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Vets for peace aim to reclaim meaning of Armistice Day Marking the 101st anniversary of the end of WWI, Veterans for Peace Chapter 161 gathered to honor those who have served, mourn those who have died, and reflect on the senselessness of “perpetual wars.”
The Iowa City Ronald McDonald House recently received a $350,000 grant from the Gerdin Family Foundation to make updates to its facilities and better serve the evolving needs of the community.
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Community collaboration aims to improve neighborhood health
With hopes to have an overall better health throughout the Iowa City community, local organizations have banded together to provide prescription kits to serve low-income neighborhoods.
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ABOVE: People attend a Veterans Day Rally at the Ped Mall on Monday. BELOW: Organizers hold up a sign at the Veterans Day Rally at the Ped Mall on Monday. (Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan)
BY CHARLES PECKMAN
charles-peckman@uiowa.edu The brutal winter wind caused wisps of snow to gather on the hats and scarves of a small group of veterans who were gathered at the Pedestrian Mall Monday morning — in accordance with the 101st Armistice Day, Veterans for Peace Chapter 161 took the day to remember those who have served and reflect on their perceived uselessness of “perpetual wars.” The ringing of church bells at 11 a.m. has signified the end of World War I for 100 years — as the bells rang on Monday morning, there was a palpable sense of remembrance, sorrow, and pride amidst the crunching of snow and bellowing of wind. Following a brief ceremony, which featured Iowa City Mayor Jim Throgmorton, a veteran himself, the group congregated in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library to share anecdotes from their time in the armed forces. Despite the meeting room’s comparatively warm atmosphere, the palpable feelings of sorrow and remembrance were only amplified by the stories
Hemp regulations to open door for future hemp farmers
The USDA recently released regulations which outline the future of hemp production in Iowa. The new regulations, which were signed into law May 13, include a licensing process for farmers.
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New project to improve ACT scores sustainability at UIHC in Iowa see UIHC and the UI Office of Sustainability are collaborating on a project to promote sustainability in the hospitals.
Men’s basketball fall early to DePaul
DePaul got out to a 13-0 lead against Iowa men’s basketball on Monday night, and the Hawkeyes were unable to recover. The Blue Demons were on fire from beyond the arc, and Iowa did not have the firepower to match.
slight decline from last year The average composite ACT score for Iowa has slightly declined since last year, but the state still remains in first place for the highest average score in the nation.
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ing a website specifically for hospital staff. Jacobmeyer is the second intern to work on this project, which began in spring 2018. According to waste audits conducted by the UI Office of Sustainability, there is a 34-percent reduction opportunity within UIHC's waste stream, Jacobmeyer said. Since hospitals like UIHC are so big and have their own needs, it’s important that staff have access to information on how to be more sustainable both at work and at home, she said. “Something I learned a lot while speaking with staff is that they really wanted to do the right thing, but they had no guidance,” Jacobmeyer said. “And they really didn't have anywhere to go to get that information.”
Iowa students’ average ACT score declined slightly since last year, according to ACT’s “Condition of College and Career Readiness” report released Oct. 30, but Iowa’s average composite score remains above the national average. Iowa and South Dakota tied for the highest average score in the nation at 21.6 out of 36. Both states tested more than 50 percent of their graduating students. Scores in Iowa have been on a slight decline since they reached an average of 22.2 in 2015. Iowa’s average last year was 21.8 out of 36. For English, Iowa’s average score was 20.8, down from last year’s score of 21. The math score was 21, the reading score was 22.3, and the science score was 21.8. In a press release Oct. 30, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Iowa Department of Education Director Ryan Wise issued statements in response to Iowa having the highest average composite ACT score in the nation.
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COLUMN: Iowa basketball lacks connectivity On Monday, Iowa didn’t look like it did last season. Instead, the Hawkeyes weren’t connected and never figured it out on their way to their first loss of the season.
Ryan Adams/The Daily Iowan The University of Iowa Office of Sustainability in the Communication Center on Oct. 21. The Office of Sustainability is partnering with UIHC to reduce waste at Iowa.
BY ANNIE FITZPATRICK
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With the help of University of Iowa senior Claire Jacobmeyer, the UI Office of Sustainability and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are working together to reduce waste in UIHC and promote sustainable practices. Data collected by the UI Office of Sustainability show that health-care facilities produce about 29 pounds of waste per patient bed a day globally, making UIHC a key component to improving sustainability across campus. In her role as the recycling and waste reduction intern, Jacobmeyer is working toward educating staff members about sustainable practices, implementing a more effective infrastructure, and creat-
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VETS CONTINUED FROM FRONT of the 30-or-so attendees. Steve Hanken, a Vietnam veteran, said there are more people to think about than veterans when discussing the casualties of war. After serving for two years, he said he was “incredibly saddened” by the droves of veterans who committed suicide in the war’s aftermath. According to reports Hanken read, he explained that due to suicide, the number of causalities has essentially doubled since U.S. forces withdrew from the country in 1973. Others were impacted by the tools used in warfare, he added. “A friend of mine had [the impact of] Agent Orange passed down through his children,” Hanken said. “One of his daughters is allergic to just about everything, and one of his daughters has half of a brain — there’s not a lot of help for those people because they’re not veterans. It was quite by accident that an older physician discovered she had half of a brain ... sometimes the impact of that stays for generations.” Hanken also shared an anecdote about a relative of his who fought in World War I — for the other side. Although he said, “Armistice Day was a little different for him,” he recalled the lengths to which German soldiers went to flee. “He told me that no one knew what was going on,” Hanken said. “Everybody wanted to go home. He told me, and I couldn’t believe it, that when the trains were running, they would fill up with people. Other soldiers would grab onto the side of the train and hang on for dear life, and there would be a pile of bodies at the end of every tunnel; people who were just trying to get home.”
