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ON-CAMPUS VOTING BEGINS LINH TA Staff Writer

University of Northern Iowa students can begin casting their votes for local elections this Tuesday and Wednesday in Maucker Union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Take some time to get to know the candidates before you cast your vote.

mayoral candidates

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jon crews cedar falls mayor experience: Falls

city council member, 5th ward

26 years as mayor of Cedar

website: www.crewsformayor.com/ facebook page: Jon Crews for Mayor First elected when he was a graduate student at the University of Northern Iowa, Crews is married with six children. He has three degrees from UNI and he has worked on projects that range from funding the McLeod Center to his current health initiative, “The Blue Zone Project.”

In his campaign, Crews promotes three major traits: vision, experience and leadership.

“I think if you add those three things together, you get results,” Crews said. “Quick results, good results.”

With his experience as mayor, Crews has found it important to maintain a high quality of life in Cedar Falls. His goal is to sustain the city’s high quality of life by having good jobs in the city.

“The one thing that would help you consider staying here is a good-paying job,” Crews said. “It’s not the mountains or the oceans; it’s the decent paying jobs.”

Along with creating good jobs for citizens, his goals include rejuvenating areas such as College Square Mall and maintaining a “vibrant economic base.”

Crews proudly says that he’s “purple for life,” noting his constant involvement with the university through a variety of things such as teaching classes, demonstrating support for scholarships and bringing in international students.

“I am a Panther for life and look forward to continuing to work with UNI to make Cedar Falls even better the next two years,” Crews said.

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28 years in the city

website: www.darrahformayor.com facebook page: Frank Darrah for Mayor Frank Darrah, a former educator, said that through his work with special education and his long experience with city councils, he has learned a lot about how the city of Cedar Falls functions.

“I think that I’m a problem solver; I can work with people,” Darrah said. “I may not have the answers, but I can work with people to find the answers.”

Some of his main priorities for the future of Cedar Falls are to maintain “a sound budget and high-quality services for the people of Cedar Falls.”

Darrah hopes to increase communication and work with neighborhood associations, UNI and the Cedar Falls school system.

“I feel that we have a lot of great individuals, and the city needs their expertise, and we need to develop partnerships,” Darrah said.

Darrah wants to revitalize older parts of the community, focusing on locations such as University Avenue, businesses around campus and downtown.

He wants to add a UNI student representative to the Cedar Falls City Council and to get students more actively engaged in local government.

“I really want to strengthen and build the relationship, not just between the university and the city, but the students and the university and the city,” Darrah said. “I was in education because I believe that young people are our future and that what we do today will impact your life far more than it will impact my life.”

Darrah wants to provide an environment for students in which there is “community, leadership and volunteerism in young people.”

“I just want people to feel that ‘Hey, I’m a part of this community even if I’m only here for four years,” he said.

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larry quigley unemployed experience: None website: None

facebook page: for Mayor

Larry Quigley

Larry Quigley’s priorities as mayor would be to “focus on the growth of local business” and to make sure “the city does not give breaks to megacompanies, but also works to incentivize small businesses,” according to an article from Communitynewspaper.com.

Quigley decided to run for mayor after becoming “frustrated with some contacts for the city,” according to an article from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. For example, Quigley found that the city didn’t clear snow in a way that allowed him to move around in his wheelchair.

Quigley believes the mayor needs to champion minority issues, according to a note posted on the Facebook page “Larry Quigley for Mayor.” He believes that minorities “need full inclusion in our schools, barrier-free architecture, universal design for education and a city that is progressive enough to see the value in clean sidewalks, and curb cuts.”

Quigley grew up in Bremer County and received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Iowa. He also worked on a doctoral dissertation at UNI, according to Communitynewspaper.com.

Quigley was unable to be reached for comment.

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NISG passes tuition increase resolution Some disagree with resolution, send letter to Board of Regents LINH TA Staff Writer

Because of a government decrease in state funding for universities, the Board of Regents is proposing a 3.75 percent tuition increase for students at all of the Iowa Regents schools, including the University of Northern Iowa.

On Oct. 19, the Northern Iowa Student Government held a debate over a resolution to send to the Board of Regents regarding the proposed 3.75 percent tuition increase.

The proposed increase falls within the projected Higher Education Pricing Index range of 2.6 to 4.2 percent, and is smaller than tuition increases seen in recent years. The increase has received the support of UNI President Benjamin Allen as well as the student senates at Iowa State

University and University of Iowa.

