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Men’s Glee Club celebrates 50 years at UNI

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NISG senate Many colleges overhauls Missouri derails Northern Iowa’s NCAA pressed to give constitution

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Laid off at the start of the recession as the marketing director for a regional homebuilder, Leah Schedin quickly realized she lacked something essential for a new job: a university degree.

Schedin had completed courses here and there at a community college, but never enough for a bachelor’s degree. Without one, she found, her 18 years of experience didn’t matter.

“These days, you’re applying online, and you’re filtered out as soon as you get to the question about whether you have a degree,” said the 46-year-old, who’s married and has a teenage daughter.

So Schedin put her talents to work finding a university where she could get academic credit for her work experience. She found one: City University of Seattle, a private, nonprofit institution that’s at the vanguard of a See WORK EXPERIENCE, page 2

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The UNI volleyball team had high hopes for their postseason Friday night as they prepared for the first round of the NCAA tournament. Unfourtantely, UNI fell short, losing a five-set match against Missouri.

SAM JEFSON

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Entering Friday night’s contest against Missouri, the University of Northern Iowa volleyball team had high aspirations for the NCAA tournament. Faster than an Ellie Blankenship jump serve, those dreams were gone.

A raucous McLeod Center wasn’t enough for the Panthers in a five-set match featuring action to make even the most casual volleyball fan stand up and cheer.

“It was an absolutely amazing atmosphere for the NCAA tournament,” said Northern Iowa head coach Bobbi Petersen. “It was

everything it should have been tonight, so I am very thankful for our fans.”

Entering the match, fifth-seeded Northern Iowa carried a 30-2 record. The team looked unstoppable and hadn’t been pushed to a five-set match since Sep. 10. On Friday, the formula that had proved successful all year was stopped. Missouri had an answer for every ace or kill Northern Iowa threw at them.

“It’s hard to be done,” Petersen said. “But to be able to be done in a hard-fought battle with an amazing crowd and a great NCAA atmosphere, I guess if you’re going to lose, See VOLLEYBALL, page 3

UNI’s cancellation process

SARAH KELZER Staff Writer

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UNI closed campus on Dec. 9 last year as a result of inclement weather. Lawther Field was covered in snow as the Cedar Valley received several inches.

It’s rare, but it happens – a college snow day.

When the weather is severe enough, the University of Northern Iowa will come to a screeching halt and alarm clocks will be turned off with a smile of relief.

Students know that it takes a powerful blizzard for UNI officials to shut down campus. Luckily, some professors who live further away from campus choose to cancel classes and many students are aware of this.

“I really appreciate when professors send out an email prior to class time so I don’t See CANCELLATION, page 3

After two weeks of discussion, the Northern Iowa Student Government passed a bill Wednesday that, pending approval by the student body, will make several changes to its constitution. Students will vote to approve or reject the bill during the student government elections in February.

The constitutional changes, which passed by a vote of 22-1-2, are largely changes for linguistic clarification and changes that reflect how the student government operates. The most significant change passed will eliminate interim committees, which are 30-member bodies that replace the senate during the summer.

If the bill is passed, matters that arise over the summer will instead be discussed and resolved during a special meeting of at least half of the total transitional senate members.

The bill also removes from the constitution the statement that all senate meetings are open to the public. According to Senator Gage Rewerts, the author of the change, specific guidelines for when the public may be present at senate meetings will be added to the body’s bylaws to match the way the senate has acted historically.

“They will be open unless on matter of debate on appointments of people and persons to the senate, confirming the appointments of chief justices, justices, and general executive appointments” in order to ensure that senators can speak frankly against a certain appointment without overstepping propriety, Rewerts said.

The original bill presented to the senate by the Government and Legislative Affairs committee on Nov. 24 contained several controversial changes that did not make it into the final bill.

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movement catering to the growing numbers of adult learners and military veterans who are changing careers in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. At the end of next semester, she’ll head back into the churning job market with a four-year degree in marketing after just 18 months.

Universities and colleges are being pressed to increase graduation rates and speed up the time it takes for students to complete degrees by awarding college credit for their life and work experience. A national campaign that starts Friday will promote the sometimes-derided practice with a program to help adults prepare online portfolios of their job experience that independent faculty will evaluate for academic credit.

One hundred institutions in 30 states are on board.

Top higher-education associations back the coalition, and major foundations are bankrolling it. It hopes to reach tens of thousands of people within five years.

The push coincides with President Barack Obama’s goal of boosting the number of college graduates by 5 million before the end of the decade, and it comes as states and higher education institutions are moving away from strict demands for seat time and credit hours.

There’s a growing awareness that Obama’s goal can’t be reached without encouraging older students such as Schedin.

“My goal is to be back in my career,” Schedin said as she enjoyed some rare downtime in a corner of the CityU cafeteria. “I wanted to get through fast, and I wanted some credit for those years I’ve put in.”

Only a handful of people take advantage of the opportunity to cash in on work experience: Just two dozen out of CityU’s 2,500 American students have sought such credits, a ratio that’s similar to what other schools report.

“It’s just not happening at the pace or scale it should be, given all these people out there with learning that has occurred in other venues,” said Pamela Tate, the president and CEO of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, which is behind the new campaign.

One reason is that many faculty members look down their noses at the practice and discourage their institutions and students from participating. “They still believe that ‘if you weren’t in my class, you couldn’t possibly know it,’” Tate said.

The idea of credit for learning from experience also took a hit when Wal-

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Gorsuch, the president of CityU. “You learn by doing,” Gorsuch added. “We’re not anti-intellectual, but can you balance a spreadsheet or can’t you?”

Even more established institutions such as the University of Maryland University College and Valdosta State University in Georgia are beginning to accept credits from experience.

“It’s coming back now in a big way because there is this national push from the federal government,” Maryland’s Cini said. “We’re looking for new ways to help people realize that, even if they’ve been out in the work force and have three kids and a busy life, there are ways to get a college degree that won’t take 20 years.”

Universities aren’t doing this solely out of altruism.

Adult learners increasingly seek schools that give them credit for experience, according to a survey by the higher-education marketing company Stamats. That means the potential for more tuition and more applicants, which enhances an institution’s reputation.

