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Marching Band allegations from Cy-Hawk game emerge Broken ribs and thrown beer bottles are among the Hawkeye Marching Band’s allegations. BY ANNA KAYSER
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Iowa City police issue warrant for Tate High student who allegedly brought firearm to school
Iowa City police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a Tate High School student who allegedly possessed a gun on school property on Wednesday . Police are searching for the suspect. Jeremiah M. Neal, 19, of Coralville faces charges of carrying a weapon on school grounds and possession of a weapon as a felon, both Class-D felonies. According to a joint statement issued by Iowa City police and the Iowa City School District, officers searched the 19-year-old student’s bag after obtaining a warrant. The student had no additional weapons aside from the handgun and did not make any threats of violence. Following the incident, the School District requested increased police presence at Tate and City High campuses as a precaution, according to the release.
Hawkeye Marching Band members on Thursday publicly alleged harassment suffered at the Sept. 14 Cy-Hawk football game in Ames. University of Iowa student and band member Corey Knopp took to Facebook to publicly allege incidents that he said occurred at Jack Trice Stadium and detail the seriousness of the injuries suffered.
“People were physically assaulted,” Knopp alleged in the Facebook post. “We expect to get booed and cussed at. But never for violence to take place. Especially to students in THE BAND of the rival university. No ‘alleges’ no ‘maybes.’ This happened. Put yourself in our shoes. Kids. Marching in formation back to our buses after a long day.” “Getting shoved and having beer cans shaken and sprayed at our feet,” the post alleged. “Getting slapped because of the words on our
uniform (IOWA). Getting pushed so hard that someone’s (not going to name this person) ribs are broken. That is completely unacceptable.” As the band performed its series into the stadium — before it had even entered Jack Trice — band member Nathan Topping alleged a full beer bottle was thrown and hit his forearm, leaving a large bruise. “As we were doing our typical series in, I had a SEE BAND, 2
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UI Clothing Closet celebrates one year in business
The UI Clothing Closet service had a huge first week to start its second year, and the organization is already seeking expansion for its free professional attire mission. Last Spring the Clothing Closet served 130 students.
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University of Iowa Libraries; Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs, 1866-2000 Daily Iowan staffers are seen working in their office in the Communications Building.
The state Board of Regents approved the UI’s request on Thursday to demolish the Communications Center, previously home to the Daily Iowan newsroom. BY MARISSA PAYNE
Iowa politicians call for USMCA ratification this congressional session
With the beginning of the congressional session, Iowa political leaders say they want the ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to be a top priority. Trade negotiations with China are another important issue to Iowa political leaders.
marissa-payne@uiowa.edu Stacks of old newspapers, bulky typewriters, ink bottles, and pads of paper were strewn across the newsroom. Over the decades, the typewriters gave way to clunky computers, but the Communications Center space maintained its basement-like atmosphere — a gritty gathering place for news-hungry young journalists. It was dark and dank, but the second floor of the Communications Center served as a home to the Daily Iowan editorial staff for more than 50 years. Soon,
Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan The Communication Center is seen on Thursday. The center is the former location of the UI SEE CENTER, 5 School of Journalism and The Daily Iowan newsroom.
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Warren, Harris investing in eastern Iowa Iowa soccer goes into Big Ten play undefeated The Hawkeyes have dominated their nonconference opponents thus far, but now travel on the road for a new challenge: the Big Ten.
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Two presidential hopefuls outlined their policy agenda in Iowa’s heaviest Democratic county Thursday. BY SARAH WATSON AND CALEB MCCULLOUGH daily-iowan@uiowa.edu
In a Coralville bar and an outdoor amphitheater at the University of Iowa, two senators made their pitch for the Democratic nomination in Johnson County Thursday night. Early organizing by the Iowa campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was on display Thursday when over a thousand attendees showed up to her outdoor rally — an uptick from her previous event at the IMU. Since that February event, Warren has added dozens of staff members across the state. Earlier in the afternoon, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., rallied a couple hundred Iowans in Coralville. The fellow presidential hopeful is looking to expand her Iowa campaign after a sluggish period in the polls — a recent poll doSEE CANDIDATES, 2
LEFT: Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a campaign rally outside the IMU on Thursday. (Raquele Decker/The Daily Iowan) RIGHT: Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif., addresses supporters at Backpocket Brewery on Thursday. (Megan Nagorzanski /The Daily Iowan)
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The state Board of Regents approved the fiscal 2021 appropriations proposal to ask Iowa lawmakers for an additional $18 million for the universities’ general funds. BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu
The state Board of Regents on Thursday approved its fiscal 2021 appropriations proposal requesting an additional $18 million to fund student-success initiatives. According to regents’ documents, the governing board is asking the state to appropriate $642.4 million for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020. This sum provides for an $18 million boost to the general funds of the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa. This appropriations request does not stipulate that additional appropriations support financial aid. Regent spokes-
BAND FROM FRONT full beer bottle thrown at me and was pulled away from the band,” Topping alleged to The Daily Iowan. “This was during a break away section during our typical series line so there was less visibility by police officials.” Later, Topping said he was carrying a drumline stand and alleged that fans attempted to take it from him while also grabbing at his arms. Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta announced earlier on Thursday that the UI shut down its investigation of these allegations three
CANDIDATES FROM FRONT ne by Focus on Rural America showed support for Harris slipped 13 percentage points in the Hawkeye State, and Warren surged to be within 2 percentage points of former Vice President Joe Biden. “So, I’m moving to Iowa,” Harris told the crowd at Backpocket Brewing in Coralville Thursday to laughs and applause. Her Iowa campaign announced they will add 60 new staffers in the firstin-the-nation-caucus state Thursday morning, bringing the campaigns’ total number of staffers up to 125, and she told reporters afterward she was packing her sweaters to take to Iowa for a long fall and winter campaigning in the Hawkeye State. At the local brewery, Harris emphasized her electability to the audience, saying she’s heard comments questioning her ability to win elections ahead of every political race she’s won.
man Josh Lehman previously told The Daily Iowan in an email that financial aid falls under the umbrella of student-success initiatives, even though it is not explicitly requested of the state. “The board is committed to providing quality education that is accessible and affordable,” Regent President Michael Richards said. “We must continue to move our universities forward. This requires resources, and we must be creating and leveraging our assets to find ways to provide … sustainable funding.” Now in the second year of the regents’ five-year tuition model, Richards said, the regents’ process of setting tuition rates remains the same.
