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Ambassador Ronald McMullen, a Cedar Falls native, spoke to University of Iowa students on Wednesday, April 20 about foreign service careers, experiences and internships. The event was sponsored by UNI Career Services. Students from a variety of majors came to McMullen’s presentation and many said they thoroughly enjoyed hearing him speak. “I’m very interested in
The University of Northern Iowa hosted the 2011 Sustainability Forum last week as a part of UNI’s annual Earth Week celebrations. The forum took place in the Central Ballroom in Maucker Union on Thursday. The main question asked during the Sustainability Forum was, “Are we making the grade?” The students, faculty and staff in attendance were all asked to contribute toward the discussion as to how UNI can become a more sustainable institution in the near future. Provost Gloria Gibson kicked off the event by welcoming all those in attendance and the special guests, including State Representative Bob Kressig and many Cedar Falls City
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working in the foreign service. It was very informative to have someone come in to give us personal insight on how to be successful in that field,” said Robyn Odegard, a senior Spanish and global studies major. McMullen is currently a diplomat-in-residence at the University of Texas in Austin. He went to Drake University and majored in political science, then got his doctorate from the University of Iowa. He has See MCMULLEN, page 4
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In order to honor and remember the 11 million victims of the Holocaust, the University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education is sponsoring a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony to be held on May 8 at the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum (Grout Museum District) in Waterloo. “The lessons of the Holocaust have not been
fully learned and understood,” said Stephen Gaies, the director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education. “All we have to do is look around our world today. It is important to learn and to understand what happened and to act on that knowledge and understanding. This ceremony is a way of doing so.” Gaies explained that this will be the fifth annual ceremony for remembering the Holocaust. The ad hoc committee that preceded the creation of the center start-
ed the annual ceremonies, Gaies said, due in part to a bill passed by Congress to establish official days of remembrance for the Holocaust, which this year is May 1 through May 8. The nationwide theme for the 2011 ceremonies is “Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: What Have We Learned?” Gaies said that part of the reason for this theme is that 2011 marks the 65th anniversary of the Nuremburg See HOLOCAUST, page 5
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ABOVE LEFT: President Benjamin Allen presents C.A.R.E. awards to student recipients. ABOVE: Eric O’Brien introduces the workshop’s main question, “Are we making the grade?” BELOW LEFT: President Allen talks with Cedar Falls Mayor Jon Crews after the forum on Thursday.
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Council members. “Let’s hear it for the students,” said Gibson. “You are the future, you are OUR future.” Following Gibson, UNI president Benjamin Allen, took the stage. “This forum is for, quite honestly, young people,” he said, building on Gibson’s earlier statements. As of now, UNI is the only educational institution in the Midwest to receive a gold STARS rating, and one of only nine educational institutions in the nation to earn that recognition. STARS stands for the Sustainability Tracking and Assessment and Rating System. Northern Iowa Student Government vice president Ian Goldsmith, as well as NISG vice president emerita Emma Hashman, explained how a program to increase sustainability was introduced. “The Rider Recycling Revolution was introduced in the fall semester of 2009. Residents of Rider were given easily-accessible recycling bins,” Hashman said. “By the end of the semester, the Rider residents had increased their recycling by 210 percent from the previous semester. About 4.3 tons of material that would otherwise have gone to the landfill was saved.”
Last year nine sophomore presidential scholars introduced a program called UNI Unplugged to challenge on-campus students to reduce energy consumption by switching off or unplugging all lights, televisions and other electrical devices – as opposed to leaving them on standby – whenever they were not in use. The result was a 20-percent reduction in the consumption of electricity, saving a total of 15,000 kilowatt hours of energy – the equivalent of Campbell Hall being unplugged for an entire week. Eric O’Brien, university sustainability coordinator, explained more about how STARS works and how UNI can continue to work together as a community to increase sustainability. “UNI’s last STARS score was 66.63 percent, which means there is much room for improvement,” O’Brien said. “The next steps are to utilize the current STARS data we have, to set goals for ourselves and to plan strategically for continuous improvement.” “There was a number of ideas that the students generated,” said O’Brien. “We need to include students in the initiative.” “We must take vital action,” said Allen. “Action that we take today is profound for the future; it really is all about the students.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Of all the technological and human components that made an all-online school day possible, none was more important than Angela Callahan — at least for the moment. “Mom!” called her 11-year-old daughter, Danielle, from an upstairs bedroom. “Can you help me?” “Mom?” This was another voice, 12-year-old son Ryan, calling from his bedroom. It was 10:25 a.m. on a recent Friday. The Callahan family was about an hour into St. Therese School’s “Virtual Day,” in which all
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28 years of experience and has worked, lived or traveled in more than 89 different countries.
