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BY KATELYN [email protected]
Monica Lewinsky calls herself “Patient Ze-ro” of the cyberbullying crisis.
The Internet was just be-coming widespread in Sep-tember 1998 when Lewinsky became the center of a presi-dential scandal. Media outlets nationwide picked up the sto-ry of her affair with President Bill Clinton, and she instantly became the victim of count-
less online comments, with her photo plas-tered across the Internet.
Lewinsky will share her story, which in the age of social media has become a story many people can relate to, at the IMU Main Lounge at 7:30 p.m. Her lecture, titled “The Price of Shame,” will discuss cyberbullying and how to promote compassion on the Internet.
At the University of Iowa, officials know that cyberbullying is an issue. The dean of students addresses cases that violate the Code
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“We were pretty shocked — we found out Monday [Oct. 2] at 8 a.m., and I had a test that day. I thought about him the whole time … it was just a regular Sunday night; we didn’t expect anything like this.”
University of Iowa se-nior Tyler Kromkowski said this “regular Sunday night” had life-threatening conse-quences for longtime friend Kevin Orozco.
Orozco, a UI student who was involved in an accident on the night of Oct. 1, was rushed to the UI Hospitals and Clinics in critical con-dition — a fractured skull, fractures on his C1, C3, C4, C5, and C6 vertebrae in his neck, torn ligaments on the back of his neck, a shattered patella, and fractured toes.
Kromkowski described Orozco as “outgoing” and
someone “everyone gets along well with;” this amia-bility, however, was washed-out waves of pain after his
accident.“Kevin has the kindest
‘How’s Tania Davis doing?’The women’s basketball team took a blow last year when starting point guard Tania Davis tore her ACL in February. Her recovery has been faster than expected, and she should be back on the court by Christmas. Sports, 8
ISU names new leaderThe state Board of Regents named Iowa State University’s new president on Monday. Wendy Wintersteen, the current dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at ISU, will be the only woman leading a regent university. News, 2
County honored for access to solar
Johnson County received rec-ognition for its accessible solar power. Supervisor Mike Carberry said the coun-
ty has reduced the amount of “red tape” home and business owners must go through to get access to solar power. Johnson County is the first county in the Midwest to receive this particular designation. News, 3
City declines grad stu-dent representativeThe Iowa City City Council was cool to a proposal from the Graduate & Professional Student Government to add a liaison position from GPSG to the council. Councilors argued there must be a line distinguishing which student groups may or may not have a liaison with the city, while GPSG argued that graduate students are affected more by city policy than undergraduates. News, 3
Football by the numbersThe Hawkeye football team lost to Northwestern on Oct. 21, and stats don’t lie, they played poorly. Eighty-nine rushing yards equaled a low yards-per-carry for both running backs. On the other hand, Hawkeye punters averaged 53 yards per punt, arguably their best punting performance of the season. Sports, 8
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The Daily IowanUISG hosted its second town hall to discuss mental health – the organization hopes to
encourage more participation as the year goes on
BY SARAH [email protected]
UISG hosted a town hall on mental health Monday to hear student concerns and how mental-health services should be expanded or changed.
Topics of conversation brought up at Dan-forth Chapel included how to reach off-campus students, more training for friends, staff, and faculty, as well as raising awareness for stu-dents themselves to be able to identify their own mental health problems.
“This is a great example of the community turning out to talk about it,” University Coun-seling Service Director Barry Schreier said. “Ten years ago, no one would’ve been here
talking about mental health.”Approximately 30 students attended the sec-
ond-ever UISG town hall, an increase over the last meeting, UISG President Jacob Simpson said. He said, however, throughout the year, he hopes to encourage more people to attend to represent a larger portion of the student pop-ulation.
“One thing that I was really encouraged by with this town-hall meeting was that there was a lot more involvement from students rather than UISG members,” he said. “I’m confident that the more frequently we hold these, the more participation we will see from the cam-pus.”
One way Simpson said he wants to raise awareness for the meetings is by marketing
directly to relevant student organizations that are affected by the subject of the town hall.
One organization that was well represented at Monday’s forum was the UI Active Minds chapter, which works to raise awareness of mental health for students.
President of Active Minds Sammy Stoll said she was happy to bring the chapter to the town hall to talk about an issue she is passionate about, mental health.
Possible solutions presented on how to reach students off-campus included a suggestion of a survey to upperclassmen similar to the first-year student survey sent out to freshmen called the Excelling at Iowa Survey, a potential fall break, and a more open communication sys-
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University of Iowa Student Government meets in the Danworth Chapel on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. The UISG meeting focused on mental heath issues for students on campus.
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of Student Life with punish-ment for the perpetrators and offers resources to stu-dents who are victimized by cyberbullying.
“I would say it’s definite-ly a very real thing students experience; it’s something that we take seriously,” said Nikki Hodous, assistant di-rector for Student Care and Outreach said. “I think any-time someone’s safety is in jeopardy physically or emo-tionally, that’s something that is really important, providing support to the people impacted.”
A 2014 article published in *SAGE Journals* surveyed 613 college students and found 19 percent of them
had experienced cyberbul-lying. The same article also said the phenomenon has not been studied in the col-lege population nearly as much as in adolescent and pre-adolescent populations.
