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Avijit Ghosh, a candidate for president of the University of Northern Iowa, will visit campus Jan. 30 and 31. A public forum is set for Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. in the Commons ballroom.

During the forum, students, staff and community members can learn more about Ghosh, the second candidate UNI has announced in this phase of the presidential search.

Ghosh is the senior adviser to

the president of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He has more than 30 years of experience as an educator and senior university administrator.

Ghosh served in a variety of roles at the University of Illinois, including Vice President for Technology and Economic Development, as well as the dean of the College of Business.

He received a B.S. in chemistry at Calcutta University, studied in a postgraduate program in management at the Xavier Institute in India and earned an M.A. and

Ph.D. at the University of Iowa.

On the day of each presidential candidate’s public forum, a university-wide email containing a link to a confidential electronic input form will be available.

Participants can answer survey questions on the form about the visiting candidate and fill out an open comment section.

Community members and UNI faculty without UNI email addresses may also fill out the form by requesting one from csbr@uni.edu.

All forms are due no later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 5.

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UNI presidential candidate Avijit Ghosh, pictured above, will visit campus Jan. 30 and 31. A public forum will take place Wednesday at 2 p.m.

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that funding bills don’t generate much discussion and the fact that bills could still be placed on the controversial docket (which would require more readings) if deemed necessary.

After the bill passed its first reading, senate convened again on Jan. 23 and debated the benefits and implications that passing the bill would have for students.

Speaker of the Senate Jared Parker opposed the bill, saying that he prefers having a second reading for issues

Julia Heuer recently became the first military and veteran student services coordinator at the University of Northern Iowa.

The position was created to enhance the university’s ability to serve the military student body.

Originally from Sacramento, Calif., Heuer joined the United States Army after graduating high school.

She served as a military intelligence analyst in Bosnia and South Korea.

Heuer was promoted to the rank of Sergeant before retiring and beginning her undergraduate education at a community college. From there, she became interested in the social sciences and received her bachelor’s degree in social work from California State University, Los Angeles.

Heuer’s interest in social work led her to the University of Iowa, where she received a master’s degree in social work.

During her coursework, she volunteered her time by serving military veterans. She also had an internship with the National Association of Social Workers. Heuer spent time doing military advocacy and helping to draft a veterans’ policy statement, which highlights veterans’ issues for legislators to focus on.

At UNI, Heuer’s job is to identify both the positive areas and the trouble areas for students in the military

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Film critic Paul Lichty was deeply impressed by “Zero,” particularly its strong lead and stunning, vivid scenes of recent history. < See PAGE 6

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Dancers show off their moves at UNI Dance Marathon’s “Black Tie Affair” Thursday, Jan. 24. The event, held in the Lutheran Student Center across from campus, raised more than $1,000 for the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and also helped promote Dance Marathon’s upcoming “big event” at UNI on March 2.

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Hemp is not marijuana; stop treating it that way Columnist Nicholson argues that hemp for industrial use has been unfairly demonized, and the potential economic benefits could outweigh a nonexistent risk. < See PAGE 4

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After a combined two hours of debate and deliberation, senators in the Northern Iowa Student Government voted on Jan. 23 to not pass a bill eliminating the second reading of funding bills under $1,000, on a vote of 3 to 12.

UNI student organizations may request funds outside of the normal spring budgetary process by requesting money from the NISG contingency fund, the money in which comes from the Student Services Fee.

A look at the rest of UNI’s MVC slate

Sports editor Brad Eilers weighs the potential of a playoff run for the Panthers. < See PAGE 8

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NISG debates procedure on funding bills LINH TA

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After filing an application, the student organization must go through the Organization and Finance Committee, as well as pass a funding request bill through two readings in senate before the funding is approved and available for the organization.

However, on Jan. 16, senate first read a bill sponsored by the Governmental and Legislative Affairs committee, proposing the elimination of the second reading of funding bills under $1,000 in senate.

Reasons for passing the bill included using senate’s time more efficiently, the assertion

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on campus, with a goal of assisting military graduates find a path to employment.

