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� See DEPRESSION, page 2 � See LIVE MUSIC, page 4
Bringing tunes to the HillPARKER WOLFE/Northern Iowan
Erik Nelson, is the lead vocalist and guitarist for a band that took part in the Open Jam event at The Octopus on College Hill Feb. 26. The locally owned bar frequently exhibits live and vinyl music.
LINH TAIowaWatch Staff Writer
AMBER ROUSEAssociate Executive EditorThe Hydrant: Karaoke
Wednesday-Saturday from 9 p.m.-close
Gingers: Ten Point DJ every Thursday night at 9 p.m., live music select days
The Octopus: Trivia Tuesday every week at 7:30 p.m.
Depression hits home in Cedar Falls
Opinion X Campus Life X Sports X Games X Classifieds XOpinion 3 Campus Life 4 Sports 6 Games 7 Classifieds 8
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ORCHESTRA NISG BASKETBALLThe Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra will play overseas in Brazil.
The NI opinion columnists address issues regarding student government.
The women’s basketball team served vengeance to the Drake Bulldogs.
Anxiety, depression and stress are reality for Jordon Deutmeyer, a 23-year-old UNI student who has dropped out of two schools, attempt-ed suicide and failed a multitude of classes.
“I just remember trying really hard in all of my classes,” Deutmeyer said. “I never skipped, I never did anything; I tried really hard. I would just get C’s back or fail.
“And the more times I did that, the more it was pounding into me that I was an inferior student and I don’t belong here.”
Deutmeyer got a lesson that any college students dealing with depres-sion learns: While earning a bach-elor’s degree in college requires any-one to overcome obstacles, students with depression can find themselves overcoming even darker challenges.
These challenges include sadness, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, physical problems, sleeping problems and suicidal thoughts, according to the National Institute of Mental Health website.
The challenges become bigger when universities lack resources and outreach programs and faculty and staff are unaware of students’ strug-gles. The result for students dealing with depression is difficulty perform-ing at their best, maintaining grades or even staying in school.
According to the most recent annu-al data from the National College Health Assessment, 930 students at the University of Iowa, 561 stu-dents at the University of Northern Iowa and 878 students at Iowa State University reported that factors like anxiety, depression and stress imped-ed their academic performance in the past year. The UI and UNI data is from 2013 while ISU’s is from 2012.
Deciding where to enjoy the weekend can be easy for students who know what College Street in Cedar Falls has to offer. College Street, better known as the Hill, is a popular hangout for UNI stu-dents.
On the Hill, students are able to enjoy places to eat, to dance, to sing and to listen to local, live music.
“The Hill has been the heart of Cedar Falls for quite a while,” said
Walter Goodknight, former man-ager at The Octopus, a bar located on the hill. “Since the 2000s, we’re kind of re-energizing the heart of Cedar Falls as we are bringing back live music.”
Dave Deibler and his wife opened The Octopus in 2012. Since then they have brought in musicians and activities for students and commu-nity members to participate in.
“Most of our stuff tends to be monthly,” Deibler said about some of the acts that come through.
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CAMPUS EVENTSTHURSDAYFILM SCREENINGCME7 p.m.The documentary “The Lord is Not On Trial Here Today” will be screened. It tells the story of Vashti McCollum and her court case that established the separation of church and state in public schools.
PLANETARIUM SHOWRoom 105, Latham Hall7-8:30 p.m.An opportunity to view the night sky from the earth science department’s planetarium and learn about the objects that are visible, as well as upcoming sky events.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALLMcLeod Center7 p.m.The Panthers take on the Illinois State University Redbirds.
FILM SCREENINGRoom 115, Seerley Hall7-9 p.m.The documentary “Paragraph 175” will be screened and is sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, the UNI History Club, Phi Alpha Theta and UNI Proud.
CONCERT CHORALEGreat Hall, GBPAC7:30 p.m.Under the direction of UNI School of Music professor and conductor John Len Wiles, the UNI Concert Chorale will offer a spring concert.
WASTED: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?UNI Interpreter’s Theatre, Lang 407:30 p.m.This ensemble explores, criticizes and recuperates the habitual pracitces of “throw away culture” in everyday life using costumes, “image theatre,” poetry, art installations and dance.
