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UNI offering online physical education master’s program

BLAKE FINDLEYAcademic Writer

Starting in the spring 2012 semes-ter, the University of Northern Iowa will offer an online graduate program for physical education. The program will take two years to complete and students will take two eight-week classes per semester, including in the summer.

Fabio Fontana, an assistant pro-fessor for health, physical education and leisure services, said the HPELS department was excited about the program because it “could reach teachers that may need new informa-tion to improve their teaching skills.” Online programs allow teachers to get that information without having to come to campus, something that could conflict with work or family obligations.

“This affects teachers already in the field and how they teach and the quality of their instruction,” Fontana

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ity that this pro-gram would also indirectly reach students being taught by teach-ers enrolled in the program also excit-ed the HPELS faculty, Fontana said.

Thirteen applications for the program have been fully accepted, with seven applications still pending.

“These are excellent num-bers for a program that is just starting out,” Fontana said.

Alex Bohl, a postbaccalaureate undergraduate student studying physical education, said it is “a little ironic that a physical education program is now online.”

“We expect students (and) per-sons to be physically active to live a healthy life, and now we are pro-

moting online classes,” Bohl said. “I think teaching alone is about mak-ing connections with your peers and your students and by offering online educational programs for teaching basically takes away that opportunity to learn and practice making those connections that a student would get

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Proposed drop of personal wellness causes controversy

LIBERAL ARTS CORE

BLAKE FINDLEYAcademic Writer

Future University of Northern Iowa stu-dents may not have to take Personal Wellness as part of their Liberal Arts Core require-

ments. The proposal to drop the Personal Wellness course and category, which came from the Liberal Arts Core Review Steering Committee, has provoked dis-pleasure from current Personal Wellness

instructors as well as faculty and staff in the UNI Department of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services (HPELS).

Lea Shaddox, a HPELS professor and coor-dinator of the LAC for the Personal Wellness category, thinks that the Personal Wellness cat-egory is extremely beneficial for students.

“We (the HPELS faculty) are very dis-appointed with the LAC committee decision of dropping the requirement of Personal Wellness,” Shaddox said. “We feel very strongly about providing our students with health and wellness information, which we feel is impera-tive for lifelong good health.”

Shaddox also opposes the possible alternative the LAC-RSC discussed: offering wellness-related courses through the Critical Thinking

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Presidential candidates coming to UNIRick Santorum to speak on education Ron Paul holding “Youth Rally” event

Former U.S. senator and GOP presidential can-didate Rick Santorum will speak about education at the University of Northern Iowa on Dec. 9 at 11 a.m. Santorum’s visit is part of a series of presidential candi-date education forums host-ed by UNI and Iowa Public Radio.

At the event, which will be held in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts

Center lobby, Santorum will spend a half hour explain-ing his views on education, followed by a Q-and-A forum with the audience.

“Education is very important. Students are directly impacted by fed-eral policy on education,” said Patricia Geadelmann, special assistant to the president for board and

On Dec. 9, GOP presi-dential candidate and U.S. representative Ron Paul is bringing his campaign to the University of Northern Iowa with a “Youth Rally” event.

According to an arti-cle from the Des Moines Register, Ron Paul, a liber-tarian-leaning member of Congress, is “the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional

government, low taxes, free markets and a return to monetary policies based on commodity-backed cur-rency.”

The rally, which is part of his campaign, “Youth for Ron Paul,” will be held at the Slife Ballroom in the Commons at 6:30 p.m.

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and U.S. Experience categories. “Including individual teaching days in some classes regarding health issues is a disservice to our students and would not provide adequate information for them to make appropriate healthy life deci-sions,” she continued. The Personal Wellness LAC Review Committee formulated a response to the proposed change and gave it to the LAC-RSC. The response asserts that the United States is experiencing a perilous decline in overall health because of an increase in obesity in conjunc-tion with a lack of physical fitness and exercise.

According to the response, this “means that for the first time in two centuries, children’s life expec-tancy is shorter than their parents’ life expectancy.”

Susan Hill, co-chair of the LAC-RSC, said that after weigh-ing several different options, the LAC-RSC thought it would be best to remove the current Personal Wellness course.

“We encourage the faculty teaching Personal Wellness to pursue other options for putting that information into the LAC,” Hill said. “So, for instance, the LAC-RSC would encourage faculty to propose courses on wellness that would fit into the Critical Thinking or U.S. Experience cat-egories.”

Some potential courses envi-sioned by Hill and the LAC-RSC could include courses “dedicated to global health or public health issues in the U.S.”

“The LAC-RSC sees that such courses may allow issues relevant to wellness (to) become more embedded academically into the LAC,” Hill said.

In making its decision, Hill said that the LAC-RSC gathered information from faculty feedback sessions, presentations of possible models that would work at UNI and a variety of surveys.

