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Today is Election Day. If you have not yet voted, here are the polling locations for on-campus students and some apartment complexes: Dancer, Bender, Campbell: University Book and Supply, 1009 W 23rd St. Rider, Shull, Noehren, Hagemann, Lawther: Gilchrist Hall Hillside, ROTH: Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 4000 Hudson Rd. Gold Falls Villa, University Mills, Hillcrest: United Church of Christ, 9204 University Ave. Hidden Valley, University Manor: Hearst Center, 304 Seerley Blvd.

College Square Apartments: Orchard Hill Church, 3900 Orchard Hill Dr.

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Victory at last The Panthers routed the WIU Leathernecks, pulling off a satisfying 40-0 victory. < See PAGE 8

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Bird brains and bike frames

No more Mr. Nice Guy: Columnist Konrardy has some choice words for bike riders who can’t figure out how to rack their ‘cycles. < See PAGE 4 SUSTAINABILITY

No Shave saves water No Shave November is really growing on one student group at UNI. < See PAGE 7

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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan speaks to a crowd of around 1,000 people in the West Gym at the University of Northern Iowa on Nov. 2. According to an article from the Des Moines Register, in his 15-minute speech Ryan criticized President Barack Obama’s leadership skills, stating that “unemployment, poverty and anxiety are offshoots of Obama’s lack of leadership.” Ryan urged Iowans to vote for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Governor Terry Branstad, Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds, congressional candidate Ben Lange and state senate candidate Matt Reisetter also spoke at the event.

VETERANS DAY

UNI Veterans Association hosting ‘Ask a Veteran’ panel NI NEWS SERVICE

The University of Northern Iowa Veterans Association is hosting an “Ask a Veteran” panel to allow individuals to speak with student veterans about their military and post-military experiences.

The panel is on Wednesday, Nov. 7 from 12-1 p.m. in Maucker Union ballroom C. “What else are you going to be doing during lunch? Smoking and

joking? Get a look into the culture … veteran culture … military culture,” said Darin Adams, member of the UNI Veterans Association and a member of the panel. “It’s better than smoking and joking.

You actually learn something.”

Tim Tolliver, an officer in the UNI Veterans Association who organized the event, said that in his experience and from talking with < See PANEL, page 2

VETERANS DAY EVENTS AT UNI

• Meet outside of Maucker Union at 5 p.m. on Nov. 8 to tie yellow ribbons around trees on campus • Flag ceremony in front of the West Gym at 12:45 p.m. on Nov. 9 • Reception for the opening of the new military and veteran student services center at 1:15 p.m. on Nov. 9 in the Innovative Teaching and Technology Center • Individuals can post pictures of veterans and leave special messages on a Wall of Honor in Maucker Union

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which they discussed “the way that gender roles are formed” and what it means to be masculine and feminine. Students wanted a military perspective on this, such as a stereotypical paratrooper view on feminism, Tolliver said.

Tolliver said individuals also ask “goofy” questions, such as if it is “really that hot”

in the Middle East, and questions on more sensitive topics.

Tolliver said getting asked sensitive questions allows veterans to address why they don’t necessarily want to answer those questions.

“This is kind of an arena to ask those things,” Tolliver said. “… We’re open to any questions.”

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UNI’s CEEE partnering Ryan asks Iowans for their support with FFI to bring healthy eating to NE Iowa schools NICK HINZMANN Staff Writer

The University of Northern Iowa’s Center for Energy and Environmental Education, the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative (FFI) and Luther College are working together to promote healthy eating habits in local schools.

By integrating regional seasonal menu cycles, serving homegrown food and educating students on the importance of healthy eating, the program has taken off.

Currently, six schools in Northeast Iowa are part of the partnership. These schools include Decorah, Postville, Turkey Valley, South Winneshiek, Waukon and Cresco. However, more schools will be added to the list.

