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Renters face potential COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS A bill in the Iowa Senate would prevent municipalities and counties from passing ordinances to stop landlords from discriminating against renters if they use public assistance, such as Section 8 housing vouchers, to pay rent.

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Landlords may have ability to turn down leases based on income

BY KYLEE.HAUETER @iowastatedaily.com

An Iowa Senate subcommittee voted in favor of Senate Study Bill 3178, a bill that would prevent cities and counties from blocking landlords and property owners from discriminating against renters based on their source of income.

Currently in Des Moines, property owners cannot refuse to rent a property based on a renter’s source of income. is is in accordance with Ordinance No. 15,781, enacted last summer.

Included in this ordinance are protections from discrimination for those receiving aid from Social Security, child support, alimony, veterans’ bene†ts and Section 8 housing vouchers, which assist low-income families, the elderly and the disabled.

Ames does not have such an ordinance. It instead has the Fair Housing Act, which prohibits renting discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, handicap, sex or familial status.

Story County’s Section 8 voucher assistance program is controlled by the Central Iowa Regional Housing Authority (CIRHA). e CIRHA had a contract for just over 1,000 vouchers, but due to funding allocated by the Iowa Legislature, only 900 of those vouchers are funded.

Vanessa Baker-Latimer, housing coordinator for the City of Ames, said as of February 2020, 276 of these vouchers are being used in Story County.

e others span across Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison and Marion counties. Two-hundred and twenty-one of the vouchers in Story County are allocated speci†cally to Ames, meaning that just under 25 percent of all the vouchers controlled by the CIRHA, spanning a sixcounty region, are being used by Ames residents.

Republican Sen. JeŠ Edler said without this bill, more problems would be created than end up being solved.

“Cities and counties should not be allowed to coerce private entities into non-consensual contract agreements,” Edler said.

Another question those in opposition of the bill have raised is whether the enactment of this bill would allow landlords and property owners to evict current residents based on their source of income.

Edler said no, that the bill would not hold authority over any preexisting federal housing contract.

If the bill passes, it would invalidate Des Moines’ local ordinance.

e bill would have no eŠect on Ames’ Fair Housing Act, as that ordinance does not include sources of rent payment as an illegal discriminatory act.

Democrats set for last debate before Super Tuesday contests CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY The last Democratic presidential debate before the 2020 Iowa caucuses took place Jan. 14 in Des Moines.

BY MALLORY.TOPE @iowastatedaily.com

e next Democratic presidential debate is set to take place Tuesday and will feature seven candidates.

“is debate is really important. e reason is that some of the candidates that did well in Nevada, like Elizabeth Warren, need to do really well in South Carolina,” said SteŠen Schmidt, professor of political science.

e debate will be broadcasted live at 7 p.m. on CBS from Charleston, South Carolina, four days ahead of that state’s Democratic primary. is is the last debate before the Super Tuesday contests next Tuesday.

In order to qualify for this debate, candidates have to meet one polling requirement: two polls at 12 percent or more of South Carolina Democratic primary voters or four polls at 10 percent or more in South Carolina or in national surveys of Democratic primary voters. Only polls approved by the Democratic National Committee and released between Feb. 4 and Monday count.

Candidates could also qualify from earning at least one delegate in the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary or the Nevada caucuses.

e seven candidates who quali†ed are Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, Warren, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer and former Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Steyer will rejoin the debate stage after not qualifying for the Nevada debate.

Schmidt said he expects topics like healthcare, criminal justice and education to be brought up during the debate. “ose are hot-button issues in the African American community,” Schmidt said.

African American voters accounted for 61 percent of the South Carolina Democratic primary electorate in 2016, according to a CNN exit poll.

is is the last televised debate candidates will have before Super Tuesday.

Candidates that do not do well in this debate or the primary are going to hurt going into Super Tuesday, Schmidt said.

