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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CEDAR FALLS, IA THURSDAY, APRIL 5 VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
CEDAR FALLS, IA
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
VOLUME 119, ISSUE 5
OPINION
CAMPUS LIFE
SPORTS
OPINION PAGE 3
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 5
SPORTS PAGE 6
Opinion Columnist Drew Hill tackles the question: Is the U.S. truly a democracy?
The sweet sound of of the carillon returns in lunchtime concerts.
Changes underway in UNI Dining BAILEY KLINKHAMMER Staff Writer
The Northern Iowan had the opportunity to sit down with Carol Fletcher, UNI Dining Director, Sara Eberle, Assistant Director of Residential Dining, Annie Karr, Assistant Director of Marketing and Nick Rafanello, Assistant VP and Executive Director of Housing & Dining, to discuss all of the changes that the UNI Dining department is going through.
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UNI Dining boasts expanding options, including a pancake maker in Piazza and larger beverage options from Essentials in Maucker Union.
UNI Dining is split into two main sections, residential (Piazza and Rialto) and retail (vendors such as Godfather’s Pizza in the Union). For Piazza and Rialto, this semester has looked a little different. While they’re still using the continuous serving model that they’ve been using, they’re facing many other issues when it comes to making sure they feed all of the students that need it. One of the main factors in this are supply chain issues. According to the dining department itself, they’re still facing supply chain issues so bad that up to 20 items they order may not be in a shipment due to shortages or other supply chain issues. This is why some of the items displayed on the menu may not align with what’s actually being served, due to the tight turn around. Another issue the dining department is facing is staffing. While Rialto is
UNI volleyball hosts weekend tournament, wins all three matches.
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Traducción: Square One Vintage: vestimenta vintage MAYRA VILLANUEVA
Editora en español
Artículo original escrito por Emma Koehler, directora ejecutiva. Un sueño verdadero para esos en busca de vestimenta original vintage en la región del Cedar Valley que se encuentra dentro de Square One Vintage. CATHERINE CROW Los clientes pueden encontrar Students gather in Rialto, where hot breakfast has been reintroduced this estilos universitarios de UNI, semester on the weekends from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. estilos de los años 200, y los diseños de moda de los años 80 moving back to serving on additions to the spaces. china, Piazza is still serving “One thing we want stu- y 90. La tienda es muy reciente a on styrofoam plates due to dents to know is that we lislow numbers on staff. But, ten to them,” Fletcher said. la escena del centro, ha estado with a new influx of students, “Our end of the year dining abierta por más de dos meses. the UNI Dining department survey said that a majority Evan Suchomel es copropietarlooks forward to making new of students wanted to see hot io y ex alumno de UNI que se hires, and possibly opening up breakfast come to the dining graduó con la carrera de diseño student favorites like Piazza’s centers, so we brought hot gráfico junto a Damien Lindsey, Wok and Rialto’s Emilliano’s. breakfast to the dining cen- actual estudiante de geociencia. Beyond some of the chal- ters.” lenges the dining centers are Ver VESTIMENTA VINTAGE, See DINING UPDATES, facing, there are some new página 2 page 2
A sneak peek behind the curtain “Hairspray” cast member Lauren Johnson “really excited” for tour stop in Cedar Falls MALLORY SCHMITZ
News Editor
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Lauren Johnson, originally from Omaha, Nebraska, will take the stage as part of the “Hairspray” national tour on Tuesday, Sept. 13 and Wednesday, Sept. 14.
The national Broadway tour of “Hairspray” will be taking the stage at the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Sept. 13 and Wednesday, Sept. 14. The show kicks off the Gallagher Bluedorn’s Fall 2022 Artist Series, in which students receive two free tickets to a show of their choice within the series. Cedar Falls is the second stop the tour will be making on their 52 city tour currently scheduled through June 2023. The Northern Iowan had the opportunity to interview cast member Lauren Johnson, who plays the role of Lorraine, a student at Patterson Park High
School in 1960s Baltimore. Johnson, originally hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, is excited to jumpstart her professional career with this tour of “Hairspray.” “Compared to some of my colleagues, I kind of got a late start. I didn’t do my first musical until high school, when I was 15,” she recounted. “I was in the ensemble of a show called ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ and it kind of just lit a fire in me, and I tried to do as many shows as I could in my school and in my community. It was kind of quick, in just a couple of years I decided that I wanted to pursue musical theater in college.” Johnson received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre from Viterbo
University in Wisconsin. After graduating, she worked on a number of projects before landing the role in “Hairspray.” The cast had three weeks of rehearsals in New York City before officially setting out on tour on Aug. 26.
It’s just full of joy, colorful and bright and tells a good story. There’s no way you can’t have fun.
The highlight for Johnson in the timeless musical comedy is the song “Run And Tell That.” “It just feels like a big party, and you can see right away just how close the cast is in real life offstage too,” she said. While getting to sing, dance and perform are certainly some of the main perks of being a national Broadway touring actress, those offstage moments, Johnson told the Northern Iowan, are just as important. “It feels like a little mini vacation everywhere we go,” she said, “and I get to travel with my best friends all the time.” See “HAIRSPRAY” STAR, page 2