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The UI is partnering with schools located in rural areas to educate students and encourage them to take up STEM classes. aadit-tambe@uiowa.edu The University of Iowa has taken up collaborating with rural schools to help educate and encourage students to take STEM classes and pursue careers in STEM fields.

The program, called STEM Excellence and Leadership, serves students in 10 school districts in rural areas all over Iowa. It aims to not only increase

In the midst of a trade dispute with China, Iowa soybean farmers say they are more concerned with the long-term economic damages to the market if the dispute continues.

Farmers suggest short-term price drops are affecting farmers differently as harvest season approaches.

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students’ aspirations in math and science but also to increase their knowledge and abilities in STEM fields.

The program is structured to target high-achieving students in fifth to eighth grades, said Lori Ihrig, the supervisor of curriculum and instruction at the UI Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development.

She said the program was originally funded by the Jack Cooke Foundation and is now funded by a grant through

the National Science Foundation. The program is in its fourth year.

“You can compare increasing students’ interests and aspirations to running a marathon,” Ihrig said. “If you motivate and excite people to run a marathon, but don’t prepare them for that task, you can imagine how they will not be successful.”

It is important to provide students with opportunities to increase their knowledge in STEM, especially in ru-

ral areas, she said.

“In rural school districts, students don’t have the same opportunities available to them because of rurality,” Ihrig said. “[This is] an extracurricular program that operates mostly out of the school day with students taking math and science courses before and after school.”

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The Art of the SCAR details the hidden beauty of organ transplants An exhibit at the UIHC showcases a 2014 art series that presents scars from organ transplants as works of art and not something to be hidden away.

Geoinformatics program change saves students time, money The UI Geographical & Sustainability Sciences Department is offering a geoinformatics program that allows undergraduates to complete master’s degrees in geoinformatics in five years instead of the traditional six.

Thomas A. Stewart/The Daily Iowan The Art of the SCAR is seen on Tuesday. It is a traveling exhibition starring transplants recipients and living donors.

BY CHRISTOPHER BORRO

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UI students react to India ruling on gay sex

India’s Supreme Court ruled on Sept. 6 to decriminalize gay sex, which previously could have lead to a life sentence. UI international students say it remains a taboo subject in India, but they are pleased to see India take a step in the direction they believe is right.

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An art exhibit at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics aims to showcase the beauty of surgery scars.

Today, visitors to UIHC can see some of this artwork for themselves.

The exhibit contains 15 of the 37 The Art of the SCAR paintings and portraits made by Clover Hill High School students and teachers in Midlothian, Virginia. The series was made in 2014.

In the series displayed at the UIHC first-floor lobby, visitors can see portraits based on the surgical scars of 10 people who needed heart, liver or, in one instance, double arm transplants. Also included are short descriptions by the creators of each piece of artwork detailing their process behind making the portrait and working with the models.

When it isn’t traveling, the artwork is kept at the United Network for Organ Sharing center in Richmond, Virginia. The organ center holds a national contract to run the American organ trans-

misconduct, provost search

The Faculty Senate received updates on the provost search and learned about the priorities of the UI’s sexual-misconduct response coordinator at Tuesday’s meeting.

Iowa, Big Ten teams need improvement

Just as some Big Ten teams have gotten off to a slow start (looking at Nebraska and Purdue), so has Iowa’s offense. The defense has carried the offense through two weeks this season, so there are changes Iowa – and some Big Ten teams – need to make if they want to make a run this season.

BY KATE PIXLEY

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UI continues to combat violence, misconduct

filled the Old Capitol Senate Chambers for the meeting.

UI Student Government President Hira Mustafa and Graduate & Professional Student Government President Dexter Golinghorst spoke at the meeting, as did UI President Bruce Harreld.

The meeting began with an address from Harreld that touched on leadership, collaboration, student success, and the future of the

Monique DiCarlo, the UI’s coordinator of sexual-misconduct response and Title IX, spoke on the role of the Office of the Sexual Misconduct Response Coordinator at the Senate Faculty meeting on Tuesday.

The main focuses of the office are responding to reports of sexual assault, harassment, exploitation, intimidation, dating and domestic violence, stalking, and sex-based discrimination, she said.

Over the last year, there were 444 incidents reported to the UI office, DiCarlo said. Of those, 29 cases were found to have been policy violations, DiCarlo and six reports were discovered to be unfounded.

DiCarlo noted that the office does preventative work as well.

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Student governments Faculty Senate discusses sexual seek to collaborate

Leaders of the two student governments and UI President Bruce Harreld spoke about collaboration.

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plant network.

“What I hope The Art of the SCAR does is give people pause to think about what patients have to go through, and not just organ transplant patients, but all patients,” said Alan Reed, the chief of transplant at the UIHC Donor Center.

Reed was instrumental in bringing the exhibit to the UIHC. He worked with a pharmaceutical representative from Veloxis to bring the exhibition to the UIHC free of charge.

caleb-mccullough@uiowa.edu Shared-governance leaders stressed the value of collaboration among the student governments and university administration on Tuesday at the annual joint session of the undergraduate and graduate student governments.

University of Iowa undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and administrators

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Akar Jani, a junior majoring in biomedical engineering, unlocks his bike on Tuesday. “Yeah, I bike everywhere,” he said.

STEM CONTINUED FROM FRONT school year in the courses, she said.

The selection process identifies high performers, or students in the 85th percentile, she said. These students are invited to take a more challenging assessment to start the

EXHIBIT CONTINUED FROM FRONT Members of the UIHC Organ Transplant Center manage patients who need similar surgeries on a regular basis.

