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100 years of healthy Hawks University of Iowa Student Health is celebrating 100 years of treating Hawkeyes. With its start in 1919, Student Health has provided all kinds of care to students from vaccinations to drug counseling. BY HANNAH ROVNER
hannah-rovner@uiowa.edu
Pat Grassley tapped as Iowa House Speaker
Iowa House Republicans selected Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford, as House Speaker Monday following Speaker Linda Upmeyer’s announcement of her resignation Sept. 30. Grassley, 36, is the grandson of U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and farms corn and soybeans with his father and grandfather. First elected to the Iowa House in 2006, Pat Grassley chairs the House Appropriations Committee, which delegates tax revenue to state-funded institutions such as the state Board of Regents Pat Grassley schools. The Republican caucus elected Pat Grassley in a vote on Monday and will still need to come before the full chamber to be approved as speaker for the 2020 legislative session, which begins Jan. 13. Upmeyer recently announced she would step down from the top House leadership position and would not seek re-election in order to spend more time with family.
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UI professor connects uses education technology to connect cultures
A UI faculty member taught Pakistani teachers and students how to use technology to aid learning over the summer. John Achrazoglou, a clinical associate professor in the UI College of Education, said he wanted to share advanced technology with people in need.
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Student Health is celebrating 100 years of providing comprehensive health services to millions of Hawkeyes. An influenza pandemic in 1918 hit the nation — especially the younger generation — hard, University of Iowa Student Health interim Director Paul Natvig said in a comprehensive report on the organization’s history. “Younger people were not previously exposed [to influenza], so [the students] had no immunity,” Natvig said. Then-UI President Walter Jessup convened a board meeting in efforts to address health across campus, and in response, Student Health was formed to combat the ongoing epidemic in the fall of 1919. “Back then, there was a fifty-cent charge for [prescription] calls and a $1 charge for house calls to dorms or student residences,” Natvig said. Natvig added that all paNatvig tient care is outpatient now, so students are not admitted for more than a day. Student Health recently transferred into electronic filing as well, he said, instead of the previous paper charts that were used for patient records until 2005. Although many of the advancements in Student Health over the last century are mechanical and technology-based, Natvig said, there have been policy-based changes, too. In 1930, Student Health required that all male students receive physical exams. In 1934, Student Health’s first female doctor and director Grace Williams mandated this policy for all female students as well. During the 1940s, around the height of World War II, the World Health Organization required that Student Health administer yellow fever and polio vaccinations, Natvig said. Because of the potential contagion of these diseases, Student Health administered the vaccines not only to university students, but also to areas in Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota. As the number of services within Student Health increased, the organization realized it required more space to treat university students, Natvig said. Student Health expanded in 1969 with additional storage rooms, two new waiting rooms, 18 offices, and multiple treatment rooms.
Student Health and Wellness is seen on July 8. Signage does not reflect the entities' separation.
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Hawking Booker looks ahead after the student decisive fundraising deadline vote at UI NATIONAL POLITICS
UI alum creates food waste class
UI alum Julia Skinner created an online course to target unnecessary food waste, which she designed for use by anyone, anywhere. She said she made the course to teach people about food history and what they can do to reduce food waste.
In a visit to the University of Iowa campus Monday, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., hopes to gain traction in Iowa four months out from caucuses after reaching a major fundraising goal at the end of the third quarter.
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The new student group Hawk the Vote reported an increase in voter turnout and registration between 2014 to 2018. BY HANNAH ROVNER
hannah-rovner@uiowa.edu
Booker said. “We decided to tell people, ‘We need help, or else we’re going to have a hard time building a campaign that can win.’” During the last 10 days of September, Booker announced he would drop out of the race if his campaign did not raise $1.7 million by the end of the quarter. After
As college campuses across the U.S. celebrated National Voter Registration Day in September, more than approximately 204 students registered to vote through the corresponding coalition — just in time for upcoming local and federal elections. Hawk the Vote, a new University of Iowa student organization dedicated to registering students to vote, has signed up nearly 1,300 students, said the organization’s executive director, UI student Jocelyn Roof. According to a report by Hawk the Vote, voter turnout increased by 16 percent on the UI campus in approximately four years. In 2014, around 28.9 percent of students turned out to vote in elections — a number which increased to 44.9 percent by 2018. Roof UI student voting turnout mirrors a similar trend found nationally in college voter turnout — 19.2 percent of all college students voted in the 2014 midterm elections, and 21.1 percent turned out in 2018, according to a Tufts University study.
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Iowa’s defensive line dominance
A.J. Epenesa and the rest of Iowa’s defensive line did a good job of putting pressure on Michigan’s Shea Patterson over the weekend and stuffing the run game.
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Wyatt Dlouhy/The Daily Iowan Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks to an audience during a forum at the IMU on Monday.
BY JULIA SHANAHAN
julia-shanahan@uiowa.edu After reaching a major fundraising goal, presidential hopeful Cory Booker told The Daily Iowan in an interview that asking people for money is the most difficult part of the campaign. “It was a moment of incredible, radical transparency,”