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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

MOVIE REVIEW Movie critic says “Girl on the Train” is a “trainwreck.”

CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 5

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Columnist discusses fighting human trafficking with rock ‘n’ roll.

OPINION PAGE 3

SOCCER Panthers play at home against Drake, ending in a tie.

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The presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has been marred with drama and controversy this past week. News of leaked audio tapes, speech transcripts and e-mails ran amuck on news outlets and social media. The weekend concluded with the second of three presidential debates on Sunday, Oct. 9.

The debate was moderated

by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz. The debate had a hostile tone from the beginning, as the two candidates did not shake hands when they entered the debate stage.

“It was the nastiest debate – mudslinging-wise – that we’ve ever seen,” said political science professor Justin Holmes. “It’s such a deviation from what we really want in a debate. In an idealized world, this would be

a nice time where they politely discuss policy, and what they want to do and things like that.”

Political science department head Donna Hoffman shared the same sentiment, describing the debate as, “The worst debate I’ve ever seen […] It was rancorous; they don’t respect each other.”

Trump showed no restraint as he attacked Clinton on her deleted e-mails, judgement, honesty and husband Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual assault of women.

Trump also referred to Clinton as “the devil” and even threatened to jail Clinton if elected.

“If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception,” Trump told Clinton at the debate.

Later in the debate, Clinton remarked, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” to which Trump immediately shot back, “Because you’d be in jail.”

“I think what you saw with Donald Trump is that he spoke to his base,” Hoffman said.

“What do we know about what debates do? They essentially get viewed through the lens of what you already think about the two candidates, and so my guess is that Trump supporters liked his performance and thought that he did really well.”

However, Hoffmann added that Trump’s performance likely didn’t attract much support outside of his base.

Holmes was particularly disturbed by Trump’s jailing threat.

“That’s not how we do democracy,” Holmes said.

“Clinton’s probably done some things – she’s done things that are questionable, certainly. As he [Trump] has, frankly! And as have lots of candidates. This idea that, I’m going to win, and my opponent’s going to jail is just so far beyond anything else.”

“I think that this debate did a very good job of showing the differences between the two candidates,” said Northern Iowa Democrats President Jack Ave. “I think Hillary stuck to her facts, policies and overarching goals of the Democratic platform. […] She was able to show that her policies are superior, point out the flaws in Donald Trump’s positions and further solidified her platform.

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major and NISG senator for the college of business administration, the idea for You Matter at UNI branched from Hunter Flesch’s and Avery Johnson’s campaign for student body president.

“Students [were asked] what changes they wanted to see around campus and it was clear that this was a need,” Goodman said.

Students can visit the Campanile Plaza and Lawther Field from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 24 where organizations like Active Minds and To Write Love

On Her Arms (TWOHLA) will have information booths on how students can receive help with a mental heath issue, according to the schedule of events created by Flesch.

Each of the following days are specified to certain mental health issues affects college students.

The topics include depression, anxiety and dealing with stress.

The week provides students with information on what to do for themselves as well as what to do if a friend is experiencing a hardship.

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Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people aged 18-34, according to the Center for Disease Control’s population study in 2015. Students at UNI are, unfortunately, not immune to this.

The week of October 24 through the 28 is being dedicated to student’s mental health at UNI and will be called “You Matter at UNI.” According to Sara Goodman, a freshman global marketing

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Make a difference at UNI Student death ruled RACHEL KERGER

The Service & Leadership Council will be hosting Make a Difference Day this Saturday, Oct. 15. This year, the focus will be on domestic violence.

discussed three main activities that will draw people to the door.

According to Beecham, students will be able to learn about the Clothesline Project through a presentation by Anna Blaho, the programming graduate assistant for Women’s and Genders Studies, and Taylor Wirtanen, a graduate assistant for Student Wellness Services.

The Clothesline Project is a non-governmental organization that aims to raise awareness on the issue of violence against women.

In addition, there will be a table containing packing supplies where students can build survival kits and listen to a guest speaker from Waypoint.

“There will also be a Silent Silhouettes station paired with tie pillow making,” Beecham said. “Silent Silhouettes helps present warning signs of domestic violence, and the tie pillows will be donated to Waypoint as well.”

