The Daily Iowan - 06.12.19

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019 | SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION | DAILYIOWAN.COM | 50¢

New Stanley Museum breaks ground Construction on the new Stanley Museum of Art is officially underway. The new $50 million, 63,000-square-foot museum should be completed in 2022.

Grassroot campaigns Presidential campaigns gear up their organizing efforts in the crucial summer months with the Iowa caucuses on the horizon.

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Iowa track With a conference championship and a national champion, Iowa has made a statement with one of the greatest seasons in program history.

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Stonewall anniversary The Stonewall uprising, which sparked a movement almost 50 years ago, serves as a reminder as people celebrate Pride today.

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15 Its version of 37-Across was popular in the 1970s-’80s 16 Rapper/actor on “Law & Order: SVU” 17 Pro-war sort 18 Hart of “Chicago” 19 “Goodness!”

20 I.C.U. hookups 21 Encroach (on) 23 Particle created by dissolving table salt 24 They’re nuts for dessert 26 Intense 28 Fir coat?

29 “___ lighter note …”

32 Christmas light locale 33 Full-screen mode exit key 34 Rosalinde’s maid in Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus” 36 Latin “king” 37 Olympic sport since 1988 40 “___ ever!”

41 India’s smallest state 42 Less drunk 46 Ralph who played Voldemort in the Harry Potter films 50 Unidentified date 51 French novelist ___ France

52 Ones making writers write right?: Abbr.

53 MP3-sharing service of the early 2000s 55 Sydney’s state: Abbr.

56 ___-sec (wine designation) 58 Sweet cake 59 “Me? Are you kidding?!”

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21 It might be a blot on your record 22 Superwide shoe spec 25 Skee-Ball locales 27 An ay for an aye, e.g.?

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2020 CAUCUS

Summer — time to nurture grassroots Presidential campaigns gear up their organizing efforts in the crucial summer months with the Iowa caucuses on the horizon.

BY JULIA DIGIACOMO julia-digiacomo@uiowa.edu 2020 Democratic presidential-nomination campaigns are ramping up organizing efforts by expanding staff and engaging with local communities in the crucial summer months with the Iowa caucuses on the political horizon.

Candidates and campaign organizers have swarmed Iowa with increasing frequency as they attempt to establish support and stand out from the crowded field of 23 Democratic candidates before the first debates on June 26-27.

With more than 50 paid staffers across Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has established an early presence in the state. The campaign has hosted a plethora of small organizing events in eastern Iowa since Warren announced her candidacy in early 2019.

Warren Iowa Communications Director Jason Noble said he views grassroot-organizing efforts by staff as essential to building support for the Iowa caucuses.

“Clearly, we have a really robust staff all across the state, and that includes in college communities and on campuses,” Noble said.

Sen. Kamala Harris’ campaign announced on June 6 it will expand the Iowa staff exponentially from five to 65 staffers by July 1. The staff growth will place the Harris campaign as the largest Iowa employer among the Democratic candidates.

“Our staff on the ground has been going to local events, going to [meet people] one-on-one, and working to get people involved and

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Supporters of Sen. Elizabeth Warren gather at the Pints and Persist event in Joe’s Place on April 2. excited about the campaign and about Kamala Harris,” said Mariah Gould, Harris’ regional organizing director for the Iowa City area. “We had a really good response so far, and it seems like a lot of people are really interested in Kamala Harris.”

The campaign works on the ground to engage Iowans by connecting them with the campaign and providing information on getting involved, Gould said.

“I think we want to make sure we have a combination of both grassroot efforts and volunteer efforts, and I think both of those things play into each other,” she said.

The campaign of former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke also prioritizes

volunteer involvement to expand its support in Iowa. O’Rourke Iowa Communication Director Geoff Burgan said the campaign held 18 canvassing events in nine cities last weekend as part of the campaign’s statewide weekend of action.

The O’Rourke campaign in Iowa employs 44 staff members, 37 of whom are responsible for organizing, Burgan said. The staffers focus on spreading information about O’Rourke through the internet, town halls and community meetings, he said.

Despite many students’ absence from college campuses this summer, Burgan said, the months will be an important time for campaign organizing. O’Rourke previously

targeted student voters in Iowa by visiting the three regent universities.

“Summer is when the hard work really happens,” he said. “You get to see when campaigns are more serious about the organizing part of the caucuses. We certainly want to be part of that conversation.”

Cynthia Sebian-Lander, the Iowa state director for Democrat Julián Castro, said the campaign also takes advantage of the summer to train and distribute campaign staff.

