The Daily Iowan WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
INSIDE
5
THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868
Pat Harney, Royceann Porter, and Phil Hemingway will vie for the open seat in December’s special election. caleb-mccullough@uiowa.edu
The number of college students seeking treatment for mental-health problems has increased in the last decade, research shows. On the UI campus, university officials point to a boost in resources to meet the demand along with decreasing stigma surrounding mental health to explain the spike.
5
50¢
Supervisor special election draws 3 hopefuls BY CALEB MCCULLOUGH
Students increasingly seek mental-health treatment, study shows
DAILYIOWAN.COM
Three Johnson County residents have announced their candidacy in the Dec. 18 special election for the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. With the death of Supervisor Kurt Friese on Oct. 26, the county announced on Nov. 8 that it will hold a special election on Dec. 18 to fill the seat on the board. Democrats Pat Harney and Royceann Porter, as well as Republican Phil Hemingway, have announced
their candidacies for the position. Current Supervisor Chair Mike Carberry, who lost to incumbent Janelle Rettig and Pat Heiden in the Democratic primary in June, told The Daily Iowan on Nov. 9 that he is unsure if he Porter will run again. Carberry has still not announced if he will run for the position. Hemingway, an Iowa City School Board member, was on the ballot in the general election on Nov. 6. He lost
to incumbent Janelle Rettig and Pat Heiden, garnering 31 percent of the vote. Following the announcement of the special election, he told the DI on Nov. 9 that he plans to run for the open position. “With the decision made by Johnson County officials to have a special election to fill Kurt Friese’s supervisor seat, I will file paperwork to put my name on the upcoming ballot,” he said. Hemingway’s priorities during his campaign included improving infra-
structure, mental-health care, and environmental protection. Harney served on the board for 16 years before retiring in 2016. Prior to that, he spent 33 years working for the Iowa City police. He hopes to bring a voice for rural residents of Johnson County to the supervisors. “[Rural] individuals felt that they needed representation, and I agree and feel like they do as well,” he said. Harney also said he wants to focus SEE SUPERVISORS, 2
The power of a new smile A new program by the UI College of Dentistry gives veterans access to dental care at no cost.
Forum calls into question shared governance on campus
Following concerns from faculty that the decision to close several centers and institutes did not involve input from faculty, the UI chapter of the American Association of Professors and Iowans for Public Education held a forum to discuss whether shared governance is in crisis at the UI.
6
Tippie revamps executive M.B.A. program Following the Tippie College of Business’ move to discontinue its flagship full-time M.B.A. program, the college has revamped its executive M.B.A. program and introduced an online professional M.B.A. option to take advantage of the market for flexible M.B.A. programs.
8
Charlie Peckman/The Daily Iowan U.S. Army veteran Kenny Williams undergoes a dental procedure from fourth-year student Madeline Stead at the UI College of Dentistry on Tuesday.
BY CHARLES PECKMAN
charles-peckman@uiowa.edu “There were some crocodiles swimming in the Mississippi, so I had to get them out of the way to get here.” Kenny Williams, a U.S. Army veteran, travels
Iowa football tries to move on. Again.
The Hawkeyes have lost three in a row, and the running game has suffered significantly. As Iowa tries to close its season out with two wins in games it will likely be favored in, the Black and Gold are getting back to the basics and having fun with it.
from Rock Island to Iowa City for his dental appointments. Although he jokes about overcoming physical obstacles to make it to the University of Iowa College of Dentistry by 9 a.m., his day is in full swing before most Iowa Citians are awake. Williams walks from his Rock Island home
Second lease on life A Coralville woman’s heart was saved in her hometown with a recent advancement at the UI Heart and Vascular Center.
8
to the Davenport Burlington Trailways station to catch the 1:55 a.m. bus to Iowa City. He then waits in the lobby of the VA hospital until the dental school opens. Williams, along with other low-income comSEE SMILE, 2
DM 25 endows $2.2 million to Children’s Hospital The money will support a child life specialist in the Dance Marathon Pediatric Cancer Center. BY ALEXANDRA SKORES
alexandra-skores@uiowa.edu
Iowa women’s hoops smacks Western Kentucky
The Hawkeyes were led by Megan Gustafson and Makenzie Meyer in their 104-67 shellacking of the Lady Toppers in their first road test of the season. Iowa buckled down in the second half, demonstrating improvement from its season-opener.
Katina Zentz/The Daily Iowan Seventy-seven-year-old Jan Wicks poses for a portrait at the Grand Living in Coralville on Nov. 8. Wicks was the first Iowan to undergo a tricuspid valve procedure without open-heart surgery.
BY JOSIE FISCHELS
Tune in for LIVE updates Watch for campus and city news, weather, and Hawkeye sports coverage every day at 8:30 a.m. at dailyiowan.com.
josie-fischels@uiowa.edu Seventy-seven-year-old Jan Wicks recently became the first Iowan to undergo a tricuspid valve procedure without having openheart surgery, thanks to the latest technology available at the University of Iowa Heart and Vascular Center. The procedure was performed by a team of three physicians: interventional cardiologist Phillip Horwitz, cardiac surgeon Moham-
mad Bashir, and imaging cardiologist Ramzi El Accaoui. Wicks lives in Coralville with her husband, Al. After being diagnosed with tricuspid regurgitation, a condition in which the heart’s tricuspid valve becomes “leaky” and allows blood to flow back into the atrium, she said she felt hopeless. Tricuspid regurgitation, Horwitz and Bashir said, can be caused after one of a vaSEE LIFE, 2
UI Dance Marathon 25 has announced it will fund a $2.2 million endowment to the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital to hire a child life specialist. Child life specialists work with children and families at the Stead Hospital to make their stay as easy as it can be, Dance Marathon 25 Executive Director Charlie Ellis said. “Child life specialists at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital play an important role in our patients’ care teams — working with children individually and in group settings to help patients and families cope with the health-care experience in a positive way,” Ellis said. He stressed the importance of child life specialists, who provide support during medical procedures, coordiEllis nate group art activities and games, and assist with school re-entry. “As UI Dance Marathon endowed the child life specialist position on Level 11, we will now be funding that specific position’s salary,” Ellis said. “This in turn then allows for the hospital to no longer SEE DANCE, 2
2 NEWS
THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
The Daily Iowan
THROUGH THE GLASS MUSICALLY
BREAKING NEWS Phone: (319) 335-6030 Email: daily-iowan@uiowa.edu Fax: 335-6297
CORRECTIONS Call: 335-6030 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for accuracy and fairness in the reporting of news. If a report is wrong or misleading, a request for a correction or a clarification may be made.
