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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8

INSIDE THIS ISSUE WCF news editor visits UNI 2

Columnists talk unions 3 Lawther Hall renovation 4

Spider sightings, bites concern Rider residents KAUSHIK MAHIDA Staff Writer

A resident of Rider Hall has reported that she had to visit the hospital after being bitten by a venomous spider.

This comes alongside other Rider Hall residents reporting several sightings of spiders.

Maddy Clausen, freshman, said she was bitten by a venomous spider in her dorm room in August and still has been finding spiders in her room.

“My family had

to pay thousands of dollars on hospital expenses after this one bite, and nothing has been done for me by the university,” Clausen said.

Clausen thinks the spider was a brown recluse.

According to a report on Iowa State University’s Horticulture News website, the brown recluse is a small spider with long spindly legs and a “violin-shaped marking” on its back. The website reports that the brown recluse spider is rare in Iowa and less than one specimen per year is submitted to Iowa Insect Diagnostic Clinic.

M e s a Engelhardt, freshman, athletic training major, has been living in Rider Hall since this past fall. “ T h i s is the first [time] I found a spider in my room but the

girl down the hall got bit by one and found one recently,” said Engelhardt. “I plan to file a report soon to get my room sprayed.” Engelhardt said she is worried about being bitten after the spider bite had scarred her neighbor’s arm.

Clausen told the Northern Iowan (NI) that she has found spiders on numerous occasions in her room since then and also filed reports but has not yet received a satisfactory resolution to her problem.

“I’ve submitted alive spiders to them for identification and got them back dead,” Clausen said. “They sent someone to spray my room and they literally sprayed two spots and were out in less than five minutes. My mom had to come and deep clean my room and brought her own spray.”

Clausen said the Department of Residence (DOR) hasn’t revisited her room since then.

Alison Howard, Clausen’s mother told the NI that she plans to move her daughter to an off-campus housing next year.

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Madison Clausen, freshman, received this bite while in her dorm room during August 2016. Clausen is not the only student in Rider Hall to report issues with spiders.

“I felt they (Department of Residence) were too busy worrying about themselves,” Howard said. “They were trying to cover themselves instead of caring for their students. I don’t feel changing halls is going to take care of the problem, they haven’t done anything about the problem.

Why should my daughter be inconvenienced and move for them?”

The Resident Assistant (RA) and the Residence Life Coordinator (RLC) at Rider declined to comment on this issue and directed the NI to Director of Facilities at UNI, Dave Peerman.

According to Peerman, all of the UNI buildings are treated for pests on a quarterly basis.

in second place.

Senior Brandon Carnes was awarded Most Outstanding Track Athlete honors for the second year in a row, after receiving first place in the 60 meter dash and the 200 meter dash for all four years of his college career. This is the first time a feat like this has been achieved in school history as well as the entire MVC. Carnes finished the 60 meter dash with a time of 6.60, just .01 away from his personal record (PR) and then ran a 21.30 second 200 meter dash.

Daurice Fountain placed third overall in the 60 meter

hurdles with a time of 7.99 seconds. His efforts last weekend tied his fastest career time, ranked him No. 5 as a Panther and also earned him another all-conference honor.

Xavior Williams scored UNI some points after he placed fifth in the men’s high jump with a jump of 6-10.00.

Shawn Koch and Charles Brown both placed in the top eight for UNI in the triple jump event.

For the women’s team, Maddie Bell placed sixth in the 400 meter dash with a time of 56.11 seconds.

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MVC Indoor Championships Sports Editor

Elijah Hicks, freshman sprinter, competes in a relay last weekend.

Trans wrestler opinion 6

Last Saturday and Sunday, UNI hosted the men and women’s Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Indoor Championships in Cedar Falls; the men’s team achieved a third place finish and the women’s team came in fifth overall. At the end of all the action on Saturday, 14 athletes were sent to Sunday’s finals.

The Panthers have not had a home meet since Jan. 28 and on that date, both teams came

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Courier editor discusses changing landscape of news said. “Then I went to the Quad-City Times, I was in the Clinton bureau. I was only there four months, and it was quite an experience.

There was a lot of breaking news, a lot going on.”

After his stint at the Quad-City Times, Kinney said he got a chance to come back to Waterloo and work with the WCF Courier.

