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The UI College of Law introduced two new law clinics earlier this year to give students experience working directly with clients, providing students the opportunity to learn transactional law and federal defense in a unique way.
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The University of Iowa Libraries will trim the amount it spends on certain subscriptions, because subscription prices have outpaced budget increases. Overall, around $600,000 worth of subscriptions will be cut during a threeprong review process, with the cuts taking effect beginning next fiscal year, which starts July 1, 2019. UI Libraries is looking for community input regarding its subscriptions to journals, databases, and e-books.
A press release from University Librarian John Culshaw and interim Provost Sue Curry outlined the reasoning behind and methodology for the cuts. Seven percent of social-sciences subscriptions, 10 percent each of basic sciencCulshaw es, engineering, and health sciences, and 5 percent of humanities will be affected. Subscriptions from the UI Law Library will not be. “In recent years and continuing today, scholarly publishing companies have lev-
ied annual price increases of 5 percent to 7 percent while for the last three fiscal years, the UI’s annual budget for these materials has remained mostly unchanged. Such an environment diminishes our purchasing power, and these cost increases are simply not sustainable,” the release said. Stage 1, which will last from October to November this year, will act as an opportunity for educators to share a list of proposed cuts to liaison librarians, of which there are librarians for each discipline. Stage 2, which takes place from November to December, will include an open forum regarding the libraries’ reduction
strategy. From March to April 2019, Stage 3 will include a final list of canceled subscriptions. Previously, the UI has made cuts to its subscriptions in 1991 ($237,733), 1994 ($126,166), 1996 ($126,459), and 2000 ($440,000), the release said. “Our liaison librarians will work closely with faculty and researchers to make informed decisions, provide alternatives where possible, monitor subscriptions going forward, and continue our missional work of supporting research at Iowa with access to scholarly resources,” the release said.
A cover of love
A group of UI students have initiated Cover to Cover, a student organization that brings children in the hospital blankets and books.
Iowa City Transit to offer free rides on Election Day On Nov. 6, all rides on the Iowa City Transit buses will be free to encourage voting and remove barriers between people and the polls. Riders will not be required to show passes, pay fares, or show voter registrations when boarding the buses.
Iowa’s only pediatric physiatrist begins Coralville visits
Pediatric physiatrist Fred Klingbeil has begun traveling from the Des Moines ChildServe Clinic to the location in Coralville to provide physical therapy to children with special needs. Go to dailyiowan.com to see the full story.
8 Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan UI freshmen Kyle Braeseke and Autumn Johnson cut a blanket during a Cover to Cover event in the IMU on Monday.
BY ALEXANDRA SKORES
alexandra-skores@uiowa.edu
Iowa secondary continues steady run
The Hawkeye secondary has been plagued with injuries — especially at cornerback — and true freshmen Julius Brents and Riley Moss have been forced into action. Despite playing without its regular starters, the unit has taken a step forward.
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In 2013, two families in the Quad Cities came together during the holiday season to create Cover to Cover, a program that provides blankets and books
for sick children. What began with simple donations to schools to promote literacy will now come to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and Ronald McDonald House, expanding from the Quad Cities to Iowa City.
IOWA POLITICS
Meet Gov. Kim Reynolds Republican candidate for governor Kim Reynolds faces Des Moines businessman Fred Hubbell.
Iowa’s offense was not happily productive in Happy Valley last week, but running back Mekhi Sargent picked up some of the slack with a new career high in rushing yards. His performance helped boost an offense that fell off after previously enjoying success.
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Graduate employees vote to keep COGS as their union COGS will remain in existence for at least two more years, following a recertification election required by recent state law.
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UI student Kaylie Barnett, the president of Cover to Cover in Iowa City, discovered the opportunity and decided the UI could use Cover to Cover to help children in the area and, hopefully, partner with
BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu
after her predecessor, former Gov. Terry Branstad, became the U.S. ambassador to China. At that time, she was the first female acting governor of the Hawkeye State. Since then, she presided over one legislative session before embarking on one of the most expensive gubernatorial campaigns ever in Iowa.
After a two-week voting period, the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students was recertified on a vote of 1559 to 11. It has at least two more years of negotiating contracts for graduate employees. The recertification election is the result of a 2017 law change that affected public employees’ collective-bargaining rights in the state. Every two years, bargaining units, such as COGS, must hold a vote to recertify their status as the bargaining unit for their respective employees. For COGS to be recertified as the graduate student employees’ bargaining unit, it needed 50 percent of its population’s vote, plus one. COGS, established in 1996, is a graduate student employee union and serves as a bargaining unit for teaching assistants and research assistants at the university, negotiating contracts biannually.
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Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan Kim Reynolds talks at Hy-Vee in Coralville during her 99-counties tour on April 5.
BY SARAH WATSON
sarah-e-watson@uiowa.edu Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds aims to break another glass ceiling this fall as the first elected female governor of Iowa. Reynolds is in a competitve race for governor with Democrat Fred Hubbell. Reynolds, a Republican, took office in 2017
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Sid Peterson/The Daily Iowan UI sophomore Kevin Kato climbs the lime-green route on the wall at the Campus Recreation & Wellness Center on Monday. The staff at the wall said the lime-green route was one of the tougher routes for climbers.
