Lee lives in a one-bedroom suite with two other UI students. Despite the rooms being converted to house more students, he said he does not mind having two other roommates. “I like it because we get three times the space, four times the space for one extra person. I’d say it’s perfect,” Lee said. While the distance from campus to dorms like Parklawn and Mayflower is a downside for many students, Lee said the mile-long walk to campus is no problem for him. “I have my bike, so I brought that and I’m planning on biking to classes and ev erything,” Lee said. Caleb Thumm, a third-year transfer student, said Parklawn was not his first choice for dorm life.
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For UI first-year Jack Lee, living in Park lawn was an accident. While Lee was orig inally worried about his living situation, he realized it has its perks, not problems. “It worked out perfect. The suite’s actu ally really nice,” Lee said. “It’s something that surprised me. I mean, I looked at the schematic and it looked like it’d be nice, but I didn’t expect it to be this spacious and ev erything, because I know some dorms have two beds and it’s like a jail cell.”
With students returning to campus, Univer sity of Iowa departments are scrambling to find professors to teach added sections as classes are filled to the brim. The number of students in the class of 2026 is not yet known, but the university has dealt with large classes before. The UI will release class size estimates in September. The class of 2024 has 4,530 students and the class of 2025 has 4,521 students, according to theChrisuniversity.Brewer, the UI’s public relations man ager, wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan that the university was able to follow the procedures already in place to accommodate the large number of students during course registration.
“University policy is to provide enrollment numbers 10 days after the start of every se mester, but we are very pleased with our pool of applicants and admitted students this year,” Brewer wrote. “It is gratifying to see that the University of Iowa continues to be the first choice for so many students and it is exciting to welcome so many students to campus this week.”When students register for classes, they work with academic advisors that help them join classes that interest them, he wrote.
The University of Iowa expanded the capacity of more than 50 courses to accommodate the large number of students.
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DI Staff Thousands of Hawkeye students moved into 11 University of Iowa dorms — includ ing one that hasn’t been open in half a de cade.UI move in started on Aug. 13, as more than 6,000 first-year and returning students prepared to live in residence halls. With seven dorms on the east side of campus and four on the west, the streets were packed with cars carrying excited students. The increased demand for student hous ing led to the UI announcing that the pre viously closed doors of Parklawn Residence Hall would reopen for the academic year, along with the return of temporary expand edNohousing.students are moving into temporary expanded housing like the UI planned, which is when a residence hall floor lounge is converted into a dorm room and shared among six residents.
Hawkeye fans fans are seven Johnson ready for The sophomores are both ready for expanded roles in Iowa foot ball’s wide receiver room this Sandra Wong, professor of sur gery and chair of the department of surgery at Dartmouth College, is the first finalist for the next vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Carver College of Medicine.
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Cooper Worth Assistant News Editor Cases of monkeypox are still low in the state, but Johnson County health officials are aiming to inform residents about the risk of the disease and provide monkeypox virus tests. The disease — caused by infection with the monkeypox virus — was first reported in Iowa in July and reached Johnson County later in the month. Since reaching the U.S. in May, there have been over 12,000 confirmed mon keypox cases across the country, accord ing to the Centers for Disease Control andInfectionPrevention.happens through skin-toskin contact, body fluids, or touching shared items that have been in contact with bodily fluids or monkeypox rashes. Prolonged face-to-face contact also al lows the virus to spread. Karen Brust, an epidemiologist at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, said men who have sex with men (MSM), are at the highest risk of contracting the disease.“Anybody can get monkeypox, but the MSM population is more likely to ac
Parklawn opens after half a decade Parklawn Residence Hall was closed down in 2017 when Catlett Residence Hall opened and features suite style rooms with in-suite kitchens and bathrooms. Studio rooms were converted into a studio apartment for two, and one-bedroom rooms were converted into an apartment for three this year.
Gabby Drees/The Daily Iowan Two students talk after class in the English Philosophy Building at the University of Iowa on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. While masks are not required, some students still opt to wear masks on campus.
Students move into Parklawn Residence Hall in Iowa City on August 11. Parklawn has been closed since 2017.
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Von Stange, assistant vice president for student life and senior director of univer sity housing and dining, wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan that the UI reopened Parklawn because of the high number of students set to live on campus. “To prepare for occupancy, each room in Parklawn has been thoroughly cleaned, painted, and inspected. Additionally, the maintenance team has tested all systems [such as heating and cooling],” he wrote.
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Since the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Johnson County last month, health officials are providing help to those most at risk of contracting the disease.
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UI President Barbara Wilson greeted stu dents moving into residence halls on the east side of campus on Aug. 15. Wilson said she is enthusiastic about how move-in was going and said the size of this year’s undergraduate class is a result of word spreading about the UI being a top institution.“Ithinkthat we have more recognition across the country than ever before and we’re excited to welcome all these new Hawkeyes here,” she said. Wilson said she had not been notified of any issues with the reopening of Parklawn Residence“Nobody’sHall.[living] in the lounges, so we found space for everybody,” she said.
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First-year students gather for convocation at the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest on Aug. 21.
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Shannon said Jynneos is a prophylactic vaccination, which is given to those who have been directly exposed but have not yet developed symptoms of monkeypox.
