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opinion 4 | campuslife 5 | sports 8 | games 11 | classifieds 12 CAMPUS EVENTS New club seeks to provide financial literacy education ALLIE KOOLBECK Editorial Staff ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ to host pep rally at UNI CAMPUS EVENTS PostSecret Confessions at UNI “My name is Frank, and I collect secrets,” began Frank Warren, sole founder of the PostSecret project. Warren spoke at the University of Northern Iowa on Sept. 15. PostSecret is one of the largest and most pop- ular ad-free blogs on the Internet. According to its website, PostSecret “is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.” Warren went on to tell the audience at the Gallagher- Bluedorn Performing Arts Center about the secrets he has received, which have come from all corners of the world. He talked about secrets he received with wedding proposals, secrets with ter- rifying stories on them, as well as secrets with happy stories. He talked about receiving secrets on a bag of coffee, a fast-food bag and even a potato. DELANEY PALEN Staff Writer WHITNEY PHILLIPS/Northern Iowan PostSecret founder Frank Warren shows the audience a postcard he received. Warren spoke at Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on Sept. 15. See POSTSECRET, page 3 “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is coming to Cedar Falls. A Cedar Falls family, who will be announced after Sunday, Oct. 2, will have a new home built for them. To kick off the show, a pep rally is being held at the McLeod Center on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. “I’m really excited because I’m volunteering (for the project) and I’m an interior design major,” said sophomore Victoria Guthart. Actor and Cedar Falls native Gary Kroeger will host the pep rally, accord- ing to an article from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. The rally is open to the public, who can attend to learn about ways they can help. Want to volunteer for the project? Visit joinextreme.com/iowa NEWS IN PHOTOS WHITNEY PHILLIPS/Northern Iowan Left to right: Mike Lieb, freshman undecided major; Jessica Moore, sophomore theater major; and Griffin Garland, senior theater major partake in the celebration of Piazza’s 10th birthday. Piazza had its 10th anniversary on Sept. 14. To celebrate this, the dining center featured birthday games and special menu items such as cupcakes, a birthday cake (shown above), purple Panther punch and kettle corn. Piazza turns 10 SARAH KELZER Staff Writer For the first time at University of Northern Iowa, the UNI Financial Literacy Club will be meet- ing on Monday, Sept. 26 to give students an opportuni- ty to educate themselves on the importance of financial literacy. Led by Michael Finley, a student majoring in crimi- nology, the UNI Financial Literacy Club will be a com- bination of class and open discussion. Finley is a non- traditional student who wants “to provide a place where students can receive unbiased information where there is nobody trying to sell them anything.” “There is no conflict of interest, no one is benefit- ing from anything that is being said and it provides a student an opportunity to educate themselves,” Finley said about the club. During the weekly two- hour meetings, the first hour will be spent discussing large, broad topics that are important to the club, such as taxes, insurance, investments and marketing STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS See CLUB, page 3 For more photos of Piazza’s birthday, turn to page 2. September 20, 2011 I Volume 108, Issue 7 Cedar Falls, Iowa I northern-iowan.org the university of northern iowa’s student-produced newspaper since 1892 TUESDAY NORTHERN IOWAN GLOWSTOCK HITS CEDAR VALLEY 6

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CAMPUS EVENTS

New club seeks to provide financial literacy education

ALLIE KOOLBECKEditorial Staff

‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ to host pep rally at UNI

CAMPUS EVENTS

PostSecretConfessions at UNI

“My name is Frank, and I collect secrets,” began Frank Warren, sole founder of the PostSecret project. Warren spoke at the University of Northern Iowa on Sept. 15.

PostSecret is one of the largest and most pop-ular ad-free blogs on the Internet. According to its website, PostSecret “is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.”

Warren went on to tell the audience at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center about the secrets he has received, which have come from all corners of the world.

He talked about secrets he received with wedding proposals, secrets with ter-rifying stories on them, as well as secrets with happy stories. He talked about receiving secrets on a bag of coffee, a fast-food bag and even a potato.

DELANEY PALENStaff Writer

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PostSecret founder Frank Warren shows the audience a postcard he received. Warren spoke at Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on Sept. 15. See POSTSECRET, page 3

“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is coming to Cedar Falls. A Cedar Falls family, who will be announced after Sunday, Oct. 2, will have a new home built for them.

To kick off the show, a pep rally is being held at the McLeod Center on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m.

“I’m really excited because I’m volunteering (for the project) and I’m an interior design major,” said sophomore Victoria

Guthart. Actor and Cedar Falls

native Gary Kroeger will host the pep rally, accord-ing to an article from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

The rally is open to the public, who can attend to learn about ways they can help.

Want to volunteer for the project? Visitjoinextreme.com/iowa

NEWS IN PHOTOS

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Left to right: Mike Lieb, freshman undecided major; Jessica Moore, sophomore theater major; and Griffin Garland, senior theater major partake in the celebration of Piazza’s 10th birthday. Piazza had its 10th anniversary on Sept. 14. To celebrate this, the dining center featured birthday games and special menu items such as cupcakes, a birthday cake (shown above), purple Panther punch and kettle corn.

Piazza turns 10

SARAH KELZER Staff Writer

For the first time at University of Northern Iowa, the UNI Financial Literacy Club will be meet-ing on Monday, Sept. 26 to give students an opportuni-ty to educate themselves on the importance of financial literacy.

