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UI FIJI chapter denies wrongdoing in sexual assault lawsuit The chapter said it wasn’t responsible for protecting a woman alleging sexual assault at the fraternity’s house.

Caleb McCullough Executive Editor The University of Iowa chapter of Phi Gamma Delta rebuffed accusations that it

aided and abetted a sexual assault, as the chapter and two former members face a lawsuit over allegations that the former members sexually assaulted a UI stu-

dent at a party last year.

In a court filing on Friday, the Mu Deuteron chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, the formal name for the UI’s chapter, denied any injury

was sustained by UI student Makéna Solberg, who filed the lawsuit. In its filing, the fraternity said she was responsible for any damages caused. Her claims for dam-

ages are barred, the chapter said, “by her consent, contributory negligence and/or willful misconduct.”

“The sole proximate cause of any injury Plain-

tiff may have experienced is due to her own conduct,” the chapter said in the document.

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Legislators eye lower income tax Iowa Republicans are looking to lower the state income tax in the 2022 session, and many hope to eliminate it entirely.

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The Iowa State Capitol Building is seen on Jan. 12 in Des Moines.

Lauren White Politics Reporter The 2022 legislative session is less than a month away, and a key goal of Iowa Republicans is to reduce state income tax. Democrats in the minority party say their priorities include

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improving the state’s workforce issues and addressing affordable housing and child care to keep people in the state.

At the Greater Des Moines Partnership State Legislative Leadership Breakfast on Dec. 9, Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, said Senate

Republicans’ main priority for the 2022 session is to lower the state income tax, with the ultimate goal of eliminating it entirely. He said that would be one of the biggest tools to attract people to Iowa.

“That is not going to happen overnight, I know

that right now we’re having conversations…in regards to tax credits.” Zaun said. “I think we need to look at all the tax credits that we have in the state of Iowa to see how effective they are.”

At the legislative breakfast, Rep. Brent Siegrist, R-Council Bluffs, said cor-

porate tax rates will also be looked at during the session, but the bigger priority is the statewide income tax. He said the state should have over $9 billion worth of revenue going into the session with which to budget.

“I think more money into our parks and recs and into

In collaboration with artists, the Annals of Iowa is releasing a special anniversary edition to commemorate 175 years of Iowa’s statehood. Two UI graduates will have their work featured in the special edition.

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Arabia Parkey News Reporter

mester at the UI interning at the UI Hospitals and Clinics, she said.

At the hospital, she worked in the surgical and neurological intensive care unit, which receives a wide variety of patients.

“Depends on the operation, of course, but surgical patients, neurological aspects like stroke seizures,” she said. “We had a lot of trauma patients from the emergency department. Once they were stable enough, they would come up to the surgical ICU.” Palmatier did not graduate on time with the rest of her class in spring of 2021. Instead, she stayed to fulfill a semester in-

In the past year, the Iowa City Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission has faced a series of commissioner resignations, a lack of funding from the Iowa City City Council, and pressure from some community members, as well as Mayor Bruce Teague, to disband and restart.

Still, the city’s newest commission is working to find ways to further its mission.

To progress toward healing, the commission plans to participate in restorative justice practices such as Circles, led by community facilitators.

Restorative circles are a practice that brings together different parties in a conflict — those who have acted, those impacted by those actions, and the broader community — to an open discussion.

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and nationwide protests across the nation, including in Iowa City, the city established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in September 2020, one of 17 points agreed upon by the city and the Iowa Freedom Riders, the group leading the protest movement in Iowa City.

The council charged the commission with fact-finding, truth-telling, and reconciliation of injustices within Iowa City and making policy recommendations to the Iowa City City Council by May 1, 2022.

With pushback from some community organizations like the Black Voices Project

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National Suicide Hotline to change to three-digits

Iowa City will route calls to the new suicide hotline 9-8-8 number, which will take effect in July 2022, to CommUnity Mobile Crisis Service.

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The Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission says it is working to heal the Black community.

80 HOURS: Commemorating 175 years of statehood

This is the last print edition of the year for The Daily Iowan.

The DI will not publish in print over winter break but will publish breaking news online. The first print edition of 2022 will be Wednesday, Jan. 19.

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Cadet bound for Arizona Healing the Grace Palmatier, will graduate from the UI nursing and ROTC programs at the end of the semester, and join air force as nurse.

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our water systems is absolutely the right thing to do.

I am not sure how much push that is going to get this year,” Siegrist said. “It’s an election year, there’s sales tax, there’s a lot of support for it, but I’m not sure it’ll be enough.”

In a Monday press release, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said the December Revenue Estimating Conference forecast shows an overcollection of Iowa taxpayer funds and vowed to give that money back in the 2022 session.

“I will continue to fight to return these funds to the hands of hardworking Iowa taxpayers and explore significant tax cuts this legislative session that will make Iowa one of the most competitive states in the country,” Reynolds said. “This overcollection of taxes is unethical and it must end.”

Speaker of the Iowa House Rep. Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford, echoed Reynolds’ statements, saying he wants to return the revenue to Iowans, while he criticized the Biden Administration for rising levels of inflation.

“Iowa House Republicans look forward to addressing this issue and finding the most effective way to lower taxes and return this money to Iowa taxpayers,” Grassley said in a prepared statement issued on Monday.

Jake Wicks/The Daily Iowan ROTC Cadet and University of Iowa undergraduate nursing student Grace Palmatier is pictured here in front of the University of Iowa College of Nursing on Dec. 9.

Marandah Mangra-Dutcher News Reporter As Grace Palmatier graduates from the University of Iowa’s nursing program and the UI ROTC this winter, she looks to Arizona, where she will take the next steps in her career as a nurse for the U.S. Air Force.

After graduating at the end of this semester, Palmatier said she intends to take a break to recharge and spend time with friends and family. In March of next year, she will begin her final training to be a nurse in the Air Force with the nurse transition program.

“It’s kind of like a nurse internship, like they have here with

the university,” Palmatier said.

Palmatier will also be conferred the honor of Distinguished Graduate, awarded to only the highest achieving cadets.

“The distinguished graduate honor is something that candidates compete for on a national level,” Capt. Amanda Anderson-Gonzalez said. “And essentially, what’s required is we will submit a package and really that’s like, a really robust resume.”

Leadership positions, performance as underclassmen and upperclassmen, and individual profile are among the considerations for the Distinguished Graduate award, Anderson-Gonzalez said.

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LEGISLATURE Continued from Front

During the legislative panel, Konfrst said the House and Senate need to address taxes without raising them on those who pay sales tax and to make sure any policies they enact don’t disproportionately affect less wealthy Iowans.

“I hope what we are looking at is addressing middle-class taxes, finding a way for workers to actually get the benefits of these tax cuts for a change, and I think it’s pretty important to realize that when you’re talking about cutting a lot of taxes and then raising a sales tax, the impact of that is disproportionately on the working poor,” Konfrst said.

Wahls told The Daily Iowan his top priority is to get Iowans good jobs that they want to keep. He said the Legislature can do this by focusing on investments in career technical education and higher education.

“We’ve seen the political environment that Republicans have created makes it very hard to attract workers

THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2021 to Iowa.” Wahls said. “So, we have a lot of real concerns about where we are and where we see things going,” Iowa’s population grew 4 percent from 2010 to 2020, but that growth was concentrated in the state’s four largest counties, while the population fell in 68 Iowa counties.

As the minority party, the Democrats’ role is to respond to what Republicans put forward, Wahls said, but he is worried the GOP will focus on cultural issues as a distraction in the upcoming session.

Konfrst told the DI the upcoming session should focus on putting money back into the pockets of Iowans.

Konfrst said the Legislature will be addressing taxes during this session to create a fair tax system that invests in schools, health care, public safety and infrastructure. She said that middle-class Iowans should be the target for tax cuts.

“Iowans expect us to listen, put aside the politics of division, and to work together to make

their lives better, and Iowa House Democrats are ready to do that,” Konfrst said.

Konfrst said she, and other legislators, have spent the time since the last session meeting with constituents to see what issues they are facing and what they think should be discussed in the Statehouse. She said she has heard that access to child care and funding for education come up as a concern often.

Representing constituents is one aspect of the Democrats’ jobs, Konfrst said, while the other is holding the majority party accountable when it introduces legislation Democrats oppose.

“You know, when they say they’re doing one thing and they come here and they do something more extreme, it’s our job to let people know that,” Konfrst said.

The Legislature will also be making decisions around university funding and governance. Last year, legislators introduced a number of laws that were criticized for

TRC

Continued from Front and older Black Iowa City residents, several Truth and Reconciliation commissioners and community members say a long-time generational divide has become increasingly apparent between the commission — whose members tend to be younger — and older members of the city’s Black community.

In past City Council meetings, some community members called for the disbanding and reset of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

This divide became one of the many reasons former Truth and Reconciliation commissioner and Iowa Freedom Riders founder Raneem Hamad resigned from the commission. Hamad said in a September interview with The Daily Iowan that the biggest shock for her was the treatment young activists like herself received from older Black leaders.

She said it was difficult to handle the “patronizing energy” coming from both city councilors and older Black community activists.

“I was consistently dealing with this, like, ‘Your ideas aren’t good because you don’t know anything. You don’t know how the government works or how the city works,’” Hamad told the DI. “We’ve lived in Iowa City all our lives, we grew up in this system, we know how sh— happens inside day in and day out.”

Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Mo-

PALMATIER

Continued from Front ternship required for her to finish her nursing degree.

When Palmatier graduates, she will be commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.

Palmatier’s commissioning ceremony will take place Dec. 17, where friends and family will come together to celebrate her accomplishments.

Capt. Amanda Anderson-Gonzalez, a recruiting and admissions officer with UI ROTC, said Palmatier will receive gifts from different cadre members, and Palmatier will say a few words.

Palmatier will also speak her oath of office, which will be administered by an officer she selected.

“During the military, you obviously have to sign a contract and there’s a ceremonial oath that you take,” Anderson-Gonzalez said. “It’s essentially a very long-winded promise.”

Palmatier is the only ROTC member graduating at the end of this semester.

She said it is a normal step to become a Second Lieutenant after graduating from the ROTC program, but graduating is the hard part.

“I started with about 30 people in my class freshman year, and that last semester, my class graduated four or five,” she said.

Palmatier decided she wanted to be in the U.S. Air Force in high school because of her family ties, she said.

After deciding that enlistment was not the route she wanted to take, Palmatier joined ROTC in the fall se-

Contributed photo of TRC Vice Chair Amel Ali. hamed Traore said much of this divide stems from public comments made early in the year, as well as commissioners not feeling generally respected or on the same tier on the commission.

“The divide is just another one of those things where you’re always going to have pushback from the community when you’re trying something new and you’re trying to make changes,” Traore said. “You’re always going to have groups that aren’t going to completely agree with you, so you need to be willing to put in that extra time and work.”

To address this divide, Traore said the commission is working to attend more community events and contact groups in disagreement, so they know their opinions are valued.

Another method to encourage healing is the commission’s participation in a program called Circles, where the community participates in restorative justice circles facilitated by Iowa City residents Angie Jordan, Annie Tucker, and V Fixmer-Oraiz.

“The power of Circles is that people can get clearer, can feel more connected,” said Tucker, who serves as director of Mediation Services of Eastern Iowa.