PUBLISHING INFO The Daily Iowan (USPS 143.360) is published by Student Publications Inc., E131 Adler Journalism Building, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004, daily except Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, legal and university holidays, and university vacations. Periodicals postage paid at the Iowa City Post Office under the Act of Congress of March 2, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Michael Guhin/The Daily Iowan The Hawkeye Marching Band is seen through a curtain during Band Extravaganza at Carver-Hawkeye on Tuesday. The Symphony Band, Johnson County Landmark, and Hawkeye Marching Band performed various works.
LIFE CONTINUED FROM FRONT
Dancers on the stage motivate the crowd at Dance Marathon in the IMU on Feb. 2. “I am honored to be a part of this experience and the services that Dance Marathon is able to provide for these families,” said Aleisha Norton, executive event director. “As long as Dance Marathon continues to raise funds, it will still be able to provide the essential services that it does.”
A lot of the funding Dance Marathon does in partnership with Stead is special because it allows the group to “shape its impact.” Gillian Fiandaca, the Dance Marathon hospital director, said she has had the privilege of working with great child life specialists to bring lots of smiles to children and their
James Year/The Daily Iowan
families. “This allocation truly will impact the lives of the patients on Level 11 so much more than I can put into words,” she said. “It will allow for more play interventions, more emotional support, and more hope in the Stead Family Children’s Hospital.”
Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan School Board member Phil Hemingway speaks during a School Board meeting on Oct. 24, 2017.
on maintaining a balanced budget for the county. “Managing the budget has always been the biggest thing for me,” he said. “We need to stay within our reasonable means in the budget.” Porter is an Iowa City resident who currently serves on the Iowa City Community Police Review Board and works as an organizer for the Team-
sters Union. She has been involved in community work for almost 30 years, she said. Some major areas of focus have included mental-health services, affordable housing, and opportunities for youth. “I’ve dedicated my life to building a community that supports all residents no matter where they are from, what their income is, or what level of education they have when they arrive,” she said in an email to DI. Porter helped found the
Black Voices Project, a program that promotes representation and communication for African Americans in the Iowa City area. She also worked with the Coalition for Racial Justice, a program that attempts to overcome racial disparity in Johnson County. If elected, Porter said, she would be the first African American elected to a countywide office in Johnson County. “I am so proud to be part of a community where we are not afraid to make history,” she said.
riety of diseases damages the valve. Among other effects, it can cause shortness of breath, excess of fluid inside the body, painful swelling, and heart failure. Horwitz said that, traditionally, the tricuspid valve can be repaired with openheart surgery. However, because of her age, Wicks did not qualify for such a surgery. “I was very depressed,” Wicks said. “I was at a point where I didn’t think I could live until Christmas.” Horwitz said he, Bashir, and El Accaoui have all performed a number of “catheter-based procedures” in which they are able to repair or replace various valves in the heart with catheters in minimally invasive procedures that do not require open-heart surgery. One device often used during these procedures — a clip designed to fix the mitral valve in the heart — led the team to an opportunity, Horwitz said. “The tricuspid valve, while some things are in development, does not yet have a specific device that’s designed for it,” he said. “So we adapted a device called the mitra clip, which is designed to fix the mitral valve and we used it to fix [Wick’s] tricuspid valve. We when they first met, and she later learned he was homeless at the time of their first meeting. Throughout the program’s time at the UI, Synan said, she has been moved by the rapport built between dentistry students and their patients. As Williams slowly reclined in his dental chair to prepare for a procedure, he
STAFF Publisher. . . . . . . . . . 335-5788 Jason Brummond Editor in Chief. . . . . . 335-6030 Gage Miskimen Managing Editors. . . . 335-5855 Katelyn Weisbrod Marissa Payne Visual Arts Director Lily Smith News Editors Kayli Reese Brooklyn Draisey Sports Editor Pete Ruden Asst. Sports Editor Anna Kayser Opinions Editor Lucee Laursen Politics Editor Sarah Watson Arts Editor Naomi Hofferber Asst. Arts Editor Joshua Balicki Pregame Editor Adam Hensley Photo Editors Nick Rohlman Katina Zentz Copy Chief Beau Elliot Production Manager Heidi Owen. . . . . . . . . . . 335-5789 Advertising Manager Renee Manders. . . . . . . . 335-5193 Advertising Sales Bev Mrstilk. . . . . . . . . . . 335-5792
were able to put these clips on the valve to reduce the leakiness.” Without the adaptation, Wicks said, she would have been transferred to Northwestern in Illinois, the closest medical institution with such a device readily available. “A few years ago someone like this would have no options,” Horwitz said. “The advancing technology and advancing expertise of the people using the technology are basically going to allow us to treat a lot of folks, make them feel better, reduce their time in the hospital, [and reduce] the medications that they require in a way that we would have never been able to do a few years ago.” Wicks said that when Horwitz approached her with the option, her hope was renewed, though she admitted feeling a little nervous when she learned she’d be the first patient on whom the particular procedure was attempted. “We knew it was experimental, but she didn’t know she was No. 1,” Wicks’ husband, Al, said. Today, Wicks is undergoing a minimal recovery process in Coralville thanks to the procedure. She said she is quite thankful for the kindness of her physicians and how well the entire process was explained to her. “It’s like a second lease on life, it really is,” she said.
Williams served as an infantryman in the jungles of Panama during the 1989 U.S. invasion. The fourth-year dental stubat veterans, are part of a dent who has been treating program called Everyone Williams, Madeline Stead, for Veterans, which prosaid Everyone for Veterans vides free or reduced-cost has given her the opportunity dental care for servicemen to perfect her skills. and -women. “I think it’s a really nice Ann Synan, a patient-reopportunity to give back, lations speand I’ve encialist at the joyed working dental school, with Kenny,” said the UI she said. has been a When you ‘When you graduate and practice in the Iowa g r a d u a t e part of Everyone for Veterand practice City area, I’m going to follow you. I’ll come ans for about in the Iowa a year and hobbling in with my cane when I’m an old man, City area, has treated I’m going to and you’ll fix me up.’ six veterans follow you,” during the Williams re— Kenny Williams, veteran program’s sponded. “I’ll short tenure come hobin Iowa City. bling in with “Because we are a par- said he is incredibly grate- my cane when I’m an old ticipating provider in the ful for the opportunity to man, and you’ll fix me up.” program, the veterans who receive free dental care. As I buttoned up my winwish to apply must meet “The care and compassion ter coat to leave, I shook two criteria: that they are shown to veterans here is Williams’ hand to thank him low-income and have served amazing,” he said. “They’re for his service. He grabbed in combat,” she said. “When offering service to me, and my hand tightly and looked you have patients like Ken- the staff here have helped me in the eyes. His gaze was ny, they are very disci- me create a treatment plan.” intense yet incredibly genplined. I’ve found that vetAlthough he travels for tle. erans are very disciplined in his appointments, Williams “We get so caught up with everything they do, includ- said, it is worth the time it the hustle and bustle of life ing dental care.” takes. we forget to sit down and Synan said she was tak“For me, the journey is a care about people,” Wilen aback by Williams’ story walk in the park,” he said. liams said.
