee is working to increase exposure of science, technology, engineering and math to the community,” Heinzel said.

“The program will hopefully get the word out there and possibly get people interested in education.”

Heinzel said this exposure will get more people talking about UNI and STEM. It will also help with UNI’s goal of increasing learning in the STEM areas both on and off campus.

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Details regarding dates, candidates and times will be shared as campaigns confirm their attendance. The forums are free and open to the public, and will be recorded and broadcast statewide on Iowa Public Radio.

The forum will include a 30-minute statement from each candidate on his/her education platform and priorities for early childhood through postsecondary education, followed by a series of education-related questions from the audience.

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According to Heinzel, one of the STEM initiatives is to partner high school teachers with various businesses associated with STEM education.

“This gives teachers more real-world application to take back to the students when they ask the question ‘When will I ever need this?’” Heinzel said.

“This increases student motivation.”

Heinzel also said there has been a campus-wide effort to foster people’s interest in the STEM causes, with students and faculty from fine arts, the College of Business, education and political science all making an effort to contribute.

“Anything we can do to increase science and math literacy in the general public is a worthy cause,” Heinzel said.

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“Hopefully UNI will be a model for the rest of the nation to look to in regards to STEM initiatives,” Heinzel said.

In a video on the provost’s website, Dean Watson, Dean of the College of Education, talked about the need for teachers to integrate the STEM areas into the classroom, regardless of the subject material being taught. He emphasized the need to connect students to the real world using the STEM areas.

“We start with a person in kindergarten who has this sort of mathematical and science propensity. And we begin to nurture that and cultivate that throughout their elementary, middle and high school years.

Then they have this sort of amazing wonder about STEM education,” Watson said in the video. “These are the people we want to cultivate and move into the science and math fields and possibly into the science and mathematic teaching fields.”

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and a meeting room. It also has a “green” rubber roof that is filled with layers of plants and landings to add an extra layer of insulation to prevent heat loss and to help with rainwater runoff.

“We have this really great continuity of housing experiences now where students can start out in a double room in the dorm, make their way into a single, move up to ROTH and then move into a place like Panther Village,” said Pat Beck, assistant director of residence. “So there are lots of different options for students to live right on campus and gets lots of different types of living experiences.”

Unlike ROTH, Panther Village offers only private rooms with up to four people in each apartment.

Each apartment has a floor-to-ceiling window that first catches the eye. In addition, the rooms have airconditioning, bedroom and liv-

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On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center will host Susan Retik, cofounder of “Beyond the 11th,” a nonprofit organization that provides assistance and training to widows in Afghanistan.

Retik, a recipient of the 2010 Citizens Medal, will present “The Afghanistan Widows Project: A Constructive Response to 9/11” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. She will give a keynote speech as well as show scenes from the 2006 documentary “Beyond Belief ” about the group’s work in Afghanistan.

Since its inception, the group has offered supplies such as flocks of chickens and building materials for women’s centers, and has trained women in business and literacy in the hopes that they may be able to provide for themselves and their families.

Gerri Perreault, associate professor and director of leadership studies, helped bring Retik to the University of Northern Iowa campus.

Perreault first read about Retik’s organization through a Sept. 8, 2010 article in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof.

“I was so inspired,” Perreault said. “I am always awestruck by people who can turn their grief into something constructive. While our country was bombing Afghanistan, they were helping out the widows.”

The event is sponsored by UNI’s Reaching for Higher Ground series, which is exploring the theme “Community after 9/11” this year.

Perreault explained that Retik and her organization fit perfectly in the idea of moving forward.

“We need to surface such images of the goodness of humankind amidst the awfulness that is all around us,” Perreault said.

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community member Nathan Emerson said that although he does not expect the occupation of Overman Park to create change in and of itself, he hopes it will draw people’s attention to issues of economic inequality.

“This is just putting light on our situation,” Emerson said of the protests.

Emerson said that he is protesting for increased government regulation of corporations.

“There’s no consequences now ... We need more regu-

ing room furniture, two bathrooms and appliances, such as a dishwasher, microwave and refrigerator.

Panther Village is right next to the Piazza dining center and includes services and utilities such as ResNet, WiFi and cable.

It is still being decided whether the entryways will require a key or a card. The cost of living in Panther Village is also still under consideration.

“Prices haven’t been set yet, but they examine what everyone else is charging and what the value of this is,” Beck said.

“And it’s right on campus, and the construction is going to provide the comfort and durability that is exceptional.”

Prices will be announced in January. Students can begin contracting for Phase I of Panther Village at that time.

The architecture of the building is brick and cast stone, which matches the rest of the campus buildings. A huge courtyard in the shape of a U will connect Phases I lation,” Emerson said. “The government is here to protect the people.”

Jessica Garraway, a sophomore political communication major, helped plan the protest and said that she wants to see less government support for banks and corporations and more funding for other issues.

“I’m angry that we could bail the banks out, but innercity schools don’t have money for books, and we don’t bail them out,” Garraway said.

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Construction on Phase II of Panther Village, seen above, has begun and will be completed by the fall of 2013.

and II while also providing a landscape.

“The difference between this and other apartments is that a lot of apartments around town are wood frames,” Tripp-Rieks said. “This is all solid concrete planks and block walls, so it’s built just like all other buildings on campus with a long duration of about 50 to 75 years.”