Jacqueline Bilyeu-Holmes, the food program specialist at the CEEE, is the nutrition outreach coordinator for the program. She serves as a resource throughout Iowa, teaching food service directors and schools how to follow food guidelines, prepare homemade meals and create healthy recipes.

Emily Neal, coordinator of school outreach in the environmental outreach program at Luther College, is responsible for giving the food service employees kitchen training and for teaching high school students how to help with the younger generation.

Tessa Wiemerslage, of the FFI works on menus, plans low-calorie lunches and comes up with new ideas to bring locally homegrown foods to schools. For example, she created a homegrown school lunch week and October farm-to-school lunches.

“It’s an opportunity for farmers to engage in the food system,” Wiemerslage said, “but it’s not as simple as just serving apples.”

The FFI, which is a large part of the partnership program, promotes healthy eating and physical activity for kids in Northeast Iowa. It is one of nine projects across the country working towards promoting a change in kids’ diets and activities.

The first of these changes were made in the now-closed Malcolm Price Laboratory School with the Grassroots Café. Instead of serving canned fruits and vegetables, processed meat and desserts, they took a different approach. For example, instead of having Fruit RollUps or cookies for a dessert, the students were given apples and oranges.

The students were also given chicken with “real bones” in it, which BilyeuHolmes said they had trouble eating.

“We had high school seniors dress up in a chicken outfit and teach the younger kids how to eat it,” she said.

Students at the participating schools are also given tips on how to eat better, such as to eat only until 80 percent full, to eat slowly and put the fork down between bites and to not eat filler foods, such as a bag of Doritos.

“When eating processed food, your body thinks you are full,” Bilyeu-Holmes said.

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Tuition freeze, grievance process and more Hello fellow Panthers, It has been a hectic couple of weeks, as many of you are probably aware. I will try to briefly talk about a couple of the main things just so that you are aware of what I have been working on.

First of all, good job on a stellar showing at Homecoming. The crowd had good energy at both the volleyball game and the football game. Everyone had good, clean fun.

Two main things have been consuming my life, both of which have been extensively covered by the Northern Iowan over the past couple of weeks.

The first was the tuition freeze proposal. There had been talk of a tuition freeze coming out of the Board of Regents since the last meeting in Ames.

I personally met with each of the Regents one-on-one – all of them except Regent Rastetter and Regent Harkin – and shared with them my concerns, which were laid out in the article about the freeze.

I presented the proposal to the senate and we spent two meetings discussing it. After the first meeting, many of the senators did a very good job researching this issue and talking to their constituents about it.

After much deliberation, the senate voted to not support the tuition freeze, which I then presented to the Board of Regents in Iowa City.

The other project I’ve been working on is the grievance process. Blake Findley has written a follow-up on it and there was another article written the week before, so I feel like I don’t need to go into too many details.

Basically, this is a brand new policy that offered little to no precedential guidance on how to go through the process and how to run the meeting.

With the help of Scott Peters, Dan Power and many others, I was able to create a process by which the meeting ran smoothly and a resolution was agreed upon.

Finally, I regretfully have to announce that due to the fact that I have to prepare for the real world post-graduation, I have trimmed my beard… a lot. I will not look the same, but I swear I am the same person.

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Bird brains and bike frames NATE KONRARDY konrardy @uni.edu

Between the number of students voting for Romney and the astoundingly widespread inability to correctly use a bike rack on this campus, I’ve about had it. Forgoing the opportunity to contribute another pointless and poorly constructed political opinion piece, I’m turning the focus towards why our campus bike racks say most of us are wasting our time and money.

Here’s the thing: most people are pretty dumb.

Because of that fact, this isn’t going to be another one of those cutesy columns where I try to prove my point in some roundabout way, because let’s be honest, there is no way you will follow that logic if you can’t figure out how a bike rack works.

Picture for a moment one of the large metal bike racks on campus.