SMILE CONTINUED FROM FRONT
SUPERVISORS CONTINUED FROM FRONT
BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Debra Plath. . . . . . . . . . .335-5786 Classifieds/Circulation Manager Juli Krause. . . . . . . . . . . 335-5784
DANCE CONTINUED FROM FRONT need to fund that position and then hire more child life specialists on floors that do not currently have any. This is so ‘impactful’ due to the fact that all kiddos need a child life specialist yet cannot have that. It is an honor to be able to provide that source of smiles through this allocation.” He stressed that the child life specialist is the sixth large project that Dance Marathon has funded. The organization has also put large sums of money towards three TESLA MRI machines, the Dance Marathon Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Research Laboratory, a Dance Marathon Endowed Professor/Chair position, the Dance Marathon pediatric cancer targeted therapies program, and the Dance Marathon Pediatric Cancer Center, which is located on the 11th floor of the Stead Hospital. “These contributions depend on what the hospital as well as what our kiddos and families need,” Ellis said. “In order to fulfill asks such as these, we are first presented with a project from this hospital as [officials] know what is necessary at the time. As long as [Dance Marathon] continues to raise money, we will be able to continue providing services.” He hopes the Dance Marathon community will remain close with the hospital in the future, he said.
Call: Juli Krause at 335-5783 Email: daily-iowan@uiowa.edu Subscription rates: Iowa City and Coralville: $30 for one semester, $60 for two semesters, $5 for summer session, $60 for full year. Out of town: $50 for one semester, $100 for two semesters, $10 for summer session, $100 all year. Send address changes to: The Daily Iowan, 100 Adler Journalism Building, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004
Volume 150 Issue 62
THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
3
4
Opinions THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILY-IOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
COLUMN
Does civility in politics even matter anymore? Getting perspective amid stressful politics seems futile but remains necessary to keep humanity moving forward.
ELIJAH HELTON
elijah-helton@uiowa.edu “I hate politics.” That’s something I’ve been muttering a lot. Our free press is under attack. The White House used fake footage from InfoWars — actual fake news — to justify barring a reporter from its press pool. Our immigration system is under attack. The president announced last week he would destroy our asylum laws in order to exclude desperate people. Our elections are under attack; what were once recounts of close races are now screaming matches that cable news uses to fill time.
Like Howard Beale in Network, we’re all mad as hell. Most days, it feels like our entire country is on the brink of collapse. I hear about civility and incivility a lot, but that’s just a ripple in the news maelstrom. Anti-Semitic acts of terror are on a steep incline. The president blames “gross mismanagement” for California’s devastating fires and not, you know, climate change. Speaking of climate change, have I mentioned it will devastate our crop yields, ignite history’s largest refugee crisis, and swallow us alive? Well, that’s also happening. Sometimes, none of this seems like my problem. I don’t fear for my life to the extent I’m willing to flee my country with hope of asylum in a foreign land. Climate change won’t destroy my livelihood, at least for a few decades. I’m privileged as a white man; I’m not mistreated by a sexist culture or by a racist justice system. But that’s exactly why politics does matter. Whatever angst I feel seems puny compared to the massive injustice felt by sur-
vivors of sexual violence, victims of police shootings, and those too poor to afford health insurance. Political drama isn’t just a performance; it plays out into real life. Heather Hayer was a real person who was killed by another real person, a white nationalist. Laquan McDonald was a real person who was killed by another real person, a police officer. Hate kills. Fear kills. Voting will not cure the hate and fear that has infected our country. To be clear, the United States isn’t alone in this. From Brexit to Bolsonaro, the world has rerooted itself in old anxieties about people different from them and the unknown future. But we can do better. We can follow the example of those who have led us out of darkness. Martin Luther King Jr. said decades ago, “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” We have to believe that. The alternative is a complete breakdown of our nation. Some worry those different from them will be the fall of the West, when in fact
Keystone Pictures USA/Zuma Press/TNS The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks on Jan. 1, 1960, in Washington. it is they who will topple our soci- ourselves as heroes has isolated humanity intact, no matter how ety. There must be a better way. those who don’t think we’re he- wrong, disgusting, or evil the The only problem is I don’t roic. Perhaps seeing nothing but bad guys seem. The only way polhave a better way, not really. amoral and abject evil makes it itics will change is if we change it I’m just another politics person impossible to see others as any- ourselves. Success is not natural. who’s mad as hell. Perhaps the thing but amoral and abjectly Equality won’t fall into the lap of answer is imagining those we evil. All I know for certain is we the persecuted. A happy ending see as the bad guys as we imag- cannot keep on like this. is not guaranteed. There’s much ine ourselves. Perhaps viewing We must change to keep our to do, so let’s get to it.
COLUMN
Off-campus living inflates poverty statistics in IC The problem with Iowa City’s poverty-percentage increase is less about how city looks with statistics and more about what is better for students.
TAYLOR NEWBY
taylor-newby@uiowa.edu November arrived with an array of decisions to make — enrolling in classes for spring semester, prepping for the holidays, and planning for a place to live next August. Looking over leases, then signing, scribbling
signatures across line after line. There is an indescribable pressure to move quickly in making all these plans. And lately, there has been specific pressure placed on students to live on campus a second year. When students move yonder and step a way from on-campus living and into house or apartment leases, there is a significant spike in the community’s poverty statistics. With a number of reasons rising to meet this observation, the reality remains: College students living off campus make statistically significant differences in the
number of people living in poverty in their community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as many as 211 counties see poverty rates pushed up when off-campus students are counted. And some communities see as much as a 10 percent increase in poverty rates. Among these communities: Iowa City. With 14 percent more than the average population living below the poverty line, Iowa City’s largest demographics living in poverty are men and women between the ages 18 and 24. Because the Census Bureau uses a set of money income
thresholds that differ depending on family size to measure who classifies as living in poverty, it’s easy to lump in students living off-campus. “If the family’s total income is less than the family’s threshold, then that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty,” DATA USA reported. But the problem with this information is less about how Iowa City looks with statistics splayed out and more about what is better for students who are Iowa City residents, both undergraduate and graduate students. There shouldn’t be pressure to stay on-campus for
students’ second year at the Univesity of Iowa, living in the dorms, when it costs thousands of dollars more. With students living on-campus left out of the demographic, the extent of men and women ages 18 to 24 living in poverty in Iowa City is cushioned. Because, if first- or second-year UI students still living on campus were considered, the population of people living below the poverty line in Iowa City would be even larger — because the cost of living. Living in a double room, in any of the UI residence halls, costs more than $3,000 a semes-
ter, which is not even a full five months per student. Meanwhile, finding a two-bedroom apartment off campus can cost anywhere between $750 to a little more than $1,000 a month. Split between two roommates, that is less than $500 a month. Life in residence halls comes at a crippling cost to students, and more often than not, students are taking up limited space in the dorm rooms. If college students are going to be counted in poverty percentages, then at least we can be presented with the options best suited for us in our search for space.