Circles work by having a “circle keeper” ask the circle a question — such as “tell me about a person who has made a positive difference in your life” — and a talking piece is passed around the circle as members answer the question or pass, Tucker said.

Jordan, CEO, founder, and director of Banjo Knits Empowerment, said Circles provide a foundation that may not have been provided to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission when it was first established, allowing commissioners and the community the opportunity to connect.

“It’s an opportunity for the TRC to come together around practicing what their actual charge is: truth and reconciliation,” Jordan said.

Circles are offered to any Truth and Reconciliation Commission member and other organizations in the Iowa City area and are held in partnership with Dream City, Jordan said.

mester of her freshman year.

During their underclassmen years, ROTC members learn the basics, she said.

“Freshman year, especially, you learn how to march and salute, stuff like that.”

She said. “And then sophomore year, it’s really like intense training, getting you ready for field training in the summer,” Field training takes place at the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force base in Montgomery, Alabama, Palmatier said.

ROTC members are flown out in the summer of their sophomore year.

“Once you’re there, you’re put into flights with a bunch of random cadets and you just spend two weeks there,” she said. “You live there. You march around and do field exercises and leadership exercises, stuff like that, and you’re evaluated the whole time.”

After passing this field training, Palmatier returned to the UI and continued her ROTC training, but the focus shifted more to learning leadership skills, she said.

“Once you’re back from that, and you’re an upperclassman, your training is more focused on officers, specific things,” Palmatier said. “You know what it’s like to be in the military now. You need to learn how to manage people and lead people and part of that is training the underclassmen and yourself.”

After Palmatier completes her required training, she will be stationed in Las Vegas, Nevada, at Nellis Air Force Base right outside of the city. She said she looks forward to taking the next step in her life.

“I’m really excited to live somewhere else, meet new people, and experience new places,” she said.

marandah-mangra-dutcher@ uiowa.edu

impeding academic freedom in higher education.

In an interview with the DI on Dec. 9, University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson said she meets with legislators to advocate for the university and hopes this upcoming session will prioritize funding for the state’s public universities.

Wilson said the UI does a lot for Iowa in terms of health care and training professionals and hopes legislators can see the impact the university has on the entire state.

“We’re doing newborn screening for every baby born in the state for free to ensure that we know about genetic challenges and illnesses. We’re helping the K-12 school system train teachers for mental health and wellness,” Wilson said.

“I mean, there’s so many things that we can point to that are affecting every county around the state, and so help us make sure this university continues to thrive.”

Lauren-white@uiowa.edu “They can be used in a way to remedy situations where people aren’t necessarily in agreement or have been in bigger arguments or feel like they’ve been wronged by one person or another and hoping to use those as a tool for rectifying situations where people feel like they have a rift between us [two],” Traore said.

After a year of setbacks, including a temporary suspension in March, Ali said the commission has experienced various successes, including in its advocacy for the Excluded Workers Fund, as well as recently hearing from local high schoolers experiencing racism in schools.

“As long as we can continue to work on the relationship with the older generation and city council as well, that’s also really important,” Ali said. “I think we’ll be able to succeed in our mandate.”

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County asked to raise funeral aid As local funeral homes continue to provide families services not fully funded by the county, Johnson County Social Services is proposing the county increase funds for funeral assistance.

Grace Kreber/The Daily Iowan Lynette Jacoby, Johnson County Social Services director, poses for a picture outside of the Johnson County Department of Human Services on Dec. 8.

Meg Doster News Reporter Johnson County Social Services is proposing more financial assistance for families paying for funeral services, as funeral assistance hasn’t been updated in seven years, said Lynette Jacoby, director of Johnson County Social Services.

The current amount of funeral assistance for families in Johnson County is $2,100 for cremation and burial, and $900 for a plot in a cemetery, which comes to a total of $3,000. Social Services is proposing to change this to $2,200 for a cremation, $3,200 for a burial, and $1,000 for a cemetery plot, which is a maximum of $4,200 in financial assistance.

According to the National Funeral Directors Association, the median cost of a funeral is $7,848.

On the popular crowdfunding website GoFundMe,

an entire category exists for people asking for help to pay for funeral services. The website says it is “the leader in online memorial fundraising” and claims to have raised $330 million a year

vices, Johnson County pays more in funeral assistance than other Iowa counties.

Linn County only pays $1,000 for a cremation or a burial, and Polk County pays as low as $750 toward

We just absorbed that as a loss. But, our funeral home’s policy is we still provide services for everyone.

— Dan Chia, owner of Gay and Chia Funeral and Cremation Service for 125,000 memorials.

“The county is giving probably one of the highest amounts in the state of Iowa. There are some counties that have no funds, they will not give any funds,” said Michael Lensing, co-owner of Lensing Funeral Home in Iowa City. “And in those situations, I don’t know what they do.”

According to Social Ser-

cremation only.

The assistance comes from the county’s General Assistance program. A family’s household income must be less than 150 percent of the federal poverty line to qualify for funeral assistance.

“Funerals have gone up.

They’re really expensive,” Jacoby said. “What’s been happening is, the funeral

Iowa City to promote new Suicide Hotline number The National Suicide Hotline will become a three-digit number, 9-8-8, starting July 2022.

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Photo illustration by Larry Phan.

Emily Delgado News Reporter The National Suicide Hotline will become a three-digit number, 9-88, in July 2022. In Iowa City, calls will be routed to the Mobile Crisis Service housed under CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank.

Iowa City City Manager Geoff Fruin wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan that he believes call volume will increase as people can remember 9-8-8 more easily than its current number, (800) 273-8255.

The change to a three-digit number provides novel access to mental health care for people struggling with mental health problems, said Sarah Nelson, executive director of CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank.

CommUnity Crisis Services and Food Bank houses Iowa City’s Mobile Crisis Services as well as a Mobile Crisis Outreach program.

Mobile Crisis Services will respond to 9-8-8 calls.

“The other thing that’s really exciting is that the [Federal Communications

Commission] recently passed the ability for people to text 9-8-8,” Nelson said.

Nelson said she believes the texting option will allow more access to help for younger people.

Iowa City City Councilor Janice Weiner praised the new number’s accessibility.

“It makes a lot of sense to me that it should be really easy to call,” Weiner said. “I mean, somebody shouldn’t have to look up an 800 number.”

Nelson said she hopes the change will assist in decreasing the number of suicides nationwide because the three-digit number will serve as a better tool.

“An educated assessment of the situation is that, with anytime access, we are creating an opportunity to reduce tragic outcomes,” Nelson said.

In an update to the Iowa City City Council on Nov. 30, the Mobile Crisis Outreach program spoke on its personal goals of stabilizing crises and reducing unnecessary hospitalizations.

One of the City Council’s goals for the Mobile Crisis Outreach program is to make the organization

available 24/7, Weiner said.

Currently, the city and crisis service are working together to improve response times through a multi-year grant, Fruin wrote. This project will appear on the city council’s agenda in January.

Weiner said an interesting idea of hers is to set up a triage of questions to ask when a person calls in a 9-11 call.

“I would love to see something like that. I don’t know what [it’s] going to look like in the end, but to me, that’s something where we should be headed,” Weiner said.

The city is working alongside the Iowa City Police Department to make sure 9-88 is promoted at the same or greater volume than the emergency 9-1-1 number, Fruin said at the Nov. 30 city council meeting.

“We continue to have some great discussions with the mobile crisis on expanding their capabilities and improving their response time” Fruin said. “We’re pretty close to bringing you a proposal on that using some of the ARPA funds.”

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homes write off a very large portion of the expense for services, [and] they end up donating those costs.”

Jacoby said, while families on assistance will still receive funeral services from funeral homes despite not paying the full amount, the funeral homes themselves will be the ones losing money.

Dan Ciha, owner of Gay and Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City, said — in most cases — the family does not have many funds to contribute to the funeral.

“We just absorbed that as a loss,” he said. “But, our funeral home’s policy is we still provide services for everyone.”

Lensing said his funeral home also provides funeral services when the cost of the services were not paid.

“We tried to give the most respect to the deceased and to follow through and try to get the family through

this situation, but we have to work with and only that amount,” Lensing said Ciha said the amount of funeral assistance provided by the county does not cover the amount funeral homes generally charge, and it hasn’t for “many years.”

In Johnson County, 108 people have died of COVID-19 from the start of the pandemic, according to the New York Times COVID-19 tracker.

Both Lensing Funeral Home and Gay and Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service were overworked with scheduling funerals, the owners said.

“We’ve had probably 90-plus funerals where the death has been some COVID-19 or COVID-19 complications with it,” Lensing said.

Ciha said, in the close to five decades he’s worked at the funeral home, he has never seen anything like the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said he and his staff have been overworked for the past two years.

Though Ciha and Jacoby say Johnson County should provide more financial assistance, they both agree Johnson County does cover more than other counties.

“We are very fortunate in Johnson County,” Ciha said.

“We have some of the best public assistance in terms of not only financial support, but also in terms of professionals helping all these people.”

Lensing and Ciha both said even though Johnson County isn’t fully funding funeral homes, they still donate their services to the deceased and their loved ones.

“The way I look at it is, by us caring for those families that are less fortunate, the more fortunate families will remember them, or members of that family will remember us caring for them,” Ciha said.

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FIJI

Continued from Front The chapter was named as a defendant in the lawsuit from Solberg, alleging that two former members of the fraternity sexually assaulted her at a party on Sept. 5, 2020, and shared photos and videos of the incident. The two men, Carson Steffen and Jacob Meloan, as well as Phi Gamma Delta Educational Association, Inc., an arm of the national fraternity, were also named as defendants in the lawsuit.

The UI FIJI chapter and Phi Gamma Delta Educational Association, Inc. were accused of failing to protect guests at a fraternity event and delaying investigations into the alleged assault by directing members to delete photos.

The chapter denied that it ever failed to protect guests or police its members, saying its code of conduct, rules, and policies do not create a standard of care.

“Defendant owed no duty to protect Plaintiff from negligent, intentional, or criminal actions of third parties or any other duty of care,” the chapter’s filing says.

In the filing on Friday, the chapter said “digital images may have been shared in a social media group.”

The chapter denied allegations that the images were portraying a sexual assault, however, or that the group chat had been established for “official Iowa FIJI communications,” as the initial lawsuit said.

In a separate filing last week, Steffen didn’t deny having sex with Solberg, but he said it was consensual. Steffen is seeking reparations for damages to his reputation and future earning potential.

Steffen was arrested last week on a harassment charge, and he’s accused of sharing a sexual photo of a victim without their consent on Sept. 5, 2020, the same day Solberg says he and Meloan sexually assaulted her.

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Opinions

EDITORIAL

Access to abortion is a fundamental right Having access to a safe abortion is critical for reproductive health care and safety.

Madelaine Todd writes a pro-choice message on the sidewalk outside the Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City on Sept. 9.

DI Editoral Board Efforts made by multiple states, including Iowa, to deny the right to an abortion have set a dangerous path for the future of reproductive health care and safety on a dangerous path.

In May, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed what is referred to as the “heartbeat bill” into Texas law, banning abortions at approximately six weeks. However, this was different from other abortion bans because it included a provision that greatly expanded who can take legal action under the law.