The governing board will make appropriation requests for regents universities, and set tuition rates in June 2020 based on what it receives in funds. Richards said this plan allows resident-undergraduate students and their families time to do personal financial planning. If the state fully funds the regents’ appropriations request, the base tuition rate increase for this population will be 3 percent. Without additional funding from the state, he said, resident-undergrad tuition rates will increase by 3 percent plus the projected Higher Education Price Index. Richards said the fiscal 2021 index is an estimated 2.3 percent. Partial funding from the
days after releasing a brief statement that Iowa was looking into the alleged misconduct. “After collecting information Monday and Tuesday, we realized it would be difficult to verify details, and elected to focus on moving forward towards future events,” Barta said. Barta also confirmed that one student required medical attention but did not release any specific information due to student-privacy laws. Iowa first released a statement from Barta on Monday saying it had been “made aware of inappropriate actions” against the band at the Cy-Hawk game and that officials had contacted Iowa State while trying to get
more information. Barta and Iowa State Athletics Director Jamie Pollard on Wednesday released a joint statement regarding the incidents. The statement said both the Hawkeye and Cyclone marching bands have been the target of “unacceptable behavior at football games in Iowa City and Ames in recent years.” “Some of the conduct directed at the students in our respective marching bands recently has been rude, vulgar, and in some cases, violent,” the statement said. “Each of our athletics departments is committed to doing whatever is necessary to improve the environment for visiting school marching bands in the future.”
“People said… ‘No one like you has done it before — not based on your race, not based on your gender, not based on your platform that was about being progressive’…. People said it can’t be done. And I didn’t listen.” She outlined her policy agenda in Coralville, including her support for investing in renewable fuels, eliminating some federal student-loan debt, and fining corporations who don’t pay women equally to men. On gun control, Harris said as president she would give Congress 100 days to enact a buy-back program for assault-style weapons and would take executive action to implement a ban if Congress didn’t before that time. Harris spent a chunk of her speech talking about her beliefs on Medicare for All — she’s proposed a public health insurance option for every American, but stopped short of saying she’ll eliminate private insurance. That resonated with Gary Whittington, an Iowa City resident and undecided
caucusgoer. He believes a single-payer system, with which every American would be covered under a government-run insurance plan, is an ideal goal, but not a policy that can “unite America.” “I’m looking for a candidate who can transcend base politics and heal the country from Trump,” Whittington said, referring to when politicians propose far-right or far-left policies to energize the middle-fringe of the party. Across the river in Iowa City, Warren delivered a familiar message on restructuring the economy to a crowd of over a thousand people behind the Iowa Memorial Union. Warren touted her plan to address corruption in government, which draws on her anti-corruption legislation proposed in 2018. The plan features several changes to the lobbying system, including barring most elected federal officials from becoming lobbyists after leaving office. It would also require candidates for any federal office to make their
state, he said, means base resident-undergrad tuition rates fall somewhere within the above range. Richards thanked Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa General Assembly for the state funding the regents received last year. Regents received less than their desired amount from the state for fiscal 2020, with $12 million in appropriated funds — below their request of $18 million. “Our public universities continue to be among the finest in the nation, and we have a shared responsibility to keep them great,” Richards said on the regents’ relationship with state government. Richards said each regent university is actively looking
for additional sources of revenue to complement tuition, state appropriations, and reallocation. He referenced the UI’s exploration of a private-public partnership as an example, which would allow the university to enter into an agreement with an outside corporation to benefit financially from its own utility system. “If this initial effort is successful, this could provide a blueprint for future opportunities for other institutions and even possibly other branches of state government,” Richards said of the potential public-private partnership. Efforts such as this one to explore alternative, complementary revenue sources will raise a proper level of funding
to allow the regent universities to continue to provide quality education, Richards said. UI President Bruce Harreld said the university is primarily considering a public-private partnership “to ensure that the UI strategic plan is resourced.” If the university enters into such an agreement, he said, it will continue to own its utility system, but will receive funding. Whomever the UI partners with will receive a steady financial return, as well as tax benefits the university cannot obtain because of its nonprofit status. “We expect this transparency and accountability will also enhance [the regents’] ability to hold us accountable,” Harreld said.
Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan The Hawkeye Marching Band performs during a football game between Iowa and Iowa State at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames on Sept. 14. tax returns public. Warren addressed changes that she would make to the economy, which include a wealth tax on individuals who make over $50 million a year. The plan would put a 2 percent tax on Americans with a net worth above $50 million. Warren said the wealth tax would bring in enough money to pay for universal childcare, universal pre-K, tuition-free college education, and cancel student debt. However, the actual amount the tax would bring in has been contested. UI sophomore Kate Roleck said she agrees with both Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., but is more convinced by Warren. “The way that she presents [her ideas] and the way that she thoroughly explains everything and makes it so easy to read, you know exactly what’s going to happen, and she can make it happen,” Roleck said. Speaking with reporters, Warren said she isn’t looking to just separate herself from Sanders for the party’s
left wing, but to appeal to the broader Democratic party with a unifying message. “When I talk about corrup-
tion, it’s not just progressives who nod their head yes,” she said. “It’s folks who have felt it, who have seen it.”
