NI 02-18-16

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February 18, 2016 Volume 112, Issue 37

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Opinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 8 Games 9 Classifieds 11

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

RANDOM KINDNESS The CME recognized “Random Act of Kindness Day” in a unique way. CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4

LETTER TO EDITOR Letters to the editor advocate for voting for each ticket running for NISG office.

OPINION PAGE 3

TRACK AND FIELD UNI sprinter Brandon Carnes breaks both school and conference records. SPORTS PAGE 8

LEZIGA BARIKOR Staff Writer

“Are they in charge of student organizations, by chance?” asked Brenna Wolfe, freshman social science teaching major. Confusion on what the Northern Iowan Student Government (NISG) does is common on campus. However, NISG vice president Paul Andersen said the student government can play a major role in the day-to-day life of UNI students. They fund student organizations, work to influence university policy and can give voice to individual student concerns. Andersen said influencing university policy can affect students on a personal level. He said he helped an international student who had to leave suddenly during the end of last semester to see his ailing father and later attend his funeral. The timing of these events led to the student not being able to finish his finals, and he was told that he would have to redo the entire fall semester.

Hopefuls debate CLINTON OLSASKY News Editor

DOUBLE GAMES This issue contains two game pages including extra Sudoku, extra crosswords, and a word search

GAMES PAGE 9

“So what I did was email the provost and the associate provost and let them know that this was the situation,” Andersen said. Andersen said he made sure the issue was being handled by the appropriate people in administration from that point, and that this is just one example of how NISG can advocate for students. But many students aren’t aware of NISG’s role in student life, like Morgan Bellile, junior financial institutions major. “I don’t know too much, but I know that they’ve been working on diversity around campus a lot last semester, so I’m guessing that’s like a lot of what they’ll be doing this semester too,” Bellile said. “I think they help maybe organize various organizations and school events,” said Michael Niedert, sophomore geography major. “I don’t know too much about it.” Many students were unsure of NISG’s job on campus. The general consensus was that they did not know much of anything about the operations of NISG.

Roughly 80 UNI students gathered in the Maucker Union main floor on Feb. 16 to watch the 2016 NISG senatorial and presidential candidate debates. The two tickets: Hunter Flesch and Avery Johnson, and Jamison Whiting and Aaron Friel, debated for about an hour on diversity and dis-

crimination, mental health, student organization financing and qualifications for holding office. The candidates also took questions from the audience. Northern Iowan executive editor, Nick Fisher served as the moderator for the debates. Elections will be held on Feb. 23 and 24, when students may vote on MyUniverse. See DEBATE, page 2

SHELBY WELSCH

“I guess I don’t really pay attention to it,” said junior communications major, Brianne Baylor. This has been an issue brought up multiple times, but it has especially been highlighted by Paul Andersen. Andersen stated that his goals for this semester is for NISG to become a resource students can come to with any issues they are having. NISG’s power is spread out between three main branches: executive, legislative and judicial. The most active parts of NISG are the Senate and the Executive Branch, according to Speaker Parker Bennett. The Executive Branch, consisting of the President, Vice President, Director of Administration, Director of Governmental Relations, Director of Public Relation and Director of Diversity and Student Life, is the most involved with working alongside the University administration on policy. These are also the paid positions in NISG, as is the speaker position.

Students got a little taste of what studying abroad might be like at the “Around the World in 80 Plates” event on Tuesday. The event was hosted by the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and UNI Study Abroad. The two organizations teamed up to serve foods from a variety of different countries and cultures, as well as provide some insight to those who might be interested in studying abroad this summer or upcoming school year. Booths were set up serving Arabic, Chilean, French, Brazilian, Thai, Indian, Chinese and Australian foods. According to the director of Programming for the Residence Hall Association, Josh Oulick, the two organizations decided to put this event on to get students to expand their horizons, diversify themselves and get them interested in the study abroad program.

See NISG, page 2

See 80 PLATES, page 5

Staff Writer

JACOB MADDEN/Northern Iowan

Hunter Flesch & Avery Johnson and Aaron Friel & Jamison Whiting participate in the student body presidential debate. Topics included mental health and diversity issues.

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