Led by Michael Finley, a

student majoring in crimi-nology, the UNI Financial Literacy Club will be a com-bination of class and open discussion. Finley is a non-traditional student who wants “to provide a place where students can receive unbiased information where there is nobody trying to sell them anything.”

“There is no conflict of interest, no one is benefit-

ing from anything that is being said and it provides a student an opportunity to educate themselves,” Finley said about the club.

During the weekly two-hour meetings, the first hour will be spent discussing large, broad topics that are important to the club, such as taxes, insurance, investments and marketing

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

See CLUB, page 3

For more photos of Piazza’s birthday, turn to page 2.

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Arrest made in Andrews case

Paris Anding, 19, was arrested on charges of sec-ond-degree murder of Marcellus Andrews, accord-ing to an article from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

Anding was arrested on Sept. 8. He was also arrested for aggravated assault in an unrelated case, according to the article.

Andrews died Aug. 21 after suffering a severe beating.

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The University of Northern Iowa’s recently renovated Sabin Hall will be formally rededicated at 1 p.m., Friday, Sept. 23 in Sabin 002. A reception and building tours will follow the ceremony. The event is free and open to the public.

After two years of demolition and reconstruc-tion, Sabin reopened in January 2011. There are now classrooms on lower levels and offices of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences on upper levels.

The guiding principle for the design, construction and use of the building was sustainability, and the ultimate goal of the project is to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.

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Junior business administration major Alex Holm and junior accounting major Katie Pins eat cupcakes at the celebration of Piazza’s 10th anniversary on Sept. 14. In addition to cupcakes, the celebration included birthday games and special menu items, such as a birthday cake, purple Panther punch and kettle corn.

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PostSecret founder Frank Warren talks to the audience about different postcards he’s received. Warren spoke at Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on Sept. 15.

“If it fits in my mailbox, I’ve probably pulled it out with a secret written on it,” Warren said.

Warren talked about how he reads each secret “with an open mind and an open heart.” He told the audience that “if you really listen to the words on the card, at the core, you can sometimes find a kernel of truth or wisdom.”

“I think we all have secrets, and I like to imagine each of us keeping our secrets in a box, just like this. Every day I think we each make a deci-sion about what to do with our box,” Warren continued.

He spoke to the audience about how a secret can affect

our lives, as well as the lives of those around us.

“Sometimes when we think we’re keeping a secret, that secret’s actually keep-ing us,” Warren said. “It can harm our relationships with ourselves or with others; it can even keep us from being who we really are, deep down inside. It can keep us from freeing our soul.”

Warren told the audi-ence of how a secret can be something hurtful, some-thing happy or something tragic that might be holding someone back in one way or another.

Some people have told Warren that they don’t have secrets. He said that he believes some of the best secrets come from those who deny having any.

Warren then spoke about the beginning of the PostSecret project. He told the audience that, in some way, he knew that he began PostSecret to make peace with his own past secrets. Warren learned, through the courage of strangers, that he could face his past and the secrets that lie there – he knew that he wasn’t alone with them.

Warren said he knew all along that the idea for PostSecret was a crazy one –

the idea for strangers to mail him, another stranger, their secrets. He feels there are just as many other ideas out there that are great, just waiting for one person to believe in them.

“It would have been too difficult to explain to any-body what I was doing when it started because it just seemed crazy,” Warren said about the project’s beginning.

He refers to the project as a “personal vision.”

Warren said that, now, most of his neighbors are very supportive. He also said that sometimes, he will get his neighbors’ mail, and this leads him to wonder if his neighbors “get a postcard or two and maybe just decide to keep it.”

“That could be their secret, right?” joked Warren.

Through PostSecret, Warren said that he has learned that the understand-ing of another’s secret can “create compassion, empathy, connection and appreciation.”

“A secret can be a wall or a bridge, depending on what is done with the secret,” Warren said. “Each one of us has a secret that could break your heart, if you just knew what it was.”

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campaigns. The second hour will focus on more specific subjects. For example, if investments are covered during the first hour, then during the second hour students will learn exactly where to go and how to invest in a way that is most efficient for them.

Every week during the second hour, Finley will ask a financial question that was previ-ously discussed and whoev-er answers first will receive $20.

In addition, at the end of the year, a financial lit-eracy test will be given to the club and whoever scores the highest will receive a grand prize of $1,000. Finley stresses that any average student can achieve the highest score by simply attending the meetings.

“I’m putting my money where my mouth is,” Finley said. “The $1,000 and week-ly $20 is coming out of my pocket.”

Finley, retired from the military, has had a lifelong education in financial lit-eracy. After being broke at age 25, making some financial changes and retiring at age 45, Finley emphasizes the importance of being a better consumer with one’s money.

“This is the time in your life when you need to learn about money and financial lit-eracy, so when you start to make money, you hit the ground running,” Finley said.

Finley has spread his message about finan-cial competence to other UNI students such as Amy Gingrich, a sophomore communica-tive disorders major, who will also be involved with the UNI Financial Literacy Club.

“As a student, it feels like money controls you sometimes, and I think that by turning around and learning about financial literacy,

you can control your money and focus on other things in life other than the stress and the worry of money,” Gingrich said.

Outside resources will be provided for the club members to learn more. One of the most important concepts to Finley is for students to learn more about financial matters without being scammed by someone trying to sell students something.

Finley is reluctant and cautious when bringing in outside speakers.

“Most people who speak to you about money have something in it; there is a conflict of interest,” Finley said. “They are making money off the products they are talking about or the service they want to provide.”

