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UI reacts to death of RBG

Caribbean, South American students organize new group UI juniors Alexander Persaud and Hariram Saravanan created a new student organization to create a community space for Caribbean and South American students on campus. Vybz, in its first semester at the UI, is drawing members despite the challenges of meeting virtually.

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Regina students are taking to class outside Brief, outdoor, mask breaks have become part of the routine in some Regina classes. Teachers started bringing students outside to take off PPE and get some fresh air to break up the hour and a half classes created by the block schedule.

Raquele Decker/The Daily Iowan A memorial for former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen outside the University of Iowa's College of Law building on Monday. Ginsburg died on Sept. 18.

Female law students and professors at the UI reflect on how their identity as a woman affects their place in the legal world in the wake of the justice’s death.

BY JULIA SHANAHAN

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$1.65 million pledged to Save Iowa Sports group After kicking off its pledgebased fundraiser Monday afternoon, the Save Iowa Sports group has already received $1.65 million in pledges. The fundraiser is part of a larger effort the group is putting forth to revive Hawkeye men’s gymnastics, men’s tennis, and men’s and women’s swim and dive. The group also released an open letter to UI President Bruce Harreld Tuesday afternoon.

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julia-shanahan@uiowa.edu University of Iowa law student Kayla Boyd said the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg means the passing of a strong, powerful female attorney and judge, and one of the few women icons that exist in the legal world.

“Everybody wants to have a role model to look up to that looks like them, but for lawyers, all of the typical role models that you hear about are men,” Boyd said. “Her confidence and ability to navigate a

male-dominated profession is truly amazing.”

Ginsburg died on Sept. 18 of complications from her long battle with pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg was the second female justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, ruling mostly on the liberal side of cases.

Boyd, a 24-year-old Colorado native, said while there are more female attorneys in the profession than there have been in the past, SEE ROLE MODEL, 5A

While Senate Democrats and Republicans fight over filling the vacant seat on the Supreme Court, UI professors are teaching on the history of Ginsburg’s legacy and the future of the court.

BY CALEB McCULLOUGH

caleb-mccullough@uiowa.edu University of Iowa political science and law professors are reflecting on the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the battle over her nomination in their classes and in public forums, balancing what is an emotional and political conversation and trying to put it in a historical context.

Timothy Hagle, a UI political-science professor who teaches classes on constitutional law and the judicial process, said he spoke about the U.S.

With a hybrid instruction at the UI for the fall semester, international students chose to stay in the U.S. or go back to their home countries.

implement mentalhealth days

Responding to the UI canceling spring break next semester, student government is working to institute ways students to take care of their well-being during the stress wrought by the ongoing

After having August, and unexpectedly the first week of September, off, the Iowa women’s basketball team is back in the gym for official practices. With new health and safety protocols, the team is required to wear masks at all times while inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Although it’s been an adjustment for the team, players are excited to finally be practicing again.

BY CLINTON GARLOCK

clinton-garlock@uiowa.edu

felt pressure at all times and then decided to stay here [in the U.S.] when the university announced their plans.”

In an email to The Daily Iowan, UI Associate Director of International Student and Scholar Services Michael Bortscheller said students were not forced to leave when COVID-19 began spreading in the U.S. The needs assessment of international students studying in the spring semester found

In light of the University of Iowa canceling spring break this academic year, Undergraduate Student Government is currently working with administrators with the hopes to institute “mental-health days” to alleviate student stress.

The UI announced on Sept. 14 that spring break in 2021 will be canceled to prevent the spread of COVID-19, as previously reported

by The Daily Iowan. The university said it will extend winter break by one week and resume spring 2021 classes in a similar format to the fall semester.

Undergraduate Student Government President Connor Wooff said he’s been talking with many university administrators and

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Photographer/The Daily Iowan Sydney Nguyen, University of Iowa sophomore and member of the Organization for the Active Support of International Students, poses for a portrait outside of Phillips Hall on Tuesday.

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Supreme Court vacancy to his judicial process class on Tuesday. The class has a segment on the Supreme Court nomination process, but that won’t be covered for a couple of weeks.

“It's kind of an odd situation where things I'm going to talk about over the next couple of weeks are things that would be good for them to know to help put what's going on now into a better context in terms of why the Democrats are doing some things, why the Republicans are

University of Iowa international student Saloni Upadhyay faced a decision in March — whether she should fly home to her family in Mumbai or stick out the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. She chose to stay and traveled to live with relatives in New Jersey when the UI announced it would offer hybrid instruction for the fall semester.

“I had to change my plan,” Upadhyay said. “I

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stakeholders, including the UI President’s and Provost's offices, the UI Dean of Students Angie Reams, and various campus partners, to figure out a way to support students with a break that would not lead to mass

travel and potential virus spread.

“My immediate thought was ‘how are we going to support students with this really long stretch of academic course load without any significant break?’”

Wooff said.

Wooff said he would ideally like to avoid three-day weekends which could encourage students to leave

campus, so he wants these breaks to be scattered throughout the semester on Tuesdays or Wednesdays.

“I would love to see breaks within the week, so a day where the university says we won’t have any academic courses, and we're going to encourage faculty to not have assignments or readings due that day,” Wooff said.

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that around 90 percent of respondents said that they were still in the U.S., he said.

“Many continuing students who had courses which required them to be inside the U.S. have already returned,” Bortscheller said.

“Others are choosing to take a full course load of online classes from their home country and hope to return in the spring semester.

Some have decided to take the fall semester off entirely and resume full-time study in the spring.”

For students choosing to return for the spring semester, the earliest they can enter the U.S.x is 30 days before the start of spring courses, Bortscheller said.

UI administrators expected to maintain the same number of returning international students, but see a drop in incoming international students for the fall. the UI hasn’t yet released its breakdown of international, in-state, and out-of-state students for the 30,000-plus

UI international student Sydney Nguyen said she considered going back to her home country of Vietnam, however she opted to sign a lease for an apartment in Iowa City and live off campus instead.

Nguyen said she watched many of her close friends

My friend just had to change her whole schedule to be in classes and meetings... It is very tough, and I don’t think that it has only happened to her.

— Sydney Nguyen, UI international student student campus. But the UI’s class of 2024 maintained the same share of international students —69 of 4,530, or 2 percent. That’s the same as the 2019 class, when 120 freshmen were international students.

choose to travel back to their home countries. She said they now have to adjust to the time difference between here and there, while they take their classes from their respective home countries.

“My friend just had to

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Thomas said canceling number of instructional ing back, so it makes sense,” spring break days during could cause the Spring 2021 semesHow are we going to support students with s t u d e n t s ’ grades to ter to give faculty and this really long stretch of academic course load slip, as well.

“It does students a without any significant break? kind of suck brief respite — USG President Connor Wooff to be like, from innonstop struction,” chug from January to May, Kregel said. “We will share said Lybrand.

Both Lybrand and UI Col- which I could see a lot of more as plans are finalized.”

UI freshman Kim Ly- lege of Public Health first- people’s grades slipping off brand said she was sur- year Isabel Thomas said if you don’t just get that prised when she heard the the proposed mental-health break,” Thomas said. “But university was canceling breaks would be a good idea. overall I understand why “In past years I know by the administration had to spring break, but she unthe time I hit spring break do it.” derstands its reasoning. change her whole schedule to be in classes and meetings and everything because she is also involved in student organizations,” Nguyen said. “It is very tough, and I don’t think that it has only happened to her.”

