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Smoke plumes set back Japan’s efforts to Connecting students to the community contain nuclear crisis MARKITA CURRIE Staff Writer

With a new semester underway, Volunteer Tuesdays, an activity sponsored by the Student Leadership Center, has added more events to their calendar.

“I think volunteering is a great thing to participate in,” said Janae Holtkamp, a sophomore accounting major. “You’re able to go and help other people and get the feeling that you are helping.”

The volunteer outings happen every Tuesday in two shifts, from 2 to 5 p.m. and from 5 to 8 p.m.

Steffoni Smith, the graduate assistant at the Student Leadership Center, said that some of the participating students have currently given more than 150 hours throughout the school year.

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Kacie Swanson, a senior communications major, organizes food during a previous Volunteer Tuesday event.

BRIAN VAN DER BRUG/Los Angeles Times/MCT Kesennuma, Japan’s harbor was destroyed, the town burned and the tsunami deposited a large ship on the dock in the aftermath of last week’s earthquake.

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Japan’s battle to control the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima suffered a setback Monday after plumes of smoke rising from two of the six reactor buildings forced an evacuation of repair crews and stalled operations to restore vital cooling systems.

It was unclear early Tuesday what had had produced the smoke, which came from the structures housing reactors No. 2 and 3. But some Japanese scientists said the problems didn’t appear to signal a deteriorating situation at Fukushima, where workers had been making progress in the painstaking work to contain the nuclear crisis.

Still, the unexplained black and gray plume, and a temporary increase in radiation levels around the plant on Monday, underscored the still precarious scene at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, where the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant’s outside power and emergency cooling systems, causing a leak of radiation from multiple sources.

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The Educational Testing Service will implement numerous changes to the Graduate Record Exam on Aug. 1 of this year.

The GRE is a test that is required by most universities with graduate programs in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Very few graduate college programs will not allow prospective students to apply unless they have taken the test.

According to the test website, www.takethegre.

com, “The GRE General Test is changing to feature a new, test-taker friendly design and new questions and content that are more closely aligned to the kind of thinking students will do in today’s demanding graduate and business school programs.”

The GRE website says the new test format promotes “a new test-taker friendly design. No antonyms or analogies. Even an on-screen calculator. The GRE revised General Test will replace the current test See GRE, page 4

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The interruption was expected to delay by a day efforts to restore power to the cooling systems at the plant.

The smoke also caused fire officials to halt the spraying of water onto the reactors.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the Fukushima complex, said that effort would probably resume later Tuesday.

The setback came on a day when the executive director of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Bill Borchardt, said that the agency’s staff in Japan reported that the three reactors probably had suffered core damage but did not appear to be leaking significant amounts of radiation.

“I say optimistically that things appear to be on the verge of stabilizing,” Borchardt said.

In Japan and abroad, however, concerns over radiation fallout grew. On Monday, Japanese officials said they detected higher than normal radiation levels in samples of seawater around the power complex. And residents of at least one village near the nuclear plant were ordered not to drink tap water.

Japanese authorities also ordered farmers in four prefectures to halt shipments of milk and spinach and some other vegetables after traces of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131 and cesium-137 were found in batches from regions surrounding the plant.

World health officials warned of potential dangers posed by the tainted food. In a sign of the potential problem for Japan’s food exports and international image, one Japanese restaurant in Taiwan was reportedly providing radiation gauges with its meals.

World Health Organization officials have told reporters that Japan should quickly ban food sales from areas around the damaged nuclear plant, saying radiation in food is more dangerous than radioactive particles in the air, because food-borne radioactive isotopes accumulate in the body.

On its website, the organization advised that consuming food tainted with radioactive material, which is indistinguishable to the naked eye, could lead to an increased likelihood of certain cancers.

Iodine-131 reaching the thyroid is particularly troublesome. People living near the plant who may have consumed tainted produce or animal products were advised to seek medical attention, the organization said.

Officials and others in neighboring nations have increased scrutiny of produce coming from Japan. The governments of China, South Korea and the Philippines have ordered screening of imports from Japan for radiation contamination, according to news reports. China imported $593

million worth of agricultural products from Japan last year, according to the official New China News Agency.

Many Japanese in the tsunami zone, meanwhile, were still experiencing acute shortages of food and gasoline, which caused long lines and shorter tempers.

Many restaurants in the northeastern portion of the country were printing abbreviated menus of five or six dishes. Convenience stores were running out of food and at several locations lines stretched around the block with people seeking such staples as water and rice.

But perhaps the lingering gasoline shortage presented the toughest challenge on Day 10 of the multi-fronted disaster, a situation that many older residents said harked back to the days of deprivation after World War II. Most gas stations around the region remained closed.

Those still open drew lines that left people waiting 12 hours or more, and then only to fill a portion of their tanks.

In the city of Senmaya, about 200 miles north of Tokyo, Sumie Sato and her husband, Naohiro, both 26, slept in their subcompact overnight to receive about five gallons of precious gasoline.

“We have a 2-month-old son at home, so we can’t take any chances,” said Sumie Sato.

“My son has been sick, so if he gets really bad we’ll need gas to take him to the hospital.”

She said her husband, who works as a carpenter, got drunk Sunday night, so she drove to the station nearest their home.

At 9 p.m., hundreds of cars were in line ahead of them.

Drivers waiting in their cars shivered in the early March chill. Others simply went home and returned to claim their place before the station opened.

The Satos slept together

under a blanket. By morning, Sumie Sato said, they felt terrible. “It was cold and my body aches today,” she said Tuesday.

A few vehicles away, Seika Sato, who is not related, sat in her tiny pickup truck, a blanket draped over her legs on the

driver’s seat that had been her bed overnight.

She said she wasn’t afraid to wait alone _ it’s what must be done in this time of need.

She has five grandchildren at home who depend on her to get around.

“Gas is such a problem,” she said, wearing a protective mask over her mouth. “I don’t know when this will end.”

Each of the drivers follow a well-defined drill. Gas stations issue coupons to the first 400 drivers, for gasoline the following day. Those with tickets begin lining up as soon as the day’s gas runs out, often as early as 3 p.m.

The nights in the car are long and cold. Tempers have run short, with the result something very un-Japanese.

“We’ve had a few fights,” said station attendant Yui Kikuchi, a 19-year-old dressed in a blue jumpsuit. “Customers complained. They waited a long time and didn’t like it when people tried to cut in at the last minute.”

With gasoline short, a relatively menial job of gas jockey took on great importance and power; workers shouted at drivers to keep in line and pull quickly up to the pumps.

But Kikuchi said no one has tried to bribe her or take advantage of her newfound access to the precious liquid.

Asked whether her friends or family had asked for special favors, she smiled shyly.

“No,” she said, “of course not.”

