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Whether it is the conspiracy theories surrounding his death, the changes in how the president is protected or the effect of the assassination on the American public that comes to mind at the mention of John F. Kennedy, the former president will always be remembered for something. Monday night’s panel, “Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy,” in Seerley Hall was a chance to reflect back on the life and death of Kennedy during the anniversary week of his death. The American Democracy Project and the University of Northern Iowa’s history and political science departments sponsored the panel discussion. John Johnson, UNI history professor and speaker at the event, focused on some conspiracies that surround the assassination. “Lots of things don’t fit together, lots of things are still dangling,” Johnson said about why the theories are so popular. He spoke about the lone gunman theory, which says single gunman Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Kennedy, and the “grassy knoll,” an area the majority of witnesses claim the fatal shots came
The University of Northern Iowa will be the subject of plenty of conversation during the Iowa Board of Regents’ upcoming telephonic meeting Dec. 4 in Ames. In addition to the state university tuition and fees discussion, the board plans to bring up professional development assignments for UNI faculty and an update on the Iowa Research and Development Center for Educational Transformation at the UNI. The center, which was approved by the BOR in October, will “offer a new, original model in which the state can both address its research and development needs and engage in projects of national significance,” according to the BOR website. The plan outlined by the BOR’s Education and Student Affairs Committee states that the center’s director will be a tenured faculty member, and the search for said director began earlier this fall. Finalists will come to campus in late November or early December. As far as research at the center is concerned, the BOR states that it will “focus on three to five central themes, within which specific questions will be addressed by project teams and other staff.” One such initial theme will be math and science education in Iowa, and it will build on UNI’s current work in education, a strong state-level emphasis on STEM education and future workforce needs.
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Panelists discuss the history and rumors that surround John F. Kennedy in Seerley Hall on Monday.
from. Johnson also shared that in 2001, 81 percent of Americans believed there was a conspiracy involving Kennedy’s assassination. “There are over 2,000 books and over 30,000 documents about the assassination,” Johnson said. Johnson went on about what Kennedy was doing in Dallas the day he was shot. “As popular as Kennedy was, he was in danger of losing the South for his re-election,” said Johnson. Panelist Dick Broadie, newspaper columnist and radio commentator, brought up some of
Kennedy’s views and how they changed. Broadie said Kennedy was a conservative, but it is argued that he tended to lean towards liberalist views while in office. In an interview, Kennedy even called himself a liberal.
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‘Original Bridesmaids’ comes to UNI KATHERINE JAMTGAARD Staff Writer
Coming to Strayer-Wood Theatre is the UNI Student Theatre Association’s studentrun production “5 Women Wearing the Same Dress,” or, as the organization has dubbed it, the “original ‘Bridesmaids.’” Director Nathan Jorgensen, senior communications and theater teaching major, chose the play for its comedic and meaningful script and storyline.
“It’s not just a mindless comedy; it’s got some meat to it. … I thought it would be something that people would want to go see, that they would enjoy watching,” he said. Jorgensen said a production normally has four to six weeks of rehearsal, depending on the show and venue. However, UNISTA has only two weeks for its upcoming production. This is because Jorgensen was a student coordinator for the recent Iowan Thespian Festival that took
place Nov. 15-16. One of the actors in the show, Olivia Frisch, junior theater major with a double emphasis in performance and drama for youth, has faith that the production will be a success. “I believe all of us are up for it because we have a very talented cast and crew who are extremely dedicated, so we take great pride in our work,” she said. See UNISTA, page 9
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The cast members of “5 Women Wearing the Same Dress.”