She said her campaign sends organizers to meet with communities by participating in local Democratic committee meetings and placing information tables at community events, among oth-

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er things. She said has seen momentum build, she said, and has witnessed growing excitement for Castro in various communities.

Despite employing significantly fewer staff members than such campaigns as Warren’s and Harris’, Sebian-Lander said, the Castro campaign is focused on talking to specific voters and gathering support instead of paying attention to the actions of other campaigns in Iowa.

“We know who we need to go talk to, and we are excited for the opportunity to talk with folks who are too often left out of the process and don’t always feel like the caucus is a stage for them to participate,” she said.

New Stanley Museum breaks ground Construction on the new Stanley Museum of Art is officially underway.

The new $50 million, 63,000-square-foot museum should be completed in 2022.

BY RYLEE WILSON rylee-wilson@uiowa.edu For 11 years, the Stanley Museum of Art’s 15,000 works of art — including works by Picasso and Jackson Pollock — have been without a permanent home.

Soon, the works will return to the University of Iowa campus, with construction on the new Stanley Museum of Art set to begin in the fall. The UI broke ground on the 63,000-squarefoot site on June 8. The $50 million museum, located south of the Main Library in Gibson Square, is slated to be completed in the spring of 2022.

The original museum was located on the west bank of the Iowa River and was heavily damaged in the flood of 2008.

While rescue efforts saved all of the museum’s collection, no location on campus was large enough to house all the artwork.

There is limited display space in the museum’s current IMU location, so much of the Stanley’s collection resides in the Figge Museum of Art in Davenport or is on loan to other museums around the country.

The Stanley is the last major construction project in the UI’s flood recovery. In his remarks at the groundbreaking, UI President Bruce Harreld called the construction of the new museum the “beginning of the end of the recovery.”

Half of the $50 million funding comes from donations — both large and small. The other $25 million comes from the UI general fund.

Senior Vice President of Finance Rod Lehnertz said the UI Center for Advancement was

Emily Wangen/The Daily Iowan Artist Tony Orrico creates a piece of art to be displayed in the Stanley Art Museum during a welcoming performance titled “Penwald: 3: Circle on Knees” at the Stanley Museum ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony on June 7. tasked with raising $25 million for the construction of the new museum after appeals to the federal government for funding proved to be unsuccessful.

Lehnertz said he hopes the museum’s new central location near the Main Library will increase student engagement with the museum — calling the museum a “gateway feature” for the university.

“With the museum in its former location, fewer than half of the students graduating from the UI knew we had a museum — much less had visited one,” Lehnertz said. “We’ve changed a lot since then, and that’s why this site is so important to us —

to be in the midst.”

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the museum. Museum Director Lauren Lessing said the idea of what a university museum should be has changed drastically in the 50 years since the facility opened its doors.

“The old Art Museum was a beautiful display space for our collection, but it was not designed with teaching in mind.

That was in the mid-20th century, when art museums were mostly intended as spaces of display,” she said. “Now, the function of art museums has really changed — particularly on college campuses.”

The new three-story museum will feature display space, classrooms, outdoor terraces, and a lobby that can serve as a place for performances or a study space for students.

The new Stanley will sit atop a parking garage to replace the current surface lot behind Gibson Square, which will also serve as a flood-control measure.

Steve McGuire, the director of the School of Art and Art History, said the Stanley serves as an important place for students to gain career experience in curatorial work and to learn from the work in the collection.

“It has work that is import-

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ant for students to see so as to situate the work that they do in becoming an artist,” he said.

“Anybody who produces artwork is having a conversation with all the artwork that’s been created.”

While the Stanley is an important space for learning on campus, in her remarks at the groundbreaking, Advancement Center President Lynette Marshall emphasized that the Stanley is an institution for all Iowans, not just UI students.

“Today, it truly is the museum of the people of Iowa,” she said.

“Everyone has a stake in this museum. They can all say, ‘This is my museum.’ ”

Unearthing a lost, rich heritage A new UI course joins a nationwide effort to uncover the history of African American political conventions.

BY ANDY MITCHELL andrew-mitchell@uiowa.edu The University of Iowa has played a crucial role in recovering lost history with a brand-new course.

Professor of history Leslie Schwalm, the chair of the UI Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, co-directs the Iowa satellite of the nationwide effort called Colored Conventions Project with Tom Keegan, the head of the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio at the UI Libraries.

The national project documents and uncovers lost information about collective organizing among African Americans from 1830, when the first political convention in this ongoing African American movement for civil rights was documented to the end of the century. The project collects sources such as printed speeches, proceedings, petitions, and newspaper articles and makes them available on ColoredConventions.org to piece together a previously forgotten part of American history.