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I think I was the first person to hear a live voice from a past millennium because they were still in 1999 in Toledo and Fiji had clicked over to 2000. Ronald McMullen U.S. Ambassador
643 of the Parkville, Mo., Catholic school’s students were schooling from home. The experiment is a pilot effort for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and a potential model for all school systems striving to keep up with a rapidly changing world. Callahan loved the idea. The school was making up one of its many snow days on a day when the school was closed to prepare for an annual fundraiser auction on Saturday. This would keep students from making up a day after Memorial Day. It took a lot of work by the staff. That was obvious, Callahan said,
Some of his experiences over the years include surviving a voodoo curse in the Dominican Republic, training mongooses to detect heroin in Sri Lanka and taking Hillary Clinton to tour Robben Island in South Africa with Nelson Mandela. McMullen also spoke of being in Fiji on New Year’s Even when he got a phone call from a radio station in Toledo. In his opinion, he made history. “I think I was the first person to hear a live voice from a past millennium because they were still in 1999 in Toledo and Fiji had clicked over to 2000,” said
from the complexity of the online lessons that teachers at St. Therese had prepared, complete with links to video programming, interactive games and recorded instructions voiced by the teachers through computer-generated avatars. But now Mom was caught in the family’s downstairs computer room, playing a Spanish vocabulary game with her 9-year-old daughter, Leslie, as her older children beckoned from laptops upstairs. “Moooommmm,” Danielle implored. “She’s playing a game!” Leslie shouted, trying to ward off her siblings. Callahan let Leslie carry on the
Spanish game, playing both players. She checked in on Ryan to see that he was solving his problem through instant messages with his social studies teacher. She then helped Danielle recover the webpage she had lost while writing about the behavioral and structural adaptations of owls. Leslie hollered from below: “I’m beating you, Mom!” Still think this is a good idea? “I like it,” Callahan said. “I’m getting to really see what they’re learning.” What they’re learning — more than just making up a snow day See VIRTUAL, page 5
McMullen. Along with his experiences, McMullen discussed the series of steps necessary in becoming a foreign diplomat. First, he said to take the Foreign Services Officer Test, which tests your knowledge of U.S. and world affairs. The next step is the QEP, which stands for Qualification Educational Panel. At this step, a panel of three foreign service examiners looks over your previous work and education. The final step is an oral assessment. After you have passed the other two steps, you are brought to Washington, D.C. to do test runs of real-life situations.
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McMullen also left the students with a few tips to make themselves more appealing when applying to be foreign diplomats. “If you pick public diplomacy or political (as your major), you just cut your chances in half because we have so many people sign up for those career paths that they are oversubscribed … So if there’s some way you can see yourself as an economic, management or consular officer, I’d opt for those,” said McMullen. McMullen also suggests that you read The Economist, get as much international experience as possible and be a state department intern. He said
these experiences and a love for your country will help you to go far in foreign service career. “To be a successful foreign service officer, you really need two things. One is an exploring gene. You need to be excited at the prospect of living around the world and seeing the world,” said McMullen. “The second thing you need is a service mentality… to want to serve your country, to be the face of America, to find things in common with other cultures, to build bridges and to win friends and influence people for the United States.”
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Trials and the 50th anniversary of the conviction of Adolf Eichmann, who was unofficially named the executive director of the Holocaust. “This year’s ceremony will have remarks by the mayors of both Cedar Falls and Waterloo along with representatives from clergy of many different faiths and the Human Rights Commission,” explained Gaies. “Another standard part of the ceremony is the lighting of 11
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— puts them further along a technological road where more people interact from remote sites, principal Carol Hussin said. The teachers at St. Therese likewise had to step up their technological game. “I think the whole thing is exciting,” Hussin said. “Technology has so many people working from home, and our kids are learning early on.” St. Therese hopes to get the hang of this and be able to use virtual days next year to make up snow days, Hussin said. They will put lessons in place that would be ready to fill in on teacher training days in the spring, when students are scheduled to be out of school. Students could make up a day’s work, and teachers could still get their day of training. The school might even consider mobilizing a virtual day on an actual snow day if it is caught up in an extended winter storm. Not every school could be ready to pull it off. Public schools in some states, including Missouri and Kansas, would need adjustments to state statutes that define the mandatory length of school years in terms of hours spent in class. The virtual day also requires that nearly all students have access to online computers and, particularly with younger children, someone at home who can guide them. That’s why the idea of a virtual day began with a survey of all the St. Therese families, technology coordinator Vickie Lamb said. Families by and large had access to computers, the survey showed. And school staff helped see to it that families had downloaded the applications needed to run the programs coming their way. Then teachers really had to get to work, Lamb said. They mined education sites for online material and entered their own lessons. They began creating greeting videos, such as the seventh-grade and eighth-grade teachers who pasted cartoonish pictures of their heads onto a heavy-metal band in
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memorial candles with each candle representing one million victims of Nazi Germany.” Gaies continued by saying that this year’s ceremony will have many of the standard aspects of previous ceremonies, along with many new elements. Ruth Chananie-Hill, an assistant professor of sociology, anthropology and criminology, emphasized the importance of remembering the Holocaust. “It is not only important, but crucial to remember what happened
action. “They’re talking like puppets,” 8-year-old Izzy Gonzalez said after spying her teachers’ online personas. Teachers collaborated on plans, then exchanged their scripts to see if their instructions were clear, teacher Sara McDonald said. She figured they had all spent more than eight hours preparing lessons. The school had everyone practice from home earlier
during the Holocaust,” said Hill. “In my Jewish family, it was common to hear the phrase, ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’ when referring to the Holocaust. As a sociologist, I cannot over-emphasize the truth in this statement, although I would qualify it by saying there needs to be a collective societal memory of abhorrent human evil and a commitment to preventing it on a global scale, rather than simply remembrance in the minds of some subset of us.” Hill feels that the bottom line
in the week to work out bugs. And teachers dedicated a couple of hours on that Friday morning to be available online to answer student questions. Most of the students have gotten into the preparation, 13-year-old Adele Royle said. The flexibility in online lessons is also attractive. For starters, forget that usual 6:30 morning alarm, Adele said. “You can sleep in and then
is, we are not immune or set apart because we are a democracy, or because we are a wealthy, advanced nation and thus we must never forget the evil of which we humans are capable. “The Holocaust was not an isolated event of historical interest; it represents the worst that humanity is capable of, and therefore remembrance and honoring the victims’ experiences can hopefully reduce the likelihood of similar occurrences,” Hill commented.
do it,” she said. The lessons became available to the homes on a Wednesday night, and the students had until Sunday night to complete them. The flexibility helps families who were out of town Friday, or families in which both parents work and children couldn’t be at their home computers during the day. But they had to quickly get started because, as Kristi Weatherford discovered with
her first-grade son, Isaac, the teachers had delivered the five to six hours of instructional work as promised. “Whoa, this isn’t just ‘check in the box,’” Weatherford said as Isaac followed along with rapping raccoons in a lesson on adjectives. “We’re actually working.” One thing for sure, she added: “It gets parents involved.”
