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Gerit Grimm lecture 4

Men’s Basketball defends at home 6

UNI ARCTICenter leads the pack SARAH HOFMEYER Staff Writer

Cedar Falls may be colder than the rest of Iowa, but it’s not as cold as the arctic. Still, that hasn’t stopped Andrey Petrov from leading UNI to the front of the pack for arctic research. Petrov is an associate professor of geography and director of the Arctic, Remote, and Cold Territories Interdisciplinary Center (ARCTICenter) at UNI. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the center performs research across several disciplines, all relating back to the arctic. The center is part of a larger consortium, the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA). It was chosen to be the secretariat from 2017-2020.

According to Petrov, the center has performed research regarding economic development, sustainable development, cultural economies, arctic youth and more. Petrov’s expansive experience and exceptional mentorship makes the center unique said one of his mentees, Siobhan McTiernan, a

geography graduate student.

“This program allows students an opportunity to work with a globally renowned expert in circumpolar regions and conduct research in a unique field,” McTiernan said. “Petrov makes students feel capable in achieving research goals and objectives by being accessible and involved in the research. He has connections throughout the world, and he has traveled to many of the areas of study to have a firsthand perspective of what is happening within the arctic.”

McTiernan spent the summer in a research internship with Petrov.

“The internship was a project which used remotely sensed data to use tools — such as geographic information systems and hyperspectral imaging — to create a fire index specific to understanding the spreading of fires in the tundra,” McTiernan said. “This fire risk index can be vital in protecting people by allowing them to see at risk areas and prevent and understand the impact of large scale fires within the tundra.”

The first project they

did looked at creative capital and production in arctic regions, and several spinoffs of this research were performed elsewhere. They have also written papers on the shrinking of the largest wild reindeer herd in the world, including its link with tree line shrinkage.

Finally, Arctic Horizons is a project to develop priorities for arctic social science research for the next decade.

They are compiling what knowledge is missing, with the intent of fulfilling it.

According to Petrov, the ARCTICenter’s work is largely related to the people in the region.

“The Arctic Center studies sustainable development in the arctic, meaning development that improves well-being, health and security of arctic communities while preserving ecosystems’ structures. We need to make sure the sustainable development improves people’s lives, and — of course — strives to preserve resources.”

One way the center and the international community does this is through what Petrov calls “knowledge sharing workshops,” in

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The UNI ARCTICenter leads in conducting research relating to the arctic in North America.

which they travel to communities to help them understand what their research has found. These workshops have occurred in Quebec, Alaska, Greenland and Russia.

Graduate students are

an integral part of the ARCTICenter.

Varvara Korkina, a geography graduate student, feels the work she has performed is a major accomplishment in her life.

He explained that his entire life has always been about sports, so it made sense to make a career out of it. He went on to emphasize his roots as a writer despite spending the majority of his career in television.

“I’m well aware that outside the city of Boston, anybody under the age of 50 probably […] identifies me as a TV person, and that’s fine,” Ryan said. “I’m very proud of my association with ESPN and also local television; it’s had a tremendous impact on my life, but when I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a writer. I’m a writer.”

After his lecture, Ryan took questions from the audience. He answered some as simple as “What’s your favorite sports movie?” to questions as challenging as “What are your opinions on the kneeling movement started by Colin Kaepernick?”

Ryan discussed the lat-

ter question at length during the Q&A session, stressing Kaepernick’s intentions behind the protest.

“What Colin Kaepernick did was protest about a very specific thing: the killing of young black men by policemen and society’s refusal to come to grips with it,” Ryan said. “It had nothing to do with the national anthem, had nothing to do with respect or disrespect to the military, nothing. And it was hijacked by other people for their own purposes.

Meanwhile, he’s the innocent victim of all this without a job that he should have.”

A few years after his retirement, Ryan launched a podcast in March of 2017 called “Bob Ryan’s Boston Podcast,” where he interviews many professional Boston athletes, as well as local and national sportswriters.

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Renowned sports journalist visits UNI

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Sports journalist Bob Ryan visited UNI on Jan. 25 as part of the Hearst Lecture Series.

KOREE DEERING Staff Writer

The “Guru of Basketball visited UNI on Thursday.

Bob Ryan, a former sportswriter for the Boston Globe and associate of the sports show “Around the Horn,” produced by ESPN, came

to speak at UNI’s McLeod Center on Thursday, Jan. 25, to discuss his career.

After 44 years working in sports writing, Ryan announced that he would be retiring from the Globe after the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Ryan, who came to UNI

as part of the Hearst Lecture Series, discussed his previous career in sports writing and how it all began. He said when he was younger, he would read about games after attending them, which sparked his interest in a career as a sportswriter.