Last fall, UISG led a campaign against cyber-bullying after hate speech appeared on the social-me-dia site Yik Yak, on which users could post anony-mously. UISG President Jacob Simpson said many comments were directed toward international stu-dents and Asian-American students.
The current UISG admin-istration does not have any specific campaigns sur-rounding cyberbullying at this time.
“The Office of the Dean of Students and UISG are very committed to making
sure students feel welcome on campus, whether it be with their physical presence walking down the sidewalk or if a student has a so-cial-media account,” Simp-son said. “We need to have this on the forefront of the conversation to make sure that people’s dignity and selfhood are not at stake be-cause of the bad decisions and bad intentions of an-other person.”
Lewinsky discusses the consequences of cyberbul-lying in her Ted Talk, also titled “The Price of Shame.” Though there was no name for the phenomenon in 1998, she said, the public humilia-tion nearly drove her to take her own life.
Her Ted Talk is part of what inspired the UI Lec-ture Committee to bring Lewinsky to the university.
“She experienced cyber-bullying as it was coming of age,” said Ben Hyland, the chair of the committee. “She was one of the first people to deal with that, so the committee thought it was extremely relevant to bring her to campus.”
Hyland said that in this generation, her message applies to college campuses around the country.
“I think anecdotal evi-dence shows [cyberbullying] is something that students haven’t really had to deal with in the past,” Hyland said.
“Typically, they had an escape by coming home from school, but in today’s ever-connected world, they can’t escape. So I think Monica’s message of inclu-sion and respect is really going to hit home.”
heart and is loved by many. He is strong, compassion-ate, and has maintained such a positive attitude throughout this entire ex-perience,” the GoFundMe pages states.
The air of suffering, al-though still present, was diminished through the crowd-sourcing website Go-FundMe.com.
Orozco friend UI student Anders Bjerkness started the campaign on Oct. 9, only a few days after the accident and while his condition was still precarious.
The goal of the campaign was to raise $10,000 for Orozco’s medical expenses — as of Monday, 173 people had donated $9,400.
“I felt like it was some-thing that needed to be do-ne,” Bjerkness said. “There were people who donated [large amounts of money,] but it was great to see peo-ple giving $20 to $30. We also received so many texts and calls wishing for Kev-in’s health.”
These positive reactions from the UI community were echoed by Kromkows-ki, who said the GoFundMe campaign raised around $3,000 within its first five hours.
The Iowa soccer team,
which donated to Orozco’s campaign, commented, “You are in our thoughts and prayers, Kevin. Stay strong!” on the crowd-sourcing web-site.
Kromkowski said that al-though he had heard of the website before, it was dif-ferent see the campaign’s effect firsthand.
“We were surprised by the community’s reaction — [the feeling] is definite-ly different when you’re in that situation,” Kromkows-ki said.
After spending nine days in the hospital, Orozco re-turned home. According to an update on the cam-paign’s website, he plans on beginning outpatient ther-
apy in the next two weeks.Orozco’s friend Johnny
Burns said he wishes for his continued healing.
“I’ve been talking to [Orozco] a little bit … he re-ally sounds like he wants to get back out here to Iowa – I’m just excited for that to start,” Burns said.
Orozco’s mother, Stacey Christenson, shared her grat-itude for the community’s support of the campaign’s page, along with a picture of Orozco walking outside. Al-though he remains in a cast and neck brace, Christenson said, he gets better every day.
“Our family would like to thank you all for the love, sup-port, and generosity that you have shown to us … we could not
have gotten through this with-out the support of our family and friends,” Christenson said on the GoFundMe page.
To donate to Orozco’s cam-paign, visit: https://www.gofundme.com/kevin-oroz-cos-medical-fund.
tem for students and faculty to be able to communicate what the student’s needs are.
“I’m really excited that we even got to have this pub-lic discussion about mental health,” Bailey Carroll, the director of external relations,
said. “It’s a way for students to bring their concerns to us.”
In 2016, the state Board of Regents approved a $12.50 mental-health fee to be used to extend services on campuses. The fee sup-ports an increased number of licensed counselors and covers the costs of Univer-sity Counseling Service for students.
The service offers five locations, including one in
the University Capitol Cen-ter, which opened this fall.
The service offers a vari-ety of counseling services including group counseling, individual counseling, cou-ple or relationship counsel-ing, referrals, psychological consultation, and Trans-In-clusive services.
One program launched by UISG this month, the Student Leader Training Incentive Program, trains
student organizations in is-sues such as mental health in exchange for money to be used for organizations.
Simpson said UISG always works to encourage people from all backgrounds to partic-ipate in community discussion.
“I don’t think that the group here today was representa-tive of the entire campus,” Simpson said. “The reason it was important for people of all backgrounds to come to-
gether is that yes, I can share ideas, but that doesn’t mean
that my ideas are representa-tive of the entire community.”
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ISU picks WintersteenWendy Wintersteen, currently an Iowa State University dean, has beennamed the school’s first female president.
After a near six-month search, the state Board of Re-gents announced the news on Monday. She will start Nov. 20.
The regents and the ISU Presidential Search and Screen Committee met Monday at the Iowa State Alumni Center to review the candidates in closed session before appointing Wintersteen to the position.
“The hiring of a university president, I would argue, is the single most important thing the board does,” Regent President Mike Richards said on Monday.
