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UISG VP candidates face off The candidates spoke on a variety of issues, including tuition increases, fund allocations, accessibility, and diversity and inclusion.

Resolution honoring Gustafson introduced in Iowa Senate State senators introduced a resolution on Wednesday in the Iowa Legislature to honor Iowa women’s basketball player Megan Gustafson “for her outstanding academic and college basketball career at the University of Iowa.”

Sens. Zach Wahls, D-Coralville, Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, and Chris Cournoyer, R-Le Claire, introduced the resolution, Senate Resolution 14, to honor Gustafson, recently unanimously named the 2018-19 ESPNW college basketball 2018-19 season Player of the Year.

The resolution says Gustafson “emerged early in her basketball career” and cemented her place in Iowa hoops history with a record-breaking senior season.

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Wyatt Dlouhy/The Daily Iowan UISG vice-presidential candidates answer questions during a debate at Catlett on Thursday. Voting will begin on at 8 a.m. April 3 and end at 5 p.m. April 4.

Birth control sans prescription clears hurdle

One campaign promise Gov. Kim Reynolds made in October — to make birth control available at pharmacies without a prescription — advanced in the state Legislature this week. The proposal passed the Iowa Senate 42-6 and awaits consideration in the House.

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BY KATE PIXLEY

katherine-pixley@uiowa.edu The three University of Iowa Student Government vice-presidential candidates participated in a UISG VP debate on Thursday night at Catlett Hall.

Madhuri Belkale of Inspire UI, Sarah Henry of Ignite Iowa, and Adiu Arou of UI Charge discussed tuition increases, connections with the state Board of Regents, student-services funding allocations, state policy issues, campus accessibility, representation, and diversity and inclusion.

The first question, regarding how candidates will handle financial hardships, referenced a 2016 UI study in which 52 percent of students

reported feeling alarmed about their financial situations.

Arou said she plans to address financial hardships by helping students to express their opinions directly to the state Legislature.

Belkale said her team would advocate for resources that exist at the UI, such as textbook-donation services and a loan program for graduation gowns.

“It’s important that every Hawkeye has an equitable path to graduation,” Belkale said.

Henry said she wanted to improve the relationships among UISG senators and their state legislators.

Candidates had varied responses to how they would allocate student funds.

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Hawkeye women playing for their ‘why’

The Iowa women’s basketball team has spent March in winning a tournament and making an impressive run to the Sweet 16. The Hawkeyes have done it for Harper Stribe, a pediatric-cancer survivor who has become a key part of the team.

Climate change, Midwest floods divide politicians Members of Iowa’s congressional delegation are split on using flooding in Iowa to address climate change.

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“Student dollars should be going toward things that directly will affect us,” Henry said, advocating for the mental-health fee. The $2 per student fee would increase the reach of University Counseling Service, she said.

Arou said the student activities fee should go toward initiatives supporting students’ health.

“We have to ask them where they want to see their funds go to, ideally,” she said. “We first must reach out to them and see what it is that they want on campus.”

Her team would advocate for the Student Disabilities Service to be moved somewhere on campus so that it is accessible to students with SEE DEBATE, 2

Latinx community gathers to celebrate activism March 23 through April 3 is Latinx in Action Celebration Week at UI. Members of the community celebrate Latinx activism and culture.

BY RACHEL STEIL

rachel-steil@uiowa.edu

publicans who called environmental issues “elitist.”

“Iowa, Nebraska, broad swaths of the Midwest are drowning right now, underwater,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday.

“Farms, towns, that will never be recovered and never come back.”

Rep. Abby Finkenauer, D-Iowa, said she thinks the flooding and climate change are related, and she’s glad that people are

Latinx in Action Celebration Week at the University of Iowa is being held March 23 through April 3. Members of the Latinx community members are commemorating the work of Latinx activists while engaging in activism themselves.

The Latino Native American Cultural Center is hosting events in partnership with the campus and community organizations Association of Latinos Moving Ahead and League of United Latin American Citizens.

The week was initially César Chávez Awareness Week, said Thomas Arce, the cultural center coordinator.

“It has evolved into not just acknowledging César Chávez but acknowledging activists and activism across larger Latinx communities,” Arce said.

Acknowledgment of activism cannot solely focus on Latinx male voices, he said.

“We have events about Dolores Huerta, who was very pivotal around the César Chávez time period and around the labor and civil-rights movements,” Arce said.

Association of Latinos Moving Ahead President Isabela Flores said the celebration was not a response to recent movements on campus regarding minorities but is a way to continue cultural conversations.

“As we began planning the events, we saw how [the celebration and movements] could correlate,” she said.

The celebration is aimed at educating the community about Latinx activism and sharing experiences.

“This is a week for us to express feelings and to communicate our struggle, our culture, our history, and how beautiful it is,” said Christopher Vazquez, a cultur-

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Iowa baseball needs to get bats going against Illinois

Hawkeye baseball’s bats have gone cold in recent games, but a lucky error propelled it to a win over Western Illinois on Tuesday.

Now, Iowa wants to make its bats heat up in a big weekend series at home against Illinois.

Sarah Watson/The Daily Iowan Rep. Abby Finkenauer, D-Iowa, speaks in her office in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

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julia-shanahan@uiowa.edu As major flooding continues in the counties of western Iowa and Nebraska, some Democrats are pointing to climate change as the cause of the damage and pushing for Congress to address it.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., used the Midwest flood in a statement she made on the U.S. House floor this week when responding to comments from Re-

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DEBATE CONTINUED FROM FRONT disabilities, she said.

Belkale said her team hopes to include closed captioning on all online university classes and accessible desks in all university buildings.