The academic advising team worked with colleges throughout the UI to help open spots in classes and find ways to accommodate the number of incoming students, he wrote. Through those efforts, the university was able to have a head start before the number of students became too many to han dle.“Departments were able to open additional seats, instructors shifted to a related course where there was need, and we communicated with stu dents as seats became available,” Brewer wrote. “In the final two weeks of summer, course registra tion, we added capacity in more than 50 introductory courses and created 10-20 new course sections.”
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The increase in class es will mainly impact the graduate students, adjunct professors, and visitors who are teaching the courses but are not contracted faculty, Glass said.While they have people to teach the classes now, Glass is taking the “over whelming and unexpect ed” experience as a lesson for the future. “I perceive this as a sort of warning that our major is going to continue to grow,” Glass said. “...We are bringing in a lot of out-of-state undergrads and so just long term, I’m anticipating increasing need in the English de partment for faculty to teach.” katharine-perez@uiowa.edu
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OVERFLOW Continued from Front quire it,” Brust said. Nearly 99 percent of the 38,019 confirmed mon keypox cases of monkey pox cases are among men, and at least 95 percent of those patients are men who have sex with other men, according to World Health Organization Of ficial Rosamund Lewis. Brust said she is work ing to make sure the cor rect information is going out to the MSM popu lation so that they rec ognize the threat of the virus.
“If we can trace them within four days of expo sure, we can offer vacci nation to help prevent it,” she said. “If they do end up developing disease, we have been able to find that they end up having a less serious case of the disease, much the same as with COVID infections received after 13,aCountyinhowTheretion,aches,lenrash,andterpox,Symptomsvaccination.”ofmonkeyaccordingtotheCenforDiseaseControlPrevention,includefever,chills,swollymphnodes,muscleheadaches,exhausorrespiratoryissues.isnoscheduleforsymptomsappearorwhatorder.OnAug.13,JohnsonPublicHealthheldvaccineclinicatStudioanLGBTQnightclub in Iowa City, for those deemed at much higher risk of contracting the vi rus.Through a collaboration with the Linn County Pub lic Health Department, who held a similar clinic at tiche Basix club in Ce dar Rapids, Shannon said they were able to vacci nate 95 people. “It’s a miserable dis ease, but not one that is life-threatening to many at this point,” she said. “Case counts are quite low, but will probably go up with the influx of new students, so right now we can try to educate the community on prevention and offer vaccination to those that are at highest risk.”
Misty Lyons, UI assis tant to the departmental executive officer for phys ics and astronomy, said the high number of stu dents enrolling in larger classes was evident quick ly.“I would say back in May, we kind of thought that we had already reached where we have been in a previous fall for registration, and we were kind of like, at that point, trying to figure out, okay, what do we need to do here to get the students enrolled,” she said. The department added sections of courses like College Physics I to ac commodate all student’s needs. Last fall, the course had 277 students enrolled. According to Lyons, 355 students are enrolled so far this Whilefall.more students are joining classes, online lectures are also helping accommodate the large number. The UI is also offering some courses online, allowing students to join the class without needing a physical seat in a lecture hall. The difficult part, Lyons said, is finding open spots in courses that require a lab section along with a lecture.“Luckily, our lecture portion of this bigger course was online and the other ones we’ve just kind of been lucky and had enough seats in the lectures, but some of the labs we just have to find times that we don’t have something in that lab,” Lyons said. The solution is usually to add a lab section ear ly in the morning or later at night when spaces are available and not being used by other Departmentsclasses.across the university are also add ing more course sections, from pre-med classes to literature.LorenGlass, chair of the UI English department, said the department is also facing a high num ber of incoming students. The main impact of the increase in numbers is on general education classes like Interpretation of Lit erature.“Basically, just over the summer, we had to, with a certain amount of urgen cy, add a bunch of sections and find folks to teach them,” Glass said. “...the number of people that we have available to teach gen ed lit has actually di minished somewhat, so we had to actually sort of dig down and one of my faculty is even coming out of retirement to teach a gen ed lit class.” Glass said the depart ment reached the end of its list of people to teach classes and still needs more instructors. There are still waitlists for most classes in the En glish department, even with over 50 sections of some“We’recourses.just doing our best to accommodate. If you go look at MyUI, you’ll see that almost every sin gle class in our major is waitlisted,” Glass said. “The English and creative writing major is a desti nation major. We recruit a lot of students to come in and we’re still working to adjust our faculty to the demands of that major.”
“There has been an ef fort to bring the message to that community in a way that doesn’t stigma tize, ‘’ she said. “There is still an opportunity to message not just the MSM community, but the population at large to try and be aware of the situ ation before it becomes a biggerBrustissue.”said UIHC has been offering tests for monkeypox, but not vac cines, which are being administered by Johnson County Public Health. Karrey Shannon, a community health nurse at Johnson County Public Health, said the county received 20 doses of the Jynneos vaccine in July to cover those who had been directly exposed. In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allocated 800,000 dos es of the vaccine to all 50 states based on con firmed cases and projec tions on how widespread the disease may be in theIowa,state. with 15 con firmed cases, was given 300Shannondoses. said the 20 doses allocated to John son County was only to cover what was needed given the threat of the vi rus at the time. “I think that the num ber of doses that we have available is completely in line with the actual risk of exposure within our area,” she said. “As the disease develops, and if we find more cases, we will have doses available to cover those people who are ei ther directly exposed or at much higher risk.”
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For the UI physics and astronomy department, the work to create more classes began in May.
