HOLIDAY
HAPPINESS
BASKETBALL
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 6
OPINION PAGE 4
SPORTS PAGE 8
Main Street is celebrating the holidays by holding their Holiday Hoopla.
Columnist Kayla Venuto encourages people to keep a positive attitude.
The men’s basketball team lost to Iowa State in a close game on Saturday.
Tuesday
Dec 10, 2013
Volume 110, Issue 27
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Campus Campus Life Life 6X
Sports Sports8X
Games Games10X
Classifieds Classifieds11 X
MUSIC
Caroling choir brings joy to UNI
HEALTH
Wait line grows at counseling center RACHEL BALDUS
Staff Writer
quickly, there was a free raffle for the spectators.
Students hoping to get help from the University of Northern Iowa Counseling Center may have experienced wait lines in the last few weeks. The number of students requesting counseling typically increases around week eight of the semester, and the higher numbers are fairly consistent until finals, said David Towle, Counseling Center director. He said in some instances, students may be on a call list in case another student cancels or reschedules their appointment. “When people contact the Counseling Center for counseling, our goal is to get people in for their initial appointment within one week of calling,” Towle said. According to Towle, 82 percent of students who contacted the center were seen within a week, and 21 percent were seen on the same day they contacted the center. Elizabeth Moreno, junior communications major, was placed on the wait line and said she had to wait a few weeks to a month after her initial assessment meeting. “I was extremely nervous about attending counseling, but the staff made it very easy and not at all intimidating or uncomfortable,” Moreno said. Towle said wait lines occur due to staff shortages from resignations and graduate student training.
See CHAIRIOTS, page 7
See COUNSELING, page 2
JACINDA RUGGLES/Northern Iowan
The UNI Men’s Varsity Glee Club celebrate their 36th annual Christmas Variety Show at the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center.
KATHERINE JAMTGAARD Staff Writer
For 36 years, the University of Northern Iowa Varsity Men’s Glee Club has hosted an annu-
al Christmas variety show, featuring traditional music, skits and guest appearances. “The guys started rehearsing four hours a week (from) the first week of school, and then in show
week between putting up the set and extra rehearsals and ticket sales, I would say we’ve lost count,” said John Wiles, director of the UNI Varsity Men’s Glee Club. “It was a lot of work.”
Henry Nguyen, junior computer science major and Glee Club member, said he was happy to put in the hours. See GLEE CLUB, page 7
BASKETBALL
Iowa chairiots roll into McLeod RACHEL BALDUS opportunity Staff Writer
The University of Northern Iowa women’s basketball game against St. Louis was not the only thing that occupied the McLeod Center Saturday night. During half-time, the Iowa Chairiots, a wheelchair basketball team performed a show, and then after the UNI game, they played a game of their own . The Iowa Chairiots and around 20 different UNI athletes played a four quarter game of five-on-five, rotating players roughly every five minutes. This gave UNI athletes the
to experience playing basketball in wheelchairs. “What we are working to establish is a clear and well-known awareness for inclusive adaptive sports in the state of Iowa,” said Jayden Barrett, Iowa Chairiot player. “We want everyone to know about adaptive sports, and through this also see the true capabilities of people with disabilities.” The basketball game was a fundraiser event for SportAbility of Iowa, which aimed to raise money for the Iowa Chairiots and the UNI Adapted Sports Camp, said Jack Eherenman, who
ERIN KEISER/Northern Iowan
The UNI men’s basketball team joins in a game with the Iowa Chairiots.
runs the camp and was a participant in the game. Eherenman said that because the game came on
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