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Affordable
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draws
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By NAOMI HOFFERBER
naomi-hofferber@uiowa.edu
The City Council liaison for the University of Iowa Student Government brought
the issue of student housing
before the council Tuesday,
saying the city has an obligation to assist in providing
housing for UI students.
“It is the university’s responsibility, but it would be
impossible for the university
to do it on its own, because
the land allocation that we Simpson
have is far too small to build City Council liaison
enough student housing,”
liaison Jacob Simpson said.
The average UI student spends $9,728 on
room and board — 20 percent more than what
is spent on tuition and fees, Simpson said.
Councilor John Thomas said that several
factors go into solving the problem of affordable student housing in the community.
“[One], the housing of students, who represent over 40 percent of the population of
Iowa City, are a very important constituency
Patrick Luczak sits on his dorm-room couch and watches his friends play video games on Monday. First Generation community students share their first-generation floor of
Burge with non-first-generation students. (The Daily Iowan/Jordan Gale)
FIRST-GENERATION GROUP
NOT SO MUCH
F
By ELIANNA NOVITCH | elianna-novitch@uiowa.edu
irst generation students don't populate the First Generation Living Learning Community —but for the
few that do, the situation seems to be working.
The community is meant to offer a support system
for first-generation students as they transition to the
University of Iowa with minimal guidance.
“If it really benefits [non-first-generation students] to
be in that hall and helps them with their academics, then it’s fine with me,” said UI freshman and
first-generation student Orlando Hammond, who
lives in the first-generation community at Burge.
“But if there are other people that are first generation and need that kind of support who aren’t getting
it, then I think it is an issue.”
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Iowa City
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Nobel laureate fights slavery
By SHELBY LEISINGER
shelby-leisinger@uiowa.edu
Audience members cheered and eyes
welled up with tears as 2014 Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi spoke
about his experiences freeing children
from laborious slavery and his dreams to
end child slavery.
Dressed in an egg-white tunic and
white pants on Tuesday night, Satyarthi
spoke in the IMU Second-Floor Ballroom
as a part of the University of Iowa’s 2016
Lecture Series to a large crowd full of students, faculty, and community members,
evoking a saintly affect.
“If so many children are trapped into
slavery and child labor, they are deprived
of their education and their future,” he
said. “Their freedom is not the problem of
one country, it’s a global problem.”
Present in the audience were valued
friends and family of Satyarthi: his wife,
Sumedha, former Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, a friend of Satyarthi, and UI law Professor Lea VanderVelde. The latter two
nominated Satyarthi for the Nobel for
more than 10 years before he won.
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By JENNA LARSON
jenna-larson@uiowa.edu
Kailash Satyarthi speaks in the IMU Second-Floor Ballroom on Tuesday. Satyarthi, a children’s rights activist, won a Nobel Peace
Prize in 2014 with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai. (The Daily Iowan/Olivia Sun)
VanderVelde introduced Satyarthi nowned figure visiting the UI.
to the crowd after Gail Agrawal, the
When making the introduction,
dean of the UI College of Law, spoke
about the importance of such a reSEE SLAVERY, 2
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Iowa City is prepared for any situation that
may arise during this weekend’s World Cup cyclocross, whether that be riders staying with fellow cyclists or parking in an old airport runway.
Thursday through Saturday, Iowa City will
host the World Cup Cyclocross at the Johnson
County Fairgrounds. This event is one of nine
World Cup cyclocross events held worldwide
this season.
People from all over the country train for
this event, said Bryan Wenzel, the manager of
World of Bikes and a competitor in the event.
Wenzel said his store plans on having a tent
at the race to help out the athletes. He also
said they will store some of the cyclists’ bicycles during the weekend.
“Cyclists will ship their bikes in a box,
and we assemble them,” he said. “If there
are any issues during [the race], we will offer assistance, too.”
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The community is a mix
of
first-generation
and
non-first-generation
students on the floor, UI Residence Life Manager Amy
Baumgartner wrote in an
email to The Daily Iowan.
Though UI Housing tries to
keep the floor full of first-generation students only, the issue of extended housing and
overflow limits that ability.
“Ideally, our goal would
be for all students on the
floor to be ‘first-gen,’ but
with our housing currently as tight as it is, we need
to have students filling our
spaces,” Baumgartner wrote
in the email. “At the end of
the day, we need our students to have beds, so we
wouldn’t leave spaces on the
floor empty. This also is not
a challenge exclusively with
this particular community.
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VanderVelde’s throat grew
thick and her speech slowed.
Satyarthi’s work has significantly affected her, she said.
“I met him in Iowa City for
the first time and went to visit him in India and his projects, the dimension, the layers that he has added to this
particular social movement,”
she said. “I couldn’t imagine
anyone who more deserved
the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Satyarthi offered five “P”s
to ending child slavery. These
include people’s mobilization, policy, practice of opera-
HOUSING
CONTINUED FROM FRONT
and part of the community,”
Thomas said. “And two, how
do we effectively manage
the relationship of the student housing to the larger
demographic of Iowa City.”
Councilor Susan Mims
argued the issue needed to
be addressed by the UI.
“You look at the number
of housing units the University of Iowa net number that
they have now versus what
they had 10 or 15 years ago
versus what Iowa State has
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the country, Wenzel said,
participants can sometimes
struggle to find a place to stay.
“A lot of [local] cyclists will
open their houses to other
participants,” he said.
Wenzel said he and his
roommates will have cyclists
from other universities staying at their home.
Hotels in Iowa City and
Johnson County are full for
the most part, said Lyndsey
Kent, the director of sales for
the Iowa City/Coralville Convention and Visitors Bureau.
“The hotel community is
“There may be students
living in Bizhawks who are
not business majors and
students living in Living
Literature who are not English majors.”
For UI freshman John
Suchy, a non-first-generation student, living in
the first-generation community was about making friends and easing
the transition from high
school to college.
“The floor that I wanted
to be on filled up really fast
because there was limited
space, so I read through
the other descriptions of
floors and the First Generation floor sounded interesting,” he said. “At that
time when I was making
the decision, I was really struggling with what
route I wanted to take for
college, and the [community] just really sounded like
it could help.”
According to the UI Din-
ing Housing website, the
Living Learning Communities were created to provide students living in the
residence halls with a group
that offers them support
and opportunity.
“There are many reasons
why we have [communities] in our residence halls,”
Baumgartner said. “Research shows that students
who live in an [community]
have a stronger connection
to the institution, are more
satisfied with their residence-hall experience, and
are more engaged with their
college experience.”
A variety of support is offered to students who live
in the First Generation
community in Burge, according to the UI’s Housing
and Dining website. Some
of this support includes
the resident assistant on
the floor, who is typically
a first generation student
themselves, along with
other offices and resources
on campus such as financial aid, Academic Support
and Retention, Trio Student Support Services, and
First Generation Iowa [a
student organization for
first-generation students].
“I am kind of setting the
tone for my family and am
making sure that I finish
college,” Hammond said.