University of Delaware Professor Gabrielle Foreman founded the project in April 2012 along with Princeton University Perkins Fellow and postdoctoral research associate Jim Casey and University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Sarah

Patterson.

Foreman visited the UI in November 2017 to deliver lectures and lead workshops at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Schwalm said she was inspired by the lectures and workshops and, with a group of area professors from schools such as Grinnell College and Iowa State University, worked to form a satellite project in Iowa.

Casey, who is now a co-director, said that when the project started, only 12 national conventions and 45 state-level conventions were in print. After seven years, the project has uncovered at more than 200 conventions that took place all over North America from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century, and the staff suspect that twice that many exist.

“The most common reaction we get from both high-school students, undergrads, and many other historians is, ‘Why didn’t I know more about this history?’ ” Casey said.

Schwalm said researchers initially knew of three African American conventions in the state, but they have since discovered 10 more.

“We’re interested in recuperating this very rich history of black local activism in the 19th century in Iowa,” Schwalm said.

“We’re interested in making that history accessible to K-12 history teachers and

to provide them with the tools to incorporate this into their lesson plans.”

Foreman said the issues that African Americans of that time organized against — such as voter disenfranchisement and school segregation — resonate deeply in today’s climate. Voter suppression and access to quality public education are two examples of issues that are as important today as they were more than a century ago.

“To uncover the records that reveal this hidden history, it’s extraordinarily important for the project to partner with satellite projects that are stationed in places where these conferences took place,” Foreman said.

More than 2,500 students across North America from a wide variety of majors have contributed to the project, Foreman said. One exciting feature of the project is that it works across disciplines, with librarians as well as scholars and students, in its use of data visualization to help tell the story of the obscured movement.

“It’s not just for history students,” Casey said.

“We’ve had students in just about every major you can think of.”

The project is about to launch on a curriculum focused on seventh-to 12th-graders to prime them on the part of history before they reach college.

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Defying the odds, Fulbright scholar heads to Europe UI student Nicholas Grandstaff had an unlikely journey to earning a Fulbright, and now he will head to the Netherlands.

BY ANDY MITCHELL andrew-mitchell@uiowa.edu In the early morning hours of April 19, University of Iowa student Nicholas Grandstaff received an unlikely, life-changing phone call.

Earlier that week, he had accepted an offer from a Ph.D. program at Purdue as a backup plan in case the call never came — since the odds were so slim that it would. Now, instead of spending his next few of years at Purdue, he’ll spend them in the Netherlands.

To this point, advancing despite the odds has been the Fulbright-award winner’s modus operandi.

Grandstaff comes from Emmetsburg, Iowa, a farm town with a population of around 3,000 people. Irish immigrants settled the town during the Irish potato famine in the mid-1800s. Grandstaff grew up on a farm, where he developed an affinity for the nuts and bolts of agriculture. He laments the current crisis in corn planting across the Midwest, where weather conditions have prevented thousands of acres of corn from being planted.

“It comes pretty naturally when you don’t live next to a city every day,” Grandstaff said.

What he was really interested in, and what he was missing, was the research and development side of agriculture. He was keyed into that aspect through high-school biology, and in his sophomore year, his class wrote for the World Food Prize, which helped him see the bigger picture and Iowa’s place in global food production.

Grandstaff transferred to the UI from Iowa Lakes Community

Contributed Nicholas Grandstaff poses for a photo after receiving a Fulbright scholarship.

College. Going into higher education, he said, he knew he wanted to pursue a technical skill and in the long run, work in agriculture. He opted to study economics, and graduated in 2019 with a B.B.A. in economics and a minor in mathematics.

While Iowa State University is more associated with agriculture, Grandstaff opted instead for the UI because of the more diverse groups of people and backgrounds.

“There’s no place in the state that’s like Iowa City,” Grandstaff said.

With his Fulbright award, he

will travel to the Netherlands to study under the international development master’s program and the technology of the Dutch food system at Wageningen University. Grandstaff said the Dutch food industry is quite different from Iowa’s. It is also unique in that despite the country’s small size, it is the second-largest value food producer in the world.

“Bottom line, Nick is an exceptional young man,” said Professor Anne Villamil, a professor of economics at the Tippie College of Business and one of Grandstaff ’s advisers.

It’s an arrangement that al-

most did not happen. Grandstaff made it far into the application process but fell just short of the award. He became an alternate, meaning if one of the award winners had to drop out or decline the honor, he would be the next person up. While he was an alternate for four weeks, he said, he was not optimistic about his slim chances of getting the prize.