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SIAC now accepting nominations for Student Organization Awards MARKITA CURRIE Staff Writer

University of Northern Iowa students have the chance to nominate outstanding student organizations and student leaders for the annual Student Organization Awards, presented by the Student Involvement and Activities Center and the Student Leadership Center.

“UNI cares about our student organizations, and these awards and ceremonies recognize the hard work that they do outside the classroom,” said Felly Phommalinh, a senior management major and Northern Iowa Student Government Director of Administration and Finance.

Awards given out this year include: Student

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save some agencies like the Salvation Army more than $20 an hour.

To recognize all of the effort and time put in, the SLC will hold a reception later this semester.

Planning is still underway, the cen-

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starting this August — with changes that can mean good news for you.”

As an incentive for students to take the new test, there is a 50 percent discount for those students who take the test between Aug. 1 and Sept. 20. The computer-based GRE revised General Test will last about three hours and 45 minutes, and consists of separately timed sec-

Leader of the Year, Emerging Leader of the Year, Student Organization Advisor of the Year, Student Organization of the Year and Program of Distinction. The Education, Philosophy and Diversity Program Awards were combined into one award, Program of Distinction, to open it up to any program on campus. The Unsung Hero was combined with

ter will invite President Benjamin Allen, department heads, representatives from agencies such as the Northeast Iowa Food Bank and the student volunteers to the reception.

Future events are being planned as well. “Special Edition Saturdays” could give students the opportunity to volunteer on weekends. The

the Emerging Leader of the Year award.

The nomination forms and requirements can be found on the Student Leadership Center’s webpage, www.uni.edu/maucker/leadership, or in the SIAC, located in the upper level of Maucker Union.

All forms are due by 4 p.m. on Friday April 1 and can be turned in at the SIAC. “If this is something

SLC also hopes to unify and partner with all of the volunteer and service groups around campus to create one big impact in the community.

“Volunteering could be considered my favorite part about campus life here at UNI,” said Rachel Smithart, a freshman social scienc-

you’re really proud of, take the time to fill out the application,” said Steffoni Smith, the graduate assistant for the SLC. The winners are chosen by a committee of judges comprised of faculty and Student Affairs staff. The awards will be presented at a ceremony in the Maucker Union ballroom April 27 at 8 p.m.

es education major. “I myself have actually been so lucky as to meet my best friend at one of our sessions. Volunteering is a great way for students to build their resumes as well as the person they are.”

tions: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning and Analytical Writing.

You may also be required to complete an unidentified, unscored and/or research section of the test. The unidentified, unscored section can appear at any point after the Analytical Writing section.

Registration for the GRE test begins March 15.

For more information, visit www.takethegre.com/newgre-test.

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UNI STAND presents Congo Month

By ALAN WILKINS Staff Writer

Nearly everyone on the University of Northern Iowa campus owns a cell phone or laptop, or uses a computer.

According to CNN, 85 percent of Americans subscribe to a cell phone plan. But did you know that some of the materials that go into these technological gadgets come from African mines where the workers may be badly mistreated?

To raise awareness and help those suffering in the Congo and other central African countries, UNI Students Taking Action Now in Darfur is hosting Congo Month. Congo Month began March 21 and continues until April 15.

For the next three weeks, UNI STAND will present speakers and films.

On March 31 at 7 p.m. in Curris Business Building room 109, speakers from Friends of the Congo will talk about genocide in the Congo. On April 6 in Seerley room 115 at 7 p.m., two movies will be shown called “Weapons of War”and “Fighting the Silence.”

STAND is a national student genocide awareness and prevention group. They raise awareness through film showings, petitions, fundraisers and bring speakers to universities to talk to students about the problems in central Africa. The three topics STAND focuses on include the Lord’s Resistance Army, the conflicts in Sudan and Darfur and the conflicts

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Do you have Sunday Night Syndrome?

By JEFF HERRING and MARTIZA PARRA MCT Campus

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Alphonsine Mukandekezi lives in a charred Toyota Land Cruiser stuck in cooled lava with her husband in Goma, Congo. Members of the UNI STAND group are raising awareness to help those suffering in the Congo and other central African countries.

in the Congo with rebel militias.

The UNI chapter of STAND was formed during the fall 2009 semester.

The group was started by Stephen Gaies, a UNI professor of English. Having heard about STAND clubs at other universities, he bounced the idea off students in his “The Holocaust in Literature and Film” classes and received an enthusiastic response.

To raise funds, UNI STAND partnered up with Life to Life Global Builders and sold Ugandan coffee.

Life to Life Global Builders members often travel to Uganda for building proj-

ects. Fifty percent of the funds pay for building materials, 25 percent pay for the members’ trip and 25 percent go the coffee growers in Uganda. When UNI STAND sells the coffee, 25 percent goes to their club.

The UNI group has raised $600 for itself and $1,500 for Life to Life to build schools and clinics.

Brandon Long, a recent UNI graduate with a degree in psychology and the president of UNI STAND, talked about his trip to Uganda.

“It was the first time that I felt that I was somewhere different,” he said. “I absolutely loved it. It felt like

I really actually got to see people that aren’t sheltered and privileged and just live by the skin of their teeth.”

Long has goals for the club’s future and hopes to increase its presence at UNI. “I would like to see UNI STAND first of all become a name on campus that is pretty well-known,” he said.

“I would like to see more events happen on campus, see more speakers come in and more movies shown,” Long said.

For more information on STAND, visit www.facebook.com/STANDNow.

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It’s not hard to think of something comical happening when one mentions Comic-Con. With robots, golden-braclad Princess Leias and no end of superheroes walking around, it’s every fanatic’s dream come true. Enter Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and a true comedy film is born.

Pegg and Frost are the British geniuses behind the hilarious films “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.” Hopping across the pond for their latest adventure, the duo goes to Comic-Con, then rents an RV to travel to the alien landmarks of the U.S. This alone could have provided ample laughs, but throw in an alien, Paul, voiced by Seth Rogen (“The

Green Hornet”), and it takes on a whole new level.

After alien Paul crashes a car running from the FBI., Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost) take him into their RV to help him return to his home planet. Chasing them are FBI agents Zoil (Jason Bateman, “The Switch”) and the not-so-competent duo Haggard (Bill Hader, “Saturday Night Live”) and O’Reilly (Joe Lo Truligo, “Superbad”) on the command of the mysterious voice known only as “The Big Guy.” When the trio stops at an RV campground, Paul accidently shows himself to Bible-belt daughter Ruth, played sincerely and hilariously by Kirsten Wiig (“Saturday Night Live”).

As the quest to return Paul home continues, Graeme, Clive and Ruth learn

Mild Sunday Night Syndrome In most people, the anxiety usually begins Sunday evening, but it passes quickly and is gone by the time you arrive at work. This feeling is probably the result of working continuously for five days a week and having only two days off during which to recover.

What to do: Relax and remember: The feeling will pass.

Watch a movie, play a game, enjoy being with family and friends.

what life has been like for Paul, smoking weed and helping the government (and Steven Spielberg) for the past 60 years.