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“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people ... then I’m proud to say I’m a liberal,” Kennedy said. Donna Hoffman, head of the political science department and third panelist of the night, discussed how video and pictures of the assassination affected America. “Eighty one percent of American homes watched the JFK funeral,” said Hoffman. She also said color photographs of the
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Pledge to go turkey free this Thanksgiving DAVID POPE poped @uni.edu
There’s been a stir in the news recently regarding a potential shortage of large turkeys available for purchase this Thanksgiving. While this is likely a convenient market spin to drive up bird sales, it has caused quite a bit of alarm for those determined to have the kind of Thanksgiving feast that plays so heavily in our understanding of the holiday. After all, it is sometimes simply called “Turkey Day.” But where is all of the alarm about the turkeys themselves? Why are we more concerned about the portions of our poultry than
the horrific ways the birds are raised? The image of the Thanksgiving turkey is an iconic one, branded into our minds since childhood by our culture. It is a statuesque and proud image of a regal and stately bird with colorful wattle and thick plumage in autumnal colors. As children, we were taught to draw turkeys using the shape of our hand and color them in with vibrant shades of red, orange and brown. This mental picture of turkeys is a beautiful one, and it may reflect the beauty of turkeys in the wild, but it certainly doesn’t correlate with the gruesome reality of the turkey that ends up on your table. Nearly 46 million turkeys are killed in the U.S. alone for Thanksgiving each year. Ninety nine percent of these
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turkeys are raised in factory farms. In these factory farms, the turkeys are packed tightly together in a tiny area so that more of them can be raised at once and the farm can make more money. In order to keep them in such a confined space, these factory farms often debeak young turkeys with shears, heat or electric current. Debeaking is incredibly painful, as the turkey’s beak is loaded with sensory recep-
tors much like the human hand. Some turkeys instantly die of shock when debeaked. The close quarters also cause a buildup of turkey feces, which accumulates enough ammonia to burn the eyes, throats and skin of the turkeys. Many have their feathers nearly or completely burned off by the ammonia. The factory farm also breeds the turkeys using artificial insemination practices, which are incredibly painful and terrifying for the birds. Workers hold male turkeys upside down and masturbate them via machine as they thrash wildly and defecate in panic. Female turkeys have it even worse, as workers restrain them, turn them upside down and shove tubes of semen forcefully into their vaginas. Turkeys are naturally
intelligent and have a lifespan of several years, but are slaughtered in factory farms around the age of 4 to 5 months old. Often, though, they are very social creatures in the wild, and in the horrific conditions of the factory farm, turkeys will even cannibalize each other out of panic and lack of space. This isn’t the elementary school drawing of a happy turkey. Thanksgiving is next week, and Americans promise to eat as much turkey as ever, unaware of the terrible suffering of the bird they’re digging into, or perhaps knowing but not caring about the plight of turkeys. Don’t be one of them. Give turkeys something to be thankful for and pledge to go turkey free this Thanksgiving — have a vegetarian meal instead.
Fighting against the War on Women RENAE BEARD renaeb @uni.edu
At a conference she had attended a year ago in the summer, UNI Feminist Action League Facilitator Paige Hageman said, “We are using the same tactics as soldiers … isn’t that crazy?” She then went on to lay out profound grounds for comparison, such as how women travel in groups at night much as a troupe of soldiers and how they hold on to their keys while walking in the dark so they have a weapon to defend themselves against potential attackers, similar to soldiers carrying guns. Last week, I again found myself listening to the oppressive conditions of women. Packed into Seerley 115, with numerous other activists and supporters, I attended a controversial yet captivating lecture by Sunsara Taylor called
“Defeating the Assault on Abortion Rights: Winning the Full Liberation of Women.” She stole the audiences’ attention immediately, introducing herself unashamedly and brazenly as an atheist and a revolutionary communist. The audience tensed, but Taylor continued without so much as a pause. A walking historical record of female strife and struggle, she spewed statistic after statistic, quoted from books and read from the Bible. I entered the lecture hall fairly casually, a lukewarm supporter of abortion calling myself conditionally pro-abortion rights. But I found myself bobbing my head vigorously with the rest of the crowd as Taylor listed the facts: Prior to 1973, abortion was against the law; during that time period, 3,000 women a year died from complications of illegal abortion; one in three women will have an abortion, which is 10 times safer than childbirth; 50 abortion clinics have been shut down in the past three years; and lawmakers, as
we speak, are trying to make abortion illegal again. “The idea that women have achieved full equality is false,” Taylor stated intensely. “Not allowing women the opportunity to have rights over their own body in the case of an unsafe, unwanted or undesirable livelihood for their future baby is forced motherhood and female enslavement.” She looked intently over the faces of the audience and continued somberly. “There are two fundamental fights around women right now: abortion and sexual violence (porn and rape),” said Taylor. Suddenly, I was transported back to my conversation with Hageman, “Our speaker called it, ‘The War on Women.’” The severity and immanency pertaining to the status of women overwhelmed me. I have identified myself as a progressive, feminist activist, but the harsh truth had been spoken, and the words resonated in every niche of my being. I began to adopt her so-called “radical” perspec-
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Sunsara Taylor speaks in Seerley Hall Nov. 14. Her lecture focused on women’s rights.
tive. I furiously wrote notes, documenting everything she said, ranging from the way we socialize our children to activism to the sexualized degradation of women to the demoralizing pornography culture. Liberation of women: I mulled it over in my mind, tasted it with all my senses. Revolution was what we needed, Taylor had said many times. We’ve already started. There has been the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, protests and
media coverage, lobbying and speeches, but most importantly, there has been hope. It’s going to be slow and hard. It’s going to take time, and occasionally we may suffer from setbacks. Pop culture artist Macklemore once sang, “Learn from that failure, gain humility and then we keep marching,” Together in struggle, together in victory, and always with hope in our hearts, we can continue the revolution. We can end the war on women.