Hill said that one goal of the LAC-RSC was to keep the number of required hours of the LAC around 45, something they took into consideration when decid-ing to drop the Personal Wellness course.

Sarah Bair, a sophomore Spanish teaching major, said she was glad the Personal Wellness requirement might be dropped.

“Amen to that. The class could have been really interesting and beneficial as that is the type of stuff I’m interested in, but the way it was presented put me to sleep,” Bair said.

Amanda Robertson, a junior elementary and early childhood education double major, said she “thinks the concept of the class is a great idea.”

“However, the majority of stu-dents have taken a health class in high school or even middle school,” Robertson said.

Shaddox and the rest of the Personal Wellness LAC Review committee said in the response, “College is the time for students to form lifestyle behavior patterns that strongly influence the rest of their life.”

“Just as the college years may usher in life-long risk behaviors in some students, these years also provide an opportunity for stu-dents to begin patterns that lead to life-long health improvement,” they said.

In addition, the committee’s response said a college environ-ment fosters such an educational atmosphere that it can also serve as a “catalyst to improve health and is an ideal setting for health education and health promotion services.”

“A college health course addressing the current needs of college students, while also look-ing to their future health, can have an impact,” the response said. “Education has been shown to be the best strategy to empower college students to improve their health behaviors and decision-making skills.”

through their practical experiences.”Fontana said the HPELS faculty

does not see the program as ironic at all.

“Our students are generally in the field, so they can apply the material they learn. We also have a mixture of classes that are more applied and oth-ers that are more theoretical,” Fontana said. “I do not need to be in the gym to explain how an anti-fat bias can become a barrier between a teacher and obese students.”

“There are some limitations to the online program,” Fontana added, “but there are also some advantages. Students that are more mature and experienced can make better use of the concepts because they are already working.”

Samantha Cameron, a junior phys-ical education major, said she would be very interested in taking the program in the future, but is concerned about the costs.

“Affordability is one of the ele-ments I look for because scholarships are difficult to get,” Cameron said.

Fontana said the program is run

entirely through the Department of Continuing Education, so it tends to be cheaper than standard gradu-ate programs. Each class will cost approximately $1,300.

Fontana also said that, in addi-tion to tuition, not needing to travel to UNI will also help students in the program save money.

Cameron also wondered wheth-er students will get any one-on-one interactions with the instructors.

According to Fontana, the instruc-tors of the classroom will use Adobe Connect to meet with students in a virtual classroom, where students can ask questions and address more specific issues. Other materials for the program include uploaded pre-recorded lectures, assigned readings, papers and other material common in a classroom setting.

The program will be taught using the best online teaching practices and advanced online teaching technology, Fontana explained. The instructors will receive training from the continu-ing education office before teaching their first online class.

Christopher Conger, a post-baccalaureate undergraduate stu-dent in physical education, said

that he would be “very interested in taking the program.”

“I believe that every dedicated teacher that wants to be the best at his or her profession is always looking toward either upgrading their current program or furthering their educa-tion,” Conger said. “Ultimately, our goal needs to be to give the students the best possible physical education program and by doing that we need to continue to build knowledge.”

Conger believes online programs are “the best way for current and future teachers to learn.” He said although teaching is officially only an eight-hour job, the unofficial hours are greatly extended because of responsi-bilities like checking papers, creating lesson plans and partaking in before/after school programs.

“In all honesty, there is not much outside time and the little that is affordable, we will spend with our fam-ilies,” Conger said. “Taking away addi-tional classroom time and/or driving minutes with an online program, in my opinion, is the best option.”

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governmental relations. “For instance, over a third of our students receive Pell Grants. Decisions about Pell Grants are made by the federal gov-ernment and right now, with the budget cutting going on, there’s a real threat to Pell Grants, so I think students have a direct interest in that, and what is decided federally could impact whether some students come to UNI at all or not.”

Accord ing to Geadelmann, they are still looking for campaigns to come to UNI to participate in the education forum.

“We’re hoping that we can get a couple more before Christmas,” Geadelmann said.

The purpose of the

Presidential Candidate Education Forum is to have the presidential candidates discuss education and to better inform UNI students and Cedar Falls community members about candidates’ stances.

“We think education is a central part of our country and has a direct relation-ship to economic develop-ment, and how our students are prepared makes a huge difference in the economy,” Geadelmann said. “So we want to elevate the impor-tance of education and we want to find out where the candidates stand on that.”

Accord ing to Geadelmann, an advantage of collaborating with IPR is that they rebroadcast the forums, reaching 200,000 lis-teners in Iowa.

