Northern Iowan — October 8, 2015

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1 Organization offers LiNK to those fleeing North Korea As part of Refugee and Immigrant Support and Empowerment (RISE) Week, non-profit organization Liberty in North Korea presented about their mission to assist North Korean refugees on October 6 in Maucker Union. Other events included "Be in the Know: The Refugee Crisis in Europe," "Every DREAMer Has a Story," "Personal Accounts from Burma," and "How Can We Help Our Neighbors?"
1 Trump stumps in Cedar Valley Presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at the Waterloo Electric Park Ballroom on October 7; photos.
2 Social work in progress The Continuing and Distance Education Program now offers a master's degree in social work.
3 Corrections The Northern Iowan corrects mistakes made in the October 5 edition article "Cookie 5K-ing against cancer."
3 Corporations, not people: the Citizen's United disaster In the author's opinion, the United States Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling increased corruption, particularly corporate corruption, in politics; photo.
3 Cast off those cartoony cultural costumes In the author's opinion, people should avoid culturally inappropriate Halloween costumes; photos.
4 "Badlands" achieves lyrical masterpiece Rekemeyer reviews Halsey's "Badlands" album; 4/5.
5 Suspense film is frighteningly realistic Rouse reviews "Sicario," 5/5; photo.
6 An eligibility issue: should amateur players stay or go? In the author's opinion, football players should be eligible to go professional after two years of college football instead of three.
6 With so many deserving, who gets to be MVP? Deitrick predicts who will be named Most Valuable Player (MVP)  in the Major League Baseball (MLB) post-season; photo.