“You don’t want to turn down a Fulbright after spending a year working on it,” Grandstaff said.

Karen Wachsmuth, the UI associate director of international fellowships, said it’s both an ed-

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ucational and cultural-exchange program.

“Nicholas going abroad is going to not only receive incredible benefits of a graduate school at an excellent institution, it’s that he’ll also make connections with local communities and organizations,” Wachsmuth said.

Further along, Grandstaff foresees a career solving problems with such organizations as the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organization, tackling the challenges of food all around the world.

Opinions COLUMN

Pride isn’t about money Activism and support for the LGBTQ community shouldn’t be made garish by greedy corporate branding focused on profiting on marginalized people.

ANNA BANERJEE

anna-banerjee@uiowa.edu

June is LGBTQ Pride Month in commemoration of New York’s Stonewall riots, which took place on June 28, 1969. In the years that followed that date, the concept of pride and how it is represented, not only in the U.S. but in the world, have changed dramatically.

Large pride parades with thousands of participants occur in cities across the country, such as New York, which hosts the largest celebration in the world.

Because of the prominence of Pride and Pride-related events and issues, the commercialization of the month by corporations has become increasingly common. Much of this is seemingly innocuous, with clothing companies selling pins and “Pride sections” in stores like H&M and Nike, but other marketing seems to ignore the principles behind Pride and the struggles the LGBTQ community has faced. Absolut’s rainbow-bottled vodka handles and other marketing tactics of that ilk have also been called out.

The entire concept behind Pride is a celebration and a remembrance of a community that has faced violent oppression and marginalization.

Companies piggybacking on the current cultural relevance of Pride is hurtful. It serves as a reminder to LGBTQ people that our identities are a passing fad on which advertisers can happily capitalize.

There are many companies headed by people who genuinely support LGBTQ rights and have for decades, but when this support only manifests itself for a week or two in June — never any other time of the year — it is a little disheartening. After struggling for so long — and still struggling to this day in the U.S. and around the world — allyship demands more than a slogan or rainbow-colored merchandise. Pride is what keeps us alive, and it’s what we celebrate now.

It becomes especially harmful when Pride is packaged over items that historically hold negative or dangerous connotations.

LGBTQ people have an elevated risk for substance abuse, yet alcohol companies continue to market toward the community during Pride despite routinely being asked to stop.

Even if these manufacturers want to express their

support of a community that has been harmed by them in the past, the sentiment is lost in translation.

Instead of coming across as a supportive gesture, the drinks are still marketed toward the community with little warning or attempts to protect them.

The commercialization of Pride takes away from the focus of Pride. Allowing companies to capitalize on people’s support for LGBTQ people puts the focus on the corporations for their supposed good deeds. Even if proceeds are being donated to LGBTQ funds, there still is a focus on the “allies” for supporting the community, not the community itself.

It is certainly generous for companies, especially small businesses, to devote part of their sales to LGBTQ donations, but there comes a point where the only question left to ask is, “Do you care about us at any other time of the year or just when it’s best for business?”

The best thing companies could do for LGBTQ people is to make public their stance on the community and donate year-round to their causes. Or, even better, enfranchise actual marginalized speakers to do the promotion and support of the community instead of straight allies running multimillion-dollar corporations.

Thomas A. Stewart/The Daily Iowan Iowa City residents celebrate LGBTQ Pride Week on, June 16, 2018.

COLUMN

Pride still matters in 2019 The spirit of Stonewall and the gay-rights movement isn’t over with any one victory or landmark and must keep advancing.

ELIJAH HELTON

elijah-helton@uiowa.edu

“I believe in the gay power.

I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights … I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation.”

Those are the words of Sylvia Rivera, a gay-liberation activist, at a rally in 1973.

Four years earlier, Rivera was at the Stonewall Inn in New York during the riots that marked the beginning of the modern gay-rights movement. Belief in a better future for queer people and the willingness to fight for

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that future is at the foundation of Pride.

But that was all a long time ago. By the end of this month, it will have been 50 years since the Stonewall riots. One can be tempted to think that Pride is perhaps unnecessary or even outdated. I know that my life as a bi man is easier now than it was at the time of Stonewall.

But while progress has definitely been made — more than what many at Stonewall could have imagined — there’s still so many more areas the gay-rights movement needs to reach.

At Pride, we celebrate how far we’ve come. Supreme Court victories such as Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges are great, but there are still many states in the country in which gay people can be fired and evicted for who they are and whom they

love. Gay politicians such as Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago have entered their elected offices this year, but there are still no openly gender-queer governors or members of Congress. There is still work to be done.