Bortscheller said the UI has made accommodations for international students who are in their home countries.

“We have encouraged colleges to offer classes in such a way that will allow students to get the information at a time that is reasonable in their home countries,” he said. “This means that some courses are being offered earlier in the U.S. so that they will be in the early evening hours for students overseas. Others are taught in a way that students can keep up with the material asynchronously.”

Bortscheller said UI International Programs, the

Academic Advising Center, Admissions, English as a Second Language Programs, and representatives from some of the colleges met in spring and summer 2020 to ensure that the UI was thinking about international students who would not be able or who would not want to return to the U.S. to study in person this fall.

The U.S. Student and Exchange Visitor Program rescinded an order in July that had stated “Nonimmigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating

entirely online may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States.”

Bortscheller said both the constantly changing announcements from the program over the summer and general uncertainty because of the COVID-19 pandemic created a stressful situation for international students.

“It sure created chaos that was very unnecessary,” Nguyen said. “I don’t want to straight up say xenophobia, but there is for sure something underlying there.”

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Good Vybz | students form new Carribean and South American student organization Brand new student org named Vybz brings studnets together from Carribean and South American backgrounds.

BY SAMANTHA MURRAY

samantha-l-murray@uiowa.edu The new University of Iowa student organization, Vybz, brings together students of South American and Carribean descent. Despite the struggles of being unable to meet in person, Vybz continues to recruit new members and build up the club.

President and co-founder of Vybz and UI junior Alexander Persaud said the idea for Vybz started last semester when he and his co-founder, Hariram Saravanan, were brainstorming ideas for becoming more in-

campus that really encompassed the Caribbean and South American culture,” Persaud said.

He said Vybz has had to make adjustments to its initial first semester plan, using online communication such as Zoom sessions and Instagram in particular to get the word out to other clubs and potential members.

Part of this adjustment has been starting a podcast associated with Vybz called 4 the Culture, which will be released once every two weeks

We decided that making a student org would be the best option because there’s no other orgs — at the time there weren’t any orgs — on campus that really encompassed the Caribbean and South American culture.'

— Alexander Persaud, Vybz president and cofounder volved in the community.

“We decided that making a student org would be the best option because there's no other orgs – at the time there weren’t any orgs – on

on Spotify.

“We decided that a podcast is probably one of the better ways that we could have other people there as a podcast guest or have oth-

er people from other organizations on as guests,” Persaud said. “We can have conversations

about different things related to our cultures and different backgrounds.”

Vice President and co-founder of Vybz and UI junior Hariram Saravanan said he and Persaud have been thinking about starting a student organization since their freshman year.

Saravanan said he co-hosts 4 the Culture alongside Persaud and another individual, where the hosts will invite usually one guest on each show that is knowledgeable about the topic of conversation.

“We're using [the podcast] as a secondary marketing extension tool, kind of being something to still connect with the community but talk about things that aren't all like tropical and stuff like that,” Saravanan said. “It's an opportunity to talk about anything, because it's freedom.”

Saravanan said he works with

and contributing to a new type of community at the UI. “This is a niche that isn't focused on,” Saravanan said.

As social media coordinator, Sánchez Aguilar said she runs the Instagram page and is excited about the growing

I'm just excited to meet people that can share at least a little bit of my culture.

— Lilliana Sanchez Aguilar, Vybz social media coordinator “There aren't a lot of orgs or communities for people that are Caribbean and/or South American.”

Vybz social media coordinator UI freshman Lilliana Sánchez Aguilar said she originally became involved when Saravanan, who was her Iowa Edge leader, talked about the organization during one of their meetings.

response to the page.

“I'm not from here, so I know nobody in the university, so that was another reason why I wanted to join because I felt like I could meet other people and hopefully other people that are also from the Caribbean,” she said. “I'm just excited to meet people that can share at least a little bit of my culture.”

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Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks in Coralville on Feb. 14.

Iowa needs a better ruling on SCOTUS

Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Sen. Joni Ernst speaks in Cedar Rapids on Oct. 18, 2019.

Our state’s two senators have said they support filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the election, revealing the structural obstatcles in the way of realizing American democracy.

BY DI EDITORIAL BOARD daily-iowan@uiowa.edu

It wasn’t too long ago Iowa’s senior senator, Chuck Grassley, said he wouldn’t consider a Supreme Court nominee in the year leading into an election.

He should’ve kept to his 2016 words.

Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics. Flip-flops, halftruths, and outright lies are part of the reality of writing about our elected officials.

But Iowa’s senators are taking a new, more egregious step by holding their party line on the recent vacancy in the highest court in the land.

The evidence And it didn’t have to be this way. The story has been recounted many times, but it’s important to lay out the facts for the record.

In February 2016, a Supreme Court seat became empty. President Obama exercised his constitutional duty to nominate a new justice, Judge Merrick Garland, who required confirmation from the Republican-held Senate.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led his party — including Grassley and Ernst — in

refusing to even hold hearings for the nominee. Our senior senator, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, attracted national attention for leading the procedural charge in this effort. They

So, the GOP had a will, stop the Obama nominee, and a way, a convenient albeit unused idea from Obama’s own vice president.

There’s not much value in relitigating the arguments of

The profound damage in which Grassley and Ernst are complicit is undeniable. We don’t expect much different, but it can’t pass by quietly. reasoned that the nomination was too close to the election, then nine months away.

“The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice,” Grassely said at the time. “This year is a tremendous opportunity for our country to have a sincere and honest debate about the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system of government.”

Similarly, Ernst supported Grassley’s position and voted to block Garland until there was a new president to make the appointment.

Republicans said they were following the “Biden Rule,” which was a 1992 suggestion from then-Sen. Joe Biden that election-year nominations were inappropriate. (There was no such actual vacancy at the time.)

a fight from more than four years ago. The point is that a precedent was set.

The argument Most institutional precedents last decades in American government; this one lasted four and half years.

We’ve got six weeks until the election and four months left in the current presidential term. Using the Republican argumentation from the Obama years, we’re way too close to voters picking the country’s next leader for there to be a new face on the bench.

In 2018, Grassley defended the newly enshrined process telling Iowa Press, “You can’t have one rule for Democrat presidents and another rule for Republican presidents.”

The senator has pointed to a 2016 letter penned by fellow legislators to McConnell emphasizing that during that election, unlike this year, Capitol Hill operated under a divided government with a Democratic White House and a Republican Senate. And the GOP expanded its majority in 2018 under a president of their own party.

“While there was ambiguity about the American people’s will for the direction of the Supreme Court in 2016 under a divided government, there is no such ambiguity in 2020,” Grassley says now.

But the solid Republican leadership doesn’t grap-

can be nominated just seven weeks ahead of when voters go to the polls?

The ruling This decision is more than senatorial power grab or political hardball. The legitimacy of the federal government is under threat. Perhaps that’s what the Republicans want, but for the party that claims to champion “law and order,” it’s impossible to see an ethical throughline.