Henry said she hopes to make sure that students with disabilities feel that their voices are valued and heard, pointing to the challenges that students face when filing reports concerning disability concerns.

She referred to the plight of a student who waited two months to receive a response notifying them that Student Disabilities Service had received the complaint.

VP candidates were also asked a series of questions about diversity and inclusion.

Belkale said microaggressions are a consistent problem on campus. In response, her team would implement implicit-bias training for all faculty and staff.

“I think representation is often described as having a seat at the table,” Belkale said. “Representation is not about having people in a

room … it’s also about recognizing that it’s important to recognize all voices.”

Henry advocated for increased outreach by UISG to ensure all students have a place at the table to discuss their ideas.

Arou said representation is important for all students. One of her policy ideas is adding more constituency seats for nontraditional students.

Candidates were asked about their platforms responding to incidents of sexual assault among UI students.

Arou said continuing to

discourage drinking would lower sexual-assault rates.

Belkale, a research assistant focusing on sexual aggression, said that she would advocate for UISG to be involved in discussions regarding sexual-assault prevention.

She would advocate for UI Housing to offer residence halls as a safe space for students to stay if they are experiencing domestic violence at home, she said.

Henry said she wants to continue UISG’s financial and policymaking support to sexual-assault prevention and response pro-

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FLOODS CONTINUED FROM FRONT addressing the issue of climate change. “[Climate change is] a cause whether it’s wildfires in California or heavy snowfall or even changing to earlier winters and cutting down on harvest season,” she said in an interview March 27 with The Daily Iowan.

Finkenauer hopes to see discussions about lawmakers taking climate change seriously and address it in a way that makes sense for Iowa and for the U.S., she said.

“Obviously, it’s all related [climate change and flooding], and it’s stuff we should be talking about, and I’m glad we are talking about it,” Finkenauer said. “I’m proud that Iowa has always

LATINX CONTINUED FROM FRONT al center student staffer and organizer.

UI sophomore Dulce Escorcia, who has participated in past events, praised the visibility and exposure the events provide.

“It’s a reminder that this is happening, we are still here,” Escorcia said.

On Sunday evening, the cultural center hosted a discussion with UI historian Rachel Garza Carreón about past activism at university.

led the way on making sure that we are addressing the issue.”

Ocasio-Cortez champions the Green New Deal, a proposal that aims to create jobs and enact legislation that would create stricter environmental legislation.

While Finkenauer supports addressing climate change, the Des Moines Register previously reported she does not specifically support the Green New Deal.

The flooding on the Missouri River watershed began March 12 and caused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to declare a state of emergency for 57 Iowa counties.

Approximately 250 miles of Iowa levees will need $525 million worth of repairs.

The flooding in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Missouri was caused by a long winter and rapid snow melt combined with heavy The discussion continued Monday evening at Danforth Chapel.

“LATS Talk About Our Pride: Exploring Queer Latinidad,” an event on Tuesday evening, focused on the intersectionality of the queer and Latinx identities.

“I’m used to sorting out my identities,” Escorcia said.

“Having a conversation about queer Latinidad allowed me to bring my whole self in.”

The cultural center and Association of Latinos Moving Ahead hosted a dinner Wednesday evening to recognize UI Latinas who make a difference in the community.

rain, especially where soil moisture was high, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NOAA also reported that flooding could become more widespread in states south of Iowa as snow melt and heavy rains continue and the excess water flows through river basins. The upper part of the Mississippi River, where Iowa is located, received 200 percent more rain and snow than what is considered average.

U.S. scientists report that climate change has a “supporting role” in the extreme flooding, according to a report from Reuters. The Associated Press reported that it could take weeks for scientists to determine if the sole cause of flooding was climate change, but scientists agree that climate change is making natural “A meal can nourish us not only in terms of nutrition, but also the conversation can nourish us in terms of soul,” Arce said.

There will be a Latinx Alumni Panel at 4:30 p.m. today in Pappajohn Business Building.

A fundraiser for United Latin Americans will take place at 7 p.m. March 31 at the Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Democratic presidential-nomination candidate Julián Castro will speak at the event.

FilmScene will host, at 6 p.m. April 1, a free screening of Dolores, a documentary about Huerta. A discussion

disasters more frequent and last longer.

In an email from Michael Zona, the press secretary for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, he wrote that there is not a lot of evidence to support that the flooding and climate change are related.

“Adverse weather and poor management of the river are primarily at fault,” Zona wrote.

Grassley voted against the Green New Deal resolution on Tuesday. He said in an interview with the DI that he disagrees with some of the economic policy in the Green New Deal resolution, saying that it aims to “socialize the economy.”

He said action to address environmental concerns and global warming has been underway for the last 30 years, touting Iowa’s contribution in using wind and solar energy. with members of the Latina/o Studies Program will follow.

The celebration will close at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the IMU with featured speaker Cristobal Salinas, which will focus on the power of Latinx voices.

Escorcia said the events are important for the whole community. They are beneficial to anyone who attends, regardless of ethnicity, Escorcia said.

“I had a teacher that used the example of ramps,” Escorcia said. “Just because they are assigned for people in wheelchairs doesn’t mean that they are not useful to anybody else.”

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Barre3 works into local minds and bodies Founded in Portland, Oregon, Barre3 has gained popularity around the country. With the leadership of Maureen Beran, Iowa City has its very own studio.

BY KINSEY PHIPPS kinsey-phipps@uiowa.edu The popular fitness studio from the West Coast Barre3 has found a home with studio owner Maureen Beran in Iowa City.

Starting with Thursday’s grand opening, eastern Iowa residents can experience Barre3 at 1312 Melrose Ave. The full-body workout is described on the firm’s website as “sustained holds, micro-movements, and cardio bursts that will leave you feeling balanced in body and empowered from within.”