UIHC CONTINUED FROM FRONT Jacobmeyer said she found the position while looking for job opportunities in waste reduction — her area of interest. However, this had not always been her main career path, she said. Jacobmeyer said she previously earned her degree in graphic design but came back to school to pursue environmental policy after realizing her passion for sustainability. “I don't know how I got started on it, but I started watching a lot of documentaries, and the one that really stuck with me was Plastic Ocean … and I just got really interested in zero-waste living and decided I cared about that more than anything else,” Jacobmeyer said. Zero-waste living has become a part of Jacobmeyer’s own life, she said, and so has working in sustainability. In addition to her internship
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Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan A bell is rung 11 times to commemorate Armistice Day at a rally at the Ped Mall on Monday. Veteran Ed Flaherty, who enlisted in the Army in 1966, said the journey home continues to be tumultuous for veterans to this day. Flaherty recalled the taunts and insults thrown at veterans returning home from Vietnam and added that there has been a “disgraceful” resurgence of anti-veteran rhetoric in recent months. To him, what is more
sinister than this rhetoric was the Trump administration’s decision to pull troops out of Syria, which left “our Kurdish allies defenseless.” “Why, instead, are we sending more troops to Saudi Arabia?” Flaherty asked. “So they can protect themselves from the Iranians or they can support the killers of American journalists? As a veteran or
armed service member, liberal or conservative, pro-war or anti-war, I don’t understand how a service member could tolerate that [decision.]” These decisions, according to University of Iowa graduate and retired FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, are fed to the masses through the military-industrial complex, which former
with the UI, Jacobmeyer is the co-chair for the Cedar-Wapsi Group of the Iowa Sierra Club, where she is in charge of a series of “waste less” workshops in Cedar Rapids. Within the collaborative project, Jacobmeyer said that the relationship between the UI Office of Sustainability and UIHC is very positive. UIHC has its own University Sustainability Charter Committee, which meets quarterly, but Jacobmeyer said she thinks there can be more progress if the committee were to meet more. Glen Rogers, a representative for the University Sustainability Charter Committee and director of housekeeping at UIHC, said that having Jacobmeyer work with UIHC has been great because, unlike committee members, she can solely focus on the project’s efforts. “Having Claire here is great,” Rogers said. “Having a dedicated resource is probably the No. 1 thing that helps that she is someone who is fo-
cused 100 percent on sustainability.” Due to the size of the hospital and the existing practices that have been in place for so long, Jacobmeyer said changing the culture around being more sustainable has proven to be challenging. “I think that there's this misconception that waste can't be reduced within health care, because everything relies on single use plastics … but there has been a shift in that mindset very recently,” she said. “There are a lot of hospitals that are starting to get sustainability staff or sustainability coordinators.” Recycling Coordinator for the UI Office of Sustainability Beth MacKenzie started working for the UI three years ago. She said that, when she started, one of the first things she did was collect waste data across the campus. This data revealed that UIHC was a large contributor to the waste on campus. Although UIHC was already doing a good job addressing
sustainability, MacKenzie said that this internship and project was a matter of formalizing a strategy and being proactive in terms of finding opportunities to reduce waste. “I think, on campus in general, this kind of project is obviously important to reach our waste goals, but really … I think it's unique because it is in the health care,” MacKenzie said. “It’s interesting, because we're finding new ways to advance sustainability in interesting ways.” In her focus on sustainability in the past, she hadn’t considered hospital waste, Jacobmeyer said, but it has been amazing and humbling to learn about that side of health care. “I think when you're when you're in this kind of position, it's easy to get overwhelmed with the scale of the issue,” Jacobmeyer said. “But when you're there, working every day, and you see people doing their best and see progress. It makes me a lot more optimistic about the future.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about during his final speech in the Oval Office. “I was watching the news this morning and they took sad stories from the Vietnam War and others, and they twisted them into uplifting stories in praise of the military,” she said. “Your stomach just sinks watching it, because as we’ve heard today from poems and first-hand accounts there is death and destruction everywhere ... most people fall into thinking, ‘Isn’t this wonderful? We’re so great because we’re American,’ and the fact that people think we can make something good out of war is what has made it perpetual.” This sentiment was echoed by Danny Sjursen, a retired Army strategist and West Point instructor. Sjursen, who spent nearly two decades in the armed forces, said Armistice Day is an opportunity to honor those who have served but also ask, “Do I want my children to die in a war that I fought in?”
“Armistice Day has been hijacked, it’s been sanitized, and now it’s celebrated as a ‘veteran’s thing,’ ” Sjursen said. “I think that’s a crime because Veteran’s Day has become something where it’s almost a compulsory mission to just thank a veteran. Thank a veteran and that’s all you have to do — that strips all of the original meaning out of the day.” Sjursen said moving forward, thanking a veteran should be part of Armistice Day, but more important is ending the “endless wars” that continue to “mint” veterans in the first place. “I served in Kandahar Province with the 3rd Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, the Spartans,” he said. “Our motto is that we would come home with our shield or on it. Those are the two options we were told — that we would come home in glory or come home as a dead body — but it took me years to realize that there is another option, to throw down the shield in the first place.”