“I think it’s quite commendable, because I think in many instances we think of scars as something to hide, when in fact … these patients have fought through their diseases,” said Angie Korsun, the chief administrative officer of the Organ Transplant Center. “They have undergone major surgery, they’re dealing with chronic

SENATE CONTINUED FROM FRONT Additionally, she said, the office hopes to increase training for senior Human Resource representatives and associate deans on how to have effective conversations that motivate change in behavior when facilitating an informal sexual-harassment resolution. “[We work] with supervisors and others to address behavior at a low-level concern before it turns into something that could be a policy violation,” DiCarlo said.

The office’s other priorities for the upcoming year include the expansion and inclusivity of the Women’s Resource & Actions Center’s Certified Peer Educator Program to enhance culturally specific representation and content, particularly for the LGBTQ

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He started by speaking about good leadership principles.

He noted the balance that student-government members need to find when it came to representing their constituents.

“This issue of how much you listen to yourself versus how much you listen to others is, I think for leaders, a fundamental issue,” he said.

Harreld also stressed the value of collaboration among students and faculty. He urged faculty to bring students into their processes and for students to get faculty involved in theirs.

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program.

In addition to these students, teachers and parents can nominate other students who they think are fit the program, Ihrig said.

“Collecting all of those data together, the district determines who this program may be a good fit for and sends invitations to participate in the program,” she said.

STEM Excellence and Leadership shows educators and

students in rural areas what is possible, said Duhita Mahatmya, a research scientist in the College of Education, in an email to The Daily Iowan.

“By providing advanced math and science curriculum and engaging students outside of the classroom and school day, STEM Excellence and Leadership has helped to improve the math and science achievement of rural, middle-school students, and rural

educators’ ability to support their students and prepare them for STEM majors and careers,” she said.

Clinical Professor Mark McDermott, STEM outreach coordinator for the UI, administered professional development for the educators of the program. Teachers from the 10 school districts come to the UI every summer for training and professional development.

illnesses and the recovery, and they’re obviously celebrating their second chance at life.”

Some UIHC staff are responsible for providing care to families of loved ones who have died who choose for their organs to be donated.

“We provide that end of life care, bereavement support, and work with [families] on the opportunity that donation is for them,” said Suzanne Witte, clinical manager at the Department of Social Service at the UIHC. “For a lot of our donor families, it’s a chance to take a terrible event and make something good come out of it.”

Witte also works with patients who are not ill. Altruistic donors are healthy people who decide to donate organs out of the goodness of their hearts, she said. After rigorous medical screenings, they undergo surgery to help out strangers.

Out of the pictures of people with scars showcasing their new organs, one of the images in the exhibit shows two men standing next to each other, a donor and recipient, one man who gave a piece of his own body to help out a friend.

“That scar is a symbol of that second chance at life.

That scar is not something ugly or something to be hidden,” Korsun said.

The Art of the SCAR is seen on Tuesday at the UIHC. The work is a traveling exhibition starring transplant recipients and living donors.

community, she said.

The office is exploring additional methodologies for assessing the campus climate, DiCarlo said, and reviewing the inclusion of its programming in the Success at Iowa online course.

In April, the UI released the results of its second Speak Out Iowa survey, which assesses the campus climate regarding sexual misconduct, and it also unveiled its updated antiviolence plan. One of the key findings was that LGBTQ-identifying students report higher rates of violence than do their peers who do not identify as such.

Teresa Mangum, a co-head of the Provost Search Committee, said one of the tasks of the committee was to work with people on campus to make the search meaningful.

UI officials held two provost-search forums in August

to gather input from the university community.

“One of the repeated comments was, ‘Someone who would like to stay for a while,’ ” Mangum said.

The committee plans to continue to review candidates

“If we’re really on the same team, we have a direct obligation to bring each other up,” he said.

Harreld also covered a topic of contention for students: tuition. Tuition at the UI is among of the lowest of the Big Ten universities, he said, and he again advocated for it to be increased in the future.

Mustafa echoed much of the same beliefs as Harreld in her address at the meeting. She praised the value of the different sections of university governance working together, noting that students, faculty, and administrators often have the same goals.

“Issues like mental health and state budget cuts do not discriminate based on position,” she said.

“Our institution is more successful when the branches of shared

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Monique DiCarlo, the UI coordinator of sexual-misconduct response, addresses the Faculty Senate in the Old Capitol on Tuesday. Faculty Senate members discussed updates from DiCarlo and information on the search for a new provost. governance work together.”

Golinghorst was last to speak, and he also encouraged collaboration among students and faculty.

“Now more than ever, we must work together to develop solutions to the challenges that affect our community,” he said.

Golinghorst spoke on the question of tuition as well, noting that increases in tuition rates have been a challenge for students. Still, he said, the rising price of tuition at the UI is worth the education students receive.

“The value of a degree from the University of Iowa is extremely high,” he said.

Golinghorst noted diversity, equity, inclusion, sustainability, and safety as areas he wants the university governments to focus on.

The program aims to help the students situated in rural areas by offering opportunities to explore STEM careers, McDermott said.

“This is a good example of opportunities that a be created in a way that research and outreach can come together at the UI,” Ihrig said.

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‘Wooing and selecting’ a new provost The UI Provost Search Committee is looking for a candidate who will be at the UI for the long haul, an official said at the Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday.

“We talked about ways that teachers could use general effective teaching approaches to science in and out of classes,” he said. “One of the things we want to do [at] the UI is help facilitate opportunities for students across the state — whether in a rural location or urban location.”

Following the speeches, three resolutions were passed jointly

by UISG and GPSG. The resolutions touched on areas that both student governments indicated they would like to focus on in the coming year.

The first, a joint resolution on academic programming, was a call for increased focus on supplemental academic programming in the future. The student governments noted ICON Direct and Supplemental Instruction as two great examples of this.

The second resolution was a call for student governments and their constituents to advocate for the state Legislature to increase funding to the state Board of Regents in order to keep tuition prices down.

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for the next month. The team is looking for two to four final candidates.