At the meeting, President Spencer Walrath said he felt UNI had been lucky compared to other schools with greater tuition increases in the rest of the country.

“Tuition increases in recent years in the state of Iowa have averaged below the national average, while financial aid has exceeded it,” Walrath said during the meeting.

Walrath approved of the resolution and believed that the 3.75 percent increase was necessary in keeping up with costs to maintain the high quality of faculty on campus.

Some senators, however, disapproved of the resolution. The senate debated on matters such as the language of the resolution, the amount of the tuition increase and whether sending a resolution would be a good message at all.

“I feel this shows a support for a tuition increase and I don’t think we can do that as students,” Graduate College Senator Holly Botzum said at the meeting.

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felt a tuition increase was necessary. One senator, Jared Parker, proposed an amendment to the resolution supporting the 3.75 percent increase while stating that the burden of the cost of higher education should not be placed on students.

“We’re determining right now how professional we’re going to look to the state. I think it’s a really bad idea to say no,” said Bartlett Hall Senator Cory Derringer. “I feel this amendment is a good compromise. I would support it.”

Parker’s amendment failed 14 to 15.

After a long evening of dis-

cussion and debate, the majority of the senators agreed with the 3.75 percent increase and the resolution passed 21 to 10.

While the resolution has been sent to the Board of Regents, another document is making its way to the board as well.

Josh Wilson, an off-campus senator, created a letter to send to the Board of Regents, expressing disagreement with the 3.75 percent increase.

“Our concern is that the Board of Regents would receive the resolution and assume that it was coming from UNI students as a whole,” Wilson said.

“The point of our letter is to reiterate that it’s not the entire student body speaking.”

The letter voices the concern that not all UNI students are okay with the tuition increase and that the resolution was not unanimous.

“To have 40-some students say that a tuition increase is OK on behalf of 13,000 students is not representation,” Wilson said.

Wilson’s letter has the support of nine other senators who agree that a tuition increase

would not be beneficial for the university. He hopes that the message they send will allow the Board of Regents to understand the difficulties that tuition increases cause for students.

“I hope that it opens their eyes to the fact that it’s a very important issue to a lot of students,” Wilson said. “It may be an issue where some senators may be able to just be submissive and continue to say that the economy is tough, but our concern is, when is it going to become too expensive for students to even be able to go to college?”

Wilson believes that instead of sending documents to the Board of Regents, the best way to make a change is for students to vote and lobby with the local government.

“If we want to get involved with tuition disputes, I think the appropriate place is by traveling to the capitol and not sending petty resolutions that just say, ‘Hey we support it.’

Until we stand up for ourselves, they’re going to keep raising our tuition,” Wilson said.

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Get to know the Fourth Ward candidates ALLIE KOOLBECK Editorial Staff

Four candidates are vying for a spot on the city council to represent Ward 4, a ward that includes UNI, extending north and east of the UNI campus to the southwest borders of the city. Learn about the candidates below.

jim miller

Occupation: President of

Pioneer Graphics Printing About Miller: Miller, who lives a few blocks from campus, has served on university committees, is a longtime member of the College Hill Neighborhood Association and the College Hill Partnership and volunteers at UNI events.

He attended UNI and one of his sons is currently a senior business major at UNI. His other son will dual-enroll at UNI this year and his wife has worked at UNI for over 25 years.

In his words: “My list goes on and on, but I am on campus daily and am very familiar with students and faculty as well as administration. It would be very easy for me to continue to represent UNI as part of the Fourth Ward.”

For more information: Check out Jay Miller’s (his son) Facebook.

carol hanson

Occupation: Teacher at River Hills

About Hanson: Hanson is a

graduate of UNI and has three different teaching degrees.

In her own words: “I have really learned to be a good listener and so I really plan to listen to the citizens of Ward 4.

And I believe that government, especially local government, is best expressed from the bottom up, from the grassroots up, instead of being imposed from the top down.”

For more information: Go to hansonforcfcouncil.com or call her at 319-404-2642

mare schmidt

Occupation: Owner of Art

Store and More on Main Street About Schmidt: Schmidt grew up on 13th and College Street, attending university events from the time she was a kid. Her mother is a UNI graduate and Schmidt graduated with two degrees from UNI. She worked on the Hill for 11 years and managed a store on the Hill after she graduated.