Basically, just over the summer, we had to, with a certain amount of urgency, add a bunch of sections and find folks to teach them. — Loren Glass, chair of the UI English department Monkeypox fast facts
“Sometimes [students] do not get their first choice for all courses, but we do everything we can to find courses that match their interests,” Brewer wrote. “Our advisors have continued to work with students to adjust sched ules as necessary. Because of their hard work, all our incoming students will be able to take courses this fall that help them prog ress toward their degree.”
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“I actually didn’t get a choice. [When] I signed up for housing, I wasn’t even accepted until after the end date,” ThummThummsaid.said he did not know how he felt about the dorm or the distance yet as he was just moving in but is looking forward to liv ing on campus. “I just have to get set tled in first and then we’ll see how it goes,” Thumm said. As of right now, Thumm is enjoying the recent ly tested out air systems running throughout Parklawn.“Ilike how cold the room is,” Thumm said. “That’s my favorite part soForfar.” UI student Kylie Callahan, Parklawn was also not a first choice. Callahan is also a trans fer going into her second year and found that op tions were limited when it was time to pick a dorm.“I’m excited, but a little nervous,” Callahan said. “I didn’t have a choice [inWhiledorms].”Parklawn was not the ideal dorm for Callahan, one up side is the apartment style of living. “I like that we have a bathroom and a kitch en, but I wish I was a little bit closer,” CallahanCallahansaid.said she has a car on campus which will help make the distance from Parklawn a lot eas ier to maintain.
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Students experience preCOVID-19 dorm life Joseph Scopen, a thirdyear student majoring in physics and astron omy, said it feels like dorm life is almost back to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted campus. Scopen moved back into Burge Hall over the weekend for the third time during his time at theHeUI.said the atmosphere at Burge has changed sig nificantly since he first arrived at the residence hall two years ago when COVID-19 mitigation measures were enacted in university buildings. “Back then everyone was pretty cautious of COVID-19. Now, it’s al most like 2018-19 where it feels like it doesn’t ex ist, even though it very much does,” he said. Despite this, Scopen said he is comfortable with this return to nor malcy in the dorms. “I’m a lot less worried than I once was particu larly because then there weren’t any vaccines then,” he said. “I have all my vaccines, including a booster, so I’m a lot more comfortable now.” For Slater Hall room mates Jessica Hebior and Megan Rinzel, they said life in the dorms has been fun, and they spent time enjoying the facil ities and amenities that are available to students on“Wecampus.set up our room pretty nice,” said Hebior. “The people have been so friendly here. When you say ‘hello’ people say ‘hi’ back.” Sara Magdziarz, a thirdyear student majoring in biomedical engineering, was one of many student volunteers assisting with move-in.After helping with move-in last year, she said she noticed it was busier working the sec ond time around due to a large number of freshmen moving in. Magdziarz said she en joys volunteering to help with moving in because she gets to help students and their families transi tion into college. “You always see the parents crying when they’re leaving. I’ve even given my phone number out so I can ease parents’ concerns,” she said. “But it’s nice to see [the stu dent’s] transition now that they have this new freedom.” daily-iowan@uiowa.edu Cervantes/The
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Changing the social media conversation
We need to change the way we talk about social media influencers. Did you hear University of Oregon basketball star Sedona Prince and Rylee LeGlue broke up? Because I sureIronically,did. I do not know Prince or her part ner, and I don’t follow Oregon basketball. Yet, online gossip of in fluential creators is nothing new. Social media has the tendency to showcase the lives of influencers to the public — even the unpost worthySinceparts.therise of platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, a new generation of voices have taken over social media feeds. Such voices are commonly known as “in fluencers.” An influencer is defined as a person or group who affects or changes the way other people behave. Influencers don’t just represent a social phe nomenon; they represent a growing industry. The influ encer marketing industry is expected to grow to approx imately $16.4 billion by the end of the year, according to the State if Influencer Marketing 2022: Benchmark Report.Butfor many social media influencers, their marketing job compensates for their daily lives. For accounts to stay trendy and popular, most influencers photograph and vlog their lives to billions of platformFollowersusers.tend to forget influencers are often on social media for their live lihood. Influencers are not just content creators: they’re marketers, promoters, and people seeking a living. Yet, we too often look up at in fluencers on a pedestal of prominence.Whilecelebrities and public figures have always been subject to tabloids and public gossip, this new generation has online so cial platforms that praise or criticize the lives of prom inent users. Tweets, posts, TikToks, and other social post often encourage users to engage in digital gossip s urrounding influencers. Since the emergence of social media, people have given up some privacy to stay connected with other platform users. But it seems influencers have subjected their privacy and personal lives to stay on your feed. I know I value my per sonal privacy and would not appreciate people discussing matters from my personal life — I think we can all attest to So,this.maybe it seems like fair game to become involved in influencers personal lives because they have chosen this so-called lifestyle. But, privacy is a human right and personal matters that an individual does not wish to share publicly should be private.