POINT/COUNTERPOINT
Is it time for Daylight Saving to go? Two DI columnists go head to head on the time-bending practice, first enacted in the United States in 1918. business hours would cut down on heating/cooling costs. However, research has shown that this logic is flawed. In fact, recent studies have found that using Daylight Saving Time may actually cause an
ZACH WEIGEL
zachweigel75@gmail.com
Let’s save ourselves from the perils of Daylight Saving Time Why do we have Daylight Saving Time? Despite what you may erroneously believe, the origins of daylight time have nothing to do with agriculture. Although Benjamin Franklin did propose the institution of Daylight Saving Time, the U.S. started using the time as an attempt to conserve energy during World War I and World War II. The logic was that aligning the socially used clock to maximize the amount of daylight during “normal”
sleep deprivation causing decreased alertness — people tend to get less sleep on the days following the springtime transition. And that’s not all. There’s a laundry list of adverse effects from the the shock of Daylight
‘It seems logical that we should abandon Daylight Saving Time.’ increase in energy use, not a decrease. Therefore, it seems logical that we should abandon Daylight Saving Time. Here’s another reason: Daylight time has been linked to many adverse health outcomes. As it turns out, people’s bodies and minds have trouble adjusting to the time change. For instance, in the few days after the springtime transition into daylight time, research shows that there is a 25 percent uptick in heart attacks. There’s also research suggesting that the time change is responsible for an increase in traffic fatalities because of
Saving Time. The occurrence of workplace injuries and severity of those injuries increases, the suicide rate goes up, and the number of cases of clinical depression are linked to Daylivght Saving Time. Plus, new research has shown that workers cyberloaf on the day after the spring entrance into daylight time because they are tired. Ergo, since we just exited from that time, I think it would be wise not to enter back into it next spring, or ever again. If the movie Dr. Strange taught us anything, it’s that playing with time has consequences.
STAFF GAGE MISKIMEN Editor-in-Chief LUCEE LAURSEN Opinions Editor Isabella Rosario, Marina Jaimes, Elijah Helton, Taylor Newby, Michelle Kumar, Nichole Shaw, Austin Yerington, Zach Weigel, Anna Banerjee, Zohar Nadler Columnists A.J. Boulund, Braedyn Dochterman Cartoonists EDITORIALS reflect the majority opinion of the DI Editorial Board and not the opinion of the Publisher, Student Publications Inc., or the University of Iowa. OPINIONS, COMMENTARIES, COLUMNS, and EDITORIAL CARTOONS reflect the opinions of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Editorial Board, The Daily Iowan, or other organizations in which the author may be involved.
daylight time originated and why. The time change was proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a 1784 satirical letter to the editor in the Journal de Paris. There, he suggested, “Parisians could save money on
NICHOLE SHAW
nichole-shaw@uiowa.edu
Daylight Saving Time till the day I die With the recent turning back of the clocks by one hour on Nov. 4, most people in the U.S. received one more hour of sleep because of Daylight Saving Time. That’s something that’s hard for people to complain about, because getting one more hour of sleep is always a good thing, especially for students who are rapidly approaching major assignments before finals week wreaks havoc on the student body. However, a lot of people don’t know the root of where
and a headache with always having to turn clocks back or forward twice a year, gaining or losing an hour of sleep. However, the benefits are rather amazing. The time change’s main goal is to save electrical energy, and 0.5 per-
‘... getting one more hour of sleep is always a good thing, especially for students who are rapidly approaching major assignments before finals week.’ candles by waking up before their normal time of noon.” There is some controversy over who gets Daylight Saving Time credit — either Englishman WIlliam Willet, who campaigned for the time in 1908 or the New Zealand entomologist who proposed the time in a 1895 paper. Regardless of who actually did it, Daylight Saving Time was introduced as a means to make better use of daylight and save energy. Now, some might say daylight time is a waste of time
cent of total electricity per day was saved in 2008, according to Energy Department experts. That may not sound like a lot, but in reality, the amount of electricity used by more than 100,000 households was saved. To save that much on electricity will not only be kinder to your bank account, it stimulates the economy, according to National Geographic. Daylight Saving Time really did that. What more could you ask for?
EDITORIAL POLICY THE DAILY IOWAN is a multifaceted news-media organization that provides fair and accurate coverage of events and issues pertaining to the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Johnson County, and the state of Iowa. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR may be sent via email to daily. iowan.letters@gmail.com (as text, not attachments). Each letter must be signed and include an address and phone number for verification. Letters should not exceed 300 words and may be edited for clarity, length, style, and space limitations, including headlines. The DI will only publish one letter per author per month. Letters will be chosen for publication by the editors according to space considerations. No advertisements or mass mailings, please.
GUEST OPINIONS that exceed 300 words in length must be arranged with the Opinions editor at least three days prior to the desired date of publication. Guest opinions are selected in accordance with length, subject relevance, and space considerations. Guest opinions may be edited for length, clarity, style, and space limitations READER COMMENTS that may appear were originally posted on daily-iowan.com or on the DI’s social media platforms in response to published material. They will be chosen for print publication when they are deemed to be well-written and to forward public discussion. They may be edited for length and style.
