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CAB presents Midwest Dueling Pianos ALANNA BYRNES Staff Writer

The Campus Activity Board (CAB) invited Midwest Dueling Pianos (MDP) on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. for a performance in the Maucker Union Ballroom.

CAB also provided a spaghetti dinner during the event, comprising an evening of free dinner and entertainment.

The music and comedy duo MDP is composed of Robert Bozaich and Philly Williams. The pair amused the crowd of students with variety of songs ranging from “Africa” by Toto to “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mixa-Lot — all performed using only their voices and pianos.

Throughout the night, students turned in their song request slips as Bozaich and Williams did their best renditions of the songs.

Dmitriy Holthaus, junior accounting and management information systems major and CAB’s variety executive, was one of the students involved with the planning for this event.

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Holthaus said that bringing MDP to UNI was something different and could bring some diversity to their events, since they played a variety of genres of music.

One of the crowd’s favorites was the duo’s performance of 70’s classic “American Pie”

by Don McLean in three different genres including ragtime, old-school country and even hip-hop.

“I think it’s very funny and [they’re] very energetic and into it which makes it a better show,” said Emmanuel Adeniyi, a freshman deciding major who attended the event.

MDP received an abundance of Disney song requests and decided to do a Disney mash-up that included popular songs from “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King,” “The Little Mermaid” and “Frozen.”

The duo also performed some classic crowd favorites such as “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers and “Piano Man” by Billy Joel.

“We [CAB] are doing a lot more with music [this year] and I think the events that

are more music-based are getting more attendance,” said Noelle Hulshizer, senior public relations major and CAB’s film executive. “I love that we get to provide people

with free entertainment.”

For more information on CAB and their events throughout the year, students can visit www.studentlife.uni.edu/cab.

Planned Parenthood organization in 1984 and CEO of Equatable of Iowa in 1989.

The Democratic candidate has also been on the board of Mercy Medical Center. He is husband to Charlotte Beyer and the father to three children.

Healthcare Hubbell has been a supporter of public healthcare, writing, “We need to reverse Medicaid privatization NOW,” on a statement posted on his campaign website.

Reynolds supports the privatization of Medicaid, and will continue to implement the policy if elected.

Environment Hubbell has called for an “energy ethic.” A supporter of increased production of both wind and solar energy, Hubbell wants more involvement from the private sector to allow for manageable growth. In response to the increasing tensions between farmers and state regulatory agencies this past summer,

Hubbell also supports water and air policy focused on the needs of farmers and local citizens.

Reynolds supports less federal and state oversight and instead, saying regulations should be decided at the local level. Reynolds has not proposed specific policies addressing the environment and climate change.

Education Hubbell supports an increase in education funding at both the secondary and post-secondary levels.

“Full and consistent funding” is required for secondary schools to remain effective, Hubbell said on his website.

Hubbell also called for “a stronger focus on job training and apprenticeship programs.”

“Education is a priority, and we will continue to back that up with real money,” Reynolds recently said during the State of the State address. A strong supporter of school choice (voucher programs), Reynolds

argued school choice “offers families the option to teach their values, beliefs and viewpoints to their children.”

Abortion Hubbell’s record on abortion is typified by his position as chair of Mid-Iowa Planned Parenthood.

“I am an unabashed supporter of Roe v. Wade and I have been for a long time,” Hubbell said during a recent gubernatorial debate.

Reynolds recently signed into law the sternest restrictive abortion bill in Iowa’s history. The Fetal Heartbeat Bill banned most abortions after six weeks of fetal development.

“I said I would never stop fighting on behalf of the unborn,” Reynolds said during a recent debate. “And I believe that if death is determined by a heart that stops beating, then a beating heart indicates life.”

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Analyzing the gubernatorial candidates

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CALEB STEKL Staff Writer

In the midst of a heated midterm season, Iowa’s gubernatorial race is proving to be no less competitive. The Nov. 6 election will feature incumbent governor Kim Reynolds (R) and Fred Hubbell (D).

