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Darwin Week wraps up with a variety of speakers ALAN WILKINS Staff Writer

Darwin Week continued Wednesday as keynote speaker Mark Blumberg delivered a lectured titled “Developing Creations and Creating Development: Why Monsters Matter” at the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Multicultural Education. He gave this presentation based upon the book he wrote, “Freaks of Nature.” Blumberg made the point that the “monsters” in the world are evidence that evolution happened, and that all living organisms in the world are not products of intelligent design. “If intelligent design was the case, then how come we have anomalies like conjoined twins or animals with two heads?” said Blumberg. He also expressed his interest in researching the

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Author Dan Barker gave his lecture “America Doesn’t Have a Prayer” as part of Darwin Week. During his speech Barker argued that the National Day of Prayer, in his opinion, is unconstitutional.

development of sleep, behavioral neuroscience and how sleep promotes brain development. When asked why he got interested in his field of study,

he laughed, “That’s my life... I could go on for hours with that answer.” “I really liked all the facts See DARWIN WEEK, page 2

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Thousands of people continued to celebrate into the early morning hours in Cairo, Egypt’s Tahrir Square in the early morning hours after President Hosni Mubarak announced on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011, that he was stepping down from office after 30 years.

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Egypt’s new military rulers swiftly reassured citizens and strategic allies alike of their commitment to civilian control and stability, but with ecstatic crowds still in the streets, it was far from certain they had the vision or will to transform the Arab world’s most populous nation into a vibrant democracy. The effort to calm anxieties came a day after a popular uprising forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign after 30 years of autocratic rule. Egyptians sang, cheered and danced into the night Saturday, even as tanks, armored cars and combat troops guarded key buildings and intersections. The military pledged to oversee a transfer to civilian authority and said it was com-

mitted to observing Egypt’s international treaties — a pledge welcomed by Israel, concerned about the status of its 1979 peace agreement with Cairo. Leaders of the pro-democracy movement that forced Mubarak from power said they had faith in the army, but that they would hold more protests if the army went back on its word. The group demanded the repeal of Egypt’s emergency law, formation of a unity government, disbanding of parliament and establishment of a committee to write a new constitution. “The army has met our demands,” said Google executive and political activist Wael Ghonim. “I think it’s over. They see the Egyptians are no longer going to accept a dictatorship.” See MILITARY, page 4

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Do you know where this picture was taken? If so, e-mail us at northern-iowan@uni.edu with your answer. The winner’s name and the picture’s location will be featured in the next edition of the Northern Iowan. The winner from the Feb. 8 issue is Emma Hashman, a UNI senior, who correctly identified that the previous image was taken on a light track in Maucker Union.

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Valentine’s Day 2011

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, on Thursday the Campus Activities Board held a crafts night at which they made picture frames and decorated cups. Continuing the celebration on Friday, the International Students Association held a Valentine’s Day dance.

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about Darwin and what Darwin said,” said Shelby Bennett, a UNI sophomore majoring in social work. David Wasserman, a sophomore music education major, said, “I thought it was very interesting. It involved concepts such as behavioral evolution that I’ve heard of and considered before.” On Thursday, Feb. 10, Tyler O’Brien, a UNI associate professor of physical anthropology, gave a lecture entitled “The Naked Ape: 7 Million Years of Hominid Evolution” In his presentation, he lectured on human evolution from 50 million years ago when the first primates started showing up after the dinosaurs died

out. Seven million years ago, humans and chimpanzees, our closest relatives, went their separate ways down the evolutionary path. On the last night of Darwin Week, author Dan Barker was invited to give his presentation, “America Doesn’t Have a Prayer.” Formerly an ordained Christian minister, Barker is currently an atheist. His lecture was mainly about how he believes the National Day of Prayer instituted in 1952 is unconstitutional because of freedom of religion in the First Amendment. “Christianity fails because prayer significantly fails,” said Barker. “Christians count the hits, not the misses.” Barker was an associate pastor for three different churches, a missionary in Mexico for two years, a cross-

country evangelist for eight years and a Christian songwriter. “My experience doesn’t make me right, but it gets me halfway there because a lot of believers say you should try Christianity. They can’t accuse me of not having tried it, because I’ve lived it,” said Barker. “I think the (UNI Freethinkers and Inquirers) are evidence of what’s happening in the world. No one person made this happen. It’s all individual, free thought that’s autonomous and not forced. The freedom to believe or disbelieve is a cherished freedom in America and UNIFI is underscoring that freedom.” Trevor Boeckmann, president of the group leading Darwin Week, UNIFI, was very pleased with this week. “Darwin Week is great because it

stands for everything college should stand for. It’s intellectual growth, learning outside of the classroom and challenging cherished beliefs. That doesn’t happen enough on college campuses, and I’m proud to say that, with the help of our speakers and classmates, we’re able to provide it,” said Boeckmann. Boeckmann looks forward to future Darwin Weeks. “I hope word of Darwin Week continues to spread. Every year, Darwin Week has more and more attendees and more and more buzz about it. There were over 1,450 attendees this year. If they all come back next year with a friend, the event will be unbelievable,” Boeckmann said.

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Conservatives hungry Phishing attempts rising for 2012 candidate, but no favorite yet

