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TOP LEFT: Kendrick Lamar performs at the 58th-annual Grammy Awards on Monday in Los Angeles. (Associated Press/ Matt Sayles/Invision) TOP RIGHT: Lady Gaga performs a tribute to David Bowie at the 58th-annual Grammy Awards on Monday in Los Angeles. (Associated Press/Matt Sayles/Invision) BOTTOM: Taylor Swift accepts the award for album of the year for 1989 at the 58th-annual Grammy Awards on Monday in Los Angeles. (Associated Press/Matt Sayles/Invision)
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This year’s Grammy Awards showcased a mix of the old and new. The evening saw tributes to industry legends David Bowie and Maurice White, alongside performances and widespread success by relative newcomers Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd. Earlier on Monday, Nicholas Morgan, a resident of the UI Arts Living-Learning Community, noted the difference in the year’s nominee field. “I think it’s going to be a battle between those two main sides,” Morgan said. “A lot of the people who would typically listen to Weeknd or Taylor Swift are starting to drift indie.” The night’s biggest winner was arguably Lamar, who picked up awards in each of the rap categories (song, performance, rap/sung collaboration, and album of the year) along with a collaborative win with Swift for Best Music Video. In perhaps the most contentious award of the night, Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly lost out on the Album of the Year to Swift’s 1989. Despite the blow, Lamar delivered a
Ed school gets new dean By GAGE MISKIMEN gage-miskimen@uiowa.edu
The University of Iowa on Feb. 8 hired a new dean of the College of Education. Daniel Clay, a former faculty member of the UI and the current dean of the College of Education at the University of Missouri, will return to Iowa City this summer. Clay and his family left town in 2006 after spending nine years working for UI to take positions at the University of Missouri and Auburn. Clay said he is happy to return to Iowa City because he is aware of the quality of the community. “My wife and I bought our first house in Iowa City, and it’s Clay where our kids were dean born,” he said. “We’re aware of the outstanding quality of the University of Iowa and the faculty as well. It’s an excellent College of Education.” Clay said he is excited about the potential the UI has to offer. “What’s appealing to me now is the opportunity of the growth of the college and the opportunity to enhance entrepreneurship both in the College of Education and the rest of campus,” he said. In a press release, UI Provost P. Barry Butler said Clay brings a remarkable record of success to the university. “One measure of that success is how he has been able to advance his current college’s national reputation,” Butler said. “He also brings an entrepreneurial perspective that I think is really going to serve our College of Education well in the coming years.” Clay said he wants to transfer his successful initiatives at Missouri to Iowa City as well. “At Missouri, I increased the research productivity and the impact of the research,” he said. “I am very proud of the diversity of staff hirings, and I think I can bring that and advance the College of Education at Iowa.”
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UI probes injuries in military By TOM ACKERMAN thomas-ackerman@uiowa.edu
University of Iowa engineers are working with technology used in James Cameron’s Avatar — on U.S. service members. The Office of Naval Research granted the UI $2.6 million to better predict and prevent musculoskeletal injuries for those in the Marine Corps, common medical issues in the military. “We want to actually improve the condition of the solider rather than just tell them what to do,” said UI Professor Karim Abdel-Malek, the founder and director of the Virtual Soldier Research Program. “It’s very important because it gets us into injury avoidance, which we haven’t gotten into before.” The program has been active for around 12 years, Abdel-Malek said, and it has worked for both military and commercial endeavors. UI engineering has also generated $36 million in grant funding throughout the program, which will now total around $38.6 million for the two-year project. For the current research, engineers will collaborate with
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the UI Athletics Department and Physiology Department to more effectively collect information on preventing injuries. Landon Evans, a UI assistant strength and conditioning coach, will be a main partner in the project, along with Kevin Kregel, a former department executive officer in health and human physiology and current associate provost for faculty. “Sports have the constraints and rules, but how people get injured is the same, just with another population,” Evans said. “It’s not anymore just getting ready for a given performance, it’s exceeding expectations and then being able to bounce back more quickly.” For the Athletics Department, he said the program would benefit athletes at the university, offering insight to trainers and keeping athletes in the game. “The more we do, the more the UI will learn,” Evans said. “It becomes a smarter and smarter system the more we put into it.” Abdel-Malek said the partnership among the departments began with the need to learn more about the human body and how
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Center creates new track By MACEY SPENSLEY macey.spensley@uiowa.edu
though Abdel-Malek said he is unsure of how many projects have been completed. “We are very very pleased. It’s wonderful to see work continue here that will help the military,” he said. Abdel-Malek said the UI once got an urgent call from the Office of Naval Research and the military, asking the UI to conduct research on a different project. “The key was — ‘I know you
A new publishing track at the University of Iowa next semester will offer students the competitive professional edge they have looked for. The Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing will offer a new publishing track in the Undergrad- Khalastchi uate Certificate in associate director Writing. The move is part of a partnership among the Nonfiction Writing Program, the School of Art and Art History, and the Center for the Book. “We started to notice that students were coming to us and saying, ‘I love reading, and I love writing,’ ” said Daniel Khalastchi, the associate director at the Magid Center. “They say if I could do anything, I would like to read for a living.” He said the track would be beneficial to students.
