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to bring some of the food my family used to eat,” Blanco said. “There was a lack of new flavors [and] things happening at the time in Cedar Falls, so I decided to take a risk and say, hey, why not?”

According to Blanco, he and his family decided to take that risk, and if it didn’t work out, they would close the restaurant and move on.

“I said, ‘Well, let’s bring this and see if we can change the way that people choose to eat a little bit,’” Blanco said.

Blanco decided that the restaurant would specialize in burgers that encompass many different flavors from Latin

America. He used recipes that his family used for much of the inspiration for the menu.

La Calle was open on the Hill for almost three years and closed in November of 2016. The restaurant had become very successful and was growing quickly. Blanco said it got to a point where they would need to move to a new location in order to accommodate and fit the number of customers that were coming in at a given time.

“Staying [there] with the time I was putting in, it wasn’t worth it, because [of ] the capacity,” Blanco

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SYDNEY HAUER Staff Writer

Redgie Blanco succeeded in bringing change to College Hill with the addition of La Calle Latin American Cuisine in April of 2014. Patrons of his restaurant were saddened when he made the decision to close it last November, but were ecstatic to find out that he would continue his business with pop-ups around town and a food truck.

“I worked in the service industry for a long time, and I always wanted to give it a shot to open a restaurant […]

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said. “We couldn’t fit enough people here for lunch. On Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we were so busy for dinner that we couldn’t turn the

tables fast enough. Instead of compromising the food or the service vision we had, I didn’t want to reduce that.”  See LA CALLE, page 4

Panthers beat the Jackrabbits

UNI Football scores big on the road at SDSU, 38-18 WILLIAM RIEPE

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The Panthers traveled to South Dakota on Saturday to take on the South Dakota State Jackrabbits. Proving to be up to the challenge of their 4-1 opponents, the Panthers trampled the Jackrabbits with a final score of 38-18.

Individual performances from Marcus Weymiller on offense and Neal Rickey on defense made a huge difference.

With over double the possession time of their opponents, the Panthers defense did a great job keeping the ball out of the hands of their opponents’ quarterback, and drew three turnovers. Additionally, the Panthers’ pass rush was able to sack Taryn Christion twice and land two hits on him.

Rickey earned a sack, three tackles, two tackles for loss and two quarterback hits.

This is coming off a performance last week where Rickey enjoyed another two sack effort. These are great numbers from a pass rush which struggled to get to opposing quarterbacks early in the season.

Offensively, Eli Dunne had a low turnover count and did not throw a single interception. He racked up 169 yards through the air and threw two touchdowns. This was backed up by a strong offensive line that only allowed Dunne to be sacked once and hit twice. This is far below the average of 4.8 hits/sacks per game UNI has averaged through the first five games of the season.

Daurice Fountain managed another good week, topped off by a fourth quarter touchdown that extended the Panthers’ lead. Fountain has managed 100+ yards or a touch down in all games this season besides one. He

quickly rose as Dunne’s number one target, catching more passes and being targetted by Dunne more than any other receiver.

One player on the Panthers’ offense that doesn’t get enough credit is sophomore kicker Sam Drysdale. Drysdale is perfect on extra points and has enjoyed great success, hitting field goals from over 40 yards this season.

After a poor running game performance last week, the Panthers put on their best performance of the year on the ground, totaling 232 yards on 60 carries with three touchdowns. Marcus Weymiller led the team with 174 yards on 42 carries and two touchdowns.

This was his first start of the season.

Up next for the Panthers is an at home battle versus the Youngstown State Penguins at the UNI-Dome.  See FOOTBALL, page 6

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Clothesline Project brings awareness MONIQUE SMITH Staff Writer

Starting on Monday Oct. 9, UNI’s Women and Gender Studies (WGS) Program hosted T-shirt decorating to raise awareness of violence against women.

The project, which ended this past friday, coincided with Relationship Violence Awareness Month. Students could write messages on T-shirts between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. every day last week.