“Being a first-generation
student has made me want
to do better than other people because I don’t really
have an advantage. That
title just makes me want to
be better.”
The students who live in
the First Generation group
believe that there are no
real issues regarding the
mix of first-generation and
non-first-generation
students on the floor.
“Everyone is really cool,
whether they are first-generation or not. I love my
floor,” Hammond said.
tions [direct action of freeing
children], partnerships and
protection of the children.
For Satyarthi, winning a
Nobel Peace Prize now means
he gets thousands of offers
for speaking engagements
across the world, and picking
between those engagements
can be very difficult.
“They give you a peace
medal and take away peace
for your whole life,” he joked
to the crowd.
Satyarthi’s strong ties to Iowa and the UI can be attributed to his relationship with Harkin, VanderVelde, and because
of his daughter Asmita, who
attended the UI from 2005 to
2008 as an undergraduate.
Sarah Tortora, the head
of the University Lecture
Committee, one of the main
sponsors, was excited because she said she’s never
heard a Nobel peace prize
winner speak before.
“He isn’t a huge name, but
the people that have seen the
subtitle and the people that
we’ve managed to reach out to
seem pretty excited,” she said.
Satyarthi’s
upcoming
campaign “100 million for
100 million” invites young
people or passionate activists to be the voice for the 100
million children still trapped
in slavery.
He is the sixth Nobel
Peace Prize laureate to
speak at the UI and one of
seven lecturers this semester that the University Lecture Committee has worked
to bring to the UI.
“Over 160 million [children], 200 million adults
are jobless. Every single
child is working at the cost
of one adult’s job. We have
to break this vicious cycle,”
Satyarthi said. “It’s necessary that every child should
be free and go to classroom,
if not done then the growing
inequalities and injustices
are resulting in growing
tensions. We have to solve
the problem with children
now so that we can protect
the entire generation.”
done,” she said. “You also
look at changes in enrollment; it’s my understanding that the University of
Iowa is significantly behind
what Iowa State has done in
terms of increasing dormitory space for its students.”
Mayor Jim Throgmorton
said he has talked with UI
President Bruce Harreld
about finding a way to accurately assess student housing needs. Throgmorton also
brought up three goals in
tackling affordable housing.
“One goal I think should
be to increase the supply of
housing that is affordable
for lower-income residents,”
he said. “The second would
be to improve the overall affordability of housing in Iowa
City, and the third would be to
achieve better socioeconomic
balance in our neighborhoods
and elementary schools.”
Simpson noted several
challenges to housing.
“People are attached to the
idea of what Iowa City used
to be, which is historic housing, single family residences;
if you walk around this neighborhood you see what used to
be single family homes now
are rental housing,” he said.
“I think they’re very degrad-
ed. And there’s all these zones
in this area that are historical preservation zones, so
they don’t allow for redevelopment, even though houses
need to be redeveloped.”
Simpson said he believes
the role of the city in student
housing is to open up zones
for development, and allow
student housing to be built.
“I think particularly if you
talk about using tax dollars
for student housing — and I
totally agree [students] are a
huge and important part of
this community; the university also has a certain responsibility there,” Mims said.
very excited for this weekend,” she said. “They are familiar with the Jingle Cross
event from past years but
are taking extra measure to
ensure our international visitors feel welcome.”
Kent also said that
most teams and cyclists
participating in the event
have their own storage
for the bikes.
“Many teams have trailers that they bring with
them and park at the event
[and] at the hotel,” she
said. “[The] bikes are often
stored in these trailers.”
Wenzel said he plans
on riding his bike to the
race or taking the free
shuttles that will be offered during the event.
As for parking, there
will be paid parking and
free parking spots available, said Shannon McMahon, the communications coordinator for the
city of Iowa City.
“Limited on-site parking is available for $10 at
the Johnson County Fairgrounds,” she said. “Free
parking will be available
[in] downtown Iowa City
parking ramps with a
free shuttle service.”
The free shuttle service
will be available during
the days of the cyclocross,
McMahon said.
Shuttles will run from
Tower
Place, Capitol
Street, and Dubuque
Street parking ramps to
the fairgrounds, she said.
Although the city is
expecting many visitors
this weekend, parking
is not expected to fill up,
said Josh Schamberger,
the president of the Iowa
City/Coralville Convention and Visitors Bureau.
“We have ample parking among downtown
ramps and lots within or
near the fairgrounds,” he
said, noting the old south
runway of the airport in
Iowa City is reserved for
additional parking.
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University faculty senate eyes AAUP sanction
During a meeting Tuesday, the faculty senate discussed a sanction imposed on the University of Iowa this summer.
By MARISSA PAYNE & VIVIAN LE
daily-iowan@uiowa.edu
For faculty and members on the University
of Iowa chapter of the
American Association
of University Professors, the sanction issued against the school
this summer remains
something
faculty
hopes to address.
Discussions
regarding the sanction were
brought up among UI
Faculty Senate members
at a meeting Tuesday afternoon, and at an AAUP
forum on the same day.
During
the
Faculty Senate meeting, a
subcommittee was proposed to lift the sanction
placed on the school by
the AAUP.
Hans-Joerg Tiede, a
member of the national AAUP organization,
attended the faculty
meeting and the AAUP
forum to answer ques-
tions and facilitate discussion about removing
the sanction.
Tiede said he thinks
it is likely the sanction
will be removed relatively fast, noting that
universities that have
been sanctioned, such
as the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, have made progress toward being taken
off the list.
“For an institution the
stature of the University of Iowa to be on the
list for a very long time
I think would be unusual,” he said. “I think it’s
mostly the small, backwater religious sorts of
institutions who end up
being on the list for a
very long time.”
Until last year, Grove
City College had been
sanctioned since 1963,
making it the longest
institution to be on the
censure list, Tiede said.
Removing sanctions,
he said, typically does
not happen until there is
a policy change addressing the issue that led to
the sanction.
“The removal of sanction would primarily involve a change in policy
take a more active role
in understanding the
role of faculty members in guiding educational policy.
“Educating students,
educating the public,
educating our students’
Tiede
Bohannan
Logsdon
AAUP member
professor
professor
… that recognizes what
the role of the faculty
in a presidential search
should be, and that
somehow would be consistent with the AAUP’s
principles,” he said.
To make a policy
change, Tiede said he
believes people need to
parents about why this
matters, why is it important
that
faculty
have a voice in educational policy decisions,
which ultimately involve the selection of the
president as well given
the central role that the
president ultimately has
lane between Hawkeye Park Road and
the overhead railroad tracks.
Iowa Avenue is closed to westbound traffic between Van Buren
and Johnson Streets. The University
of Iowa Community Credit Union
may be accessed through the alley
located behind it.
The city has also reduced
Dubuque Street to one lane of
traffic in each direction between
Foster Road and Ronalds Street.
These lane reductions, as well as
the construction on Park Road
Bridge, will continue throughout
the duration of the project, which
is expected to be completed in
July 2018. Access to all residences,
Terrell Mill Park, and Mayflower are
being maintained.