Heuer said she wants to enhance on-and off-campus resources and connections that veterans are able to access.

“The main thing we want to do is help them graduate,” Heuer said. “Right now, there’s not a lot of information on the success of veterans in school, and there’s conflicting reports about how many of them are actually graduating.”

Heuer said helping student veterans with their academic struggles means targeting the areas that those students may be struggling with and providing the appropriate assistance.

“It’s just getting to the root of if it’s financial, if it’s family, and how can we better assist (veterans) and what services can we provide,” Heuer said, “and that includes family too; they’ve been along for the

whole military ride as well.”

Heuer also feels strongly about the need to educate faculty and students about posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

In addition, Heuer said she believes nonmilitary students and faculty need to develop a stronger understanding of military culture and the way that culture impacts the lives of military personnel and families.

Military students add value to the classes they attend, Heuer said.

“There’s a real richness in having a military or veteran member in class,” Heuer said.

“I think sometimes people overlook that by just hearing that they’re a veteran or in the military and want to know, immediately, ‘Well, have you been to battle?’”

Heuer also noted that discussing military service experiences must be handled with sensitivity.

Heuer asks that students and faculty alike withhold preconceived notions of soldiers. The most damaging

notion is that soldiers are “trained killers” with “anger problems.” She also feels that military students can be held back because they are treated as “people who follow orders.”

However, she noted that most students hold a positive view on soldiers, saying they are largely “respectful and thankful” and “recognize (veterans’) experience.”

In the next several years, Heuer envisions growth in her department.

“I would like it to be a center where military and veterans can come and hang out and get some camaraderie and meet people who have had similar experiences with them,” Heuer said.

She is also eager to learn more about what can be done to serve the unique needs of military students at UNI. “One of the great things about this job is that it’s so new. (The job is) kind of going to see where the need areas are, based on the college,” Heuer said.

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: “UP FROM THE BOTTOMS” Grout Museum of History and Science 6:30 p.m.

A screening of “Up From the Bottoms,” he story of the massive migration of African Americans from the rural south to the prosperous north during World War II years and beyond. Part of the “Dreams Deferred... Dreams Held Fast Series,” hosted by the UNI Center for Multicultural Education and the Rod Library in conjunction with Reaching For Higher Ground.

UNI PROUD HOSTS “LGBT THROUGH HISTORY” Presidential Room, Maucker Union 7 p.m.

Participants will play a competitive game that teaches about historical LGBT moments.

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FORUM: AVIJIT GHOSH Slife Ballroom, Commons 2 p.m.

Ghosh, the second of three UNI presidential candidates, will speak to members of the UNI community and answer questions at the forum.

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related to funding. “(Second readings) allows us to mull it over and let us be good stewards of students’ money,” Parker said during the debate.

During the meeting, Parker also cited a rule already in place that allows senate to push a bill to a second reading if it receives support from two-thirds of the senators.

He suggested that if a bill seems worthy of being pushed to second reading, senate may do so voluntarily.

Senator Jordan Leckband of the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences (CHAS) agreed with Parker and did not support the bill after speaking with his constituents. “(My constituents) all agree that while (in) senate (it) is important to be quick about a lot of funding ... most of them agree that it’s important for us to think carefully what we’re funding,” Leckband said.

Other senators were originally in favor of the bill, however.

Senator Stef McGraw of CHAS believed the bill would create more efficiency for the current senate.

“The two readings in the senate really don’t seem necessary. People think reading it once is careless, but it’s

really not reading it once,” McGraw said. “It goes through the Organization and Finance committee and they know the guidelines, so really it’s just supposed to be a double check and I think it’s unnecessary to have to do it twice, when 99 percent of the time it gets passed.”

Senator Thomas Madsen of the College of Business (COB) was also originally in favor of the bill, stating that he wants to use students time effectively.

“When we go to our constituents … I want to sit down with the limited time that they have and talk about issues that are prevalent to them and issues that really matter to them, instead of having to go around and talk about stuff they might not care about,” Madsen said.

