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Is my prayer just one more prayer? On a trip to Israel with fellow Jewish college students, a DI reporter asked herself, what does it mean to be Jewish? BY MADISON LOTENSCHTEIN | madison-lotenschtein@uiowa.edu After one too many tequila shots, Monica woke up in the same state she had been the night before: drunk. My friends and I noticed her drunken stupor after her purchase of a small drum with “Jerusselm” misspelled on its front. The walk — more like a hungover shuffle — to the stone gates of the Old City was not as quiet or riveting as one might expect, because Monica decided that banging on the drum while singing the “Walmart yodeling kid song” was the proper way to greet the holiest city on Earth, Jerusalem. Birthright, a nonprofit organization, gives a free trip to young Jews around the world to
help them connect with Israel and their Jewish identity. Even as grateful and connected I felt to such a place, I found Monica’s perfect pitch amid the sand-dusted gates of the city to be the most suitable background music for my current place in life. The trip also allows us “cashews” (one parent Christian, the other Jewish) to join the incredible journey. My name is Madison Lotenschtein, and I am a certified cashew. I was born in Hawaii and raised in Iowa. No, I am not Hawaiian, SEE PRAYER, 2
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On Monday, the Iowa City Fire Department responded to a call of a mail truck catching fire on North First Avenue at 2:45 p.m. There were no injuries or damage. Iowa City Fire Marshal Brian Greer said the postal worker driving the vehicle noticed smoke coming out of the front of the vehicle. The postal worker maneuvered the truck into the street and got all the mail out before it caught on fire. Greer said the fire is believed to have started in the engine compartment.
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Hoping to make the jump from a New York business to the White House, Andrew Yang believes a monthly government stipend will replace jobs lost to robots.
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The University of Iowa’s Mayflower Hall is operating at a lower capacity in order to make room for returning students to live on campus. The residence hall is operating at 60 percent capacity. University Housing & Dining can adjust the capacity of a building each year based on the UI enrollment. This year, Housing & Dining converted some of the double rooms in Mayflower to single rooms to give returning students the option of living on campus but having more independence than in a traditional dorm room, said Assistant Vice President Von Stange, the senior director of Housing & Dining. There remains a mix of double and single rooms in Mayflower. The number can change in the future depending on the inStange terest in single rooms as well as an increase or a decrease in the number of first-year students, Stange said. The UI has made an effort to manage enrollment, making such a change possible. According to a February report to the state Board of Regents, the enrollment headcount during fiscal 2018 was 33,564. The enrollment forecast for fiscal 2023
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With two years until the 2020 election cycle, former tech executive Andrew Yang has launched his presidential campaign.
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Cade Cooper sits with his two huskies outside the Ped Mall on Monday. Kodiak (left) is 6 months old and Chyan is 2 years old. “It’s pretty eye-opening raising two huskies,” Cooper said. “They are pretty energetic dogs but very entertaining.” (Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan)
PRAYER CONTINUED FROM FRONT and my last name isn’t German, just to set the record straight. I was brought up in a Christian/Jewish light that accepted other religions and ways of life because of the diversity in our four-walled Victorian home. Growing up and having a Jewish identity in Iowa is a subject I have yet to discuss with anyone. My father is reform. In other words, a fairly liberal Jew. While it was daunting enough to land in a foreign nation, it was even more frightening to think of being schlepped across a country with 40 strangers near my age. After all, this was my first time traveling without my family. We were all hoping to enhance or find our Jewish identity, whether it be by joining in on the “Walmart yodeling kid song” or by praying on the Western Wall. The Jewish entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem was built of stone and nesting pigeons, mottled with bullet holes of wars previously fought. A grand tunnel led tourists, civilians, and soldiers into the city; ancient murals hung on
its chalky walls, excavated and cleaned by those who held much more patience than I. We were escorted into a vibrant courtyard, where beams of sunlight reached down and stroked every head while children played ball on the sun-dried cobblestone I still slipped on. Monica, my wasted companion, ceased her music-making once our tour guide motioned for everyone to sit on some thousand-yearold steps. Were these steps actually more han 1,000 years old? Absolutely not. The Jewish Quarter had been demolished in 1948, wiping away the ancient homes and buildings. Following in their ancestors’ footsteps, the Jewish people wiped their tears away and started rebuilding. Where does the water flow in Israel? The Jordan River or the tears of those praying on the Western Wall? I chose the latter in hopes their dried and cracking souls are watered with answered prayers. The Western Wall is considered one of the holiest sites in Judaism. It is believed that your prayer will be answered if you write a note and place it in the cracks of the Wall, so I just
had to make a few dreams come true. No Jew visiting Jerusalem would ever pass up such an opportunity. While I made the jaunt back from my designated section of the Western Wall, I thought of Enjolras’ statement from Les Misérables, “Is your life just one more
“TagLit, TagLit, TagLit.” The cheer was shouted from balconies and from the multicolored confetti-strewn streets below. Taglit is the nickname for Birthright, which translates to Hebrew as “discovery.” Our group of students was full of East Coasters, most
‘Did I really belong to such a crowd? I couldn’t barter; I didn’t speak Hebrew; my mother is a Christian; and I had only practiced Friday night Shabbat a few times in my 19 years.’
