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Meenakshi Gigi Durham presented her ideas on Thursday for the associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion position. katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu

It’s that time of the year. Iowa wrestling and women’s basketball are heading to their respective conference championships. The Hawkeye women will look to cut down the nets as a No. 2 seed, and the wrestling squad will attempt to close the gap on Penn State.

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Professor Meenakshi Gigi Durham, the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences director of diversity, is a familiar face among the campus community.

Students, staff, and faculty greeted Durham in the Pappajohn Business Building for a public forum

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on Thursday as the first candidate for a different role — associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Since her arrival at the UI in 2000, Durham has held various roles, including associate dean for SEE DURHAM, 2

Todd Thelen, emperor of oddities For nearly two decades, Todd Thelen has bought and sold countless oddities and artifacts. To him, the antique business ‘has always been in his DNA.’

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Pentacrest Museums launch monthly radio show

The Pentacrest Museums will start a monthly radio show on KICI, an independent Iowa City radio station, to educate the community about museum operations.

Iowa men’s hoops extends losing streak

The Hawkeyes fell apart offensively against Wisconsin in Madison on Thursday, losing 65-45.

The scoring drought could not have come at a worse time for Fran McCaffery’s McCaffery Hawkeyes, as the defeat marked the first time since November 2016 that Iowa failed to reach the 50-point mark.

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On a frigid, windless day last week, Artifacts owner Todd Thelen peered with dismay at the large selection of vintage men’s cuff links in front of him. As he slowly began sifting through the metallic objects with a look of rugged determination on his face, an older man walked into the store brandishing a small purple chalice with an acrylic stem.

“Is this something you’d be interested in?” the man asked. “I’m just trying to clean out the house — I’ve got dozens of these.”

“Unfortunately, no,” Thelen replied. “The market for that kind of glassware doesn’t really exist anymore.”

The man grunted, shrugged his shoulders, and exited the store. Thelen went about his cuff-link sort-

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Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Artifacts owner Todd Thelen locates an item for a customer on Thursday. Thelen has owned Artifacts for 15 years.

Navigating college on a limited budget can be tough for students.

A new guide from UISG, called the “Guide to Not Being Rich at Iowa,” aims to help.

BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER

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Universities respond to President Trump’s promise of an executive order that would revoke research funding from colleges that don’t seem to embrace free speech on campus.

ing, humming a rendition of a Gloria Gaynor song that was playing on the radio behind him.

If you were to close your eyes for a moment and imagine the stereotypical proprietor of an antique store, someone like Thelen might come to mind. His vintage eyeglasses, immaculate gray shirt (complete with shoulder patches), Giugiaro-designed Seiko wristwatch, and mindfully scraggly salt-and-pepper beard — paired with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things vintage — are exactly how someone who knows about obscure objects is supposed to look.

Last year, Thelen celebrated his 15th year of owning the store, 331 Market St. The business of antiques, he said, “has always been in my DNA.” “I grew up not having money,” he said. “When I was a kid, we went to garage sales and auctions and

In celebration of International Women’s Day, UI Professor Deborah Elizabeth Whaley talks about her dedication to female representation through her work.

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to free-speech order by Trump

President Trump announced on March 2 his intention to invoke an executive order that would strip colleges and universities of federal funding for research depending on their support of free speech on campus.

The potential executive order comes amid free-speech concerns on the University of Iowa campus. Students have alleged facing discrimination and mistreatment under #DoesUIowaLoveMe, prompting an examination of the university’s role in distinguishing between individuals’ First Amendment rights and students’ desires to feel safe and have their identities respected.

“The American way is to learn and listen or to not engage and move on,” UI President Bruce Harreld told The Daily Iowan Thursday. “You shouldn’t equate the university’s allowing Harreld various groups to say what they’d like to say, hopefully in a constructive way, as our supporting one or the other.”

Harreld said until Trump elaborates on his intentions, and only if and when the executive order gets signed, there’s not much to comment on. He said he anticipates such a move would be met with a battle in the judicial system just as with many of Trump’s other executive orders.

“I think it’d be very unfortunate,” Harreld said. “Maybe it’ll happen, but let’s focus our energy on what is right now.”

Trump’s promise is a likely a response to recent skepticism surrounding universities across the nation, where right-leaning students may feel that higher-education officials have discriminated against their viewpoints.

“Conservative Republicans have felt for a long time that their views, and therefore their speech, are more encumbered on university campuses,” said UI School of Journalism Director David Ryfe, who teaches the Freedom of Expression course. “My guess is that this announcement by the president is speaking to that perception.”

Ryfe said all public institutions are re-

UI professor reflects on female-advocacy work

UISG creates guide to being ‘not rich’

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Durham a candidate for associate VP UI responds

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Hawkeyes set for Big Ten Tournaments

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Bill could kill satellite voting at UI A broad bill introduced in the Iowa Legislature would make changes to the conduct of elections in Iowa, including a provision that would prevent state-owned buildings from being early voting stations.

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Buildings on Iowa’s three university campuses may be off-limits for future satellite voting locations under a proposal in the Iowa Senate, which cleared a key legislative deadline Thursday.

Some counties in Iowa, including Johnson, Story, and Black Hawk, which are home to Iowa’s three regent universities — the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa — set up stations across the county where voters can cast absentee ballots in person before Election Day. In total, there were six satellite locations across the three campuses with one at ISU, two at the UI, and three at UNI. Kirkwood Community College in Iowa City also had a location.

Senate Study Bill 1241 would prohibit a county from holding a satellite voting location in “stateowned building,” including at state universities.

One exception in the bill is made for county courthouses. There is disagreement whether the bill’s language extends to community colleges, said Sen. Tony Bisignano, D-Des Moines, the ranking member of the committee that is considering the bill.

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Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan Students vote at the Main Library on Nov. 6, 2018. Voting took place from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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BILL CONTINUED FROM FRONT Committee 10-5 along party lines, clearing a key legislative deadline, the March 8 funnel.

The bill would also require students graduating from one of the three regent universities to fill out a form and indicate whether they will live in Iowa after they graduate.

If the soon-to-be graduate ticks no, their data would be removed from the voter-registration system.

Sen. Roby Smith, R-Davenport, did not return The Daily Iowan’s calls by the time of publication, though he has said that the goal of the bill is to make elections rules and regulations more consistent.