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Regents OK razing Seashore Hall The state Board of Regents approved the demolition of the last remaining section of Seashore Hall. BY KATIE ANN McCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu
COUNCIL BLUFFS — The state Board of Regents approved a University of Iowa request on Thursday to raze Seashore Hall, or what remains of the building after two previous razings of its southwest and southeast wings. According to regents’ documents, the demolishment of Seashore Hall — in addition to the UI Communications Center — aligns with the university’s master plan and will involve abatement of asbestos-containing materials, removal of underground utilities, and restoration of green space to the project site. “[Seashore Hall] hasn’t supported its programs for some time,” UI Campus Planning Director Joe Bilotta said. “Renovations that have happened over time tried to support the academic programs in it, but it really just couldn’t keep up with the change in technology.” The building’s razing would eliminate $27.8 million in deferred maintenance, the documents said, which is similar to the estimated price of its replacement. As for demolition, a Treasurer’s Temporary Investment income of $2.775 million would cover the costs, regents’ documents
read. “Through a lot of analytics and study over the years, it was determined that we shouldn’t be investing too much in the facility, and a replacement facility was going to be the best investment for the state,” Bilotta said. Celebrating 120 years, Seashore Hall was originally built in 1899 as the UI’s first hospital. The southwest wing was razed due to severe structural deficiencies in 2000, and the regents approved the razing of a southeast section in 2016, according to the documents. Bilotta said the reasoning for razing the building in parts and not as a whole was so that programs within it did not lose learning space. With buildings as large as Seashore Hall, he said, demolition occurs in phases to avoid displacement of entire programs. The third and final part of the building that requires razing is approximately 128,000 square feet and inadequate for its current teaching and research missions, said regents documents. In 2016, the regents approved the construction of a new Psychological and Brain Sciences building, which is projected to open January 2020. Bilotta said some programs may move into that building this win-
Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Progress of the Seashore Hall demolition is seen on Feb. 25, 2018. ter, but more likely in the spring. He added that the sociology program will be housed on the top floor of North Hall, and construction on this will probably begin next month. “If you’ve been to campus, you can see Seashore Hall’s sort of on life support,” UI Campus Planning and Development Business Manager David Kieft said. Kieft explained that the building will be replaced
with green space for gathering, which will help connect the downtown Iowa City area to the north side business district. The envisioned space is best described as “parklike,” Bilotta said, and will hopefully improve the pedestrian corridor to Linn Street. The land which Seashore stands on now will evolve into a collegian, mini quadrangle, which sketches for should be ready within
the week, he said. However, there is also potential that at least a part of the site could be used for a neurological science facility, Bilotta said. But that depends on if the program grows at the UI and is certainly not expected anytime soon. Despite approval from regents to raze it, Seashore probably has at least another year of life before it is demolished, Bilotta said.
Sociology programs are primarily still in the building and will have to wait a probable six to nine months before their new facilities are ready. “That building really just outlived its usefulness to the institution,” Bilotta said of Seashore Hall. “It’s an old building, but it’s tired. It just wasn’t working. Our programs were not in a space that was needed to be successful.”
UI receives gift for Grant Wood Art Colony The state Board of Regents approved the UI’s acceptance of property as an addition to the Grant Wood Art Colony Program. BY KELSEY HARRELL kelsey-harrell@uiowa.edu
COUNCIL BLUFFS — To continue famed painter Grant Wood’s legacy of encouraging collaboration between artists, the Grant Wood Art Colony Program will welcome the addition of a new home for artists during their visits. The state Board of Regents approved the University of Iowa’s acceptance of a 1,970 square-foot home and the quarter-acre lot it sits on as an addition to the program — named after the famous American Gothic painter — during its meeting Thursday. The home, at 1120 E. Court St., was built in 1911
and is one mile east of central campus in Iowa City’s Longfellow neighborhood. The property is a gift to the UI from Jim Hayes, the program’s National Advisory Board chair and the current resident of the historic Grant Wood home next door to the gifted property at 1142 E. Court St. Hayes purchased the property after the death of the previous owner, UI Finance and Operations Business Manager David Kieft said. Hayes also owns the other four properties that make up the art colony. The UI leases the properties and are used to house scholars visiting the UI School of Art, according to regents’ documents.
“We’ve done an extensive home inspection by a company that specializes in older and historic homes,” Kieft said. “The home is in very good, sound condition and doesn’t need to be renovated from a structural standpoint.” After inspection, the UI determined there will be one-time and ongoing costs to maintain the property, which will be paid for through a combination of university and gift funds, the documents said. The remaining properties will be donated to the UI when Hayes no longer lives in the Grant Wood home, Kieft said. The goal of the colony is to give visiting artists time and
space to create work as they spend time teaching at the UI, colony director Maura Pilcher said. Grant Wood was a teacher at the UI in the 1930s and made the education of young people a part of his work, she said. While at the UI, Wood was part of the Times Club and created the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Speakers, Pilcher said. Many guests the group hosted, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Robert Frost, Langston
Hughes, and Carl Sandburg, visited or stayed at Woods’ home, she said in an email to The Daily Iowan. Along with housing visiting artists, the colony also puts on a biannual symposium that brings experts from all over the country to the UI and works on public outreach and engagement efforts that bring visiting art fellows to communities across the state, Pilcher said. The artists that come to the UI through the colony
fellowship are selected because they bring different perspectives and techniques for students to learn from, she said. The additional of the new property will allow the colony to give all the artists an opportunity to have a collaborative environment to work in, Pilcher said. “The intent of the ... colony is to be a creative and collaborative space,” Pilcher said. “The goal is to promote new ideas and career strengthening.”
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‘80s remakes capitalize The Iowa-ISU rivalry nostalgia, not novelty is getting out of hand The seemingly endless Hollywood-made reboots aren’t just annoying, they’re stopping new stories from being told.