Beecham said she hopes that students who show up to volunteer this Saturday can learn more about how to combat, or even recognize, domestic violence.

“While people may see weekends as a time to catch up on sleep and relax, I think giving back to the community for a few short hours to start off the weekend can lead to an even better weekend,” Beecham said.

“Plus, people can go back to napping and rest easier once they know they’ve done something good with their day!”

Donald Trump, on the other hand, showed that he is unfit to be president because of his blatantly sexist, racist, xenophobic remarks.”

The Northern Iowan reached out to the UNI College Republican for comment on the debate and the leaked audio tape, but have not heard back as of press time.

Clinton took several shots at the Republican nominee on multiple issues, including a

recently leaked audio tape of a lewd conversation in which Trump discusses his sexual assault of women.

On Friday, Oct. 7, the Washington Post released leaked audio of a conversation between Trump and radio and television personality Billy Bush from 2005. Trump described his lewd behavior towards women, most notably saying, “Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

Trump also talked about his attempt to sleep with a married woman.

“His words are disgusting and prove that Trump is a proud perpetrator of sexual violence,” said Feminist Action League Treasurer Brenna Wolfe. “Trump does not respect women. The key word is ‘grab.’ Basically a woman’s body is something he will possess without consent. This is sexual assault. This is rape culture at its finest.”

Clinton did not escape the weekend squeaky clean, either.

WikiLeaks recently released snippets of Clinton’s paid Wall Street speech transcripts, as

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This Saturday, UNI students will have the chance to make a difference in the Cedar Falls community. The Service and Leadership Council will be hosting Make a Difference Day in the Commons Ballroom from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., where students will have the opportunity to volunteer.

Because October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, the Service and Leadership Council will be focusing on issues related to domestic violence.

According to senior psychology major Jasmine Beecham, who serves as Days of Service executive within the Service and Leadership Council, these main areas will include: “What domestic violence is, warning signs and available resources for [students] or those around them who may be affected by it and looking for support.”

Beecham went on to explain some of the planning that went into this event.

“We reached out to resourc-

es on campus as well as in the Cedar Falls community,” Beecham said. “Health and wellness here at UNI is putting on events throughout the month […] and we’re very excited to partner up our efforts.”

Beecham said they had also reached out to Joan Thompson, UNI’s Victims Advocate.

According to Beecham, Thompson was helpful in connecting the Service and Leadership Council to other people she thought would be a benefit for their event. Thompson will also be speaking at the event about how to react when someone is in need of help in a domestic abuse situation.

Waypoint, an organization based out of Cedar Rapids that works to provide shelter and support for those who are affected by homelessness, domestic violence and poverty, will also be aiding this event.

“The supplies that we package and create will go to help support those they serve,” Beecham said.

As for the events that will be taking place that day, Beecham

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inside the University of Iowa News Editor Recreation building, where he entered a restricted area Last month, UNI students of the building by going were in mourning when soph- through an alarmed door. omore finance major Nathan Surveillance video footTwedt suddenly passed away age shows Twedt running while in Iowa City. Twedt’s towards an exit in the rear of body was recovered from the the building after the alarm Iowa River on Sept. 10, 2016. was set off.

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well as emails from herself and several of her aides.

The subject of the speech transcripts first became an issue in February, during the Democratic primary, when Clinton promised to “look into” releasing the paid speech transcripts during a debate with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Clinton never released the transcripts.

In the leaked transcripts, Clinton is recorded as stating that she holds a public and a private stance on certain issues, and that she feels “out of touch” with middle class life.

The leaked emails were obtained via hacking of Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta’s account. Emails between Clinton aides show careful deliberation of issues including Wall Street regulation, trade, the Keystone pipeline and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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issue. The emails also included discussion on how to deal with Sanders, including an e-mail from then-DNC official Donna Brazile tipping off the Clinton campaign on Sanders’s campaign strategy and plans.

Hoffman is convinced the Clinton leaks will have little to no impact on the election.

“How many people saw [it]?