According to Kinney, he has been with the Courier for 32 years.

Kinney said that in his 32 years, he has worked many jobs within the Courier, but that recently, the landscape of journalism has changed.

“Our staff is so small now that I do a lot of reporting,” Kinney said. “I inherited back [coverage of ] Cedar Falls City Hall, which I had when I first started and that’s great because a lot of the people I know are still around.”

Kinney recalled a moment from one of his classes at UNI that impacted his view

of journalism in America.

“We had some film about — I can’t remember who the expert was — but he said ‘Democracy demands an informed public,’” Kinney said.

“I agree with that,” Kinney said.

“Also, people need to pay attention to the levels of government that affect them the most: your city councils and your school boards. [They] can have more direct impact on folks’ daily lives than some stuff that’s happening in Washington.”

KIRBY DAVIS/Northern Iowan According to Pat Kinney, the news editor of the WaterlooKinney, covering Cedar Falls Courier, came to the Maucker local issues and gov- Union to discuss how local news is evolving in ernment is his pri- Iowa and the United States. mary job.

Kinney also sees a future news. Kinney was brought to for print news as local news, UNI by the UNI American describing it as “down the Democracy Project. block, across the street” uations, a contracted pest control vendor responded,” Peerman said. “On two occasions a spider was provided to identify. One of the spiders could not be identified due to the condition it was in when received. The other was identified as a harmless type of spider no different from what is found in many homes across the Cedar Valley.”

“The Department of Residence strives to provide housing for students that is safe and secure, and has empathy for any individual who may have been bitten by a spider,” Peerman added. “Students who have imminent safety concerns relative to spiders should contact the Department of Residence during regular business hours or a Resident

Assistant during evening, weekend and holiday hours.”

“We will also respond to individual room issues when requested,” Peerman said. “When we identify a recurring issue, we increase total building service frequency until it is resolved.

If a student wishes to move to a different room or a different facility while the matter is being resolved the DOR will accommodate this request.”

Peerman added that issues are immediately acted upon when reported on the (DOR) website.

“A student only needs to submit a ‘request for maintenance’ on the Department of Residence website if a student has a problem with

pests in their room. This will get the facilities staff involved and we will work with the student to get the issue treated,” Peerman said.

Peerman went on to say that students who have concerns about damaged window screens allowing pests to enter rooms should also submit an electronic request for maintenance.

“We ask that students submit a request online knowing that some students are very sensitive to the use of pesticides in their room,” Peerman said.

Peerman said he received these requests to treat spiders at Rider Hall. He said three requests have been filed this year to treat rooms in Rider Hall for spiders.

“In each of these sit-

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This past Tuesday, Waterloo - Cedar Fa lls (WCF) Courier News Editor Pat Kinney came to the Maucker Union to discuss journalism, democracy and the importance of local news.

Kinney, a Waterloo native, began his education at UNI with a major in English and a minor in journalism. Kinney transferred to Iowa State University (ISU) where he graduated with a major in journalism.

“I wanted to get a major in journalism because I like to write and I wanted to try to make a living without being a long-suffering author or something,” Kinney said.

After graduating, Kinney began his journalism career at the Ames Tribune where he worked for five years.

“I was covering city hall, local government, the cops, things like that,” Kinney

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Columnists address unions ‘No place’ for collective Unions work for bargaining in public sector faculty at UNI

Now that things have relatively calmed down after Governor Terry Branstad has signed into Iowa law the infamous collective bargaining reform bill, I’m more able to make a somewhat controversial argument.

The rhetoric from leftof-center Iowans at large has been rather dramatic, claiming the adjustments to Chapter 20 of the Iowa Code have “gutted” or “essentially neutered” the decades-old policy. I truly wish such language was warranted, as my preference would have been for something like a true repeal of Chapter 20 altogether.

You see, there is virtually no place for collective bargaining in the public sector. Even FDR and AFL-CIO president George Meany recognized that.

Here’s the pattern: government employees organize themselves as unions. The unions then become politically active, endorsing and campaigning for politicians friendly to them and their aims (as is their right, of course). After those politicians win their races, they pass laws requiring the automatic collection of compulsory union dues directly from the paychecks of public workers, money that the union would spend on further political activism for more politicians friendly to them (among other things, of course).