“If you have recommendations and haven’t made them yet, now is the time,” Mangum said. “If you have ideas, I would jump online and do that in the next week.”

Additionally, committee members will continue to write questions to ask of the potential candidates.

Questions will revolve heavily around the criteria laid out by the search team.

The committee will conduct interviews with eight to 14 potential applicants in Chicago between Thanksgiving and winter breaks. They will bring candidates to campus at the beginning of the 2019 spring semester.

Mangum stressed the importance of emphasizing the benefits of UI and the Iowa City community as a whole when talking to prospective candidates.

“We are wooing as well as selecting, of course,” Mangum said.

The search is handled by a Massachusetts-based recruiting firm called Isaacson, Miller. Representatives of the firm visited campus in the spring and helped UI personnel gain a better understanding of what concerns and needs exist in terms of a new provost.

Former Provost P. Barry Butler left the UI in the spring of 2017 to assume the role of president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. Sue Curry, formerly the dean of the College of Public Health, will act as the provost on an interim basis until a replacement begins.

The search comes as officials conduct the academic 2020 review of the university’s academic structure and while there have been ongoing or recently wrapped-up searches for new deans, who report to the provost.

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UI Vice President for Medical Affairs Brooks Jackson and UISG Vice President Heath Schintler talk before UISG and GPSG members join meet for the annual joint session in the Old Capitol on Tuesday. ments passed a resolution to create an easy way to subscribe to all university multicultural events on Outlook calendar. The goal

of the resolution is to increase visibility of multicultural events across campus and increase student involvement in them.

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New geoinformatics program helps students save time, money The UI recently announced a new five-year geoinformatics program, which allows students to work on undergraduate and master’s degrees at the same time. This change gives students the opportunity to shave one year off their studies.

BY BECCA TURNIS

rebecca-turnis@uiowa.edu UI geography majors can now save a year of time and tuition with a new geoinformatics-degree program.

The UI Geographical & Sustainability Sciences Department recently announced a new undergraduate-to-graduate geoinfor-

matics program that allows undergraduate majors to complete master’s degrees in geoinformatics in just five years instead of the traditional six.

Department head Dave Bennett said the purpose of the program is to save students’ resources while better preparing them for the workforce.

Of the four programs in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics, geoinformatics is the newest, starting four years ago as a master’s program, he said.

“We’ve got programs in health informatics, bioinformatics, geoinformatics, and information science, and associated faculty are spread throughout the College of

Liberal Arts & Sciences, management sciences, library and information science, and engineering,” Bennett said.

Geoinformatics, or Geographic Information Systems, is the foundation of several services people use every day, such as Google maps, Uber, and Bongo, Bennett said. GIS is the system that helps people understand, capture, and

Roman Slabach/The Daily Iowan Jessup Hall is seen on May 9. The Geographical & Sustainability Sciences Department is going to offer a new undergraduate/master’s combined degree in geoinformatics.

Pentacrest Garden project wants 15 stories The City Council approved the Pentacrest Garden project rezoning last week. However, the developers are pushing for an additional seven stories of height.

BY PAUL ELWELL

james-elwell@uiowa.edu After months of meeting between the council and developers, the Iowa City City Council last week unanimously approved the rezoning of the Pentacrest Garden project, which could expand student housing.

Pentacrest Garden is a three-story apartment complex built in the 1970s that sits across Burlington Street from the Old Capitol Town Center parking ramp. The developers and owner of the property were given the green light to build a new four-building complex with each building rising to eight stories.

Developers now want to try to push to make the four apartment buildings 15 stories, catering mostly to students, Axiom Consultants project manager Rob Decker said. Axiom Consultants is the developer of the project.

Decker said the complex would be 1,000 units. He estimates this will be capable of holding up to 2,000 residents when completed if the full 15 stories are approved.

“When the council approved the rezoning, the developer

could build eight stories and four buildings. In order to get above eight, they have to go back,” City Manager Geoff Fruin said. “The developer will submit plans. The Planning Department will review and pass on with recommendations to the Zoning Department, which both offer their approval. Then it will go to City Council.”

The building is now approaching the design phase.

Currently, Decker and his team are putting together relevant information to continue presenting to City Council. Once these are approved, which could take months, the design process can then begin.

“To design something really fast on this large of a scale, it could take 18 months,” Decker said. “Realistically, we are looking at a good two years, maybe a little more.”

Decker said some of the planning is still up in the air.

“The intention is not to level the existing sites and throw up the buildings,” he said. “We may tear down two of the buildings while still designing the other two. Overall, I would estimate two years of design and two to three of construction.”

Decker, the property’s own-

er, and his team are discussing how to close the leases for existing tenants. Decker guessed most of the leases would be unavailable for renewal starting August 2019.

There is enthusiasm among major voices in the city about this project. Nancy Bird, the executive director of the Downtown District, advocated for the rezoning approval along with the organization’s board of directors.

“One thing that is very important in the development is to get the sidewalk and front of building to the street,” Bird said. “Good design for pedestrians is important to the project as it moves forward.”

Bird sent a letter of support and recommendations for design to the City Council, which was signed by the Downtown District Board of Directors. This letter stressed the importance of pedestrian-oriented design, a robust management plan, weighing of the public benefits, communication with the developer, and the establishment for input from the Downtown District.

More developments regarding the approval of the 15-story designs will come in subsequent months.

Thomas A. Stewart/The Daily Iowan Pentacrest Gardens is seen on Sept. 4. The City Council has rezoned the location to make way for a new project.

manage the world around them in computerized form.

“A lot of people are out there using GIS — urban planners, natural-resource managers — they’ll use the technology, and they may not need that much computer science to do that,” he said. “This is more for the person who will develop the systems.”