DURHAM CONTINUED FROM FRONT outreach and engagement in the liberal-arts school, as well as a professor of journalism and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies.

“I can’t believe that I’m standing here, because 18 years ago I came on this campus as a green associate professor,” Durham said.

“And now here I am, a finalist for one of the key leadership roles here at the UI. It’s amazing.”

Durham’s presentation focused on answering the question of how she would foster the undergoing paradigm shift at the UI from not just initiatives oriented on diversity, but a strategic frame-

THELEN CONTINUED FROM FRONT furnished our home with things from those sales, so I continued that when I got to the UI. To furnish my apartment, but of course I also really like ‘stuff.’ ” Thelen came to the University of Iowa in 1988 to pursue an M.F.A. in printmaking and began to buy and sell antiques to pay for school. Although he started by selling items sporadically, he set up a booth at the now-defunct Granny’s Antique Mall. Eventually, he began consigning items to former Artifacts owner Mark Stevenson; the two built a rapport, and Thelen bought the business from him in 2003.

The rise of e-commerce sites such as eBay have undoubtedly affected small antique businesses, Thelen said.

The site, he noted, was great when it began, but its growth “made people realize what they have isn’t really that rare.”

This realization, he said, coupled with antiquing shows such as “American Pickers,” have caused “a few headaches,” such as the occasional customer who becomes displeased with the actual value of their item.

Despite these minor set-

No lobbyists are registered in support of the bill, but the League of Women Voters, the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, the Iowa Association of County Auditors, and the Iowa Association of Counties are all registered against the bill.

Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert said the bill would have an effect on voter turnout in the next election as more people would have to vote at their precinct location or a less convenient satellite polling place.

“It’s a terrible idea,” Weipert said. “The Iowa Constitution and the U.S. Constitution gives us the right to vote, and here we are limiting government property for voting purposes.”

On the UI campus, there were two satellite locations work addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

She emphasized that a college campus is an important forum for discussion on real-life issues being dealt with worldwide, so questions from “out there” can be answered by students, faculty, and staff in a safe environment.

“One of the most wonderful things about being part of the university community is the many opportunities we have to think about these issues,” Durham said. “Changing a paradigm is a serious and significant event.”

Although it sounds like a simple change in terminology to add two words — equity and inclusion — to the title, Durham said, the shift actually marks the transformation of a perspective in reshaping how the UI cambacks, Thelen said, many people still realize that there is something special about coming into a store and seeing everything up close.

Artifacts also refuses to sell online. Despite the changing market, Thelen said, small businesses are finding new ways to distinguish themselves.

“I can walk into a store and tell immediately if they sell online, because all of the ‘good stuff’ will be gone,” he said. “I think that’s our advantage — we keep everything here. And Iowa City is a great support system for us, because we don’t have to undercut the prices; there is support for smaller businesses.”

Although admittedly cliché, he said, many customers come into the store to escape whatever is happening in their lives.

“We’re right next door to Mercy Hospital, so we get a lot of people coming in from there,” he said. “They don’t want to think about why they’re in the hospital, so they come in here to get lost. I think that’s a great thing.”

As Thelen returned to cataloging various accoutrements, Margaret Roberts, who has worked at Artifacts for nearly 10 years, stood hunched over a garbage bag full of vintage photographs.

Roberts, who also received a

during the 2018 midterm election: the IMU and the UIHC. Weipert said those locations were convenient for students, employees, and community members.

During a three-day period before the 2018 election, the UIHC satellite location had 1,302 ballots cast and 982 ballots submitted in the IMU. The Kirkwood location had 106 ballots cast in one day, according to data from the Johnson County Auditor’s Office.

“I don’t know why the state government would want to restrict facilities from being satellite voting locations,” Weipert said. “It just makes absolutely no sense.”

Black Hawk County Auditor Grant Veeder wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan that the three satellite vot-

ing sites on campus have become a significant part of student voter turnout, with 989 ballots cast among those sites during the 2018 election.

He also noted that the Iowa Code says public buildings supported by taxation are to be given first consideration for Election Day polling locations.

“The language of SSB 1241 prohibiting satellite voting in state-owned buildings, while not in direct contradiction of this statute, certainly violates its spirit,” Veeder wrote.

Bisignano called the entire bill “mean spirited.”

He noted that while his first thought was of regent universities, he believes the bill will make it more difficult for veterans and people in rural areas as well.

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quired to abide by the First Amendment, and the rights it allows for are most imperative in public spaces on college campuses, such as the Pentacrest.

Courts largely oversee the application of the First Amendment on college campuses, Ryfe said. Trump’s proposal adds a layer of bureaucracy to that process, he said, so presumably someone in the executive branch would monitor free speech at pus sees itself and the world said, and they all learn differ- a culture change is a slow universities. around it. ently. The issue of inclusion, process and doesn’t happen Although the federal gov“This is a crucial move, and she said, is quickly rising to without leadership from ernment making stipulaI am there,” Durham said. the top as the most pressing the top — better and more tions at state institutions by “I’m completely supportive of issue for university adminis- diverse communication be- withholding federal money the directions it offers.” tration, faculty, and staff. tween the administration, is nothing new, Ryfe said, it The child of two Indian “Flourishing in a univer- faculty, and staff will come is unusual for the executive immigrants and the only sity environment depends from reaching people in a branch to insist on getting student in her elementary on a feeling that you belong more thoughtful way. involved in First Amendment class from a minority pop- there,” Durham said. “BeCenter for Diversity and issues. ulation, Durham reflected cause unless you have a feel- Enrichment Assistant Direc“That’s normally seen as a on how she has experienced ing of safety, security, and tor Nicholas Creary asked province of the courts,” Ryfe racism from a very young support, you can’t achieve how Durham would address said. “So it’s a little unclear age and thus been prepared your highest potential.” any pushback on campus why the courts aren’t a venfor this position throughout Women’s Resource & Ac- against her initiatives. She ue that can properly ensure her life. tion Center Associate Di- answered his question by cit- the freedom of expression on “My family moved back to rector Martha Pierce asked ing the campus-wide diver- college campuses.”

India when I was a teenager, Durham how she would im- sity, equity, and action plan He said the details of and I found myself an outsid- prove communication from that requires concrete steps.

Trump’s unwritten policy er there in a different way,” campus administration.