People who have been affected by violence, first-hand or otherwise, were invited to decorate a T-shirt with their thoughts, feelings and supportive messages surrounding the subject.

The messages remained anonymous, but the T-shirts were hung up on a clothesline for all to see.

“It’s neat to see other people…stopping to look at the T-shirts and for a second taking just a moment out of their own time to think about something that happened to someone else, that if they can’t relate to, can sympathize with and maybe change something that they do to help this issue,” said Anna Blaho, a third semester women and gender studies graduate student.

Blaho is also the WGS Programming Graduate Assistant.

“It’s great if you come and support the event, but this is an event that is more for the survivors, so they know they’re not alone in witnessing and bearing what has happened to them,” Blaho said.

Color representation “Our T-shirts all have different meanings and each color represents a different form of violence,” Blaho said. “We want to do our best to raise awareness for not only the kind of violence that we see more typically, but also the stuff that people don’t necessarily see.

We want to provide a way for people who have been hurt by instances of violence, to come forth and share their story if they want to, to be able to heal and to send messages to other people.”

The white T-shirts represented women who have died due to violence, while yellow or beige represent battered or assaulted women.

Red, pink or orange represented survivors of rape and sexual assault. Blue and green T-shirts represent survivors of incest and sexual abuse.

Purple or lavender represent women attacked because of their sexual orientation and lastly, black is for women attacked for political reasons.

History The Clothesline Project is a movement that started in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1990, as a way for women to tell their personal stories of relationship violence and to share positive messages with survivors.

The movement also aimed to demonstrate the absence of those who had been lost to violence.

“Some women gathered and figured out that 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but around the same time, 51,000 women were killed by men who

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claimed to love them. So, they were very conscious about the fact that relationship violence was not only alive and well, but also was not being attended to, and people weren’t actually seeing it as a problem,” Blaho said. “The Clothesline Project was a way for them to raise awareness for the violence that had been going under the radar for so long.”

“I basically organized the event, but I also reached out to the Center for Violence Prevention (CVP) at UNI, to help me co-sponsor the event because they deal a lot with relationship violence,” Blaho said. “Also, their Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program is working on teaching kids about relationship violence at younger ages, so they can recognize it.”

Collaboration CVP collaborates with WGS on issues of relationship violence because each program has something different to offer when it comes to raising awareness.

“CVP educates students, and we provide intervention strategies, leadership training and by-stander program training to college students,” said Tsering Kyi, third semester graduate student in WGS. Tsering is also an internship student at the UNI CVP. “However, we are more specific to helping high school students and the community become more aware of gender violence.

That’s why we collaborate with Women’s Gender Studies on these issues.”

CVP also aims to raise awareness about relationship violence.

“We have a lot of teen dating violence on college campuses and many students are not aware of those warning signs that they might be in unhealthy relationships, which might build up to domestic violence afterwards,” Tsering said. “The whole model of CVP is trying to address violence before it happens.”

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T-Shirts were decorated all last week to raise awareness of different kinds of relationship abuse, including physical, emotional and sexual violence.

to see people come forward and share their stories on a t-shirt for everyone to see, even though the T-shirts are anonymous when they’re hung up,” Blaho said. “Once you see all the T-shirts hung up and see all the messages people wrote, that’s probably the most powerful part.”

Krenare Loxhaj is a graduate student at UNI in women and gender studies, and she participated in the Clothesline Project.

“I am here to support the program and to support the initiative, because I think it is a great initiative,” Loxhaj said.

“This is a good way of raising awareness amongst others who don’t necessarily experience these issues.”

According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network website, women ages 18-24 are at an elevated risk of sexual violence and 11.2 percent of all students experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence or incapacitation. Also, 4.2 percent of students have experienced stalking since entering college.

“The reason it is important to have the Clothesline Project on a college campus is because rape and sexual assault is obviously still a very big issue that college campuses face,” Blaho said. “It’s not necessarily domestic violence on a campus, however, it certainly is relationship violence, and a lot of the same power dynamics are in the works.”