Each resident should be able to have on-site parking

right next to Panther Village.

The parking pass type for the 550 new parking spots is yet to be determined.

The developers are using the green, certified building rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for the Panther Village. To make the apartment complex as energyefficient as possible, features such as in-room recycling will be added.

“That really shows our priorities.”

Josie Larson, a worker at MyVerona and a protester at Overman, said that she and others in the park have been well received by other community members.

“We’ve gotten a lot of support (from the community).

People have donated food and money,” she said.

Nick Dempsey, a junior political science major and organizer of the movement,

said that he has seen increasing support for the movement, both on Facebook and in the park. Dempsey added that a number of people have committed to remaining in the park until “it’s unhealthy to do so.”

Beginning this week, the Occupy Cedar Valley movement will hold weekly meetings open to the public on Sundays at the Wesley Foundation from 5 to 6 p.m.

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Protestors march to Overman Park last Saturday as part of the Occupy Cedar Valley movement. Members of the movement have been camping out in the park since the march.

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s most of us know, there is a nationwide movement to “occupy.” Modeled after the original Occupy Wall Street protests, cities across the country are staging demonstrations to fight against social inequality and how corporations have such a STEF MCGRAW large influence on politics. mcgraws@uni.edu Cedar Falls is no exception — according to the Oct. 17 issue of the Northern Iowan, 200 University of Northern Iowa students and community members marched and involved in Occupy Cedar Valley participating in this? protested this past Saturday, and the Occupy Cedar Valley Just think of the impact these phone banks could have if Facebook group has indicated that many more are camp- even 20 percent of the Occupy protesters joined in. In this heavily financed and consequening out all this week in Overman tial election, making direct calls Park. to voters is vital to ensuring the On an ideological basis, I comIowa Senate doesn’t turn against pletely support the movement. working families.

I too am fed up with corporate This type of slacktivism on UNI’s greed and corruption, and take I’m sick and tired of people campus is nothing new; LGBT issue with the wide economic suddenly being ‘activists’ activism group One Iowa at UNI disparity between the wealthiest saw something similar occur last 1 percent and the rest of the when it’s the popular thing year. While hundreds of stuAmerican people. to do and involves very dents made it a priority to protest However, I’m disturbed by against Westboro Baptist Church abundance of slacker activism, or little effort. and their hateful message, sud“slacktivism,” that seems to be denly everyone became “too busy” present in the movement. While to phone bank, register students people will come out in droves to to vote or even do something as participate in something where non-confrontational as data entry. they can be seen publicly and don’t In addition, while One Iowa and the Occupy movement have to do much real work, they neglect to maintain their activist spirit where they don’t get as much credit and have fight for different things, there is an enormous overlap of supportive people, and the decision of many to attend to get their hands dirty.

In addition to protesting, the student group UNI – Occupy Cedar Valley protests instead of phone banks has Students for Working Families, which is directly involved affected One Iowa as well as UNI - Students for Working in Occupy Cedar Valley, holds phone banks for the upcom- Families.

I’m sick and tired of people suddenly being “activists” ing Senate District 18 special election in order to try and when it’s the popular thing to do and involves very little maintain the pro-working family majority.

According to the organization’s president, Nick effort. These people, in reality, are hardly deserving of the Dempsey, around eight students attend each of these title; the real activists are the ones who get serious and do phone banks. While that attendance can make for a very the hard, dirty work, even when there’s very little visibilproductive phone bank, why aren’t all 200 “activists” ity.

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echnology has once again given us another reason to sit in front of iPods, iPads and other Star-Trek-esque facsimiles of handheld computers: Apple recently announced the release of iCloud.

I have nothing against the iCloud itself, but the release of this new data-holding discovery made me think back to my last article. I was observing how only students were making the crossover to the digital world, and it made me recall an article in my local newspaper about how Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids had bought a virtual island in SecondLife. Now they use it to teach classes and advertise their SecondLife presence on their website.

If there is an entire college implementing SecondLife, how far did its influence reach?

First we must ask: What is SecondLife? It is a world where an avatar (not related to the James Cameron movie, sorry) represents one’s presence in the online world.

You walk around digital Creation and do daily life activities. People who play games like League of Legends, Minecraft and World of Warcraft use similar environments.

Despite the similarities, it is not a game in the least or about gamer concepts like “pharming gold” or “grinding experience points.” There are people on SecondLife who just do everyday things like live in a virtual house, read a virtual newspaper or drink virtual coffee. The imitation of real life does not stop with e-suburbs, either. There is an economic system set up in the world that translates real U.S. dollars to Linden Dollars and vice versa.

I realize the concept sounds nihilistic. Fans of Plato may also be outraged by this gluttonous mimesis. I got into the virtual fray for a while myself when I bought a parcel of SecondLife computer-generated land from a friend in Ames. The former data for housing had not been reset yet. For a week, I got to enjoy “living” in a virtual two-story tea garden house sporting a Patriots flag on my front porch from the previous owner.

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In response to “Against behaviorism” As an aspiring social scientist, I feel the need to correct a few points in Greg Greubel’s newest opinion article entitled “Against behaviorism.” My principle concern is that Greubel dismisses entire branches of scientific endeavor, apparently for no other reason than the personal discomfort he feels with the idea that human behavior could be reliably predicted. I want to examine briefly why predictability is not the death of humanity as I see it.