UNI’s spam filter is able to catch most phishing e-mails and therefore the e-mails usually never reach a user’s inbox. The University of Northern Iowa is Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. seeing an increasing number of fraudulent “The e-mails that do get through are inbound e-mail messages asking students usually being sent from a legitimate e-mail and staff to provide personal information. address somewhere else that has been “Phishing” is any attempt to steal private compromised,” explained Frerichs. “For information by falsely claiming to be someexample, a professor or student’s account one else through e-mail. at another university that has had the “There are bad guys all over the globe e-mail credentials phished who want to steal passmay be used to target words, credit card numUNI addresses. It is much bers, social security numharder for our e-mail filbers, bank account num- You should always be ters to determine if this bers, etc. UNI and other skeptical when asked e-mail should be blocked universities are a com- to provide personal because it is coming from mon target for fraudulent an address that does not e-mails that claim to be information via e-mail. normally send spam. The a system administrator UNI will never ask for account will send a few in need of your e-mail your password and hundred e-mails before it username or password,” should never is shut down, but that is explained Nick Frerichs, you enough for the phisher to the UNI’s Information provide it in an e-mail get a few replies, and the Technoloy Network or click on any links in cycle continues.” Services systems proFrerichs advises users e-mails asking for it. grammer/postmaster. to be informed and careful “The phisher uses these Nick Frerichs when coming across these stolen e-mail accounts to ITNS systems programmer/postmaster phishing e-mails. send out large amounts of “You should always be spam without being caught. The spam rangskeptical when asked to provide personal es anywhere from ‘You’ve won $10,000,000’ information via e-mail. UNI will never ask to posing as another system administrator for your password and you should never and targeting yet another university. The provide it in an e-mail or click on any links phisher changes the Reply-To address of in e-mails asking for it. This almost always the stolen account so that any replies to the applies to other companies and organizaspam go to a temporary address used to tions outside of UNI as well,” said Frerichs. collect gullible responses,” Frerichs continIf you believe your UNI account has ued. been compromised, change your password Although ITS is not exactly sure who immediately to prevent any third-party is sending out these fraudulent e-mails, access and contact the system administraFrerichs says it’s more than likely that the tor for the account, postmaster@uni.edu, phishers have scripts and programs they in the case of UNI e-mail accounts. If use to automatically generate thousands of you receive an unusual e-mail from come-mails from a single e-mail account. panies such as Facebook, Ebay, Amazon, “It is very likely they are using proxy etc., never click any links in the e-mail but services to mask their real physical locainstead simply open up a new web browser tion and it is virtually impossible to catch and browse around the website yourself. them or find out who it is,” said Frerichs. Spammers trick users by making the link “UNI e-mail accounts are valuable to phishappear like the official site, only to lead you ers because they are able to send their somewhere that could potentially be harmspam from a legitimate university account. ful for your computer when you click on it. To other (internet service providers) and If you receive a phishing e-mail, please e-mail providers, the fraudulent e-mail is forward it as an attachment to phishing@ coming from uni.edu and there is no way to uni.edu. trace it back to the spammer.” MAGGIE DONOVAN

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WASHINGTON -- Here’s how wide open the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination is as the games begin: When Donald Trump showed up Thursday as a last-minute speaker at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, he got a standing ovation. Many of the 11,000 registered attendees said they would seriously consider him as a candidate. They seemed willing to consider just about anybody. The CPAC straw poll, whose results will be announced Saturday at the conference’s end, comprises 15 names.

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I think it’s going to be more about baggage than anything else. Everyone’s just going to come out with the knives out. Shane Hayes

Trump, the publicityhound New York billionaire and TV host, has flirted before with a presidential run, but never done it. His casinos don’t sit well with social conservatives. And his declaration to the CPAC audience that libertarian darling Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has “zero chance” of becoming president left many questioning whether he’s serious about a run. Still, many in the crowd said they were keeping open minds, because they see no candidate yet among the sprawling field of possible contenders who can clearly defeat President Barack Obama. And that’s what they want most.

“We’re waiting to see who sifts out,” said Angel Fleming, 30, of Massachusetts. Many possible candidates are to speak at the conference. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum all spoke Thursday. Each drew some die-hard fans. Bachmann called Obama’s health care expansion the “crown jewel of socialism.” Gingrich called for replacing the Environmental Protection Agency. Santorum criticized Obama for too quickly abandoning Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally, even though Obama has taken pains to stop short of calling plainly for his ouster. Conservative delegates’ priorities? Improve the economy. Reduce the debt. Repeal Obama’s health care law. Cut environmental regulations that hinder business. Each came up again and again. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is to speak Friday. Two other big names, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, aren’t attending. Some conservatives chose not to attend in protest of the presence of a gayrights booth. Keith Mauck, 36, a website publisher from Virginia, said he was concerned that the big GOP names in the mix were “kind of ‘Been there, done that,’” and the lesserknown names might not be able to win or weren’t up to the job. “I don’t see anybody in the presidential field yet that gets me excited,” Mauck said. Shane Hayes, 28, of Massachusetts, when he was asked what will narrow

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the field, said: “I thinit’s going to be more about baggage than anything else.” He fears “everyone’s just going to be coming out with the knives out.” Palin still has many fans, but several said Thursday that they were increasingly doubtful that she would run. They’re concerned

that she’s too polarizing or too much of a punching bag for the news media. “I love Sarah Palin,” said Mary Maloney, 52, a lawyer from New York. “I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.” However, she added this reservation: “It’s a little too high-exposure. She’s more like a movie star, not a poli-

tician.” The first debate among Republican presidential candidates is set for May 2 at the Reagan library in California, less than 12 weeks away. No candidates have signed up yet, but expect a crowded stage.

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But analysts in Cairo, Washington and Tel Aviv say the situation remains too volatile to be sure that the military council would ultimately permit free elections, accede to civilian control and allow transparency. No popular civilian leaders or independent political parties were allowed to emerge during Mubarak’s long tenure. His departure has left a political void, and some analysts fear the generals may seek to stifle any threat to the status quo. Moreover, Eg ypt’s 480,000-member professional military is dwarfed in size by the paramilitary national police, state security, and intelligence agencies, which enforced Mubarak’s repressive policies, including arbitrary arrests and torture. A power struggle may emerge if loyalists seek to hijack the process. At stake is whether postMubarak Egypt will follow the path of Turkey and Indonesia, Muslim nations where the army remains strong but democratic reforms have flourished. But it also could go the way of Pakistan, where military and intelligence services hold the levers of power. A spokesman for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which now effectively rules Egypt, said on state television that the military will work to ensure “a peaceful tran-

sition of power ... to achieve a civil authority that will build a free democratic nation.” The spokesman, Gen. Mohsen Fangari, also said the council remains “committed” to all international treaties signed by Egypt. Abdel Rahman Abdel Halem, a retired Egyptian general, said he believes Egypt’s new leaders will keep their promise. They have “been keen to reiterate their intention of supporting a transition toward civilian control, and that can be a good sign that they don’t want to keep hold on power,” he said. Civilian rule, he added, “will not contradict their dominant position — at least for now — anyway.” Ammar Ali Hassan, a political analyst and former Egyptian military officer, said the military was considering adding civilians to its supreme council. Newly energized political activists wouldn’t allow the military to keep power, and foreign allies wouldn’t accept it, he said. “Now the army needs to come out with a statement that would include a time frame as to when exactly it will cede power,” he added. Others fear the army will be reluctant to share power. “It will be a long while before a civilian government can rule without full support of the military, and even longer before the military takes orders from a civilian government,” said

Sheila Carapico, chair of the political science department at the American University in Cairo. Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the non-partisan Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said the military was torn about what it