NEWS 5
THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Administration under fire on shared governance At a public forum Tuesday evening, campus community members discussed a perceived lack of shared governance by UI administration in recent far-reaching decisions such as closing the Labor Center. BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu
The state of shared governance and whether it’s in crisis at the University of Iowa was called into question at a forum Tuesday night. The UI chapter of the American Association of University Professors and Iowans for Public Education hosted a forum Tuesday to address concerns about whether the UI is abandoning long standing academic standards for shared governance following the UI’s proposal to close the Labor Center. In response to concerns faculty have raised that the decision lacked faculty involvement, UI President Bruce Harreld said in an October interview with The Daily Iowan that faculty had last reviewed the centers and identified which should be closed in 2004 and updated that list around 2009. When the need for budget cuts arose close to the end of fiscal 2018, he said, there was little time to step back and engage in further study. “I would remind all of my colleagues on campus that
I passionately believe in shared governance,” Harreld said. “Shared governance does not mean shared decision-making. It’s something different I made a decision. I take responsibility for it. I understand their angst, I’m as frustrated as they are.” Former UI Vice President for University Relations Ann Rhodes, one of the panelists, said strong leadership relies on shared governance with people involved in the core mission of universities, such as the staff and faculty who teach the scholars. Rhodes emphasized the importance of evidence-based decisions based on the quality of a program and how central it is to the university’s mission, in accordance to the university’s strategic plan. “There’s never been enough money to do everything we want to,” Rhodes said. “There are things the university has to do that don’t make money, but we do it because it’s something we have to in the best interest of the students.” Regarding student involvement in administrative decisions and complaints
by the Save Our Labor Center coalition that administrators didn’t meet with the group, Rhodes said that recent efforts by the administration to ignore student concerns seems disrespectful. “I think the idea that decisions are being made without appropriate consultation and appropriate consideration of everyone involved is just awful,” Rhodes said. UI AAUP Membership Committee Chair and Professor Loren Glass referenced the organization’s guidelines outlining the role of shared governance in public universities. The AAUP sanctioned the UI in 2016 for violating these guidelines in the 2015 presidential search that resulted in Harreld’s hiring. The sanction was lifted in June after the organization determined the UI had improved shared governance since that time. “The recommendation that faculty should be involved in all matters of governance is a recommendation that, traditionally, university administrations have been happy to adopt,”
Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Ann Rhodes, clinical Professor of Nursing and former UI administrator, addresses the audience during The American Association of University Professors forum in the IMU on Nov. 13. The AAUP met to discuss shared governance at the university in major decisions. Glass said. “Shared governance has been a concern of the AAUP since its first meeting in 1915.” Common concerns expressed by those in attendance at the forum included a perceived tendency towards elitism by the UI administration and Harreld’s past as a businessman,
among other matters. UI AAUP Committee A Chair and Clinical Professor Lois Cox said the perceived lack of shared governance at the UI is indeed visible in more than just the closing of centers across campus. The latter is a primary concern, and will come to vote at this week’s state Board of Regents meeting.
“There have been resolutions passed, students organizing, discussions among the Board of Regents, and yet I don’t see any willingness by the UI administration to rethink this decision, and I’m puzzled by it,” Cox said. “I think it’s safe to say we’re in this issue for the long run.”
Mental-health diagnosis and treatment numbers rise A recent study by the American Psychiatry Association says college students are increasingly seeking mental-health treatment, and the UI has noted that clinical hours for therapy and counseling have risen. BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu
In a recent study, the American Psychiatric Association published findings that show an increase since 2007 in mental-health diagnoses among college students with a simultaneous increase in the number of college students seeking treatment. The study showed that the number of college students seeking treatment has increased from 19 to 34 percent, among other results. A total of 150,000 students were surveyed on 196 campuses nationwide. The report concluded that those in the field believe the stigma on mental health has eased. Kelly Clougher, the University of Iowa Counseling Service assistant director for outreach, said its number of clinical hours this semester is higher than in previous years, suggesting an increased number of students seek treatment for a mental-health concern. “There’s a lot of rhetoric out there saying that this generation of college students doesn’t know how to handle its stress,” Clougher said. “We question that. We think a big part of what’s happening is
that students in this generation have a lot of stress to deal with.” Factors such as the political climate could influence college students’ state of mental health, she said, while the nationwide movement to decrease stigma on mental health may encourage them to seek help. She emphasized that the primary diagnosis the University Counseling Service witnesses is a mood disorder such as depression or anxiety. Student Health & Wellness psychiatrist and interim Medical Director Paul Natvig said several of the students who come in for mental-health issues may consequently be struggling with a physical concern as well, such as fatigue or sleep difficulty. “Our psychiatrists and our mental-health physician assistant see full schedules every day,” Natvig said. “We work in coordinating care with primary-care physicians here at [Student Health], our dietitian, and University Counseling Service counselors.” He outlined the process of a mental-health diagnosis, from the evaluation to treatment, and noted that top conditions usually include anxiety, depression, and
ADHD. “Our visit numbers are up with being fully staffed and adding staff in our psychiatry area, so we are better meeting the increasing demand,” Natvig said. “The stigma of seeking treatment has decreased to some degree.” Nevertheless, he said, there remains a disproportionate number of people who are hesitant to seek treatment for mental-health issues for reasons such as cultural stigma, a lack of understanding for symptoms and resources,
time, or motivation. Specifically in regards to college students, UI psychiatry Assistant Professor Mark Niciu said difficulties of adjusting to a more independent lifestyle when young adults come to a university could be significant stressors in their lives. “The first approach is that
patients must recognize they are struggling,” Niciu said. “If they don’t seek treatment, the stressors could resolve on their own, best-case scenario. However, untreated illnesses could have a longer course and stronger impact.” The understanding of the brain and its relation to mental illness is still very rudimen-
tary, he said, but neuroscience techniques are advancing at an extremely rapid rate. “As we get a better understanding of the brain, we’ll get a better grasp on how we can intervene quickly and make dramatic differences,” Niciu said. “That’s something I’m confident about in the future.”
6 NEWS
THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Tippie to début new executive M.B.A. After noticing the need for programs that cater to busy schedules and fazing out its full-time professional M.B.A., Tippie designed a revamped executive M.B.A. option in addition to an online professional M.B.A. program.
BY KINSEY PHIPPS
kinsey-phipps@uiowa.edu The Tippie College of Business has revamped its executive M.B.A. program to cater to those already in the business field with busy schedules. The change follows the introduction of the online professional M.B.A. and specialized master’s programs in business analytics and finance. With the fields of business and higher education changing rapidly, Tippie needs to stay ahead of the curve, said Dawn Kluber, the Tippie assistant dean of executive education. When the market for flexible M.B.A. programs for working professionals opened, Tippie responded by fazing out the full-time professional M.B.A. and introducing the fully online program, she said. Both the online M.B.A. and executive M.B.A. will launch in August 2019 in the Iowa City and Des Moines locations. “I think it’s going to allow a little more flexibility for students and allow some students who maybe wouldn’t have been able to make the commitment,” Kluber said. After announcing the new online professional M.B.A., Tippie announced the executive M.B.A. program would be revamped after 40 years. Now, students have a 16-month track to completion, in-person classes on Fridays and Saturdays only, and strictly online courses in the summer. The structural change, Kluber said, means more availability and accessibility for students wishing to advance their careers while
in the middle of them. “I think those changes are going to let us meet students where they are,” said Professor Amy Colbert, the executive officer in the Management and Organizations Department. “These are working professionals, and one of the joys of teaching working professionals is they come with their own challenges that are relevant to the class.” With an average student age of 40, the executive M.B.A. program brings in not only a wide array of ages and professional development but also a wide range of careers, Colbert said. “We do have students with undergraduate degrees in business and [who have] worked in a functional area of business,” she said. “We also have a lot of students without business undergraduate degrees, and they have moved up in their career where they are
Wyatt Dlouhy/The Daily Iowan The Pappajohn Business Building is seen on Monday. being student-focused, Colbert said. Instead of watch-
to be creative to meet the needs students have,” Colbert said. “That’s what’s driving the whole program.” Current Tippie students are paying attention to the graduate-program updates. “As a prospective M.B.A. student here at Iowa, Tippie’s revamped executive M.B.A. program becoming centered on working professionals allows students such as myself a greater incentive to remain in the area,” said Tyler Foster, a current Tippie undergraduate student. “During the fall and spring semesters, setting aside just two days at the end of each week creates opportunity for young M.B.A. students to get a head start on their professional careers while also furthering their education here at Iowa.”