It got totally buried under the salacious Trump stories, and so I don’t think that it has a huge effect on her,” Hoffman said.

Recent polling after the events of the weekend have showed Clinton increasingly pulling away from Trump. As of press time, the three national polls taken after Oct. 7 that included Trump, Clinton and third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein saw Clinton leading Trump by six, five and nine points.

The candidates will debate for the final time on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m.

The election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 8.

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Rock ‘n’ roll ‘n’ saving souls

UNI International Justice Mission, a group fighting human trafficking, held an event in the Maucker Ballroom Monday.

brothels and night clubs posing as a buyer, and he collects information with equipment used by agencies like the NSA and turns them into the local authorities to build cases against trafficking rings.

Zach’s passion for human rights doesn’t stop there. He went on to take time between songs to discuss other forms of human rights violations occurring that he either works against or knows other people who are.

The particular issues of children being forced into militias hit home for me recently like it never had before.

A good amount of my family, grandparents, aunts and uncles, still live in rural Nigeria. My mom’s home village has always been mostly peaceful until this summer.

In the early hours of the morning, my mother received a call from her brother about the terrors they were dealing with. Local rebel armies were taking young boys, handing them guns and turning them loose onto villagers. He and my grandparents spent their nights in the local Catholic church, which had become the safest place to escape the gunfire.

There are no winners in fights like that – only survivors, of which I am fortunate to still count my family as such.

But what some people may

each selection and once we recognize that, we become intimidated by declaring an answer.

We want to choose the best path, the one that is right for us, but what if there is no right path? What if there are just two paths that are both excellent options and you pick the one that you think is best for you at that time and that’s it? No looking back with regret or asking yourself years later “what if ?” because whatever idea you conjure up of what could have been is a mere fantasy. You have no way of ever going back to find out how your life could have been.

This goes to show that life is a series of decisions that lead to more decisions. Another insightful thing to remember is to always be happy with your decision. Because in the end, whatever you picked really could have been the other and it would have been just as meaningful.

Many people like Jacob Bergman, a junior actuarial science and philosophy major, realize that feeling confident in your choice is best.

“Whatever decisions you make in life you have to face

inescapable consequences, but your decision is never wrong,” Bergman said. “Your mindset in that moment of time has led you down the path of your initial decision and you must live with your choice. It is impossible to go back.”

Bergman then went on to emphasize that every choice is the right choice because of the simple fact that you picked it. All options could have been great opportunities, but, as Bergman says, “Life brought you to this point in order to make this decision.” It’s right because everything before this point in time led you to pick whichever option you decide upon.

Feeling confident in your convictions is key in living a happy life, void of regret and contemplation. It may be hard for us to fathom it now, but as we proceed towards our goals we must see that the big decisions we make, no matter what they be, will turn out alright.

There’s a popular saying from John Lennon that adds comfort to those situations we might feel uncertain about, it follows, “Everything will be okay in the end. If it is not okay, then it is not the end.”

Before this weekend I never really made the connection that children being forced into militias was also a form of human trafficking.

The topic came up at what some might consider an unconventional scenario – a rock concert.

The show featured the alternative rock band, Remedy Drive. This particular show was as much of a typical night for lead singer David Zach, but it also featured a lot more

attention to the topic of human trafficking, an issue near to the band’s heart. They wrote their entire album “Commodity” to tackle the topic.

Zach and his band spoke about the slow, but natural transition their group made to pursuing human rights activism. The most notable thing about their message is the fact that they do more than just talk about it – Zach actively helps bring human traffickers to justice through operative work with The Exodus Road.

“We help find and free slaves through strategic action with ordinary people,” states the Exodus Road’s official website.

Zach’s work as an operative means he goes into these

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David Zach, of alternative rock band Remedy Drive, strikes a chord in concert. Barikor discusses his work fighting human trafficking.

not be aware of is that you don’t need to look to the next country over to find human trafficking; Iowa is one of the biggest states for human trafficking because of Highway-35 and Interstate-80, as well as being near many large cities.

That fact and more were put on full display Monday at the UNI International Justice Mission (IJM) Steps into Action event.