“If you ask me how to be a writer, the answer is read.

I still think reading is the key because you want to be a person of words,” Ryan said. “You’ve got to be a person who can marshal your thoughts. You’ve got to have access to instant information.”

Ryan recalled that his father accepted a new job as an assistant athletic director when he was only six years old. As a result, he began attending games from a young age.

During the lecture, Ryan said that he began counting how many college basketball venues he has been to and is now up to number 194.

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Welcoming a new Military Services coordinator KELSEY CHIDLEY Staff Writer

This semester, the University of Northern Iowa welcomed a new Coordinator for Military and Veteran Student Services, Chiquita Loveless.

“In this office, we don’t carry our rank on our sleeves anymore, but we still carry the same bond, loyalty and integrity that was instilled in us when we served,” Loveless said. “As a coordinator, I’m a listening ear and a resource provider to help the veterans make it through school and also help them prepare for success in their future.”

Loveless is from Chicago and served in the US Navy for 22 years, where she reached the highest position of the enlisted ranks and retired as a chief warrant officer. She then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she managed a call center that specifically employs veterans. She

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became its director of sales before relocating to Waterloo.

“As I was job-hunting, this position at UNI opened up,” Loveless said. “I read the position, and I told my husband, ‘This is the job for me. This is my job.’”

Loveless provides support to the military members and veterans on UNI’s campus by advising work-study programs, helping them adjust to college and connecting them to other students with similar experiences.

She emphasized that her office in Maucker Union is a place where any military member or veteran, or any of their relatives, is always welcome to share their experiences with people who understand.

“I’m excited for growth. I’m excited to watch each one of the military members and veterans,” Loveless said. “At the end of this school year, I’m excited to watch the ones that are graduating.

That’s success.”

Loveless also advises the University of Northern Iowa Veterans Association (UNIVA), a student-led organization that collaborates closely with Military and Veteran Student Services. The president of UNIVA is Cole Passick, a junior majoring in political science.

“Chiquita has definitely brought in new life to the office and changed the perspective of some of the people that are coming up here,” Passick said.

“Now I think the new motto that’s kind of catching around the office is: you can’t drive a car looking in the rearview mirror.”

Passick, a Marine Corps veteran, said that getting involved in UNIVA has provided him the ability to connect with people who understand his experiences and has helped him get engaged on campus in a variety of leadership roles.

“I don’t have many Marine

“We look at the opportunity for sustainable development of indigenous culture and how indigenous artists can make money through the cultural economy,” Korkina said. “How can they run their own business based on cultural heritage?”

This research on how communities can get their fair share of revenues and further develop their economic base is new in the field.

“Some indigenous [people] are losing their livelihood — like reindeer herders — because of climate change, for example.

Land is shrinking because of destructive industries, disease, climate change and more. [I am figuring out] what these people should do,” Korkina explained.

“The arctic is a special territory. Development in the arctic is slow while changes are rapid, so the region cannot adapt. For communities, these issues are new.”

Atiqur Rahman, geography graduate student, utilizes geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing in his research.

“I research ecosystem distur-

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Corps buddies that live here, so it’s definitely a support group that you can lean on at certain times,” Passick said. “That’s something I didn’t have before.”

UNIVA and other organizations are organizing a PTSD conference to be held on March 28 in Maucker Union. According

to Passick, the conference will feature speakers from a variety of backgrounds. The conference is open to all students and faculty — veterans or not — as well as members of the Cedar Valley community.

the proposed de-appropriation bill.

“As this administration stated earlier this year, UNI cannot continue to sustain these detrimental blows to our budget while continuing to maintain the quality of our institution that students, faculty, staff and administrators alike are so proud of,” the statement read.

“It is imperative that lawmakers understand that these sustained cuts to the institution have real ramifications on both the quality and quantity of educational opportunities offered to the next generation of Iowa’s workforce.

Iowa has long held a tradition of educational excellence that these proposed cuts will undermine.”

The full statement can be read on the Northern Iowan’s website and on NISG’s Facebook page.

State lawmakers from both parties representing districts around UNI condemned the proposed cuts. Republican Walt Rogers from Iowa’s 60th District wrote on Twitter, “I do not support the senate de-approps plan and will be working to hold UNI HARMLESS

like @KimReynoldsIA is, go panthers@nipanthercaucus.” Democrat Bob Kressig of District 59 wrote on his Facebook page, “The proposed GOP budget cuts will cause serious problems for our community colleges and our regent universities.”