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Hear Ron Paul out I am writing on behalf of University of Northern Iowa Students for Ron Paul. This Friday at 7 p.m., Ron Paul will be speaking at UNI in the Commons Slife Ballroom. I urge you to attend and hear what this political candidate with integrity and principles has to say. Ron Paul has several core beliefs. He believes that the

war in Afghanistan should come to an immediate end and that we should not preemp-tively attack Iran in fear of supposed nuclear weapons. He believes that the president has no right to order an assassina-tion on an American citizen as done by this current admin-istration. He believes that all people deserve the right to hear charges against them and that they deserve the right

to a speedy and fair trial. He believes that the cur-rent economic system of corporatism has failed America and it needs to be replaced by free market capi-talism. He believes that the fed-eral government can only do

what is spelled out for it in the Constitution and that every-thing else should be left up to the states. He believes that the government has grown too large and needs to balance the budget responsibly. He believes that the individual income tax should be eliminated. If you agree with any of these statements, then please feel free to come to the Commons this Friday night

at 7 p.m. Seating is limited and tickets to this free event, which guarantee seating, can be found at ronpaulatuni.event-brite.com.

Peace, liberty and prosperity,Mark Herman

Postbaccalaureate student in finance

Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann vis-ited the University of

Northern Iowa campus to speak about “Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Education Today.” While her actual talk did nothing more than show the audience that she had a normal child-hood growing up in Iowa (which included being a part of our education system), the Q-and-A section was where it became clear how incompetent and detrimental her views are regarding education. If I were to give a two-sentence sum-mary of her responses to people’s ques-tions, it would be this: “I believe that’s up to the states, local school districts and parents to decide. I don’t believe the fed-eral government should be forcing itself on education.” This is a problematic viewpoint for a couple of reasons. First, she takes this idea to its extreme in her desire to completely abolish the Department of Education. With all the department has done for students historically, such as enforce racial integration, ensure that religious student groups have the right to meet and require that certain needs are met for special education students, this is a crucial institution. In addition to the larger action it takes, the Department of Education is also indispensable in its ability to analyze the state of education in our country, give reports on what needs to improve and take necessary measures. One such exam-ple, according to a recent press release from the Department of Education, is how it found “more than 40 percent of low-income schools don’t get a fair share of state and local funds.” The report goes into detail regarding what this short-changing entails and gives possible solu-

tions the Department of Education will consider in ensuring large-scale change occurs. This is not something that would be possible were the department abol-ished and educational matters were left solely up to the states and local school districts. Second, Bachmann stated no good evidence to support her claim that local control is better for students. All she referred to was some vague notion of the “blob in Washington” supposedly sucking up money from schools, and tried to back it up with the idea that ACT scores were higher when the schools were under local control. When pressed to cite her source for this, Bachmann replied, “Google is available.” Taking her advice, I did, in fact, Google it, and found no such data myself (not to deny the possibility that it may exist). Another way Bachmann displayed incompetence in understanding education is in her support of intelligent design being taught in public schools along-side evolution. While she made numerous illogical statements to support this claim, her central one was that she didn’t sup-port “censorship” on the part of govern-ment, and that “all science should be on the table.” This sort of rhetoric displays a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means for something to be considered sci-ence, as intelligent design has not a shred of evidence to support it, nor is it ever used by scientists to further their under-standing of the natural world, unlike evolutionary theory. By the logic she

sets forth, the government shouldn’t be “censoring” the “science” that the Earth is flat, that aether theories are best in under-standing physics and that Earth is the center of the universe. Obviously, teach-ing such nonsense would be detrimental to student learning. Finally, despite what she seemed to imply during the telling of her early life story, Bachmann didn’t appear to take rising college tuition and student debt seriously. She said her college tuition cost $8 per credit hour, and that even so she was forced to attend community college first and hold several jobs. Then, when hearing of UNI’s current tuition (which, including fees, is more than $7,000 a year), she turned around and stated how much of a “bargain” it was. In addition, instead of stating that she thought the federal government should be proactive in ensuring every college student can afford to stay in school, she just said that we ourselves should look into why the price of an education is rising, and not to expect an education to be handed to us instead of having to work for it. Again, Bachmann’s state-ments display a disconnect from what would progress education. If her goal is a more educated populace, she shouldn’t be satisfied with students having to work as much as she did instead of focusing on their studies or valuable extracurriculars. As someone who, if elected, could effect real change, she seems to be far too satis-fied with educational stagnation. Based on the statements she made during her visit to UNI, it is clear that Michele Bachmann’s policies would only harm education in this country. As public university students who are currently a part of America’s education system, it would remiss of us to vote for someone with such illogical and damaging views.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