In her own words: “I’m pretty well versed with the uni-

versity and I can still relate to students and what they have to deal with as a student, and I think for the most part what they enjoy doing.”

For more information: Go to www.maremadsenschmidtforcouncil.com

carol cooper

Occupation: Retired faculty

member from UNI About Cooper: Cooper used to be the chair of the UNI faculty senate, citing this experience as a reason to vote for her.

Cooper lives north of the Hill and is interested in continuing to make that a “vibrant area of campus.” She also wants to work to maintain safe and adequate housing for students. She supports “the kind of shopping areas that students like.”

In her own words: “I don’t find the students to be anything but an asset to the cities.

I understand the campus and have been part of it, certainly more than two candidates.”

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n the past weeks, I have discussed how some things in our modern society are signposts for deeper issues that go unnoticed by most. In an attempt to make one of these criticisms more clear, I believe it is of great benefit to examine the way in which we talk about food.

Food is an essential part of the human condition. It is what allows us to continue living on this planet. Indeed, many people think of it only in these terms. However, anyone that has ever had a garden or went hunting to procure meat understands our connection to food on a much deeper level.

On the back of each foodstuff is a label that people use to better plan their diet. This breaks down something that is meant to be whole — such as bread — into its variable parts. This is the major flaw in most people’s understanding of what a healthy diet consists of. According New York University nutritionist Marion Nestle, “The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of the food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the con-

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text of the lifestyle.”

Think of it this way: Many people say that you need to eat such-and-such food because it has a certain nutrient, such as vitamin C. If one does not eat the food with vitamin C, then many would recommend taking pills that contain vitamin C. Yet, there is substantial research that indicates ingesting only one sort of vitamin does not have the same effect as eating a fruit that is rich with it. The reason for this is, as Michael Pollan explains, “People don’t eat nutrients; they eat food, and food behaves very differently from the nutrients they contain.”

The etymology of the English word “diet,” which comes from the Greek word diaita meaning “way of life,” seems to suggest that before the rise of modern science, people understood eating as something that is done in the larger context of one’s life.

Today, we attempt to break each food down into its “good” parts and ingest only what is good for us at that exact time.

While this may seem only a benign aspect of our culture, I believe that it is yet another symptom of our modern condition. The Modern Man of Science – e.g. economists,

behaviorists and nutritionists – attempt to break everything down into variable parts. One main impetus for doing so is that one can take those variable parts and place them into a certain system or process (in the case of nutritional science, the digestive process) that allows one to “gain certainty.”

However, what is often lost on these people is the larger context of what they are doing. If one only thinks of their life in terms of their minute interaction with the world, then it will become incredibly easy to start doing things that are completely asinine and senseless. This seems to be a good explanation for how someone could honestly believe that Pop-Tarts have nutritional value because they contain “eight vitamins and minerals.”

Nonetheless, we can certainly fight this urge to deconstruct everything so that it may fit into a system or process. By talking with others and reflecting on our own lives, we can begin to understand that not all things that go on in the world are meant to be placed in a system or process. A small step in the right direction would be to think of your diet in terms of the Greek “way of living,” so that you may once again feel that connection to the earth that so many of the Ancients wrote about.

What do you think? Share your opinion by commenting on this article on our website, www. northern-iowan.org.

ypically I choose to approach an issue with what is most accurately described as blunt sarcasm.

But the issue at hand requires a much more direct approach.

Understanding the scale of the injustice is vital to its elimination.

Our society focuses heavily on an individual’s net worth, which makes it difficult to convince others that the money we work so hard to obtain is merely a means, and by no means an end.

That being said, recent American history tells us that one of the wisest investments one can make is to attend a university in order to receive a postsecondary education. But just as it is with any investment, there are risks involved. With the current status of the economy, the sky-high unemployment rates and so many high school graduates attending college, whether they deserve it or not, the reality of the situation has become depressingly difficult to look at and seemingly impossible to justify your participation in it.

Which brings us to last Wednesday, Oct. 19. Your

NATE KONRARDY konrardy@uni.edu

Northern Iowa Student Government Senate voted 21-10-0 in favor of sending a recommendation to the state legislature, Board of Regents and governor that endorses a 3.75 percent tuition increase for the 2012-2013 school year. Reasons ranged from, “we’ve done it every other year,” to “we need to act like adults and not children.”

Even when a hefty amendment was proposed, expressing the students’ distaste towards higher tuition while stating our understanding of the current financial situation of UNI, it was voted down 14-15-0 because it was perceived by some senators to have “a wishy-washy tone that … many legislators would not enjoy reading.”