Wintersteen is the dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at ISU; she has held that position since 2006.
Wintersteen is the 16th president of ISU and under her
five-year contract will receive a starting salary of $525,000, which will increase to $590,000 by the third year of her term. Wintersteen will also receive a three-year deferred compensation package.
“I am so honored and humbled to be named the next president of Iowa State University,” she said. “I look forward to working with all of you as we create an open, inclusive, and welcoming envi-ronment where every student who works hard can achieve their full potential.”
The search process began in May after the departure of former ISU President Steven Leath, who was announced as Auburn University’s 19th pres-ident in March after being at the helm of ISU since January
2012. Interim President Ben-jamin Allen served until a new president could be selected.
AGB Search was hired as the search firm in May. The search committee also formed that month, composed of regents and members of the ISU community. The commit-tee held open forums and listening sessions with the ISU community. Finalists visited campus earlier in the month for visits, during which they met with ISU faculty as well as the ISU Foundation and alumni association.
The other finalists for the position were Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for Academic Affairs and provost at the University of Georgia, Athens; Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Insti-
tute of Food and Agriculture in Washington; and Dale Whit-taker, executive vice president and provost at University of Central Florida, who withdrew from the running on Oct. 19
This is the third time the regent universities — ISU, the University of Northern Iowa, and the University of Iowa — have selected a new president in two years. UI President Bruce Harreld was appoint-ed in 2015, making him the longest-serving of the three institutional heads. The most recent presidential search resulted in Mark Nook being named the president of UNI in December 2016.
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Clean energy has been making its mark in John-son County, and the U.S. Department of Energy has taken notice.
On Oct. 19, Johnson County was awarded the Gold Award by SolSmart, a foundation run by the U.S. Department of Ener-gy that promotes making solar power more accessi-ble to home and business owners.
The foundation rates localities on a point sys-tem, and those with eas-ier access to processes, such as application and permitting for solar array construction, earn more points.
Johnson County is the first in the Midwest to re-ceive a Gold Award.
County Supervisor Mike
Carberry said he is proud of the county and all the work that has been done to make clean energy more accessi-ble.
“We’ve cut a lot of the red tape, the application and building process, and we’ve streamlined it so it’s easier for the home or business owner,” he said.
Solar power has become a big business in the state, he said, which has helped the county make the energy so accessible.
“Solar is one of the fastest growing businesses in Io-wa,” Carberry said.
Beyond Johnson County, many other Iowa locations received SolSmart awards, among them Linn County and Ames (silver), and Perry (bronze).
Becky Soglin, the sustain-ability coordinator for John-son County, said she gives credit for the initial push for
solar use to the supervisors. “The Johnson County
Board of Supervisors laid the groundwork for this to happen,” she said.
Soglin said she is very pleased with the advances the county has made in pro-moting solar power over the past few years.
Lead county inspector Neil Bombei said great strides have been made to allow solar power to reach more people.
“We’ve issued around 70 permits in the past six years or so; prior to that it was close to zero,” he said.
Bombei also noted that the application process, which in the past would have taken weeks to com-plete, has been streamlined for ease of application, making the process much less confusing for the con-sumer.
“We’ve decreased the
amount of time it takes to issue a permit, focusing on around three days or fewer,” he said.
While much of the pro-cess has been made easier, there are still a few obsta-cles that prevent further accessibility to solar power, Soglin said.
However, Soglin said, many people still don’t have enough information to understand what incor-poration solar power can do for their home or busi-ness.
“There’s a little bit of a learning curve, so we’re try-ing to share information on that as a county,” she said.
Bombei said that along
with not enough infor-mation, many people just don’t like the look of solar arrays or panels on their property.
“Some people don’t know where to get information, and for others it’s a prob-lem on the aesthetic side,” he said.
County scores honor for solar energyJohnson County received the Gold award from SolSmart, an organization that rates localities on the accessibility of solar energy.
BY GRACE LYNN [email protected]
GPSG liaison hits cold waterThe Graduate and Professional Student Government’s proposal to have a graduate student serve as a City Council liaison was not met with overwhelming praise by city councilors.
At the Oct. 17 Iowa City City Council meeting, the council discussed its posi-tion on the Graduate and Professional Student Gov-ernment’s proposal to have a City Council liaison.
The GPSG wants to form a more collaborative rela-tionship with the city, so it requested to have a student serve as a “non-official, non-voting member of the City Council.”
The group nominat-ed Scott Roberts for this school year.
Currently, the University of Iowa Student Govern-ment, which represents un-dergraduates, has a similar position.
GPSG noted that its con-cerns and needs are not the same as those of undergrad-uates, because graduate and professional students often live more integrated into the community. Be-cause of this, local policies affect grad students more.
Not only are these stu-dents affected more by what the city does, the statement said, but they feel they have more prevalent issues that they would like to address.
While GPSG hopes to benefit from a liaison, it be-lieves the city would benefit as well. The relationship would grant the city more access to a highly educat-ed and diverse population, it said, and it believes that the city should respond positively because many of the grad students are likely to have an impact on Iowa City in the future.
GPSG also stated that the proposed partnership is in line with Iowa City’s strate-gic plan.
“I think the suggestion has considerable merit, but I see a couple challenges too,” Mayor Jim Throgmor-ton said.