FROM THE EDITORIAL STAFF

Finals week is nearly upon us. Dead Week is already here, although at the University of Northern Iowa, there is no such thing as a Dead Week (a week where, at some schools, there is a moratorium on large assignments being due, extra-curricular meetings being held and other sanctions). Perhaps this week could be called Undead Week, as UNI stu-dents often become zombies when their biological needs lose out to their academic pur-suits. Whether you’re worried about being permanently behind in a class, staying up late with writer’s block or sim-ply trying to juggle it all, the NI staff offers some sugges-tions: “I’m never going to pass this class!” Maybe, maybe not, but you’re probably not doomed. Buckle down to study and don’t make excuses. If you’re missing notes, swallow your pride and ask a classmate. Talk to your professor for help or for other options. “I’ll never be able to write a 10-page paper!” Yes you can. We’re no strangers to writer’s block here at the NI. Sometimes it helps to just talk over your ideas and bounce them off someone else. Write an outline. Take (short, timed) breaks. Above all else, relax and stay positive. Anxiety is like quicksand when it comes to productivity. The more you struggle, the faster you sink. “Blah! I’ve got so much going on!” You will get through this. Make a study

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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann shares her views on education in Bengston Auditorium at the University of Northern Iowa Nov. 30.

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schedule where you allot time for each class, and stick to it. Use your phone’s cal-endar function to keep you abreast of paper deadlines or final exam times if need be. Google Calendar has a mar-velous feature where you can set up event reminders and have Google text or email you (several times, even) before a particular event. “I don’t have any finals this week!” Get out. Just get

out. But seriously, congratu-lations, and would you mind packing our suitcases for us while we study? Please? No matter what your finals week situation is, take care of yourself. Get as much sleep as you realistically can. Take study breaks with friends before they leave for break. Keep the junk food consump-tion to a minimum, and don’t overdo it with the caffeine either. Use your common sense and remember life is too short to get freaked out about finals. Good luck!

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Food decisions are one of the most difficult decisions I have to go through… and they happen on a daily basis. Besides the regular pros and cons lists, and opening and closing my mouth repeatedly to let my taste buds decide what they want, I sometimes end up stopping at two or three places, just getting one item from each place. The other night I wound up at home with two tacos from Taco Bell, a cheeseburg-er from Wendy’s and Potato Oles from Taco Johns. I then concluded my night with a very unhappy tummy. While there are some deli-cious places to eat on the Hill, Alex’s adds something new to the area. It’s fresh. And with its culturally diverse menu, it’s difficult not to find at least one item that sounds good. Not only is it fresh, it’s also in the college-student-approved price range, with the majority of the menu items running around $5. Renowned chef Alexandre

Martinov owns the restau-rant, and fresh food is some-thing that’s important to him. “The students don’t have a lot for fresh food on the Hill,” said Martinov. “I’d like to edu-cate the kids more to fresh food.” The restaurant offers a pasta bar on Friday and Saturday, and it’s neat because Martinov makes the pasta right in front of you with a ton of different ingredients to choose from. Another unique feature is the wing challenge. If you beat the challenge, you receive free food until you’re beaten. Right now a 13-year-old is getting free food. Martinov has dreams of expanding his restaurant and hopes to one day open at another location within Cedar Falls. As for what the chef rec-ommends: “I like spicy food, so anything buffalo.” I would agree – my $4 buf-falo chicken quesadilla was scrumtrulescent, both for my mouth and my wallet.

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The Arthur Murder Dancers grace the GBPAC stage with their first new routine in 34 years.

When the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center stage erupted with jazzy tones reminiscent of a Hammond organ and soulful vocals in good old-fashioned gospel music, I knew I was in for a great show. By the time the student body vice president stormed the stage with a horrendous-ly hilarious number as Mrs. Santa Claus, I knew I was watching a show for the time capsule. The University of Northern Iowa Varsity Men’s Glee Club pulled out several surprises during its 34th annu-al Christmas Variety Show this weekend in the GBPAC’s Great Hall. In true Glee Club fashion, the men kicked off the show by hauling out the metaphori-cal holly with Jerry Herman’s “We Need a Little Christmas.”

The group hit the final chord, the curtain rose on the iconic castle set and Christmas had officially begun. Saturday night’s perfor-mance ran me through the gambit of emotions. A play-ful rendition of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” had me bouncing in my seat, while the enchanting harmonies of “Cradle in Bethlehem,” a performance sung by Mariah Lockie, Abbey Doering, Ashley Williamson and Glee Club members Austin Foster and Michael McAndrew, reso-nated at the frequency of my heart. There must have been a leak in the Great Hall roof, because my eyes were a little wet at the end of that one. One of my favorites had to be Paul Tchesnokoff ’s “Salvation is Created,” whose solemn minor chords slowly grew in intensity until explod-ing into beautiful shouts of alleluia – like light erupting in the darkness or joy in the

midst of sorrow: a perfect piece for the Christmas sea-son. Like those alleluias but far different in tone came the exuberant vocals of Sharrie Phillips, an assistant princi-pal at Waterloo East High School, who led the Glee Club in Bishop Brown’s gospel song “He’s Done Enough.” The piece was spot on, bring-ing a new energy to the show as Phillips improvised calls of praise and gratitude to God. Her powerful voice filled the hall and moved the audi-ence to their feet for a well-deserved standing ovation. The first act closed with a 15-minute play, “Lord of the Wreaths.” True to tradi-tion, some villain has stolen the Glee Club in attempt to thwart Christmas – in this case the Grinch, played with a delightful spontaneity by Logan Mundt – and it’s up to

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Left: Student body vice president Ian Goldsmith steals the show as diva Mrs. Santa Claus.Right: Logan Mundt plays a delightfully spontaneous Grinch in “Lord of the Wreaths.”

