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MAYOR CREWS WINS REELECTION frank darrah
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Cedar Falls Mayor Jon Crews was reelected Tuesday with 3,805 votes. Runner-up Frank Darrah received 2,595 out of 6,465 total votes, while Larry Quigley came in third with only 53 votes. At-large councilman David Wieland was reelected with 4,204 votes, while none of the four candidates vying for the Ward 4 council seat received the majority necessary to win, which may lead to a run-off election between frontrunners Mare Schmidt and Jim Miller on Dec. 6.
VETERAN AFFAIRS
Modern veterans face multiple issues at UNI KARI BRAUMANN Editorial Staff
This article is the first in a series. Look for part two in our Tuesday, Nov. 15 issue.
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t the University of Northern Iowa, students who have served in the military are a unique population of nontraditional students with unique needs. When individuals return from service and transition to a
university environment, they may face challenges that are almost paradoxical in nature. “We graduate at a lower rate and generally speaking, we have pretty good financial support. So there’s other stuff going on,” said Tim Tolliver, a member of the UNI Student Veterans Association working toward a bachelor’s degree in social work. According to Joe Gorton, SVA’s adviser, “being a veteran and transitioning back
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If you’ve spent a year in Iraq, and you’re in Reserves or Guard or whatever, you’re nontraditional regardless of whether you’re 19 years old or not.
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into civilian society and into a university is difficult” because the military experience differs vastly from civilian life. “It’s a subculture of its own with very specific formal and informal rules for how to live in that environment. In fact, in some respects, it’s outside of civil society. That’s why people in the military aren’t referred to as civilians,” said Gorton, an associate professor in the department of sociology, anthropology and
criminology. Students who have served in the military have had leadership and cultural experiences that traditional students haven’t, according to Lindsay Cohn, an assistant professor of political science. “They have dealt with issues of far greater gravity and importance than most 18-year-olds. They have had ridiculous amounts of See VETERANS, page 17
ACADEMICS
Iowa students demonstrate little Proposed changes to improvement in math and reading LAC create controversy RACHEL ZIDON
BLAKE FINDLEY
Staff Writer
Academic Writer
Over the last two decades, American students on the whole made progress in math and reading. However, in the same time period, Iowa students demonstrated little improvement in math and reading scores, according to a report released last week from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. According to the Des Moines Register, the slump in scores was consistent throughout student backgrounds. Jason Glass, the director of the Iowa Department of Public Education, said the results of the NAEP report support the need for education reform
Social sciences faculty and students are voicing concern over a proposed change to the Liberal Arts Core that would decrease the social sciences requirements. The proposal removes one threecredit course from the current requirement of three three-credit courses. Philip Mauceri, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, expressed concern over the cut, citing the importance of social sciences to a foundation for student learning. “Every day of our life we are engaging in social interactions with others and
See MATH AND READING, page 4
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with social institutions, and a college-educated individual needs to have both the skills and the knowledge to understand these,” Mauceri said. “For example, as citizens of the United States, we need to understand a broad range of policy areas and relationships that affect our lives, as well as the institutions where these decisions are being made.” The recommendation breaks the social sciences section down into three sections: Human Nature and Behavior, Culture and Society, and Politics and Economics. Students would need to complete six hours of classes from these categories. See LAC, page 3
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