The goal of UNI’s IJM is to spread more awareness to these issues on campus and also supply them with ways to help further the fight like writing to your law enforcement or legislators.

Many human trafficking organizations are Christian led,

according to Zach. He also has his faith as a big motivator for his passion to fight human trafficking.

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,” said Zach, quoting Isaiah 61:1 from memory before the band’s final song.

“Because the Lord had anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted,” he yelled as the drums picked up speed.

“He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,” hands he now stretched high. “To proclaim liberty to captives, and freedom to prisoners.”

And with a crash of cymbals and roar of guitars the show went on, ending soon after, but the fight for freedom – that rages on.

Decisions: If two roads diverge, just pick one!

In life, we are so preoccupied with choosing the right path.

There seems to be so much pressure to choose “correctly” that it becomes overwhelming for many of us. Being so young, we all have some big decisions to face in the near future; whether to go to graduate school, buy a car, rent an apartment, move away or get married.

Of course these decisions are extremely important and merit a great deal of thought, but do we put too much weight on the ramifications of these decisions?

It is important to understand that although we face tough decisions, our choice at the end of the process is not as vital as we make it out to be. Yes, it is significant and determines the next step in your life, but it does not determine the rest of your life.

Making decisions is hard to do because there exists a certain amount of risk associated with

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Life confronts us with choice after choice. The key, Baxter says, is to feel confident in your convictions.

Provided that you feel the option you chose might have been a mistake, there is no need to worry. Things will work out in the end, just don’t over think them.

As you face life and confront choices, just keep in mind that it is not about which path you

take, it is about being strong enough to make the decision to choose and progress with certitude.

Do not psych yourself out by trying to guess the right path to follow, but instead pave your own path with conviction and contentment.

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Center for Multicultural Education

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Last Friday, the Center for Multicultural Education (CME) celebrated Hispanic Heritage month with Cuban Salsa lessons, arts and crafts and food. Students and families alike joined in on the celebration.

Those in attendance ate foods like churros, fresh salsa, guacamole, cheese quesadillas and rice and beans.

A station for painting various pottery and creating construction paper cacti was also set up for

those interested in the arts and crafts portion.

The CME created First Friday events last year, planning to celebrate a new culture each month, on the first Friday of every month.

Nov. 4, the CME will be celebrating Native American Heritage month in the Maucker Union coffeehouse.

For more information on events held by the CME in the future, visit the University of Northern Iowa Center for Multicultural Education’s Facebook page.

To conclude the week on Friday, Rod Library is holding giveaways and recognition to the student organizations, leaders and faculty that contributed to the week.

Let’s Talk Sessions will also be held in the library on Friday in rooms 311 and 312 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m for students to have small, informal meetings with a counselor about any concerns or issues they want to share.

The goal of mental health

week is to bring awareness to students regarding how to receive help when needed. Through this week-long process, the organizations involved plan to help as many students as possible understand that they are not alone.

“I chose to be a part of [You Matter UNI] because I truly believe it’s an important thing to raise awareness for,” said Goodman. “I think there are so many students

who feel in the dark about mental health, and we are just trying to shed some light.”

For those interested in more information on mental health week or any mental health related information, contact Hunter Flesch at fleschh@uni.edu, visit the Student Health Center’s website https:// www.uni.edu/health/ or call the Student Health Center at (319) 273-2009.

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Tuesday, Oct. 25 is Friend to Friend Training. UNI counselors will discuss the identifying signs of depression and anxiety, and what students should and should not say to help the person in need.

The following day, depression screenings will be available. Students will be informed on how to set up an appointment with the counselors and what counseling can look like for them.

Secret Regrets will also take place on Wednesday, which is a program held by The National Alliance on Mental Illness about letting go of regrets.

The events are not exclusively educational; each day, students participate in activities that will allow them to discuss some issues they may be having or what to do

if future issues arise. The Student Wellness Services is involved within the week as well.

“Our main involvement is through organizing the De-Stress Day, which will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Rod Library on Thursday, October 27,” said Shawna Haislet, Health Promotion Coordinator for Student Wellness Services.