While no one tracks the number of credits awarded in this way, Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges, a consortium whose members offer academic credit for military experience, reports that 45,892 students earned 805,473 credits last year for their military training and experience. For those military students who are pursuing four-year degrees, that’s an average of about 22 semester credits each out of the 120 to 180 credits that usually are needed.

Navy veteran John McGowan was awarded enough credits for his electronics training and other military experience that he got a bachelor’s degree in half the usual time from Irvine, Calif.-based Brandman University, even while working full time. “I went from zero college to a bachelor’s degree in two years,” McGowan said.

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Mart announced in June that it would team with a private, for-profit university to offer employees academic credit for things they did at work.

“People thought employees at Wal-Mart were getting college credit for learning how to use the cash register,” said Marie Cini, the vice provost at the University of Maryland University College, the online branch of the Maryland state university system. “If you use a really rigorous assessment process, that is not the case.”

Credit for work experience can have its downsides.

The credits are difficult to transfer if you change universities, and substituting them for introductory requirements can cause problems for students later in their careers, when they can’t keep up with classmates in writing or other basic academic skills.

Experiential learning was first tried after World War I, when returning soldiers who enrolled in college were allowed to skip straight to sophomore year as a reward for their military service.

But they proved unprepared for more advanced work, and the practice largely lapsed.

Low U.S. college graduation rates are helping to drive a revival. Less than 60 percent of college students earn bachelor’s degrees within six years, and the U.S. has fallen from first in the world to 10th in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with associate’s degrees or higher.

For a variety of reasons, increasing numbers of the nation’s 16 million university and college students are older than traditional high school graduates. Forty percent are 25 and older.

A study of 48 schools by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning found that students who get credit for their experience are more likely to complete degrees.

“All of our institutional frameworks have been created around 18-year-olds coming out of high schools without any experience.

They’re the empty vessels into which we pour knowledge. But when you’re a working adult, you’re hardly an empty vessel,” said Lee

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it’s a special way to go out.”

The momentum shifting match featured 25 tie scores and 10 different lead changes. The two teams were reminiscent of heavyweight fighters trading haymakers back and forth until Missouri dealt the knockout punch in game five.

“You could use the word epic to describe this match,” Missouri head coach Wayne Kreklow said. “It was a battle the whole way and one of the more intense hardfought matches I have ever been in.”

The match truly did go back and forth, with Missouri winning all of the odd games and Northern Iowa winning games two and four.

Missouri jumped to the early lead by taking game one by a score of 25-19.

Northern Iowa surrendered an early lead and could never match pace with the Tigers in the opening frame.

Game two was all Northern Iowa, with the Panthers winning 25-17.

UNI received a spark late in game two from Krista DeGeest, who had two blocks and a kill in the last four points of the match.

Games three and four proved to capture the intensity and spirit of the match, with each game going into extra points. Missouri claimed game three by a score of 26-24, securing the final point on a tip play from Julianna Klein. In game four UNI’s steely determination

was palpable as they refused to go down easily. Despite jumping out to a 19-14 lead, the Panthers let the Tigers back into the match, allowing them to tie the score at 24-24. Points were then traded until 26-26 when DeGeest once again came up with a huge block to put the Panthers in position for a 28-26 game four win.

“The team felt really good about winning that fourth game,” Petersen said.

“Especially with how exciting it got at the end, they were able to hang on and pull it out.”

In the fifth frame, Missouri controlled play for the majority of the game, pulling away from a 7-7 tie and never looking back. The Tigers eventually took the final set 15-10 on a blistering Julianna Klein kill from the back row.

The loss to Missouri marks the end of three fantastic careers for seniors Ellie Blankenship, Chelsea Saunders and Beth Discher.

“The hardest part about being done is not being able to be with this team anymore.” Petersen said. “I know each team is different and we are going to rebuild, but this was an extremely special team.”

“We have a lot of talent on the team, even the people that didn’t get to play this year,” Bre Payton said. “We are really going to miss Ellie, Beth and Chelsea, obviously, ‘cause they are a really big part of our team, but year in and year out we are going to fight and play hard as a team.”

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have to bundle up and trek through the windiest campus in the world just to find out I get to turn around and trek back home,” said Sara Hermsen, a junior health promotion major. “After all, there is nothing better in college than waking up to a snow day and being able to stay in your sweats all day.”

An unfortunate effect of “sweat days” is the fact that universities usually do not make up snow days. Therefore, if too much material still needs to be covered, professors may choose to either assign the material as extra homework or to skip over it entirely.

If crews can get the streets, sidewalks and entryways reasonably clear, UNI will have classes. On the rare occasion UNI does make the snow day announcement, the Provost, Vice President of Administration and the Director of Public Safety are the ones making the final decision.

The verdict is not made lightly. The officials are well aware of UNI’s 13,000 student enrollment, with only about 4,200 living on campus. With so many driving to get to class, safety is the number one issue in public officials minds.

“Sometimes people don’t always use good common sense and don’t take stock of what the driving conditions are,” said Bob Younie, state maintenance engineer for the Iowa Department of Transportation.

For example, Younie recalls an incident when the patrol picked up a college student walking on the highway wearing nothing but flip-flops and shorts when the temperature was 20 degrees below zero.

“We’re just asking folks to use their common sense and to think of their own personal safety before they make their trip decisions,” Younie said.

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Perhaps the most controversial of these changes was the proposal to remove the word “diversity” from the title of the Director of Diversity and Student Life.

“As the author (of that change), I felt that having ‘diversity’ in the name took away from the primary goal of the position of Student Life,” said Rewerts, who chairs the GALA committee. “When it was first put in, I was at the senate meeting when we first codified the position and settled it down, and there was lengthy debate on this topic, and ‘diversity’ passed by a very small margin. And I was of the opinion that in fact diversity was taken to the extreme of student life, and GALA also voted on that and decided that was the case.”

The proposal met with heated opposition in the senate.

“As arguably the most homogenous state university (in Iowa), don’t you feel it’s important that we emphasize our efforts to spread diversity?”

Senator Robert Conway asked.

After questioning how this change would further the goals of student government, Senator Dale Yurz asserted that the change would cause several practical problems as well, as the title “Director of Diversity and Student Life” currently appears on a lot of university paperwork that would then have to be amended.

