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Warren proposes canceling student-loan debt

Yotopia owner files candidacy for 2nd District race

Iowa City business owner and Democratic activist Veronica Tessler is the first to file a candidacy for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District in 2020, federal elections online records show.

Tessler filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on April 4. Current 2nd District Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, announced a week later he would not seek re-election after 13 terms in office.

In a policy proposal released Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren outlined her plan to implement universal free college and up to $50,000 of student-loan debt cancellation.

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UI still awaiting Modern Piping’s as-built documents

Officials with Iowa City architecture firm Heery confirmed to UI officials via email Monday that it still needs final as-built construction records for its review of Cedar Rapids construction company Modern Piping’s work on the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

The documents needed include corrected as-builts, a building information model, and LEED submittals, Heery Managing Director Scott Hansche wrote in an email exchange to UI officials. Heery’s review of these documents would “fulfill the contractual obligations from Modern Piping,” he said. “… We are placing the amount ordered by the court for Modern Piping’s work on the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital into an escrow account with US Bank with instructions to pay Modern Piping as soon we have the asbuilts,” UI Assistant Vice President for External Affairs Jeneane Beck said in an email.

The UI still owes Modern Piping $17.9 million of a $21.5 million court-ordered arbitration award.

UI President Bruce Harreld, with support from the state Board of Regents, on April 18 said the UI would not pay the company the remainder of the award until the university receives the as-builts that Modern Piping contractually agreed to provide. Modern Piping officials contend they have already provided those documents to the UI.

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Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a campaign rally in the IMU on Feb. 10.

BY JULIA SHANAHAN

julia-shanahan@uiowa.edu Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a presidential-nomination hopeful, proposes universal free college and up to $50,000 in student-debt cancellation for 42 million people.

Under her proposal, those with a household income of $100,000 or less would have a maximum of $50,000 worth of debt canceled. For every additional $3 of a household’s income, the maximum debt canceled would be reduced by $1, so an annual income of $130,000 would receive $40,000 in canceled debt. Households with incomes above $250,000 would not be eligible.

On a conference call with reporters, Warren called her proposal an answer to rising student debt, which she said is “weighing on the economy.”

“There’s been no efforts to help families with the rising cost of college, and it’s forced whole generations of students to take on huge amounts of debt,” Warren said.

The number of those with student-loan debt in Iowa increased 77 percent from 2008 to 2018.

In Iowa, 63 percent of those graduating in 2017 had some amount of student-loan debt, with the average being $29,859, according to the Institute for College Access and Success.

Warren’s plan, which does not have a legisla-

Sky is no limit for this UI professor UI Associate Professor Minetta Gardinier will race in an allwomen airplane contest this summer.

Anthony Nelson preparing for next-level football Iowa defensive end Anthony Nelson’s production has increased each season he put on a Hawkeye uniform. Now, after consistently seeing his name near the top of the Big Ten’s sack leaders, he’s looking for more.

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UI addresses alcohol, substance harm reduction A new study by the American Addictions Centers suggests that college students who use alcohol and other substances as a coping method for stress are at risk for addiction in the years to come. katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu

molecular biology.

Gardinier started flying at 49. She took her first introductory flight after visiting the local airport and was taken ever since.

She shares her plane with a fellow professor at UI in the Biology Department. On the side of the pilot’s door, the name of Ann Darr, a poet and UI alum, is written and

For many college students, partying is a large part of the college experience. However, new research suggests that excessive drinking and illegal drug use are not exclusive to a night out. In fact, both are common coping methods for current and former college students.

According to a new study by the American Addiction Centers, 98 percent of the 980 college students and graduates whom they polled indicated stress as a major effect on their mental health. Further research proved that alcohol and substance abuse were common cures.

“Students today are faced with pressures that other generations didn’t have to face,” American Addiction Chief Medical Officer Lawrence Weinstein said.

Weinstein “Student debt has a collective total of nearly $1.5 trillion, with an average debt of approximately $37,000, and exams bring about a stress of their own.”

American Addiction conducted the research to determine how students are dealing with varying levels of stress, properly or improperly, he said. There was a 30 percent increase in college students seeking appointments with counseling centers between 2010 and 2015, he noted.

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Iowa baseball’s series win over then-Big Ten-leading Nebraska could change the trajectory of the Hawkeyes’ season. Iowa started the season off slowly, but after picking up the two wins over the Huskers, the squad wants to turn things around.

SPORTS, 8 Ryan Adams/The Daily Iowan UI Associate Professor Minetta Gardinier stands next to her Cessna Cardinal at the Iowa City Municipal Airport on April 10. Gardinier races the Cessna in the United States and Canada.

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tive companion at this time, would provide complete debt cancellation for more than 75 percent of students with student-loan debt, according to her policy proposal. Her plan also proposes $50 billion earmarked for historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions, cuts federal funds for for-profit colleges, and expands Pell Grants.

The plan would be paid for with a proposed wealth tax, which would add an additional 1 percent on wealth above $1 billion and an added 2 percent on wealth above $1 billion.