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New iPhone? more like WhyPhone Smartphones.

It seems like everyone has one these days. Some of you may even be reading this off your own mobile device.

If you are lucky enough to have avoided being sucked in by one major phone company or another, I envy you.

Personally, I am an Apple guy. I have owned a 5S for over three years before it took an unfortunate swim in a lake while kayaking this summer. After this unfortunate event, I went back to my flip phone for three weeks and began searching for a new phone. Sadly, I had already dipped my toes in the water of Apple.

I still own an Apple phone today, but that’s not what I’m curious about. My issue is: what is the big deal with phone peer pressure?

Phone peer pressure is what I like to refer to as the people who all think they need to update every single year. The worst part of this is that big phone companies come out with a new model every year, it seems, and even if the changes are slight, the price gets bigger.

I’m not here to say Apple is better than Samsung or the Google Pixel, but that’s what I’ve owned and that’s what I’m going to discuss,

especially with the iPhone 8 having been released the previous month and the iPhone X just around the corner.

On the Apple website, you can now compare three phones at once instead of comparing statistics of the phones individually, which made it easy to compare the iPhone 8 and X to last year’s iPhone 7. The number of features that changed for the difference in price is still something I can’t wrap my head around.

The first thing on the website Apple tells you about is the new A11 bionic processor, which is 70 percent faster than the already lightning fast A10 fusion processor. Last I checked, 70 percent faster than a blink of an eye is still a blink of an eye.

Unless you have a computer program to test these speeds, your average customer won’t be able to tell the difference, but 70 percent faster makes for a convincing sales pitch, right?

Another new feature is wireless charging. Wireless charging isn’t a good feature for me. Is setting your phone down really that much faster than plugging in a cord — not to mention the fact you can’t use your phone while charging.

Phones capable of wireless charging need a glass backing and to access this, you wouldn’t be able to have a case on your phone. If you

have ever dropped a touchscreen device, you know the cringing feeling of anticipation in hopes your screen didn’t crack. When these devices cost as much as some people’s first cars, can you really afford not to have a case?

Time to talk about the iPhone X, Apple’s new poster child.

This phone was considered revolutionary for Apple, but if you ask me, this iPhone is almost a Samsung wannabe. This is because Samsung is building the new OLED screens going into the phones. These screens have been used in Samsung phones since 2010, according to USA Today.

However, this is still an iPhone — even though it lacks a home button, a headphone jack and any fun colors other than black and silver. Somehow, it’s considered the epitome of iPhones. You can pitch to me all you want how great a borderless screen is, but you can’t change the obnoxious bubble of tech area at the top that takes a notch out of such a high-quality picture for the camera.

The camera in the iPhone X is a 12-megapixel camera that has also been something Apple brags about all too often because what people really need are more selfies.

According to the Apple website, the camera in the iPhone X is the same as

LTE: microwave shortage its microwave and get a third one to use!

There is a shortage of microwaves on this campus, which is a major problem for off-campus students and stuThe Maucker Union nordents without dining plans mally has two microwaves in who just want to cook their use, but one broke a couple meals without waiting in line for 15 minutes.

In addition, Rod Library does not have a microwave at all! There is no alternative to the microwave in the Union.

Rod needs to get a microwave by Book Bistro because this is a major inconvenience. More microwaves are not a lot to ask. UNI, please have enough microwaves so students, faculty and staff can LEZIGA BARIKOR/Northern Iowan Students have noticed that the shortage of microwaves in Maucker Union has led to cook their meals in a timely fashion. long lines around lunch time.

Editor’s note: the author of the following letter to the editor requested that their identity remain anonymous.

weeks ago, and they have not replaced it. Now, there is a line of 10+ people for the only microwave from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

That is not fair and is a waste of time. Maucker Union needs to replace

the one in my current 5SE model ( w h i c h costs a third of the new price).

A p p l e has always given me a quality picture with both front and rear cameras on the phone, but if you think you’re going to be a professional photog rapher with a phone, think again.