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wanted. “They’re not comfortable in politics,” he said. “But they’re not comfortable with what an open political system would look like.” Men with a military background have ruled Egypt since 1952. The armed forces are significant players in the economy. Military-owned commercial companies produce olive oil, cement, televisions, clothing and more. They are a revered part of the social fabric. They received unstinting support from Mubarak, and $1.3 billion a year from the Pentagon. Two members of the Supreme Council appear at the center of the current drama. Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the defense minister, and Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Enan, chief of staff of the armed forces, both gained credibility by mingling with protesters at Tahrir Square, and more importantly, ordering soldiers not to fire on the demonstrators. But neither officer has governed before, and both are considered fierce protectors of the status quo. U.S. officials say Enan is believed more willing to maintain close ties to the U.S. Enan was visiting Washington for a week of Pentagon meetings when the protests erupted in Cairo on Jan. 25. He rushed home, but has kept in touch with Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two last spoke by phone Thursday when Mubarak appeared intent on clinging to power, according to a spokesman for Mullen. Tantawi is head of the military council. He spoke by phone Saturday with U.S. defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, the

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Pentagon said. Tantawi also spoke with Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, according to Israeli media Channel 1. The conversation with Gates was their sixth since the crisis began, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell. He declined to provide details of it. U.S. officials said Tantawi played a major role in the decision to oust Mubarak, although the details still were unclear. Elliott Abrams, deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, said that Tantawi has resisted U.S. military officials’ efforts over the years to build personal relationships. Washington has had far closer relations with former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, whom Mubarak appointed vice president during the crisis. His role apparently has now been eclipsed by the army. U.S. officials were scrambling to adjust to the changes. The Pentagon brass who deal with Tantawi and Enan don’t normally follow the intricacies of Egypt’s internal politics. “We are used talking to them about Iran, about aid, the peace process, counter-terrorism and other strategic issues, not whether or not to lift the emergency powers law,” said a U.S. national security official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official added that Egypt was well represented by U.S. lobbyists in Washington, a channel the U.S. might turn to for sending delicate political messages to the country’s new leadership. U.S. officials say the Egyptian military is avidly interested in ensuring no reduction in the aid Egypt has gotten annually from the U.S. since it signed the peace treaty with Israel, and has bitterly fought any effort in Congress to withhold the money or place conditions on it. Egyptian officers share U.S. concerns about Iran’s rising power in the region. While the U.S. is largely focused on Iran’s nuclear program, Egypt’s military is more worried about Iran’s funding of Islamist groups and militias in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, U.S. officials say. Israel has worked closely with Egypt’s military to battle Islamic extremists, particularly in Gaza and Sinai. But some officers are highly critical of Egypt’s failure to halt weapons flowing into Gaza through smuggling tunnels. Despite the problems, Israeli officials believe they can trust the new Egyptian rulers. Defense analyst Ron BenYishai told Israel Radio that Egypt’s military, “now has a country to run. It does not need a war with Israel. This was against its interests before, and even more so now.”

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“For the Love of the Club,” a play that focuses on prejudice in a motorcycle club, will be performed Feb. 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Interpreters Theatre in Lang Hall. Jocelyn Parii Smith, a performance studies graduate student, wrote and directed the two-act play. “This play is about women’s perspective of the motorcycle club and their views on the lifestyle of the club,” Smith said. Smith completed “For the Love of the Club” as part of her graduate thesis project for performance studies. According to Smith, between the research, writing and editing, the play took about a year and a half to finish. After spending six to seven months researching men and their lifestyle in a motorcycle club, which was the original topic of Smith’s play, she began interviewing women involved in the club. “Most of the men in the motorcycle club whom I talked to were rather close and did not seem to enjoy talking to me or sharing any information,” Smith said. “The men did not open up during any interviews. They appeared to not want anyone to dissect their culture and reveal what may be going on.” Smith added that it was not until the summer that she noticed the women were more open and were much more willing to share their feelings, ideas and perspectives, so Smith decided to shift focus from the men of the motorcycle club to the women. Throughout the summer, she traveled to many different fairs and celebrations with the motorcycle club. “‘For the Love of the Club’ has a very interesting topic as the theme; it really shows how (the) roles of women have changed in 20 years,” Smith said. Smith would like to remind potential audience members that the content of the play is rather mature – she said it is a necessary element of the See LOVE, page 7

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Members of the UNI Capoeira Sport Club and Capoeira artists from New York, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Dallas, Chicago and Sao Paulo, Brazil, participate in a Capoeira presentation in the Maucker Union Hemisphere Lounge Friday. A free Capoeira class was offered prior to the presentation as a part of Black History Month.

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Alzheimer’s disease continues to be a growing concern for our community, state and nation. In response to this issue, five members of University of Northern Iowa Advocates for Alzheimer’s voiced their concerns by taking their message directly to state legislators during the Alzheimer’s Association Day at the Hill event Feb. 7. The members included Kacie Swanson, Carley Barry, Kiley Lisk, Christine Schultz and Jessica Stakey. The students attended training about issues facing Alzheimer’s patients and their

caregivers, gained new skills to advocate for these individuals and implemented their knowledge by meeting face to face with many Iowa state representatives and senators. The group also heard various public figures address the topic of Alzheimer’s disease, including Kraig Paulsen, Speaker of the House (District 35); Mariannette MillerMeeks, head of the Iowa Department of Public Health; and Debbie Jones, from the Alzheimer’s Association National Board of Directors. “Day at the Hill was a very eye-opening experience for me,” said Swanson, a See ALZHEIMER’S, page 7

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UNI students Kacie Swanson, Carley Barry, Kiley Lisk, Christine Schultz and Jessica Stakey voiced their concerns about Alzheimer’s disease to state legislators during the Alzheimer’s Association Day at the Hill Feb. 7.