Barre3 is for everyone, Beran said.

University of Iowa staff member Erika Christiansen, a Barre3 aficionado, was eager to see the Iowa City studio’s opening.

“I had done barre previously in a different state, and I taught it. When I moved back, I was trying to find some classes,” Christiansen said. “We didn’t have a dedicated barre studio. I think it’s really nice to see some community partnerships in that area of Iowa City.”

Beran discovered Barre3 in a podcast in which co-founder and CEO Sadie Lincoln was interviewed. Beran was

inspired by the story, and she soon began searching for a studio near her Iowa City home. The closest was in the Chicago area, nearly four hours away.

As a result, Beran turned to Barre3’s online fitness classes. When she visited her brother in Denver, she took advantage of a nearby studio and tried an in-person class.

“As I was looking around the room and felt the energy, the people were looking inward and focusing on what they need in that moment,” she said. “I felt so humbled in an awe-struck way. I just knew that Iowa City would love Barre3.”

She soon began the process of opening her own studio, speaking with owners across the country for advice and perspective.

“Everyone I heard from said it would be about empowerment — focusing on what people needed inside,” she said.

Beran interviewed with Barre3 in March 2018, and it’s been a year of getting certified to instruct, finding and managing a location, and hiring other instructors. There are five instructors alongside Beran and two more in the certification process, she said.

Grace Colton/The Daily Iowan Barre3, a new local barre workout business, is seen on its opening day, Thursday.

She has given free classes in the Iowa City community over the past year to spread the word about her studio.

She is eager for more people to experience Barre3, she said.

“I think the mindfulness component is the one thing that sets us apart from the rest of fitness studios,” Beran said. “You will be tuned into

whow your body feels, utilizing your breath as a tool to get you through challenging moments. One of the greatest things I’ve learned from Barre3 is how to trust myself and my body.”

Barre3 also offers a play lounge for studio members.

Parents can bring in up to two kids for free, and they are cared for during the hourlong

workout. UI student Laikyn Janney will work at the front desk and play lounge.

“I’m excited to be in the studio working, and taking classes myself, and getting to know the other instructors,” she said.

In the first month of operation, the studio is offering a free, complimentary first class, she said.

New members can receive two weeks of unlimited classes for $49, and through March 31, anyone can get the membership for $99 monthly. After that date, rates go up, Beran said.

“I love our mission — to teach people to be balanced in body and empowered from within,” she said. “Everything we do in this space comes from that.”

IISC selects Keokuk as its next partner Just in time for its 10th anniversary, the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities announced it will partner with Keokuk during the next next academic year for a number of improvement projects in the city.

BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu The Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities announced that its partner during the next academic year will be the city of Keokuk, Iowa. The collaboration coincides with the IISC’s 10th anniversary as a department, which is housed in the University of Iowa Center for Outreach and Engagement.

Every year since its establishment, IISC reviews and selects a community among applications from across the state to decide where approximately 120 UI students will partner with local leaders to implement approximately 20 improvement projects.

“It’s a special partnership that exists in our office,” IISC Assistant Director Travis Kraus said. “While we do a

lot of projects across Iowa, this is a little different, because a single community is selected to get a lot of resourcKraus es, including student groups and projects.”

Kraus emphasized that focusing in on one geographical area will likely have a more transformative effect on a city such as Keokuk. Over its 10-year run, he said, IISC works hard to communicate its opportunities to communities statewide.

“We have a formal request and proposal, so communities actually apply, so it’s competitive,” Kraus said. “The application is scored based on criteria.”

The primary goal of IISC projects is collaborative activity, so local experts in the

selected city and UI students work together, he said. Cities are ultimately selected based on their leadership capacity and if they are prepared for meaningful projects, he said.

“Providing these real-world-learning experiences enhance the quality of the educational experience for UI students,” Kraus said. “So they develop skills that might not be as possible just when [they’re] sitting in a classroom.”

The IISC mission, he said, revolves around transforming, teaching, and learning at the UI. Hands-on work in communities such as Keokuk allows students to gain experience

that will directly affect their future careers.

Helping communities be more sustainable, socially and economically, means providing a high quality of life for residents, Kraus said, and relying on them to present their challenges so the UI can respond accordingly.

One of the most exciting things about partnering with Keokuk, he said, is its recent comprehensive planning that outlined what the community needs to do.

“It’s perfect timing for Keokuk,” said Shelley Oltmans, the city’s Area Chamber of Commerce executive director.

“From our 2018 comprehensive plan, we were able to find 20 projects right off the bat.”

The Keokuk community is enthusiastic about the opportunity to spend hours on its latest proposed projects with the UI and to start implementing them, she said, and would like a variety of projects.

“You have 120 students with faculty who are taking the time to put together a plan, doing the public outreach, coming up and taking up an operation, and synthesizing it,” Oltmans said. “That’s a huge value.”

In addition, she said, the Keokuk-UI partnership will provide positive publicity for the

city and a chance to celebrate its comprehensive plan and gather momentum. The community members will also have the chance to share what they love about Keokuk with UI students, she noted.

Lindsay Henderson, the community vitality director of Webster City and IISC’s current community partner, said the collaboration is an opportunity for combined civil engineering, art, and other projects.

“I couldn’t imagine any other way to move forward so fast,” Henderson said. “It was a good match. The process itself is really wonderful to engage a community.”

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Apps make reporting Trump’s free-speech order deserves credit sexual assault easier This is crucial in an era in which people try to put feelings over our constitutional rights.

Advancements in technology are making it simpler and faster to report sexual misconduct.