the federal poverty line. Iowa lawmakers should look to adopt a similar policy by raising the in come ceiling to qualify forOfMedicaid.course, conserva tives oppose any type of Medicaid expansion. The ghouls in this group normally screech about how government-sup ported health care will put the country on track to communism and economic ruin. Almost all developed countries with free-mar ket economies have some form of govern ment-supported health insurance. These coun tries also have robust economies, coupled with higher life expectancy compared to the U.S. Furthermore, Obamacare does not even disrupt private health insur ance markets. Instead, the primary mechanism that makes Obamacare work is that it allows previously uninsured people to buy coverage through subsidies or uninsured people could just enroll in Medicaid. Nobody lost their pri vateWhileinsurance.Medicaid is far from a perfect program, when previously unin sured people gain access to the program, their quality of life increas es dramatically as they are able to actually see a doctor more frequent ly and can pay for costly procedures they need. The simple truth is that when people have health insurance, their quality of life improves. It is thus the responsi bility of these lawmakers to allow more people to benefit from the Medic aid expansion and afford life-saving health insur ance. shahab-khan@uiowa.edu
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Students who enter the workforce in some capacity in their late teens or ear ly twenties may avoid larger financial mistakes or risk-taking behaviors later in Butlife.for many, working can complicate one’s ability to receive financial aid. This leads many to not enter the work force during their college career. While working as a full-time stu dentsis a difficult task, studies show financial independence helps young adults become fiscally responsible in the future. But students who are financial aid dependent may choose not to get a job out of worry that it will lower their aid eligibility.Financial aid eligibility is determined each year through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Some student income is considered protected on the FAFSA. Dependent students’ an nual income totaling under $7,040 is not used against the student. For financially independent students, this number ranges from $10,950 to $17,550 depending on marital status, even as the liveable annual income for a single earner without children in Iowa is $24,043 in 2022. An Expected Family Contribution (EFC) is the amount of money the gov ernment determines a student’s parent or guardian can pay to keep their child in school. A student’s EFC is still cal culated even if parents are unable or choose not to pay for their child’s post secondary education. Federal regulations state students un der 24-years-old who are unmarried and are not serving under active-duty mili tary contracts still need to consider pa rental income during aid processes. If parents refuse to provide tax infor mation for the FAFSA, their student’s application will be rejected. Even if students choose to work during the academic year, it’s hard to establish financial independence in college when the government expects parents to foot at least part of the constantly increasing tuitionChancesbills.are the economy is only get ting worse as the U.S. heads into 2023. Establishing a safety net can be the dif ference between defaulting on student loans and making successful payments or living below the poverty line and avoiding bankruptcy. Taking initiative in your financial plan early will help you succeed in the future. A variety of classes covering multiple areas of financial literacy are available at the University of Iowa. Students who wish to have personal advising sessions can speak to a financial aid counselor about budgeting, understanding credit, andBalancemore. between employment and schoolwork is also key. Working too many hours can be a distraction from homework or increase stress, cause chronic fatigue or burnout, and even lead some students to drop out of college entirely. Although working can make it harder to sink into the “student first” mentality UI administration preaches to students, you can learn more applicable skills from real life experiences in the work place than in a lecture hall. Plus, graduating with a well-rounded resume only helps a student’s post grad employment opportunities. In fact, it can raise lifelong salary expectations. No matter your desired job title, find a place in the workforce as a student. You’ll probably thank yourself later down the road. yasmina-sahir@uiowa.edu
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Oftentimes, social me dia platforms will explode when an influencer scan dal, break-up, or fight hap pens. These matters should not be promoted or high lighted on platforms if the individual wishes to keep matters private. Yet, there will always be a level of curiosity of iabout the lives of influencers, ce lebrities, and public figures. Especially when these lavish lives don’t turn out to appear as they seem. As long as society keeps certain individuals above others, it seems people will always be interested in the elitist lifestyle. So, should influencers have personal privacy? They absolutely should. But as long as a model like the influencer exists, then their lives may always be of interest to the public, even the parts that are personal. Now, this may not seem like a big issue. Personally, I can’t argue this is a matter of importance to everyone. But I believe this is a matter worthSocialdiscussing.media has many great attributes, and I like to think it does more good than harm. But arbitrary commentary on the personal lives of individuals is a neg ative use of the platform. Social media should be used to connect individuals, share stories and to highlight your voice. Using social media to demean someone else goes against what platforms should intend to do. sophia-meador@uiowa.edu
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Iowa needs universal health care
After the Affordable Care Act allowed states to expand Medicaid, Iowa gave hundreds of thousands of people health not meet the criteria for Medicaid. As a result, around 46 million Amer icans—and 8.1 percent of Iowans—did not have access to health insur ance.This changed in 2010 with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare.Themost important legacy of Obamacare is that it gave the states expansion, meaning so long as This meant that so long as someone was making under 138 per cent of the federal pov erty line, they would qualify for Medicaid. This expansion is the principal reason why the number of uninsured Americans decreased to 31.6 million in 2022. In Iowa, the rate of unin sured people dropped to 6 percent. even with the Medicaid expansion, the 138 per cent ceiling leaves many Iowans caresetts,AuthoritysurancemonwealthObamacare,qualificationtyhaveFortunately,uninsured.statestheabilitosettheirownlevels.TheprecursortotheComHealthInConnectorinMassachusubsidizedhealthforthosemaking
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Isabella Cervantes/The Daily Iowan Emily Salmonson, owner of The Green House, poses for a portrait in Iowa City on August 16.
In place of now-closed Van B’s Brew Emily Salmonson will open a bar called The Green House in September.
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With Iowa football’s seven home games sold out, resale tickets are expensive but worthwhile to Hawkeye fans.