The debt-cancellation plan would happen au-

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• Cancels $50,000 in student-loan debt for households incomes with less than $100,000 • Reduces the debt canceled as household income increases • No debt cancellation to households incomes above $250,000 • Free tuition and fees at all public two-year and four-year colleges and universities • Earmarks $50 billion for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions • Cuts federal money to for-profit colleges • Requires an annual equity audit identifying shortfalls in enrollment and completion rates for low-income students and students of color • Cost is estimated to be $1.25 trillion over 10 years

BY ANDY MITCHELL

andrew-mitchell@uiowa.edu At the Iowa City Municipal Airport, Minnetta Gardinier houses her unique hobby: a white and sky blue Cessna Cardinal airplane.

“I tell people it was my midlife crisis craziness,” said Gardinier, a University of Iowa associate professor of pharmacology and

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Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan (From left) UI students Becca Morris, Cheryl Blackmer, and Harper Gagliano of the UIBio Club sell plants on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway to celebrate Earth Day on Monday. UIBio Club is the only biology club on campus.

ALCOHOL CONTINUED FROM FRONT “It’s important for professors, administrators, other students, and parents to understand the degree of stress that some students may experience so they can be cognizant of worrying behavior or even signs of addiction,” Weinstein said.

Additional causes of stress in college include assignments, internships, competition, accomplishments after graduation, among other items, he said. People turn to alcohol and drugs to minimize the effects of particular

SKY CONTINUED FROM FRONT honors her service as one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. Gardinier is about to compete in the 43rd Air Race Classic in June, an all-women-pilots airplane race. 2019 also marks the 90th anniversary of women’s air racing, and it’s the first year the classic will go international with its routes, including a stop in Canada.

Gardinier said one of the best parts of flying is independence, being able to fly wherever she wants, whenever she wants. It has ruined the commercial flight experience for her.

“I always kid with people saying I can take the biggest shampoo I want,” she said.

Theresa White, who has known Gardinier since 2008 in their first race, will be her flying partner

emotions and challenging events, he said.

For example, he said, alcohol slows down the central nervous system and causes a feeling of relaxation. Using substances for this reason can damage relationships and prevent young students from developing alternative coping mechanisms, he said.

“The parents of these students can recognize and acknowledge that the stress their college student is enduring is very real and may be taking a toll on them,” Weinstein said. “While these substances may seem to help at the moment, they do a lot more harm than good.” for the second time this year.

“It changed my life, gave me a new focus and direction, opened up a whole new world of the aviation community,” White said. “It gave me self confidence, and it’s just a lot of fun.”

Gardinier said approximately 7 percent of pilots in the country are women; for commercial airline pilots, that number is lower, at around 4 percent.

“Professionally, I’m a neuroscientist, and in the science fields, you talk about women being underrepresented,” Gardinier said. “When I started taking lessons, I was really shocked with how underrepresented women are in aviation.”

From a young age, Gardinier said her mother helped prepare meals for commercial flights at the smaller Syracuse, New York, airport, and one of the perks of the job was tickets to fly. They took flights to such places as Long

Learning how to cope with stress isn’t often taught in school, Weinstein said, and potential solutions could include maintaining a healthy diet, consistent exercise, a proper amount of sleep, and a solid support system.

Becca Don, a University of Iowa Student Wellness senior behavioral health consultant, said she consistently sees substance abuse in patients coming to her office. It often seems like a quick fix to students, she said, but only masks the stress temporarily, which typically returns more extremely than before.

“In serious cases, substances as a coping mechanism can

rewire the pathways in the brain and get to a point that someone may need substances just to feel normal and are no longer using them to feel better,” Don said.

Dependence is a real risk, she said, and adults now live with a substance-use disorder that often began when they were college aged. The earlier students can identify and address harmful substance use, she said, the more successfully it can be treated or prevented.

Student Wellness partners with the University Counseling Service, Don said, and connects with student groups for those struggling with substance use.

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Tanya Villhauer, the director of student wellbeing and harm-reduction initiatives in the Division of Student Life, said students should consider the campus’ recovery programs.

Villhauer pointed out that the 2018 National College Health Assessment showed UI students in the previous 12 months were negatively affected by drinking alcohol

Ryan Adams/The Daily Iowan The Cessna Cardinal owned by UI Associate Professor Minetta Gardinier sits in its hangar at the Iowa City Municipal Airport on April 10.

Island to see family, and she said she never saw a single woman pilot.

Now, she said, she sees and meets women pilots from all walks of life in the Air Race

Classic, from some of the first women airline pilots to the new next generation of airline pilots who are now on the Air Race Classic college teams.

Kayleigh Bordner, who currently works for Ameriflight as the captain of a BE99 cargo plane, first encountered the classic as a part of Indiana State University’s

WARREN CONTINUED FROM FRONT tomatically for most people through data already available to the federal government, and private student-loan debt would also be available for debt cancellation. The canceled debt would not be taxed as income, according to Warren’s policy proposal.

On the conference call and in a Medium post documenting her proposal, Warren explained the student-debt policy dovetails with her proposal eliminating tuition for all twoyear and four-year public schools. She wrote in the post on Medium that it structurally changes how students pay for college and “mak[es]” sure nothing like this ever happens again.”

Warren does not have a legislative companion at this time, Warren’s Iowa press secretary, Jason Noble, said in an email to The Daily Iowan.

On the conference call, Bharat Ramamurti, a policy aide on the Warren campaign, said the proposal had broad swaths of support, and the campaign was “optimistic” about the proposal’s chances of passing once it is introduced in Congress.

Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a campaign rally in the IMU on Feb 10.

“This is something we will push aggressively for the next year or two years, and our hope will be that … when she’s president in 2020, it will be something that will be at the top of the agenda in Congress,” said.

The policy release came ahead of a series of back-

to-back televised CNN town halls Monday night in which five candidates addressed how they want to appeal to young voters.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, another Democratic presidential-nomination candidate, also proposed a universal free-college policy, known

as the “College for All Act.” His plan would grant $47 million a year to states to eliminate tuition costs for undergraduate tuition and fees.

The College for All Act would also lower student-loan interest rates, rather than eliminate stu-

dent debt like Warren’s plan. Sanders’ plan would cut interest rates from 4.32 percent to 2.32 percent and would ensure interest rates would never exceed 8.25 percent.

Warren’s campaign has touted “big, structural change” to government and

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because they regretted their actions, forgot their actions, had unprotected sex, got in trouble with the police, or were physically injured.

“The UI Alcohol Harm Reduction Plan focuses on reducing high-risk drinking and related harms to UI students using comprehensive and evidence-based practices,” Villhauer said. college team.

“I think it’s a fantastic organization,” she said. “It really opens doors for women in aviation, especially on the collegiate side.”

On the other end of the age scale, Gardinier said, the first race she flew in in 2008 featured Ruby Sheldon, who was around 90 at the time and was one of the first instrument-rated helicopter pilots in the country, male or female.

Such Big Ten schools as Ohio State and Purdue have college women’s air-racing teams, and Gardinier said that before she retires, she would like to see the UI have one. She’ll retire in July after 21 years.

“Right now, it’s probably the best time to get into the field of aviation,” Gardinier said. “Because there’s a really serious pilot shortage, and there are a lot of different careers that I never knew about when I was growing up.” economic policy, making detailed policy plans a key part of her run for the White House, including a plan to de-monopolize the technology industry by taxing the wealthiest 1 percent.

Warren connected the policy proposal to her background getting a degree from a commuter college after she got married.

“Higher education opened a million doors for me, she wrote in the Medium report.

“It’s how the daughter of a janitor in a small town in Oklahoma got to become a teacher, a law-school professor, a U.S. senator, and eventually, a candidate for president of the United States,” During Warren’s Iowa City visit in February, she addressed the issues of rising tuition and student debt, pointing out that in 2018, students collectively borrowed $1.5 trillion —the same amount the Trump administration gave out in tax cuts.

Warren also visited Cedar Rapids and Davenport in February, where she called for a higher minimum wage and breaking up wealthy corporations. Warren will visit Cedar Rapids again on Thursday and Tipton on Friday.

Sarah Watson contributed to this report.

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Diaper need affects rural residents Rural low-income Americans with transportation barriers find it difficult to buy enough diapers to get them through the month.

BY KATE PIXLEY

katherine-pixley@uiowa.edu CommUnity Crisis Services, formerly known as the Johnson County Crisis Center, is holding a diaper drive throughout the month of April.

Liz Orton, the communications and development manager for CommUnity, the organization receives approximately 900 diaper requests per month from families who use the Food Bank or Mobile Food Pantry.

However, the center is only able to supply 12 diapers per week for each child when it has diapers in stock —that, she said, is a challenge.

“While we can buy food in bulk at deeply discounted prices, we’re unable to do so with diapers,” Orton said in an email to The Daily Iowan.

“We rely on donations from the community to keep diapers on our shelves.”

According to CommUnity, it would cost $580 per week to provide adequate diapers to the clients who request them.

Infants can require up to 12 diapers per day, according to the National Diaper Bank Network, a nonprofit that aims to connect families in need with the supplies they require. Orton said that Food Bank families often share clean diapers with their friends and neighbors.

Families in lower-income areas and “food deserts” have limited options when it comes to purchasing diapers, she said, often forcing them to rely on expensive name-brand diapers sold in small quantities at gas stations. These high-cost options further perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

“Lacking access to clean diapers not only affects the child’s physical health, it can also affect the parents’ job status,” Orton said.

“Child-care centers require that you have at least one day’s worth of diapers supplied for your child, or they could refuse service, resulting in the parent missing work to care for the child.”

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Currently, government safety-net programs do not recognize diapers as a basic need and are classified under SNAP (formerly food stamps) alongside cigarettes and alcohol as disallowed purchases.

Senate File 205, a bipartisan bill introduced by state

‘One of the things that we’ve seen is [diapers are] an essential need for every child, but there’s no subsidy or government-support programs that allow for the purchase of diapers.’

— Erin Langdon, chief development officer at Eastern Iowa Health Center

Sens. Zach Wahls, Randy Feenstra, and Roby Smith aims to provide a sales-tax exemption to food banks purchasing personal hygiene items, such as tampons and diapers.

On the national level, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., introduced a bill, the End Diaper Need Act of 2019, in the House in March that would allocate funds to programs that assist

low-income families in obtaining diapers.

Troy Moore, the chief of external affairs for the National Diaper Bank Network, said that while the bill has garnered support among Democrats, with 32 endorsements, it needs bipartisan support.

“We certainly believe that diaper need is a nonpartisan issue,” Moore said. “We describe our network as a big tent.”