Pride still matters. It still matters because we have made history that has made the world better for future generations of queer people. It still matters because we are still persecuted by law and governments designed to exclude us. It still matters because LGBTQ people are still harassed, attacked, and killed because of their identities.

We still believe in the gay power. We still believe in us getting our rights. Pride still matters, and we’re still proud as hell.

Sports Looking back at Iowa track’s historic outdoor season With a conference championship and a national champion, Iowa track and field made a statement with one of the greatest seasons in program history.

BY ROBERT READ robert-read@uiowa.edu Iowa track and field has been a bit of an outlier this outdoor season. The coaches’ rankings are filled up and down with warm-weather schools from Texas, California, and Florida.

The sport is perceived to be dominated by the South and Southwest, which makes what the Hawkeyes have done this season all the more impressive, considering Iowa City was home to an everlasting winter.

The Iowa men and women did not let the notion of geographical area bother them, and reached highs in the polls of No. 10 and No. 15, respectively.

The beginning of the season had Iowa traveling to these warm states while Iowa was still thawing and putting on a display of why Iowa is a program to be reckoned with.

The most notable meet of Iowa’s early season was the Florida Relays, where the Iowa men’s 4x400-meter relay won the competition against some of the best relay programs in the nation. It was an early sign that the Hawkeyes could go toe-to-toe against any team in the nation, especially in that event.

Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Laulauga Tausaga throws the discus during the 19th-annual Musco Twilight at the Cretzmeyer Track on April 12, 2018.

The relay squad had finished near the top of the leaderboard at the Florida Relays over the past couple of years, but had not yet pulled out a win. That changed this season with a then-school-record performance.

As the season progressed, so did the performances.

Some of the oldest records in program history fell this season as both the Hawkeye men and women put up historic numbers.

Nathan Mylenek broke a 63-year-old record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, the longest standing record Iowa had. Deacon Jones previously held the record since 1956, and Mylenek broke it by near-

ly 10 seconds.

On the women’s side, the 4x800-meter relay broke a 32-yearold school mark at the Drake Relays en route to the women winning their first Hy-Vee Cup. The squad crushed the record by nearly 15 seconds.

Heading into the Big Ten Outdoor Championships at Creztmeyer Track, an event that had been circled on the calendar since it was scheduled, the Hawkeyes had expectations through the roof.

And all things considered, both the men and the women met — and possibly even exceeded — those lofty expectations.

The men won their first confer-

ence championship since 2011 — which was also the last time Big Tens were hosted by Iowa — and the women finished third, tied for the best finish in school history.

Iowa had three athletes and one relay win Big Ten championships on the way to the historic team finishes.

Laulauga Tausaga won the conference crown in the discus, her third career Big Ten championship.

Mar’Yea Harris took home the 400-meters title and anchored the 4x400 conference-champion relay.

Harris finished his Iowa career as a six-time Big Ten champion.

Rounding out the conference

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champions was Chris Douglas, who in his final Big Ten meet brought home his first conference title, winning the 400-meter hurdles as an underdog.

The Hawkeyes’ performances throughout the season and at the Big Tens earned two of its biggest names recognition near the end of the season. Tausaga and Director of Track and Field Joey Woody earned conference and regional honors as Field Athlete of the Year and Coach of the Year, respectively.

The success Iowa enjoyed on the track in postseason competition came with a bittersweet taste.

Volunteer assistant coach and Iowa City track legend John Raffensperger died in late April.

The Hawkeyes wore patches reading “Raff” on their uniforms throughout the rest of the season as a tribute to his contributions to the program and the many athletes and coaches he meant so much to.

Most notably, when Tausaga became Iowa’s 14th national champion in program history after firing a personal best mark in the discus at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, she took the victors’ podium and quietly pointed to Raffensperger’s name on her uniform in a beautiful moment of tribute.

Tausaga becoming a national champion was the ending to one of the greatest seasons Iowa track and field has ever seen.

The program is on a new level right now, and it has the attention of the track and field community.

The Hawkeyes proved themselves as a program to be reckoned with over the course of this outdoor season and will return next season with even higher expectations.

Big money, big players don’t change NL Central After a busy offseason and ongoing roster changes, the Milwaukee Brewers are still proving money can’t buy everything in the NL Central, while the Cubs hope Craig Kimbrel can prove otherwise.

