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Board of Regents requests 12 million dollars for UNI LINH TA

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The United States has been faced with an economic crisis since 2008 and the University of Northern Iowa is no exception. With increasing budget cuts to all three state schools, UNI has been hit the hardest as UNI relies more heavily on state funding.

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the Iowa Board of Regents approved a $12 million

funding request to supplement UNI’s budget. The request woud add $4 million to the university’s general fund each year for the next three years, pending approval by the Iowa Legislature.

“We serve a lot of Iowa students and a lot of those students that come to UNI stay in Iowa, and that’s a See REGENTS, page 2

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CIVIL LAWSUIT

Investigation into sexual assault victim’s past raises legal, ethical questions ALLIE KOOLBECK Editorial Staff

A request for the personal documents of a sexual assault victim suing the University of Northern Iowa is causing some to question the morality of the Iowa attorney general’s investigation in its defense of the university.

“Some evidence they are seeking is nothing but an attempt to harass or attack her, so we will resist,” said Pressley Henningsen, the victim’s lead attorney.

In November 2004, an 18-year-old University of Northern Iowa freshman reported that two UNI football players, Baylen Laury and Joseph R. Thomas III, had sex with her against her will, according to an article from the Associated Press.

Thomas was found guilty of third-degree sexual abuse,

while Laury was found guilty of misdemeanor assault with intent to inflict serious injury. Each served a prison sentence.

Then, in 2007, the victim filed a civil lawsuit against the University of Northern Iowa, claiming that university administrators treated her with “great aniJAMES mosity” after O’CONNOR the assault by not making academic accommodations, not letting her move to another dormitory and doing nothing when she reported getting harassing phone calls from other football players.

The lawsuit wants “damages for the loss of her access to education at UNI and suffering and an order See CIVIL LAWSUIT, page 3

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Graduate students, undergraduate students and a faculty member from the UNI Cantoreri, Wind Symphony and Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra perform for the Bach Cantata series in the lobby of the GallagherBluedorn Performing Arts Center on Sept. 30.

OLIVIA HOTTLE Arts Writer

Attendees enjoyed a little lunch musik during the inaugural performance of John Wiles’ Bach Cantata series.

The series, also known as “Brown Bag Bach,” kicked off in the GallagherBluedorn Performing Arts Center lobby Friday as attendees ate their bag (or “Bach’s”) lunches during a performance of “Jesu der du meine seele” by members

of the UNI Cantorei, Wind Symphony and Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra.

Performers included graduate students, undergraduate students and even a faculty member. The piece was conducted by Wiles, an assistant professor of choral conducting.

The cantata was originally a form of German church music. The text sung by chorus members was chosen to coincide with a certain event and is completely in the German

language. Wiles elaborated on some of the history of Bach’s cantatas at the beginning of the performance, explaining how Bach had written more than 200 in a mostly four-year period.

Based on the hymn by Jonathan Rist, “Jesu der de meine seele” featured seven sections in its half-hour program.

The first was a light, airy movement featuring the chorus and instruments.

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Senior biology major Kyle Jaschen donates blood at Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s first fall blood drive on Sept. 29. SAE won the UNI Blood Drive Challenge, with 42 members donating blood.

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good thing,” said Jan Hanish, interim Vice President of Administration and Financial Services. “But because we have a high number of in-state students, there’s a bit of a disproportional effect.”

According to Hanish, the other two state schools are able to make up for budget cuts because of the revenue they make from out-of-state tuition, but since UNI has a low percentage of out-of-state students, it is difficult to find a way to make up for the budget cut loss.

UNI President Benjamin Allen is glad the proposal is on its way to the Iowa legislature.

“It’s great to have it by the board. It’s an endorsement of the need,” Allen said. “Now we need to make sure that the key

people who make the decisions in the general assembly in the house and senate will fund it.”

The proposal asks for $4 million annually over the next three years to help support a variety of educational services. Some of the money may go to “maintaining access and affordability for students, program academic quality, safety and security, and the technology area,” according to Hanish.

The proposal will not be heard by the state legislature until the general assembly meets in Des Moines on Jan. 15. From then, it will take an additional three to four months for the legislature to decide, so UNI won’t hear the verdict until late spring, according to Allen.

In the meantime, UNI is trying to raise revenue in a variety of ways. One method is recruiting out-of-state stu-

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“We love Iowans and I don’t want to ever lose that, but it would be good to get the out-of-state population (at) not 8 percent but maybe 15 percent,” Allen said. “That would help us financially and bring in diversity and how people view life.”

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parts of the Midwest, such as Minneapolis, Chicago and the Quad Cities, where “they’ll be telling UNI’s story and getting students.”

While the administration is looking outside of campus for ways of assisting the university, there is a way for everyone within UNI to help.

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member of the legislature, take time to write them a note and tell them that this is important to the university and to the state of Iowa,” Allen said. “It’s going to be a challenging year, but this is a great university. It’s been here for 135 years. It’ll be here long after I leave and long after you leave, so it’s just about getting through this.”

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requiring the school to reform policies on assault and harassment,” according to the article from the Associated Press.

UNI President Benjamin Allen affirmed the university’s “steadfast” commitment to safety in an email sent to all UNI students on Sept. 23.

“Special emphasis is placed on violence prevention, providing immediate support for those who may have been victimized, and ensuring a vigorous enforcement of the law and institutional policy,” Allen said in the email.

“When it comes to sexual assault, no one ever wants it to happen and you can try to prevent it, but the reality is sometimes these things do happen,” said James O’Connor, executive director of University Relations, “so that’s why we have a range of services available to help deal with it.”

Violence Intervention Services provides a variety of advocacy services for victims of sexual assault, physical or emotional abuse, stalking and harassment, according to its website. Its full services are detailed on the website.

According to O’Connor, UNI is one of four institutions nationally that received a grant from the Department of Justice for preventing violence towards women.

“It’s an endorsement of how well we deal with it,” O’Connor said.