Moore said that those wishing to assist diaper and food banks can donate money, diapers, and their time.

“In Iowa, where you have a large rural population, that distance between towns is often quite great, and poverty is often hidden in rural areas,”Moore said. “Gas for a car can be a real obstacle to get to a big-box store to buy diapers.”

Erin Langdon, the chief development officer at Eastern Iowa Health Center, said diapers at bulk stores can cost up to $80 a month — the cost of diapers at small convenience stores is much higher.

“One of the things that we’ve seen is [diapers are] an essential need for every child, but there’s no subsidy or government-support programs that allow for the purchase of diapers,” she said. “Most licensed day cares require a day’s worth of disposable diapers, so diaper need ties into the cycle of poverty.”

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Why the U.S. Senate should be abolished

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Gabbard’s run can help fix politics

The Hawaii congresswoman brings hope to the table amid a tense political climate.

If we want a government that governs effectively and fairly, we have to make a Congress that’s best for all Americans.

MARINA JAIMES

marina-jaimes@uiowa.edu

Evan Golub/Zuma Press/TNS The East Front of the Capitol is seen in Washington on Dec. 25, 2018.

ELIJAH HELTON

elijah-helton@uiowa.edu I’m not the first to point out that there’s too much political news — Trump tweeted this, a 2020 Democrat proposed that, a state Legislature is reviewing a ridiculous bill. For me, almost none of the politics of the moment matters that much in light of the insurmountable growth of the climate crisis. It feels like a lot of noise and very little action, which is frustrating to those of us who’d like to see politics actually do something.

It’s even worse if you’re positioned between the two parties on the political spectrum, as they often swing as big as they can once they finally have full legislative power — just look at the recent Republican tax cut.

Waiting around for years until the next election is not the best way to run a government, and we’re still most likely to have a split Congress after 2020. It’s unlikely Republicans will win back the House, and so few Republican-controlled Senate seats have any chance of swinging to the Democrats this cycle.

This brings me to another fundamental problem with the current bicameral system: It favors lesser populated states far too much. When the Constitution was written, the Senate was added to the legislative branch to appease

‘If you took the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska and both North and South Dakota, you’d only have a quarter of California’s population.’

One way to do this is to step back from whatever today’s chaos is and focus on bigger-picture problems. Instead of fiddling around the edges, let’s aim high. Let’s abolish the Senate.

First of all, I know getting rid of the upper house of Congress would require quite a constitutional rewrite. Also, I’m not arguing how this proposal would be politically feasible; I’m just imagining ways that grease the wheels of our government so we can actually address real issues. It might not be inherently obvious how bulldozing the north wing of the Capitol Building will actually fix anything, so let me explain.

So much of the gridlock in Washington comes from the fact that for any bill to become a law, it must pass the Democrat-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate. With rising polarization and little incentive to compromise, it’s hard to see much significant reform accomplished.

(And even if the House and Senate manage to agree on something, the president can still veto it, but that’s a discussion for another time.)

No matter what your views on the environment or health care or taxes are, you’re going to have to wait until everything aligns for your preferred party to regain control of both chambers of Congress. It takes forever to get anything done.

smaller states concerned that assigning the number of a state’s seats by population would give an outsized influence to the larger states. That may have been a suitable compromise to get all the states on board with the new Constitution, but it doesn’t make much sense for a 21st-century America.

If the laws the federal government makes affect all of us, doesn’t it make sense that all of us have an equal say?

This is same problem at the root of the Electoral College — states with fewer people have disproportionate influence on national issues — except even more so. If you took the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, and both North and South Dakota, you’d only have a quarter of California’s population.

Those five states have 10 senators, and the Golden State only has two, where roughly 40 million Americans live.

I understand the concern from small states about a tyrannical national government, and that’s why state governments are important.

If Iowa wants to change its tax laws, that’s for the Iowa Legislature to decide. But for matters such as national security, health care, and climate change — issues the national government must address — we must have better ways of forming a more perfect union.

Iowa City recently welcomed Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, to campus with hopes to hear about her presidential run in the 2020 election. I joined a crowd of supporters to listen to the congresswoman who, so far, has restored some hope among Americans who are disappointed in the way hate is so casually thrown around in national politics.

Gabbard made waves earlier this year when she denounced California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s outright bigotry toward 7th Judicial Circuit nominee Amy Coney Barret. Feinstein ignorantly proclaimed that “the dogma lives loudly within you” during Barret’s confirmation hearing, suggesting that her Catholic faith should disqualify her confirmation. As a Catholic myself, Gabbard’s mission to protect religious freedom sat well with me — especially to see her standing up to Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Feinstein.

This was not her only time speaking out against members of her own party. As a 2020 presidential-nomination candidate, Gabbard emphasized the fact that “finding that the president of the United States

did not conspire with Russia to interfere with our elections is a good thing for our country.”

She maintains that the Democratic Party should not seek impeachment against President Trump.

Gabbard’s disdain of tribalism isn’t what should draw supporters, but it is a great example of her character and ability to choose what is right for all Americans — not just those who voted for her. Her independence is what prompted me to see her speak last week, and I was not disappointed with the outcome.

The man next to me at the Gabbard meet-and-greet, a retired classics professor, asked why I was most excited to see the candidate. I decided not to mention that I was a con-

servative in a sea of liberals and answered only with, “She seems genuine. I think our country needs more of that.”