Reynolds, 59, is a St. Charles, IA native and fifth-generation Iowan. The lifelong-Republican hopes to retain the governor’s seat she inherited in 2017 from then Governor Terry Branstad,

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who is currently serving as ambassador to China with the Trump administration.

Her political career includes serving as an Iowa state senator and then as Lieutenant Governor. She is the mother of three daughters and wife to Kevin Reynolds.

Hubbell, 67, is a fifth-generation Iowan from Des Moines. Hubbell has been a businessman for nearly 40 years. His private-sector career includes being chairman of Younkers starting in 1985, the chair of Mid-Iowa

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A new form of fitness came swinging into the Cedar Valley on Sept. 13 when Scott Behrends and Jacob Pauli, UNI alumni, opened Ninja U, an American Ninja Warrior (ANW) training facility geared to “make fitness fun.”

Behrends has always been passionate about fitness, but the spark to begin ninja training came from his family.

“My family members over the years have always called me the monkey… they were always telling to me to watch the show [ANW] and finally I gave in and thought ‘Wow this is pretty cool,’” said Behrends.

According to Behrends, his kids were the ones who really got the ball rolling on creating and running through obstacle courses.

“At the time, [my kids] were doing obstacle course with their P.E. teacher, and they loved it, we watched the show [ANW], and we just started building stuff in our backyard, garage and basement and it just sort of snowballed from there.”

Behrends created

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Ninja U looks to bring a new style of fitness to the Cedar Valley

an Instagram called @ BackyardNinjaKids, with the goal of teaching his kids on “how to be a positive influence on social media,” and to “teach other kids about this [sport], especially if they don’t have a way to workout… you can just use whatever is in your backyard,” said Behrends. @BackyardNinjaKids now has over 5,000 followers on Instagram.

Two year later, Behrends and Pauli created Ninja U, and their gym is the first and only exclusively “ninja gym” in the state of Iowa, according to Behrends.

With Behrends’ long time passion of fitness, and

Pauli being a former UNI Track and Field stand out, the pair’s skill sets combined are what, according to Behrends, set the force to create this “gateway to help see the world differently” when it comes to fitness.

According to Behrends, Ninja U offers “open training” for people to come in any day and at any time, along with unlimited training memberships and will later be offering specific classes for those training for a Ninja Warrior competition, including Behrends himself.

“Birthday parties are also huge,” said Behrends.

For college students, Ninja U offers a ‘College

Night’ on Thursdays from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m.; a night set aside solely for college students to try out the gym at a discounted rate of seven dollars per person for three hours of training, along with a competition for a chance to win a free pass for the next week, according to Behrends.

Ninja U is an “ever changing” gym that “takes you back to your roots of just being a kid on the play-

ground…. It’s like a jungle gym on steroids with pads under you,” explains Behrends.

Behrends said he is looking forward to hosting competitions for college students and for the people training to be a Ninja Warrior.

For more information on class times, costs, or events, visit ninjau.com, or visit their Facebook or Instagram @NinjaUGym.

Cannabis Currently, the state limits the use of medical marijuana to a small number of serious illnesses.

Both candidates responded negatively to the question of supporting recreational marijuana, according to the Des Moines Register.

Hubbell supports the expansion of medical marijuana in the state. “We need to do everything we can to give Iowans access to quality, affordable health care,” he said. Hubbell also supports expanding the range of illnesses that are eligible to utilize marijuana as

a prescription medication, according to his website.

“I would support the process that’s already in place,” Reynolds has said. The process Reynolds refers to is the Medical Marijuana Congressional Board that is charged with exploring options related to cannabidiol, as well as the percentage of THC that is permitted in medical marijuana.

Polling numbers Polling numbers have indicated a close race. According to FiveThirtyEight, the most recent poll, completed by Selzer and Company, Hubbell has a narrow twopoint lead.