Joe Gorton, a UNI associate professor in the department of sociology, criminology and anthropol-ogy, supports the message Finley is trying to convey to students. While teaching Finley in different classes, Gorton observed Finley’s knowledge of and commit-ment to financial literacy.

“It is a tremendous need for students, faculty and

others to build a secure financial future,” Gorton said. “Finley is very accessible and passionate – the exact person needed to acquire greater knowledge.”

Through life experiences and many mis-takes, Finley feels he can provide students with the knowledge they cannot find any-where else.

“I have been coaxing, pushing (and) prod-ding, people, family members and friends to become more financially literate because it has changed the course of my life and so I know it can change the course of anyone’s life if they are willing to really take that message and run with it,” Finley said.

I know (financial literacy) can change the course of anyone’s life if they are willing to really take that message and run with it.

”Leader of Financial Literacy ClubMichael Finley

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“”PostSecret founder

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The first time I set foot in the dining center, I fell in love. Hot breakfast every morn-ing, diverse menu options and specialty items helped me gain every pound of the Freshman 15. However, after two years, I thought I could go without. I moved off cam-pus and told myself, “Now I can cook whatever I want, whenever I want.” Unfortunately, that dream never came to fruition. The fruit that I bought went rot-ten. The house cupboards were filled with stale bread. After mismanaging my food budget, my organic milk car-tons turned into Kwik Star brand milk bags. I found myself eating at the Union more and more. In no time flat the perceived financial benefit of living off campus became negligible if not non-existent. After two years in a dining desert, this year I returned to on-campus dining. The din-ing centers are one of the best-run departments in the university. Instead of buying fruit in bulk, preparing it and doing the dishes afterward, I can just grab an apple or a slice of cantaloupe and be on my way. I can easily pick out a well-balanced meal with a daily spread of well-repre-sented food groups. And all of these qualities come from a strong effort bottom to top. The dining centers employ

hundreds of students every semester. These workers get paid above minimum wage with the opportunity to get pay rate increases with addi-tional hours worked. Dining centers are also more than willing to work around stu-dent schedules. The directors of dining services and dining center managers take their jobs very seriously. On more than one occasion they have asked me how the dining centers could be improved. Seldom can I give a suggestion that hasn’t already been weighed and explored. They constantly pursue means to make the dining centers what stu-dents want and need. For Pete’s sake, they have soft-serve ice cream and a crazy machine that actually juices real oranges. The first time I went to breakfast, I thought I was at Willy Wonka’s factory or something. But that just goes to show that the dining staff works hard to make the dining centers a special place to eat and socialize. Coming back to the dining centers has obviously been a pleasure for me. And while eating off campus may have its advantages, if students take an honest look at the time they take preparing food and the money they waste in excess groceries, it makes sense to have a meal plan in college.

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Despite an overall decrease in enroll-ment, the University of Northern Iowa was able to find reason to triumph in its recent enrollment report: this year, multicultural students make up a record 7.4 percent of the UNI student body, which seems to be a major achievement in a community that is histori-cally homogeneous. But why is this heralded as an accomplish-ment? The importance of diversity appears to be taken to be increasingly self-evident, a fact that makes us feel it’s necessary to ask the question, why is diversity considered a value? We don’t ask this question rhetorically in order to dismiss diversity – quite the oppo-site, actually. We feel this question needs answering so that its value cannot be so easily brushed away. The way we understand it, the importance of diversity centers on one fact: nobody’s perfect. Sorry to break it to you, but you don’t know everything. We can’t think of anybody who would argue with that. Here’s the tough part to swal-low, though: you don’t know everything you think you do. This was the pri-mary message spread by one of the fathers of philosophy as we know it, Socrates. Back in the day, good ol’ Socrates would travel around Athens seeking out men with a reputa-tion of wisdom, only to find that, while they may have known much about their particular trade, they felt they knew much about sub-jects they really had no clue about. Then he would prove they were just blowing smoke in front of a lot of young people, who would laugh at them. As you can imagine, Socrates wasn’t a very popular guy. And while he may have been an old man from thousands of years ago, what he did and said is still relevant today. Unless you admit what you don’t know, how can you ever seek to learn it? It is so easy to develop opinions about every matter – let’s look at on-campus park-ing, for example. If you’ve ever been unable to find a CP parking spot and had to trek back from the R lot in the middle of winter, you might be inclined to think that parking is ter-rible on campus. But let’s say your friend from a larger university visits you and tells you about how parking at his school costs $250 and how most parking lots are a half-hour walk from campus. Suddenly UNI’s parking situation doesn’t look so bad. That’s one important thing that diversity provides: perspective. Everybody has their own individual experiences, which produces their own unique beliefs and ways of looking at the world. You may have many beliefs, and they may fit in with everything you’ve expe-

rienced, but that doesn’t make them right. It’s only when the beliefs and experiences of others come into the mix that you can look on your own from a new perspective, and find that you may not have it all figured out. But then another problem may arise: you and the people you come in contact with now have a broader perspective, and after tweak-ing your beliefs come to feel again that you’ve got it figured out. However, then someone from another culture, another completely dif-ferent set of experiences and beliefs, comes into the picture, and his or her perspective highlights many problems with your own. Now we’re getting at the importance of diversity. A variety of perspectives – of expe-riences, of beliefs, of ethnic and socioeco-nomic backgrounds – helps us realize that we might not have it all figured out. We become humbled and begin to recognize the value of those around us. Perhaps that person I casu-ally dismissed before may be on to something – maybe they have something relevant to say.