The senate voted to amend the bill to retain the title by a vote of 27-2-1.

Another controversial change was the removal of the power of recall from the student body. As the constitution currently states, elections must be held for the recall of a

specific senator or the student body president after a petition by a certain percentage of that representative’s constituency.

The proposed bill, however, removed this power.

Rewerts proposed retaining this power during the second reading of the bill on Wednesday, stating that it was not as popular as predicted. This was unanimously approved.

The bill also proposed removing the guidelines for impeachment from the constitution, which would then instead state that the senate would have the power of “approving the censure or dismissal of any member of the Student Government by a tow-thirds majority.”

“This here should properly be put (in the bylaws),” Rewerts said of the impeachment guidelines, adding that the current impeachment pro-

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Some senators did not want to remove the impeachment procedures from the constitution before first seeing proposed procedures for the bylaws, however.

“I would like to see a proposal for (the procedures for the bylaws) and then at the same time move to remove this from the constitution,” said Senator Spencer Walrath.

The senate voted to retain the impeachment guidelines with some modifications for linguistic clarity 20-3-2.

The proposed bill also amended the line of succession for the office of the presidency, removing from it the executive positions – director of administration, director of public relations, director of diversity and student life and director of governmental relations – so that succession would go directly from the vice president to the speaker of the senate to the deputy speaker and to the chairs of the different senate committees.

“The officers of the executive branch are appointed primarily to fulfill a niche position within the organization. With the exception of the vice president, everyone in that chain is not elected… So (we removed these officers from the line of succession) in order to keep democratic representation as full as possible as well as to keep… somebody, say, who

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is really great at public relations and design, who would never consider going before the regents and making demands and negotiations (from filling that role). Whereas your average senator doesn’t sign up for these things either, but we should hope by putting themselves up for election they’re at least more conditioned for it than someone who was appointed for their skill on the computer.”

Many senators opposed this change.

“We don’t feel like we are prepared to take over the presidency,” said Senator Ryan Trump of the senate committee chairs.

The original line of succession was retained by a vote of 25-1-0.

The initial proposal also removed from the student body president the power to preside over meetings of the student body and the power to call senate meetings, both of which were retained without opposition.

“The president should retain the right to call meetings of the senate in case something comes up that they’re aware passed by the university administration, board of regents, state government — whatever, that requires a vote of the senate to happen in a time frame that does not allow us to do it during our next regularly scheduled meeting,” Walrath said.

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Glee Club celebrates 50 years at UNI

By KARI BRAUMANN Staff Writer

In the dark hush of a packed Great Hall, University of Northern Iowa Varsity Men’s Glee Club members past and present filled the stage and aisles, encircling the audience in a candle-lit procession.

As their voices moved through the harmonies of traditional Christmas carols, one could almost feel the audience holding its breath in captivation.

More than 100 UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club alumni joined the current ensemble for the final performance of the Glee Club’s 33rd Annual Christmas Variety Show Saturday night.

Their appearance marks the 50th anniversary of the Glee Club’s founding in 1960.

“It was so special. ... When you see all these alumni, you can see exactly how important Glee Club has been for a lot of UNI men, and how important it’s going to be for the guys in the group,” said John Len

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Members of the UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club performed at the 33rd Annual Christmas Variety Show Saturday. The show marked the 50th anniversary of the Glee Club’s founding in 1960.

Wiles, the Glee Club’s director.

The alumni performance, which began the second half of the show, was the icing on the cake for a show that did not disappoint. The program followed a time-tested format. Old standbys were inter-

spersed with new delights such as “Betelehemu,” a Nigerian Christmas song featuring spirited percussion accompaniment, and an appearance by the UNI Children’s Choir.

“This is one of those things that kicks off people’s holiday

UNI community invited to give back with giving trees

By KARI BRAUMANN Editorial Staff

Four University of Northern Iowa campus dining and retail locations – Prexy’s, Essentials, 23rd Street Market and Biscotti’s – have put up Christmas trees for the holiday season. They’re not just for decoration, however.

The trees have paper ornaments attached with an item request, gender and age, e.g., “Clothes, boy, age 1.” Students, faculty and staff are invited to take an ornament off the tree, purchase the item and place it, unwrapped, in one of the boxes near the giving trees.

The donations will be collected by the Salvation Army in Waterloo and be made available to families in the Cedar Valley in need of assistance obtaining clothing and toys for their children. About 1,000 families in the area are in need of help.

ANNA SCHRECK/Northern Iowan According to Barb Salvation Army giving trees are located in Prexy’s, Essentials, 23rd Street Burbridge, assistant manager Market and Biscotti’s. of dining services, the giving tree program grew out of administrative office. The and ended up with extra an annual Christmas giving staff members would “adopt” money to donate. project among food service a couple of families who were See GIVING, page 6 staff in the Maucker Union in need during the holidays,

seasons,” said Kyle Ferden, a senior communication studies major in his fifth year with the Glee Club.

As in years past, the ensemble began the night with “We Need A Little Christmas” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time

of the Year.” An arrangement of “For Unto Us a Child Is Born” by former Glee Club director Bob Byrnes, who initiated the Christmas variety shows, was also featured.

After a vibrant dance number by Orchesis, the Glee Club’s play, “The Dark Knight Before Christmas (in 3D)” made its debut. The villainous Joker, played by the play’s author, Ian Goldsmith, plots to create chaos by unleashing Bieber Fever on the world. Batman is forced to choose between all the world’s presents and the Glee Club. Fortunately, Santa enters to save the day with the Christmas spirit and a muchneeded gift for Batman – a cough drop.

After intermission, the Glee Club alumni in attendance united with this year’s group in song. The alumni began their singing in the aisles and later joined the current Glee Club members on the stage.

“It was really cool, having See GLEE CLUB, page 8

Graduate Student Highlights

Olesen: Making a difference in the local community

By JACKIE McANDREW Graduate Student Affairs

Serving as firefighter in Cedar Rapids and working hard in school are among Andy Olesen’s top priorities. Olesen, a second-year University of Northern Iowa public policy graduate student, knows how to keep busy.

Among his other commitments, Olesen has built his own consulting practice, Olesen and Associates. But his own business isn’t his biggest accomplishment. So what is his top priority at the moment?