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life?” and replaced it with “Is my prayer just one more prayer?” The other three quarters of the walled city belong to the Muslims, Christians, and Armenians. The Armenian quarter was the smallest of them. A trek of fewer than 10 minutes allowed all of us to cross the alleyways of stray cats and potted plants back to the bus. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the Armenian minority. Its genocide, conducted by the Ottoman Empire in 1915, has been forgotten by many, and only 3 million Armenians remain from the abhorrent blow to their ethnicity. Traveling from a many-century-old city to the first modern city of Israel, Tel Aviv, consisted of a battle between American pop music and Israeli pop music. I was one of the lucky few to be sitting in the middle of the two musical administrations. Is this what it feels like voting for the third party? In time, the racket was subdued by a loud complaint from an outlandish few while our bus roared past the sand-dusted hills of the Holy Land. Thousands of rocks were scattered about the hills, as though a massive toddler with an enormous temper had thrown all of them astray. Our arrival in Tel Aviv was painted with sweat, smiles, and of course, all the colors of the rainbow: It’s Pride Day. All in Tel Aviv were celebrating, and swarms of people weaved in and out of my group.
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of whose stomping grounds was in Queens, New York. “What is there to do in Iowa?” they asked, their brows scrunched in curiosity, “How many Jewish kids did you graduate with?” I replied with my pre-recorded response, “I was the only Jewish kid in my graduating class of 129, and my dad still practices law in a different state because A) he refused to take the bar again, and B) he didn’t want to be the only Jewish lawyer in town.” I always manage to get a few laughs out of that one-liner. However, there were times where I felt like less of a Jew than others on my trip because of my mother’s Christian background. I know many biblical stories but almost made a fool of myself after ascending Masada, a cliff of that overlooks the receding hairline of the Dead Sea. One of the cliff’s leading poster boys of history is King Herod the Great. Ah, that name rang a bell. “Isn’t he the guy who almost killed Jesus?” I nearly asked. I quickly remembered that there is no sequel to be discussed on Birthright. There were also times where I felt like my “Iowa Nice” culture clashed with the shoulder grazing, line budging, and acute bluntness of the local Israelis. Israel lacks the usual Iowa phrases of, “I’m going to sneak right past ya” and “Hi, how are ya?” but the country makes up its off-putting
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manners with pure honesty, genuine conversation, and absolute love for their music and food. Falafel is an Israeli/American favorite consisting of mushed up chickpeas molded into balls with hummus, cabbage, tomatoes, and cucumber wrapped snugly in a tortilla or pita bread. I could waft in the savory smell the minute I stepped into the shade of the vibrantly colored markets. While I couldn’t barter down the price of a falafel, I tried my hand at bartering down an overpriced bracelet. As my Queens buddies would say, “You just got clapped.” (I just got screwed over.) Israeli Life = 1. Iowa Nice = 0. After such a failure, feelings of inadequateness began to settle in my stomach: Did I really belong to such a crowd? I couldn’t barter; I didn’t speak Hebrew; my mother is a Christian; and I had only practiced Friday night Shabbat a few times in my 19 years. I believed my warped thoughts until I sat next to a rabbi on our flight from Brussels to New York. Once
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he finished complaining about the horrible kosher airplane food, he explained to me how being Jewish and acquiring that identity no longer requires Jews to live in crammed ghettos, speak Yiddish, or huddle together to wince at the crack of mass anti-Semitism whip; being Jewish now takes a more personal form, one that can be practiced and expressed through one’s self. What matters is that we all can form our own individual identity of what being Jewish means to us. But that doesn’t mean there is a lack of firm plateaus in the Jewish-American community. The phrase, “They can take everything away from you, but they can’t take away your education” is like a knife used often but whose edge never alleviates. It’s recognizing that there are firm ties between you and your Jewish family and friends. It’s a whisper from the breeze of the Israeli desert, a sense of belonging, one that grants my prayer, my hope of acceptance, to come true.
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1) You cannot help but smile after seeing Jerusalem for the first time. 2) The old city of Tzfat is well-known for its mix of nature and ancient buildings. 3) The trip also consisted of a lot of hiking. Luckily for our group, a beautiful waterfall was waiting for us at the end of a trail in Galilee. 4) Ruins of King Herod’s fortress can still be found on top of Masada today. You even can get yelled at to not climb on the ruins. 5) A beautiful ocean-side look at the modern city of Tel Aviv while a storm rolls in. (All photos contributed by Madison Lotenschtein)
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City names new head of Animal Services The Iowa City Police Department hired Chris Whitmore as the Animal Services coordinator after a nationwide search. BY KATE PIXLEY
katherine-pixley@uiowa.edu Chris Whitmore, the newly named city Animal Services coordinator, walks around the Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center with ease. Whitmore has more than two decades of experience working with animals in the Iowa City area, serving as a veterinary technician and animal-control officer before her recent promotion. She received a degree in animal science and planned to be a veterinarian before she got a summer job as a veterinary technician. Whitmore said she was then hooked in working in the animal-care field and hasn’t look back. “Chris Whitmore has been an Iowa City Animal Control officer since 1993,” an Iowa City press release said. “She brings a wealth of knowledge along with a commitment to the humane treatment of all animals in our community.” Whitmore takes over for
former Animal Services coordinator Liz Ford, who recently resigned to pursue other career paths, according to the press release. “I’ve learned how to deal with the public, how to deal with volunteers, and we have a great staff here that is eager for me to succeed,” Whitmore said. “I’ve known a lot of them for many years, so it’s just a continuation of what Liz started, because we think she’s got it on the right path.” In her tenure, Ford championed the Community Cat Program, which aims to neuter or spay feral cats and place them on farms to live out their days as barn cats, Whitmore said. Iowa City’s leash laws essentially outlaw feral cats, so the Community Cat Program avoids the euthanization of feral cats brought to the shelter. Whitmore said she hopes to expand the program and approach her work with the same compassion and transparency as Ford did.