Diversity helps us throw away our presumptions and move towards truth. Encountering indi-viduals with different perspectives forces us to re-evaluate our own perspective and recog-nize the inherent value of every person. It is simply indispensible. So the university is right to laud an increase in multicultur-al students on campus – we’re taking steps in the right direction, though we’re not there yet. Having a diversity of beliefs, cultures and experiences on campus

means absolutely nothing if individuals from those different backgrounds don’t reach out and converse with each other – and we don’t mean just talking; we mean listening. We mean looking at this human being as a think-ing person with thoughts, beliefs and emo-tions that are not yours and that you likely haven’t encountered before, and seeking to understand them. We need diversity if we ever hope to live together in humility. We could go on about the dangers of the proud brand of single-mindedness that arises where diversity is absent, but we feel history has provided more examples that illustrate that than we could ever mention here. Get out of your bubble. Get uncom-fortable. Find someone who looks different from you, who is from somewhere else, who believes something else. Find them, see them as a person, and respectfully get to know them. Listen to what they have to say, and stop and think about your own beliefs – you may find that you knew a lot less than you thought.

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My boyfriend forgot to log out of his Facebook and I noticed he had been messag-ing a random girl I didn’t know and was being overly flirty with her, saying she’s cute and that he wishes she lived closer. I confronted him about the messages and he said she’s just a friend and nothing has ever happened with her. Even though supposedly nothing has happened, is that still a form of cheating? Because it hurts just as much.

He said:

Out of all possible dan-gerous words to use as far as relationships go, cute is towards the top of the list. Cute is safe. Cute is posi-tive. Cute is very hard to misinterpret. It says that you are physically attract-ed while not going fully overboard. Generally it’s a starter adjective, working its way towards the big win-ners like beautiful, gorgeous, stunning, etc. Now I’m not trying to stir some sort of panic in you, but in my expe-rience, using words like cute never has pure intentions. Is talking to another per-son cheating, even while using words like cute? No, not entirely. However, it is most certainly a concern. Even if you are just try-ing to build a 100 percent platonic relationship, behav-ior as you have described is, for lack of a better term,

sketchy. Don’t get me wrong – I’m all for independence within a relationship and both should be allowed to simply converse with other people outside that relation-ship. In fact, I think contact with people of the same sex as your partner is almost essential so long as things stay in control. It can really give you sense of bearing and provide perspective you might not have had before. Within that, you have to maintain control. Innocent flirting such as this can lead to a major clustercuss. Bottom line, you could possibly be being played right now. Have solid evi-dence to go on before com-ing to that full on conclu-sion, but actions like these tend not to end well. Ask for honesty from your part-ner and make it clear that you are uncomfortable with developments such as this. Is it cheating? No, but it is potentially one step away from it.

She said:

I’ve found that in these situations, it’s always best to step back, take a deep breath and collect your thoughts before doing anything irra-tional. The possible threat of another girl coming in the middle of the relation-ship is something that I think a lot of women deal

with, whether or not it actu-ally happens. Sometimes we just have those suspicions – call it intuition – that make us feel like something just isn’t right. I don’t think this is tech-nically a form of cheating, although it has the poten-tial to turn into that. Saying she’s cute? He wishes she lived closer? For what, so they can play Yahtzee together? Maybe she’s just a friend now, but personally, talking to another girl about how good she looks doesn’t necessarily sound like a nor-mal conversation between friends. I understand how you could feel like this hurts as bad as being cheated on — it’s hard to know your boy-friend has a friendship with a girl behind your back. It’d be different if he were up front with you about it and talk-ed to you about her – that way she wouldn’t be such a secret. But finding out about her because he accidentally left his Facebook up is defi-nitely not the way it should have gone down. I suppose, on the other hand, maybe he was just afraid that if you knew about her, you’d overreact. Don’t accuse him of cheating/doing anything wrong just yet. Just tell him how the messages make you feel and that you’d be more comfortable if he didn’t keep his friendships a secret. That way, you will know you have nothing to worry about. Tell him that you want to be more involved with his life, know about his friends and make them yours, too. Just be patient and wait to see how it unfolds. Maybe we’re both wrong and it really is just a harmless friendship — if so, he will have no problem letting you in.

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When I decided to watch and review “Contagion” for this week, I expected to watch a dramatic action thriller that involved sever-al magnificent actors fight-ing a contagious disease. I was correct – this is essen-tially the entire movie in a nutshell – but what I was not expecting was the fear I’d have when I left: the fear of touching anyone or anything because I could die from a crazy disease. And then I used some hand sanitizer. Although that’s a little

dramatic, it’s true. The movie “Contagion,” which follows several people over the course of “Day 2” (the beginning) until the disease is put in the Centers for Disease Control vault, gives what is hopefully not (but probably is) a realistic view of what our lives would be like if we were struck with a deadly disease even worse than H1N1 or SARS. The movie begins with several shots of actions or objects that can spread dis-ease, and then opens to a coughing Gwyneth Paltrow eating peanuts at an airport

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Item 9 & the Mad Hatters, a vintage rock band from Iowa City, performs at the Wheelhouse during Glowstock Saturday night.

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Drummer Rob Abrams warms up before Iowa City band Item 9 & the Mad Hatters plays their set during Glowstock Saturday night.

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Attendees dance as KickShifta, a dubstep group from Cedar Rapids, mixes on his laptop.