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UI alum to open plant-themed bar in IC
The bar will have sev eral local beers on tap as well as cider, wine, and kombucha from Iowa City’s Wild Culture Kom bucha. toofbarbeholiccocktails,Botanical-themedandnonalcobeverageswillalsoonthemenu.Salmonsonsaidthemightutilizesomethegarden’sherbscreateexcitingcock tails like with the tooth ache plant which makes a slight numbing sen sation on a drinker’s tongue – similar to the candy Pop Rocks. The bar will also fea ture drinks with elements from Rhubarb Botanicals, an herb and flower farm outside of Mount Vernon run by Emma Barber. “We’re going to be doing a few different shrubs,” Salmonson said. “It is a combination of vinegar, sugar and fruit, and then to put our twist on that, we will add one of the tinctures that Emma has made for us and then add some gin or rum.”The bar will also serve snacks, like dips and spreads from Iowa City’s New Pioneer Co-op. Aside from drinks, Sal monson said she plans to host plant-themed events in the bar like plant exchanges and plant cutting parties. “I’m hoping to have a lot of regular nights where we have someone come in who’s like an ex pert in something plant related, and have them talk about succulents,” she said. “They’ll bring people together not just for drinks, but to actually like learn something or have that knowledge.”
Iowa football fans and University of Iowa stu dents are paying steep prices to see the Hawkeyes at Thehome. Iowa Athletics Twitter account an nounced all seven home games for this upcom ing season had sold out on Aug. 3, leaving many fans desperate for an op portunity to see the team play in Kinnick Stadium thisBuyingfall. resale tickets is now one of the only ways to score a seat, but the high prices are a surprise to Jessmany.Rickertsen, UI as sistant athletic director for ticketing and premium seating, said tickets were last sold out in 2011. He said the attractive oppo nents of the Hawkeyes’ home schedule increased early demand for tick ets, but the atmosphere of Kinnick tadium plays a big“Therole. renovation of our north end zone has increased the atmos phere,” Rickertsen said. “It’s intimidating to visiting opponents.” The university spent $89.9 million to renovate Kinnick Stadium 2018, rebuilding the north end zone. Renovations includ ed a larger scoreboard, more types of premium seating, and rebuilding wider benches and aisles. Rickertsen said cater ing to the fan experience through amenities like beer sales and updat ed bathrooms has add ed to the high demand for“Theretickets. are several things we have tried to improve over the years,” heManysaid. Hawkeye ticket resellers have taken ad vantage of the high de mand.Paula Neutzling, whose daughter is a UI senior studying nursing, listed two tickets to the South Dakota State game on Facebook Marketplace for $160 total. Neutzling said she was not trying to make a lot of money. She chose her price based on Vivid Seats, a ticket resale web site, where similar seats were going for even more. Neutzling said it is disappointing how high the prices are, but that an in-person Iowa foot ball experience is worth the“Whenmoney.it’s a sold-out game especially, they’re a blast,” Neutzling said. Charlotte Stevens, a UI third-year student study ing history and secondary education, missed out on student season tickets so she has been shopping around online for resale tickets. Resellers have listed prices for as much as $275 for a single-game ticket, which she felt was unreasonable considering a student season ticket pass is only “Upselling$165.itthat much is a little bit ridiculous,” Stevens said. Still, she was confident a high price was worth it for the Iowa football ex perience. On top of the game itself, she said she finds the crowd, school spirit, tailgating, and band a large part of what makes games so exciting. “I think it’s a lot of fun, and I’m not a person who likes football to begin with,” Stevens said. Logan Schmidt, a UI graduate student, post ed in the Hawkeye Ticket Exchange group on Face book Marketplace that he was willing to pay as much as $100 per ticket for the Iowa State game, but he said he found even that price was too Nonetheless,low. Schmidt said the rivalry with Iowa State changes how much he is willing to pay for re sale“Ittickets.wassuch a sweet ex perience that I can’t wait to experience it again this year,” he said. colin-votzmeyer@uiowa.edu
“Everybody was unsure how people would come back to bars or restau rants if they would come back,” she said. “Some of them made it work, but the hospitality industry definitely became real ly hard, which is why, again, when I’m making the plans for this place. I want it to be a very com fortingSalmonsonspace.”is aiming to make The Green House a place where people can connect again in a re laxing space. The bar has gardens bordering its two open-air pati os and floor-to-ceiling windows throughout theSalmonsoninterior. is working with Beno’s Flowers and Gifts in Iowa City to help with interior landscap ing.Benito Ocampo, owner of Beno’s, said The Green House is one of the big ger projects his team has worked on. “I think that really right now it’s important to support all small busi nesses because we went through the pandemic and everything,” Ocam po said. “We’re kind of finally getting there, and I think it’s really cool that we are supporting the community between smallOnebusinesses.”ofthemain walls in the bar will feature picture frames with preserved moss. “I think it’s very med itative to tend to plants and to watch them grow, and I think that a lot of people share the same hobby as me,” Salmon sonMargosaid. Skornia, a flow er designer at Beno’s, said the frames filled with moss took about 10 hours to “We’vecomplete.gotabout 60 plants that are ready to come in and be pot ted, like ferns, palms, pothos,” Skornia said. The Green House’s menu
Hawkeyes moved into east and west side dorms on the University of Iowa’s campus from Aug. 13 through Aug. 20. THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 20226 PHOTO PAGE PREGAME SCHEDULE Pregame runs every Friday before game day Sept. 2 Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 30 Oct. 7 Oct. 21 Oct. 28 Nov. 4 Nov. 11 Nov. 18 Nov. 25* South Dakota State Iowa State Nebraska@Wisconsi@Nor@@M@NevadaRutgersichiganIllinoisOhioStatethwesternPurduenMinnesota *Digital version only due to Thanksgiving holiday; included for free in season package. Call Juli Krause 319.335.5784at to reserve your space Students settle in for Fall 2022 Students are seen moving into Parklawn Residence Hall in Iowa City on Aug. 11. Isabella Cervantes/The Daily Iowan An individual helps students move in at Parklawn Residence Hall in Iowa City on Aug. 15.