The ones that alternate wide and narrow gaps between the metal bars for the length of the rack, and a

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wide gap on one side corresponds to a narrow gap on the opposite side, and vice versa. You put your bike tire in the wide gap so it comes out the narrow gap on the other side, allowing your fork (the bottom of your handlebars, the thing that holds your front tire) to fit in the wider gap.

If you are having trouble picturing it, pick up this mobile piece of paper and walk your lazy bones out-

side. Or stay seated and Google it; I couldn’t care less.

Apparently there is an epidemic on this campus that inhibits a large number of us from using our idiotic brains to critically think about our environment. You can find evidence of this any time you walk past one of the smorgasbords of stupidity that we still insist on calling bike < See BIKES, page 5

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racks.

The following example is literally why we can’t have anything nice on this campus: a student attempts to lock his bike into the bike rack by sticking the front tire into the two metal bars closest to him, but he runs into a problem.

The fork of his bike is too wide to fit in the narrow gap of the bike rack.

After ramming his bike into the rack four or five times, hoping that it will magically open with force, our friend locks just his front tire into the narrow gap, flips his kickstand, and walks away.

When he returns to find his bike on its side, he blames the bike rack. When he notices some bent spokes, he curses the asshole that stepped on them.

He vows to make everyone’s experience using a bike rack a living hell from that moment on, because retaliation is the best way to solve such a problem.

But never will the thought cross his little self-centered brain box that he could have prevented the chaos and frustration by using his resources, asking a question or by being less ignorant of everything in general.

I use the word “he” for two

reasons: first, because men seem to be much more likely to assume the first potential solution they identify is the correct solution.

So forcing my bike into a gap that is clearly too small makes much more sense than, oh I don’t know, looking at the other bikes on the rack to

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We have a tendency to point fingers and blame everyone else for our shortcomings. We need to stop that.

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see how somebody else managed to avoid coming off as a complete moron.

Second, I say “men” because I have only ever seen guys mess this process up this badly. I’m sure there are women who mess it up too, but with my own eyes, I’ve only ever seen guys do it.

What makes this ironic is that this individual, who is clearly unable to adapt to his surroundings and cannot understand how this object

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(made solely for purpose of holding his bike) works, is locking up his bike to go attend class at a state university.

The sad part is that you are most likely competing against this guy for a grade in one of your classes.

Your credit for the class will count just as much as his, as will your degrees. You will be competing with this idiot for jobs.

The point of a university education is to make learning a lifelong process. The point of a university education is to be able to recognize trends and patterns and identify the most efficient way of doing something by critically examining the way you are currently do things.

The very least you should take from this is the importance of correctly locking your bike to a bike rack. We have a tendency to point fingers and blame everyone else for our shortcomings. We need to stop that.

Take 30 seconds and only act when you have logical reasoning to support that action, or be prepared to take responsibility for your own broken bike. The choice is yours.

Nate Konrardy is a senior in

philosophy and interpersonal communication from Dubuque, Iowa.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR The problem with America today is that some of us have lost our sense of patriotism.

No, I’m not talking about that gun totin’, God fearin’, “‘Murica” sort of patriotism.

Not at all. What I’m talking about is an attitude that we should all strive to achieve, and hold as a point of pride once it’s been attained.

When considering the word “patriot,” images of respected men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other heroes of the Revolutionary War are often conjured. Others may imagine Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. These, too, are patriots.

All of these people achieved great things, doing what was best for their country, regardless of how their actions affected them. That’s what being a patriot means – doing what is best for the country, regardless of its effects on you.

Now, few among us can hope to be a patriot to the same elevation as Jefferson or Parks,

and few can expect to pay the same price for their patriotism as people such as Lincoln or King.

As I said before, the new American patriotism is an attitude. It’s an attitude that recognizes that we are all in this together, and an attitude that realizes that what is good for the country is good for the individual. One who knows the importance of making sure all have opportunities for success.

New patriots carry their share of the weight, and are happy to do it because they know that their effort will afford others the opportunity to rise up. New patriots seek diversity in all its forms in order to understand, learn and grow as people.