just want time to relax with their friends after not having that opportunity. Being at UNI is hard for many black students. We can account for being oppressed. This includes being called a “nigger” by a group of Caucasian males in a moving vehicle, being asked for the “black perspective” about a topic in class, being the last chosen amongst the majority
when selecting group members in class, but the first to be partnered with one other minority, and being called “you people” by a group of peers with authority. In these instances, an individual can feel isolated. When pushed away, race becomes very prevalent. Colored people are essentially forced to their own kind and are criticized for doing such.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Black Student Union felt strongly about the article in the Northern Iowan titled “Segregation still prominent in modern times.” It referenced slavery as evidence that this country can overcome racism when it created racism. Slavery and colonization of African people created racial humiliation of blacks and racial arrogance by whites. Modern evidence is
the results from a survey that Tim Wise discussed in the film “Vocabulary of Change.” It asked the privileged for one of the main reasons why they wouldn’t want national health care for all citizens. Findings showed they wouldn’t want the colored to abuse it. We live in a colorless society where the idea of us all being equal exists because no one is enslaved, but color as well as
power differences exist. Kayla Venuto targeted black students for sitting together in Maucker Union, failing to realize that she’s racial profiling. Friends sit with friends, regardless of how they met. If members of the same organization sit together there isn’t an issue because the visual difference isn’t shown. However, there are colored friends that sit together. They
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Thanksgiving in the dorms JACINDA RUGGLES
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Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday season, full of the spirit of giving. Unfortunately, sometimes we can’t be with our families even if we want to. But even though some of us Panthers come from a few states away or have to work, there’s still a way to celebrate the holiday,
even on your own. By making a couple decorations and some dorm room ham chowder, you can have Thanksgiving for one. We may not always get to spend the holidays with our families, but we are always able to connect via telephone and social media. And we all have something to be thankful for, so don’t forget what you’re thankful for this season.
Microwave meal INGREDIENTS
• Hy-Vee buttermilk biscuits (59 cents) • Hy-Vee cream of potato soup (67 cents) • Hy-Vee cold corn (59 cents) • Hy-Vee diced ham ($2.78) • Salt and pepper/seasonings to taste • Butter for the biscuits (optional) This dorm room Thanksgiving doesn’t need a stove; it just needs a microwave. Start with a large microwavable bowl and put in a handful or so of diced ham. Then add the cream of potato soup, corn and seasonings. Thoroughly mix everything together and microwave for approximately 5 minutes, or until warm. This recipe can be changed up
Since it is Thanksgiving, you can’t forget the turkey. But that’s what decorations are for. There’s always the traditional drawing of a hand turkey on a piece of paper, or you can get just a tad more creative with the next project. Find a spare cup and a blank piece of printer paper, construction paper or any paper really. Draw seven to nine turkey “leaves” on the paper. Draw a couple eyes, a beak and a snood (the technical term for the red fleshy part on top of the beak I like to call the gobbler). Cut these parts out, attach the eyes, beak and snood to the front of the cup. I used tape because it’s temporary and I’d like to keep using my glass after Thanksgiving is over.
Then color the leaves if you didn’t use colored paper. Finally, attach the paper feathers to the back of the glass. Voila! You have a turkey centerpiece for your own dorm room coffee table dinner.
No-bake pumpkin pie a bit. Instead of corn and cream of potato soup, you can use a small can of mixed vegetables and cream of mushroom soup. I also added some shredded cheese and about a half cup of milk to the chowder. If you decide to bake the biscuits, you’ll need to use the dorm kitchen’s oven. They only take about 12 minutes to cook until golden brown.
CRIME LOG Oct. 13 Joshua Behr, 25, was arrested for public intoxication at the Strayer-Wood/ Communication Arts Center at 12:51 a.m. Oct. 16 Haley Young, 19, was arrested for driving while license suspended on 22nd and Campus Street at 4:16 p.m. Oct. 17 Matthew Westendorf, 23, was arrested for operating while intoxicated, possession of a controlled substance that resembled something “green and leafy” and drug paraphernalia on 27th and Panther Street at 5:17 p.m. Oct. 23 John Fogelson, 20, was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia at Noehren Hall at 11:42 p.m. Oct. 28 Renesha Hill, 23, was arrest-
Turkey decoration
The smells of the season always include the distinct scent of pumpkin. The easiest way to get your pumpkin fix is to make a Jell-O nobake pumpkin pie. It comes in a box and can be found in the baking aisle of your local grocery store. It may not be the most traditional pie you’ve tasted, but it’s worth it not to use an oven, especially if you live in a dorm room. All you need to make it is 5 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoons of sugar and 2 ½ cups of milk.
