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FEBRUARY 3, 2012 OPINION
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FRIDAY
VOLUME 108, ISSUE 33
Inside the quiet mind
CEDAR FALLS, IOWA
NORTHERN-IOWAN.ORG
CAMPUS LIFE
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Thanks to a stroke of luck, UNI alumnus Isaac Brockshus will grace the GBPAC stage Saturday. < See PAGE 5
Freshman Deon Mitchell injected muchneeded life into the Panthers to help lift them over Southern Illinois Tuesday. < See PAGE 8
Taking the stage
Nate Konrardy speaks from the introspective perspective of an introvert. < See PAGE 4
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Just what we needed
NISG
General elections on the horizon
NISG hopes smaller senate will lead to contested elections
NISG
‘Buttongate’ debate questions role of precedent JOHN ANDERSON Executive Editor
JOHN ANDERSON
With a shorter campaign season and a smaller senate, the Northern Iowa Student Government general elections look to be leaner and meaner than ever before. Candidates will only have two weeks of official campaigning before University of Northern Iowa students vote for presidential and senate candidates Feb. 27-28 on MyUNIverse, and with senate shrinking from 38 seats to 19, many NISG members are expecting more contested elections. “It’s gonna be fast and hard,” said Spencer Walrath, student body president. “It’s gonna be a lot shorter than we’re used to, which will mean that (candidates) need to maximize (their) time.”
A debate over funding buttons led to tensions between transparency and equality during the Jan. 25 meeting of the Northern Iowa Student Government senate in the University Room. The debate, which some senators have dubbed “Buttongate,” centered around a bill to allocate $260 to the Black Student Union for buttons to be used during a period of silence in honor of those who fought and died to end segregation. The Organization and Finance Committee’s guidelines say nothing about denying funding for buttons, but, as Senator Jared Parker noted during the meeting, NISG had previously denied funding for buttons and ribbons during the current budgetary year. Senators debated back and
< See ELECTIONS, page 3
< See BUTTONGATE, page 2
Executive Editor
ECONOMY
CAUCUS 2012
Schnöell says EU will overcome debt crisis LINH TA Government Writer
The European debt crisis may be happening overseas, but according to Thomas Schnöell, Consul General of Austria in Chicago, Americans need to understand the importance the issue has globally. “There are consequences for transatlantic relations. When you follow the financial markets in the U.S., you can see how sensitive they are to the development of the European Union,” Schnöell said in the Gallagher-Bluedor Performing Arts Center lobby on Jan. 30. “Today, for example, I followed that in the morning when Greece had still not found an agreement on the haircut about their bets, the Dow Jones
DIANA HALL/Northern Iowan
< See DEBT CRISIS, page 3
Thomas Schnöell, the Consul General of Austria, speaks in the lobby of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on Jan. 30.
INDEX
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SPY AT UNI 2
Love is in the air
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OPINION 4
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CAMPUS LIFE 5
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SPORTS 8
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GAMES 10
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CLASSIFIEDS 11