However, after Senator Tyler Moran of COE and chair of the Organization and Finance committee explained why he changed his mind from being more in favor, to out of favor of the bill, other senators also agreed with his viewpoint.

Since the bill would become a bylaw, meaning it would stay in place until a future senate decided to change it, Moran said that the bill would work for the current senate, but it may not work for senate in these upcoming years, due to changes in how much money the contingency fund

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will have in the future, and potential guideline changes in regard to funding.

“We need to evaluate where NISG is with the funds. It’s hard to say where we will be next semester ... it’s hard to make decisions this far in advance,” Moran said.

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This bill might be really great now, but will it be great for NISG in the future?

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referenced the current “winner-takes-all” system of the contingency fund.

For student organizations that are requesting money, whether they receive the funding is based on the NISG funding guidelines, rather than a subjective decision from the Organization of Finance and the senate.

Because of this, the student organizations that request money first are more likely to receive more of it, and student organizations requesting money in the spring may be out of luck.

This current guideline may change, due to changes in the amount of money in the contingency fund in the future, according to Moran, and is the reason he is not in favor of the bill.

Excluding $40,000 that senate is not allowed to take money from, Moran said the contingency fund is currently resting at $33,000 left for the semester. This number is lower than in the past, due to past senate being less strict on funding for student organizations, the current expenses of the Collegiate Readership Program, assistance in paying Pam Creger’s salary from the Student Involvement Center and deferred speakers that student organizations previously requested.

During the meeting, Moran said he does not see the contingency fund for next year not being much higher than $60,000 for the next school year.

“The final (point) that kind of changed me on this, is that the rules might change. This bill might be really great now, but will it be great for NISG in the future?” Madsen said.

Even if the bill has passed through senate, Parker said during the meeting that he would motion to move every funding bill to the controversial docket, requiring more readings out of default.

Parker said, “It’s something that I deem all funding

bills controversial, and every senator does have that right,” in reference to moving bills to the controversial docket.

Michael Dippold, president of the UNI Freethinkers and Inquirers said, “From my vantage point, as a student leader, I generally treat the second reading as a formality — the Organization and Finance hearing and first reading being the steps that actually matter,” Dippold said.

Overall, senators said they may vote in favor of the bill if it is brought back in the future.

“Maybe we should save this discussion for next year when we don’t think there’s going to be a senator who’s going to (motion the bill) every single time and basically nullify the bill,” McGraw said.

She also said it may be more beneficial to wait on discussion for the bill and see if funding guidelines change and determine what to do then.

Madsen mentioned that in the future, if the funding guidelines don’t change, “(he) would support this bill again if it came up.”

After a revote, Senators Alyssa Turcsak of the College of Education, David Pope of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Jordan Wilmes of CHAS were all still in favor of the bill.

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Hemp for change Industrial hemp is not marijuana

Kick the ladder down DAVID POPE poped@uni.edu

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As an activist who proudly displays a “hemp for a green planet” bumper sticker on her Dodge Caravan, I have personally witnessed the uncertainty that surrounds the misunderstood plant.

Numerous times I have received scornful looks from middle-aged ladies in the grocery store parking lot or been flashed the peace sign by teenage drivers who think I’m as loose in the ways of narcotics as they.

It is clear to me that in both of these circumstances people make grandiose assumptions about what hemp is and what kind of person I must be for supporting it.

It’s important, first, to discuss the most notable differences between the two strains of the cannabis sativa plant, marijuana and hemp. While both species are derived from the same genus of plant, they are different varieties entirely.

The most significant difference between the two strains is the level of THC contained within the buds of the plant. THC is short for tetrahydrocannabino. It acts as the psychoactive component of the plant, giving users a “high” when ingested. According to votehemp.com, marijuana contains 5-25 percent THC while hemp (by law) contains less than 0.3 percent THC. Within this one powerful plant there are thousands of uses. By breaking hemp down into its different counterparts, both the seed and stalk can be used to create different products, including paper, textiles, building materials, oil, biofuels, body care products, food products and many others. All parts of the plant can be utilized, leaving nothing to waste.