I asked the same of him and his answer, “I’m from the ’60s.

We don’t like war,” was a sentiment many fans of the congresswoman shared.

She, unlike politicians of the left and right, acknowledges the damage done on foreign soil in the name of freedom. Her speech highlighted U.S. fiscal spending and ways to redirect money from foreign wars to domestic programs. Gabbard, who currently serves as a major in the U.S. Army National Guard, has been an outspoken advocate of isolationism and against funding regime changes in the Middle East.

Better yet, the name “Trump” only left Gabbard’s mouth once during the entirety of her speech. Instead of finding a thousand different ways to say “Orange Man bad,” Gabbard used her own experience and platform to earn votes in her bid for the presidency.

As a conservative, I disagree with Gabbard on many areas of domestic and foreign policy, but I am grateful for her presence in such a tense political climate. She is a reminder that members of the opposite political party are not an enemy and truly want what is right for all Americans. I don’t think I can say the same about every candidate currently in the 2020 race for the White House.

Wyatt Dlouhy/The Daily Iowan Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks to an audience during a meet-and-greet at Yotopia on April 16.

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Delaying sorority recruitment is a bad move Moving recruitment to October has the potential to negatively affect the future of greek life.

KASEY BALLER

kasey-baller@uiowa.edu As this school year comes to an end, and the 2019-20 school year remains a distant thought, fall recruitment for greek life eagerly awaits a large number of students at the University of Iowa. The upcoming school year, things will be different because the date of recruitment has been changed from the usual August to October. Because this is an unrecognized way of going about recruitment, many uncertainties remain regarding how this will affect recruitment as a whole.

Recruitment should not be changed to October — this may affect many aspects of fraternity/sorority life, such as recruitment participation and greek-housing numbers. This is more than just a matter of not wanting to adjust to a new recruitment date; the change will negatively affect the future of greek life.

‘In my experience with recruitment, women decided the day before it started that they would go through it.’

In past years, sororities have recruited roughly 1,000 women at the start. Throughout the recruitment process or shortly after joining greek life, a handful of women drop their sororities.

In order to prevent members from dropping during recruitment and after, individuals are

Sid Peterson/The Daily Iowan The Delta Zeta Sorority house is seen on South Dodge Street on Sept. 12, 2018.

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coming to the UI to help educate prospective members. Other college campuses have used the program before. Potential new members will be expected to go to receive information, either through a class or through meetings, before going through recruitment, which is why the recruitment date is pushed back until October.

The change is supposed to help keep greek numbers up and have people truly understand the full picture of greek life before joining. Even though this is a positive program in some areas, it could have the opposite of what is intended.

Greek-life numbers might be down as potential new members are expected to receive information before going through recruitment.

Starting your first year of college is already stressful enough with learning how to go about your regular classes. Adding another element that could potentially feel like a class might add weight to people’s first semester and prevent them from going through recruitment. People involved with recruitment will miss more than one football game because of overlapping dates.

Greek housing could also experience negative effects because of the date change. UI students normally sign housing leases in the early fall for the next academic year. Potential new members would not join sororities until mid- to late-October, meaning they could potentially miss out on a whole member class living in the house.

I spoke with Delta Gamma’s Tau chapter housing corporation regarding the issue. The chapter members do not feel that live-in numbers will be affected very much, because on the night of Bid Day they would have new members sign live-in contracts. The chapter also said the Panhellenic Council will need to make potential new members aware to not sign apartment leases before mid-October if they anticipate joining a sorority.

Even though this is a positive outlook, in my experience with recruitment, women decided the day before it started that they would go through it.

For some, it is a very last-minute decision. I also remember, on Bid Day, I was still a bit confused with what was all involved with joining a sorority.

You truly will not understand until you live it.

UI greek life has the potential to face negative outcomes for recruitment numbers and problems beyond that by changing the recruitment date. The 201920 school year will be the first trial run of this risky new change.

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Iowa City area preps for 2020 census In preparation for the 2020 census, the city has formed a committee to ensure everyone in the community gets properly counted.

Officials are taking a regional approach and working with surrounding communities in the effort.

BY CALEB MCCULLOUGH

caleb-mccullough@uiowa.edu With less than a year to go until the 2020 census, Iowa City and surrounding communities are hard at work preparing, hoping to ensure that every resident gets counted.

Undertaken every 10 years, the U.S. Census measures the population across the country, affecting congressional districts, legislative districts, and federal funding to city and local governments.

To prepare for the census, Iowa City has joined with North Liberty, Coralville, and Tiffin to form the Complete Count Committee, a regional effort to increase awareness about the upcoming census.

By partnering with surrounding communities, the city can better ensure that everyone gets properly counted, Iowa City Assistant City Manager Ashley Monroe said.

“Because there’s such a crossover between our regional communities, and people work in one place, and they live in another … it just makes sense for us to approach this on a regional basis,” Monroe said.

Tracey Mulcahey, the assistant city administrator for North Liberty, serves on the government subcommittee and works with officials in her town to get the word out about the census. She said the regional approach will help because of all the interplay among the area communities.

“A lot of folks in our community may work in Iowa City, live in Coralville, and go to church in North Liberty,” she said. “So putting out one common message from all entities with one common group sending that message out seems to make a lot more sense.”