INGREDIENTS • Jell-O no-bake pumpkin pie ($1.99) • Hy-Vee whipped topping (77 cents)
ENTERTAINMENT ed for driving while license suspended at the StrayerWood Circle at 3:14 p.m. Oct. 13 Jared Raney, 21, was arrested for public intoxication at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at 12:54 a.m. Nov. 3 Mitchell Hoffman, 21, was arrested for public intoxication at Campbell Hall at 1:03 a.m. Nov. 11 Jeramie Anderson, 22, and John Zaleski, 21, were arrested for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia at Noehren Hall at 10:18 p.m. The crime log is composed of closed crime cases provided by the UNI Police Department. All persons are innocent until proven guilty.
Thanksgiving joke corner Can a turkey
Why did the police
When does Christmas
jump higher than
arrest the turkey?
come before
the Empire State
They suspected it of
Thanksgiving?
Building?
fowl play.
In the dictionary.
Yes - a building can’t jump at all.
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What did the mother turkey say to her dis-
Why can’t you take
obedient children?
a turkey to church?
If your father could see
Because they use
you now, he’d turn over
such fowl language.
in his gravy!
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One difficulty Jorgensen encountered early on was whittling down the 30 people who auditioned. “Finding the right ensemble was really the hardest part because I had so many people that would fit in every different role. It was about seeing who would work the best together and who would work under the short time frame and get the work done,” he said. Sometimes actors have difficulty connecting with their character, but Frisch said that was not the case with this show. “I think Nate did an amazing job casting because we all relate to our characters really well,” said Frisch. “Obviously we’re not the same people so there are some differences, but as I was reading through the script I was like: ‘I connect with this.’” Frisch tries to delve into her character’s passions, likes and dislikes to get into character. “Actors are kind of like detectives, so we have to justify why we’re doing something or why our character would do something in a scene,” she said. The production is entirely student run and is not associated with the theater department, meaning every aspect of the production — costumes, hair and makeup, lighting, production meetings — is organized by students. But the theater extends
You don’t need to be a (theater) major or minor. You don’t have to have any previous experience. Olivia Frisch Actress
beyond the actors. Math students help in the box office and marketing majors help get the word out and manage ticket sales. “You don’t need to be a (theater) major or minor. You don’t need to have any previous experience,” Frisch said. “You just come and it’s just a great process to get involved, meet new students and do theater because maybe you did theater in high school or you love theater but you don’t want to do a career or major in it.” Some UNISTA members said connecting with a group of people that have one common goal in mind can create a sense of camaraderie. “Really that’s what the show’s about. It’s about making those bonds. It comes full circle,” Jorgensen said. “It’s always bittersweet when a show is done because you feel like you’re loosing a family. You just got to look back and say, ‘we had those awesome memories.’” The show opens in the Bertha Martin Theatre Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m., with another showing Dec. 7 at the same time. Admission is $3.
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Indie music festival coming to the HuB IRIS FRASHER
Staff Writer
Indie pop, indie rock and other similar genres of music have been growing in popularity, and KULT and Slimbeast Productions are going to exhibit local artists who fall under these categories Dec. 7 at The HuB. The event, titled “Slimbeast Present: Hardi-Har, Dylan Sires and Neighbors, The River Monks, The Host Country, Burning Palace,” will feature music by all five bands. The event will use both of The HuB’s two stages. Slimbeast Productions brought forth the idea for this winter show. Andrew
...I feel that the station should slowly merge into a sound that is unique to campus... Brendan Wood
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and Julie Thoreen, former UNI students, make up the group. Andrew Thoreen contacted Brendan Wood, music director at KULT radio. “We had a couple discussions and came up with many specific and great ideas to maximize coverage for the show, and to spread as much wonderful music as possible,” said Wood.
Wood said the newly forged partnership between KULT and Slimbeast Productions is a great one. “As Music Director at KULT, I feel that the station should slowly merge into a sound that is unique to campus — something much different than the typical country and top 40 stations in the area,” Wood said. “Partnering with bands like these really solidify that by the end of the school year; we’ll be that unique indie station.” Tickets for the event are $8 at the door and $5 with a student ID.