“Everybody’s goal is to not have to euthanize,” she said. Whitmore believes that her experience in animal enforcement will help her with the welfare aspects of her new position, including a recently passed ordinance limiting the time dogs can be on a tether. She said a large part of her job is making sure animals are safe and healthy. “We just passed an ordinance where dogs can’t be out continuously on a tether,” Whitmore said. “Twenty years ago, it was not uncommon for people to have dogs out on a tether 24 hours a day.” She said it’s inhumane to keep dogs on tethers for that long. Denise Brotherton, who was recently promoted to be Iowa City’s first female police captain, said that while there was a nationwide search, Whitmore was the right person for the job. “I’ve never been so impressed with an agency and its commitment and the com-
Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Animal Services coordinstor Chris Whitmore stands in the Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center on Monday. Whitmore has just taken over as Animal Services head and has many plans for how to improve the center. passion it has,” Brotherton said. “Liz Ford did phenomenal things [at the shelter], and I know that Chris has that same commitment.” Brotherton also noted that she and Whitmore have worked together many times throughout their years of service.
“We’re each embarking on a new part of our careers. and we’re both excited,” Brotherton said. While Whitmore and Brotherton believe that Ford’s efforts have placed the shelter in a good position, Whitmore said she hopes to expand the shelter’s services
to the community. “I want to learn more about the volunteer part of it,” Whitmore said. “I know that our volunteers are a great asset. I’d like to get more involved, learn about their strengths and weaknesses. Our community is growing, and we need to grow with it.”
UI cystic-fibrosis team receives $11 million This is the third time that the NIH has given the grant to the UI research team, which hopes to extend cystic-fibrosis patients’ lifespans. BY KATE PIXLEY
katherine-pixley@uiowa.edu The average life expectancy for someone diagnosed with cystic fibrosis is just 37 years old. A University of Iowa research team hopes to change that. The Cystic Fibrosis Research Center recently received an $11.5 million, fiveyear grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health. Professor David Stoltz, a primary investigator on the team, says the
grant will help the researchers further their work and develop treatments. “Our goal is to learn these things and to quickly translate those to treatments in people with cystic fibrosis,” he said. 2008 was the first year the team received the grant. The grant was renewed again in 2013 and again this year. The research team is a multidisciplinary group with more than a dozen people. The team includes
UI Professor Michael Welsh, a 2018 nominee for the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize honoring breakthroughs in medical science. Cystic fibrosis is a disease affecting the lungs that is caused by a mutated gene. People with cystic fibrosis suffer from frequent lung infections. While the prognosis for patients with cystic fibrosis has improved, their life expectancy is more than 40 years shorter than that of the average American.
Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Professor David Stoltz sits for a portrait in the Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building on Sept. 19. Stoltz is a part of a UI cystic-fibrosis research team that has received a research grant for the third time.
Led by Welsh, the team focuses not just on finding a cure but on furthering the understanding of the causes of cystic fibrosis. Francis Collins, a former cystic-fibrosis researcher and current head of the NIH, spoke highly of Welsh’s team in a statement to Medicine Iowa, a semiannual magazine from the Carver College of Medicine. “The work done by Mike Welsh and his team at the University of Iowa has advanced the understanding of cystic fibrosis among physician-scientists around the globe,” Collins said. The gene that causes cystic fibrosis was discovered in 1989, but scientists are still working to discover what exactly causes lung disease in people with cystic fibrosis. “The Cystic Fibrosis Research Center interacts closely with the Clinical Center to facilitate translation of basic science to patients and to encourage clinical research,” said the Cystic Fibrosis Research Center website. While mice are traditionally associated with laboratory settings, mice with
cystic fibrosis don’t get the lung symptoms associated with cystic fibrosis in humans. “The pig model has been key to determining the impact of acidity in cystic fibrosis lung disease,” said a press release from the Carver College of Medicine. “The thin layer of liquid covering the airway surface is more acidic in cystic-fibrosis lungs. This impairs airway killing of bacteria and alters the ability to clear mucus from the lungs. These disruptions make cystic-fibrosis lungs particularly susceptible to airway infection, a major cause of disease and death in cystic fibrosis.” Stoltz said treatments his team has developed are in clinical trials and have shown signs of success. “What we are doing is we have a therapy where we put in a chemical or treatment that buffers the surface liquid and make it less acidic,” he said. Stoltz said he is interested in the role that viruses play in lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis. He also hopes to continue research into the smaller airways of the lungs, a region that has
not been a focus in previous cystic-fibrosis research. “We will be developing new therapeutics based on our earlier discoveries and continuing our study of the basic pathogenesis of cystic-fibrosis airway disease with a new focus on small airways and the role of viruses,” Stoltz said in a press release. “We hope to have an important positive impact on accelerating discovery of new therapeutic interventions and endpoints for early cystic fibrosis.”