Greubel’s fear of behavioral sciences is misplaced.

The predictability of human behavior is not necessarily a bad thing. Character traits could not exist without predictability, because character traits result in behavioral tendencies (which are by definition predictable).

If behavior were unpredictable, no one behavior would be more likely than any other at a given time.

Who among us actually wants a completely unpredictable airline pilot at

30,000 feet? How would the complete opacity of human behavior change our feelings about our hunting buddies or even the police officer on the corner?

I also take issue with Greubel’s use of the term behaviorism to describe these sciences. Behaviorism is a mostly extinct psychological paradigm that operates under the assumption that consciousness is an illusion and that behavior is the only aspect of humanity worth studying. There is no need to denigrate an entire college at UNI (the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences) over a largely expired theoretical framework within psychology.

Finally, I’ll add that Greubel’s dislike for the idea that behavior can be predicted has no bearing on the legitimacy of any scientific discipline. Existential discomfort is not a reliable indicator of bad science.

Cory Derringer Senior sociology and psychology major

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information, it is best to just visit SecondLife.com. How far does this mimesis extend?

Recall my example from last time of traveling to faraway

Any single item when you come in and join SPIRIT’s Secret Society

lands: You’re on your way to a new continent as an immigrant to a new country.

Why not buy some land and become a settler? Use your wits to gain money or start a business and see just how far down the rabbit hole goes.

Any single item when you come in and join SPIRIT’s Secret Society

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I love getting dressed up on the weekend and going out in dresses and skirts, but my boyfriend hates it and recently told me I’m “not allowed” to wear anything revealing. Am I in the wrong for wanting to wear what everyone else is or is he just being way too controlling?

Have a relationship question? Send it to northern-iowan@uni.edu.

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He said: This is going to be fun!

Well… huh, this one is a tough one to go at blindly.

Are you wearing dresses and skirts when you go out or a fraction of those? Clearly your boyfriend thinks you are being too revealing in your appearance. Either you aren’t wearing hardly anything out there (which, hopefully not; have you been outside lately?

Freezing!) or your boyfriend has control/jealousy issues.

Again, tough for me to pinpoint, but before you write him off as another controlling madman, take into consideration what you are wearing. Stand in his shoes for a minute. If you were a guy,

would you want your girlfriend wearing what you are wearing? If the answer is a wholehearted no, well, I’d say you’d have your answer.

In your question, you mentioned you are dressing how everyone else does. I hope you just mean that in a comparing sense and aren’t just blindly following trends. If that is the case, I’d be inclined to side with your boyfriend just for the sake of helping you be your own person. Unrelated question: how do you girls wear that little on the weekends in October and not be freezing or wind up with a cold the next day? That has always baffled me.

No matter what the situa-

tion is for this, you both need to talk about it. He can’t just demand that you stay in – I do agree that is a controlling behavior. With that, don’t just go out with skimpier stuff on in defiance. A serious adult conversation needs to go down about this. He should voice his opinions and feelings about your weekend endeavors and you should voice yours; try to find a common understanding. I won’t lie – it will probably be an awkward conversation. Nonetheless, it has to happen. I hope you both figure it out.

She said: The second your boyfriend tells you you’re “not allowed”

to do something, that should send up red flags in every direction. He could express his feelings to you about wearing revealing clothing, but to tell you that you aren’t allowed to wear it is simply controlling and ridiculous.

He wouldn’t appreciate it if you went around telling him what he wasn’t allowed to do. Who would like that?

Nobody wants their life to be controlled by anybody but themselves. This includes you — don’t for one second think that you ever have to obey his rules based on what he allows you to do.

As I mentioned before, he could tell you that he doesn’t appreciate it when you wear

skirts because you look way too good to be going out in public, but it should never be something he’s seriously concerned with. If he thinks you’re a respectable woman at all, then he should know that even though you’re wearing a short skirt, it doesn’t mean you’re going to run around revealing your naked body or make suggestive gestures to other men.

While clothes say a lot about your personality and they are a huge factor in first impressions, it doesn’t mean that wearing a dress says you’re “asking for it,” especially if everyone else is wearing them too. He’s See RELATIONSHIP, page 7

Seeing through the eyes of the blind

Students experience blindness for National Disability Month

CAITIE PETERSON Staff Writer

Jessica Trumbull was about to have her eyes opened to a world entirely different from her own -- as soon as she put on a blindfold.

“Can you imagine living in a world you can’t see? How you have to figure out a map in your head to figure things out?” Haley Minear asked Trumbull.

Minear, a junior math education major, acted as a trainer to Trumbull, a sophomore elementary education major, during a workshop called “In My Shoes,” which included a blindness simulation and discussion.

The simulation took place in the College Eye Room in Maucker Union and was followed by a discussion led by University of Northern Iowa graduate Brianna Gowen, who has been legally blind since age 15.

To experience how visually impaired people travel from point A to point B, participants were first taught how to use a white cane and then blindfolded.

Minear showed Trumbull how to hold the cane palm up at belt-buckle height and how to use just the wrist to swing it back and forth to tap the ground. Minear then had Trumbull

find her way – blindfolded – out of the door and into the hallway.