They vote. And, to paraphrase John F. Kennedy, they always ask not what their country can do for them, but what can they do for their country.

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OUTDOOR RECREATION

UNI Outdoors offers backpacking experience ETHAN MENG Profiles Writer

Just after 4 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 28, a 15-passenger van pulled into the parking lot of the Wellness and Recreation Center, marking the end of another University of Northern Iowa Outdoors backpacking trip.

For the trip, UNI Outdoors took 11 students and four trip coordinators to Yellow River State Forest in northeast Iowa for a weekend of hiking.

The trip began Saturday, Oct. 27, as the group met in the Outdoor Recreation office, gear in hand at 7 a.m. and ready to make the 100-mile drive to Yellow River State Forest.

Once there, students piled out of the van to collect the gear and then hit the trail.

The group spent much of the next day and a half hiking on various trails throughout the state park. Over the course of the weekend, the group covered roughly 10 miles.

The backpacking trip gave students the opportunity to get away from civilization and enjoy the outdoors while learning things about nature.

The group hiked through the state park from the van to their campsite where students

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The UNI Outdoors group that traveled to Yellow River State Forest on Saturday Oct. 27 stands at the edge of a valley looking over the park for a picture. UNI Outdoors offers several trips each semester that are open to all students regardless of prior backpacking experience.

cooked their own meals over an open fire, set up their own tents and traded out sleeping in a dorm for sleeping under the stars.

Many of the individuals, excluding the trip coordinators, did not know any of the other students on the trip. By the end of the trip, however, everyone could say that they had gained a few new friends.

By playing group games at

night and talking during the hiking breaks, students who participated in the trip were able to relax with new people.

“Honestly, I find the best time to build the relationship is on the trail. Trail time minimizes distraction; movement can become second nature and you can genuinely listen to and process the expressive thoughts of others,” trip coordinator Forest

Hoff said.

During one of the hiking breaks, some students sat along the bank to talk and watch fish swim while others went rock climbing on a giant moss-covered boulder.

Not only did these breaks help students take a load off, but it was also a great time for everyone to hang out and get to know one another.

“I really liked seeing the

small streams and meeting all the people on the trip. I felt that everyone was very respectful towards each other and I think we had a very diverse group of campers,” Madeline Smith, a deciding freshmen, said.

On Saturday afternoon, when the group came across a 20-foot wide creek blocking the trail, many students were asked to step outside their comfort zone. To the disbelief of many in the group, Hoff said that it was time to ditch their socks and shoes and wade through the kneedeep water.

On the way out of Yellow River State Forest on Sunday, the group also stopped at Effigy Mounds National Monument, the site of ancient Native American burial mounds.

The group watched a quick video about the history of the mounds in the visitor center before hiking along the Mississippi River to see them.

This part of the trip allowed the group to learn more about history and Native American culture.

Through trips like the one to Yellow River State Forest, the UNI Outdoors offers students a great way to escape < See UNI OUTDOORS, page 7

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES BOARD

Fear proves to be no factor to the students of UNI KRISTEN TJOSSEM Staff Writer

Joe Rogan was not there and neither were giant buffalo testicles on a platter, but the Campus Activity Board’s first ever Fear Factor provided just as many challenges and vomit as the NBC show.

“Last spring, when we were brainstorming ideas for fall, the idea of doing Fear Factor came up. CAB had never done anything like this, but we thought it could be a really fun and successful event,” said CAB member Julia North.

Held Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the Maucker Union Ballroom, the event consisted of nine teams of four people.

The teams made their way through six different rounds, with an elimination after each until there were only three teams competing in the final event, Puzzle of Terror.

For the final challenge, a

kiddie pool was filled with spaghetti and crickets. As the teams searched for puzzle pieces in the pool, one unlucky team member was required to hold their hand in a container of crickets until the puzzle was solved. Nearly 500 crickets were purchased for the challenge.