The provision allows any

individual to sue anyone who provides an abortion or helps a patient access abortion care prohibited by this law. While a state judge recently declared the law unconstitutional, it still cannot be stopped from being enforced. The U.S. Supreme Court also decided on Friday not to block the law, but more challenges could come.

Now, the Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Although a decision isn’t expected until summer 2022, the ruling will set a

crucial precedent for other states to follow.

Almost 50 years ago, the Supreme Court established the constiutional right to an abortion in the case of Roe v. Wade. The Daily Iowan Editorial Board stands firm with this ruling and believes these limitations set a dangerous future for the country — especially for states like Iowa.

Iowa is notorious for pushing back on abortion access, and Iowa Republicans in Congress and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds have joined the national call to overturn Roe. Although state lawmakers have passed some

SENIOR COLUMN

More than a newsroom The people I’ve worked with at The Daily Iowan have forever changed my life.

Ally Pronina Opinions Columnist “The House that Built Me” by Miranda Lambert came on during a Sunday in October as I was leaving a pitch meeting in The Daily Iowan newsroom, thinking about how there were increasingly fewer days remaining in the place that built me.

The DI has blessed me with people who see my ability to become a great mom, and who see a good heart behind the infertile young woman with a congenital heart defect. Thanks to the most supportive editors, colleagues, and coaches anyone could ask for, I felt comfortable talking about personal topics, like Turner syndrome and my faith.

I’ve realized that the fact that I would rather interview someone in a wheelchair than an athlete or a politician is not my biggest weakness, like I used to believe when I began in journalism. It is my biggest strength.

Reflecting on what to say to the newsroom of people who have been my second family for over two years, “Thank you,” doesn’t seem like enough.

It’s not enough for those

who have always seen nothing but the best in me and my writing, even when I couldn’t see it myself. Yet, I’ll say it anyway.

Thank you to former DI editors Sarah and Zandra and former Diversity, Equity, and inclusion Director Cesar for creating the DEI committee, one of my biggest support systems and memorable parts of being on staff.

Day, thanks for all the work you have already achieved as the new DEI director. I’m going to miss our pre-meeting conversations as the only ones who got to the conference room early.

Hailey, thanks for always being there whenever I need a deep conversation and doing an interview for my final the morning I asked you.

You somehow always seem to know what I need to hear.

Kelsey, thank you for reading my profile for class because I struggle writing anything journalistic that is not an opinion piece. Josie, thank you for listening to me talk about how I miss my clients and how much I am going to miss the DI. Julia, thanks for sharing your story about living with bipolar disorder and sending me a Slack message about how much you love my columns.

I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined receiving these messages from the former DI

politics editor.

I’m going to miss the opinions team, or the professional unprofessionals - as we call ourselves - full of kind-hearted columnists who made me laugh so hard during meetings by talking about SpongeBob and our other goofy antics. Sometimes, I ended up forgetting my pitch because of all the fun we had.

Thank you to Jennifer Wagner and Caleb for looking over my personal statement — and shoutout to Caleb for killing spiders in the newsroom.

Last, but not least, Hannah. Thank you for also looking over my personal statement and always being there whenever I or anyone else on the opinions team needs anything, even when hospitalized. We are so lucky to have such a dedicated, hard-working, caring, and passionate leader.

In all my excitement to have a break from school and leave Iowa City, there is also sadness at the thought of no more Sundays in the newsroom, Community Chats, and DEI meetings.

I’m not ready to leave the publication that has changed me in the best possible way and will forever have a special place in my heart. DI family, I miss you already. Thank you for making the DI newsroom the newsroom that built me.

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restrictions, many have been struck down.

The Iowa Supreme Court rejected a 72-hour abortion waiting period requirement in 2018 because the restrictions violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Iowa Constitution.

In 2019, Iowa’s “fetal heartbeat” law was struck down by Polk County District Judge Micheal Huppert, citing the Supreme Court’s decision that the Iowa Constitution grants a woman the right to decide to terminate a pregnancy.

But for the past year, Iowa Republicans have been try-

Caleb McCullough, Executive Editor Hannah Pinski, Opinions Editor Yassie Buchanan, Peyton Downing, Dylan Hood, Shahab Khan, Luke Krchak, Ally Pronina, Sophie Stover, Columnists COLUMNS, CARTOONS, and OTHER OPINIONS CONTENT 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.

Caleb McCullough, Rylee Wilson, Josie Fischels, Hannah Pinski, Shahab Kahn, Sophie Stover Editorial Board 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.

abortion is a leading cause in maternal deaths, it is also preventable. The basic solution is to allow universal access to safe and effective abortions.

But with new restrictions, and potentially more being put in place, our country could see an increase in unsafe abortions, and — consequently — an increase in maternal deaths.

Frankly, it’s irresponsible and immoral for lawmakers to pass these laws that could exacerbate a preventable issue.

If politicians are against abortion, they don’t have to support or get ones themselves. However, they don’t have the right to make decisions for other people on what they wish to do with their body.

Additionally, it’s cruel that laws laws similar to the one recently passed in Texas make no exception for cases of rape or incest. For those who don’t wish to carry out that pregnancy, it is unfair to force that upon them on top of the trauma that they have already endured.

Nearly 50 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution protects the right to an abortion.

Now that this notion is under attack, it is up to us and our lawmakers to fight to ensure that this ruling stays intact.

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SENIOR COLUMN

My advice: get out of your comfort zone

As I prepare to leave the UI, I have vreflected on my experience and compiled tips for incoming Hawkeyes.

Sophie Stover Opinions Contributor

So, you’ve found yourself here, a senior in high school with sights set on Iowa City. You already know you’ve made a great choice, and I’m here to affirm that. As a graduating senior, I can certainly say I made the right decision to attend the University of Iowa.

I’ll always be thankful for the people I met at the UI and in the Iowa City community. Moreover, I learned many lessons from my experiences while pursuing an undergraduate degree here. The following are my tips for prospective students to maximize the college experience at the UI. Attend office hours with your professors, especially in classes with less than 50 people. I found that talking to professors is most beneficial when the class is engaging, difficult, or when the professor had experience that aligned with my interests.

Through Zoom meetalena-pronina@uiowa.edu ings, I made meaning-

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ing to change that.

In May, the Legislature passed an amendment to the Iowa Constitution stating that it doesn’t secure the right to an abortion, which will leave Iowa open to more restrictions should Roe v. Wade be weakened or overturned.

The amendment needs to pass in one more legislative session and then be voted on by Iowans in the next election before it takes effect.

Restrictions introduced across the country, and those that will inevitably be introduced in Iowa, should the constitutional amendment pass, are an attack on the ability of women, trans men, and nonbinary people to control their own bodies and reproductive decisions.

Access to abortion isn’t only a fundamental right in reproductive health care — it is also a human-rights issue.

Abortion rates don’t drop when restrictions are put in place. In fact, limitations make the procedure more dangerous. According to the Guttmacher Institute, data shows that abortion rates are nearly the same in countries where abortion isn’t legal as in those where it is.

A lack of access to safe abortion can lead to financial burdens and physical and mental health complications, which could result in maternal deaths and morbidities. While unsafe

ful connections with professors during the pandemic. Furthermore, cultivating a strong relationship with a professor is helpful for future references or letters of recommendation.

Later in college, when you’re seeking a job or internship, it’s worth trying to directly contact decision-makers. Worst case scenario after emailing a hiring manager or decision maker directly is that you recieve no response. The best-case scenario is a new connection and avenue to a job application.

Talk to as many people as possible, especially in your first year. Talk to your neighbors in class and on your dorm floor because you’ll likely see them again. I knocked on my neighbor’s door the first night in Burge Residence Hall, and the girl that answered is still my best friend to this day.

Another great way to meet people with whom you share common interests is by checking out all the clubs and groups on the UI campus. The university and surrounding community boast tons of opportunities for student involvement. Joining a club helps to feel a sense of connection to campus and to find camaraderie with peers and colleagues.

This tip isn’t always fun, but find ways to get out of your comfort zone.

Reflecting on my college experience, I made huge improvements in personal growth when I put myself into uncertain situations. Take that class you know nothing about and join that club you’re interested in.

You’ll be better for it in the long run. I never had goals or aspirations to be a journalist, so joining The Daily Iowan was certainly out of my comfort zone. Yet here I am, a year later, with countless incredible experiences and a full-time job lined up, thanks in part to the DI. You never know where your new skills or connections will take you.

My final tip might be a controversial one, but work a part-time food service job during college. Working at Panera Bread for three years during my college career absolutely pushed me to some mental limits.

Food service is both frustrating and hard work, but leaving that job made me appreciate it more. I created relationships with my coworkers that I’ll remember forever, and the stress I endured reinforced my belief that I’m capable of anything.

sophia-stover@uiowa.edu

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Gabby Drees/The Daily Iowan Heartlander defenseman Billy Constantinou watches as a face off takes place at a hockey game between the Iowa Heartlanders and Toledo Walleye at Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa, on Dec. 8. The Walleye beat the Heartlanders 4-0.

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the professional game.

“He’s been awesome,”

Kozlowski said. “I can’t say enough good things about him. It’s cool to watch him progress and develop as a young guy, and me being a bit older trying to teach

him a thing or two off the ice as well, help him out a little bit. But he’s a good guy, a character. I love him to death. Funny guy for sure.”

As he spent his late teenage years playing junior hockey, Constantinou has not had the chance to attend college. He said it’s cool to live in a college town like

Iowa City.

“I get to experience it in a way,” Constantinou said. “Like, football’s huge here, I’m a big football fan.

So, it’s nice to have that

sports town vibe around us, knowing that everyone is following everything around here.”

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Continued from Page 6A else from the 2021 season — not that there was any doubt about that.

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Austin Hanson Sports Editor Henry Marchese’s blocked punt Who knew a single special teamer could save a season? Perhaps only Iowa special teams coach LeVar Woods and one of his aces Henry Marchese.

With 14:22 remaining in the fourth quarter of its annual Heroes Game against Nebraska, Iowa trailed, 21-9. On the day, the Hawkeyes had been limited to just three field goals, offensively.

Then, Marchese blocked

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Continued from Page 6A rounded by amazing people who want to achieve goals in and outside of our sport,” Britt said.

“Coach Woody has been a champion,” Britt added. “To be around someone like that has helped me succeed.”

Britt and Woody have a very tight-knit relation-

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Henry Marchese blocks a punt during a football game between No. 16 Iowa and Nebraska at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Nov. 26. The Hawkeyes defeated the Cornhuskers 28-21. a punt off the foot of the Cornhuskers’ William Przystup. After Marchese made contact with the ball, it soared through the air and right into the hands of Hawkeye sophomore Kyler Fisher. Once Fisher had the ball in his hands, he raced into the end zone for a

touchdown.

The special teams score gave the Hawkeyes an avalanche of momentum that the Cornhuskers couldn’t halt. Iowa won the game, 28-21, and retained possession of the Heroes Trophy for the seventh consecutive season.

ship. Woody is a former college hurdler himself.

The reigning Big Ten Coach of the Year won an NCAA Championship in the 400-meter hurdles at Northern Iowa in 1997.