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Adam Maxwell, lead vocals for Iowa City vintage rock band Item 9 & the Mad Hatters, sings one of the group’s original songs during Glowstock at Wheelhouse on Saturday night.

It’s not difficult to draw several parallels between Glowstock, a free music festi-val hosted at the Wheelhouse Saturday night, and the fictional music festival Waynestock from the 1993 film “Wayne’s World 2.” Both festivals were direct-ed by relatively inexperienced event coordinators who sought to bring live music to their unlikely towns, and both expe-rienced several obstacles that threatened to derail them. Unlike the latter, however, Glowstock wasn’t up dreamed overnight. “On campus I saw rock bands pop up on sidewalks, I saw raves in dorm rooms and parties in the residence halls – I saw all kinds of cool stuff,” said Zach Fisher, the festival’s direc-tor. “Finally I was like, there’s enough interest in this that we can go do it somewhere and do it huge.” And despite having to change the location four days before the show, Fisher, a sophomore at the University of Northern Iowa, managed to pull it off. “I told the crowd (at the beginning of the show), ‘Welcome to Glowstock, final-ly.’” Last June, Fisher decided he wanted to bring a free music festival to UNI in order to fill what he saw as a hole on cam-pus – a chance for independent, local artists to play for their peers, “the same people they go to class with, the same people they work with,” and give them “one heck of a show.” The result was a seven-hour mix of 11 booming rock, hip hop, dubstep and house artists from all around the Midwest shaking the packed Wheelhouse under colored lights and fog. The lineup featured a mixture of rock bands, including Cedar Falls’ “I’m Prettier Than You” and Iowa City’s “Item 9 & the Mad Hatters,” and DJs like Kickshifta and Defaudio, who got the crowd out of their seats and on the dance floor. The show was headlined by Noblehaus, a group of three Iowa State University stu-dents who love dance music. The three DJs that make up Noblehaus – Ryan Walkup, Dan Siroky and Taylor McCalla – each bring their own sound to their mixes. “Our close friends can usu-ally tell who’s playing just because we each have a distinct style,” Walkup said. “I like a lot of progressive

house – long builds, full melo-dies – just kind of dynamic, emotional songs. Dan, he loves more of the dancey-type stuff, stuff that people can’t help but move to, and Taylor loves it all; he just likes loud music.” Noblehaus began doing house parties in Ames and moved up to playing bars and larger venues, and were eventually invited to join the Glowstock lineup after one of their fans, fellow Glowstock performer Charlie Smith (a.k.a. DJ Dark Grey), recommended them to Fisher. Walkup said Noblehaus was “super excited” to play at Glowstock, adding that he loves playing music for people. “That’s the best part, just sort of having a moment, a con-nection with the people that are there with you, and you’re all just partying together,” he said. “It’s all just a lot of fun.” The festival, originally slat-ed to be performed in Lawther Field at UNI, was moved to Wheelhouse the week before the show due to the last of many challenges that faced Fisher throughout the planning process, which he described as a “roller coaster.” After narrow-ing 40 groups down to 11 and coordinating the event, Fisher contended with funding and liability issues that pushed the event off campus, with inclem-ent weather providing the final straw to Fisher’s on-campus plans. “That would have really rained on our parade, don’t mind the pun,” he said. For many of the estimated 800 attendees, Glowstock was well worth the wait. “It was an awesome expe-rience,” said James Young, a freshman accounting major. “We should just have more.” Despite the difficult road that brought Fisher to Saturday’s performance, he was excited and pleased with the final result. “It’s been a long and difficult process, and there were a lot of hoops we had to jump through,” he said, “but in the end it hap-pened, and it just proves that anybody can do what they want to do as long as they put their minds to it.” Though Glowstock is now over, Fisher’s dreams of bring-ing a free music festival to UNI’s campus aren’t. “I still want to bring Glowstock to campus; I still want to see it outside, or maybe even in the Dome – we’ll see,” he said. “But it was all worth it 100 percent to see everybody come out and have a good time.”

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bar. She is visibly sick, and with the movie’s fast pace, is soon dead. Her charac-ter, Beth Emhoff, is dubbed “Patient Zero,” and her hus-band Mitch (Matt Damon) is left to pick up the pieces and deal with her death and the aftermath of the disease. The movie picks up new characters: scientists at the Centers for Disease Control (Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Ehle and Demetri Martin), an epide-miologist from Switzerland (Marion Cotillard) and the movie’s true bad guy, Alan Krumwiede, played by Jude Law. The movie’s true nature comes out with these people. We see the reactions to death, the scientist who tells his wife to leave the city before people are supposed to know and the people who hold others hostage to ensure they are first on the vaccine list. The garbage piles up in the streets and stores are broken into. People, in this case Jude Law’s snaggle-toothed Internet blogger Krumwiede, are out to make money and thwart those try-ing to help. It is a terrify-ingly realistic image of what could happen in our world today with such a disease on the loose. The heart of the movie comes from the actors, but the brains come from direc-tor Steven Soderbergh. Most well-known for directing

the “Ocean’s” trilogies and the Oscar-winning “Erin Brockovich,” Soderbergh makes smart decisions that give the actors the most room to work and each scene the right amount of bang to make a statement with-out shouting. He gives each character and each actor enough space to breathe, but does not let any one person take the lead and the show. That being said, the actors and actresses make the film. With so many big names, one could expect the movie to be bogged down, but it is not. Each actor takes a step back and instead of relishing in their lead role, they all make movie magic in their equally small and significant roles. All are notably fantastic, but notable in particular is lesser-known British actress Jennifer Ehle, playing the scientist who discovers the vaccine. In one of the best roles, Ehle (who is beat known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet alongside Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy in the BBC version of “Pride and Prejudice,” but can also be seen more recently in “The King’s Speech”) takes us all by sur-prise and truly shows her acting abilities while under-stating her importance. It is phenomenal. Although as an admit-ted germaphobe, this movie was a little scarier for me than most, it is nonetheless one of the better “disease” movies out there. With its surprise ending, it will make

you think – not only about washing your hands but also about how you inter-

act with people. It is a very good movie, and although you might want to invest in

some industrial-sized bottles of hand sanitizer afterwards, it’s well worth the watch.

