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Rialto awarded for going Blue JONATHAN HAUSLER

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WRESTLING

UNI places 3rd in MVC Championships, sends 4 wrestlers to NCAA Championships

Two Panther wrestlers, Joey Lazor and David Bonin, placed first in their classes in the conference duals. < See PAGE 6

OPINION

Free yourself from the Internet echo chamber Columnist Trotter encourages readers to unplug from the endless world of social media and online interaction for some fresh air and face time. < See PAGE 3

The Rialto dining center at the University of Northern Iowa is now recognized as a Cedar Falls Blue Zones Project restaurant.

According to The Blue Zones Project’s website, Blue Zones “is a community wellbeing improvement initiative designed to make healthy choices easier through permanent changes to environment, policy and social networks.”

So far, only five other restaurants in Cedar Falls have been given this Blue Zones certification.

Rosanne Lang, Rialto manager, said the Rialto made several changes to its everyday operations in order to reach the Blue Zones level. There are certain operations Rialto already had in place concerning the offering of healthy choices, and there are others that will be implemented shortly.

“Since Cedar Falls and

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University of Northern Iowa students and staff watch television as they eat a meal from the Blue Zone ceritfied Rialto dining center. The Blue Zones Project is based off of Blue Zones, founded by Dan Buettner.

UNI are Blue Zones Projects, the Department of Residence felt it was important to support these initiatives,” Lang

said.

Currently, the Rialto’s menus and all nutritional information are posted online.

Additionally, healthy sides such as carrots are available < See BLUE ZONES, page 2

WINTER

Cold weather persists in Cedar Falls Spring will bring warmer-than average-temperatures

HISTORY

‘White Rose’ on display at Grout Museum UNI students and community members can examine the history of German students who protested the Nazi regime through nonviolent means. < See PAGE 4 PHILANTHROPY

Wishmakers plan 3-on3 basketball tourney

The event will benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. < See PAGE 4

ONLINE CAMPUS LIFE Read about genocide exhibits, Women’s History Month and more. < visit northern-iowan.org

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Some of the all-time snowiest Waterloo winters from the past 10 years

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University of Northern Iowa students staying in the Cedar Valley over spring break have another week of cold, wet weather to look forward to, said Alan Czarnetzki, professor of meteorology.

According to the National Weather Forecast, Cedar Falls will face mostly cloudy weather for the first part of spring break, with temperatures reaching up to 37 degrees on Wednesday.

However, the 2012-2013 winter may feel unusually long to the UNI community since there was not a lot of snowfall last year, Czarnetzki said.

“Last March we had record warmth across (Iowa) and so I think that’s still kind of fresh in people’s memory, so the fact that we’re dealing with the wind chills on the 13 of March is kind of tough,” Czarnetzki said.

In comparison to previous winters, Czarnetzki also said

#1: 51.3 inches in 2010

#3: 46.3 inches in 2011

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The University of Northern Iowa campus is blanketed in snow from the cold winter season.

it was not the coldest, nor the warmest.

“The good thing about the recent snow we’ve had is that it’s likely to help with soil moisture as we move into planting season here,” Czarnetzki said. “So I think it should help some with the drought that we’ve seen

across the state.”

Sierra Ackman, freshman criminology major, said she doesn’t mind the current weather.

“Other than the fact that I have to walk to class, I really like it, because I like the snow < See WINTER, page 2

#7: 39.6 inches

in 2009

#11: 37.1 inches in 2013

Data provided by Alan Czarnetzki

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and I like that’s it not sunny every single day,” Ackman said.

Different things may affect the amount of snow accumulation the Cedar Valley receives, including wind flow patters from the Rockies in the Colorado or Alberta, Canda

region and the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.

When all of these play into each other, they bring snow into the Midwest, Czarnetzki said.

However, for the spring time, Czarnetzki said people should expect warmer than normal temperatures and that Eastern Iowa will have a wet spring.

Until then, however, UNI students will have to brave the cold and murky weather.

“I am not the biggest fan of (the snow),” said Jess Peterson, freshman marketing major. “It makes it hard to go home if I ever wanted to go home and it’s really cold walking to class.”