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Saving lives: One mile at a time By CASSANDRA HAYNE Staff Writer
According to the American Cancer Society, one in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. This was exactly the motivation University of Northern Iowa junior Chelsea Anderson needed to register for the Boston Marathon. When Anderson lost a close classmate to cancer in September, she knew she wanted to do something. “He put his heart into everything he did,” she said. Just four days after her friend’s funeral, Anderson decided to join people all over the world in signing up for this year’s race. Anderson looked around the website and saw the opportunity to run for the cause. She joined 19 other individuals in fundraising for the American Cancer Society. Together, they raised more than $44,000 and Anderson alone raised almost $4,000. The money will help cancer patients travel to and from the hospital, help offset some costs of treatment and go towards education efforts. For Anderson, it was “more than just a marathon.” In fact, it was Anderson’s second marathon. She ran last year’s St. Louis Marathon in three hours and 36 minutes, allowing her to qualify for the Boston Marathon. Since she signed up for the prestigious race, she has spent hours each week training. She started training in November and ran four to nine miles during the week with longer runs on the weekends, often outside throughout the winter. Her longest training runs were 20 and 22 miles. Her training paid off when Anderson finished the race in three hours and 40 minutes. She dedicated a mile to cancer sur-
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Chelsea Anderson, a senior TESOL major, ran in the Boston Marathon April 18 to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Anderson ran the race in three hours and 40 minutes and raised almost $4,000 for cancer patients.
vivors and victims that she knows. “It wasn’t about running the Boston Marathon,” Anderson said. “If they can fight cancer, I can run 26.2 miles.” The race helped her “recognize that there is more to life.” Even when she hit the series of hills between miles 16-22 and couldn’t feel her legs anymore, she pushed forward in honor of her loved ones. “My mantra for the race was ‘free’ because those who have passed from cancer are free from pain, those in remission are cured and I am free to run because it brings me joy,” she said.
Anderson compared the race to her academic work. “It’s like school, you work all semester on projects and homework, but when it comes down to finals, you’ve done all you can. It’s all about mind over matter,” she said. “It’s just the icing on the cake, the time to showcase your training.” If she could share just one thing with other students, Anderson would “encourage other students to get involved! It doesn’t have to be a marathon, just start with little things, maybe volunteering, because it’s the journey that will continue to teach
you things in years to come.” Anderson said the marathon is an experience she will never forget. “Preparing for the race is a journey that builds up perseverance and character,” she said. “Running for a cause and being mindful of the close ones affected by cancer takes away the pressure on race day and provides a lot of hope for more birthdays. I had the opportunity to meet several people across the United States as well as around the world, and it’s neat to see we all have a different story of how we got here but we all have the common goal on race day.”
Seeds of Hope Clothing He said, she said: Relationship advice Drive provides support for abuse victims By ANTHONY MITCHELL and KATIE HUNT
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Students in the Violence in Intimate Relationships class are hosting a clothing drive for the local Seeds of Hope agency. Stations will be set up in Maucker Union on April 28-29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for people to donate clothes as well as household items and toiletries. Seeds of Hope is a non-
profit organization which helps prevent domestic violence and provides support to victims during transitional periods. “Often rape victims will need to give their clothes to evidence and need something else to wear,” said Paige Muilenburg, a senior psychology major. “Also, Seeds of Hope helps victims who are not safely able to return to their homes.”
Q: I have a friend who I think is into this girl. I also think the girl is into him. How can I get them together?
He said: Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match. Find me a find. Catch me a catch. Before Fiddler on the Roof takes over my column, getting two friends together or just getting one friend hooked up with someone can be a daunting task if you are really committed to this match working out. If you know both the boy
and the girl, you can always do your best to drop a hint, or for the brave and the bold, just be up front and say, “Hey! I think you two would be pretty neat together. Let’s make this happen.” Leading up to this, do your best to monitor any signals that might be flying between the two of them. If the spark is evident, getting them together should be a piece of cake (so he says).
Generally, when someone suggests asking someone else out, the almost-universal response is to shy away from it. Either we are too embarrassed to bring up the option, we keep the option to ourselves in fear our peers will say it’s a bad idea or we genuinely haven’t considered it. If you honestly think there is a chance for something good to happen between these people, at least try to plant the seed in their heads. I mean, hey, the worst they can do is say no. At the end of the day, though, if there is a spark, they will pursue it See RELATIONSHIPS, page 7
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Gender neutral housing grows; More colleges give students an option By KAREN SUDOL MCT Campus
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Freshman Mark Rivera’s roommate experience at William Paterson University wasn’t exactly what he had envisioned. After informing his roommate before school began that he was gay and sensing an air of tolerance, the student barely spoke to him during the first days and eventually switched rooms. He explained to Rivera by text that he was more homophobic than he realized. “For the rest of the semester, I lived alone and still live alone,” said 19-year-old Rivera, of Paterson, N.J. “No one should be robbed of the full college experience. It starts with a roommate.” It’s a core reason why Rivera, vice president of Chosen: The Gay-Straight Alliance, said he and others are encouraging the university to join a growing number of colleges that allow students to choose roommates of the opposite sex to live with -- identified as gender neutral housing. The college’s Residence Life office is researching the option and plans to speak to campus student groups, said Joseph Caffarelli, director of Residence Life. It currently
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eventually. All the hints or suggestions in the world can’t sustain guaranteed action. Patience is key when you’re trying to get two people together. Like I have been saying, if you think there is a legitimate shot and you definitely see there is a spark, stay on the sidelines and do some coaching. That spark will ignite a passionate fire with any luck (metaphors are fun). She said: So you need some advice on how to play matchmaker. That’s a very bold position for you to fill; it’s also very risky. What if you are forever credited for jumpstarting the most perfect relationship anyone has ever seen? Or, what if they don’t work out and you’re the one responsible for bringing together the worst couple ever? See what I mean… risky. Whichever way it plays out, I admire your interest in your friend’s relationships. I can see you care a lot about him — you’ve taken it upon yourself to help guide your friend towards something you feel is right for him. Sometimes it’s hard to have
requires same-sex room assignments. “It would be a university decision once we get all of the information and look at what students think,” he said. Six years ago, only a handful of colleges in the country offered the housing, said Jeffrey Chang, co-founder of the National Student Genderblind Campaign, an organization that promotes LGBT-affirmative policies regarding campus housing. Eight schools have implemented the change just since October, he said. Rutgers University became the 60th school and largest university in the nation to have the policy when it approved the option in March, said Chang, a Rutgers law student. Discussions were partially born out of transgender students not always feeling comfortable rooming with someone of the same sex. As a result, many colleges provided limited options for transgender students such as placing them in single rooms, Chang said. “Making the decision not to offer it tells transgender students that they have to be in a system that doesn’t work for them,” said Jenny Kurtz, director of the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities at Rutgers.