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE famous picApple recently released their iPhone 8 and 8 Plus models ture in an (pictured above) in September. The company’s next art museum iPhone model, the iPhone X, is already slated for release taken with a in November. phone. ment. Personally, I’m a Lastly, there’s the facial small-town farm kid, and recognition of the iPhone X I’ve always believed simple to unlock your phone. This is better. just screams government I’m guessing Samsung spy method. I even have the has its parallels, but I camera of my laptop cov- couldn’t imagine spending ered. $700-$800 dollars for an Apple claims the facial iPhone 8 when the iPhone 7 recognition stays local to is the same thing for $550the phone, and that may be $650, let alone $1000 for true now, but what if that the iPhone X. changes in a few years and Call me old fashioned, Apple sells off the rights? but I plan on making my All this new technology tiny, $350 5SE last until it may be a great advance- breaks.

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The Woman Who Was Forgotten ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

At 7 p.m. tonight, Cedar Falls will have a chance to travel into the 1920’s, courtesy of the UNI Languages and Literatures department. Graduate students from associate professor Jim O’Loughlin’s Connecting Three Cultures seminar will be performing a reading of “The Woman Who Was Forgotten” by Bess Streeter Aldrich as if it were a live 1920’s radio show. The performance will be held at the Cedar Falls Public Library.

“There’s a year-long Cedar Falls Authors Festival happening, celebrating the work of writers with a connection to Cedar Falls,” O’Loughlin said. “[A]nd Bess Streeter Aldrich was born in Cedar Falls and went to UNI, but it had a different name back then [. . .] So I have a graduate class that I’m working with, and part of what we’re trying to do is consider different ways that literature can be part of

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After La Calle closed, Blanco tried to find an inexpensive, efficient way to continue his

a culture.”

“The Woman Who Was Forgotten” is a short story that follows high school teacher Miss Miller during her retirement in the 1920’s.

In the days before social security, Miss Miller finds herself in a poor economic situation. The story also focuses heavily on reminiscing about the past, as the teacher reflects on her experiences from her career. “[Bess Streeter Aldrich] was one of the most highly paid and popular writers for magazine fiction in the 1920s,” O’Loughlin said. “So, I think part of the event of this year is to kind of make sure that the [. . .] writers with a local connection are given their due.”

O’Loughlin divided his students into three different groups, each with different assigned tasks. One group focused on promotion. A second group was tasked with costumes and design. The final group was responsible for editing and printing the script.

business. He eventually decided that a food truck would be the best way to go.

“The food truck was the good transition for me,” Blanco said. “It was a low-cost way

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managed to at least express the main idea of the story.”

While some of the students have some acting experience, others have none.

“It’s a format that lends itself to being done by non-professionals,” O’Loughlin said.

There will also be an audience participation portion of the evening that will encourage audience members to think back on past teachers that have impacted them. Artifacts from the 1920’s, courtesy of the UNI Museum, will be displayed, and there will be a raffle for a $25 gift card to Barnes and Noble.

“I also feel like it’s a completely different event,” Alfano said. “The literary events at least maybe are a little [. . .] boring at some point. They’re just like reading something out of a book.

But this is going to be a cool adaptation that I feel like it’s going to entertain not only English major students but [. . .] anyone in the audience.”

“[T]he way we adapted it [is] more comedic in a way that you still get the message of the story,” said Polly Alfano, is one of the students in O’Loughlin’s class.

“It’s still there in the adaptation, but since we give it a format for a live radio style show, it’s a lot more [. . .] engaging with the audi-

ence,” Alfano said.

According to O’Loughlin, a format that imitates a live radio show was chosen due to radio being the popular medium of entertainment during the 1920’s.

“Like any adaptation, some parts are missing,” Alfano said. “But since it was a very short story [. . .] we

that I could continue to carry the business, in a different way of course, in a different setting […] I noticed that they were becoming very popular, and it was something that would

allow me to have the freedom of choosing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it.”