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STUDENT VOICES FINALS EDITION

Kenny Whislersenior history education major

Allison Babberlsoph. elementary education major

I like to study by studying with my friend, talking to professors and going to the library.

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I like to study with others, because I can talk to people and use the books. “

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Emily Montgomery freshman biology major

I reread my notes about 20 times and rewrite my notes when I study.“

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Bri Ratashakfreshman nursing major

I cope with the stress from finals by sleeping, taking breaks and hanging out with my friends.

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Ryan Stevensonjunior political comm. major

I’m not stressed or worried. I only have one test, so I’m just going to knock that out and have an early break.

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Heidi Groffjunior biology major

How I like to cope with finals week stress is sleep and eat healthy.“

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Holiday Hoopla continues to bring holiday spirit to Main Street

KIRSTEN TJOSSEMEntertainment Writer

Festive lights and people filled with holiday cheer scattered over Main Street last Thursday for Jingle and Mingle. The event, as a part of the larger event Holiday Hoopla, included trolley rides, holiday char-acters, carolers and stores open for extended hours. The third annual Holiday Hoopla began the Friday after Thanksgiving, with children anxiously awaiting Santa’s arrival. Every year Santa’s arrival is a secret, and this year he arrived in a bigger way than ever before – by helicopter. Santa’s arrival was fol-lowed by a “March Down

Main Street,” which ended at the Main Street sculp-ture tree for its lighting and explosions of fire-works into the sky. Jingle and Mingle was the second biggest event of Holiday Hoopla. Emily Koeppel, a senior communication major at UNI, made her first trip to Holiday Hoopla for this year’s Jingle and Mingle on Main. “I thought Jingle and Mingle was a great way to start the holiday sea-son and get into the spirit,” Koeppel said. “My favorite part was the fact that the stores were open, and they were all really busy. It was kind of fun being around so many other people in the

spirit.” With the extended store hours, people packed the different downtown stores for Christmas shopping and special deals, as well as free samples. “I’ve never had a chance to attend Holiday Hoopla in the past, so this was my first event and I was very pleased with it. I’m planning on going to more Holiday Hoopla,” Koeppel said. Holiday Hoopla events will continue into the middle of December. The next event takes place on Thursday, Dec. 8. The Hoopla Cheer Contest will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and ice carving will go from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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a band of heroes to stop them in a harmless romp filled to the brim with pop culture refer-ences. In the play, the elf Frodo Baggins (named so because of his rockin’ ‘fro) leads the hero-ic Fellowship of the Wreath to destroy the evil Wreath of Power and restore the charac-ters’ powers, for the Grinch’s inexplicable schemes have dimmed Rudolph’s nose, melted Frosty and made Charlie Brown uncharacteristically happy. No celebrity is safe as the infa-mous Rebecca Black plagues the fellowship while a Gollum-like Charlie Sheen (whose voice was spot-on) leads the party to the Fireplace of Doom. Santa saves the day at the last minute, the Grinch’s heart grows and Christmas joy abounds. The play was wondrously campy and irreverent, as Glee Club plays are known to be. The self-referential script left the fourth wall in shambles as every plot hole was poked at and Austin Foster and his abs reprised their role as The Situation from last year’s play for no logical reason. With the Interlude dance starting up at the end, the dance’s co-creator and writer of the play, Ian Goldsmith, stormed the stage to stop it, admitting that even he was starting to get sick of it (you may want to take note, UNI Athletics). Goldsmith played no small role in the concert, as he stole the show by surpris-ingly appearing onstage as Mrs. Santa Claus. His falsetto voice perfectly missed every single note in a gut-bustingly funny Christmas medley full of slapstick and failed seduction attempts worthy of a diva. Mrs. Claus’ tempo may have been terrible, but Goldsmith and the Glee Club’s comedic timing was spot on. Perhaps the biggest surprise, however, was the performance of the Arthur Murder Dancers, who have closed each Christmas show with the same routine for the past 33 years. The tutu-dressed men began the routine as usual until the violins and cellos of Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies” jar-ringly gave way to electric gui-tars and frenetic drum beats. The dancing became more fran-tic in the new routine choreo-graphed by Club member Brian Murphy, resulting in a high-energy, crowd-pleasing dance that defied all expectations and added a breath a fresh air to this age-old tradition.