In his book “Hemp,” Mark Bourrie states that paper made from hemp can be processed without harmful chemicals like chlorine – a chemical required for the processing of wood pulp. And because of how quickly hemp grows, more hemp fiber is generated per year/per acre than forests. I have heard that on any given plot of land, hemp produces

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four times as much fiber for paper production as the same plot of trees would.

When you think about it, it comes down to simple science, really. It takes anywhere from 10 to 100 years for a tree to fully mature meaning that the average tree, let’s say, takes 55 years to reach maturity. Depending on the climate, a hemp field can be harvested more than one time per year yielding a much higher pulp quantity over a shorter period of time.

Perhaps you think deforestation isn’t such a big deal. According to the World Wildlife Fund, paper production accounts for 40 percent of the world’s commercially grown forests. Deforestation not only reduces biodiversity, but it increases the release of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere.

While deforestation may not seem a prominent issue in the United States, we must get our paper pulp from somewhere.

Canada supplies most of it, with more than a third of their forests designated for logging, mining and other development.

Acres are falling fast as our paper demands outweigh the production sustainability of forests. Trees simply can’t grow fast enough to meet consumer need.

Hemp, once legally produced and proudly supported during World War II, was officially made illegal during the seventies. We can thank our hippie predecessors for the insurgence of laws regarding hemp.

A great fear emerged around the use of marijuana. Hippies were “known” for smoking marijuana and conspiring, wasting away their lives by doing drugs and thinking up ways to overthrow the government. Marijuana and its effects were seen as dangerous. Paranoia arose regarding

what hippies were capable of and it became easier to place blame on the drugs.

Unfortunately for hemp, it was classified in the same category as marijuana – a Schedule I narcotic (drugs with a high potential for abuse with no accepted medical use).

While legislation has passed in 19 states allowing the research and study of hemp, Iowa is not among them. Bills have been referred to the Agricultural Committee on several different occasions but all have died in committee (a nice way of saying nobody cared enough to fight for it).

The Industrial Hemp Farming Act has been introduced to the Senate and cosponsored by more than 30 representatives. However, the names of Iowa representatives are still noticeably absent from this list of cosponsors. Without proper support and sponsorship, this bill will die like the other hemp farming bills before it.

Hemp is perhaps the most misunderstood plant of our generation. Hemp harnesses the possibilities to eliminate deforestation and dependence on fossil fuels, and replace cotton as the world’s most prominent natural fiber. It is more important now than ever that we become active in the campaign for hemp.

The word hemp is met with ignorance and misdirection as those who know nothing about it fear the worst and seem moderately unwilling to learn the truth about the plant. As the misinformed masses grow, the benefits of the plant are suppressed – covered by the ignorance of those unwilling to dig a little deeper into the plant’s history and learn something new.

If you would like to learn more about hemp and how to become an activist for the legalization and industrial production of the plant, read “Hemp” by Mark Bourrie and visit www.votehemp.com.

Heather Nicholson is a senior in

English teaching from Cedar Falls, Iowa.

There is a common way we minority advocates seek to further the rights and cause of our community: stressing sameness. We tell and retell narratives of “we’re just like you” to anyone who will listen. We emphasize and re-emphasize our similarities and how we are all just so alike!

Difference becomes something we deny and conceal. Those who can “pass” assimilate and those who cannot are left to their fate: to either be different in exile or fight even harder to conform.

The truth remains, however: We are not all the same.

Many social justice activists have it all wrong. They treat privilege and the mainstream sameness as a ladder to climb, an exclusive club they want to be able to join rather than an oppressive hierarchy they want to challenge. They focus on how their group – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender folks; people of color; women – are actually the same as the privileged class, and whitewash difference away in order to beg for inclusion in the melting pot of indiscriminate gray soup.

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Difference becomes something we deny and conceal. ... The truth remains, however: We are not all the same.

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Some power changes hands, but nothing is challenged. Some power changes hands, but the nature of power doesn’t change at all.

Whoever is currently deemed “the same” still exercises power over whoever is currently different.