The politicians then appoint government supervisors and employers to directly negotiate with the union representatives. These government supervisors and employers, however, are conflicted in their interests, in that they are trying to negotiate on behalf of the taxpayers with the very political interests that helped get them into power in the first place.

Thus, you have the public employees (specifically their union leaders) effectively sitting on both sides of the negotiating table, bargaining with themselves over ever-increasing salaries, pensions and benefit packages at the expense of the taxpayers and of the competency and efficiency of the public services for which taxes are paid in the

first place. This is why conservative columnist George Will once called public sector unions, “government organized as a special interest to lobby itself to expand itself.”

What I’ve outlined is not just the story of Wisconsin before 2011, or of New Jersey in 2017 (with their frightening pension crisis, the blame for which rests almost solely on the teachers unions there); it is the story of every government that has ever allowed their public employees to collectively bargain.

There were particularly nasty problems with public budgeting in Wisconsin before Act 10 was enacted, such as the requirement that school districts purchase insurance from union-affiliated insurers when they could have gotten the same insurance for cheaper on the open market. But the only real difference between Wisconsin before 2011 and Iowa in 2017 is that of extent, or of degree. Before Governor Branstad signed House File 291 into law, we as a state were on track to the horrors of pre-2011 Wisconsin.

Thus, this new policy change is as much a preventative measure as it is a corrective on current problems with Iowa public budgeting.

No one claims that the situation here is anywhere near as bad as what Wisconsin had devolved to.

For example, as public union leaders here have been quick to point out, the funding of public union political activities was collected through other means, not the funds that were (or rather, used to be) automatically deducted from public employee payrolls.

There is no realistic way to keep public unions from sitting on both sides of the negotiationg table ...

The only alternative is to remove the table entirely.

That being said, the history of Wisconsin and New Jersey (among other states), however, tells us that we would be foolish to rely on the magnanimity of public sector unions. This is not because public sector unions are evil, or because public employees are bad people or anything so absurd, but only because public sector unions are a special interest just like any other.

They are always and ever working on behalf of their members, not the taxpayers.

In fact, I would not expect them to do anything less that that.

But working on behalf of a single interest group rarely, if ever, translates to working on behalf of all groups.

Government must work, and work well, for everyone. There is no realistic way to keep public unions from sitting on both sides of the negotiating table (especially now, after Citizens United).

Thus, the only alternative is to remove the table entirely. Let taxpayers decide how they want to spend their tax dollars, and not be effectively held for ransom by a select segment of their fellow citizens.

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Iowa Governor Terry Branstad (above) signed into law a bill that would limit public-sector union negotiations to base wages only. This rewrites the previous bill that had been in place for more than 40 years. Previously, unions had negotiated benefits such as health care and working conditions.

I have come to understand that the essence of capitalism is the reality of profit over employees. I mean, the tendency is so real that we’ve had to develop laws and contracts to protect workers from corporate exploitation — long hours, unsecured employment and dangerous work environments.

Collective bargaining has become a central tradition in ensuring safe and mutually beneficial workplace conditions in Iowa. According to the Des Moines Register, many of Iowa’s public employees have enjoyed the right to negotiate the terms of their employment for over four decades.

In the case of universities, collective bargaining basically ensures the right to a meeting between administrators and faculty to negotiate the terms of salaries, health benefits and other details, such as the number of courses faculty can expect to instruct per semester.

This dynamic is favored for increasing employee autonomy by allowing these individuals to be a part of the decision-making process that goes into determining what level of compensation appropriately fits the demands of their own work.

For decades, corporate loyalists across that nation have worked to enact policy that strips public employees of these protections. Iowa Republicans are no exception.

These politicians fought to rescind Chapter 20 and saw some success two weeks ago, when they passed legislation to gut Iowans of their collective bargaining rights. This is bad for the future of UNI. By supporting the elimination of collective bargaining rights, you send a very clear message to professors, administrators and students that are protected under Chapter 20.

The message: you don’t care about the well-being of this institution or the mobility of its key players.

It wasn’t until recently I realized that several of the aspects I value most about my professors and this university are, at least in part, due to my professors’ ability to collec-

tively bargain their pay, working conditions and benefits.

Not only did these protections serve to ensure that our professors are able to primarily devote themselves to quality instruction (as opposed to, say, research), they also ensure a more educated and mobile rural class of Iowans.