“Most importantly, I want to raise two healthy kids,” he said.

As a father, husband, student, firefighter and small business owner, Olesen is a busy guy. However, he said the decision to go back to school at UNI was the best choice for him and his family.

“Proximity played a big role,” he said. “I had to choose a school with a program that I was interested in and still

be able to make the commute from my home so that I could continue to work ANDY OLESEN and raise graduate student my family.

Also, (UNI) offered the only MPP program in the state.

It was best that my interests in public policy suited this program, rather than try to adjust to different programs elsewhere.”

Once Andy began his graduate studies, he realized that it would be an adjustment.

“I have to maintain my full-time career,” he said. “I have an established family to worry about, and after being out of school for a few years, I hadn’t written in awhile. It was quite the transition back into education.”

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Strayer-Wood Theatre presents ‘Mother Hicks’

By TEHRENE FIRMAN Staff Writer

The University of Northern Iowa Strayer-Wood Theatre introduced a production called “Mother Hicks,” by Suzan Zeder and Gretta Berghammer, on Dec. 2-5.

The play is set in southern Illinois during the Great Depression. Using the power of poetry and sign language to move the audience, it tells the journey of three characters: an orphan girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, Tuc; and Mother Hicks, a peculiar outsider and alleged witch.

There were many reasons why Berghammer wanted to direct “Mother Hicks,” but one stood out more than the rest.

“This story itself, despite taking place 65 years ago, is relevant to a 21st-century audience,” said Berghammer, a UNI professor of theatre. “We find ourselves facing similar economic uncertainty, anxiety and fear now as we did during the Great Depression.

The need for communities to enlarge themselves and adapt to newness is perhaps more

important now then it was back then. We live in times that are changing with great speed; in that effort, how do we all move forward without leaving people behind?”

The cast of “Mother Hicks” spent long hours preparing for the production.

“My favorite part about being involved in ‘Mother Hicks’ has been the whole process of learning the sign language and working for and with the deaf community to bring this show to life,” said Kenosha Carr, a junior theatre performance major and chorus member in the play. “It’s so wonderful to learn new things and be able to share this story with everyone.”

Tyler Gracey, a sophomore theatre performance major who played Wilson Walker, has acted since he was 8 years old and has been involved with plays for six years now.

“I loved being able to work with a new cast and director,” he said. “Every practice is different and it brings new tasks to the table.”

The cast’s love for acting was easy to see as the audience

“This story itself, despite taking place 65 years ago, is relevant to a 21st-century audience.

We find ourselves facing similar economic uncertainty, anxiety and fear now as we did during the Great Depression.”

Gretta Berghammer Director of “Mother Hicks”

enjoyed the production.

“The cast did a fantastic job,” said Jane Barnes, a local resident who attended the show. “I loved the set and you can tell they’ve talked about the inclusion of times when this took place. They related everything to the era very well.”

The cast and crew of “Mother Hicks” felt the show was a success.

“It is my hope that in bringing this play to the Cedar Valley that you will leave not only having been touched by the world of this play, but empowered to touch the world in which you play,” Berghammer said.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -The average student debt for bachelor’s degree graduates mushroomed 50 percent from 1996 to 2008, according to a new report.

Over the same time frame, debt for associate-degree graduates grew to twice the amount of their 1996 counterparts.

Analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data by the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project found that the higher debt loads were driven by three trends: More students borrowed -- 60 percent of graduates in 2008, compared to 52 percent of graduates in 1996.

Students borrowed more -2008 bachelor’s degree recipients borrowed an average of $23,000 compared to $17,000 in 1996 (inflation-adjusted to 2008 dollars), and associate degree recipients borrowed an average of $12,600 compared to $7,600.

More students attended for-profit schools that had higher tuition.

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The Salvation Army told Burbridge that the staff members could help even more kids by donating clothing and presents instead.

Last year, the opportunity was opened up to the rest of the UNI community for the first time with the giving trees.

“We had an overwhelming response last year with our customers. ... I don’t know how many toys and clothes we got, but we had (about) 10 huge boxes of stuff to donate,” Burbridge said.

The ages on the giving tree ornaments range from

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The Pew study found that, over the past decade, enrollment in private, for-profit schools outpaced enrollment in public or nonprofit schools and that students enrolled in for-profit schools were more likely to borrow money.

For-profit schools granted 18 percent of all undergraduate degrees in 2008, up from 14 percent in 2003.

The report said one-fourth of for-profit school graduates borrowed more than $40,000, compared with just 5 percent of public school graduates and 14 percent of nonprofit school graduates.

One takeaway from the study: “Generally, private forprofit school graduates have lower incomes and are older, more likely to be from minority groups, more likely to be female, more likely to be independent of their parents and more likely to have their own dependents,” Pew reported.

“For almost every field of study at every level, students at private for-profit schools are more likely to borrow and tend to borrow larger amounts than students at public and private not-forprofit schools.”

0 to 16 and request either a toy or clothing. Burbridge believes this format adds to the appeal of donating.

“It gives them a great idea of how they can directly buy a present for, say, a boy, 2 years old, and it’s more of a personal type (of) thing. And it makes it easy for them to do,” she said.

There are still some unclaimed ornaments available on the giving trees.

Donation collection ends at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

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all the alumni there,” said Ferden. “There (were) probably close to 260 people onstage.”

Les Hale, the founder and former director of the Glee Club, took a turn at conducting the now-mixed personnel in “Angels We Have Heard On High” and the Glee Club’s signature choral anthem, “Brothers, Sing On!”. After Hale finished and began to leave the stage, he received an emphatic standing ovation. Hale seemed overcome.

“He told me, ‘I’d like to say something, but I don’t think I can get the words out,’” emcee Marlow told the crowd after Hale exited.

FEATURES In a more lighthearted turn, the UNI Children’s Choir took the stage as the Glee Club alumni departed. The children performed “Mele Kalikimaka” and were joined by the Glee Club for two more songs.

The vocal music for the night wound down with “Silent Night,” which had the audience as enthralled as it had been all night. When the song concluded, the applause didn’t start until the director’s hands lowered to his sides, as the moment sat in the concert hall.