BY PETE MILLS peter-mills@uiowa.edu Money changes hands very quickly in the NL Central, with major acquisitions and trades continually making it one of the most competitive divisions in the MLB. With the 2019 season nearing its midpoint, the top teams are still mere games apart.

The Central has consistently been one of the best divisions in baseball, having been represented in each of the last eight National League Championship Series. More specifically, fans of the Cubs, Brewers, and Cardinals have grown accustomed to success over recent seasons.

Nearly all of the teams have added big names to try to keep up with the escalating level of play. The Reds picked up Yasiel Puig in a trade in December 2018, and the Cardinals traded for Paul Goldschmidt — one of the best first basemen in the majors — just a few weeks later. The Cubs followed suit, picking up a $45 million tab on former Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel on June 7.

Although the teams have made many moves in the last several months, the current NL Central standings are identical to where they ended up last year.

Because of all these high-pro-

Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/TNS The Chicago Cubs’ Javier Baez hits a 2-run homer in the first inning against the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field on June 7.

The Cubs won, 3-1. file signings, fans of the bigbrand franchises are anxious.

Chicago spends the second most in all of Major League Baseball on payroll but is still half a game behind Milwaukee, even though the Brewers check in at the No. 17 payroll spot.

Cubs’ upper management repeatedly said during the off-

season that it would not sign any big names — rumors of Bryce Harper wearing a Chicago uniform, for example, never came true. The sentiment that the organization had the tools it needed lasted until last week with the signing of Kimbrel.

Injuries in the Cubs’ bullpen — and obvious underper-

formance — brought the Red Sox gunslinger to Chicago. As one of the best closers in the game, the right-hander posted 42 saves and a 2.74 ERA in last season’s All-Star campaign.

It’s a move that may evoke some positive memories for Cubs fans. In late July 2016, the Yankees sent closer Aroldis Chap-

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man to the Cubs. He was Chicago’s go-to arm out of the bullpen for the remainder of the season, putting up some of the best numbers of his career. Of course, that signing helped the team to an eventual World Series win. Cubs fans hope Kimbrel can be that X-factor in the same way.

Meanwhile, festering frustration has not eased in St. Louis. The Cards have the seventh-most expensive roster in the league after that move to gain Goldschmidt, but the team has been hovering around the .500 mark for most of the season. Matt Carpenter has cooled off after a booming second half last season.

With all these moves around the division, Milwaukee has remained steady. Last year’s NL MVP Christian Yelich — along with the rest of the Brewer bats — have picked up right where they left off. Yelich currently leads the majors in both homers and slugging percentage, and he’s been backed up nicely

by Mike Moustakas and Jesus Aguilar in the infield.

The acquirement of Kimbrel — who is expected to begin appearing in games in just a few weeks — may push Chicago past its foes in the NL Central.

But for now, the Brewers are proving that money can’t buy everything.

June deserves the Madness The NCAA Baseball Tournament has been underrated for far too long, and it deserves recognition.

BY PETE RUDEN peter-ruden@uiowa.edu Everyone loves March Madness. After all, what’s better than watching basketball literally all day for a whole weekend? Answer: very few things.

But unfortunately, March only comes once a year, and when the “One Shining Moment” montage has finished, the whole country is forced to wait another 12 months to get the same feeling.

But unbeknown to many, there’s another electric tournament just a few months later: the NCAA Baseball Tournament.

The tournament gives fans of the sport the pleasure of watching games from sun up to sundown, and the tight games and incredible performances replay in the brain for hours and days to come.

But those close contests and amazing stat lines are often overlooked.

Many of these games aren’t on standard cable TV, and ESPN3 becomes a must-need, which isn’t ideal for a national tournament.

Because a lot of the games can’t be accessed, it doesn’t get enough of the credit it deserves.

Fans remember Loyola-Chicago’s recent run to the Final Four and the numbers Steph Curry dropped while leading

Ryan Adams/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Cole McDonald pitches against Cal-Irvine at Banks Field on May 3. The Hawkeyes beat Irvine, 6-3.

Davidson to the Elite Eight in 2008, but what about Fresno State making the trip to Omaha and winning it all in a Cinderella run? And will Vanderbilt’s Kumar Rocker’s 19-strikeout no-hitter on June 8 be remembered beyond this year?

Memes about Virginia losing to a No. 16 seed will be created as long as the internet exists, but we probably won’t see anything about defending national

champion Oregon State — which boasted the No. 1 pick in the MLB Draft — losing the first two games of the regional it hosted to end its season.

Those are some incredible feats, and Rocker’s performance to even Vandy’s Super Regional with Duke rivals the best in college athletics this year.