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Grant to 'refresh' Ronald McDonald House The Gerdin Family Foundation recently donated $350,000 to the Ronald McDonald House of Iowa City so that the community charity can fund its “refresh” program, including updates to its building. BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu
Thanks to a donation by the Gerdin Family Foundation, the Ronald McDonald House of Iowa City is moving forward with its refresh plan — one phase of a multifaceted project that aims to improve the living and meeting spaces of families combating child illness. The Gerdin Family Foundation donated $350,000 to the Ronald McDonald House “refresh,” which includes new flooring in the entire building, as well as an updated HVAC system. Since its establishment in 1985, the Iowa City chapter has seen a lot of wear and tear, said Ronald McDonald House Development Director Heather Croskrey. “We like to say it’s loved so much it shows,” Croskrey said. “It’s time to update surfaces, to make some changes to some of our common areas to make sure that they are functional for today’s families, and to improve efficiency, safety, and security.” Croskrey said the house has seen an increase in the severity of each family’s case, their length of stay, and the distance they’ve traveled for care since the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital opened. The conversations that staff members have with each family require more private meeting spaces than are possible in the current configuration of the house, Croskrey said. The grant will fund additional space, as well as surfaces that are easier to scrub instead of carpet, so the house can maintain the cleanest possible living environment for residents — especially because many have fragile immune
ACT CONTINUED FROM FRONT “Iowa’s leading the nation in ACT scores, an important measurement to determine college and career readiness,” Reynolds said in the prepared statement. “The results reflect our commitment to education and the need to do even more to better prepare our young people for the future.” Both Reynolds and Wise acknowledged that Iowa has room to improve its average, with Reynolds mentioning the state should continue the development of programs connecting people with the training and education needed for successful careers. “Schools are doing more than ever to ensure that all students are ready for the demands of college or career training,” Wise said
systems, Croskrey said. The 31 rooms in the Ronald McDonald House are usually booked, she added, but an average of 15 families are on the waitlist each night. Croskrey said she’s hopeful the refresh will improve the current building to allow expanded services and move in waitlisted families. “Our ideal world — we would be out of business,” Croskrey said. “We’re here to serve families that have sick children. When they get to go home, it’s a joyous occasion.” Each family stays an average of 16 days and receives their own room, bathroom, and three meals a day, said Barbara Werning, the Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Ronald McDonald House chapter’s executive director. There’s also a van to shuttle them to and from the hospital or parking passes if needed, she said. “When our families arrive, we make a commitment to them that they are here until their child is discharged,” Werning said. UI sophomore Kayla Conner began volunteering at the Iowa City Ronald McDonald House in fall 2018. While many of her responsibilities include cleaning and making dinner, she said her favorite part of the volunteer experience is actually engaging with the children she’s serving. “It’s a different feeling when one of the kiddos asks you to play a game of foosball with them,” Conner said in an email to The Daily Iowan. “Their lives are hard enough, so it makes you feel really good knowing that some of them are comfortable enough to ask to hang out with you.” Conner said she looks in the prepared statement. “While there’s more to do, today’s news is a testament to all of the great work underway.” The 22,965 students in Iowa who took the ACT last year made up 66 percent of the 2019 spring graduating class, according to the statement. A decline over one year is not something ACT typically puts a lot of stock into, Ed Colby, ACT senior director of media and public relations, said, but seeing a decline over multiple years is something it watches for. “We’re seeing some declining scores in Iowa, which, yes, I would say is concerning,” Colby said. “Because we’re seeing them as trends, not just as a single-year gauge.” The biggest factor in college readiness is the quality and rigor of the high school students take, Colby said. It’s on the students themselves and their parents to
Emily Wangen/The Daily Iowan The Iowa City Ronald McDonald House is seen on Monday. The Iowa City Ronald McDonald House, which is one of more than 360 locations in the U.S., received a $350,000 donation from the Gerdin family for their latest initiatives. ilies are in the community,” Werning said. “From every walk of life, every socioeconomic group. illness doesn’t ask who you are, it just happens.” Although the Gerdin Family Foundation previously partnered with Ronald McDonald House Charities for the St. Luke’s Family Room in Cedar Rapids, Croskrey said this will be the first time they fund a project at the Iowa City house. Contrary to popular perception, McDonald’s funds less than 20 percent of the
forward to stocking the toy closet, surprising a resident on their birthday with a decorated door, or reading the stories written on a whiteboard outside each room. “All of these events are relatively small, but they make a big difference to the [children] and their families and that’s what really matters to me,” Conner said. About half of those families are NICU patients, she said, 10 percent are oncology patients and another 8 to 10 percent likely suffer from club foot — a rare birth con-
dition where one or both feet are inverted the wrong direction. In the nearly 35 years since its foundation, the Iowa City Ronald McDonald House has seen a change in the families that require its services, Werning said. Oftentimes, today’s families have already been through a series of treatments elsewhere and are increasingly tired when they arrive. It’s more important than ever to provide the support they need, she added. “Families [in the house] are just as different as fam-
make sure they’re taking the courses they need to succeed and the right number of classes in each subject, he added. While ACT has seen a decline in English and math scores for Iowa students, the numbers follow national trends, Colby said. The Iowa City Community School District is looking at more rigorous core curriculum for students, as well as initiatives on equal opportunities to make sure all demographics are served, district Assistant Superintendent Matt Degner said. “I do think Iowa has something to be proud of that we lead the nation and in those scores overall,” Degner said. “So, I think in terms of the decline, I think we have more students taking the exam than we’ve had before. I think that we have more students that obviously still need some support though.”
The ACT sign is seen outside of the ACT Headquarters on March 5, 2018.
100 percent donor-funded Iowa City charity, she said, and individual donations actually provide the most support. The Gerdin grant provides the foundation the house needs to make necessary updates and expand its reach to meet the needs of a changing community, Werning said. “It’s a very exciting time for the Ronald McDonald House,” Werning said. “We’re very optimistic. We’re very happy. And we’re very grateful to the Gerdin Family.”
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Stressing about UI should offer astrology course graduation? The UI has resources Astrology is a popular part of 21st Century life and has value in being explored in class.
Seniors overwhelmed by the pressure of graduating have options to deal with it. BECCA BRIGHT
Thomas A. Stewart/The Daily Iowan The Old Capitol is seen on Sept. 18, 2018.