In January of 2018, Reynolds held a five-

point lead, and in early September, Hubbell had a five-point margin, according to data collected by FiveThirtyEight.

These poll numbers may again fluctuate as the election nears.

Prominent Democratic Senator Kamala Harris was recently on campus and a slew of prominent political figures are expected to make appearances in the state including president Trump and former president Obama. These visits may affect both Reynolds’ and Hubbell’s poll numbers.

Endorsements Hubbell’s endorsements include The Des Moines Register, current Governor

of Washington state Jay Inslee and current Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.

Gover nor Reynolds earned the endorsement of over 40 Iowa county sheriffs, the National Rifle Association (NRA), and the NFIB small-business Pac. “I think it’s the case that Kim Reynolds should not be in office,” Carter Williams, a junior philosophy major said. “The only way to get her out is to vote for a Democrat. I’m pro-choice, and that’s perhaps the biggest thing I’ve noticed that she is against.”

Ben Chapman, junior social sciences major, stressed the importance of

voting in midterm elections.

“Voting is a right everyone has that people have fought and died for,” Chapman said.

“If you don’t vote, you don’t really get to have a say on who’s in office.”

The midterm elections are on Nov. 6. More information about Reynolds and Hubbell can be found on the websites of Ballotopedia, The Des Moines Register and BallotReady.

Students curious about where they can vote on election day can find their polling location on the Iowa Secretary of State’s website.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on election day.

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SYDNEY HAUER Executive Editor

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In 2018, party lines in American politics are harsher and yet somehow even blurrier than ever. Issues that both sides should support or criticize harshly always seem to throw my opinion of either party in its unpredictable reaction. Well, if either party reacts. And sadly, not every situation gains the media attention necessary to be brought up in the spotlight of American politics.

Why isn’t either party reacting to the alleged sexual assault accusations against Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey? Democrats especially, who harshly criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh

during his appointment hearings, have been just as silent as Republicans during Booker’s hearings. It is mind boggling and completely out of whack.

The accusations against Booker were posted anonymously under a pseudonym on Twitter, @TheeDeepThroat, a week ago. The user, a gay man and former Democrat who otherwise does not identify himself, claims that he had met Booker at a work event, expressing admiration and hope associated with Booker publicly. When the man went to the restroom, he claims Booker followed him in and forced him into sexual acts he did not consent to.

The user has since continued to post responses, further briefings and other miscellaneous tweets to his account, trying to draw attention to the issue.

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bell that rings concerning sexual assault and consent when we look at Senator Cory Booker. In 1992, while a student at Stanford University, Booker wrote an article for his collegiate newspaper including disturbing lines about groping a friend while in high school. It’s important to point out that Kavanaugh was around the same age when he allegedly assaulted Christine Blasey Ford.

Of course, like every politician and celebrity seems to do these days, he profusely apologized publicly and has since tried to claim that he is a ‘changed man’ and was specifically changed by what he saw and heard while talking with a peer counselor after the fact, and yet, no one is talking about this recent development.

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Opinion columnist Albie Nicol discusses the recent sexual assault allegations toward Senator Cory Booker and the lack of response from both parties.

Democrats are at the front lines ready to shut it down and make sure every alleged crime is accounted for.

But, when it’s a Democrat, Senator Cory Booker, being accused of essentially the same crime, where are the other Democrats calling for justice? Where are the Republicans? Both parties

need to stand up and ask Booker to tell the truth. If we are called to consider Kavanaugh a potential perpetrator of sexual assault, we must consider Booker’s potential in the same regard.

Bring attention to this issue, because it’s not getting the coverage it needs.

Five things to consider at the polls

Editors Note: This letter to the editor was submitted

by Steve Corbin, professor emertius of marketing.

Voters will soon decide, in a forced-choice decision-making manner, if actions at Iowa’s Capitol under one political party (GOP) made Iowa a better place to live or if change is needed. Five significant issues should be paramount in the voter’s mindset.