Are Iowans supposed to simply accept the decisions made by a Supreme Court with multiple ill-gotten seats?

Are Iowans supposed to agree

Countless Americans have been shut out of the halls of power, with very few people having all the control. ple with an election year in which voters could vote out the president in less than days, a much shorter time frame than during the 2016 cycle.

If Grassley could veto a presidential pick for the highest court in the land nine months ahead of the election, why is it justified that one

that judicial review was legitimately impartial and not crudely partisan?

The profound damage in which Grassley and Ernst are complicit is undeniable. We don’t expect much different, but it can’t pass by quietly.

Aside from the drama of Washingtonian politics, there are some lessons to take for

those of us out here in the Hawkeye State.

Our form of government is severely broken in several ways. This past summer, Iowa and the country have heard incessant calls for racial justice with the demanded solution being systemic revolution. Countless Americans have been shut out of the halls of power, with very few people having all the control.

It’s striking to recognize that the current political crisis was caused by the death of one 87-year-old woman. This is not how a society should organize itself.

As Grassley and Ernst join in the latest strike against our democracy, we must — as Iowans and Americans — face forward to construct a better country.

Let’s rebuild and realize American democracy. Whether that includes more justices to dilute partisan influence; whether it means a more representative Senate with statehood for Washington, D.C. and imperial territories; whether it means a more wholesale reimagining of American government — we can’t continue on the path our representatives have put us.

A better world remains possible, but we have to make it.

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Court pick has me scared for my life

BY PEYTON DOWNING

peyton-downing@uiowa.edu I am afraid.

I am afraid for myself. I am afraid for my friends. And most importantly, I am afraid for every last member of the queer community.

On Friday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice, died. In her wake, she left a trail of decisions that has protected the rights of LGBTQ folk.

It is no exaggeration to say that without the late Justice Ginsburg, America’s laws would not look the way they do for a multitude of people.

Now, however, we are faced with a presidential administration that seems intent on destroying equality and protections for minorities, with a conservative Supreme Court that will let it run rampant.

To those of you who will claim that President Trump is pro-LGBTQ, I present all of the following: The Trump administration reversed the Obama-era decision of Title VII protections for transgender people, claiming that it does not cover gender identity.

Trump’s decision to tweet out a ban of all transgender people in the military, despite the fact that prior and subsequent reports showed that

transgender individuals have absolutely zero complications that would make them stand out from a cisgender individiual.

The administration’s proposal to allow adoption services to discriminate against homosexual couples.

These are but few of the vast

number of ways in which the sitting executive branch is aggressively seeking to erode the hard-won rights of our most vulnerable citizens.

It is not just the executive branch either — the Republicans in the House and Senate are just as, if not more so, hostile to LGBTQ people.

You don’t have to look further than the current Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a man whose voting records on LGBTQ issues makes it clear that he wants no gay marriages in his Christian, white nation.

There are also more Republicans presently running

Ginsburg’s replacement puts the rights of every queer person in the U.S. at risk. for office that stand to gain from attacking LGBTQ rights.

Candidates who have voted against bans on conversion therapy, backing from anti-LGBTQ groups, running ads targeting opponent’s sexual orientation, and more.

Now Republicans are aiming to fill the judiciary with

Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS The American flag flies at half staff in memory of late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on Monday.

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anti-LGBTQ judges up to the Supreme Court.

Freedoms and rights are not inherent, intrinsic things. Out in nature, they are not manifest in any given object or material. They are fought for, believed in, and brought into being by people who wish to make them.

Republicans will not fight for these freedoms. They will not fight for the right of LGBTQ people to live as themselves and be authentic, to seek their best lives openly.

They have proven time and time again, through anti-trans bathroom bills, targeted platforms against LGBTQ rights, and more, that they are unwilling to protect all citizens of the United States of America.

The Supreme Court is one of the last bastions of defense for rights. Where Brown v. Board of Education was decided and segregation was, at least on the books, made illegal. Where Aimee Stephens won the right to be openly transgender in your workplace.

With Justice Ginsberg’s passing, that bastion may be falling.

I don’t know who you are.

I don’t care who you are. Just know that if you vote red this coming election, then you vote against every single non-cis and non-straight person in this country.

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some of her male colleagues will often talk over her or other women, and express a certain kind of self-confidence that makes some women feel timid.

“I have tried to do the opposite of being timid or being self-conscious about being a female attorney, and I am now more than ever pretty dedicated to showing how female attorneys are in the courtroom,” Boyd said. “So, I engage in all the activities I can to show that female attorneys are strong and powerful in the sense that we belong here, but I cannot say that it's always been easy.”

UI Clinical Associate Professor of Law Alison Guernsey has been practicing law as a federal public defender since 2010 and said she constantly has to think about how she’s presenting herself in a courtroom. She said you can’t teach professionalism without talking about gender identity, because unfortunately, many stereotypes of women coming across as mean or abrasive still exist.

Guernsey said she’s been referred to as a paralegal and a student while in a courtroom, and that she’s had jurors comment on the shoes she was wearing while defending a case.

“And these are things that I don't think would necessarily happen to men,” Guernsey said. “Although one would hope that it would get better with time, I don't think we've reached a critical mass of women in the legal profession, such that our default as to what it means to be a trial lawyer has started to change.”

She said she felt a deep sadness when learning about Ginsburg’s death, because she said the former justice really embodied what it meant to use a position of power for the greater good of people.

“What has been striking to me is that despite the fact that my law students are a number of years younger than I am at this point, [RBG] still really makes the same impression on the younger generation of students … as she did on me,” Guernsey said. “She was a huge motivator for students.”

According to a 2018 report from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than one in three lawyers are women, but men still have some of the highest salaries. At mid-career, the top 10 percent of women lawyers earn about $300,000 a year, while the top 10 percent of male lawyers make about

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CONTINUED FROM FRONT doing some things based on what's happened in these previous battles,” he said.

While the battle over the Supreme Court vacancy is deeply political, Hagle said he wants to give his class the historical and constitutional context for what's happening in the news and avoid favoring one political argument over another.

President Trump has made it clear that he wants to choose a nominee before the Nov. 3 election, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would try to get a nomination process going before the election.

Many Democrats and some Republicans are opposed to Trump’s efforts to fast-track

$500,000 a year.

A 2018 report from Vault and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association found that, out of the 232 law firms they surveyed, only 9 percent of attorneys were women of color, and only 2 percent of attorneys were Black women.

Adrien Wing, associate dean for international and comparative law programs at the UI, wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan that she identified more with her race than gender while studying law at Stanford University in 1979. She said there were very few female students and even fewer Black female students and only one Black faculty member.

Wing said she experienced sexual harassment in many of her jobs at various organizations.

“Speaking with almost 40 years’ experience, I can tell you that women have faced and will continue to face problems that most men do not,” Wing wrote. “These include proper handling of leave for pregnancy and initial childcare as there is still no paid maternity leave as a national policy in the United States.”

Wing said she spent three days with Ginsburg in Paris in 2013 while Ginsburg was teaching at Tulane Law

School’s summer program, and Wing was an inspector of that program for the American Bar Association.

Wing said that Ginsburg told her, “You know Adrien, there are people that want me to retire, but I won’t.”