In typical Pegg and Frost style, the movie is not only hilarious, but has a deeper meaning as well -- exploring faith, friendship and the meaning of life with a pot-smoking alien. Although this is the weakest of the three Pegg/Frost collaborations, it is still stronger than most comedies (like with white, milk and dark chocolate, you might prefer one, but at the end of the day, it’s still chocolate and therefore delicious). Perhaps some reasons for this might be the new director, Greg Mottola (“Superbad”) instead of their usual, Edgar Wright (who was filming “Scott Pilgrim”). Or maybe it’s just the lack of Bill Nighy (although

Moderate Sunday Night Syndrome The next stage of SNS is characterized by increasing anxiety as the work week approaches. The anxiety begins earlier in the day and doesn’t pass as easily as mild SNS. You begin to stay up later and later on Sunday night, in the hope of keeping Monday morning from arriving. As a result, you feel tired and sluggish on Monday, which leaves you ill-equipped to deal with your feelings and your work.

Other symptoms include increased irritability and inattentiveness around family and friends, as well as deteriorating work performance.

Colleagues and supervisors may begin to notice changes at this point.

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‘Paul’ a refreshingly hilarious comedy

By EMILY HEYER

Picture the following scene: It’s Sunday evening, the weekend is winding down and you’re beginning to think about the work week ahead.

What are your feelings?

Do you find yourself excited and challenged, looking forward to another week of doing something you love?

The most fortunate among us get to feel that way on a regular basis.

Or are you instead feeling something else, perhaps anxiety or even dread? That’s a special kind of anxiety and stress I call “Sunday Night Syndrome.”

All of us experience some form of SNS from time to time. What’s important is how often and how severe it is.

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UNI students, community members to participate in ‘Swishes for Wishes’ Three-on-three basketball tournament on April 2 will raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation

By KARI BRAUMANN Editorial Staff

Next weekend, University of Northern Iowa students and members of the surrounding community will shoot hoops for a good cause.

On Saturday, April 2, a coed three-on-three basketball tournament called “Swishes for Wishes” will take place in the UNI Wellness and Recreation Center. All proceeds for the event will go to the Cedar Valley Make a Wish Committee.

“We just grant wishes to children with life-threatening medical illnesses and create awareness in the community for (the Make a Wish Foundation),” said Jessica Williams, coordinator of the Cedar Valley Make a Wish

Committee.

Swishes for Wishes will be a double-elimination tournament, which means each team will play at least two games.

There are four age brackets: third-fifth graders, sixtheighth graders, high school students and college-age or older. Teams of three or four will play games to either 20 minutes or 30 points. Each participant is also automatically entered in a three-point shot contest.

Medals will be awarded for the first- and second-place winners of the first three brackets. The teams taking first and second in the college-plus bracket will receive a cash prize. Participants are encouraged to fundraise for Make a Wish before the tournament, and a prize will be

awarded to the participant who raises the most money.

There will be music, door prizes, raffles and a silent auction throughout the day open to everyone. Team registration for the event is $60 and can be completed by visiting www.swishesforwishes. eventbrite.com. Donations for the Make a Wish Foundation can be made at the website as well via Paypal. Swishes for Wishes participants who are fundraising can bring the money they raise with them and turn it in on the day of the event.

The tournament is the semester-long project of the spring 2011 Public Relations: Campaign Methods course taught by Gayle Pohl, a UNI professor of public relations.

Throughout the semester, the

students of the Campaign Methods class have been planning and publicizing Swishes for Wishes.

Pohl chose the local Make a Wish committee as the class’s “client” because she felt planning an event for them would present a unique opportunity for her students.

“Knowing what (a lifethreatening illness) does not only to the child but also what it does to the family is so impactful that I thought we could do something for this local chapter. … I thought this would be the perfect opportunity for students to get the experience that they need in building the campaign and implementing the campaign, and I thought they would also feel like they were doing something really

worthwhile,” said Pohl.

Chris Hofeldt, a junior public relations major in the Campaign Methods class, has enjoyed working for the Make a Wish cause.

“All the money (from Swishes for Wishes) does go to a great organization,” said Hofeldt. “Helping kids with terminal illnesses is just a great place, and it’s rewarding for all of us that are becoming a part of it, to have such a great organization to raise this money for.”

For more information on Swishes for Wishes, visit the website listed above or email swishesforwishesuni@gmail. com. If you would like to learn more about the Iowa branch of the Make a Wish Foundation, go to www.iowa. wish.org.

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Guerrilla Girls On Tour, an internationally acclaimed theatre collective, will perform at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, in Lang Auditorium on the University of Northern Iowa campus. This event is free and open to the public.

The collective’s 70-minute play will address the lack

of opportunities for women and people of color; it will also explore the combination of performance and visual art entitled “Feminists Are Funny.” The performance will end with a discussion about the current state of sexism.

Guerrilla Girls On Tour is an anonymous touring theatre company of 26 women trained in a variety of comedic theatre techniques who

develop unique and outrageous activist plays, performance art and street theatre.

Each member works under the name of a dead female artist and performs wearing a gorilla mask to put the focus of her work on the issues being addressed.

The troupe has given more than 200 performances and workshops around the world addressing reproductive

rights, war, sex trafficking, hunger, history and violence against women. Guerrilla Girls On Tour is the recipient of the 2010 Yoko Ono Courage for the Arts award and has been featured in

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet to present at UNI NI NEWS SERVICE

Ted Kooser, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will read from his work at 7 p.m., Monday, March 28, in the Commons Ballroom on the University of Northern Iowa

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campus. There will be a reception and book signing immediately following the lecture.

Following his presentation, Kooser will be interviewed by Jeremy Schraffenberger, UNI assistant professor of English language and literature, and take questions from the audience. A reception and book signing will conclude the evening.

One of the most highly regarded poets in the nation, Kooser served as the United States poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book of poems, “Delights and Shadows.” His works have appeared in “The Atlantic Monthly,” “The New Yorker” and “The Hudson Review,” among others.

Kooser was born in Ames and earned a B.S. from Iowa State University in 1962, as well as an M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1968. He currently lives near Garland, Neb., with his wife.

Kooser’s presentation, which is part of the Reninger Speaker Series, is sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Julie E. Husband, associate professor of English language and literature, at 319-273-3849 or julie.husband@uni.edu.

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Panel OKs measure to allow guns at colleges in Texas

By DAVE MONTGOMERY a concealed handgun license MCT Campus

AUSTIN, Texas -- After an emotional five-hour hour hearing, the Texas State House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee voted 5-3 along party lines Wednesday night to advance legislation to allow concealed handguns on college and university campuses.

House Bill 750, by GOP Rep. Joe Driver, would allow holders of concealed-handgun permits to carry their weapons in campus buildings.