TAYLOR NEWBY

taylor-newby@uiowa.edu The age of #MeToo has woven a resilient community made up of silence-breakers and freedom fighters that spans generations and geographic location. Yet — while the wave of #MeToo has given people a place to put their stories, experiences, and heartbreak — sexual harassment and assaults are still severely underreported.

But a fast fix is on the rise as app-developers offer a free platform for people to report their experiences and find case-specific resources.

The wave of stories that have surfaced since #MeToo offers insight into the devastating contrast between the number of assaults that take place, specifically on college campuses such as the University of Iowa, and the number that are reported.

According to the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, only 230 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are ever reported to police — meaning that three out of four assaults go unreported and 80 percent of female college-students refrain from reporting.

The reasons for refraining from reporting scale the number of stories that have been spotlighted in the media and on campuses. People are afraid to report — and the roots behind this fear digs deep into retaliation from perpetrators, recognition by members of the community, victim-shaming, and more.

Downloadable applications aim to meet survivors in their fear by allowing them the freedom to find what they need when they need it without the weight of reporting face-to-face.

“People want to feel safe.

People want to be treated with dignity and respect, and they want to be heard,” said Ariel Weindling, the chief executive officer of #NotMe. “People want to be believed, and they want to be heard.” #NotMe serves as one of the applications that are

committed to building a platform for people to report sexual harassment and assault. According to the its website, the app is “the safe place to discreetly and easily report questionable or inappropriate conduct such as harassment, discrimination, or bullying.” #NotMe is not the only application that is going lengths to lift the burden from survivors of reporting face-toface. Callisto and Jdoe also offer platforms to report experiences of harassment or discrimination. Jdoe serves as an anonymous platform, and Callisto is a “nonprofit that creates technology to detect repeat perpetrators of professional sexual coercion and assault.”

These apps used for reporting are able to either send the report directly to higher authorities, being law enforcement or legal help, or keep it archived with time stamp of sorts until the user is ready to submit it.

Karine Teffah, the chief marketing officer of #NotMe, said the app connects its users with a team of lawyers, psychologists, therapists, and people who work in the legal system in some other form.

And people are using it safely and easily.

NPR reported that people who have used the applications have described the process as being far less traumatizing than reporting face-to-face. Because when reporting face-to-face, people often have to recount in detail what they’ve experienced — while reporting through an app gives people the comfort of and freedom from not having to verbally relive their experiences.

Reporting apps continue to change the way confronting sexual harassment and assault occurs in the workplace and on campuses by making the process easier, accessible, and offering abundant resources for people to take action.

“The main issue with sexual assault is that people aren’t talking about it.

When this happens to a person, they don’t want to talk about it — they want to hide it away,” Teffah said. “With something like this, we want to [encourage] them to speak up … The message we want to give [is that] it’s a tool for people to be empowered.”

ALEX CAPPEL

alex-cappel@uiowa.edu On March 21, President Trump signed an executive order protecting free speech on college campuses. You probably didn’t hear very much about it because the mainstream media outlets barely gave it any coverage. The order states that to receive research grants from 12 government agencies, universities must prove that they take an active role in defending free speech in line with the First Amendment. That seems fair, doesn’t it? If you don’t follow the Constitution, you won’t get money from the government.

It’s hard to think of who might oppose an order like this. Freedom of speech is one of the most basic principles of our government. Lots of college administrators want free speech on their campuses because they know that it’s not only a freedom laid out for everyone in the Constitution, it is also important for sparking a dialogue and creating the “marketplace of ideas” that institutions strive for.

There are, however, individuals who don’t want free speech on college campuses. I’ve experienced this firsthand. There are leftists on this campus who

Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Nov. 1, 2018, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. want to take away free speech rally on the Pentacrest steps. the University of Iowa censorand be allowed to police what (Remember “Conclusion, Col- ing students from either side ideas may be voiced. They want lusion”?) But they demand ac- of the political spectrum anysupreme veto power over what tion to be taken when a sign time soon. we can say and do as universi- with words that make them That is something we ty students. The truly horrible feel uncomfortable is on pub- should all celebrate. If a group part about this is that it is do- lic display. You don’t get to that you don’t like expressne in the name of “tolerance.” reap the benefits of free speech es views that you don’t agree These attempts at censoring while also calling for an end to with, organize another rally to “hate speech” translate to si- free speech. That’s hypocrisy. take place the next day. Don’t lencing ideas that I don’t like.

So, Trump has taken the be afraid of views that people You see, what most people option to censor free speech express. People voice views to call hate speech is the exact away from the hands of college be heard. If no one is listenthing that free speech is de- administrators who feel grow- ing, they’re probably going to signed to protect. We wouldn’t ing pressure from the left to stop whatever they’re saying. need a First Amendment if censor ideas that people don’t If someone actually spews all anyone ever said was good like. Some people don’t get horrible ideas on the camthings about the country and this, though, and will continue pus, the students as a whole its policies. Liberals aren’t to tweet and email to try to get will express their displeasure. afraid to scream conspira- ideas pushed off the campus At the end of the day, Hawks cies about our president that in the name of progressivism want to help Hawks. We don’t would get them arrested by and tolerance. Money talks, help each other by silencing other governments when they however, so I don’t anticipate people, we do it by listening.

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Promises, promises­— students need better UISG elections come with lofty messaging, but students deserve a ticket that will actually deliver.

MICHELLE KUMAR

michelle-kumar@uiowa.edu It’s that time of year again; the University of Iowa Student Government elections are right around the corner, and your timeline is flooded with people you have never heard of promising to make student life better for you.

For most students, it’s hard to care about something that

doesn’t affect them and in the end will fail to deliver on what was promised. Every year, brilliant candidates go head-tohead and “the best (or better) ticket” wins. However, in the end, it’s really not what’s best for the students.