Think back to the Irish in the United States during the 1800s, when they were the different, frightening “other” that Americans of German and English descent feared and discriminated against.

Believe it or not, the hatred of the Irish in America was once nearly as vicious as the hatred of African-Americans (www.pitt. edu/~hirtle/uujec/white.html).

Over time, with the Irish fighting to be recognized as part of the sameness and with the construction of whiteness vs. color, they became considered part of the same, mainstream whiteness.

The Irish advanced as a result of sameness, but didn’t challenge racial hierarchy.

People were still privileged or discriminated against based on race. The Irish climbed the latter, when they should have been kicking it down.

Focusing on sameness will never truly improve the world, because it reinforces the conceptions that < See LADDER, page 5

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a) To be the same, conform, and assimilate is good; and b) That we can only value and accept others for their sameness and in spite of their difference.

The same dangers of climbing the ladder are present today and have been causing tension for a long time in various communities.

The battle lines are clearly drawn in my own LGBT community between those who wish to assimilate, to be “normal,” to erase their difference and climb the ladder; and people like me, who wish to embrace our difference, express and emphasize it, and use it to challenge the mainstream.

The queer “sameness” crowd resent me and others like me who are “flamboyant” or who challenge the mainstream in other ways because our gender subversion and challenge of social norms disturbs their senses of sameness and their attempt to be absorbed in the dull grey melting pot.

They are fighting to climb the ladder; I am fighting to kick it down.

I do not argue that a focus on similarities isn’t worthwhile and useful. Shared humanity helps us identify with one another and each other’s struggles.

I do, however, argue that this approach should be only a part of an approach that prominently emphasizes the beauty, worth, value and right to exist of the different.

Because, no matter what we say or may wish were the case, being gay isn’t the same as being straight. Being a person of color isn’t the same as being white. Being a woman isn’t the same as being a man. Being trans*

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... this approach should only be a part of an approach that prominently emphasizes the beauty, worth, value and right to exist of the different.

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isn’t the same as being cisgender.

There is no such thing as being blind to difference.

Rather than attempting to deny and erase our difference, we should be focused intently on it, expressing it openly, and working to convince others of the validity of our difference.

The LGBT community itself has made gains by

opinion showing others that we’re not all that different – this is true.

But in doing so we have not challenged the system that assigns worth to sameness and devalues difference.

That, in our advance, we have actually reinforced.

We have also made many gains by emphasizing our difference.

We take pride not because we have accomplished something in being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender – inherent qualities – but because coming out and acknowledging our difference in this culture of sameness is truly an accomplishment.

We take pride in our rejection of shame about our difference. The coming out of millions of LGBT folks is perhaps the greatest act of emphasizing our difference to de-stigmatize it.

Because we are not the same. And that is valid. That is worthy.

In fact, I think it’s far better this way.

Because whatever gains can be made by whitewashing difference away, something vital is lost along the way.

A different culture. A different perspective. A different possibility for how our world could be is lost when we decide to deny difference and conform.

That is because there is no revolutionary potential in sameness. There is no room

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for debate, disagreement, or a challenge to the status quo.

Our difference has the potential to challenge and transform the mainstream in ways our sameness never could.

I could emphasize my sameness to try to fit into a heterosexual, gender-binary world, or I could use my difference to challenge the devaluation of homosexuality and challenge the gender binary in favor of a gender spectrum.

I challenge other minority

activists too, to take pride in your difference, to express it openly, and de-stigmatize rather than erase it.

It is our difference, not our samenesss, that allows us to challenge the status quo and transform our world. Don’t ever deny your difference.

Emhasize it. De-stigmatize it.

Don’t climb the ladder.

Kick the ladder down.

David Pope is a junior in

political communication from Clear Lake, Iowa.

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FILM REVIEW

Bigelow has given us her masterpiece With ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ director and screenwriter shine a light on modern warfare and the hunt for bin Laden

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PAUL LICHTY Movie Critic

War films are problematic. Most of them are preachy, melodramatic and tedious, not to mention that they all give us the same anti-war message yet they glorify war violence to the point where it looks appealing, not horrific.

