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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CEDAR FALLS, IA THURSDAY, APRIL 5 VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
CEDAR FALLS, IA
VOLUME 119, ISSUE 32
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2023
OPINION
CAMPUS LIFE
SPORTS
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CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4
SPORTS PAGE 6
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Never forgetting, never repeating UNI hosts webinar with survivor for International Holocaust Remembrance Day TREVOR MEYERS Staff Writer
This past Thursday, Jan. 27, was a day of somber remembrance as it marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventyeight years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration death camp where over 1.1 million people, the majority of them being Jews, were systematically killed by the Nazi regime, was finally liberated. International Holocaust Remembrance Day was originally established back in 2005 as a resolution to the general assembly of the United Nations and has officially been observed every year since 2006. However, there have been other events that have occurred every year to commemorate the Holocaust remembrance in countries around the world. The oldest official Remembrance Day and primary Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom HaShoah (Day of Holocaust), which is observed within many Jewish
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Traducción: Las relaciones como el corazón palpitante de la educación superior BAILEY KLINKHAMMER Escritora
KARINA ORTIZ
Editora en español
COURTESY/SOL NAYMAN & TREVOR MEYERS
Polish Holocaust survivor Sol Nayman shared his story with the UNI community via webinar, pictured above right. He shared the journey his family made from fleeing from their village when he was just a young child to becoming a leader in Holocaust education today. The above left photo shows, from left to right, Sol, his mother Sore, father Yudle and sister Mania before going to Canada 1948.
communities around the world. In 1951, the Parliament of the State of Israel, also known as the Knesset, chose the 27th of Nisan on the Jewish calendar as it loosely corresponded to the same time of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943. The 27th of Nisan corresponds to a date in April or May each year, this year falling on April 18.
There are many traditions that are associated with observing Yom HaShoah in Israel, such as a two-minute siren that goes off twice that day, along with lighting special memorial candles, reading names of the deceased, wearing white and hearing testimonies from survivors. Within the United States
there have also been a variety of celebrations, but in 1980, the United States Congress unanimously passed a piece of legislation that created the “Days of Holocaust Remembrance,’’ which was an eight day period that coincided with the already existing Yom HaShoah. See
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STORY, page 2
“¿Cómo estás?” dice Leo Lambert, el presidente de Elon Universidad, que está es la pregunta que los estudiantes universitarios desean oír de sus profesores. El martes, enero 24, el presidente Lambert se sentó con la facultad y los empleados de UNI y Wartburg para hablar sobre la importancia de crear relaciones y tener una conversación genuina de doble sentido con estudiantes universitarios en las clases. En un estudio conducido por el presidente Lambert para su libro, Relationship Rich Education, los estudiantes que tienen una relación concreta con sus profesores tienden a tener una índice superior de graduarse y tienden de recordar su tiempo en la escuela universitaria con cariño. Ver CORAZÓN PALPITANTE, página 5
A resident assistant takeover: UNI’s 32nd Annual Midwest RA Conference GRANT PEDERSEN Staff Writer
This past weekend, the University of Northern Iowa hosted the 2023 Midwest Resident Assistant Conference. This gathering, which was the 32nd annual meeting set on UNI’s campus, provided a wide array of sessions, team-building and fun experiences for RAs to experience en masse. Over 500 RAs are expected to have attended this gathering, which took place Friday, Feb. 27 Sunday, Feb. 29. In total, resident assistants from 45 colleges and universities across 10 Midwest states that included Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin attended. For accommodations, resident assistants and advisors were housed in Bender, Dancer
and Rider Halls, as well as local community hotels. The conference committee hoped that housing visiting resident assistants in UNI dorms would provide a new perspective to reflect on their residence life system back home. According to a news release provided by UNI’s Assistant Director of Communications Adam Amdor, this conference was designed to, “provide RAs the opportunity to experience a variety of programming typically focused on personal growth and professional development. Guests are also encouraged to network and connect with one another, as well as to venture out and explore and support the community.” Overall, this conference is seen as a way that these RAs connected by similar experiences can share and grow as professionals and students. This conference was first held on the UNI campus in
1991, and it has only grown since then, thus providing more and more services each year. Programming at this year’s conference mainly revolved around teaching skills in professional development, mental health, overall life skills, engagement and resident inclusion. The conference also provided a case study activity which allowed visiting groups of resident assistants 15 minutes to present on current issues and problems facing their resident life systems and systems around the Midwest. The chair of this year’s conference is UNI’s Assistant Director of Residence Life and Engagement Jordan Rockwell. “Overall, the goal of the conference is to create stronger RAs, not only for our university, but for colleges all around the Midwest,” Rockwell stated. “Being an RA, you’re working and living in a unique set of
COURTESY/MEGAN CARLSON
Each year, the RA conference brings hundreds of RAs to UNI’s campus to connect with each other and to learn professional development skills to implement in their own lives and resident communities.
circumstances and challenges that not a lot of people get to experience. So, the conference provides the opportunity for RAs to really connect, share some really great ideas and inevitably take that experience
with them back to their colleges, so their campus communities are also positively impacted,” Rockwell added. See
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CONFERENCE, page 4