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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA CEDAR FALLS, IA THURSDAY, APRIL 5 VOLUME 114, ISSUE 42
CEDAR FALLS, IA
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
OPINION
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Adventure Trips meet abrupt end Cancellation of Adventure Trips Program sparks outcry from students, alumni CAROLINE CHRISTENSEN Staff Writer
From the depths of the Grand Canyon to raging rivers in Arkansas, the UNI Outdoors Adventure Trips Program offered students, faculty and community members guided access to America’s backcountry. However, to the dismay of many UNI students and alumni, the Adventure Trips Program was cut in May 2022. “The goal was to get students out to these locations so that they could really experience the world and have these awesome times and meet a really wonderful community,” Current UNI Outdoors graduate assistant Andrew Abrams said. “It was also a really special program because it was a chance for students, faculty, and community members to gather together which doesn’t happen as much.” For former UNI Outdoors graduate assistant Maycie Stanbro, the news was devastating. “The Adventure Trips have changed my life. The whole
course of my life I thought I was going to do theater performance, and UNI Outdoors, especially the Adventure Trips Program, really changed my whole trajectory.” Stanbro continued, “I don’t think we could have done anything better. We did not cancel a single trip from low enrollment. We had just had one of the best years that UNI Outdoors had had, so it was just very confusing for us and very demoralizing. We had put our hearts and souls into this program.” For 2004 alumni Jeremiah Rausch, the UNI Outdoors Adventure Trips also changed his trajectory after he went backpacking through the Grand Canyon with the program. “Once I came back I COURTESY/JACOB KURT immediately changed my The UNI Outdoors Adventure Trips Program was cut in May 2022. The program allowed students, faculty and community major to Outdoor Recreation. members to experience outdoor recreation in America’s backcountry, such as the Mines of Spain in Dubuque where the The Adventure Program liter- group above took a ski trip in 2021. “Exact numbers were not management issue, we would Program was canceled due to ally changed my degree and it is a huge loss to students this really provided, at least not to have appreciated the chance an internal review conducted to adjust our risk management by departmental leadership students,” Abrams said. program was terminated.” “We control our pricing, so that we could continue to and staff. Abrams expressed frustration regarding clear commu- so it would make sense for us operate.” Director of Recreation nication from administration to be informed so we could See ADVENTURE TRIPS, Services Christopher Denison to students explaining why the have made up for that price page 2 difference. If it was a risk explained the Adventure Trip program was canceled.
History and political science departments to present “A History of Reproductive Rights” MALLORY SCHMITZ News Editor
UNI’s Departments of History and Political Science will be setting out on Tuesday,
Sept. 20 to educate the community on one of the most polarizing issues in the United States right now. In the Lang Hall auditorium from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., the
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Reproductive rights remain one of the most polarizing issues in the United States and on campus. The use of signs has become a popular form of demonstration.
departments will be hosting a panel they call A History of Reproductive Rights. The event is also being sponsored by UNI’s Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and The American Democracy Project, a network of state universities aiming to prepare young people to engage in civil society. The panel is free to attend and open to the public. It will feature four UNI faculty members across various areas of study: Barbara Cutter (history), Carissa Froyum (sociology), Emily Machen (history) and Scott Peters (political science). Machen teaches a class on modern European women’s history. She explained that the panel will attempt to look
at reproductive rights from a wide lens. “We’re coming at the topic from a variety of different perspectives, and we’re hoping to give students some background and information to help them understand what has been happening in the U.S. and how that fits in with what the rest of the world has been doing as well in terms of reproductive rights,” she said. Already this semester it has been clear just how polarizing the issue of abortion is on campus. On Wednesday, Sept. 14, a crowd of students gathered around the east entrance of Rod Library where a group of individuals had erected a sign reading the phrase “Abortion is not a right.”
Shortly after, a different individual stood about 50 feet away with a sign reading “abortionfinder.org,” referencing an online database of abortion providers. Machen noted the timeliness of the panel occurring as midterm elections quickly approach. “I think our goal really is to provide people with some tools to help them make better political decisions because our students are going to be voters. This is an issue that they’re going to be voting on, and this will help them see how this issue has played out recently but also what the historical arguments are.” See REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS LECTURE, page 2