UISG is an integral part of our campus life and acts as the voice of undergraduate students. When we vote, I think we honestly forget that, because elections have turned into popularity contests instead. The short window in which candidates are allowed to campaign forces them to snag as many votes as they can and push platforms that are more appealing than they are feasible.

UISG has passed some important legislation and provid-

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ed us with amazing initiatives, such as being able to bring your reusable cup to campus vendors or making the mental-health services more accessible. These may sound like little things, but it’s the small nitty-gritty, tedious things that affect student lives the most. What UISG does is so important, and the elections fail to capture that. But if you ask most students, they don’t even know what UISG is up to unless they gravitate near that group of people.

would love to meet with your organization, group, or club and talk to you about making the campus better for you because it’s only necessary to care during elections.

Of course, the students who are running actually care about making a difference on campus. Why else would they put in hours of hard work and open themselves up to criticism? There are obviously a lot of rules and red tape with the way elections work and with UISG itself.

‘[Candidates are forced] to snag as many votes as they can get and push platforms that is more appealing than they are feasible.’

Unless they know someone on UISG, the group is really inaccessible to average students. Candidates know this — it’s obvious — but what’s being done to rectify this and make UISG more transparent?

Platforms should include this rather than touting proposals that sound pretty on paper for the votes but will never actually happen. It’s easy to say “Join UISG then” or “Run for a position”; in reality, the system is built in a way that it’s either difficult or pointless to join for students who actually want to make a difference.

The whole election process has become a little elitist, and parties put their minorities on display as if that will somehow solve the diversity and inclusion issues that are rampant on this campus. Suddenly, they

UISG has been able to make small, but significant, changes to make our university better. I believe the impact it has and the change it implements could be greater if students vote for candidates who will actually deliver from the get-go. This means candidates’ platforms need to actually include issues that can get done and will make day-today life better on campus.

It’s not glamorous to talk about making buildings more accessible and transparency in UISG or easy to include the many backgrounds we have on campus, but it’s necessary. The elections shouldn’t be about these larger-than-life promises, who knows who, or how great being on UISG looks on your résumé. It should be about the students and ensuring what’s best for them gets done.

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A voice in history of the Shawnee UI Associate Professor Stephen Warren has conducted research on the Shawnee tribe since his time as an undergraduate.

Warren recently gave an extensive compilation of archival materials to the Shawnee people in hopes that it will allow them to continue to tell their history.

BY ANNIE FITZPATRICK

anne-fitzpatrick@uiowa.edu When studying historical records, it is important to remember the context in which they were written — and who wrote them — may misrepresent groups and events. In the case of Native Americans, University of Iowa Associate Professor Stephen Warren recognized the misrepresentation in history of the Shawnees and wanted to change it.

“I think that one of the tragedies of being a colonized person is that the colonizer removes your history and takes it from you,” Warren said.

He has focused his studies on the Shawnees since he was an undergraduate.

He decided to use ethnography to begin creating a more accurate account of their history, he said.

Recently, he gave an extensive amount of archival materials he compiled to the Shawnee people. His goal, he said, is to give the Shawnees their own voice in history, and he hopes the gift

to travel all over the world, you know to piece together the story of their people,” he said.

The Shawnees were originally from Ohio, but the U.S. forcibly removed from the state between 1826 and 1832 as result of the Indian Removal Act, Warren said.

Today, there are three federally recognized tribes in the Shawnee Nation that are in Oklahoma.

Shawnee Economic Development Director Greg Pitcher became involved with the Shawnees after working with the Cherokee tribe and the congressional delegation to gain federal recognition that Shawnees are different from Cherokees.

Pitcher said that, at 72 years old, he has learned a lot about the Shawnees from Warren’s scholarship.

The scholarship is appreciated by all three federally recognized Shawnee tribes, because rather than writing their history from a distance, he spent “hours and hours, year after year” gaining the trust of elders from all three, Pitcher said.

Tate Hildyard/The Daily Iowan UI Associate Professor Stephen Warren poses for a portrait in Schaeffer Hall on Thursday. Warren teaches history and American studies with a focus on the Shawnee Tribe.

‘A big issue for me is literally repatriating Native American materials to their rightful owners ... so that you know they don’t have to travel all over the world, you know to piece together the story of their people.”

— Stephen Warren, UI associate professor will help them understand a more accurate version of their history.

“A big issue for me is literally repatriating Native American materials to their rightful owners … so that you know they don’t have

“He gained the confidence of the elders of all three tribes in order to write what — most Shawnees would say — is the most complete telling of the tribes and who they are,” Pitcher said.

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Ben Barnes, the second chief of the Shawnee tribe, is one particular highly ranking member Warren earned the respect from during his research, Pitcher said.

Barnes said Warren was different from other researchers because he didn’t treat the Shawnees as sources of data but as important perspectives in his scholarly work.

“Steve is an advocate for community engagement and … has always shown the sincere appreciation for the importance of the community and tribal nations involved when he works with them,” Barnes said.

Though he gained the trust of elders eventually, Warren said, when he began visiting the Shawnees in 2001, the tribe was “rightfully suspicious.”

“When you first visit a community that’s been so poorly treated by Americans … it’s not surprising that native people and members of other marginalized groups are sometimes reticent to share their stories,” he said.

He gained the confidence of the tribe by attending ceremonial events and being transparent in his research.

As of now, Warren said,

he wants to take a step back from his study of the Shawnee tribe and act as a “cheerleader” on the sideline. With the gift of archival materials, he said, Shawnees are able to tell their history, which is something they want to do.