‘I think it’s going to allow a little more flexibility for students and allow some students who maybe wouldn’t have been able to make the commitment.’ — Dawn Kluber, Tippie assistant dean of executive education being asked to make business decisions. A common misconception is as you move up in the organization that you work for, you just know how to make these decisions. Coming back gives students an opportunity to hear about the cutting-edge opportunities in the field of business.” Tippie stays ahead of other business programs by
ing what other business colleges and institutions are doing, school officials look at what the students want and need in order to be successful. After that, she said, then they watch other programs. The creation of both accessible programs, the online and executive M.B.A., were created because of students’ needs. “Sometimes, we need 20
21
23
22
24
25
28 31
29
32
33
35
36
40 44
57
38
46
58
52
47
49 54
51
39
42
45
48 53
27
34
37
41
43
26
30
50
55
56
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
americaneedsjournalists.com 34 36 40 41 44 45 47 48 50 52 54 58 60 61 62 64 67 69
Across Quickly take down UV rays, to the skin Alternative to paper Singer whose name sounds like a cry of dismay 16 Highlands hillside 17 One-named singer whose real first name is Robyn 18 Onetime resident of Mauritius 1 4 8 15
70 71 72 73 20 21 22 24 25 26 30 32 33
Here and there Former Hawaiian senator Daniel “Um, sure” Pant-leg tugger, perhaps Sea cave dwellers They might have 21/2 or 3 stars Partner of yon YouTube offering Deep voices
74
Suffix with cannon or block Behind bars Pantry pest 2016 Best Picture “winner” (for about two minutes) Thurman of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” 1950s Corsairs, e.g. Fashionable letters Podded plants An addict may go into this Summer cover-up Swear words? Elisha in the National Inventors Hall of Fame Gasteyer of “Mean Girls” Put on board Part of la península ibérica Carpenter’s tool Series whose first seven members are sung to the starts of 18-, 26-, 41- and 54-Across To eat a late lunch or wait until dinner, say ___-tiller Majors in film Gets the wrinkles out Annual Austin music-and-media festival, briefly Settings for some TV dramas, for short
Down 1 ___ Whittaker, player of the first female Doctor on “Doctor Who” 2 How you can count up to five 3 Sheets that might have check boxes
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 19 23 27 28 29 31 33 35 37 38 39 42 43 46 49 51 53 54 55 56 57 59 63 65 66 68
“Dear” one Super Bowl-winning QB Bob Canal zone? Second chances A ___ (independent of experience) Networking site Cries of surprise Drain U.S. govt. security Getting pulled along Finds a part for Dethrones Squalid shelters Unwritten One setting up at a flea market Apple creation Jewish campus group Sweetheart, in modern lingo Piece of multifunctional furniture Record holder Designer of attractions at Walt Disney theme parks Dorm watchers, in brief Volcanic discharge Plus ’Fore ___ Troopa (Mario foe) Some stoves Skilled sorts ___ 500 Live Selassie of Ethiopia The ten of a ten-speed Leaves full Finish third “___ Misérables” SOLUTION Diamond V.I.P.s ON PAGE 5 Jewish deli supply
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY • “The Migingo Dispute: What the world’s tiniest island tells us about international law and relations,” Christopher Rossi, noon, Congregational Church, 30 N. Clinton • 9th Annual Fall Undergraduate Research Festival, 4:30-6:30 p.m., University Capitol Center Second-Floor Atrium • Flu Shot Clinic, College of Pharmacy students, 5-8 p.m., Petersen • Noh Theater Events, Composing English Noh, 5:30 p.m., Shambaugh House • Hubbard Scholars, 6:30 p.m., Afro House • Bibliophiles, a talk with Les Enluminures, 6:30 p.m., Main Library Special Collections • Gekinoo’amaadiwin Film Series: Beyond Standing Rock, 7 p.m., C131 Pomerantz Center • Peace Corps Information Session, 7 p.m., 1117 University Capitol Center • Claire McCall & Matt Buhr Trumpet Recital, 7:30 p.m., Voxman Recital Hall
SUBMIT AN EVENT Want to see your special event appear here? Email dicalendar@uiowa.edu with details.
Call Letters: KRUI | Frequency: 89.7MHz Hours of Operations: 24 Hours a day KRUI is the second largest student organization at the University of Iowa. Any registered student, faculty or staff member may join the KRUI organization.
WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE DITV Crossover 8:45-9am The Point After 10-11am DJ Training 11:30am-1:30pm Makran Time 1:30-2pm Rainbow Hour 3-4pm News at 4 4-4:30pm The Ozone 5-6pm
The College Football Rundown 6-7pm Descent Into Radness 7-8pm Pixel Hunt 8-9:30pm Amalgamorium Emporium 9:30-10:30pm Joke Local 10:30pm-11:30pm
SOLUTION ON PAGE 5
THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
IOWA CONTINUED FROM FRONT But in the past three games, the Hawkeyes have not once averaged more than 3.6 yards per carry. From the Wisconsin game through the battle against the Terrapins, Iowa averaged 4.2 yards a carry, including a season-best 4.97 against Indiana.
the go-to guy. All three have continued to get carries no matter who is listed as the starter. While it’s nice for a team to have three dependable backs, it might mean that none of them receives steady work on the field. Despite the struggles, Sargent praised the offensive line and said he doesn’t think the problems lie with the coaches. “We can do better jobs as individuals,” Sargent said. “It’s not
‘It’s just the little things, and that’s what you have to focus on. Little things will always get you out, it seems like.’ — Ross Reynolds, offensive lineman The Hawkeyes proved they are capable of moving the ball on the ground. But in recent weeks, it hasn’t shown on the field. “We want to get 4.5 yards per carry — that’s kind of like our goal, so it stings not getting that,” Wirfs said. “Every play starts up front, starts with us, so we do take that personally, just like we take it personally when Nate [Stanley] gets hit. We’ve just got to do better.” Offensive lineman Ross Reynolds said he thinks the team is close to breaking out of its rut on the ground. “It’s a couple steps away, it seems like,” he said. “It’s just the little things, and that what you have to focus on. Little things will always get you out, it seems like.” Things have changed in the backfield all through the season. Mekhi Sargent is now listed on the depth chart as the starting running back, meaning all three backs have been listed as the No. 1 this season. Ivory Kelly-Martin started the season first before Toren Young took the job over. Sargent is now
the coaching stuff. We can do a better job as running backs.”