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NY Times learns WOTUS reaction demonstrates the value and anxiety over federal regulation consequences of misinformation
Iowa has joined the fight against Waters of the United States, determined to protect farmers from perceived federal overreach. But the rule exempts agriculture.
Encouraging impartiality should not only pertain to right-wing outlets but also to major publications such as The New York Times.
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marina-jaimes@uiowa.edu A recent op-ed in the Des Moines Register, “Media should strive for impartiality, but the facts are the facts,” highlights justifiable reasons for denying an outlet to Holocaust deniers but also comes off as attributing fact with a certain kind of partisanship. After the author, Leonard Pitts Jr., blames Fox News, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump for creating all of the
on why Haley’s name and picture were used to criticize spending that occurred during the Obama administration. Not only was Haley not responsible for the curtains in question, she was also not responsible for the $58,000 a month location chosen by the State Department in 2016. She was a victim of partisan journalism. The idea is that impartiality should be devalued because of a fringe group of activists, such as Jones, leads to the error made by the Times. While the false headline is what their readers wanted to believe, in actuality, it was a gross mistake. As Pitts blames rightwing media for perpetuating falsehoods, he forgets to include major newspapers for doing the same.
‘While the false headline is what their readers wanted to believe, in actuality, it was a gross mistake. As Pitts blames right-wing media for perpetuating falsehoods, he forgets to include major newspapers for doing the same.’ lies told to future generations, he writes, “But they will also blame many of us in the non-Fox news media for our failure to be energetic advocates for, and defenders of, the actual, factual truth. They will blame us for surrendering to a boneless ‘both-sidesism’ that simulates professional impartiality at the cost of clarity and fact.” The irony of this op-ed is revealed that same day, the Times simultaneously released an article originally
An April 2017 Pew Research Center survey found that “94 percent of Americans say they have heard about the current state of the relationship between the Trump administration and the news media. And what they’ve seen does not reassure them: Large majorities feel the relationship is unhealthy and that the ongoing tensions are impeding Americans’ access to important political news.” This information is just as relevant today as it was
‘The Trump administration has caused the media to feel so frenzied, journalists have forgotten their priorities in what is important to readers. Pitts was wrong … there is no way we can look at today’s media and deem it “too impartial.”’ titled, “Nikki Haley’s View of New York is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701.” As the title switched to “State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Nikki Haley’s Residence” and finally to “State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Residence of U.N. Envoy,” it was clear that the Times had one goal in mind: to smear the name of a member of the Trump administration. After massive backlash, the Times included an editor’s note to clear concerns
in the beginning months of the Trump administration. In just the past week, North and South Korea have committed to an era of no war and the Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high. The Trump administration has caused the media to feel so frenzied, journalists have forgotten their priorities in what is important to readers. Pitts was wrong … there is no way we can look at today’s media and deem it “too impartial.”
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Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s Roast & Ride on June 9. The event raises money for veterans’ charities and provides a platform for state and national Republican officials to speak.
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isabella-rosario@uiowa.edu A federal judge in North Dakota has said Iowa may join states in temporarily halting the implementation of the Obama-era Waters of the United States rule. Per the request of Gov. Kim Reynolds, Iowa has joined injunction proceedings filed in June 2015 by 12 states and two agencies in a 13th state. The Trump administration proposed to repeal the rule in July 2017. As of Sunday, WOTUS, a regulation under the Clean Water Act, has been blocked in 28 states. The Clean Water Act of 1972 protected “navigable waters” from pollution. After it was passed, it became clear that smaller streams and wetlands also needed to be protected, especially those that flow into sources that provide drinking water. Congress and later administrations failed to define which waters fell under the act. The Army Corps of Engineers interpreted the act differently across the country. WOTUS drew on more than 1,200 scientific studies and received more than 1 million comments in an effort to clarify the Clean Water Act. It defined and protected tributaries that affect downstream waters, safeguarded waters next to rivers and lakes, and reduced the use of case-specific analysis of waters. Still, the rule was met with backlash from farmers and conservative groups in Iowa and across the country, who called it federal overreach.
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Last year, Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill said he had never seen a government rule “more consequential to agriculture” than WOTUS. In a statement last week, Reynolds said, “Iowa farmers and small-business owners will not be burdened by this federal overreach while we continue fighting to permanently end the WOTUS rule.” But WOTUS may not actually have much of an effect on Iowa farmers. Non-point source pollution — runoff of fertilizer, manure, and other contaminants that seep into lakes and streams — is exempted from application of the Clean Water Act. The rejection of WOTUS seems to come from a larger disparity of environmental-policy implementation in
red and blue states, specifically related to the 2016 presidential vote. Iowa voted for Trump. Fifteen states, all but one that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, plan to follow stricter California standards after the Trump administration proposed a rollback to Obamaera rules on auto emissions. When it comes to WOTUS, all but three of the 28 states that blocked the rule voted for Trump. WOTUS is in effect in just five states that voted for Trump. This red-blue divide is unsurprising; red states tend to be more skeptical about federal regulations, specifically environmental ones that are thought to stifle economic growth. The fear of WOTUS negatively affecting Iowa farmers seems to come more
from this fundamental opposition to federal regulation rather than what the rule will actually do here. It’s not unreasonable to worry about the slippery slope of governmental power. But whether WOTUS is repealed or not, the vagueness of what the Clean Water Act protects will have to be federally redefined at some point. The replacement of WOTUS could be a years-long process that may end with a weakened rule, more polluted waterways, and regulatory uncertainty — a return to officials interpreting case by case and farmers further guessing what they can and can’t do with their land. Perhaps this alternative would relieve concerns of federal overreach. But would it really be any better?