EMILY CREERY
emily-creery@uiowa.edu It’s no secret that Hollywood has run out of ideas. From sequels to remakes, a fresh, new film is rare amongst the 875th Star Wars or a Disney masterpiece Warner Bros/TNS gone rogue (here’s looking Bill Skarsgard in It Chapter Two. at you, live adaptations). But there’s something almost feelings we have when Mar- fact, Marcus Theaters regularly unholy about the recent ty McFly finally reaches 88 schedules their “Retro Series” surge in remaking films mph by the hand of the clock throughout the year at reduced from the 1980s, where no tower. The industry isn’t do- prices. There’s also the TCM amount of CGI or dreamy, ing them (or us) justice by “Big Screen Classics” initiative young actors can even begin putting iconic characters to celebrate iconic cinema. Even our local to capture FilmScene has the magic of their “Roofthat decade’s top Series” cinema. ‘Perhaps the answer is to instead look toward reserved for Just this fall, we have what select theaters are already doing: some of our films It Chapter providing a cinematic experience to new favorite from before Two, Ramthe turn of the bo: Last Blood generations.’ century. and TerminaPeople just aren’t going to tor: Dark Fate waiting for us back on the screen out of at the theater as lackluster the context of big hair, flu- the theater anymore, which stand-ins for their original orescent workout gear, and is one of the many reasons why mainstream Hollywood counterparts. While I recog- puffy life vests. Don’t get me wrong, Tom has shifted toward remakes nize the draw of nostalgia, they’re not the same. How Cruise reprising his leather and sequels: a guaranteed jacket and aviators in Top audience. But are butts in could they be? If Hollywood continues to Gun: Maverick will satisfy my seats worth the inevitable tap into the 1980s, I fear that need for speed. But I didn’t disappointment of a 1980s remake? the originals Although will lose their fun to re-enimpact on pop culture. ‘Although fun to re-enter a world where goblin ter a world where goblin I personally don’t want kings steal babies and students skip school to kings steal the next actually go outside, this cannot be the answer.’ babies and students wave of moviegoers to experience John ask for it, nor do I actually skip school to actually go Hughes without the station want it. There’s a difference outside, this cannot be the wagons and popped collars. between several Batman ad- answer. The future of cinWhat a world it would be aptations that are individ- ema stands on the padded to say, “Sorry, Sadman Lux, ually unique and the recre- shoulders of the 1980s, but but the first Breakfast Club ation of a singular storyline it will not survive because of them. was far better and had less that used to be special. Let’s work on pushing Perhaps the answer is to indragons.” And if that doesn’t bother you, can you even stead look toward what select for exciting, genre-bending imagine a remake from that theaters are already doing: works of art and leave welldecade without Bill Murray? providing a cinematic expe- enough alone, shall we? BeThe top-of-the-line spe- rience to new generations — sides, if we do it right, where cial effects of 2019 are inca- reclining seats in all their glo- we’re going we don’t need pable of invoking the same ry — for the original film. In roads.
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Two Iowa State alums write about their daughter, a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band, and her experience with bad behavior from fans during the Sept. 14 Cy-Hawk game. As proud Iowa State Uni- teams to the point that the ment and energy to the game. versity alums, we were morti- band is being targeted with They deserve to be treated refied to learn of our daughter’s vulgar, disrespectful, and al- spectfully, no matter which experience at the 2019 Cy- most bordering on abusive, team they support. We say a big thank you to Hawk game as a member of behavior. We challenge ISU and Iowa those ISU fans who told memthe Hawkeye Marching Band. She described ISU fans who fans to step up their game to bers of the Hawkeye Marching swore at the band, yelled “go show positive sportsmanship. Band that they did a good job and even said home,” and “good game” continuously after a close flipped them heartthe bird. ‘We challenge ISU and UI fans to step up their and breaking loss As ISU alums, we are game to show positive sportsmanship. Cheer for ISU. Simappalled that on your team, but leave at home the vulgarity ilar kudos to Hawkeye fans our daughtreatter had to and abusive behavior towards members of the who ed ISU band endure such opposing school.’ members with vulgarity at our alma mater. We were Cheer on your team, but leave the decency and respect they equally saddened to find out at home the vulgarity and abu- deserve at last year’s game. You are true Cyclones and that the ISU Marching Band sive behavior towards memhad a similar experience at bers of the opposing school. Hawkeyes embodying all that When the band, cheer squad, is good about both universities. Kinnick Stadium last year. What used to be and should and dance team of either team — Laura Amsler be a good-natured rivalry has passes by, tell them, “Great job ISU Class of 1986 turned into a verbally violent and good luck!” These young — Jim Cain and aggressive display of mis- people put in many hours of ISU Class of 1985 placed loyalty by fans of both hard work to bring entertain-
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Living far off campus isn’t worth it Apartments miles away can negatively affect one’s social life.
KRYSTIN LANGER krystin-langer@uiowa.edu As many students can attest, living in Iowa City can be expensive. For a tiny one-bed, onebath apartment near campus, Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan students can find themselves Workers lay concrete in the entryway for the clubhouse at the Quarters paying upwards of $1,000, and for more decent accommoda- apartment complex in Iowa City on Aug. 24, 2017. It may seem strange to some tions, the price rises. These out- temptation to stay home and landish prices have caused stu- skip class grew. After all, the bus that the prospect of living only dents to look elsewhere to find a that the Quarters offered to take a few miles from campus had residents to campus only came such a big impact on my social place to live. Apartment complexes such every hour and was a 15-minute and academic life. However, as the Quarters and Hawks ride. Due to my location right this is the case for many other Ridge seem to offer students a off Highway 6, there was abso- students who have been in my solution to this problem offer- lutely no way for me to walk or situation. Reviews on the Quarters ing accommodations at a frac- bike to campus, again requiring Facebook page brazenly bash tion of the cost. However, there me to rely on the bus system. I began to spend my week- the complex for its inability is a catch. While these offers may look good on paper and ends and weeknights spending to make tenants feel like part of a commuthe appeal of nity. In one living in “luxpost, a forury housing” is tempting, they ‘With my only connection to campus being mer tenant describes the are also located a ridiculous the Quarters bus, distance between me and housing opas the distance from downtown Iowa City continued to grow after tion worst in Iowa campus. City and cites I know this a few months of living there.’ her reasons because I lived in the Quarters last year. I was time in the club house game as difficulties in being able to originally drawn to the opportu- room instead of going down- get to campus. “It’s far from campus and nity to live somewhere that not town with friends. With my only had a large bedroom and only connection to campus be- the bus is regularly late so don’t living space but also had free ing the Quarters bus, distance count on [getting to campus],” residential parking. The majori- between me and downtown the post said. While the draw to living off ty of residents seemed to be stu- Iowa City continued to grow dents, and at first I didn’t feel a after a few months of living campus may be appealing, the sense of isolation from campus. there. The feeling of home that disadvantages of being disconThat changed when classes I had while living on campus as nected to University of Iowa’s began. Since the Quarters is a freshman had dissipated, and campus far outweigh the allure. located miles from campus, I I eventually decided to move to The experience of being able never heard the commotion an apartment near the hub of to walk to class and downtown of students making their way the university to try to regain is definitely worth living in a smaller apartment. to morning classes, and so the that atmosphere.