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‘Tiger Mother’ meets reality: Asian students struggle, too By JENNIFER OLDHAM The Hechinger Report MCT Campus

PASADENA, Calif. _ Angela Lo grew up in a strict household, under constant pressure to get grades good enough for admission to a top university. In stark contrast to stereotypes of Asian student success perpetuated in Amy Chua’s new bestseller “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Lo put off going to college and instead got a job. “I felt that by me not succeeding, I kind of let my parents down,” said Lo, who at 30 still lives with her ChineseAmerican parents and works as a dishwasher. “As a kid, I felt like garbage.” She said she recently enrolled at Pasadena City College to get her parents off her back. Like Lo, about half the nation’s Asian-American students enroll in community college, where they often struggle to pay for classes and scramble to find room in remedial courses. They get far less attention than overachievers like Chua’s highly micromanaged daughters, whose rigid childhood is described in a book that’s sparking debates about AsianAmerican student success. Yale Law School professor Chua’s prescription for producing highly accomplished children meant replacing play-dates and sleepovers with hours of math problems and endless practice sessions on the violin and piano. An online excerpt from Chua’s book in The Wall Street Journal last month gar-

nered more than 7,500 comments -- the most of any article in the site’s history -- and prompted impassioned responses, many of them taking issue with Chua’s approach to parenting. “Parents like Amy Chua are the reason why Asian-Americans like me are in therapy,” one self-confessed D-student wrote. Chua even drew a rebuke from famously hard-nosed former Harvard president and White House economic adviser Larry Summers, who pointed out that two of Harvard’s most successful students -- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft chief Bill Gates -never graduated. With 48 distinct groups living in the U.S. that speak more than 300 different languages, many AsianAmericans don’t neatly fit the “model minority” stereotype of high-achieving, straight-A students, as the responses to Chua’s excerpt illustrated. “There’s such despair, alienation and unhappiness in students who have failed to live up to those expectations,” said Hugo Schwyzer, a history and gender studies professor at Pasadena City College, a public, open-admissions, twoyear school where about a third of the student body is Asian. “I have gay and lesbian Chinese students. I have overweight Chinese girls. I have Chinese students of barely average intelligence who work hard and get Cs.” Preconceived notions about race and academic achievement mask the many challenges facing Asian-American

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A recent visit to Pasadena Community College in California told a different story, contrary to the stereotype espoused by Yale University professor Amy Chua’s controversial best seller, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.” High-achieving Asians aren’t at all typical of first generation Asian-American immigrants.

Asians and ones where there are very few Asians,” said Robert Teranishi, associate professor of higher education at New York University. “It results in being omitted from a lot of broader discourse about the needs of these students. They remain invisible in a lot of ways.” Little data exist about Asian-American students as a whole, added Teranishi, who found that just 13 out of 3,000

articles that ran in top higher education journals from 1996 to 2006 addressed the needs of this diverse group. Asian-Americans’ reputation for academic success is a double-edged sword when it comes to college admissions, according to Princeton University sociologist Thomas Espenshade, who’s found that they need stronger SAT scores and grades than See TIGER MOTHER, page 7

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students, where there’s a glaring disparity between students who excel versus those who don’t even graduate from high school. For example, it’s true that Asian-Americans are disproportionately represented at elite U.S. universities. Even though they account for just 5 percent of the nation’s population, they encompass about 20 percent of enrollments at Ivy League institutions such as Harvard, where more than 30,000 students vied for 1,664 spots in last year’s freshman class. Asian-Americans made up 22 percent of admitted students last year. But it’s also true that the academic performance of Asians isn’t uniformly high. This reality is in plain view in California, which boasts the nation’s largest Asian-American population -- an estimated 5 million people, or about 13 percent of California’s inhabitants. Here, Asians scooped up twice as many bachelor’s degrees from the University of California system as their white counterparts in 2008, according to a 2010 report, “The State of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Education in California.” Yet 40 percent to 45 percent of those belonging to less well-known Asian ethnic groups -- such as Hmong, Cambodians and Laotians -don’t even have high school diplomas, the report found. “There are a lot of misconceptions about who AsianAmerican students are, and this is true in institutions that have large concentrations of

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other students to land coveted spots at elite colleges. “They (admissions officers) don’t think these students add as much,” said Mitchell Chang, a professor of higher education and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If you start to go after this admissions issue, it can easily turn into a problem and an attack on race-conscious admissions, and by attacking race-conscious admissions, you undermine the civil rights agenda.” The more pressing issue for a third of the Asians living in California is their struggle to learn English, according to the 2010 report on the state of Asian-American education, which was prepared for California State Assembly Member Mike Eng. The same report found that some groups -- among them, Hmong and Cambodians -- have poverty rates double the state average. “We find that AsianAmerican students, as they end up in college now -- compared to previous years -- are more likely to need special tutoring, or remedial work in English -- one in five reported this,” added Chang, a coauthor of the report. Schwyzer says the less successful students at Pasadena City College seek solace in video games, with some of his male students spending half of their waking hours glued to computer screens. Others harm themselves or attempt suicide. Many need treatment for depression but may not seek it because of cultural

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norms. “Chua’s assumption -- that the pressure cooker of perfectionism will cause short-term pain but long-term success -simply isn’t borne out by the evidence,” Schwyzer wrote in a recent blog post. Asian-American girls age 15-24 have the highest suicide rates in that age group, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. But there’s been little to no research looking at whether “Tiger Mom” parenting pressures are partly to blame. Students like Mon-Shane Chou, a 19-year-old student at Pasadena City College, are among those who say that being raised in a strict, highpressure household is psychologically damaging. “When I was small, if we misbehaved, there was this bamboo back-scratcher that my mom or dad would hit us with, and we would not be allowed to cry,” said Chou, who hid her report cards from her parents. “Not being allowed to cry is actually somewhat common in Chinese families.” Chou now hopes to transfer to a school in the University of California system and earn her bachelor’s degree in sociology, but she didn’t fit in with the driven Asians in her high school. “My peers all wanted to be in AP classes and to have 4.0s,” Chou recalled. “I wasn’t quite sure why they wanted it. It seemed like they had these goals in academics that didn’t make sense to me because they caused so much stress.”

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play that accurately depicts the lifestyle of the motorcycle club. “I have very high hopes for this play,” Smith said. “It is the first time I have both written and directed a production. The actors have been amazing. Two or three of them have had some acting experience, but the others who are just coming in have also been very good. It is comedy, drama and action all rolled into one.”

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senior communications major. “It really explained the biggest issues facing those with Alzheimer’s and their families. It was comforting to hear government leaders acknowledge these difficulties and explain how they might be able help us with our mission. I spoke with Senators Jeff Danielson and Bill Dotzler. They were very receptive of our group and it was a great honor to meet both of them.” UNI Advocates for Alzheimer’s is a student organization dedicated to raising awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and funds to help support the local Alzheimer’s

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The Band Perry moves to GBPAC NI NEW SERVICE

The location for The Band Perry concert, with special guest Thompson Square, has been moved to the GallagherBluedorn Performing Arts Center at the University of Northern Iowa. The concert was originally to be held in Maucker Union, but tickets for that location sold out in six hours. UNI’s Panther Productions moved the Feb. 24 show to give more students, as well as the public, an opportunity to attend. Tickets will go on sale at 10 Association. Currently, there are 69,000 residents in Iowa age 65 and older battling Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

a.m. Feb. 14, and can be purchased through any UNItix outlet, at www.unitix.uni.edu or by calling 319-273-4TIX. Tickets will also be sold in Maucker Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 14 through 17. Tickets are $10 for UNI students (limit two) and $20 for the public. All seats are general admission. For more information about the event, contact Mike Bobeldyk, associate director of Maucker Union administration, at 319-273-5888 or mike.bobeldyk@uni.edu.