Vogler shot 9-over-par through two rounds and didn’t make the cut in the amateur andonbeenknow,better,”winonherselfhastheDespitechampionship.missingthecut,incomingfreshmanhighexpectationsforwithhereyessethardwarein2022-23.“I’dsayI’dlovetogetathisyear,andjustgetVoglersaid.“Youmyputtinghasstruggling,soworkthatduringpracticemyshortgameover all. If that gets better then my scores will go down.” Vogler is hoping to be the spark Iowa women’s golf needs. The Hawkeyes struggled in the 2022 spring season and finished last at the Big Ten Cham pionships in Pittsburgh. Iowa’s coaching staff has noticed Vogler’s drive as she began practice this fall, and Menzel believes she’ll make an impact on the“Iprogram.thinkshe has come in, and really has felt like she wanted to make an immediate impact here in Iowa,” Menzel said. "She’s a very steady prac ticer, very focused, and we just feel like she is go ing to really add a lot to theTheprogram.”Hawkeyes will kick off the first of four fall events in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Dick McGuire Invitational on Sept.Iowa12. will then travel to Verona, Wisconsin, to compete in the Badger Invitational on Sept. 18 before traveling to High lands Ranch, Colorado, for the Ron Moore Wom en’s Intercollegiate on Oct.The7. Hawkeyes will con clude the fall schedule by traveling to Lawrence, Kansas, for the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invita tional on Oct. 17. dawson-moore@uiowa.edu
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Following a summer on the national stage, the first-year wants to earn some hardware on the college circuit.
Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Heartlander forward Jake Smith and Oiler Alex Kromm fight for the puck during a hockey game between the Iowa Heartlanders and the Tulsa Oilers at Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa, on Feb. 16.
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Iowa begins the regular season on Oct. 21 against the Idaho Steelheads at Xtream Arena. isaac-goffin@uiowa.edu beByanswered.December, we’ll know if Spencer Petras takes the reins at quarter back or if the Hawkeyes can defend their Big Ten West Division title. Regardless of how the season goes, our readers can depend on us to tell important stories as they unfold.Each week, you can find our coverage on one-on-one interview with a notable Hawkeye, complete team rosters and starters, and a long formWe’refeature.also adding a new “weekly wager” page to Pregame this year. Think of this section as a bettor’s guide to that week’s Hawkeye football game.For additional cover age of Iowa football’s Tuesday media avail ability sessions, post game press conferences, and injury updates, fol low us individually on Twitter alisaacgoffin.drivablepar3,@chloepeterson67,@ahanson_41,@and@re austin-hanson@uiowa.edu in the country last season. For that rating to improve in 2022, Iowa will need more production from Bruce and Johnson. “I think it really just depends on how big of a jump you want to make,” Bruce said. “How much are you in the film room? Are you watching film from last year? Are you understanding cover ages? I think I've really taken advantage of the opportunity that I’ve had to get [on the field] my freshman year and really watch film and hone in on those mistakes I made last year and not make the same ones this year.”
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— Freshman Shannyn Vogler
You go through all the qualifiers to get those places, and so I think it's just a great experience for her to play across the country and play with the best of the best. Head Coach Megan Menzel
I'd say I'd love to get a win this year, and just get better.
Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa wide receiver Arland Bruce IV attempts to catch a pass during an Iowa football open practice at the Hansen Football Performance Center in Iowa City on March 29.
Dawson Moore Sports Reporter As Iowa women’s golf kicked off fall practices on Aug. 15, the Hawkeyes welcomed four new fresh men to the 2022-23 squad. Among them is Iowa state champion Shannyn Vogler, who hails from Moline,VoglerIllinois.attended Riv ermont Collegiate High School in Bettendorf, but the private school did not offer golf. So, she joined the Bettendorf High School’s girls golf team. Vogler was a twotime first-team All-State member at Bettendorf, winning the Class 4A state championship as a junior. She has also post ed three AJGA top-three finishes.Over the summer, Vogler was among one of 156 amateurs to com pete in the U.S. Girls’ Ju nior Championship at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky, from July 18-23. “I think her whole sum mer was very exciting,” head coach Megan Men zel told The Daily Iowan “You have to go through all the qualifiers to get to those places, and so I think it’s just a great experience for her to play across the country and play with the best of the best.” During her final quali fying match at Blackhawk Country Club in Madison, Wisconsin, Vogler shot a 2-over-par 74 and secured the final spot by chipping in a shot during a fourhole“Itplayoff.wasreally exciting because I qualified by chipping in to get into the tournament, and the competition was defi nitely really strong,” Vogler said. “You know, my putting wasn’t real ly there all week, but I did a lot of things well, and just the opportuni ty to play there was an awesome experience.”
