THE TIMES-DELPHIC The weekly student newspaper of Drake University Vol. 139 | No. 16 | Feb. 12, 2020
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Students are preparing for the upcoming Drake Road Races; read up on their training regimens.
Catch up on the Drake men’s tennis team’s season; the team was on the road for matches this weekend.
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A 19TH AMENDMENT EXHIBIT at Drake highlighted women’s journey to equal rights since the amendment’s ratification. PHOTO BY TINA INTARAPANONT | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
“Hard Won, Not Done” Marking 100 years since the 19th Amendment
Grace Hilscher Staff Writer grace.hilscher@drake.edu
Drake University’s Law Library held a reception to kick off the Centennial Anniversary Celebration of the 19th Amendment, the amendment giving women the right to vote. From Jan. 23 to Jan. 31, the library was home to the traveling art exhibit “100 Years After the 19th Amendment: Their Legacy, and Our Future.” John Ewards, the Associate Dean and Director of the Drake Law Library, was responsible for coordinating with the American Bar Association to make Drake one of the first stops on the exhibt’s tour across America. According to Drake’s press
release, the exhibit won a 2019 Graphic Design USA Award. The exhibit was made up of six banners detailing the history of the women’s suffrage movement as well as the challenges faced by women today. “The display from the ABA traces the [movement’s] history from Seneca Falls to the women’s march in 2017,” Edwards said. “It tells the story of the struggle to get the 19th Amendment passed, then their next step of trying to secure equal rights.” This next step would take decades. A few years after the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed and sent out to be ratified by the states. The 38th state just
ratified the Equal Rights Amendment this year. The exhibit lends a hand to remind viewers of the past and the history that lead us to today working to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. During the unveiling, Roxanne Conlin, a distinguished lawyer, Drake alumnae, one of the first two women in the country to be named a US attorney and a pioneer for women’s rights, was one of the speakers. In her speech, she spoke of the struggles many women and men went through to help women secure the right to vote. She highlighted women who were integral to the movement such as Abigail Adams, Amelia Bloomer and Carrie Chapman Catt.
Along with the ABA’s sixpaneled exhibit, the event showcased a limited edition commemorative calendar by artist Gary Kelley titled “Hard Won, Not Done.” The calendar features twelve Iowans who played a role in the women’s rights movement. Some of the women in the calendar include Elizabeth Catlett, the first African American woman to earn a Masters of Fine Arts from Iowa University; Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee, an American Indian and women’s rights activist; Edna Griffin and many more influential women. Calendars are still available in the Law Library to commemorate brave women all year-long. The exhibit also came while
the campus was preparing for the Iowa caucuses and the 2020 presidential election. The event was to not only kick off the celebration of the 100th anniversary, but also to remember the history and struggle that brought women the right to vote, as well as the work that is still needed to be done. “We need to remember our history, we need to always remember women suffered greatly to earn the right to vote and we dishonor their memory if we do not exercise it,” Conlin said in her speech. “They earned us the right to vote with their bodies and blood and we cannot betray them. We must vote. Men have always got it by birth; you should vote too.”
Coronavirus declared a public health emergency Sabina Idriz Contributing Writer sabina.idriz@drake.edu
An emergency committee assembled by the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on Jan. 30. The next day, the United States declared its own public health emergency. About two months after the first cases of the virus cropped up in Wuhan, a city in China with a population of over 11 million, about 40,000 people have been infected and it has spread to over 20 other countries. The novel coronavirus has symptoms similar to many upper respiratory infections, but has an increased potential to be deadly and appears to be very contagious. The signs include a fever, shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain. Complications include pneumonia and organ failure. This is an entirely new coronavirus to the medical world, and as such, there is no specific treatment or cure - the current protocol is to treat the symptoms themselves and wait for the immune system to battle the virus. Researchers have estimated about a 3% mortality rate for
the virus, but nothing can be deduced for certain as so much of the outbreak is still underway. The outbreak is contained for now, but WHO’s classification of it as a public health emergency is a warning sign that wide spreads have the potential to occur internationally. Research centers around the globe are hard at work trying to develop a type of direct treatment or vaccine. Drake University has responded to the virus by prohibiting all universitysponsored travel to China until at least spring break. Senior Brandon Wheelock, a news journalism major, heard about the outbreak in midJanuary. He remembers living through similar outbreaks, such as SARS, MERS, and Ebola. Wheelock believes the coronavirus will fizzle out thanks to the increasing awareness on the issue and efforts being made by health workers and the government. “I do have trust in the strength and professionalism of the United States medical community and the CDC,” Wheelock said. President Trump has made several statements on social media regarding this new virus, assuring citizens he is working with the CDC to prevent any further spread of the infection.
A presidential task force has been created to work with Trump on its containment. The United States government has issued a level four “do not travel” warning for China, the highest travel warning possible. In addition, any foreign nationals who have been to China at any point 14 days prior are barred from travelling to the U.S. “[President Trump] has many governmental advisors with extensive histories of working with potential pandemic diseases, and I trust that they are working closely
with the administration in order to limit travel if and when the situation requires it,” Wheelock said. The infection rate has surpassed SARS, another type of coronavirus which also received WHO’s designation as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, to date, the warning has been issued six times. SARS resulted in an estimated 8,098 infections worldwide. Donation funds such as Give2Asia have been set up online to support health workers and hospitals in China.
Sophomore and physics major Sean Cusick has been worried about the sharp increase in cases he’s read about in the news, but is staying positive. “There’s a big risk of it spreading,” Cusick said. “I know in Wuhan the numbers were doubling for several days in a row. But I’m optimistic and I trust that the CDC and the taskforce Trump assigned will work very hard to keep it from spreading. I also know the government of China is working very hard to help those infected.”
THE CORONAVIRUS outbreak has spread to over 20 countries since the first cases emerged in China.
PHOTO BY TINA INTARAPANONT | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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