Democratic Senator Jeff Danielson wrote on Facebook, “There’s no balance in the Senate Republicans’ ‘balanced budget’ philosophy. Simply cut, cut & cut. Not a peep about the tax giveaways that show no return for Iowans. It’s time to look at the entire budget, both expenses and revenue. That would be a balanced approach to creating a balanced budget.” Danielson also told the Courier, “It will be devastating to UNI. Think about it: a $3.7 million cut in the current year. They won’t be able to sustain that. They’ll have to think about layoffs, cutting classes.”

The proposed $3.7 million cut is preliminary for now; the state legislature will not be finalizing budget numbers until final revenue estimations are released in March.

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bances in Northwest Russia,” Rahman said.

These include human interaction with the environment, like fishing and hunting. He analyzes the impact on vegetation in the region and uses geo-sensing to see the full damage that has occurred.

Chris Pierce, a geography graduate student, edits the IASSA newsletter. He found the center to be an excellent outlet to opportunities, even though his thesis doesn’t concern the arctic.

“Scholars from all over the world came to UNI in the fall,” Pierce said. “There’s a lot of networking you’re able to do with other scholars and professionals, talking about issues and urban sustainability. I was able to get a different cultural perspective and bounce ideas off people.”

“The arctic is a place that inspires curiosity and is one of the most rapidly changing places on Earth, and the fact that I could work with Dr. Petov in the ARCTICenter was the main reason I chose UNI,” McTiernan said. “To learn, work and contribute to something much bigger than myself.”

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Last week, Iowa Senate Republicans proposed a $3.7 million de-appropriation for UNI. The budget cut is part of a larger $19 million cut to the Board of Regents, in which the University of Iowa may face an $8.7 million cut and Iowa State a $6.9 million cut.

The proposed cut came as a surprise to many within UNI student and administration leadership, who were assured on several occasions by state lawmakers that UNI would be held harmless in this year’s budget bill.

The $3.7 million cut would follow last year’s $2.5 million de-appropriation, adding up to over $6.2 million in de-appropriations to UNI’s budget in the past two years — a 6.4 percent decrease in state funding in the past two years.

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Spanking is traumatic and ineffective The debate regarding the use of spanking as punishment seems to be all around me lately. From social media timelines to my family members at holiday gatherings, I’ve observed what seems to be a revival in people’s interest in its discussion.

So, here we go again.

As a child, I was spanked by my parents when disciplinary action was deemed necessary. As an adult, I understand this practice is unacceptable and has longterm consequences that extend into adulthood.

My understanding is rooted in evidence-based research. It is not a result of anecdotal accounts, though I’d be lying if I said that the trauma from both the anticipation and fleeing of a spanking does not solidify

my understanding.

Research has long indicated several adverse tendencies in adults that were spanked as children.

For example, in 2016, Dr. Gershoff at the University of Texas-Austin published an extensive meta-analysis concluding that there is a correlation between having been spanked as a child and experience with anti-social behavior and abusive tendencies in adulthood.

A 2017 literature review in the journal of Child Abuse & Neglect makes the case that the effects of spanking can be likened to those of physical abuse, citing an association between spanking and substance abuse, suicidal tendencies and depressive effects.

In addition to the demonstrated adverse health outcomes from exposure to corporal punishment, the use of spanking is fundamentally counterproductive.

It’s always been my understanding that the purpose of discipline is an

opportunity to teach right from wrong. Existing literature has shown that the use or presence of fear inhibits learning.

A form of discipline that induces fear is not likely to foster an environment where a child actually learns that their behavior is unacceptable. And if the child isn’t learning from the incident, one could rightfully expect to observe the behavior again.

In the event that the behavior doesn’t continue, it’s merely a result of conditioning, not truly learning why the punished behavior is inappropriate conduct.

Empathy is also key here.

It’s necessary to appreciate and learn from a mistake.

A child cannot be expected to access empathy for their behavior’s wrongful impact when they are instinctually flooded with distress as their physical safety is threatened.

Further, the act of spanking is indisputably violent in nature. Whether it’s what

one may

deem a light swat or a heavy-handed use of a belt, it’s all intentionally inflicting pain on a child simply because the child somehow upset the adult.

When an adult punishes with physical force, they TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE show the Opinion columnist Abbi Cobb criticizes spanking as a child that cruel and ineffective form of discipline for children. violence is an appropriate response to And for the record, you frustration. didn’t turn out fine. You I don’t care (and neither turned out to be an adult does objective science) about that actually believes it’s what your Bible says or how acceptable to hit a child well you think you turned when you’re mad. out despite being spanked.

The research is there. It’s Corporal punishment pro- highly accessible, right at duces near identical effects your fingertips. to low-grade physical abuse, It’s time to face the fact because that’s exactly what that your parents (and perit is. haps you) made a mistake.