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YANG CONTINUED FROM FRONT the IMU. “For most people, I’m going to be quite new, so I needed to introduce myself,” Yang said. The upstate-New York native studied economics and political science at Brown University prior to attending law school at Columbia University. In 2011, he founded Venture for America, a national entrepreneurship fellowship. He’s centered his campaign on human labor and protecting jobs from being replaced by automation. One of his campaign focuses is a “freedom dividend,” or monthly payments of $1,000 to each American adults ages 18 to 64. “… that’s the big sort of measure we need to take as a society to help our citizens get through this technological
and cultural transition but also to improve your lives for a secure future,” Yang said. The unconditional stipend would ease what Yang calls a technological revolution, in which America’s advancements in technology will soon replace humans in manufacturing, retail, trucking, and fast-food jobs, among others. His proposal to pay for the stipend is to set a “value added tax” on companies such as Amazon and Google, requiring them to pay an increased tax on every product or service they provide. That, he claims, would boost revenue for the federal government to pay for the stipend. During his campaign, he will give one Iowan and one New Hampshire resident $1,000 a month as a test of his freedom dividend. His proposal is not necessarily a new concept. The freedom dividend is a renaming of a universal basic income
policy. Critics point to the cost of a stipend as a reason not to implement it. For one year, giving $12,000 to every American adult would cost around $2 trillion, according to census population data. This is the businessman’s second trip to Iowa since August, when he attended the Iowa State Fair and headlined the Iowa Wing Dings event, an Iowa Democratic fundraiser. He’s also made trips to New Hampshire, which holds the nation’s first primary. Iowa will once again hold its first-in-the nation status with the caucuses for the 2020 election set for Feb. 3. “Iowans’ votes are worth his or her weight in gold,” Yang said in reference to the state’s battleground status. In his visit to Iowa City, he said engaging younger voters is another of his priorities. “Young people see they are being set up for a really tough
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David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks to the supporters during an appearance in the IMU on Monday. road ahead, but I’m coming in and saying it’s not your imagination,” he said. “We, the older generation, have shafted you all, and I’m going to do my best to make it right,
but I need your help, because without your help, I can’t rewrite the rules of the economy so that it serves your interests moving forward.” Yang is not the first Demo-
crat to announce a run for the White House. Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., announced his candidacy just five months into President Donald Trump’s term, in June 2017.
Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Mayflower is seen on Sept. 19. Mayflower is at 60 percent capacity in order to create larger living spaces for returning students.
MAYFLOWER CONTINUED FROM FRONT is 33,500. The UI projected the ratio of the residence system’s capacity to its occupancy to decline starting in fiscal 2019, the current budget year, from 95.2 percent in fiscal 2018 to 88.9 percent in the current fiscal year through fiscal 2023. Virginia Ibrahim-Olin, the assistant director of contracts and assignments in Housing & Dining, said officials thought Mayflower would be a good residence hall to use to meet the rising demand from returning students for single rooms. Housing & Dining sees Mayflower as more of a transitional living facility, because two rooms share a small kitchenette and bathroom. While Stange said no plans are in place for the future of Mayflower, the vision for the residence hall likely would involve more community spaces on floors and allowing students easier access from one side of each floor to the other. “With [the] opening of Catlett in the past year, the university can comfortably support first-year students and returning students in ways we’ve always wanted to, and we would enjoy having second-year students, third-, and fourth-year students live with us,” Ibrahim-Olin said. In the past, Mayflower rooms have been more expensive because of the inclusion of the kitchenette and shared bathroom. Now, a single room in Mayflower costs the same as a single room in Currier, she said. Third-year student Daniel Folchert, a Mayflower resident, said the living situation is more spacious and less busy compared with the other dorms. He has also been able to keep his car in the back parking lot, he said, which makes commuting to and from the rest of campus easier.
Being able to cook and have a hot meal at any time has been nice perk of living in Mayflower, he said, because it’s cheaper to cook for oneself than to pay for a meal plan. “It works better for me financially to be able to take out a loan for living rather than pay month
to month now,” Folchert said. Stange said they made more single rooms specifically in Mayflower to create more space for returning students who still wanted to live on campus and pay for room and board with financial aid, while allowing them to have more
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privacy and space. Housing & Dining officials know that some students may want to have their own room, Stange said, and they found a way through Mayflower for students to have that opportunity while still living on campus. Housing & Dining has taken
other steps to encourage students to live on campus through opening up the housing application earlier, giving tours of all the residence halls, and, in Mayflower, allowing returning students to request to live on a floor together. The UI has also created a
“Second-Year Experience” task force dedicated to finding the best ways to make second-year students more successful. One of its initiatives is a voluntary pilot program to explore an on-campus living requirement for freshmen and sophomores, set to begin next year.
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POINT-COUNTERPOINT
Who is the best of the West? After Saturday’s Iowa-Wisconsin matchup and a Badger’s win, two DI staffers debate who will win the Big Ten West.