It would keep a ban on guns in bars, churches, hospitals and athletic events at colleges.

Public colleges and universities would be required to comply, but private institutions, such as Texas Christian University and Texas Wesleyan University, could opt out.

“The ramifications of allowing an individual with

to carry a weapon on campus would create dangerous situations and in essence, put faculty, staff, students and University guests in the line of fire,” the statement says.

Dozens of students, gunrights advocates, law enforcement officials and education advocates, testifying into the evening, offered sharply divided views.

“We’re basically fish in a barrel,” said W. Scott Lewis of Austin, representing Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. “This is about changing the odds.”

But others, including Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, warned that introducing weapons into the sometimes emotionally charged social atmosphere at colleges could expand the potential for violence.

Acevedo’s officers were among those who swarmed onto the campus of the University of Texas, Austin

in September after a 19-yearold math student in a ski mask strolled through the campus firing an AK-47. The student, Colton Tooley, later killed himself in a campus library.

Driver’s measure was one of a package of gun-related bills considered by the committee, but the lawmakers deferred votes on the others.

Those measures would allow concealed handguns in public junior colleges, public technical institutes and school board meetings.

Driver’s measure appeared to draw the most attention during the hearing and is essentially a resurrected version of an unsuccessful mea-

sure he introduced during the 2009 legislative session.

Driver told committee members that this latest version has support from 83 of the 150 House members and 14 of the 31 Senate members.

Addressing what he said have been erroneous media reports about the bill, Driver said most undergraduate students would not qualify under the bill to carry guns since permit holders must be 21 or older.

“Passage of this legislation will not result in a large population of armed undergraduates,” Driver said.

Proponents say campus violence, such as the massa-

cre of 32 students by a gunman at Virginia Tech in 2007, shows the need for additional safeguards at colleges.

A number of students testified that they need to arm themselves against less publicized violence. John DeLeon, 25, a graduate teaching assistant at UT Arlington, told lawmakers that he sometimes works on campus past midnight and so is vulnerable to campus crime.

“As a responsible citizen, I want the right to protect myself against those who would do me harm,” said DeLeon, who said he has a concealed-handgun permit.

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UNI Panther Productions will sponsor singer, songwriter and producer Mike Posner in a performance at 8 p.m.

April 21 in the West Gym on the UNI campus.

Posner will perform hits from his debut album, “31 Minutes to Takeoff,” which includes the songs “Cooler Than Me” and “Please Don’t Go.”

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What to do: In addition to the above suggestions, make sure you get to bed early enough to be rested the next day.

Identify things about your job that you can feel good about, or even look forward to.

As crazy as it sounds, some people have found that going into the office or doing some work at home seems to help.

If going into the office is not possible, being as prepared as possible can help.

Severe Sunday Night Syndrome The third level of SNS doesn’t wait until Sunday to arrive. It begins Saturday or even Friday after work.

By the time Sunday evening rolls around, folks with severe SNS are experiencing strong anxiety and dread.

Some people become physically ill at the prospect of another work week.

Tickets are $15 for UNI students (limit two) and $25 for the public. Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. March 22 and can be purchased through any UNItix outlet, www.unitix. uni.edu or by calling 319-2734TIX. All seats are general admission.

For more information, contact Mike Bobeldyk, associate director of Maucker Union administration, at 319-2735888.

Depression is common at this point, as well as drinking too much alcohol.

What to do: Ask yourself what underlies your emotions and reactions? If you don’t examine this issue, the feelings might just grow stronger.

It could be time to consider a change, either in the details of your job or perhaps an entire change of job or career.

Consult a career counselor to look at your options.

Make sure you are doing something, from talking about it to physical exercise, in order to relieve the stress.

You might want to seek counseling to help you manage the stress, emotions and decisions involved.

Remember: If it’s hurting you, it’s not likely to be helping anyone else.

All of us experience some form of Sunday Night Syndrome from time to time.

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Jane Lynch makes that a little easier to handle).

With that said, this movie is still laugh-out-loud funny.

With less British humor/ references (they don’t even mention Britain’s national treasure “Doctor Who”) the laughs come easier, and even those who don’t enjoy alien movies will like this one. It’s a pleasant surprise of a film, and an easy introduction into the world of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost if (for shame) you’ve never heard of them before. So, get yourself some Reese’s Pieces and enjoy the ride.

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“IN ONE SMALL KANSAS TOWN, WE PULLED INTO THE PHILLIPS 66 STATION WITH A FULL BUS AND WE LEFT TWO SHORT.”

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The destruction caused by the earthquake earlier this month has been followed by an outpouring of support from the international community and emergency relief aid organizations. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake was followed immediately by a tsunami, which brought waves more than 30 feet high and traveled as far as six miles inland in some areas.

According to Japan’s National

Last Saturday I called my father with distressing news.

On the way back from Houston, the Cadillac my five friends and I traveled south in began to sputter and die. After already putting $500 into our 1992 luxury mobile, I started looking at alternate travel options. My dad found a flight, a car rental and a few other options, including the Greyhound bus from Houston to Cedar Falls. I had not the funds for flight nor car, so at 6 o’clock Sunday morning I found myself in a seedy part of downtown Houston waiting for my 28-hour ride home from Texas.

For those of you who don’t know, the car ride from Cedar Falls to Houston is 18 hours and the flight even less. But hey, all I wanted was a surefire way back to my bed. The bus couldn’t be that bad, right? I came to find out two things: I was wrong, and people do crazy things on the Greyhound.

Before my friend Erik, also in desperate need of a way back Cedar Falls, and I boarded our bus in Houston, we met a sign of people to come. A man identifying himself only as Captain Crunch approached and proceeded to show us the third and fourth degree burns on his body. Why? Well, only he can tell you that.

I ended the conversation as politely as I could and got on my shuttle for Dallas.

I found a seat by a sleeping man, about 20 or so years old, with a guitar between his legs. He was a seat hog.

You’ll find most people are if you give them the chance.

As time goes on, personal boundaries evaporate as the desire for a comfortable position in which to sleep takes precedence. People do crazy things on the Greyhound.

We pulled into Dallas on time and with no delays. I exited and entered into a Dallas terminal full of chaos

and desperate people. Luckily I got my bags underneath the steel stagecoach and my butt in the seat. In the confusion of a very disorganized boarding system, some were forced to put their luggage under a different bus with the promise said bus would arrive right after ours in Oklahoma City. By the time we arrived in OKC, said bus was an hour behind. Oh, did I mention we were stuck in traffic ourselves and were an hour and a half behind schedule? With the Kansas City bus leaving in six hours, we had to trek on and leave our compatriots’ luggage behind.

We made out for Kansas City with a full head of steam the whole way. Over the next seven hours, we picked up several characters. One man told a tale of accidentally eating a “special cookie” offered to him by a fellow bus rider back in Tucson and how much the morsel had enhanced his bus riding experience. In the last row of the bus sat what many of the riders referred to as a “lot lizard.” I am positive this is a term one can only learn on the bus or the Internet so I will leave readers to their own devices.

