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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CEDAR FALLS, IA THURSDAY, APRIL 5 VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
CEDAR FALLS, IA
VOLUME 119, ISSUE 29
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2023
OPINION
CAMPUS LIFE
SPORTS
OPINION PAGE 3
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4
SPORTS PAGE 7
Opinion Columnist Drew Hill looks back at 2022’s biggest moments and what they mean for 2023.
Womens basketball triumphs over Evansville Purple Aces, 73-68.
Take a closer look at the latest exhibit at the UNI Gallery of Art with the Panther Portrait.
Uniting the community with song UNI’s Community Music School brings musical opportunities to all ages in the Cedar Valley BAILEY KLINKHAMMER Staff Writer
The motto: “Music lasts a lifetime!” that’s attached to UNI’s Community Music School is proven every day in the classroom and on stage. The Community Music School (CMS) is located in Russell Hall and serves a diverse population of musicians. From ages 5 to 50, there’s something for everyone located in the Cedar Falls area. Since 2006, The Community Music School has, according to their website, been “an integral part of the Cedar Valley and UNI community, embracing a diverse and inclusive learning environment with exceptional programming where everyone is welcome regardless of ability, age, or financial means.” CMS provides an array of services for anyone looking to learn an instrument. The Community Music School provides one-on-one private lessons for brass, woodwind, piano, percussion and vocals.
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CMS gives UNI music students more opportunities to teach and make connections for their future careers. At the same time, it makes music more accessible for people who aren’t enrolled at UNI through opportunities like the Children’s Choir.
They also provide group lessons in these fields. Under the umbrella of musical programs, the Community Music School provides the Children’s Choir, the New Horizons Band
and Camp Musicmania. The Children’s Choir is made up of over 60 grade school students from Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Waverly who put on concerts semesterly in the Great Hall.
The New Horizons Band is for adults aged 50 and up looking for a musical opportunity who put on a variety of performances over the summer, and Camp Musicmania is a summer day
camp program for students interested in music. Across all of these programs, CMS services around 200 community members.
event during Green Dot Week here at the university, they had over 150 people attend. Green Dot is a program that has been in the works for several semesters and was finally implemented in the fall
of last semester. Green Dot is a Northern Iowa Student Government (NISG) sponsored program whose purpose is to work on bystander intervention that is focused on gender violence prevention. The overall goal of the program is to then decrease the likelihood of power-based violence on this university’s campus, such as sexual assault, along with how to identify lesser thought of power-based violence such as stalking or dating/domestic violence. The signs are not always obvious, which is something Green Dot training is trying to change. Within the Green Dot program there is a common metaphor that uses the example of green dots and red dots. The green dots represent a specific action or choice that promotes safety and communicates to others through that choice that violence will not be tolerated on this campus. An example of a green dot could be some-
thing as simple as taking a friend out of a high-risk situation or diffusing a situation between two friends. Red dots signify acts of power-based interpersonal violence.
certain words that they say it can easily help prevent words or thoughts from becoming actions. Having the Green Dot program on this campus helps teach students and faculty ways to create green dots so that they can outnumber the red dots, and in that way keep people who live, work and learn at the university safe. Hannah Menken, the Green Dot graduate assistant at UNI, gave details of how the program is going and not just what their goals are for this amazing program. On campus, there are 23 trained Green Dot facilitators throughout the university who are in charge of facilitating each training that the program does. These facilitators are made up from faculty and various staff members here at UNI. As Hannah said, “It’s a great group of people that care about our campus and the safety of our students.”
See UNI CMS, page 2
Green Dot gender violence prevention program leaves its mark on campus TREVOR MEYERS Staff Writer
Last September, the Green Dot gender violence prevention program had a successful launch. At their main kickoff
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Two members of NISG participate in activities at the Green Dot launch in September. Since its launch, over 100 students and over 132 staff and faculty members have been through training with the program.
“No one has to do everything, but everyone has to do something.” GREEN DOT MOTTO
Through the Green Dot program, one talks and interacts with other individuals where you can help learn strategies on how to help individuals who could be in a dangerous situation, such as calling somebody out for their inappropriate behavior or words to an individual. Most of the time, if somebody is held accountable for
See GREEN DOT UPDATES, page 2