The 100 block of East Washington Street is open to one lane of
one-way, westbound traffic, and
crews have begun work on the 200
in the operation of the
institution,” he said.
Some members of the
Faculty Senate, however, expressed discontent
and frustration about
the issue.
“There really isn’t
much
precedent
for
this,” law
Professor
Christina Bohannan, a
former president of the
Senate said.
Bohannan said looking at the AAUP website, there were only
six other schools sanctioned before the UI,
none of which involved
a presidential search.
Many other members of the Senate
were frustrated by the
lack of clarity given to
them to take the first
steps toward lifting
the sanctions because
the policies in question belong to the state
Board of Regents.
“I think the formation of the committee to
address this sanction
is an important start,
and I look forward to
seeing what the committee is going to do,”
AAUP representative
Marian Wilson-Kimber
said at the meeting. “I
think it’s very important to have written
policy that the regents
and the faculty agree
on and that we abide
by that written policy.”
Looking forward, UI
biology Associate Professor John Logsdon
noted at the forum that
people cannot retroactively change last year’s
UI presidential search
process, but the University of Northern Iowa
is learning how not to
conduct a presidential
search by looking at the
UI’s presidential search.
“We don’t want to have
happen at UNI the same
thing that happened at
the University of Iowa,”
Logsdon said.
block. This work should be finished
in late October.
through 8005 on Riverside Drive
are not being serviced.
Inbound stops 8206 and 8207
on Hawkins Drive are closed for
the Plaen View, Westside Hospital,
Westwinds, and Westwinds Night
& Weekend bus routes. There are
temporary stops on Melrose Avenue
just after the railroad bridge and
on Hawkins Drive just past Stadium
Drive inbound to downtown.
— By Molly Hunter
CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
Street closures
continue in IC
ROADS
Prentiss Street will be closed to
through traffic between Dubuque
and Linn Streets beginning today.
Prentiss Street will open to one
lane of alternating traffic on Thursday. Normal traffic should resume
by the end of Sept. 27.
Oakcrest Street between Sunset
and George Streets has been closed
to through traffic because of
pavement repairs that are part of
the ongoing Asphalt Resurfacing
2016 Project. Access to residences
has been maintained. Normal traffic
should resume Oct. 1. In the meantime, one lane of alternating traffic
should open on this block today.
Southbound traffic on Mormon Trek
Boulevard has been reduced to one
BUSES
The North Dodge and North Dodge
Night & Weekend bus routes are not
servicing Northgate Drive. Passengers
can catch their bus at stop 7521.
While detours for the Westport
and Oakcrest Night & Weekend bus
routes are still in effect, stops 8000
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Being alert to
racist alerts
Vivian Medithi
vivian-medithi@uiowa.edu
Today, the University of
Iowa will run a test of the
Hawk Alert system. Hawk
Alerts are emergency notifications for UI students,
faculty, and staff, using
texts, emails, and calls
to keep our community
abreast of emergency situations from weather warnings to criminal threats.
It’s this latter category
that has left many black
students at Iowa feeling
uneasy. In December of
my freshman year, a Hawk
Alert warned us that a
robbery had happened;
the suspects were “three
black males in hoodies.”
Good work, UI police, you
just put an APB out on every black man anywhere
near downtown.
This week especially,
the deputation of common citizens by state bodies seems eerie. Monday
morning in the Big Apple,
millions of phones buzzed
with an alert that read:
“WANTED: Ahmad Khan
Rahami, 28-yr-old male.
See media for pic. Call 9-11 if seen.” Wireless emergency alerts are familiar in the form of Amber
Alerts, which turn private
citizens into the police’s
eyes and ears. Such alerts
are typically detailed,
giving information on car
make and model, color, license plates, and suspect/
victim descriptions.
Monday’s alert in New
York was inexcusably
vague. All this alert details is someone’s name,
age, and gender. I couldn’t
use that same information to identify someone
in a 30-person discussion
class, let alone a fugitive
from the law in a city
of 8 million. “See media
for pic?” 11 p.m. essays
due at midnight have
more relevant information than this half-baked
emergency alert.
So, to quote the Bard,
what’s in a name? Nothing,
really, unless said name
leads to ethnographic profiling in an effort to find
a fugitive. Ahmad Khan
Rahmani’s name was used
by the state, not in a genuine effort to locate a criminal but as a farce to further marginalize Arab and
Muslim communities in a
city with a deep-seated Islamophobia problem. The
warning doesn’t increase
public safety; it doesn’t
suggest he is armed, indicate he’s dangerous, or say
why he’s wanted. Based on
the content of the message,
people are supposed to call
the police on any man who
looks approximately 28
years old and look as if he
might be named Ahmad.
As far as destroying American ideals of freedom and
equality, our police are doing a better job than ISIS
ever could.
Muslim and Arab people face Islamophobia on
a daily basis, manifested
interpersonally as well as
through state-sanctioned
violence, whether that
violence is drone strikes
abroad killing civilians
or federal surveillance of
mosques, student groups,
and families for their perceived proximity to Islam.
Black people have long
been familiar with the
concept of over-policing,
knowing that the color of
their skin invites more
unwarranted scrutiny and
violence from cops.
Wireless
emergency
alerts and Hawk Alerts
alike are a great idea.
They are an efficient way
to keep a vast majority of
the public informed about
crucial
safety
issues.
But when these tools are
weaponized,
deputizing
citizens in service of racist policing, they quickly
become
counterproductive, further ostracizing
marginalized communities and inciting general
panic. As a nation and as
a campus, we should demand better from those
who would govern us.
Emergency alerts should
protect us, not divide us.
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Forfeiture law must be forfeited
I
n December 2015,
the Iowa Supreme
Court issued a ruling in favor of the defendant on a case dealing
with Iowa’s controversial police forfeiture law.
In the case, an individual was found to be carrying a small amount
of marijuana; as a result, the police seized
the $33,100 in cash the
individual was carrying. Though possessing small amounts of a
controlled substance is
illegal, carrying large
amounts of cash is not.
As the tired saying goes:
Correlation does not
mean causation.
Thus, according to
a Des Moines Register
report, the defense heralded the case as representative of a “systemic
exploitation by law enforcement, specifically
the Iowa State Patrol,
of the routine traffic
stop for purposes of engaging in suspicion-less
general criminal investigations” as a means
of seizing cash for departmental gain under
Iowa’s forfeiture law.
What exactly is the
forfeiture law? Essentially, forfeiture is a per-
fectly legal act in which
the police and other such
authorities can seize
cash or property that
they deem to be connected to criminal activity.
The mentality behind
this being an individual
has a bag of weed and a
couple hundred dollars
in his pocket. So, they
must have made that
couple hundred dollars
by selling the other
bags of weed that we assume the individual to
have possessed before
we stopped them. These
seizures are rooted entirely in the faith in a
crime that has yet to
be proven. And whether
it can be proven or not,
it is perfectly legal to
seize the cash in hand,
regardless as to whether it was earned legally.