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Companies That Will Be In Attendance: AccessDubuqueJobs.com AEGON Aerotek Allen College Alzheimer’s Association AmeriCorps NCCC ASPIRE Therapeutic Riding Program Auto-Owners Insurance Co. Aviva Beef Products, Inc. Braun Intertec Corporation Blain’s Farm & Fleet Buckle, Inc. Cambridge Investment Research The CBE Group CDS Global Cedar Falls Police Department C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. College Pro Painters Combined Ins. Co. Consolidated Electrical Distributors Consolidated Graphics Cottingham & Butler, Inc. Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Easter Seals Wisconsin Eide Bailly LLp

Emerson Process Management/ Fisher Enterprise Rent-A-Car Epic Exceptional Persons, Inc (EPI) Farmers State Bank Federated Insurance Companies GEICO Girl Scouts Of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois GMAC Mortgage Go Daddy GreatAmerica Leasing Corporation Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau Greater Des Moines Partnership Hawthorne Direct The Hershey Company Hertz Corporation HNI Corporation (including The HON Company) Hy-Vee, Inc. IBM - DUBUQUE IMT Insurance Interstate All Battery Center Iowa Careers Consortium Iowa 80 Group

Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Iowa Department of Public Safety John Deere Iowa Public Radio - KUNI/KHKE Kiesling Associates LLP Kohler Company Kohl’s Department Stores LSS Data Systems MassMutual Maurices Mediacom Musco Sports Lighting, LLC MyTernNow/PriorityOne Nationwide Insurance Neumann Brothers, Inc. Northwestern Health Sciences University Northwestern Mutual Financial Network - (The Zach Group) Palmer College of Chiropractic Pella Corporation Peterson Contractors, Inc PMI Iowa LLC PNC Bank/Midland Loan Services Primerica Financial Group Principal Financial Group

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UNIFI makes a religion of science EMILY O’LOUGHLIN emolou@uni.edu

The UNI Freethinkers and Inquirers has managed to host yet another successful Darwin Week, filling 1,458 seats over the course of the event. As in the past, UNIFI has questioned religion, living up to its Facebook description as a group “for atheists, agnostics, humanists, skeptics, deists, nonbelievers or anybody who turns a critical eye on the establishments of religion and other seemingly unfounded claims.” During the past week I read an article by Marcelo Gleiser titled “Speaking in Defense of Science” on National Public Radio’s website. Gleiser critiques the direction science has taken in America, where it is politicized and theologized to the point that it is doubted. Both Gleiser and UNIFI ridicule religion, but it seems that UNIFI has transformed a disdain for religion into a religion itself. I think UNIFI could

learn something from Gleiser when and say, “UNIFI Brunch has helped to he says, “Scientists should not use build a community for non-religious science as a weapon against belief students.” Most religions I know of by making it into a also encourage buildbelief system.” He ing a community to says that to do so provide support and risks making science UNIFI seems to have friendship with likeas futile as religion. minded people. T h r o u g h o u t constructed a religion UNIFI fails science and to acknowledge that Darwin Week, of UNIFI has called on empiricism, relying some aspects of the evidence of scithis world we live ence to “prove” that only on what can be in cannot be wholly religion is a sham that known to all (with a explained by science. deceives hundreds of bit of common sense). Science is a bundle thousands of people of theories, a parawho believe in it. digm through which The reliance on science and constant we attempt to comprehend our world. appeals UNIFI has made to it put me The paradigms constructed by science in mind of deeply religious folk, who have been upset before, and will be rely on and appeal to God or other upset again. deities. There was a time when people UNIFI seems to have constructed honestly believed that the earth a religion of science and empiricism, was the center of relying only on what can be known to the uniall (with a bit of common sense). They v e r s e . hold weekly meetings as “an intellectual Sunday morning alternative”

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Natural philosophers (they had yet to be called scientists) such as Copernicus and Galileo questioned the dominant geocentric view of the universe and proposed the heliocentric models. As the body of astronomical knowledge grew, scientists and other academics began to construct new models of the universe. In this way and others, science constructs our understanding of the world. Science and other areas of human inquiry should always be taken with some consideration for human folly. No human is perfect, and we all make mistakes. Science is merely a theory, a manner of structuring what we comprehend of our world. We do not remember that nearly often enough, and I would like to thank UNIFI for reminding me of that.

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Shooting ourselves in the foot NICK KROB nickkrob@ gmail.com

I used to complain about how Cedar Falls and the surrounding area never got any good live music. It seemed every tour announcement popping up online listed shows dotted across the Midwest, skipping the state of Iowa. There were many reasons I assigned to this lack of attention, most of which are too obvious to list. From desolate towns to lack of what some label “culture,” our state, and more specifically this region, appeared to be destined for a lifetime without live music. I do not believe this destiny has changed much to this day, yet I believe the reasoning

for it has recently been made obvious. Earlier this year I went to see a nationally-acclaimed band play at the HuB. The name of this band, and any listed, will not be mentioned, however, so as to preserve their image. The concert, featuring a band whose music video has nearly 300,000 views and whose Myspace profile has more than 1,000,000 hits, had roughly 20-30 people in attendance. After the show, the band wrote on their Twitter, “to those of you who came to see us in CF… ugh.” That night, one of the opening bands stayed in my apartment in order to avoid having to stay in their van. Before they went to bed, I talked to them about vari-

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I am starting to fear that this state is one that does not deserve good live music. Why are we constantly ruining the avenues of artistic expression through music every time it comes to town? ous things. When the show was brought up, they claimed they had never encountered a worse crowd in their history. Having played in nearly every state in the continental U.S., they even said they had played smaller shows than the 20-30 in the crowd that night. Yet

none of those, they claimed, had such a disrespectful audience. Hoping this was the exception and not the norm, I went to a show in a nearby city a few weeks later. A sold-out show with more than 2,000 people crammed inside a club, three bands played. After the show, I approached the first act and told him how great I thought he was. As he ignored me, I thought he was a pretentious asshole. Yet after I mentioned how disrespectful I thought the audience was, he wouldn’t stop talking. He claimed it took everything in him not to walk off stage mid-set, noting how the audience talked so loud throughout the show he couldn’t even hear himself sing.

