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October 19, 2017

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Volume 114, Issue 16

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Opinion 4 Campus Life 6 Sports 8 Games 10 Classifieds 12

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Like father, like son 2 “Me too” 4

“The Aliens” are coming 6

Former UNI Football player shot and killed 9

Stepping towards sustainability SARAH HOFMEYER Staff Writer

President Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, which was signed by his predecessor President Barack Obama through an executive order, the same method by which Trump intends to withdraw. The Paris Climate Agreement, a treaty created within the United Nations (U.N.), addresses environmental protection with the specific goal to keep the planet from warming past a specific level. It aims to keep warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial revolution levels. Kamyar Enshayan, the director of UNI’s Center for Energy and Environmental Education (CEEE), sees the withdrawal as a step backward for environmental action. “It literally means more foot-dragging, more inaction, more damage and more pollution, more destruction due to extreme weather, such as we are

witnessing in Texas, Florida and now California,” Enshayan said. “More f loods, more droughts, more intense storms, more extreme everything.” According to Enshayan, students need to understand the significance of the Paris Agreements and what the withdrawal means for the United States. “[The Paris Agreement] is like the world’s nations agreeing on something fundamental for our shared future — that slavery is a bad thing or that nuclear weapons should rest in peace,” Enshayan said. “The Paris Agreement is a step towards protecting the stability of the atmosphere that supports all life as we know it.” Brian Warby, assistant professor of political science, sees global political ramifications for withdrawal. “It paints the U.S. in a negative light. It makes it look like the U.S. is the free rider,” Warby said. “Per capita, the U.S. pollutes more than any other major country. We’re expecting everybody else to do the work of climate change while we sit back and reap the benefits of running our econ-

omy on fossil fuels — it sullies our reputation as a global leader.” Warby also explained that the Paris Climate Agreement is a continuation of past global agreements. “The Paris Agreements are negotiated by members of the U.N., so it is a follow up to previous environmental protection agreements,” Warby said. “All of it started with the Rio Earth Summit in the ‘90s, followed by the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen round of negotiations.” The Paris Climate Agreement is different than past global environmental agreements in its f lexibility. “With previous agreements, there was a rule of how much [the signees] have to reduce their emissions by, but with the Paris Climate Agreement, they have nationally, or individually, determined contributions,” Warby said. “It’s up to the countries to decide how involved and proactive they want to be.”  See SUSTAINABILITY, page 2

Swapping clothes for a cause MONIQUE SMITH Staff Writer

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, the UNI chapter of Colleges Against Cancer and Relay for

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Students were able to swap clothes from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. last Tuesday night in the Maucker Union Ballroom. This event was hosted by Colleges Against Cancer and Relay for Life.

Life hosted a Clothing Swap event to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Students paid $5 to participate, and the event went from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. “100 percent of the money that we make goes back to the American Cancer Society,” said Katrina Ganschow, mission executive of the UNI chapter of Colleges Against Cancer. Ganschow is also a student at UNI, in her junior year, studying elementary education. This semester, all of the clothes will be donated to a local non-profit program. Some of the clothes will go to a domestic violence organization, and some will go to the homeless organizations in the area to help the community.

Initially, the unwanted clothes were going to be donated to the hurricane disaster areas; however, this proved unnecessary, as they are more in need of money at this point than clothing. “They said to try our local organizations because they would benefit more from the clothing than sending them to the hurricane disaster areas,” Ganschow said. As the mission executive, Ganschow came up with the idea of using a clothing swap to raise money, and this is the second time the event will run. “Whether we run the event next semester and next year will depend on how much money we make,” Ganschow said.

Colleges Against Cancer works with the American Cancer Society, and the organization hosts a Relay for Life event each year to raise money for anybody who has been impacted by cancer. “We spend a whole day raising money for the American Cancer Society. We do different events like Zumba and the blazing hot Buffalo Wild Wings challenge,” Ganschow said. “We just make it really fun, and the day is dedicated to fighting back, remembering and celebrating the individuals that have had cancer, or those who have somebody that has been affected by cancer personally.”  See CLOTHING, page 6

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