Trumbull hesitated a bit at first, moving slowly and apologizing for hitting people in the legs with her cane. She quickly discovered how to tell what she was hitting based on the sound the objects made when tapped with her cane.

“It was weird at first to try to figure out how to use the cane. It was a lot of wrist work and a lot of work to figure out where things were and how to avoid them,” Trumbull said.

Once she was out of the room, Minear told her to find a trash can at the end of the hallway.

On her way, Trumbull ended up walking side-by-side with another participant, but neither seemed to notice this. After getting stuck in a corner for a while, Trumbull found the trash can and was instructed to find a drinking fountain at the other end of the hallway and get a drink from it.

On the way, Minear taught her how to “shoreline,” or make sure she hit the wall on every other tap with her cane to ensure she was walking a straight line. Once she got to the general area of the fountain, Trumbull almost ran into another participant and the two had to coordinate how to get around each other in their quest for the fountain. When Trumbull found the fountain, Minear instructed her to put a

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Brianna Gowen, a UNI graduate who has been legally blind since 15, talks to John Coffelt, junior English major, as he participates in the simulation.

finger in the stream of water to gauge how high the water was before she bent over for a drink.

Once Trumbull had successfully completed the tasks in the hallway, Minear told her to find the elevator

and head upstairs to the main floor of Maucker. There, Trumbull used the shorelining technique to prevent herself from entering a forest of tables and chairs and make her way around the perimeter of Maucker. She knew when she had gone too far and ended up in the bathroom area because of the feel of the smaller tiles under her cane.

Trumbull made her way up a ramp and over to Chats, and after that got turned around several times near Veridian Credit Union while trying to find the ramp that would lead her back to the elevator. She grew frustrated when she found herself behind the bulletin pillar, then near the stairs leading up and out of the Union, then back behind the pillar again.

“Dang it,” said Trumbull, “I’m definitely gonna find this ramp!”

And find it she did. She made her way down to the elevator, where a game of how-many-blindfoldedpeople-can-we-get-in-the-elevatorbefore-the-doors-close was played.

Participants then made their last journey down the hallway and into the College Eye Room, where they were allowed to remove their blindfolds.

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Iowa’s largest craft show concludes its 21st year at the UNI-Dome that specializes in soy candles.

Other items available included furniture, jewelry, holiday decorative items, yard art, clothing and homemade salsa, dips and soup mixes.

Betty Gerke, the artist behind Artist’s Clay, spent a fifth year at the craft show selling her handmade Christmas tree ornaments. Gerke thinks

the craft show is “really great,” and she continues to come back year after year because of the people.

“I enjoy the people. The people are wonderful,” said Gerke.

Kelsey Schwager and Lindsay Ellis, seniors at University of Northern Iowa, attended the craft show for a

second year in a row.

“Some things are affordable for college students,” Schwager said. “And it’s great for Christmas ideas.”

Ellis said that “it’s a great place to get creative ideas.”

Not only Cedar Falls residents attend – Schwager said that last year, her mom drove all the way from Davenport for

the craft show. The vendors come from all over the state as well.

The craft show is the largest in the state of Iowa. Thousands of items are available, and the $6 admission fee is nearly canceled out by the abundance of food samples. The craft show will return next year.

all wearing pretty much the same thing, you’re the only one who other guys are going to try to hit on. That may be the case, but he should have a little more confidence in your

relationship.

I would like to say that he’s just worried about someone else noticing how beautiful you are, but I feel as though he’s taking it too far. He

seems quite controlling and as though he wants to have power over your life. Let him know that you make your own decisions and you will wear what you want to wear. Also,

keep in mind that it’s not normal to have a guy tell you what you can and cannot wear, or for that matter, what you can and cannot do.

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Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman, left) gives instructions to Atom in DreamWorks Pictures’ action drama “Real Steel.”

main floor of Maucker. What frustrated Trumbull the most were “things being in the way, like cluttered areas. I found it annoying when I found myself stuck in a corner” and “trying to find things and going past them and having to backtrack.”

Trumbull feels that UNI does a fairly good job with making campus accessible, “but there are little things that make it less accessible, like in the elevator. They obviously rushed people to get in, and in buildings, it’s more convenient to use the stairs than the elevator.” Trumbull thinks UNI should put more ramps in buildings to make everything more accessible.

Other reflections among the group included feeling anxious the entire time and becoming disoriented while walking about. After the reflections, Gowen told the group about her personal experience with discovering she had Stargardt’s, a juvenile form of macular degeneration, at age 13.

Gowen went through an identity crisis because she wanted to be, and felt a lot of pressure to be, sighted.

She told of how she would hide her blindness from those around her until she attended a training school for the blind in Minnesota at age 23. It was there that she accepted

her diverse ability, and she now takes her own cane with her everywhere and does not neglect using her assistive technology when she needs it.

“Eighty percent of visually impaired people in the US still have some sight,” Gowen said. “What you can see is not cookie-cuttered.”

Gowen explained that some people can only see through narrow tunnels, some can only see through their peripheral vision and still others simply see spots. She also shared information about the different classes she took at her training school, including wood shop.