Blanco a l s o stressed the n ew fo u n d IRIS FRASHER/Northern Iowan m o b i l i t y La Calle Latin American Cuisine opened on College Hill in he’s enjoyed April of 2014. Creator Redgie Blanco has since turned the since tran- restaurant into a food truck.

When he is not busy with sitioning La Calle, Blanco said he takes from the storefront on the Hill. care of his kids and his wife “It’s a portable kitchen; I can and is a stay at home dad in the go anywhere,” Blanco said. winter.

He places great imporMost of La Calle’s staff tance on spending time with his remained with the business family. while they made the transition, Blanco plans to continue and they continue to work for doing pop-ups and operating Blanco today. the food truck. He said he hopes “I am super thankful that that they can continue growing I’ve had the opportunity to as a business and keep experwork with Redgie because he’s a imenting with new food and great guy,” said Enrique Tovar, new ideas. a La Calle employee and UNI “We’re humble […] havalumnus. “It’s wonderful — the ing the support,” Blanco said. impact that La Calle has on the “We’re very thankful [for] peocommunity and how much people being […] so supportive, ple enjoy it.” and that they actually like the “I couldn’t be where I am food!

That’s the priority for us. without the staff that I have,” Every time that we set up, it’s Blanco said. “Our staff makes just mainly good comments the food even better because and encouraging comments.

It they allow us to be who we are.” makes us want to do more.

We Being able to serve food at the Cedar Falls farmers market wouldn’t have done it without was one of Blanco’s biggest our previous customers.”

La Calle plans to continue draws in getting a food truck. doing pop-ups until the end of He works around three to four October and will pick back up different events every week, as in the spring.

Blanco has stated well as festivals. He explained that there may be some pop-ups that all of the work that goes over the winter, but it has not into operating the food truck been officially confirmed. comes out to be a full-time job.

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FILM REVIEW

Sci-fi sequel is superb successor CLINTON OLSASKY

Executive Editor

More than three decades ago, director Ridley Scott (“Alien,” “The Martian”) revolutionized the science fiction genre with his 1982 opus “Blade Runner.”

Misunderstood upon its initial release, the film is now widely regarded as a masterpiece for its futuristic set design and cinematography, as well as for its thematic complexity.

The original film, which took place in a dystopian Los Angeles in the year 2019, followed LA cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), as he attempts to hunt down and kill a series of rogue replicants — synthetic humans bioengineered to work on off-world colonies.

Those who are tasked with “retiring” fugitive replicants are colloquially referred to as “blade runners.”

Set exactly 30 years after the events of the first film, “Blade Runner 2049” revolves around a replicant blade runner by the name of K (Ryan Gosling) who stumbles upon a shocking discovery that sets him on a journey of self-discovery — ultimately leading him to the long lost Officer Deckard.

For his much-anticipated sequel, Scott, now serving as executive producer, has handed over the reins of his hazy and neon-infused dystopia to budding auteur Denis Villeneuve (“Sicario,” “Arrival”), who ably deepens the mysteries of the first film while also creating a wholly unique and visually arresting work of unparalleled cinematic and narrative depth.

Directing: 5/5 Villeneuve g reatly expands upon the visual look and feel of the original “Blade Runner,” venturing into remote and barren landscapes far away from the highly congested and skyscraper-laden Los Angeles of 2049 — whether it be a radioactive desert marked with decaying stone statues or a vast ocean teeming with rushing water.

In addition to widening the scope of the “Blade Runner” universe with new terrain and locations,

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Villeneuve crafts an entirely immersive cinematic landscape by pushing the boundaries of visual composition.

Indeed, “Blade Runner 2049” has to be seen on the biggest screen possible to fully appreciate the complete and utter artistry that went into every meticulously crafted shot of the film.

From the lighting to the framing to even the Hans Zimmer-led soundtrack, “Blade Runner 2049” is the result of a perfect storm of disparate elements coming together to create something timeless.

‘Blade Runner 2049’ succeeds as both a tribute to the original and as an expansion of the franchise.