UNI is unique. Our campus is surrounded by rural towns and a significant portion of our student body comes from a disadvantaged rural background. Despite these academically undesirable factors, many departments on campus have successfully attracted nationally-recognized faculty and researchers that contribute to the rich educational value that is provided here. A major drawing factor for these professors — collective bargaining. The recent infringement could mean departmental vacancies.

UNI’s Faculty Senate clearly laid this out in their statement of support for Chapter 20.

“At UNI, United Faculty has been instrumental in maintaining a healthy relationship with the university administration and providing the working conditions that enable faculty to focus solely on the true mission of the university: enabling students to reach their full potential and succeed in the competitive world that awaits them after graduation,” their statement said.

It’s clear from this statement that the right to collectively bargain not only benefits faculty, but also administration and the students that pay to receive an education here. For several of these public industries, and UNI in particular, a major draw to pursuing a career here is this ability to influence benefits and have some control over what to expect from the position.

In other words, this is a major selling point to the university’s job candidates.

Without these protections, it’s likely that some of the most prestigious researchers and educators would not be here.

Protecting public employees and their institutions has been an uphill battle. The future of UNI and the future education of rural Iowans were at stake when this bill was proposed. Now that it’s passed, the fight for public education continues, but the climb just got a lot steeper.

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Lawther Hall set to reopen in fall SARAH RITONDALE Staff Writer

Students now have the opportunity to go online and request their rooms in the newly renovated Lawther Hall, which will reopen in the fall of 2017. After an approximately two-year renovation process, the residence hall that first opened in the summer of 1940 has now been completely reconstructed.

According to Annie Karr, the assistant director of residence, the renovation’s total construction cost was close to $15 million.

The once all-female dormitory is now a co-ed hall and offers several new amenities different from other dorms on campus.

“I am excited to live somewhere that is not like any other dorms on campus,” said Haley Bunnell, a freshman deciding major. “Since I live in Bender Hall, I know what it is like to live in a box where everyone’s room is exactly the same. I am also excited to be so close to the middle of campus!”

Lawther Hall will offer the first suite style dormitory on campus. (Panther Village and Roth Hall are apartment style complex-

es.) Although Lawther lacks the kitchen and living room aspect, most rooms will feature a bathroom.

“I feel like it is a mix of the two,” Bunnell said, referring to apartment and traditional dormitory style living.

Lawther will now feature semi-private and private bathrooms in some of the individual rooms. There are some areas of the building that will have a shared floor bathroom, rather than every room having a bathroom.

One of Lawther’s benefits is being ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accessible with the installation of an elevator and three new entrances to the building.

Moreover, the building now features full air conditioning and more inclusive housing options.

In addition to the new amenities, the people involved with the renovation process wanted to maintain Lawther Hall’s historical significance.

“It was due for a complete renovation,” said Dave Peerman, director of residence facilities. “As our oldest residence hall on campus, a lot of people love Lawther so we want to do everything we can to stay connected to its original heritage.”

Karr agreed with this sen-

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The newly renovated Lawther Hall will be the first suite style dormitory on campus and will feature both semi-private and private bathrooms.

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Lawther Hall will be reopening as a co-ed hall in August of 2017 after a renovation process that lasted nearly two years and cost a total of $15 million.

timent, saying, “It has a lot of historical value to it.”

Part of that history involves a ghost story.

For years, the fourth floor of Lawther Hall was infamous for being the home of a ghost named Augie, the sightings of whom were first reported back in 1977. Augie has been thought to reside in Lawther’s top floor, affectionately dubbed “Augie’s Attic.” This urban legend is just one example of Lawther Hall’s rich history here at UNI. Construction workers were told to do everything they can to preserve parts of the building that have been there since Lawther Hall’s inception. Because the building was entirely gutted, they chose certain aspects to keep intact, such as the stairwell.

Elyjah Rivera, sophomore English education major, spoke about the transition to the new co-ed dormitory.

“I think it will be really interesting being a part of the students who are a

part of the transition from an all-women’s hall to one that is now mixed genders,” Rivera said.