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taylor-newby@uiowa.edu The anticipated end of each semester is overwhelming. There are final projects, writing assignments the size of small novels, disorganized group work, presentations that feel more important than the class, and full-fledged attempts to gather as much extra credit as possible in order to redeem one’s grades. But for students whose steps extend beyond the grand gestures of an ending semester, there’s even more pressure. The University of Iowa works at lightening the load for seniors who are bearing the weight of an upcoming entrance into their next step into the workforce or professional school.
ter feedback, and job placement strategies. It wasn’t until I was sitting with my advisor last month that I admitted to her that I’m all over the place, and not all too confident on where I’m headed after graduation come spring. Generally, I change my mind every day. But with the reality of “What do you want to be when you grow up?” catching up with me on our campus, in conversations and interviews, I’m in desperate need of people who understand the craze and can offer me direction. I’ve learned that Pomerantz Career Center is a well of resources for UI students seeking career services. I remember being introduced to the building during my freshman year and forgetting almost immediately what it was there for. (Sorry, Pomerantz.) But in recent months, I’ve recognized the majesty of back-up help from people who are paid to empathize with flailing almost-grads.
rebecca-bright@uiowa.edu When I wrote the first draft of this article, it didn’t save on my laptop. I blame Mercury being in retrograde. Astrological discussions are everywhere. It’s been written about in horoscopes in countless publications throughout human history and across the globe. Whether your birthday is in the season of Scorpio or Gemini, your sign and all it suggests about your personality has been made both tangible and digital by a market of consumerism. Knowing this, why not learn more about astrology in a classroom? Not to be confused with astronomy, the nature of astrology is a kind of pseudoscience. It is a system of attaining and predicting personal information based on the placement of the planets. And it’s not a new phenomenon; astrology has existed within societies for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations such as Babylon, China, and Greece incorporated astrology in both their political and private lives.
For those who are graduating come December or May, myself included, there’s more stress, pressure, and questions. There are job applications (how do you apply for a job in the real world?), the unshakable severity of a well-executed interview, and the question of where to even begin looking. There’s the pressure of crafting an attractive résumé and a well-written cover letter. The experiences you’ve had in the last three or four years at the UI narrowed down into crisp, clear sentences that are a reflection of who you’ve been as a student and who you will be as an employee. I have found in recent months — as I’ve asked hard questions about how to even move into the next chapter of my life — that there is a small population of people at the UI waiting for me to ask for help. They can swoop in with advice, mock interviews, résumé and cover let-
There are people at Pomerantz who are ready to sit with students, navigate career trajectories, and compile all of our experiences at the UI into marketable résumés. There’s networking opportunities, mock interviews, and help in applying to professional schools. Whether it’s advisors, professors, or people at Pomerantz — UI students have access to a number of people who are experienced, helpful, and care about the shape of our futures. We don’t have to navigate what’s next for us on our own. We get to sit with people who understand what we’re walking through because they’ve already walked through it. We get to ask questions, daydream about careers, build résumés, write personal statements, apply for jobs or professional schools, and take the next steps in big and small ways. And we get to do all of that with the assurance that we have people on our team that are rooting for us.
iStock Knowing its backstory, a well-designed syllabus dedicated to the origins of astrology could be taught. This subject has relevance to religious studies, English, history, or could even be a fun elective for the astronomy department. This isn’t just my idea. There are schools that have created courses similar to what I imagine. Just this year, Michigan State University created a history course that focuses on the occult within premodern European history, which includes astrology. Plenty of students at the UI would be keen to enroll in a course similar to this. It could
expand their knowledge within a field of study, or just increase their understanding of their own zodiac sign. No matter what, it would be a unique classroom setting. The study of astrology has maintained cultural value all over the world. It has been a way to help humanity understand the present and predict the future. Astrology has acted as a tool of direction and insight. Whether or not its system has any definitive truth, it has considerable influence over society. Or at least, it gives me reason to blame Mercury being in retrograde for my problems.
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Another billionaire bids for the White House Michael Bloomberg has lots to overcome with his late entry into the presidential race. Many would point out the 77-year-old is nine months older than Biden, and the Democratic Party probably isn’t in the mood for a Manhattan 1-percenter — but those objections don’t seem to be stopping Bloomberg.
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‘UI students have access to a number of people who are experienced, helpful, and care about the shape of our futures.’
Just as we may read our daily message from Co-Star today, so too did our ancestors look for direction and meaning. Even with the rise of western religions across medieval Europe that opposed astrology, it remained a part of many people’s lives. Astrology also had a great influence in the eastern hemisphere, usually paralleling with cultural philosophy. As a student, I am curious to learn more about the poetry of this relationship between people and the patterns of the sky. Astrology is something I have learned about on my own for years now. A huge demographic of college students are immersed in modern astrology. They want to learn about it. Astrology itself has been studied since ancient times. The University of Iowa should see this millennial attraction to understanding a natal chart as an opportunity for education in the liberal arts and sciences. Astrology’s relationship with history is clearly saturated with religious and political significance. The research I have done for this article has left me wanting to explore further. This system has acted as a poetic calendar for humanity throughout history. While not a science, astrology did help develop modern astronomy through centuries of celestial observations. It has a proven value in education.
When I started the 20 Out of 20 series, I made a list of potential 2020 presidential candidates. This was back in 2017 when it was trendy to write about Presidents Mark Zuckerberg and Al Franken (two speculations that didn’t age well). Campaign-announcement season came and went, and Michael Bloomberg was nowhere to be found — until he wasn’t. Just when I thought the field was finally shrinking, the former New York mayor and world’s ninth richest man decided November was the ideal time to launch his bid for the White House. He hasn’t officially-officially declared yet, but Bloomberg has stirred up enough attention and it looks like he’s in.