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The faces of depressionIt was a chillier than nor-
mal October day at ISU when Deutmeyer thought he was ready to die. After dropping out of Kirkwood Community College because of depression, attention deficit disorder and a personality disorder, Deutmeyer was pursuing a degree in psy-chology at ISU in 2010. But he had failing grades and scream-ing suicidal thoughts.
“I would see all these kids around me taking 18 credits and getting an A average, and here I was taking 14 and I was struggling the whole time,” Deutmeyer said. “That made me feel worthless.”
As the struggle to concen-trate in class increased, so did Deutmeyer’s suicidal thoughts. At the beginning of the semes-ter he had wanted to succeed in school; by the middle, he said, he just wanted to succeed in killing himself.
Oct. 12, 2010, was the day. He went to ISU Student Counseling Services and met with a counselor.
“I felt like he gave me this copy-and-paste answer of, ‘Oh, if you feel like you’re going to kill yourself, then here is a num-ber to call.’ I felt like not only did I give up on them, but they gave up on me,” Deutmeyer said.
After the counseling visit, he returned to his residence hall, stood outside, called his mother to say one last goodbye
and tried to overdose on muscle relaxants.
Doctors at Mary Greeley Medical Center were able to save him and he returned to class at ISU the day after his four-day hospital stay.
Too embarrassed to tell his professors he was in the hos-pital for a suicide attempt, he struggled academically and received C’s, D’s and F’s.
Though he knew he could have asked for leniency, he didn’t feel like there was any-thing his professors could do. Deutmeyer dropped out of ISU spring semester 2011 and returned home to live with his parents in Dubuque.
* * *Samantha Torres, 20, was
excited to start school and pur-sue an English degree at UNI in 2011. Originally from San Antonio, Torres was awarded UNI scholarships and grants that allowed her to attend UNI. Though diagnosed with depres-sion at 15, things were looking positive.
“When I first got here, I was very welcomed,” Torres said. “Some of my best memories was when I got here and it was new and exciting.”
Torres was earning A’s and B’s, she met new friends, enjoyed going out and tried extracur-ricular activities. However, after entering a bad relationship, her depression triggered and slowly consumed her.
“You just want to be alone all the time and you feel like nobody will understand you. So being alone all the time leads to
really bad thoughts to the point where in late October, I was making plans to kill myself,” Torres said.
One October evening she made specific plans but called the UNI Counseling Center. A staff member drove her to Allen Hospital for observation. It was Homecoming weekend at UNI.
Torres decided to continue her semester and let her profes-sors know about her hospital-ization.
“When I first got released from the hospital, all my profes-sors were like, ‘you were in the hospital, let me know how to help you,’” Torres said.
However, Torres said the accommodations didn’t last long. Though some professors were willing to give extensions on assignments, she said a few were not.
“It was really hard to make someone understand who didn’t deal with it before,” Torres said.
Even after she started attending counseling and broke up with her boyfriend, achiev-ing passing grades was difficult.
By fall 2013, Torres had to drop out because her low grade point average caused her to lose her scholarships and grants.Getting help, overcoming
embarrassmentStudents diagnosed with
depression can receive academ-ic accommodations through UNI’s disability services, said Ashley Brickley, coordinator for students with disabilities.
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PAGE 3OpiniOnLINH TAOPINION EDITOR
MARCH 6, 2014 | NORTHERN-IOWAN.ORG | VOLUME 110, ISSUE 42
All-staff opinion column
I confess I know little about NISG and haven’t cared much about it. So I did what any journalist does to find answers and I asked around. From my informal survey of students and faculty it appears there are roughly three ways of thinking about NISG: they
are a great boon to the campus and work hard to represent the student body; they are cogs in a play-government, a student organization like any
other to for those who wish to go into politics; and there are those who don’t care.
I find the closer the stu-dent is to campus, the more he or she cares about Student Government. I find that much of what NISG does is related to founding, funding and plan-ning campus organizations and activities. I don’t fault them for being an organiza-tion catering to students who aspire to government work. That is what our organiza-tions are for. I won’t tell you
how NISG is organized or what they do, except that it mirrors the organization of government in the US. Go to their website to know more: uni.edu/studentorgs/nisg/.