“To act like adults and not children,” is a very interesting way to phrase an argument supporting the behavior of our state legislators.

It’s interesting considering some of the comments made this summer, namely the one See KONRARDY, page 5

LETTER TO THE EDITOR To all members of the University of Northern Iowa community, I ask your consideration for my reelection to be mayor of Cedar Falls. It has been an honor and a privilege to have served as mayor in my hometown and where I graduated from our university.

UNI is our biggest employer and best asset. The university provides jobs, entertainment and education to not only its students but all of us living in Cedar Falls. The city recently used the Institute for Decision Making to facilitate, again, a 10-Year Strategic Plan for Cedar Falls with UNI administrators and student leaders involved.

The city has helped fund

the McLeod Center and economic and environmental programs at UNI, and I personally have been a member of UNI Alumni Association and the Panther Scholarship Club for a number of years.

I am to coin a phrase “Purple for Life,” with three degrees from UNI. I look forward to continuing to work cooperatively with UNI on many fronts – we both have financial challenges facing us.

If you have questions, my email is jon.crews3@gmail. com, and I have a webpage at www.crewsformayor.com.

Thank you for your consideration and hopefully your vote.

Jon Crews Cedar Falls mayor

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Iowa senator Shawn Hamerlinck expressed to state university student leaders in early June: “I do not like it when students actually come here and lobby me for funds … I want you to go home and graduate... But this political fear, leave the circus to us, OK? Go home and enjoy yourselves.”

Furthermore, it is disappointing that the task of saving political face seemingly takes precedence over saving students from continued tuition increases. The irony of the situation is that we feel the need to give our opinion even though it hasn’t been requested. We seem to have convinced ourselves that recommending the inevitable is exerting some form of control over the situation.

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By no means is my intention to “bite the hand that feeds me,” and any such interpretation would be based in ignorance. What we, as students, need to realize is that we too have hands, hands that can fill out a ballot and cast a vote for what we believe is important. Hands that can write a letter to respectfully express our concern. But realize that using those hands to fill social networking sites with emotionally misinformed one-liners is a waste of time.

We will continue to see increased tuition at our state

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universities until we develop a backbone, because no one will stand up for us until we first stand up for ourselves.

Sometimes things in life are tough, but those are usually the things most worth doing.

The political apathy in young voters is so prevalent that it has nearly institutionalized the belief that voting accomplishes nothing, while it is that very idea that has made it a selffulfilling prophecy.

Margaret Mead sums up the change we must strive to be: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR In response to ‘Sportsmanship is dying in college football’ What coach has the fourth-best winning percentage among active Division I football coaches with a record of 55-16? Who has led his team to five straight bowl games in just five years of being head coach? Wisconsin Football coach Bret Bielema.

To say the numbers Wisconsin puts on the scoreboard is unsportsmanlike is far from fair. College athletes participate in sports to win; they thrive on competition and Bielema’s team is no different. Yes, we learn in class that a good coach has multiple qualities, including being a mentor, a teacher and a citizen of the community.

Well folks, this is collegiate athletics. By the time you get to college and are participating in a sport, you play because you’re good, you got recruited and the team needs your help in succeeding.

Bielema sees it as just that. He wants to coach a team that

will win and wants to lead a growing program. Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson said it best: “There’s never a day where you stop competing”.

Bret Bielema may not be the most sought-after coach, but he’s a winning coach. He plays to win and his record shows just that. You can whine and moan all you want about how Wisconsin is just pounding it in people’s faces, but the fact of the matter is that you cannot tell your team to take it easy just because you’re up by thirty points. It isn’t fair for the athletes to be told to go halfway when they put in multiple hours off the field each week.

And to correct your error, Wisconsin actually ended up beating Oregon State 35-0, not University of NevadaLas Vegas. Oh, and if it wasn’t for Wisconsin Football, UNI wouldn’t be receiving $450,000 to play them next fall. See you at the game!

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Hunter Burton watches Elizabeth Rasing, sophomore pre-med major, make nitrogen ice cream.

American Chemical Society students use science to create a Halloween House full of spooky surprises ELISSA TERRY Entertainment Writer

The orange and black streamers and carved pumpkins made for familiar Halloween decorations, but add nitrogen ice cream and the smell of methanol and you have the American Chemical Society (ACS) Halloween House, held in the McCollum Science Center last weekend.