“When you hear ‘blind people’ and ‘wood shop’ you think ‘well, that doesn’t sound good,’” said Gowen, “but my school has never had an accident, and it’s been open since the ‘30s.”

A major point of discussion at the event was that new practice based on stem cells is being tested to stop and maybe even reverse the effects of Stargardt’s. Gowen is not glad about this news, and is in fact insulted by it. She says that “fixing” the effects of Stargardt’s is like saying there is something wrong with being blind when there is not.

“Would you ask someone to bleach their skin so they could ‘fit in’?” asked Gowen.

“It’s not a disability. I’ve never felt like I can’t do something.”

KIRSTEN TJOSSEM Entertainment Writer

The UNI-Dome held its 21st Annual Arts and Crafts show on Oct. 15 and 16. Hundreds of people took advantage of the two-day event’s 300-plus exhibitors, ranging from homemade dog treats to Soy in the Cities, a Cedar Rapids business

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probably thinking that you’re going to stand out above the rest and even though you’re

‘Real Steel’ is pretty basic; also, has robots

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ALEX TOFT Film Critic

I left “Real Steel” feeling a bit confused. No, not confused, more nonplussed. My reaction included such thoughts as, “yes, I have just seen a movie; it had robots” and “robots are cool,” but I couldn’t drum up any strong thoughts about the movie at all.

That isn’t to say that I wasn’t satisfied with the movie.

In fact, I was given everything I was promised: there were robots, and said robots did indeed box one another.

How ready a viewer is to run with that premise will probably go a long way toward their enjoyment of the film.

“Real Steel” isn’t a bad movie; it’s just an average one that relies on the spectacle of boxing robots to make up for how basic it is.

“Real Steel” takes place in the near future, where boxing as a human sport has died out, and has been instead replaced by the much more popular Robot Boxing League. On the bottom rung of this league is former boxer and gambling addict Charlie Keaton (Hugh Jackman), who is in debt up to his eyeballs and just had his last fighting robot demolished by an angry bull in an exhibition match at a county fair.

Now, strapped for cash and on the run from his gambling

debts, Charlie is notified that his ex-girlfriend is dead, leaving him with custody of their son, Max (Dakota Goyo), whom Charlie has never actually met, nor ever really wanted to.

In order to unload his son and cover his debts, he makes a deal with the boy’s wealthy aunt and uncle (Hope Davis and James Rebhorn) to effectively “sell” him into their custody for $100,000, enough to pay off his creditors and buy a new robot.

The only catch is that the aunt and uncle will be vacationing in Tuscany for the summer, and Charlie is going to have to watch Max until they return.

However, when Max begins to show some talent with robots and a surprisingly shrewd business sense, they begin rebuilding Charlie’s career with a new robot found in a junkyard. Also, Evangeline Lilly is there to look gorgeous as Charlie’s love interest and daughter of his former (human) boxing coach.

Looking back over that synopsis, one might note that “Real Steel” actually sounds like it would be a good movie. To be honest, the main story – the relationship between Charlie and Max – is fairly good.

Jackman and Goyo do a great job of hating and then gradually warming up to one another, and Goyo, to his credit, does a great job of not being too cute. He might get screechy

occasionally, and he has to say some truly terrible lines, but he pulls them off pretty well. The acting in general is good, if not better than the movie requires.

What “Real Steel” really suffers from is its premise and its writing. There were some good decisions made in the storytelling and the script (one of the best, perhaps being not calling the movie “Reel Steel,” and you know that had to have come up in a production meeting), but there were problems with the logic of the robots and the league that were never explained or perhaps never even totally thought out.

The elements of the plot that were thought out, especially the “populist hero” aspect of so many boxing films, are highlighted almost garishly.

To its credit, “Real Steel” is a movie that really is “about something,” and you won’t have any trouble figuring what that is.

I think that this is the crux of what makes “Real Steel” such an underwhelming film – it underestimates viewers’ intelligence. I don’t think this was done on purpose; instead, I think it was the decision to have Shawn Levy, the director of such children’s films as “Night at the Museum” and “Cheaper by the Dozen,” take on a project that was aimed at an older audience.

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#2 PANTHERS VS. SALUKIS Black out the Dome: UNI prepares for MVFC rival SIU

(5-1, 4-0 MVFC)

WHEN: 3 P.M.

(2-4, 1-3 MVFC)

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Despite being 2-4 overall and just 1-3 in Missouri Valley Football Conference play, the Southern Illinois University Salukis will have confidence coming into this weekend’s matchup with the No. 2-ranked University of Northern Iowa Panthers in the UNI-Dome.

While UNI has a narrow lead in the all-time series (1514), SIU has won the past three meetings between the two MVFC rivals, including last year’s 45-38 overtime thriller in Carbondale, Ill. When these two rivals take the field Saturday at 3 p.m., as a fan, you can be assured of some good football. Seven of the past eight meetings having been decided by seven points or less.

While SIU is tied for seventh place in the nine-team MVFC, UNI head coach Mark Farley

knows that SIU still poses a threat to his first place team. “(SIU has) got 13 returning starters from last year. They’ve picked up five transfers, both of their (running backs) are back from last year and they picked up Jewel Hampton (from the University of Iowa),” said Farley. “SIU is always sound and they beat us last year.”