The price for a double room in Lawther Hall is $2,407 per semester. (The Towers and Quads are $2,237 and a two bedroom apartment in Panther Village is $3,554.) Students can log on to the Departments of Residence (DOR) website, as well as contact them to learn about the various prices of rooms and how they can contract a room in Lawther. “[The price] takes into consideration the newness of the building, the air conditioning and then just the different types of rooms that are available. There are five different pricing structures for the five different room types,” Karr said.

Another factor that plays into the rooms in Lawther is that if students live in a more traditional style room rather than a suite style room, there will still be a sink in the rooms without bathrooms.

Also, every room is equipped with its own thermostat, so students can adjust the heating and cooling in their own rooms according to their personal preference.

The building is open to all upper-class students starting at the sophomore level.

Because the DOR is currently in their re-contracting stage, returning students that have previously lived on campus can fill out their housing contract now and select their room.

Students who lived off campus, however, must contact the DOR to help them through the room selection process since it will not be accessible to those students.

Bunnell said she wants to feel more connected to campus, as well as to Lawther Hall’s historical background.

“A room on the fourth floor would be preferred,” Bunnell said. “Not only do I get a cool view of campus, but I get to see what all the fuss about ‘Auggie’s Attic’ really is!”

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FILM REVIEW

“Get Out” gets outstanding review JOSHUA ROUSE

Film Critic

When Rose Armitage asks her boyfriend Chris Washington to meet her parents for the first time over a weekend visit, Chris reluctantly agrees. However, Chris is wary of how Rose’s parents will react to their daughter’s interracial relationship.

Upon arriving at the Armitage household, Chris becomes suspicious of the off-putting behavior by both the African-American workers around the house and the rich, elderly guests that arrive for a yearly get together. As stranger and stranger things unfold, Chris must choose between fight or flight — to “Get Out” before it’s too late.

Directing: 5/5 When the name Jordan Peele is brought up, the first thing that comes to mind is the comedy pairing of Key and Peele. So, when one member of that pair decides to do a horror film, it is quite surprising that the result is as effective a thriller as “Get Out.” Blending his signature style of comedy — as well as classical horror clichés — Peele does an excellent job on his first directorial outing.

From the opening scene and title crawl, both the camerawork and soundtrack create a sense of building dread and foreboding that is consistently maintained throughout the rest of the film.

This tension is broken only by moments of quality humor inserted at the right times to keep an even flow of chills and chortles. Another aspect of the film that is handled incredibly well is the race issue that it blatantly brings up. The overall message is never too preachy, but it does provide some food for thought concerning race relations and respect for all people in general, which the audience will most certainly mull over as they leave the theater.

Writing: 4/5 “Get Out” does a superb job of showing, not telling.

No time is wasted on monotonous exposition. This helps to move the movie along, especially since the set up can seem a little slow at times.

But that is easy to overlook, as the pieces begin to come together one visual clue at a time.

However, the slow, gradual buildup to the climax is offset by the short, steep incline that is the falling action. “Get Out” is still an

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Allison Williams stars alongside Daniel Kaluuya in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut “Get Out.” The comedy horror film has garnered unexpected critical acclaim, currently boasting a 99 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

engaging movie from beginning to end, but it came off as underwhelming when the layered complexity that was so prevalent in the rest of the film is missing from the final act.

Acting: 4/5 Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington steals the show with his casual, everyman personality that he brings to the character. His relatable reactions to the things he sees is a sensible mix of skepticism and terror, instead of swinging from one extreme to the other.

Allison Williams as Rose Armitage gives a worthwhile performance in her own right, while having likeable and believable chemistry

with Daniel’s character.

Another show stealer is Lil Rel Howery as Chris’s friend Rod. He is the source of most of the comedy in the movie and is never over bearing, owning his part and then appropriately receding when it’s time for the horror side of the movie to kick back in.

Katherine Keener and Bradley Whitford as the Armitage parents give commanding and committed performances but are, unfortunately, never expanded upon and are, thus, one note characters.

Overall: An excellent blend of two parts horror and one part comedy, “Get Out” is a commendable first effort from

Jordan Peele in the director’s chair, albeit a little lopsided plot-wise once it winds down to the final act.

TL,DR: TOO LONG, DIDNT READ

+ Engaging thriller and clever comedy + daniel kaluuya gives an excellent performance as chris - gradual buildup is offset by short and quick conclusion

Why I dance Editor’s note: This is a collection of stories of why students participate in Dance Marathon. The organization will be hosting their 6th annual “Big Event” this Saturday, March 4, in the Maucker Union from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.