In their favor, they gov-ern fairly openly. Senate bills and resolutions are available for all to view at their web page, written in plain lan-guage. What I would ask is how effective are they in their role as our liaisons and repre-sentatives to the University and the Cedar Valley? You
can read the bills proposed and concerns expressed. It’s harder to discover how seri-ously these recommendations are taken. While it is laudable that NISG is active in student and campus activities and ini-tiatives, I’m more concerned about larger issues affecting UNI: rising tuition, program cuts, program and teaching quality, opportunities for and quality of research, and just where our student representa-tives stand on the mission of higher education.
CHRISTOPHER [email protected]
What are your thoughts on student governemnt?I don’t fault
them for being an organization catering to students who aspire to government
work.
Perhaps the biggest prob-lem with the Northern Iowa Student Government is pre-cisely the problem I encoun-tered while writing about it: most students at UNI are not as familiar and involved with NISG as they should be.
Many students may not realize NISG operations
affect them in everyday, prac-tical ways. The organization promotes campus events for students to attend and pro-vides advocacy for UNI stu-dents on important issues such as tuition and quality of education. Just recently, the NISG senate passed a resolu-tion to have professors post certain materials online to minimize costs for students.
Despite this ostensible rel-evancy, we see a glaring lack of participation in NISG and awareness of the stu-dent body. Recently, the stu-
dent government held elec-tions for executive positions as well as other leadership positions. Candidates Kevin Gartman and Paul Anderson won the election for presi-dent and vice president with 610 votes while their com-petitors, Corey Cooling and Eric Boisen, received 552 votes. With 12,159 students enrolled at the beginning of the year, 1,162 is not a stag-gering voter turnout. With less than 10 percent of our student population voting, many students’ opinions will
likely go unvoiced. Similarly, we lack partici-
pation in students running for offices in NISG. In this year’s elections, many sena-tors ran uncontested. More UNI students need to step
up and run to take a leader-ship role to represent their respective college.
In order to remedy this lack of participation, I chal-lenge the students of UNI to the same thing I’m chal-lenging myself: take a more active role in our school’s student government. Vote in the next election, run for an office, participate in a campaign, attend an NISG meeting at eight o’clock on Wednesday nights in the Union — let your voice be heard at UNI.
At times, the Northern Iowa Student Government can be a student organiza-tion’s best friend. They can grant organizations funding, give us tips on navigating the UNI bureaucracy and answer almost any question a stu-dent leader has. They’re easy
to talk to and always have people available during nor-mal business hours to answer questions. NISG representa-tives are the kind of people who will argue about impor-tant political issues at mid-night (I’ve overheard them from Proud’s office). They genuinely care about every student’s concerns at UNI. However, they need a public relations intervention.
The NISG elections last week didn’t have a great voter turnout, but unfortunately
it’s better than it’s been in past years. Their website tells us that only 1,180 students voted in the election, yet we had 12,159 enroll in fall
2013. The day of the elec-tion I overheard students in Lang Hall saying they refuse to vote because they don’t know any of the candidates. People aren’t voting or inter-acting with NISG because they lack knowledge about it. This shows us that the pub-lic relations activities they’re currently doing aren’t very effective. They publish most of what they do on the web, but this information is only used by students involved in organizations. They need
a new target audience: the under-involved student.
A great way to reach under-involved students would be through incoming freshmen. What UNI should do is create a short, manda-tory workshop about NISG at freshmen orientation. If we do this, it may spark more involvement from students. It will also show that NISG representatives are nothing to be afraid of and are more than willing to listen to stu-dent concerns.
Nehemiah [email protected]
...we see a glaring lack of participation in
NISG and awareness of the student body.
Stormy O’[email protected]
People aren’t voting or interacting
with NISG because they lack knowledge about it.
The invasive insect the Emerald Ash Borer has been located in Waterloo. For those of you that do not know, that means trouble for the 1,700+ ash trees that are on UNI’s campus. That’s almost 37 percent of all trees at UNI and most were planted after the Dutch Elm Disease swept through. Take the west side of the UNI Dome for example, the back road to the WRC is lined with ash trees. They will even-tually all succumb to the
pest. Science fact. This also includes some of the old-est residents alive at UNI, like the few on the corner of College and University outside McCollum Science Hall.