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On top of Villeneuve’s mastery of framing, editing and lighting, “Blade Runner 2049” also benefits from purposeful and exquisitely realized CGI effects that elevate many of the film’s futuristic environments to unprecedented levels of realism.

Unlike many big budget Hollywood blockbusters, Villeneuve’s use of CGI never distracts from the film’s overall presentation and instead seamlessly blends in with the practical effects and set design that comprise the film’s visually striking universe.

Writing: 5/5 Having been tasked with continuing the story of one of the most heralded science fiction films ever made, it would’ve come as no surprise for the sequel to be a nostalgia-heavy and emotionally shallow clone of the original.

However, by simultaneously paying homage to the first “Blade Runner” while also taking the story in new and unexpected directions, “Blade Runner 2049” succeeds as both a tribute to the original and as an expansion of the franchise. To be sure, “Blade Runner 2049” is one

of those rare sequels that not only justifies its existence through its sheer excellence; it also makes itself necessary viewing to better understand and appreciate the mysteries first introduced in the original film.

In addition to exploring old mysteries and establishing new ones, “Blade Runner 2049” also succeeds in the ways in which these plot points unfold.

Much like the original film, Villeneuve allows his densely constructed story to slowly unfurl, not unlike the lazy smoke that wraps around the dark and TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE shadowy corRunner 2049,” starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, has received critical ners of a futur- “Blade acclaim. The highly anticipated sequel currently holds an 89 percent approval rating on istic downtown Rotten Tomatoes.

Los Angeles.

Now, while this methodi- released this year; it also depth to Deckard. cal pace may turn off some features some of the most Newcomer Ana de Armas viewers, Villeneuve still suc- convincing and emotionally is another standout as K’s ceeds at holding the viewer’s affecting performances one computerized companion attention throughout the is likely to ever see in a sci-fi Joi, as is Sylvia Hoeks as the film’s admittedly lengthy action film. terrifying villain Luv. 163-minute running time

Gosling, in particular, Overall: 5/5 by way of the aforemen- is stellar as K, whose self“Blade Runner 2049” is tioned jaw dropping visuals. doubts begin to manifest not only one of the best By having his story patient- themselves as he uncov- films of the year; it’s also ly reveal itself, Villeneuve ers some startling secrets likely to be remembered as allows his compositions to about the replicants he’s one of the greatest sequels breathe, which, by exten- been instructed to retire. ever made. The film sucsion, more fully immerses Being a replicant himself, ceeds on nearly every level, the viewer into the film’s Gosling injects an overall serving as a fitting tribute visually rich and resplen- sense of emotional detach- to an already iconic film, as dent world. ment into his character that well as a necessary expanFurthermore, Villeneuve intermittently dissolves sion of the original movie. deftly disrupts his film’s into moments of painfully

Thanks to gorgeously trance-like pacing with iso- human vulnerability. composed visuals, a heartlated moments of intensi Ford’s much-anticipated breakingly human story and ty that serve as a constant return to his iconic role as emotionally stirring perreminder that the world of Rick Deckard is also a high- formances, “Blade Runner “Blade Runner 2049” is one light, as the legendary actor 2049” is truly a landmark of both serene beauty and brings a newfound sense of piece of filmmaking that unforeseen chaos. melancholy regret to his also serves as a deeply mov Acting: 5/5 character. Although he is ing exploration into our own

“Blade Runner 2049” afforded much less screen humanity. not only boasts some of time than Gosling, Ford the most impressive direc- makes full use of what he’s tion and writing of any film given by adding nuance and

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UNI volleyball improves record to 17-5 EMMETT LYNCH Sports Writer

The UNI Panther volleyball team had quite an eventful weekend that led to improving their record to 17-5. The Panthers went undefeated and knocked off Indiana State on their court in a sweep win of 3-0.

Bri Weber led the Panthers with 20 kills and a .514 hitting percentage in the matchup, which was a career best for her.