The play of UNI senior quarterback Tirrell Rennie has been one of the main reasons UNI has been so successful this year, and why they possess the No. 2 ranking in the Football Championship Subdivision. “(Tirrell) is very comfortable in our system right now. He has really put the extra effort in to how he prepares and he is really making good decisions and quick decisions, and he is throwing a great football right now,” said Farley.

At this time last year, UNI was 3-3 (2-1 MVFC) and had

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turned the ball over 17 times.

This year, the Panthers have turned the ball over just five times through six games. Rennie is completing 60.3 percent of his passes and has compiled nine passing touchdowns against no interceptions. He also has five rushing touchdowns to go along with no fumbles.

The UNI defense has also done a stellar job this season, keeping teams out of the endzone and forcing turnovers. The Panthers have the No. 2 scoring defense in the FCS, allowing just 13.8 points per game this season. UNI is also No. 2 in the FCS in turnover margin per game (+2.5), having forced 20 turnovers and having given up the ball just five times.

However, the Panthers may be without their preseason AllAmerican defensive lineman Ben Boothby for Saturday’s See FOOTBALL, page 10

VOLLEYBALL

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SCOTT KINTZEL/Northern Iowan Archives

The last time UNI “blacked out” the UNI-Dome was Sept. 12, 2009. UNI defeated South Dakota 66-7. Current UNI running back Carlos Anderson (1) had 27 of UNI’s 234 rushing yards that day.

SOCCER

UNI women’s soccer team defeats USD 2-0

No. 11 UNI defeats NDSU in five sets

ALEX MILLER Sports Writer

MAT MEYER Sports Writer

The No. 11-ranked University of Northern Iowa volleyball team hosted a non-conference matchup against North Dakota State University on Monday evening in the McLeod Center.

The teams kept fanson their feet as both sides fought all the way to the end of the fifth set and then some.

It was the Panthers who eventually came out on top, with scores of 25-13, 19-25, 25-21, 23-25 and 20-18 to take the match 3-2.

Despite all of the struggles that UNI (20-1) went through, the team still had some remarkable individual performances. Michele Burow recorded a career high 24 kills. She was complemented by four other

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UNI senior setter Bre Payton (2) tied a career high with 63 assists against NDSU Monday night in the McLeod Center.

Panthers who reached double figures in kills, including 13 from both Amy Braun and Shelby Kintzel. Bre Payton tied her career high for assists with 63 set-ups to her teammates. Braun and Candice Burke also did their part on the defensive end, recording 24 digs apiece.

The first set was quickly taken by the Panthers, who seemed to catch NDSU (168) off guard. UNI jumped out to a 10-4 lead and never looked back from there.

With the Panthers leading 24-13, it was Payton with the service ace to finish off the first set 25-13.

“I think we had a lot of high expectations for how the rest of the game was going to go,” commented Payton on the emotions after the first set. “It didn’t go quite as well as we had planned.”

The Bison came out with something to prove in the See VOLLEYBALL, page 10

The University of Northern Iowa women’s soccer team defeated the University of South Dakota 2-0 in Vermillion, S.D., this past Monday. The Panthers got their first goal after just two minutes of play on a chip shot by Melissa Hagan to put them up 1-0.

UNI (7-7-2, 2-2-0 MVC) managed to get a second goal in the 28th minute after an own goal by the Coyotes, putting the Panthers up 2-0.

Strong defense by the Panthers rendered the remainder of the game goalless. Overall, UNI shot sevenof-14 while the Coyotes shot five-of-11. Melissa Hagan put three shots on frame while tallying four shots total, one of which was the goahead goal. Nicole Rondeau, Charlotte Jones and Kelsey

Dodler also added a shot each.

South Dakota (1-11-3) outshot UNI in the second half 9-3, but the Coyotes were unable to squeak one past UNI goalkeeper Lauren Potzmann.

Tough goalkeeping by Potzmann and Erin Zaideman helped the Panthers secure their fourth straight victory.

Potzmann had three saves and Zaideman added two as well. USD recorded five saves for the game.

UNI also took four corners throughout the course of the game compared to none for the Coyotes. The Panthers also had three fouls each half, whereas South Dakota had three for the game.

The Panthers return to action Saturday as they travel to Springfield, Mo., to take on the Missouri State University Bears. The game is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

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NBA Lockout

training; I don’t think he could just walk in Sports Columnist and be a star), but he is not the player I most want to see switch sports.

There has been a lot written about the Kobe Bryant, who is probably the closNational Basketball Association lockout est player we will see to Michael Jordan in going on right now. Everyone and their a while, is always trying to one-up Jordan, favorite blogger has expressed their opinion and what better way to do that than playing on who is to blame for the stalemate, how to baseball in the Arizona Fall League? If he fix it and who is probably going to get the can hit higher than .252 (Jordan’s average) raw end of the deal (probably the currently playing for the Scottsdale Scorpions, I will overpaid mid-level players). crown him as the better athIf you are looking for lete of the two, even though business analysis and savvy Bryant is still one championstrategies on how I would ship behind Jordan. fix the lockout and be the

Other players will hero of the sports world, have no trouble staying busy you have come to the wrong during the lockout. Kris place, even though I have Humphries will have plenty had more business educaof time to play house with tion than Lebron James, Kim Kardashian. Ron Artest Kobe Bryant and Kevin (or Metta World Peace if Garnett combined. On secyou prefer) will have time ond thought, maybe I should to put together a new rap be trying to help these guys album. Perhaps he can colnegotiate a new collective Courtesy Photo/MCT/Al Diaz/Miami Herald laborate with Tony Parker. bargaining agreement.