He asked why the council should choose liaisons from a particular group when there are numerous differ-ent groups throughout the community.
He said the UISG liaison came about 10 years ago when there were concerns raised about excessive drinking.
Throgmorton proposed sending a liaison from the council to work with the GPSG instead.
However, Councilor Kingsley Botchway spoke in favor of the liaison posi-tion.
“I don’t see any issue from the standpoint as far as how we do this and why we wouldn’t then support another organization,” he said.
Botchway said he is fo-cusing on the “governmen-tal body structure” and does not see any issue with hav-ing the liaison.
Councilor Susan Mims said she agrees with Throg-morton in the sense that she doesn’t know where the council would draw the line.
“Unless it’s only OK to have a liaison from the uni-versity system, then you could draw the line that way,” Mims said. “But then people outside of the uni-versity could say ‘wait a minute.’ ”
She said that while she wants to support the pro-posal, she is concerned about how to make the dis-tinction between who can
and cannot have a liaison. After hearing the coun-
cilor’s responses, “there was general disappoint-ment and surprise among GPSG members,” the group said. “However, we are still deeply committed to work-ing and building a strong relationship with the city.”
“We represent nearly 10,000 constituents from six different colleges, and our voices need to be rep-resented,” GPSG members said. “There are two student governments. I f City Council recognizes UISG, it should recognize GPSG.”
BY MADISON [email protected]
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Candidates such as Ryan Hall and Cathy Glasson ad-vocate for raising the min-imum wage in an effort to lift people out of poverty. What they don’t tell you is that this plan does not work.
Raising the minimum wage will fail to lift the working poor out of pov-erty, and it will negatively affect the working poor in our communities. Analysts from American Universi-ty and Cornell University found that past wage in-creases had no effect on state poverty rates and the working poor faced a high-
er share of job losses.Seattle recently raised
its minimum wage and re-searchers from the Univer-sity of Washington found that the wage increase to $13 reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs around 9 percent and led to lower payroll, reducing low-wage employees’ earnings by an average of $125 per month in 2016.
We need real effective solutions to lift people out of poverty. For instance, tax reform would be a good place to start, considering there are ample outdated
loopholes in the current tax code. We also need to end the cycle of corporate welfare, where we are los-ing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits to huge companies such as Mi-dAmerican and Facebook.
After saving millions of dollars from these reforms, consider investing more money in programs such as the Earned-Income Tax Credit. The credit has prov-en to successfully lift mil-lions of Americans out of poverty every single year. According to the IRS, such working-family tax credits
lifted 9.4 million people out of poverty in 2013, includ-ing 5 million children, and made 22 million other peo-ple less poor.
Vote for candidates who will advocate for effective change, not for candidates such as Hall, who only bring a list of failed talking points, like raising the min-imum wage, and show glar-ing inexperience.
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Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in The Daily Iowan on Sept. 29, 1998.
In the Year of Monica&Bill, time stops. The leaves of the trees stubbornly stick to their branch-es, and the leaves of the calendar refuse to flutter like they always do in those St. Reagan movies.
Especially the one with the chimp. Days pile up like pedes-trians waiting for the walk sign at a Manhattan intersection. In the Year of Monica&Bill, the walk sign never blinks. The Moon, un-fazed, goes through a no-phase phase. Summer hangs on and on and on, like that hippie who crashed on the couch when St. Reagan was elected and was still passed out when we moved out, after America accidentally elect-ed Friar Bush.
Nothing moves but the stock market and hurricanes. It’s Mon-ica&Bill, the Crisis Mongers in-tone, sagely, somberly. The stock market zips up and down, down and up and back again, like the
elevator in the Camus Towers. People get on, get off, get on again at random floors. Nobody is sure why. We can always get another elevator, my girlfriend says, but she is wrong.
The hurricanes stack up over the Atlantic like jetliners over the Illinois cornfields waiting for a spot at O’Hare. In the Year of Monica&Bill, there are no spots at O’Hare, only hurricanes waiting to bash the coast. It gives the Weather Crisis Mongers a chance to trot out their rain gear, to stand on beaches, piers, seawalls with the gale whipping their hair to the north. It’s Mon-ica&Bill, they intone, like the way they used to intone, it’s El Niño, back when time moved and there was some weather besides hurri-canes. We can always get anoth-er channel, my girlfriend says, but she is wrong.
Don’t you get tired of being right all the time? I say, quoting the Sundance Kid. But the hur-ricane whips my words away, and, in any case, she is already jumping off the Utah cliff, sailing away through the high plateau air. It turns out that in the Year of Monica&Bill, girlfriends can fly.
In the Year of Monica&Bill, World War II comes back, our long-lost friend. Kids swing out to the Dorsey Brothers and Har-ry James and Benny Goodman, fix raccoon tails to the aerials of their convertibles, jitterbug away
on street corners and in bars like there was no tomorrow, which there isn’t. In the cinema hous-es, brave boys by the thousands land again and again on Oma-ha Beach and get sliced up like so many ribbons of DNA, their lives leaking into the Normandy sand. Not like the last Bad War, in which Bill refused to inhale the draft while hanging out in college, waiting to meet Monica.