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as substitutes for French fries or other, less healthy options.

Under the Blue Zones criteria, every meal must incorporate a minimum of three healthy dishes, which may include fresh fruit or dessert options that have fewer than 200 calories. Half portions and bite-sized samples are

also now available.

The Rialto recently put in Flavor Stations complete with all kinds of sauces and condiments, as well as salt shakers, which will no longer be on every table to help reduce the intake of sodium.

“Hopefully (the) Blue Zones promotion will contribute positively to increasing healthy choices by the guests,” Lang said.

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Free yourself from the Internet echo chamber GARRETT TROTTER trotterg@ uni.edu

It’s 2013. The Internet is a daily presence in our lives. Many of us use it for the main purpose of finding and maintaining social connections, as well as receiving news, researching and finding tools to use both online and offline.

We are putting ourselves out there for the world to view.

If you set your Facebook privacy settings correctly, only your friends might ever view your online posts and musings. Otherwise, the world is your audience.

Back in 2009, the Nielsen Company measured monthly Internet usage to be an average of 68 hours in the United States. It most certainly has gone up since then.

Just think of it. The prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and free Wi-Fi has us constantly connected.

While many may think of the “cyborg” as a person with large biomechanical implants that looks like something out of a science fiction movie, if you notice it, our hands are constantly on keyboards, touchscreens, and computer mice.

Despite conscious awareness of this, we are quickly becoming cyborgs.

We become cyborgs to augment ourselves. Messages, pictures, and videos fly from the devices in our hands faster than many previous generations

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could even conceive.

Our thoughts, feelings, digital photographic visions, and feelings are shared nearly instantaneously with the world.

The reason we do this is attention.

We crave it, we want it, but more importantly, we want to interact and feel important.

Examine yourself, reader, and ask yourself whether the amount of Facebook likes/comments or the amount of Twitter retweets/favorites has a serious impact on how you feel about yourself on a daily basis.

If you don’t get a big response, do you feel less important or less worthwhile? If you experience this, you’re part of the Internet echo chamber.

This Internet echo chamber is where you put yourself out there

(metaphorically scream into the chamber) and hope it echoes back compliments and support.

This isn’t a bad thing all around.

We should support those who are our friends and those who need our support, but it’s not good to become dependent on it for self-esteem or happiness. It is, after all, self-esteem.

Our reliance on the Internet, and the people it connects us to, for support can have negative consequences.

One such consequence is cyber-bullying.

This is an example where the Internet echo chamber turns the opposite of what we want it to be.

Instead of love, support, and friendship, it turns into hate, oppression and scorn.

This will happen to everyone who

has a significant social presence online at some point, whether it becomes as bad as full-on cyber-bullying or is simply minor disgruntled behavior.

To prevent or mitigate this there is a very simple and obvious solution: don’t just live in the digital world.

It’s important, vibrant and extremely dynamic, but one can’t live one’s entire life connected to the keys and screens.

Sometimes it’s good to get one’s tush off the chair and go outside, even if it’s chilly, for a minute or five of fresh air and a good look around.

It’s extremely important that every 2013 “cyborg” human disconnect from the Matrix every once in a while.

The imperative of not making anybody beholden to the Internet echo chamber is very crucial. Lives must be livable outside of technology.

This isn’t a neo-Luddite call for removal of us from technology altogether. This is the call to those online who are subject to the echo chamber of the Internet to also be able to live, be happy, and be healthy off the screen.

So maybe right now that text message doesn’t matter so much, the Facebook status isn’t so time-sensitive, or that tweet isn’t your master.

Free yourselves from the Internet, at least for a little while every so often while you’re rushing to class, and take the time to maybe watch the campus squirrels for a few seconds. They’re adorable this time of year.

Garrett Trotter is a freshman in physics from Ankeny, Iowa.

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Short-term thinking will get short-term results Congress’s approval rating has sunk below the approval ratings of “Genghis Khan, cockroaches and rock band Nickelback,” according to the Huffington Post.