Attorney general’s office looks into victim’s past

The Iowa attorney general’s office, which is defending UNI in the lawsuit, has been looking into details of the victim’s past, asking for the victim’s educational and medical records, employment records including those from the strip club called the Amsterdam Gentleman’s Club and Kahl Nursing Home, tax records, counseling records, her journal, cell phone records and her Facebook page, according to court files.

“Generally speaking, we believe what we are asking for is appropriate,” said Geoff Greenwood, spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office. “We are not defending perpetrators; we are defending UNI and ultimately the state over claims of monetary damages.”

According to Greenwood, the judge decides which documents are relevant and then turns them over to the state.

For example, the judge ruled that the victim’s Facebook page is relevant.

According to court files, the plaintiff, i.e. the victim, has not provided all the information requested and also provided information with delays.

According to Henningsen, he and the victim have “provided relevant evidence within my client’s control.”

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Henningsen, who said he couldn’t talk about any specific evidence, feels the attorney general’s office is further victimizing his client by requesting the documents and records they have.

“I don’t understand why they are taking the approach they have,” Henningsen said. “Clearly there was a sexual assault on campus and there were issues that need to be brought to light and can be through this trial. I don’t understand why they are taking the tactic of attacking my client.”

Henningsen said they are attempting to work out a resolution with the state.

The November trial date was delayed, with no trial date set.

“We don’t really want to be involved in all these petty fights,” Henningsen said.

Court files show that Joanne Moeller, the assistant attorney general, defended the request for cell phone records, as these records will provide information about the victim’s claims that she received harassing phone calls from players after the assaults and that the assault “affected her ability to interact socially or professionally.”

She defended the request for the Facebook page as “very relevant, particularly as to her activities since the assault.”

According to Scott Peters, UNI professor of political science, within civil lawsuits, in the process called discovery, both the plaintiff and the defendant have an opportunity to demand information from the other side. This process can go on for months or years.

However, Peters stressed that not everything that is asked for “can ultimately be introduced in trial.”

“Questions can get asked during depositions or documents can be subpoenaed that a judge will later decide is not relevant to the case and the judge perhaps won’t allow that information to be introduced at trial,” Peters said.

Peters says there are two reasons for the discovery process: one, the trial will be “most fair” if both sides have all the information about what the other side is arguing; two, it promotes negotiations and settlement.

“A vast majority of civil lawsuits do end up reaching some settlement outside of court,” Peters said.

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History of sexual assault cases

According to Barbara Cutter, interim director for the department of Women and Gender’s Studies, sexual assault cases have a long and particular history.

“The context for this that I think is really important is that there is a long history of powerful rape myths that have structured the way rape cases are prosecuted, and because this woman was the victim of sexual assault and now she’s filing a civil case, that’s relevant to public understandings of her,” Cutter said.

These rape myths are based upon the assumption that all rape victims are women and therefore involve “cultural constructions of femininity” and what is or isn’t a proper woman.

Cutter said that for much of the 19th and 20th century, a proper woman was supposed to control male sexuality. One rape myth is therefore that women who are raped are “bad” women because they didn’t control male sexuality. Another rape myth is that women often make false rape accusations, when in reality it’s about 2 percent, the same as for any other felony crime. Lastly, there is a myth that rapists are usually strangers.

“What happens is that these myths have biased courtroom proceedings because jurors and judges have gone into these trials assuming these things,” Cutter said.

Cutter also said that defense attorneys “tend to capitalize on and promote these myths” in rape cases.

“If you can undermine the victim’s credibility by asking questions of prior sexual history, by asking questions about mental health, then the defense attorney can make it less likely that their defendant is convicted,” Cutter said.

Because of this, a 2011 law was made in Iowa stating that in all criminal trials, the defense

does not have the right to ask for medical records, including mental health records. However, the defense can still do so in civil cases.

“So I don’t know exactly what was requested in this civil case, but in other civil cases the defense attorneys can request all kinds of records that can be easily used to question the credibility of the prosecution, rather than focusing on the evidence, “Cutter said. “I think it’s important that people understand that cases involving sexual assault have a particular history and they’re a little different than a lot of other criminal cases for that reason, and that’s why I think when people read in the newspaper that there are a lot of document requests it makes people worry.”

Cutter also pointed out that it’s not the university’s lawyers defending this case, but the attorney general’s office.

“I don’t want students to be afraid of reporting sexual assaults. They should report it and the university will take it seriously,” Cutter said.

How UNI prevents and attends to sexual assault

According to Annette Lynch, director of the Center for Violence Prevention at UNI, since the assault in 2004, the university has done a lot to improve the ways sexual assault is prevented and dealt with on campus.

For example, in response to a series of incidents that happened across the country and in Iowa, the sexual misconduct policies were revised and implemented in 2008 for UNI, Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.

“One thing we really wanted to do was to figure out what sexual misconduct is,” Lynch said.

“I think a lot of the Facebook and YouTube stuff goes on, but people don’t think we can do

anything about it. The university actually protects you for a whole range of things.”

The Center for Violence Prevention also opened in January 2011. The center then hired a full-time staff member, Alan Heisterkamp, to promote male engagement in sexual assault prevention last year.

“Traditionally, conversations about sexual assault prevention have been around teaching girls and women to minimize risks.

My role is to continue what is already started with men holding themselves more accountable,” Heisterkamp said. “It’s a man’s issue – they are the ones perpetuating the majority of the violence, so they are the ones who can stop it.”

According to Lynch, UNI has been recognized nationally for its work with men.

Another program, started last year, is the mandatory firstyear gender violence prevention online education program, called Student Success: Unless There’s Consent Sexual Assault Prevention. This is a program that every incoming freshman takes.

“Your most vulnerable time on campus is your first six weeks,” Lynch said. “Students are going to parties, trying to be cool… so we try do programming to get in front of that and try to prevent that.”

It also helps “deconstruct rape myths, so you recognize (when) you’ve been raped,” Lynch said.

These programs are paid for by grants right now, something that Lynch hopes to change.

“What I’ve tried to do is jump-start things and get the university to absorb the costs,” Lynch said. “The president and my dean have been incredibly supportive. I’ve got a lot of good support here.”

Lynch believes the university will eventually absorb the costs.