Rumors of events occurring from beyond the borders come whispering in during the Year of Monica&Bill. German elec-tions, NATO overflights, Irish peace, Mideast non-peace, North Korean missiles, Iranian troop maneuvers. Merely rumors, the Crisis Mongers intone sagely, somberly. In reality, there is only Monica&Bill.
The Boys of Summer come storming back, like World War II, like the Dorsey Brothers. We can’t be somber and sage all the time, intone the Crisis Mongers; baseball has been very, very good to us. The New York Yankees vanquish everyone in sight and out of sight and prepare to bash the Serbs, the Afghans, the North Koreans. Bash like a hurricane. The Braves, the Astros, the Indi-ans, the Red Sox vie to see who will be the Brooklyn Dodgers this year.
The Mark and the Sammy whack baseballs out of sight, out of mind. Meet me in St. Louis,
the Mark says to history. Home runs pile up like a season full of Everests. Whack whack whack. The Boys of Summer dance and Harry James Chattanooga Choo-choos along. It’s not the live ball, the Crisis Mongers intone. It’s not the dilution of pitching be-cause of expansion. It’s not the German elections or the NATO overflights or the Irish peace or the North Korean missiles or the Japanese meltdown or the
Iranian troop maneuvers or the hurricanes stacked up over the Atlantic like fading TV stars wait-ing for their talk shows to come along. It’s Monica&Bill.
In the Year of Monica&Bill, the elders remember good old days, when Jack & Marilyn kept it quiet and the New York Yankees vanquished everybody and pre-pared to take on the Russians in Berlin. It wasn’t like today, they say, pointing at faded paintings
on the ancient cave walls. Bill had acne, Monica was a gleam in the eye of some DNA that didn’t get sliced to ribbons on Oma-ha Beach. Not like today, goes the sigh. Baseballs learn to fly like girlfriends, long white arcs against a moonless night, as hur-ricanes wait to land on jitterbug-ging kids and our Greek chorus takes a deep breath, preparing to intone sagely, somberly. In the Year of Monica&Bill.
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The University of Iowa Stu-dent Government is a highly competitive organization on campus. Last spring, 13 students ran as independents in hopes of becoming UISG senators. Only six spots are reserved for inde-pendents each election cycle.
But some candidates seem to be given an easier option. They run on tickets made up of 32 senators picked by the president and vice president hopefuls. Each ticket has its own platform, and each elec-tion cycle, only one ticket wins. Problematically, last year, only one ticket ran. So the students selected to run on this ticket ran unopposed.
I believe that innovation, competition, and change should be welcomed. Because of this, I think that there should be more seats reserved for in-dependents.
I had the pleasure of speak-ing to Bridgeen Lynch, one of the 13 students who ran as in-
dependents in the last election cycle. “In my opinion, all the people who were on the ticket were friends with one another; it was not a fair mixed group,” Lynch said.
The feeling that Lynch has is not specific to student govern-ment. Someone can easily feel that an organization favors the friends and even the family of who is in charge. For example, if my close family friend was a partner at a law firm and I got an internship with it, this could potentially be unfair. Maybe I got the internship because I truly am more qualified, but maybe I got it because my fam-ily friend works there. Either way, it looks suspicious.
Lynch proceeded to run as an independent. She cam-paigned her heart out but lost by a devastating six votes.
“It is sad to see only one tick-et running; it is a little heart-breaking no one is getting in-volved,” Lynch said.
I asked UISG Sen. Nazira Coury what her position is on the election process. She told to me that the most alarming part, in her opinion, is the way tickets are formed. Everyone who is running as a senator, in-dependent or through a ticket, must attend a formal meeting about the election code. Coury said that a lot of people came to these meetings and were interested in running. She
noted that many people who were previously unaffiliated with student government were confused about how to get in-volved, because they were not allowed to apply in any sort of formal way to be considered for a ticket Senate position.
“I do think adding more independents would be bene-ficial,” Coury said.
Because there are 50 sena-tors in total, and 32 are elected via a ticket that ensures they share the same ideologies, the ticket senators will hold the majority. The system is set up in a way that makes the ticket automatically hold a majori-ty of votes. If fewer senators were allowed to run on tick-
ets, more senators would be allowed to run independently, which is where new faces tend to show.
Clearly, it is detrimental to only have one ticket run; there is always room for competi-tion and opposing views. My hope is that more students become passionate about stu-dent government and a sec-ond ticket runs this academic year. But I am not hopeful that this would happen organ-ically. I believe that more Sen-ate seats should be allocated to independents. If you, too, believe that election-code re-form is a good idea, I encour-age you to go to contact one of your senators.
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against other people who ar-en’t my teammates,” Davis said. “Just to be able to be out there and play against other people in an actual game set-ting, it’s exciting, and I just can’t wait.”
For Davis, the toughest part about last season wasn’t the pain from the injury, but having the mental fortitude to get through the last part of the season not in uniform.
“The mental part for me was definitely tougher than the physical part,” she said. “Be-fore I went down, I was one of the strongest players on the team, so getting strength back wasn’t going to be a problem.”
The Hawkeyes hope Davis can pick up where she left off last year, when she averaged 10.9 points per game with 4.3 assists.
With the loss of Iowa’s all-time leading scorer, Ally Dis-terhoft, Davis’ value to Iowa has gone up.