UNI should be the hub for social and environmen-tal movements in the Cedar Valley. It is our responsibil-ity as young people with access to the resources our university provides to do something about the failing socio-economic and envi-ronmental systems around us. Our technology brings us stories of tar sand mines the size of Florida in once pristine Canadian forest, Kansas bureaucrats that fear anything that isn’t hetero-sexual and video after video
of police beating blacks because, well, they can still get away with it in many places. These atrocities are also occurring in your own backyard. Take the effort to learn about them and the more numerous they will become. Take a proactive stance on diversity and if you want to really enact change, start with yourself.
The UNI Grounds Crew will be planting trees as the pest sweeps through campus over the next 10 years, and I am interested
to see how we approach the situation. Birch grow fast, as do soft maples, or how about our state tree, the oak? Given the over 100 species of trees and shrubs native to the state of Iowa, I sure hope we don’t plant 2,000 of the same species of fast growing tree. UNI doesn’t have to, again, risk taking on “the stark appear-ance of a clear-cut forest.” History is not doomed to repeat itself. -Ben HoskchBiology graduate student
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Trees in trouble at and surrounding UNIUNI should
be the hub for social
and environmental movements in the Cedar Valley.
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Orchestra composes trip of a lifetimeWhile some students may only fan-
tasize about 80 degree weather, sunny beaches and relaxing music this spring break, 60 UNI students and school of music faculty will live that dream during the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra concert tour of Brazil.
The symphony orchestra will combine with the orchestra at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul for performances.
“Getting together in that realm is a powerful statement about how much we really do have in common,” said Rebecca Burkhardt, director of NISO. “Through student and musician inter-action, we can create a relationship and have a good experience as humans on the earth, not just Americans and Brazilians.”
The group will leave March 14 and return March 24. During their time in Brazil, UNI students will perform various solo and combined concerts.
“There are eight chamber ensem-bles that are coming out of the orches-tra to do a chamber music recital,” Burkhardt said. “We may do some impromptu guerilla recitals outdoors
depending on the day.”Performances will feature a vari-
ety of music, including Brazilian and American.
For Emily Linder, senior perform-ing arts management major and Brazil tour intern, playing Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony No. 1” will be a highlight of the trip.
“As a horn player, that’s something we dream about, just playing any sort of Mahler,” Linder said. “I’m excited to get the chance to play the entire symphony.”
Burkhardt said the tour is an incredible performance opportunity and UNI students will benefit from playing with Universidade de Caxias do Sul students.
“We wouldn’t be able to do this symphony by ourselves. It’s a very large work,” said Burkhardt.
Olivia Randolph, senior performing arts management major and Brazil tour intern, will not play in the orches-tra but nonetheless looks forward to the performances.
“I’m excited to see the different ways that we handle music and busi-ness between the U.S. and Brazil and to hear the combined orchestras together,” Randolph said.
Outside of performances, there
are several sightseeing opportunities, including tours of Porto Legre and a vineyard. On the last day, the group will go to the Atlantic Ocean.
“We will have a whole day at the beach, a wonderful dinner and danc-ing in the evening,” Burkhardt said. “It worked out really well. We will do all of our performing and then have a whole day and a half where we can
just play.”Despite the trip’s approximate cost
of $2,100, Burkhardt believes the experience will be worth it in the end.
“They’ve worked very hard, and I think we’re going to give them their money’s worth on this,” Burkhardt said. “They’re going to learn a lot about themselves, music, playing and Brazil.”
KATIE UPAHStaff Writer
CASSIDY NOBLE/Northern IowanAbigail Lee, senior music, biology and Spanish triple major, plays her violin during a Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra rehearsal. The orchestra will travel to Brazil over spring break to perform with the orchestra at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul.
Lauren McCollum, a cus-tomer at The Octopus, likes what live music brings to the Hill.
“I’m not a fan of the stan-dard social scene on the Hill,” McCollum said. “I want some-thing a little more than the generic socializing, so when these places bring in bands, it fills the void that has been in this area for a while.”
Ross Reed, senior English major, agrees bringing in live music has offered more to stu-dents who are looking to do more than socialize.
“I didn’t come to the Hill before the Octopus and Ginger’s came because it was more of the party bars, so now I can come here and enjoy the music that these places offer,” Reed said.