“I would imagine you’ll be are still very unclear, and Durham said. “It has given “One of the things that our getting an awful lot of resis- depending on the language me a chance to think deeply campus seems to be strug- tance to the things you’re of the executive order, it about issues of identity.” gling with is how they engage suggesting,” Creary said. “I won’t necessarily protect Diversity and equity both students, faculty, and staff,” would imagine that’s been conservative speech at uniaddress the differences that Pierce said. the case for quite some time versities. shape a student’s life, she Durham responded that here.”

UI law Professor Christina Bohannan said the number of high-profile instances in which students claim discrimination against their speech are actually few and far between.

“In terms of state universities, I think they already try really hard to respect free speech, not only because of the Constitution but also as part of their own education,” she said. “We have to expose students to a lot of different viewpoints.”

The premise behind the First Amendment is that it is a neutral law, she said, so it applies to and protects all different kinds of ideas and issues. On college campuses, she said, it should encourage students to engage in debate by doing research to support their arguments.

Whether the executive order is written into policy, Bohannan said, she believes Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan it would be helpful for uniArtificats owner Todd Thelsen prices items from an estate on Thursday. Everyday, Thelsen said the store versities to more broadly receives dozens of new items. educate students on what degree in printmaking, said asks, Thelen said with an Chicken bones aside, it is the First Amendment means, she “shares a mindset with amusingly exasperated sigh, incredibly easy to get lost in why it’s important, and why Thelen.” Throughout her ten- is, “What is the craziest thing Artifacts. To the left, there is a the university has an obligaure at the store, Roberts said, you’ve ever consigned?”

Marc Chagall lithograph sur- tion to protect it. she is often surprised by what “It’s so tough to narrow it rounded by pocket watches.

“We don’t have governsells — and what doesn’t. down, but one of the most To the right, a pastel-colored ment picking and choosing “You have to open your bizarre things that ever came Eames chair and an antique what speech is allowed and mind to the possibilities of through here was a gallon- crib full of rather menac- what is prohibited,” Bohanwhat other people might like. and-a-half bucket full of ing-looking sock monkeys. nan said. “We have a lot of You can’t just go with your chicken wishbones,” he said. Atop this mountain of an- very passionate students taste,” she said facetiously. “On the top, the bucket said tiquities and oddities is the who are in college today, and “It’s a lot of trial and error, ‘365 Wishes,’ so apparently Kingdom of the Obscure’s they should learn that the and I’ve seen some interest- someone saved every wish- emperor, who rules with a First Amendment is there to ing items.” bone they ever got. So yeah, mighty — albeit eccentric — allow them to speak truth to The question everyone that’s a lot of chickens.” sword. power.”

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Professor, artist, poet, and cultural observer In celebration of International Women’s Day today, UI Professor Deborah Elizabeth Whaley serves as a role model for women at the UI and around the world for her advocacy through action and scholarship.

BY ALEXANDRA SKORES

alexandra-skores@uiowa.edu Scrolling through Deborah Elizabeth Whaley’s personal website, one can hear the soft Malaysian song “Dan Sebenarnya,” by Yuna, playing in the background: Is this hatred really love that still waits for you? And, to be honest, I hope that behind that smile of yours, you miss me, too.

Whaley, a University of Iowa American studies professor, chose the song for the message of perseverance and realizing one’s dreams, an interpretation she embraces closely.

While she is originally from Colorado, Whaley has lived in the Midwest for more than half her life. She described herself as an artist, poet, writer, curator, swimmer, yogi, and UI professor.

Whaley’s work has encompassed American and cultural studies, and she has published many pieces of literature on social movements. Her recent book, Black Women in Sequence: Reinking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime explores book production and African Americans in media.

One of Whaley’s roles at the

UI is serving as a senior scholar for Digital Arts and Humanities Research, where she got to know Associate Professor Sarah Bond. “[Whaley] is a pioneer in the study of black history, and we both enjoy writing for the public,” Bond said. “Deborah is a really big part of why things are successful, and the digital humanities is successful because of her.”

Whaley developed an interest in advocating for women through her profession stemming back from her time in college as an undergraduate at the University of California-Santa Cruz, she said in an email.

“In college, I had a sociology professor who taught her class through a feminist perspective,” Whaley said. “Until then, I never thought about feminism as an identity or feminist frameworks, though of course I was always for women’s equality. I was 17 at the time, a very young college student, and the impact of that course and later, other courses I took in American studies all dealt with making historically marginalized groups in conflict the center of the courses.”

Whaley said her advocacy grew from her undergraduate

years and decided she needed to do more with it.

“I was trained in terms of my education to advocate for and try to make a difference — through actions and scholarship — for the conditions historically marginalized groups face,” Whaley said. “My interest in advocacy for women as an artist, teacher, public intellectual, writer, and frequent guest speaker on these topics stems from witnessing, learning about, and experiencing unequal treatment as a woman and particularly as a black woman.”

Tippie College of Business Dean Sarah Gardial described Whaley as an “awesome woman” she has gotten to know at the UI. “From a faculty point of view, she is doing cutting-edge cultural work that affects her students and faculty,” Gardial said. “She is finding herself moving into leadership programs and is really excited.

Someone like her in leadership positions will better the UI.” Though her work encompasses many problems historically marginalized groups face with representation in various mat-

UISG creates guide to being ‘not rich’ at Iowa The new ‘Guide to Being Not Rich at Iowa’ provides a collaborative space for students to share their money-saving tips.

BY RYLEE WILSON

rylee-wilson@uiowa.edu Budgeting in college can be a difficult task for many students, especially for students paying for their expenses. To help students navigate life with varying financial situations, the University of Iowa Student Government has created “Guide to Being Not Rich at Iowa” as a space for students to share tips and advice on how to save money as a student.

The guide is a collaborative Google document, that will remain open for students to make suggestions and revisions until the end of the semester.

According to results from the 2018 Student Experience in the Research University survey, which received a response from nearly 20 percent of undergraduates, many UI students report financial concerns.

“Across all students, just under half report being concerned or very concerned about paying for college,” the results said.

Around 40 percent “report that they often or very often cut back on spending, and one-third report that they occasionally or more often cut back on meals due to financial reasons.”

The guide is modeled on a University of Michigan student-led project, which went viral last year. Similar guides exist at many other universities.

UISG Justice and Equity Di-

rector Alex Bare said the guide is designed to help students who are just getting by.