Facebook to push video game streaming A few days ago, social media giant Facebook announced that they were going to test out a video game streaming service to better compete with YouTube and Twitch (Variety).

That was one piece of news that made my head spin: Facebook streaming video games? That’s so odd and random. Then I thought about it, and it suddenly makes a lot of sense.

Facebook is an absolute monster of a social media platform. With a little over two billion active users, Facebook is a beast that seems unstoppable (Statista). They have enough money to do basi-

cally anything they want. So why not get into video game streaming?

Everyone is familiar with Facebook Live and how it allows one to live stream whatever they want. It’s been a fun and decently popular tool — one that’s also been mired with some unfortunate abuse (Reuters).

They also have a video streaming service for TV shows, although that one is less popular. So, with live streaming and video streaming checked off, the next streaming step to take is video game streaming.

It’s pretty clear that Facebook really wants to compete with YouTube for social media video dominance.

YouTube is quite dominant on its own, however.

Almost five billion videos are watched on YouTube per day (Fortune Lords), which is

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Opinion columnist Sam King discusses the recent news that Facebook plans to launch a video game streaming service.

much higher than Facebook’s daily view count. According to Sprout Social, only about 100 million videos are watched per day for Facebook.

Still, that 100 million could grow and be a threat. With this new video game streaming service, Facebook could potentially bolster their views.

It’s easy to see how that may happen, but Facebook has to deal with another key competitor besides YouTube in this realm.

Twitch is the undisputed king of video game streaming.

While Twitch may not have the sheer volume of videos watched or active users that YouTube and Facebook do, they instead have an extremely interactive and engaged user base.

Twitch is all about forging communities behind streamers and games. The viewers and streamers actively and frequently communicate with each other. That’s something neither YouTube and Facebook can consistently do.

Twitch is also owned by Amazon, another stupidly giant company. Amazon’s recent attempts at revamping Twitch, with Twitch Prime and its new game store, have been going very well.

Partnerships with eSports leagues have also strengthened the streaming site in recent months. All of this makes Facebook look like weak competition, but I would

argue something else may work against Facebook even more.

That is perception — specifically, the perception of Facebook, YouTube and Twitch, respectively.

The gaming community universally recognizes that Twitch is the home base for video game streaming. YouTube is also widely regarded as being very video game friendly, with many streamers posting highlight videos of the streams on YouTube or YouTube gamers streaming on Twitch.

I myself use both Twitch and YouTube for my streaming and video needs.

Facebook, on the other hand, is not synonymous with video games. It never has been and I doubt it ever will be.

Streaming on Facebook seems alien to me. Unless Facebook rolls out some kind of serious financial benefit, I doubt people will move from Twitch to Facebook.

Just think about Facebook for a second. When you hear that, what do you think?

Chances are most college age people think of their parents or their grandparents.

Facebook is being shunned by younger people, the core audience of video gaming, and is embraced by older generations (Business Insider).

I also doubt many people want their grandparents watching their video game

stream.

This generational gap is also partially why I’m writing this article. Facebook wants to become a one stop shop for streaming. That’s obvious to see, but I honestly don’t think they can pull it off.

Their massive user base and piles of money isn’t enough to change the perception they have — the perception that Gen Z and the Millennials have of them and the perception of Facebook being old school.

That would be okay in some cases, but with streaming it’s painfully obvious that the younger generations are the core audience and especially the core audience of video game streaming.

Facebook wants to attract this younger audience with all these streaming services.

That’s easy to see, but I still don’t think it’s going to work.

I’m assuming whoever reads this article has a Facebook account. I am also assuming that if you’re a college student like me or close in age, you probably don’t use Facebook much or at all.

So, my question to you is: What do you think about all of this?

Is Facebook going to catch up to Twitch and YouTube?

Can Facebook ever get rid of their perception as an old school social media platform?

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Hugh Jackman’s ‘Greatest Show’ LEZIGA BARIKOR

Campus Life Editor

“Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for.”

Hugh Jackman’s opening line from the titular song, “The Greatest Show,” sets the bar high for the rest of the vocal cast members on “The Greatest Showman” soundtrack album.

Some, like Loren Allred, manage to match the talent, but others couldn’t quite keep their heads in the game.

Jackman, a 49-year-old Australian, might be best known for his work in the Marvel X-Men series, which catapulted the age of good superhero movies. But fans of his action hero days may not know he got his start in theater and music.

Jackman stars in the P.T. Barnum biopic “The Greatest Showman,” created by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, of “Dear Even Hansen” and “La La Land” fame. The revitalizing power of Jackman on the silver screen has now entered the arena of musicals, which if “Pitch Perfect 3” was any indication, needed the new energy.