The De-Stress Days will include small activities for students to relax throughout their day, including coloring crafts, PlayDough, Walk the Labyrinth and #ThrowlightUNI messages for students to take with them as a personal positive momento.

A mental health panel will take place in Seerley 115 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday evening, with an emphasis on sharing mental health experiences and answering questions about mental health concerns.

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FILM REVIEW

Save your ticket, “Girl on the Train” is a trainwreck JOSHUA ROUSE Film Critic

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, “Girl on the Train” tells the story of the broken life of Rachel Watson.

She turns to alcoholism and train-rides-to-nowhere after her husband, Tom, leaves her for another woman named Anna.

Rachel watches families in the houses that the train passes and imagines the details of their lives, with a particular attachment to Megan Hipwell and her husband, Scott.

When Megan goes missing, Rachel was supposedly the last to see her alive. Fingers are pointed and blame is placed, and Rachel attempts to discover the truth and recover her memories from the night Megan disappeared.

Directing 1/5 When trailers for “Girl on the Train” were released, there were discussions about how closely it resembled that of David Fincher’s 2014 thriller “Gone Girl.” There were those that thought it would be just as good as Fincher’s movie, and others who thought it would turn out to be a pale imitation.

Unfortunately, the latter held true. If the point of the movie was to be another version of

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Emily Blunt stars in the new film, “Girl on the Train,” based on a novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins. The film has received a score of 43% critic score and 56% user score on Rotten Tomatoes.

“Gone Girl,” then director Tate Taylor and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson did an excellent job.

“Girl on the Train” comes off as very uninspired and muddled. Using choppy and confusing flashback sequences, the movie tries to explain the past to set up big reveals, but everything moves so slow.

It is the opposite of emotionally engaging by the time the reveal comes around. It’s either too late to care about it, or it’s something unsurprising.

The movie certainly does take a while to get out of the station,

with Megan’s disappearance not happening till a good third of the movie is already over. The two hour runtime feels much longer than it actually is.

Writing 1/5 The first third of the movie is split into character introductions of the three main women,;Rachel, Anna and Megan.

While we spend most time with Rachel and see the majority of the movie through her point of view, ultimately her character and others never become likeable or lifelike. While Megan’s husband does seem to sincerely care about his wife’s disappear-

ance, the sentiment comes too late. The audience has already seen evidence of him being abusive and despicable, making it hard to empathize with him.

Yes, it can be fun to watch dark, depressing characters coping with their circumstances.

But when the characters are as thin and irredeemable as the ones in “Girl on the Train,” it makes for very dreary storytelling.

Acting 4/5 While everything else in “Girl on the Train” is dower and droll, the acting was the best part of it. Unfortunately,

great acting alone doesn’t make a great movie.

Leading the cast is Emily Blunt as Rachel Watson. While inebriated more often than not, Blunt does a great job with adding variety to Rachel’s portrayal, so as to not make her character one monotonous manic depressive.

Haley Bennet plays the elusive Megan, alongside her husband Scott, played by Luke Evans. Evans stands out the most of the two, and is one of the better performances of the film. We see more emotional investment from him, as opposed to Megan’s coyness and almost nihilistic mindset.

Tom and Anna are played

by Justin Theroux and Rebecca Ferguson, respectively.

Overall: “Girl on the Train” is a muddled, poorly inspired piece trying too hard to reach higher than it can grasp. It is a sluggishly paced, not-so-tense thriller that bores rather than excites. The acting is the only saving grace of the film, but that doesn’t make it recommendable.

Save your ticket, and let this train pass you by.

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SOCCER

Panthers match the Bulldogs in a 0-0 tie

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Hannah McDevitt (8) shows off some of her footwork against the Bulldogs. McDevitt is currently tied at second for most goals scored on the team (7).

KEVIN DEITRICK Sports Writer

On October 11, the women’s soccer team had a home game against the 9-3-1 Drake Bulldogs. It was a low scoring, defensive focused game that ended in a 0-0 tie.

Drake was off to a slow start in conference play, losing their first two games in the MVC. In Waterloo, Drake outshot the Panthers 10-3.

Kelsey Yarrow led the team by shooting two of

UNI’s three shots. Brynell Yount had the team’s one assist.