Meanwhile, President Obama’s approval rating of 50 percent is “lower than that of most other modern second-term presidents at this point in their terms,” the Washington Post says.

As a Nickelback fan, I’m thrilled. But as an American and a voter, I’m concerned.

What is driving this discontent? Didn’t we choose who was elected? Are our elected officials forgetting their campaign promises once in office? Or are we getting what we asked for?

The root of the problem is not politicians, but rather our political system. Voters reward individuals who promise short-term benefits and punish long-term thinkers.

As a result, American voters are getting exactly what they ask for: short-term promises and short-term results.

BETH MONNIER

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We’ve all heard politicians promise to “cut taxes” and “increase benefits,” but rarely (if ever) has a candidate promised to increase taxes and decrease benefits.

Obviously, the latter tactic would be political suicide.

Would you vote for the person who promised to reduce your employment opportunities after graduation? Probably not.

The age group that votes in droves and receives the majority of the entitlement spending from the government — those above the age of 65 — are certainly not going to vote to cut their benefits (USNews).

What does this short term thinking mean? We, the younger generation, will suffer. Decades of voting for short-term benefits at no

additional expense have led to ballooning government debt.

If nothing changes, government debt will rise to 80 percent of GDP by 2014 and might push the US over the precipice of the “fiscal cliff ” (The Economist).

While the United States can afford to carry some debt, we will eventually reach our

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Voters reward individuals who promise short-term benefits and punish long-term thinkers.

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debt-carrying capacity. And, if Greece’s economic problems are any indication of what will happen, going over the fiscal cliff will mean serious damage to the U.S. economy.

Unemployment rates will skyrocket, earnings will fall and investment spending will be nonexistent. And, unlike Greece, the United States’ economy is too large for the European Union to save.

But we, the current generation of college students, can stop voting for short-term promises and can start voting for our futures. While the older generation can afford to only think about the next 20 years, we cannot.

Vote for the politicians that promise long-term growth, not short-term benefits.

While this will hurt more in the short run, our futures and the futures of those younger than us will be improved.

If we continue to try to push the problem forward, the problem will only get bigger and fall closer to our toes. I refuse to make the mess we’ve inherited someone else’s problem. You should too.

Beth Monnier is a junior in

economics and English from Tripoli, Iowa.

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PHILANTHROPY

Wishmakers plan 3-on-3 White Rose exhibit on basketball tournament display at Grout Museum ELIZABETH LYNCH Staff Writer

KIRSTEN TJOSSEM Staff Writer

For three years, the University of Northern Iowa Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education and the Grout Museum District have teamed up to present traveling exhibits focused on the Holocaust and other genocides.

UNI professor and director of the CHGE, Stephen Gaies, presented the idea of collaborating with the museum district because he felt that the Grout Museum of History and Science and the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum, which are both part of the district, were a perfect fit.

“We didn’t even question it,” said Robin Ventor, curator of exhibits at the Grout Museum. “So much of what he does really goes with what we do.”

The current exhibit, titled White Rose, centers on the most famous nonviolent student resistance movement during the Nazi era. A small group of German university students and their professor formed the resistance, and several of the core members served long prison sentences or were executed.

“The fate of the White Rose gives us pause whenever we think, ‘Why didn’t people speak out against the Nazi regime?’” said Gaies. “Only when we understand how

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The Grout Museum, located at 503 South St. in Waterloo, is hosting the White Rose exhibit. The exhibit tells the story of German university students who protested the Nazi movement in a nonviolent manner.

dangerous it was to act on the basis of conscience against a regime whose control had infiltrated every segment of society and personal life, only when we know how risky it was to challenge the regime, can we understand why so many people remained silent or pretended not to know.”

This desire to fight for what was right while knowing the potential outcome is one reason Ventor believes UNI students should check out the exhibit.

“The interesting thing about the White Rose is that these were people their (college) age. It’s a very intriguing story. I think it’s good for them to see a young person’s point of view and doing what they believed in, even though they knew what the consequences were if they got

caught,” said Ventor.

The exhibit will be available until May 11 and the museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 with a student ID. One or two films on the White Rose will also be shown on campus in late March or early April.