Injury report Iowa took the field against Northwestern without Brandon Smith out wide, while also being short fullback Brady Ross and backup tight end Shaun Beyer. Head coach Kirk Ferentz said Stanley is doing better after suffering a thumb injury. Smith practiced the last two days and is set to come back this week, Ferentz said. However, receiver Max Cooper — who saw some playing time last week against the Wildcats — suffered a season-ending injury. While Cooper’s absence will not help in terms of depth, Smith’s return can be a boost to the air attack. “Whenever somebody’s down, you always miss them [when they] provide a spark for the team,” receiver Ihmir Smith-Marsette said. “With him being back, the offense is more explosive, and we’re one play away from breaking a big one.”
BIG TEN CONTINUED FROM FRONT Here is a look at some of the major storylines heading into the final chapter of the Big Ten season.
Nebraska gets hot Just a few short weeks ago, the Huskers were the laughingstock of the Big Ten. They had started 0-6, and it seemed as if they couldn’t do anything right. Now, Nebraska has won three out of its last four games, with its only loss being a 5-point defeat at Ohio State. The offense has stepped up for Nebraska, scoring at least 30 points in five-straight
DESANTO CONTINUED FROM FRONT As they go from high-school competitors to Divison-1 college teammates, there are no hard feelings between the two. Lee had nothing but good things to say about his new teammate. “He brings a lot of energy
B-BALL CONTINUED FROM FRONT Makenzie Meyer was second in points with 21, which tied her career-high. She was 5-of-10 from deep and contributed 7 rebounds and 8 assists as well. Hannah Stewart and Alexis Sevillian also came up big; Stewart added 14 points with
games after failing to do it once in the first five. For the Huskers, the turnaround has been about patience and attention to detail. “We had a long way to go when we started,” Nebraska head coach Scott Frost said after the win over Illinois. “The team is starting to care about the little things and see how the little things lead to big things.”
With no big games scheduled for this week, it’s only natural to look ahead, espe-
cially when it’s Michigan vs. Ohio State. That is the game that, barring an Ohio State loss this week, will decide who plays Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship game. The winner will also have the best chance at representing the Big Ten in the college-football playoffs. While fans might be waiting with bated breath for Nov. 24, both teams are trying not to get ahead of themselves. Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh said it is “probably a good idea.” Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer had a similar message. “I had a chat with them,” he said. “Our guys are very intelligent players here, but they know what’s in store.”
and a fire,” Lee said “If you’re working as hard as Austin DeSanto, then you’re working pretty dang hard. We’re going to build a lot of good memories in the next three years.” DeSanto has big plans for this season — he aims to become an NCAA champion alongside his new teammate. “I want to do the same thing [Lee] did last year,“ DeSanto said. “That should be
everybody’s goal, right?“ Brands also has hopes for DeSanto this season. He wants DeSanto to keep his energy and drive that gives him an edge over the competition without being too overly aggressive on the mat. But Brands is clear that DeSanto brims with positivity. “What kind of kid is [DeSanto]?” Brands said. “Very respectful, motivated, do the
right thing, win, graduate, do it right.” DeSanto will wrestle for the first time at Carver-Hawkeye when Iowa takes on Princeton at 1 p.m. Friday. “I’m pretty pumped,” he said. “The fans are crazy, that’s what they keep telling me. And Tom keeps telling me I’m going to be a fan favorite, hopefully. I just like to score points, so it’s going to be fun.”
5 rebounds and 3 assists, and Sevillian had 11 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists, and 3 steals. In her second game since coming back from injury, Tania Davis continued to struggle to find points (9), but she proved she can still facilitate, handing out 7 assists. Iowa also got production from Amanda Ollinger and Zion Sanders off the bench. Both were playing in just
their second game after missing time because of injuries. Ollinger put up 9 points in 20 minutes with 2 rebounds and 3 assists, and Sanders was 3-of-3 from deep for 9 points to go with her 3 rebounds. “We got better tonight,” Bluder said in a release. “It was really nice to see. Our first and third quarters were as good of basketball as we
have played all year. What can I say about Megan [Gustafson]? It is just ridiculous.” Next, the Hawkeyes will return to Carver-Hawkeye to play North Carolina Central on Saturday at 7 p.m. “We have to keep it rolling and start getting ready to get better every game,” Bluder said in a release. “That’s our focus — try to get better every single game that we’re on the floor.”
Northwestern gets the West It’s fitting that the Wildcats would win this year’s wild Big Ten West race, which is just what they did with a 14-10 victory over Iowa. This is Northwestern’s first time with any share of the Big Ten championship since they
tied for first in 2000. For Northwestern, it’s been an up-and-down year. It lost all three of its nonconference games but has made it count in Big Ten play, going 6-1, with its only loss being by 3 points to Michigan. “This team has overcome a ton of adversity,” Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald said after beating Iowa. “We got beat up. We had a bunch of injuries, lost some tough games there. The brotherhood in that locker room is the glue that kept everything together.”
SPORTS 7
Ohio State vs. Michigan looms large
Sports
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 DAILYIOWAN.COM
HAWKEYE UPDATES Labriola wins Wrestler of the Week
Nebraska 174-pounder Mikey Labriola earned Big Ten recognition after improving his season record to 7-0 last week. Labriola won three matches at the Northeast Duals in Albany, New York, including a victory over No. 14 Kimball Bastian of Utah Valley, 11-7. He also won two matches by technical fall, topping Drexel’s Labriola Jason Hoffman in 2:43 and Virginia’s Robby Patrick in 6:03. Labriola won Nebraska’s Redshirt of the Year honor in 2017-18 after recording an overall record of 18-2. He finished fourth at the Midlands Championships, only falling to No. 15 Dylan Lydy of Purdue. It is the first weekly honor of his career and Nebraska’s first Wrestler of the Week since Robert Kokesh won the award in January 2015.
@THEDAILYIOWAN
Big Ten race narrows
AP FOOTBALL TOP 10 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10)
Alabama Clemson Notre Dame Michigan Georgia Oklahoma LSU Washington State West Virginia Ohio State
David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan The Iowa offensive line faces the Northwestern defense on Nov. 10 at Kinnick. The Wildcats thumped the Hawkeyes, 14-10.