The war film genre is one of the most cliche-filled and overdone genres around, but director Kathryn Bigelow has now produced two of the best war films in recent years.

The first was “The Hurt Locker,” 2009’s best picture winner, and now she has made “Zero Dark Thirty,” and it’s one of the most impressive cinematic achievements of the decade.

Bigelow’s film is about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, told through the

perspective of CIA operative Maya (Jessica Chastain).

Beginning in 2003, Maya thinks she has found the key that will lead us to bin Laden: his personal courier, Abu Ahmed.

Maya is the lone wolf on this lead, though. She initially can’t provide any evidence or intelligence that the man is still in contact with bin Laden, or even if he exists or is still alive. It’s all based on gut instinct, but she knows she’s right and that he’s the magic bullet that will lead to bin Laden’s location and eventual capture.

The hunt for bin Laden is Maya’s obsession. She was recruited by the CIA right out of high school and this has been her only mission since joining. It’s her life’s work and her determina-

tion is strengthened when almost everyone around her is doubting her intelligence and ability.

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Last year, Chastain had one of the best breakout years of any actress in recent memory, appearing in supporting roles in four films in which she stole the show in all of her scenes.

In “Zero Dark Thirty,” Bigelow has given her a role that showcases her talent as

a lead actress, and it’s the performance of her career, capturing the passion and desperation of a woman who is always the smartest in the room, a woman who knows she’s always right.

One could easily question her motivation; she seems to have a personal vendetta against bin Laden. But as I said earlier, her determination likely comes from the fact that she knows how to get him, yet very few of her fellow operatives and superiors give her any attention.

Since the events in the film are still fresh in every American’s mind, it requires a lot of care to bring it to the screen in a way that doesn’t seem disrespectful or exploitive.

Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have recre-

ated the major events of the War on Terror with such maturity that they’ve almost created a new genre with the work. It almost plays like a documentary because of how it incorporates the major events of the War on Terror into the storyline.

The film starts off with 9/11, with audio recordings of victims both in the planes and in the buildings while the screen is blacked out (the decision to not accompany the audio with archival 9/11 footage makes the opening scene incredibly haunting) and it ends with a recreation of the raid on bin Laden’s compound, told almost in real time. It takes up 25 minutes of the film, not too much shorter than the length of the actual raid.

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director, the events portrayed in “Zero Dark Thirty” could have been given the typical Hollywood treatment of war, but Bigelow is an artist with a vision. Despite that there will probably be no way of knowing for sure what went on during the bin Laden raid, her recreation of the events is direct and unsentimental, which is the most appropriate way to handle this material.

Any discussion of “Zero Dark Thirty” is incomplete without addressing the controversy that surrounds it.

The film bluntly depicts scenes of torture, including waterboarding – scenes that are difficult to watch.

Many film critics, activists and politicians have criticized the film, claiming that Bigelow and Boal endorse the usage of torture because in the film, Maya first learns about Abu Ahmed through a detainee and torture vic-

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tim, convincing many viewers that torture led to the capture of bin Laden.

One could easily make this connection after seeing the film, but I don’t think Bigelow or her movie are pro-torture. The film doesn’t claim that Abu Ahmed would never have been discovered if it hadn’t been for waterboarding. Bigelow herself said that she is against America’s use of torture, but it was a practice that was used, useful or not, during the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

In my eyes, the inclusion of those scenes is completely necessary. Not doing so would be shamefully rewriting history. In fact, I’m not entirely sure that the film itself has a “stance” on torture, which is something I commend it for. It plays like a true documentary; it merely shows that it happened.

In a genre that is normally chock-full of preachiness, it’s refreshing to see a film depict a controversial topic in a non-

partisan way.

“Zero Dark Thirty” is Bigelow’s unquestioned masterpiece. It’s technically flawless and artistic and it brilliantly mixes the genres of drama, documentary, war and thriller evenly.

For a movie that everyone already knows the ending to, it still makes the heart race witnessing the recreation of the events still fresh in every American’s mind.