Wing said Ginsburg said it with such force and strength,

leadership roles, especially women of color, but I also love how many women are so involved in the law school,” Lavery said. “It's awesome to have peers who are my friends and who are strong women doing really cool things — it’s a really strong bond. And I do think it makes

What has been striking to me is that despite the fact that my law students are a number of years younger than I am at this point, [RBG] still really makes the same impression on the younger generation of students … as she did on me.

— Alison Guernsey, UI clinical associate professor of law and that it was a really powerful moment.

UI law student Emily Lavery, 23, co-president of the Iowa Student Bar Association, said she was shocked to learn about Ginsburg’s death because “she seemed like an unstoppable force.”

Lavery said that while she has experienced instances of microaggressions such as being mansplained to or having to abide by an unspoken dress code, she feels respected and appreciated as a woman leader in the law school.

“I think there's always room for more women in

[the school] more inclusive and to know that we can all do this.”

Lavery, along with other female law students and staff, expressed concern over the possibility that President Trump and the Republican-majority U.S. Senate could potentially fast-track a nomination process for a Trump-appointed justice.

A Trump nominee could potentially turn the tables against rulings dealing with women’s reproductive rights, the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, and the rights of undocumented immigrants.

Hannah McDevitt, co-president to Lavery of the Iowa Student Bar Association, said it’s encouraging that Trump said he plans to nominate a woman, and that it’s hard to predict what the impacts of a new justice could be.

She said something particularly inspiring to her about Ginsburg was her ability to balance the roles of being an attorney, a wife, a mother, and then ultimately a judge on the nation’s highest court.

McDevitt added that she’s grateful for the opportunities available for women in law today that weren’t as accessible 50 years ago.

“My identity as a woman definitely affects the lens through which I see the world, just like any other personal characteristic does,” McDevitt said. “But that identity doesn't affect the way in which we're called to objectively analyze the law.”

UI third-year law student Chandler Mores, 25, said she’s “terrified” of how a Trump nominee could potentially rule on many human rights issues, and that she thinks the Senate should uphold what they did in 2016 when they blocked former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee after the passing of justice Antonin Scalia.

Mores said as a woman law student and having to read about cases that stripped women and minorities of some rights take a toll on your emotional and mental health.

“If you look at the recent Supreme Court decisions and how close those decisions were … [the case] about LGBTQ people and how they cannot be discriminated against in the workplace, and the DACA case, the citizenship question, gay marriage — all of those were close decisions,” said Mores, senior managing editor of the Iowa law Review.

Mores said she’s worked alongside women attorneys who have been referred to as “secretary” or been called names like “honey” by men in the office. Mores said she’s experienced more indirect gender discrimination, like being characterized behind her back as a “bitch” or as being “too assertive” when arguing about something she’s passionate about.

“The female professors that I've taken classes from,” Mores said, “they’re women that I really admire, they’re my role models and my mentors, and I'm forever grateful for what they've taught me both in the classroom and outside.”

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan A memorial, likely for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died a day earlier, sits outside the Johnson County Courthouse on Sept. 19. a nomination process, because in 2016, Republicans in the Senate would not hold a hearing for former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

“I don't see it as my place to try to convince them one way or the other, as far as these arguments,” he said. “My approach is always, ‘OK, this is what this side is saying this is what this side is saying …’ I will tell them somebody’s just not making a correct argument here as far as what the Constitution says and doesn’t say.”

Incorporating the current nomination process into class has its challenges as it updates by the hour as more news comes out, but Hagle said it keeps the class interesting.

“The slight problem we've got in this particular instance is that I won’t get to that material for a couple of weeks

and it's happening right now,” Hagle said. “I wanted to provide at least a little bit of context to the students, because we're going to talk about stuff later on that will make sense of what’s going on now.”

and the strides she made for women’s rights. While Kerber isn’t teaching classes this semester, she said that if she were, she would want to teach about Ginsburg’s legacy as a pioneer of gender equality.

She’s the generation of path makers who made my career possible.

— Ann Estin, associate dean for faculty and family law professor UI law Professor Andy Grewal, UI history Professor Emerita Linda Kerber, and Northwestern University law Professor Paul Gowder will hold a panel Wednesday titled “Justice Ginsburg’s Legacy and the Supreme Court’s future.”

Kerber said she wants to use her time on the panel to focus on the historical world that Ginsburg began her career in,

Kerber noted in an interview that when Ginsburg graduated law school, discrimination on the basis of sex wasn’t illegal.

“So, you can privilege one sex over the other, or you can burden one sex instead of the other,” she said. “And that permeates our world so that people don’t even have words for it, they don’t need it. There’s no phrase ‘sex dis-

crimination.’ That’s not in the dictionaries.”

Kerber said while teaching law in the early ‘60s, Ginsburg created one of the first courses in sex discrimination in the country, and even when the idea was not well known, she collaborated with other professors and lawyers to write one of the first case books on sex discrimination.

Kerber also said she wanted people to understand that while Ginsburg is rightfully lauded as a defender of women’s rights, she also afforded men rights that they didn’t have before she began her career, such as social-security compensation for men whose spouses had died.

“She is as strongly a defender of men, and men nowadays have many rights which they did not have before Ruth Ginsburg defended them,” Kerber said.

Ann Estin, associate dean for faculty and family law professor, said she began a class this week with a photo of Ginsburg on her lecture slides and took time to honor her memory during class. Estin was teaching this week on the parental rights of unmarried parents, and she said Ginsburg advanced gender equality in areas of family law.

“It was an appropriate place to mention Justice Ginsburg, who was very committed to eradicating those kinds of distinctions that limited not just women but also men,” she said.

Estin said she also highlighted in class Ginsburg’s legacy as a pioneer for women in the legal profession.

“She’s the generation of path makers who made my career possible, and that’s something I have gratitude for,” Estin said.

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Regina teaching in tents as students return to in-person instruction Students are adapting to longer classes with their new block schedule. To give them some fresh air and a break from wearing PPE all day, some teachers have started bringing the students outside.

BY NATALIE DUNLAP

natalie-dunlap@uiowa.edu When Regina High School students returned to in-person instruction, they had to adjust to a new schedule, with four classes a day that lasted an hour and a half. To split up these long periods and give students a break from wearing personal protective equipment, some teachers have been bringing students outside for a few minutes each period.

While public schools in the Iowa City community are waiting until Sept. 28 to enter physical classrooms again, the Regina Catholic Education Center brought back students earlier and began in-person classes on Aug. 24.

Regina High School Junior and Senior Principal Glenn Plummer said he would estimate that 78 percent of students are on campus full time.

“Despite the extras that

we have in place for preventive measures, it’s been pretty much like a normal school year,” he said.

Preventative measures include required face coverings and desks placed at least six feet apart, Plummer said. Students are in four long classes every day, instead of eight short classes, and the class schedule alternates each day, he said.

He added that Regina High School has also lim-

ited how many students can eat in the cafeteria at a time and started using other spaces, including the outdoors, for lunch time.

Mask breaks emerged as another use of outdoor spaces. Regina High School English teacher Clark McFerren said he has often brought his students outside for class.

