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OCTOBER 26, 2012

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VOLUME 109, ISSUE 18

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Humans vs. zombies: the battle begins Students will dart around the UNI campus wielding socks and marshmallows in an epic showdown between the (hypothetically) undead and the survivors. < See PAGE 6 OPINION

Stop scapegoating socialism

Columnist Pope challenges his fellow columnist’s argument against socialism in American society. < See PAGE 4

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ACADEMICS

Guardsman initiates grievance process against UNI professor over missed exam NI NEWS SERVICE

James Roethler, a freshman at the University of Northern Iowa, has initiated an appeal process to file a grievance against psychology professor

Cathy DeSoto, who he said refused to let him make up a test he missed due to an outof-state National Guard drill. According to Roethler, the test was moved from Wednesday, Oct. 17 to Friday,

Oct. 19, which conflicted with a four-day training session he had for the Iowa Army National Guard. The training, which was in Wisconsin, began on Oct. 19 and the bus left on Oct. 18.

According to an article from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, if Roethler had chosen not to attend the training, he would have been deemed < See GRIEVANCE, page 3

GRADUATE STUDENT HIGHLIGHT

McDowell pursues master’s of social work, serves as officer in U.S. Air Force Reserves BRITTANY FUNKE Staff Writer

Name: Sara McDowell Attended undergrad: All over but finished at Dallas Baptist University Undergrad Major: Sociology Graduate Major: Social work WOMEN’S GOLF

Panthers score well, but face tough foes Despite notching their thirdbest performance of the season, the team only made it to 18th place in the Blue Raider Invitational. < See PAGE 10

What brought you to the University of Northern Iowa graduate program? UNI was progressive and supportive in bridging my military career with advanced education. After looking into MSW programs in Arizona, Colorado and Texas, UNI offered a combination of a strong curriculum, involved professors and the opportunity to return home to Iowa after 12 years.

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Sara McDowell (above) is currently pursing a Master of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa and serves as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. McDowell is also involved with the MSW Student Association and the UNI Veterans Association.

RACIAL EQUALITY

MUSIC

One-man band ‘Unknown Component’ releases new album Tjossem takes a look and listen at the solo work of musician Keith Lynch. < See PAGE 6 SPORTS

The power of a jersey They may just be jerseys, Bemis says, but there’s special magic in that allwhite game-day attire. < See PAGE 9

INDEX I SPY AT UNI......................2 OPINION............................4 CAMPUS LIFE....................6 SPORTS.............................9 GAMES............................11 CLASSIFIEDS...................12

Law professor calls for new civil rights movement BROOKS WOOLSON Staff Writer

Richard Thompson Ford, a law professor at Stanford Law School, re-examined the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s at the University of Northern Iowa on Oct. 23, discussing the impact of desegregation and proposing different actions for the courts that handled racial equality issues. In his presentation, “Laws, Rights and Universal Principles,” Ford said courts should have allowed for a “distinction” of which practices were harmful and which were not. Ford said that when

the government desegregated schools, the busing of minority students to other schools and the closing of predominately minority schools had a decidedly negative impact. Ford said school districts should have instead invested in the schools of both predominately white and predominately minority communities to improve the state of the buildings already there. He said he felt faculty should have been desegregated immediately, but the desegregation of students could have taken place in a more gradual process. According to Ford, during the time of desegregation,

parents of minority students felt busing their children to formerly all-white schools and closing their established schools killed their neighborhoods. Ford also said forced desegregation efforts were hardly successful. According to Ford, in the 10 years after the Supreme Court ruled to desegregate schools in Brown v. Board of Education,

the impact in the south was “almost nothing.” Ford pointed to language in the ruling that stated the process of desegregating schools should proceed with “all deliberate speed.” According to Ford, this language allowed a flexible interpretation, essentially allowing opponents of the ruling to < See FORD, page 3


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