Maddie Lesjak recorded her second straight shutout as well as her fifth overall this season. Lesjak currently leads the conference with three total shutouts.

The offense has only scored once in their last three games.

Overall, the team has struggled to get much going on offense during these previous few games.

They have only averaged

seven total shots per game, six down from their previous average of 13 shots per game. Defensively, the Panthers are now second in total saves (22) as well as first in shutouts (3).

The Panthers will have another chance at victory when the Loyola Ramblers come into town later this week.

The Ramblers are currently 4-7-2 and are on a three-game win streak.

Loyola is on top in the conference, having won their first two MVC games.

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Morgan Teel (26) dribbles the ball up field with no opposing defenders nearby. The Panthers were on a 6-0 win streak at home until their game against the Drake Bulldogs put them at 6-0-1 on the season.

In two weeks from now, the Panthers will play their final home game against the Iowa State Cyclones.

Iowa State will take

on the Texas Longhorns this Friday, who are currently coming off a 0-2 loss to third ranked West Virginia.

Volleyball statistics on a national level OPINION

BRENNAN WHISLER

Sports Columnist

Now is as good of time as any to take stock of just how good UNI’s volleyball team is this year ­­­­­­— not just in the Missouri Valley, but nationally as well.

All of the following statistics and facts come from the NCAA website and are up to date as of Oct. 10,

2016.

To get an idea of how UNI as a team compares to the rest of the country, look no further than the RPI. The RPI looks at a team’s record and factors in the strength of schedule.

UNI is currently 64th in the nation. There are only two Valley teams ahead of them: Southern Illinois (50) and Wichita State (40).

Statistically, UNI is nationally impressive in quite a few other important categories. The Panthers are fifth in team digs, eighth in team kills, 19th in team total attack and 16th in team assists.

When you break the stats down per set it gets better.

UNI is 23rd in assists per set with 13.19 and sixth in kills per set with 14.54.

At the position that really matters though, UNI is first in digs per set (18.79) and team attacks per set (39.86). This means UNI makes and denies scoring opportunities like no one else in the country.

Carrying the defense is sophomore Libero Kendyl Sorge, who received her third MVC defensive player of the week award of the

year. Sorge is 15th in both digs per set (5.19) and total digs (374).

On offense junior Heather Hook is 14th in assists per set (11.28) and fourth in total (812). Both of these talented Panthers should return next year to help continue UNI’s dominance.

As the season continues be on the lookout for Panthers to be making headlines.

OPINION

Harrison Browne, first professional transgender athlete RYAN HERRING Sports Columnist

“I identify as a man […]

My family is starting to come to grips with it, now it’s time to be known as who I am, to be authentic and to hear my name said right when I get a point or see my name on a website.”

This is a proud statement from professional sports’ first transgender athlete, Harrison Browne.

Last Friday, Browne announced that he is the

first openly transgender player in American professional team sports.

The year prior, he helped his pro hockey team, the Buffalo Beauts, get to the championship series in the NWHL. After remaining with his team in the offseason, Browne looks forward to another good year.

The NWHL commissioner, Dani Rylan, is completely supportive of Browne and the idea of transgender athletes.

He claims the league is now working on a policy for these athletes and that the they are accepting of a transgender man on a team roster. Browne comes from the junior circuit out of Canada and played college hockey at the University of Maine.

It was there where Browne first identified himself privately to coaches as transgender. He had this to say about what it was like for him to be competing in a women’s

league, “On the ice, when I put that equipment on, I’m a hockey player. I don’t think about who I’m playing with, I don’t think I’m playing with women.

I don’t think I’m in the wrong body.”

Browne has not had sexual reconstruction surgery, he just had his name changed from Hailey to Harrison. He originally planned to have the medical transition after college graduation, but the creation of the NWHL

encouraged him to put those plans on hold a little longer so he could continue to play.

“I’m still the same player, I’m still playing in the body that I did last year,” Harrison explained.

“I’m still the same exact person. I’m just a different name and different pronouns, that’s it. I’m still Brownie.”

After concluding his NWHL career, Harrison plans to go through with the medical transition.

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