“Any day it’s been nice weather, even some days where it hasn’t been, as long as the rain stopped,”

McFerren said. “We've got the 90-minute block periods and I try about 45 minutes in to take my kids out and let them walk.”

When students can stay 10 to 12 feet away from each other, McFerren said he lets them take off their masks for a few minutes. Sometimes he will do this in two different trips, depending on the class size.

He added that the breaks have become an expectation for the students.

Jeff Sigmund/The Daily Iowan A tent stands in the courtyard at Regina school 2050 Rochester Ave. It serves as outdoor classroom and cafeteria. As seen on Monday.

“They’ll remind me if I’ve gone over my 45 minutes,” McFerren said.

Regina High School theology and religion teacher Shelly Conlon said she designates a student as a “break master” for each class that changes frequently.

“I would be teaching and teaching and teaching — you kind of forget that they've been sitting there the whole time,” she said. “And I would feel bad for them sitting so long, so eventually I was like, ‘Alright, one of you has to remind me that we’re going to take a break.’”

Similar to McFerren, she said she will take her students out once every period. When they are seated 10 feet apart, Conlon said, she lets them remove their masks for a few minutes before heading back in.

Both McFarren and Conlon said these short trips outside only function as a way to give students some fresh air and a PPE break for themselves, as well. McFerren said when students have the chance to do work outside, they often get distracted, and Conlon said she would need to bring equipment outside to teach online students at the same time.

McFerren, Conlon and Plummer all praised the students’ abilities to follow safety guidelines.

“I think they understand that the health of their friends, sports teams, activities, depend on everybody managing to stay healthy,” McFerren said.

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IOWA SPORTS CONTINUED FROM 8A message about financial hardship as well as various figures thrown around in the press conferences about financial need for the Athletic Department as a reason to end these four Olympic sports," the group wrote. "We want to engage in that conversation, but short of that we want to begin by removing the burden on the Athletic Department in order to reinstate the four sports. That’s why we have taken the effort to begin to raise the money needed.

No other university with comparable heritage of intercollegiate athletics has taken such drastic measures to terminate entire programs, and more than 70 years of alumni will not stand idly by

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Marshall said she has not been able to work out at all during her isolation period.

Her symptoms were mild, and she doesn’t anticipate any issues with her cardiac test. When she gets back into workouts and practice, Marshall said, she’s sure she will be able to regain her endurance.

Czinano said that after more than a month off, the entire team is working on getting back into full shape for the season. Despite some sparse practices, she is grateful to be practicing again.

“I think it’s just so nice to finally be able to get into practicing,” Czinano said. “That’s when a lot of bonding on the court really happens, and you get to really know your teammates.”

Head coach Lisa Bluder is especially impressed

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The UI invested $5.5 million into the pool’s original construction.

The UI allocated another $6 million into it for repairs last summer.

The facility hosted the Big Ten Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships last

to let it happen."

The group went on to write that the $1.65 million pledged since yesterday is "just the beginning."

"We want to make sure that these sports are restored in the short term as we work on longer-term solutions for how to continue in perpetuity," the group wrote. "This is what Hawkeyes do, we come together."

In addition to the fundraising, the group is also working on a model to help the UI finance not only the four sports that are slated for discontinuation, but the athletic department as a whole.

"We are talking with attorneys and financial advisors about our position and how we could legally structure an organization that could fund these sports, with the goal of creating a model

that could be used by colleges and universities across the nation," the group wrote.

"After all, the butterfly stroke in swimming doesn’t have to be the only thing created by Iowa swimmers.

"We’d rather work with you. But our eyes are wide open to a number of serious financial problems at the Athletic department and we have concerns that we hope will also be addressed as well as proactive ideas to share."

Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta has previously stated that no private funding will be accepted by the athletic department to save the sports in question. He also made it clear that Iowa football's return this fall would not save the four discontinued sports. while Brooke finished fourth.

In both years their team won the state title.

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Ayrton Breckenridge/Daily Iowan Mark Kaufman speaks at the save swim meeting outside the IMU on Aug. 29. He is an alumni and was a student athletic trainer at the University of Iowa.

with the freshmen on the team, who have come into workouts with a good mindset despite the unusual circumstances.

“I’m really happy with our four freshmen and how they’ve just come into our system ready to contribute,” Bluder said. “Very positive, very competitive …

They’re prepared for this, and we’re really excited and welcoming them with open arms.”

Health and safety protocols require the team to wear masks at times during practice.

While it has been an adjustment, the team isn’t having any major issues with masking up.

Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Czinano said that it makes the team Iowa guard Gabbie Marshall passes the ball during a women’s basketball game between Iowa and Penn State at Carver Hawkeye Arena on Feb. 22, . The Hawkeyes defeated the better, in a way, Nittany Lions, 100-57. for sure,” Czinano said. “I ever have to play basketball and the players talk about how much easier it will be the mask off. when they can finally take “It definitely is harder, never in my life thought I’d with a mask on.” year, and was set to host the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in March 2021.

The Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Center opened in 2006. Since opening, the center has hosted the 2008 Big Ten Men’s Tennis Championships, the 2010 Big Ten Women’s Tennis Championships, the 2015 Big Ten Men’s Tennis Championships, and the 2018 Big Ten Men’s Tennis Championships.

Many argue that history of the sport at Iowa is

another key criterion.

In the case of swimming and diving, the history may be richer than that of any sport at Iowa. The program is 103 years old.

Former Hawkeye head coach David Armbuster and swimmer Jack Sieg also invented the Butterfly stroke at the Field House on the UI campus in the 1930s.

“Anytime you watch the Olympics and see Michael Phelps doing his signature stroke, that was invented right here at the University of Iowa,” senior swimmer

Sage Ohlensehlen said. “. . . A lot of stuff happened at the University of Iowa regarding swimming, and a lot is still happening.

“Iowa has a lot of history about swimming, but we’re trying to make more history about swimming,” Ohlensehlen said. “We’re still working on improving the stroke. When you take this program away, you’re taking away a huge piece of history from swimming as a sport.”

The history of the men’s tennis program is also deeply rooted at Iowa.

The first recorded team competition took place in 1898.

“One of the pictures that came out recently was a photo of the Iowa tennis team back in the 1950s, when they were Big Ten champions,” senior Jason Kerst said. “Our outdoor courts are the Don Klotz tennis courts. Don Klotz was the coach back then.

So, that photo was just a snapshot of history. Our program is over 100 years old. . . these decisions are opening the door for eroding a history that is so

far beyond our university.”

The last highly contested criterion is recent success of the programs. All four teams were solid in 201920.

The men’s tennis team finished the season at 20th in the ITA rankings.

The swimming and diving teams produced six NCAA qualifiers and broke 12 program records. The men’s gymnastics team finished the season ranked sixth in the Big Ten. Junior Bennet Huang ranked fourth in the nation in allaround.

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O’Donnell breaks down Iowa men’s basketball

ESPN and college basketball analyst Mike O’Donnell recently analyzed film from Iowa men’s basketball games on Twitter.

His first post on the team regarded Iowa senior center Luka Garza. O’Donnell said that Garza is the best player in college basketball and embodies three attributes that make him an unstoppable force, which are toughness, skill, and patience.

“He’s strong yet balanced,” O’Donnell tweeted. “Aggressive yet patient. Truly, a one of a kind talent.”