“He’s a big team guy,” Woody said of Britt. “I mean, it’s phenomenal. He wants to do everything he can to help the team win and be successful . . . and I think that’s why he’s performing

the way he is. I can’t say enough good things about the guy.

“He really cares about his teammates,” Woody added.

“He’s just fun to coach.”

Britt did not compete in the Jimmy Grant Invitational on Dec. 11. Britt is likely to return to the track for the Hawkeye Invitational on Jan. 14.

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Jenna Galligan/The Daily Iowan Jamal Britt runs in a relay during the second day of the Larry Wieczorek Invitational on Jan. 23 at the University of Iowa Recreation Building.

The blocked field goal ultimately started a run that propelled Iowa to the Big Ten Championship Game.

Had Marchese never started Iowa’s late-game scoring rally against Nebraska, the Hawkeyes never would’ve made the Big Ten Championship Game.

Yes, Iowa got blown out in the Big Ten Championship, but the win against Nebraska helped push the Hawkeyes to their first outright Big Ten West Division title and conference championship game appearance since 2015.

Even if the trip to Lucas

Oil Stadium in Indianapolis wasn’t fruitful for the Hawkeyes, it was still quite an achievement for a program that doesn’t get an opportunity to play for a league championship very often.

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HAWKEYE UPDATES Citrus Bowl Game information

The No. 15 University of Iowa football team will take on No. 22 Kentucky in the Vrbo Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1 at 12 p.m. The game will be televised nationally on ABC. The 2021 Citrus Bowl will be played at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. Tickets to the game are still available at ticketmaster.com.

The Hawkeyes and Wildcats have never played each other before.

Iowa finished its season 10-3. The Hawkeyes went 7-3 in conference play this year, counting their 42-3 loss to No. 2 Michigan in the Big Ten Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Dec. 4.

Kentucky went 9-3 this year. All three of the Wildcats’ losses came against SEC opponents. Kentucky lost to Georgia Oct. 16, Mississippi State Oct. 30, and Tennessee Nov. 6.

Kentucky is coached by Mark Stoops, who played defensive back at Iowa from 1986-88. Current Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz was an assistant on the Hawkeyes’ staff when Stoops played in the Black and Gold.

Ferentz was one of then-Hawkeye head coach Hayden Fry’s assistants. Stoops also coached under Fry as a graduate assistant from 1990-91.

The last time Iowa played in a Citrus Bowl was 2005, when Hawkeye quarterback Drew Tate hit wide receiver Warren Holloway for a 56yard touchdown as the game clock expired. The Tate-Holloway touchdown pushed Iowa past a then-Nick Saban-coached LSU team, 30-25.

When Tate connected with Holloway, the game was called the Capital One Bowl. In 2014, the annual contest was renamed the Citrus Bowl.

The Citrus Bowl has been renamed on one other occasion. The game was played for the first time in 1947. The contest was called the Tangerine Bowl until 1982, when it was dubbed the Florida Citrus Bowl.

Capital One was the game’s sponsor beginning in 2003.

Tracy receives transfer offers

Former Iowa wide receiver Tyrone Tracy Jr. has begun to receive offers from other institutions, per his personal Twitter account. The 5-foot-11, 201-pound junior from Indianapolis entered the NCAA Transfer Portal on Dec. 7.

Since then, Houston, Hawaii, Miami (OH), Eastern Illinois, and Purdue have given Tracy offers.

Purdue is the first Big Ten team to give Tracy an offer since he entered the transfer portal.

Tracy’s brother, Kenny Tracy, plays running back at Miami (OH).

Kenny played 11 games for Miami this season, netting 213 yards and two touchdowns on 41 carries. Kenny also pulled in 17 passes for 155 yards and a touchdown this year.

Javon, the youngest Tracy brother, is currently a senior in high school. He committed to Miami (OH) on June 15, per 24/7 Sports.

Tyrone has not yet revealed where he intends to transfer to.

If he were to commit to Miami (OH), he wouldn’t be the first Hawkeye to transfer there in the last five years.

Defensive back Emmanuel Rugamba played the 2016 and 2017 seasons at Iowa. He then transferred to Miami (OH), where he had to sit out the 2018 season due to the NCAA’s transfer rules at the time.

Rugamba went on to become a full-time starter for the RedHawks.

He won Mid-American Conference Championship Defensive Player of the Game in 2019.

Tracy won’t be subject to the same transfer rules as Rugamba.

No matter where his next destination is, Tracy will be eligible to compete immediately.

The NCAA implemented new transfer rules in April, allowing student-athletes to transfer one time without losing eligibility. Student-athletes that transfer from one school to another can now play at their new school right away, rather than sitting out a year like Rugamba.

The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman tweeted Dec. 8 that six 2021 Iowa football players are currently in the transfer portal.

Third-string quarterback Deuce Hogan, a redshirt freshman, and sophomore receiver Desmond Hutson have both entered the transfer portal since November.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Murin is a physical, staunch, pillar of a guy.”

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Britt pushes boundaries Jamal Britt’s goal for this season is to win a national championship in the 60-meter hurdles.

Jenna Galligan/The Daily Iowan Iowa hurdlers Gratt Reed, Jamal Britt, Iowa alum Aaron Mallett — who ran unattached — compete in the 60m hurdle premier final during the second day of the Larry Wieczorek Invitational on Jan. 23 at the University of Iowa Recreation Building. Reed, Britt, and Mallett finished fifth, second, and first, respectively.

Grant Hall Sports Reporter Despite all the success he’s enjoyed during his time in the Black and Gold, senior hurdler Jamal Britt is still hungry for more.

The three-time All-American posted a runner-up finish in the 60-meter hurdles at last year’s NCAA Indoor Men’s Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Britt was one hundredth

of a second away from a national championship in the 60-meter hurdles. Louisiana State University’s Damion Thomas, who beat Britt in Fayetteville, is returning to Baton Rouge for his senior year.

With his runner-up finish from last year in mind, Britt is setting lofty goals for himself this season.

“My goal last year was to make the NCAA championships,” Britt said. “To place second was an eye-open-

er because it wasn’t really something I expected . . .

This year, the goal is to try to win a title.”

Britt already holds the University of Iowa record for fastest 60-meter hurdle time. The 7.52-second time Britt ran in Fayetteville shattered Iowa’s previous 7.60-second record. Britt set the old 7.60-second UI record at the 2021 Hawkeye Invitational in February.

“Setting the record was very exciting,” Britt said.

“7.52 was a time I didn’t expect to run until my senior year. So, to do that as a junior has me wondering, ‘What time can I get this year?’”

Britt’s impact on the Hawkeyes’ roster goes beyond the track. The senior now views himself as a leader, and he wants to set the standard for the rest of the team.

“I look at myself to be a leader, as someone people look to,” Britt said. “I do my

Heartlanders defenseman proves crucial to success Billy Constantinou is the youngest skater on the club, but he’s proving to be a solid defenseman.

best in terms of execution, so I can set the best example possible . . . I try to help my teammates in any way I can because I want them to be the best version of themselves. And they help me as well.”

Britt attributes much of his and his teammates' success to the culture Iowa director of track and Field Joey Woody has built.

“I’m very thankful to be in a program like this, surBRITT | Page 5A

The Iowa football season's greatest moment DI Pregame Editor Robert Read and Sports Editor Austin Hanson debate which moment stands out from the season.

The stadium swarm at Kinnick

Gabby Drees/The Daily Iowan Iowa defenseman Billy Constantinou attempts to get the puck by Indy forward Brent Gates during a hockey game between the Iowa Heartlanders and Indy Fuel at the Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa, on Nov. 12. Iowa won 5-3.

Isaac Goffin Sports Reporter Billy Constantinou, a defenseman for the Iowa Heartlanders, likes to tune up a little bit of everything in the locker room.

Before morning skates, he puts on country music. When that’s finished, he queues up Avicii.

Then, ahead of games, he blats rap songs through his speakers. Most of the time, his teammates enjoy those songs from the kid of the squad.

At 20 years old, the right-handed shooter from Ontario, Canada, is the youngest skater on the Heartlanders.

“It’s like being the little brother of the group,” Constantinou said. “So, we all get along really well. [They] take me under their wing a little bit — show me the ropes, I guess you can say — so I love it.”

But Constantinou’s youth doesn’t mean he’s been put on the bench. Instead, it’s the opposite.

Constantinou had recorded 10 points through 21 games — the most on the club for a defenseman.

Four of those points have come from goals.

“I like being a defenseman because you can see the whole ice from the back end,” Constantinou said. “But I also like to be creative and show my offensive side as well.”

Forward Yuki Miura applauded Constantinou’s ability to find open space on the offensive side of the ice.

“When I put a puck in the [offensive] zone, he’s always open and always tries to shoot the puck,” Miura said.

The offensive prowess Constantinou is demonstrating in his first professional season is not new. From 2017-20, he competed in his home providence as a skater in the Ontario Hockey League — a junior hockey club.

During his three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League, Consantinou tallied 22 goals with three different organizations. He also put 76 assists, including a staggering 39 during the 201920 campaign. The 53 points credited to his name in 2019-20 were 10th among blueliners in the league.

Now, as a professional player in the ECHL, Constantinou feels more relaxed on the ice.

He said that he initially felt pressure to not make any mistakes, but he’s felt more comfortable as he’s worked with the Heartlanders coaching staff.

Constantinou has been key on a defense that has occasionally had fewer than the usual six defensemen each game — such as the Heartlanders’ 3-2 shootout victory on Dec. 10 against the Toledo Walleye. The right-handed shooter was one of the four defensemen in the lineup, playing on the ice more than usual.

Goaltender Trevin Kozlowski has been impressed with how Constaninou has adjusted to HEARTLANDERS | Page 6A

This one was easy.

Iowa’s 23-20 win over Penn State at Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 9 in what was, at the time, a matchup between top-five teams is undoubtedly one of the most memorable moments in Hawkeye football Robert Read history. It most Pregame Editor certainly is the highlight of the 2021 season for the Hawkeyes.

It was Iowa’s first top-five matchup at Kinnick in 36 years. The atmosphere was so intense that Penn State was called for back-to-back-toback false start penalties. The rowdy environment was so impressive that it helped eventually sway five-star safety Xavier Nwankpa to commit to Iowa. Oh, and then there was the game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Spencer Petras to wide receiver Nico Ragaini. Fans were just waiting for Iowa to hold onto the win from that moment on so they could spill onto the field.

The field storming that night was surreal. It’s the best atmosphere I’ve ever been in for a sporting event, for whatever that’s worth. The implications of that entire game were surreal, too.

Iowa just moved to 6-0 on the season (and No. 2 in the country) after beating a team everyone seemed to think could be College Football Playoff bound. Everything seemed so possible for the Hawkeyes at that point. Quick warning, Hawkeye fans: I’m about to mention a game that included Purdue wide receiver David Bell.

A week after this game, Iowa’s perfect season ended. The Hawkeyes lost to Purdue for the start of their two-game losing stretch. And yes, Iowa still won 10 games this season and represented the Big Ten West in the conference championship game. But after beating Penn State, even more than that seemed possible.

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Ariana Lessard Arts Reporter Nickolas Butler attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an undergraduate student and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop as a graduate student.