This season’s Iowa-Wisconsin game had big ramifications, but the race to Indianapolis isn’t over yet. The Badgers and Hawkeyes still seem to be the favorites, and they both have a chance to take home the West Division title.
PETE MILLS
peter-mills@uiowa.edu
Wisconsin I’m not usually one for overreactions, but it’s clear that the Big Ten West title is remaining in Badger-land this year. It’s fun to play the “what if” game and wonder if cleaner Hawkeye special-team play would have changed the outcome of Wisconsin’s Sept. 22 game against the Hawkeyes, but the truth is the Badgers deserved to win. Despite a seemingly flukey loss to BYU, this Wisconsin team is good. Very good. There are a few reasons for this, and Hornibrook the quarterback is one. Alex Hornibrook proved a lot against a good Iowa defense. He passed for 205 yards and threw 3 touchdowns. Oh, and he didn’t throw any interceptions, which is quite a bit better than the 3 he threw against the Hawkeye defense last season. His improvement from
Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Iowa running back Ivory Kelly-Martin carries the ball against Wisconsin at Kinnick on Sept. 22. The Badgers scored two touchdowns late in the fourth quarter to beat the Hawkeyes. last year is immense. If he continues that level of play, and Wisconsin keeps sophomore star Jonathan Taylor healthy, the Badgers are not only a shoo-in to win the West, but are a threat to win the Big Ten title. While the Iowa offense has shown improvement, the Wisconsin defense made stops when it needed them. Big plays came especially from the Badger linebackers.
While the Hawkeye offensive line didn’t give up any sacks, senior Ryan Connelly forced some bad throws from Nate Connelly Stanley. And Wisconsin linebacker T.J. Edwards grabbed the lastchance throw from Stanley to seal the Badger win.
Wisconsin’s schedule is fairly favorable, as well. The tougher games for it come against Michigan and Penn State, which have both proven quite vulnerable. Having won this head-tohead against Iowa, the West title is Wisconsin’s for the taking. A trip to Indianapolis is in the cards for the Badgers, and they have reason to be excited about this team.
TANNER DESPLANQUE
tanner-desplanque@uiowa.edu
Iowa It is definitely a stretch af-
ter last weekend’s game, but Iowa could still be Big Ten West Champions. In recent years, the Wisconsin-Iowa game has decided the winner of the Big Ten West. This year, that game does not have to be the deciding factor for Iowa’s fate. Iowa still has eight games to change everyone’s opinion and show the team’s true potential. After four games this season, the Hawkeyes are still struggling on offense and getting things going in the first half. Last weekend, we saw a glimpse of what Iowa’s offense can look like when it gets hot. But it was overshadowed by miscues. If the Hawkeyes can eliminate mistakes and get the offense going in the first half, they Ferentz still have a chance of being Big Ten West champions. It is a lot easier said than done, as they would need to win out. Iowa has eight games left with some notable teams that could potentially be deciding factors. Iowa should not overlook any team, because it tends to play at the same level as its opponents. Three games the Hawkeyes should give extra focus to are Minnesota, Maryland, and Penn State. Other than that, Iowa has some potentially easy games to finish off the rest of the season. The only other team I think that can give Iowa a run for the Big Ten West Championship is Wisconsin, but the Badgers may also need to win out.
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BASEBALL CONTINUED FROM 8
Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Sophomore Cora Meyers kicks the ball during the Iowa vs. Purdue soccer match on Sept. 20 at the Iowa Soccer Complex.
SOCCER CONTINUED FROM 8 teams. Big Ten competition is much tougher than nonconference games. The highest scoring team is Indiana at 2.4 goals per game, and Iowa beat the Hoosiers on Sunday. The Hawkeyes limited Indiana to only 1 goal that game, and that was scored on an uneven fast break. Head coach Dave DiIanni said counterattacks from opposing teams have been a big problem. “We’re getting countered on too quickly on our set pieces, and that’s how they scored today,” he said. “Defensively, we have been pretty good. They haven’t scored on the run-a-play at all; we’ve just been getting stretched out recently in set pieces in terms of our shape.” With a 1.1 goals against
FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM 8 it’s a two-team race for the division. Iowa could have its hands full with two road games in particular: Indiana and Purdue. Indiana has been better than advertised in 2018, and Purdue just smacked No. 23 Boston College (a team similar to Iowa) in West Lafayette. Plus, it looks like the Boilermakers found their quarterback in David Blough.