The hype around the Baseball Tournament heightens when Iowa makes an NCAA regional,

which we saw in 2017 after the Hawkeyes’ run to the Big Ten Tournament title.

But the tournament continues to be fun either way.

It’s thrilling to watch smaller schools such as Jacksonville State topple historically stellar programs.

It’s also interesting to watch battles between conferences, because unlike college football and college basketball (for the most part), these unknown programs sometimes rack up

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higher seeds than Power Five schools, bringing an interesting dynamic to the forefront that isn’t seen in other college tournaments.

In college baseball, teams that play year-round are at an advantage, which makes it fascinating to see how far a team from the Big Ten or Big East can make it.

And let’s not forget Omaha during the College World Series. T.D. Ameritrade Park quickly becomes a hot spot

for sports fans, drawing an electric atmosphere from all the visitors. One doesn’t even have to be a fan of a team that’s competing. The atmosphere is enough.

It’s clear that the NCAA Baseball Tournament isn’t March Madness, and it never will be. But for those needing their fix of a highly competitive tournament full of drama, the NCAA Baseball Tournament is perfect.

Arts & Culture

Stonewall anniversary remains a beacon The Stonewall uprising, which sparked a movement almost 50 years ago, serves as a reminder as people celebrate Pride today.

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Rev. Anna Blaedel leads Tuesday Table at the Wesley Center on April 30.

BY SABRINA SHEARER sabrina-shearer@uiowa.edu How are you remembering Stonewall?

It’s a question that has grown in popularity this month in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which occurred June 28, 1969.

Many remember Stonewall as the event that jump-started the national movement for LGBTQ acceptance. The event that changed history began when New York City police

raided the Stonewall Inn, located in a gay community in New York’s Greenwich Village.

The raid sparked riots between police and individuals who identified as gay, lesbian, and transgender — specifically, trans women of color — that lasted for six days in the Stonewall and surrounding streets. The uprising became a symbolic catalyst for the gay-rights movement worldwide.

“Those who were credited with standing up are

‘We’re all trying to remember the history. It speaks to the concerns of not just gay, lesbian, and trans people but society’s outcasts.’

—Christine Hawes, Iowa City Pride community outreach and publicity chair

people of color who were trans or drag queens,” said Christine Hawes, the community outreach and publicity chair for Iowa City

Pride.

The Stonewall uprising provoked activism in Iowa City, specifically in the lesbian community on the

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University of Iowa campus, according to outhistory.org.

The website works to establish LGBTQ chronologies.

In 1969, the Iowa City Women’s Liberation Front formed an organization to focus on such issues as child care, health care, gay rights, and publishing. A year later, the Liberation Front began to publish the newspaper Ain’t I a Women, which dealt with lesbian themes, and distributed it nationally.

News about the uprising spread across the na-

tion and resulted in the creation of activist groups for LGBTQ rights. A year after the Stonewall uprising, the first Pride Fest was held in Iowa City, along with other cities.

In 1970, the Gay Liberation Front at the UI became the first gay student organization in the U.S. to be officially recognized by a major university. The front had a float in the Homecoming Parade and was recorded in the school SEE STONEWALL, 15

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The Baby Huey: Story The Living Legend is an album that was released in 1971 posthumously after singer James “Baby Huey” Ramey passed away. Though this album was not a large success in its era, it has now found a new appreciation in 2019. The album is a delicious twist of big band jazz and soul, with many styles being found in today’s music such as with artist Kamasi Washington. The album will be the perfect soundtrack for the relaxing chill vibes of summer with songs such as “California Dreamin.” Other songs such as “A Change Is Going to Come” shows a raw and untamed emotion being pounded out throughout the song all the while the electric guitar and horns smoothly fill the resonating screams of Huey. With electronic reverbs from the intro for the song “Running” shows that that Baby Huey and his band, The Babysitters, were on the pulse of experimentation with soul and jazz at the time. But the crown jewel of this album is the song “Hard Times” where a steady heartbeat of bass and horns courses through the track. Anyone who is a fan of Childish Gambino’s “Awaken, My Love!” or Kamasi Washington’s “Heaven and Earth” will most definitely find pleasure in this 41-minute funky escape.

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Dragon fighting, dice, and Herky With game boards, 20-side dice, and a little bit of magic, Iowa City’s tabletop community welcomes all who want to play.

BY AUSTIN J. YERINGTON austin-yerington@uiowa.edu With the popularity of board games rising, many businesses host game nights to bring the community together and welcome newcomers.

The setting is a dark and foggy forest. You and your companions have ventured for a long time on your quest, and finally, you all rally around an imposing, ghoulish opponent.