I will be the first to downMiami Heat forward Lebron James Anyway, I am thinking said he would be interested in playing load that masterpiece once it about what the NBA play- in the NFL during the NBA lockout. comes out. ers could or should be doing

Derrick Rose would with their time off besides trying to main- finally be able to study for the SAT that, tain their lifestyles on little or no income. I in my opinion, he has yet to pass, and then can imagine Boston Celtics guard Delonte maybe he can get into college and get an West sitting on his couch, counting on his education. Ray Allen, who has previous fingers trying to figure out if his lack of acting experience, could go back to the big income will allow him to purchase more screen to make a few extra dollars. Chris guns and a new motorcycle.

Bosh could find his niche playing a terrifyThis past week on Twitter, James tossed ing alien sidekick in some movies as well. around the idea of playing in the National Despite the potential for entertaining Football League during the lockout. Seattle undertakings by these world-class athletes, I Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll played think we will all be better off once they get along with the idea and made him a Seahawks back on the court. I have been in favor of a jersey with the name James and the num- shortened season all along, but maybe the ber one on the back. I think Lebron could time away will make me more excited for the eventually play in the NFL (with extensive NBA once it actually starts – if it ever does.

PAUL KOCKLER

ERIC CLAUSEN/Northern Iowan

UNI senior quarterback Tirrell Rennie has thrown nine touchdown passes and no interceptions this season, a drastic improvement over his eight touchdown passes and 11 interceptions a year ago.

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matchup. Boothby suffered a knee injury with 16 seconds remaining in UNI’s 31-14 victory over South Dakota State University last weekend.

“We’re just going to take it day-to-day and see where we can get him back to throughout this week. He didn’t take a hit; he just got planted wrong on that last series,” said Farley.

If Boothby can’t play Saturday, that will be a big

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second set and took an 11-3 lead over UNI. The Panthers closed the gap, eventually making the score 24-19, but NDSU took the second set 25-19.

The Panthers went on a 7-0 run early in the third set to make the score 13-5.

However, NDSU answered with a 9-1 run to tie it up at 14 apiece. After the score was stuck at 16-16, the two teams went back and forth until UNI finally had a 23-21 advantage. Burow recorded a kill to bring up set point, and Krista DeGeest finished it off with a kill of her own to take the set 25-21.

It was desperation time for NDSU in the fourth set.

The set contained 11 ties and five lead changes between the teams. UNI took an early 5-2 lead over the Bison, but neither team could gain enough momentum to pull away from the other. After Burow tied the set back up at 13-13, the Panthers were able to hold the lead until NDSU fought back to tie the set at 19. The Bison finally gained some control over the match and forced a fifth set after a 25-23 victory in the fourth.

“I think we did a great job

blow to UNI’s defensive line as they face the No. 28 rushing offense in the FCS. SIU is averaging 187.3 yards per game on the ground.

UNI fans are encouraged to wear black in an effort to “black out the Dome” and bring a little extra home field advantage to the Panthers, who are 179-45-1 (.796) alltime in the UNI-Dome. The past two meetings in Cedar Falls between UNI and SIU have resulted in the two largest football crowds ever in the UNI-Dome – 17,190 (2009) and 17,074 (2007). of keeping our composure and finishing it out,” said Burow.

The fifth set opened with NDSU grabbing a quick 3-0 lead. The Bison would eventually push their lead to 8-4 at the halfway point.

However, the Panthers clawed their way back into the match, and with back-toback kills from Burow and then another from Braun, they eventually took the lead 14-12.

The Bison then tied the set back up at 14 and forced a two-point victory situation. With the crowd on its feet, the two teams battled it out with ties at 15, 16, 17 and 18. UNI took the advantage at this point with a Payton kill and a matchending block from DeGeest and Megan Lehman to give the Panthers the set 20-18 and the match 3-2.

“It is absolutely impossible to simulate that kind of stress in practice,” said UNI head coach Bobbi Petersen.

“To be able to execute some of the skills that our kids did at the end, I’m very proud of that.”

UNI returns to Missouri Valley Conference play this Friday when they host Illinois State University in the McLeod Center. The game is set to start at 7 p.m.

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By Don Gagliardo and C.C. Burnikel Across 1 Six-time French Open champ 5 Perch, at times 9 Bucks 14 Couples choice 15 Wells’s Upper-worlders 16 Sister’s outfit 17 Violent comic book protesters?

19 Clinton’s boss 20 Pigeon 21 Connection gizmo 23 Country pro 24 Big deer 26 The wind at Chi-Town’s Wrigley Field?

Horoscopes

28 Diet, usually 32 National Council __ Raza: Hispanic civil rights group 33 Flintstone receivers?

35 Bleeping official 39 French bath 40 Ultracompetitive sort 42 Gaseous: Pref.

43 Shout to an awardee 45 News agency’s betting method?

47 Who’s sorry now 49 Grand 50 Where horses box?

54 Bring forth, as 59-Acrosses

By Nancy Black Tribune Media Services (MCT)

future. Don’t put it off. Stick to your budget. Find beauty in acts of ritual and routine.