“The Greatest Showman” soundtrack has now stayed at the number one spot on the Billboard album chart for the past two weeks, as of press time. The only other soundtrack to hold that record so far was “Suicide Squad” in August of 2016.

The musical talents of Jackman, Allred and Keala Settle stand out the most in the soundtrack. The biggest let

down for the album’s quality is the fact that Allred is not included with any of the group musical numbers. Despite having no other major cast singers, “Never Enough,” sung

by Allred, but performed by Rebecca Ferguson, received the most streams in Billboard tracking, according to the Billboard website.

As a whole, most songs on the album do well alone, but “Come Alive,” “Rewrite the Stars” and “Tightrope” are the ones that lose their luster without the added visual aide of the musical.

“Come Alive,” in the context of the film, is a transitory song, but the pop music tempo and the constant transitioning from different vocal artists makes a messy vocal medley. The pacing makes less sense, and it limits all the vocal talent to the same flat range.

Zac Efron’s musical talent, although well known because of his work in the “High School Musical” franchise and the remake of “Hairspray,” is still lacking. Efron has come a long way from lip synching half of “High School Musical” to being brought in to this musical project, but Efron is only as good as his supporting co-stars. “The Other Side” is a delightful song where, when paired with Jackman, the best of Efron’s vocal abilities shine.

Unfortunately, fellow Disney Channel starlet Zendaya doesn’t have nearly the amount of talent needed to pull up Efron’s lack of tonal variability in “Rewrite

the Stars.” It’s an interesting song to watch, but not so much hear.

For slower songs, the vocals become that much more crucial, and in their defense, the music simply wasn’t there when it came to allowing variability. Zendaya’s highest range appears to be around a soprano two, so the song never really gets off the melody line.

In contrast, the song “Tightrope,” sung by Michelle Williams, is extremely well done vocally. But where Williams did everything right, the song writers did a great disservice to audiences with “Tightrope.” Spoiler alert: the song is about a woman who is alone at home with the knowledge that her husband is traveling around the country with another woman right next to his hotel room. The potential to write a gut wrenching piece about the internal conflict P.T. Barnum’s wife was faced with was missed. Instead, to keep up with the general poppy tune of the soundtrack, Williams misses out by not getting a chance to sing a song like “Never Enough.”

One final critique is that “The Greatest Show” starts off remarkably well but ends remarkably weak. As Jackman leaves the song for Efron to lead the closing chorus, it is audibly clear that Efron is no P.T. Barnum. It is especially a let down as Settle’s bridge is in demand for some strong closing vocalists.

“A Million Dreams” is a

delightful song that captures the spark of excitement and dynamic strength musicals should have.

Not settling to simply give lip service to the idea of great r o m a n tic musical songs like the vocal trainwreck which was “La La Land,” the talents of Jackman and Williams DICK THOMAS JOHNSON/Flickr Creative Commons are perfect- Actor and singer Hugh Jackman plays P.T. Barnum in ly matched. “The Greatest Showman” musical biopic, released in Even with- 2017.

But given that a musical is out the visual elements, hearing the young only as good as the opening Barnum, successfully sung by and closing songs, it is very Ziv Zaifman, grow into the man fortunate that the closing song who keeps his promise to his to “The Greatest Showman” childhood sweetheart complete- soundtrack is “From Now On.” ly transcends the need for visu- Jackman captures the emotional epicenter of the entire film in als.

“This Is Me” was described one song, starting as a slow solby the creators as the theme emn promise and then bursting song to the movie, and Settle’s into a triumphant battle cry. performance is captivating. It is The scene itself is highly eneran empowering, dynamic song gizing and, rhythmically, the of ownership, and the backing song retains the power of the of the ensemble just adds to the filmed scene. It also captures power of it. Settle had no weak the full success of the storytellmoments in the soundtrack. ing, as they remind the audience It was a well deserving 2018 that love alone is worth the fight.

Golden Globes-winning song.

Visiting artist Gerit Grimm shares art advice AMELIA DUAX Staff Writer

Visiting artist Gerit Grimm, a ceramist from the University of WisconsinMadison and an assistant professor of art, gave students and the public a deeper look inside her life this past Thursday, Jan. 25.

In addition to her visiting

lecture, Grimm gave a demonstration of her wheel-throwing talents on both Jan. 25 and 26 in UNI’s Kamerick Art Building. The events were free and open to the public.

Grimm is originally from Halle, East Germany and came to the U.S. on a German Academic Exchange Service Grant from the University of

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Gerit Grimm is a ceramist artist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and assistant art professor. She visited UNI Jan. 25 to lecture about her art.

Michigan.

Grimm received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Besides creating pieces for her shows, Grimm also teaches undergrad programs and runs ceramic workshops.