The Dickens, consisting of Tamie Drees, Jaide Knight, Nathan Lee and Bob Brown Jr., walked away with the gold medals and gift cards to University Book & Supply, as well as getting to hear the well-known catchphrase, “Evidently, fear is not a factor for you.”

The Zombie Burger was the hardest challenge for The Dickens, and from the number of heads in trashcans, the other teams would probably agree. This challenge had an ingredient list of mashed banana, guacamole, onion, jalapeño pepper and chocolate syrup.

“I had to choke down two,” said Brown Jr. “We knew that the combination would be gross, but we didn’t realize that the teams would hardly be able to stomach it! The ‘burger’ definitely pushed their eating limits,” said North.

Run by University of Northern Iowa students, CAB works to create events throughout the year to meet the needs and interests of a variety of students.

“CAB wants to put together events that students will find interest in and enjoy. It was really fun seeing the teams get so into the activities. Even through the chaos, they really seemed to be having a good time,” said North.

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No Shave saves water BRIAN FREESE Staff Writer

The University of Northern Iowa campus is about to get a lot hairier. UNI’s Student Nature Society is using the already established month of No Shave November to create awareness about water conservation.

Susan Graves, a junior biology major, said, “Riley Freilinger, also a member of the Student Nature Society, came up with the idea. A lot of people are already doing No Shave November, so we thought we’d connect it with water conservation.”

No Shave November grew out of the Moustache November, or “Movember,” movement. According to us.movember.com, the official site for the Movember charity event, the movement began in Melbourne, Australia. Its purpose is to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer, as well as to promote general awareness of men’s health issues.

Brent Schneider, a senior human resources major, said No Shave November is “kind of like breast cancer awareness but for males. It is fun because I have a legitimate excuse to not shave and to look like a lumberjack.”

To promote water conservation, the Student Nature Society set up a booth outside the UNI Botanical Center, where stu-

dents could sign up for the pledge drive. Students paid $1 to register, and in exchange they received a mustache bracelet and had their “before” picture taken. “After” photos will also be taken at the end of the month.

While the number of participants thus far is not quite as high as Graves would like, she is hopeful for the future.

“This idea was brought up maybe two weeks ago, so we couldn’t get tables in the Union in time. We’re going to try to get a table in the Union all throughout November to collect donations for water conservation,” said Graves.

If students missed the pledge drive sign-up at the Botanical Center, they can sign up at the table that will be in the Union.

Students unable to grow beards are still able to participate in the pledge drive.

“A lot of people are unable to grow out a beard because they are business or education majors, and also people in the military are unable to grow out facial hair, but people have still been really willing to pledge,” Graves said. “Shaving uses up a lot of water. This isn’t just for guys; it’s also for girls. Just be a little more conscious of the water you’re using to shave.”

More information can be found at http://unisustainability.blogspot.com, the UNI Office of Sustainability’s blog.

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campus and enjoy the outdoors.

UNI Outdoors offers multiple trips each semester, ranging from small, two-day trips to two-week expeditions hosted over holiday breaks.

The next trip available is a three-day backpacking journey to Superior Hiking Trail, located just north of Duluth, Minn. This trip will take place over the three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend in January.

“We want everyone to have fun. College can amp stress levels to 11, and we want people to unload that stress and feel confident in themselves,” Hoff said. “If students can learn a thing or two about the environment too, and how to engage safely with risk, that’s a bonus.”

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UNI sophomore David Johnson (7), pictured here against SDSU, rushed for 149 yards and one touchdown against WIU Saturday.

Panthers shut out WIU Leathernecks in 40-0 rout RILEY UBBEN Sports Writer

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UNI senior Megan Lehman (8) had 14 kills against Creighton on Saturday night in a losing effort. The Panthers dropped a heartbreaking five-set contest to the Bluejays.

MAT MEYER Sports Writer

The University of Northern Iowa volleyball team competed in two matches over the weekend at home in the McLeod Center. They were able to sweep Drake University in their first match on Friday but suffered a heartbreaking five-set loss to Creighton University, which is currently atop the Missouri Valley Conference standings.