In the same tweet, O’Donnell posted a one-minute-and-35-second video of him analyzing Garza’s abilities.

In his second post, O’Donnell analyzed the Hawkeyes’ offense on a possession against Illinois on Feb. 2 that finishes with Garza dunking the ball.

“The @IowaHoops offense is lethal,” O’Donnell tweeted. “They have elite 3pt shooting & unselfishness. But there is something else that’s makes Iowa so hard to guard …”

O’Donnell said this was cutting with the intent to score and that every player is a threat because every movement is a potential bucket. The @IowaHoops account retweeted this post.

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$1.65 million pledged to Save Iowa Sports group In addition to the release of the $1.65 million pledge figure, the Save Iowa Sports group also penned an open letter to University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld.

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan The Hawkeyes huddle together after a Men’s gymnastics meet against The University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Hawkeyes won with a final team score of 400.00

SEC football is back After the Big 12 and ACC started playing two weeks ago, the SEC will start its season on Saturday with every team in the conference playing. The conference will be playing a 10-game, conference-only schedule this season.

There will be one AP Top 25 matchup on Saturday in the conference, which is No. 23 Kentucky at No. 8 Auburn. It’s an 11 a.m. game on the SEC Network.

Five SEC teams are ranked in the top 10 and are expected to win this weekend. No. 2 Alabama will play at 6 p.m. at Missouri on ESPN. No. 4 Georgia will travel to Arkansas for a 3 p.m. game on the SEC Network.

No. 5 Florida will also take a trip on the road, going to Ole Miss for an 11 a.m. game on ESPN. The defending national champions, No. 6 LSU, will play in the 2:30 p.m. on CBS against Mississippi State. No. 10 Texas A&M will play at home against Vanderbilt at 6:30 p.m. on the SEC Network Alternate channel.

According to betting odds, the closet game of the day should be No. 16 Tennessee at South Carolina, which will be broadcast on the SEC Network at 6:30 p.m.

Tennessee is favored by 3.5 points.

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austin-hanson@uiowa.edu

In just under 24 hours, $1.65 million has been pledged to the Save Iowa Sports group. The group launched the pledgebased fundraising campaign Monday afternoon as part of a

larger effort to revive Hawkeye men's and women's swim and dive, men's tennis, and men's gymnastics — all of which will be discontinued at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, barring something unforeseen.

The $1.65 million was first reported by the Associated

Press and confirmed to The Daily Iowan by the Save Iowa Sports group.

In addition to the dollar figure, the group released an open letter to University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld. The letter was signed

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Chairman Mark Kaufman, former Hawkeye football captain Matt Purdy, and former Iowa swimmers Emma Sougstad, Ron Kaminski, Vickie Nauman, and Dave Carpenter.

In the letter, the group requested a sit-down meeting

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Women’s basketball team Studentadjusts to unusual practices athletes weigh The team started practices later than planned after the athletics department suspended practices the first week of September.

– Iowa women’s basketball player Monika Czinano on doing practices with a face covering

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College football games featuring at least one AP Top 25 team will be played this weekend.

in on program history, criteria for cuts Student-athletes had a chance to share their thoughts on the history of their respective sports at Iowa at a press conference Monday.

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“I never in my life thought I’d ever have to play basketball with a mask on.”

with Harreld to discuss how the four discontinued sports programs could be revived at Iowa. According to the letter, Harreld has until the end of business hours on Wednesday to respond to the group's request.

"We have heard your

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Shivansh Ahujar/Daily Iowan Iowa forward Monika Czinano looks to shoot during a women's basketball match between Iowa and Indiana at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. The Hawkeyes defeated the Hoosiers, 91-85, in double overtime.

BY CHLOE PETERSON

chloe-peterson@uiowa.edu The NCAA announced on Sept. 16 a Nov. 25 start date for men’s and women’s basketball, two weeks later than the original Nov. 10 start date.

The extra two weeks before the season will be beneficial for the Iowa women’s basketball team that has not had much time to practice this semester so far. After voluntary workouts over the summer, the team had August off, and all athletic workouts were suspended from Aug. 31 to Sept. 7, following an uptick in COVID-19 cases in the athletics department.

Without access to Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the team took advantage of the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center to do lifting

and cardio workouts. By now, the team has gotten used to unconventional workouts.

“We definitely had to get creative over this whole COVID season,” junior forward/center Monika Czinano said. “Our strength coach does a great job of sending us workouts, just making sure that we’re doing what we can even when we don’t have Carver.”

The team started official practices after Labor Day, but not everyone has been able to participate.

“Some drills are really tough to do with just six people,” Czinano said. “There will be some practices where we don’t have everybody, so it’s just kind of getting adjusted and adapting to whatever is happening at that time.”

Sophomore guard Gabbie Marshall has been unable to practice with the team this semester because she tested positive for COVID-19. She SEE BASKETBALL, 7A

Since University of Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta and President Bruce Harreld announced that men’s tennis, men’s gymnastics, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving would all be discontinued at Iowa at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, debate has raged on with regard to the validity of the decision.

In a frequently-asked-questions document released in tandem with Barta and Harreld’s statement on the cuts, the administration provided the criteria it used to determine what sports got the axe.

Current and future facilities opportunities, current and future prospect for success of the sport, historical competitive success, history of the sport at Iowa, and impact on student-athlete experience across all sports, now and in the future, were just a few of the criteria listed as reasoning for the cuts.

Current and future facilities opportunities, or lack thereof, is one of the key touchstones of present debate.

The Olympic swimming facility within UI Campus Recreation and Wellness is SEE CUT, 7A

Pulling back the curtain on an unknown future With cuts to funding and its doors closed to the public because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hancher staff wrestles with what awaits them in the second act of the show.

BY MADISON LOTENSCHTEIN

madison-lotenschtein@uiowa.edu It’s a normal Friday evening at Hancher Auditorium, where University of Iowa marketing student Paris Sissel works as a house manager. The front-of-house staff arrives 45 minutes before the doors open, a briefing on the event takes place in a small, tucked away office, and some setting up is done by the ushers, all clad in emerald-and-black jackets.

The performance starts only a minute or two after 7:30 p.m. The sounds of a symphony or melodic voices of a touring musical group delight audiences and a few lucky ushers who have been assigned the role of “aisle captain.”

The patrons exit the building when it ends, some big names or donors dawdling a few extra hours to chat, and the staff begins to clean up.

A routine such as this one has been put on hold for Hancher patrons and staff since COVID-19 swept through Iowa City in midMarch, causing the performing-arts venue to shut its doors, leaving Sissel and more than a hundred other student employees to find alternative means of income.

For Sissel, this also means missing the real-world, arts-management experience her job at the auditorium provided.

“I’ve transitioned into wanting to go into arts management, so Hancher is just so important in that aspect because it’s right up

that same alley,” Sissel said. “Personally, I was university. Student success is important to us just sad … Hancher became a really big part of and we hear from students all the time how my life these last three years, I’ve made some much they learn working at Hancher.”

Victoria McFadden, a theatre major at the of my best friends through Hancher.”