Finally, Marlow instructed the audience to prepare themselves for “the graceful beauty, the visual poetry and the sheer audacity of the Arthur Murder Dancers.” Sixteen Glee Club

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members clad in delicate tutus frolicked to “Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairies” and the “Christmas Can-Can,” just as they have for the last 33 years.

“You can’t belittle what they do. I mean, that is intense cardio. Just try dancing on your tippy-toes for four minutes and see if you can do it. It’s hard!” said John Preston, a junior philosophy major in the Glee Club.

The Glee Club members were enthusiastic about the show and their group after Saturday night’s performance.

“It was a wonderful performance. I think it was the best, by far, of our three performances. I just really enjoyed (it),” said Rebecca Buseman, the Glee Club’s accompanist and a senior

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 music and accounting double major. Buseman said she loves working with the group and added, “There’s not a group on campus that I would rather perform in more than the Glee Club!”

Evan O’Leary, a junior choral music education major in the group, agrees. “I’m a music major and I sing in lots of other groups, but I enjoy singing with the Glee Club ... one of the most.”

“It’s great. It’s unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced in college,” said Preston. “It’s also a ridiculous amount of fun.”

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commitments.

To support his family, Olesen works at the Cedar Rapids Fire Department as the fire captain of Engine #3. At the fire department he sees how his studies and work in the field interconnect and make an impact.

“Interestingly enough, I often get to study the results of my work,” he said. “We often work in short 20- or 30-minute calls and studying policy allows me to examine the effects of those calls in the long term.”

Olesen makes the time to relax with his family. Whenever he can, he likes to spend time with his children, whether it’s playing with them outdoors,

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“There’s one thing too – the ladies love seeing a group of men singing,” Williams noted.

“And men in tutus!” Preston added.

The Varsity Men’s Glee Club will return to the GallagherBluedorn Performing Arts Center in April with its annual spring concert. Director Wiles says that if any male students at UNI are interested in joining the ensemble, “they just have to register for the course and show up on the first day!”

coaching his son’s baseball team or helping with Cub Scouts.

When thinking about the near future, Olesen said that his goals are to graduate and do more to help others through the fire department.

“I want to assist in getting the two fire stations built in Cedar Rapids and continue developing the Urban Search and Rescue program,” he said.

As an individual who is committed to helping others, Olesen’s words of wisdom encourage students to do the same by becoming aware of the world around them.

“It’s important for smart and capable people to consider government and public service,” Olesen said. “Good government depends on good people.”

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Google bids to buy Groupon in a battle with Facebook

By BRANDON BAILEY San Jose Mercury News MCT Campus

Faced with a growing challenge from Facebook and other rivals, Google is reportedly considering the biggest acquisition in its history, with an offer to pay nearly $6 billion for the online coupon service Groupon.

The deal would help Google expand its role in local advertising _ and plant its flag at the intersection between social media and consumer spending, analysts said Tuesday.

Google dominates the market for advertising tied to Internet searches.

But hugely popular social media sites like Facebook, with their ability to target ads to users’ preferences and network of friends, have emerged as a growing threat.

Google and Facebook are waging a war for “Web supremacy,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Lou Kerner, who added in a research report that online local ads are likely to be the next big battleground in that contest.

Since its launch just two years ago, Chicago-based Groupon has signed up more than 33 million subscribers looking for daily bargains in their hometowns -- from massages in New York to restaurant meals in Boston and even guided tours of San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.

Groupon subscribers receive alerts when a merchant agrees to offer a product or service at a discount, which typically becomes available when a certain number of shoppers opt in to the deal. The discounts help merchants bring in extra business, while

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Fast-growing category A number of startups offer similar access to local discounts, but Groupon is the market leader in what analysts say is a fast-growing new category of Internet business. In the past year, Groupon’s roster of partners has expanded from small merchants to big retailers such as Gap and Nordstrom Rack.

That’s drawn the interest of several suitors, reportedly including Yahoo.

But after rejecting previous offers, Groupon is currently negotiating to be acquired by Google for a price estimated at $5 billion to $6 billion, according to reports this week in The Wall Street Journal and New York Times, which cited anonymous sources with knowledge of the talks.

Both companies declined to comment on the reports.

The price would be nearly twice the $3.2 billion that the Mountain View, Calif., search giant paid for the display ad service DoubleClick in 2007. It would represent a hefty premium for privately held Groupon, which was valued earlier this year at $1.3 billion and has annual revenue estimated at $500 million.

For Google, the price may be “difficult to rationalize” on a purely financial basis, said investment analyst Ben Schachter, at Macquarie Equities Research. But, he wrote in a note to investors: “This is about much more than generating revenue from e-mailed

coupons.”

Google could probably build its own service along Groupon’s model, he added, but buying Groupon might offer strategic benefits more quickly.

Targeted Advertising By providing additional information about consumers’ buying habits, Groupon could help Google sell more targeted advertising. And since Groupon communicates with users on Facebook and Twitter, as well as by e-mail, the deal would give Google more access and insight into the kinds of online social communications that occur on those sites.

The deal could help Google get a better handle on what industry insiders call the “Social Graph,” added Kerner, who defined the term as “the pool of connections between people and what they do and like.”

Google and Facebook already are squaring off in the local ad market: Facebook, which sells advertising tailored to its users, recently launched new forays into online messaging and local commerce. These include Facebook Places, which lets users announce their visits to various locales, and Facebook Deals, which offers discounts to Places users. Facebook declined to comment Tuesday.

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As a sign of its importance, Google also announced this fall that Marissa Mayer, one of its most influential executives, had taken over responsibility for its location-based efforts.

While a majority of all advertising is aimed at local audiences, that hasn’t always been true online, said Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, a Palo Alto startup that aggregates local news reports and packages them with ads. The prospect of Google buying Groupon, he added, means that industry giants recognize the potential of local markets.

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Not for the Interests of Students Government W

hat has the Northern Iowa Student Government done for you this year?

If you can’t answer this question, it isn’t doing its job.

What does the NISG senate do during its weekly meetings? During a typical meeting, it appears that the senate approves the formation of student organizations and their funding requests, which have already been evaluated and approved by the Organization and Finance Committee; approves advertisements and website changes, which have already been created by the Public Relations Committee; and bickers over internal affairs and constitutional changes, which are proposed by the Government and Legislative Affairs Committee.