How could he win the nomination? Things need to get weird in order for him to win, so let’s say things get weird. Biden implodes. Buttigieg gets stale. Klobuchar can’t capitalize. The blue dogs still need to hunt, so they consolidate behind Bloomberg to defeat the left. Something unforeseen would have to take out the progressive wing, too. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth
Warren, D-Mass., would both need some sort of meltdown to open the door for a moderate such as Bloomberg. I know that’s a lot of assumptions to make, but Bloomberg has a fairly narrow path to the top of the ticket.
How could he win the White House? Whatever events result in a Bloomberg nomination would define the general election. His premise is simple: a serious, stable businessman with actual business acumen. He won’t be flashy on policy; he’s just there to make sure everything doesn’t fall apart. That pitch might work against chaotic President
Trump, but it hasn’t so far for similar billionaire hopefuls such as Tom Steyer and Howard Schultz. Perhaps actual government experience of running the country’s largest city for more than a decade helps his case. The Democrats’ leftist base would be pretty demoralized if they didn’t get Sanders or Warren. But vitriol for Trump trumps disapproval and distrust of the centrist Bloomberg, and most of the base would turn out albeit diminished. Perhaps a Harding/Coolidgestyle “return to normalcy” is a successful general-election strategy. But if Bloomberg wants to be president, it’s a long time until next November, and his start has been delayed more than his city’s subways.
Why is he running? Bloomberg seems to have two related reasons for running: there’s no strong moderate candidate, and his rich buddies want him to run. This seems reasonable enough with former Vice President Joe Biden looking (to put it respectfully) past his prime on the campaign trail, and reports of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos calling Bloomberg to ask him about running.
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New USDA regulations promise future for Iowa hemp The United States Department of Agriculture recently released regulations intended to control the production of hemp in Iowa. BY PRESTON HAYES
preston-hayes@uiowa.edu The United States Department of Agriculture released new regulations intended to govern production of industrial hemp in Iowa. The new regulations cover all areas of hemp production and include a licensing process for farmers, as well as information about the testing and destruction process of hemp with THC levels above 0.03 percent. The release of USDA regulations was one of the first steps in enacting Senate File 599, known as the “Hemp Act.” The Hemp Act was signed by the governor on May 13. However, that did not immediately enact it, said Robin Pruisner, the state entomologist leading the effort to develop an Iowa hemp program. “A majority of the bill was actually something called contingent implementation, Pruisner said. “There are specific things that need to happen before it is enacted and becomes statute.”.
Now that the USDA has released their regulation, the Iowa Department of Agriculture needs to submit a state plan to the USDA detailing the licensing and regulation of hemp production, Pruisner said. “Once it’s approved, the Iowa Hemp Act requires us to put a notice in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin,” Pruisner said. “Upon being published in that bulletin, the entire Hemp Act is statute in Iowa.” Pruisner said the goal is to have anybody who wishes to cultivate hemp in the state have a license with the Department of Agriculture. She said in order to get a license, there will be an application, as well as a series of background checks of everyone who has more than a 5 percent legal or equitable interest in that hemp crop. “The big hope is that this is going to provide farmers with a third crop that can potentially be used to diversify their income and to provide a more resilient source of income,” said Silvia Secchi, an associate professor in the
Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard Hemp plants near harvest at Green Logic LLC near Loraine. University of Iowa Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences. Secchi said the state is adding a new crop to the mix — and what that crop will be used for and how it is going to be regulated is very new. “People are looking for
an alternative crop, because corn and soybeans aren’t making as much money as of late,” said Angie Rieck-Hinz, an Iowa State University agronomist. Industrial hemp can be used for a variety of purposes because of its strength,
Rieck-Hinz said. In Iowa, hemp can be grown for CBD, hemp fiber, seeds, or grains, as well as industrial uses in the automotive industry, she said. Additionally, whole hemp seeds, called hemp hearts, can be eaten or ground into protein powder
or pressed into hemp oil. “It doesn’t matter if it’s hemp or its any other crop like Jerusalem Artichokes. You really need to be able to have consumers who are willing to purchase it at a price that allows the producer to make it a possible business for them,” Pruisner said. There are a lot of costs going into growing any crop. With corn or soybeans, there are local markets in which a farmer could sell to ethanol plants or livestock owners. It may be a long time before local hemp markets develop, Rieck-Hinz said. Pruisner said the general public should not plant hemp unless they have obtained a contract to sell the crop. She explained that hemp is different from corn and soybeans in terms of selling and various requirements. “Going beyond the CBD,” Secchi said, “...the fact [is] that there is going to be another source of fiber that can be produced in the state. I think it has the potential to help the resilience of the farm economy.”
New collaboration to improve neighborhood health A new collaboration was formed to provide financial support for neighborhoods in Iowa City to help improve public health. BY KEXIN CHENG
kexin-cheng@uiowa.edu Through a new collaboration entitled “Community Prescription,” various Iowa City community organizations hope to spark change in improving the overall neighborhood health. Together, the City of Iowa City, the University of Iowa College of Public Health, UI Hospitals and Clinics, and the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital, organizers hope to bring about change through their new project. The city recently received a health-care planning grant from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation “Invest Health” project and a Sanford Health product donation called the “Reinvestment Fund.” These aim to bring people from different sectors together to improve public health, especially neighborhoods that have higher concentration of low-income residents. Iowa City Neighborhood and Development Services Director Tracy Hightshoe said the city will begin working toward two main goals with the funding: providing health kits to children and accessibility to low-income areas. They are part of two kinds of kits, Hightshoe said. In total, the city has 350 kits and will provide them to children ages 2 to 5 and 5 to 12 who are involved in the Community Prescription
Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan The College of Public Health is seen on Oct. 18, 2017. The college is partnering with other organizations to improve community health. project, called “Prescription for Play.” According to Hightshoe, the kits would also include things like yoga cards, frisbees, card games that encourage movement, sidewalk chalk, jump ropes, and a scavenger hunt. Within the kits, there are also maps provided for people to use. The maps serve to tell people how long it takes them to walk to a park and get an
idea of what they can do for activity in that park, Hightshoe said. The city plans to utilize the funding for other opportunities for the Prescription for Play project, as well. “If we get a [child’s] prescription from the doctor, and it’s called the Prescription for Play, we forgive all that cost, so it’s free to the child that has the prescription,” Hightshoe said.