“I think there’s a lot of priority on this issue now on campus,” Lynch said.

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Reflections on Blasphemy Day Three years ago, I bore witness to the birth of Blasphemy Day at the University of Northern Iowa campus. That day the chalk usually used to draw hopscotches and oddly colTOM EARLY ored animals spelled out an affront for most students on campus. earlyt@uni.edu In righteous but somewhat misdirected retaliation, the UNI As a Protestant Christian, I often Freethinkers and Inquirers stood forget that my faith is the product of up for free speech in reaction to the dialectical dialogue. Over the course death of a Dutch cartoonist. Their of Christianity, some of my heroes anger over the suffering of thou- have been legendary heretics and sands oppressed all around the world blasphemers. From Richard Rohr to was scratched on Martin Luther the sidewalks as to St. Stephen, profane and face- ...the faith we Christians to Jesus, all the less attacks on way down to the practice is the result of prophets of the institutional religion.

Testament. millenniums’ worth of Old As a person All of these of faith, my reacpeople were the blasphemy. tion was one of antithesis to hate and disconthe institutional tent. Each time I read an attack on religion of their time, and what God or Jesus, my stomach turned emerged was a new synthesis. and I wondered who did this and However, the antitheses of people why. I never thought that two years like Jesus and Luther were often later, I would be the one chalking for considered blasphemous. In many Blasphemy Day. cases, these people were discriminated Last Friday marked the third against and sometimes put to death. birthday of Blasphemy Day here So I’ve come to the conclusion that at UNI. After a couple of years the faith we Christians practice is the of contemplation, blasphemy rights See BLASPHEMY, page 5 have become very important to me.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK

warning: this article is definitely not about what you already know about homecoming IAN GOLDSMITH

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Homecoming. The time has finally come for the once-a-year, weeklong jubilation of pride, traditions, excitement, events, alumni, visitors, and more purple and gold than a Crayola factory. If you know anything about me, you can probably imagine that I love Homecoming.

LOVE it.

Considering my nearly unhealthy obsession with UNI and its activities, I only thought it too appropriate to write this week’s column on Homecoming. However, I was having a difficult time deciding what to write about. I did NOT want to be redundant and just talk about all the same mumbo jumbo you already hear about during Homecoming.

For example, I definitely did NOT want to talk about sports.

Everyone already knows about all the great sports UNI has. I don’t need to talk about how the soccer team is going to kick butt Tuesday at 5 p.m., Friday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 12 p.m., all at the Cedar Valley Youth Soccer Complex.

I don’t need to bring up how the volleyball team is currently 14th in the nation (and that’s of schools of ANY size). So I assume you know they are going to kick some butt on Friday in the McLeod Center at 7 p.m.

Finally, everyone is obviously aware that the football team is second in the nation right now for Football Championship Series (1-AA) schools.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR In response to ‘Coexistence: A Romance’

I have always enjoyed the Northern Iowan’s opinion section, and Anthony Mitchell’s recent column, “Coexistence: A Romance”, was no exception. I hope Mitchell continues to write about serious subjects. However, criticism comes with the territory of serious subjects, and in that spirit I feel the need to correct him on one point.

I believe Mitchell errs in equating UNIFI’s approach with that of religious groups, and in referring to that group as “evangelical” as opposed to “those who practice ... in peace.”

UNIFI has no evangelical agenda; deconverting religious people is not a part of its mission statement.

The fundamentalist-atheist argument is old, and it is time to retire it.

Fundamentalist Christians oppress gay people. Fundamentalist Muslims force their wives and daughters to wear burkas. “Fundamentalist” atheists... are too vocal? Wrote something offensive on the sidewalk once? Are impolite enough to openly criticize religious belief ?

I criticize harmful ideas because they have harmful consequences. My statements and actions are driven not by the myths and gods in which I don’t believe, but by the humanist values in which I do believe. I believe in marriage equality for my LGBT brothers and sisters, in social equality and personal autonomy for every woman everywhere, and in the power of science to inform us about the world. These values, not some desire to be a rabble-rouser, are the drive behind every event, every article, every word on the sidewalks and everything I do as an activist.

I think this is the real reason we can’t all just “coexist” and pretend that we share common values: we don’t. But values are worth discussing. They are worth chalking about, and they are worth criticizing. Thank you to Anthony Mitchell for providing an impetus to an important discussion; I hope it does not end with this response.

Cory Derringer Senior sociology and psychology major

Share your opinion: write a letter to the editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words long and may be edited for spelling, grammar, clarity and Associated Press conventions. Send submissions to anderjao@uni.edu.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook: Never before has one thing threatened our very existence like this popular social networking site does. People always have something to say about Facebook, especially following its most recent changes. We seem to have forgotten the actual purpose of websites like Facebook; that understanding must be restored to avoid major social repercussions.

Any way you look at it, a decision must be made. Either we understand we are creatures of habit, so we’ll always dislike change, and stop complaining about the updates applied to the free social networking website, or we all finally realize Facebook is a tool of destruction wreaking havoc of apocalyptic proportions on our ability to interpersonally communicate with other individuals.

Facebook, for those of you unfamiliar with consciousness, is the most popular social networking website in the world. It hosts more than 800 million active users, with nearly half of those logging on every day. These users create profiles that may contain everything from personal interests, languages spoken and relationship status to the individual’s phone number, birthday and place of employment. As you can imagine, there have been many security and personal privacy issues due to the information shared.

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Facebook is intended to connect family and friends, helping to maintain strong bonds between individuals regardless of geographical location.

But it seems somewhere along the line that idea was thrown to the wayside, or simply forgotten. For many, Facebook is an unforgiving black hole that is constant in its mission to deplete individuals of valuable time and interpersonal communication skills.

For those reasons, having even a moderate grasp of world issues makes it painful for me to log onto Facebook and see the status updates complaining about the changes made by Zuckerberg and his crew. It’s frustrating that the main concern of many people seems to be making sure their “creeping” efficiency isn’t hindered in any way.