“The story of the White Rose tells us a lot about Nazi Germany, but it also reminds us of the extraordinary freedoms that we enjoy in the United States. I think that the White Rose also reminds us of the tremendous dangers that people in other societies – in previous times and in today’s world – face in fighting for their beliefs and speaking out,” said Gaies.

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University of Northern Iowa students and community members will have an opportunity to shoot hoops and help grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Swishes for Wishes is the upcoming event for the student organization Northern Iowa Wishmakers. It is a three-on-three basketball tournament starting at noon April 20 in the upper gyms of the Wellness and Recreation Center.

Teams of four people, including an alternate, may register to compete in the Swishes for Wishes tournament. The cost is $60 per team if registered before March 26 or $80 per team for later registration. Teams can register prior to the day of the event online at http:// uniswishesforwishes.eventbrite.com or on the day of the event beginning at 11 a.m.

The event is open to the public and has been promoted in local elementary, middle and high schools, as well as throughout the community.

There will be age brackets to make the playing field more fair. Food and beverages will be provided at the event and each team member will receive a free t-shirt.

Swishes for Wishes raised nearly $7,000 last year and all of this year’s proceeds will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa, which grants wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions.

Norther n I ow a Wishmakers was the first oncampus student organization in Iowa dedicated to raising funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa. Iowa State University has shown an interest in following in the footsteps of UNI by beginning to organize events similar to Flippin’ for Wishes, according to Erica Canfield, NIW president.

Canfield also said the organization is in its third year at UNI. The number of members has doubled since its first year and NIW continues to grow.

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Swishes-for-Wishes is not the only event NIW has organized in order to raise money for granting the wish of an ailing child.

Throughout the 2012-13 school year, NIW has put on three different events and has thus far raised more than $10,000 through Fall into Wishes, Wishing for Change and Flippin’ for Wishes.

Sawyer Kilen, NIW’s coexecutive of advertising, said that during the Fall into Wishes event this past fall, volunteers raked leaves for local residents and raised about $300 in donations.

Wishing for Change in November put three wishing wells around campus, where students could toss in money and “wish away the pain that children are dealing with,” Canfield said. The event was intended to promote the organization and it raised more than $150.

For the latest event, Flippin’ for Wishes in early December at the HuHot Mongolian Grill in Cedar Falls, the public was invited to a pancake breakfast.

The event raised more than $2,400.

“We already surpassed our goal,” Canfield said about the total amount of money raised so far this year. “We are expecting at least $15,000 as an end goal for this year.”

Canfield, as a first-year president, wanted to make a few changes in the organization.

“This year we want more of a hands-on wish,” Canfield said.

While details on the child’s wish to be granted have not yet been released, NIW has planned an April 29 event to meet with the family.

The event, which is open to the public, will take place on top of Maucker Union and will include a “wishes balloon” release. The family will discuss their wish and how the Make-A-Wish Foundation has affected their lives.

Anyone interested in getting involved with NIW may attend meetings at 9 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Elm Room of Maucker Union. For more information, contact Canfield at canfiele@uni.edu.

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UNI places 3rd in MAC Championships, send 4 wrestlers to NCAA Championships NICK GARY

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The University of Northern Iowa wrestling team placed third in their first appearance at the Mid-American Conference championships and will send at least four wrestlers to the NCAA Championships March 21-23 in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Panthers scored 83 points and had two wrestlers, Joey Lazor and David Bonin, take first place in their respective weight classes. The University of Missouri and Central Michigan University placed first and second, respectively.

Lazor, who is currently ranked No. 13 nationally at 141 pounds, wrestled Kagan Squire from the University of Ohio in the first round of the tournament and defeated Squire in a major decision, 13-4. In the semifinals, Lazor competed against Nicholas Huck of Missouri and posted a 5-2 decision to advance to the finals. In the championship match against Kevin Fanta of Northern Illinois University, Lazor won by a narrow margin of 1-0.

The match was later reviewed at the request of Northern Illinois official, but Lazor was still awarded the vic-

tory.