In this context, the
ruling in December
2015 in favor of the
defendant would be expected to curb the practice of this sketchy law.
It seems it has not. The
frequency of the practice has remained, if not
gotten worse.
On Sunday, more
data on the issue
were released by the
Des Moines Register.
The report reads that
“more than $55 million
in cash, in amounts
ranging from 34 cents
to nearly $2.6 million,
has been seized from
19,000 people since
1985” under the law.
Around $34 million of
this has been collected
in this decade alone.
The bulk of the affected individuals in
this report were never
charged with a crime
and some were intimidated by costly court
fines if they were to
contest these seizures
in court.
According to another
report by the Register,
the money is used to
“buy equipment, train
officers, and fund multiagency task forces.
But it also has been
spent on tropical fish,
scented candles, mulch,
and other items that
appear to have little or
no direct link to law-enforcement activities.”
You could call it overreaching, or you could
call it extortion. Either way, it seems to
be a problem. Where
the thirst for this extra revenue comes from
is hard to say without
speculation, but what
does remain as objective fact is that running
a modern police force is
costly. According to the
General Fund Summary published by the city
of Iowa City, our police
force alone is projected
to spend just shy of $14
million annually.
In 2014, the Johnson
County Sheriff ’s Office
spent just under $1 million on an “MRAP,” a sixwheeled,
armor-plated truck designed to
withstand land mines.
As stated earlier, correlation doesn’t mean
causation, but the facts
are damning.
Our local police forces
spend obscene amounts
of money on equipment
fit for a battlefront
while seizing cash from
individuals, rarely even
charged with a crime,
on our highways.
The Daily Iowan Editorial Board believes
in the necessity of forfeiture reform in the
state. If police departments statewide wish
to spend their money
like
warlords,
they
should find the money
elsewhere and stay out
of citizens’ pockets.
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The year 2016 has
proven to be quite an
eventful year to this
point. Divisiveness is
highly discernible as
both citizens and leaders try to grapple with
the social and political
turmoil that has pervaded our culture.
The current uproar
over a Colin Kaepernick-sparked protest is
merely the latest case
of controversy that has
ravaged everyday discourse. What is more,
we now rest fewer than
seven weeks from the
culmination of what appears to be one of the
most perplexing election cycles in American
history. The nominating
process produced two
of the most unpopular
candidates of all time,
and many of us are still
left wondering how and
why this happened.
In due time, we may
come to fully understand the factors and
context that have ignited the 2016 enigma;
however, for the time
being, only one thing
is certain: The political landscape of our
country has changed.
Furthermore, we can
trace the source of this
change to none other
than Donald Trump.
Many
supporters
argue that Trump’s
greatest asset is his unconventionality, while
others contend that his
unconventionality has
no place in politics. Although there are different ways in which
to view the unconventional nature of Trump,
it is clear that his unorthodoxy serves as a
double-edged
sword
fascinating pundits and
voters alike.
Throughout his campaign Trump has defied
norms of objectivity and
political correctness, instead opting to communicate via off-the-cuff
statements expressing
his fleeting opinions.
Interestingly
enough,
these opinions have a
tendency to be inflammatory as opposed to
conciliatory. Put another way, Trump has chosen to forgo the political
precedent of pandering
in which a politician
says what plays well
with the public.
To his critics, this
signifies that Trump is
unfit to lead because
politics as usual demands that a leader
compromise and refrain
from incendiary rhetoric. Trump supporters,
on the other hand, argue that his unreserved
demeanor shows he can
lead with authenticity. Thus, Trump has
effectively altered the
political paradigm by
stating his true opinions on issues instead of
the contrived opinions
commonly dispersed by
most politicians.
A slight nuance. Nonetheless, the election so far
has shown that the consequences of this tweak in
political stratagem can be
highly advantageous for future candidates. Currently,
polls place Trump and Clinton in a tight race. In light
of Trump’s relative success,
perhaps politicians really
can say what they please
without filtering their opinions through societal norms
and values. To better comprehend how Trump has
changed the nature of politics, one needs only to compare his tactics with that
of his opponent. In the abstract, Clinton represents
politics as usual (conven-
tionalism) while Trump
diverges from expectations by ‘calling it like it is
(unconventionality).
Regardless of whether he becomes our next
president or not, Trump
has ostensibly fueled a
devolution of at least
one political precedent
by unleashing an assault on political correctness. As meteorologists show us time and
time again, the future is
hard to predict; meaning we don’t know for
sure if Trump has started a movement away
from “PC culture.”
Nevertheless, similar
to how Kaepernick has
raised the salience of social injustice, Trump has
raised the salience of political correctness. This
engenders a multitude
of possibilities moving
forward. Maybe Trump’s
refusal to abide by political conventions is just
the tip of the proverbial
iceberg and more politicians will take a lesson
from Trump by choosing
to throw out politics as
usual. Then again, maybe Trump’s strategy will
fail to catch fire. Either
way, a new brand of politics has emerged on the
national stage, and only
time will tell whether the
new strategy prevails.
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AGRICULTURE
Grassley warns against Big Ag mergers
By MITCH MCANDREW
mmcandrew@uiowa.edu
In a Tuesday morning
Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing,
Sen.
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,
expressed concern about
farmers in the wake of
several proposed agriculture-sector consolidations.
The most recent of
these mergers, a $66 billion deal between Bayer,
a German company best
known for developing
pharmaceuticals
such
as aspirin, and St. Louis
seed company Monsanto,
the world’s largest supplier of genetically modified seeds, would greatly reduce competition in
the biotech seed industry, Grassley said.
“To me, it looks like
this consolidation wave
has become a tsunami,”
Grassley said in a prepared statement at Tuesday’s hearing.
The biotech seed industry is currently dominated by six companies
worldwide:
Monsanto,
Bayer, DuPont, Syngenta, Dow, and BASF. Five
of these companies are
now in merger talks, a
development that Grassley said will tighten
farmers’ already slim
margins.
DuPont and Dow announced a $122 billion
merger in December, and
a U.S. security panel in
August approved ChemChina’s $43 billion acquisition of Swiss seed
producer Syngenta.
“Farmers are unique;
their profession involves
accepting prices from input providers and commodity markets while
hoping for good weather
in-between,”
Grassley
said. “I’m concerned that
further concentration in
the industry will reduce
choice and raise the price
of chemicals and seed for
farmers, which ultimately will affect choice and
costs for consumers.”
Grassley also pushed
for American antitrust
regulators to coordinate
their oversight of the
various mergers because
they all affect agriculture markets.
The Justice Department
is reviewing the Dow-DuPont merger, while the
Federal Trade Commission has been charged with
overseeing ChemChina’s
acquisition of Syngenta.
No federal regulatory body
has yet been assigned to
review the Bayer-Monsanto merger.
Representatives from
Monsanto, Bayer, Dow,
DuPont, and Syngenta
participated in Tuesday’s panel before the
committee. ChemChina
was invited to testify but
declined.