Butler is the author of international bestseller Shotgun Lovesongs and his acclaimed collection of short stories entitled Beneath the Bonfire. He has also won France’s prestigious PAGE Prix America, the 2014 Great Lakes Great Reads Award, the 2014 Midwest Independent Booksellers Award, the 2015 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award, the 2015 UW-Whitewater Chancellor’s Regional Literary Award, and many other honors.

DI: So my first question is where did the inspiration for the book Godspeed come from?

Butler: Back in 2014, we built a house — well, the house where I’m talking to you from in South Voeckler, Wisconsin — and after the house was done, a family friend of mine came over to kind of look the house over, and he started talking about this project that he

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I was pretty naive about Jackson, and I read about it and I thought to myself like, “You know? I didn’t want to live in Eau Claire.” This seems like kind of a quaint ski village to be in and then I looked at the real estate values and they’re astronomical. You can’t be like a normal person and live in Jackson very easily. So that was influential too. And then we actually spent three, four days camping in the Bridger Teton National Forest, so we could be close to natural springs and natural hot springs, and so then I was actually sitting in the springs everyday looking out over the landscape thinking this, this is where the story’s set.

So I started asking myself like, what if it’s not a $2 million house? What if it’s a $20 million house outside of Jackson? What if instead of $15,000 It’s a quarter-million dollar bonus and what if instead of saying no to that crazy scheme, what if the guys were like “Yeah, let’s do it.” And then what if they slip behind and have to start using meth to stay up all night long?

DI: What message does your story convey?

Butler: I don’t worry a whole lot about the messages.

I mean, I think I’m a little bit worried about the fact that in a lot of communities around the country, it’s becoming increasingly hard for middle class people to live where they are accustomed to living. They’re being priced out by super wealthy folks. I guess I’m concerned about what I see in the world of Instagram or social media where people think that material goods are going to make them happy, and then it’s not. I guess I worry about losing the natural world — if we can all just build a house in beautiful places, otherwise, there will be no

follow it and I’ve been fortunate to not do that. So yeah, there were a number of challenges.

DI: Was it the story your friend told you that inspired you, or was there a different reason you decided you wanted to go in the direction of a thriller?

Butler: Well, I love reading thrillers, so it’s a genre that I love and I would never disparage. I really love a good literary thriller, where you know, a book like Deliverance or A Simple Plan or I’m trying to think of some other titles, but I like a literary thriller because I don’t think they necessarily try to tie everything up super neatly at the end.

DI: What would you say are some strengths of the thriller genre?

Butler: Well, I mean, I think a lot of thriller writers sort of still have a contract with their reader. You know, they care about the reader turning pages. They don’t want to read a boring book. What would be worse than reading a boring thriller, you know, and that’s something that I respect. I mean, I mostly write literary fiction, but I do think it’s important to not have to write for a reader or care about what your readers think, but to not be like, so selfish that you’re reading a boring book.

DI: So to end off, final question. It’s kind of a fun one. Are there any characters that you see yourself in?

Butler: Well, I mean, I think there’s a little bit of Gretchen in me. When we built our house here in Wisconsin, I sort of naively thought that the next day after I moved into the house and after it was finished, I was somehow going to be a happier, more complete human being, and surprise, you know, you’re the same person.

You’ve just spent a lot of money building a house. And I think Gretchen is trying to find a way to get back to her childhood and get back to the memories that she values the most. But she’s ultimately not super successful with that.

The Book of Boba Fett

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Parker Jones Arts Reporter Next up in Disney+’s lineup of original content is a much-awaited spin-off of one of the streaming service’s biggest series, The Mandalorian, following another mysterious helmeted protagonist.

The Book of Boba Fett premieres on Dec. 29 and will run for seven episodes until Feb. 9. The character of Boba Fett first appeared in the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, and later in main franchise films like The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Attack of the Clones.

The new series will also follow the fan-favorite bounty hunter and mercenary Fennec Shand, who first appeared in The Mandalorian. The two work together in an attempt to make a name for themselves in the galaxy’s underworld by taking over the territory once controlled by Jabba the Hutt.

The Mandalorian shares much of its cast and crew with The Book of Boba Fett.

The new series will be produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Robert Rodriguez, and Kathleen Kennedy. Favreau, Filoni, and Rodriguez directed several episodes as well, like they did for The Mandalorian.

Cast members of the new series include Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett, who he also played in The Mandalorian, and the return of Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand, an elite mercenary and assassin in Fett’s service after events in The Mandalorian. Additionally, actress Jennifer Beals portrays a Twi’lek character who has yet to be revealed.

The Book of Boba Fett will be sure to bring the fan-favorite character to a new generation of Star Wars fans.

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Iowa City DJ collective aims to empower FemmeDecks, an Iowa City DJ collective, seeks to empower women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Olivia Augustine Arts Reporter In the world of electronic music making, an industry dominated by straight white men, FemmeDecks is an Iowa City-based collective that aims to empower women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community.

FemmeDecks was founded at Gabe’s by University of Iowa alumni Angelia Mahaney and Nina Kintsurashvili in 2019. The two had DJ’d together at the bar on Washington Street and bonded during a conversation about the lack of female DJs in Iowa City.

After graduating, Kintsurashvili moved back home to Tbilisi, Georgia, but starting a music collective alone didn’t slow Mahaney. FemmeDecks was still relatively new when Kintsurashvili moved, and the group has grown exponentially since then.

“We were still trying to get connected and find other people that were interested in doing this too,” Mahaney said. “A lot of what I’ve done with connecting with new people and booking new DJs that are not just [white, cisgender, heterosexual] men has been after [Kintsurashvili] left, and also during the pandemic.”

FemmeDecks is dedicated to creating a safe and inclusive environment for marginalized artists to engage with each other, said Liara Kaylee Tsai, who joined the collective in May of this year. She said one of her biggest goals with the group is to emphasize that FemmeDecks is a safe place for members of underrepresented communities in electronic music.

Tsai had a following in Madison, Wisconsin, before moving to New York City.

After moving back to the

Jake Wicks/The Daily Iowan Iowa City resident Angelia Mahaney demonstrates how to use a sound board at a DJ open house in Iowa City on Dec. 11. The event was hosted by FemmeDecks to inspire women and minority groups to become active in the DJ community.

Midwest in April, she heard about FemmeDecks and its mission.

Tsai said she had never heard of a group that performs live with FemmeDecks’ goals in mind.

“It felt really good to have that kind of acceptance and representation,” Tsai said. “I just really appreciate what the organization is trying to do.”

Andrés Mora Mata, originally from Caracas, Venezuela, is another member of the collective who helps organize and DJ at events.

Mora Mata said he’s seen similar groups in places like Berlin and Spain, but it’s special to have a group in Iowa City that pushes local diversity.

“Having that change of status quo really means that people are being provided with both the spacing which they can be free and just enjoying dancing — when that’s what we’re trying to provide — and also a change of what is usually just cis white men doing their thing, and, you know, running the show,” he said.

Mora Mata said he sees Saturday’s DJ workshop at Public Space One’s Close

House Space as one of FemmeDecks’ biggest successes. The workshop was open to people from all levels of expertise in DJing.

The space allowed people who are new to DJing, or interested in getting into the field, with the opportunity to work equipment they wouldn’t have access to otherwise. They were also taught fundamental lessons like how to organize a track list and what software to download.

Mahaney said she was held back from DJing for a long time because she subconsciously believed it was only for men to do. She said she hopes the workshop will alleviate some of that thinking by providing a safe space to explore and try something new.

“I think that a lot of women have this thought in their heads all the time,” Mahaney said. “I think that just getting it out there that, yeah, women can DJ — like women do have the taste in music and technical skills and knowledge — will hopefully encourage more people, more women, to start DJing.”

olivia-augustine@uiowa.edu

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Celebrating 175 years of Iowa Artists collaborated with the Annals of Iowa to create a magazine full of works highlighting aspects of life in Iowa.

Jenna Post Arts Editor To celebrate the 175th anniversary of Iowa’s statehood, the Annals of Iowa — a quarterly published history magazine — will unveil a special edition in collaboration with the Iowa Arts Council for the first time in the publication’s history.

Typically, the Annals of Iowa features written work about the state. For this edition, essays and visual art inserts will be united under 11 categories, including religion, politics, and agriculture.

Annals of Iowa editor Andrew Klumpp said the selection process involved three key criteria: how well the work fit with the selected topic, how well the work would fit in a magazine format, and if the work’s art style would add variety to the magazine.

He said, of the many submissions the publication received, 16 artists were selected for inserts and one was selected for the cover.

“This was the first time that we’ve ever done a collaboration like this between the Iowa Arts Council and the Annals of Iowa, so we weren’t quite sure what to expect for a response, but we were just delighted by the response we received from Iowa artists,” Klumpp said.

Two former University of Iowa graduates will see their work published in the Annals of Iowa special edition.

When Nancy Purington, UI graduate and visiting professor for textile arts, heard that the publication was seeking submissions, the agriculture category resonated

with her.

“I grew up in Iowa, in the country, and I was always a visual learner,” Purington said. “I intensely observed the world around me as a child.”

Purington said she had a period of painting botanical subjects for a few years. During that time, she published the original version of the piece she submitted to the Annals of Iowa. The current version was digitally reworked in Photoshop and will be featured in the special edition, entitled “Cross Pollination #104.”

The work features a geometric pattern with yellow corn kernels, a blue background representing ancient indigo dyeing practices, and a diagonal pattern connecting those elements.

“Variations in botany is a language, and a way of life in Iowa,” Purington wrote in her artist statement for the special edition.

Multidisciplinary artist and UI graduate Akwi Nji also uses art to represent language. Her submission, which will be featured in the special edition, was pulled from her 2020 textbook series titled “Textile Narrative.” Each piece is sized 5 inches by 7.5 inches, which mirrors the standard size of a memoir to represent that her visual work carries a narrative.

“It’s a story of who we are at the time that I was creating the piece — as a community, as a state, as a country,” Nji said.

Nji wanted to focus on the two events that affected her and her two teenage daughters most at the time: the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. As a mother, she

It’s a story of who we are at the time that I was creating the piece — as a community, as a state, as a country.

— UI graduate and artist Akwi Nji

Photo illustration by Jerod Ringwald

I grew up in Iowa, in the country, and I was always a visual learner. I intensely observed the world around me as a child.”

— UI graduate and artist Nancy Purington said she wanted to work through her thoughts and feelings on these issues so she could have conversations with her daughters about them.

“I had so many intellectual and emotional thoughts that were just getting jumbled up in my head and in my heart,” she said. “And the way I visualized it is like just a ball of yarn — the thread becoming more and more tangled the more I thought about everything.”

Nji found that her complicated feelings were easier to untangle when she put them into her art, she said.

“Creating the artwork was a way for those ideas and feelings that I was processing to really be sorted out,” Nji said.

“Very literally using my hands to make sense of what my head and my heart could not make sense of.”

Nji said, while the Black Lives Matter movement is certainly not unique to Iowa, it has roots here.

She sees a through-line between Iowa’s involvement in the Underground Railroad and Black Iowans’ past and present, she said.

“What we are experiencing now is absolutely directly connected to centuries of history,” Nji said. “And so, for me, it was a really intentional decision to try to create something that tied a historical context of race relations to contemporary art.”

jenna-post@uiowa.edu

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BACK TO BOWLING Iowa will play Kentucky in the Citrus Bowl a year after its trip to the Music City Bowl was canceled.