Hightshoe said the city had planned for a 50-percent discount for patients in low-income households if they filled out paperwork for applications. Prescriptions for Play is just the start of the community collaboration, said Deputy Director of Iowa Institute of Public Health Research and Policy Vickie Miene. The collaborators all intend to meet later this
month to discuss further efforts. “We help to convince the partners, and then we also help to promote the program,” Miene said. The meeting would be about the next steps and future plans for the collaboration, she said. Iowa City Recreation Superintendent Brad Barker said families’ income status is determined through a
particular system. “The low-income threshold amount is based off a formula that our front desk staff uses,” Barker said. “That takes into consideration the applicant’s income and family size.” The application form can be obtained at the front desk at both the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center and the Mercer Park Aquatic Center, but children that had received a “Prescription for Play” will automatically qualify for the discount, Barker said. Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Meredith Fishbane-Gordon said the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital and UIHC, two organizations also involved in the project, also had doctors dealing with young children at risk of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and lacking nutrition. Fishbane-Gordon said Prescription for Play is mostly for those children, and they would receive prescriptions from doctors in the children’s hospital during their visit. She also said she is looking forward to follow-up visits, hearing feedback from patients, and hearing how helpful the kit items are. “The kids are usually excited to get the kit items,” Fishbane-Gordon said. “But because we just started this program in August, many of the follow-up visits haven’t happened yet.”
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POINT/COUNTERPOINT
Should Iowa be favored over Minnesota this weekend? No. 23 Iowa is the three-point favorite over No. 7 Minnesota this weekend, and it has Daily Iowan sports reporters wondering why.
Kamaan Richards/Minnesota Daily Wide receiver Chris Autman-Bell carries the ball at TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 9. The Gophers bested the Penn State Nittany Lions, 31-26, to remain undefeated.
BEN PALYA
benjamin-palya@uiowa.edu
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Did Vegas not watch these two teams play this weekend? Minnesota dominated the previously unbeaten Nittany Lions at home, while the Hawkeyes continued to uninspire in Saturday’s road loss to Wisconsin. In Saturday’s victory over Penn State, the Golden Gophers controlled the game from start to finish with a score line that made the game look much closer than how it actually was. Quarterback Tanner Morgan will cause problems for
Iowa, with the sophomore becoming more efficient every week. Saturday’s game was his best yet, going 18-20 for 330 yards and three touchdowns. Although Iowa’s secondary has improved over the course of the season, it has not faced as efficient of a quarterback since Iowa State’s Brock Purdy in Week 3. Iowa should be able to limit what Minnesota does on the ground, so Morgan will have to be the X-factor for the Golden Gophers once again this week. Iowa quarterback Nate Stanley, who has looked indifferent for large amounts of the season, has proven that he does not have the clutch gene, and Iowa is going to need to find answers elsewhere. The two teams both like to control time of possession, but Minnesota has done it much more effectively by capitalizing on scoring when it
matters most. Ultimately, both these teams have found themselves in tight games throughout the season, but Minnesota has been able to find a way to win even in the most unlikely of circumstances. Even though this game is at Kinnick, the Hawkeyes should not be trusted as the favorite due to their inability to win close games.
CASSIE BUCHHOLZ
cassandra-buchholz@uiowa.edu
Yes
Yes, the Hawkeyes will win on Saturday. For starters, look
at Minnesota’s schedule. It is an undefeated team that has played a relatively easy schedule: the three non-conference games were against a Sun Belt team, FCS Missouri Valley team, and Mountain West Fresno State – which the Gophers barely won in double overtime. In the Big Ten, Minnesota started off with the bottom four teams (Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska, and Purdue) on the schedule and have 1-8 Northwestern coming next week. Had Ohio State and Michigan been on the list this year, there would be a different storyline. As for the Penn State-Minnesota game played last week, giving the Nittany Lions their first loss of the season: Penn State was just off their game. The secondary allowed Minnesota’s Tanner Morgan to complete 18-for20 passes and Penn State’s
Sean Clifford played through cramps in his right calf. Iowa is favored to win by three points. The Hawkeyes take the home-field advantage, and the Gophers haven’t won in Kinnick since 1999 when they were ranked No. 17 in the AP poll. Iowa has won 14 out of the last 18 meetings with Minnesota, and both teams haven’t played each other ranked since 2003, where No. 20 Iowa defeated No. 19 Minnesota, 40-22. Iowa’s defense is what will hold this game together. AJ Epenesa leads the defense that ranks in the top 20 in rushing, passing, scoring, and total defense. The Hawkeyes are fourth in the country in scoring defense (11.7 points allowed per game). While not fully dominant in past quarterbacks, Nate Stanley is still
ranked second in the Big Ten in passing yards (2,158) and passing yards per game (239.8). Stanley is also second in school history in passing touchdowns (64). As for the Penn State-Iowa game played on Oct. 12 in comparison with the Gophers, the loss was within one possession with Iowa holding the lead in the first quarter. All of the Hawkeyes’ losses this season have come from ranked teams with a combined record of 22-5 and have been within one possession. It would take a few miracles the rest of the season for Iowa to win the Big Ten West, but the Hawkeyes taking the Floyd of Rosedale over Minnesota on Saturday would take a blunder to the Gophers chances of the Big Ten West Title and would potentially give it to No. 17 Wisconsin.