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UNI crowns 7 at Cobber Open NICK GARY
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The University of Northern Iowa Wrestling team competed for the first time this season in Moorhead, Minn., at the Finn Grinaker Cobber Open on Saturday. The Panther wrestlers dominated the competition, taking home seven individual championships. In the 125-pound class, Dylan Peters ended all four of his matches by pin and defeated Shane Novak of Minnesota State University Moorhead in 31 seconds for the championship in the first varsity action of his career. UNI’s Joe Colon and Levi Wolfensperger met in the championship match in the 133-pound weight class. Wolfensperger, a returning NCAA qualifier, pinned his first three opponents before falling to Colon in the championship. Before defeating Wolfensperger, Colon also dominated his competition. He won in two technical falls, 20-5 and 21-6, and pinned Anthony Rodriguez of North Dakota State University. Competing at 157 pounds, Jarret Jensen pinned his first two opponents and won in a decision against Kyle LeDuc of Concordia College, 4-1, to take home the championship. In his first varsity match, redshirt freshman Cooper Moore defeated Steven Monk of NDSU, 6-4, for the first championship of his career. In
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The University of Northern Iowa completed its first match of the season by crowning seven champions at the Finn Grinaker Cobber Open. The Panthers return to action Saturday when they take on Northern Illinois University and North Dakota State University in DeKalb, Ill.
his first match, Moore pinned Northland Community and Technical College’s Jordan Engen in 1 minute, 41 seconds and won the rest of his matches by decision. At 174 pounds, Cody Caldwell started the season strong by defeating MSUM’s Connor Monk by technical fall, 16-1. After another technical fall in his second round match and a decision over Sebastian
Gardner of Concordia, Caldwell beat NDSU’s Hayden Zillmar, 4-1, to take first place. Basil Minto, a transfer from North Iowa Area Community College who was wrestling at 197 pounds, won in a major decision over Deslon Saintal of Concordia, 12-1. In the second round, Minto won in an extremely tight match against NDSU’s Tyler Lehmann by a score of 7-6. Minto joined
teammate Jared Bartel in the championship, the second match of the day that two Panthers met in the championship round. Minto took down Bartel, 7-3. Blaize Cabell began his season on a high note, pinning Tanner Grant of Itasca Community College in 2:36. After two consecutive wins by decision, Cabell met NDSU’s Evan Knutson in the cham-
pionship match of the 285pound weight class. Cabell beat Knutson in a close decision, 3-1, to take first place. The Panthers will be back in action Saturday, Nov. 23, when they take on Northern Illinois University and NDSU in DeKalb, Ill. UNI’s first home match will be Saturday, Nov. 30, when they take on the University of Wisconsin in the West Gymnasium at 7 p.m.
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3 years later, the Interlude Dance is past its prime JAKE BEMIS
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Ian Goldsmith, one of the creators of the Interlude Dance, teaches Michelle Obama the Interlude Dance Feb. 9, 2012.
It was a craze that once swept the nation. The Interlude Dance, created at the University of Northern Iowa, has thousands of YouTube views and hundreds of uploads, including a video of Michelle Obama dancing to the song. If you’re one of the few people who have no idea what the Interlude Dance is, and I do mean few, let me give you a quick recap of what you’ve missed. According to the original video, the dance uses a song by a band called Attack!Attack! and consists of six basic dances everyone can do. You start off with a “warming the hands around the fire” dance followed by hand claps to the beat of the song. Once you’ve nailed that difficult
task, you move your arms up and down then wave them in a crazy manner. The madness continues with the robot and fist pump before going back to the original up-and-down arm motion. Sounds wild, doesn’t it? I will admit, when the Interlude Dance was first created, it was magical to watch. Even though you weren’t quite sure what you were watching, just seeing hundreds, even thousands of people all dancing in sync gave you goosebumps. But just like the dances the Interlude consists of, it started to get old and overused — fast. Not only was the song played at nearly every UNI event, but you could find people dancing to it at Waterloo Black Hawks and Bucks games as well. Every. Single. Game. Fast forward three years, and
those thousands of people you once saw doing the Interlude have now turned into dozens. The once magical sight has turned into a grotesque celebration of dances that should have never been popular to begin with all bundled into a single song. Those goosebumps from seeing people dance weren’t because of the Interlude, they were because of the unity the dance once created. UNI has become “that guy” who dances like a belligerent idiot starving for attention. The Interlude Dance had its time in the spotlight, but it’s time for that light to fade away. Fads come and go, and this fad has gone on long enough. Call me a fun hater, email your disgust, tweet your anger — but please, whatever you do, just make sure you stop doing the Interlude.
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