These are not necessarily bad things, but it seems that amidst the day-today mundanity of their affairs the senate has largely lost sight of the purpose of student government: to further the interests and address the concerns of the student body.

During its last two meetings, the senate has been discussing a bill proposed by the GALA committee that would make several changes to the organization’s constitution. Under the guise of streamlining the constitution, the committee put forth several changes that if passed would have taken power away from the executive branch and the student body and put it into the senate. The potential changes include removing the power of recall from the student body, removing members of the executive branch from the line of succession to the presidency and removing from the president the power to call meetings of the senate and to preside over meetings of the student body, among several other changes.

The senate wasted a significant portion of two meetings removing several of these ridiculous changes, including the proposal to remove the word “diversity” from the title of the Director of Diversity and Student Life, before finally passing an actually useful bill.

Why is so much time in the senate being dedicated to internal affairs and power struggles? As Senator Dale Yurs asked during the first reading of the bill, how does this benefit students? Cohesion of a legislative document is important, but squirreling in controversial changes under the guise of linguistic modifications is a duplicitous waste of time and effort.

Despite all this, the student government does in fact take measures to benefit students. During Wednesday’s meeting the senate approved a resolution that will be sent to Iowa’s governmental leaders, as well as the Board of Regents and other Iowa officials, that requests a state-wide sales tax holiday on textbooks at the beginning of each semester, which would save students money and help local stores compete with Internet textbook sales.

The senate recently created its External Affairs Committee and the position of Director of Governmental Relations, which is currently held by Jenny Nulty, both of which lobby for student interests with state legislators.

Student Body President Joel Anderson and Vice President Emma Hashman both regularly meet with state and university officials to represent student interests and are currently holding tuition discussions with the Board of Regents.

These are great actions that truly benefit students. This is what student government should be doing. This is what NISG is doing well. And yet most students don’t even know about it. NISG needs to better communicate its actions to students so no one fails to answer the question of what their student government is doing for them.

Students also need to take a greater interest in student government. A quality government that represents student interests needs well-qualified individuals who really care about their constituents, and yet senate elections are often uncontested races with very poor voter turnout where races are won by landslides. Take interest in candidates for senate and president to ensure they are qualified for the position and that they truly care about helping students.

Student representatives can’t further student interests unless they know what they are. Speak out against internal redundancy and bickering and share your concerns and interests with your senator. If you don’t know who your senator is, visit http://www.uni.edu/studentorgs/nisg/government/legislative-branch. Attend senate meetings, which are held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the University Room in Maucker Union, and speak to the entire legislative body.

Student government elections will be held this February, and any senator who is not working to benefit students and represent his or her constituency should not be reelected. It’s up to the rest of us to ensure that that’s the case.

This editorial reflects the position of the Northern Iowan’s editorial staff: John Anderson, Leah Jeffries, Brad Eilers, Cassie Tegeler, Anna Schreck and Kari Braumann. All other articles and illustrations represent the views of their authors.

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The organic craze distracts from more important issues insect infestation, which can lead to great expense and a low yield comCASSANDRA pared to modern farming. This, in BOEVERS turn, explains the expense of buying organic foods.

So why go through the trouble boeversc@uni.edu of producing organic food? Why the Many years ago in the Midwest, fear of genetically modified crops? there was no such distinction between According to the Environmental “organic” and “conventional” farmProtection Agency, the use of pestiing. They were the same thing – the cides is endangering our fertile farmconventional, traditional farmer was land, leaving a greater environmental one that used no pesticides and whose impact than organic farming. Much seed was the healthiest crop from the of society also considers organic previous year. However, that is when foods to be safer, healthier and more crop production was far scarcer than nutritional because pesticides may be it is today and when methods of harmful to humans, especially young farming were much more primitive. children.

These days, biotechnology has However, I argue that the food given the farming industry a key to we eat could be harmful to us in increased production and higher yields numerous ways through numerous through big-name seed researchers, processes. Contamination could occur producers and sellers such as DuPont no matter how natural the seed was or (Pioneer) and Monsanto. This biohow strictly the growing environment technology, of course, involves the was monitored. In fact, because they modification of have not been seeds (GMOs) genetically modand the treatment ...because they have not ified or grown of fields with in the presence pesticides, most been genetically modified of pesticides, notably herbi- or grown in the presence organic foods are cides (weed-kill- of pesticides, organic foods more vulnerable ers), insecticides to outside harm (insect pest-kill- are more vulnerable to such as pest ers) or fungicides outside harm such as pest infestation, weed (fungus-killers). infestation, weed proliferaprolifer ation, Both of these human error, cliactions prevent a tion, human error, climate mate influences, crop from consti- influences, etc. etc. The pestituting as organic. cides will not In 1990, the be entering the U.S. government passed the Organic body, but other threats might.

Food Production Act, which estabAdditionally, if you actually lished standards of growth and research the genetic modification distribution of organic foods and biotechnological process, you’ll learn “facilitate(d) interstate commerce that nothing is significantly differin fresh and processed food that is ent from the natural crop. According organically produced.” In some ways, to the Monsanto website, “existing, this law marked the birth of the approved GM crops are substantially organic movement because it defined equivalent to conventional counterthe standards and unified the organiparts” and the only difference comes zations and leaders in agreement. It down to the DNA and protein, which is also marked the divide between the present in almost everything humans “conventional” farmer who used peseat, the only exception being foods ticides and GMOs and the “organic that are processed to a much greater farmer” who chose to abide by this extent than conventional crops: oils law. and sugars.

According to a NY Times article Genetically modified crops can from November 2010, organic farmincrease shelf life, assist in world food ers face a multitude of challenges: and hunger issues, and actually reduce “While conventional farmers have a the need for pesticides. Instead of quiver full of chemical arrows to batrestricting the ways in which this fertle the invasion of weeds and pests, tile area can produce food, we should the organic farmer has a tougher row instead focus on ways to distribute the to hoe. There simply aren’t organic plentiful food we are able to produce bug sprays that can match the power to areas that are too structurally inept of synthetic chemicals and almost or agriculturally deficient to produce nothing in the way of organic hertheir own crops. bicides.” Organic farmers must seek alternative, green ways to prevent

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letter to the editor In response to ‘Personal Wellness’ editorial cartoon

NATE BEELER/MCT Campus

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fter reading the article by Adam Haselhuhn on the travesty of Personal Wellness, I felt an urge to voice my opinion. What will become of an educational system that lacks a requirement for students to critically analyze the manner in which they care for themselves? I would argue in support of Haselhuhn in that the price of tuition makes taking a class in which one is already self-aware a dirty debt bomb.