Another man sitting behind Erik and I explained in great detail to a friend how he was seeking a sexually adventuresome woman. He went on, with the descriptive power of Hemingway, to elaborate on the details of such a woman. I was able to sleep through most of it, but Erik heard the whole account and wishes never to speak of it again.

In our haste to make it to Kansas City, our bus driver made few and brief stops. How brief ? In one small Kansas town, we pulled into the Phillips 66 station with a full bus and we left two short. The bus driver just pulled out and headed north to KC. People do crazy things on the Greyhound. We arrived only an hour and a half behind schedule and still had to wait 40 minutes for our connection, because it too was late.

This was the last big bump in the road for me personally. However, during my odyssey I heard horror stories of broken down buses, broken heaters, missed connections and grumpy drivers. My advice: never trust a Cadillac on spring break, because people do crazy things on the Greyhound.

Japan needs aid, not prayer

Police Agency, at the time of writing this there are more than 7,000 dead, 2,000 injured and more than 11,000 missing. Add on top of that the potential nuclear crisis that is still unfolding at several of Japan’s nuclear plants. Clearly this is a humanitarian crisis by almost any definition. The support and aid coming from various world governments, private charitable donations and relief organizations has

been incredibly admirable.

What isn’t admirable is the way that religion is being inserted into the conversation about this disaster. As with any crisis of this magnitude, there have inevitably been calls for prayer for the people of Japan. You hear this not only from religious figures but even from pundits on major news networks.

They will close somber segments about the crisis with

“our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Japan.”

The idea that Japan needs prayer seems to be about the single most impotent response that you could have to this crisis. I know that many people believe that their prayers are answered all of the time, and so getting on your knees and badgering your deity about lending aid to Japan seems like a reasonable response. This does not

change the fact that prayer is regularly and empirically ineffective at accomplishing its goals.

Scientific studies have been conducted on the effect of prayer, for instance prayer for someone to recovery from a serious illness, and it has been shown that even while controlling for outside influences to the best of our ability, See PRAYER, page 11

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Your college career: own it

letter to the editor My purpose in writing is to encourage the student body at UNI to consider getting their water from a more renewable and economically friendly resource than bottled water. In recent years, the consumption of bottled water has become more prevalent in the United States. This has led to a huge number of water bottles being thrown into our landfills every day. Like plastic grocery bags, plastic water bottles break down very slowly and therefore cause harm to the environment. In addition

to the environmental impact of bottled water, there is great economic impact. By buying bottled water, we remove the control of our water supply from the local community and place it in the hands of corporate America.

These harms can easily be avoided by drinking tap water. For more information, search for UNI Think Outside the Bottle on facebook.

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College introduces a new era of self-revelation.

The majority of students enter college with intentions of discovering their potential via social, intellectual or independent means. Through trials and tribulations, we adapt to our environment much like the chameleon. We adapt, some with greater difficulty than others, to fit the “college student mentality,” which can be visualized as a balancing act like those seen in circuses.

We become a one-man (or one-woman) band.

Time is no longer something we wish for to fly by as we once did sitting in those high school classrooms. Instead, we often feel deprived of adequate time as we play a Tetris version of our life, a-wishin’ and a-hopin’ we will make everything fit together like those colorful blocks. And to further double our anxiety, we become distracted with competing priorities, besides our immediate studies, for that time in our lives. Pressures can ensue from our relationships with significant others, family and friends about conforming to their ideals of the college experience, which hereby encompasses social aspects such as drinking and academic aspects such as studying habits or class attendance.

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Without question, college unloads immense strain on students. What is to be learned is the appropriate reaction to such an inevitable strain.

A survey conducted by Edison Media Research in 2008 looked at 2,253 students aged 18-24. The students were given questionnaires around the county at 40 randomly chosen four-year schools.

Results indicated the classic stress symptoms we all have heard: trouble concentrating or sleeping and finding motivation,

along with feeling worried, agitated and too tired to work.

Of the students surveyed, more than a quarter of the students said they sometimes thought they should cut down on drinking and going out, and a third of the students said they sometimes wanted to used drugs or alcohol to relax or escape.

One in five students said they have felt too stressed to do schoolwork or be around their friends, and about the same number said they have seriously seriously dropping out of school in the past three months because of their angst. Additionally, nearly one in five students said they felt stress all or most of their time at school, according to Alan Fram and Trevor Tompson of the Associated Press.

The study finds that schoolwork, grades, financial problems, relationships/dating, family problems, and extracurricular activities are the larger sources of stress experienced by the typical college student. Despite the seemingly endless list of negativity, six in 10 of the students said they usually felt hopeful and enjoyed life.

Three years later, in our world today of budget cuts to our education, high costs of gasoline and uncertainty of access to or security of jobs once we graduate, it seems the pressures of college will remain inherent and everpresent. Without question, college unloads immense strain on students. What is to be learned is the appropriate reaction to such an inevitable strain. We have the natural desire to please those surrounding us, thus social pressures can win out in our internal struggles by default.

Recall the first sentence: college introduces a new era of self-revelation.

Self: leaving out the fillers of pressures and conformity. Only then can we give ourselves the capacity needed to discover our potential. Stay true to your own values and endurance. One last thing: own it.

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Participation and encouragement are key when encountering diversity prejudices and biases. The university would be doing its adamsg@uni.edu students and society a monuI cannot tell you the exact mental service by encouragmoment in time when I real- ing this type of skill while ized there were people who students are in a safe place did not look or think as I to take on the challenges of did or reacted to situations confronting their biases and like I did. But I can say it prejudices.

Leaders here can look at was around the time I became encouraging dialogue when “buddies” with a Caucasian race, class or sex topics surrecruit. We were from the face in the lectures, rather same state of South Carolina, than saying the “you people” but she lived in a trailer court and was called “white trash.” students need to get over it.

I lived in a shabby house. It This does not mean making belonged to the people my the minority student (whether mother worked for. Our com- by race, sex, gender or class) munity was known as the the spokesperson or expert Consider sticks and we were called for the others. giving points for attending “hands.” Both of us joined the Army, partially due to the forums with diverse speakers on topics of race, class and Private Benjamin movie.

The Army’s definition of gender. Take the five minutes buddies or the buddy system as students are settling in to as I experienced it during have the conversations about diverse events, the ’80 and ‘90s speakers, or is to purposeideas and movfully take new ies that are currecruits of dif- Although rent. Announce ferent ethnic- stepping into to students the ity and culture another culture speakers coming and make them and facing biases on campus with Army ready. diverse messages The buddies and prejudices and let students would eat work, was not easy, see you at events and play togeththe rewards as well. Dr. er. The desirable Hogan was at the culture for all physically and Latino Ball and recruits was the mentally were that says a lot Army’s culture. immeasurable. about his stand White trash and on diversity and hands, black and Being open to white, we were diversity changed being a participant. I did not being transthe way I viewed see him dance formed into the Army’s cul- people and made though.