Two weeks later, I attended a show at the same venue. The band said mid-set, “You guys know we’re playing music up here, right?” A month later, one of SPIN Magazine’s proclaimed recent “artists of the year” was heckled off stage by a crowd calling them various alterations of homosexual slurs. Just this past week, a lead singer of an internationally-acclaimed band ranted online about how a show in this state was ruined by a drunk fan running on stage and trying to choke him. Not to mention a recent show in which the lead singer insulted the crowd, stating, “This isn’t a Sublime tribute band… why don’t you guys stop smoking See LIVE MUSIC, page 11

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so much weed? I mean, seriously guys.” I am starting to fear that this state is one that does not deserve good live music. Why are we constantly ruining the avenues of artistic expression through music every time it comes to town? It is one thing to not get good music, but an entirely other thing to ruin it when we do. I have had numerous bands, some of which were already discussed, state that despite meeting plenty of nice people, if they could avoid it, they would try not to come back to Iowa. And not just because of the snow. I realize rock concerts are not opera. There is no strict code of conduct that dictates the actions of the audience. Yet it seems our state needs some. Shows are currently overrun with drunken idiots who believe they are getting

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screwed by having to watch an opening band. Worse yet, it appears that any girl under 25 thinks concerts are the perfect time to take pictures… of themselves. What I’d give just to snatch the camera and smash it on the ground when mindless tween girls pucker up for an upcoming Facebook album as a superb artist grants us with their gift of music onstage. Yet drinking bans and sex/ age restrictions are surely not in the future. What I can hope for, however, is that we realize the consequences of our stupidity when we attend live music. I’ve gone to more than 100 shows in states other than Iowa and never thought twice about the audience. Of the 100 or so I’ve seen in the area, I can’t help but think we’re not going to have them much longer. So please, when you see a concert, pay attention to the music. And don’t choke the band.

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From the editorial staff

Procrastinate tomorrow

At one time or another we ALL have had it. It is as common as the common cold but harder to cure. It affects the greater majority of the intellectual world in its ruthless path of destruction. And once it catches, it spreads like wildfire. What is it? Dubbed as “senioritis,” it is procrastination, indifference, blissful ignorance, a point of laziness reached by students in their later college years, namely juniors and seniors. It also refers to high school seniors, who upon receiving their acceptance letter to college, fall into a slump. However, this rejection of responsibility can be experienced by any person going through a phase of deflated motivation in their lifetime. Symptoms include but are not limited to: questionable class attendance, a lack of effort in the academic arena, damaged merriment, increased participation in distracting activities and a general frustration toward classes. Students experiencing senioritis struggle with the last stretch of their academic careers and more or less burn out. At this point, the completion of projects, papers, tests, readings and often the regular attendance of classes may become painful on the part of the student. All procrastination, i.e., I’ll do it tomorrow-ing, snowballs. That break you may think you are giving yourself today will only cause you pain tomorrow. In an attempt to stifle all pileups and head-on collisions, take to heart a little saying we all know and just do it. Your college career is but a drop in the river of life (or pond if you prefer to stagnate), but a drop, nonetheless, to savor and gain from it what you can. With that said, here are some bullets to keep senioritis at bay, because we all know it is inevitable. Victoria Reitano, a student in her senior year in 2010 at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, wrote a few words of advice, “Top 5 Ways to Ease Senioritis,” courtesy of Indelible Marks Inc. Here are some of her ideas:

• Plan ahead: At the beginning of every week, brainstorm to determine what needs to be done for next few days. Also, write out your own personal events and necessary information along with your academic due dates. That way, it is a game of anticipation instead of a game of catch-up. • Organize assignments: Gmail is a beautiful thing. Google Calendar allows you to put in due dates and will email out reminders or even send you a text when an assignment or event is fast approaching. Use it. Love it. • Refer to the syllabus: We all know this already, yet it is the easiest to ignore in an attempt to prevent stressing ourselves out. Just remember, ignoring the syllabus will only come back to bite you in the butt. And it usually clamps down harder the second time around. • Plan “me” time: Find your own way to relax for breaks. Perhaps try something different than Facebook or “Jersey Shore.” Take a walk around campus (if it’s not blizzarding) or draw. We all know the black holes of television and gaming may hurt your grades if overindulged. These black holes are hard to avoid and harder to breach once you are sucked in. • Job hunt: Yes, quite the scary thought. Again, it is inevitable and, no matter how early job hunting begins, it can only benefit you in the long run. Remember, you can make or break your college education. Work hard and study hard. Try to have a few laughs and giggles as well. Although we feel its effects, “senioritis” is a fictitious disease. So, the next time your friend tells you he or she wants to skip class because they have “senioritis,” ask them, “Who doesn’t?” Wearing out is a fact of life. Suck it up! You can always procrastinate tomorrow.

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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UNI women continue winning streak by knocking off Creighton and Drake

BRANDON BAKER/Northern Iowan

K.K. Armstrong, No. 4, and Jacqui Kalin each scored a team-high 15 points against the Creighton Bluejays Thursday night. UNI won 60-52.

By ANGELA DEHARTY standings. Sports Writer

TIM GETTING/Northern Iowan

Wichita State’s J.T. Durley shoots over UNI’s Austin Pehl. WSU outscored UNI 36-12 in the paint. The Shockers also out-rebounded the Panthers 37-26.

By BRAD EILERS Sports Editor

The University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team lost their third consecutive Missouri Valley Conference game Saturday night as they fell to the Wichita State University Shockers 73-55. UNI has given up 70 points or more in three straight contests after giving up 70 points in just three games prior to that this season. The 18-point loss is the worst home defeat for the Panthers in the Ben Jacobson coaching era dating back to the 2006-

GAME STATS UNI

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2007 season. “We have to concentrate on playing a full 40 minutes (of basketball),” said UNI senior point guard Kwadzo

Ahelegbe. “Our consistency is the most important thing. We have to be sure to concentrate on every single possession.” The Shockers (21-5, 12-3 MVC) went on a 23-1 run and held the Panther offense without a field goal for almost nine minutes late in the second half to keep a hold of their lead in the MVC. The Panthers (18-9, 9-6 MVC) shot just 31.4 percent from the floor for the game and were outscored in the paint 36-12. UNI was also See PANTHERS, page 13