The Halloween House was open to the public, which many parents took advantage of by bringing their children to the experience. They had many different themed rooms, and

the students did experiments according to each theme.

Frankenstein’s lab showcased demonstrations with electricity, even doing a reaction that glowed in the dark.

The Witches’ Lair held gummy bears hostage in a “torture chamber,” turned things different colors, and allowed children to freeze flowers with liquid nitrogen, then shatter them on their desktops. Devil’s Den was home to fire demonstrations, which involved a flamethrower and allowed children to hold fireballs in their hands.

In Pirate’s Cove, children were able to turn pennies into gold, create sea foam and release balloon cannons.

“One of the other members of the ACS club and I really wanted to (hold the Halloween House) last year, but we couldn’t get enough people together to do it,” said Chelsea Meier, ACS

president and junior biology and chemistry major. “In the spring, I wrote a letter to the national ACS proposing this idea and for grant money and that kind of sealed the deal that we would do it this year.”

Children continually burst out of the rooms with screams of “Oh, that was so awesome!” or “That was cool!” showing their overall excitement about the experiments they had just witnessed.

Not only were there chemistry experiments, there was also chemistry ice cream.

“You take half and half, sugar and vanilla, and mix it all together and when you’re done, you pour liquid nitrogen over it ‘til it hardens into ice cream,” said Whitney Plein, a senior chemistry education major.

The ice cream table was See HALLOWEEN HOUSE, page 7

Panther fans invited to sing their way to the McLeod CAROLINE DAVIS Staff Writer

“American Idol” meets the University of Northern Iowa Panthers this Friday as the UNI Sports Marketing Department encourages Panther fans from all over Iowa to brush up on their vocals and participate in the brand-new competition, “Sing Your Way to the McLeod Center.”

“Based on the success of ‘American Idol’ and all of the other hit reality television singing competitions, ‘Sing Your Way to the McLeod Center’ will undoubtedly be a huge success,” said Eric Hrubes, program assistant for Athletic

Promotions and Marketing.

For the competition, potential contestants are asked to perform the national anthem – either as individuals, or as groups of up to four people – for the opportunity to perform at a sporting event for the 2011-12 athletic season. A total of 10 winners will be chosen, and one grand prize winner will win tickets to the UNI men’s basketball game against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Dec. 6.

The overall winner will also receive the opportunity to meet the Texas Tenors (as seen on “America’s Got Talent”) at the Iowa game and also perform the national anthem at UNI’s senior night men’s basketball

game, on Feb. 22.

“We have two special guest judges who will be attending the event on the 28th: UNI men’s basketball head coach, Ben Jacobson, and UNI alum and member of the Texas Tenors … John Hagen,” said Hrubes.

Contestants must memorize the words to the national anthem, keep the performance time under two minutes and sing a cappella.

Iowa residents of all ages may audition at the GallagherBluedorn on Friday, Oct. 28 from 3-6 p.m.

For more information, contact Eric Hrubes at eric. hrubes@uni.edu.

“Mad Forest,” presented by the University of Northern Iowa Department of Theatre, gives audiences not only a look into the telephone-bugged homes of Romanians under Communist rule in 1989, but a view into American freedom and government as well.

As the second production in the Strayer-Wood Theatre’s series “Renewal: Emerging Beyond Struggles,” “Mad Forest” follows two families during the Romanian Revolution, a period of unrest that ultimately led to the overthrowing of the Romanian dictatorial leader, Nicole Ceausescu.

The play follows the families as they look toward the weddings of their children.

However, they must try to deal with the weddings during both the time when they are under the watchful eye of their Communist government and after they have gained their immediate freedom. “(The play) does speak to Romanian Revolution and there are a lot of revolutions going on now, too,” said Cynthia Goatley, theatre professor and director of the play.

“It seemed to be very present in our world now with Libya and Yemen and all of the different places that were having revolutions ... and some have even finished (their revolutions).”

The play also shows some contrasts between an overpowering government and the government of America. “‘Mad Forest’ is a show that will make you think and appreciate the little things that we so often take advantage of on a daily basis,” said cast member and senior theatre performance major Rachel Rathe. “It will open your eyes to another world that most of us don’t all get to experience regularly, but you have to allow yourself to open your eyes and go on the journey.”