“Not everyone is here having the time of their lives, and not everyone is here with funding from their families — many people are here on their own dime,” Bare said. “That costs a lot, and it’s a lot of work. We all thought that this would be an idea for how students could easily find ways that they could navigate college, stay in college, and continue to stay healthy, be a good student, yet do that with limited economic resources.”

UISG Sen. Carolina Herrera said the guide is a display of support for low-income students.

“I was really surprised and shocked at how many people contributed to it,” Herrera said.

“It just shows low-income students, we care, this a resource you have. This is from students, so it’s students supporting students, and I really like that idea.

I’m low-income, and when you’re low-income, you don’t like talking about your economic situation. So it’s something you just hide, and I feel like this brings awareness for that.”

Bare said the guide has received a surprising number of responses.

“I’ve seen a lot of people — usually with student-government stuff, it’s our own friends — but this is people I don’t even know,” Bare said. “Faculty members have been emailing about it.

It’s starting to spread, and I think once we get some more word out there, it’ll really take off.”

The guide includes 12 different categories offering tips on saving money in areas such as housing, transportation, and entertainment. The guide also includes tips on scholarships and financial aid as well as how to be economical and sustainable — which Herrera said is something contributors added.

“People think of sustainability as something that’s expensive,” Herrera said. “I feel like sustainability is something for everyone. Even if you’re low-income, there’s sustainable options that are even cheaper than nonsustainable options.”

UISG hopes to work with UI administrators in the future on financial-aid advice.

Colleen Scholer, the director of marketing and design for the Division of Student Life, said students can find UI resources for their specific situations.

“The Office of Student Financial Aid and Financial Literacy Services work with students to identify resources depending on their situation,” Scholer said in an email to The Daily Iowan.

“There are also resources available across campus in specific departments for students in certain majors, such as students in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, may be eligible for emergency funds based on specific situations.”

Tate Hildyard/The Daily Iowan UI Professor Deborah Whaley stands in the UI Library Digital Studio on Thursday. Whaley is an artist, poet, and cultural observer. ters, she highlighted her current work on a book with examining why dissociative identities is a popular narrative in daytime talk shows, soap operas, foreign films, music, and more dating back to 1860, she said.

“More than an interpretation of popular-cultural productions, my book also examines how women interface with the

medical industrial complex, and how disability and affect studies act as a lens through which we might understand the cultural use of and interrogate the practices of medicine’s creation of iatrogenic conditions,” Whaley said.

She also noted the importance of days such as International Women’s Day in actively

addressing societal struggles.

“Activism can look very different, and it is important to value the various ways people enact and envision change,” Whaley said. “A day of remembrance as a day of action and recommitment to the struggle is what International Women’s Day will hopefully continue to do to the ends of a more just society.”

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Ready or not, here Iowa schools need nurses and librarians comes graduation

School librarians and nurses are fundamental parts of school administration in Iowa.

High schools should require home-ec classes to prepare students for nonacademic success.

MICHELLE KUMAR

michelle-kumar@uiowa.edu It’s fair to say that no matter how hard you try as a highschool senior, you will never be “college ready.” There are so many things you can’t anticipate, and the push to get you “college ready” mainly consists of useless academic work or buying things for your dorm. Those two options leave a big gap in preparedness. While home economics may have gone about

and life, go grocery shopping, understand how to read the forms I’d have to sign for student loans, and even got to do mock job interviews. This one class did more in making me “college ready” than anything else I did in high school, including my academic classes.

The lack of preparedness transitioning from high school is felt especially by incoming college students who are trying figure everything out. Freshman Josh Samuel said, “I don’t feel like I was well-prepared for adult life at all. While I think I was pretty independent in high school, being independent in college is much more overwhelming. It’s a little daunting to be the only one responsible for my own health and well-being. Being underprepared for

‘You’re not going to be a freshman living in the dorms forever.’ it the wrong way, the skills the class offered are invaluable regardless of gender, and learning those skills should be an option for high-schoolers.

In a typical home-ec class, you would have learned about cooking, budgeting and economics, health and hygiene, and home management. At the time home ec was popular, it was largely for women leaving the class with a lasting brand that has been hard to get rid of.

Life skills shouldn’t have to be gendered because everyone needs them. It could be said you won’t have to worry about budgeting or cooking your freshman year or that your parents could do these things for you. However, you’re not going to be a freshman living in the dorms forever, and not everyone is privileged enough to have involved parents.

In my experience, I found that there was only one thing I did in high school that could have prepared me for what college was really like. My senior year I took a class called “adult living.” I learned how to cook in my dorm, how to deal with all the free time I’d have between classes, take care of my mental and physical health, how to budget for college

that definitely added to the stress and difficulty of the college transition, and I think taking a course like that in high school would definitely benefit high-schoolers who are unaware of how much more different college is.”

YouthTruth, a national education nonprofit, surveyed high-school students in 2017 and found that only 45 percent of students felt they were ready for college and their career afterwards. A lot of that stems from understanding just what college will be like and the process surrounding it.

Many people might say that this responsibility shouldn’t fall to schools, but by design, high schools are built to prepare students for college and life beyond. If they’re not gaining the skills needed to succeed there, then where else can they? Parents and guardians already have their hands full.

This is not to say that a course like adult living should be mandatory, but the option should at the very least be there, and in most schools it’s not. Being successful in college and life goes beyond academics, and it’s clear students aren’t ready.

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ZOHAR NADLER

zohar-nadler@uiowa.edu On Feb. 26, the Iowa Senate passed a bill that would allow Iowa schools to have the option of employing a librarian and a school nurse. The language of the current legislation suggests that schools in Iowa are required to have librarians and nurses. The new bill would allow nurses and librarians to be optional.

Moreover, nurses and librarians would be replaced with associates who would not have a nursing degree or a master’s of library science degree.

The bill raises issues because librarians are a crucial resource for students. In addition, school nurses have health expertise that administrators and school faculty members do not. Moreover, the option of having nurses and librarians could cause disparity in schools across Iowa.

The bill was proposed in order to give more authority to local school boards, teachers, and administrators. While I can see why locals could understand more of what their school needs, there should still be certain standards that schools have to follow. Employing nurses and librarians should fall under that umbrella.

For one, librarians are a very helpful resource for students

Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan The State Capitol is seen on April 29, 2018. who need to learn how to research, navigate databases, and discover a love for books.