“I think being on the top of the MVC just motivates The University of everyone every day to bring Northern Iowa women’s their best each day, which basketball team is still on builds a lot of momentum,” top in the Missouri Valley said junior guard K.K. Conference after defeating Armstrong. Creighton University 60-52 The Panthers saw Thursday night and Drake balanced scoring on University 74-55 Saturday Thursday night with afternoon. Armstrong and Jacqui Kalin The Panthers extended both scoring a team-high 15 their winning streak to 11 points. and have kept the UNI fans “I’d say the biggest coming back for more. The strengths of my game would McLeod Center was filled be coming off the bench and with 2,061 spectators for the bringing energy to the team Creighton game Thursday and my ability to see the night, which featured the floor,” said Armstrong. first-place Panthers and the Rachel Madrigal and second-place Bluejays. Lizzie Boeck contributed The Panthers (19-5, 12-1 with double-doubles for MVC) pulled out a victory the Panthers. Each scored to gain a two-game lead over See UNI, page 14 the Bluejays in the MVC

UNI softball wins four games in a row to begin the season By SAM JEFSON Sports Writer

Historically, the University of Northern Iowa softball team has dominated opponents while playing in the UNI-Dome. The 2011 edition of the Ramada UNI-Dome Classic was no different, with the Panthers winning their first four games of the season. UNI utilized solid defense and timely hitting to defeat the University of South Dakota, the University of North Dakota, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the University of Texas-El Paso in convincing fashion. “It comes down to our pitching and our defense,” said UNI head coach Ryan Jacobs. “Our offense found a way to get some runs across

when we needed to but our defense and pitching stayed resilient and made plays.” UNI kicked off their spring schedule Friday night by picking up a pair of wins against South Dakota and North Dakota. Both games ended in a lopsided fashion with the Panthers beating South Dakota 11-0 and North Dakota 9-1. Against South Dakota, the Panthers were powered by a no-hitter from Jaye Hutcheson. Hutcheson baffled South Dakota Hitters the entire evening finishing with eight strikeouts. Offensively, the Panthers displayed serious pop from the batter’s box with three home runs. In her first collegiate at-bat, freshman Gina Brown knocked a ball over the right field wall to

drive in three runs. Eranne Daugharthy and Whitney Plein also went yard for the Panthers. In the second game Friday, UNI cruised to a 9-1 thrashing of North Dakota. The Panthers scored seven runs in the fourth and fifth innings to put the game out of reach. Saturday, the Panthers were back in action against Wisconsin-Green Bay and UTEP. Against WisconsinGreen Bay, the Panthers rallied in the bottom of the seventh to come away with an 8-7 victory. To win the game, shortstop Macenzie Daigh hit a shot to center field that ricocheted off the center fielder’s glove, allowing Daigh to circle the bases for an inside the park home run.

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The Panthers opened the season with a 4-0 start after winning the Ramada UNI-Dome Classic.

Against UTEP, lateinning dramatics once again gave the Panthers the final edge. UNI scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and held off the Miners in the top half of

the seventh to secure the 3-2 victory. “Our approach at the plate was very disciplined,” said Jacobs. “We took advantage of their mistakes and made See SOFTBALL, page 14

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UNI wrestling claims two victories over the weekend By MORGAN JOHNSON Sports Writer

TIM GETTING/Northern Iowan

Kwadzo Ahelegbe scored a team-high 15 points Saturday night against Wichita State, but he was just 5-for-13 shooting.

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out-rebounded for the game 37-26. “It was a team effort defensively and that’s what it takes to win,” said WSU head coach Gregg Marshall. “If you have one guy who takes a play off or a couple of plays off… inevitably they are going to make a basket. You can’t take plays off at this level and expect to beat good teams.” “We have been in a position (to win), we just need to defend a little bit better and rebound the ball a little bit better,” said UNI head coach Ben Jacobson of the team’s three-game losing streak. “It isn’t the fact that (Lucas O’Rear) isn’t in uniform, we just need to play better.” Ahelegbe and sophomore guard Anthony James had consistently been leading the team in scoring this season, but Saturday night they shot a combined 6-for23 from the floor. Ahelegbe finished with a team-high 15 points, while James was held to just four points. Junior guard Johnny Moran was the only other Panther to reach double figures as he chipped in with 10 points. WSU led from start to finish and opened the game on a 14-4 run. UNI sophomore forward Jake Koch answered with an 8-0 run of his own to cut the WSU lead to 14-12 with 11:06 remaining in the first half. WSU would extend the lead back to eight points at halftime at 35-27. The Shockers shot 13-for-15

SCOUTING BRADLEY HEAD COACH: Jim Les

RECORD: 9-17 (3-12 MVC) LEADING SCORERS: Andrew Warren -- 18.9 Dodie Dunson -- 10.4 D. Simms-Edwards -- 9.4

LEADING REBOUNDERS: Andrew Warren -- 5.4 Jordan Prosser -- 5.3 Will Egolf -- 4.2 OFFENSE: 64.1 ppg (6th MVC) DEFENSE: 68.3 ppg (9th MVC)

inside the three-point arc in the first half. UNI would fall behind by 14 points at 45-31 with 15:23 left in regulation, but responded with a 16-5 run to make it a 50-47 game with just 10:19 remaining. However, that was as close as the Panthers would get the rest of the way as the Shockers went on a 23-1 run and held UNI without a field goal until the 1:28 mark. That run sealed the Panthers’ fate as they fell 73-55. The Panthers return to action Tuesday night when they travel to Peoria, Ill., to take on the Bradley University Braves. UNI defeated Bradley 83-77 in the McLeod Center on Jan. 9. The Braves (9-17, 3-12) are in last place in the MVC but have won three out of their last four games. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. Central time.

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The University of Northern Iowa wrestling team traveled to Greeley, Colo., on Friday night to take on California State University-Bakersfield and the University of Northern Colorado. The Panthers won two consecutive duals, claiming a 28-10 win over CSU-Bakersfield and a 32-6 win over UNC. CSU-Bakersfield started off the first dual by picking up a win at 125 pounds. The Panthers followed by winning the next four matches. Ryan Jauch won by a 3-1 decision at 133 pounds. At 141 pounds, Joey Lazor added another victory with an 11-4 decision. Brett Robbins, UNI’s 149-pounder, scored with an 18-10

major decision, pushing the Panthers into the lead 10-3. The Roadrunners added their second win at 165 pounds before the Panthers stacked up two more victories. At 174 pounds, Jarion Beets scored a 7-5 decision. Ryan Loder followed up with a 16-1 technical fall for the Panthers at 184 pounds. CSU-Bakersfield won their final match of the dual at 197 pounds. Heavyweight Blayne Beale finished up the dual with his first career dual victory, picking up a pin in five minutes, 18 seconds. At 125 pounds, Caleb Flores started off the UNC dual with a 8-5 decision for the Panthers. UNC tied up the score 3-3 after winning at 133 pounds. The Panthers gained six team points for a forfeit at 141 pounds. Brett Robbins

Ryan’s Rants

We are family

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Peyton Manning, No. 18, and younger brother Eli are two of the more famous brothers in the NFL.

