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3 UNI Track and Field student athletes named All-Americans BRAD EILERS Sports Editor
Three student-athletes from the University of Northern Iowa track and field program earned AllAmerican status last week. Juniors Daniel Gooris and Jordan Williams, along with senior Olimpia Nowak, were named second team AllAmericans after their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. To earn All-American status, competitors must finish in the top 16 in their respective events. The top eight finishers are first team AllAmericans while the remaining eight are named to the second team. Gooris was UNI’s top performer at the Outdoor Championships, finishing 10th in the decathlon with a personal-best 7,629 points. This marks Gooris’ second time as an All-American after being named to the sec-
ond team last year as well. Gooris is the sixth Panther since 2006 to finish in the top 10 in the decathlon. “It was nice having a (personal best) in the (1500meter). I wasn’t expecting it,” said Gooris. “I went out pretty fast and then slowed down a lot - and it just happened. I couldn’t tell you how the race went.” “In typical UNI fashion, Daniel Gooris competed with the heart of a champion,” said UNI head track and field coach Dan Steele following the event. “Setting a lifetime best at the NCAA Championships is all we can ask of any of our athletes.” Nowak used the secondhighest heptathlon score of her career (5,593 points) to earn a 12th-place finish. This marks the third consecutive season in which Nowak has finished in the nation’s top 12 for the heptathlon. Nowak is also a three-time NCAA < See TRACK AND FIELD, page 3
Film Critic
I walked out of “Prometheus” blinking in the sunlight, and really, really wanting to like it. I thought I did. But the more I thought about the film, its characters and plot, the less I could really claim to like it. The most apt word I can apply to my relationship with the film is “frustrated.” Frustrated because the film works so incredibly hard against itself: “Prometheus”
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‘Prometheus’ looks great, but lacks answers
combines gorgeous composition and art, incredible effects and wonderfully directed individual scenes with sloppy, stupid characters and a plot that makes so very little sense when stitched together into a limping, uneven whole that is ultimately disappointing. But I’m not ready yet to call it bad. On the contrary, “Prometheus” is one of the most beautiful films I’ve seen this year. Swiss artist H. R. Giger, notable for designing the monsters and the sets from the original “Alien”
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FILM REVIEW
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(1977), has returned to help create the creatures and concept artwork, and it is just as unsettling and terrifying as it has ever been in his psychosexual, techno-organic style. Director Ridley Scott proves over and over again that he can still frame and direct tense and effective scenes: the movie’s opening, a series of crane shots over primordial Earth, climaxes with an amazing reveal of a massive alien ship by focusing on its shadow moving across a barren plain. Also, there is a scene unofficially termed “the caesarean” online that is masterfully done and horrifying in a truly classical sense: the viewer must fight their conflicting desires of watching the scene unfold and wanting to look away until it’s over. It is disappointing, then, when you watch the rest of the movie coalesce so awkwardly. The movie has a sort of mobile quality to it, like a series of great scenes existing around one another with very little actually connecting them together. They occupy the same space in a nebulous cloud, but don’t quite fit together as a narrative. Much of the blame will probably be laid at the feet of the main screen-
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Aboard an alien vessel, David (Michael Fassbender) makes a discovery that could have worldchanging consequences in “Prometheus.”
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ollege students from around the world in solar boats will make a splash this weekend in Cedar Falls. The University of Northern Iowa is hosting the 2012 Solar Splash World Championship of Intercollegiate Solar Boat Racing from Wednesday, June 13 through Sunday, June 17, at George Wyth State Park. This is UNI’s second turn at hosting the solar boating championship. In 2009, UNI obtained hosting rights for the 2011-2013 championships. The championship draws in teams from a variety of schools internationally. In 2011, 21 teams from four different countries competed in the championship. Students competing in the championships have control of their boats throughout the preparation process. They are responsible for designing and building their teams’ boats. During the five-day event, the teams earn points in seven different categories that assess the boats’ technical quality and racing ability. The categories include technical inspections and reports, engineering design, visual displays, workmanship, endurance, slalom and sprint. The UNI Solar Boat Team has participated in the event since 2000. They have experienced success in recent years, earning third place overall in 2009 and 2010 and taking fourth place overall in the 2011 competition. According to Reg Pecen, UNI professor of industrial technology, Solar Splash began in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1994 and is a hands-on educational experience that develops teamwork and interdisciplinary skills. “This competition allows undergraduates to be involved in applied engineering and technology research on alternate and green water transportation and to develop confidence in their abilities,” Pecen said in a press release. According to Pecen, UNI’s team is honored to be hosting an international
The University of Northern Iowa’s Daniel Gooris in the UNI-Dome earlier in the track and field season. Gooris earned second team All-American status in the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, last week.