Someone needs to fill Dis-terhoft’s 16.5 points per game. That burden won’t fall com-pletely on Davis, but she will certainly be a key player in lift-ing the weight.
If Davis takes one of Dis-terhoft’s shoes, a candidate to take the other is sophomore guard Kathleen Doyle, who started in place of Davis last year. The two hope they can form an assist machine in the Iowa backcourt.
“[Davis is] a great player,” Doyle said. “It’s going to be fun to get her back on the floor. I think we can work well togeth-er and hopefully [get] assists for days. She’s worked hard at her recovery, so we’re really excited for her to come back.”
Health is always important, but for Iowa, which only has 11 players on its roster, this year, health is of paramount impor-tance. Hopefully, the luck the Hawkeyes had with the Davis injury carries into the season and they have an injury-free season. If it does, they could prove to be a tough matchup for anyone.
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vis averaged 10.9 points and 4.3 assists while starting in all 23 games.
“She just has an ability to get to the rim and shoot over people who are much taller than her,” Bluder said. “She has no fear of going in there.”
No games off in nonconference
The nonconference schedule will be no cake-walk for the Hawkeyes.
The team will play at Northern Iowa and Iowa State and play host to Drake. The Hawkeye Challenge, which is played during Thanksgiving week, will consist of three teams that were in last year’s NCAA Tournament: Quinnipiac, Missouri, and Western Ken-tucky.
“I think a very challeng-ing schedule for our team,” Bluder said. “Our team is eager to get the season un-derway.”
Iowa is scheduled to
play Florida State in Carv-er-Hawkeye for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The Semi-noles were ranked as high as seventh last season.
No Disterhoft, no problem
It’s never easy to lose your program’s all-time lead-ing scorer, and Iowa rec-ognizes that. Nonetheless, Bluder thinks the team has enough weapons to replace the high-scoring Ally Dis-terhoft.
“She was a four-year starter for us, just an amaz-ing basketball player, and obviously a tremendous stu-dent as well,” Bluder said. “But one person is not going to replace Ally. Everybody’s got to get better. For us to replace Ally, it’s got to be a group effort.”
Preseason All-Big Ten junior forward Megan Gus-tafson will be the most likely candidate to fill the scoring void left by Disterhoft’s de-parture. Gustafson led the team in scoring, rebound-ing, and field-goal per-centage, averaging a dou-ble-double with 18.5 points and 10.1 rebounds per game
while shooting 64.7 percent from the field.
Potent backcourtWith the return of Davis,
the Hawkeyes boast one of the most intriguing guard groups in the country, with Davis and sophomores Makenzie Meyer and Kathleen Doyle.
Known for her 3-point shooting, Meyer’s comfort on the court has skyrocket-ed with a jump in playing time, her coach said.
Doyle took a back seat in the scoring department last season — she was more of a
leader and making plays for her teammates. This year, Bluder says, she expects Doyle to look to attack the basket and score more.
While Doyle and Davis are both traditional point guards, Bluder thinks their games will complement each other well when they’re on the floor together.
“They’ll definitely share the role,” Bluder said. “We’re going to have a sys-tem that really, I think, showcases both of their abilities at point guard even when they’re on the floor at the same time.”
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ball, Toren Young, had on-ly 2.
Wide receiver Imir Smith-Marsette tallied more yards than Young (yes, Iowa’s wideout touched the ball twice for 6 yards; Young ran for 4 yards on his pair).
The Hawkeyes kept the ball on the ground late in the game while the passing attack moved the ball fairly well.
In overtime, Iowa ran for 3 yards to start its posses-sion. An incomplete pass set the Hawkeyes up with a third and 7, and offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz opted to keep the ball on the ground. Wadley gained
4 yards, resulting in fourth down, and Hawkeye fans know how that story ended.
53 yards per puntOnce again, the
Hawkeyes found them-selves in a game in which field position proved to be critical, because neither team could muster consis-tent scoring drives.
Punters Ryan Gersonde and Colton Rastetter pro-duced arguably their best punting performances of the season. The duo aver-aged 53 yards per punt (Ger-sonde 52.6, Rastetter 55).
Gersonde also bombed a punt 61 yards.
Against Illinois, Ger-sonde averaged 37.7 yards per punt. Rastetter av-eraged 37.8 in the loss to Michigan State.
1 turnoverBoth Iowa and North-
western played relative-ly clean football. Neither squad turned the ball over in the first three quarters.
The game’s lone turnover came from Iowa quarterback Nate Stanley. Northwestern’s J.R. Pace picked off Stanely’s pass on third and 8, return-ing the interception 23 yards with under eight minutes re-maining in the game.
The Wildcats did not capitalize, as Clayton Thor-son’s pass on fourth down fell incomplete, and Iowa marched down the field to tie the game at 10.
Justin Jackson: 3.7 yards per carry
Linebacker Josey Jewell and safety Brandon Snyder did not play on because of
injuries, leaving questions about how the defense would be able to hold down Northwestern’s prominent back, Justin Jackson.
Jackson entered the game on the heels of a 171-yard, 2-touchdown performance against Maryland the week before. Before the Mary-land game, Jackson had two 100-yard rushing perfor-mances under his belt this season.
Iowa’s defense contained Jackson, limiting him to 93 yards on 25 carries.