The agriculture executives at the hearing
argued that the mergers
and acquisitions would
spur
innovation
and
bring new investment into the industry.
“This type of change
enables more innovation
and delivers better products to the farm even faster,” Monsanto Executive
Vice President and chief
technology officer Robb
Fraley said. “Farmers are
best served when companies invest more in new
technologies and accelerate the pace of their [research and development],
which in turn spurs robust competition.”
While Grassley commended the companies at
the hearing for the innovation they have brought
to farming, he contended
that the companies, and
the agriculture industry,
were approaching a tipping point.
“The innovations of the
companies in this room
today have helped the
responded to Botchway’s comments
about addressing these problems by
reminding the council that unconscious bias training and community
outreach will be addressed in the
strategic plan update at the next
meeting on Oct. 4.
Fruin also advised the council
to wait to take action, because the
Iowa City Police are looking for a
new chief of police.
“Keep in mind that the Police
Department is also in a transition
period,” Fruin said.
Councilor Susan Mims agreed
that the council should wait to begin formulating policies until after a
new police chief is installed.
When Mayor Jim Throgmorton
asked about the search for a new
police chief, Fruin said it would be
reasonable to expect a new chief
within a couple of months.
“Applications [for chief of police]
have been received, and we’re
reviewing those and vetting the
candidates right now,” Fruin said.
After hearing the other council-
ors’ opinions, Thorgmorton responded to Botchway’s concerns.
“The [Police] Department should
begin accumulating data … [about]
arrests,” he said.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, (left) greets Jim Blome, the president & CEO of Bayer CropScience North America, and
Robb Fraley, the executive vice president & chief technology officer of Monsanto, on Capitol Hill onTuesday. (Associated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
world reach productivity
levels that ease fears over
meeting the long-term
demands of our growing
global population,” he
said.
“However, when
does the size of companies and concentration
in the market reach the
tipping point, so much
that a market becomes
anti-competitive?”
Iowa State University
Economics
Department
head Joshua Rosenbloom
said both sides of the argument are well founded, and
that the key to the difference lies in innovation.
Because almost all
products in the agrochemical industry are
patented, the real competition exists in developing alternatives to
those products, he said.
“As you reduce the number of players, it does lessen the incentive [to innovate],” Rosenbloom said.
“But it also requires deep
pockets to take a product
from development to the
market, so in that sense,
an enormous [research
and development] budget
could be better than many small, financially challenged firms.”
considered ‘safe.’ ”
Fruin told the council that to
take out or replace bike signs in the
area would be a “great undertaking.”
However, he said, his staff would
be willing to work on policies to
improve bike safety in Iowa City.
Further considerations about
improving bike safety might be
more prudent when the City Council
considers the Bicycle Master Plan in
the future, he said.
passed 7-0 at the second vote on
Tuesday. The third and final vote will
take place on Oct. 4.
The proposed amendment to
the 21-ordinance would change
the length of both the review and
revocation periods for businesses
with exception certificates.
Exception certificates are most
often granted to establishments that
are not primarily focused on the sale
of alcohol but do sell alcohol. The
exception allows businesses to accept
patrons under the age of 21 after 10
p.m., which is when bars are required
to kick out those underage.
Currently, two or more illegal
sales of alcohol to an underage
patron over a five-year period
results in the loss of the exception
certificate. The revocation can last
anywhere from several months to
five years. The amendment would
change that, shortening the penalty
to one to two years.
The amendment also could change
the process in which legal action is
brought against an offending business.
On the first offense, businesses
would receive a warning. This is the
same as the current ordinance. However, the second failure would result
in a 30-day loss, and the penalty for a
third infraction would be a 90-day loss
of liquor license.
Councilor Kingsley Botchway
has expressed opposition to the
amendment, despite voting in favor
of it twice. He voiced concerns that
such a policy might send the wrong
message about the city’s dedication
to stopping minors from illegally
obtaining alcohol.
The Partnership for Alcohol
Safety has also not yet vetted the
proposal. The panel will go over the
proposal at its meeting on Sept. 22.
Other councilors argued that
businesses that aren’t primarily concerned with the sale of alcohol are
not where most underage drinking
is done. Therefore, the law should be
changed to encourage those venues
to attract more late-night patrons.
CITY COUNCIL BRIEFS
Botchway seeks to
protect minorities
Iowa City City Councilor Kingsley
Botchway raised concerns about protecting minority interests in the city
at the council’s meeting on Tuesday.
Botchway praised the Iowa City
police for how they have handled
policy adjustments recently, especially
in regard to national events with the
shootings of black people by white
police officers.
However, he said, “we can do better.”
Botchway expressed his intention
to put together a proposal for the
City Council to consider. He said he
hopes to put forward plans to create a
committee that would ensure the needs
of Iowa City’s diverse communities
are met.
Botchway acknowledged that
demographic data on traffic stops has
been compiled and considered by the
council in the past, but he also asked
about gathering demographic data on
arrests by the Iowa City police.
City Manager Geoff Fruin
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City Council mulls
bike safety
Councilor Kingsley Botchway
proposed passing an ordinance to
increase bike safety at the Iowa City
City Council meeting on Tuesday.
Botchway brought up bike
safety because of “the rash of recent
bike- and vehicle-related incidents”
which, he said, have occurred in and
around Iowa City.
His idea dealt with the distance
that a car is required to have between it and a bike while passing.
City Manager Geoff Fruin said
that according to the current law,
“[Vehicles] have to leave a ‘safe
distance.’ Currently, 5 feet is what is
— by Molly Hunter
21-only changes pass
2nd test
An amendment that could lighten
the penalties faced by certain businesses after illegally selling alcohol
to a minor passed a vote by the Iowa
City City Council. This vote was the
second of three the council must take
before the measure is adopted.
The amendment passed 7-0 in
the first vote on Sept. 6, and again
— by Molly Hunter
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A
LTHOUGH SEN. CHUCK
GRASSLEY, R-IOWA,
HAS ENDORSED GOP
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
DONALD TRUMP IN WORDS, HE
HAS NOT BEEN PRESENT AT ANY
CAMPAIGN EVENTS FOR TRUMP
OR HIS RUNNING MATE, INDIANA
GOV. MIKE PENCE.
WHILE GRASSLEY’S CAMPAIGN
MAINTAINS THIS IS BECAUSE
OF SCHEDULING CONFLICTS,
POLITICAL-SCIENCE EXPERTS
INTERVIEWED BY THE DAILY
IOWAN SAY IT IS A CALCULATED
CAMPAIGN STRATEGY.
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BACK ON THIS ELECTION CYCLE TO
SEE WHEN THE TWO CANDIDATES
HAVE COME TOGETHER, BOTH
IN PERSON AND IN PHILOSOPHY,
AND WHEN THE TWO HAVE
DIFFERED. IN THIS POLITICAL
TANGO, THE SHIFTING OF THE
TECTONIC PLATES IN THE GOP
CAN BE SEEN.