COGS CONTINUED FROM FRONT “COGS is run by graduate students for ourselves,” COGS president Laura Szech said. “We’re able to be a negotiation system for students being overworked or underpaid for certain things.” Not only does Iowa now require recertification of public unions, the state has also implemented other changes. For example, Szech said, COGS members were forced to develop their own system for paying dues, because they were no longer allowed to collect through payroll. “I wish people understood how this was designed to make us have decreased power,” Szech said. “That really frustrates me; it feels like silencing Americans.” At the time the law was passed, GOP state legislators said the law was intended to bring more local control to the contracts and benefit taxpayers. “This law was very contentious in the state House,” Szech said. “There were people protesting, tons of people fighting against this.” Szech said the process required COGS members to go online and log in with a combination of their birthday and Social Security number. “We felt like it was purposefully trying to confuse people,” Szech said. “You had to keep confirming your vote.” The vote in question was what’s known as a “true majority” vote, which means those who do not turn out to cast their vote are automatically considered a no for recertification. Szech said COGS members had to inform people
they were a part of the vote. One of the biggest struggles, she said, is communicating with the approximately 1,900 COGS members, some of whom don’t even realize they belong to the union. “When graduate students come to the university, they’re not aware that their stipend amount is won by COGS,” COGS Press and Publicity Officer Mark Lanning said. “We’ve been basically just informing people about the fact that they’re in a union. It’s been an immense project.” In addition to stipend amounts, Lanning said COGS plays a primary role in classifying graduate students as workers and providing them with substantial health care. “The position of the union is not merely self-preservation,” Lanning said. “I think it’s important for graduate students to recognize that so many of our benefits are because of students before us who were in COGS.” Lanning emphasized that, without COGS, there would be a dissolution of contract and introduction of the policy handbook, in which the UI or the state Board of Regents could make changes to graduate work without negotiation. The university communicated directly with eligible voters belonging to COGS, notifying them about access to voting, as directed by the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board, UI spokesperson Jeneane Beck said. “The UI values the work of our graduate students and the contributions they make,” Beck said. “Graduate education is crucial to the University of Iowa’s mission and to the vitality of higher education.”
REYNOLDS CONTINUED FROM FRONT Born Kimberly Kay Strawn, she grew up in St. Charles, a town of 650 people around 30 minutes south of Des Moines. She graduated high school from Interstate 35 schools in Truro and spent time at Northwest Missouri State University and Southwest Community College. In 1982, she married Kevin Reynolds. The couple have three grown daughters and 10 grandchildren. She started her career in the Clarke County Treasurer’s Office as a motor-vehicle clerk. She was elected county treasurer for four terms before mounting a successful bid for a state Senate seat in 2008. After two legislative sessions, then-Gov. Terry Branstad picked her as a running mate in his campaign for governor, which eventually landed her as acting Iowa governor. In 2016, she graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies. Her story is one part of her campaign she has highlighted — the story of being a downto-earth working Iowan. To highlight it, she’s often held campaign stops at Hy-Vee stores to remind visitors of how she worked nights while her husband worked days to make ends meet. Over her year as governor, Reynolds has championed lower taxes, a fetal-heartbeat bill, and a booming economy as signals she’s running the state effectively. Her opponent, Hubbell, has criticized her in debates and interviews for her approach to the budget, saying she’s prioritized “wasteful” tax cuts
to corporations while cutting funding for higher education and health care. On education, Reynolds prioritizes K-12 funding, and she supported a 1 percent increase to public schools’ budget this past year. She also championed a unanimously supported initiative, Future Ready Iowa. The legislation sets a goal for 70 percent of Iowans to have some kind of postsecondary education or job training by 2025. She, and other Republicans, have been criticized by oppo-
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nents for $11.5 million in cuts made in 2018 to community colleges and the state Board of Regents’ schools, the three public universities in Iowa. In the 2018 legislative session, Reynolds pushed for tax change at the state level to save Iowans about $300 per year, according to fiscal analyses, after Republicans in Washington passed a tax-cutting package. On the campaign trail,
Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan (From left) Cover to Cover organizers Erica Barnett, Amanda Kelly, Javon Stovall, and Kaylie Barnett display their blanket during the Cover to Cover event in the IMU on Monday. to be able to purchase fabric and books, we will have our volunteer event at the end of the month to make the blanket-book kits.”
The group is seeking donations of children’s books and fabric for the blankets, and it will continue to host fundraiser events in hopes of secur-
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Reynolds highlights lowering taxes, a state budget surplus of $127 million, and Iowa’s second-in-the-nation status for low unemployment. In her Facebook “about” page, Reynolds claims to have attracted more than $14 billion in private investment from such companies as Google and Microsoft since assuming the lieutenant-governor position.