Bigelow’s efforts are a testament of how underappreciated and underused women are in American filmmaking, especially in the director’s seat.

In a genre and subject that has traditionally been associated with the male gender, she has defied the odds by not only making the film’s hero a woman (the part could have easily been written for either gender), but by also creating two of the greatest war films in recent memory.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

One step forward, one step back

UNI tops SIU, drops heartbreaker to ISU JAKE BEMIS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Panther women unable to turn up heat on Creighton

RILEY UBBEN

Sports Writer

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The University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team had a chance to pick up their first three-game Missouri Valley Conference winning streak since 2011, but fell short of the feat by less than a second Saturday afternoon in Terre Haute, Ind. After a home win against the Southern Illinois University Salukis, the Panthers suffered a heartbreaking 59-58 loss at the hands of the Indiana State University Sycamores.

The Panthers hosted SIU Wednesday night. Coming off of two home victories in which UNI scored a combined 169 points, defense was the key in the 58-45 victory over SIU. “I thought we did a great job on the defensive end tonight,” UNI senior guard Marc Sonnen said. “That was something we’ve been working on is our defense and guarding people off the dribble. I thought we did a great job at that today.”

The Panthers jumped out to a 19-10 lead in the first half before taking a sixpoint lead into halftime, but blew the game open early in the second half with a 12-0 run to give them a 38-22 lead.

Sonnen led the way for UNI with 15 points, all coming off of 3-pointers. “(Sonnen) has put in a lot of time. We’re talking a minimum of 500 shots a day for a long time in the offseason. He’s in every day right now. That’s why he’s shooting it so well. You can see him playing with confidence.

That’s a result of working hard,” UNI head coach Ben Jacobson said. “(Confidence) is an important aspect for this team because we bounced back and forth for so long.

The guys deserve credit for not letting that part of the season distract them from their preparation,” Jacobson added.

Saturday, the Panthers traveled to Indiana hoping to move into a third-place tie in the MVC. However, ISU used every second on the clock to take down the Panthers for the second time this season.

The Sycamores beat the

The University of Northern Iowa women’s basketball team lost a low-scoring battle to Creighton University on Saturday by a score of 54-40.

The Panthers (8-10, 3-3 MVC) scored a season low in points while shooting just 25 percent from the field.

The Bluejays held on to the lead the entire game as the Panthers never got a scoring run put together.

The Panthers did not score in the opening five minutes of action, and didn’t get on the scoreboard until sophomore Sharnae Lamar hit a two-point jumper to get the Panthers started offensively.

UNI scored more consistently throughout the remainder of the first half as they went into the locker room down 24-21.

UNI freshman Hannah Schonhardt made sure the Panthers didn’t open the second half on another scoring drought as she hit a 3-pointer to bring the score to 27-25 in favor of the Bluejays.

However, Creighton went on a 10-2 run to extend their lead to 37-27 led by senior Ally Jensen. Jensen finished with a game-high 10 rebounds to go along with her six points.

UNI redshirt freshman Jen Keitel made the second to last Panther field goal with just under 10 minutes left in regulation.

The Panthers scored only from the free-throw line until Schonhardt ended the field goal drought with just 33 seconds left.

Schonhardt finished the game with nine points and a team-high nine rebounds.

The Panthers made just five field goals in the second half as they shot just 19 percent.

Senior Jacqui Kalin was not scoring at her usual pace and effectiveness as she shot just 2-for-14 without making any shots from long range.

Kalin finished with nine points, which tied her season low in the scoring department, along with eight rebounds.

CU freshman Marissa Janning scored a game-high 12 points off the bench while junior Sarah Nelson added 11 points and seven rebounds.

The Panthers faced the Drake University Bulldogs Sunday afternoon in Des Moines. For a recap of Sunday’s game, pick up Friday’s issue of the Northern Iowan.

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University of Northern Iowa’s Seth Tuttle, center, fights for a shot at the basket in a game against Southern Illinois University Wednesday, Jan. 23. The Panthers defeated SIU 58-45, but narrowly lost a road game to the Indiana State Sycamores.