The show uses metaphors to heavily show government power and the effects of that power. One example of this is shown in a scene between a vampire and a dog, in which the vampire represents the government and the dog represents, as Goatley says, “the ordinary folk who always want somebody to take care of them, make things better.”

“It’s an interesting relationship that we have with our

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Strayer-Wood Theatre government,” said Goatley.

“Mad Forest” is a play that incorporates many historical events. The crew even included a dramaturg, who did very specific research to events and details essential to the play.

For instance, in one scene, the daughter of one of the families gives a package of American cigarettes to her parents. The dramaturg researched what kinds of American cigarettes would be prized in Romania in 1989.

To learn the emotions of the play, the cast used improvisation as a tool for exploration.

“We worked with improvisation so the actors understand what it might have been like living in a repressive regime, because it’s difficult for us to understand,” said Goatley. “We don’t really have that here.”

Actors were given an exercise to go to a grocery store and count the varieties of fruits and vegetables available.

This was used to show them what Americans have compared to other countries.

“I said ‘you know, don’t spend over 30 minutes (to do the exercise)’ because it did, it took some of them that long … to see what sort of abundance that we have,” Goatley said.

A website was also created that contained articles, images and videos for the actors to become familiar with the time period.

Goatley acknowledges that “Mad Forest” is a “different sort of piece.”

“It’s constructed in an interesting fashion,” said Goatley.

“The first act just doesn’t give you that much exposition to figure out the whole story … and then in the third act, you began to really put all the pieces together.”

Transitions between scenes are introduced by an actor speaking a Romanian sentence.

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Quidditch soars out of the books and onto the field CHANCE FRERICHS Staff Writer

Quidditch may have been an imaginary game played only in the Harry Potter book series, but last weekend, it sprang off the pages and into real life.

On Saturday, the UNI Quidditch Club, as part of a project between the Rod Library, Cedar Falls Public Library and Waterloo Public Library, held a Quidditch Match at the Cedar Falls High School football practice field.

Spectators came from as far away as Des Moines to watch the matchd.

A few aspects of the game were adapted in order to make

it accessible to Muggles. The golden snitch in the game is a person who wears yellow ribbons around their waist. The snitch will run around the field and the seekers must grab the ribbons from the snitch in order to win the game. When a player is hit with a bludger, they must freeze on the field for a few seconds.

“It’s the new ultimate frisbee,” a spectator commented.

“We started just as a group of people last September,” said Tyler Stoppelmore, president of the club. “We’ve been doing this for over a year, but we’ve only been official since April.”

The rules that the club uses aren’t the same rules as

the International Quidditch Association.

“We are slowly going over to the IQA rules, (but) the biggest difference is they play with brooms and we don’t,” said Stoppelmore. “How it works is each of the players will have a broom, and they’re supposed to keep it between their legs at all times. They’re pretty much only allowed to use one hand while playing.”

According to the International Quidditch Association website, there are nearly 500 teams worldwide.

The UNI Quidditch team is currently working toward playing against the Quidditch team at Iowa State.

WANT TO JOIN THE QUIDDITCH TEAM? Facebook: Search “UNI Quidditch” Email: President Tyler Stoppelmoor, tystopps@uni.edu

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University of Northern Iowa Muggles of all majors brought the popular game from the Harry Potter book series to life last Saturday.

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quick snapshots into the lives of the characters not usually seen in theatre.

Actors also play several different characters to show the impact of the Romanian Revolution on people of all ages and backgrounds.

Resources are provided for audience members to

understand the kind of life Romanians had during 1989.

The director’s notes in the program provide the timelines and history of Romania and its revolution, and a display in the lobby gives more background on the events taking place in the play.

Rathe also explained that audience members who lived through these events may have a different view of “Mad

The team meets at 1 p.m. on Sundays at the courtyard between Noehren and Hagemann Halls.

Forest.”

“Where a younger audience might enjoy what they’ve seen and take a step back and give a quizzical look as to what just happened, an older audience, that was alive during this time and may have actually experienced the revolution firsthand, will have a better appreciation and understanding for what they have just seen on stage,” said Rathe.

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always busy, if not with little kids, then the students of ACS. “I really like that ice cream out there,” said senior biochemistry and jazz studies major Katie Mauger-Sonnek. “I’ve never had nitrogen ice cream before; it’s really awesome.”

The event ended up having an estimated 500-800 visitors throughout the night, with even the head of the chemistry department making an appearance.