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COVER CONTINUED FROM FRONT other student organizations to continue the momentum. Barnett is part of a four-member executive board, all of whom she identified as excellent student leaders who love to take part in the process with her. The four positions currently include Barnett as president, UI student Javon Stovall as vice president, an event planner, and volunteer manager. A treasurer will be added as the group forms and more events are planned. The student organization kicked off with a Spooky Launch Party Monday evening in the IMU Hawkeye Room, in which volunteers were able to create blanket-book kits for the first time. Cover to Cover also plans to staff an information table on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway toward the end of the semester. “We have decided to do one big fundraiser to start off each month,” Barnett said. “Following the fundraiser
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ing sufficient donations each month. “Our main source will be purchasing from Joann Fabrics and buying $1 books from
Scholastic Book Fairs,” Barnett said. Barnett said anyone is welcome to become a volunteer and can contact her or any
executive member for more information. “We are always looking to partner with more student organizations,” Stovall said. “If any organization needs volunteer opportunities, we would love to become more involved in conversations.” The group hopes to spark some collaboration with Dance Marathon, Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, Medicus, and other organizations with similar missions. “We’re super-excited to be able to expand to Iowa City and for the affiliation with the university,” said Melissa Kitchen, a cofounder of Cover to Cover in the Quad Cities. “I am thankful for Kaylie to be able to connect us, and we are encouraged with the fact that people are so interested in our mission.” Kitchen said she is proud to have Cover to Cover at the UI and hopes it will engage in all that the university has to offer. “We are blessed to be in such a great community,” Stovall said. “We know that here at Iowa, we’ve got the love covered.”
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Law clinics give UI students a hands-on learning experience
Iowa City will offer free rides to the polls On Nov. 6, all rides on the Iowa City transit buses will be free to encourage voting.
The College of Law introduced two new law clinics earlier this year that allow students to work directly with clients.
David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan The Boyd Law Building is seen on Oct. 9, 2017. Two new clinics in the College of Law offer students hands-on training.
BY JOSIE FISCHELS
josie-fischels@uiowa.edu Two new legal clinics at the College of Law are giving students the opportunity to learn transactional law and federal defense in a unique way, while also providing them hands-on experience working with clients and advocating in court. The Community Empowerment Law Project, run by Associate Clinical Professor of law Daria Fisher Page, and the Federal Criminal Defense Clinic, overseen by Associate Clinical Professor of law Alison Guernsey, are the two immersive pro-
signed to each case. One of Guernsey’s students, Arianna Chronis, said participants of the clinic are expected to do the same amount of work as a professional defense attorney, including often working the same hours as one. “I really appreciate the incourt time,” Chronis said. “With the student practice certificate, we get to have experience arguing in federal court, which is great.” Both Chronis and one of Guernsey’s students, Cara Donels, said one of the reasons they were drawn to the new clinics was because they are both run by
‘I feel like they are really conscious about how the legal system is set up. That kind of perspective and that kind of validation has been very useful.’ — Cara Donels, law student grams launched to give law students the chance to apply what they’ve learned in class to real-world issues and cases. Guernsey’s Federal Defense Clinic, which allows students to appear in court, is the second of its kind in the nation. Guernsey said the only other tri-
female attorneys who students — particularly female law students — can look up to as role models in a field historically dominated by men. “I feel like they are really conscious about how the legal system is set up,” Donels said. “That kind of perspective and that kind
‘My students are out in the community a lot, interacting with people, and that’s hard to find in a law school.’ — Daria Fisher Page, professor of law al-level federal criminal defense clinic in the U.S. is at the University of Chicago. Students participating in that clinic represent individuals accused of federal crimes in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. Guernsey said the majority of these individuals are assigned to the clinic because they cannot be represented by the federal public defender’s office. Fisher Page’s Community Empowerment Clinic offers a different legal experience, focusing primarily on working with nonprofit organizations and other civic governments to help with business planning and achieving their extra-judicial goals. While both clinics are focused on students understanding the responsibility of being an actor in the legal system, Fisher Page said her clinic emphasizes social change driven by the larger community. “My students are out in the community a lot, interacting with people, and that’s hard to find in a law school,” she said. In the defense clinic, two student attorneys and a student investigator are as-
of validation have been very useful.” The clinics also provide different perspectives for students from positional standpoints. While Chronis said she plans on one day working as a prosecutor, Guernsey’s defense clinic allowed her to see the other side of criminal law and eliminate some of the bias surrounding defense attorneys. Fisher Page said her clinic allows students to be more exposed to transactional skills, which she feels are not as present in law school as other practices. Her students work directly with businesses to help them achieve their goals. “I would never have [that] opportunity if it weren’t for the clinic,” Donels said.
People enter and exit buses at the downtown interchange on Feb. 7. Iowa City Transit will offer free rides on Election Day.