“I think it’s time for the Shawnees to tell their own stories … they just needed archival material to do it,” he said.

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HARPER CONTINUED FROM 8 locker, which she has filled with drawings of the team.

While she won’t make the trip to Greensboro, North Carolina, for the Hawkeyes’ Sweet 16 matchup against NC State, she will most definitely be cheering Iowa on. A video of pregame encouragment could also be in the offing for the Hawkeyes.

“She’s always on our minds,” Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said. “[Harper] sends us clips of her before games of her getting ready to watch the game and how she’s cheering us on.”

As Harper has cheered on the Iowa women, they have likewise encouraged Harper.

“The ladies have been wonderful for Harper,” Stribe said in an email. “She gets to hang out with the coolest group of young ladies that represent the University of Iowa so well. It was been a wonderful experience for Harper.”

Iowa continued to visit Harper in the hospital all the way up until her last bout of radiation therapy on April 16, 2018.

BASEBALL CONTINUED FROM 8 The key, however, is getting out of a hitting slump.

The Hawkeyes have struggled in the past four games to string together positive at-bats and drive in runs.

In the three games against the Hoosiers, they scored only 4 runs on 21 hits.

In Iowa’s win over Bradley, it scored 4 runs (three of which came after a Brave error) and finished with

SOFTBALL CONTINUED FROM 8 slam to the Leathernecks early.

“I’m going to look back at what I did correctly at Purdue and what I did wrong here, and really make sure I do it right this weekend [against] Northwestern,” she said.

Team ERA leader Doocy was called on to relieve Riding. Iowa’s ace saw a lot of action last weekend, start-

THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 Harper was pronounced cancer-free less than a month later.

It’s not lost on the Hawkeyes how prodigious Harper’s feat of beating cancer was, and it served as motivation.

“Harper’s one of our ‘whys,’ ” Gustafson said. “Why we play, why we fight every single day is we just want to help her out.

She’s been such a strong fighter. We want to support her. It’s been amazing to have her on this journey.”

That is especially true for Davis, who had to wrestle though back-to-back ACL injuries in order to play her senior season. She has averaged 10.4 points per game with 4.5 assists.

“Being in a similar situation with battling injuries constantly, for me, I feel like if Harper doesn’t have any type of excuse to cancer, I should never have an excuse for two ACL injuries,” she said. “We want to play for Harper, and we want to play for all the other kids in Iowa and around the nation who won’t get to play Division-1 college basketball.”

Davis is not alone in drawing inspiration from Harper.

Senior Hannah Stewart has made sure she is constantly

reminded of Harper.

“On my playbook binder I have Harper’s picture on it,” Stewart said. “I think she’s just such an inspiration.

Just to know what she’s been through as a little kid fighting through [cancer] just makes playing a basketball game kind of silly. It gives me and the rest of our team just a little extra motivation to know if she can [beat cancer], we can go play our hearts out on the basketball floor.”

Even with Harper’s captivating story of beating cancer, her magnetic alacrity seems to garner the most admiration from the Hawkeyes.

“Having that positive mentality, that positive attitude and always wearing a smile on my face like Harper does is something I try to do,” Davis said. “It’s something that I hope I’m good at.”

Stewart agrees. “[She taught me] to have joy,” she said. “Just to enjoy every moment and that we really have nothing to complain about, whether it’s an early workout or a hard life or whatever. [Harper has] really taught us what it means to be together and have fun and do what you love.”

Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa forward Megan Gustafson embraces Harper Stribe after the Iowa/Missouri NCAA Tournament game in Carver-Hawkeye on Sunday.

just 7 hits.

“We’ve been struggling for extra-base hits,” Heller said after the victory over Bradley. “We get our share of singles, and we take our walks when guys will give them to us, but we just haven’t Whelan been driving the baseball much.”

During the slump, Chris Whelan, Iowa’s senior des-

ignated hitter, has struggled as well. He is hitting just .200 and in the last four games combined, he’s gone 1-for-11.

“He wasn’t feeling the best a couple weeks ago — aches and pains, some body stuff from just falling, playing,” Heller said. “He seemed to kind of go into the funk when that happened, and he just really hasn’t come out of it.”

Heller did add, though, that Whelan “looked a lot more like himself” in batting practice prior to the

game against Bradley.

Whelan’s ability to bounce back will be a key for Iowa, and so will Connor McCaffery’s full-time commitment to baseball.

McCaffery, now done with the basketball season, said after Bradley that it’s “100 percent” baseball for the rest of the season, and that’s a major plus for the Hawkeyes.

Heller said that while he doesn’t expect McCaffery to jump in and be the team’s savior, he does give the Hawkeyes an added

spark offensively.

“He brings us a nice boost and a threat in the middle of the lineup,” Heller said. “We only had two extra-base hits the entire weekend at Indiana, so hopefully, Connor can come in, and drive some gaps for us, and help pick up the offense a little bit.”

McCaffery, ranked by D1Baseball as the seventh-best Big Ten prospect for the upcoming MLB Draft, has played in just five games for the Hawkeyes, but he’s been effective.

McCaffery is hitting .364 and has a .545 slugging percentage — the best mark on the roster.

“I’m just another left-handed bat in the lineup,” he said. “I can hit for power, and I feel like any time you can add a bat to your lineup, that’s going to be good in the box, it’s good for the team. That’s just what I’m trying to do, come in and instill confidence in my teammates and my coaches so they know they can depend on me when I step in the box.”

ing numerous games, so the game against Western Illinois was meant to be a rest for the coming weekend slate. But she’s used to being heavily relied upon, and the junior has pitched well more than half of Iowa’s innings.