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FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM 8 Sept. 14 before dropping the Heartland Trophy — a brass bull — against Wisconsin on Saturday. Despite the loss to the Badgers, Iowa showed signs of life toward the end of the game, scoring 16 points in the final
COLUMN CONTINUED FROM 8 Instead, it was a bunch of puzzle pieces in the wrong places trying to connect, looking dysfunctional from a distance. Joe Wieskamp wasn’t effective. Bakari Evelyn wasn’t aggressive. Jordan Bohannon didn’t look like himself. Luka Garza struggled with consistency. The list goes on. “Everyone’s got to be on the same page,” Iowa forward Ryan Kriener said. “I can remember one or two times we broke the timeout, and we didn’t execute like the way we wanted to. We ran a play wrong, and one time we just didn’t run the play at all. Those are two things that really go into being connected.” The only bright spots for the Hawkeyes were Kriener, who ended the night with a 13 points to go along with eight rebounds, and C.J. Fredrick, who posted a team-high 16 points on 5-of-11 shooting. Joe Toussaint also had a solid outing, scoring 13 points in 13 minutes of action. They sparked everything on the floor, whether it came from tipping a pass or knocking down a jumper. Outside of that trio, Medi-
quarter to pull within two. Although the Hawkeyes failed the ensuing two-point conversion that would have tied the game, the determination they showed in the comeback effort could translate to the rest of the season. “We wanted to bring the bull back to Iowa City,” offensive lineman Tristan Wirfs said. “But 24-22, tough way to lose. We had that big surge
of energy at the end of the game. That got everybody going. That was exciting. I hate to sound like a broken record, but [we have to] move past it.” Each team Iowa faces for the rest of the season poses its challenges. After setting itself up for a run to Lucas Oil Stadium, the Hawkeyes are now trying to avoid an embarrassing crumble as the season winds to an end.
acom Court looked like a wasteland of opportunity that was never taken. The Hawkeyes’ new gold uniforms with the script “Iowa” written on the front looked cool, but they would have looked a lot cooler if they weren’t being worn by someone giving up a 3-pointer in their face or committing one of the 19 turnovers the Hawkeyes gave away. Yes, it was only one game. But a performance like this against DePaul was the worst-case scenario for a team favored by double digits. It wasn’t a pretty game by any means, and things won’t get easier for the Hawkeyes. They still have defending national runners-up Texas Tech on the schedule this month with a matchup against either Creighton or San Diego State coming up after. Then, a matchup with Syracuse in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge awaits before Iowa begins conference play against Michigan on Dec. 6. Iowa needs to fix its problems before then, or it could be a long season. “I think you’re always concerned when you don’t play well,” McCaffery said. “I’m not concerned that this team has problems that are not fixable. It’s a good team, a good group of young men, and we’ll be better.”
BASKETBALL CONTINUED FROM 8 Out of the timeout, things did not get much better for Iowa. DePaul connected on another 3-pointer before C.J. Fredrick opened the scoring for the Hawkeyes. As was the theme for the evening, DePaul would force a Luka Garza turnover seconds later and hit a shot from beyond the arc in transition. When the under-16 timeout occurred, DePaul led, 16-2. Once play resumed, the Blue Demons hit another 3-pointer. DePaul was seemingly scoring at will all night against Iowa, and it was particularly successful from beyond the arc. Paul Reed led the Blue Demons with 25 points and 12 rebounds, while Jalen Coleman-Lands converted on four 3-pointers against the Hawkeyes on his way to 17 points. Iowa never recovered from the early deficit, failing to bring the game back within double digits. “They came out right from the jump, just kind of got in our space,” Fredrick said. “Hit us in the mouth early. We got to do a better job. We can’t let a run linger on us. We kind of let that run affect
The Golden Gophers, who Iowa will play for the Floyd of Rosedale, haven’t lost the brass pig since 2014, and Minnesota hasn’t toppled Iowa in Kinnick since 1999. Coming off a big home win over then-No. 5 Penn State, the Gophers will look to stretch their record to 10-0. Illinois has been one of the hottest teams in the Big Ten as of late, reaching bowl eligibility with a win over Michigan
State on Saturday for the first time since 2014, which was two Illini head coaches ago. Finally, Nebraska will be looking to avenge its fourstraight Heroes Game losses to the Hawkeyes. With a 4-5 record that includes a 2-4 mark in conference play, the Huskers will attempt to get back to national relevancy in their regular-season finale. With the two trophy games
SPORTS 7 coming against three teams looking to knock Iowa off, the Hawkeyes still have plenty to play for. “We know we still have a great opportunity,” Iowa kicker Keith Duncan said. “We have three games left for sure to end the season, and we can be 9-3. That’s our goal right now. That’s what we strive to be… The best we can be next week is 7-3, and that’s our goal.”
Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery reacts during a game against DePaul at Carver Hawkeye Arena on Monday. the rest of that first half. After that run, we felt like we were fighting from behind the whole game.” Fredrick was one of the few bright spots for an Iowa team that struggled offensively. He led the team with 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting. The team as a whole could not overcome the deficit, shooting 43 percent from the field and committing 19 turnovers. “I think that we were trying to hit a home run right away,” forward Joe
Wieskamp said. “And when we get in those situations, we have to just kind of chip away. Get one stop at a time that leads to baskets. Although we were scoring at times, they were scoring right back, and we couldn’t get that lead.” Defensively, the Hawkeyes could not contain a long and athletic DePaul team. The Blue Demons shot 61 percent from the field and 55 percent from beyond the 3-point line. Often reliable Hawkeye players, such as Wieskamp
and center Luka Garza, did not give their usual contributions. That will need to change moving forward to avoid further blowout defeats. “There’s a difference between playing hard and competing,” McCaffery said. “I thought we played hard. We didn’t compete. To compete, you have to put the game plan together with your effort. Give them credit because they jumped us, but you have to stay with the game plan to get back in the game.”