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UI Clothing Closet turns to expansion The student organization Campus Clothing Closet is keeping its momentum from a strong spring to an even stronger first week as its second year of giving away free professional attire commences. BY MITCHELL GRIFFIN mitchell-griffin@uiowa.edu
What started as a group of University of Iowa students’ idea to provide accessible business professional clothing to other students has now developed into a full Clothing Closet with hopes for expansion after a successful first year. The idea of having a Clothing Closet at the university first came into being two years ago when it was included on UI Student Government election platforms, and by May 2018 it was passed as a student organization. “There was a lot of support for the resource, and [the University of Iowa Student Government has] been incredibly supportive of our mission,” said Executive Director Lindsey Meyer of the Clothing Closet. The organization has seen its success grow ever since it began last fall in the Iowa Memorial Union, she said. “We served over 130 students this past spring,” Meyer said. “We had a total of 300 clothing items taken, which was an 85 percent increase from our first semester.” As knowledge of the Clothing Closet has increased around campus, so has its business, Meyer said. “We’ve seen immense growth just this semester with the number of clients
CENTER FROM FRONT the building in which hundreds of student journalists convened to cover the University of Iowa community and work at the award-winning independent news organization will stand no more. The state Board of Regents on Thursday approved the UI’s request to demolish the Communications Center to eliminate $3 million in deferred maintenance and turn it into green space. The building will cost $1.03 million to raze, but according to regents’ documents, a 2018 study estimated it would cost $12 million to renovate the facility to meet programmatic needs and building codes. Built in 1951, the Communications Center housed the UI School of Journalism and the DI since 1953. News of the center’s impending demolition didn’t surprise several DI alums, but it brought on nostalgia nonetheless. “It was exactly what you would have expected in a working newsroom at the time,” 1968-69 DI Editor Cheryl Arvidson said. “It was shoe-leather grit reporters who were there working … and it was just a place where everybody did their job and nobody cared what it
that we’re serving in the first week we’ve been open and in the amount of items being taken,” Meyer said. Amid the organization’s rapid growth, it is already looking to expand, the Clothing Closet team said. “One of our more immediate needs is more storage space based, especially with a large number coming in now compared to last year,” said Joshua Bolen, associate director of the Clothing Closet. Seventy-five articles of clothing were given away to 30 clients in the first week of business this semester, nearly one-fourth of last semester’s total, Bolen said. Improving their inventory system, finding a second location, and growing its business partnerships are all on the horizon for the Clothing Closet, he said. “We’re trying to get [partnerships] like discounted tailors and discounted dry-cleaning,” Bolen said. Volunteers play an important role from within for keeping the closet running and growing, the team said. Audrey Mumford, the volunteer coordinator of the Clothing Closet, has volunteered since the very beginning of the organization. “I wanted to have more opportunities to serve students specifically, and the Clothing Closet was the perfect choice,” Mumford said. She said her own experience with the difficulty of in the newsroom, Casey said — it was everybody’s home just as it is now, even without the “swank” lounge space today’s staff enjoys in the current Adler Journalism Building newsroom. Arvidson recalled the night that presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The June 5, 1968 issue of the DI reported that Kennedy was entering surgery as the newspaper went to press. After reporting Kennedy’s victory in the California primaries, Arvidson said she returned to her sorority house on Burlington Street. She walked in the door just in time to see Kennedy get shot while giving his victory speech. So, Arvidson turned around and went back to the newsroom, as did nearly everyone who worked late that night. While other journalists in town had gone to bed, the *DI* staff stopped the presses and is believed to be the only newspaper east of the Missouri River to get the news in its pages. “Everybody else had gone to bed,” she said. “… It was amazing.” Decades later, tragedy struck the campus community on Nov. 1, 1991 when former UI graduate student Gang Lu shot and killed five people and wounded one other in two university buildings. Enraged about not winning
‘It’s a crummy old building. You don’t get much crummier … but having said that, the work there that was done was amazing.’ — Bill Casey, former DI Publisher looked like. I loved every dirty little piece of it.” Longtime former DI Publisher Bill Casey said he has “a million memories” of working in that space, but he emphasized students’ impressive efforts to publish quality journalism. “It’s a crummy old building,” he said. “You don’t get much crummier … but having said that, the work there that was done was amazing.”
A space to document the rough draft of history When major local and national news broke, almost as if by a mysterious gravitational force, DI staffers knew to head to the newsroom and get to work informing the community. Most staffers basically lived
a dissertation award that instead went to Shan, his former roommate, Lu targeted several people whom he killed that day before turning the gun on himself. The DI staff put out a special Saturday edition to cover the tragedy — showing up to the newsroom knowing without being told that the news needed to be covered. “Those kids were there day and night for the Gang Lu story,” Casey said. “… I was out of town, so was the editor, but the newsroom kids just stepped up and did a great job.”
Home away from home While the newsroom was a place to work, it was also a place to relax and spend time with friends — those other folks
Raquele Decker/The Daily Iowan The Clothing Closet in the IMU is pictured on Thursday. finding affordable professional clothing makes the experience of helping students through the Clothing Closet more enjoyable. First-year students and first-generation students are common clients for closet. “The biggest thing we’ve learned from our demographics is that freshmen coming in are the ones that are really using us as a resource right off the bat,”
Mumford said, adding that many freshmen forget their professional clothing or do not realize they will need it. Meyer said 37 percent of their clients have been first-generation students, compared to first-gens only making up 23 percent of the student body. The Clothing Closet always makes an effort to point out that no matter who is using their service, the clothing is always free,
the Clothing Closet team said. “A lot of people think it’s a library system. We don’t have people borrow clothes and then return it – once you come in and take clothes from the closet, they’re yours to keep,” Mumford said. Meyer said that in the past year, the Pomerantz Center and the Tippie College of Business are some of their key funding contrib-
utors. Both the undergraduate and postgraduate student governments provide funds for the organization, as well. “The processes of the Clothing Closet are definitely dependent on the funding we receive. We wouldn’t be able to serve students in the capacity that we can. We wouldn’t be able to do the advertising, marketing, and high-quality clothing,” Meyer said.