JoAnn Schnabel, an art professor at UNI, helped organize Grimm’s visit to campus. Grimm met Schnabel through “C.R.E.T.A. Rome” (Ceramics, Residencies, Exhibitions, Teaching and the Arts) in Rome, and after getting to know each other, Schnabel invited Grimm to visit UNI and talk to students about her art.

Throughout Grimm’s lecture, she displayed numerous pictures showing her works and the process leading up to the finished product. She showed pieces from different collections, such as “Triumphzug, Neither Now Nor Then,” and even one titled “Fart Show.”

In most of Grimm’s works, the human figures are nude.

When asked by a student why this was done, Grimm explained that she makes the figures nude to create a sense of neutrality.

Grimm thinks that adding clothing to the figures can create a feeling of social status, so by keeping the figures nude, anyone can enjoy the art without feeling connected to any particular social class.

Grimm’s lecture also gave the audience insight on what her life was like as she transitioned from Germany to the U.S. “I moved to the U.S. because I was interested in the artists, the pop art, commercial art and the funk art,” Grimm said. “So, I got it out of my system the past 12 years, and now I’m actually looking back to Europe, and I am inspired by European art because I’ve built myself an existence here.”

A student who attend-

ed Grimm’s lecture, Alexis Bowers, was inspired to travel and study abroad after hearing Grimm speak. Bowers is a sophomore majoring in elementary education at UNI. “After hearing Gerit Grimm talk about her life outside of the U.S., I really felt like I needed to go see those places that she went to,” Bowers said. “I wouldn’t necessarily study art like she did, but I think that getting outside of your comfort zone and exploring the world is so important for every student.”

Although Grimm encouraged travel, she also advised students to earn their degree in the U.S., rather than outside of the country. According to Grimm, students studying art should take advantage of the large, well-developed art facilities in the U.S., since art studios in other countries may not be able to provide the same spaces and materials.

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‘What’s the big idea?’ award winners ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

What’s the big idea with UNI?

Earlier this month, that question was answered when UNI’s Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) was awarded the “What’s the Big Idea?”

Award on Jan. 5. They received the award while attending the Alliance Management Institute (AMI) in Kansas City.

This was the first year the award was given by the NLA, which is a national organization headquartered in Kansas City. They work with both workforce partners and colleges and universities.

“Our mission is to strengthen the social sector with a talented and prepared workforce,” said Julianne Gassman, the community engagement director for UNI’s NLA. UNI’s NLA operates like a student association in which its members receive credit for two semesters of involvement.

Students also complete coursework and a 300-hour internship.

UNI’s NLA is consistently ranked among the top five institutions in the country that train certified nonprofit professionals (CNP)s.

“We’re big, but we’re also the best,” Gassman said. “We actually have tons of awards to show it. So not this year at AMI, but last year, we actually received the award for the best organization in the country.”

According to Gassman, the

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“[PTSD] is a hidden factor — it’s an unknown factor — that a lot of people just associate with one thing, and it shouldn’t be,” Passick said. “There’s a lot of people that need help with it, and they can’t get help if they don’t know they have the problem.”

Loveless and Passick also expressed the desire to inform the campus community that veteran services on campus are expanding to coordinate with a variety of other organizations.

“A lot of the things we’re fighting for are very similar issues, which is acceptance, more understanding and inclusion,” said Emily Harsch, LGBT* student services coordinator. “We end up doing a lot of very similar things, as well as collaborating, which is — I think — surprising to a lot of people.”

UNIVA and the LGBT* Center hold an annual LGBT Military Trivia Night, as well as collabo-

capstone experience for NLA students is attending AMI, which is an annual three-day conference for students working toward becoming CNPs. Students attend various educational sessions, give presentations for awards and consult with nonprofit agencies in the city.

At this year’s AMI, UNI brought 41 students, which was more than any other participating institution. Gassman also notes that, unlike some other institutions, UNI’s extensive fundraising means the students don’t have to pay to attend AMI. This year, the students raised around $20,000.

For the 2018 AMI, KPMG—a professional services firm known for auditing—approached NLA with the concept of the “What’s the Big Idea?” Award. KPMG awarded $500 to UNI for coming up with the most innovative idea to address diversity, equality and inclusion.

“Our big idea is actually to provide training materials for volunteers in the Cedar Valley,” Gassman said. “Lots of volunteers work with people from various backgrounds with different traditions and culture […] We don’t really have a way of training volunteers in the area in the areas of cultural competency, diversity, those kinds of things. So, we are going to produce training materials that can be supplemental to other sorts of training initiatives like the service rating on a PTSD conference and a variety of other events throughout the year.

“Chiquita just has a really great energy to bring to this space,” Harsch said.

