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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CEDAR FALLS, IA THURSDAY, APRIL 5 VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
CEDAR FALLS, IA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2024
VOLUME 121, ISSUE 14
Todd Stepsis is UNI Football’s head coach pick UNI ATHLETICS
University of Northern Iowa President Mark Nook and Director of Athletics Megan Franklin announced on Tuesday that Todd Stepsis has accepted the UNI Football head coaching position. Stepsis joins the Panthers after a six-year stint as the head coach at Drake University. He has also served as Drake’s offensive coordinator for the past three seasons. COACH STEPSIS
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Uprising Editors in News briefs Chief talk ‘Interlude’ transitional pieces,” said GrifExecutive Editor fin. “It was kind of a lightbulb moment.” After Watson and GrifThis week marks the release fin landed on the “interlude” of Uprising Magazine’s 18th theme, they slowly began to issue, the “interlude” themed see their writers, designers and issue, helmed by UNI seniors photographers shape their own Jakob Watson and Quincy perspectives and ideas surGriffin. Watson and Griffin rounding the word “interlude.” serve as co-editors-in-chief for After creating their mood Uprising, and have witnessed boards and sharing their ideas, their concept take on a new the Uprising team put their life through the eyes of their ideas into motion. “Our job, writers, designers and photog- obviously, is to kind of give raphers. that space for our team to creAccording to Watson and ate, we sit back and let them Griffin, the idea of the theme do their magic and let their “interlude” came to them committees excel in what they while in the middle of a lunch do. It’s been so fun watching at Panera. “It came to us both everyone express what they very naturally,” said Watson. think interlude is,” said Grif“We’re trying to think of how fin. we’re in a weird phase in our The latest issue tells a story life, things are coming to an of time, with a unique perspecend.” Watson will graduate tive from each writer, designer at the end of the fall semester and photographer that worked and Griffin will graduate at on the issue. A photoshoot that the end of May. In Panera, the stuck out to Watson was the two discussed how the time in “Layers of Me” photoshoot, their lives were changing as where models brought in arthey knew it. “We were on the ticles of clothing that were in topic of music, and interludes their own style, encapsulatwithin music and how they’re BAILEY KLINKHAMMER
CAMPUS LIFE
The snow-covered campus is showcased in a beautiful photostory SEE PAGE 6
SPORTS
Women’s volleyball team secures MVC Championship SEE PAGE 11
COURTESY/DRAKE FOOTBALL
ing who they are. “You could feel the excitement from each model, and each member that was working the shoot,” said Griffin. “Our editorial directors completely grasped what we meant when we were talking about how interludes are so personal.” For both Watson and Griffin, the “Layers of Me” spread exemplified to them the essence of the “interlude” theme. “It’s such a small moment, where you’re picking out your clothes in the morning, but for some people, that takes a lot of self understanding and that doesn’t happen right away,” said Griffin. One of the final spreads in the latest issue of the magazine is “the Gift of Time,” where different models and editorial directors are dressed in age makeup. Watson and Griffin discussed how they wanted to play on the dichotomy between the childlike wonder towards the beginning of the issue, and delve into the passage of time towards the
UPRISING
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Audition for Spring Awakening at the Interpreters Theatre this week! Auditions are on Dec. 6 from 6-8p.m.and Dec. 7 from 1-4 p.m. in the Interpreters Theatre (Lang 040). Callbacks will be held Dec. 8. Auditionees should prepare 32-64 bars of a song in your personal style and a 60-90 second contemporary monologue. Audition songs should be performed with a backing track; please upload the MP3 of the track (beginning at the start of your cut) into the audition form. There is a Google form where auditionees should sign up for one five-minute individual audition slot and one small-group choreography audition slot. For more information about auditioning, contact Sam Trumpold at trumpolz@uni.edu