Iowa’s big hitters were also quiet on Wednesday night, so they need to start getting contact in the first full home series. Neither DoniRae Mayhew or Mallory Kilian had a hit in the loss on Wednesday. Head coach Renee Gillispie said

part of that may be adjustments to the team’s first game at Pearl Field.

“We tried to put them in every possible situation they would hit [early in the season],” Gillispie said. “Different fields, turf fields, playing at night, having wet conditions. We put them in every position we could to get them used to that before we started playing, and I think that helped them get accustomed to the travel. Now, we have to get accustomed to the [home field].”

Iowa has proved it can play on the road because of the early season experience. It had a 15-11 record heading into the Western Illinois contest, one of the program’s strongest early season touts in recent memory.

“I think we’re road warriors; we’re doing better on the road right now,” Gillispie said. “And now we have to learn how to play at home.”

Iowa has a good opportunity to do this against a very solid Northwestern team. The Wildcats sport a

22-7 overall record and an undefeated Big Ten mark.

Their résumé includes a 5-0 win over No. 19 Indiana on March 16.

The team is full of big hitters. Morgan Newport and Jordyn Rudd have .349 averages, and they have combined for 5 home runs and 16 doubles. Iowa will have to tighten up its pitching to hold down the Wildcats.

Although the bats weren’t fiery on Wednesday, several players have proven they can make noise at the plate.

Mayhew leads the team

with a .338 average with 3 home runs and 16 RBIs. Kilian isn’t far behind with a .305 average, with 13 RBIs and 7 doubles.

Kilian experimented leading off for the Hawkeyes against the Leathernecks but couldn’t get it done at the top of the order. Adjustments and experimenting, Gillispie said, are a part of the game, and being flexible is important It’s a young team. But with a seasoned coaching staff, the team should make needed adjustments.

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Two field Hawks get out of gate quickly Jay Hunt and Konstadina Spanoudakis will try to translate early season recognition to long-term success.

BY ROBERT READ

robert-read@uiowa.edu The outdoor track and field season offers a change of scenery for athletes after a long indoor campaign. Different circumstances and events can lead some teams to adjust slowly going into the new season, but luckily for Iowa, it has avoided that bumpy road.

After opening the season with the Baldy Castillo Invitational, an athlete on each of the men’s and women’s team brought home Big Ten honors.

The Hawkeyes swept the Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week awards following that meet, with Jay Hunt and Konstadina Spanoudakis bringing home the honors. It was the first time for either athlete.

During the indoor season, Laulauga Tausaga, Mar’Yea Harris, and Jenny Kimbro each also received the weekly honor.

Spanoudakis threw for 53.41 meters in the discus to start the outdoor season, which bettered her third-place mark on Iowa’s all-time leaderboard by nearly a meter.

The mark leads the Big Ten, and in a deep group of throwers, she will try to do some damage.

“We have a really strong team,” Spanoudakis said.

“On the throwers’ side, we have Lagi [Tausaga], and we know what she can do, and we have Reno [Tuufuli], who’s an All-American. It’s a deep group. We definitely have some strong competitors on

Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan Tracksters get set during the Border Battle indoor track meet in the Recreation Building involing Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois on Jan. 7, 2017. the team this season, and we know the sky’s the limit.”

Her fellow Big Ten honoree also had quite the opening to the outdoor season. Hunt had a lifetime-best in the high jump, clearing 2.11 meters to reach ninth place on Iowa’s all-time list.

He also leads the Big Ten in his event at this point. His

record mark is good for 13th in the NCAA. The hot start to the season is a confidence-builder for Hunt, and he has bigger goals.

“I’m hoping to clear 7 feet this year,” Hunt said. “I want be ready for Big Ten Championships and score some points for the team. The goal is always to win the Big Ten

Championships, and I think we’re in a fantastic place to do that this year. I just want to do my part.”

He is accurate in talking about the talent on both Iowa track squads. In the preseason coaches’ poll, the Iowa men were ranked No. 22 and the women No. 23.

The next opportunity for

the Hawkeye field athletes to repeat their record performances will come this weekend, when the squads will split competition between two meets.

Iowa will compete in both the Florida Relays (Thursday-Saturday) in Gainesville and the Stanford Invitational (Friday-Saturday) in California.

Spanoudakis will just continue to listen to the advice of her coach.

“It’s just about trusting the process,” she said. “I get inside my head a lot and question things, but Coach [Eric] Werskey tells me to relax and just trust the process, trust his knowledge, and the results will come.”

Sports FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019

HAWKEYE UPDATES Hawkeye rowing set for trip to California The Iowa rowing team ended last season with an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Championships — its highest finish in modern history.

Although Iowa only returns one of its I Varsity 4 in Kayla Jensen, 66 percent of last year’s I Varsity 8 boat will be in attendance this weekend as the Hawkeyes travel to the Pac 12 Invitational in Redwood Shores, California.

Returning All-Americans Contessa Harold and Hunter Koenigsfeld are among them. Harold believes the experience will help drive Iowa to push for more.

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Brenner ends career at NCAAs Iowa senior diver Will Brenner concluded his Hawkeye career at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, on Thursday.

Brenner, a native of Ypsilanti, Michigan, finished by placing 44th on the 1-meter springboard (227.05).

The score wasn’t his best, but he finished his career at Iowa as the school-record holder with a mark of 368.00.

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Iowa basketball’s Dailey set to transfer Iowa men’s basketball guard Maishe Dailey has entered his name in the NCAA transfer portal.

BY PETE RUDEN

peter-ruden@uiowa.edu Iowa basketball guard Maishe Dailey has put his name in the NCAA transfer portal with the intention to depart the Hawkeye program, the junior announced Thursday.