Te x tb ook ture. Although me face my learning is one we did not prejudices and thing, but life understand the after college is methods, they biases. with real people. worked within Giving encoureight weeks. agement for students to Typically, people are less engage in their self-transforlightly to engage in anymation will benefit all of us. thing different without some Students should not feel it’s form of resistance and some others’ obligation to improve, form of encouragement. The encouragement for my buddy, but that they are the others, other recruits and me was the and part of being in highawards and shoulder patches er education is to be able to presented at the end of the embrace unfamiliar subjects. training. My buddy and I won Diversity should be seen as the Buddy Run. We finished an adventure to be explored with her getting a sprained and discovered, not as a prisankle and me half-dragging on sentence. In other words, and half-carrying her across leaders should be first partakers of this skill of honestly the finish marker.

Although stepping into embracing their biases and another culture and facing prejudices. Then they can be biases and prejudices was not sincere when passing down easy, the rewards physically their experiences and encourand mentally were immeasur- agement to their students. able. Being open to diversity This is far more than tolerchanged the way I viewed ance. It is known as acceppeople and made me face my tance.

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Government officials walk down a recently-cleared roadway on Thursday, March 17, 2011, in Kesennuma, Japan, where the earthquake-spawned tsunami caused a massive fuel spill and fire further consuming the Japanese coastal town, famous for its tuna fishing fleet.

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there is no positive effect from prayer to be found. If it does work, then it’s uneven, unpredictable and most suspiciously, seems to succeed only at about the rate of random chance (or worse). That seems incredibly unimpressive to me.

You might say that if I am right, it simply means that those who are praying for Japan are simply doing nothing, which at least isn’t harming anyone. I would argue that prayer is actually worse than doing nothing, because it gives the illusion of having helped, without actually having done anything of the sort.

There is a saying that goes “two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.” I’d like to amend that: One person donating to a charitable cause can do more than a thousand people on their knees praying.

The important point here is that if you

want to help Japan, stop praying to a deity that statistically will not listen to your prayers, and donate to a charity instead. People have shown an incredibly ability to come together and make a difference when other human beings need it the most. This includes religious people, who have surely donated in numbers equal to nonbelievers.

Prayer may make you feel better, but the people of Japan have a long road ahead of them, and they need real tangible help now more than ever. If you are interested in helping, please consider making a donation to the American Red Cross or any of the other countless organizations that are doing their part to help the people of Japan. If you are angry that I have attacked your religion, prove me wrong. Stop praying for aid and actually lend some. The worst possible outcome is that you will have actually helped someone who needs it, which is never a bad thing.

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Senior point guard Kwadzo Ahelegbe (No. 11) scored a team-high 18 points in his final game as a UNI Panther.

By BRAD EILERS that we normally make.”

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The 13th-seeded Panthers fought back from a 14-point second-half deficit against fourth-seeded Michigan State, but fell 69-66 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

By BRAD EILERS

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The 13th-seeded University of Northern Iowa women’s basketball team fought back from a 14-point second-half deficit against the fourth-seeded Michigan State University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, but the Panthers came up just short, falling to the Spartans 69-66.

The game wasn’t decided until the final possession.

UNI had the ball for the final shot trailing by three.

Junior guard Jacqui Kalin, who scored a game-high 21 points, caught the inbounds pass with nine seconds

remaining but was doubledteamed and passed the ball to senior forward Erin Brocka. Brocka’s three-point attempt at the buzzer was short and MSU escaped a possible first-round upset.

“We knew (MSU) was going to be switching on everything,” said UNI head coach Tanya Warren of the final possession.

“We obviously wanted the basketball in Kalin’s hands.

“If I had to do it over again, I’d do something else.

Hindsight is 20/20, but we didn’t get the look that we wanted. ... That’s completely my fault. They did exactly what we drew up, and I didn’t put them in a good

position to get a good look.”

The loss snapped UNI’s school-record 19-game winning streak. It was the Panthers’ first loss since Jan. 1.

The Panthers (27-6, 17-1 MVC) outscored the Spartans 38-32 in the second half and 34-23 over the final 15 minutes of regulation after trailing MSU 37-28 at halftime.

“Towards the end, we had a lot of hustle plays and a lot of steals, which frustrated them,” said junior guard K.K. Armstrong.

“They’re a team that doesn’t have any quit in them,” said Michigan State See PANTHERS, page 13

After missing out on the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three years, the University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team was awarded one of 24 spots in this year’s CollegeInsider.com PostSeason Tournament. After defeating Rider University 84-50 in the first round of action March 15, the Panthers received a secondround bye before matching up with Southern Methodist University Monday night in the third round of the CIT. The Panthers (20-14, 10-8 MVC) shot just 27.5 percent (14-of-51) from the floor and a mere 20 percent (5-for-25) from three-point range as they fell to the Mustangs of SMU 57-50.

“There were a lot of missed opportunities offensively,” said UNI senior point guard Kwadzo Ahelegbe. “We missed shots

“We had a lot of really good looks, ones that we’ve made quite a bit, especially at home,” said UNI head coach Ben Jacobson. “We had a lot of the same shots against Rider the other night but we just didn’t make them tonight. When those shots are not going, you really have to do things well on the defensive end.”

SMU (20-14, 8-8 Conference USA) was led by the performance of 6-foot-9 senior center Papa Dia who scored a team-high 17 points while collecting a McLeodCenter-record 21 rebounds.

“We didn’t defend (Dia) well enough and he’s a really good player,” said Jacobson.

“Our preparation wasn’t good enough… and some of the execution wasn’t good enough. Their best player shouldn’t get 10 or 12 points in the first four or five minutes of the game.”

The Mustangs shot 50 See UNI, page 13

Three Panthers wrestle in NCAA Tour nament

By MORGAN JOHNSON Sports Writer

Last week three members of the University of Northern Iowa Panther wrestling team traveled to Philadelphia to compete in the 2011 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

David Bonin (157 pounds, 25-11), 184-pounder Ryan Loder (27-9) and heavyweight Christian Brantley (256) qualified for the NCAA tournament at the West Regional in Colorado Springs, Colo.

In the Thursday morning preliminary round, Bonin was the first Panther to take the mat. Bonin took on

Binghamton’s 157-pounder Matt Kaylor. Winning with a 5-4 decision over Kaylor, Bonin advanced to the second round.

UNI’s only seeded wrestler, No. 6 Loder, followed up with the Panthers’ second win of the day against Hofstra’s Ben Clymer. At the conclusion of three periods, the wrestlers were tied up 1-1. Loder came out victorious at the end of a tiebreaker, winning 4-2 over Clymer.