“If candidates screw up in South Carolina, people voting in other states are going to go, ‘I don’t think he or she is going to beat Trump,’” Schmidt said.

Class teaches mothers how to breastfeed

BY ELIZABETH.KHOUNLO @iowastatedaily.com

Future mothers and support partners attended a two-part prenatal class about breastfeeding and pumping at the Ames Public Library on Monday.

e class covered the process, goals and challenges of breastfeeding and pumping. As mothers walked into the session, they could collect free gifts to assist them during their breastfeeding journey. These gifts included breastfeeding books, nursing bars, nursing covers, lactation milk and tea.

The first part of the prenatal course was the “Best Start Breastfeeding” class. is class took place from 6-7:30 p.m. e instructor began by explaining the bene†ts of breastfeeding and showed a video describing breast milk creation. She then provided a visual related to breast milk production and a review game after this session.

One of the participants, Kayla Mobley, has three other children and is due with her fourth child in March. She decided to choose breastfeeding for her fourth child because she noticed her older three children getting sick often.

“I just wanted to try something diŠerent this time to see how big of a diŠerence it actually makes,” Mobley said.

e instructor continued with the diŠerent stages of breast milk and the diŠerence between breast milk and formula. She later explained the importance of a good latch during breastfeeding and showed a video on diŠerent breastfeeding positions.

One of the main topics of this course was the “golden hour,” which is the †rst 60 CAITLIN YAMADA/ IOWA STATE DAILY Michelle Rowe, employee at Mid-Iowa Community Action, taught expecting mothers how to breastfeed at the Ames Public Library.

minutes after birth that encourages skinto-skin contact for successful breastfeeding. After discussing the “golden hour,” the class transitioned to breastfeeding while in the hospital, going home and what to expect in the †rst few days. Topics also discussed were newborn behavior cues to indicate a hungry newborn and gauging how often one should breastfeed.

Another participant, Amy Baker, is pregnant with her †rst child. She said the class gave “a really good picture of what it might be like.”

“If you haven’t done it before, there is a lot of questions about what to expect,” Baker said.

Presidential candidate: Lydia Greene

BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator and junior in political science Lydia Greene is running to represent the student body of Iowa State as its Student Government President.

Greene is running alongside Joshua Hanyang, a candidate for vice president, and together, they are running on a platform of diversity and inclusion, mental health awareness, green initiatives, transparency in Student Government and an initiative to implement a onecredit, half-semester course called “ISU 101.”

“I grew up in a very small town in Southeast Iowa,” Greene said. “My graduating class in high school was 22 kids, so very different from Iowa State. I chose Iowa State, though, I would say because I wanted a big change from my small community. I wanted to go to a school where no one would know my business before me kind of thing. Maybe that’s different than the position I am running for now, but generally, that’s why I chose it.”

Greene said she decided to run after she built up skills and to represent people who cannot represent themselves as easily.

“I decided to run because I started doing Student Government as a freshman; I was a legislative ambassador,” Greene said. “I figured that would be a great position for me because [...] I already had the relationships in the legislature from when I was a page [...]. The reason that I am running for student body president now is because I want to represent those who have not had as easy of a path to represent themselves as I have, and I want to use my ease of entrance to help the people like that.”

Additionally, Greene discussed what skills she had that would bene™t her in the position of president.

“I don’t have any problem not liking me, and I don’t mean that in a student way; I mean that as an administration,” Greene said. “I will have no trouble telling them that, like our chalking policy, that’s negative to students obviously, so no, we cannot do that. I’ll have no trouble with that. I will also have no trouble telling the Board of Regents that it’s BS that we have not gotten more money than [the University of Northern Iowa (UNI)], even though we technically have more Iowa students that go to Iowa State, but it’s more per capita at UNI. So stuff like that, I will have no trouble telling the administration that that cannot slide.”