I chose to join Dance Marathon four years ago because of the impact it makes on a person. Not just me, not just the committee members, but that little four-year-old who is too sick to make it to the event. The parents. The siblings. And everyone in between.

I dance so that the children treated at the hospital have a chance

Right fit.

Right here. ...all summer long.

Alyssa at everyday life. I want them to be able to have a daily routine that doesn’t involve being poked with needles or constant tests and procedures.

I want our kiddos to grow up and live the life of a teenager, a college student, a fiancé, a

If you’re sticking around this summer, consider the

Meeker husband or a wife and, hopefully, a parent to healthy, beautiful kiddos of their own. Everyone deserves that chance.

That is why I dance.

— Alyssa Meeker, UNI Dance Marathon Director of Fundraising

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UNI Softball: Upcoming

Tournaments

Mizuno Classic Stillwater, Oklahoma

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Maria Gonzalez, freshman, multiple event runner.

3/3Tennessee Tech

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Lauren Frederick, junior, multiple event runner.

Hope Koerperich, sophomore thrower.

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3/3Oklahoma State 3/4Tennessee Tech 3/4-

Abliene Christian

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Louisville Tournament Louisville, Kentucky

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Maddie Bell sophomore sprinter/mid-distance runner.

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Lyndsie Schinkel earned all-conference honors in the 800 meter dash, she finished with a time of 2:10.50 and placed third overall.

All-conference cross country runners Ashley Norem and Hannah Truniger ran strong in the 3,000

meter run. Norem earned second place with a time of 9:56.07 and Truniger finished shortly after claiming the third place finish with a time of 9:57.72.

Both the men and women’s next meet will consist of a weekend long tournament in College Station, Texas for the NCAA Indoor Championships.

3/10Ohio State

Cade Kirkpatrick, freshman jumper.

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OPINION

Transgender male wins female championship BRENNAN WHISLER

Sports Writer

This past Saturday a high school Texas wrestler completed a perfect 56-0 season, won regionals and is advancing to state in the 110 division. It has, however, been an epicenter of controversy in the sports world since the 6A final ended with a forfeit. The controversy comes from the fact that the wrestler who won was born physically as a female and is in the process of transitioning to become physically male this season. Mack Beggs, 17, wrestles in the female division of high school.

The situation in Texas makes

it so that Beggs can’t wrestle males under two rules. First, an athlete must compete as the sex listed on their birth certificate. The second rule does not allow different sexes to compete against each other in wrestling.

Adding to the controversy is the fact that Beggs is taking testosterone treatments to aid his transition. Under league rules, it’s allowed so long as it’s “dispensed, prescribed, delivered and administered by a medical practitioner for a valid medical purpose.” This is true for Beggs.

The testosterone is being cited as a chief concern among those who find the situation controversial, and not without

due reason. The MLB, NBA, UFC and NFL all disallow using testosterone and lump it in with multiple other drugs as Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). So from that standpoint, I definitely see how people are upset as there are reasons why it’s on that list for multiple sports administrations, including the international World Anti-Doping Administration.

That being said, I also agree that Beggs has done nothing wrong according to the current bylaws for high school athletes.

The real controversy comes from Texas not having changed its athletic laws. I believe the birth certificate issue should

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stand, as athletes should compete as the sex they are, but there is room to allow crossleague performances — boys should be able to wrestle girls and vice versa.

Beggs states that he wants to wrestle guys. It’s not exactly fair to the girls Beggs wrestles that he is allowed a medical booster for strength and conditioning that under normal conditions is completely illegal for competitive use.

All summed up, both sides are right and Texas is wrong.

Although this is a rare case, it could pop up again and states need to make sure any athlete can compete.

Men’s Basketball State Farm MVC Tournament Schedule in St. Louis, Mo. 3/3 vs Missouri State @ 8:30 p.m. 3/4 MVC Semifinal @ 5 p.m. 3/5 MVC Championship @ 1 p.m.

3/11Louisville State 3/12Ohio State 3/12Louisville State Current Record: 7-6

Home: 4-1

Away: 0-2

Neutral: 3-3

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