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Grassley
introduced
Donald Trump at a rally
at Central College in Pella,
Iowa. Grassley did not go
so far as to endorse Trump
but did use his campaign
slogan “Make America great
again,” and was enthusiastic
about Trump’s support for
Iowan interests, namely the
first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Grassley did not endorse any candidate prior
to the caucuses, and he
attended numerous events
for candidates seeking the
Republican nomination,
including New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie, Ohio Gov.
John Kasich, and former
Gov. of Florida Jeb Bush,
among others.
MAY 4, 2016
In an interview with
the Des Moines Register,
Grassley said he trusted
Trump to nominate the
“right type of people” to
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Grassley serves as the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and has
maintained since the death
of Justice Antonin Scalia in
April that the Senate will
not hold any confirmation
hearings until a new administration takes office in
January 2017.
Iowa GOP chairman
Jeff
Kaufmann
said
Grassley’s holding out
to appoint a new justice
to the Supreme Court
of the United States is
proof the senator is not
distancing himself from
the business mogul.
“In many ways, what
Sen. Grassley has done to
postpone the decision of the
Supreme Court so the peo-
ple can weigh in; the only
way his work has meaning
is if Donald Trump is the
president,” he said.
JUNE 8, 2016
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that former Lt. Gov. Patty Judge,
Grassley’s opponent in the
Senate race, condemned
Grassley for his ties to
Trump. Grassley responded that he would not
thoughtlessly align with
the Republican nominee.
“When I agree with him,
I’ll be with him; when I disagree him, I’m going to be
against him,” Grassley said.
“I’m going to represent the
people of Iowa. I will be a
very independent legislator.”
Grassley’s assertion that
he will not be tied to everything Trump believes is
how the Iowa GOP is able
to handle Trump, said UI
Associate Professor of political science Tim Hagle.
“Trump will say something offensive, get some
reaction, and then sort of
backtrack and gets the
subject to change,” Hagle
said. “So in that sense, I
think it allows Iowa Republican office holders to
distance themselves from
the particularly offensive
comments while finding
common ground on some
other issue.”
AUG. 9, 2016
Grassley told Iowa Public
Radio that he is not avoiding
Trump and that he missed
Trump’s three post-convention rallies in Iowa because
of scheduling conflicts. Two
events conflicted with townhall meetings, as part of
Ron Paul aides sentenced in 2012
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DES MOINES — Two top aides to Ron Paul’s 2012
presidential bid were sentenced Tuesday to probation and
home confinement rather than prison for their roles in a
scheme to cover up campaign payments to a former Iowa
state senator who agreed to endorse their boss.
Although prosecutors were seeking more than two
years in federal prison, campaign chairman Jesse Benton
and manager John Tate were instead sentenced to two
years’ probation and six months of home confinement,
along with community service and a $10,000 fine.
They were accused of conspiring to cause false campaign contribution reports to be filed with the Federal
Election Commission. Judge John Jarvey called the
crimes serious and said the defendants took advantage
of the system designed to ensure transparency in how
campaigns are financed.
“There’s nothing like prison time to deter white collar activity,”Jarvey said at Benton’s sentencing, before announcing
that he thought the lesser punishment was sufficient.
Prior to the sentencing announcement, Benton
told the judge he had endured years of sleepless
nights and public humiliation. He said his career is
ruined and that he was forced to place his home on
Grassley’s 99-county tour,
and the other was during
an event he attended to
support Rep. Rod Blum,
R-Iowa.
Grassley Works campaign manager Robert
Haus iterated the reason
Grassley was not able to
campaign with Trump
was because of timing. He
said presidential candidates’ campaign stops are
announced with few days’
notice, while Grassley’s
schedule is planned earlier.
Kaufmann
confirmed
that there is “no overt or
intentional distancing from
[the Grassley] campaign.”
AUG. 27, 2016
Sen. Joni Ernst’s second
Roast and Ride event was
the first time Trump and
Grassley campaigned at the
same event since the January rally in Pella.
Grassley spoke at the
event, but he was not in
the photo opportunity that
captured Gov. Terry Branstad, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds,
Ernst, R-Iowa, and Rep.
Steve King, R-Iowa, sharing the stage with Trump,
which was pointed out numerous times on Twitter.
Steffen Schmidt, a political-science professor at Iowa
State, said Grassley was
not an “excited supporter,”
despite being at the same
event as Trump and that
normally a presidential candidate would campaign directly with a senior senator.
Grassley is not the only one
trying to maintain distance
from Trump, Schmidt said.
“Many Republicans are
running their own races and
‘decoupling’ from the top of
the ticket,” Schmidt wrote in
an email to The Daily Iowan.
the market after going into debt.
“A steep price has been paid,” he said.
Tate asked the judge for similar mercy during his
sentencing hearing. Benton and Tate declined comment as
they left the courthouse.
Paul’s deputy campaign
manager Dimitri Kesari, who also
was convicted, was scheduled to
be sentenced on Wednesdsay.
The men have argued they
broke no laws when they paid a
video production company, which
passed on $73,000 to former state
Sen. Kent Sorenson. He dropped
support for Michele Bachmann
Sorenson
and endorsed Paul six days before former state senator
the 2012 Iowa caucuses.
Prosecutors said it is illegal to cause a campaign to file
inaccurate spending documents.
Federal prosecutor Richard Pilger said voters have
lost confidence in the political system believing it’s
rigged and this case is an example of why they feel
that way. The men, he said, took advantage of the
system designed to ensure transparency in how
campaigns are financed.
The men said they were targeted because of their
AUG. 29, 2016
Although his 99-county
tour has prevented Grassley
from directly campaigning
with Trump, he uses those
stops to talk about Trump,
Kaufmann said.
“Every time I’ve heard
Sen. Grassley speak,
which I’m guessing has
been 30 to 40 times this
election cycle, some part
of his speech is dedicated to supporting Trump,”
Kaufmann said. “I think
the simple fact is he’s
running his own race
right now.”
Chris Larimer, a professor of political science at
the University of Northern
Iowa, however, believes that
Grassley is purposefully
keeping a safe distance from
Trump, because Trump is
a “polarizing figure” and
Grassley has spent a career
positioning himself as someone who puts Iowa’s interests ahead of party politics.
“I don’t think he’s going to
give him a full-throated endorsement; I don’t see that
happening before the election,” Larimer said. “In just
about every election since
he first ran, he’s had that
crossover appeal.”
That widespread appeal
is reflected in the polls, said
Chris Budzisz, the director
of the Loras Poll and a political-science professor at
the Loras college.
“Chuck Grassley is a
known commodity in Iowa,”
Budzisz said. “He’s walking
that line like most Republicans are of not being hostile to Trump while at the
same time not wanting to
alienate some of those core
supporters that are likely to
vote for Trump. He knows
that he needs to stay connected with his base.”
conservative politics and argued campaigns typically don’t
identify payments to subcontractors of vendors.
They are expected to appeal their convictions to the 8th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If the judges rule against the
men, they may choose to seek further review of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
The three men faced up to 35 years in prison had the
judge handed down maximums to be served consecutively.