Macy Ubben led the Panthers (21-8, 12-3 MVC) with 12 kills against the Drake Bulldogs (4-21, 3-11 MVC). Setter Molly Turk kept the offensive moving with 39 assists in the match.

Both teams came out sluggish in the first set, with neither team being able to gain an edge over the other. UNI eventually took an 11-8 lead and was able to take it from there, winning 25-20.

The hitters – Megan Lehman, Krista DeGeest and Shelby Kintzel – came alive for

UNI in the second set. The Panthers were able to get some momentum early and carried it to a 25-17 victory.

UNI won the third set 25-17, completing the sweep and sealing the victory.

“I thought we came out strong and finished strong,” said Ubben. “It felt good to play tonight and get the win.”

DeGeest led the Panthers with a seasonhigh 19 kills in the Creighton match. She was followed up by Lehman’s 14. Turk was able to record 49 assists and 10 digs, as all of the UNI players stepped it up on the defensive end.

Creighton (22-3, 13-1 MVC) and UNI came into the match number one and two in the conference, making this match important in terms of determining the conference standings at the end of the conference season.

Creighton set the tone with an early 9-5 run and would go on to win the first set with < See VOLLEYBALL, page 9

OPINION

My preseason UNI men’s basketball awards JAKE BEMIS Sports Columnist

With college basketball officially starting this week, it’s a good time to preview the University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team.

Who will be the team’s Most Valuable Player? Who will be the next great freshman?

These questions are answered in my UNI preseason basketball awards.

Freshman of the Year: This one is obviously going to Matt Bohannon. The brother of former University of Wisconsin Badger stand-

out Jason Bohannon, Matt Bohannon is a former all-state guard who redshirted last season. He was the only freshman to start in a preseason game this year for the Panthers, and looks to stay in that role for at least the first three games of the regular season due to Anthony James’s suspension.

Bohannon can create a lot of his own shots, and just like his brother, he can shoot from any spot on the floor with lethal accuracy.

Most Improved Player: I have to give this to Deon Mitchell. Mitchell played great as a freshman last sea-

son, yet he only averaged seven points per game. Look for that number to skyrocket this year. Mitchell could easily be the quickest player on the court, and with a year of experience under his belt, he will take more control of the offense this season. He may not improve much upon his 37 percent from the threepoint line last season, but look for him to put up about 275 shots this season, an upgrade from his 198 shot attempts last year.

MVP: I’ve been saying this < See AWARDS, page 9

The University of Northern Iowa football team downed the Western Illinois University Leathernecks 40-0 on Saturday in Macomb, Ill. The Panthers were nearly flawless on both sides of the ball as they racked up 413 yards of offense while allowing just 172 yards on defense.

The rushing attack for the Panthers was as effective as it has been in Missouri Valley Football Conference play this season, as UNI finished with 303 yards on the ground.

The Panthers (3-6, 2-4 MVFC) got on the scoreboard first after a safety due to the Leathernecks’ miscue on a WIU punt attempt. The ball was snapped out of the back of the endzone, giving the Panthers a quick twopoint lead.

UNI would score a minute later on a touchdown pass from redshirt freshman Sawyer Kollmorgen to sophomore receiver Chad Owens.

The Panthers never looked back from there. Kollmorgen threw two more touchdown passes before being taken out at the end of the third quarter.

Garrett Scott and the defense got in on the scoring action with just over three minutes left in the first half.

Scott intercepted a WIU pass attempt and returned it 20 yards for a touchdown, giving the Panthers a 30-0 lead at halftime.

With six minutes left in the fourth quarter, sophomore running back David Johnson took a handoff 40 yards for the Panthers’ final touchdown of the day.

Johnson finished with 149 yards rushing on just 16 attempts. He averaged nine yards per carry during his fourth consecutive 100-plusyard rushing game.