Jackson did have an im-pact in the passing game, however. The senior caught 5 passes for 38 yards, in-cluding a 23-yard gain on a third and 9 in overtime, setting up the Wildcats in prime position to score at the 1-yard line.
Surprisingly this wasn’t
Jackson’s lowest rushing average for a single game this season. On three oc-casions, defenses held him to fewer than 3.7 yards (3.6 against Nevada, 2.8 against Wisconsin, and 2.6 against Duke).
Iowa men’s golf needs to rally
The Iowa men’s golf team shot a 3-over par for the first two rounds of the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate to put them in 10th place among 14 teams.
Benton Weinberg lead the way for the Hawks, carding a 1-under, which put him in a tie for 25th.
Matthew Walker is tied for 36th after shooting 1-over, and Sam Meuret scored a 2-over, tying him for 40th.
Alex Schaake is tied for 45th place after carding a 3-over. Ryoto Furuya anchors the group at 6-over which puts him tied for 58th.
“We started the day decent but went flat on the back nine,” head coach Tyler Stith said in a release. “We didn’t execute well enough, and the putters went cold. The second round was a much better performance. Benton, Matthew, and Sam played solid. Alex battled back from 5-over par to shoot 2-over. Benton’s 67 was clutch. We needed someone to step up this afternoon, and he responded.”
Baylor holds the top spot in the field at 22-under, and Arkansas is second at 9-under. Liberty in third at 8-under.
The third and final round is set to begin today at 8:15 a.m.
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Joseph Cress/The Daily IowanIowa head coach Lisa Bluder speaks during the women’s basketball media day in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Monday. The Hawkeyes will play an exhibition game against Minnesota State-Moorhead on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in Carver.
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Rowers ready to conduct more water music A steady rise in Iowa’s rowing program over the last four years shows the team is ready for the upcoming season.
BY JAMES [email protected]
In 2013, Iowa rowing named Andrew Carter its head coach after finishing its season seventh in the Big Ten (among eight teams) for two years in a row.
Fast forward to the 2017 season.
Carter and his squad com-peted on the national stage. In May, the squad finished 15th nationally at the NCAA Rowing Championships, and Carter believes last year’s success can only catapult his team.
“Last year changed their expectations of what they’re capable of doing and what they need to do to achieve the goals,” he said. “When I came here four years ago, what the expectations were, what the
goals were, [they] were dra-matically different [from] what they are now. The big-gest difference this year than last year is the expectations set out for them.”
Those expectations stem from the steady rise of Iowa’s program over the last few years. The 2017 season was the Hawkeyes’ first year com-peting at the NCAA Rowing Championships since 2001, and they feel even stronger now.
“We have the best level of fitness that I’ve seen out of this team,” Carter said. “I think they’ve gotten that level of fitness to the point where it’s going to be hard for them not to be nationally relevant. They’ve done more than any team that has come before them at Iowa.”
The Head of the Charles
Regatta, Iowa’s final compe-tition of the fall season, at-tracted some of the world’s best rowing talents, and it saw a Hawkeye team unlike any before.
Iowa’s championship 4+ team finished sixth in its event, with a time of 17:46.917. Last year in the same event, the squad fin-ished in 19.57.650. Granted, the weather for last year’s races was not ideal.
Iowa’s championship 8+ crew finished with a time of 15:35.304, notching 13th. Last year, Iowa’s 8+ crew ended with a time of 17:34.061 at the regatta.
“Coming out of this regat-ta, I think we’re in a really good place as a team,” Car-ter said in a release. “The women prepared really well this fall, and their training
since has been terrific. This team has taken tremen-dous strides in the past four years, and we’re all motivat-ed to keep the momentum we have.”
This fall, the team has had other successes as well. In varsity scrimmages against Indiana and Wisconsin, the team swept in dominant fashion.
“We crushed them,” said senior Kaeylnn Heiberg, who rowed on last year’s NCAA Championships team. “We didn’t just win, we crushed them. We beat them by 30 seconds. This is the fastest we have ever been.”
The team is going into the off-season with more confi-dence than ever, and it will develop even further, Carter said.
“We lost five seniors last
year, but I think a lot of peo-ple stepped up to fill their place,” junior coxswain Lo-gan Jones said. “Some sopho-mores and juniors have really stepped up and filled their places. We have a good dy-namic, and I think everyone
is just excited to see where the season takes us.”
Preseason scrimmages will start on Feb. 8 in Tex-as for the Hawkeyes, and the bulk of the season will begin with the Pac 12 Invitational on March 31.
Lily Smith/The Daily IowanThe Iowa rowing team practices on the Iowa River on Sept. 15. The rowing team seeks to capitalize on last season’s success this coming spring.
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Northwestern held Iowa to fewer than 100 yards on Oct. 21, the third time this sea-son an opponent has limited the Hawkeyes to under the century mark on the ground.
Let that sink in for a moment.Iowa mustered a lackluster 89 rushing
yards, averaging 2.7 yards per carry.
Heading into the game against North-western, and for the previous game against Illinois as well, head coach Kirk Ferentz said he wanted to spread out the carries so Wadley would not be taking a beating each weekend.
The senior tailback registered 26 carries. The only other running back to touch the
Preseason awards for women’s basketball
Coaches and media released their Big Ten women’s preseason rankings and All-Big Ten teams.