“I’d just like to thank everybody that helped put this together,” said Meier. “The faculty, the student groups, and we even had some other groups come on with us, like the physics group, Tri Beta down in biology, and the softball team even carved pumpkins. It was just a really great event to bring all these people together.”

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UNI junior outside hitter Amy Braun recorded a career-high 18 kills against Illinois State Friday night.

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MAT MEYER Sports Writer

The No. 11-ranked University of Northern Iowa volleyball team added two more Missouri Valley Conference wins to their already fantastic regular season when they defeated Illinois State University and Indiana State University this past weekend in the McLeod Center.

The Panthers topped Illinois State Friday night 3-1 with scores of 25-20, 25-19, 22-25 and 25-21. UNI (22-1, 11-0 MVC) then went on to sweep the Sycamores

of Indiana State on Saturday by scores of 25-18, 25-17 and 25-13.

Friday’s match against Illinois State (14-9, 6-5 MVC) proved to be a good one for Amy Braun, who recorded a career-high 18 kills and added 15 digs to her stat line. Senior setter Bre Payton had another solid all-around performance with 50 assists, 10 digs and 8 kills.

The first set of the match started off with a 6-6 tie, but UNI took over from that point and built their lead to See VOLLEYBALL, page 9

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UNI women’s soccer wins fifth strai.ght game against St. Ambrose, 2-0 ALEX MILLER Sports Writer

The University of Northern Iowa women’s soccer team set a new program record by getting their fifth straight victory in a 2-0 win over the St. Ambrose University Queen Bees. In the 12-year history of the UNI women’s soccer program, many four-game win streaks have occurred, but never a five-game streak.

“It’s nice for us, but we can’t forget about the players who’ve come before and got us to this stage,” said UNI head coach James Price.

“I don’t want our girls getting too carried away with

it, but it’s nice we’ve found some ways to win.”

After 20 minutes of scoreless play, the Panthers got their break. After a free kick by Missy Journot from the top of the box was deflected by the keeper, Melissa Hagan stepped in and finished off the rebound to give UNI the 1-0 lead going into halftime.

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“We went to our go-to guy Our linebackers did a great in Jewel Hampton and we job on their running backs didn’t really have the sucThey’re a pretty today. cess we wanted. Getting “This was my first full points is okay, but good defense and three game I got to play here (at it’s obviously not what we it’s one of the UNI),” said White. “Garrett wanted.”

Scott has been banged up a

“They’re a pretty reasons (UNI) little bit, so the coaches told good defense and it’s one is having the me I got to be ready to go.” of the reasons (UNI) is UNI’s defense held SIU having the success that success that they to a season-low 212 yards they are right now.” are right now. of offense in the 17-10 vic The Salukis (2-5, 1-4 tory. With the win, UNI MVFC) scored first on a Dale Lennon (6-1, 5-0 MVFC) snapped seven-yard touchdown pass SIU head football coach their three-game losfrom Kory Faulkner to ing streak to the Salukis MyCole Pruitt with 10:17 and maintained their spot remaining in the second atop the Missouri Valley quarter.

Football Conference standings.

The Panthers responded on their next “That was a tough win and a great win. possession, putting together an eight-play, We knew (SIU) was a good football team,” 73-yard touchdown drive that culminatsaid UNI head coach Mark Farley. “The ed with an 18-yard touchdown pass from turnovers hurt us, but I thought the defense Tirrell Rennie to Terrell Sinkfield. really played well.”

UNI took a 10-7 lead with 7:23 remainThe difference in the game was UNI’s ing in the third quarter after sophomore ability to shut down the Saluki offense when kicker Tyler Sievertsen matched his careerthey needed to most. The Panthers turned long with a 48-yard field goal. The Panthers the ball over three times on fumbles, two See FOOTBALL, page 9 of which were in the fourth quarter, giving

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as much as seven at one time, making the score 22-15. The Redbirds closed the gap to four, but a kill from Braun ended the set 25-20.

While the second set was close throughout, UNI took the lead after a 13-13 tie and maintained the lead throughout their 25-19 set two victory.

After the intermission, the Redbirds played with a sense of urgency. With the third set tied at 19-19, Illinois State took control, winning by a score of 25-22 to force a fourth set.

The fourth set contained five ties as the Panthers tried to put Illinois State away for good. The task proved difficult as the Redbirds took a lead 15-10, but the Panthers clawed their way back into the set with a 7-2 run to tie it at 17-17. UNI never looked back from there and took the set 25-21 and the match 3-1.