BY MARIA KUIPER
maria-kuiper@uiowa.edu Iowa City Transit will offer free transportation to any riders for Election Day on Nov. 6 to remove barriers between people and the polls. The decision follows many other U.S. public-transportation systems, as well as Uber and Lyft, who have said they will offer free or discounted rides to the polls. Darian Nagle-Gamm, the transportation director for Iowa City, said riders will not be required to show a pass, pay a fare, or show voter registration when boarding the bus. Nagle-Gamm is in her first year as the transportation director. She has previous experience with transportation through the Metropolitan Planning Organization and has worked with Iowa City for a decade. Nagle-Gamm recommended riders determine their polling place beforehand and said Google Transit will help riders determine which bus routes they need to take. Iowa City Transit offers direct buses to all polling places except for Iowa City Precinct 10, which is held at the Terry Trueblood Recreation Area, because there is no regular route to that area. Nagle-Gamm said she is not sure how greatly free transit will help the election, but hopes it will remove one potential barrier people may have to voting. “We want to help use public resources to lessen [the
barrier to get to the polls],” Nagle-Gamm said. “We’re utilizing a public service to facilitate the greatest public service.” In the recent City Council special election, voter turnout was 9 percent — 4,199 votes of the city’s 46,461 registered voters, according to the Johnson County Auditor’s Office. City Councilor and community organizer at the Center for Worker Justice Mazahir Salih said when she ran for a seat on council, the people who voted for her were people who had never voted in Iowa City. “A lot of people who looked like me came out and started engaging [in the community],” Salih said. “Lots of people who have an accent or wear a scarf never saw [someone who looked like me] run before.”
Salih said she hopes the free transit will encourage those who may not usually think to vote to head to the polls. Joe Coulter, a chair on the Iowa City Human Rights Commission, said the free transit supports the right to vote. “This will help people in the lower socioeconomic class, which would include minority individuals, and others who are disabled or elderly,” Coulter said. “[Free transit] could enhance the participation of some groups that are really important with regard to sharing their views about candidates and where can-
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didates stand on things such as Medicare and Medicaid.” Nagle-Gamm and other city officials have not yet decided whether this service will be implemented again and whether it would be used for all elections or just major ones. However, Salih said she has seen some community members express concerns over the city allocating money toward free transit, but she believes it is the right way for the city to use funds. “It is a way to help people, and when people participate, we can have all voices,” she said.
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The undying love for Not everyone will stop eating meat zombies in the U.S. A plant-based diet is good for the planet but let’s be realistic for a minute.
A look at why this monster has lasted half a century in popularity.
AUSTIN YERINGTON
austin-yerington@uiowa.edu As the spooky season is upon us, I was going through my many favorite Halloween movies and was struck by the number of zombie films there are to choose from. I was also surprised by the amount of zombie media there is across every streaming services. I was also shocked to see the number of graphic novels, video games, and cooking books, all with one thing in common: ZOMBIES. We as a society must love the undead. I felt curious about why this creature, out of all the others, is the most common and most profitable in our society. According to NBC News, zombie content across all media (movies, TV, literature, costumes, etc.) is worth $5.74 billion. With a market that wide, there must be a reason this creature of horror has not left the spotlight in half a century. I knew no one better to ask these undead questions than University of Iowa Professor Brooks Landon, who teaches a zombie-metaphor class. When asked what the “zombie” metaphor means to him, Landon responded, “It’s the Swiss Army knife of metaphors, meaning it can be out to a zillion different uses. It’s also a very ‘safe’ metaphor, as it is terribly difficult to create sympathy for zombies.” These various different uses ring true when you look at some of the many stages zombies have taken up. The undead have been terrifying humanity for centuries according to myth, but they became the flesh-eating beings they are today due to George Romero’s 1968 Night of The Liv-
ing Dead film and the following films he created. Romero’s version of these undead monsters is what Landon says managed to catch the crazed zeitgeist of the late 60s perfectly. The metaphor of the zombie when Romero created them was a comment of race and later consumerism, but that metaphor has changed a lot over the years. TV channels such as AMC have series such as “The Walking Dead”, “Fear The Walking Dead”, and even Disney has a zombie-themed movie named Z-O-M-B-I-E, about dancing zombie teens in high school. When asked how zombies can be transferred over such large demographics, Landon said, “Zombies are ‘modern’ (contemporary) monsters, more ‘appropriate’ to current social and political contexts than the golden oldie monsters such as vampires and Frankenstein creatures.” When asked how the metaphor has evolved over these many decades, Landon responded with, “As difficult as it is to create sympathy for actual zombies, there are an increasing number of narratives that cast the zombie ‘condition’ in sympathetic terms. An increasing number of narratives are featuring some degree of ‘cures’ for zombies.” On Max Brooks’ website, author of the best-selling novel World War Z, refers to zombies as a way to “reflect our very real anxieties of these crazy scary times. A zombie story gives people a fictional lens to see the real problems of the world. You can deal with societal breakdown, famine, disease, chaos in the streets, but as long as the catalyst for all of them is zombies, you can still sleep.” Zombies serve not only as simple flesh-eating entertainment, but as a way to express social anxieties of our modern life. No matter if it’s 1968 or 2017, the undead will always find a place in our world.
Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan Vegetables glisten with fresh water droplets under lights in an open cooler in New Pioneer Co-op on July 26, 2016.
BRAXTON LEONARD
braxton-leonard@uiowa.edu A recent climate report conducted by the U.N. painted a frightening picture for our future. The report described the severity of the issues we are facing regarding climate change, and predicted that we may be in considerable trouble by 2040. Though climate change has been a hot-button issue for nearly the last decade, with skeptics often questioning the evidence behind concerns, it is becoming increasingly clear that we are facing a massive issue that could have dire consequences for future generations. The U.N. report sparked discussion about what we can do daily to reduce our footprint as a society, and many people have been quick to direct blame to the meat industry as a primary culprit of affecting climate change.