On the brink of celebrating its 50th anniver- UI and former usher at Hancher, said her job allowed her sary in two to experience more years, Hancher has Hancher became a really big part of my life various kinds of art forms. seen – and “I got paid will continue these last three years, I've made some of my best to watch theto see – sev- friends through Hancher.' atre, so that eral changes was kind of to its proa dream, and g r a m m i n g , — Paris Sissel, UI marketing student the people funding, and who worked there were really really great,” operations.

The theater announced that it would cancel McFadden said. “I made a lot of friends the remainder of its spring season just one there.”

McFadden felt saddened when Hancher day after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds declared a State Public Health Disaster Emergen- closed its doors to the public, and that the cy March 17. Not only did this mean losing arts in general as a took such a steep hit from crowds sometimes upward of 1,500 people, it COVID-19.

“The arts took a hit everywhere because of also meant that student employees could no the pandemic, and for people whose lives relonger work.

Hancher employs around 150 students in volve around the arts, especially for work, it’s a typical year, said Executive Director Chuck been kind of hard to cope knowing that we Swanson, making it one of the larger student don’t know when it’s coming back,” she said. employers on campus.

“I miss being in that space.”

“Our staff takes seriously the role of menThe UI announced July 10 that it would toring students who work at Hancher,” cut its General Education Fund assistance Swanson said. “We are committed to giving to Hancher over the course of the next three students opportunities to learn skills that are years. The fund consists of an annual $1.5 miltransferable to other jobs once they leave the lion. According to an email to The Daily Iowan

from UI Assistant Vice President for External Relations Jeneane Beck, Hancher is to become self-sustaining like the Athletics Department and others on campus.

The General Education Fund from the UI pays for most full-time employee salaries, Swanson said. The funding also paid for the student assistants – who supervised the hourly students – who were also full-time staff.

Swanson said Hancher is considering several ways to create a sustainable income as its largest source of funding slowly fades away.

One method is to do more, however, with less people — including student assistants.

“We have to look at everything, and our student assistantship program requires funding that we may not be able to sustain,” he said.

“That is very sad to us.”

There are currently a couple of open positions at Hancher – a Community and Campus Engagement Manager and Performance Event Management Specialist – but Swanson doubts either will be filled. The university’s funding helped Hancher be what it is today, Swanson said, and while he doesn’t want to change Hancher’s mission, the performing-arts center will have to change what it does.

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Eye of the Tiger

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Slippery When Wet

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Ratched

BY DANI HOPKINS

ddhopkins@uiowa.edu American Horror Story is a wellknown show that captivates viewers with its gore and horror as it changes from season to season. The creators of the show released a new series, called Ratched — which will hit Netflix on Sept. 18 — holds a new captivating story set in a psychiatric ward.

The show takes place in 1947 at Lucia State Hospital in northern California. Main character Mildred Ratched will do anything to get a job as a nurse at the hospital, but once she’s been hired, chaos ensues.

The hospital is notorious for treating difficult patients who often need to be sedated to keep the other nurses safe. Ratched takes an interest in these patients — but there is a twist.

Per the series’ trailer, it seems as though the nurse wishes them to “be gone” as she is simultaneously taking care of them, with the mindset that there is no hope for rehabilitation for

her patients.

Throughout the trailer, Ratched’s plan doesn’t make much sense as she tries to help people while destroying others. She seems to show sympathy and compassion to some of the patients, but the viewer is left guessing what her motive truly is.

A conflict arises between the man who runs the organization and Ratched. He tells her it was a mistake for him to hire her, though the viewer doesn’t know yet whether this is true or not.

The show is full of suspense caused by the tactics that were used in hospitals during the 1940s, including one of the most horrific — lobotomies.

Ratched’s backstory is only briefly discussed in the trailer, which only lets on that she was previously a nurse in the army. Ratched noted that she wishes she would have been shown mercy, leading into the mystery of how this horrible nurse came to be.

THIS WEEK IN REVIEW: The Social Dilemma

BY TATIANA PLOWMAN

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will make you contemplate deleting every single application off of your phone. The questions will remain lingering in your head days later, despite the documentary itself providing only surface level inTHE S OC formation. But IA L perhaps that is the goal — for the audience to dive deeper into the effects that social media has o v e r us.

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a former Google designer, and former Pinterest president Tim Kendall do not shy away from the behind-the-scenes action of working for social media companies. As many other individuals in the documentary, they played a part in building the addiction-machines.

All interviewees openly shared their feelings of guilt and remorse over the effects they have inadvertently inflicted onto society. It made myself feel a bit shameful about the amount of time I spend on social media platforms.

If you’ve been searching for ways to reduce your social media usage, this documentary will definitely provide you with them. The Social Dilemma

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family.

The cut-aways to this simulation features Booksmart star Skyler Gisondo and breakout Moonrise Kingdom star Kara Hayward. These dramatizations feel awkward and misplaced at first, but quickly establish relatability with every individual. The film shows the human tendency to constantly answer texts and find out what everyone else is doing.

Hearing the voices of individuals who worked directly in the social media industry is haunting.

They bring new insight to the world of social media and the development of the addiction to social media.

Former tech employees such as Tristan Harris,

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After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, The Social Dilemma made its way onto Netflix on Sept. 9. This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact that social networking has on our society. The timing of this documentary’s release couldn’t have happened at a more prevalent time: Society must rely on social media and our digital screens more than ever.

The documentary echoes the same information that has been drilled into our ears for years — to be careful when using social media platforms. However, this documentary excels by

including interviews with technology experts who once worked for some of the most popular companies such as Google and Facebook. Each one details the harmful effects they have witnessed first hand working behind the scenes.

The Social Dilemma designs itself as a horror film. The sound effects send a pulse through your entire body. Edited in a way to grasp your attention, the film enables audiences to not divert their attention from the screen. Not only does The Social Dilemma take the traditional documentary route by including interviews, it sharply cuts to a fictional story examining how social media impacts the lives of one suburban

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HANCHER CONTINUED FROM 1B to provide tickets to students for only $10, but that too may need to be reconsidered.

Swanson added that the theater is trying to brainstorm ways to raise more money.

Hancher is not situated in a metropolitan area, Swanson said, so it would be incredibly difficult to host shows that run three to four weeks like Hamilton. Hancher would not make enough of a profit in the box office to sustain itself.

“As we have our work plan

ahead of us, we’re going to have to really dig deep … because a million and a half to us is a lot of money — that’s a significant amount of money,” Swanson said. “But that’s an investment the university has made and that has given us the opportunity to do the things that Hancher has done.”

In addition to these changes, Swanson and Hancher Programming Director Paul Brohan have been concentrating on the theater’s fall 2020 season, and how it can deliver the performing arts to Iowa City.

Brohan is working to engage audiences virtually with

artists who were scheduled for this season. Most of these plans have yet to be released to the public, and Hancher has officially had just one online and free event this fall —

ing history of hosting artists and exploring issues that are relevant to our society and our culture,” Brohan said.

“And we have a long history of heightening the issues of

We want to carry on what Hancher has been and I don't want to diminish the significance of Hancher being one of the leading presenters in the country.'

— Chuck Swanson, Hancher Executive Director a virtual world premiere with Step Afrika!’s latest dance project, ‘Stono,’ on Sept. 9.