Facebook users need to understand that the website provides a free service, and those who are dissatisfied with that service are welcome to terminate their membership. But a common problem caused by the Internet is that it provides a false sense of anonymity to opinionated individuals sitting behind a keyboard. They instantly post their See FACEBOOK, page 5

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Saturday at 4 p.m. to watch the Panthers kick butt in the Dome.

Well, since I didn’t want to just gloat about Panther Athletics in this article, I thought I could talk about all of the other awesome activities happening during Homecoming! However, I realize you all probably keep hearing about them, so I won’t bother promoting them in this article.

In that case, I do NOT want to use this article to shamelessly plug the Panther Picnic, happening this Wednesday at the Campanile from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is a free meal, along with music and fun, provided by the Northern Iowa Student Government and the Campus Activities Board.

I do NOT want to use valuable newspaper column space advertising the Pride Cry Challenge/Homecoming Kick-Off Pep Rally on Wednesday at 5:30 on top of Maucker Union. Pride Cry is an annual tradition where student organizations square off in an epic battle of song parody and choreography. I also don’t want to take space promoting the Traditions Challenge Amazing Race on Thursday night at 5:30, a scavenger-hunt-type competition in which you run around taking pictures and completing traditions.

Since I am on a roll about NOT mentioning any specific events happening this week, I probably shouldn’t bring up the Pep Rally on Friday night, a jamboree of performances and speeches by coaches, players, President Benjamin Allen, Student Body President Spencer Walrath, cheerleaders and the dance team! Plus it culminates with the Pride Cry Finals and fireworks!

Finally, if you already know about all of these activities, then I should NOT bother saying anything about Campaniling on Friday night at midnight, or the Panther Pacers 5K Saturday morning at 8, or the Panther Festival happening Saturday by the Alumni House from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., or tailgating in the Dome parking lot.

I had a “Homecoming” of sorts just this past weekend, as I went home to see my mommy, daddy and sister. As I was talking to my mom while writing this article, we discussed all the events during Homecoming. My mom is a 1986 graduate of UNI (and still just as beautiful as the day she graduated), and she said, “I completely loved UNI, but my biggest regret is that I didn’t take advantage of all of the stuff happening on campus.”

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Well, since I didn’t want to just keep promoting and plugging events, I thought, “What else can I talk about? I know! safety!” I was going to talk about the value of being safe and responsible during this weekend. I was going to plug the Panther SafeRide, a bus shuttle that is sponsored

by UNI Public Safety and funded by the student government to help provide a safe ride back from College Hill and Main Street to onand off-campus residence halls and apartments!

In my article about safety, I was going to talk about how during my freshman year Homecoming, one of my best friends from high school spent the night in a jail cell. On the same night, another one of my friends was airlifted to the Iowa City hospital after drinking and driving. Those were two incidents I did not enjoy finding out about the next morning.

I cannot stress enough the importance of safety, especially during Homecoming; however, since you hear that all the time, I definitely did NOT want my article to be about that.

I didn’t really decide about what Homecoming advice I wanted to give you all in this article. Since I did NOT want it to be about sports, activities or staying responsible, there is only one piece of advice I would like to give in my article today: Keep your purple shirts washed.

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frustration regarding Facebook’s updates directly onto their own Facebook page.

These people have a harsh reality to face at some point: the fact that Facebook has provided their ego with its very own playpen, separate from reality. They will need to accept the fact that Facebook is only a social networking site to keep them in contact with others and not a platform for them to voice every one of the ego’s irrelevant, self-indulgent nuggets of wisdom.

The idea of maintaining a page on the Internet devoted to our own social life says a lot about today’s society.

Using this objective method of counting our “friends” and creating status updates with the sole intention of getting “likes” is outrageous.

The most sickening case is hearing people use the term “FBO” (Facebook Official) when the legitimacy of a relationship is discussed.

When did we begin to devolve to the point at which we are no longer able to communicate effectively with one another without a computer in front of us? Studies suggest young Facebook users are relying less on interpersonal communication skills and more on technology to communicate for them.

Difficult conversations are no longer happening faceto-face, but rather on public posts or through Facebook chat.

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ple. Accurately describing to others a process that they’ve never experienced so they can understand it is unique to the human race. Plus, with 60 percent of communication being nonverbal, it is difficult to deny the significance of face-to-face communication skills.

I have a Facebook account, like a large majority of college students do, but long ago the novelty gave way to the feeling of a ball and chain. To fix this, we must use Facebook for what it actually is – a mere social networking website – rather than giving it so much more credit and attention than is necessary.

Next time you are about to post a thought on Facebook, think about the power those words have and what they say about you. The story of the first hero of “the web” provides us with a quote we should all remember: “With great power comes great responsibility.”

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result of millenniums’ worth of blasphemy.

A few weeks ago, I was approached my Northern Iowan colleague and UNIFI executive Stef McGraw with a request that I come join the Blasphemy Rights Day chalking. She explained that instead of the first year’s strategy, UNIFI was to share with the campus statistics and examples of blasphemy laws.

On the night of chalking, she handed me a sheet of paper with facts about people being put in jail for disagreeing with the religion of their country, people put to death for drawing a cartoon. And as a person of faith, my reaction was one of concern and compassion.

So that night, I knelt side by side with my nonbelieving brothers and sisters and wrote out the sad legacy of blasphemy.

I commend the leadership of UNIFI for a wonderful day of contemplation. Your message should resonate with anyone at an institution of higher learning. And although I disagree with your disbelief, I thank you for protecting my rights to disagree and helping me remember those less fortunate. Personally, I don’t know where I’d be without blasphemy.

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Film looks at life of American Muslims RACHEL ZIDON Staff Writer

As a Muslim-American, writer and director Qasim Basir has had a hard time finding films that reflect his life experiences.

After seeing growing misunderstandings and misconceptions about Islam in the aftermath of 9/11, Basir decided to make a film to show the perspective of American Muslims to a wider audience. The resulting film, “Mooz-lum,” was screened at the University of Northern Iowa last Thursday as part of this year’s Reaching for Higher Ground series.