the courage to actually do the things we want to do, and it can be very beneficial when we’ve got someone in our lives looking out for us and willing to give us that extra shove in the right direction. So the question is, how do we get them together? Well, seeing as you know both of them, you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding places and things they have in common. Use this to your advantage and plan a party or trip of some sort. Invite the both of them, start up a conversation then let the rest play out. Give them some guidance towards each other, then back off ever so slightly so that they can have a chance to spend some alone time together. Also, when you’re with each of them individually, you may want to casually bring up the other person in conversation. Try not to be blunt. Try not to pry. Remember you’re there to help, not suffocate them. The decision for them to spend time together or be together is based solely on them. You can assist in a few ways, but don’t get too involved. You don’t want to find yourself forcing something that is just not there.
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The trend gained additional momentum after last September’s suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, Chang said. Clementi, of Ridgewood, N.J., jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his college roommate allegedly streamed an intimate gay encounter to Internet viewers via a Web camera. “In the aftermath of the Clementi tragedy, members of the university’s LGBTQ community told the admin-
istration that gender neutral housing would help create an even more inclusive environment,” according to a university statement. “Since then, the university has been exploring this in greater detail.” Rutgers will offer the housing this fall at New Gibbons on the Douglass Campus and Demarest Hall and suites in Rockoff Hall both on the College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick, Kurtz said. Gender neutral housing will take place in designated units
on the Newark campus as well. Rutgers students had been pushing for the option for the past five years, said Chang. Students entering their sophomore, junior or senior years are eligible and don’t have to reveal their sexual orientation or the reasons for their roommate requests, Kurtz said. Heterosexual students can also apply. A pilot program called See GENDER NEUTRAL, page 8
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Rainbow Perspectives and designed for 40 students interested in attending programs and discussions on LGBT issues, will also be unveiled at New Gibbons for the upcoming semester. While some colleges like Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham are informally discussing the idea, others began offering the option years ago. Gender neutral housing has existed at Montclair State University at the Hawk
Crossings and The Village apartment complexes since 2004, said Amie MacMath, program assistant of the school’s LGBT Center. But the school also launched a housing option in 2010 within Hawk Crossings that requires students to take a class within the LGBT minor and perform community projects related to or advocate for LGBT related issues. “Students need to feel comfortable and supported on campus in order to be successful in other areas,” MacMath said.
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Edison was a pretty smart fella, and while we have made significant progStudent Body President ress in scientific discovery since he Graduation is just around the corner said this, I believe that we’ve only and like any self-respecting student created more mysteries for ourselves. body president, I feel a need to impart Yes, we have all attended college and to you the wisdom that I believe I many of you have learned a great deal have, but in reality that I stole from of information. Others have learned much wiser men. Let the quote-fest that “C” is the most common answer on a multiple choice test and that probegin! There is a quote by Buzz Aldrin fessors pick favorites and you were where he explains, “I believe that not one of them. Regardless, never every human has a finite number of think for a minute that you know heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any everything about anything. It is only when we become of mine running around doing exercisentrenched in our beliefs, unwilling es.” I include this quote in the column to consider a different viewpoint, that not to dissuade you from exercising. we become a danger to the progresPlease, by all means, continue or begin sion of society and human thought. your exercise regime. Rather, I include Throughout your life, keep quesit to encourage you to avoid getting tioning what you know. Never stop stuck in the monotony of life after collearning; read books, newspapers and lege. magazines; watch documentaries and Do not spend the rest of your life doing the same thing every day: go newscasts. No, “Jersey Shore” does to work, watch Internet videos of zoo not count as a documentary; Snooki animals being tickled, come home and and The Situation will never say anywatch “SportsCenter” or “American thing worth hearing. John Ruskin, an English social Idol,” go to bed, wash, rinse, repeat. thinker, once said, “The highest reward Instead, do something that matters and for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, that will give you a sense of accombut what he becomes by it.” plishment. Apply this to your Volunteer at a homeless shelter, college experience help your kids with their homework, or finally write that novel you’ve been and you will see kicking around in your mind. If Buzz that what you’ve after is right and you do only have a lim- gained your three-plus ited number of heart-beats, do not be caught off-guard at the end and not be years of studyable to feel satisfied with your post- ing is much more than collegiate life. “We don’t know a millionth of just a one percent about anything.” Thomas p a p e r degree SPENCER WALRATH
Popping the question
Don't be lame
ANTHONY MITCHELL ayomitch@uni.edu
For some random reason, the topic of proposals and marriages has made their way into conversations this week. I don’t know why and don’t really remember either, but what I do remember is my fantasyland brain having a field day on the subject matter. In my opinion, I think we as a society have become complacent when it comes to holy matrimony. I mean, the divorce rate is at about 50 percent, give or take; I’d call that 100 percent uncorrelated proof that we are getting bored. Being the hopeless romantic that I am, I can’t help but be bored with the tried and true nice dinner, cham-
pagne, “oh my goodness the ring is in my glass” kind of approach to popping the question. It’s so bland to me; then again I’m probably from the planet Jendel, so my bearings are probably off on romance. Obscure references aside, you might as well do something borderline insane to say the magic words. I say that for two reasons. Number one, the crazier and more impressive the stunt you pull, the better your percentage of acceptance is. Number two, you’d be spending a small fortune doing the whole four-star dinner thing anyway, so spend your money on something inventive. For example, here is one situation I dreamed up. Get your fiancée to meet you in a very open space, preferably a