In the 157-pound weight class, Bonin dominated the first two matches of the MAC Tournament. In the first round, Bonin defeated Wally Maziarz from the University of Buffalo in a major decision, 12-2. Bonin moved on to the semifinals, where he defeated No. 29-ranked Aaron Sulzer of Eastern Michigan University in a 7-2 decision. In the championship round, Bonin took on No. 15-ranked Kyle Bradley of Missouri. They wrestled twice during the regular season and split both matches. Bonin used a reversal and riding time to win the match in a 5-2 decision.

The other two Panthers to qualify to the NCAA Championships were Levi Wolfensperger (133) and Ryan Loder (184), with runner-up finishes in the MAC Tournament.

Wolfensperger dominated in his first two matches. In the first round, Wolfensperger won in a major decision over Vincent Pizzuto of Eastern Michigan, 17-3. In the semifinals, Wolfensperger recorded the second of two pins for the Panthers on the day. In 4:49 he recorded a pin over No. 8-ranked Scotti Sentes of Central Michigan. The champi-

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The UNI wrestling team will have at least four wrestlers in the upcoming NCAA Championships in Des Moines March 21-23. UNI could also receive some at-large bids as well due to individual rankings.

onship match proved to be tougher for Wolfensperger as he fell 8-0 to No. 5-ranked Nathan McCormick of Missouri.

Loder recorded the first of two pins for the Panthers in his firstround matchup against Anthony Lock of Buffalo. In the semifinals, Loder defeated Mike Larson of Missouri 6-1 before dropping a competitive final match to No. 2-ranked Ben Bennett by a score of 5-3.

OPINION

The best is yet to come…

BRAD EILERS

Sports Editor

I have accepted a job at another university, so this will be my final issue as sports editor of the Northern Iowan, which also means this will be my final opinion column. In my six years at the University of Northern Iowa as an undergraduate and graduate student, I have experienced some great moments in Panther athletics, many of them in large part due to this job.

I sat courtside as UNI upset the No. 1-ranked Kansas University Jayhawks in the 2010 NCAA Tournament to advance to their first ever Sweet 16; I saw UNI work their way to the No. 1 ranking in the Football Championship Subdivision during my freshman year; I covered the women’s basketball team during their first ever trip to the NCAA Tournament; I also covered numerous games during UNI’s 65-match winning streak against Missouri Valley Conference foes in volleyball.

These are just a few of the great moments I experienced as a UNI student.

However, things haven’t always been this way.

Just 30 years ago the Panthers were a footnote, not only nationally, but in the state of Iowa as well. UNI had yet to join the Missouri Valley Football Conference, was in just their third year of Division-I wrestling, first year of Division-I track and field and had never made an NCAA Tournament appearance in volleyball or men’s and women’s basketball.

In that time, UNI has won 16 MVFC titles and has appeared in the FCS National Championship game, has finished ranked as

high as No. 10 in wrestling, has won 22 men’s and women’s Missouri Valley Conference indoor and outdoor track and field championships, has appeared in 18 NCAA volleyball tournaments including three Sweet 16 appearances, has made six NCAA men’s basketball tournaments with one Sweet 16 appearance and has made two NCAA women’s basketball tournament appearances. It’s amazing how far UNI has come in just three decades.

I remember going to my first UNI men’s basketball game in the UNI-Dome as an eighth-grader. The Panthers lost handily to the Missouri State University Bears that day and the game wasn’t all that competitive. Had you told me then that UNI would be in the NCAA Tournament the next year, would have their own basketball arena within three years and would be in the Sweet 16 just seven years later, I would have thought you were crazy.

How much things have changed.

I credit the purple and gold blood that now runs in my veins to UNI head men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson. After learning that I had been accepted to UNI during my senior year of high school, I began to pay more attention to UNI athletics, men’s basketball in particular. Jacobson was in his first year as head coach and I instantly fell in love with his style of play, forcing teams out of their comfort zone by playing hard-nosed man-to-man defense and methodically running set play after set play on offense. UNI wasn’t always going to be the most athletic or talented team on the court, but they had more heart and were willing to work harder than their opponents. This < See BEST, page 7

Ryan Jauch wrestled at 125 pounds and placed fifth, just one place out of contention to qualify for the NCAA championships. The other UNI medalists were Bart Reiter (sixth place at 149 pounds), Jarrett Jensen (fifth place at 165 pounds) and Blayne Beale (fifth place at 285 pounds).