At heavyweight, UNI’s Brantley fell to Anthony Nelson, the No. 8 seed from Minnesota. With a score of 1-1 at the end of the third period, the heavyweights

went into overtime. Nelson scored a takedown, defeating Brantley 3-1.

In the Thursday evening wrestlebacks, Brantley was eliminated from the tournament after losing 7-2 to Oregon State’s Clayton Jack. Brantley finished the season with a 25-8 record.

Bonin and Loder wrestled in the second round of competition on Thursday night. In the second round, Bonin fell to David Taylor, the No. 3 seed from Penn State. Taylor picked up a 21-3 technical fall over Bonin, leaving Bonin with a 1-1 record at the tournament.

Loder also lost his first match of the tournament

after losing 12-10 in a close one against Duke’s Diego Bencomo.

During the Friday morning wrestlebacks, Bonin started the day with an 8-4 victory over Bryan Deutsch from Northern Illinois. In his second match, Bonin got caught on his back early in the match, falling in 39 seconds to Harvard’s No. 11 seed Walter Peppelman.

Bonin finished the season with a 26-13 record, with a record of 2-2 in the NCAA Championships.

Picking up his first win of the day, Loder defeated Oregon State’s Brice Arand in a 6-1 decision with riding time. Loder followed up with

a 7-3 victory over Virginia’s Jonathan Fausey.

In the Friday evening consolation rounds Loder fell short of making the All-American rounds.

Wisconsin’s No. 4 seed Travis Rutt won a 4-2 decision over Loder. Loder finished the season with an overall record of 30-11 including his record of 3-2 in the NCAA Championships.

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With the four losses in Missouri, UNI fell to 14-13 overall and 1-2 in the MVC. UNI resumes play this weekend against the Evansville Purple Aces.

By SAM JEFSON

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The University of Northern Iowa softball team dropped four of five games they played in while on a road trip to Springfield, Mo., highlighted by two conference losses to Missouri State. The Panthers also lost to Minnesota and North Dakota State. Three of the four losses saw UNI coming up short by a single run.

To begin the series of games in Springfield, UNI took on North Dakota State.

The Bison rallied from being three runs down in the bottom of the seventh to top the Panthers 4-3. Elisa Victa delivered the knockout blow when she singled up the middle with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run.

Next, the Panthers took on Minnesota with the afternoon belonging to the Golden Gophers. Minnesota used a balanced offensive attack to defeat the Panthers 8-1. A Rachel Gerking single drove in the only run for UNI.

After the loss to Minnesota, UNI opened conference play with a 3-1 victory over Missouri State. The Panther offense remained dormant until the fifth inning when Allison Galvin and Mackenzie Daigh sparked it. Galvin hustled out an infield single and Daigh cracked a triple on the next pitch to drive in the Panthers’ first run.

Hannah Borschel cleaned up the work by singling up the middle to score Daigh.

Courtney Dunker tacked on an insurance run in the seventh with a solo home run to right-center, sealing the Panthers’ win.

Game two of the series against Missouri State began on Saturday and was postponed with a score of 1-1 in the top of the third due to thunderstorms.

Play resumed Sunday with Missouri State stopping UNI’s momentum. The Bears went on to score one run in the third and fourth innings and three in the fifth to extend the lead to 6-1. A See SOFTBALL, page 14

UNI tennis takes down Quinnipiac and Ar my

By SAM JEFSON Sports Writer

The University of Northern Iowa tennis team traveled to West Point, N.Y., to compete in three matches over spring break. The Panthers were victorious over Quinnipiac (5-2) and Army (7-0), but fell to Stony Brook (5-2) to conclude the road trip.

Against Quinnipiac, UNI earned the doubles point with wins coming from the No. 1 team of Phoebe Walker and Laia GonzalezGarrido and the No. 3 team of Chelsea Moore and Lara Okicki. To secure the match, the Panthers won four of six singles matches with victories coming from Walker, Gonzalez-Garrido, Moore and Krissy Lankelma.

UNI won each of its singles

matches in straight sets.

The second matchup against Army saw the Panthers cruising to a 7-0 victory. UNI won every singles match and two of three doubles matches without dropping a set.

The final match of the road trip resulted in a 5-2 Panther loss to Stony Brook.

UNI began the match by picking up the doubles point.

The No. 1 team of Walker and Gonzalez-Garrido won 8-4 and the No. 3 team of Moore and Okicki won 8-3.

Jessica Kunzelmann was the only singles player to win for UNI, topping her opponent by a score of 6-2, 7-5.

With the 2-1 road trip, the Panthers are 9-6 during the spring 2011 campaign. UNI will next take on Wisconsin Saturday in Madison.

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percent (19-of-38) from the floor while shooting 43.8 percent (7-of-16) from long range.

UNI was led in scoring

by Ahelegbe, who scored 18 points in his final game as a UNI Panther.

“It sucks knowing that’s the last time I will ever get to play in front of the home crowd,” said Ahelegbe. “I got a lot of great memories, a lot of great support. It’s a bittersweet deal.”

Sophomore forward Jake Koch was the only other Panther in double-figures as he scored 11 points.

Sophomore guard Anthony James chipped in with six points and a team-high six rebounds.

The Panthers jumped out to an early 8-4 lead following a pair of threepointers from Koch and Ahelegbe. However, SMU responded and took the lead on a convention three-point play from Dia and another bucket. The Mustangs never trailed following a Dia basket with 15:35 left in the first half.

SMU took a 31-23 lead into the locker room and upped the margin to as many as 13 points in the second half at 41-28 with 14:16 remaining.

UNI would respond with a 9-0 run, trimming the SMU lead to four points at 41-37 with 9:09 remaining.

However, the Panthers would get no closer as they made just four second-half field goals.

While the Panthers didn’t end their season as planned and lose seniors Kwadzo Ahelegbe, Kerwin Dunham and Lucas O’Rear, Jacobson is still optimistic about the future of UNI basketball.

“We played good basketball (this season) but we just didn’t play well enough.

Six of the eight games prior to this tournament were decided with two and a half minutes to go in the game,” said Jacobson. “The guys continued to fight and did a lot of things right. We played good basketball, we played hard and remained unselfish at all times… we did the things we were supposed to do. We just needed to play a little bit better to get more wins in those games.

“Those underclassmen played a lot and played a big role for us (this season).

They gained some valuable experience. In pretty short order here we will get ourselves back into that mode of getting ready for summer workouts and putting a team together for the future. I’ll be excited about that and I know (the players) will be excited about that,” Jacobson said.

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head coach Suzy Merchant.

“They can make big plays at big times.”

Armstrong and senior center Lizzie Boeck joined Kalin in double-digits with 17 points and 12 points, respectively. Brocka grabbed a team-high nine rebounds while chipping in with two points.

UNI shot 45.3 percent (24-of-53) from the floor for the game. Michigan State (27-5, 13-3 Big 10) shot 46.7 percent (28-of-60) from the floor.