Make no mistake: there were several elements that let you know you were watching a Glee Club Christmas show. Holly was hauled out, the enchanting chords of “Ave Maria” graced the stage, Orchesis danced to pop-style music, the villains in the play were hissed at, Club staples were sung in atmospher-ic candlelight, Paul Marlow’s radio-quality voice moved the show along and there was no shortage of men in tutus. That said, in his second year at the helm, director John Len Wiles boldly played with Glee Club traditions this weekend to create a funny, moving and all-around enjoyable show truly deserving of the title “variety.” His gambles paid off and made this show one that will not be soon forgotten. While there were no short-ages of surprises Saturday night, perhaps the most aston-ishing thing about this group is that very few of its members are actually majoring in music. They may not form the most uniform vowels or exhibit abso-lute technical precision, and their performance wasn’t with-out one or two grace notes (the instruments in the otherwise brilliant “Estampie Natalis” didn’t seem able to quite match their tempos with each other or the group). But boy, those men can sure put on a show. As I left the Great Hall Saturday night, I realized where the Club must have gotten their name, as I was in a state of pure glee. With Christmas messages of joy, peace and goodwill ring-ing through my head, I came to realize that there is no better group to capture the soul of the season than the Glee Club. They believe in the power of music to lift up, inspire and improve the world, and amid frigid tempera-tures this weekend, they proved that the heartwarming power of music is alive and strong.

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Sharrie Phillips, an assistant principal at Waterloo East High School, added soul to the show with her exuberant voice in “He’s Done Enough.”

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The UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club take to the GBPAC stage for their 34th annual Christmas Variety Show.

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SportSSportSPanthers advance to quarterfinals

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VOLLEYBALL

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UNI’s Phil Wright (31) recovered a fumble in the endzone caused by Zach Cutkomp (23) during a fourth-quarter kickoff in UNI’s 28-21 victory over Wofford. The touchdown ended up being the deciding score of the game.

Unorthodox. That would be a good way to describe the University of Northern Iowa’s 28-21 victory over Wofford College Saturday evening in the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. The Terriers (8-4) outgained the Panthers (10-2) in terms of total yards, 478-238 with their unorthodox triple option offense. However, UNI forced three Wofford turn-overs, including an unorthodox fumble in the endzone on a Terrier kickoff return which was recovered for a UNI touchdown. That fumble recovery would end up being the difference in the game. “We played a really well-coached football team in Northern Iowa,” said Wofford head coach Mike Ayers. “They are a big, physi-cal crew and we knew going in that size

was a factor, but our kids didn’t blink. They just went out there and played hard. I did a poor job of coaching my guys in some situ-ations and it showed today. … Our biggest opponent was us as we self-destructed in the second half.” After three quarters of neck-and-neck football, UNI and Wofford were tied at 14-14. However, the Panthers would find the endzone on the first play of the fourth quarter as redshirt freshman running back David Johnson scored from one yard out to make the score 21-14 in favor of UNI. On the ensuing kickoff, Wofford kick returner Stephon Shelton caught the ball three yards deep in the endzone. However, instead of returning the kick or kneeling it for a touchback, Shelton just held onto the ball as the UNI kickoff team raced down

Junior guard Anthony James scored a career-high 28 points Saturday afternoon as the University of Northern Iowa men’s basketball team defeated Colorado State University 83-77 in the Mountain West Conference/Missouri Valley Conference Challenge. Since falling to St. Mary’s College on Nov. 15, the Panthers have won six consecutive games and sit at 7-1 overall. “We’re certainly playing better and these guys have been able to, every game or two, pick out a couple things and get better at (them),” said UNI head coach Ben Jacobson. “That’s something we have talked a lot about with this team… to this point the guys have been able to do that.” “My legs are back under me after that

long East Coast-West Coast trip, my shots are falling down and I’m playing with a lot of confidence right now,” said James. The Panthers jumped out to an early 10-2 lead not even four minutes into the game. The Panthers built their lead to as much as nine points at 17-6 with James scoring 10 of UNI’s first 17 points. However, the Rams (5-3) fought their way back into the game and pulled within two points at 23-21 with 10:25 remaining in the first half. UNI and CSU remained close for the next seven minutes, but the Panthers never relinquished the lead. The Panthers went on a 9-0 run over the final three minutes of the first half to build a 41-30 lead at the break. UNI carried their run over to the second half and built their lead to as much as 19

The University of Florida Gators snapped the No. 6-nationally seed-ed University of Northern Iowa Panthers’ 24-game winning streak and brought their strong season to an end in the McLeod Center Saturday evening in the sec-ond round of the NCAA volleyball tournament. “To beat a team as tal-ented and as well coached as Northern Iowa on their home court, I think it was one of our best matches all year,” said Florida head coach Mary Wise. Saturday marked the final game in a Panther uniform for seniors Bre Payton and Michele Burow. “The girls on the team for the past few years have been

awesome; I’m going to miss them a lot,” said Payton. “They make the experience great.” The Panthers’ shut out the University of Niagara (25-9) in the first round of the tournament Friday, a good match for Burow, who recorded a team-high 12 kills for the Panthers. Payton dished out 33 assists and notched 13 digs in the contest to help propel the team to victory.