The committee is broken up into four subcommittees, each focused on a different aspect of the census efforts: business, government, media relations, and community.

The business subcommittee will work with landlords and real-estate agents, Mon-

Roman Slabach/The Daily Iowan Iowa City is seen from the UIHC AirCare helicopter on March 20. roe said, to prepare largescale apartment buildings for the census. Tenants in apartment buildings have been historically harder to reach in past censuses, she said.

The largest of the four groups, the community-based subcommittee, will work with various organizations in the communities in an attempt to reach all segments of the population, Monroe said. The subcommittee will work with faith-based communities, nonprofits, and the University of Iowa, among others.

The subcommittee also has representatives who will work with immigrant and refugee populations, which, Monroe said, often do not get counted properly.

“There are people who are specifically working with those [communities] on a regular daily basis and know the best ways to get information

to those groups of people,” she said.

Local governments are invested in getting a proper census count because that affects federal-government funding, Johnson County communications assistant Kelli Andresen said.

“It’s the way that federal funds can be allocated,” she said. “It’s the way that services can be provided. It really truly

can affect day-to-day lives.”

University students are another group of people that often goes uncounted, Monroe said. Because UI students live in Iowa City most of the year, she said, they should respond to the census as citizens of Iowa City.

The committee will work with the UI in the future to try to get the word out to students, Andresen said.

“We do understand that the university population is a really important part of our community as well,” she said.

“And we want to make sure

that we are able to communicate that as well as we can and get as many folks counting themselves in the census as we can.”

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NELSON CONTINUED FROM 8 linemen back.

“Power is the name of the game for Nelson, who is a classic bull rusher, extending his long arms into blocks and grinding with his leg drive,” the Athletic’s Dane Brugler wrote in

TRACK CONTINUED FROM 8 competitive marks. As the team looks to continue that, some numbers give an idea how Iowa stacks up heading into the Drake Relays.

3 — Throwers ranked top five nationally in the discus Laulauga Tausaga, Reno Tuufuli, and Konstadina

his 2019 NFL Draft guide. “… Overall, Nelson is a tightly wound, predictable pass rusher, but he has the length, competitive makeup, and raw power to soften the edge, projecting as a base end in a four-man front who can reduce inside on passing downs.”

Brugler and NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein also noted Nelson’s deficiencies when it comes to his pass-rush

plan. Nelson showed his affinity for bull rushing during his time with the Hawkeyes but didn’t display the arsenal that some other prospects have.

“He flashes, but he didn’t play against top-level right tackles, and some of his tape is just bland against average guys,” an unnamed director of scouting for an NFC team told NFL.com. “I need to see it more from him.”

While he may not have a lot of moves when rushing, his length makes an appearance once again, because he is able to distance himself from offensive linemen while making a run at the quarterback.

In addition to owning the size and power teams want, Nelson said he’s been pleased to show scouts his athleticism and his football IQ when it comes to defensive schemes.

He certainly showed his athletic prowess at the NFL Combine, ranking among the top defensive linemen in the 40-yard dash, broad jump, 3-cone drill, and 20-yard shuttle.

Combine that athleticism with Nelson’s ability to learn — he was a second-team Academic All-American in 2018 — and he makes an intriguing prospect.

“One thing is for sure, is that it’s been fun to meet a lot of NFL people, talk football, and I’m excited to continue to be a full-time football player,” Nelson said.

Spanoudakis are among the NCAA leaders in the discus.

On the women’s side, Tausaga ranks second in the country in the event (62.28 meters). Spanoudakis comes in just behind her, in fifth place (57.95).

Tausaga achieved her mark in her most recent outing, at the Beach Invitational. The throw extended Tausaga’s school record.

Spanoudakis’ mark is also a personal record, which came at the Musco Twilight Invitational.

For the men, Tuufuli ranks third in the country after launching a throw of 62.54 meters. That was good for a personal best and is second on the alltime list at Iowa.

times this season occurred at the Florida Relays, and Iowa’s was the fastest among them.

The relay squad of Wayne Lawrence Jr., Antonio Woodard, Collin Hofacker, and Mar’Yea Harris ran Iowa’s third fastest relay of all time to sneak past Florida, which finished second (3:03.25).

Lawrence got out well in the event, giving Iowa an early lead. Woodard and Hofacker were able to maintain a competitive

position for the Hawkeyes.

Harris, as he has done countless times in his Iowa career, ran anchor and sealed the win.

The 3:03.10 time in the event is good for second-fastest in the country this season, trailing only LSU.

women got huge boosts in the rankings.

The Hawkeye men jumped up 11 spots, to No. 10. The men are also the top-ranked team in both the Big Ten and the Midwest region.

The women came in at No. 13, up eight spots from last week. The Hawkeyes are second in the Big Ten, trailing only Ohio State, and third in the Midwest.

Both squads will have the highest ranked teams competing at the Drake Relays.

3:03.10 — Men’s 1,600-meter relay time Iowa took gold in the 4x400-meter relay at the Florida Relays against some of the best competition in the country.

Ten of the fastest 25 relay

2 — Squads ranked in the top-15 in the country In the Week 4 coaches’ poll, the Iowa men and

Draft Projections: Brugler: second-third round NFL.com: third-fourth round

BASEBALL CONTINUED FROM 8 Iowa.