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Design tips from Kelly Edwards Just because most college stu-dents’ bedrooms consist of a small, white room that has been compared to a jail cell doesn’t mean they have to feel like one. Whether a student is living in a dorm room or a small apartment, there are usually restric-tions – no paint, no nails. With few options, what is a student to do with all of that pent-up creativity when they want to make their new home feel like “home”? Kelly Edwards, co-host and design coordinator of HGTV’s “Design on a Dime,” has suggestions for just those students – and ones that will not only allow them to express their own style, but work with a limited budget as well. According to Edwards, the num-ber one part of a student’s room to incorporate individual style into is the bedding area. “It’s kind of the focal point of your whole room,” said Edwards. “Instead of opting for the ‘bed in a bag,’ which a lot of people may have, opt for a duvet cover instead.” Edwards says the reason she

loves duvet covers opposed to the traditional “easy fix” of bedding col-lections at major retailers is because “it’s different than what everyone else is doing, but also when you get tired of it, you simply change out the duvet and it will give you a new look without breaking the bank.” For students who aren’t using lofts in the residence halls, there is an option available to create a more efficient use of space. “The other thing you can do with your bed is to put it up on ris-ers,” said Edwards. “Risers are great because as we know, dorm rooms and apartments can be tiny and we need that storage space. They’ll lift your bed up and you’ll get about six inches to be able to fit all of your storage containers.” Edwards feels lighting is “super important in design” and should also be focused on. “Obviously you can have the best design space, but if your lighting is off, your entire look will be off,” said Edwards. Edwards suggests ridding harsh dorm room lighting with that of “something kind of cool and funky, like a pendant light.”

Edwards said the best part about the pendant light is that it’s great for when the room is being shared – it separates both of the roommate’s areas. To allow that extra lighting to fill the room, Edwards suggests using floor mirrors, which make the room not only look bigger, but “a little bit more ‘light and airy,’ so to speak.” When it comes down to enter-taining within small spaces, whether it’s for study dates or movie nights with friends, Edwards suggests pur-chasing floor pillows instead of hav-ing extra chairs taking up space around the room. Unlike chairs, floor pillows can easily be slipped away when they’re not in use. Edwards also knows that the desk area is “super important, because obviously studying is going to be a priority in college.” Because of this, she recommends investing in a comfy chair at the desk since one may be “sitting there for sometimes hours and hours a night.” To watch Edwards in action, watch her host “Design on a Dime” Saturdays at 2 p.m. on HGTV.

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SportSSportS

Panthers sweep conference foes in milestone weekend

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Alex Uding (15) and the Panthers tied South Dakota State Sunday afternoon 2-2 (insert correct score)

ALEX MILLERSports Writer

VOLLEYBALL SOCCER

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The UNI Panthers swept both Southern Illinois and Evansville this weekend to improve to 2-0 in MVC play. UNI senior Michele Burow and head coach Bobbi Petersen each reached career milestones this weekend as well.

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The No. 15-ranked University of Northern Iowa volleyball team opened up Missouri Valley Conference play this week-end at home as they hosted the University of Southern Illinois Salukis and the University of Evansville Purple Aces. UNI head coach Bobbi Petersen notched her 300th career victory on Friday and senior Michele Burow was recognized for reach-ing 1,000 career kills on Saturday. The Panthers swept both teams to end the weekend with their third consecutive sweep. “Being able to see the growth and development from a player and coach standpoint and knowing all

of the people who have been a part of it, that’s what’s fun for me,” said Petersen fol-lowing her 300th victory.

UNI (12-1, 2-0 MVC) started off the confer-ence portion of the season Friday night when they played SIU. Megan Lehman ended with nine kills while Krista DeGeest added eight. Setter Bre Payton record-

ed 30 assists to her team-mates. The Panthers took the first three sets by scores of 25-18, 25-14 and 25-18. The first set started as a struggle for the Panthers as the Salukis (5-4, 0-1 MVC) jumped out to a 15-11 lead. However, UNI responded with an 11-1 run which gave them the lead at 22-16. UNI would take it from there with a final score of 25-18 in the first set. UNI led the entire second set against the Salukis. With the help of a 12-2 run, the Panthers took the second set 25-14. The third set was close with SIU taking the lead at 16-15, but it was UNI who took control from that point to take the set 25-18 and the match 3-0.

MAT MEYERSports Writer

See VOLLEYBALL, page 10

I’m so proud of her. (Burow), day-in and day-out, does exactly what you want her to do.