What if Personal Wellness was replaced by Responsible Fiscal Management? Would students then avoid all those enticing credit card applications that somehow make it into an appalling number of UNI students’ mailboxes? A practical suggestion: Allow students to submit a log of activities that lead them to life satisfaction and healthy living; an essay alluding to healthy eating, substance use (alcohol), sexuality and family planning; and a month of planned balanced meals they are able themselves to prepare. When the applicant has met the guidelines of the university, an exemption could be granted.

Kind regards, Forest S. Hoff, M.A., TESOL

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for-profit postsecondary education provider as well as the MCT Campus recipient of more than $1 bilObama administration rules lion in federal Pell Grant aid promise to strengthen fed- last year.

While some career colleges eral student aid programs as have achieved a level of credwell as protect students from ibility, the business model at the aggressive and deceptive far too many appears to be one recruiting practices that are based on student failure, not the norm at many career colsuccess. leges.

Schools must also do a betA version of the truth in ter job ensuring that only stuadvertising ethos will require dents that qualify receive finanschools to disclose the effeccial aid.

The U.S. Government tiveness of their career colAccountability Office, ordered lege and training programs by Congress to conduct a and their graduation and jobsting, found students at forplacement rates. profit colleges being encourFor-profit education institutions have been loath to put aged to falsify their financial aid forms. out that kind of information.

The Ed Trust report found Here’s why. For an eduthat many students maxed out cation sector that has grown on their federal aid and were tenfold in the last decade, lax steered to private loans, which oversight has fostered a systhey later defaulted on. tem of high tuition costs and Regulations will address low graduation rates. some of the abuses but fedA scathing report by eral scrutiny should continue. the influential think tank Education Trust offers a As more students pursue postdamning list of examples. secondary education, a strong Only 22 percent of students and fair educational structure in for-profit colleges’ four-year is critical.

Career colleges play an programs earn degrees within important role as nimble prosix years. Contrast that with a viders of professional and 55 percent six-year graduation career training.

They help rate at public colleges and a broaden educational access to 65 percent rate at private nonunderserved communities. profit schools.

But if they’re going to be in The most egregious examthe business of education, they ple is a 9 percent graduamust do it well. Regulatory tion rate at the University of scrutiny applies the pressure.

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By BRAD EILERS Sports Editor

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Kwadzo Ahelegbe scored a season-high 25 points Saturday to help lead UNI past TCU 64-60. The victory is UNI’s first road win of the season.

By BRAD EILERS

Sports Editor

The University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team was able to defeat Texas Christian University 64-60 on Saturday afternoon behind senior point guard Kwadzo Ahelegbe’s 25-point performance.

UNI (4-2) handed TCU (6-3) their first home loss of the year. The Horned Frogs were 5-0 at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum before their loss to the Panthers. The victory is

UNI’s first road win of the season.

Ahelegbe was 8-of-13 shooting from the floor, including 3-of-4 from beyond the three-point arc. Coming into the game, Ahelegbe had made just 1-of-18 from three-point land this season.

Junior guard Johnny Moran was the only other Panther to reach double figures as he chipped in with 10 points.

Sophomore forward Jake Koch scored eight points and collected nine rebounds to lead the Panthers in that category. Senior forward

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Although Boise State won a share of the Western Athletic Conference title, their loss to Nevada knocked them out of the BCS title hunt.

Lucas O’Rear grabbed five boards to go along with his nine points.

The Panthers jumped out to an early 9-2 lead at the 14:28 mark in the first half, with Ahelegbe scoring UNI’s first seven points of the game. The Horned Frogs clawed their way back into the game and took their first lead at the 6:05 mark, 19-17. However, UNI would respond with another 9-2 run to take a 26-21 lead with 1:44 left in the first half. The Panthers held a 28-26 lead at the intermission.

TCU would take their largest lead of the game at 44-40 with 10:26 left in the second half. However, on back-to-back possessions, O’Rear scored a conventional three-point play and another where he scored a basket and was fouled that allowed the Panthers to retake the lead at 45-44.

The Horned Frogs responded with a shot in the lane to retake the lead.

However, that would be the final lead for TCU as

By RYAN FRIEDERICH

times of the year is “bowl week.” What could be better than watching a whole two weeks of football where, most often, the teams are matched up based on records and conference placing?

Most people complain that the BCS system is a joke because there are way too many bowls. What is the harm in that? Who cares if there is a team that barely qualifies for a bowl? Last year Iowa State was barely bowl-eligible, but their fans embraced the chance to go out to Arizona to watch their team play one more time against Minnesota in the Insight.com bowl. No one else in the country cared one lick about that game, but the players, coaches, and fans

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Nothing has made me happier this football season than watching Boise State University lose to the University of Nevada. No, I wasn’t just excited because their mascot is the Wolf Pack, even though that was one of the most dynamic wrestling alliances in WWE history. I was happy because I didn’t want to see Boise State in the national championship.

I am one of the few who enjoys the current Bowl Championship Series system, and if they would have snuck in it would have surely called for a playoff system. I am a huge sports nerd, and besides March Madness one of my favorite

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The University of Northern Iowa women’s basketball team shot a season-high 47.5 percent from the floor on their way to a 72-58 win at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Saturday afternoon at the Klotsche Center.

UNI senior and Milwaukee native Lizzie Boeck tallied 17 points and eight rebounds for the Panthers (4-3). Junior guard Katelin Oney shot 4-of-8 from three-point range to add 16 points for UNI. Junior guard Rachel Madrigal finished with eight assists for the Panthers.

UNI made four of its first five shots, three of them from three-point range, taking an 11-3 lead just 3:30 into the game.

After a UW-Milwaukee jump shot cut the UNI lead to six, the Panthers got a layup from Amber Kirschbaum and a three-pointer from Boeck to stretch their lead to double-digits for the first time, 16-5 with 13:33 left in the first half.