For students who don’t want to travel far, the Hill provides accessibility. Kyle Dehmlow, a manager at Ginger’s Pub, said students can come and enjoy live, local music that is close to campus.
“My hope isthat it exposes more people to live music and especially local live music, and hopefully young people being in the band or working with bands it shows them there is still a need for that around here and there are still oppor-tunities,” Dehmlow said.
Goodknight said bands con-tact The Octopus via Facebook or by dropping off a CD.
“We’re not picky as to what styles we have here,”
Goodknight said.“It exposes you to different music and things you’ve never heard before.”
The different genres of bands that come in don’t really affect business. However, if a local band is more well-known there is an increase in cus-tomers. Sometimes pairing those bands with others that are starting off fresh is good for not only the bill, but the opening band, according to Goodknight.
There is a possibility the
customers won’t like what they hear, but Goodknight said “there’s never any nega-tive feedback towards us.”
Dehmlow said that at Ginger’s, they are just looking for any band that people want to see.
“Sometimes that’s going to see bands that are from out of town, but there are also some local bands that have a good vol-ume that are looking for a place to go,” D e h m l o w said.
S i n c e 2011, bars on the Hill have come together to participate in the College Hill Music Festival, which will take place in the beginning of May.
“I know this year we are participating in the College Hill Music Festival, which I believe is (with) The Octopus on the Hill and the Library as well,” Dehmlow said.
The Octopus participated in the Festival in 2013 and Deibler said he is looking for-ward to what is to come this year.
“It was packed and there was a lot of energy coming out of it. It’s going to be another great one this year,” Deibler said.
Also in May, Cedar Falls will see one of its Main Street bars close its doors. The HuB, known for bringing in live music, will say goodbye to
their customer base. Dehmlow said Ginger’s is looking to pro-vide a place for some of the bands that perform regularly at The HuB after the venue is closed.
“The HuB is (a) unique spot in its own as far as the size, the location and the history there,” Dehmlow said. “It’s been there for a long time. A lot of great
m e m o r i e s and a lot of great bands have been able to come through that place.”
Students can travel a little fur-
ther north to have a chance
to participate in making the music.
The Hydrant, a karaoke bar on the hill, allows students and customers to choose their song and belt out the lyrics.
“I think that students really enjoy karaoke because they can come in and they can watch the singing or they can sing it,” said Tanya Clayberg, a manager at The Hydrant. “People really like being able to get up on the stage and be the star of the song.”
The Hydrant has two disc jockeys that come in for its karaoke nights. They alter-nate between Wednesday and Saturday every week.
“Having two DJ’s helps mix it up,” Clayberg said. “We have a lot of really good regulars who come in every night. It’s just nice to have some variety with
the different music they play and the different personalities.”
Live bands may seem to pose a threat to The Hydrant’s business, but Clayberg said that it doesn’t.
“When the other bars have live bands I don’t think it real-ly makes us compete, I think that it just makes people enjoy The Hill more with the variety of music and places to go,” said Clayberg.
Customer bases may change, though, depending on sports and weather.
“We see more customers when there are home games, but in the winter we are the busiest because people can’t be outside. And of course with Homecoming we will be very busy,” Clayberg said.
Other bars have also noticed fluctuations in cus-tomers when it comes to weather changes.
“Summer time is a little bit harder to book live music because there are times where the bar business is a little bit slower and keeping people indoors is a little bit harder,” Dehmlow said. “Some bands go on tour and their availabil-ity might not be as easy as it could be in the winter and the fall.”
Goodknight said the vari-ety of activities for students on The Hill may improve the university.
“Because the Hill is doing well, hopefully the univer-sity will also reflect that with not cutting programs,” Goodknight said. “It’s a healthy economy here.”
MUSICcontinued from page 1
PARKER WOLFE/Northern IowanA.J. Austin plays the drums at the Octopus during Open Jam night Feb. 26. The event allowed anyone to come in and play music.
People really like being able to get up on
the stage and be the star of the song.
Tanya ClaybergManager at The Hydrant
CAMPUS LIFE PAGE 5NORTHERN-IOWAN.ORG |THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014
This week’s Greek highlight is Alpha Xi Delta sorority. What makes this sorority special is that it was the first national wom-en’s fraternity on UNI’s campus, according to the UNI chapter website.