Interested students are eligible to apply in the third year of their undergraduate program, and the shared coursework starts in their fourth year. Even though students are working on a graduate degree, they’re only charged undergraduate tuition during their fourth year.

Bennett said his intention is to further develop students’ skills in both geography and computer science with the extra year in the program.

He worked with many faculty members in his department to develop the program proposal.

“We realized if you look into our program as an undergraduate major in GIS and the GIS master’s program, there is some overlap in the senior year. You actually have a bunch of courses that overlap quite a bit,” said Caglar Koylu, an assistant professor who will teach in the program once

it gets underway.

Six students committed to the program in the first two weeks after the department announced it.

Ian Klopfenstein is one of the six students going through the application process, and he is exploring options for his thesis project and research options.

He said the opportunity fell in his lap, more or less.

“One of my professors contacted me about the program and told me I would be a good candidate due to my interest in the field of geoinformatics,” he said. “Because I had completed the majority of my undergraduate degree already, it seemed the logical next step for my studies.”

Klopfenstein is excited to jump head-first into master’s work.

“The field uses existing software to model human-environmental interactions and also has to do with the development of new geospatial modeling software,” he said. “This is especially pertinent as our climate and environment begins to shift and new demographic patterns arise, so we can more fully understand the spatial nature of these phenomena.”

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Cartoon Nation finds a home In a world of the great launch angles, only the cartoonists will prosper. Maybe.

BEAU ELLIOT

beauelliot@gmail.com Sometimes, when life seems to imitate a cartoon, it’s because life is a cartoon.

Stick figures in a 2-D environment. Yep. Check that.

Generation Launch-Angle (to steal a phrase from Buster Olney) at full-bore.

And so we see that North Korea is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Sans ICBMs this parade around.

Well, good for them. Well, except for journalists, who, NPR reports, can be imprisoned for five years or until the cows come home (North Korea will vault into the 17th century and get some cows soon) for “distorting the reality” of the People’s Republic of North Korea.

Not to distort anyone’s cherished reality, but North Korea is celebrating what?

Seventy years of large swaths of the populace eating large swaths of grass?

Meanwhile, the International Space Station has a leak. Or had.

Or maybe it wasn’t a leak.

The Space Station did discover it had a 2-mm hole (apparently in the Soyuz taxi) that

(Alexander Demianchuk/Tass/Abaca Press/TNS) could have leaked. You have to admit, whatever your political position on the Space Station (up in the air?), a 2-mm hole in space is not the best idea humans have ever come up with. At least since stumbling into agriculture and the wheel.

It turns out, at least from some reports, that the hole might have come from workers on the ground assembling the Soyuz. You know, classic

elegant Russian workmanship. As in. Oops, Ivan, you drilled that hole in the wrong spot. Ah, hole, schmole. Let the cosmonauts play whacka-hole.

And the Grand Buffoon thinks he has a leak problem.

Well, Political Storm Anonymous (along with tidbits from Bob Woodward’s new book) did blow into D.C. last week and roiled spirits everywhere, it seems. Anony-

mous, rhymes with Hieronymus (as in Bosch).

The results of the storm were entirely predictable, especially when they were unpredictable. Life is a cartoon and nowhere more so than in the West Wing.

So it turns out that the Looney Tunes in Chief is a loose cannon careening around on deck, though it’s not a full deck. Many casualties. (Although mixed meta-

phors seemed to sail through unscathed.)

“What’s this I hear about Russia and China holding the biggest war games ever?” the Grand Buffoon roars. “We’ll hold the biggest war games ever seen in history. With South Korea. That’s close to Russia and China, isn’t it?”

“Yes but no, Mr. Buffoon,” one of the Prince Valiants says. “You canceled our military exercises with the South

Koreans two months ago.”

“I know — we’ll take pictures of a U.S. Army war games and fix them so it looks bigger than the whole Chinese army,” the Grand Buffoon says.

“We did that with the inauguration photos, Mr. Buffoon,” another Prince Valiant says. “Everybody found out almost immediately.”

“How about we whack Assad while the Russians are busy playing soldier 1,000 miles away,” the Buffoon says. “A quick surgical air strike. Quick surgical strikes always worked in the New York real estate business, if you know what I mean.”

“Yes, sir, Mr. Buffoon,” another Prince Valiant says.

“But there are still hundreds of Russian war planes around Damascus, so we might start World War III.” “We can beat them in World War III,” the Buffoon says. “We’ve got the biggest, best military in the history of the world. Bring it on, Ivan.”

“Yes, sir, Mr. Buffoon,” a Prince Valiant says. “But starting World War III might cause the Republicans to lose the midterms.”

“Oh. We can’t have that,” the Buffoon says. “The Democrats winning would be worse than the Russians winning.”

So I’m going back to this great new game involving cosmonauts. It’s called Whack-a-Hole. Great launch angles.

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The impact of connecting women of color The Womxn of Color Network brings potential connections and mentors for minority women throughout the UI campus.

SUCHAETA HEGDE

suchaeta-hegde@uiowa.edu Sitting in the Old Brick on Sept. 5 for the second Womxn of Color Network Welcome Mixer, there was a sense of camaraderie as I received wide smiles by just glancing around the room.

Women of color from all parts of the community — students, faculty, locals — had come together to simply celebrate that they were all there, in a safe space just for them.

Sitting in that space, I realized how I had never been in a similar setting before — even though there had been times in my life when I had wanted nothing more. The Womxn of Color Network provides a much needed gathering of minority women in the Iowa City area.

The network shows its welcoming nature right in its name; the “x” replacing the “e” in “women” is done to be inclusive of “gender nonconforming women” and emphasizes that “women are not a subcategory of men.”

Jessica Padilla, the program coordinator at the Women’s Resource & Action Center and founder of the Womxn of Color Network, noted her reason for started the program. “I really wanted to make sure that our

women of color on campus felt like WRAC was a place for them as well,” Padilla said.