UW-Milwaukee cut the Panther lead to 10, 18-8, but UNI got five straight points from Erin Brocka to extend its advantage to 23-8 at the midway point of the first half.

UW-Milwaukee would trim the UNI lead to 11 at 25-14, but the Panthers responded once again, this time rattling off eight straight points to build a 33-14 lead with 4:13 on the clock. UW-Milwaukee ended the half on a 9-2 run to bring the halftime score to 35-23 in favor of UNI. The Panthers would hold at least an eight-point lead until the 6:56 mark when UW-Milwaukee went on a 5-0 run to pull within five at 56-51. Boeck hit a lay-up and a pair of free throws on UNI’s next two possessions. The teams traded baskets to keep the UNI lead at nine, and K.K. Armstrong converted a pair of free throws to return the Panther lead to double digits, 64-53 with 4:55 to See WOMEN, page 14

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Waterloo splits weekend

By DUSTIN WOODY Sports Writer

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Cam Newton and the Auburn Tigers will face the Oregon Ducks in the BCS National Championship on Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Central time.

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of both teams were ecstatic.

As a Panther fan, I am feeling empty after our football team played one final home game against Lehigh and lost, something that surely was not supposed to happen. Think how much better our team would be next year if instead we were playing in a January 1 bowl game and we had an extra month to practice with our young players.

One of my fondest memories is when I was able to travel down to Orlando with my family for the 2005 Capital One Bowl. Walking around Orlando and throughout Disney World one could only see either black and gold or purple and gold, as Hawkeye and Lousiana State University Tiger fans were everywhere.

If you don’t know how that bowl game ended, I would

encourage you to make a quick search into YouTube because I now claim to have seen one of the top five finishes in all of college football history. If we had a playoff system in 2005, that match-up probably wouldn’t have shaken out, and Iowa wouldn’t have “the catch” to relive anymore.

College football is fine the way it is, and I say don’t fix something that isn’t broken. I am writing this article before the BCS selection show, and if TCU jumps Oregon or Auburn I apologize, but if TCU really has a beef after being left out of the national championship I have an answer for them: play tougher teams. Even if the Hawkeyes end up in the Caseysbreakfastpizza.com Bowl in northern Montana you could still not contain my excitement on game day.

Go BCS, and go Panthers!

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The Waterloo Black Hawks split their road-andhome series last weekend, losing in Kearny, Neb., Friday against the Tri-City Storm 3-1 but bouncing back Saturday night with a home win against the Team USA National Development Program, 4-2.

Former Black Hawk Soren Jonzzon scored just 11:16 into the first period Friday on a power play with assists coming from Rick Pinkston and Brad Schierhorn to put Tri-City up 1-0. A second Jonzzon goal, this time assisted from another former Hawk Matt Johnson 28 seconds into the third period, effectively buried Waterloo.

Derik Angeli scored unassisted at 2:52 of the third, but Waterloo’s Jacob MacDonald and Andrew Panzarella assisted Aaron Pearce at 8:11 to save the shutout. Christopher Holden stopped 36 of Waterloo’s 37 shots for TriCity, while Black Hawks net-minder C.J. Motte was able to find a hold on just 32 of Tri-City’s 35 attempts.

All told, Tri-City has three former Black Hawks on its current roster (Jonzzon,

Johnson and Mario Puskarich, who dressed in a few of Waterloo’s laterseason games last season).

Team USA built up a 2-0 lead in the first 8:30 of Saturday’s game in Waterloo, but the Hawks were able to bounce back and steal a win, due largely to their special teams. Matt Grzelcyk assisted Nicolas Kerdiles at 4:20 of the first period for Team USA, and Kyle Osterberg scored on a power play from Brady Skjei and Gavin Stoick at 8:03. Waterloo’s Andrew Panzarella fired a shot that bounced into the net for an unassisted goal at 8:34, and from there it was all Black Hawks.

Blake Thompson scored from Ryan Papa on a power play at 2:23 of the second, and Tyson Fulton sprang Tyler Zepeda for a backhanded goal at 13:45.

Gunnar Hughes scored an empty-net goal at 19:56 of the third period to bring the game to a close.

Waterloo’s Aaron Pearce and Team USA’s Patrick Seiloff both took 5-minute fighting major penalties in the first period, and Team USA’s Henrik Samuelsson was called for a 5-minute spearing major, and also given a 10-minute spearing

game misconduct penalty just under two minutes into the second period. Jared Rutledge stopped 33 of 36 of the Black Hawks’ shots for Team USA, while Jay Williams stopped 17 of 19 in the win.

Waterloo moved to 9-7-2 (20 points, fourth in Eastern Conference) with the weekend, and looks forward to a pivotal home-and-home series next weekend. Waterloo takes on Muskegon on Friday, with the first 1,000 fans receiving iWireless player cards. Saturday, the Black Hawks take on an always-potent Des Moines Buccaneers squad.

As always, fans are encouraged to head over to Party Town in downtown Waterloo to catch some hard-hitting, fast-paced hockey action, and this weekend, the Black Hawks need the support of college students. Both games this weekend are part of another iWireless College Weekend, where students presenting a valid student ID from any college can purchase tickets for just $7.

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UNI would lead by at least nine points for the remainder of the game en route to a 72-58 victory.

UNI shot 28-of-59 (47.5 percent) from the floor, including 14-of-28 (50 percent) in the second half.

UNI finished 8-of-22 (36.4 percent) from behind the arc and 8-of-11 (72.7 percent) from the free-throw line.

The Panthers’ 28 field goals came off 20 assists, one shy of the season-high.

UNI will next take the court on Tuesday night when it hosts the University of South Dakota at 7 p.m. in the McLeod Center.

Ahelegbe nailed his third three-pointer of the contest to give UNI a 48-46 lead with 8:54 remaining in the game.

TCU would tie the game for the ninth and final time at 56-56 after a pair of free throws with 3:23 left. Koch would score the next four points in the game to give the Panthers a four-point lead down the stretch.

The Horned Frogs had one final chance to tie the game with 30 seconds remaining but a threepointer from Ronnie Moss was off the mark and the Panthers were able to salt the game away at the free throw line to secure a fourpoint triumph.

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