YARN BOMBING
APPROPRIATION
MEN’S GOLF
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 6
OPINION PAGE 4
SPORTS PAGE 9
Honors students found a different way to decorate their cottage this week.
Columnist Nehemiah Nelson discusses the importance of cultural appropriation.
The Panthers placed last in the Bradley Invitational last weekend.
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Apr. 10, 2014 Volume 110, Issue 49
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One last angry lecture KAYLA KROGMAN Staff Writer
The Center for Multicultural Education wrapped up their year of lectures Monday night with Lela Lee, author of “Angry Little Girls,” a weekly comic strip. In her comics, Lee illustrates cultural and gender expectations that people are conditioned into early on. She said that while she was younger, she dealt with bullies and was exposed to stereotypes. “I felt invisible because I’m Asian,” Lee said. “The opportunity to speak my mind wasn’t there.” When she was a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, Lee found her voice. Upon viewing animations that disturbed her at a festival, she decided to voice her anger about issues such as culture and gender. She created the character Kim,
the Angry Little Asian Girl, around whom her comic strip later developed. “We’re not allowed to be angry, but just take it,” Lee said. “That’s what women are supposed to do.” Tabitha Cruz, program coordinator of the CME, said it is “OK for girls to be angry.” “We should raise our voice and be the voice for others,” Cruz said. Throughout the lecture, Lee shared a plethora of her comic strips, as well as her original animations, which helped create “Angry Little Girls.” But before getting her comics published in 2005, Lee had her fair share of rejections. “I felt strongly about saying my point of view, so I couldn’t give up,” Lee said as she described why she was determined to have her voice heard. See COMICS, page 7
BOR holds spending review forum at UNI CORREY PRIGEON
Associate News Editor
The Iowa Board of Regents hired Deloitte Consulting firm to help the three regent universities more efficiently spend money. The UNI community had the chance to meet representatives from the company and the BOR Monday to ask questions regarding the efficiency report. “I think this is a great idea, especially looking at how funds are spread out
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through the universities,” said Thomas Madsen, president of Northern Iowa Student Government. “UNI is already running pretty efficiently, but it’ll be interesting to see what other ideas they can come up with.” The BOR presentation was held in the Maucker Union Ballroom and was titled “Rising to the Next TIER: a Transparent, Inclusive Efficiency Review.”
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Lela Lee talks about being an angry voice in the female community with her weekly comic strip “Angry Little Girls.” Her comics focus on cultural and gender expectations.
STUDENT VOICES
IRIS FRASCHER
Staff Writer
What does your family do for Easter?
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We have a huge Easter egg hunt and have dinner and snacks and then just sit around with each other. SHELBY CARLSON
Freshman Early Childhood Education
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We just go to church and hang out with other family and friends. BEN HUBER
Sophomore Elementary and Middle Level Education
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