The enemy raises its jagged weapon to strike — and suddenly, the unmistakable chime of a marimba starts to play from an iPhone.

Your time in the imaginative world of Dungeons & Dragons comes to an end, and everyday people from all walks of life are left sitting around a table with you in a local Iowa City tabletop shop.

The tabletop-gaming world has helped create not just fun evenings with friends but also deep relationships that can go beyond the game. Iowa City has seen its fair share of games, with a bustling community of tabletop and board gaming.

Recently, this form of gaming has got an incredible resurgence in today’s society, with the board-game market globally predicted to reach more than $12 billion by 2023, according to Globe Newswire. Yet some are left with the question, why?

There are many theories about such a rise in popularity of board gaming occurring recently, but Josh Karau points his finger toward media and movies.

“You can attribute it to geek culture being more accepted,” said Karau, a co-owner of North

Emily Wangen/The Daily Iowan Board game club attendees play a game at Hobby Corner, located in the Iowa City Marketplace on June 6.

Liberty’s Geek City Games and Comics.

“Shows like ‘The Big Bang Theory’ showed places like this as brightly lit things where there are awesome things going on as opposed to dank, dark basements.”

This new public view of geek culture has helped gained a large amount of pride among the gaming community. With celebrities such as Vin Diesel and Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon being vocal Dungeons & Dragons players, it has helped tear away the stereotypes of pocket protectors and bowl haircuts.

Another aspect of board gaming that may have led it back into pop culture is the way it tries to be more accessible.

“D&D is now the thing, ever since fifth edition went mainstream,” said Josh Woolums, a co-owner of the Hobby Corner, Iowa City Marketplace. “It’s a lot more streamlined. In previous editions, you had so many options to play with [that] it took forever. The streamlining is where it got more easy.”

With many people who attend gaming nights being newcomers, most will return regularly and create friendships with their game mates, he said.

“I’m surprised in how much outside time they all have together, too,” Woolums said.

“They all don’t know each other at all at first, then a month later, they are all hanging out doing stuff.”

Board gaming might not seem like the most exciting way to spend an evening in a university town, but Critical Hit Games co-owner Chance Kirchhof disagrees.

“With it being a college town, you don’t want it to just be bars and clothing,” Kirchhof said. “I like to think we add another dimension to downtown for something to do.”

People shouldn’t feel intimidated if they don’t know much about gaming, said Michele Maakestad, the Iowa ambassador for Double Exposure’s board-gaming outreach program Envoy. Shops such as Critical Hit and the Hobby Corner pride themselves on their teaching communities.

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Double Exposure is a convention company. Maakestad goes around to local shops and conventions for Envoy to show off smaller brands of board games.

“We try to build that community of people who are willing to teach,” she said.

This community tries not to just be one of fun and imagination but also of inclusion and welcoming. With quite a few players who come to each week’s gaming nights being first time players from all ages and walks of life, this culture needs to have open arms.

“We want to appeal to all groups,” Kirchhof said. “We want to make sure people always feel welcome here and included.

We just love to play games.”

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This year’s Iowa City Pride Fest will honor the Stonewall uprising by paying tribute to all intersectional identities. Hawes said IC Pride has implemented a color panel to represent ethnic and gender diversity at the festival this year.

“We’re all trying to remember the history,” Hawes said. “It speaks to the concerns of not just gay, lesbian, and trans people but society’s outcasts.”

Hawes said Stonewall consisted of marginalized people, including the homeless and people of color, which drives home why there seems to be an

effort in LGBTQ communities to be inclusive and intersectional.

“I think that the most important thing that we need to work on is the inclusiveness of everybody’s various intersectional identities and take into account the different experiences that everyone has,” UI student Shayn Walker said.

Walker, who majors in gender, women’s and sexuality studies, said that since the Stonewall uprising, people have become more accepting of members of the LGBTQ community. Although riots don’t need to occur for messages to be heard on UI campus, he said, there needs to be less focus on what’s been done so far and more emphasis on the inclusion of different identities of people in the

LGBTQ community.

AJ King, the outgoing UI Trans Alliance president and UI Student Government LGBTQ constituency senator, said that overall, he has seen a definite improvement in cultural knowledge, awareness, and sensitivity to transgender populations for students on campus, but he would like to see more training for faculty and staff. There is still a ways to go for the community, King said.

“It’s so imperative to recognize where our roots came from,” he said. “Black trans women specifically are statistically more likely to be assaulted, murdered, and have an average lifespan of about 30 years with all the systematic violence that comes from being who they are.”

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