average, Iowa also has a 1.1 goals for average in its 11 games, meaning it had the chance to win any game it played. Looking at Penn State and Ohio State, Iowa’s games next week, the Hawkeyes have a solid chance against both of them. Spectators saw in the game against Indiana that if the Hawkeyes finish their offensive chances, they will win. Indiana is the highest-ranked offensive team in the Big Ten and has a 0.9 goal-against per game, which ranks third. Indiana has been Iowa’s toughest opponent thus far, and it easily handled the Hoosiers. Iowa has a three-game road trip against Ohio State, Penn State, and Nebraska in the next two weeks. If the Hawkeyes can keep playing as they have been, they have a decent opportunity to boost their 1-2-1 conference record to at least .500. However, the Hawkeyes should be favored in all but one of their remaining games: Penn State. The Nittany Lions will be the toughest road test for the Hawkeyes, hands down. Penn State has an explosive offense, averaging 55.5 points per game — a big difference from Wisconsin’s grind-it-out attack. Iowa kept things close last season, but that was at Kinnick, not in Happy Valley. But in the end, for Iowa to run out of the tunnel in Lucas Oil Stadium on Dec. 1, the Hawkeyes will need some help from other
many of those drafted did in the past. “I think [fall games] are really important because all of the guys get their feet wet and you’re not doing it the first game of the season down in Florida like you are a lot of years,” Iowa head coach Rick Heller said. “I think it will really help with guys feeling like they belong.” Luckily for Iowa, fall ball gives the group a chance to get some experience for the newcomers and allows them to showcase what they can do in real at-bats and pitching against real hitters. In the first fall game, Connor McCaffery did just that. Starting in right field after redshirting in 2018, the dual-sport athlete posted an impressive performance on the diamond, going 6-for-8 with 4 RBIs, a double, and 2 stolen bases in Iowa’s 23-5 win over Southeastern Community College in a 13-inning game. The contest provided a perfect opportunity for McCaffery — as well as the other newcomers — to ease into things before the real season comes in the spring. “The fall, it’s a great time to really grind and work on what you need to work on, and figure out what you’re going to do once the season comes around when it comes to approach at the plate, approach teams in the Big Ten.
Wisconsin This one’s obvious, but Wisconsin must lose more games, especially in the West, than Iowa for the Hawkeyes to have a shot at Indianapolis. Wisconsin’s remaining schedule: home vs. Nebraska, at Michigan, home vs. Illinois, at Northwestern, home vs. Rutgers, at Penn State, at Purdue, and home vs. Minnesota. What works in Iowa’s favor? The Badgers’ toughest games are both on the
Roman Slabach/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Tanner Wetrich walks off the field after Iowa’s game against Ontario Blue Jays at Banks Field on Sept. 21. The Hawkeyes won, 12-7. in the field,” McCaffery said. For returners, it’s all about a record standpoint. It’s all “You’ll get all different types getting back into the swing of about the journey to reachof situations that you’ll be things before the real season ing their peak in the spring involved in, and you’ll learn takes over. and seeing the new players how to manage those.” Along with the win over in action. Along with helping those Southeastern, the Hawkeyes “We’re a process-driven new to the team learn the ins picked up a 12-7 victory over team and what we’re trying and outs of Division-1 base- the Ontario Blue Jays. Games to teach right now is a proball, the extra games help remaining include Iowa cess that wins and how you bring the team together in Scout Day on Sept. 28 before go about your business, how ways that wouldn’t be possi- a battle against Kirkwood you handle things when they ble without a fall schedule. Community College on Oct. don’t go well,” Heller said. “It’s key to start gelling ear- 5. Iowa’s Black and Gold Fall “On the other side, you’re ly, and the earlier we do that, World Series scrimmage Oct. obviously trying to win the then the easier it’s going to 10-12 will close the fall sched- game, but you also want to be come spring,” shortstop/ ule. get out of it what you need, outfielder Tanner Wetrich While the extra at-bats and that’s allowing everybody said. “It’ll be a lot better con- and practice is important, to play and getting a chance fidence-wise when we get the fall season doesn’t real- to see all your new guys out there.” ly affect the Hawkeyes from there.” road. Unlike Iowa, Wisconsin faces two of the power teams out East: Michigan and Penn State, and both of those teams face Wisconsin on their own turf. Add in Northwestern for another away game that could potentially cause problems. Wisconsin isn’t the untouchable powerhouse preseason analysts had projected; the Badgers are certainly beatable, and BYU showed that in a head-scratching win. What works against Iowa? Well, the loss at home to the Badgers. If both teams
win their remaining divisional games, Wisconsin wins the West.
Michigan There are two teams remaining on Wisconsin’s schedule that Iowa does not play: Michigan and Rutgers. After losing to Kansas and then Buffalo, Rutgers does not have a shot to beat the Badgers, especially in Camp Randall. Michigan, though, is a different story. What works in Iowa’s favor? The more momentum
Michigan gains, the better for Iowa. The Hawkeyes and Wolverines don’t face each other this season, but the Badgers make a treacherous journey to the Big House. It’s not a divisional loss, but a conference loss nevertheless. What works against Iowa? Nothing, really. The only chance for the two programs to clash would be in the Big Ten Championship. Until that idea becomes a reality, a powerhouse Michigan team works in Iowa’s favor.
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HAWKEYE UPDATES Northwestern grabs field-hockey awards
Northwestern swept this week’s weekly Big Ten awards after picking up wins over No. 13 Iowa and No. 25 Cal. Wildcat freshman forward Maren Seidel won Freshman of the Week and Offensive Player of the Week after posting 6 points over the weekend, including 3 Seidel goals. She scored the game-winner the Wildcats’ 2-0 win over Iowa on Sept. 21 before scoring both of Northwestern’s goals in another 2-0 win against the Golden Bears. Wildcat goalkeeper Annie Kalfas picked up Defensive Player of the Kalfas Week honors after recording two shutouts over the weekend. She recorded 6 saves on the weekend, recording her fourth and fifth career shutouts in the process. Her performance helped move her goals-against-average to 1.45 this season. The Wildcats will continue their season against Michigan and Michigan State on Friday and Sept. 30, respectively.