and a job. If your experience has been anything like mine, you’ve discovered who you are and where your passions lie. You will also have developed your talents and strengths. There are your occupational strengths; perhaps you are a great auditor or a skilled actor. There are also your personal strengths; maybe you have become a great leader or have strengthened your faith. Whatever the case may be, employers are going to hire you over someone else with an identical degree based on who you are and who you have become as a result of seeking that degree. You will make friends based on your personality (and your looks), not because you are a Master of Fine Arts. As you walk across the stage at commencement and receive your empty folder (and when you later receive your degree in the mail),
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letter to the editor
While reading the paper Tuesday, I was glad to find an article about sexual assault awareness. However, I was disappointed to find that the article never really got past describing opinions about men walking in high heels. This topic has become more real and personal to me because two months ago, my world turned upside down when my roommate came to me saying she didn’t feel right and was worried something bad had happened to her after going to a party that weekend. This girl is not “that girl.” Since we were random roommates freshman year, I’ve know her as a smart, outgoing girl who loves to travel, cares about others, loves God, experiments with crazy fashion and is always there to laugh with you. Unfortunately, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. After two hours spent talking with a guy, it only took 15 minutes for her to go from normal to almost blacked out. The next day she only remembered a few things she did not want to remember. This has taken over my roommate’s life and instilled a sense of injustice, pain and anger that consumes her thoughts daily. For every woman who has been sexually assaulted but has been too afraid to come forward or doesn’t have the opportunity to defend her own rights, my roommate decided to fight for justice. There was a hearing last week at UNI to see if the student broke the school’s code of conduct, and he was expelled, but he is now contesting that. People should know this does happen at UNI and it has devastating effects. It can happen to anyone, but it’s never deserved and people should not be afraid to come forward. Public Safety offers resources for our students at www.vpaf.uni.edu/pubsaf/assault/index.shtml. Anonymous
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be proud. Be proud not only because you have attained your degree, but also because you have become a better person as a result of the work you put in to earning that degree. To all of the students who will be returning next year: I cannot wait to grow and learn with you. I hope that we can look back at this time next year and reflect on all that we have learned together. To all of the graduates: congratulations! You are heading out into the “real world.” Do not waste the opportunity to take all that you have learned and apply it to your life. Devote yourself to something; your work, your family, helping others, etc. Whatever you do with your life, do it well and do it with pride. Finally, remember all that UNI has done to help you achieve your goals. UNI is proud of its alumni, and its alumni are proud to be Panthers. Congratulations and good luck!
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from the editorial staff
Salvage, don't scrap
It is nearly that time of the year: Dumpster-diving season. However, to the dismay of many Dumpster divers, information to minimize such “trash treasures” will be divulged in the following. “Dumpster divers” often sprout from such families in which recycling and composting are a must. They are scavengers of garage sales, roadside ditches, secondhand stores, dumps, Dumpsters and in general, rejected or abandoned items. A Dumpster diver is a person who literally hops into a Dumpster and digs around like a kid in a sandbox to find buried treasure. Think of the phrase, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” We have become a nation of heavy consumerism. We are often wasteful and lazy in tossing out what is “broken” to simply replace it instead of easily remedying what we already own. A great piece of advice from a fortune cookie reads, “Don’t scrap everything! See what you can salvage.” Whichever background you come from, remember your – our – ecological responsibil-
ity to minimize what we put into landfills and maximize recycling. Whether through taking clothing and other items to secondhand stores, recycling items such as cardboard, glass and plastic, or salvaging items for reuse instead of simply scrapping them, we can do our part. A 2009 article from Time magazine titled “Dumpster Diving: Colleges Get Smart on Salvage” highlights the issue of the end-ofthe-year cleaning, which results in students throwing out assorted items to lessen their moving load. Usable items such as carpets, futons and frames, lamps, pillows, clothes, books and furniture are abandoned in curbside Dumpsters in a careless manner, often without a thought toward donation. Many colleges such as Princeton, New York University, Harvard and Cornell have instituted programs in which a collection project collects food, clothing, furniture and other items to donate to charities. The University of Northern Iowa has answered this issue with
its own collection program called Panther Pickup, much like Texas Christian University’s “Trash to Treasure” collection program. Panther Pickup will be held from late April to early May this year. Students can donate items to various organizations such as St. Vincent de Paul, Goodwill, the Salvation Army and many others. Both on- and off-campus students can donate items instead of simply adding to the plethora of garbage dumps. On-campus recycling will be May 4 and May 5 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and May 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. St. Vincent de Paul, Goodwill and the Salvation Army will have trucks on campus with agency staff to accept items. On-campus metal recycling will be April 30 through May 6. Off-campus students can contact St. Vincent de Paul to schedule a pickup time for furniture, computers, printers and other large items by calling 232-3366. Pickup is usually done one to two weeks from a phone call. Last year, Panther Pickup donated 6,700 pounds of clothing,
dishes, carpet and furniture along with other items. Visit www. vpaf.uni.edu/energy/energy_sub/ pantherpickup.shtml for maps of pickup locations and additional details. Students should deem recycling and donation a responsibility when cleaning out their dorms and apartments at the end of the academic year to reduce their carbon footprint and continue such practices into their adult lives. With such services provided, there is no reason usable items should find their way into curbside Dumpsters, ultimately laid to rest in landfills. Dumpster divers cannot salvage every usable item lazily plunked into trash receptacles. It is not their responsibility to rectify such carelessness. Every student is individually responsible for minimizing his or her carbon output. Any and all persons should first donate or recycle materials before resorting to the Dumpster. After all, every day is Earth Day. Not just April 22.