Seven years ago, I decided to become a vegetarian. At the time, I knew very little about the effect the meat industry had on the environment, and frankly, it wasn’t a leading factor in my decision to quit eating meat. After making the switch to a plant-based lifestyle, however, I spent more time trying to educate myself on the path I was headed down, making sure that I understood the ins and outs and how to explain and defend my decision from an educated standpoint.
think that it is plausible to expect people to quit eating meat. I do think, however, that it is important to talk about the way in which our lifestyle choices can have a ripple effect that spans far beyond just ourselves, our neighborhoods, or even our states. Scrolling through social media after the report was published, I saw countless posts from angry people telling everyone to quit eating meat, noting the role that the industry plays in the rapidly increasing climate
‘Even after discovering the benefits a plant-based diet has on the environment, I still never have been one to try to persuade those who eat meat to stop.’ I began to understand the magnitude of the impact the meat industry has on climate change, which led to a better overall understanding of my own footprint and what I could do to reduce my impact. Even after discovering the benefits a plant-based diet has on the environment, I still have never been one to try to persuade those who eat meat to stop. I ate meat for the first half of my life and don’t
change issues we face. The posts got mixed responses — some meat eaters wanting to be a part of the change, and others frustrated with the pushy and derogatory nature in which people speak out of frustration against the meat industry, which often comes off as pretentious, or “holier than thou.” The perception of vegetarians as being pretentious has long been a deterrent for
meat eaters, and as a vegetarian I’ve tried to refrain from forcing my lifestyle onto others, despite my understanding of the way in which the industry affects our frightening climate issues. The most frustrating thing about all of this is that the talks of reducing our carbon footprint are conversations we should have been having far sooner. Unfortunately, we live in a society of hindsight. Many of the issues we discuss are things that we began to talk about much later than we should have been. I also think that immediately playing the blame game and pointing the finger at meat eaters as one of the main drivers for climate change is ultimately counterproductive as it just causes more resistance to a plant based diet, and nobody likes to be told what to do. The fact of life is that people are always going to eat meat, and while I think it is important to consider lessening meat consumption, it isn’t realistic to expect a species who has been eating meat for thousands of years to stop.
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Faculty group calls for collaboration to make jobs secure Members of Faculty Forward respond to the new College of Liberal Arts & Sciences hiring guidelines for some fixed-term faculty. This past summer, we four members of Faculty Forward Iowa met with College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean Joe Kearney and Associate Dean Raúl Curto to try to find solutions to pressing problems affecting the ever-increasing number of nontenure-track faculty in the college. The Faculty Forward’s direct action in the spring of 2018 got us to the Liberal Arts office: a march to Jessup Hall and the President’s Residence with a demand letter and a finals week “grade-in” in the president’s office won us a summit-style meeting with him and high-level administrators. Out of that summit came three working groups of Faculty Forward members and administrators that met over the summer to address issues put forward in our demand letter. These included the salary and
workloads of nontenure-track faculty (we often teach twice as much as tenured and tenure-track faculty for two-thirds of what they’re paid); unequal access to health and retirement benefits; limited opportunities to participate in shared governance or be protected by university grievance procedures; few professional-development opportunities; and contracts built on the mistaken belief that our research, scholarship, and creative practice are not necessary to our teaching. Those discussions happily led to the administration’s decision to give visiting faculty with one-year teaching appointments of 50 percent full health and retirement benefits. But soon after this welcome announcement, and just as members of our working group were starting to advocate for a path toward job security for
Liberal Arts adjuncts and VAPs, the Liberal Arts deans suddenly terminated our future meetings. Then at the beginning of this semester, Kearney announced a new policy that would affect these “fixed term” faculty members: adjuncts would be limited to one class per semester and VAPs to appointments of no more than three years. Recently, Professor Stephen Warren, who was a welcome member our summer meetings with the deans and is this year’s Chair of Faculty Assembly, invited Faculty Forward to speak to the new VAP/adjunct policy. Here’s what we said at the Oct. 17 meeting: “We are here today to represent the nearly 300 nontenure-track faculty who, since last spring, have signed our public letter and committed to being part of our campaign to
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improve conditions for such faculty at Iowa. Our goal has been and still is to pull more faculty into good jobs that pay full benefits and offer job security. While we see the value of returning to a traditional sense of what an adjunct should be and are in favor of preventing the misuse of visiting appointments, the new policy announced by Kearney leaves us deeply concerned about the livelihoods of current adjuncts and VAPs who, year after year, have been contributing essential teaching and service to their departments. For our long-term adjunct and “visiting” colleagues, we want to see the creation of Lecturer positions in the Instructional Track. But we’re concerned that the announced policy does nothing to encourage these positive outcomes for nontenure-track faculty, while
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Which Hawkeye will complement Megan Gustafson the best? The DI’s Pete Ruden and Jordan Zuniga debate who will step up in Megan Gustafson’s presence.