Alpha Xi Delta’s national vision statement is to inspire women to realize their potential. The ladies of AZD promote intellectual, professional and personal growth. They also encourage community responsibility.
“Our main values of Alpha Xi Delta are sisterhood, leader-ship, service and scholarship,” said Breanna Rosas, chapter president. “We believe in truly bettering ourselves as women and to help others.”
Their national philanthropy is Autism Speaks, a foundation that funds autism research and helps families directly impacted by autism. They participate in Spectrum Theatre, an experimen-tal program at UNI for children ages 6-12 both on and off the autism spectrum, and volunteer at Waterloo’s Boys and Girls Club.
To coincide with their phi-lanthropy, AZD hosts several events in April, which is Autism Awareness month. Since 2010, they have held a male pageant called the Xi Man Competition every spring to raise money for
Autism Speaks. Blue lights also shine on the
Campanile throughout April and Chats in Maucker Union puts blue whip cream on coffee drinks.
Last fall, AZD held their first “AmaXIng Challenge: Step It Up 5K” event, which raised $5, 965 for Autism Speaks.
Aside from work with their national philanthropy, Rosas said AZDs are very involved on cam-pus.
“I believe we are well-known on campus … because our ladies are involved in so many other things at UNI,” Rosas said. “There are Xi’s helping out everywhere.”
Rosas also said Alpha Xi Delta is a very tight-knit group that “feels like family.”
AZD currently only has 65 sisters, but Rosas said that just makes them closer.
The cohesiveness of AZD is Elizabeth Stemlar’s, senior com-munications major, favorite part of the chapter.
“I like how we all mesh togeth-er as one group even though our personalities are all different. I feel like I can be myself,” Stemlar said.
Whitney Cook, junior psychol-ogy major, said joining a frater-nity or sorority is a great way to meet new people.
“Everyone comes from a differ-ent background and has a unique personality. I feel without joining Alpha Xi Delta I wouldn’t be able to meet such a diverse group of
women.”She also said she likes “the
whole big sister and little sister aspect of sorority life in general, and especially in Alpha Xi Delta.”
In Greek life, having a big or little within your fraternity of sorority enables you to make a sig-nificant bond with one particular member. Your big is your mentor, though the type of mentor differs for each chapter. A big can be a spiritual, social or academic guide though your college career.
“Fraternity and sorority life has helped me to grow in so many ways,” Rosas said. “I have the chance to meet so many won-derful people and be involved in so much on campus. I have made connections that will last a life-time. I feel like I am doing more with my life to help others.”
JACOB SHULTZGreek Life Writer
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General accommodations include instructor notes, extended time on exams, extended absences or lighter class loads, Brickley said.
However, spreading word that students with depression may receive support from disability services is a chal-lenge. Even when the mes-sage is delivered, students who need assistance often do not seek it.
“We aren’t able to advocate for students unless they tell us what is going on,” Brickley said.
Torres read about disabili-ty services’ efforts to help stu-dents with accommodations while she was in college but chose not to seek help.
“It was just my own embar-rassment and guilt. I felt like I wouldn’t be seen as needing those services,” Torres said. “The word disability, I don’t think about the word depres-sion.”
When students hide their struggles, it is difficult for fac-ulty and staff to assist them. Joe Gorton, criminology pro-fessor and president of UNI’s faculty union, said determining when a student has depression or may be suicidal is difficult.
“You make it, and muscle it and it becomes invisible to the rest of us,” Gorton said.
Compounding matters, confidentiality rules keep UNI Student Disability Services from disclosing why a stu-dent needs special accommo-dations.
Educating the facultyThe UNI Counseling
Center and Student Disability Services provide education-al outreach about student depression to professors and faculty, but Gorton said he hasn’t heard of training fac-ulty members how to support students who are suicidal or may have depression.
However, two years ago, after one of Gorton’s stu-dents took his own life, Gorton started thinking about students with serious mental problems and how people at universities unin-tentionally “may be making things worse.”
Gorton, counseling cen-ter director David Towle and others at UNI are develop-ing two approaches to sup-port students with depres-sion. One, a gatekeeper model, would encourage UNI com-munity members to identify and assist potentially suicidal students. The other, a public health model, would provide a community for students with depression.