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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weird when it comes to weddings (retract the claws, it was continued from page 12 a joke). So I guess the best you park, somewhere that doesn’t can muster in this situation have a lot of buildings close is just making it creative. Do together. Hire a prop plane something unique besides the and a pilot, get a banner made church, gown and Styx cover and get some basic skydiving band. To fast forward to the next instructions. Oh yeah, get a cameraman willing to jump generation, here is an idea I down with you. This is most would totally do if I had some certainly a Kodak moment. accomplices. If a friend or I Skydive to your fiancée, and had a daughter getting marafter landing safely have a ried, we would most certainly need to set banner readup a shady ing “Will you office and marry me?” grant favors behind the guests plane you ...when it comes to to jumped from. tying the knot, do G o d f a t h e r It Epic is an more than just make style. would totally understateit memorable. Make throw off ment. unstoppable to e v e r y o n e N o w it while we are anyone and everyone who hasn’t the talking about you surround yourself seen movie, but off-the-wall would be a p r o p o s a l s , with... great in-joke let’s fast forfor everyone ward to the actual wedding. I can’t just who had. Dreaming is fun. The point is, when it comes do a traditional, nice and easy, simple wedding. I’m just not to tying the knot, do more capable. If my wedding ends than just make it memorable. up looking like that, I’m going Make it unstoppable to anyone to have to bust out a boom- and everyone you surround box Lonely Island style and yourself with, not just for get everyone out of the floor bragging rights, but to dembecause it would be getting onstrate some serious creativtoo stuffy for me. Now, I can ity and thought into making fantasize about being married your significant other feel spein a Batman cowl or KISS cial and appreciated. make-up all I want, but at the end of the day it’s just not realistic because girls are just
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The end of the school year has come, bringing with it the end of classes. For once, I am left satisfied. As I normally feel after a semester of majorbased classes, every teacher was outstanding. But with this realization comes an unavoidable truth: some teachers really need to step it up. Everyone has had these teachers. You show up to class, listen for 50 minutes to them as they stand behind a podium and monotonous-
ly repeat, without passion, what is already printed on a PowerPoint, and then you leave. Or there are the teachers who rely so much on the textbooks, they don’t even bother teaching any additional material. Or there are what are most likely the favorite teachers on campus: the ones where the notes are already given and class is so boring you wouldn’t imagine showing up. No worries, however, since these teachers accommodate said students, letting them still get an A without having to show up. I’m looking at you, Introduction to Psychology. It is important to note that the subpar teachers at this university are the exception and not the norm. This university has an amazing faculty with some professors that have honestly made me proud to be a University of Northern Iowa student. Yet the strength of these teachers only serves to highlight and exacerbate the weaknesses of others. As is true with every university, we pay through the roof for our education. Racking up student loans (or relying on our parents), we show up to class each day expecting to get a quality education. Studies have shown that students pay, on average, between $30 and $60 per class session in college. Is it always worth it? There are students who don’t hold up their side of the bargain, skipping class and not participating when in attendance. Yet their lack of enthusiasm should not serve as a means of bitterness from our professors. When I am paying $50 a class, I deserve more than a monotonous lecture without student involvement. In our modern society, we deserve an education involving participation and involvement. Many teachers are under the impression that pre-packaged PowerPoints are enough to suffice. Yet what about the students who can’t engage themselves in such mindless rambling?
This distinction was never more apparent than when I took, while also taking the aforementioned Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Sociology. In this class there were discussion, lecture, activities, papers, tests, videos, exercises and thought experiments. Every day was something new and made going to class an enjoyable experience. Most importantly, however, the class resonated with me and I learned. Too many teachers are complacent with going through the motions. I truly wish they would heed the example of the excellent teachers and commit themselves to student growth. While many students ruin it for the majority and make this desire likely to never be a reality, there are some of us desperate for a committed teacher. My plea doesn’t even require more work for teachers, simply more engagement. For teachers do more than we even know. Between office hours, teaching, conferences, meetings and research, they are overworked and often underpaid. For this reason, I don’t expect every teacher to reinvent the wheel. Yet even for those teachers that are content with a semester of non-interactive lecture, quality can be enhanced by a simple thing called passion. Teachers are sometimes forced to teach a course they care nothing about. And we know. It’s obvious. When they care about what they teach, however, it reflects on the students. Even making such an argument is difficult for me, considering the quality of my teachers I’ve had over the years. Yet the handful that have made three credit hours feel like going to church three times a week have made me believe it is a bigger issue. I’m sure I’m not the only one to experience this. And for the amount of money being paid for my education, I deserve more. We ALL deserve more.
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Panther softball team salvages Ryan’s Rants Boomshakalaka! one win against Bluejays
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The Panthers, pictured above against Southern Illinois, lost two of three games to the Creighton Bluejays over the weekend. UNI now stands at 25-23 overall and 9-10 in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Scottie Pippen (No. 33) and John Stockton (No. 12) were both popular NBA players when NBA Jam Tournament Edition ‘98 was released.