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Kathleen Doyle
Megan Gustafson will be one of the best college basketball players this year. There’s no question about that. But if the Hawkeyes are going to make the giant leap to be contenders come March, they’re going to need junior point guard Kathleen Doyle to take one small step this year. She’s been named to the Preseason All-Big Ten team this year and is coming off a solid sophomore campaign. Last season, she put up 11.1 points per game and 6.6 assists per game to go along with 3.7 rebounds per game. All those numbers were significant steps up from Doyle’s freshman year. One area that Iowa will need to see improvement from in Doyle this season is her 3-point shooting. She managed to shoot 34.7 percent from deep last season, which is a respectable number and a considerable step up from the 23.4 percent her freshman year on the same number of shots. However, there were games last season where Doyle struggled to make 3s; she was often a streaky shooter. Lisa Bluder and Company will need her to be a consistent 3-point threat all year
long in order to take some of the pressure off Gustafson. Gustafson was often put up against double and triple teams in the paint, and much of that was because of Iowa’s inconsistency behind the 3-point arc. This season, Doyle should be more dangerous behind the 3-point line, which will help make more room for Gustafson in the paint this year.
PETE RUDEN
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Makenzie Meyer Makenzie Meyer will play a big role for the Hawkeyes this year. While she was not named to the Preseason All-Big Ten team like forward Megan Gustafson or guard Kathleen Doyle, there is no denying her ability to fill up the bucket from beyond the arc. Meyer shot 37.8 percent from 3-point range last year, leading the team out of players with at least 55 attempts from deep. While defenses are focusing on Gustafson’s dominance in the paint, she will have the chance to kick it out to a hot shooter on the wing. After averaging 27.5 points, on 67.1 percent shooting, and grabbing 123
Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa guard Kathleen Doyle drives to the hoop during the Iowa/Creighton NCAA Tournament first-round game at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on March 17. offensive boards during the is the perfect candidate for most minutes out of return- increased attention on Gus2017-18 season, teams will Iowa to shoot open 3s, if the ing players, meaning she tafson. have no choice but to put team can get her the ball. will be on the floor when No matter who will commore bodies on Gustafson It could be the team as a Gustafson is. plement Gustafson the best, in the paint. She’s just too whole benefiting from GusJust as Jordan Bohannon one thing is for sure: Gusdominant to leave one-on- tafson being covered, but benefits from Tyler Cook’s tafson will still have a heck one. that could also come back to presence on the men’s side, of a season, and we are onSomeone will benefit Meyer. Meyer will get buckets if ly about a week away from from being left open. Meyer Meyer logged the fourth- given the ball, thanks to the watching it.
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SECONDARY CONTINUED FROM 8 has held opposing quarterbacks to a 55.3 percent completion percentage (68of-123), and three of those weeks, it held the opposition to 50 percent or less. It has also held its opponents to 184.5 passing yards per game, with 5 touchdowns and 8 interceptions in that four-game span. Those numbers are a step up from the first four weeks
SARGENT CONTINUED FROM 8 fense fell flat in what could be considered primarily a defensive battle. “It was two pretty good defensive teams playing,” Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said. “Some games, there is a flow offensively. I thought it was pretty tough for both teams to move the ball … It’s not like anybody was driv-
SWIMMING CONTINUED FROM 8 He is also second best in the all-time records at Iowa in the 50 free (19.61). The fastest time Smith has swim in the 50 free this year was at Minnesota at 20.51. It is early in the season, but Iowa will feel the effect if Smith does not get back to his potential, especially in the 200-free relay. Scott and Myhre were also part of the 400-free relay team, which made it to NCAAs last year. Myhre swam a personal best in the 50 free (19.84) last year at the Big Ten Championships. He has kept the momen-
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of the season, especially when considering the difference in the talent level of the Hawkeye opponents. In its first four games — three of which were nonconference — Iowa allowed 6 touchdowns on 61.5 percent completion percentage and gave up 176.5 yards per game. The biggest difference from the first four games compared with Iowa’s last four has been the number of turnovers from the secondary. Iowa managed just 2 interceptions in its initial four
games with its starters in, but the Hawkeyes have now gotten a pick in every game since. The performance over the past several weeks is especially impressive given the number of injuries the unit has faced. Starting the season, Iowa had Michael Ojemudia and Matt Hankins at the corners; however, neither has started since the Wisconsin game. In their place, true freshmen Riley Moss and Julius Brents have started. Starting two guys who
just a few months ago were receiving their high-school diplomas is never an ideal situation to be in, yet both first-year Hawkeyes exceeded expectations after being thrust into the starting roles. In the four games that Ojemudia and Hankins started in, the pair managed only 1 interception along with only 2 pass breakups. Since then, the true freshmen have combined to grab 3 picks and broken up 4 passes. However, the player who has had the biggest impact in
the past four games has been sophomore Geno Stone. Stone has had more playing time in the past few weeks because of Iowa’s injuries both at cornerback and at linebacker. Safety Amani Hooker has moved up at times during games to play as a hybrid linebacker-safety, which has made room for Stone. With that extra playing time, he has managed to snag 3 interceptions and now has a pick in three of Iowa’s last four games. Two safeties, Jake Gervase
and Hooker, are at the center of Iowa’s secondary. Hooker has been notably good at disrupting opposing passing games — he has 2 interceptions to go along with 5 pass breakups. Gervase has also had his fair share of success, recording a pick, a forced fumble, and 3 pass breakups to go along with his team leading 45 tackles. Iowa’s secondary might not get the press it deserves, but that might just be because the players are doing their jobs.