The Panthers still hope to earn an at-large NCAA bid or two based on individual rankings and the Ranking Percentage Index.

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March Madness means spending spring break in front of the TV JAKE BEMIS I’m chalking this day up to

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Spring break couldn’t have come at a more perfect time this year.

Starting Friday (for most University of Northern Iowa students), we get to do nothing but relax for an entire week. So what will you be doing with your time?

Most people go on vacation, others go home, and then there’s people like me – the sports freaks who worship the next two weeks.

Most college basketball conference tournaments have either been completed by now or are currently underway. By the time we get into Saturday and Sunday, I may have already logged a solid 18-20 hours of college basketball viewing -- and we’re not even to the best part of spring break.

Sunday evening, March 17, means it’s time for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection show, better known as “Selection Sunday.” For college hoops fans like myself, this should be a national holiday, and

the reason for a break off from school. Sixty-eight teams enter, one team leaves a champion and it all starts this Sunday.

This is also the day other tournaments, such as the National Invitational Tournament, announce their fields for postseason play.

For schools like UNI that are not entering the NCAA Tournament, this is their chance to know where they will be playing over the next few weeks.

Fast-forward a few days and we have our play-in games. Boring? You bet. But it’s tournament time, so basketball fans will watch two teams they’ve never heard of battle one another for the chance to get destroyed by a No. 1 seeds anyway.

Thank goodness UNI gives us an entire week off, because Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are when the real action begins. In just four days, the tournament gets trimmed from 68 teams to just 16 teams. During this < See SPRING BREAK, page 7

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same thing can be said about nearly every UNI athletics team.

I wanted to get involved when I first came to campus, so I figured I would be a volunteer student basketball manager.

Throughout my freshman year I learned more about the game of basketball and got to know the players and coaches on a personal level, and let me just say that Jacobson is as classy off the court as he is on it. UNI definitely made the right choice with Coach Jacobson.

However, during my sophomore year, UNI stumbled out of the gates at 6-6 to start the season and some Panther fans were calling for a coaching change. But I kept my faith in Jacobson and still believed that he was the right guy for the job.

The Panthers won 11 straight games and 17 of their next 21 after the 6-6 start to clinch their first MVC regular season title and their first NCAA Tournament bid in three years.

The next season, UNI dominated their schedule from start to finish en route to a 30-5 record, their first ever outright MVC regular season title, their third MVC Tournament title, sixth NCAA Tournament appearance and first ever Sweet 16 appearance. Since 2010, the

Panthers have managed to win at least 18 games in every season, and they look poised to make their third straight postseason tournament in that timespan.

While some have been disappointed by the past three men’s basketball seasons, it just goes to show how much UNI has grown in such a short amount of time. I can’t wait to see where UNI athletics are in the future. I strongly believe the best is yet to come.

I have great faith in Jacobson and the men’s basketball team, as well as the rest of the UNI coaches and athletic teams to continue our winning tradition.

The moment that makes me most excited for the future may surprise you: After a hard-fought 59-52 loss to Michigan State University in the Sweet 16, MSU head coach Tom Izzo shook hands with Jacobson and offered him the standard condolences of a well-played game and likely congratulated the Panthers on their great season.

While most people saw that, I saw the future of UNI basketball. I have no doubt that Jacobson will one day be one of the top coaches in the country.

In fact, I think he already is. I also believe UNI will get back to the NCAA Tournament in the near future and will continue to do so rather consistently.

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Like I mentioned before, the best is yet to come, and although I am moving on to bigger and better things, one thing is certain: I will always be a Panther and UNI will always have a special place in my heart.

Go Panthers!

Managing Editor pollb@uni.edu

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Sure, I’ll go back to school after that. The games are spread out, the action slows down and I have a day or two to recover from all the jampacked action.

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