University of Iowa Libraries; Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs, 1866-2000 The Communications Center is seen in July 1953. The center, which previously housed The Daily Iowan, is set to be torn down. on campus who thrive on the spontaneity journalism entails. Arvidson remembered being in the newsroom constantly, soaking up every moment she could there to set herself up to be the best reporter she could be after graduating college. “We’d go into the DI midafternoon and be there until midnight,” she said. “It was my home away from home, and I seriously would bet you that I spent easily 12 hours a day there.” Former Arts Editor Shayla Thiel Stern, who worked at the DI in the 1990s, said her friends who attended the DI 150th reunion in July 2018 walked through the building and described it as a ghost town — set up in just about the same way as it was decades earlier, as if few things had changed. She said the best memories were hanging out with her friends who were also “deep into wanting to be old-school journalists.” “I spent all my time in the newsroom,” she said. When he wasn’t shuffling to and from Kinnick Stadium and Carver-Hawkeye Arena covering Hawkeye sports in the 1980s, former DI Sports Editor Marc Bona said the newsroom was one of the places he spent the most time on campus.
University of Iowa Libraries; Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs, 1866-2000 Members of the Daily Iowan staff pose for a portrait in the Communications Building. “I was always late to class,” Bona said. “I was always hustling in and out of that building.” Bona said nothing lasts forever, but he’ll always have the memories he made in the Communications Center. “You form friendships, too, because of a place,” he said, “and I think about how many people I’m still in touch with because of that place.”
FUN FACT DI alums used the parking lot behind the Communications Center — improperly — by driving under the gate or using a soda or garbage can to open the gate. (Sometimes they were ticketed. Sometimes they got a free parking spot by using this technique.)
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USMCA top priority for Iowa politicians With the beginning of the congressional session, Iowa political leaders say they want the ratification of the U.S.Mexcio-Canada Agreement to be a top priority. BY JULIA SHANAHAN
julia-shanahan@uiowa.edu In the midst of multiple federal battles on the agriculture front, Iowa political leaders say ratifying the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and finishing trade negotiations with China are top priorities ahead of this congressional session. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a Sept. 11 conference call to reporters that both trade agreements are important to Iowa’s agriculture industry. He said trade negotiations with China were supposed to finish on May 1, but China backed out, adding that talks are
supposed to resume in October. “So who knows what’s going to happen in an authoritarian country like China,” Grassley said during the conference call. “Those two things are very important to agriculture.” Grassley, chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, said in June that he planned to introduce legislation that would limit President Trump’s power to impose tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows the president to create trade laws for national security purposes. The USMCA was signed by the leaders of the three
countries in November and was ratified by Mexico in June. The new agreement still needs to be ratified by the legislative branches of U.S. and Canada. The agreement would increase the U.S.’ access to the Canadian dairy market and strengthen the markets for corn, soybeans, and poultry specifically to Mexico, according to an Aug. 27 statement from the White House. In an email from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ communications director Pat Garrett, he said Reynolds believes Congress needs to ratify the USMCA this congressional session. “Doing so will create new opportunities for Iowa fam-
ilies, farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses,” Garrett wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan. In an April study from the U.S. International Trade Commission on the USMCA, it said the two elements that would have the most significant effects on the U.S. economy are the country of origin rules, meaning an automobile has to have at least 75 percent of its components manufactured in one of three countries to qualify for zero tariffs, and the digital-trade provisions, which would prohibit tariffs on things like music and e-books. The study also found the new agreement would in-
crease the U.S. GDP by $68 billion and create 176,000 U.S. jobs. The manufacturing industry would see the largest increase in wages and employment, according to the report. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said while there are multiple issues that need to be addressed federally in the agriculture industry, passing the USMCA is the most important thing Congress can do. “There’s a level of frustration that Congress has not acted on the USMCA,” Naig said. “On the other hand, I know that there’s a political process that has to play out. The fact is, you got Democrats [controlling] the
House, Republicans [controlling] the Senate and the Trump administration, and split party control like that — that means you need to work through the political process.” Naig said he would also like to see Congress invest more in rural broadband coverage and address labor needs in agriculture in the broader context of immigration reform. “Ultimately, though, we want Congress to take action,” Naig said. “And so there’s a time for talk, and then there’s a time for action. So I think at some point, we need Congress to step up and do the right thing.”