“Mooz-lum,” which is loosely based on Basir’s life, follows Tariq (Evan Ross), a young Muslim, as he

attends both public school and a madrassa, deals with his parents’ divorce and goes to college right before 9/11. In the midst of the outrage and confusion after the 9/11 attacks, both Tariq and his Muslim roommate are attacked on their college campus.

In a question and answer session after the screening, Basir said that unlike Tariq, he was not assaulted after 9/11, but he noted that “there were more attacks on Muslims than ever before.”

Basir recalled that after 9/11 someone tried to hit his sister’s best friend with a car.

“After that, she wouldn’t leave the house for a month,” he said. “That shouldn’t happen.”

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friends faced after the attack and a growing association between the words “Muslim” and “terrorist” in the media caused him to ask himself, “What are you doing to help our country move toward this accepting nation that we should be?” For his part, Basir said he hopes making a film that shows “the human aspect of Muslims (that) you hardly ever see in the media” will help others be more understanding of Islam.

Michael Blackwell (the director of the Center for Multicultural Education), the Campus Activities Board and Northern Iowa Student Government helped bring “Mooz-lum” to UNI. “I thought (the film) helped to show people that we normally don’t show

(and) to demonstrate they’re all human and like any other family … and to counteract the anti-Muslim spirit that we sometimes have found in this country,” Blackwell said.

For senior psychology major Sofia Seliger, seeing “Mooz-lum” was an educational experience.

“I think it was really good (and) it’s a great tool,” Seliger said.

Amy Ahmad, a senior family services major whose ex-husband was Muslim, described the film as “heartbreaking.”

“I just wish everyone could see it and not be ignorant,” Ahmad said.

Sophomore biochemistry major Hanan Al-Harthi said that she hopes “Mooz-lum” will help people separate the actions of those involved in

the 9/11 attacks from her Muslim faith.

“I want (people) not to be judgmental … those who actually did that were not, in my opinion, Muslims,” Al-Harthi said.

Computer science major Ghiffary Osman brought “Mooz-lum” to NISG’s attention and helped arrange bringing Basir and the film to UNI. He said he was “ecstatic” with the response to the screening.

“I couldn’t imagine the outcome would be this great,” Osman said. “We had people sitting on the sides because the seats were full.

There are people actually understanding what diversity is and wanting to be a part of it.”

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Students show entrepreneurial skills at elevator pitch competition OLIVIA HOTTLE Staff Writer

Thursday’s elevator pitch competition, held in the University of Northern Iowa’s Business and Communication Services building, was comparable to the events in ABC’s intense entrepreneurial show, “Shark Tank.”

Students had to present an “elevator pitch” or a speech about a company or product that could be given to a possible investor in the amount of time it normally takes to ride an elevator — 90 seconds. The competition was sponsored by the UNI Entrepreneurs, a student organization, and the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

Therese Kuster, a senior public relations major, won the competition. Kuster will attend a national competition in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 27-30 with all expenses paid, courtesy of the UNI Entrepreneurs. She has a chance to win the grand prize of $2,500.

Kuster’s winning pitch was for her already existing business, Target Click Marketing Solutions. Kuster is a founding partner for the organization, which

has a combined total of 10 years’ experience between its three owners. Target Click Marketing Solutions shows businesses how to build an online presence using, as was stated in her pitch, “search engine optimization, pay-perclick advertising and social media marketing.”

“I really enjoy doing these competitions for the business because it’s what I’m really passionate about, and I love to tell other people what we do,” said Kuster.

Runner-up for the competition was junior marketing and sales major Ryan Mack.

Other participants in the competition included freshman potential business major Jeff Roggendorf and sophomore marketing management major Bobby Boyle.

Judges included Dan Beenken, director of the Small Business Development Center; David Deeds, T. Wayne Davis Entrepreneurin-Residence; Katherine Cota-Uyar, associate director of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC); and Laurie Watje, student business incubator manager at JPEC. Watje believes that students should always have an See COMPETITION, page 9

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Members of UNI To Write Love on Her Arms, an organization that seeks to help those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide, give free hugs outside Maucker Union Wednesday.

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Students swing the night away at the Lampost Theatre TEHRENE FIRMAN Campus Life Editor

The Lampost Theatre Co. could have easily passed for a nightclub in the early 20th century as students and citizens of Cedar Falls jumped and jived the night away last Saturday.

Although there was an occasional step on the foot, with the teaching of the instructors, every pair of dancers was swing dancing by the end of the night.

Austin Kendrick, one of the instructors for the night, learned how to swing dance for the first time at the Lampost and has now been swing dancing for five years.

“My favorite part about teaching this class is seeing when something clicks,” said Kendrick, “…seeing when somebody understands what it’s supposed to feel like. You can always tell when the light bulb comes on.”

Trisha Wise, the other instructor for the night, who has been swing dancing for 10 years, was very passionate about the dance form and excited to share it with those around her. “(Swing dancing) is something I’ve been passionate about since I was a little girl,” said Wise. “The people who taught me were just really awesome people who taught more than See SWING, page 7

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Acrobats and aerialists graced the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center’s stage during the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra’s first performance of the season.

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The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, which has been in the Cedar Falls area since 1929, started off their 2011-2012 season Saturday at the GallagherBluedorn Performing Arts Center.

Symphony members took the stage, filling the GBPAC with sounds of instruments and chatter as the audience entered the auditorium for

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just ‘this is where to put your foot’… it was a lifestyle. It was teaching how to respect and treat another person.”

Many students who attended the night’s festivities had never been swing dancing before.

Christine Lind, a biochemistry and biology major at the University of Northern Iowa, was “excited to learn a different dance form.”

“I started ballroom and a

“Cirque de la Symphonie,” the symphony’s first performance of the season.

The audience quickly fell silent as the symphony began to tune their instruments, guided by the concertmaster. Soon after, there was immediate applause for conductor Jason Weinberger as he took center stage.

Weinberger addressed the sponsors of the symphony’s first event, thanking them, and then turned to little bit of salsa, so this will be awesome to learn,” said Lind.

Becca Nims, a communication major at UNI, was “very excited to learn dancing in general.”

“I’ve never really danced,” said Nims, “but I like knowing actual moves to dances opposed to just moving around.”