First, 72 percent of Iowa citizens feel Gov. Branstad and Lt. Gov. Reynold’s dictated 2016 privatized Medicaid health insurance program is a problem for 783,000 low income and disabled Iowans and their health care providers. While measuring “proper health care” is difficult, the financial issue is concerning.

When the State of Iowa ran the $5 billion health care program, administrative costs were 4-5 percent; the cost now is 12-15 percent for profit-managed care

companies to operate.

• Voter’s forced-choice decision number one: what is the least costly option for taxpayers to support, paying 4-5 percent for a state-managed health insurance program or paying 12-15 percent to out-of-state profit-seeking companies?

The second important issue is school funding.

While Republicans state they’ve given millions to public education, they can’t hide from the fact that investment in our public schools has been the lowest in Iowa history for eight of the last nine years. Resource support has taken Iowa to the bottom half of American states. Thankfully, GOP’s attempt to transfer nearly $200 million from public education to home schooling and private education — they tried to hoodwink the public by calling it “revenue neutral” — was not successful.

• Voter forced-choice decision number 2: what is

Steve Corbin, UNI professor emertius of marketing, discusses five things to consider before going to the polls on Nov. 6.

more important, providing financial support to 500,000 K-12 public education students or shifting resources to support 47,000 privately tutored students at the expense of public education children?

Third, Iowa lawmakers have continued their massive corporate tax giveaways. Business tax credits have doubled in the past five years and 60 percent of the recipient companies do not pay Iowa income tax.

Since the Tax Foundation (independent and nonprofit) ranks Iowa as the 6th worst state for overall tax climate — plus we’re number 39 on workforce and number 34 on economy--corporate tax entitlements are not working.

• Voter forced-choice decision number 3: should we elect lawmakers who will use our taxes to support non-accountable out-of-state companies or support candidates who will invest in small and mid-sized Iowabased businesses that pay Iowa taxes and employ fellow Iowans?

Fourth, 63 percent of Iowans voted in 2010 to pay more taxes ($0.00375) to create the Natural Resource and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund and improve outdoor, wildlife habitat and water quality.

For eight years legislators have blatantly ignored Iowa voters.

• Voter forced-choice deci-

sion number 4: who do you want representing you, one who will oblige their constituents’ voted-upon explicit request or one who ignores the will of the people?

Finally, due to purposeful budget cuts, state coffers went into the red, only five state troopers patrol Iowa at night, the human services department lost 908 workers to monitor child welfare and related cases, nursing homes aren’t inspected, 4,000 untested rape evidence kits exist and 36 unemployment offices, two mental health facilities and a juvenile home have been closed.

The Des Moines Register’s Oct. 18, 2017 editorial succinctly stated: “The

time has come for Iowans to contact their state lawmakers and demand concrete answers to this one question: How small should Iowa government be to satisfy you?”

• Forced-choice question for political candidates who tout the “smaller government” phrase: define, specifically, what is the proper number of child protection workers, unemployment offices, nursing home inspectors, family planning services, state troopers, mental health facilities and untested rape evidence kits?

Voting on or before Tuesday, Nov. 6 is all about making forced-choice decisions for the betterment of Iowa . . . it matters.

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A comedy play about a comedy game show LEZIGA BARIKOR Staff Writer

The lines between reality television and real life will be blurred in the new Interpreters Theatre play “PAT,” premiering this Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. and showing through Saturday, Nov. 3.

Writer and director Laney Krause-Taddeo, a senior digital media production major, said the show was inspired by some of her own life experiences.

“There are some stories in here that are true, some are exaggerated,” Krause-Taddeo said.

The play is about a daughter and mother who enjoy watching game shows together. While watching an old game show rerun, they become intrigued with the life of a particular contestant. They make up a fake life for this contestant, Pat. They become so fascinated with her life after the show that they go on a road trip to find her, and also see their own favorite game show, “Let’s Make a Deal,” along the way.

The main character, Lizzie, is inspired by Krause-Taddeo’s persona.