UI changes policy to boost raises for some faculty The UI has announced a change in policy with regard to promotional raises of tenure- and clinical-track faculty. BY ALEXANDRA SKORES
alexandra-skores@uiowa.edu University of Iowa Provost Montserrat Fuentes announced a change in policy on Thursday to give higher raises to certain faculty in an effort to keep salaries competitive with peer institutions. Tenure- and clinical-track faculty who receive promotions to associate professor or full professor will also receive larger automatic salary wages — a change from the university’s old promotional raise policy. Fuentes said that a promoted associate professor will now receive a $4,000 raise instead of the original $2,500, and a promoted full professor will receive $6,000 as opposed to the previous $3,500. The new promotional raise policy will take effect at the beginning of fiscal 2021 on July 1, 2020. The UI Offices of the President and the Provost have worked with collegiate deans over the past few years to raise
faculty salaries to be competitive with the university’s peer schools, Fuentes said in an email to The Daily Iowan. Historically, UI promotional raises have been lower than its peers, she said. “Increasing promotional raises for faculty is one mechanism that can be used to address retention issues within our faculty ranks,” Fuentes said. “It is important to support our faculty and reward their efforts in pursuing their professional goals and aspirations, which includes achieving the highest faculty ranks.” The faculty promotional raise policy is institution-wide and disseminated annually by University Human Resources, alongside other updated and recurring guidelines related to compensation, Fuentes said. In October 2018, UI deans and vice presidents decided to delay salary decisions to Jan. 1 — with the exception of UI Health Care — to fully understand tuition revenue following September enrollment numbers and state funding
from the Iowa Revenue Estimating Conference. General practice on campus says colleges may determine whether to award similar promotional to instructional-track and research-track faculty. “We anticipate that this policy change will bring more opportunities for students to be engaged in research at early stages in their careers and will affect our ability to recruit students who want to pursue the world-class quality of education and research we conduct here at the UI,” Fuentes said. “It is a powerful recruitment tool to make the UI a university of choice for Iowans and beyond.” The UI’s 2016-21 Strategic Plan calls for enhanced recognition for faculty achievements as a way to recruit and retain faculty who possess the broad diversity essential to the university’s mission, Fuentes said in an email. The university competes for faculty on a national and international level, and faculty compensation and rewards
Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan UI Provost Montserrat Fuentes speaks about enrollment trends during the Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday. The university anticipates a decline in enrollment and is boosting salaries in hopes of remaining competitive. are essential for drawing a diverse and high-quality pool of candidates, she said. UI President Bruce Harreld said in a statement that the provost’s steps to increase the competitiveness of faculty
salaries. “Enrollment projections in the next decade show us that universities nationwide will be in closer competition with each other than ever before,” Harreld said. “Our universi-
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SOCCER FROM FRONT The good news for the Hawkeyes is that the momentum is on their side from nonconference play, which they plan to continue in Big Ten play. “Right now, we are in a really good place being 8-0,” sophomore midfielder Josie Durr said. “We have the momentum going our way because we are able to build off our previous games, and we’re going in with a really good mindset and we’re really pumped.” The team plans to continue with its current mindset of a being hard, gritty team.
VOLLEYBALL FROM FRONT Lipscomb last year. Lanie Wagner leads the team offensively with 2.87 kills per set, while Maddie Phillips runs the defensive side with 24 blocks and 72 kills this far into the season. Next, the Hawkeyes will
It sees itself as blue-collar. “Even though we’re being hunted, I still feel like we’re going to act like the hunters, because that’s just our nature of play,” Drkulec said. “We love to go out and make those big tackles. I mean I know I do, and I know our teammates do that to. So, I think that just having that mindset that we’re still hunting that other team, because even though we might have that national ranking now, like I said, Big Ten’s a whole clean slate, so we’re going after each team hunting them in the same way.” DiIanni likes this type of mentality. He knows that when his team eventually loses, this attitude will help bring them up. take on undefeated Coastal Carolina at 7 p.m. today. Last facing the team in 2017, the Hawkeyes are 6-0 against the Chanticleers. With 364 assists and 11.03 assists per set, setter Brigitta Bozdeva leads the Chanticleer offense. The team is looking for another win over Iowa State after last year’s 3-1 defeat of the Cyclones for the 2018 Cy-Hawk Series. The team is down 23-27
“I want them to continue to be the hunters and not the hunted,” DiIanni said. This mindset will be especially important as the team starts Big Ten play on the road. Last season, the team only won one conference game on the road. DiIanni said the team has already proven that it can win on the road with three wins coming on opposing fields already. Now it needs to do the same in conference play. “We just talked to them about being emotionally and physically being prepared to go on the road to be gritty and tough,” DiIanni said, “and to do whatever it takes to win a game on Friday night.” in the series since the beginning of the competition this year between the in-state rivals. The Cyclones are 6-3 so far into the 2019 season with a current four-match winning streak. Iowa will have competition with Iowa State’s Eleanor Holthaus, who marked a total of 104 kills through its nine games of the season. One of three captains, junior Brie Orr, leads the
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sive coordinator Phil Parker said. “Does he have a lot more to go? Yeah, he has a long ways to go, and he knows that, and he worked hard [Wednesday].” Parker said the lack of depth has also affected game planning. The Hawkeyes went with zone coverage quite a bit in the win over Iowa State in Week 3, even though they largely went with a nickel set to start off the year. When down several defensive backs, it becomes difficult to run the nickel, a formation largely dependent on defensive backs. Iowa hasn’t run much nickel in several weeks, but Parker said fans
might see more of it if the team can get more players healthy. “[It will depend] on who we are playing and what their personnel is going to be,” he said. “If we can adjust, we’re going to try and get into match personnel as much as we can.” Conversely, injuries have also affected the offensive side of the ball. Offensive lineman Alaric Jackson was sidelined during Iowa’s Week 1 win over Miami (Ohio) with an injury to his right knee. His timeline remains unclear, although he’s expected to return during the season. Running back Mekhi Sargent has not missed any games, but offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz said a wrist injury limited his snaps against Iowa State.
Similar to injuries on the secondary, an effect of this has been increased snaps for freshman back Tyler Goodson. “You look at what [Goodson] has done,” Ferentz said. “He’s done some really good things. Toren [Young] has been really good. And certainly Mekhi has been the workhorse, the jack-of-all-trades, but with him dinged up on Saturday, we felt like it was best to perhaps not give him quite as many snaps, trying to be as smart as we could with his injury.” There’s never a good time for injuries to plague a team, but with a bye week and Middle Tennessee State coming next, it could be worse. After that, the crux of Iowa’s season in the Big Ten begins with matchup against Michigan on the road.
Hawkeyes with 312 assists for the season. “I’m for sure really excited about getting in and playing Iowa State this weekend,” Orr said in a release. “That’s going to be a huge game for us. After winning last year in Ames, we really want to beat them here in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. We’re really excited about that and just starting to get going and really figuring out what
our team is about.” Senior captain Meghan Buzzerio leads the Hawkeyes in kills with a total of 119, followed by sister Courtney Buzzerio with 69 kills. “We can communicate differently on the court because we are sisters and we have the extra level of communication,” Courtney Buzzerio said. The Hawkeyes team currently ranks No. 4 in the Big
Ten with a team attack percentage of .279. “We’re a very direct team when we’re playing,” head coach Vicki Brown said in a release. “We’re learning how to win within that and how the benefit of being short and direct really helps us make adjustments sooner. It gives a lot of leadership powers to our captains that are on the court.”