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Similar to Bruce, John son said the improve ments he’s made to his game during the offsea son might not be noticed by casual fans. Still, John son thinks he can do a lot to help improve the Hawkeyes’ passing attack. “Just understanding open spaces and how cov erage is going to shift be fore the snap and after the snap,” Johnson said. “Just little things like that that make our job easier to understand, so there's not like 1,000 thoughts run ning through your brain.” Ragaini, who has af fectionately been dubbed “gramps” by his fellow receivers, said he expects Johnson and Bruce to make a big jump in 2022. “Last year, they're just trying to learn the sys tem,” Ragaini said. “When you first get here, you're drilling this college play book that’s extremely difficult to understand. And now, once you finally understand it, you're able to play at your full speed. You're playing faster out there, and seeing defens es quicker, and catching balls, and finding the hole to go through faster.” Johnson is listed as a starting wide receiver on the Hawkeyes’ preseason depth chart. Bruce is slat ed to back up Ragaini. Iowa will open its 2022 season with a game against South Dakota State at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 3. christopher-werner@uiowa.edu
ment Dean MacDonald continues to oversee the franchise. Forwards Jake Smith, Zach White, Yuki Miura, Cole Stallard, and Josh Koepplinger are back with the Heartlanders on ECHL deals. They ac counted for just under 30 percent of the goals Iowa scored during its inaugural campaign. Smith led the league with 13 power-play goals.The new additions for Iowa’s lines are Alec Bro etzman, C.J. Yakimowicz, Nick Campoli, Alec Baer, and James andBroetzman,Sanchez.Yakimowicz,Campoliareallenter ing their first professional seasons after completing their college careers. Bro etzman was a two-time captain at Michigan Tech, while Yakimowicz compet ed at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Campoli comes to Iowa after his time in Upstate New York with Clarkson University. Baer was the 2021-22 Southern Professional Hockey League’s Most Valu able Player with the Peoria Rivermen after totaling 26 goals and 54 assists. San chez split last season be tween the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack and ECHL’s Jack sonville Icemen. Defensemen The Heartlanders resigned Connor Russell, Ryan Wheeler, and Jake Stevens. They also brought back Riese Zmolek, who was a Heartlanders alter nate captain in 2021-22 and recorded four goals and 15 assists. Zmolek is on an ECHL contract for 202223 after playing under an AHL deal last season. T.J. Fergus, who signed with the Heartlanders in 2021-22 but didn’t suit up last season, agreed to terms with Iowa. Justin Wells is Iowa’s lone new blueliner. The 6-foot-4 skater spent his first four college seasons at Bowling Green State be fore transferring to Boston College for his fifth year. Goaltenders Corbin Kaczperski, who led Iowa with 10 wins and a .921 saves percentage, resigned with the Heartlanders for 2022-23. It’s possible C.J. Motte — who’s on an AHL contract with the Iowa Wild — will join the Heartlanders.
Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Derek Damon poses for a portrait during a press conference for the Iowa Heartlanders at Xtream Arena in Coralville on July 5. The Heartlanders announced Damon will replace former head coach Gerry Fleming as Fleming pursues opportunities overseas.
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The Iowa wide receiver room will look a lot dif ferent this season. The Hawkeyes lost se niors Tyrone Tracy and Charlie Jones during the offseason. The pass-catchers transferred to Purdue in December and May, BruceganSophomoresrespectively.KeaJohnsonandArlandseemprimedtofill the holes left by Tracy and Jones. Both Johnson and Bruce appeared on the two-deep depth chart Iowa released in July. Bruce and John son established them selves as viable options in the passing game in 2021. Bruce, who is from Olathe, Kansas, caught the fourth-most passes of any Hawkeye last season with 25. Johnson, who is from Bellevue, Nebras ka, registered 18 catches across 13 contests. Bruce and Johnson account ed for three of Iowa’s 12 passing touchdowns last“Evenyear. without Tyrone and Charlie leaving, I think that's what a lot of people don’t under stand,” Bruce said at Iowa Football Media Day on Aug. 12. “We knew that our role was going to be elevated and that we real ly had to step up and be ready ... So, I think we've been ready to step up ever since last year was over.” Counting Bruce and Johnson, only three re ceivers on the Hawkeyes’ active roster have ever caught a collegiate touch down pass. Senior Nico Ragaini has three career touchdown receptions to hisThename.Hawkeyes’ passing offense was ranked 109th Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa wide receiver Keagan Johnson poses for a portrait during Iowa football media day at Iowa football’s practice facility on Aug. 12.
The Iowa Heartlanders have made numerous chang es to their hockey operations staff and roster during its 2022Theoffseason.coaching staff looks different than it did in 2021-22, though there’s a familiar face now leading the bench.Asthe Heartlanders head into their second season, they are returning 11 players and bringing in six new skaters.
The sophomore wideouts will be playing a big role after the Hawkeyes lost two wide receivers.
Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Kinnick Stadium is seen during a football game between No. 3 Iowa and No. 4 Penn State on Oct. 9, 2021. The Hawkeyes defeated the Nittany Lions, 23-20. We knew that our role was going to be elevated and that we really had to step up and be ready.
Coralville’s hockey club shook up its staff and roster this offseason.
“Depends what my girlfriend says and my mom says.” — Iowa football DB Riley Moss on keeping his mustache. 4 — Big Ten teams ranked in the 2022 AP preseason poll.