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After sweeping Niagara, UNI was upset by the Florida Gators in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Panthers finished the season 33-2.

Strong season ends with disappointment as Gators

upset No. 6 PanthersMAT MEYER

Sports Writer

BRAD EILERSSports Editor

BRAD EILERSSports Editor

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Anthony James scored a career-high 28 points against Colorado State Saturday afternoon. UNI is now 3-0 all-time in the MWC/MVC Challenge.

UNI defeats CSU 83-77 in MWC/MVC Challenge

See FOOTBALL, page 10 See VOLLEYBALL, page 10

See BASKETBALL, page 11

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the field. Shelton, still in the endzone, start-ed walking towards the referee with the ball still in his hands, assuming the play was over. However, UNI’s Zach Cutkomp wisely knocked the ball from Shelton’s hands and UNI’s Phil Wright recovered the fumble for a Panther touchdown. “I really don’t (have any explanation), but again it comes down to me not coaching him,” said Ayers of the kickoff. “Evidently he didn’t understand that you got to take a knee.” “We ran down and just saw him standing there. Zach Cutkomp ran down and knocked it out of his hands and we just saw the refer-ee step back and we thought ‘this is too good to be true, this doesn’t ever happen.’ We just jumped on it and took our touchdown,” said Wright. Wofford scored a late touchdown with two minutes remaining in regulation to make the score 28-21 in favor of UNI, but could not complete the comeback. The Terriers dominated the ground game as they have all season long, compiling 457 yards rushing compared to just 21 yards passing. Wofford quarterback Mitch Allen

carried the ball 28 times for a game-high 156 yards. Eric Breitenstein carried the ball 23 times for the Terriers, racking up 131 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. “As a student-athlete, this sucks,” said Breitenstein. “We’ve worked hard this whole year. We came in with goals. To know that we didn’t accomplish our goals is a bad feel-ing, but we got to learn from it and move on. I got one more year and I’m tired of losing in the playoffs.” UNI senior quarterback Tirrell Rennie carried the ball 19 times for 95 yards to lead the Panthers in rushing. Rennie was also 7-for-12, for 67 yards, connecting with senior wide receiver Jarred Herring for two touchdowns on the day. The No. 5-seeded Panthers will head to Missoula, Mont., Friday evening to face the No. 4-seeded University of Montana Grizzlies (10-2). Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be nationally broadcast on ESPN2. Friday’s forecast in Missoula is expected to be 24 degrees and windy. “It’s not about the cold, the weather or anything. We have to have the mindset and determination to win the game,” said UNI senior linebacker James Conley. “We have no excuses this year. If it’s cold, it’s cold. We just got to play through it.”

The Panthers jumped out of the gate with a bang in the first set, taking an early 10-6 lead. Niagara got no closer than that for the rest of the set, and with a block from Burow and Amy Braun, UNI won the first set 25-16. The Panthers also domi-nated the second set as they took a commanding early lead. UNI scored the first five points of the set and eventually took a 20-9 lead over Niagara. A set-ending kill from Braun gave the Panthers the 25-13 victory. After the break, UNI’s dominance continued as the team got off to another fast start. The Panthers took an early 9-4 lead in the third set and never looked back as they won by a score of 25-17. “We work hard and Bobbi (Petersen) definitely pre-pares us every day,” said Braun. “Whoever’s across the net, we’re going to give them all of our effort.” The second round of the NCAA volleyball tourna-ment was a battle between two strong teams, UNI and Florida. Krista DeGeest tallied 13 kills to lead the Panthers, while Burow added 12 of her own. Payton played hard as well and recorded 40 assists, 12 digs and nine kills. Kelly Murphy, who filled the stat line with 20 assists, 15 kills and nine digs, led the Gators to victory in four sets. UNI was held to just a .187 attack percentage in the match while Florida hit .281. Florida’s defense recorded 13 blocks to UNI’s seven. The first set was back-

and-forth and the two teams found themselves tied 9-9 early on. However, Braun would tally a kill to spark a 6-1 run for the Panthers. UNI would keep the pres-sure on and secured the vic-tory with a set-ending kill from Shelby Kintzel. UNI took the first set 25-16. The Gators rebounded by jumping out to an early 10-4 lead and eventually took the second set 25-14. “They got adjusted to us a little bit. They were quicker off their feet,” said Payton of the Gators’ changes between the first and second sets. The third set started off better for UNI as they remained even at 6-6 with the Gators. However, anoth-er big run by Florida eventu-ally put the Panthers behind 20-13. The Gators closed out the set on a 5-1 run and won by a score of 25-14. Florida led 2-1. “They got in system a lot more and they kind of caught on to our game plan,” said UNI head coach Bobbi Petersen. With their season on the line, the Panthers were again tied 6-6 early on with the Gators. However, once again, Florida went on a big run to take a 17-10 lead. The Panthers never gave up in the set, and slowly started to claw their way back into the match. After back-to-back kills from Braun, UNI was within striking distance of the Gators at 21-17. UNI got as close as 23-21 with a kill from DeGeest, but UNI’s season ended as the Gators took the fourth set 25-22 and the match 3-1. UNI finished their out-standing season with a record of 33-2.