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State in the second match of the weekend. Braun led the team with 12 kills and Payton led UNI with 39 assists.

“I saw improvements, which at this time of year, if you can keep improving, it’s a huge positive,” said UNI head coach Bobbi Petersen.

Braun had seven of her 12 kills in the first set of the match as UNI took an early 5-1 lead. Indiana State kept the set close as they came back to take the lead at 12-9.

However, a 12-3 run by the Panthers gave them the lead at 21-15. UNI took it from there and ended the set with a score of 25-18.

UNI never trailed in the second set and had a big 8-0 run late extend their lead to 19-10. The Panthers then took the set 25-17 and held a 2-0 lead in the match.

After the break, the Panthers dominated the third set. The Sycamores struck first; however, UNI went on a 10-0 run to take the lead at 14-5. UNI didn’t look back as they took the set 25-13 and the match 3-0.

UNI continues MVC play Friday when they visit Missouri State University.

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Melissa Hagan (19), pictured here against Evansville, scored one of UNI’s two goals against St. Ambrose Wednesday.

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and UNI’s Katherine Young kicked the ball in for another score. From there on, the Panther defense contained St. Ambrose to close the game out 2-0.

UNI (8-7-2, 2-2-0 MVC) also managed a season-high 28 shots in the game while putting 17 on goal. The Queen Bees tallied 11 shots with six on frame throughout the game.

Charlotte Jones led the way for the Panthers by taking six shots with one on goal. Claire Clark, Hagan and Young each added three shots with Grace Schield, Madisen Garman and Elizabeth Rodriguez adding two as well.

St. Ambrose (8-6-0, 6-10) goalies Kerry Hardiman and Morgan Lynn led the game in saves. Hardiman recorded a game-high eight saves and Lynn tallied seven.

UNI goalkeeper Lauren Potzmann added six saves for the Panthers.

UNI also managed five corner kicks during the game while the Queen Bees added three of their own.

The Panthers also led the game with seven fouls compared to St. Ambrose’s five.

The Panthers saw their five-game winning streak come to an end on Saturday as they lost to the Missouri State University Bears 2-0. UNI will close out the regular season on the road against Drake University on Oct. 27.

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added another touchdown just before the end of the third quarter when Rennie scored on a one-yard touchdown run. Rennie’s touchdown made the score 17-7 entering the fourth quarter.

SIU took advantage of UNI’s second fumble of the game by connecting on a 30-yard field goal with 10:08 remaining in the game.

However, SIU got no closer as the Panther defense stopped a Saluki fourth-and-10 at the UNI 28-yard line with 4:08 remaining.

The Panthers were able to successfully run out the clock and secured a 17-10 victory.

UNI returns to action Saturday when they travel to Fargo, N.D., to face the No. 3-ranked North Dakota State University Bison. The winner of that game will hold sole possession of first place in the MVFC with just one month remaining in the ERIC CLAUSEN/Northern Iowan season. For a preview of the game, UNI redshirt freshman running back David Johnson (7) rushed be sure to pick up Friday’s issue of for 84 yards on 14 carries, including this 39-yard run late in the fourth quarter, which helped seal the game for the Panthers. the Northern Iowan.

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Today’s Birthday (10/25/11).

Let someone whose opinion you respect teach you about your health and vitality. Share exercise outdoors, or drop a stale practice for one that refreshes. New opportunities arise that require expert advice. Don’t hesitate to ask.

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

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It’s not a good time to take risks.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Still no gambling allowed, except regarding affairs of the heart. You can create a new reality as long as you’re not attached to the outcome. Why not go for it?

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -Today is a 7 -- It’s okay to think about it for a while. Don’t push yourself (or your luck). Remember that cash isn’t everything, and count your blessings instead.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is an 8 -- Previous barriers have dissolved, so take advantage to wrap up old business. Outrageous dreams now seem possible.

Take on more responsibility, and rely on your team.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -Today is an 8 -- One who loves you sees you bigger than you see yourself. Adopt their view, even temporarily. You can learn a lot from children, who aren’t afraid to tell the truth.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 9 -- Tear it down to rebuild. Starting over can give a stronger foundation. Avoid going against your core values, and double-check everything. Work with another.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Conversation with a friend helps clear your mind. Sometimes you have to let the current take you, rather than fight it to exhaustion. You could end up at a better destination.

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They may actually listen. There could be a test. You’re up for it.

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