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HAWKEYE UPDATES George Kittle sits out MNF
Former Iowa tight end and current 49er was absent from the field in Monday Night Football’s matchup between San Francisco and Seattle last night. After suffering a knee and ankle injury against the Cardinals in Week 9 but returning to finish the game, Kittle he was ruled questionable earlier in the week. He didn’t practice in the week leading up to the matchup. This season, Kittle is San Francisco’s leading pass catcher. He has 46 catches for 541 yards and two touchdowns through eight games. Through his last five games, he is averaging a catch percentage of 80.6 and 12.97 yards per reception. This will be his first NFL game missed since Week 10 of 2017.
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Early deficit dooms men’s basketball Iowa men’s basketball was down 13-0 early, and the Hawkeyes were unable to chip away at that lead in a 93-78 defeat to DePaul.
Soccer heads to NCAA tournament
For just the second time in program history, the Iowa soccer team has clinched an NCAA Tournament berth. It will play at Kansas on Saturday at a time that will be determined later. The Jayhawks are the No. 3 seed in the Charlottesville Regional. The Hawkeyes finished the season 15-4-1, and the 15 wins were the most in regular-season program history. The other time they made the NCAA Tournament was in 2013. This is the first time they have made it under head coach Dave DiIanni. 2019 has been a season full of accomplishments for the Hawkeyes. They have outscored their opponents 45-19, had 16 different players score, and had impressive road victories at North Carolina State and Notre Dame. Additionally, there have been many players that have won individual awards. Senior midfielder and defender Natalie Winters was named to the second team All-Big Ten, senior forward Devin Burns was named to the third team All-Big Ten, and freshman forward Gianna Winters Gourley was named to the All-Freshman Team in the Big Ten. Sophomore defender Riley Whitaker was named to the Big Ten All-Tournament Team. The Hawkeyes last game was on Nov. 3 in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals at Penn State, which they lost, 2-0. The Jayhawks are 15-4-3 and won the Big 12 Whittaker Tournament on Sunday. They have outscored their opponents 41-18. Senior forward Katie McClure leads the offense statistically, as she has 14 goals and eight assists and was named to the All-Big 12 first team. Senior defender Addison Merrick is another player that the Hawkeyes should watch out for, as she was the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.
Clarification
Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon shoots during a game against Depaul at Carver Hawkeye Arena on Monday. The Hawkeyes were defeated by the Blue Demons, 93-78.
BY ROBERT READ
robert-read@uiowa.edu Well, that escalated quickly. That’s what the mood was at Carver-Hawkeye Arena early on in Iowa’s 93-78 defeat at the hands of DePaul Monday. By the time Iowa called its first timeout with
17:39 remaining in the first half, DePaul had jumped out to a 10-0 lead quicker than head coach Fran McCaffery’s face could turn red. The Blue Demons hit 3s on each of their first two possessions, while the Hawkeyes committed two turnovers and shot 0-of-3 from the field, as DePaul pushed its lead to double digits. “I don’t think we handled [being down] well,”
COLUMN
Tough game, tough scene Iowa got smacked by DePaul in its first real test of the season, and the Hawkeyes showed they aren’t connected as a team yet.
On Monday, The Daily Iowan ran an image of field hockey players for the story “Big Ten Champs” using a photo from another game that was not the championship. The unlabeled image should have been labeled as a photo illustration.
“I think you’re always concerned when you don’t play well. I’m not concerned that this team has problems that are not fixable.”
peter-ruden@uiowa.edu
39:37 of its win against Iowa.
er-Hawkeye Arena on Monday, kicking off the rest of its season with a sobering loss in the first of many tough non-conference games on its schedule. It appears as if Iowa hasn’t closed the yearbook on a 2018-19 season that saw the Hawkeyes reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament. It looked like this team hasn’t learned how to play with each other without the likes of Tyler Cook and Isaiah Moss to bail them out when times are tough.
Iowa’s hopes of winning the Big Ten West are next to gone, but that doesn’t mean the Hawkeyes don’t have anything to play for in their final three games. Instead of a trip to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship that would still be much more in the picture if Iowa found a way to complete its comeback against Wisconsin on Saturday, the Hawkeyes will now focus on the task in front of them, which includes two trophy games against Minnesota and Nebraska. “We sit here [Saturday], we’re 6-3,” Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said. “We’ve had three really tough, hard-fought, close losses to what appear to be good football teams. That’s disappointing, but we’re going to have to move on. We’re going to have to move on to figure out what we can do to play better and get back in the winner’s circle.” There’s a big difference between a 9-3 team and an 8-4 team. There’s an even bigger difference between an 8-4 team and a 7-5 team. Iowa is now 1-1 on trophy games this season after downing Iowa State 18-17 in an instant classic to claim the Cy-Hawk Trophy on
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Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan Iowa guard Joe Toussaint drives down the middle during a game against Depaul at Carver Hawkeye Arena on Monday. peter-ruden@uiowa.edu
DePaul led for
It’s trophy time BY PETE RUDEN
BY PETE RUDEN
STAT OF THE DAY
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Despite falling to Wisconsin and nearly eliminating itself from the Big Ten West race, Iowa football still has three trophy games to play for in its final three weeks.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
—Iowa basketball head coach Fran McCaffery on his team moving forward
McCaffery said. “We tried to settle them down with the timeout. Maybe should have taken it sooner, maybe should have taken it at 6-0 rather than 10-0. They were on fire. We sort of had that mindset that we were going to get it all back at once. You just can’t do that.”
Jordan Bohannon walked off the floor at the with just over eight minutes left in the first half against DePaul shaking his head. The Hawkeyes were down to DePaul 35-13 after allowing a barrage of 3-pointers without getting anything of their own to fall. After allowing two 3-pointers to start the game, it felt as if things could get out of hand quickly. That’s exactly what happened. Iowa fell to the Blue Demons 93-78 in Carv-