Greene will be one of the two presidential candidates debating Tuesday evening. For more information about the Greene-Hanyang campaign, you can go to their website, or you can also like their Facebook page “Greene Hanyang 2020.” COURTESY OF LYDIA GREENE Lydia Greene is a candidate running for Student Government president. She is running alongside Joshua Hanyang, a candidate for vice president.

Presidential candidate: Morgan Fritz

BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com

Collegiate Panhellenic Council senator and sophomore in political science Morgan Fritz is running to represent the student body of Iowa State as its next Student Government President.

Fritz is running alongside Jacob Schrader, a candidate for vice president, on a platform of addressing college aordability, campus climate and sustainability on campus.

“I’ve seen how much of the staff and faculty genuinely care about our education and just care about us in general, and they want to see us succeed; they want to see us do well. And so I think that is a more important facet than I realized once I got here and actually experienced it for myself,” Fritz said.

Fritz said she is running because of her passion for Iowa State and desire to represent students.

“I am running because, in general, I love Iowa State,” Fritz said. “I want to see the best for it. I really want to represent students, represent them well, and I think that I have the skills and abilities to do that, and it’s just something that I really enjoy doing. I’ve always liked the public sphere, and it’s a great way to do that as a student.”

Additionally, Fritz discussed how she ended up running for the position of president.

“I really wasn’t planning on it this year, but Jacob Schrader had talked to me, and he said, ‘What would you think about this?’” Fritz said. “And we had met each other through Legislative Ambassadors and stuff, and I was on his committee for the Affordability Committee within Legislative Ambassadors, and we worked really well together. We started Senate together, and so he just suggested, ‘What is the potential for it?’”

Fritz said this led to her desire to work with Schrader as her vice president, and they then developed their ideas. COURTESY OF MORGAN FRITZ Morgan Fritz is a candidate running for Student Government president. She is running alongside Jacob Schrader, a candidate for vice president.

One of the Fritz-Schrader campaign points is supporting the university’s plan to reduce carbon emission by 50 percent in the next 10 years.

“We talked to Facilities Planning and Management, and it sounded like the main concern they had with it was that there would be short-term increased costs to departments for electricity,” Fritz said. “Žat’s really the only thing holding it up because in the long term, it would have no excess cost to students; carbon emissions would be reduced by 50 percent, so we think it’s a great plan.”

Fritz said they plan to get this done by voicing student support for the plan, and they also plan to talk with university administration.

Fritz will be one of the two presidential candidates debating Tuesday evening. For more information about the Fritz-Schrader campaign, you can go to their website or follow them on Twitter @FritzSchrader_.

What to expect from the upcoming StuGov presidential debate

BY JACOB.SMITH @iowastatedaily.com

The second main event of the 2020 Student Government election cycle is happening Tuesday. Že presidential debate will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

Two candidates will be on the stage: Lydia Greene, junior in political science, and Morgan Fritz, sophomore in political science.

Candidates began campaigning on Feb. 1, and elections will take place March 3 and March 4.

The debate will cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to community and inclusivity, transportation and student activities, Student Government renewal and Student Services.

Candidates will also be asked speci™c questions about their platform, and audience members will have a chance to submit a question online to be read at the debate. Greene’s platform points include diversity and inclusion, mental health awareness, green initiatives, student government transparency and an initiative to implement “ISU 101,” which is a one-credit, half-semester course.

Fritz’s platform points include college affordability, campus climate and sustainability on campus.

For audience members, there are some rules. Audience signs must be no bigger than 8.5-by-11 inches, and if you have a question, you can submit it online via http://bit.ly/StuGovDebate2020 or tweet questions using #StuGovDebate2020.

During the debate, moderators will ask the candidates questions, and they will get 60 seconds to respond. When a candidate would like to rebut another, they will raise their hand to alert the moderators and receive 45 seconds to rebut.

The debate will be streamed live on Facebook and is mandatory for candidates to attend. If they do not, they will receive a violation hearing and potential ™nes.