ing the ball up and down the field. Sometimes, games get like that.” Sargent’s arrival in Iowa City has been bigger than imagined through eight games this season. Kelly-Martin, who is listed as the starter, has dealt with injuries all season and has missed three games. Sargent and Young have had to pick up the load, and the Hawkeyes haven’t missed a step. Against Indiana, the Io-
wa offense was incredibly balanced, and the run set up the pass, allowing quarterback Nate Stanley to throw 6 touchdowns. Young ran for 96 yards and Sargent picked up 59 on 10 carries. Without the running game getting going, it would have been difficult for Stanley to put together the offensive explosion that he did. Against the Nittany Lions, the running game took over — in a way. Stanley struggled mightily, and the offense
couldn’t keep a drive going. Sargent had a hot hand, however, and was one of the few bright spots on a disappointing day. Still, there were times in which the ground game couldn’t consistently move forward. When things were going well, such as Iowa’s final drives when it moved the ball efficiently, playing as a group was key. “I think we were out there playing as a unit, playing as a team,” Sargent said. “Foot-
ball is a team sport, so I feel like that played a huge part.” It will still be important for the Hawkeyes to improve on the ground, though. The backs are young, but they have grown as the season has gone on. Combine that with an offensive line that has excelled at opening holes, and that is a recipe for success. Now, the Hawkeyes need to move on. In a tight race to the top of the Big Ten West, Iowa can’t afford to have any more
lapses in the passing game. With the success Iowa has had in both aspects of the offense, teams can’t expect the Hawkeyes to stay down with the weapons they have. “The biggest thing we have going for us is we have a lot of guys who care and a lot of leadership that comes through,” center Keegan Render said. “We have a lot of guys that it means a lot to them, and we know we’re going to bounce back, and it’s going to be all right.”
tum going this year, finishing with a 19.99 in the 50 free at Minnesota. Scott swam a personal best last season in the 100 free (43.72) at the Big Ten Championships. He is going to have to pick it up this season, as his best time so far is the 45.65 he swam at Michigan State last month. The final key from the 200-free relay team is Kamin. He swam his personal best last season in both the 50 free (20.53) and 100 free (45.95). He has yet to race in the 50 free this year, but he swam the 100 free (46.60) at Minnesota. He still has room for improvement and needs to step up in his final year at the college level. If each reaches his potential
in his individual events, then the relay team will have no problem coming together for the Hawkeyes. One last swimmer that Iowa will rely on now and in the future is freshman Mateusz Arndt. Arndt is from Poland. In high school, he went to the Euro Junior Swimming Championships to win gold in the 800-free relay and a bronze in the 200 free in 2016. He won the 500 free (4:28.73) last weekend in Minnesota, so he is living up to the potential so far. The Iowa men have many great swimmers this year. They just need to work together to reach their potential as a team looking to climb the rankings.
Karley Finkel/The Daily Iowan Iowa guard Kathleen Doyle drives to the hoop during the Iowa/Creighton NCAA Tournament first-round game at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on March 17. The Bluejays defeated the Hawkeyes, 76-70.
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C.J. Beathard, quarterback (San Francisco) — 14of-28, 190 yards, 1 touchdown; 5 carries, 9 yards George Kittle, tight end (San Francisco) — 5 receptions, 57 yards Beathard Mike Daniels, defensive tackle (Green Bay) — 3 tackles Jaleel Johnson, defensive tackle (Minnesota) — 1 tackle Christian Kirksey, linebacker (Cleveland) — 7 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, 1 pass defended Josey Jewell, linebacker (Denver) — 5 tackles Anthony Hitchens, linebacker (Kansas City) — 9 tackles Micah Hyde, defensive back (Buffalo) — 6 tackles Adrian Clayborn, defensive end (New England) — 2 tackles, 1 sack, 1 tackle for loss
AROUND THE BIG TEN Offensive and Special Teams Player of the Week – Javon Leake, running back (Maryland)
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Disorderly house sidelines 2 Hawkeye corners Matt Hankins and Trey Creamer will not travel with the Hawkeye football team to Purdue this weekend. BY ADAM HENSLEY
adam-hensley@uiowa.edu On Sunday, Hawkeye cornerbacks Matt Hankins and Trey Creamer were cited for disorderly house. Both will be suspended for the week. “Their actions demonstrate poor judgment and are not reflective of the high standards of citizenship that we try to uphold,” head coach Kirk Ferentz said in a release. “It is difficult but important to hold student-athletes accountable.” Neither cornerback will travel with the team to Pur-
due this weekend. Originally, the police blotter listed the two as being cited with disorderly conduct, but an email to The Daily Iowan from Iowa City police public-information Officer Derek Frank stated that Hankins and Creamer were in fact cited for disorderly house. The players have a court date set for 8 a.m. Nov. 29. “On the above date and time, I responded to 1120 Sunset for a disorderly house issue,” Iowa City police Officer Trai Bunch wrote in his report. “Once on scene, I observed several people in the front yard and in the street. I could hear loud music coming from the
residence. There was estimated over 100 people inside the residence. It took over 20 minutes for everyone to leave. I detected a strong odor of marijuana coming from inside. I even witnessed a 17-year-old male leave the residence. I observed several bottles of alcohol. The residence received a noise warning on 9/9/2018.” Hankins, a sophomore from Lewisville, Texas, has 18 tackles and a pass breakup this season. Creamer, a redshirt freshman from Cartersville, Georgia, has yet to record any statistics this season. The Hawkeyes will travel to West Lafayette, Indiana, for a 2:30 p.m. contest with Purdue on Saturday.