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Ayrton Breckenridge/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive linemen Zach VanValkenburg rushes the passer during a football game between Iowa and Indiana at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 4. The Hawkeyes are matched up against one of the best offensive lines in the country in the Citrus Bowl.

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Nicknamed the “Big Blue Wall,” Kentucky’s offensive line is one of the best fronts in the nation.

The group is one of four finalists for the Joe Moore Award — given to the most outstanding offensive line unit in college football. 2021 marks the fourth consecutive year the group has been a finalist for the honor. Behind the talented line, junior running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. ranks second in the SEC 12th nationally with 106 rushing yards per game.

He has totaled 1,272 yards and tied a school record with eight 100-yard rushing games this season. The O-line has the Wildcats on pace to average at least 200 yards per game passing and rushing for the first time in school history. The Wildcats are averaging

5.51 yards per carry — good for fourth in the country. Experience has been the biggest key to the success of Kentucky’s front as the five players have 119 combined starts. Senior right tackle Darian Kinnard has started 38 consecutive games, while fifth-year senior Luke Fortner has started 35 straight games, including every game this season at center. Kinnard won the Jacobs Blocking award, given to the SEC’s top blocker, and allowed only one sack all season.

Fortner was named to the All-SEC first team by the coaches and second team by Pro Football Focus. He too only allowed one sack this year. Read The Daily Iowan’s full scouting report at dailyiowan.com Chris Werner, Sports Reporter.

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Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz walks down the sideline during the Big Ten Championship game between Iowa and Michigan at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Dec. 4. Iowa is seekings its fourth straight bowl win.

Bowl season is back for Iowa

The Hawkeyes didn’t play in the postseason in 2020 because of the Music City Bowl’s cancellation, but will get a chance for an 11th win this season in a Citrus Bowl matchup with Kentucky at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 1.

Robert Read Pregame Editor Black banners celebrating the bowl games the Hawkeye football program has participated in over the years cover the walls and overlook the turf field in Iowa’s indoor practice facility. The year of the game and the name of the bowl

are displayed on the banners in white and gold lettering. The term “Champions” is added for the games the Hawkeyes won.

The newest addition to this collection commemorates a game that the Hawkeyes didn’t win. But they didn’t lose it, either.

Iowa earned a spot in

the 2020 Music City Bowl, which was never played.

Missouri, Iowa’s scheduled opponent in that game, was forced to pull out of the contest because of COVID-19 cases within its program. A year later, the Hawkeyes are adding another banner to their collection, and this time,

it will represent a game the Hawkeyes will actually have the chance to win.

Iowa is playing Kentucky in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, providing the Hawkeyes with their first bowl game since 2019.

“I feel like any time we have the chance to go to a bowl game, it’s just a re-

flection on how we played during the season,” defensive back Dane Belton said. “Not being able to go to a bowl last year, you see the banner up there in our indoor [facility], and it doesn’t say champions even though we didn’t get to play in it. We want to go out there this year and get

a banner that says champions, so we see that as extra motivation.”

The Hawkeyes have already participated in a game this postseason. Iowa lost to Michigan, 42-3, in the Big Ten Championship Game on Dec. 4.

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A win in that game wouldn’t only have made the Hawkeyes Big Ten Champions, it would have sent them to the Rose Bowl. Instead, Iowa will play a bowl game in Orlando, Florida, for the first time since the 2005 Capital One Bowl. That game ended in an Iowa victory when former Hawkeye quarterback Drew Tate fired a last-second, game-winning 56-yard touchdown to Warren Holloway against LSU, the defending national champions who were, at the time, coached by Nick Saban.

That win in Orlando nearly two decades ago provided Iowa with its 10th win of that season.

This year’s No. 15 Hawkeyes (10-3 overall, 7-3 Big Ten) can reach an even rarer program milestone with a win over the No. 22 Wildcats (9-3, 5-3 SEC).

The 2021 Hawkeyes became the 10th team in school history to win 10 games in a season.

Beating Kentucky on New Year’s Day would make this year’s Iowa team the fourth in school history to reach 11 wins.

“It’s going to mean a lot,” said Iowa center Tyler Linderbaum, this year’s Rimington Award winner. “It’s not going to be easy, that’s for sure. Obviously, 11-3 sounds a lot better than 10-4. That’s going to be our goal. It doesn’t happen often around here, 11 wins in this program. Our team’s been through a lot this year. To get that 11th win is going to mean a lot to us. We’re going to have to work hard and prepare our butts off for this game.”

The Hawkeyes enter their 34th bowl game appearance having won three consecutive bowls (excluding last year’s bowl) for the second time in

program history. Iowa is 1715-1 all-time in bowl games and 9-8 in 23 years under head coach Kirk Ferentz.

Iowa is 6-5 against current SEC teams in bowl games but have never faced Kentucky.

The Hawkeyes are very familiar with the Wildcats’ coach, though.

Mark Stoops played defensive back at Iowa under Hayden Fry in the late 1980s before becoming a graduate assistant on the Hawkeye coaching staff. For the last nine years, Stoops has led the Wildcats. Stoops is one victory away from his second 10-win season at Kentucky. The first of which came in 2018, a season that ended with the Wildcats winning the Citrus Bowl.

The Hawkeyes will do their best to prevent one of their alums from doing that again.

“To have a bowl opportunity, it’s really exciting,” Ferentz said. “I’m just so proud of our team, the way they played this year, what they’ve been able to do, and how they’ve maximized their ability. To play in a bowl like the Citrus Bowl, it’s such a great reward for our players. Really happy for them to get this opportunity.”

Iowa is heading into the bowl game without Tyler Goodson, its leading rusher in each of the last three seasons.

The junior announced on Dec. 10 that he was declaring for the NFL Draft and opting out of the Citrus Bowl. Iowa’s 123rd-ranked offense will be without its 1,000-yard rusher against Kentucky’s defense, which is allowing 22 points per game this season.

Kentucky and Iowa have both seen plenty of ups and downs since starting their respective seasons 6-0. The Hawkeyes reached as high as No. 2 in the Associated Press Poll, while the Wildcats

Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa center Tyler Linderbaum blocks Michigan defensive lineman Jess Speight during the Big Ten Championship game between Iowa and Michigan at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Dec. 4. Linderbaum said winning an 11th game this season would “mean a lot.” climbed to No. 11.

From there, both teams suffered losing skids (two straight losses for Iowa, three for Kentucky) before winning out over the rest of the regular season. Iowa’s winning streak was snapped with its 39-point loss to Michigan. The Hawkeyes are coming off their worst loss since 1999 heading into the Citrus Bowl.

“Obviously, it was a disappointing night for us [against Michigan],” said Ferentz, who would tie Joe Paterno for most bowl wins as a Big Ten head coach (10) by beating Kentucky. “But the good news is right now we’ll put a good plan together, and more importantly, we’ve got a group that’s already proved this year how resilient they are. They’ve gotten back up off the turf a couple times already this year. I have full

confidence we’ll do it again.

We’ve got great leadership on this football team.

They’re exceptional young guys.”

Ferentz noted that, after Iowa lost to Michigan State in the 2015 Big Ten title game, the Hawkeyes were physically, mentally, and emotionally drained going into the 2016 Rose Bowl, a game in which Iowa lost 4516. That’s something Ferentz has been mindful of as he’s preparing his team for the Citrus Bowl.

The Hawkeyes returned to team activities on Dec. 7 after finding out their bowl destination on Dec. 5. That morning, Iowa had a brief meeting and a light workout consisting mostly of stretching. The Hawkeyes have lifted periodically since then, but finals week will be another light week as far as

game preparation for players, Ferentz said.

Once the semester ends, Iowa will dive deeper into its game plan for Kentucky.

Iowa will have 15 practices to get ready for the Wildcats.

And the Hawkeyes don’t plan on wasting any one of them.

Iowa was pummeled the last time they were on the field. Ferentz’s 24-hour rule is still in effect, so the Hawkeyes aren’t supposed to dwell on a loss for longer than the day after the game. But, unlike a regular week, Iowa didn’t get a chance to immediately play a game after losing to Michigan.

Instead, the 2021 Hawkeyes will have waited almost a month by the time they get to play their last game together.

Only the Wildcats stand in the way of going out with a win.

“We have a great oppor-

tunity coming up to finish out the season as this group of guys,” said Belton, who is from Tampa, Florida. “Last game we’ll ever play together, and I feel like that’s what we do. We’ll go hit the practice field and get back to working … I feel like we’re going to go out and give it our all as an opportunity together. One more time to play one last game, so I feel like we’re going to be ready.”

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CITRUS BOWL Who: No. 15 Iowa vs. No. 22 Kentucky When: Jan. 1 at noon Where: Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida Line: KY -3.0

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File photo/The Daily Iowan Hawkeye football players celebrate winning the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1, 2005. Iowa is making its first trip back to Orlando, Florida, since that game for the 2022 Citrus Bowl.

Drew Tate remembers ‘The Catch’

Former Hawkeye quarterback Drew Tate lobbed a 56-yard, last-second TD to defeat LSU in the 2005 Capital One Bowl.

Chloe Peterson Assistant Sports Editor A last-second field goal would have won Iowa the 2005 Capital One Bowl.

Instead, a 56-yard, last-second heave for a game-winning, walk-off touchdown provided Hawkeye football

fans with one of the most memorable plays in program history. Now, Iowa is preparing to play in its first Orlando bowl game since “The Catch.”

The Daily Iowan interviewed former Iowa quarterback Drew Tate ahead of the 2022 Citrus Bowl to look back

at the last time the Hawkeye played in Orlando. Iowa trailed LSU, 25-24, with 70 yards to go and 39 seconds left on the clock at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 1, 2005.

The Hawkeyes only needed to gain around 40 yards for

former Hawkeye kicker Kyle Schlicher. Iowa trusted Schlicher to make a long kick, as he converted on 21 field goals during the 2004 season — a Hawkeye program record.

“Really, before that drive, we were just like, ‘Hey, if we can get it in [field goal range],

you know, Schlicher’s been having a good year, we got to get into field goal range.’’

Tate, the 2005 Capital One Bowl MVP, said. “So, we had a good return. So, I mean, we were just wanting to get into field goal range, I remember, and it’s crazy how it played

out that way.”

The Hawkeyes didn’t get a field goal. As Tate went under center for the final Hawkeye drive of the 200405 season, he fumbled with his clock management.

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Continued from Page 5 First, Tate notched a first down on an 11-yard throw, stopping the clock at 33 seconds. Tate’s second throw came just short of a first down marker, keeping the clock ticking down.

“They’ve gotta call a timeout here, they’ve gotta call a timeout here,” Iowa play-byplay announcer Gary Dolphin and color commentator Ed Pololak repeated on the radio broadcast.

But Tate didn’t call a timeout. Instead, with 15 seconds remaining, the Hawkeyes rushed into formation and Tate called for a snap before the line was set — drawing a false start penalty.

The Hawkeyes lost six seconds and five yards before the final play of the game.

“I don’t know,” Tate said of his decision to spike the ball instead of calling for a timeout. “It was just kind of a funny business with timeouts and how we were going to use them, I guess. It was always kind of like that all year, like, [head coach Kirk Ferentz] is very, you know, conscientious of his time outs. So, just, I don’t know, it played out that way. It’s crazy. In order for the game to happen the way it did, I was supposed to do that. We’re supposed to do that, right?”