At the University of Iowa, a annual workforce report to the state Board of Regents

College is a busy time for everyone on campus, and it is important that both minority students and minorities in the workforce feel like they have somewhere to voice themselves without

‘Only 12.8 percent of the workforce at the university is made up of minorities... minority students don’t often get the chance to meet mentors on campus who look like them.’ shows that only 12.8 percent of the workforce at the university is made up of minorities. This also means that minority students don’t often get the chance to meet mentors on campus who look like them and can relate to their struggles.

feeling foreign or judged. It can be hard to accept yourself when it feels like you have to try to fit into your surroundings; the Womxn of Color Network not only highlights a woman’s background — which can be the most challenging part of

oneself to embrace — but also helps women of color to share their stories with like-minded individuals.

According to research

by DeLois Crawford of the Rochester Institute of Technology, because women of color live with numerous marginalities, it can be challenging for them to develop connections with female mentors, and this can lead to a sense of isolation.

That being said, the Womxn of Color Network is unique from other minority groups on the UI campus in its inclusion of faculty and staff. Padilla wanted to promote “an opportunity for empowerment, mentorship” through the series and let women of color have a space where they can be “unapologetically themselves.” Self-acceptance

has no age limit, and that the network brings all these women together further displays the importance of the movement.

With enough funds, Padilla said, she “would love to have an opportunity to do an institute or retreat” surrounding the network. The goal could soon be achievable; she was happy to report that during Phil Week, the programming series was selected for the GOLDrush Campaign, the UI’s crowd-funding website.

To expand the network means to expand the chances of a woman of color finding a mentor or more importantly, a friend. Just at the mixer, I felt a sense of happiness for all the women in the room, chatting like old friends with people I had never met.

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Iowa soybean farmers feeling the heat of tariffs Federal aid will offset costs of tariffs for farmers this season, but continued low demand could be a cause for concern in future years.

Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Ben Schmidt performs routine maintenance on a combine on Monday. Schmidt grows corn and soybeans at his farm outside of Iowa City.

He said he will not rely on the federal-aid package.

“We don’t understand what is totally going on in the tariff world,” Schmidt said. “Some headway with Mexico and Canada will help, but China is the No. 1 customer of soybeans.”

One of the only things he wants is the tariffs to be lifted, he said.

“The free market is the only way to trade the beans,” Schmidt said.

Oskaloosa farmer Mark Jackson, a former president of the Iowa Soybean Association, said through his 44 years of farming, he has become accustomed to the ups and downs of different presidential administrations’ agriculture policies.

“Trade talks tend to have a mind of their own,” he said, noting he’s experienced many drops in soybean prices unrelated to trade tariffs.

Jackson did not comment on whether he voted for Trump in 2016 but said the policies the agriculture industry supports are generally conservative.

“There are a tremendous number of regulations out there now,” Jackson said. “[Ex-

Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Josh Yoder performs routine maintenance on a combine head on Monday.

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“Whether you tolerate Trump or you hate Trump, none of this should have come as a surprise,” Stutsman said.

Ben Schmidt, a soybean and corn farmer in the southwest Iowa City area, said that since the buzz about the trade disputes started, he saw the market values of Iowa’s agricultural goods drop on Schmidt the Chicago Board of Trade, which controls how soybeans are delivered throughout the world.

Local trade has been affected as well, he said, because farmers get paid less in Iowa City in comparison with somewhere such as Muscatine, because farmers have to pay the difference of the transportation costs when moving products.

Right now, Schmidt said, soybean farmers are having a hard time finding a home for the soybeans; the product is without a buyer.

“At this point, the export market just isn’t there,” Schmidt said.

2014: $14.70/bushel

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got to go with the least of two evils,” Ewoldt said.

The Trump administration levied a tariff on about 800 Chinese products in July, and China imposed retaliatory tariffs on $34 billion worth of U.S. agricultural products, vehicles, and aquatic products. Iowa was hit particularly hard, with soybeans and pork taking the brunt of the tariffs.

To lessen the effect of the trade dispute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will provide farmers approximately $1.65 per bushel of soybeans. Iowa State University agriculture economics experts say the federal-aid package will cancel damages soybean farmers may face, but it could mean dips in the future price of land.

The USDA website predicts aid will be disbursed after harvest season, in late October or early November.

“If this trade war goes on for longer than a year, we are going to have too much land for the available demand for the spring of 2019,” ISU economist Dermot Hayes said.

Mark Stutsman of Eldon C. Stutsman Inc., eastern Iowa’s largest supplier of agricultural products, retail and wholesale, said that so far, the tariffs have affected his farmer customers more than it has affected his business.

Because soybean prices had been declining for the past four years, he said, the tariffs added a new layer of uncertainty for his customers. Average yearly price per bushel of soybeans dropped from $14.13 in 2014 to $9.27 in 2016.

“In June, our customers were operating on narrow margins to begin with, so this certainly puts them in the red,” said Stutsman, who declined to give his political affiliation.

What the U.S. has previously done with China was not working, he said.

In 2017, the U.S. goods deficit with China reached $375.2 billion, according to the U.S. census. Computers and electronics were the largest U.S. imports from China, reaching $167.3 billion. In comparison, farm crops were the largest Chinese import from the U.S., reaching $15.3 billion.

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s Iowa soybean farmers approach harvest season, many are more concerned about the long-term economic damage of an ongoing trade dispute with China than shortterm price drops.

Rob Ewoldt, a soybean farmer near Davenport, said that when President Trump made the July announcement of trade tariffs on Ewoldt’s No. 1 buyer, China, he thought the dispute would be shorter lived.

However, Ewoldt thought he would break even or better this season because of a combination of federal aid and pre-selling his soybeans.