Benton, 38, of Louisville, Kentucky, is married to Ron
Paul’s granddaughter, Valori Pyeatt. He also had managed
the successful 2010 U.S. Senate campaign for Paul’s son,
Rand Paul, in Kentucky and served as campaign manager
for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s 2014 re-election but resigned
that summer as the investigation intensified in Iowa.
Speaking before the men were sentenced, an Iowa political consultant said the case is a stark reminder to anyone
in the early presidential contest states including Iowa, New
Hampshire, and South Carolina that they’ll be intensely
watched and they should follow the rules carefully.
“What you might get away with doing in a local state
legislative campaigns can get you in really deep serious
trouble on a presidential campaign if it’s exposed,” said
Craig Robinson, who served on Steve Forbes’ presidential
campaign in 2000, was state GOP director in 2008 and is
publisher of the conservative the Iowa Republican blog.
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Yoda Danger Yodaspecies
• “Danger is an abbreviation of my
name.” — David Anger
• “Danger is my middle name. And
my last name. And my first name.
And my nickname. And the name
of my father.” — Danger “Danger”
Danger Danger Jr.
Andrew R. Juhl thanks Erik
Danger Johnson for collaborating
on today’s Ledge.
today’s events
• Being Black at Iowa Support Group, noon,
WRAC
• Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Luncheon, Anna Barker & John Kenyon, noon,
Congregational Church, 30 N. Clinton
• Lunch & Learn: Experience the Global
Workplace, noon, 3124 Seamans
• Prepare for the Fair Session, noon, S401
Pappajohn Business Building
• Shakespeare Noon Tunes, noon, Main
Library Gallery
• Demystifying Thesis and Dissertation
Requirements, 3 p.m., IMU Iowa Theater
• Prepare for the Fair Session, 3 p.m., Pomerantz Center lobby, third floor
• Hamlet and Quixote: Still Crazy After All
These Years, Obermann Conversation, Cervantes scholar Ana Rodriguez & Shakepeare scholar
Blaine Greteman, 4 p.m., Main Library Gallery
• Hunger at Iowa, 5 p.m., 134 Blank Center
• Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles) Screening, 5:30 p.m., FilmScene, 118 E. College
• Meet the Firms Night, Beta Alpha Psi, 5:30
p.m., Kinnick
• Colin Lyons Printmaking Lecture, 7:30 p.m.,
116 Art Building West
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Take on a physical challenge that will help build your confidence
and encourage you to look and feel great. A commitment can be made that will improve your
financial situation. If you love someone, be sure to let him or her know.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Traveling for business or knowledge will pay off. Your ability to
share your ideas and persuade others to support your actions will encourage positive changes
that will benefit you and those who have assisted you on your journey.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotions will surface, and arguments will take over if you aren’t
careful about how you address sensitive issues. Don’t limit what you can do by saying something
you’ll regret. Be diplomatic, and offer fair solutions. Choose affection over discord.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Express your thoughts and feelings, and share your ideas and plans
for the future. Partnerships will make a difference, so take care of any situations that could develop into a problem. Avoid taking any impulsive actions.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The information you pick up will help you get ahead. An unexpected
turn of events will be to your benefit. An opportunity will come through someone you have
worked with in the past. Romance will improve your day.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep your emotions hidden to avoid an altercation. If you don’t
agree with someone, opt to do your own thing. It’s important not to follow the crowd if you feel
it isn’t right for you. Problems with elders will require time.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Search for a place or destination that will spark your imagination
and encourage you to bring new ideas and vitality to the way you look, the things you do, and
your personal connection with someone you love.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A proposition will turn out to be a disappointment. Don’t believe
everything you hear or let your emotions lead to loss. Do things that will help you, not someone
who is trying to take advantage of you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotions will intensify if you have been evading issues. If you
want to make changes, speak up, and get approval from anyone your choices will affect. Once the
coast is clear, you will feel better and be able to advance.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hang on to your cash, and try not to let anyone guilt you into
something that you don’t want to do. Uncertainty will set in if you start to question your beliefs
or are tempted to change your standards.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Home improvements will pay off, but before you start making
changes, set a budget and stick to it. Someone will get angry if you put too much onus on helping others instead of helping out at home. A romantic gesture will help.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your intuition will guide you in matters pertaining to home and
family. You’ll be able to judge situations fairly and offer help that is appreciated. Use your wisdom, knowledge, and expertise; you will make a difference.
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“We talk a lot during
the week, usually a couple times,” Ben Niemann
said. “I’m sure I’ll talk to
him again — not Xs and
Os, obviously.”
It’s Jay Niemann’s first
season at Rutgers; he took
the job after five years as
Northern Illinois’ defensive
coordinator. He’s also coached
at several schools in Iowa,
including Drake, Northern
Iowa, and Simpson.
Jay Niemann’s other son,
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award in 1995, so Pecora has learned a lot over
the last four years on
what it takes to be a college goalkeeper.
Pecora brings a lot to the
table for the team. From
her skills defending the
goal to communicating with
her team, she is always in
charge. She said she likes to
lead by example on and off
the field, whether that is her
footwork and mechanics or
her academics.
Senior Sophie Plasteras,
who has appreciated her opportunity to play with Pecora, said she has been a natural leader throughout their
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Nick Niemann, is also on
the Hawkeye football team,
but he is not expected to
travel with the team.
This won’t be the first
time Ferentz has gone headto-head with the elder Niemann. Northern Illinois
came into Kinnick during
the 2013 season and beat
the Hawkeyes.
Ferentz also managed
to pry away Ben Niemann
from his father. He originally committed to Northern Illinois before de-committing
and joining Iowa.
“On one hand, it made
sense for him to come here.
On the other hand, it was
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kind of like I was asking for
his daughter’s hand in marriage in some ways, except
I was stealing something.
Weddings are happy,” Ferentz said. “He was unbelievable about it, and he’s a tremendous person … both Mr.
and Mrs. Neimann are just
outstanding people.”
Injury updates
Offensive guard Sean
Welsh and center James
Daniels are both expected to
play this week, which is good
news for the Hawkeyes.
Iowa only managed 34
net rushing yards last
four years together.
“She just has this presence about her where she
makes you want to follow
her on and off the field,”
Plasteras said. “We’ve been
friends for four years, and
it’s been really fun. I’m excited where the rest of the
season is going to take us.”
Plasteras is not the only
one who values Pecora’s leadership, Cellucci also thinks
Pecora is a natural-born captain, who makes the team
better in many ways.
“She is our captain and
has been a leader for the last
three years,” Cellucci said.
“Off the field she does a great
job; she’s very easy to talk to
and is a great listener. She
does a great job at taking
things very seriously.”
Even though Rutgers
coaches did not recruit her,
Pecora still has a strong
bond with the program, being from New Jersey.
“I wasn’t recruited by
them personally, but I do
know the head coach. She
was my Futures coach growing up, and I also have a lot
of friends who attend Rutgers,” Pecora said. “It’s going
to be a great game, they’re
new to the Big Ten, and it is
becoming a great rivalry. It
is going to be fun.”