Panthers in Cedar Falls 65-61 on Jan. 26.

UNI, which led by four points at halftime, had as much as a seven-point lead in the second half before ISU went on a 9-1 run to take a three-point lead with just under three minutes to play.

Senior guard Anthony James, who scored the final six points for UNI, hit a jump shot with 3.3 seconds left in the game to give the Panthers a 58-57 lead.

After a timeout, ISU inbounded the ball to Jake Odum, who was forced to throw up a desperation

3-pointer.

Odum missed the shot, but was fouled by UNI’s Jake Koch with 0.3 seconds left on the clock.

Odum went on to hit two of his three free throws to give the Sycamores a 59-58 win. Odum finished the game with 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists.

James ended the game with a team-high 15 points, and Koch added 13. The Panthers shot 47 percent from the 3-point line.

With the split, UNI is now 4-5 in MVC play and is still tied for fifth place in the standings.

However, the Panthers are now two games behind the third-place Sycamores, who also hold the head-tohead tiebreaker between the two teams.

UNI returns to action Tuesday night as they complete their Indiana roadtrip with a game against the University of Evansville Purple Aces in Evansville, Ind. The Panthers dropped a 62-59 contest to the Aces on Jan. 9 in Cedar Falls and have not won in the state of Indiana since Jan. 24, 2010.

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A realistic look at the last half of UNI’s MVC slate BRAD EILERS

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The University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team stands at 11-10 overall and 4-5 in Missouri Valley Conference play with nine conference games left on the regular season slate.

The Panthers are currently in a fifth-place tie in the MVC standings, one game behind the University of Evansville for fourth place and two games back of Indiana State University for third place.

However, the Sycamores not only hold a two-game lead on the Panthers, but also the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Also on a down note, the Panthers are tied with two other teams for fifth place and only hold a one game lead over two other teams behind them.

I don’t think UNI can catch Wichita State University or Creighton University, which currently sit atop the standings, and I don’t think Southern Illinois University can catch the Panthers as SIU sits at the bottom of the MVC. That means the Panthers are competing with six other teams (possibly five depending on your stance with Indiana State) to avoid playing on Thursday, March 7, in St. Louis for the “play-in” round of the MVC Tournament.

History suggests the Panthers need to avoid playing on Thursday.

No team has ever played on the opening day of the MVC Tournament and won four games in four days to clinch the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

UNI has four home games and five road games remaining against MVC competition.

To feel safe about avoiding playing on Thursday, the Panthers likely need to finish conference play at 10-8, which means they need to go 6-3 to

end the year.

A record of 9-9 may get the job done. However, Indiana State finished last year 9-9 in MVC play and was forced to play in the opening round of the conference tournament.

The Panthers have Wichita State and Creighton left on the slate; however, both games are at home.

UNI likely needs to split these two games, beat Missouri State University and Illinois State University at home and win at least three of their five road games to get to 6-3.

However, UNI is just 2-8 away from the McLeod Center this season and has yet to beat a MVC opponent with a winning conference record.

On a positive note, UNI has played good basketball the last five games and may be finding their groove.

If not for a questionable call in the last second of Saturday’s game against Indiana State, the Panthers would be 5-4 in MVC play and tied for third place.

UNI’s three losses to Indiana State and Evansville thus far, coming by a combined eight points, is the difference between UNI being 4-5 and 7-2 and in second place in the MVC. Despite a losing record in MVC play, the Panthers are still a good team and a team that can do some damage in the conference tournament.

The Panthers haven’t won in the state of Indiana since Jan. 24, 2010, the year UNI went to the Sweet 16.

If the Panthers want to avoid playing in the opening round of the MVC Tournament this year, a win in Evansville, Ind., on Tuesday night would be a huge step in the right direction.

I predict UNI will go 6-3 down the stretch and finish in fourth place in the MVC, and if the Panthers can avoid playing on Thursday in St. Louis, anything is possible.

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Anthony James (52) soars in for a lay-up in UNI’s Jan. 23 game against the SIU Salukis. The Panthers won 58-45 and have several MVC games to go.

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