Young Hawkeye secondary intercepts spotlight
Leake posted 274 all-purpose yards and 4 touchdowns in Maryland’s 63-33 slaughter of Illinois. It was the most any Terrapin has scored in a single game since D.J. Adams had 4 in 2010. Leake He ran for 140 yards and 3 TDs on 5 carries for an average of 28 yards per carry. He also took a kick back 97 yards to put the Terrapins on the scoreboard for the first time. This week marks the first time Leake has won either award.
Iowa’s secondary is quietly having a stellar second half of the season.
Defensive Player of the Week – Yetur Gross-Matos, defensive end (Penn State)
Gross-Matos recorded a team-high 9 tackles in Penn State’s 30-24 win over Iowa. The sophomore end was a force on the line, picking up a career-high 4 tackles for a loss including 2 Gross-Matos sacks, which ties his career-high. It is Gross-Mato’s first-career Defensive Player of the Week honor.
Co-Freshmen of the Week – Rocky Lombardi, quarterback (Michigan State) and Tanner Morgan, quarterback (Minnesota)
Both Lombardi and Morgan led their teams to victory — Michigan State beat Purdue, 23-13, and Minnesota topped Indiana, 38-31. Lombardi threw for 318 yards and 2 touchdowns on 26-of-46 passing. The mark is the second-most in Spartan history by a quarterback making his first Lombardi career start, trailing only Ed Smith, who threw for 324 yards in 1976. It is Lombardi’s first weekly honor. Morgan went 17-for-24 for 302 yards and 3 touchdowns, including a 67-yard game-winner to freshman Rashod Bateman with 1:34 left in regulation. He recorded the fourth-most yards by a Gopher freshman quarterback since 1980 on his way to his first weekly award.
Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Geno Stone returns a Pick-6 against Penn State at Beaver Stadium on Oct. 27. The Nittany Lions defeated the Hawkeyes, 30-24.
BY JORDAN ZUNIGA
jordan-zuniga@uiowa.edu Taking a look at the 30-24 score line of the Oct. 27 game suggests that Trace McSorley and the Penn State offense torched the Iowa defense.
But that wasn’t the case. Several of Penn State’s scores came from the Nittany Lions having tremendous starting field position, and, in fact, Penn State only had 16 first downs all game. Iowa’s defense was one of the lone bright spots
At ease, offense — Sargent at work When the air attack against Penn State went shaky, Mekhi Sargent stepped up to give Iowa a boost on the ground.
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Western, rushed for a career-high 91 yards on 16 carries and caught a pass for 15 yards. In a season in which Toren Young and Ivory Kelly-Martin have been the lead backs, Sargent stepped up in one of Iowa’s biggest games of the season. Despite Sargent’s performance, the of-
The swimming and diving season is underway, and the Hawkeyes are preparing for a tough triangular this weekend. Iowa will host a meet against Denver and Michigan on Friday and Saturday at the Campus Recreation & Wellness Center. The Iowa men’s team is going to have to rely on some key swimmers to help it not only win this weekend but to thrive the rest of the season against tough competition. The men have 22 returning letter winners and seven newcomers. Among the letter winners are four NCAA qualifiers and the All-American 200-free relay team: Jack Smith, Joe Myhre, Matt Kamin, and Will Scott. The four are some of the upperclassmen that Iowa is going to rely on to help secure points this season. All four have a spot in the 50-free school record times. Smith qualified for the NCAA Championships last season in Smith three events: 100 free, 200 free relay, and 400 relay. Last season, Smith also swam a career-best and school record in the 100 free (42.71) at the Big Ten Championships, far from the time of 45.22 he swam at Minnesota last weekend.
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—Iowa football head coach Kirk Ferentz after the Hawkeyes’ 30-24 loss to Penn State
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Kirk Ferentz is one win away from becoming the fifth coach in Big Ten history to win at least 150 games.
in Iowa’s loss, and while the defensive line has gotten all the press in recent weeks, the secondary has quietly had a superb few weeks. Over the past four weeks, the Iowa secondary
Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa running back Mekhi Sargent is tackled on the sideline against Maryland in Kinnick on Oct. 20. The Hawkeyes defeated the Terrapins, 23-0.
BY PETE RUDEN
peter-ruden@uiowa.edu Overshadowed by an abysmal air attack, Iowa running back Mekhi Sargent quietly had the best game of his young Hawkeye career from a yardage standpoint in the Hawkeyes’ 30-24 loss at Penn State. Sargent, a sophomore transfer from Iowa