The offensive explosion — something Iowa had been searching for — appeared in the second game.

The Hawkeyes scoured 16 runs in a three-inning span in their second win over the Huskers. Iowa’s 17 runs in the game are just one shy of its season-high mark set against Evansville on March 9.

Point being, it had been longer than a month since Iowa scored more than 10 runs in a game. It took 26 games, but the Hawkeyes pulled off that feat against the conference’s best team.

There are plenty of regular-season games to play, but Iowa’s recent play in the conference shows this team has made great strides.

Each season, it seems as though the program notches a signature Hellerball win. Last season, it was series wins over No. 7 Michigan and No. 12 Oklahoma State. No. 30 Nebraska isn’t ranked so highly as those teams were, but up until this weekend, Iowa hadn’t had a series win quite like that this season.

And, the two wins against Nebraska not only alter Iowa’s future in a positive

Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa outfielder Ben Norman eyes the ball after hitting it against Nebraska at Banks Field on April 20. The Hawkeyes defeated the Cornhuskers, 17-9. way, they scramble things up in the Big Ten standings; six of the 13 programs have a conference record of .500 or better.

At the beginning of the season, the conference

coaches didn’t predict Iowa to finish in the top seven.

But looking at the current standings, the Hawkeyes have the fourth-best conference record and are tied with Indiana for the sec-

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ond-most wins of any Big Ten team.

Now, after snagging two wins against a top-30 program, Iowa’s right back in the race for the conference’s top spot. Again, the

regular season is far from over; including today’s contest against Milwaukee, Iowa has 16 games left.

But the way Iowa has played recently, especially in conference play, should

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be extremely encouraging for Hawkeye fans. Because when it comes down to it, the series win against Nebraska might be the biggest turning point for Iowa this regular season.

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Pitching gives softball shot at victories against Rutgers Iowa softball’s pitching staff shut out Rutgers on Sunday, capping a strong stretch for the arms in the circle.

David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Sarah Lehman pitches to a Western Illinois hitter on March 27 at Pearl Field. The Leathernecks defeated the Hawkeyes, 10-1.

BY PETE MILLS

team chances to win coming down the stretch.

Iowa softball is playing much cleaner in a lot of respects, following the end of an 11-game losing slide.

Stronger looks from the circle are at the center of the improvement the team has experienced. Starter Allison Doocy spent much of the beginning of the season dominating the pitch count for the staff, but recent progress by other pitchers has given Iowa more arms to work with.

This has made a big difference in recent games and — despite a sometimes-lagging offense — has given the

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Even though other pitchers have begun to get more looks in the circle, Doocy still dominates in the innings pitched category.

A large part of this is her ability to finish games. The junior has an affinity for taking control of opponents for long stretches; early in the season, she posted an impressive five-game streak of complete games from Feb. 17 to March 1, in which she gave up only 4 earned runs.

Although she struggled against Illinois on April 12, giving up 7 earned runs in 4 innings, she has started to show signs of the dominance she displayed early on. Just a day after that lackluster performance against the Illini, the junior gave up only 2 earned runs in a marathon eight-inning matchup against Illinois.

3.84 — Sarah Lehman’s ERA Perhaps the most improved pitcher up to this point is sophomore Sarah Lehman.

Lehman had her turnaround game on April 17

against Drake. The sophomore posted one of her best outings with 4 innings pitched and only 3 earned runs given up to go along with 4 strikeouts. This is a different pitcher from the one fans saw on March 27 in the home-opener, in which the right-hander came in for 2 innings and gave up 3 earned runs on 5 hits.

Lehman took the mound in the second of two contests on April 19 and pitched 6 innings, giving up only 5 hits and 1 earned run. The sophomore walked 2 batters and struck out 5, setting up her team for the win. But the slow offense didn’t take advantage of the solid pitch-

ing. The Hawkeyes went on to lose, 1-0.

Having this extra arm to work with will be huge for head coach Renee Gillispie’s squad. In her first season in the Big Ten, perhaps an adjustment period is all the first-year pitcher Lehman needed.

4 — Runs given up last weekend in series against Rutgers The pitching staff as a whole has only had spurts of greatness in the last few weeks. Two rough 12-run outings against Illinois on April 12 and 13 made for a difficult series. Doocy had

one of her worst outings on the year on April 12 against the Illini.

But the series finale on April 13 was a different story. Doocy kicked off the strong run the pitching staff is on with an eight-inning outing in which she only gave up 2 earned runs and struck out 7.

Since then, the staff has been solid. It shut out a good Rutgers offense on Sunday in the 4-0 win and only gave up a single run in the 1-0 loss on April 19.

Having a strong staff will pay dividends, but the offense needs to pick up the slack to convert on the opportunities it will see.

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HAWKEYE UPDATES Iowa City track legend John Raffensperger dies Iowa track volunteer assistant coach John Raffensperger died Monday at his home in Iowa City.

Raffensperger, known by many as “Raff,” is widely regarded to be one of the best high-school track and field coaches the state has ever seen.

At City High, his alma mater, Raffensperger was the head boys’ track and field coach for 34 years. Before he retired in 2004, the Little Hawks won 10 state titles during his Raffensperger tenure. He was the first head coach to win 10 Iowa highschool state championships.