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Beathard to start for San Francisco 49ers Jimmy Garoppolo is out with a torn ACL, which means backup C.J. Beathard will be the new starter. BY ADAM HENSLEY
adam-hensley@uiowa.edu On Sept. 23, San Francisco starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a knee injury against the Kansas City Chiefs. The 49ers’ coaching staff feared the worst, and on Monday, NFL Insider Adam Schefter tweeted what San Francisco fans feared.
With Garoppolo down with a torn ACL, the 49ers turn to backup quarterback C.J. Beathard. Beathard appeared in seven games in 2017, starting five, and finished with a 1-4 record as a starter. He completed 54.9 percent of his throws for 1,430 yards and 4 touchdowns. Beathard threw 6 interceptions and
notched a passer rating of 69.2. He also carried the ball 26 times for 136 yards and scored 3 touchdowns. San Francisco’s Beathard offense wasn’t overly productive with Beathard starting. In his five starts,
the 49ers’ offense scored 8 touchdowns. The 49ers are off to a 1-2 start following a 38-27 loss to the Chiefs. The 49ers opened the season with a 24-16 loss to the Minnesota Vikings before tallying win No. 1 against the Detroit Lions in Week 2. This week, San Francisco will play the Los Angeles Chargers on Sept. 30.
The Road to Indianapolis Iowa needs to win, win, and win to conquer the division — and it needs help from Wisconsin and Michigan.
NFL HAWKS Adrian Clayborn, defensive end (New England) — 1 tackle Josh Jackson, cornerback (Green Bay) — 3 tackles Anthony Hitchens, linebacker (Kansas City) — 6 tackles, 1 QB hit Micah Hyde, safety (Buffalo) — 8 tackles, 1 pass defended Josey Jewell, linebacker (Denver) — 8 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 pass defended Desmond King, cornerback (Los Angeles Chargers) — 5 tackles, 1 tackle for loss George Kittle, tight end (San Francisco) — 5 receptions, 79 yards
New week brings new AP Top 10 Iowa will spend yet another week out of the AP Top 25 after its loss to Wisconsin, but the Hawkeyes received 31 votes. In other news, there was no shift of the top four teams. LSU switched spaces with Oklahoma. The Big Ten’s Penn State jumped to No. 9, marking two Big Ten teams in the Top 10.
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Alabama (60) Georgia Clemson (1) Ohio State LSU Oklahoma Stanford Notre Dame Penn State Auburn
Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa quarterback Nate Stanley lines up on offense against Wisconsin on Sept. 22. The Badgers defeated the Hawkeyes, 28-17.
BY ADAM HENSLEY
adam-hensley@uiowa.edu After Iowa lost to Wisconsin in Kinnick, the road to the Big Ten West now runs through Madison. It’s still extremely early in the sea-
son, and college football is unpredictable, but the loss to the Badgers certainly sets the Hawkeyes back in terms of divisional-title aspirations. The Badgers are 3-1 and face a tougher schedule than the Hawkeyes, but for Iowa to make it
Baseball Hawks see future in fall ball
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We’re a process-
driven team, and what we’re trying to teach right now is a process that wins and how you go about your business, how you handle things when it doesn’t go well.
The Hawkeyes lost a lot of key pieces from last season, but fall ball helps them get a glimpse of the future.
Iowa’s strong defense has kept a number of opponents at bay this season.
and Brady Schanuel, as well as utility man Matt Hoeg. Starting shortstop Kyle Crowl has also confirmed to The Daily Iowan that he will not be with the team in 2019. The departures leave a lot of openings both in the field and on the mound, and the Hawkeyes need players to step up, just as
If someone were to ask if a 1 goal-against average per game is good for a college soccer team, a lot of people would likely say yes. This is the case for the Iowa soccer team through its first 11 games of the season. The Hawkeyes have 12 goals scored against them this season in 11 games. With a 1.1 goal-against average, Iowa is 11th in goals-against per game. The No. 1 team in that category is Northwestern with 0.4 goals against per game. With 14 teams in the Big Ten, the difference between the first and last ranked teams is 1.5 goals per game. It can be very easy for teams to drop and climb in the rankings depending on how each team can defend certain set pieces. Out of the 11 goals against the Hawkeyes, only 2 of them have been on set pieces. Most of the goals came during regular play, off crosses or short shots. Once Cora Meyers stepped in at goal, the number of goals against Meyers the Hawkeyes dropped off. Meyers started her first game against Iowa State, and she has started four games since. In the five games, the team is 1-3-1 and has let in 7 of the 12 goals. That stat may seem like a lot at first glance, but four of the five games she has started have been against Big Ten
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Iowa’s Natalie Winters is tied for eighth in the Big Ten with 5 goals this season.
to Indianapolis, a few things need to happen. For one, Iowa can’t afford to trip over a lesser opponent. Yes, the West is competitive, but realistically, at the start of the year and now,
Roman Slabach/The Daily Iowan A Hawkeye bats against the Ontario Blue Jays at Banks Field on Sept. 21.
BY PETE RUDEN
peter-ruden@uiowa.edu As the weather cools down, the fall schedule heats up for Iowa baseball, but the squad is missing some familiar faces. After a season with at least 30 wins for the fifth-consecutive year, the Hawkeyes said goodbye to MLB draftees Robert Neustrom, Tyler Cropley, Nick Allgeyer, Zach Daniels,