In a world in which students are constantly surrounded by information, such as social media or the news, they especially need help on how and where to acquire knowledge. With the

occur at a school in which the expertise of a nurse would be necessary. What about kids with chronic illnesses? Or students who need health advice to be readily available to them?

These situations should be considered before the bill goes any further.

‘While I can see why locals could understand more of what their school needs, there should still be certain standards that schools have to follow.’ involvement of the internet growing in our society, students must know how to navigate it for information. A lot of the time, such navigation skills are taught by a librarian.

On the other hand, nurses are vital to the safety and health of students. There are plenty of possible occurrences that could

The option for schools to hire a nurse or a librarian could also cause disparities across schools in Iowa. The schools that have a budget to employ a librarian could have more students who have information literacy versus the schools that do not have librarians in their budgets. In order

to achieve more educational equity in Iowa, schools should be required to employ nurses and librarians. A mere option of librarian and nurse employment could lead to schools not being held accountable for the resources they should provide their students.

While the bill’s supporters claim to help schools with potential necessary budget cuts, we deserve to know how schools could better allocate their money if not to provide health and research resources to their students. Health and knowledge are two of the most important reasons to attend school. Iowa students deserve to have such resources. While it is not to say that every school would choose to not hire a librarian or a nurse, it is an option — an option we should be wary of.

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Do we really need to pay for information?

It is not fair for publishers to provide access while struggling to support their staffs.

NICHOLE SHAW

nichole-shaw@uiowa.edu The University of California on Feb. 28 firmly decided not to renew its subscription with Elsevier — the largest scholarly publisher in the world, disseminating scientific, technical, and medical information through publicly funded research. Its reason: rapidly escalating costs of the subscription to the company.

“Make no mistake: The prices of scientific journals now are so high that not a single university

in the U.S. — not the University of California, not Harvard, no institution — can afford to subscribe to them all,” said Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, the university librarian and economics professor at UC-Berkeley said in a press release. “Publishing our scholarship behind a paywall deprives people of the access to and benefits of publicly funded research.

That is terrible for society.”

Elsevier and other scholarly journals are demanding too high subscription rates from institutions such as Cal, with access to the entire Elsevier database entering the multimillion-dollar tier, according to its price list. However, its demand for monetary support brings up an interesting conversation on where to draw the line for subscription rates and paywall fees

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for access to information that is produced by underpaid writers, authors, scientists, and scholars alike.

In the Information Age of the internet, people have turned from the traditional industry of industrialization to information technology in the 21st century. Subscription models are a controversial and shifting idea that plagues publishers across the globe as they ask the crucial question: Do we make our audience pay for information?

The establishment of the

paywalls in the mid-2010s was a shock to me, and I didn’t understand why I would have to pay for information and news if I never had to before.

However, as a journalist, I can also understand the need to come up with a realistic and supportive plan to cover the costs of running a website, printing and publishing stories, and paying professional staff. That’s why I pay the subscriptions to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

As a consumer, I already pay

‘The establishment of the internet has made the relationship between accessing information and paying professionals ... more complex.’ internet has made the relationship between accessing information and paying professionals such as journalists, scientists, and scholars more complex. Before the 21st century, people would pay for information to be delivered to or accessed by them. However, when the internet took off in the 21st century, consumers suddenly had exceptional access to information online at the click of a fingertip — and without paying for it.

As a college student, I’m a big fan of never spending more than is absolutely necessary.

Growing up in the Information Age, I was privileged to obtain pretty much unrestricted access to anything I wanted online.

The introduction of newspaper

for such streaming services as Spotify, Hulu, and Netflix to watch television shows and films, which support the costs of those media platforms to make their own original content as well as obtain and/or manage partnerships with artists, screenwriters, actors, etc.

Why is paying to support platforms that give us entertainment different from paying for information? They both inform us of contemporary current issues and events and reflect or report upon a looking glass of the trends and impulses of the society around them.

The people behind the information published are professionals who deserve to be paid and have a dependable, reasonable living income.

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Pentacrest Museums head for the air The UI Pentacrest Museums will launch a radio show on KICI, a new independent Iowa City radio station. The show will showcase some of the lesser-known aspects of the museums.

BY CALEB MCCULLOUGH

caleb-mccullough@uiowa.edu The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums and Iowa City’s newest independent radio station will team up to begin a monthly radio show that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the museums.

The “BIG Little Museum Show,” as the show is titled, will be aired monthly on KICI FM 105.3. The independent radio station began last summer and broadcasts in a 5-mile radius, featuring a range of local programming and independent music.

The Pentacrest Museums comprise the Natural History Museum in Macbride and the Old Capitol Museum. The museums host a range of rotating exhibits on science, art, and history.

Pentacrest Museums communications director Jessica Smith and interim Pentacrest Museums director Liz Crooks had the idea for the show after seeing a news story about KICI. “It was appealing to me because it’s about as local as you can get,” Crooks said. “They have a 5-mile broadcast radius, and we’re really committed to our local community.

We aren’t the biggest museums in the world, so it felt like it was a good partnership.”

Smith and Crooks discussed the prospect of the show and decided to connect with KICI station manager Holly Hart.

“I pitched to her that we would love to be on sometime, and it was just a really nice fit,” Smith said.

Hart said she was excited with the idea of the show, and she was happy to give a platform to a local nonprofit.

“The Natural History Museum is obviously an Iowa City landmark,” she said. “It’s an icon.”

Reba Zatz/The Daily Iowan The Old Capitol House Chamber is seen on Tuesday.

Hart said the show fit in well with the kind of content KICI hopes to feature. The show will join KICI’s current roster of local programming, including a show about local theater called “Green Room” and a literary show called “Writer’s Voice.”

“This is the kind of thing that we have wanted in terms of local content,” Hart said.

Crooks said one reason she wanted to do the show is to provide more exposure to some of the lesser-known aspects of the museums.

“I’m looking forward to be

able to do some more behindthe-scenes things, like talk

There are more than 130,000 objects in collections

‘It was appealing to me because it’s about as local as you can get. They have a 5-mile broadcast radius, and we’re really committed to our local community.’

– Liz Crooks, interim Pentacrest Museums director ing about what happens in our collections department,” she said.

between the two museums, Crooks said, and only a portion of those are on display.