Raffensperger was inducted into the Iowa Track Coaches Hall of Fame in 1997, and City High has since renamed its track John Raffensperger Track.

After joining the Iowa staff in 2007, Raffensperger was reunited with his former prep standout Joey Woody, who is the director of track and field for the Hawkeyes.

Raffensperger is survived by his wife of more than 50 years, Sharon. They have two sons and three grandchildren.

A visitation is scheduled for April 28 at City High. Funeral services are April 29 at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City.

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Nelson looking toward next step Anthony Nelson’s production increased every year with the Hawkeyes. Now, he wants to continue that in the NFL.

Hawkeye volleyball releases 2019 schedule Iowa volleyball will host 15 matches at Carver-Hawkeye next season, including two tournaments.

The Hawkeyes will compete in the Big Ten/Pac 12 Challenge on Sept. 6-7 and the Cy-Hawk Series Tournament on Sept.

20-21 before opening their home slate against Minnesota on Oct. 2.

Iowa will face Colorado to kick off its home schedule in the Big Ten/Pac 12 Challenge Sept. 6 and will take on Iowa State in the Cy-Hawk Series Tournament on Sept. 20.

The Hawkeyes also have 12 teams that qualified for last season’s NCAA Tournament on the docket: Stony Brook, Colorado, Washington, Washington State, South Dakota, Penn State, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue, and Michigan.

Big Ten Softball Standings 1. Northwestern (36-7, 15-0) 2. Michigan (33-11, 15-1) 3. Minnesota (32-10, 13-1) 4. Ohio State (29-14, 12-5) 5. Wisconsin (33-8, 10-5) 6. Illinois (27-17, 6-9) 6. Rutgers (22-20, 6-9) 8. Indiana (31-18, 6-11) 8. Purdue (30-20, 6-11) 10. Penn State (22-25, 6-11) 11. Maryland (20-23, 4-11) 11. Nebraska (15-27, 4-11) 13. Iowa (17-23, 3-12) 13. Michigan State (15-28, 3-12)

Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Anthony Nelson sacks Northern Illinois quarterback Marcus Childers at Kinnick on Sept. 1, 2018. The Hawkeyes won, 33-7.

BY PETE RUDEN

peter-ruden@uiowa.edu Look at the Big Ten statistical leaders from the 2017 season, and under “sacks,” Iowa fans will see something familiar: Anthony Nelson, 8.

Check the 2018 stats now, and something similar happens toward the top of the list: Anthony Nelson, 10.

Two years in a row, Nelson ranked in the top five of the Big Ten, registering 18 sacks in his

final two seasons with the Hawkeyes. It’s safe to say he impressed people in his two years as a starter.

In his redshirt freshman season, he played in 13 games and started one in 2018, posting 6 sacks.

Now, he’s looking to take those talents to the NFL after foregoing his senior season to enter the 2019 draft.

“Just keep getting better — that’s all I can control at this point,” Nelson said. “I’ll be blessed to have the opportunity wherever I

Iowa stacks up well heading into Drake Relays With the Drake Relays rapidly approaching, Iowa has impressive numbers on its résumé.

“I’m just trying

to make sure that when I get there, I’m going to make a difference. ”

Baseball’s run has it knocking on the door adam-hensley@uiowa.edu

The Hawkeyes will take the track at Drake Stadium for the Drake Relays from Thursday through Saturday in one of the state’s biggest sporting events of the year.

Heading into the event, Iowa is on a hot stretch of breaking records and putting up

On March 24, Iowa baseball lost to Indiana on the road, 7-1. That loss marked the first time since 2008 that the Hawkeye baseball team started the season 0-3 in conference play.

At the time, Iowa’s record stood at 11-10, and it had scored more than 5 runs in a game just once in its previous 10 contests.

Now, fast-forward nearly a month later, and this is almost a completely different Hawkeye baseball team.

Since the final loss to Indiana, Iowa is 12-5, 9-3 in Big Heller Ten play, and a winner of four-straight conference series. This past weekend’s series against Nebraska stands as a prime example of such improvement.

The Huskers boast two strong arms in their Friday-Saturday rotation: Matt Waldron and Nate Fisher. Waldron entered April 19 with a 1.76 ERA, and Fisher had run up a 2.28 mark. The pair gave up 9 runs (5 earned) on 13 hits in 12.1 innings against

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given up against Rutgers

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— Iowa defensive end Anthony Nelson on preparing for the NFL Draft

4 runs

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Iowa’s wins over Nebraska are just what it needed heading into the back half of the regular season.

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Iowa softball gave up 4 runs against Rutgers this past weekend — its lowest in any Big Ten series this season.

end up, but I’m just trying to make sure that when I get there, I’m going to make a difference.”

Standing 6-7, Nelson possesses potentially game-changing length with the ability to knock down passes at the line. He defended 6 passes in his three-year career, 4 in 2017.

That length, combined 9 his quick release from his stance, also helps him drive offensive

Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Laulauga Tausaga watches her throw during the 18th-annual Musco Twilight at Cretzmeyer Track on April 22, 2017.

BY ROBERT READ

robert-read@uiowa.edu Iowa track and field is into the heart of its outdoor schedule at this point. After traveling to Arizona, California, and Florida so far, the team has the opportunity to compete in the state for just the second time.