By RYAN FRIEDERICH Sports Columnist

I was fortunate enough to grow up a year younger than my eldest brother, who was an all-star when it came to sports. (I’m not kidding; before he graduated from Forrest City High School, the local newspaper put a photo collage of him on the front page of the sports section.) Throughout the years I have had many people ask me if it bothered

me that he received a lot of attention, and I tell them they are ridiculous. Besides the fact I sometimes snuck into the paper by a typo, I also felt like I received the benefit of the doubt from coaches when he graduated and it was my turn. While enjoying my weekend watching Kansas University absolutely obliterate Iowa State University, I couldn’t help but think how awesome it would feel to be the Morris

won 3-2 in an upset over UNC’s No. 12-ranked 149-pounder Justin Gaethje. UNI won the next four matches with David Bonin winning 3-2 at 157, Trevor Kittleson gaining a 6-3 decision at 165, Brice Wolf picking up at 14-3 major decision at 174 and Ryan Loder getting an 11-1 major decision at 184. UNC picked up their second win of the night at 197 pounds. The Panthers’ heavyweight Blayne Beale ended the evening by not only adding his second dual victory of his career but picking up his second pin of the night, clinching the win in 1:07. The Panthers’ next opponent is the University of Wyoming, who UNI will host in the West Gym Feb. 20 at 2 p.m.

twins, who each almost average a double-double for the likely new number one team in college hoops. You truly can’t beat playing sports with siblings, and here are a few who have captured the hearts of millions: Peyton and Eli Manning are a set of brothers who have been able to provide for their families by quarterbacking in the NFL. Although these two obviously don’t play on the same team, they do provide us with the occasional Manning Bowl, where their mom has to close her eyes in the press box and hope for a tie. The Mannings have recently began making their mark on the same team, however: the Double Stuf Oreo Racing League. I’m not sure about you few individuals who read my column out there, but my favorite segment on “SportsCenter” is “Name That Molina!” Yadier, Jose, and Bengie Molina are all professional baseball catchers and I truthfully can’t stand any of them. One of my favorite sets See RANT, page 14

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13 points from the floor, while Madrigal contributed 11 rebounds and Boeck added 10 rebounds. UNI started the game by scoring first, but the Bluejays went on an early 12-2 run to lead at 12-4 with 14:38 left in the first half. The Panthers battled back, pulling them within two after Madrigal hit a threepointer, making the score 25-23 with 3:39 remaining. The Panthers and Bluejays were neck-and-neck throughout the remainder of the first half as Boeck scored on a put back with only 22 seconds left on the clock, giving UNI their first lead since 2-0 and a 29-28 advantage at the end of the half. The UNI defense came back strong in the second half, forcing four turnovers and only allowing one rebound over the next 6:20 to go on a 14-0 run, building a 43-30 lead with 13:23 left in the game. Creighton would cut the UNI lead to six points midway through the second half but would get no closer as the Panthers held on for a 60-52 victory. The celebration would

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of sports siblings is Phil and Joe Niekro, two knuckleball pitchers who had quite an amount of success in the big leagues by using their dancing pitch. Phil Niekro was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997. Once, I asked him how I could get the Hall of Fame ring he had on his finger and he responded, “Start saving your box tops, kid.” I understand you can’t talk about sports siblings without mentioning Venus and Serena Williams. This set of tennis star sisters can smash balls with the best of them, and that makes them utterly terrifying. I think they should hook up with the best WWF sibling duo of all time, Kane and the Undertaker circa 1998.

SOFTBALL WHITNEY WILLIAMS/Northern Iowa

Jake Koch got to experience the Sweet 16 with his brother, Adam.

Playing sports is a great experience, but when you can share that with a sibling it is beyond words. Jake and Adam Koch will second that, as they took that special bond all the way to the Sweet 16 last year. I wonder if they would go on a double date with Venus and Serena Williams? Go Panthers!

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them make pitches.” After a 4-0 start, the 2011 season carries with it high expectations for the UNI softball team. A strong group of 12 upperclassmen return from a 28-25 2010 season. “We challenged the players to take more of a self-motivated approach in the offseason,” said Jacobs. “This group has done a

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continue on through the weekend as the Panthers added a 74-55 win over Drake Saturday afternoon in the McLeod Center. Saturday’s game also helped support breast cancer research. For every three-point shot the Panthers made, the head coach Tanya Warren would donate 25 dollars to the cause. Much to her surprise, the Panthers knocked down 12 three-pointers, a season high for UNI. “It’s really exciting, the fact that we shot that well and it could go to a good cause,” said junior guard Katelin Oney. “It’s just great that we were able to shoot that well.” Kalin led UNI with 15 points, Madrigal added 14 and Oney chipped in with 11 points and five steals for the Panthers. Drake scored first, but the Panthers kept the Bulldogs from scoring for nearly seven minutes, giving the Panthers an early 11-4 lead. Senior forward Erin Brocka knocked down a three at the 11:28 mark to continue the scoring run by UNI, making the score 16-6. UNI would go on to score seven points to widen the gap to 28-15. The Panthers lead stayed between 12 and 15 points for the remainder great job individually and as a team to get to this point.” Versatility appears to be the main strength for the 2011 squad, with speed, defense and power at the disposal of Coach Jacobs. “This is by far the best defensive group we have had here in the past four years,” said Jacobs. “Our depth really showed against UTEP when the situation called for different players, and they were able to come off the bench and pick somebody

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The Panthers defeated Creighton Thursday and Drake Saturday to improve their winning streak to 11. UNI is now 19-5, 12-1 MVC.

of the first half with UNI taking a 37-24 lead into the locker room. Drake put up a three to start the second half but a jumper from Boeck and threes from Kalin and Madrigal gave the Panthers enough momentum to finish out the game on top. UNI led by at least 15 points the rest of the game, and the Panthers would lead by as many as 26 before closing out the game at 74-55. UNI will be on the road this week to take on the Illinois State University Redbirds Thursday at 7 p.m.

up.” UNI will look to extend their hot start to the season at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Tournament Feb. 25. The Panthers are slated to face the University of TennesseeMartin, Tennessee Tech University, Northwestern State University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and tournament host University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

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