“I would like to thank Coach McDailey Caffery and the coaching staff for the opportunity to be a part

of the Iowa program,” Dailey said in a release. “I want to wish my teammates the best of luck in the future.”

He averaged 3.5 points per game in his Iowa career along with 1.7 rebounds and 1.1 assists. In 2018-19, he declined slightly, putting up 2.5 points a game with 1.5 boards and 0.9 assists.

Dailey’s best game of the season came in Iowa’s 77-63 season-opening win over Missouri-Kansas City on Nov. 8, in which he scored 11 points on 3-of-6 shooting and dished out 2 assists. His season-high in rebounds came against

Savannah State on Dec. 22, when he pulled down 5, and he also racked up 3 assists on two separate occasions — once against Northern Iowa and once against Green Bay. The Beachfield, Ohio, native scored his career-high in 2018 with a 16-point outing against Colorado.

“Maishe has expressed his desire to play his final season elsewhere,” Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery said in a release. “Maishe has been a great teammate and a valuable member of our program throughout his career. We

thank him for his contributions to our program, and we wish him the best.”

The Hawkeyes are coming off an 83-77 overtime loss to Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament. Dailey’s departure leaves a senior class of Jordan Bohannon, Tyler Cook, Isaiah Moss, Ryan Kriener, and Cordell Pemsl still on the roster.

With the return of Pemsl and Jack Nunge and the additions of Patrick McCaffery and Joe Toussaint, Dailey’s path to playing time likely would have become a little foggier.

Rallying around Harper The Iowa women’s basketball team is playing for something greater than itself in this weekend’s Sweet 16 matchup against NC State.

Weekend Sports Schedule Track and Field (Gainesville and Stanford) • Today-Saturday, Florida Relays — all day • Today-Saturday, Stanford Invitational — all day Men’s Swimming and Diving (Austin) • Today-Saturday, NCAA Championships — all day Softball (Pearl Field) • Today vs. Northwestern — 2 p.m.

• Saturday vs. Northwestern — 1 p.m.

• March 31 vs. Northwestern — noon Baseball (Banks Field) • Today vs. Illinois — 4:05 p.m.

• Saturday vs. Illinois — 2:05 p.m.

• March 31 vs. Illinois — 1:05 p.m.

Women’s Tennis (HTRC) • Today vs. Purdue — 5 p.m.

• March 31 vs. Indiana — 11 a.m.

Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Harper Stribe cuts down a piece of net with the support of Iowa guard Kathleen Doyle after the Iowa/Missouri NCAA Tournament basketball game in Carver-Hawkeye on Sunday.

Rowing (Redwood Shores, California) • Saturday, Pac 12 Invitational — all day

BY JORDAN ZUNIGA

Women’s Basketball (Greensboro) • Saturday vs. NC State — 10:30 a.m.

There is a member of the Iowa women’s basketball team you may not be familiar with.

She’s not on the official roster, and she may be just 7 years old, but she’s as much a part of the Hawkeye squad team as Megan Gustafson. She even cut herself a piece of the net after Iowa’s second-round win over Missouri in the NCAA Tour-

Men’s Tennis (Evanston and Champaign) • Saturday vs. Northwestern — noon • March 31 vs. Illinois — noon Soccer (Milwaukee) • Saturday vs. Marquette — 4:30 p.m.

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nament on March 24.

Her name is Harper Stribe, a survivor of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma cancer.

Gustafson, Lexi Sevillian, and Tania Davis went to the Ronald McDonald House two summers ago during Harper’s first six weeks of radiation therapy. There was an immediate bond.

“Those were some long, tough days for Harper and our family,” said Nolan Stribe, Harper’s father, in an email. “So when they came over to

Searching for bats After a rocky stretch of hitting, Iowa needs a bounce-back effort against Illinois if it wants its first victory in conference play.

“Harper’s one of

our ‘whys.’ Why we play, why we fight every single day is we just want to help her out.”

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under head coach Rick Heller, and the program’s first since 2008.

However, Iowa has a chance to get its first conference victory of the season when it hosts Illinois at 4 p.m. today in the first of a threegame home series.

After a tough home-opening loss to Western Illinois on Wednesday, Iowa softball will try to regain its composure at home with a Big Ten series against Northwestern this weekend.

The team was trounced in a blowout loss to the Leathernecks, 10-1. The Hawkeyes struggled to get anything going, cycling through three pitchers with minimal production at the plate.

Erin Riding, Allison Doocy, Doocy and Sarah Lehman took the circle. Riding had the start for the Hawkeyes after pitching four scoreless innings at Purdue last weekend, but she gave up a grand

SEE BASEBALL, 6

SEE SOFTBALL, 6

Megan Conroy/The Daily Iowan Hawkeye coach Rick Heller takes the field during the game against Bradley on Tuesday at Banks Field.

BY ADAM HENSLEY

as a No. 2 seed

Softball needs some adjustments

BY PETE MILLS

STAT OF THE DAY

7-2

SEE HARPER, 6

The bats were whispering for Iowa softball on Wednesday night, and the team will try to right the ship with Northwestern coming to town.

—Iowa’s Megan Gustafson on the team’s relationship with Harper Stribe

Iowa women’s basketball is 7-2 alltime as a No. 2 seed.

play with her, chat, and shoot some baskets, it definitely lifted her spirits and kept her mind off her treatment routine.”

Harper has now become one of Iowa women’s basketball’s biggest fans and has even become an adopted member of the team.

Earlier this season, assistant coach Raina Harmon arranged a way for Harper to have her own

adam-hensley@uiowa.edu Iowa baseball hasn’t won a game in Big Ten play so far this season.

Granted, the Hawkeyes have only played three — a weekend series against Indiana — but it’s the first 0-3 sweep to start a season