Gorton is unsure when the program will start, as he wants to create something enduring.Stresses facing counseling
centersHandling and recovering
from depression can be easier with therapy, according to the American Psychological Association. However, staff shortages can create difficul-
ties for students who want to be seen promptly or frequently, according to a 2012 study by the Investigative Journalism Education Consortium.
In August, before class was in session, UNI senior Sarah Wood said she called the UNI Counseling Center to sched-ule an appointment to help her handle her depression.
After meeting with a coun-selor to receive an initial assessment, Wood said it took nearly a month to get regu-larly scheduled.
The International Association of Counseling Services recommends that university counseling centers house one counselor for every 1,000 students. Towle said UNI has eight full-time coun-selors, one for every 1,500 students.
“I wouldn’t say I’m happy with the number of staff members ... but obtaining the funding to hire more staff is challenging in this economic environment,” Towle said.
He also said he thinks there is a shortage of mental health professionals in Iowa and in the country, so not everyone can get the services they need.
Towle said he’s seen an increase in students using the center’s services during his 16 years at UNI, which he contributes to less social stigma surrounding mental disorders.
The UNI center is funded by a mandatory health fee paid by each UNI student and the university’s general education fund, which is a combination of tuition and state funds. An enrollment drop at UNI in 2012 meant less tuition rev-enue, leaving the center with a main priority of maintaining the current staff, Towle said.
The center received $624,126 in fiscal year 2012. In fiscal 2013, it received $628,740. It is to receive $638,820 in fiscal 2014, Towle said. However, while funding is increasing, Towle said the money only maintains exist-ing services.
Towle said he plans to request more funding from the university for additional staffing, though he’s unsure if his request will be granted.
Hope for change in the education system
Torres now lives in Cedar Rapids with her fiancé and has a baby on the way. Life is exciting and manageable.
However, she would like to return to school and finish her degree.
Though she doesn’t think she’ll get her scholarships or grants back, she plans to apply for in-state tuition. She said she believes more can be done for students like her, though she’s not sure what needs to change.
“I know what would make me succeed. But I also feel like it’s probably asking a lot of the school to kind of bend rules and give me certain permissions that other students might not get,”
Torres said.Deutmeyer decided to take
one more leap into higher edu-cation and started attending UNI in August 2011. While he still struggles academically, he said he’s found a support system of friends, proper medication and counseling.
“My dreams and my hoping is the only thing that got me here, and I think it’s the only thing that will get me going in the future,” he said. “I do it because if I didn’t, I wouldn’t know what else I would do.”
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UNI gets revenge with overtime win
ERIN KEISER/Northern IowanJen Keitel (left) and Brittni Donaldson (right) combined for 62 of UNI’s 99 points in an overtime win against Drake on Sunday. Donaldson set a school record with eight made 3-pointers while Kietel recorded her sixth double-double of the season with 13 rebounds.
Not only did UNI enact vengeance with a 99-97 win against Drake University after the heartbreaking defeat they suffered in the teams’ last encounter, they utilized career performances from forward Jen Keitel and guard Brittni Donaldson to do so.
Donaldson set a school record for most 3-pointers made in a game, sinking eight of her 15 attempts. Donaldson recorded a career- and team-high 34 points while also dish-ing out a game-high seven assists. In total, UNI made a season high 14 3-pointers.
Keitel was the other main contributor to the season-high 99 points UNI put on the board Sunday afternoon, scor-ing a career-high 28 points and coming down with a game-high 13 rebounds to tally up her sixth double-double of the season. Keitel’s eight offen-sive boards were three shy of Drake’s team total of 11, giv-ing her team valuable extra possessions. Keitel also had a game-high two blocks on the afternoon.
UNI led for much of the game but Drake clawed their
way back near the end of reg-ulation. Drake forced overtime with a game-tying 3-pointer from freshman guard Lizzy Wendell, which was reminis-cent of the game winning trey that sealed the victory for Drake earlier in the season.
There were six lead changes in overtime and the
Panthers needed every bit of offense they received from Donaldson and Keitel’s career-high afternoons. Two Drake players, Wendell and guard Kyndal Clark, unleashed a relentless barrage of points. Clark scored a game-high 41 points on the night, draining seven 3-pointers, and Wendell
chipped in 35 points while sinking four 3-pointers. Clark and Wendell were the only two Drake players to score in double figures.