Sophomore Karlie Taylor added her team leading 11th double-double this season with 11 digs and 11 kills.

UNI recorded a 78 percent wideout number in their win against the Sycamores.

The Panthers then went on to sweep their next opponent the next day with a 3-0 win against Evansville,

another Missouri Valley foe.

This victory marked the 18th consecutive win and a 48-1 all time record against the Purple Aces.

The Panthers offense was very balanced, with Piper Thomas and Karlie Taylor each having 11 kills.

Freshman Jaydlin Seehase added to the box score with nine kills, which helped complete the weekend sweep for the Panthers in the Missouri Valley.

UNI continued their dominance in the MVC with another 3-0 sweep win against Southern Illinois in the McLeod Center.

Weber notched her 1,000th career kill, becoming the 11th member of UNI’s 1,000/1,000 club, with 1,145 digs to match her kills.

Weber recorded her

44th career double-double against the Salukis with 15 digs and 11 kills. Taylor also led the attack with her fourth straight double-double with 16 kills and 13 digs. She notched a careerhigh five service aces.

The Panthers’ seven game win streak was snapped this past Saturday against Missouri State in a 1-3 loss during Hawaiian Night in the McLeod Center.

Thomas had the team high of 20 kills. Taylor had her 15th straight double-figure kill match with 19 digs and 11 kills. Heather Hook also recorded a double-double with 51 assists and 12 digs.

This was a tough loss for the Panthers, but the cats plan to bounce back this Tuesday, Oct, 17th at the McLeod Center against Drake University.

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Junior Bri Weber (4) serves the ball during a recent home game.

NBA preview: big trades in the off-season OPINION

JERRIUS CAMPBELL Sports Writer

As we look ahead to the upcoming NBA season, there were several trades in the off-season that really shook up the competition across the league. One of the biggest shockers of them all was the trading of star point guard Kyrie Irving to the

Boston Celtics for rising star Isiah Thomas.

The trade caught many people off guard and even surprised the three time NBA champion LeBron James, who told reporters that he thought everything was going well but apparently there was some conflict on the Cleveland Cavaliers team.

Another surprising move was the trade that sent Chris Paul to the Houston Rockets for seven players, a first round pick and cash considerations. The nine-time AllStar joins Hames Harden in Houston in hopes of narrowing the distance of becoming an NBA championship team.

Paul is not the only NBA star without a ring. Carmelo

Anthony has played in the league since 2004 and still has yet to come up with a championship. Anthony was traded this off-season to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Thunder team seems to be the team to beat in the west since the addition of Paul George and Anthony joining last season’s MVP, Russell Westbrook.

How will the Thunder distribute the ball and who will be the go-to guy for the game-winning shot?

The season is near, and the first two games will be played on Oct. 17.

The Celtics will play the Cavaliers in Cleveland, and the Houston Rockets will head to Oakland to play the Warriors at home.

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Youngstown State has the same record as the Panthers at 3-3 and almost dethroned undefeated North Dakota

State last week at 27-24.

Youngstown State has blown out opponents by over 50+ points this season

and look very threatening on the ground. Last week looked tough for the Panthers and they came out

on top. Next week’s game will be played at home at the UNI Dome; kickoff is set for 1 p.m.

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Theatre UNI presents

HAIR

Calling all hippies, flower children, radical protesters, beatniks and peaceniks: Theatre UNI is producing HAIR: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical in 2018, and we need you!

Theatre UNI is hosting a workshop where you will learn music and movement from the showand get information about auditions.Theatre UNI is looking for performers of Workshop all levels of experience, October 24 ethnicity, age, and shape.

7:00 - 9:00 PM Come join the tribe!

Strayer-Wood Theatre Auditions October 31 Callbacks November 1-2

What to Prepare

- Verse & chorus of a 60s/70s pop/rock song with sheet music or a karaoke track - One minute monologue/reading from theatre, film, literature or TV must showcase your personality; does not have to be memorized Questions? Email amy.osatinski@uni.edu

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