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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CEDAR FALLS, IA THURSDAY, APRIL 5 VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
CEDAR FALLS, IA
VOLUME 119, ISSUE 47
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2023
OPINION
CAMPUS LIFE
SPORTS
OPINION PAGE 3
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 4
SPORTS PAGE 6
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N.I. EN ESPAÑOL
Blue safety phones to be removed Cerrando UNI Public Safety implements Rave Guardian app to replace safety poles on campus la brecha
internacional con conversación
CAROLINE CHRISTENSEN
Associate Executive Editor
The blue safety phones scattered across UNI’s campus since the ‘90s are being removed and replaced with a 21st century safety solution an app called Rave Guardian. The blue safety phones were originally installed across highly trafficked areas of campus to assist those in an emergency situation to alert the authorities with just the push of a button. However, with the introduction of cell phones, these blue phones quickly became outdated and experienced very little usage. Chief of UNI’s Police Department, Helen Haire, noted how the blue phones were a good idea in the 90s, but are not practical in the 2020s. “If you are in need and if someone is following you, are you going to stop and pick up that blue phone?” Haire said. “You probably aren’t going to want to do that. At the time that was the only option. But now you have a cell phone and you could call someone and keep walking.”
KARINA ORTIZ
Editora en español
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Sexual Assult Support and other helpful resources. Additionally, users can call UNI Police or 911 with just the push of a button. Tyler and Haire collaborated with University Relations and IT to create this app.
El Programa de Cultura e Inglés Intensivo (CIEP por sus siglas en inglés) de la Universidad del Norte de Iowa en este momento se está asociando con estudiantes de Yucatán en la Universidad Marista de Mérida. De acuerdo con Carolina Coronado-Park, la Directora del Compromiso Internacional, este es un programa híbrido que permite a los estudiantes a recibir el máximo provecho del programa. Es un programa que dura 8 semanas donde los estudiantes se asocian con voluntarias que hablan tanto inglés como español y conversan en línea por dos horas cada semana y después se conocen en persona por las últimas dos semanas. Esta conexión entre el programa de CIEP de UNI y la Universidad Marista empezó hace varios años.
See SAFETY PHONES, page 2
Ver CIEP, página 2
MALLORY SCHMITZ/THE NORTHERN IOWAN & RAVE GUARDIAN APP
The blue safety poles were originally installed in high-traffic areas on campus in the ‘90s. Since the introduction of cell phones, the blue phones have had very little usage. The transition to the Rave Guardian app reflects an effort to keep up with changing technology to best serve student safety.
Haire added, “We have to think about what [the students] want, need and will use. When we talk to students they may be aware we have the blue phones because campus tours may mention them, but when we ask them to tell me where one is, nobody knows.” The Associate Director of UNI’s Public Safety
Department, Joe Tyler, spearheaded the push to get a more updated safety feature for UNI’s campus. They decided to use the safety app Rave Guardian to serve UNI’s campus. The app has numerous features including safety timers, call directories leading to the UNI Police Department, UNI Counseling Center,
were looked upon fondly by passing students and faculty. Nevertheless, for the past five months, the tower has remained silent. The overarching Our Tomorrow campaign is the cause of this silence, as the Campanile and its renovation were included in the $250 million movement.
Until the bells ring again, the UNI Guild of Carillonneurs has been working hard to prepare for another hundred years of performance and entertainment. The Guild of Carillonneurs is the musical organization on campus that plays the carillon, or the collection of bells at the top of the clocktower. President of the UNI Guild of Carillonneurs Emily Clouser states regarding the carillon, “While the bells have been away, the Guild has been busy practicing and further developing our playing technique for the carillon. It’s a unique enough instrument that the technique takes a while to perfect — especially considering most of us had never played one or knew what one was before coming to college.” A carillon is somewhat like a piano with different keys
UNI Guild of Carillonneurs awaits the return of the bells GRANT PEDERSEN Staff Writer
Rising above all else on the University of Northern Iowa’s campus stands the Campanile. In regular times its bells on the hour and the weekly Friday performances
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The Campanile has been silent since the bells were removed in October for refurbishing. The bells are expected to return to campus at the beginning of May.
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Some members of the Guild of Carillonneurs had the unique opportunity to help break the mold for the new bells that were cast during the Our Tomorrow campaign launch this past October. Since then, the group has been collaborating with carillonneurs from other universities, cataloguing UNI’s collection of carillon music and staying active on social media.
representing different notes. Clouser expands on this by saying, “However, a carillon keyboard is much larger and more spaced out than a Piano keyboard. So, we use our fists to strike the wooden pegs, which pull the wires connect-
ed to the clappers within the bells through a radial system. When the wire is pulled down, the clapper strikes the side of the bell, sounding the chime.” See
CARILLONNEURS AT WORK, page 5