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Members of the UNI Solar Boat Team (from left: students David Buseman and Jialong Chu, electrial engineering technology program professor and adviser Reg Pecen, and student Peter DeKluyver) sit in front of their solar boat, which floats behind them in the fountain, on April 18. The solar boat team will compete against college teams from around the world this weekend in the 2012 Solar Splash World Championship of Intercollegiate Solar Boat Racing.
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MUSICAL: “OLIVER” Oster Regent Theatre 103 Main St., Cedar Falls 7:30 p.m. Charles Dickens’ characters are brought to life in musical form on the Oster Regent stage. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at www.osterregent.org.
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The UNI Solar Boat Team’s boat rests in the fountain outside Maucker Union on April 18. The team of students designed and built the boat themselves. At the competition, the solar boats can score points in a variety of categories that assess their quality, maneuverability and more.
MUSICAL: “OLIVER” Oster Regent Theatre 103 Main St., Cedar Falls 2 p.m. Charles Dickens’ characters are brought to life in musical form on the Oster Regent stage. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at www.osterregent.org.
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Charlize Theron (left) and Idris Elba on the bridge of the ship Prometheus.
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writer, David Lindelof, famous for the popular television series “Lost,” which suffered from similar narrative inconsistencies. But it would be unfair not to implicate Scott. Viewers will probably be reminded of the similar problems that
plagued Scott’s last film, “Robin Hood” (2010). Not only does the story not make much sense, but the characters are drawn sloppily and artificially. It’s almost like they are being forced into acting in strange and nonsensical ways just to piece together the necessary steps between major plot points. For scientists on a
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Indoor Championship qualifier in the pentathlon, concluding her UNI career with six top-14 national finishes in the multi-events. “I am so proud of Olimpia (Nowak),” said Steele. “She competed extremely well in what turned out to be the highest-scoring heptathlon in NCAA history. She has been a phenomenal ambassador of the program and leaves as one of the greatest athletes in UNI history.” Williams became the first men’s thrower in UNI history to ever earn AllAmerican status after placing 14th in the discus with a throw of 183 feet, 10 inches. “Jordan did a nice job today, and we are very proud of the way he competed all season,” said Steele. “Second-team All-American is a great honor.” In addition to the three second team All-Americans, two Panther performances earned honorable mention All-American status as well. Senior Justin Romero took
journey to find not only the source of humanity, but also to be the first to meet an alien race, they are remarkably unhappy to be there. And when things began to go wrong in dangerous and terrifying ways, they continue to act like nothing is going on. Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), the lead
anthropologist of the mission, reacts to discovering the ruins of an ancient alien civilization by getting drunk and sulking on the ship. Janek (Idris Elba), the captain of the exploratory vessel, repeatedly ignores the readings of his computers when they read signals of organic life, and opens the spaceship door for a crewman whose deceased corpse they had recently found. Also, he has Steven Stills’ button-box accordion, I guess. The high point of the cast is undoubtedly Michael Fassbender’s David. Fassbender plays the character, the crew’s android, with a fantastic amount of subtlety and comes off as being alternately creepy and charming, depending on just whose orders he is following at the current moment. David also has a strange fixation on Noomi Rapace’s Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, a heroine who functions as a better–educated and slightly more feminine stand-in for Sigourney Weaver’s character in the other movies in the Alien franchise, Ellen Ripley. Perhaps the
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most surprising was the restrained but still dangerous-feeling Charlize Theron as Meredith Vickers, the representative of the insidious and familiar Weyland Corporation. I’ve spent the majority of this review criticizing “Prometheus,” but I think that there is something to be said for that as well. In a way, Prometheus is one of the more complex and meditative movies of the summer, and since I’ve seen it, I’ve been thinking about it almost continuously. It really is a movie with a great concept and an astronomical scope, and so it is really easy to become an apologist for it. I expect there to be many people who will try to explain away the film’s problems, and for many of the critical flaws, there may be arguments to be made spiriting them away. The problem is that those answers have to be provided by the viewer. There are no answers in the film itself, and that is at the heart of why Prometheus is so frustrating: it’s a movie that can’t pull itself together.
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19th place in the shot put, and Gooris claimed 22nd place in the pole vault. “I’m really excited just to be here,” Romero said following the final performance of his UNI career. “The final outcome wasn’t as good as I wanted, but it was definitely a fun experience to get here.” “I think Justin (Romero) reminded us all this year that if you work really hard and truly believe in your goals, nearly anything is possible,” Steele said, reflecting on Romero’s career. “I will be telling Justin Romero stories to future athletes for the rest of my coaching career.”
UNI TRACK AND FIELD ALLAMERICAN HONORS All-American Second Team: Daniel Gooris (decathlon) Olimpia Nowak (heptathlon) Jordan Williams (shot put) Honoraable Mention: Justin Romero (shot put) Daniel Gooris (pole vault)
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University of Northern Iowa track and field athlete Daniel Gooris pole-vaults in the UNI-Dome. Gooris, a junior, won second team All-American honors in the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, last week, for the second year in a row.
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