“When you add in government aid that is supposed to be coming our way, I’m still going to make money on soybeans. That’s me personally,” Ewoldt said. “Only because the government’s kicking in the money. That’s what makes the difference there.”

After a potential $600 million hit to Iowa’s agriculture industry was calculated, in late July, President Trump announced a $12 billion federal-aid package would be distributed to farmers across the U.S. Iowa could potentially receive $550 million, according to the Des Moines Register.

“We appreciate that [the government] realizes agriculture is important, but we would much rather have the free trade,” Ewoldt said.

Ewoldt, who lives near the Mississippi River, said 100 percent of the soybeans he grows are sent down the river and exported to other countries, leaving the entirety of his yield subject to the tax.

Although he dislikes Trump’s handling of the trade dispute, he said, he would likely vote for Trump again in 2020, hoping the effects of tariffs will be short-term. Ewoldt said he tended to look toward candidates who did not favor excess agriculture regulations.

He compared the tariffs to the EPA clean-water regulations proposed by the Obama administration to limit pollution. He said the extra regulations felt more burdensome and were more costly.

“In the business end, you

BY JULIA SHANAHAN | julia-shanahan@uiowa.edu

2014: $13/bushel

2018: $9.58/bushel

2018: $9.52/bushel

2018: $9.13/bushel Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture *All prices per bushel

cess regulation] has a tendency to get in the way of good, proper business and sustainability protocols, because modern agriculture today does understand sustainability.”

Trade tariffs have given rural Iowa a spotlight in the gubernatorial race, with both candidates criss-crossing Iowa to hear farmers’ perspectives.

Jackson said he has worked with Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican seeking to be elected this November, in export efforts with the Iowa Soybean Association. He said she is a strong advocate for agriculture.

Reynolds has repeatedly condemned the trade war and has emphasized the importance of the markets remaining open so Iowa Reynolds can sell products globally.

“Iowa farmers feed and fuel the world, and Gov. Reynolds will continue to advocate on their behalf whether that’s free and fair trade, supporting ethanol, or fighting against harmful rules and regulations that come out of Washington, D.C.,” Reynolds’ campaign spokesperson Pat Garrett wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan.

Reynolds’ opponent, Demtocrat Fred Hubbell, contends that Reynolds is not doing enough in putting funding behind rural outreach initiatives. He vowed to put money

behind trade deals, campaign spokesperson Emilie Simons said.

Simons said Hubbell has traveled through various rural counties and has met in coffee shops, homes, farms, schools, and businesses to discuss farmers’ biggest Hubbell concerns. Simons said he campaigned in Newton, Riverside, Deep River, and Coon Rapids.

“Iowa’s pork producers stand to lose $800 million over the next year, and tariffs placed on soybeans could cost Iowa’s soybean producers $772 million,” Simons wrote in an email to the DI. “Gov. Reynolds stood by as President Trump threatened this reckless trade war and refused to stand up to the president in person during his visit to Iowa last month.”

Ewoldt, the Davenport soybean farmer, said he could lose as much as $20,000 in production this year. As an eighth-generation farmer, he said, his family has weathered many storms, though it is yet to be seen how his products will ultimately fare in the trade dispute if it continues.

“It’s a little bit scary,” Ewoldt said. “I’ll be honest with you, because when we started off, we weren’t going to be that profitable this year. Then we watched a $2 drop in the value of our beans. That hurts.”

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Quarterback Adrian Martinez left the game in the second half because of an injury, leaving backup Andrew Bunch in, and he went 4-of-9 for 49 yards.

Colorado, which finished the 2017 season with a 5-7 record, spoiled the beginning of a new era for Husker football fans.

“It’s all wiped out when you lose; I don’t care,” Frost said after the game. “I’m a competitor like all of these guys in the locker room, and for three quarters, I was having about as much fun coaching as I had in my life, doing it back home.

We’ve got to learn lessons to be able to win games like that and not beat ourselves.”

Against Northern Illinois on Dec. 29, 2017, the Washington native posted 25 points on 8-of-8 shooting to go along with 8 rebounds and 5 blocks.

He also nearly had a 20-point game when No. 3 Purdue came to Carver-Hawkeye on Jan. 20, scoring 19 points, grabbing 3 boards, dishing out 2 assists, and gathering a steal and block on the defensive end, showing he can step it up against top competition.

Garza finished the 201718 season with a team-high player efficiency rating of 26.6. Iowa’s next best was Cook at 21.9.

Garza also had an offensive rebound percentage of 12.8 — the best on the team — which allows him to gain extra possessions and get the balls in the hands of Iowa’s best playmakers.

A mismatch for opposing defenses, Garza possesses the strength and size to battle inside with some of the conference’s best and also has the ability to knock down shots from deep, shooting at a 34.8 percent clip from behind the arc.

The Hawkeyes can’t afford to lose someone with the sheer size and skills of Garza. Iowa hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 2016, and if it wants to go dancing for the first time in three years or make a run in the Big Ten Tournament, it needs a healthy Garza.

Wiegers beats Purdue

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Former Iowa quarterback Tyler Wiegers did exactly what the Hawkeyes couldn’t do last season: beat Purdue.

Wiegers threw for 312 yards on 20-of-28 passing with a touchdown and an interception, earning MAC West Division Offensive Player of the Week along the way.

The Boilermakers, who have now lost two straight, seemed to be a team with a lot of upside heading into the 2018 season, and Rondale Moore’s performance in a Week 1 loss to Northwestern confirmed that notion.

Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz talks with Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm in Kinnick on Nov. 18, 2017.

Despite the efforts of D.J. Knox and Markell Jones — who both ran for more than 100 yards, and Knox scored a touchdown — the Purdue passing game could not find its groove.

Employing a two-quarterback system with Elijah Sindelar and David Blough, the duo went just 14-of-24 for 135 yards and a touchdown.

Although few mistakes were made, production was simply not there.