“David should be able to rush for 100 yards every

game,” UNI head coach Mark Farley said. “If he is rushing for 100 yards a game, we should win about 80 percent of those games.”

WIU looked to end the UNI shutout late in the game, but an interception by senior cornerback Varmah Sonie ended the Leathernecks’ scoring threat and preserved the shutout.

The UNI defense held WIU to just 71 yards on

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I thought the defensive line played their best game as a group.

I thought our coverage was good for the most part.

Overall, I was pleased.

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the ground and 101 yards through the air.

“I thought the defensive line played their best game as a group. I thought our coverage was good for the most part. Overall, I was pleased,” said Farley.

Kollmorgen threw for 94 yards and added 50 yards on the ground. Senior running back Carlos Anderson finished with 56 yards rushing. Senior receiver Terrell Sinkfield caught three passes for 15 yards and a touchdown in his first game back from a team-issued suspension.

The Panthers travel to Vermillion, S.D., to take on the University of South Dakota Coyotes at 12 p.m. next Saturday.

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UNI senior Krista DeGeest (18) recorded 29 kills and 11 digs against Drake and Creighton this weekend. The Panthers swept the Bulldogs, but lost to the Bluejays 3-2.

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Deon Mitchell (1) averaged 7 points and 1.6 assists per game last season as a freshman for the Panthers.

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all offseason, and I’m sticking to it. The Panthers will go as far as Jake Koch will carry them. As a senior, Koch will look to play the role his brother Adam Koch played for the Panthers in 2009-10 when he was the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year.

Koch is a versatile big man who can shoot from outside as well as play the post. He won’t be taking as many 3s this year, but that will only help the team on offense. At times Koch

dominates with his 6-foot-9inch frame and should take more advantage of height mismatches this season. If he plays up to his potential, there’s a good chance UNI will be winning the Missouri Valley Conference.

Although the Panthers were picked to finish third in the MVC, the Panthers hope to have another one of those “special” teams that we will remember for years to come.

With four returning starters and some great young players, this team has the perfect combination of youth and senior leadership to make another run to the Sweet 16.

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ease by a score of 25-18.

The Panthers have struggled in the second set throughout the year. However, UNI was able to put up a tough fight Saturday night.

UNI and Creighton battled back and forth from start to finish, but the Bluejays came away with a 25-23 victory. After two sets, Creighton held a 2-0 lead.

“They are very strong both offensively and defensively, and being patient and aggressive is really important,” UNI head coach Bobbi Petersen said of Creighton’s strong play.

The Panthers came out more aggressive in the third set and used a 9-0 run to take a commanding 20-8 lead. UNI won the set 25-11.

UNI kept the momentum rolling in the fourth set as they were able to get an early lead

on the Bluejays and held them off from there.

With a little help from the hitters around the net, the Panthers were able to win the set 25-17 and tie the match at 2-2. “(Creighton is) a team that, in my mind, matches up well against us in terms of being a team that can really frustrate us if we allow them to,” Petersen said.

It was do or die time for both teams as the match went into the fifth and final set. The Panthers held strong early on, but the Bluejays eventually built up an 8-5 lead.

From there, Creighton continued to gain a bigger lead and UNI wasn’t able to catch up, falling 15-8 in the final set.

Despite the loss to Creighton, UNI is still in second place in the MVC. The Panthers will travel to Carbondale, Ill., Friday to take on the Southern Illinois University Salukis.

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15 Irish name for Ireland 16 Christina of “Speed Racer” 17 Dough dispensers 18 Real attitude underlying a facade 20 Letter to Santa, essentially 22 Pennsylvania in Washington, for one 23 Summer in Lyon 24 Sent a quick note online 25 The Hulk’s alter ego 30 Barnyard brayer 33 Woman in Poe’s “The Raven” 34 J. Paul Getty or J.R. Ewing 36 Dubai bigwig 37 “... to __ it mildly”

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