“My mom and I are really close, and we actually watched a game show [and] made up this

fake life about someone named Pat,” Krause-Taddeo said. “And I was like, ‘Wait, what if there was a story? Like, a road trip movie where they go across the country to find her?’ And that idea kind of took hold when I was in my playwriting class.”

Although Krause-Taddeo and her mom didn’t really make that road trip, they did get to see “Let’s Make a Deal” this summer to gain further inspiration for her play. Krause-Taddeo also spoke with host Wayne Brady about her project and he remembered UNI’s campus from when he visited with “Whose Line is it Anyway?” She invited Brady to the performance, but he had to decline due to scheduling conflicts.

The whole idea of turning her play, originally written for a playwriting class, into an actual production was a long shot, according to Krause-Taddeo.

She said she applied on a whim to direct her play through the Interpreters Theatre and did not think her idea would be accepted.

“I like long shots, and I think this show is a lot about long shots too,” Krause-Taddeo said.

Once her application was accepted, Krause-Taddeo began the work of adapting her

30-page, one-act play into what will be performed this week.

Minor tweaks were made to the overall story to expand it into an 80-page play.

“I made some scenes longer, and I added some scenes. I didn’t take away a log,” KrauseTaddeo said. “What I depend on is witty, fast-paced dialogue, and it’s a lot more of that.”

The play was fully auditioned and cast in September.

The cast did their first table read that month.

“There’s nothing like a table read because there are words that I have in my head for so long, and then give them away to the actors,” Krause-Taddeo said. “It has its own life.”

While this is KrauseTaddeo’s first play production at UNI, last spring she also hosted her first short film production, “The Merge.” It was a dramatic comedy about a high school girl and her creative writing persona learning to come together.

Besides now writing and directing her own play and short film productions, in the spring of 2017, Krause-Taddeo won the Crystal Pillar Award from the Upper Midwest Emmy Chapter for College Editor for her work.

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Senior digital media production major Laney Krause-Taddeo writes and directs, “PAT,” showing in the Interpreters Theatre Nov. 1 to 3 at 7:30 p.m.

Professor discusses diversity in the media SARAH RITONDALE Staff Writer

From strangers in dark alleys to what victims look like, attendees of “Myth vs. Reality:

Race, Gender, and (In)justice in the Media” learned about inaccurate portrayals of crime in the media.

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professor of sociology, anthropology and criminology, Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn, on Oct. 25 in Rod Library.

The presentation focused on depictions of race, gender, crime and injustices in prime-time crime television programs, news media and other popular culture outlets, as well as the significant consequences of these inaccurate media portrayals.

Dunn began her presentation with an exercise. She instructed audience members to close their eyes and empty their minds. She then said the words “offender” and “victim” and had everyone write down what first came to mind.

Rhineberger-Dunn said that when most people think of the word “offender,” some of the most common words written are “men,” “black” and

“violence.” Some of the most common words associated with “victim” are “woman,” “white” and “weak.”

“I knew that the media did a poor job of how they represented different races and genders, but I never realized how extreme the statistics were or how they compared different races and victims in the media,” said Alexis Johnson, a senior social science education major.

“I also realized that the crime shows I watch really enforce what the media is portraying about gender, race and injustice.”

Rhineberger-Dunn first discussed where we get our perceptions of offenders and victims, noting most people have not, nor will ever, experience being a victim or an offender.

Depictions of offenders and vic-

tims in the popular media have skewed our reality and given us a misinterpretation of who these victims and offenders are.

Rhineberger-Dunn then explained how people make important judgement calls based on this skewed reality. She said people vote and are placed on a jury, making decisions about other people’s lives when they may not be well-educated on the topics at hand.

“A lot of people on a jury make judgments based off of rape myths,” RhinebergerDunn said. “They say, ‘well, she knows that man so it can’t be rape,’ since most rapes are depicted as being brutal and occurring by strangers in back alleys, when that is not typically the case.”