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Hockey operations Derek Damon, who served as the Iowa Heartland ers’ assistant coach last season, was promoted to head coach. Gerry Fleming, who coached the Heartlanders in 2021-22, left Iowa to coach a German club. This is Damon’s first time as a head coach after he started his coaching career in 2020-21. He is also the Heartlanders’ general manager. Damon appointed Joe Exter as Iowa’s associate coach. Exter comes to Coralville after working as an as sistant coach for Michigan State men’s ice hockey from 2017-22.EricMichaud joined Iowa as its coordinator of video and team services following his stints with the ECHL’s Kansas City Mavericks and Maine Mariners. The Heart landers hired equipment manager Greg Angus, who held the same post with the United States Hockey League’s Madison Capitols last season. Megan Monjeau returns as their athletic trainer, while Bryan Rohrbach remains their strength and con ditioning coach. Chair of Deacon Sports & Entertain
Austin Hanson Pregame Editor I’ve learned a lot during my time as a University of Iowa student. I figured out the Iowa Memorial Union park ing ramp is the worst on campus and that the En glish-Philosophy Build ing really lives up to its musty moniker. One thing that stood out the most to me over my last five years in Iowa City is that football is the heartbeat of the town and its college. A vested inter est in Hawkeye football, in particular, isn’t exclu sive to The Daily Iowan ’s 8,500 circulation print audience either. The gleam of Iowa football transcends city, county, and state borders. Iowa selling out a sea son's worth of home game tickets proves my point. Given the invest ment fans have in the Hawkeyes, I realize how critical my job is. As Pre game Editor at the DI , I oversee all our Iowa foot ball content. Whether it be for web, print, or oth erwise, it all goes through me.This year, I’ll be joined on the Pregame staff by Daily Iowan Sports Editor Chloe Peterson, Assistant Sports Editor Chris Wer ner, and Sports Reporter Isaac Goffin. Combined, the four of us have 15 years of experience cov ering University of Iowa Athletics, which is pretty remarkable considering I’m our most seasoned staffer at 22 years old. Our main responsibility is to connect our read ers with the athletes and coaches they care about. We hope to serve less as a buffer and more as a conduit, bridging the gap between athlete and fan with captivating feature stories and comprehen sive coverage of press conferences and games. We hope you come to appreciate and enjoy our coverage of Iowa football this year, and we welcome your interaction. Have a question? Email us and we’ll try to get you an answer. Like a story we wrote? Tweet at us @ dipregame on Twitter. We are all about to embark on a five-month journey together, fans and journalists alike. In time, our questions will
Big Ten announces media deal with CBS, FOX, NBC The Big Ten Conference an nounced Thursday that it has agreed to a seven-year media rights deal with CBS, FOX, and NBC worth more than $7 billion. The new deal is set to take ef fect on July 1, 2023, and continue until the conclusion of the 202930 athletic year. “The Big Ten Conference media rights agreements are more than just dollars and deals. They are a mechanism to provide stability and maximum exposure for our student-athletes, member institu tions and partners during these uncertain times in collegiate ath letics,” Big Ten Conference Com missioner Kevin Warren said in a statement. “We are very grateful to our world-class media partners for recognizing the strength of the Big Ten Conference brand and providing the incredible resources we need for our student-athletes to compete at the very highest levels, and to achieve their aca demic and athletics goals.” Per sources, the per-school revenue will increase over the first three years as two California insti tutions — USC and UCLA — are set to join the conference in 2024. Once USC and UCLA join the conference, the Big Ten is pro jected to dish out $80-100 million per year to each of its member schools, per AccordingESPN.toUSA Today, the league distributed $54.3 million to most of its schools during the most recent fiscal year (2019-20) not altered by the COVID-19 pan demic.Inthe seven-year agreement, Fox will air the Big Ten Football Championship Game four times, while CBS will carry it twice and NBCOnonce.football Saturdays, Fox will air games beginning at noon ET. CBS will begin showing Big Ten games in the mid-afternoon win dow in 2024 after its deal with the SEC expires following the 2023 season. NBC will carry Big Ten games in prime time, branded as "Big Ten Saturday night." Some Big Ten games will be shown on Peacock, NBC's streaming service. Fox will show between 24-32 football games per season during the agreement, while NBC will carry 14-16 games on its tradition al network and eight games per year on PeacockPeacock.will stream 47 Big Ten men’s basketball games and 30 women’s basketball games throughout the season. Beginning in 2024, CBS will car ry 14-15 Big Ten games per season. CBS will also carry regular and postseason men’s basketball games, as well as the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament. CBS will air the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament for the first time.The Big Ten Network will air up to 50 football games per year af ter the California schools join the conference and will continue to carry most of the league's men's and women's basketball and Olympic sport coverage. Iowa football unranked in pre season polls Iowa football didn’t make the top 25 of the preseason Associ ated Press or USA Today polls for the first time in four seasons, and the Hawkeyes broke a streak of 21 consecutive ranked weeks. “It's like, oh gosh, oh gee. It's one of those deals,” Iowa football head coach Kirk Ferentz said. “I think you guys know how I feel about preseason polls. You talk about a waste of time, with all due respect. And that was a coaches' poll, so I can say that and not of fend anybody in the media. I do have feelings on that, too, opin ions about coaches versus media. “I wonder how many coach es actually do the polls. That's the first thing. The bottom line is what's really important is where you are in January. That's still all thatThecounts.”Hawkeyes started 2021 at No. 18 in the preseason AP poll and climbed their way to second in the country after beginning the season at 6-0. Iowa finished the season 23rd in the AP rankings following its loss to Kentucky at the Citrus Bowl.
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