UNI now sits in a tie for second place in the Missouri Valley Conference with Indiana State. It is a mere half game behind first-place
Wichita State. The Panthers look to
extend their five-game win-ning streak as they close out the season with two home games. They face off against Illinois State at 7 p.m. tonight. Their final home game is at 2 p.m. Saturday against Indiana State University.
NICK ALVARADOSports Writer
Sievertsen competes in Phoenix combine
ROAD TO THE NFL
Well, I have officially returned to Iowa and I’m glad to be back. This past weekend was a success and I enjoyed every minute of it.
The weekend started off with adversity just like the last combine. Phoenix hadn’t had rain in 70 days but the weath-er forecast called for rain on Saturday, requiring a change in schedule. Kicking and punting was moved up to Friday. I was well prepared for this change after what happened in New Jersey. I knew that I had to clear my mind and just focus on what I was there to do.
We started kicking at 4 p.m. Friday in windy conditions. The wind was blowing in one zone and out the other in the midst of the rainstorm. This remind-ed me of Illinois State my soph-omore year when I was asked to make the game-tying field goal for the conference champion-ship while kicking into a stiff 30 mph wind. I had been there before and I was able to focus.
We hit our first two short-er field goals into the wind to prove that we could make kicks in any conditions. I was able to clear my mind and was off to a good start. We then changed directions and hit six more field goals with the wind. I ended up toward the top of the group so I was rewarded extra field goals. I kept hitting solid balls and my confidence rose heading into the kickoff segment of the combine.
With the wind at my back I was able to post solid num-bers on my kickoffs. Everything seemed to fall into place that Friday afternoon.
Things aren’t always going to be perfect, but we have to make the best of our oppor-tunities. This combine was a huge success and I am excited to move forward with training in Cedar Falls.
Now that I am home, I will be kicking with the specialists in Cedar Falls. I’m excited to work with them and be in the comfort of the UNI-Dome. It’s great to be back and now it’s time to get back to work.
TYLER SIEVERTSENFormer UNI placekicker
Lack of fans disappointing for UNIOPINION
Wednesday night marked the final home game for the Northern Iowa men’s bas-ketball team, meaning it was the last chance for students to riot in the student sec-tion and act like maniacs in support of their beloved Panthers.
Instead, the student-reserved south end at the McLeod Center resembled church pews on a Monday morning. Sure, it was cold outside, but there were plen-ty of reasons for students to attend the game in full force.
Are we as UNI students just becoming too lazy to care?
It’s understandable; it’s Iowa. As winter continues on it’s easy to give in to cold temperatures and not make the trek across campus to the stadium. But if enough people go to the game, it’ll warm up the gym and you can enjoy the warmth once you get there.
That’s just one of many reasons to attend games.
Every game free T-shirts are shot out of a cannons. I can’t stress how awesome a T-shirt cannon is.
There are other perks to going to games. Wednesday, a Papa John’s representative was handing out free one-topping pizza coupons to the first 500 students through the doors. Sadly, I don’t think he handed them all out thanks to the lack of atten-dance. If free T-shirts and free pizza don’t give you a reason to go to a game, then I envy your wallet and pity your taste buds.
A common reason given by people who have yet to go to games is that we’re not any good this year. Last time I checked, the Panthers are in third place in the Missouri Valley Conference and are in a prime spot to contend
for an MVC title at the Arch Madness tournament next weekend. If we were bot-tom-dwelling in the confer-ence like Loyola University Chicago or Evansville University, then you would have more of a case.
Maybe you just don’t care about or like basketball. Well that’s fine, but don’t complain about having noth-ing to do or never socializ-ing with people on campus, because sporting events are ideal locations to knock both those excuses out.
Students also get free asmission to home games, so don’t tell me your funds are too low to attend.
So now that we’ve extin-guished some main reasons for why you don’t attend home games at UNI, what are your reasons for not going?
BEN LLOYDSports Columnist
Are we as UNI students just
becoming too lazy to care?
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE PER GAME
McLeod Center........ 4,693 Away........................ 5,810
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