After the penalty, the clock didn’t stop. Tate said, after he broke his huddle, the referees signaled to him that the clock was, in fact, still running. And Tate rushed his offense together for what he knew was going to be the final play of the game.

“Now, they’ve gotta call timeout, they wind the clock,” Dolphin said over the radio

Aaron Holmgren/The Daily Iowan Iowa quarterback Drew Tate evades Ohio State defensive end Mike Kudla in the second half of the Hawkeyes’ victory over Ohio State on Oct. 16, 2004. Tate provided Hawkeye fans with an unforgettable play the last time the Hawkeyes played a bowl game in Orlando, Florida. broadcast as the Hawkeye line got set with 11 seconds remaining. “Nine seconds to play and Drew Tate doesn’t know that. The game’s going to end on this play.”

The game-ending play? A 56-yard touchdown throw to fifth-year senior Warren Holloway.

The Iowa crowd in Orlando threw their hands in the air and screamed as Tate and the rest of the Hawkeyes ran to celebrate in the end zone.

Dolphin yelled from the radio

booth, “Touchdown Iowa, no time on the clock. I don’t believe what I just saw.”

Holloway had 29 catches for 283 yards over the course of the 2004-05 season and recorded his first collegiate touchdown catch at the Capital One Bowl.

“Shoot, just a crazy ending, right?” Tate said. “Just the way it all played out, that was really cool. And then the guy that caught the damn ball, the story is crazy. Because on him, he was a fifth-year senior,

never had a touchdown until the last game of his career… It was really cool, really special.”

Now, 17 years after “The Catch,” head coach Kirk Ferentz and his 2021 Hawkeye football team will return to Camping World Stadium for the Citrus Bowl.

The game was referred to as the Capital One Bowl from 2003-13 and changed to the Citrus Bowl beginning in the 2014 season.

“We’re just really excited to have this opportunity,” Fer-

entz said. “I’m one of the few people around here, I guess, that remembers the trip. It was such a great experience for everybody involved with most of our team, obviously. Everybody there had a great time in Orlando. [The Citrus Bowl] did a great job hosting an event.

We’re thrilled to be back there.

It’s been quite a while.”

Tate hasn’t been keeping up with the 10-3 Hawkeyes throughout most of this season. But he has a game plan for the Hawkeyes to beat the

9-3 Wildcats — keep the Citrus Bowl a low-scoring game.

“They keep it in the 20s or the teens,” Tate said. “You know, that’s definitely where Iowa is more comfortable playing games. It’s definitely a tough game though. No doubt about it. Kentucky is a really good team. Mark Stoops has done a really good job with Kentucky, keeping them competitive as they are in the SEC.”

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Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Dane Belton tackles Indiana running back Stephen Carr for a loss during a football game between Iowa and Indiana at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 4. Belton will play near his Tampa, Florida, home in the Citrus Bowl.

Citrus Bowl a homecoming game for Belton Dane Belton is returning to his home state of Florida for Iowa’s Jan. 1 Citrus Bowl matchup with Kentucky.

Austin Hanson Sports Editor Dane Belton has been on the precipice of playing a game at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida, multiple times in the last eight years.

The junior defensive back for the Hawkeyes grew up in Tampa, Florida, just 90 miles from the venue. The trip from Jesuit High School — Belton’s alma mater — to Camping World Stadium is one hour and 30 minutes.

Camping World Stadium hosted the Florida State High School Football Championship Game when Belton was at Jesuit.

During Belton’s tenure with the Tigers, he almost

got to make the 90-minute trip from Tampa to Orlando for the state championship game on three occasions. The Tigers were eliminated from the playoffs in the semifinal round three times in Belton’s four years at Jesuit. So, he never got his shot to play at Camping World Stadium — until now.

Belton will finally get his chance to play at Camping World Stadium as No. 15 Iowa takes on No. 22 Kentucky in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1.

“It’s a great opportunity, being able to play anywhere close to home,” Belton said of Iowa’s upcoming appearance in Florida. “[Tampa] is like an hour and a half from Orlando, very close. I definitely

have been getting hit up [for tickets]. My mom talked to me about it . . . She was just talking about how a lot of people are trying to come, so be ready for that.

“We’ll handle that when the time comes.”

Belton led the Big Ten Conference with five interceptions this season. His teammate, senior cornerback and Tatum-Woodson Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year, Riley Moss, ranked second in the league with four picks.

Iowa’s defense led the nation with 24 interceptions in 13 games this year.

“We’ve always known that [Dane] has some type of greatness in him,” Danny Belton said of his son. “It’s one of those

things where it’s manifesting itself last year and this year. We’re actually seeing the fruits of his labor.”

Statistically, 2021 has been Dane’s best season as a Hawkeye. He’s recorded 43 tackles along with his five interceptions.

He’s also registered three tackles for loss and 12 pass deflections.

Before the 2021 season began, Pro Football Network projected Dane to be a fifth-round draft pick. Now, nearly five months later, he might have a chance to achieve his dream and play in the National Football League.

“It was his dream since he was in high school,” Danny said.“But once he started getting close, he realized it could be more of a reality than just a dream . . . Once he got to his freshman year, he

was like, ‘Dad, remember that dream? It’s going to be a reality.’

He told me that, straight up, just like that.

“He was like, ‘I don’t know when or where,’” Danny added. “‘It may be a matter of time, but that’s what it’s gonna be because I can feel it when I go to practices, when [coaches] instruct me, when they yell at me for messing up a play or whatever.’”

Danny added that his son is on the fence about turning pro or coming back to the UI for the 2022 season.

Dane has tabled any decision-making he’ll need to do — for now. And while he is interested in undergoing the NFL evaluation process, he’ll compete in the Citrus Bowl before he proceeds any

further.

“To be honest, I haven’t really given it much thought,” Dane said of the NFL Draft evaluation process. “I was just focused on the season.

If I have an opportunity to see the evaluation, I might explore that. It can’t hurt. At the end of the day, my focus is on this last game we have together as a team. That’s just what I’m thinking right now.

“That time will come,” Dane added. “There’s a time and place for everything. I feel like, right now, we have a great opportunity at our hands, and to capitalize on that is what my mind is on.”

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Iowa football notebook | Bowl game edition The Hawkeyes have not named their starting QB for the Citrus Bowl and will be without starting RB Tyler Goodson.

Robert Read Pregame Editor Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz has not named a starting quarterback for the Citrus Bowl, nor has he indicated if Spencer Petras and Alex Padilla will both see snaps against Kentucky.

Petras started nine games during the regular season, all eight of Iowa’s games in 2020, and the Big Ten Championship Game. Petras suffered a torso injury in the first half against Michigan. Alex Padilla, who has started three games for Iowa this year, relieved Petras in the third quarter against the Wolverines. A depth chart for the Citrus Bowl has not been released yet. Despite not naming a starter, Ferentz did say he expects Petras to be healthy enough to play in the Citrus Bowl.

“He had a tough night [against Michigan],” Ferentz said. “There was some discomfort. As far as I understand right now, there’s really – nothing is in danger, no organs, anything like that.

He took a pretty good shot. It wasn’t to the head. He took a shot. He at least strained some stuff in his abdominal area. So, he’s going to be fine, but he’s in discomfort here and probably will be for a while.”

Petras has completed 56.6 percent of his passes for 1,669 yards, nine touchdowns, and six interceptions this season.

Padilla, a redshirt sophomore, is completing 49.1 percent of his throws for 636 yards and has tossed two touchdowns and two picks this season.

reps as a competitor. I know that feeling. I’ve been in that position.”

Linderbaum, Belton not opting out

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa running back Tyler Goodson shushes the Iowa State student section after scoring a touchdown during a football game between Iowa and Iowa State at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames on Sept. 11. Goodson declared for the NFL Draft and will not play in the Citrus Bowl.

An update on Iowa’s running backs room Iowa’s 123rd-ranked offense will head into the Citrus Bowl without its leading rusher.

Junior running back Tyler Goodson announced on Dec. 10 that he is declaring for the NFL Draft and will not play in the Citrus Bowl against Kentucky. Goodson, Iowa’s leading rusher in each of the last three seasons, ran for a team-leading 1,151 yards this year, the 10th-best sin-

gle-season mark in program history.

“I will forever consider myself a Hawkeye and look forward to making my family, friends, and Hawkeye Nation proud at the next level,” Goodson said in a statement.

With Goodson’s departure, only four running backs remain on Iowa’s roster: Senior Ivory Kelly-Martin, redshirt freshmen Gavin Williams and Leshon Williams, and true freshman Deavin Hilson. Collectively, they will try to make up for the production of a play-

er who started the last 25 games in the backfield for the Hawkeyes. Kelly-Martin missed the last month of the regular season with a foot injury, but he played on special teams against Michigan. The fifth-year senior has been plagued by fumbling issues throughout the season. He lost the ball twice against Kent State and has not recorded a rushing attempt since fumbling against Wisconsin on Oct. 30. Gavin Williams has slid into Iowa’s No. 2 running back role in Kelly-Martin’s

absence. He is Iowa’s second-leading rusher this season (207 yards) and led Iowa with 56 yards against Michigan. Leshon Williams has only touched the ball 11 times this season, gaining 27 yards.

“The two young guys in the room are very talented,” running backs coach Ladell Betts said of both Gavin and Leshon in September. “I think people will be pleasantly surprised when they get a chance to watch both of them play. I’m sure it’s tough for them not to get

Goodson appears to be the only Hawkeye who opted to not make the trip to Orlando, Florida. Center Tyler Linderbaum and defensive back Dane Belton both plan to play in the Citrus Bowl, they said on Dec. 5. Linderbaum, a redshirt junior, is a projected first-round NFL draft pick and was recently named the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year, the Rimington Award winner, and a firstteam All-American. Linderbaum quickly shut down any possibility that he would opt out of the bowl game to pursue his NFL career early.

“Yeah, dumb question,” Linderbaum said with a smirk to a reporter. Linderbaum and Belton both said they have not explored receiving NFL feedback yet, which would indicate where they might go in the 2022 NFL Draft. Belton, a junior, is coming off a first-team All-Big Ten season and leads the conference in interceptions with five.

“To be honest, I haven’t really given it much thought,” Belton said. “... At the end of the day, my focus is on this last game we have together as a team. “

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Hawkeyes prepped for Levis at QB Iowa will see a familiar opponent in former Penn State quarterback Will Levis, who is now the starting QB at Kentucky.

Chloe Peterson Assistant Sports Editor The Iowa football team will take on Kentucky for the first time in program history in this year’s Citrus Bowl. But it won’t be the Hawkeyes’ first time seeing Wildcat quarterback Will Levis.

Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz recruited the class of 2018 quarterback — the same recruiting class as current Iowa quarterback Spencer Petras — out of Connecticut before Levis eventually committed to start his college career at Penn State.

“We were the first Power Five school to offer him,” Ferentz said. “We offered him a couple of Junes ago.

He came to camp. He was a guy our quarterback coach, Ken O’Keefe, really liked.

He came out, came to camp.

There was no question in our mind he was going to be a good college football player.