“Hancher has a longstand-

African Americans and Black Americans. And this is a relationship with Step Afrika! that could not be more timely

and is not accidental.”

Hancher’s stages and facilities will not remain completely empty this semester, however. A week before classes started, Swanson received word that the UI Dance Department – located in Halsey Hall – was short on space to rehearse while practicing social distancing. When the department reached out to the auditorium, Swanson said he wanted to help and decided to let the dancers use the Strauss Rehearsal Hall and Hadley Stage.

“Collaboration and empathy for others are important to Hancher, so it didn’t take us long to find a way to offer

spaces to our friends from the Dance Department,” Swanson said. “This makes us happy and fits well with our goal of working with students and being the largest classroom on campus.”

With changes and the unknown bright on the horizon, Swanson said he still wants Hancher to be one of the leading fine arts presenters in the U.S. “We want to carry on what Hancher has been and I don’t want to diminish the significance of Hancher being one of the leading presenters in the country,” Swanson said.

“I really want to continue that.”

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Disney’s Mulan remake lacks spirit that made the animated original beloved The live-action adaptation of Disney’s Mulan takes out everything that gave the story heart and replaces it with cringeworthy stunt work.

BY JENNA POST

jenna-post@uiowa.edu Disney’s live-action Mulan has received a lot of criticism.

Between its $30 price on a streaming service that users already pay for, to its lead actress’ support of the Hong Kong police, it’s no wonder an international movement has developed to boycott the remake.

There is so much to criticize about the film itself even beyond these glaring issues, which is where my primary focus will be.

Disney said it aimed to take a more realistic approach to Mulan’s story. It’s for this reason the musical numbers we know and love, Mushu the dragon, and Mulan’s lucky cricket were removed from this version.

While I have no problem with their absence from the film, I do take issue with the claim this choice was part of a decision to make the adaptation more realistic, because in this version, Mulan has superpowers. Yeah. Superpowers.

Mulan’s powers come from the traditional Chinese belief of Qi, the energy that’s responsible for a person’s life force. In this film, Mulan has powerful Qi, which she uses to kick projectiles in midair and run on walls. It also gives her unnatural strength and speed.

As far as historical accuracy goes, the original Mulan of the Chinese ballad does not have

Qi superpowers. I see that Disney was trying to tie Chinese tradition into the film, but Qi doesn’t fit in this story.

For men, Qi is considered a warrior’s blessing. For women, however, having powerful Qi makes you a witch. Because of these rules, the conflict in the movie becomes Mulan’s hiding being a woman after she fails to hide her Qi while posing as a man.

This change to Disney’s original animated feature undermines the message of Mulan entirely.

In the animated version, we see Mulan fail to meet both the expectations of a traditional woman and a traditional man. Instead, she uses her cleverness – which wasn’t valued by the women or men in her life – to lead the army to victory. She relies on her own abilities instead of the abilities she’s expected to have as a woman or a man. Being herself is her strength.

In the live-action version, Mulan faces no challenges other than hiding her true identity because Qi makes her good at everything.

What’s the message there?

That people shouldn’t be sexist when a woman has talents that are exploitable? Groundbreaking.

The addition of Qi also diminishes the sacrifice Mulan makes for her father by taking his place in the war. The animated Mulan knows that she’s not a warrior and could easily

die — strengthening the power of her sacrifice. Live-action Mulan can kick arrows out of the air.

The other striking difference between the two Mulans is their personalities. Animated Mulan is witty, brave, and an important role model for young women. Live-action Mulan lacks all of these

qualities and I couldn’t find anything particularly likable about her.

In addition to the complete lack of a meaningful lesson, the film editing is bizarre.

The shots linger and zoom in on moments that don’t need those angles and cuts away from action shots so quickly that it’s difficult to keep track

of what exactly is going on.

My best guess is that these odd editing choices are to hide the sloppy wire work they used to make Mulan run on walls. While I understand that the wire stunts are paying homage to classic kung-fu movies – affectionately nicknamed “wire-fu” by fans – there’s no denying that it just

looked bad.

Under no circumstances should you waste $30 to watch this. Watch the animated version instead. Aside from a few dated jokes that should be acknowledged, the original movie’s message still holds up. There’s no reason to let the remake ruin your childhood nostalgia.

Jasin Boland/Disney Enterprises/TNS Yifei Liu stars as the title character in Mulan.

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UI artist creates earth-friendly art Fourth-year University of Iowa student, Ericka Barloon, uses the materials from her to-go meals to create art and reduce waste.

BY JENNA POST

jenna-post@uiowa.edu After finishing their takeout from University of Iowa dining halls, most students see the paper to-go boxes provided to them as trash and throw them in their waste bins without a second thought. Fourth-year student Ericka Barloon, however, sees an opportunity to create art.

For as long as she can remember, Barloon has been an artist. The music-education major won several art contests in high school for her oil paintings, and her mother even has framed paintings she made when she was three years old. Barloon has also been a singer all her life, and starred as Beth March in the UI’s production of Little Women Opera when she was only a sophomore.

As a full-time college student and Resident Assistant in Burge Hall, Barloon has less time to devote to her artistic hobbies, but still loves working with oil paintings, photography, and most recently, flowers using recycled materials.

Generally, Barloon paints humans, specifically dancers — which are some of her favorite subjects. Her primary subject matter switched to flowers, how-

Raquele Decker/The Daily Iowan Ericka Barloon poses for a portrait outside of Currier Residence Hall on Tuesday. Barloon is a senior RA this year. uses the leftover color for “paint” and the white compostable paper take-out containers as a canvas.

“I got a bunch of raspber-

I encourage people to reduce and reuse since we don't have the option to recycle anymore —Ericka Barloon, UI fourth-year student ever, when she started using leftovers to make art because of the food’s coloration. The artist said she

ries one day and there was all this pigmented juice left over and I thought, ‘Well, I could make something.

Might as well not throw it away',” she said.

In addition to raspberries, Barloon has used soy sauce, mustard, and salsa for coloration. She said art and recycling both make her feel good about herself.

“I feel so capable doing art,” Barloon said. “It’s such a cool skill that not everybody has. I really like working with hard and fine details and getting to see what you made when you’re done.”

With recycling no longer

an option in the residence halls, Barloon said she’s glad she found a way to reduce waste. Her paintings are completely biodegradable.

According to Global Citizen, the average American produces 1704 pounds of garbage per year, which is approximately three times the global average. The same report found that only about 16 percent of recyclable materials are actually recycled in the U.S. Global Citizen also reported that trash is the U.S.’s

number one export to China because landfills can’t keep up with the speed that waste is produced. When waste can’t be sent to landfills in the U.S. or exported overseas, it’s often illegally dumped into the ocean.

The UI’s food-waste recycling program LeanPath, reduced food waste by 52 percent last semester — 7 percent short of its goal.

With COVID-19 causing substantial changes to the university’s recycling initiative, it’s now more import-

ant than ever for students to make an effort to reduce food waste on their own.

While making art out of leftovers may not be the most conventional way to combat climate change, it exemplifies the very kind of creative thinking that can reduce one’s waste.

“It makes me feel a little bit better about the environment,” Barloon said. “I encourage people to reduce and reuse since we don’t have the option to recycle anymore.”