By the end of the night, the floor was packed with people laughing as they spun and rock-stepped to the upbeat music under the colorful lights in the theatre.

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his musicians and began to conduct. The musicians, in a sea of black dress attire sprinkled with multiple instruments, white sheets of music and small lamps and music stands, began to fill the auditorium with music.

As the first piece ended, a large, red piece of fabric was brought to the stage and attached to a piece of equipment from the ceiling. The added performances were about to begin, and first up

was an aerialist. Audience members whispered words of astonishment to each other as the symphony continued to play while the acrobatic and aerialist acts continued at the front of the stage.

Many different acts took stage, each with different pieces of music for each act.

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After all pieces of music, acrobatic and aerialist feats were finished, the symphony and performers were applauded and a standing ovation was given for both the performers as well as the musicians.

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The second was equally as plucky and featured two soloists: graduate student and soprano Kaethe Hennings and senior vocal music performance major and alto Samantha Kantak.

The next movement was more solemn as it showcased junior music technology major David Wasserman’s tenor voice. Wasserman’s solo continued into the fourth movement, although this time the feel of the song picked up as he was joined by graduate student and flutist Bridget Hill.

The fifth and sixth sections were led by bass soloist Rhys Talbot. The pieces were deep and full, and the sixth became more bouncy after adding junior instrumental music performance major William Jones on oboe.

The seventh movement in the song included the chorus and instruments once again.

This time the piece itself was slower, while still being emotionally moving.

Work to make the Cantata series happen began in March of 2011. After coordinating with several groups with the UNI School of Music, the series was able to secure a noon time slot to perform.

“The support of the entire School of Music faculty is truly the engine behind making this project work,” Wiles said.

The group for this specific cantata began rehearsals the first week of school and practiced one to two hours per week. While the rehearsal time was short, Wiles believes even a rehearsal experience

such as this is beneficial to students involved, as he says it “is a timeline that reflects the demands of a professional musician.”

Wiles believes students performing in the cantata get real world experience by performing with others in a small orchestral setting.

“J.S. Bach is recognized as one of the greatest composers of Western music, but his music is often underappreciated or not understood by today’s culture,” Wiles said.

“Our music students now have the unique opportunity to consistently analyze and perform Bach’s music. I believe that as the students learn to perform Bach, they will discover that they have developed insights into all other music, too.”

Graduate student and violin major Todd Williams believes the cantata series represents a unique opportunity for the general public.

“There’s no early chamber music performed around here,” Williams said. “This doesn’t happen very often.”

Junior Ashley Williamson, a choral music education major, believes everyone should take advantage of the ease of attending the series.

“The Bach Cantata series is something UNI has never done before, and people should come experience amazing Bach music,” Williamson said.

“Plus, it’s free and offers a casual setting where you can bring lunch and listen to 25 minutes of music while you eat. Sounds like a great deal to me!”

The series will return with a performance of Bach’s “Wer sich delbst erhöhet” in the GBPAC lobby on Oct. 21 at 12:15 p.m.

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elevator pitch ready, even if they don’t own a business.

“You never know who you’re going to come across,” Watje said.

While students could pitch ideas for fake corporations or existing organizations, all UNI contestants presented their own either established or growing businesses.

Mack pitched his product SimpleRope, for use in golf courses. Roggendorf spoke about his business, Roggendorf Guitar Works, which custom-manufactures guitars for clients. Boyle proposed an idea to help college students better their critical thinking skills in a social movement called Perspective Impact (PI).

All contestants were judged based on criteria from the National Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization.

Some of these requirements included offering revenue and profit projections in the pitch, stating how much investment was needed and what the money would be used for and identifying their business’s market niche.

Students were able to learn what criteria was needed for the competition at a recent Elevator Pitch workshop. Kuster also researched the Harvard Business School website, which has resources specifically for elevator pitches.

“I’ve found that if you

don’t meet the minimum criteria (for presenting the pitch), then you’re not on the same playing field,” Kuster said. “You can have a great story, you can have a great presentation, but if you didn’t answer all the questions they required, that’s really what gets you.”

Now that Kuster has the answers to the required questions, she wants to elaborate on her pitch before moving up in the competition.

“What I want to do prior before going to Texas is make online marketing something

that rolls off the tongue and is really easy to understand,” Kuster said.

Kuster believes that her experience with the elevator pitch competition is beneficial to her and her business.

“It’s definitely nice to know that I can sort of have (the win) in my repertoire of marketing tools for myself and know that it’s sort of ‘right’ that someone like the UNI Entrepreneurs backs what I’ve done and what I say,” said Kuster.

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David Johnson (7) rushed for 114 yards and two touchdowns against Missouri State this weekend. That marks the second straight game in which he has broken the 100-yard rushing mark.

Panthers rout Bears, 42-7

Farley moves atop MVFC wins list BRAD EILERS Sports Editor

The No. 2-ranked University of Northern Iowa football team traveled to Springfield, Mo., to take on their Missouri Valley Football Conference rivals, the Missouri State University Bears. The Panthers were overwhelming favorites entering the game and they did not disappoint.

UNI (3-1, 2-0 MVFC) dominated the game from start to finish en route to a 42-7 victory over the Bears. UNI head coach Mark Farley notched his 55th career MVFC victory, placing him atop the conference’s all-time wins list.

Farley is one victory ahead of Terry Allen, former UNI head coach and current MSU head coach.

The Panthers used a

balanced offensive attack as well as a great defensive performance to improve to 2-0 in MVFC play. UNI scored three rushing touchdowns and two passing touchdowns, and the defense returned an interception for a score.

UNI’s offense was able to find the endzone on their first drive of the game after they drove 87 yards in nine plays. UNI redshirt freshman receiver Chad Owens scored on a seven-yard touchdown run. The play marked Owen’s first career carry and touchdown as he scored on an option pitch from quarterback Tirrell Rennie. Rennie was a perfect five-for-five passing for 72 yards on the first drive.