Big Ten announces men’s basketball honors
Purdue’s Carsen Edwards and Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ earned Co-Big Ten Player of the Week honors, while Maryland’s Jalen Smith picked up the Freshman of the Week honor. Edwards dropped 30 points in the Boilermakers’ season-opening win over Fairfield, which is the most from a Purdue player in the first game of the season since 1995. He hit 7 3-pointers in the victory. He followed that performance by scoring 23 points, grabbing Edwards 5 rebounds, and racking up 5 assists against Ball State. Happ recorded the second triple-double in Wisconsin history by putting up 12 points, 11 boards, and a career-high 12 assists to go along with 4 blocks in the Badgers’ season-opening win over Coppin State. It marks the first tripledouble in the conference since 2016. Happ is also the second player in the last 20 years over 6-10 to rack up 12 dimes in a game, joining with Greg Monroe of Georgetown in 2010. Smith has averaged 15 points, 9 rebounds, and 2.5 assists in his first two college games. He is also the first Terrapin to post a doubledouble (19 points, 13 rebounds) in his first game since Buck Williams accomplished the feat in 1978.
Back to the basics for football Notables from around After three losses in a row, Iowa will get back to the basics and the Big Ten focus on improving in the running game. BY PETE RUDEN
peter-ruden@uiowa.edu Just three weeks ago, hopes of a Big Ten Championship appearance were vividly swimming around the minds of Hawkeye football fans, and now, disappointment has been woven into the fabric of the season. After a dominant 23-0 win over Maryland on Oct. 20, Iowa has spiraled into a three-game losing streak that started with a heartbreaking loss to Penn State and most recently included a 14-10 defeat at the hands of Northwestern to knock it out of the Big Ten title race. Perhaps the loss to Purdue on Nov. 3 made the
Hawkeyes try too hard to keep what was slipping out of their grasp. Now, Iowa is getting back to the basics. “I think everyone’s getting back to having fun,” offensive lineman Tristan Wirfs said. “After having three losses, things tend to get a little tense, but I think we’ve been trying to relax and get back to just playing ball.”
jordan-zuniga@uiowa.edu
Iowa’s identity as a team is to run the football. Teams know this and prepare accordingly. SEE IOWA, 7
SEE BIG TEN, 7
Repping the run game
Hawkeye hoops crushes DeSanto jumps into wrestling’s Western Kentucky Megan Gustafson and Makenzie Meyer led Iowa to a 104-67 win.
bastion
Pennsylvania native Austin DeSanto joins the Iowa wrestling team, trying to fill one of the six weight classes open for the taking.
Duke (48) Kansas (14) Gonzaga Virginia (2) Tennessee (1) Nevada North Carolina Villanova Auburn Kentucky
BY SARAH ALTEMEIER
sarah-altemeier@uiowa.edu
coach Lisa Bluder said in a release. “Let’s learn a lesson from the last game, and boy, did they ever.” “They were ready to go in the third quarter, and I really liked the energy we brought to the second half versus what we did against Oral Roberts [Nov. 9].” It was the usual suspects for Iowa showing up; Megan Gustafson posted her double-double with 29 points on perfect shooting from the field (13-of-13), along with 12 rebounds, 2 steals, and 3 blocks. Gustafson made a bit of history, becoming the first Hawkeye to record a perfect shooting percentage with nine or more attempts since Jamie Cavey went 9-for-9 in 2003. She also became just the sixth Big Ten student-athlete to put up 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds; Gustafson is also just the second Hawkeye to record 1,000 rebounds.
The Iowa wrestling team includes a handful of new faces this season, one of them being sophomore Austin DeSanto. “He’s a new face,” head coach Tom Brands said. “He brings an energy and a competitiveness that is contagious. There’s a lot out there about maybe there’s only one program for him; that’s this program. There’s one coach for him; that’s this coach.” DeSanto wrestled at Drexel last season, where he finished the season 29-7 and put himself in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. He also placed third in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championship. Although he had success in Philadelphia, DeSanto hung up his blue and yellow singlet for a black and gold one. In Iowa’s wrestle-offs on Nov. 1-2, DeSanto caught people’s attention when he beat junior Paul Glynn on both days for the 133-pound spot. On Nov. 9, DeSanto made his Hawkeye DeSanto début in Kent, Ohio. He won both of his matches, including defeating No. 18 Sean Nickell of Cal State-Bakersfield. Being the fifth member of the Hawkeye wrestling team from Pennsylvania, DeSanto is not a brand-new face to all — he and sophomore Spencer Lee have met on the mat before. In 2016, Lee easily handled DeSanto, claiming the Pennsylvania state title and winning 15-0. But the next year, DeSanto put himself at the top of the podium after defeating Lee, 6-5. The Brands brothers had their eye on DeSanto, especially after that victory, but he had already signed with Drexel.
SEE B-BALL, 7
SEE DESANTO, 7
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I never want to get
tackled by a kicker, but it happens, so I’m going to take that L.
”
— Iowa wide receiver Ihmir Smith-Marsette on getting tackled by a kicker
STAT OF THE DAY All 10 wrestlers in the Hawkeye lineup are ranked, including four in the top 10.
10
BY JORDAN ZUNIGA
As the sound of basketballs and Christmas carols grow louder, the college-football season comes down to the wire. Now, with just under two weeks left until the season finale, the Big Ten picture is taking its final form. Northwestern clinched the Big Ten West after a big win at Kinnick Stadium, and wins for Michigan and Ohio State consolidated the race in the East down to those two teams.
AP BASKETBALL TOP 10 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10)
Nebraska heats up, while the race for the Big Ten narrows to three.
ranked wrestlers
David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan Iowa forward Megan Gustafson (10) fights for an offensive rebound against Oral Roberts on Nov. 9. The Hawkeyes defeated the Golden Eagles, 90-77.
BY JORDAN ZUNIGA
jordan-zuniga@uiowa.edu The No. 13 Iowa women’s basketball team hit the road and came away with a win Tuesday, throttling Western Kentucky on its way to a 104-67 win. Once again, a fast start propelled the Hawkeyes to victory via a flurry of 3-pointers that gave Iowa (2-0) a 17-9 lead early in the first quarter. The lead grew from there for Iowa, and it made the score 50-39 at halftime. Iowa came out in the second half and steamrollered the Lady Toppers (0-3); the Hawkeyes outscored them 29-10 in the third quarter. Iowa’s strong performance in the third was a direct result of stumbling through a rough second half in its season-opener against Oral Roberts. “It was definitely an emphasis,” head