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Northern Iowan

The student news site of the University of Northern Iowa

Northern Iowan

Steven Spielbergs film Ready Player One received a 74 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

‘Ready Player One’ is fun thrill ride

CLINTON OLSASKY, Executive Editor | [email protected] Apr 9, 2018

After having devoted much of the latter half of his career to historical dramas and prestige pictures, it seems that legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg (“Jaws,” “E.T.,” “Raiders of the Lost...

Feminists bring comedians

Feminists bring comedians

KOREE DEERING, Staff Writer Apr 9, 2018

On Thursday, April 12, the Northern Iowa Feminists will be hosting two female comedians, Megan Gogerty and Lyn-z Harney, at the Lutheran Student Center Coffeehouse from 8 to 9 p.m. as part of Women to...

Panther Portrait: UNI Pride Week Drag Ball

Panther Portrait: UNI Pride Week Drag Ball

LEZIGA BARIKOR, Campus Life Editor | [email protected] Apr 5, 2018

UNI Proud kicked off Pride Week 2018 with a Drag Ball. The Drag Ball was held on April 2 at 7 p.m. and featured both UNI students and professional drag performers. Pride Week will continue with a film...

The annual RodCon event will take place on Saturday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be various events including sword fighting.

RodCon brings in all kinds of comic book fans

ANNA FLANDERS, Staff Writer Apr 5, 2018

On Saturday, April 7, Rod Library will host the fifth annual RodCon from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is a miniature version of Comic-Con that is entirely free and open to the public. Last year, the convention...

The UNI Jazz Band One concert on Friday, April 6, will be held in honor of Jeffrey Tower. Tower is being inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame.

Jazz Band One celebrates new hall of famer

PEYTON HUSMANN, Staff Writer Apr 5, 2018

This Friday, April 6, alumnus Jeffrey Tower is being posthumously inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in Bengtson Auditorium in Russell Hall. The occasion is being celebrated by a Jazz Band One concert...

The Universal Pictures film Blockers stars Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and John Cena. The movie will be available for wide release on April 6.

Teen sex comedy transcends genre

CLINTON OLSASKY, Executive Editor | [email protected] Apr 2, 2018

Prom is the magical night in which all teenage girls fall in love with the boy of their dreams and enter into the realm of womanhood through the transformative act of sex. Or, at least that’s what...

Annual PTSD conference returns to UNI

Annual PTSD conference returns to UNI

LEZIGA BARIKOR and ANNA FLANDERS Mar 29, 2018

On Wednesday, Mar. 28, the second annual PTSD Conference was held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The first two speakers presented in the Central Ballroom of the Union, while the breakout sessions were in the lower...

Public relations professional Fraser Seitel visited UNI this Tuesday to talk about PR in the era of nationalism.

Renowned PR professional visits

SARAH RITONDALE, Staff Writer Mar 29, 2018

UNI welcomed Fraser Seitel to campus on Tuesday, March 28, as part of the Hearst Lecture Series to discuss “Public Relations in the Age of Nationalism” or, as Seitel put it, “Public Relations in...

Panther Portrait: Maucker Union Live - Rickey Neal

Panther Portrait: Maucker Union Live – Rickey Neal

LEZIGA BARIKOR, Campus Life Editor | [email protected] Mar 29, 2018

The Maucker Union Live series featured the musical talents of Rickey Neal this Wednesday, March 28, at 12 p.m. Neal is a senior liberal arts major. He performed piano, using other audio backings.

The film adaption of A Wrinkle in Time is directed by Ava DuVernay featuring an all star cast. It has a 41 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Reviewer wrecks ‘Wrinkle in Time’

CLINTON OLSASKY, Executive Editor | [email protected] Mar 26, 2018

You know that feeling you get when your mega-smart astrophysicist father disappears for years at a time while studying the mysteries of the universe, only for you to be guided to his extra-dimensional...

There will be a food packaging event from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Commons Slife Ballroom tomorrow.

Packing Meals from the Heartland on campus

SOFIA LEGASPI, Campus Life Editor | [email protected] Mar 26, 2018

Meals from the Heartland will be hosting a food packaging event from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, in the Commons Slife Ballroom. The food pack, organized by the Office of Community Engagement,...

This is the mug shot of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand. He wrote the book, now movie, Tortured for Christ about his persecution under the Romanian communist regime.

Compelling story of joy through despair

LEZIGA BARIKOR, Campus Life Editor | [email protected] Mar 22, 2018

The year was 1944 when the Soviet Union occupied Romania and began to establish a communist regime. The young pastor Richard Wurmbrand and his wife Sabina were among many of the religious leaders in attendance...

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