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The No. 14-ranked University of Northern Iowa volleyball team extended their Missouri Valley Conference winning streak to 42 this weekend. However they didn’t do it without fac-

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Friday night the Panthers (16-1, 6-0 MVC) hosted the Wichita State University Shockers. UNI lost the first two sets 20-25 and 24-26, and it looked as though their MVC winning streak would end at 40. However, the Panthers had new life after

the intermission and were able to come back and win the final three sets by scores of 25-23, 25-23 and 15-13.

“I was really proud of their effort and their ability to come back,” said UNI head coach Bobbi Petersen.

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NCAA peer review committee completes UNI campus visit, submits report for NCAA Division I recertification BRAD EILERS Sports Editor

Last week a four-person NCAA peer review committee was on the University of Northern Iowa campus meeting with multiple members of the UNI community over a three-day period, from Sept. 27-29.

The committee was on campus to assess the UNI athletics program for NCAA recertification.

Division I programs must recertify every 10 years in a process that

resembles an accreditation review for academic progress. This certification process is designed to ensure the NCAA’s fundamental commitment to integrity in intercollegiate athletics.

UNI created a steering committee as well as subcommittees that consisted of faculty, staff and students from across campus.

“I was the student government representative for the steering committee,” said Northern Iowa Student Government Vice President Ian

Goldsmith. “The peer review team met with all kinds of people like (UNI) President (Ben) Allen, (UNI Athletic Director) Troy Dannen and all kinds of people across campus to discuss UNI athletics.”

These committees reviewed UNI’s performance in several NCAA-mandated areas: governance and commitment to rules compliance, academic integrity, and gender, diversity and student-athlete wellbeing. Over the last year, more than 60 faculty, staff and students served

on a subcommittee.

“I was the replacement for Jake Rudy. Jake was on (the steering committee) throughout most of it and then he graduated and thought I might be interested in taking his spot for the rest of the process,” said Goldsmith. “I have only been on (the steering committee) since the summer.

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run by quarterback Trevor Wooden with 13:22 remaining in the second quarter. The Bears started the drive on the UNI 30-yard line after partially blocking a UNI punt.

The Panthers would respond minutes later when redshirt freshman running back David Johnson found the endzone on a four-yard run. Johnson’s touchdown run capped a 10-play, 80-yard drive by the Panthers that gave UNI a 14-7 lead with 9:33 remaining in the first half.

UNI’s defense got in on the scoring action after junior defensive back Varmah Sonie returned an interception 30 yards for a touchdown.

Sonie’s score came with 4:53 remaining in the second quarter. UNI would lead 21-7 at halftime.

Johnson found the endzone again, this time on a one-yard touchdown run. Johnson’s touchdown came with 13:12 remaining in the third quarter and extended UNI’s lead to 28-7. The key play on the drive was a 40-yard pass play from Rennie to receiver Terrell Sinkfield.

The UNI defense continued to play well as senior linebacker and Missouri native L.J. Fort forced his second

fumble of the game. Fort’s forced fumble gave the UNI offense the ball at the Bears’ 38-yard line. The Panthers would score four plays later as Rennie found receiver Jarred Herring on a 26-yard touchdown strike. Herring’s score gave UNI a 35-7 lead with 11:08 left in the third quarter.

UNI would add their sixth and final touchdown of the game with 5:04 remaining in regulation. UNI back-up quarterback Jared Lanpher connected with receiver Kevin Vereen for an 11-yard touchdown pass. That touchdown gave UNI a 42-7 lead, which would end up being the final score.

Johnson led UNI with 114 yards rushing and two touchdowns on the day. Rennie was 13-for-16 passing for 209 yards and a touchdown against no interceptions.

Sinkfield set a pair of careerhighs with five receptions for 94 yards.

UNI senior linebacker Jordan Smith recorded a teamhigh 16 tackles. Fort notched a career-high 14 tackles and forced two fumbles in the victory.

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Candice Burke (19) recorded 33 digs this weekend against Wichita State and Missouri State.

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“It didn’t feel good, those first two (sets), and I thought Wichita State did a lot of things really well. I thought they served extremely tough and on the other side, we didn’t. (WSU) was passing in system every time and they put a lot of stress on our defense.

“We told them that they had to stay aggressive … I was really proud of them in doing that and executing some of the things that we wanted to do to turn the game around,” said Petersen.

UNI took an early lead at 4-1 in the first set; however, it was WSU who would control most of the first set.

The Panthers were able to tie the score at 18-18, but the Shockers rattled off six straight points to make it 24-18. UNI would record two kills to get within four, but WSU finished the set with a kill and took the 25-20 victory.

The Panthers were able to take a four-point lead midway through the second set at 14-10, but the Shockers used a 6-1 run to take a 16-15 lead. The teams stayed within a point of each other until WSU pulled ahead 23-21.

UNI was able to tie the set at 24 after kills by Amy Braun and Michelle Burow. However, WSU scored the final two points and took the second set, 26-24.

“We need to work on controlling the craziness,” said Petersen of her team’s performance in the first two sets.

“We had a lot of uncharacteristic plays where we are trying to keep a ball in play and

we are putting it 20 feet away from the net. That’s just stuff that shouldn’t be happening at this time of the year.”

UNI fell behind early in the third set and looked as though they could get swept by the visiting Shockers. However, a 6-0 run propelled the Panthers to a 11-7 lead, which eventually grew to a 20-14 lead for UNI. The Shockers would answer right back with a 7-1 run and tied the set at 21-21.

The teams would trade points twice before UNI won 25-23 after kills by Shelby Kintzel and Braun.

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The Panthers got off to a fast start in the fourth set, jumping out to an early 17-9 advantage. Once again, the Shockers answered right back with an 8-2 run to make it 19-17 UNI. The Panthers would retain the lead the rest of the way en route to a 25-23 victory.

UNI took a 7-3 lead early in the fifth set and looked as though they would stroll to a 3-2 victory. However, WSU answered as they had all night and took a 10-9 lead. The teams traded points before

Krista DeGeest and Kintzel tallied back-to-back kills to make the score 12-11 UNI. The Panthers took two of the next three points due to WSU errors and finished the match after DeGeest hammered home a kill to make it 15-13 UNI. “We didn’t change our game plan at all because our game plan was very good; we just weren’t executing.