“Unfortunately, another school came in that was a little more prestigious than us a couple weeks later. That was the end of that relationship. We did get to see him a little bit. Will is a tremendous football player. He’s done a great job. I hadn’t seen film but just followed and read articles and that type of thing. I know he’s done a great job for Kentucky. I’m not surprised.

He’s a first-class young man.”

Levis started playing organized football in his freshman year at Xavier

High School in Connecticut, as the private school he attended through eighth grade did not offer football.

Ahead of his senior season of high school, Levis ended up with six Power Five offers from Syracuse, Florida State, Ole Miss, North Carolina, Penn State, and Iowa.

“I don’t know if I’d be here right now if that hadn’t happened,” Levis told Kentucky.com of the offer from Iowa. “They were right at the top of my list until the very end. I had to make a choice between them and Penn State, those were my final two picks. I went with Penn State, but Iowa’s a great place. I loved it and have all the respect in the world for coach Ferentz.”

Penn State offered Levis on July 15, 2017, and he committed to the Nittany Lions the same day.

Levis was a Nittany Lion for three seasons. He redshirted his first season in 2018 and played behind Penn State QB Sean Clifford in 2019 and 2020.

While at Penn State, he appeared in 15 games with two starts when the Nittany Lions ran a two-quarterback offense. Levis saw ample time on the field against the Hawkeyes in Iowa’s 41-21 victory over Penn State in the 2020 season.

Levis went 13-of-16 for 106 yards against the Hawkeyes in 2020. He also accumulated 34 rushing yards, leading the Nittany

Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel Kentucky quarterback Will Levis (7) hurdles Tennessee defense for a first down during an SEC football game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Kentucky Wildcats at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky. on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021.

Lions in that game. Levis entered the transfer portal at the conclusion of the 2020 season to look for an opportunity to be a full-time starter. He found one at Kentucky. Levis has thrown for 2,593 yards and 23 touchdowns in his first season with the Wildcats while leading Kentucky to a 9-3 record.

Iowa junior defensive back Dane Belton said Levis

is known for being a running quarterback. Levis had 473 rushing yards and six touchdowns in two seasons at Penn State.

Levis has 387 rushing yards and nine touchdowns through his first 12 games at Kentucky.

“He was a tough guy,” Belton said. “They used him in the run game a lot. Little scheme plays and things like that. We’ll have to be ready

for that. He commands the offense well. He can toss the ball around a little bit. He runs and has an extra blocker. We’ll have to be physical, like we pride ourselves on, and just go from there. I feel like we might incorporate a lot of things that we did against him at Penn State.

Also, he has a new coordinator, so we’ll have to do some new things as well. Overall, he’s a great player.”

Iowa ranks 13th in the country in rush defense, allowing an average of 113.8 yards per game. Levis’ season-high in rushing yards as a Wildcat is 113 yards, a feat he accomplished against Louisville on Nov. 27.

Levis and the Wildcats will take on the Hawkeyes on Jan. 1 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.

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ROBERT READ

PREGAME EDITOR (38-27)

VS.

KENTUCKY

Iowa’s offense is not good, son.

IOWA STATE

AUSTIN HANSON SPORTS EDITOR (41-24)

KENTUCKY

I just want to be in Hlastrodamus.

IOWA STATE

VS.

Can’t wait for the Matt Campbell Cheez-It bath.

VS.

What a luxury to have Bob Stoops on retainer.

Good riddance, Rattler.

MICHIGAN STATE

MICHIGAN STATE

VS.

OKLAHOMA

I hope Kenny Pickett plays in this game.

TEXAS A&M

VS.

Exactly the type of game Jimbo Fisher is being paid to be in.

VS.

Yes, Cincinnati deserves to be here.

VS.

Georgia is much better than Iowa.

ALABAMA

GEORGIA

NOTRE DAME

VS.

Is Notre Dame becoming... likeable?

VS.

Block Urban Meyer’s number right now.

VS.

I just wanted Lane Kiffin to go back to USC.

OHIO STATE

OLE MISS

Iowa State’s opponent is cooler than Iowa’s.

OKLAHOMA

No Heisman for Kenny Pick-off.

TEXAS A&M

Wake Forest isn’t known for sports.

ALABAMA

These wheels keep on turning.

MICHIGAN

The Harboys are back.

NOTRE DAME

I like Brian Kelly’s new accent.

OHIO STATE

Will Iowa ever play in this game again?

OLE MISS

I feel rebellious.

CHLOE PETERSON

CHRIS WERNER

ASST. SPORTS EDITOR (35-30)

FOOTBALL REPORTER (33-32)

KENTUCKY

KENTUCKY

CLEMSON

IOWA STATE

Why not, ya know?

I’m just here for Prince Cheddward.

OREGON

I finally did it.

I like Cheez-Its.

OKLAHOMA

DESTINEE COOK

DITV SPORTS DIRECTOR (35-30)

IOWA

Even with no offense, they will beat Kentucky.

CLEMSON

I like Clemson. No reason why.

OKLAHOMA

JOHN BOHNENKAMP

SPORTS WRITING COACH (40-25)

IOWA

Won’t make a backup QB joke here.

CLEMSON

Won’t make a “Orlando will be out of Busch Light” joke here.

OKLAHOMA

“I’m not going to be the next head coach at LSU.” - Lincoln Riley.

I picked Oregon last week. Didn’t go well.

Lincoln Riley, you will not be missed.

Two teams who lost their coach. I will make that joke.

PITTSBURGH

PITTSBURGH

MICHIGAN STATE

MICHIGAN STATE

WAKE FOREST

WAKE FOREST

This matchup would be ~peachy~.

I think you could find gators more in a forest than in Texas.

ALABAMA

I wish I could pick Cincinnati.

MICHIGAN

Down with the dawgs.

NOTRE DAME

Marcus Freeman hasn’t coached a game, but I already love him.

OHIO STATE

Utah can beat Oregon, and that’s about it.

BAYLOR

Deuce Hogan’s next landing spot.

Kenny Pickett for Heisman.

Sam Hartman for Heisman.

ALABAMA

Justice for Kenneth Walker III.

TEXAS A&M

Remember when A&M beat Bama? That was cool.

CINCINNATI

The world isn’t ready for undefeated Cincy, sorry Shivansh.

I’m picking Cincy for fun and I’m bored.

MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN

Send condolences to @SkinnyKenny_.

OKLAHOMA ST.

“I’m a man, I’m 40.” I’m actually 21 but I like this quote.

OHIO STATE

Should’ve been a rematch with Michigan in Indy.

BAYLOR

Miss is too old.

GO BLUE.

NOTRE DAME

Brian Kelly will also not be missed.

OHIO STATE

Michigan beat Ohio State.

OLE MISS

Hotty toddy mood I guess.

Mel Tucker will get an even newer contract.

WAKE FOREST

Did anyone watch the ACC Championship Game?

ALABAMA

Reality sets in for the Bearcats.

GEORGIA

All of those extra TDs in Indy won’t carry over.

NOTRE DAME

They’re better off without Brian Kelly.

OHIO STATE

Nice consolation prize for the Buckeyes.

BAYLOR

Won’t make any joke here, because Baylor is never funny.

JASON BRUMMOND PUBLISHER (44-21)

IOWA

Hawkeyes (need to) break out all of their offensive tricks.

CLEMSON

Cyclones should celebrate this winning season.

OKLAHOMA

Looking for homes in Norman? Contact USC.

PITTSBURGH

Pickett’s fake slide seals the win.

TEXAS A&M

ACC just skipped to basketball season this year.

ALABAMA

Cincy makes it a game.

GEORGIA

DAWGS want a rematch with Bama.

NOTRE DAME

Brian Kelly’s former “family” is doing just fine.

OHIO STATE

This might be the best bowl matchup.

BAYLOR

Ole Miss comes up about a foot short.

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I finally get to rank the teams!

AUSTIN HANSON

austin-hanson@uiowa.edu

WEST VIRGINIA vs. MINNESOTA

1

michigan

Iowa fans have no reason to contest this ranking.

2

ohio state

3

michigan state

4

Isn’t the Big Ten runner up supposed to be in the Rose Bowl?

The Big Ten runner up should be in a NY6 bowl, right?

IOWA

Somehow, this team is the Big Ten’s runner up.

8 9

Guaranteed Rate Bowl | Dec. 28 | 9:15 p.m.

So sad to see David Bell go ... jk.

Illinois

Give the 5-7 Illini a bowl, cowards.

Watch out for the Huskers next year.

maryland

Line: MINN -4.0 | O/U: 45.0

I would like to take this time to thank Minnesota for giving me the opportunity to cover a B1G Championship Game.

6 7

Minnesota

Kinda wish Minnesota had just lost to Wisconsin in Week 13.

Wisconsin

I guess Wisconsin is the third-best team in the West.

Pinstripe Bowl | Dec. 29 | 1:15 p.m.

Line: MD -1.0 | O/U: 55.0

I don’t know how Maryland is favored to win this game. The Terrapins lost to every ranked opponent they played by 19+ points.

PURDUE vs. TENNESSEE

Music City Bowl | Dec. 30 | 2 p.m.

penn state

I will once again say, “We are Penn State” is so cool.

“Together, Rutgers will be No. 1.” — Greg Schiano circa 2019.

14

Orange Bowl (CFP) | Dec. 31 | 6:30 p.m.

Line: GA -7.5 | O/U: 43.5

This may just be because I watched it beat Iowa to a pulp, but I like Michigan to win it all this year.

PENN ST. vs. No. 21 ARKANSAS Outback Bowl | Jan. 1 | 11 a.m.

Yes, the Terrapins are bowl eligible.

12 rutgers 13

Line: WISC -7.0 | O/U: 42.0

Never thought I’d say this, but I think Wisconsin was the third-best team in the Big Ten West this year. Refreshing.

MARYLAND vs. VIRGINIA TECH No. 2 MICHIGAN vs. No. 3 GEORGIA

Line: TENN -4.5 | O/U: 63.0

5

Las Vegas Bowl | Dec. 30 | 9:30 p.m.

purdue

10 nebraska 11

WISCONSIN vs. ARIZONA STATE

northwestern

The Wildcats will probably win the Big Ten West in 2022.

indiana

I still want Mike Penix to come to Iowa.

Remember when Iowa was going to play Missouri in this bowl a year ago? Crazy times. Life comes at you fast.

No. 10 MSU vs. No. 12 PITT Peach Bowl | Dec. 30 | 6 p.m.

Line: MSU -1.5 | O/U: 60.0

This is a New Year’s Six Bowl, and as of Dec. 11, tickets to this game are available for $21.

Line: PSU -2.0 | O/U: 46.5

It’s always refreshing to see teams other than Iowa play in this game.

No. 15 IOWA vs. No. 22 KENTUCKY Citrus Bowl | Jan. 1 | 12 p.m.

Line: KY -3.0 | O/U: 44.0

This is a cool bowl game, but it seems like a consolation prize when the Rose Bowl or CFP seemd to be on the table earlier this year.

No. 6 OHIO STATE vs. No. 11 UTAH Rose Bowl | Jan. 1 | 4 p.m. |

Line: OSU -6.5 | O/U: 65

The loser of the B1GCG traditionally plays in this bowl when it isn’t part of the CFP, just sayin’.

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