Today’s Birthday (10/21/11).

Discipline with commitments provides more time to play, ultimately. Let this be the year to really explore creative self-expression in a variety of arenas. Fulfill your own wishes while contributing to the common good. You can have it all.

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 -- You’re on the upswing financially. Consider your next move carefully.

What are the potential repercussions and consequences?

Complete the old job first.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -Today is a 7 -- It’s springtime in Melbourne, and love is in the air ... even in the Northern Hemisphere, for Aries. Your caring nature today makes you attractive. Share your heart boldly.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -Today is a 6 -- Some channels want to close today, but gentle pressure maintains the flow.

Keep busy at home, and don’t avoid other responsibilities.

Receive gifts with thanks and a smile.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Finish up old business while you invent new opportunities for the

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -Today is a 9 -- There’s room for misunderstanding in your interactions with loved ones, but you can handle it with ease, as long as you’re respectful. Provide motivation.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 5 -- Focusing may require special attention now.

Take a few minutes of peace and quiet to increase your productivity. Resist the urge to run away. Soon, it will be complete.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -Today is a 7 -- Your social life keeps growing. Face to face discussion avoids misunderstandings, especially when it comes to romance. Shades of meaning get lost in email.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Take care of your community, and allow them to take care of you. Or-

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55 Kerfuffle 56 Following 59 See 54-Across 62 Nick of “Arthur” (2011) 64 Pleasure craft loaded with Charmin?

66 Rice, for one 67 Put in a magazine 68 Sushi wrapper 69 Quarterback’s accuracy, say 70 Name meaning “hairy” in Hebrew 71 Use needles Down 1 Nods, sometimes 2 Walrus hunter 3 Fictional writer on the fictional “Alan Brady Show” 4 Bearded bovine 5 Conditionally give 6 Intestinal sections 7 Change, in sci-fi 8 Casual eatery 9 Sunday number 10 Hyde’s birthplace?

11 Sailor’s back?

12 Old copy 13 ‘60s Green Bay hero Bart 18 Did a croupier’s job 22 Discarded 25 Venezuelan herder 27 Game with melding 28 Marine retreats?

29 Put __ on: limit 30 Chair patter’s words 31 Milk source 34 Day __ 36 Catch sight of 37 ‘80s-’90s ace Hershiser 38 Frosted 41 Bottom line for stockholders, briefly 44 Juice 46 Conn. school 48 Disconcert 50 Whence Roo? 51 Stable emanations 52 War adversaries since the ‘70s 53 Procedures involving suction, familiarly 57 School sports regulatory org.

58 Pakistani language 60 Spice Girl Halliwell 61 Pluck 63 Sudden death cause 65 Publicity ganize a neighborhood event that brings people together, or simply get to know a neighbor. Smile.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Find a way to experience new adventures without breaking the rules (although they may require some bending). Practice flexibility, and stay in communication for best results.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Avoid morning travel and major dialogues. Quiet, steady work gets you farther. Let a partner take the lead. They see the way to go. Evening creativity inspires.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Work could get in the way of romance.

Pass the reins to a colleague temporarily, and postpone travel. Streamline your work routine, and time opens up for fun.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Talk it over with someone you love first.

They see your blind spots.

Don’t get persuaded against trying. Use their view to guide yourself. Then practice. It just might work.

Answers to Crossword and Sudoku on Page 12.

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Compilation by BRANDON POLL/Managing Editor

Ever wonder what students years, even decades ago cared about? Here is a look back at the publication of Oct. 19, 1945 from The College Eye newspaper of the University of Northern Iowa.

The College Eye newspaper Friday, October 19th, 1945 Dad’s Day - Saturday, Oct. 13, 1945

Every year students flocked to their mailboxes in anticipation of their father’s letter response for attendance of Dad’s Day at UNI. Dad’s Day consisted of daughters and sons sharing the UNI experience like watching the Panther football game, played that year against Loras College, attending dances, touring buildings during open houses and visiting the chapel Sunday morning.

Homecoming preparation for Nov. 2, 3 and 4, 1945

Published on the 19th of October was an article relaying the preparation and events around Homecoming, which occurred during Nov. 2, 3 and 4 of 1945. Dormitories and off-campus houses had a chance to win awards for the best decoration for Homecoming. The football team, or as written “football men,” were customarily honored every homecoming.

Adverts

What look like classifieds now were large, high profile advertisements during the earlier days of printing. Adverts consisted of small boxes filled with words and, if your business had the option, a phone number with only three digits, 303.

Superstitions - “Are Silent Men Deep Thinkers? It’s Just

Superstition. Not Many Think”

In an article published on Oct. 19, one reporter takes on a few superstitions like ‘silent men are generally deep thinkers’, ‘lightning never strikes twice in the same place’ and ‘long slender hands indicate an artistic nature.’

Football game - Oct. 13, 1945

The Purple Panthers played Loras College as reported

by The College Eye winning 19 – 14. The picture published with the report features UNI and Loras competing on an open field unlike what we’re accustomed to now, the UNI-dome.

UNI Panthers against Loras College Oct. 13th, 1945

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