Items from the collections are often brought to schools and classrooms around the community.

Hart will host the show, which will usually include either Smith or Crooks. Smith said they will often feature another member of the museum staff to talk about specific areas of the museum’s operations.

Another major focus of the show will be on the exhibits on display at the museum on any given month. Smith said the events and the exhibits change often, so it will be a

helpful way to keep the public informed.

The current lineup of exhibits at the museums include “Project Passenger Pigeon,” an exhibit on an extinct pigeon species that was native to Iowa, and an upcoming art exhibit in the Old Capitol called “Humanize My Hoodie,” an attempt to combat racial stereotypes associated with clothing.

“There’s a lot going on here all the time, so we just want to keep the community aware of what’s happening,” Smith said.

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WRESTLING CONTINUED FROM 8 matter if they guy is ranked No. 1 or he’s not ranked at all.”

Lugo transferred and redshirted at Iowa last season, but in 2017, he placed first at 149 pounds at the Eastern League. In 2016, he placed third, earning a spot at the NCAA Championships in both seasons.

“I haven’t had a taste for it for a couple years, but I’m ready to go,” Lugo said. “My body feels good, my mind is good, and my weight is under control. I’m ready to go. I’ve been dreaming about this my whole life, wrestling in front of a big program like Iowa.”

Last year, DeSanto placed third at the Eastern Association, securing an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships. DeSanto is seeded second in the pre-seed rankings

heading into the Big Tens.

DeSanto plans to treat this tournament just as any other.

“It’s like every other tournament — just got to wrestle hard, do the things you need to do, and get it done,” DeSanto said. “My goal is just to wrestle tough, score points, and see what I do out there.”

One might think that there is a disadvantage to being a new wrestler in a big tournament such as the Big Tens, where the opponents are tougher. But DeSanto does not see this as a disadvantage.

“It is what it is,” he said. “I don’t need to wrestle guys to see how they are. You get the feel, but there’s so much film out there that they can look at, that it might be enough to emulate the feel in the room.”

The other half of Iowa’s squad — Spencer Lee, Alex Marinelli, Mitch Bowman, Cash Wilcke, and Sam Stoll — all have experience at the most difficult conference

tournament. Last season, Brandon Sorensen, Lee, and Stoll led the Hawkeyes, placing second, third, and fourth, respectively.

Going into this tournament, Iowa has recorded 199 individual conference titles, and the Hawkeyes will strive to hit the 200-mark on March 10.

“We want to make a statement that we are the Iowa Hawkeyes, and we can be Big Ten champs,” Marinelli said.

The tournament brackets will be completed this afternoon after the Big Ten coaches’ meeting.

The Hawkeyes have seven grapplers seeded in the top five of their respective weight classes: Lee (No. 2), DeSanto (No. 2), Lugo (No. 3), Young (No. 5), Marinelli (No. 2), Wilcke (No. 5), and Warner (No. 3) Session 1 of the tournament will begin at 10 a.m.

Saturday in Williams Arena in Minneapolis.

Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Austin DeSanto wrestles Indiana’s Paul Konrath at Carver-Hawkeye on Feb. 15.

WOMEN’S CONTINUED FROM 8

Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa guard Kathleen Doyle drives for a layup against Wisconsin on Jan. 7.

MEN’S CONTINUED FROM 8 to score and racked up his fourth foul with 11:32 left in the second half. Joe Wieskamp and Luka Garza combined for 11.

The Hawkeyes have had a problem knocking down open shots as of late. Iowa

has had decent shots in its two most recent losses but hasn’t connected.

Wisconsin may have picked up a 20-point win with ease, but the Badgers didn’t even have the best night from the field — they shot 40.7 percent from the field and 20 percent from deep. The glass is where they did their damage.

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ed Iowa, 49-29, and hauled in 15 offensive boards that it cashed in for 23 second-chance points.

It took Ethan Happ more than five minutes to get on the board with two free throws, but the Badger big man still made the most of his Senior Night.

Happ scored 21 points on 5-of-11 shooting (11-of-18 on free throws), pulled down 14

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into the tournament, that would mean Iowa would be a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament as well.

Talking about NCAAs is all well and good, but if Iowa hopes to keep its current seeding, it will have to do well this weekend in Indianapolis.

No. 10 seed Indiana will be up first for the Hawkeyes. While Iowa has had the week off, Indiana is coming off a 66-58 win over Minnesota on Thursday night.

The Hoosiers entered the tournament with a 19-11 record and boast All-Big Ten second-teamer Ali Patberg, who put up 15.5 points per game and averaged 5 rebounds and 4.9 assists.

Maintaining the No. 2 seed will be the least

rebounds, dished out 3 assists, and made his mark on the defensive end by racking up 2 blocks and 2 steals.

Iowa closed out head coach Fran McCaffery’s two-game suspension with double-digit losses in both contests. The Hawkeyes have one chance against Nebraska on March 10 to get back on track before heading to Chicago for the Big Ten

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The way the Hawkeyes have played in their last three games might mean a short stay in the Windy City, but in the postseason, anything is possible.

Iowa can still secure a No. 6 seed in the Big Ten Tournament with a win over the Huskers on March 10. But if the Hawkeyes continue their skid against the Huskers,

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of Iowa’s worries if it fails to win its first game.

Being one-and-done in the tournament could be enough for the NCAA Selection Committee to drop the Hawkeyes from the top 16 entirely, stripping them of home-court advantage in the tournament.

While a loss could be detrimental, a win should solidify the Hawkeyes as at least a top-16 seed, perhaps making Game 1 the most crucial to win.

Of course, a win isn’t all the Hawkeyes are traveling to Indianapolis for. They want to bring home the program’s third Big Ten Tournament title.

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have that with the way the bracket is laid out.

Both Michigan and Michigan State are on the opposite side of the bracket and considering the Hawkeyes have a 2-2 against the Michigan teams, that is certainly fortuitous. Instead of either of those squads, the top-seeded team on Iowa’s side of the bracket is Rutgers, a team that is 1-3 against the top four in the Big Ten and a unit Iowa beat, 72-66, on Jan. 23.

All of that makes a run to the championship game a real possibility for the Hawkeyes, and as they have shown all season, they can beat any team in the Big Ten. An appearance in the Big Ten title game will certainly cement the Hawkeyes as a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and a win may even bump them up to a No. 1 seed.

they can fall to a No. 7 seed if Minnesota beats Maryland in its season finale.

