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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CEDAR FALLS, IA THURSDAY, APRIL 5 VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
CEDAR FALLS, IA
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022
VOLUME 118, ISSUE 51
OPINION
CAMPUS LIFE
SPORTS
OPINION PAGE 3
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4
SPORTS PAGE 6
Opinion columnist Bailey Klinkhammer writes on cultivating a culture of misogyny.
Check out the furry friends of UNI students.
Softball wins tenth consecutive game against Drake.
Digital Collective A tribute to to host Tech Talk Baker Hall KARLA DE BRUIN Managing Editor
The UNI Digital Collective is putting on their Year-End Tech Slam For the next three weeks. They have invited three speakers: Steve Jennings and UNI alums Zach Everman and Mike Pasley. Each event is in-person in ITT 029 or on Zoom. Dana Potter, Assistant Professor within the Communication and Media department says, “All of these speakers are from Iowa or have a vested interest in Iowa students who will one day work
in the fields of web development, design, animation, mobile applications, digital media and related industries. Even just attending is a point of connection, because later when a student goes to interview for a job at that business they could say, ‘hey I saw so-and-so give a talk at UNI and I really like what they said about (a topic).’ Getting a job is about skills but also about connection, which starts with events like this that bridge the university and the wider job-market community.” Many of the speakers are located in Iowa. Jennings, who
will be speaking April 19 at 6 p.m., is the co-founder of Grasshorse Animation Studio. He’s received 50+ awards for his direction and contributed to animating many shows including: Powerpuff Girls, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Johnny Test. Jennings opened Grasshorse in 2002 as an animation studio in Atwater, Calif., then relocated to Iowa. He creates opportunities for Midwest artists to produce locally in his role as Director. He also teaches at Southeastern Community College.
UNI alum Jim Sanders pays tribute to JIM SANDERS Baker Hall Guest Writer
See TECH TALK, page 2
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Baker Hall, pictured above, was built in 1936 and was demolished on March 28, 2014.
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Steve Jennings, pictured above, is the co-founder of Grasshorse Animation Studio.
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UNI alum Zach Everman, pictured above, started Pixel Labs with his wife.
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UNI alum Mike Pasley co-founded a stop-motion studio called Digital Twigs in LA.
Students research food waste on campus TANNER RICHARDS Staff Writer
With Earth Day coming up on April 22, a group of students from the Think Tank presidential scholar project have spent this year researching food waste on campus and finding new ways for students to help reduce food waste. On Thursday, April 21, they will be showing a documentary called “Wasted” to educate the community on the importance of looking at people’s own actions and knowing how they influence the food waste UNI produces. Mallory Schmitz, one of the students working on the project tells NI, “As part of the presidential scholars program, our
UNI alum Jim Sanders, class of 1971, contacted the Northern Iowan and asked us to publish one of his poems. A beautiful poem tributed to a building now lost to campus, he wrote this message in regards to his poem below: “Don’t ask me why, but one morning I awoke and realized that I must put something down on paper about the place, as I lived there for two academic years--196769--and it made an indelible impression. Buildings can exert this kind of force on people. If you wish to run it in your paper, I’m sure there will be at least a few who will fondly remember the place, and there really ought to be a memorial to Baker Hall, written by a resident, as we knew it from the inside out.”
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On hardwood f loors Head Residents walking The halls, eyes peeled While columns of students Snake toward the Commons Eager for dinner And coeds to woo. At night after classes And on into morning Crowded sessions convene In rooms full of questions Is there a God? Why is there evil? Can humans survive In a nuclear age? Nothing resolves and with Argument exhausted The session winds down As the sun comes up Off to class red-eyed and groggy To doze through lectures And nap at noon. Housing generations Preparing their futures The dormitory provided Decades of service Unsung and stately Yet without advocates willing To stay the force Of a modernizing campus A wrecking ball’s arc Reduced Baker to dust.