Even more so, penalties and discipline have come back

to haunt the Boilermakers in the first two weeks.

“For us, we’re going to make sure from here on out everyone is held accountable every step they make, 24 hours a day,” Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm said.

“And what they may think is something small has been costing us. And really they’re silly, silly mistakes that there’s no use for them. It’s something that there has to be consequences for their actions. If guys are getting 15-yard penalties, they’re out

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without its problems. Iowa only has game film for one Northern Iowa game — it didn’t play last week — and that’s unusual for a Week 3 game.

Despite that, from what the Hawkeyes have seen of Northern Iowa so far, the two offenses match up well in that they both took a little while to get started in the first game. With the way Iowa’s defense has been playing, that shouldn’t be a problem either way.

The Northern Iowa coaching staff has solidified its team as one that consistently competes in the Football Championship Subdivision.

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fense, trying to convert when we need to.”

The running game has been a strong point on offense for the Hawkeyes.

Ihmir Smith-Marsette and Ivory Kelly-Martin could return for Northern Iowa but are both day-to-day after being injured in the first two weeks. Neither of them have returned to practice, but Smith-Marsette is listed as a backup on the depth

Northern Iowa is an opponent for Iowa that on the road could do some damage.

The last three meetings for the two teams — 2009, 2012, and 2014 — have been close, but playing in this in-state rivalry game brings implications similar to playing Iowa State.

It’s not expected to be an easy game, and despite Wisconsin’s coming to town the following weekend, the team’s focus is on the matchup with the Panthers.

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With Tate Martell backing Haskins up and becoming a threat on the ground in certain situations, along with J.K. Dobbins and Mike Weber in the running game, the Buckeye offense has depth in both the ground game and air attack.

“You look all across the board, we’re pretty deep – a lot of playmakers,” Ohio State interim head coach Ryan Day said. “So when you get the ball to those guys in space, and you can stretch the ball vertically and horizontally, you can really be explosive.”

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Iowa women’s golf places 13th at invitational in New Mexico In three rounds of play, the Hawkeyes struggled to find a groove and placed 13th among 16 teams.

BY JACK MCFARLAND john-c-mcfarland@uiowa.edu

The Iowa women’s golf team concluded its play at the Branch Law Firm Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after two days of play. The Hawkeyes tied for 13th among 16 teams in a field stocked with strong competition.

Captains Kristin Glesne and Shawn Rennargarbe led the Hawkeyes. Glesne shot a 221, best on the squad, while Rennargarbe was second on the team with a 229.

Freshmen Dana Lerner and Manuela Lizarazu made their college débuts at the invitational. Lizarazu, who made head coach Megan

Menzel’s “final five,” hit the ball well for her first event while shooting a 230.

Lerner competed well, too, but as an individual because she was not a part of the final five. Though her score did not count toward the team’s score, she shot a 228 in her first event, which would have been second.

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Iowa golfer Kristin Glesne stands in the Hoak Practice Facility at the Finkbine on Sept. 14, 2017.

Sophomore Stephanie Herzog and junior Rachel Fujitani rounded out the rest of the squad; Herzog shot a 235 and Fujitani a 237.

The team finished with a score of 909, 51 shots behind winner Kent State.

Par 3s and par 4s did not show the team any mercy.

The Hawkeyes averaged 3.35 strokes per par 3, last in the tournament. Par 4s were not any easier, as they averaged 4.37 strokes per par 4, second to last in the tournament. Both struggles were key factors in the Hawkeyes struggling.

Iowa could not get ahead of the competition because the golfers couldn’t knock down birdies. Kent State had the most birdies at 48, doubling the number the Hawkeyes produced. If the Hawkeyes could increase their number of birdies, especially by performing better on par 3s and par 4s, their team score would be greatly reduced.

The best thing a team can do to better itself is locate the shortcomings and work on them. The Hawkeyes can see where they fell short and improve on that. The tournament was, after all, just Iowa’s first of the season.

The start was vastly differ-

ent from last season’s first competition. The Hawkeyes placed seventh of 16 last year at the same event.

However, there is a silver lining to this week’s performance. The Hawkeyes did not surrender many extra strokes on par 5s. They averaged a solid 5.00 strokes, not being intimidated or overwhelmed by the longer yardage.

All in all, the invitational could have been worse for the Hawkeyes, and things will likely get better. Any golfer can hit the ball better or worse on any given day.

The field consisted of 16 tough teams: No. 18 Kent State, Pepperdine, San Diego State, No. 11 Northwestern, New Mexico, No. 19 Colorado, Cal-Davis, UNLV, California, Iowa State, Idaho, Washington State, New Mexico State, Central Arkansas, Fresno State, in addition to Iowa.

Next, women’s golf will turn its focus to the Mercedes Benz Women’s Collegiate Championship in Knoxville, Tennessee, with three rounds occurring Sept. 17-18.

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HAWKEYE UPDATES Allaf, Larsen earn ranking

The Iowa men’s tennis doubles tandem of Kareem Allaf and Jonas Larsen enter the season ranked No. 35 in the preseason national rankings, making the duo the fourth-highest in the Big Ten. The two won 17 matches last season, including nine of their final 11.

Allaf Allaf and Larsen are the highest ranked Hawkeye doubles duo since Matt Hagan and Dom Patrick were No. 31 in January 2015.

Iowa will start the season at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic on Sept. 20.

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Iowa, Big Ten football show room for improvement While some Big Ten teams have taken losses early, Iowa is undefeated, but its offense needs to step up.

Hawkeye X-C moves up in rankings The Iowa women’s cross-country team moved up two spots in the coaches’ Midwest Regional poll, from No. 12 to No. 10.

The Hawkeyes will compete against three ranked teams at the Woody Greeno Invitational in Lincoln, Nebraska: No. 2 Minnesota, No. 4 South Dakota, and No. 15 North Dakota State.

