DARWIN WEEK
EDUCATION
BASKETBALL
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OPINION PAGE 3
SPORTS PAGE 6
UNIFI is hosting several presentations in honor of Darwin Week.
Columnist Laura Hebbeln explains the importance of deep learning.
The men’s basketball team lost to the Wichita State Shockers, 82-73, Saturday.
Monday
Feb. 10, 2014
Volume 110, Issue 35
Opinion 3X Opinion
Campus Campus Life Life X4
Sports SportsX6
Games Games X7
Classifieds Classifieds X 8
CHARITY
Dressed to impress
Dance Marathon hosts 2nd annual formal
POLICE
Cedar Falls crime rate drops in 2013
KATIE UPAH
CORREY PRIGEON
Staff Writer
Associate Executive Editor
Between the games of blackjack, the endless snapping of photos at the photo booth and a virtually infinite line at the dessert table, students found several alternatives to homework Thursday night while participating in UNI Dance Marathon’s Black Tie Affair at the Threehouse: A Wesley Foundation. “Last year, it was just a dance and a photo booth,” said Sarah Hanson, head of Dance Marathon’s public relations committee and co-chair of the Black Tie Affair. “We had expected 75 students to come when 500 came. We knew we had to make this year’s celebration quite a bit bigger.” ERIN KEISER/Northern Iowan This is the second year Casey Ewald, junior global studies major, dances with Sarah Stephany, sophomore leisure, youth and human Dance Marathon has put services major, at the Black Tie Affair. The event was held to raise money for UNI Dance Marathon. on the Black Tie Affair and Hanson decided to make a few and blackjack; we got spon- entry into the Black Tie Affair. of Iowa. It has treated virtuchanges to the event this time sored by Red Bull and there is “All of the ticket money ally every single illness and around. a lot more food.” from tonight goes toward our disease possible for the kids “We realized a lot of Students who registered for total goal,” Hanson said. “This who are the sickest of the sick guys don’t like dancing all the big event, which will take year we committed $100,000 at the hospital.” the time,” Hanson said. “We place in March, paid $3 for to the Pediatric Intensive added games such as poker one ticket or $5 per couple for Care Unit at the University See BLACK TIE, page 4
ACADEMICS
Regents discuss audits and faculty resignations CORREY PRIGEON
Associate Executive Editor
Student organizations, intramurals and sports clubs at the University of Northern Iowa are being audited. The audit is being done to make sure they are “operating
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efficiently, effectively and complying with university policies and procedures and applicable state and federal laws and regulations,” according to the internal audits report of the Iowa Board of Regents. At the Feb. 6 BOR meeting, the three state universities
reported on the state of the audits they are undertaking. The audits will not be completed until July 2014. UNI is currently listed as moderate, meaning the audit could seriously affect departments in the university, require the attention of higher authority, involve
some lawful intervention and lead to minor consequences if ignored, involve weakness in internal controls or potentially save UNI thousands of dollars if the school follows audit recommendations.
Crime in Cedar Falls has dropped 12.1 percent since 2012, according to a report from the Jeff Olson Cedar Falls Police Department. Captain Jeff Sitzmann attributes the crime decline to both Cedar Falls’ citizens and the nature of crime. “I think a lot of it is cyclical,” Sitzmann said. “It is somewhat following some national trends and we expect a lot of up and down in our crime rate. We’re really happy with the decreasing crime rate; more than anything, it’s an attribute of the citizenry.” Along with the citizens, Sitzmann attributes the low crime in Cedar Falls to the industry within the city and the city’s cooperation. “I think the financial stability of the city has a lot to do with our crime rate,” Sitzmann said. “We have a booming industry, and as far as a government entity, we have great partnerships with local businesses and schools.” In the last 25 years, crime has fallen by 25 percent, but there have been no major changes in the city to attribute this trend to, said Police Chief Jeff Olson.
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