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Panther PORTRAIT: halloween house SOFIA LEGASPI

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Families and children from the UNI community flocked to McCollum Science Hall last Friday, Oct. 26 for the annual “Halloween House.”

The event was presented by the UNI chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in partnership with the Physics Club, Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society, Sigma Gamma Epsilon Earth Science Honor Society, PreMed Club and UNI STEM Ambassadors.

Students from several science departments worked to put together 11 different shows going on simultaneously around the second floor of McCollum. Show titles ranged from “Frankenstein’s Lab” and “Mummies’ Yummies” to “Dirt Discoveries” and

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Krause-Taddeo describes her play as endearing and invites students to “come enjoy the small moments of life.”

She and her cast and crew have been working all semester and feel prepared for their

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People shape the images of who offenders and victims are because people only see what sells, Rhineberger-Dunn said. They only see brutal offenses and terrible crimes depicted in shows because that is what audiences find most interesting. In reality, the most common offenders are white men, not the black or Hispanic stereotype that people often believe.

Rhineberger-Dunn conducted research where she tracked how facts were conveyed in crime shows. The research revealed that white men were mostly the ones giving facts — even more so when in a power role such as a supervisor. Black men were most likely to be the coroners in the show, however, and gave the least amount of facts.

Rhineberger-Dunn also tracked how these crimes are portrayed in the news. She said white victims are more predominantly shown. A comparison of numbers in FBI records versus numbers of crimes covered in the media demonstrated that victims who are people of color and male are both underrepresented in the news.

Rhineberger-Dunn proved this point by showing the audience pictures of white victims. Audience members were able to name several of the people on the screen.

“Grossology.”

During three of the shows, “Devils’ Den,” “Witches’ Lair” and “Pirates’ Cove,” audience members were required to wear protective goggles as students demonstrated spooky science experiments.

Children could also participate in several hands-on activities as well as sample special treats like liquid nitrogen ice cream and dry ice root beer.

“Kids don’t understand how exciting science can be until they see it in action,” said Joseph Tibbs, co-president of the Physics Club and social chair of the ACS student chapter, in a press release. “There’s nothing like giving someone their first taste of the wonder that science can inspire. We have fun, the kids have fun and we all learn something.”

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opening night. Tickets are free, but must be reserved ahead of time online because of limited seating.

“Hopefully they laugh, and laugh at the right moments,” Krause-Taddeo said.

Students can visit the Interpreters Theatre website for more details.

However, when it came to black male victims, only a few people were able to name two of the people on the screen.

Along with their predominant media exposure, a large number of white victims also have laws named after them.

However, very few laws are named after black victims.

These misrepresentations lead to a skewed mindset of people’s identities and mistreatment of people of color.

Rhineberger-Dunn said people tend to act on implicit bias — even when they do not mean to. Examples included moving away from a person of color in an elevator or a police officer reaching for his gun when he sees a black teenager.

Rhineberger-Dunn continued to stress the problem of how crime is depicted in the United States. She said there are several ways in which people were overrepresented and underrepresented, leading people to believe that there is a certain type of person who is the typical offender and a certain type of person who is a victim.

“The talk was super eye-opening because I never realized how strong the stereotypes are in crime shows and the media,” said senior math teaching major Kaelyn Koontz. “It was super interesting to see the impacts that these stereotypes have in our lives and the criminal justice system.”

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Panthers fall to Western Illinois, 37-17 PRESTON JENSEN Sports Writer

A two-game winning streak came crashing down for the Panthers on Saturday. The Western Illinois Leathernecks took them down, with a score of 37-17.

Neither offense was able to get much going in the first quarter.

UNI kept the Leathernecks out of the end zone and didn’t allow them to score any points. Kicker Austin Errtham managed to hit a 32-yard field goal through the uprights with just under five minutes remaining in the first quarter, putting the Panthers up 3-0.

Early in the second quarter, Western Illinois jumped ahead

to a 7 -3 lead with a one yard rush from Max Norris.