The Hawkeye men sit at No. 8 in the Midwest Regional poll.

They will compete against No. 4 Minnesota, No. 9 Nebraska, and No. 11 North Dakota State at the Woody Greeno.

Around the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week — Jonathan Taylor, running back (Wisconsin) Taylor ran for a career-high 253 yards on 33 carries and 3 touchdowns in Wisconsin’s 45-14 rout of New Mexico. It was the 12th time Taylor rushed for more than 100 yards in his 16-game career. He has rushed for more than 200 yards four times as well.

This week marks his third career weekly conference award.

Co-Defensive Players of the Week — A.J. Epenesa, defensive end (Iowa) and Antoine Winfield Jr., defensive back (Minnesota) Espenesa racked up 5 tackles, 2 sacks, a forced fumble, and a pass breakup in Iowa’s 13-3 win over Iowa State.

Epenesa helped the Hawkeyes hold the Cyclones to just 19 rushing yards, the fifthbest mark since Kirk Ferentz took over as head coach.

Winfield grabbed a gameclinching interception on a trick play with 2:10 remaining in Minnesota’s 21-14 win over Fresno State.

Winfield also recorded 5 tackles.

Special Teams Player of the Week — Emmit Carpenter, kicker (Minnesota) Carpenter hit two field goals from 50 and 53 yards in the Gophers’ 21-14 win over Fresno State. It was the second time he made two kicks from 50 yards out in the same game.

He also added an extra point in the contest to become the sixth Minnesota kicker to score more than 200 points in his career.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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on the field, you’re in your zone, you can kind of block everything out, but this last week, there were a couple third downs where I’m sitting there reading my keys, getting ready to go, and at the same time, I hear everyone going nuts.

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— Iowa safety Jake Gervase on the crowd noise from the north end zone

STAT OF THE DAY Iowa allowed 19 rushing yards against Iowa State on Sept. 8 — the fifthlowest total in the Kirk Ferentz era at Iowa.

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Nebraska head coach Scott Frost addresses the media at Big Ten football media days in Chicago on July 23.

Rough offense remains a sticking point Iowa’s offense could be a problem if some consistency doesn’t show up this weekend against Northern Iowa.

BY ANNA KAYSER

anna-kayser@uiowa.edu Iowa is gearing up for its second in-state rival in as many weeks with the realization that Northern Iowa won’t be an easy opponent.

With offensive struggles in the past two weeks, there’s a strong focus on righting that ship — especially with Wisconsin peeking over the horizon.

Offense needs consistency The defensive line continued its strong dominance from Week 1 into Iowa State, and that doesn’t seem as if it will change anytime soon.

However, you can’t win games without scoring some points, and that’s a big concern.

“Offensively, we still have work to do in terms of

timing and tempo, developing a rhythm, but that’s just going to come from practicing and good execution in practice,” head coach Kirk Ferentz said.

After numerous punts against Iowa State and a lack of offense in general, things got pretty frustrating for quarterback Nate Stanley and the receivers.

An overreaching attempt to aim the ball comes with that frustration, which, Ferentz said, paired with a lack of sync in the offense creates problems. By continuing those repetitions, the confidence will come.

“We need to figure out what’s going on,” tight end T.J. Hockenson said. “Obviously, we’re inconsistent, and that’s been our whole focus this week is being more consistent and trying to figure out the spacing in routes, trying to expand the deSEE OFFENSE, 6

Big Ten shows bashers, bashed Some hopeful Big Ten teams have fallen short early in the season.

BY PETE RUDEN

peter-ruden@uiowa.edu The Scott Frost era at Nebraska has begun — with a loss.

After the Huskers’ season-opener against Akron was canceled, Nebraska picked up where it left off last season as a whole, losing to Colorado at home, 33-28.

The Buffaloes got out to a quick 14-0 lead in the first quarter, but the Huskers tied it. Nebraska eventually took a 21-14 lead and went into halftime with a 4-point advantage.

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Garza’s health key for Hawkeye basketball If Iowa wants to make a run in the postseason, it will need a healthy Luka Garza on the court.

BY PETE RUDEN

peter-ruden@uiowa.edu If Fran McCaffery’s Hawkeyes step on the hardwood in about two months without a 6-11 sophomore in a No. 55 jersey, they are in trouble.

Luka Garza recently underwent surgery to remove a benign cyst from his abdomen, and he is out indefinitely, but Iowa needs Garza.

It simply cannot go through a season without him.

Garza was exactly the player the Hawkeyes needed him to be last season, stepping up to average 12.1 points a game (third on the team), 6.4 rebounds (second), and 1 block (first).

With Garza’s production out of the lineup, Iowa’s chance at landing a spot in the Big Dance is slim, and the NIT wouldn’t be a guarantee, either — especially if the Hawkeyes revert to their ways of 2017-18.

Sure, Iowa would still have Jordan Bohannon and Tyler Cook, and they can do a ton of damage when they’re on the court. But neither one has played in an NCAA Tournament game.

To get to that level, Bohannon and Cook need a third option, and that is where Garza fits the plan perfectly.

The Hawkeyes play their best when Garza performs well. Last year, Garza scored under 10 points 13 times, and Iowa lost 12 of those games.

Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Luka Garza (55) and Wisconsin’s Alex Illikainen (25) jump for a rebound in Carver-Hawkeye on Jan. 23.

A number of variables could affect those games, though, so here’s another stat: Garza scored 10 or more points in 20 games, and the Hawkeyes won 13 of them. That’s especially impressive considering Iowa only had a 14-win season.

Garza also showed the ability to put up big

numbers, so when Bohannon and Cook are struggling, someone else can carry the load.

Isaiah Moss has shown he has potential to do the same, but Garza was much more consistent in 2017-18.

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