“She’s so knowledgeable about what the students need. She’s already put her full heart into the position.”

On Feb. 16, UNIVA and Military and Veteran Student Services will also hold a veteran-oriented bowling night at Maple Lanes in Waterloo. The event is aimed at connecting military members and veterans at UNI. When asked what Loveless likes about her job, Loveless was quick to correct.

“What I love about the job? Not like. I love my job,” Loveless said. “I would like to make everyone aware that the door is open, and that they’re welcome to come in and just sit for a spell, or just come in and say hi. And I do want to say this: the veterans and military students are on the move. We are coming.”

enterprise at the volunteer center.”

This idea came about in part through meetings between UNI’s NLA and Erin Tink of Love INC (Love In the Name of Christ), which is located in Cedar Falls. “[Tink] was talking about the method with which [Love INC] trains their volunteers and how they really put a high premium on volunteers who are able to engage effectively with all different kinds of people in their organization,” explained Trevor Schmitt, a senior majoring in leisure, youth and human services who serves as the director of community service at UNI’s NLA. “They were very passionate about that. When we asked them about that — is there something about this that could be replicable where we could take this kind of passion culture and deliver this to other nonprofits — Erin got really excited about that.”

Schmitt presented their big idea at AMI alongside Maddie Christenson. For seven and a half minutes, they spoke to 450 audience members in a style reminiscent of a TED Talk.

“The other teams had good ideas — I think that our idea was the most replicable, and it related the most to the nonprofit sector,” Schmitt said.

“We were confident that our idea had considered all the different angles.”

Not only did UNI’s NLA receive the $500 from KPMG,

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Another UNI student in attendance was junior psychology major Emily Lovell.

Lovell said that she enjoyed the lecture and was particularly interested in Grimm’s unique ceramic style.

“I thought it was really cool. Grimm was very passionate about what she was doing and it made it interesting to listen to her,” Lovell said. “I also was impressed by her efforts and drive to get where she is today. Her art is

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On his podcast, Ryan also discusses what is current in sports, his past career in the sports world and the memories and relationships he built because of it.

Connor Corcoran, a sophomore at UNI who is currently studying business, attended the Bob Ryan lecture to hear about his life as an avid sports fan

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The UNI Nonprofit Leadership Alliance was received the “What’s the Big Idea?” award on Jan. 5. This is a first time win for this organization.

but an audience member from Pennsylvania also gave them an additional $500 to make their big idea a reality.

“I’m really proud of the students and their professional attitude toward everything that they do,” said Kristina Kofoot, the community engagement coordinator at UNI’s NLA. “Trevor has been fantastic in working with our community partners and getting service projects for this semester set up, and I’m super proud of our NLA students. I think they’re some of the best students on campus, and they do fantastic work.”

Looking ahead to next year’s AMI in Orlando,

Florida, Gassman intends to present the progress UNI has made with their big idea. The first step in implementing their idea will be strategizing with the Volunteer Center of the Cedar Valley and Love INC. “I think that our community is extremely diverse — I think a lot more diverse than people realize, and I think that we have a lot of people that volunteer in this community,” Gassman said. “To think our volunteers will feel more prepared and that anyone who’s a recipient of a volunteer’s work feels respected and feels understood and feels right — that would be my ultimate goal.”

very unique, and I could see her style show throughout her pieces.”

Grimm said that her main objective was to get students inspired by her story and her art.

“I hope that people or students can reinvent themselves — create and build a life of their dreams for themselves and think very much outside of the box,” Grimm said.

“Maybe even have the courage to follow their dreams and inventions and stay consistent. I gave them so many examples of when you just

stick with it, you can achieve it.”

According to Grimm, this was her first visit to Iowa.

Grimm mentioned that she was excited to go from campus to campus and meet new people and teachers, but that her ultimate goal was to send students off with a strong message.

“My advice is…don’t wait for it. Do it. Just push through and pursue it,” Grimm said.

“Trust your heart; trust the inner voice and go for it. It’s probably going to be the right decision.”

and the career he made out of it.

“I’m a huge sports fan.

Actually, my whole family is, so it was really interesting to hear from Bob Ryan himself,” Corcoran said. “The lecture was very informative. It was great to hear how he got into the industry. He really does know a lot about everything that involves sports.”

Another attendee, Keith Kennedy, who is a media

services manager, came to Bob Ryan’s lecture to film it for UNI TV. “It was very interesting because I didn’t know about Ryan. I had never heard of him,” Kennedy said. “I didn’t exactly know what to expect, but he has so much knowledge. It’s absolutely amazing. You could ask him just about anything, and he knows something about it, and I think that’s awesome.”