“”UNI head volleyball coach

Bobbi Petersen

Looking to avenge their recent loss to in-state rivals, Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa soccer team came back with something to prove against South Dakota State University on Sunday. The Panthers started a little slow, but as the rain picked up, so did the offense, helping the Panthers to a 2-2 draw after falling behind 2-0. “In the context of the game, going two goals down and coming back to tie 2-2 is ok,” said UNI head coach James Price. “From a psychological standpoint, it was good to come back (and) show some toughness.” South Dakota State (4-5-1) got off to a fast start by scoring in the 20th minute then again later in the 54th minute. With a 2-0 lead, SDSU looked dominant and in charge of the game’s pace. As the rain continued to pour down, the Panthers continued to strive for a goal to get them back into the game. Claire Clark put a few shots on goal towards the end of the half, but noth-ing would fall. UNI contin-ued to fire on all cylinders throughout the game, which helped them achieve 10 of 14 shooting overall. Eventually, UNI (3-5-2) got their way when senior Melissa Hagan scored the first goal to spark the Panthers’ comeback in the 64th minute. Shortly there-after, UNI managed to get a goal from SDSU in the 80th minute, tying the game at two goals apiece.

With only 10 minutes remaining in the half, each team had a fair share of chances to walk away with the victory. South Dakota State put several shots on frame (7-21 shooting), but UNI goalkeeper Erin Zaideman was everywhere, preventing SDSU from closing out the game. With an acrobatic save to end the second half by Zaideman, the teams headed to extra time. Throughout extra time, each team had an equal amount of opportunities, but neither side could get the go-ahead goal. Clark had a shot in the 105th minute, but Kat Donovan (SDSU) was there in a hurry. Missy Journot got the final shot in for the Panthers in the 106th minute, but she just barely missed it over the crossbar. “We’ll take some posi-tives away from it obviously, but we (have) to go away and work on those nega-tives,” said Price, indicat-ing that UNI played strong enough to win but just couldn’t seem to get ahead. With several games left in the season, UNI heads to Creighton on Sept. 23 to face the Blue Jays. The Panthers will play at home again on Sept. 26 where they will take on St. Ambrose at the Cedar Valley Youth Soccer Complex in Waterloo.

Panthers come from behind to tie Jackrabbits

Next games

@CreightonSept. 23 @ 7 p.m.

St. AmbroseSept. 26 @ 7 p.m.

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Is it time for the Denver Broncos to start Tim Tebow?DUELING SPORTS WRITERS

One of the more popular topics surrounding the National Football League is the quarterback controversy in Denver between Iowa native and NFL veteran Kyle Orton and second-year fan favorite, Tim Tebow. This summer the Denver Broncos were look-ing to trade Kyle Orton to the Miami Dolphins

in exchange for a future second or third round draft pick. This trade would have made Tebow the starter and silenced all the Tebow fanatics who have been calling for Tebow to start for more than a year. However, the trade with the Dolphins fell through, the Broncos kept Orton, Orton won

over his teammates and coaches with his perfor-mance in practice and in the preseason and now Tebow is competing with Brady Quinn for the role of backup quarterback. This brings us to our topic of discussion: Is it time for the Broncos to start Tim Tebow?

The Broncos went 4-12 last season, which was the second-worst record in the NFL. Orton was 3-10 as the starting quarterback before he got injured; that’s when Tebow filled in and was 1-2 as the starter. In those three games, as well as six others where Tebow saw limited action, he passed for 654 yards and five touchdowns against three interceptions, while rushing for 227 yards and six touchdowns. Those are pretty good numbers. However, here is the statistic that every-one is critiquing Tebow on: pass completion percentage. Tebow completed 41-of-82 passes last season, exactly 50 percent. In the NFL you would prefer to see that number around 60 to 65 per-cent. Some critics are going far enough as to say that Tebow will never be an accomplished NFL passer and the Broncos should just trade him while they still can. I don’t believe that at all, and even if Tebow is never a consistent 60-per-cent passer, he is a winner. He knows how to win. He won two national titles and a Heisman trophy in college, not to mention he is a great motivator and a great team-mate. Tebow will find a way to win, whether he is beating you with his arm or his legs. The Denver Broncos are in a no-win situation, plain and simple. The organiza-

tion is trying to win games and they believe Orton is their best option to do that right now. However, they are also trying to please the fans, and to do that they must play Tebow. If you want my hon-est opinion, the Broncos will probably win more games this year with Orton as their starter than they would if Tebow was start-ing. However, I don’t think Orton will win enough games to get the team to the playoffs. If that’s the case, why not start Tebow and let him gain some more valuable experi-ence? I say go ahead and use the old “trial by fire” technique. Let him get his feet wet. The Broncos aren’t going to the playoffs anyway because their defense is hor-rendous, so why not throw Tebow out there and see what he can do. If he is suc-cessful, the Broncos know they have the quarterback of the future. If he fails, Orton can return to being the starter and the Broncos can look to trade Tebow in the offseason. The worst case scenario for the Broncos would be to keep Orton as their start-er this year and not make the playoffs. To me, it looks like they are headed in that direction. If that happens, the Broncos won’t have solved anything and they will be right back where they are now, wondering if the unproven Tim Tebow is their franchise quarterback.