Because she is from New
Jersey, she said her family plans on attending the
game this weekend along
with lots of friends from her
home state.
“It’s going to be a little
New Jersey reunion, so I am
just very excited to get out
there and play,” she said.
ty and a big challenge.”
While Northwestern has
already had its fair share
of difficulties this season,
head coach Mike Riley is
not taking the team lightly.
“I have a lot of respect
for Pat Fitzgerald and the
Northwestern team,” Riley
said. “They had a good win
against and always wellcoached team in Duke, so
we’re getting ready for a
big game in Evanston.”
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And in the way, way West
hopes it will be.
“Just because it was like
that in the past, doesn’t
mean this one is going
to be that,” Chryst said.
“We’ve got to play well to
give ourselves a chance …
It’s a heck of an opportuni-
The 3-0 Nebraska team
will also open up its Big Ten
play this weekend when it
travels to Northwestern to
take on the 1-2 Wildcats.
The No. 20 Huskers
are coming off of a 35-32
win over former No. 22
Oregon on Sept. 17.
week, while starting quarterback C.J. Beathard was
sacked twice and hit another two times.
However, it doesn’t help
that Iowa is starting to get
a bit thin at running back.
Ferentz did not sound positive about running back
Derrick Mitchell Jr. playing
this week, and Akrum Wadley is still nursing an injury.
Wadley managed four
rushes for 20 yards last
week and has not been
scratched from a game yet
this year.
Elsewhere on the injury
front, defensive back Joshua Jackson and reserve
offensive lineman Brett
Waechter are expected
back this week. Jackson
has played on special teams
and in a few coverage packages this season.
Ferentz also gave an
update on tight end Jon
Wisnieski.
“He’s starting to work
back,” Ferentz said. “He’s
practicing full now, but he’s
got a lot of ground to cover,
but he’s back full speed.”
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Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz watches his team during a timeout of the Iowa-NDSU game at Kinnick on Sept. 17. NDSU defeated Iowa in the final seconds of the game with a 37-yard field goal, 23-21. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)
HAWKEYES MOVE ON
The Hawkeyes digest the North Dakota State loss, a battle of father and son, and injury updates.
By JORDAN HANSEN | jordan-hansen@uiowa.edu
Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz has a 24-hour rule.
Basically, it means the team has the day after a loss to “mourn” it. The team also
watches the game film on Sunday, and more than one player mentioned that it was
tough to watch.
The team, however, is set on heading on.
“You have to learn from a loss,” cornerback Desmond King said. “That’s the only
good thing you can take from it.”
Iowa didn’t lose a game last year until the Big Ten Championship against Michigan
State, so this is something a little foreign to the team. That said, conference play starts
this weekend, and the Hawkeyes don’t have a whole lot of turnaround time.
Rutgers is 2-1, losing to Washington in their only game against a Power-5 school this
season. It’s the Hawkeyes’ first road game of 2016, which brings its own set of challenges.
Iowa has to regroup this week and a not-great Rutgers team isn’t a terrible opponent to do that against.
“It was pretty quiet on Sunday, as you might well imagine, and it should be,” Ferentz
said. “You’re affected by it, but then the big thing about any time you get disappointment in sports or life you’ve got to move on at some point, and in sports and football,
that starts Monday morning.”
Niemann vs. Niemann
Father versus son matchups are not exactly common in Division-I college football,
but this week, Iowa linebacker Ben Niemann will be in that position.
His father, Jay Niemann, is the defensive coordinator at Rutgers.
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BIG TEN NOTEBOOK
Big Ten finally gets down to business
By COURTNEY BAUMANN
courtney-baumann@uiowa.edu
Eight of the 14 Big Ten
teams head into Week 4
with undefeated records
including five that have
started off the season 3-0.
Included in that number is Ohio State, which
has continued to impress
observers even though the
Buckeyes lost a dozen of
last season’s starters to the
NFL Draft earlier this year.
One player head coach
Urban Meyer did not lose
is quarterback J.T. Barrett,
who has gotten off the a hot
start in the first three games.
The junior has thrown 10
touchdowns to 1 interception, passed for 650 yards,
and ran for 159 more. He
has completed 67.1 percent
of his passes and averaged
8.9 yards per attempt.
“We are very rarely off
schedule. If something happens, we get a penalty or a
loss of yardage play, he’ll
get us back to third and
manageable. That’s kind of
his forte,” Meyer said. “Of
all the things great quarterbacks do, I’d put that up
there as one of the most important things.”
Meyer does have his critiques of Barrett, too.
“There are times in the
game that he tries to do too
much,” Meyer said. “There
are a couple reads where he
got a little aggressive, which
I don’t mind him doing ev-
Headed
back to
Jersey
By MICHAEL MCCURDY
michael-p-mccurdy@uiowa.edu
play a part in it, and big
plays always play a part in
it. That’s the history of the
game, and those are the
expectations we have.”
Wisconsin head coach
Paul Chryst’s expectations are more or less the
same — although his are
more hopes. Because the
teams have not played
each other in so long, he is
not counting on the game
to be a close one, but he
On Sept. 25, the Iowa field-hockey
team will face Rutgers in New Jersey, a
state that is all too familiar for Iowa senior Alexandra Pecora.
Pecora is from Bishop Eustace High School
in Marlton, New Jersey. She has been a
successful field hockey
player for much of her
life and led her team to
two state titles in high
school. She also pitched Pecora
on the softball team and senior
was selected to compete
in the 2013 National
Futures Elite Championships.
A common theme for Iowa field hockey is recruiting players from the East,
and that is exactly what head coach
Lisa Cellucci had in mind when going
after Pecora.
“Most of the athletes we recruit over
the years have been from out East, so
we saw her in a lot of tournaments out
in New Jersey,” Cellucci said. “After
that, she came to our camp, and I had
the opportunity to coach her, and that’s
how it all fell together.”
Pecora was attracted to the winning
tradition and successful history of Iowa
field hockey. What attracted her even
more, though, was Cellucci. Pecora sees
her as one of the best goalkeeper coaches
in the country. Cellucci was a goalkeeper
at Iowa and earned an All-American
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SEE HOCKEY, 8
Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio and the Spartans walk onto the field at the Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis
on Dec. 5. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)
ery once in a while, but he
does his best when he just
makes the proper reads and
distributes the ball where
he needs to put it.”
Tale of two unbeatens
No. 11 Wisconsin will
travel to Michigan State
to take on the No. 8 Spartans this weekend. It is the
only matchup between two
undefeated Big Ten teams
during Week 4.
No players on the ros-
ter have had the chance
to play in a Badgers/Spartans game, because the
last time the two played
each other was in 2012.
Michigan State head
coach Mike Dantonio expects to have a close, physical game.
“That’s been the history here,” Dantonio said.
“They’ve been very exciting games — tough,
run-oriented, stop the run,
and don’t turn the ball
over. Special teams always