The difference in the game was three-point shooting, something the Panthers had done very well all season, shooting 34.6 percent from long range. However, UNI shot just 28.6 percent (4-of14) from beyond the arc, while MSU shot 40 percent (8-of-20) from three-point range.

“We were going to go out there and give it everything we had and just leave it on the floor,” said Kalin. “I definitely think we did that.

We cut it close to one shot there at the end which didn’t go our way.”

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Ryan’s Rants

Morehead State has tiger blood

By RYAN FRIEDERICH Sports Columnist

The first few rounds of March madness have come and gone and it’s time for me to rest my bedsores before the stretch run of the semester begins. Spring break was wonderful as usual; I got a chance to watch every NCAA tournament game, even though I found it tricky trying to constantly mute the television every time an “Extreme Pawn” commercial came on or Charles Barkley was handed the microphone to give his “expert” analysis.

I know I could do as well as Barkley does up there, as his comments usually consist of, “Wow, what a great game,” or “I think both these teams have a pretty good shot at winning.” Besides that, the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament have been quite enjoyable.

On Dec. 11, Cedar Falls was hit with a snowstorm and even getting out of bed seemed like a daunting task. The only motivation I had that night to get anything done was that the University of Northern Iowa had a home basketball game, but against Morehead State? Really? Now I realize that Morehead State should be awesome based on the fact that Charlie Sheen picked them to beat Louisville merely because of their name, and he is definitely winning.

That night in the McLeod Center, Kenneth Faried had the UNI fans on their feet cheering after a couple thunderous dunks that would have earned a “boom shakalaka” on NBA Jam 1998 Tournament Edition. I knew this Morehead State team was going to make a little noise in the tournament, but did they ever.

One of the greatest stories of the first and second (and third, I guess) rounds of the tournament came at 2 a.m. the night before the biggest game in Morehead

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State basketball history. Head coach Donnie Tyndall awoke as his nerves prevented him from sleeping, so he decided to run through his notes for the game. While coach Tyndall was gathering his thoughts, he ran through every possible scenario in his head, and one of them was being down by two with fewer than 10 seconds to play. Tyndall decided that if this happened he was going to have Demonte Harper drain the clock and launch a three for the win.

When this dream became a reality, coach Tyndall knew what play he was going to use and the ice in his coaching veins prevailed.

Harper used his 6-foot-4 frame to clear a look from dead-on and stroked it like he was running on tiger blood.

Next year I won’t take any opposing teams that come into the McLeod Center lightly. Morehead State busted a lot of brackets this year while Faried was able to raise his draft stock. With all the excitement that comes with the NCAA tournament, I’m sure we are all in agreement thinking that this year was missing something: UNI. Welcome back, and go Panthers!

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Waterloo Black Hawks gain ground on Youngstown Phantoms

By DUSTIN WOODY

Kenneth Faried (No. 35) broke the NCAA record for career rebounds earlier this season; he now has 1,673.

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After losing a 5-2 contest to the Youngstown Phantoms last Friday, the Waterloo Black Hawks bounced back to claim the next two of three, defeating the United States Hockey League Eastern-Conferenceleading Green Bay Gamblers 4-2 last Saturday, then knocking off the Team USA Under-18 Developmental Program on Friday by a 4-1 final score.

On Saturday, the Indiana Ice had defeated the Phantoms, which meant if Waterloo could defeat the Omaha Lancers, then the Black Hawks would tie the Phantoms for the last spot in the playoffs. However, a Jonathan Liau goal with 2:40 left in regulation sent the Black Hawks back to Waterloo with a loss, and still trailing the Phantoms by two points in the conference standings.

Cody Strang scored just 3:34 into the Youngstown game, burying Mike Ambrosia’s pass. Ambrosia and Danny Mattson assisted Ryan Belonger’s power play goal at 14:08 to put Waterloo down 2-0. Mattson scored one of his own at 10:30 of the second period, assisted

by Belonger and Chris Bradley. Zach Palmquist attempted to start a rally for the Black Hawks, scoring on a power play goal from Blake Thompson and Alex Guptill at 7:29 of the third, but Adam Berkle added another goal on a power play from Mattson and Scott Mayfield at 12:39. Tyson Fulton scored from Dan McNamara and Anthony Day at 17:01, and Strang added an unassisted, emptynet goal with two seconds remaining to seal the 5-2 score. Phantoms goaltender Jordan Tibbett made 23 saves on 25 shots in the win, while Waterloo goalie C.J. Motte stopped 19 of the 23 he faced.

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UNI four-run rally in sixth inning came up short with the Panthers dropping game number two 6-5.

Missouri State won the final game of the conference series opener by a score of 3-2 in extra innings. UNI jumped out quickly to a 2-0 lead by way of a Dunker double scoring Daigh and an Eranne Daugharthy RBI single up the middle that scored Dunker from second. The Bears scored

minutes to get on the scoreboard versus Green Bay, but Gunnar Hughes buried the puck in the back of the net at 11:12 of the second period. Hughes’ goal was assisted by Max Edson and Ian McCoshen. Guptill added a second goal from Black Hawks’ newcomer Justin Kloos and Zach Palmquist less than a minute later at 11:54 of the frame.

Green Bay answered back with Jean-Paul LaFontaine’s William Kessel-assisted goal at 14:43, and Grant Arnold’s goal at 15:46.

Arnold’s goal was assisted

by David Goodwin and Alex Broadhurst. In the third, Kloos scored his first goal as a Black Hawk from Guptill and James Hansen at 1:02 of the frame, and Hughes added an unassisted, emptynet goal at 19:37 to seal the win.

On Saturday, Jonathon Liau’s goal was all it took for the Omaha Lancers to down the Black Hawks and keep the suspense up for the final playoff spot as the season winds down.

Waterloo travels to Chicago for a midweek meeting versus the Steel on March 23, then faces the Muskegon Lumberjacks on March 25 in Muskegon. The Black Hawks face the Dubuque Fighting Saints in Party Town on Saturday, March 26, and the Cedar Rapids Rough Riders come to Waterloo on April 1. Muskegon will face the Black Hawks in Waterloo on April 2, and Dubuque will play host to the team on April 6.

The Black Hawks wrap up the season with a homeand-home stand against the Green Bay Gamblers and the Dubuque Fighting Saints on April 8 and 9, respectively.

Fans are encouraged to travel to Young Arena in Waterloo and cheer your Black Hawks on to a playoff spot, as the team is currently two points out of the sixth and final place in the playoff picture. an unearned run in the second and executed a suicide squeeze in the third to tie the game at two. Bats were then silenced until the bottom of the eighth inning when Madison Hargrove hit a walk-off single to give Missouri State the 3-2 victory.

The Panthers are now 14-13 on the year and 1-2 in the Missouri Valley Conference.

UNI will continue conference play next weekend as they take on Evansville in a threegame series.

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