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Soccer starts Big Ten play After finishing its nonconference season with a perfect record, the Iowa soccer team starts Big Ten play today in Indiana.
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Former Iowa tight end and current San Francisco 49er, George Kittle, took to television on Wednesday night to talk on some important topics with Scott Van Pelt. Van Pelt opened by asking who the second-best Iowa tight end in the NFL is, and Kittle answered smoothly. “T.J. Fant,” he said. When joking around about his answer, Kittle revealed his secrets to interviewing and who he learned it all from: Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz. The biggest bomb drop, however, is who his leastfavorite Big Ten team is, and it’s something that most (if not all) of Iowa fans can agree on. “I really don’t like them,” Kittle said. “I really don’t like Nebraska. I’ve got issues with them, man. I’ve got issues.” Kittle is joined in the NFL by co-second-best Iowa tight ends T.J. Hockenson (Detroit Lions) and Noah Fant (Denver Broncos) and is teammates with C.J. Beathard. As of the opening NFL week, 29 Hawkeyes were with a proteam.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE Friday, Sept. 20 11 a.m. – Volleyball vs. Lipscomb 2 p.m. – Soccer at Indiana 4 p.m. – Baseball, Scout Day 5:30 p.m. – Softball vs. Kirkwood 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Coastal Carolina Saturday, Sept. 21 9 a.m. – Cross country at Woody Greeno Invite 12 p.m. – Softball at Upper Iowa 12 p.m. – Field hockey vs. Kent State (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Iowa State Sunday, Sept. 22 All Day – Women’s golf at East West Match Play 12 p.m. – Soccer at Purdue RANKED HAWKEYE SQUADS Football: No. 18 (AP Top 25, Coaches Poll) Field Hockey: No. 8 (National Field Hockey Coaches Association) Soccer: No. 19 (United Soccer Coaches), No. 21 (TopDrawerSoccer.com)
Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan Defender Hannah Drkulec fights for the ball during a game against Virginia Commonwealth University on Sept. 2, 2018. The Hawkeyes won the match, 2-0.
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isaac-goffin@uiowa.edu The undefeated No. 19 Iowa soccer team begins it’s Big Ten slate this weekend with two afternoon games against Indiana and Purdue. Iowa’s 8-0 record matches its win total from last season, but so far it’s been all nonconference action. The Hawkeyes start Big Ten play today at 2 p.m. against the 4-3 Hoosiers, followed by a game at noon Sept. 22 against the 4-2-1 Boilermakers. Head coach Dave DiIanni said that the all the teams in the conference are close to each other in terms of skill. “Our league has a great deal of parity from top to bottom, to be honest,” DiIanni said. “I think
it’s very well coached. There’s not a lot that separates 14 to one in our conference.” Though the team is proud of its recent national recognitions, it understands that those occurred under nonconference play. Senior defender and captain Hannah Drkulec said that Big Ten play is a whole different season. “We know that none of [the national recognition] matters compared to what we do in the Big Ten,” Drkulec said. “Now, it’s a whole new reset point for us where our season is about to start. We’re a clean slate. No one’s played each other yet, so we need to make our impact in this conference as well as we did in the nonconference.”
Bye week, MTSU come at Iowa good time for Hawkeyes volleyball takes on CyHawk Series Iowa football looks to get healthy during its bye week after a costly opening three weeks.
The Cy-Hawk Series continues with matches against Lipscomb, Coastal Carolina, and Iowa State this weekend.
“I was in that old pink one upstairs, that was terrible. We never went back up. We went down. We put newspaper on it and stuff like that, and then we stayed down at halftime.”
STAT OF THE DAY Iowa leads the season Cy-Hawk series 5-0 after wins by both soccer and football.
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Where: Bloomington, Indiana When: 2 p.m. Streaming online: BTN+ Iowa players to watch: Hannah Drkulec, Claire Graves, Natalie Winters Indiana players to watch: Chandra Davidson, Avery Lockwood
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— Iowa football defensive coordinator Phil Parker on being a player in Iowa’s pink visiting locker room.
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Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Geno Stone sits injured on the field during a football game between Iowa and Rutgers at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 7.
BY PETE MILLS
peter-mills@uiowa.edu Injuries happen in football, but Iowa is banged up quite a bit in its fourth week of the season, especially after the Hawkeyes’ win over Iowa State in Week 3. With no football game this weekend and a Groupof-Five opponent in Middle Tennessee State coming to Iowa City on Sept. 28, this looser stretch comes at a great time for Iowa, specifically on the defensive side. The defense is notably thin in the secondary, forcing young players to take a lot of reps in games with very few substitutions. Kaevon Merriweather, Matt Hankins, Riley Moss, and Julius Brents are all veteran members of the secondary, but none were active in the Hawkeyes’ game
against the Cyclones. The injuries are all expected to be short-term, but they clearly damaged Iowa. Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy threw for 276 yards and a touchdown, and the Cyclone offense managed 2 passing touchdowns that went for 50 yards or more. Even though the secondary has struggled at times, the injuries of veteran members has given opportunities to young players, such as D.J. Johnson, to make more of an immediate impact. Johnson was burned for a 53-yard Cyclone pass on a trick play in the first quarter, but he still went on to record 2 pass breakups and a Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week nod. “He grew up [during the game],” Iowa defenSEE FOOTBALL, 7
The Iowa volleyball team returns to Carver-Hawkeye Arena to take on Lipscomb, Coastal Carolina, and Iowa State tomorrow as part of the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series Tournament. Last weekend the Hawkeyes controlled Wyoming and University of California- Davis, winning both matches, 3-2, before falling to South Dakota, 3-2. Two athletes from the team were named to the all-tournament team, juniors Brie Orr and Meghan Griere Hughes. Buzzerio The first match of the weekend comes at 11 a.m. today against Lipscomb and will be only the second time that the teams have come into contact after a five-set win by SEE VOLLEYBALL, 7
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