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Despite giving up 457 rushing yards to Wofford, the UNI defense played well enough to give the offense a chance to win the game. The Panthers forced three Terrier turnovers on the day.

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points at 61-42 with 12:50 remaining in regulation. The Panthers led by 16 with just under six minutes to play before CSU came charging back. The Rams cut a 16-point deficit into a four-point game at 79-75 with just 20 sec-onds remaining. However,

UNI closed the game out at the free throw line, winning 83-77. James led UNI in scor-ing with his career-high 28 points while collecting a team-high eight rebounds. Freshman center Seth Tuttle was a perfect six-for-six from the floor, record-ing a career-high 16 points in Saturday’s performance. James and Tuttle were joined

in double figures by fresh-man guard Deon Mitchell (12 points) and sophomore forward Chip Rank (10 points). Mitchell also dished out a game-high five assists. “(Tuttle and Mitchell) have made the most improve-ments and that should be the case with the basketball team that we have. When you throw them out there as true freshmen on the

road against Old Dominion and St. Mary’s, I thought they played well in those games, but since that point they have just continued to play better,” said Jacobson. “The more experience those guys get, the better they are going to play.” The Panthers return to action Tuesday night when they host their in-state rivals, the University of

Iowa Hawkeyes (5-3). Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. in the McLeod Center. “Any time we have an in-state game, it’s a bigger deal,” said Jacobson. “It’s a bigger deal for us and our program, it’s a bigger deal to everyone who’s in the building and it’s a big-ger deal across the state of Iowa. Those games are big and important.”

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WRESTLING

Panthers hoist two champs at UNI Open

The University of Northern Iowa wrestling squad hoisted two cham-pions at the UNI Open Saturday. David Bonin cap-tured the 157-pound title, and Ryan Loder continued his undefeated season, claim-ing the 184-pound champi-onship. Bonin capped off his title run with an 11-6 decision over South Dakota State’s

Nick Flynn. The junior was 5-0 at the end of the tourna-ment. His victories included two decisions, a major deci-sion, a technical fall and a pin, improving his overall season record to 14-3. Loder cruised through the 184-pound bracket, fin-ishing the UNI Open with a 13-3 major decision over Mitchell Schultz of Upper Iowa. The sophomore racked up two pins and a technical fall in addition to his major decision. Loder is now 15-0

this season. The Panthers had at least one wrestler place in every weight division. Cruse Aarhus (125) was runner-up in his bracket. Jarrett Jensen (157), Riley Banach (165), and Cody Caldwell (174) claimed third place in their respective brackets. UNI wrestling will resume its dual schedule this coming Thursday, Dec. 8, as the Panthers travel to Iowa City to face the No. 1-ranked Hawkeyes.

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Sophomore Ryan Loder (pictured above) and junior David Bonin captured titles in their respective weight divisions. Loder kept his undefeated season alive by claiming the 184-pound championship for UNI.

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Riley Banach (pictured above) placed third in the 165-pound weight division. UNI had at least one wrestler place in every weight division.

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Today’s Birthday (12/06/11). You’re full of ideas for making more money. Get them down in writing, and develop the top three. A golden opportunity sud-denly opens up; go ahead and say yes. Use your charm and your connections, and get what you ask for.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- It’s getting easier to step forward. Deep breathing defeats what’s overwhelming. Besides, what you have to say is important. Tap another income source.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Your experience helps you avoid a mistake earlier in the day. Reject a far-fetched scheme in favor of a practical solution. Give away something you don’t need.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 5 -- You accomplish more in private. Defer to the budget, and stick tight to your list. There may be temptations! Pay the boring bills first. Con-sider travel and romance.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Your career gets a boost for the next couple of days. Important folks watch. Handle your responsibilities and thrive. Dream big, or it could get bor-ing. Shoot for the moon.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You’ve got it all today. Conditions are good for travel and romance. There’s been a philosophical shift. Make a change for the better.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- To-day is a 7 -- Avoid distractions, and increase your productivity in private. Discover buried trea-sure. Get better organized, and handle a thorny obstacle.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- A person who could assist you in getting your house in order is closer than you think. A great partnership can help you see things from a differ-ent perspective.

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Take care not to double book. Reconfirm ap-pointments, and call if you’ll be late to dinner. It’s easy to get lost in your research since it’s so fascinating.

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