Luckily for Iowa, Nebraska could very well be a slump-buster, as it will enter the final game on a four-game losing streak.

But to pick up a win and head into the postseason with a smidgen of momentum, the Hawkeyes need to improve their offense.

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Hawkeye baseball faces improved Aces Iowa travels for a road contest with Evansville, a team that has made great strides since last season, on Saturday.

BY ADAM HENSLEY

adam-hensley@uiowa.edu Last season, Iowa swept Evansville in a three-game series at Banks Field.

The Hawkeyes outscored the Aces, 22-9, in what aside from the final game wasn’t a close series.

Fast forward to now, and Iowa head coach Rick Heller said this Evansville squad is much better.

“I told our guys on [Tuesday] — we weren’t real deep on the scouting report — but I said, ‘For you guys who were here and played in that series, it’s a completely different team,’ ” Heller said. “… they’ve made a nice jump.”

Evansville posted a 12-39 record last season, and pitching was an area in which the Aces struggled. Eleven pitchers ap-

peared in 16 or more games, and of that group, none had an ERA less than 4. Nine of those had an ERA of at least 5.

This year, however, different story.

Adam Lukas was one of Evansville’s reliable arms last season. In an attempt to avoid a sweep last year, the Aces threw him in the final game.

He pitched well, lasting five innings and allowing but 1 run on 4 hits while striking out 6.

“He’s formidable. He’s up to 96 mph,” Heller said. “He’s going to be a really high draft [pick]. He’s been pitching well.

I watched them all on film, and they’re a lot different team.”

According to Baseball America, Lukas struck out 9.3 batters per nine innings last season.

This season, he’s appeared in three games, striking out at least five

batters in each contest.

And just like Lukas, the Evansville team as a whole has improved since last season.

The Aces have a .500 winning percentage in 10 games this year — a jump that more than doubles their .235 winning percentage in 2018.

Heller pointed to Evansville’s bats as another area of improvement.

“They’re way better, way tougher outs, way better athletes,” he said.

Nate Reeder has led the Aces’ charge offensively. The senior has a .333 batting average and 12 hits — both tied for teambest marks — and he leads Evansville with 3 home runs.

Against Mercer, Reeder finished 2-for-4 with 2 home runs and 3 RBIs. Later in the season, when Evansville faced off against Boston College, he

went 4-for-5 with an RBI. Countering Evansville’s hot bats, Iowa will be without its top hitter.

Tanner Padgett, who leads the Hawkeyes with a .395 batting average and 15 hits, is out with a strained hamstring suffered against Oklahoma State.

Heller forecast him to miss roughly a week, and he was optimistic he’d make a quick return.

He’s not the only Hawkeye missing time, either. Pitcher Jack Dreyer went down with injury against Hawaii, and Heller aimed for a two-week rehab for the southpaw.

Dreyer’s absence means the rest of the Hawkeye pitching crew must be on its A-game come Saturday.

Cole McDonald will take the first of two Saturday contests, with Cam Baumann taking

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Iowa head coach Rick Heller (left) talks to Iowa catcher Tyler Cropley (right) during the game against Coe at Duane Banks on April 11, 2018. the second, and Grant Judkins will round out the starters for the third and final game of the weekend.

“It’s nice having Jud on Sunday, and hopefully we can get

Jack back pretty soon, but we’ve got Baumann — that’s two quality starters right there,” McDonald said. “You know they’re going to give it everything they have.”

Tausaga leads Iowa track to NCAAs After adding to her trophy case, Laulauga Tausaga and nine of her teammates will head to the NCAA Indoor Championships.

BY ROBERT READ

robert-read@uiowa.edu When diving into the Iowa track and field record book, the name “Laulauga Tausaga” seems to appear more times than Jordan Bohannon has hit a clutch 3-pointer this basketball season. So in other words, a lot.

Tausaga is a two-time All-American and two-time Big Ten champion, and she owns the Hawkeye women’s record in the indoor shot put and weight throw as well as the outdoor shot put and discus.

Just when it appeared Tausaga’s trophy case was at capacity, she was forced to make a

little room.

On March 1, the Iowa junior was named Midwest Regional Female Field Athlete of the Year, becoming only the second woman in program history to earn a regional honor. While Tausaga has had an exceptional season thus far, the honor was unexpected.

“The news came as a shock,” she said. “I honestly thought Sade Olatoye at Ohio State would get it, but technically, [the Buckeyes] aren’t considered to be in the Midwest for track, even though they are in the Big Ten. But after it really sank in, I was like, ‘Heck, yeah.’

It feels like I am really improv-

ing, especially in the shot, so it was a wonderful surprise.”

In her final performance before receiving the award, Tausaga broke her school record in the shot put by a whopping 1.09 meters at the Big Tens.

Tausaga’s personal best now stands at 17.79 in the shot, a mark she is happy to see considering how she considered herself to have struggled in the event.

“I was hoping that meet would do something for my shot, because I was struggling to hit that 17-meter mark,” she said. “But being able to go out there and do it just shows that I was able to improve in some areas where I felt I was struggling.”

The next step in the season for her and the teammates is the NCAA Indoor Championships, where the indoor season comes to a close in Birmingham, Alabama.

Tausaga will travel to NCAAs with nine teammates, eight of whom also qualified for individual events. The only Hawkeye to qualify in two individual events, she will compete in the shot put and the weight throw.

Joining Tausaga are Brianna Guillory (400 meters) and the pair of Tria Simmons and Jenny Kimbro (pentathlon). Simmons and Kimbro placed first and second, respectively, in the event at the Big Tens.

On the men’s side, Mar’Yea Harris and Wayne Lawrence will compete in the 400 in Birmingham, and Jaylan McConico and Chris Douglas will run in the 60-meter hurdles. McConico is this season’s indoor Big Ten champion. Karayme Bartley will round out the Hawkeye individual competitors in the 200.

The reigning Big Ten champion men’s 1,600-meter relay team — Bartley, Antonio Woodard, Lawrence, and Harris — will also compete at the NCAAs. Both the men’s and women’s teams shot up in the rankings, the men four spots to No. 23, and the women at No. 12, the highest ranking in

program history.

Tausaga sees the movement in the rankings as a testament to the depth of talent on the team.