By SAM JEFSON Sports Writer
The University of Northern Iowa softball team dropped two of three games in a weekend series against Creighton University to fall to 9-10 in Missouri Valley Conference play. The Panthers struggled to drive in runs as they left 19 runners on base in their two losing efforts. Game one offered UNI chances to score the entire
day, but the Panthers were not able to plate a runner, losing 3-0. UNI most notably had an opportunity in the bottom of the second inning when Leah Embrey and Whitney Plein singled. An errant throw from the outfielder advanced the runners to second and third base, but that was as close to scoring as the Panthers would come. Creighton’s Becca Changstrom had all the answers, pitching a complete
game shutout. Jamie Fisher threw for UNI, striking out six Bluejays and allowing two runs. A doubleheader was slated for Friday, but due to inclement weather, game two was pushed back to Saturday. The Panthers responded immediately from their offensive woes Friday with a scoring outburst in the first inning. UNI’s leadoff hitter, Mackenzie Daigh, cracked a home run See SOFTBALL, page 16
UNI tennis team extends Valley winning streak to seven matches By SAM JEFSON Sports Writer
The University of Northern Iowa tennis team had luck with the number seven Saturday. The Panthers won their seventh Missouri Valley Conference match of the year by a score of 7-0 over the Creighton Bluejays. In the past four matches, the Panthers have won 22 out of 28 possible points. UNI got off to a promising start, winning all three of their doubles matches. The closest the Blue Jays came was an 8-3 score against the UNI team of Lara Okicki and Chelsea Moore. The singles portion of the match followed suit with UNI winning every set they played in. The bottom half of the UNI lineup showed their depth Saturday morning with the Panthers’ four, five and six players all winning in convincing fashion. Sunday afternoon the Panthers suffered a 5-2 loss at the hands of Wichita State University. The JORDAN WEAVER/Northern Iowan loss drops the Panthers to 7-1 in MVC play. UNI Phoebe Walker (pictured above) and the UNI will look to continue their momentum for the posttennis team will head to St. Louis next weekend to compete for an MVC title in the conference season MVC Tournament. Play begins next Friday and will continue all weekend in St. Louis. tournament.
By RYAN FRIEDERICH Sports Columnist
Let’s get one thing straight, I am not a “gamer.” That label isn’t something I would ever wish upon myself. However, I do play my fair share of video games. The games I play most often are sports games and I have collected quite a compilation of them over my lifetime. With a brother one year older than I am, the competitive juices were flowing whenever we did anything together. Playing video games was a way for us to bond and compete while staying just lazy enough where we wouldn’t break a sweat. In my honest opinion, here are a few of the greatest video games that were ever created: Let’s step back into the time machine and look at one of the greatest baseball games of all time: Bo Jackson Baseball for the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES. This game was incredible, probably because it was one of the first sports games I remember playing. Once in a great while, if there was a close play at the plate, a picture of an umpire and a manager would pop up on the screen and have the same exact argument every time. This game was released in 1991 and it was an early favorite of mine. A baseball game that came later and engulfed a whole summer of mine was
All-Star Baseball 2004 for the Playstation 2. Although Derek Jeter graced the cover of this game year in and year out, it was one of the first to have graphics that felt realistic. For some reason, this game developed by Acclaim had a feel about it that embraced our “national pastime.” One game that my friends and I played for hours on end was Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey. This game as was released in 1996 for Nintendo 64 and was basically a hockey version of NFL Blitz. My friends and I discovered this game about 10 years later than it was developed and would play two-on-two games until our eyes would bleed. 2004 must have been a good year for video game developers, because I believe Madden 2004 was the best of the franchise. The graphics in this game were crazy good for the year and the online play was superb. I would also argue that the most underrated part about this game was the soundtrack. Michael Vick was on the cover of this edition and I think his speed was faster than when someone put a cheat code in the NES version of John Elway Football. The greatest and undisputed champion of sports video games is NBA Jam Tournament Edition See RANT, page 17
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Stocksell records first-place finish for third-straight week
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UNI’s Aaron Stocksell has been named MVC track Athlete of the Week twice this year.
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Mackenzie Daigh cracked a leadoff home run to start game two of the three game series against Creighton. However, the Panthers lost the game 4-3, and the series 2-1.
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to put the Panthers on the board first. Rachel Gerking then scored off of an Eranne Daugharthy single to put the Panthers ahead 2-0 after one inning. In the top of the third inning, Creighton tied the game with timely hitting and a passed ball. In the fifth
inning, Creighton snatched the lead with a pair of RBI singles, putting the Blue Jays on top 4-2. A late Panther run off of a Livi Abney single wasn’t enough as UNI stranded two runners on base to end the contest. Creighton won 4-3. In game three, the Panthers avoided a sweep by winning 7-2. Haley Kriener set the tone with a second-
inning two-run homer. From there, the Panthers extended the lead by scoring three in the fourth inning and two in the fifth to salt the game away. Jamie Fisher earned the win from the pitcher’s circle, recording her 16th victory of the season. UNI will continue their home stand Wednesday as they face Bradley University.