UNI quarterback Eli Dunne was able to find running back Marcus Weymiller for a 18-yard touchdown reception to retake the lead. After the extra point, UNI led 10-7.

Western Illinois was able to follow up with some explosiveness on offense.

Quarterback Sean McGuire found Isaiah Lesure for a 69yard catch and run touchdown.

Before the end of the first half, the Panthers struck some bad luck when a sack turned into a fumble by Dunne, which lead to Western Illinois scoring two more points on a safety.

In the third quarter, only the Leathernecks were able to put

any points on the board with a another one-yard touchdown from Norris. Western Illinois found the end zone two more times in the fourth quarter on a touchdown pass from McGuire to Lesure once again. Steve McShane, the older brother of UNI receiver Deion McShane, added the team’s final score on a one yard touchdown rush.

The Panthers did manage to find their way to the end zone before time expired in the fourth quarter with a one-yard touchdown from Weymiller. It would not be enough, as UNI fell to Western Illinois.

UNI will be back in action on Nov. 3 when they welcome the Illinois State Redbirds to the UNI-Dome.

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After stellar performances against South Dakota and South Dakota State, UNI (4-4) struggled on offense as they lost to the Leathernecks by 20.

SOCCER

Panthers clinch three-seed in MVC tournament ELIOT CLOUGH

Sports Writer

On Thursday, Oct. 25, the UNI soccer team put together their second consecutive conference win with a 3-1 victory over the Illinois State Redbirds.

The win catapulted the Panthers from sixth place in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) to third, just in time for the conference tournament.

In their win, Jamie Althiser was able to score the lone goal in the first half off a shot by Hannah McDevitt

that was deflected. The score came in the 32nd minute.

Sydney Hayden went on to score in the 60th minute off an assist from Julianne Truzzino. She has now moved to fifth in the conference in goals for the season with six netted shots.

Also contributing

for the Panthers was senior goaltender Jami Reichenberger, who faced off against 22 shots during the contest and tallied ten saves.

Reichenberger currently leads the Missouri Valley in every statistical category for goaltenders, including goals against average (.954), saves

(117), shutouts (6) and saves per game (6.28).

Up next for the Panthers is the first round of the MVC tournament. As of print time, UNI will face off against the Evansville Purple Aces on Oct. 28. The last time these two teams matched up, UNI won in shutout fashion, 3-0.

UNI falls to No. 18 Marquette; defeat Valpo VOLLEYBALL

FRANK WALSH Sports Writer

The McLeod Center is the place to be for Panther volleyball action. The team has been on a roll as they dominate the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC).

UNI has had a historic start this season, grinding out hard fought wins around the league.

Through Oct. 19, the Panthers stood at 10-0 in MVC play.

On Sunday, Oct. 21, the Panthers hosted the 18th ranked Marquette Golden Eagles at the McLeod Center in a brief break from MVC play. UNI was able to win one set against the Golden Eagles, but lost the match 25-20, 20-25, 16-25 and 2426.

Despite the loss, Karlie Taylor was dominant and posted 20 kills. UNI was able to quickly rebound during their next home meet.

The Panthers returned to conference play as they welcomed the Valparaiso Crusaders to Cedar Falls on Friday, Oct. 26. Fans of the purple and gold were treated to an outstanding five-set thriller as UNI took down

the Crusaders 18-25, 25-16, 25-12, 20-25 and 15-7.

Taylor was unable to play as the two teams fought it out on the court. Piper Thomas, UNI’s middle hitter, showed incredible scoring ability as she dominated with 20 kills.

Kate Busswitz also had an incredible game in the win as she had a total of 13 kills, two blocked shots and two ace serves. With the win,

the Panthers are guaranteed their 34th consecutive winning season.

UNI (17-7) will hit the road on Nov. 2-3 to take on the Bradley Braves and Illinois State Redbirds. The Panther have two remaining home matches this season, hosting the Missouri State Bears on Nov. 9, and the Southern Illinois Salukis on Nov. 10.

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