“Track is perceived to be an individual sport, but when you do well individually, you create a great atmosphere for the team,” she said. “With the whole women’s team coming in and doing what we are supposed to do, we are really trending upwards, and that’s exciting to see.”

The meet will begin for Iowa at 12:15 p.m. today with Simmons and Kimbro in the pentathlon. It will conclude Saturday at 6:55 p.m. with the men’s 4x400-meter relay.

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HAWKEYE UPDATES Hawkeye softball leaning on Doocy, Mayhew heading into weekend Iowa softball is on a powerful streak heading into this weekend’s slate of games in the Saluki Invitational in Carbondale, Illinois.

The Hawkeyes have won nine of their last 11 games so far, largely because hitter DoniRae Mayhew and pitcher Allison Doocy have been nothing short of dominant.

They will try to put in some of Doocy the same work this weekend with matchups against IllinoisChicago and Wisconsin-Green Bay today, Butler on Saturday, and Wisconsin-Green Bay and Miami (Ohio) on March 10.

Mayhew and Doocy represent the changing atmosphere in the program; they have both been steady and effective in their own ways for first-year head coach Renee Gillispie.

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Weekend Sports Schedule Track and Field (Birmingham) • Today, NCAA Indoor Championships — all day • Saturday, NCAA Indoor Championships — all day Softball (Carbondale) • Today vs. Illinois-Chicago — 10 a.m.

• Today vs. Wisconsin-Green Bay — 12:15 p.m.

• Saturday vs. Butler — 7 p.m.

• March 10 vs. Wisconsin-Green Bay — 12:15 p.m.

• March 10 vs. Miami (Ohio) — 2:30 p.m.

Women’s Basketball (Indianapolis) • Today, Big Ten Tournament vs.

Indiana - 5:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Big Ten Tournament TBD • March 10, Big Ten Tournament TBD Men’s Tennis (Tennis Complex and Lincoln) • Today vs. Drake — 6 p.m.

• March 10 vs. Nebraska — 1 p.m.

Women’s Gymnastics (Seattle) • Today vs. Washington and Sacramento State — 9 p.m.

Women’s Tennis (Fort Myers) • Saturday vs. Furman — 9 a.m.

• March 10 vs. Florida Gulf Coast — 9 a.m.

Wrestling (Minneapolis) • Saturday, Big Ten Championships — 10 a.m.

• March 10, Big Ten Championships — noon

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Forward Megan Gustafson drives for a layup against Northwestern in Carver-Hawkeye on March 3.

Wrestling’s Austin DeSanto and Pat Lugo will The DI takes a look at the bigger picture as the Hawkeyes head to Indianapolis for the Big bring their conference tournament experience to Big Tens.

Ten Tournament.

BY JORDAN ZUNIGA

jordan-zuniga@uiowa.edu March is here, and the No. 10 Iowa women’s basketball team is headed to Indianapolis, which means it’s time for the Big Ten Basketball Tournament.

It has been an impressive season for the Hawkeyes — they’ve posted a 23-6 record, 14-4 in the Big Ten, which gives them the No. 2 seed in the tournament.

Baseball (Marion, Illinois) • Saturday vs. Evansville — 1 p.m.

• Saturday vs. Evansville — 5 p.m.

• March 10 vs. Evansville — 1 p.m.

Men’s Gymnastics (Ann Arbor) • Saturday vs. Michigan — 1 p.m.

David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Pat Lugo wrestles Princeton’s Matthew Kolodzik at Carver-Hawkeye on Nov. 16, 2018.

While Iowa will primarily be focused on this tournament, the results could have some major implications in its seeding in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.

This past weekend, the NCAA Basketball Selection Committee revealed its final top-16 teams, pegging Iowa as the eighth-best team in the country.

If that remains the case going SEE WOMEN’S, 6

MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY SARAH ALTEMEIER

sarah-altemeier@uiowa.edu Half of Iowa’s wrestlers competing at the Big Ten Championships will be there for the very first time, including Max Murin, Jacob Warner, Kaleb Young, Austin DeSanto, and Pat Lugo.

However, DeSanto and Lugo do have experience in conference tournaments. In previous years, DeSanto has wrestled at the Eastern Intercol-

legiate Wrestling Association Championships and Lugo at the Eastern Wrestling League Championships.

Although there’s experience in conference championships, it’s not the same.

“Big Tens are a lot different from the [Eastern League],” Lugo said.

“Every guy is tough. You can’t overlook any guy you wrestle. You have to come in with the same mindset, no

No. 21 Wisconsin - 65

SEE WRESTLING, 6

Iowa - 45

Soccer (Ames) • March 10 vs. Drake — 12:15 p.m.

• March 10 vs. Iowa State — 2:45 p.m.

Hawkeyes continue losing skid

Men’s Basketball (Lincoln) • March 10 vs. Nebraska — 1 p.m.

Iowa posted its worst offensive performance of the season in a 20-point loss to Wisconsin on Thursday.

BY PETE RUDEN

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“We want to make a statement that we are the Iowa Hawkeyes, and we can be Big Ten champs. ”

— Iowa 165-pounder Alex Marinelli on the Big Ten Championships

STAT OF THE DAY Iowa men’s basketball is on its first threegame losing streak of the season.

3

losses in a row

peter-ruden@uiowa.edu Iowa’s offense has disappeared at the wrong time.

With just one game remaining in the regular season, it’s nowhere to be found, as evidenced by a 6545 slaughtering at the hands of Wisconsin in Madison on Thursday.

The Hawkeyes shot a season-low 30.5 percent from the field, including a 22.7 percent mark from 3-point range, leading to their third defeat in a row, Iowa’s longest losing streak of the season.

The Hawkeyes typically have a potent offense, ranking second in the Big Ten with 79.7 points per game. That wasn’t the case at the Kohl Center.

Iowa’s lack of offensive firepower started with its best players. No Hawkeye scored more than 8 points as Iowa failed to reach the 50-point mark for the first time since losing to Virginia, 74-41, on Nov. 25, 2016.

Jordan Bohannon and Ryan Kriener led the team with 8 points.

Tyler Cook, Iowa’s leading scorer with 15.8 points per game, failed SEE MEN’S, 6

Daniel Yun/The Badger Herald Tyler Cook attempts a layup in a game against Wisconsin on Thursday in Madison. The Badgers beat the Hawkeyes, 65-45.