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Men’s team defeats Illinois State, 83-72 JERRIUS CAMPBELL Sports Writer

Coming off of a win against Drake at home on Jan.16, the UNI men’s basketball team took on Southern Illinois on the road in Carbondale. The Salukis would score their first season sweep versus the Panthers.

Taking wins at home and on the road, Southern Illinois had four players in double digit scoring. Pointguard Sean Lloyd scored 15 points for the Salukis, as well as adding three steals to the stat sheet.

Armon Fletcher and Marcus Bartley each ended the contest with 12 points.

On the offensive end, Southern Illinois shot 50 percent from the field. UNI had a hard time getting things going on offense. The

Panthers scored 21 points in the first half and only shot 34 percent from the field.

Wyatt Lohaus led the way for the Panthers, scoring 15 points in 23 minutes of play. Klint Carlson and Isaiah Brown both ended the contest with 10 points.

Southern Illinois would maintain the lead for the majority of the game. In the end, the Panthers would lose 64-53.

UNI hosted Illinois State at home on Jan. 24.

Sophomore guards Isaiah Brown and Juwon McCloud carried the Panthers to their ninth home win of the season. Brown had a big night versus the Redbirds, scoring 20 points, two assists and three blocks. Scoring one two-point field goal, five three-pointers, as well as a few free throws, McCloud

would end the game with a career-high nine assists and six steals.

Senior Bennett Koch scored 17 points and six rebounds, while Tywon Pickford ended the game with seven points and five rebounds. In the first half, the game was tied at 13 until the Panthers would go on a 27-1 run with 13 minutes left in the first half.

The Redbirds had two scoring outbursts from Milik Yarbrough and Keyshawn Evans. Yarbrough would end with a double double, 20 points and 13 rebounds and five assists. Evans led the Redbirds in scoring with 25 points. The Panthers led by as much as 31 points and led for the majority of the game. UNI would hold off the Redbirds at home with a final score of 83-72.

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Klint Carlson (2) waits at the top of the arc looking for an open pass.

Xtreme Football League revival set for 2020 OPINION

JOEL WAUTERS

Sports Writer

In February of 2001, days after the New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans, Vince McMahon, owner and CEO of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) stepped out onto the field at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas and announced to the world, “Ladies and gentlemen! This is the XFL!” Three months later, the XFL was dead. Seventeen years later, McMahon has announced the resurrection of his infamous football league in 2020.

Many of us were just kids when the XFL first came to be, so here’s a basic overview. The XFL was originally founded at the turn of the century as a 50-50 joint

venture between McMahon and NBC, led by then sports director Dick Ebersol.

The idea was to create a new league and a new kind of football that they believed could rival the NFL during their offseason. McMahon had considered the NFL to be the “No Fun League,” with various rules that made the game less enjoyable. The XFL would be the “Xtra Fun League” as he announced during the original launch.

Some of the new rules in this smash mouth league included the elimination of fair catches on kickoffs and punts, the doing away of the point after touchdown kick and, probably most well known, the scramble at the beginning of the game for possession of the ball, replacing the traditional coin flip. The XFL also

served as a breeding ground for new technological innovations in sports, such as the skycam hovering above the field and more on-field access to players.

Initially, NBC and the WWF planned for at least two XFL seasons. After one year, however, the league folded in utter shame.

There were many reasons for the collapse of the league.

Many saw XFL games as sensationalized WWF wrestling events that were designed for entertainment purposes, rather than actual sport. The league cheerleaders often wore scantily-clad outfits and, above all, the league simply had very bad football play.

Not much is yet known about this new XFL incarnation. No one knows where the teams will play, or who

will play or coach, or even what the rules of the game will be or if any of them will even change from 2001.

Many people to this day are highly critical of McMahon and question him even being in the business of football. But I would disagree with them a little bit.

While the game they played in 2001 was grotesque, the league did do some good things for people.

Countless athletes who were never quite good enough to make an NFL roster found solace playing in the XFL, even if it was for just one year. Probably the most well known XFL turned NFL star was quarterback Tommy Maddox, who was vital in helping the Pittsburgh Steelers to a Super Bowl title in 2005. Cities like Las Vegas, Memphis,

Orlando, and Birmingham, which didn’t have professional football of any kind, got to experience what it was like having a team wear a jersey with their town’s name on it.

It also gave critics of the NFL an alternative source for football. M c M a h o n , in his opening statement of the XFL relaunch explained, “The new XFL will kick off in 2020, and quite frankly, we’ll give the game back to the fans.”

I believe that in sport, as well as in life, in second chances. While we still have to wait on several important pieces of information about this new XFL, it will be exciting to see what its new face will look like and if it will captivate the sporting world like it hoped to do nearly two decades earlier.

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