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Northern Iowan

The student news site of the University of Northern Iowa

Northern Iowan

What I’ve learned during my freshman year

ABIGAIL BENNETHUM Mar 28, 2019

Being a freshman here at UNI, I have learned a lot, and not just the directions from my dorm room to $5 Pizza. Before coming to college, I thought I knew a lot and just assumed that the first year on...

Student Wellness Services Graduate Student Brianna De Moss suggests ways in which students can stay safe this spring break.

Stay safe this break: Do it for YOU!

Letter to the Editor Mar 14, 2019

This guest column was submitted by Graduate Assistant Brianna De Moss of Student Wellness Services. Whether you’re planning on vacationing somewhere tropical or stay-cationing in Cedar Falls, consider...

Giddens will fight student voter suppression

Letter to the Editor Mar 14, 2019

This Letter to the Editor was submitted by Eric Giddens, Democratic candidate for Iowa Senate District 30. Right now in the Republican-controlled Iowa Senate, there is a bill making its way that would...

Opinion columnist Colin Horning discusses previous initiative by Democrats for border security, and the decline of that support during the Trump Administration.

Border security is common sense

COLIN HORNING, Sports Editor Mar 11, 2019

Security at the southern border with Mexico has been a hot-button issue for the last few years and has since escalated with the election of President Donald Trump. During his campaign, it was perhaps his...

Opinion columnist Kevin Wiggins discusses the balanced political discourse that has found a home platform through YouTube, and the amount of political representation that is present there.

Tale of two YouTubes: A spectrum

KEVIN WIGGINS Mar 7, 2019

It was the best of nights, it was the worst of nights, it was a time of tweets, it was the time of podcasts, it was the epoch of endless knowledge, it was the epoch of lazy opinion, it was the season of...

Copy Editor Brody Hall discusses his personal experience with alcohol and how it has played a part in shaping his early adulthood.

Raise your glass to growing up

BRODY HALL, Copy Editor Mar 4, 2019

You failed a test? Take a shot. You aced a test? Take a shot. Your boyfriend dumped you? Take a shot. He told you he loved you? Take a shot. You got the job? Take a shot. They told you they decided to...

Protests in Haiti show the way forward

MOHAMMED RAWWAS Mar 4, 2019

On Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, protests in Haiti erupted in reaction to the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, and his administration’s theft of billions of dollars that were on loan from Venezuela’s...

Steve Corbin, professor emeritus of marketing, argues that many people who are pro-life are actually pro-birth in their daily and political actions.

Are you pro-life or pro-birth?

Letter to the Editor Feb 28, 2019

Editor’s Note: This Letter to the Editor was submitted by Steve Corbin, professor emeritus of marketing. “I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life....

Opinion columnist Samantha Goodman discusses the harmful effects of tanning bed usage, and asks readers to weigh the pros and cons before making a decision to use them.

Is the spring break “bronze glow” really worth it?

SAMANTHA GOODMAN, Opinion Columnist Feb 28, 2019

With spring break just around the corner, tanning beds are regularly being occupied by students yearning for that bronze color to show off in their bikinis. Regular tanning bed usage places users at a...

Opinion columnist Abby Bennethum discusses how careers in social media, especially YouTube, are impractical due to their fast-burning, ever-evolving nature.

Is Youtube a practical career?

ABBY BENNETHUM, Opinion Columnist Feb 25, 2019

Growing up, we were asked what we wanted to be when we were older. Such a simple question, yet it follows with two decades in the making. Some of the most common things that children want to be are...

Opinion columnist Kevin Wiggins discusses the importance of liberal arts education when it comes to personal enrichment and feelings more connected to the history of humanity.

Liberal arts education is necessary

KEVIN WIGGINS Feb 21, 2019

As we soon head into the third decade in which most millennials will have been alive, it appears that the Humanities are in their worst shape since the condemnation of Aristotle in 1210. The liberal arts...

The only moment that matters is right now

BRODY HALL, Copy Editor Feb 21, 2019

I had been toying with the idea of writing this piece for a while, like the way a thought lingers, weaving itself in and out of your consciousness like an uninvited visitor, popping out of nowhere and...

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