Congratulations! Fourth Annual
Graduate Student Research Symposium Creative Presentations Original Work 1st: Sara Leavens- “A Fresh Slice” 2nd: Marcos Grano De Oro– Missing the Ocean & Dance of the Tropical Palm Tress 2nd: Martin McGoey- “Meditations on the Big Fork River”
Not Original Work
1st: Natalia Tokar– Chaconne for piano solo 2nd: Cassandra Naaktgeboren– “Glitter and Be Gay” from Candide
Oral Presentations Bin Ruan- “Leisure Programming and the One–Child Policy in China Ulan Dakeev- “Management of Wind Energy with the Attachment of Wind Tunnel Kevin Howard- “Advanced Information Processing Technologies and Police Discretion”
Poster Presentations Project and Literature Review Pieter Ver Steeg and Adam Rodenberg- “Cedar Valley Nature Trail Management Plan”
Research 1st: Indrani Thiruselvam- “Sensation-seeking, Impulsivity, the Big Five Factors of Personality, and Risk-Taking Behaviors” 2nd: Molly Schlumbohm- “The Effect of Tallgrass Prarie Species Composition on Above Ground Biomass Production”
The University of Northern Iowa track and field team has many athletes from the state of Iowa. However, Iowa City native Aaron Stocksell didn’t arrive at UNI until this school year. He was previously competing at the University of Alabama and Panther fans are happy he is back in his home state. “It is a lot different from ‘Bama to here. The main thing is I’m at home, and it feels like it,” said Stocksell. “Alabama, at the time, (was) the best place for me and my family, but UNI is home, and nothing is like home.” The junior recorded a first-place finish for the third week in a row. He won the 400-meter title at the Jim Duncan Invitational in a time of 49.11 seconds. He also won the 800-meter title at the Wichita State TriMeet and the Tom Botts Invitational. A couple of weeks ago, the mid-distance runner was honored with Missouri Valley Conference track Athlete of the Week. He also won the award in February. Although he’s a very good athlete, Stocksell is focused on the team. “I would like for our team to win the MVC title,” said Stocksell. The team companionship may be a good reason Stocksell has high hopes for his team. “Our team chemistry is great. It’s like we are brothers. It’s really neat being on the same team with people you once competed
against,” said Stocksell. “We always joke and tell stories about whose high school was better.” Stocksell is a great 400 and 800-meter runner; however, he does have a particular one that he fancies most. “My favorite race is the 4x400 meter relay,” said Stocksell. “I love this race because it’s always the last race of every track meet, and it always comes down to (who) has the most fight and pride for their school.” While many athletes have different techniques to pump themselves up for sporting events, Stocksell has a different style. “I’m not really big into doing things to get pumped up, but almost anyone will tell you that I’m always excited to race and compete,” said Stocksell. “If I were to pump myself up for the meets I probably wouldn’t have any energy once the race came around, but I do get very excited to put the purple on and go compete.” When Stocksell isn’t running, he likes to play basketball and watch videos on Netflix. He is majoring in sociology and when he is done with his running career, he plans on working with inner city kids. His favorite place to run is Drake University; however, he doesn’t have a least favorite place to compete. “I don’t think I have a place I don’t like going,” said Stocksell. “All tracks are the same. I am a firm believer that the runner makes the track; the track doesn’t make the runner.” Stocksell’s favorite memory from track is winning back-to-back national titles in the 4x800meter relay back in his prep days. He has been running since the summer of his eighth grade year. “I started running because the person I rode to school with was out for track, so I had to do all the sports that he did,” said Stocksell. Stocksell and the Panthers will next compete at the Drake Relays on April 28.
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Hosch repeats as 800m Campion at Musco Twilight Senior Holli Hosch won the 800m for the second consecutive year in Iowa City, this time taking the title in 2:10.21. NI NEWS SERVICE
IOWA CITY, Iowa - The University of Northern Iowa men’s and women’s track & field teams continued their strong outdoor progress on Saturday evening at the Musco Twilight meet hosted by the University of Iowa. Senior Holli Hosch won the 800m for the second consecutive year in Iowa City, this time taking the title in 2:10.21. Hosch set the meet and facility records in the event at last year’s Musco Twilight. Junior Traci Harms moved up one spot to No. 2 all-time at UNI in the hammer throw. Harms claimed runner-up honors with a career-best throw of 181-05 (55.30m). Sophomore Jordan Williams highlighted UNI’s surging group of men’s throwers with a huge personal best in the hammer throw, moving into fifth place all-time at UNI. His toss of 194-07 (59.32m) eclipsed his previous best this season by 15 feet. In the discus, Williams also improved his regionally-ranked mark to
169-10 (51.76m) on his way to a fourth-place finish. Women’s Highlights Junior Olimpia Nowak placed second in each of the hurdle races but was the top collegiate finisher in the 100m hurdles, crossing the line in 14.01 seconds. Nowak ran 1:02.62 for second place in the 400m hurdles. Lauren Lindaman took third in the 100m hurdles in 14.08 seconds - a personal best by more than half a second. Junior Jenna Wexter was second in the pole vault with a clearance of 11-11.75 (3.65m). Rachel VanderHolt took runner-up honors in the javelin with a toss of 122-00 (37.18m). Sophomore Lindsay Gierke took fourth in the 200m dash with a seasonbest time of 25.35. Sam Cameron also recorded a season-best time in the 400m, placing sixth in 56.18. Sophomore Scotti Schon trimmed 23 seconds off her previous seasonbest time in the 3,000m steeplechase, taking fourth place in 11:06.12. Junior
Jill Lageschulte clocked the Panthers’ fastest 3,000m time of the season, running a personal-best 10:23.83 for 10th place. UNI’s 4x400m relay team of Michaela Brungardt, Hosch, Ellen Kindelsperger and Cameron claimed a second-place finish with a time of 3:48.77.
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Men’s Highlights Sam Kranz earned a tie for second place in the pole vault with a clearance of 16-06.75 (5.05m). Junior Aaron Stockstell once again improved his 800m time on the season, running 1:50.18 for a fourthplace finish in an elite field. Sophomore Thibault Vandenabeele knocked nearly six seconds off his previous season-best time in the 1,500m, earning a fourth-place finish in 3:51.20. Teammate Brett Egan clocked a huge personal-best in the 5,000m at 14:43.05, an improvement of nearly 20 seconds. Junior Justin Romero threw 54-08.75 (16.68m) to take fourth place in the shot put.
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Chris Henely posted his fastest time of the season in the 110m hurdles, taking fifth place in 14.64 seconds. The Panthers will return to action at the Drake Relays from Apr. 27-30.
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’98. This game for Super Nintendo and Gameboy was both addictive and allowed us to play two-on-two with some of the best NBA players of the era. Many people would argue that Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant were the best duo on this game, but I never failed to take Karl “Mailman” Malone and John Stockton. Malone broke many backboards when I was controlling him and the announcer was almost hoarse from screaming “boomshakalaka” after my insane jams. I wish Ali Farokhmanesh had played in 1998 so his three-pointers could have had fire on them while shooting, just like Stockton’s. Ah, the good old days… go Panthers!
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