The coaches ranked Ohio
State No. 1, Maryland No. 2, and Michigan No. 3. The media’s rank-ings featured Ohio State at the top position but had Maryland and Michigan tied for the second slot.
Iowa’s Megan Gustafson made both the coaches and media’s preseason All-Big Ten teams.
Last season, she averaged 18.5 points and 10.1 rebounds per game (both teams highs).
“They’ve done more than any team that has come before them at Iowa.
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Last season, for the first time in the coach Li-sa Bluder era, the Iowa women’s basketball team missed the NCAA Tournament for consecutive seasons.
One of the major reasons for the Hawkeyes’ absence in last year’s tournament was easy to dis-cern: Starting point guard Tania Davis tore her ACL in early February.
“That was a big blow to our team,” Bluder said. “Losing that leadership and depth hurt us last year.”
An ACL tear is one of the more devastating injuries a player can have, and the timetable for return is often a mystery. Some take as long as a year, while others, such as Iowa safety Bran-don Snyder, take half a year, so it was uncertain whether Davis would be in uniform for the open-er on Nov. 10.
Turns out having one of the best hospitals in the nation comes in handy — just like Snyder, Davis will find herself back in action sooner than expect-ed.
“She’s way ahead of schedule,” Bluder said. “I really anticipated having her back by Christmas,
and she will be suited up and ready to go. No one is happier about that than me.”
A reason for the head coach’s excitement about Davis’ early return is now she has three seasoned guards to put in her rotation as opposed to just two.
As happy as Bluder is, it’s a tough claim for her to say “no one is happier,” because the most excit-ed person at the women’s basketball media day was Davis by a full-court shot.
“I’m so excited to get back out there and play
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Joseph Cress/The Daily IowanIowa guard Tania Davis pauses during women’s basketball media day in Carver-Hawkeye on Oct. 26, 2016. The Hawkeyes will play an exhibition game against Minnesota State-Moorhead on Nov. 5 in Carver-Hawkeye.
Small in numbers, big in heartThe loss of all-time leading scorer Ally Disterhoft stings, but expectations are the same for Hawkeye women’s basketball.BY SEAN [email protected]
With only 11 players on the roster of the women’s hoops team, many fans and media seem to be concerned about the lack of depth this season.
At the beginning of her press conference, head coach Lisa Bluder made it known that de-spite small numbers, “this group is mighty in spirit.”
“We have 11 players on our roster, but I feel that is all the pieces we need to compete,” she said.
Two seniors, three juniors, three sopho-mores, and three freshmen make up the ros-ter, which is a healthy mix of experienced and youthful talent.
“I have to be careful of their legs, but I’m going to worry about their legs in practice and not during games,” Bluder said. “You worry about their legs, but you also remember they’re 18- and 20-year-olds. When the lights come on, the fans come out, they’ll be ready to go."
Davis set to bounce backAfter tearing her ACL against Michigan in
February last season, sophomore guard Tania Davis is way ahead of schedule, Bluder said, and she should be good to go for the Iowa exhi-bition on Nov. 5.
Before being shut down for the season, Da-
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All off-season, Lisa Bluder was pestered with the same question: ‘How’s Tania Davis doing?’
Lily Smith/The Daily IowanIowa running back Akrum Wadley is tackled at Ryan Field in Evanston on Oct. 21. Northwestern defeated the Hawkeyes, 17-10, in overtime.
Offensive PlayerSaquon Barkley, running back,
Penn State• 176 all-purpose yards in Penn
State’s win against Michigan (15 carries for 108 yards and 2 touch-downs, 3 catches for 53 yards and a touchdown)
• 14th-straight game with a rushing touchdown (longest ac-tive streak among FBS programs)
• First player in Penn State his-tory with 3,000 rushing yards and 1,000 receiving yards in a career (only Big Ten player to get these numbers in his third season)
Co-Defensive Player
Joe Bachie, linebacker, Michi-gan State
• 13 tackles (career high), 1.5 tackles for a loss, 1 sack, and a forced fumble in Michigan State’s win against Indiana
Co-Defensive Player
Jason Cabinda, linebacker, Penn State
• 13 tackles, 1 sack, and 1 forced fumble in Penn State’s win over Michigan
• His sack was one of Penn State’s 7 (most against a confer-ence opponent since 2011)
Special Teams Player
Hunter Niswander, punter, Northwestern
• 50.8-yard average on punts in Northwestern’s win against Iowa (including an 80-yard punt)
• Three punts downed inside the 20-yard line
Freshman
Jonathan Taylor, running back, Wisconsin
• 22 carries, 126 yards, and a touchdown in Wisconsin’s win against Maryland
• Fifth 100-yard+ performance in his seven career games
• Season rushing total reached 1,000 yards through only seven games (matches FBS record for fewest games needed to reach 1,000 yards)
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C.J. Beathard (QB, San Francisco) In his first career start, Beathard threw for 235 yards (no touchdowns and no interceptions). He added 30 yards on the ground and also scored his first NFL rushing touchdown. Christian Kirksey (LB, Cleveland) Kirksey recorded a season-high 17 tackles. He also broke up a pass and forced a fumble in Cleveland’s overtime loss to Tennessee.
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