BRAD EILERSSports Editor

Tim Tebow has not proved himself in the National Football League. At camp he was outper-formed by both Kyle Orton and Brady Quinn. The only reason he is being talked about seriously right now is because of fan support -- support based on his college career, nothing more. Fans are constantly reminded not to take pre-season games seriously. When a pundit tries to make an argument based on pre-season statistics, he is often chastised. Yet in the case of Tebow’s potential, so much is based off his play in college. Yes, he was quite possibly the best collegiate athlete ever, but that was college. Great college quar-terbacks often find no suc-cess in the NFL whatsoever (just ask JaMarcus Russell). Tebow is appealing for many reasons, but none as obvious as his ability to run the ball. Mobile quarter-backs in the NFL rarely have the same success that they

do in college. Philadelphia Eagles backup quarterback Vince Young has rushed for 12 touchdowns in six NFL seasons. In two years in col-lege, he ran for 26 touch-downs. Even if Tebow man-ages to run well, it will not be the solution to Denver’s problems. Success will come down to how well he can pass. Denver fans are latch-ing onto a player for his past. The Broncos franchise, however, is looking for wins. The fans are acting rashly because they feel like Tebow is going to somehow pro-duce offensively in a way that Orton cannot. Orton may not have the natural athletic ability that Tebow has, but he does have experience. Although Orton currently ranks 27th out of 32 quarterbacks in passer rating this season, his lack of performance this year should have an asterisk by it. In Denver’s only game this year, they ran for a mea-sly 38 yards on 13 carries against the Oakland Raiders. Orton himself gained 12 of those yards on his sole carry.

Not only was the run game almost nonexistent, but the offensive line looked terrible. Neither Orton nor Tebow is going to be able to find much success in a game where the pocket collapses so often. The quarterback position should not be the area of concern for Denver; it should be the running game. Starting Tebow over Orton is not going to help running back Knowshon Moreno run for more than 22 yards. Head coach John Fox has chosen to play Orton over Tebow despite the fan sup-port for the latter. Tebow may be their quarterback in a couple years, but the Broncos feel that Orton is their most effective quarter-back right now. While it’s easy to speculate as a fan, the coaches have training camps, practices and workouts to base their decisions on. Orton may not be the ideal franchise quarterback, but fans must realize he is the best option the Denver Broncos currently has.

BRENNAN ACTONSports Columnist

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Saturday, both Petersen and Burow were awarded for their career accomplish-ments. “I’m so proud of her. (Burow), day-in and day-out, does exactly what you want her to do,” said Petersen. UNI faced off with Evansville (11-4, 1-1 MVC) in their second match of the weekend where the Panthers were ready to make some improvements and get their second win of the confer-ence. “(We were) definitely much improved in a lot of areas we were focusing on, so it was good to see that,” commented Petersen on her team’s willingness to get better. Burow added 11 more kills to her weekend total and Lehman added nine of her own. Payton had another high assist count with 35 to help lead the Panthers to victory. UNI swept the Purple Aces by scores of

25-20, 25-13 and 25-18. A kill by Amy Braun sparked the team, giving them an early 13-10 lead in the first set. However, UNI could never pull away from the Purple Aces, who kept it close throughout the game. UNI earned a hard-fought 25-20 victory. UE struggled to get things going in the second set and the Panthers only trailed once as they took a 25-13 victory behind a 10-2 run. The Panthers had a .378 attack percentage compared to just .140 by Evansville in the third set. The Purple Aces kept it close early, but eventually the Panthers surged to their third straight sweep. A kill by Shelby Kintzel ended the set 25-18 and the match at 3-0. UNI will resume confer-ence play Friday when they travel to Normal, Ill., to take on the Illinois State University Redbirds. The match is set to start at 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALLcontinued from page 8UNI Volleyball vs. Southern Illinois

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The Panthers recorded 42 kills against Southern Illinois and had an attack percentage of .188.

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UNI head coach Bobbi Petersen (center) recorded her 300th career victory this weekend with UNI’s 3-0 sweep of Southern Illinois.

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Today’s Birthday (09/20/11). A creative endeavor could be quite lucrative. There are more trials on their way, so seize the day while the getting’s good, and squirrel away what you can. Your friends are there when you need them, and you reciprocate. Find thoughtful ways to show them that you care.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most chal-lenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Work through an intermediary, for greater impact. Let a partner negotiate. Discover hidden treasure by spend-ing time at home.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Reason and emotion argue to a standstill. Get quiet, and meditate on it. Study. Take on more responsibility without compensation, and

you’ll be amply rewarded later.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 9 -- An-ticipate resistance, and, if there isn’t any, fly ahead faster. A prepared response gives confidence. Commu-nications from a distance provide clarity. Consider the bottom dollar.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Travel’s not advised today. Don’t confront authority directly, but be prepared to defend your position. Budget for future plans, and then reach for them. You’ve got the power.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Leave your money in the bank. Let your partner know the score. Get out of the house and around town, prefer-ably in good company. Don’t focus on stressful situations.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You may

find yourself in a maze of confrontations, contradic-tions and disparities. In the end, it’s your imagination that carries you in the right direction.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- There’s plenty of room for mis-understandings now, but nothing you can’t handle with your sense of humor. You can easily diffuse the situation.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Avoid confusion in interactions by creating the necessary structure. Sometimes the

best strategy is to keep quiet. You’d rather play than work now. Spending time outdoors rejuvenates.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Don’t try out a new idea yet. Even though a loved one is anxious for home improve-ments, don’t take out any loans. Learning is tons of fun, and cheap. Business heats up.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Think of a new service to provide. Focus on work now and be wonderfully productive. Don’t get dis-

tracted by other people’s anxieties. Offer food and comfort.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re lucky in love now, and you like it. Enjoy some good social time while you can, as things are going to get very busy soon.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- A child holds the knowledge that you need to complete your next mission. Be playful in your labors and work hard when playing. Romance blossoms.

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