During the third, fourth and fifth set we played better, executed better and we were playing our game,” said UNI senior setter Bre Payton.

Payton recorded her second triple-double of the season, and the 15th of her career, as she notched 44 assists, 15 digs and 10 kills.

With her 44 assists, Payton surpassed 4,000 assists for her UNI career, making her the fifth Panther in team history to reach the milestone.

“It’s awesome. It’s a great feeling. UNI has had some great setters and I’m lucky that I can be in the same ranks as them,” said Payton.

“I always watched them growing up and to be like one of them is a great feeling.”

UNI had six players reach double-digit kills. Joining Payton were Megan Lehman (14), DeGeest (13), Kintzel (12), Braun (11) and Burow (10).

The Panthers also hosted the Missouri State University Bears this weekend, tallying a 3-0 sweep Saturday evening.

UNI won by scores of 25-21, 25-20 and 25-17.

UNI returns to action Friday when they host Bradley University. The match is set to start at 7 p.m.

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UNI women’s rugby AL Wild Card: bigger collapse by the Red Sox or comeback by the Rays? team speeds past Cyclones, 45-10 TAYLOR SEVERIN Sports Writer

The University of Northern Iowa women’s rugby team took to the pitch Saturday morning to battle in-state foe Iowa State University, in a Midwest League match.

The No. 10-ranked Panthers chose to receive the ball first and didn’t waste any time putting the ball in for the first score of the game. UNI scored courtesy of Kaisee Zweber as Karlee West added the extra point to put the Panthers up 7-0.

UNI held a 12-point advantage before the Cyclones finally responded. However, ISU’s momentum was short-lived as West and the Panthers answered right back.

“I am extremely happy with that. The most vulnerable time is right after you score, your opponent usually scores. I talk to the girls about putting teams away so I was really happy with that,” said UNI head coach Steve Murra.

West had a monster day on the pitch, scoring 20 points for the Panthers.

“Practice definitely helps, but we just read the field as we go, and look for our support players,” said West of the team’s performance.

West wasn’t the only Panther to have a good day.

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clarificatio-n on. There was a list of like 18 different things that they either needed further clarification on or were, for lack of a better term, worried about. A lot of them had to do with gender equity and things like that,” said Goldsmith.

UNI steering committee chair Cliff Chancey agrees, explaining that most of UNI’s challenges are dealing with gender and diversity issues in athletics.

“Under gender, the NCAA notices that 60 percent of our students are women and 40 percent are men. The NCAA asks that we put resources and opportunities to our student body that represent that,” said Chancey. “Roughly 10 years ago we were reversed.

Even though 60 percent of our students are women, we would put 40 percent of our resources and opportunities for women and 60 percent for men. Over the last ten years we have been able to shift that and now we are at about 53

For more information about UNI Women’s Rugby, visit the team website at: www.uni.edu/studentorgs/womensrugby/ Britta Nelson added 10 points herself to help lead the Panthers to a 45-10 victory.

Although UNI won handily, Murra still feels his team can improve.

“I was disappointed in how we started against (ISU) because we talk about championship rugby. Championship rugby is playing hard for 80 minutes and executing, and we took about 20 minutes off in the middle of the match.

I mean, 45-10 is nothing to complain about but if we want to win the Midwest (League) we have to play for a full 80 minutes.”

With the victory Saturday, the Panthers improved to 4-0 overall and 2-0 in league play. UNI returns to action Saturday, Oct. 8 when they host the University of Minnesota. The game is set to start at 11 a.m.

or 54 percent resources for women’s sports.”

The NCAA peer review team conducted a follow-up to the self-study that was prepared by UNI’s steering committee and subcommittees.

Now that the campus visit is complete, the peer review team will provide a report to the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification (CAC).

“Overall, because we have such a strong student body, we have been able to collect great data to show to the NCAA,” said Chancey.

The NCAA CAC assists institutions in identifying mechanisms that ensure intercollegiate athletics programs are operating in accordance with the high standards and core values of Division I membership.

“UNI has a remarkable group of student-athletes,” said Chancey. “They show the same desire for academic success as all UNI students - and they are every bit as successful in their studies. This review shows how closely UNI athletics partners with the academic side of campus.”

Wednesday night was arguably the best night of regular season baseball in the history of Major League Baseball. In the 162nd and final game of the regular season, there were two teams in both the American League and the National League competing for the final Wild Card playoff spots. The two AL teams were the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays, each with identical records of 90-71.

The Red Sox were in Baltimore playing against the Orioles, who finished the season with the third-worst record in the AL; the Rays were in Tampa hosting the New York Yankees, the team with the best record in the AL. Both the Red Sox and Rays were looking

to win their games and hope the other would lose so that they could clinch the AL Wild Card.

The Red Sox bullpen blew a 3-2 lead in the ninth inning and lost 4-3 to the Orioles, while the Rays came back from a 7-0 deficit in the seventh inning to stun the Yankees 8-7 in 12 innings and clinched the AL Wild Card.

What makes this even more interesting is that the Red Sox held a nine-game lead over the Rays at the start of September, making it the biggest one-month collapse/comeback in the history of MLB. But which was it, a bigger collapse by the Red Sox or a bigger comeback by the Rays?

Displaced Sox

Rays all the way

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BRAD EILERS

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Terry Francona is walking away from one of the most prestigious positions in all of sports. The manager of the Boston Red Sox tried to inspire players as he watched his team implode and lose all their momentum. The Red Sox went 7-20 in the now dreaded ninth month of the year, and Francona has amicably split with the franchise, agreeing that they can find a better fit in Boston.

At the beginning of...

I’m not going to argue that the Boston Red Sox collapsed, because that is pretty apparent. However, it was still a bigger comeback by the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays just accomplished something that has never been done in the history of Major League Baseball. They were down nine games to the Red Sox at the start of September and were able to claw their way back and win the Wild Card.

How many teams would...

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Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon walks off the field after blowing a 3-2 lead in the 9th inning against the Baltimore Orioles on Sept. 28.

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