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A member from the lab demonstrate some of the technology on Monday. (The Daily Iowan/Tom Ackerman) physical issues such as injuries may translate into data. “The [partnership] turned out to be critically important,” he said. “Together, we’ll be able to better assess injury,” Abdel-Malek that the coaching and physiology perspective bridges knowledge for the sciences needed in the program. The grant was announced on Feb. 9. Virtual Soldier will join a long list of ongoing projects the UI has accomplished alongside schools and outside businesses,
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politically charged performance, beginning in chains and prison garb and incorporating some traditional tribal wear. Steven Horowitz, a University of Iowa adjunct assistant professor who teaches a course on American popular music, is often skeptical about the Grammys. “The Grammys are often way off the mark,” he said. “This year, it’s going to be hard for anyone to beat Taylor Swift, I have to admit. She’s had, I think, something like seven hits off 1989. It’s going to be hard to deny her Album of the Year. And there’s nothing
SOLDIERS CONTINUED FROM FRONT can deliver,’ ” he said. Military projects account for around 60 to 70 percent of the research, he said, including the past five years of work spent on lightening weight of equipment for
DEAN CONTINUED FROM FRONT Clay stressed enhancing entrepreneurship at the UI. “I really enhanced entrepreneurship in Missouri, starting new companies and investing new ideas,” he said. “I have a real interest in educational entrepreneurship and hopefully it will benefit the college and campus at Iowa.”
PUBLISHING CONTINUED FROM FRONT Participating students will be required to take classes that would lead to nine credit hours for the certificate. They will also need to take three classes for the publishing track: Publishing I, Publishing II, and Book Design and Publishing. Publishing I will focus on how publishing works in real life. While Publishing II allows students to take part in the publishing process and publish an actual work. Book Design and Publishing will teach students the technology they need to be successful in the publishing industry. “The whole idea is that students in the track will be exposed to an entire
wrong with that. This is meant to be something from the industry, not the critics.” Horowitz brought to light an interesting aspect of the Grammys, illuminating a schism between artists who garner critical acclaim and those who achieve popular success. Today, there isn’t an artist able to unify the critics with the industry heads. “We don’t have a Michael Jackson right now,” Horowitz said. Some industry insiders believe the Weeknd, who has drawn repeated comparisons with the King of Pop, could potentially assume something resembling that position in coming years, although he surely won’t achieve
the sheer cultural impact Jackson did. One notable aspect of this year’s Grammys, especially in relation to its filmic counterpart, the Oscars, is the diversity of the nominees and winners. “They have a nice wide diversity of artists this year because there haven’t been any big hits, with the exception of Taylor,” Horowitz said. The night featured touching tributes to many of the industry’s greats, including David Bowie (from Lady Gaga), Maurice White, Lionel Richie, B.B. King, and Eagles veteran Glenn Frey. Richie’s somewhat random-seeming tribute included performances by John Legend, Demi Lova-
to, Meghan Trainor, Luke Bryan, and Richie himself. A refreshingly playful Stevie Wonder headed the tribute for White, the bandleader of Earth Wind and Fire. "We need to make everything accessible to everyone with disabilities,” Wonder said when presenting, in braille, Song of the Year to Ed Sheeran for “Thinking Out Loud.” Here are the winners of the night’s major awards categories: Album of the Year: 1989, Taylor Swift Record of the Year: “Uptown Funk,” Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars Song of the Year: “Thinking Out Loud,” Ed Sheeran
soldiers, which was presented this fall to the state Board of Regents. Kregel, speaking from a physiology perspective, said the unique part of the study is not requiring a large number of test subjects. “We can learn from modeling and simulations to have a lot to test from,” he said. Researchers demonstrat-
ed simulations for media on Monday. One soldier climbed a set of stairs and jumped down while wearing pieces of motion sensors and other technology to track human information in a more scientific way. “One size doesn’t fit all,” Kregel said. “We have to ascertain who will be more susceptible to different injuries.”
The data are used to validate what is projected on the virtual program. The two subjects, a male and a female, are named Santos and Sophia. “This has generated a lot of jobs, produced graduate students who now work in the industry, and built state of the art labs — it’s really wonderful,” Abdel-Malek said.
Matt Martens, a divisional director for the Missouri College of Education who has worked with Clay for six years, said Clay always has been a good leader. “Our college is in a much better place than it was when he started here,” he said. “He’s a big-picture thinker.” Martens said Clay will bring a lot of energy to Iowa City and the UI. “I know he loves the
place,” he said. “He’s got some significant personal connections there, and he’s enjoyed it all. He and his family have strong feelings about Iowa. Martens said Clay will also bring big ideas to the campus. “Dan is not one to sit still, so I hope the college is ready for someone who will hit the ground running and I think he will bring new initiatives as soon as he can,” he said. “We’re sad to
see him go, but we understand it’s a great opportunity for him at Iowa.” Clay said he and his family are excited to return to Iowa City this summer. “I’m deeply appreciative for the opportunity to come back to the College of Education that I love and in this leadership role,” he said. Clay will begin his new position July 1 with a salary of $305,000.
range of professional skills they’d need,” said Allison Rockwell, the administrative services coordinator for the Division of Interdisciplinary Programs. “This will touch on every part of publishing, all in one track.” The track will teach students the process of acquiring manuscripts, choosing stories, editing and proofreading the works, and creating the final design. “We want to give students all the information they need to have a leg up on their peers from other schools who haven’t had this opportunity,” Khalastchi said. Both Khalastchi and Rockwell said the new track would be open to students of any major. “People in publishing are looking for people
with a wide range of backgrounds,” Rockwell said. “People with any major would find it useful.” Kelli Ebensberger, a senior majoring in English and psychology, said she would have loved to take the publishing track had it been offered in her undergraduate years. “I’m really happy that it’s now an option, but I would have loved to be a part of this,” she said. “It’s really getting you a great overview of what it takes to be in the publishing industry.” Ebensberger said she has worked with Khalastchi since she was a freshman, when he helped her get into the Book and Publishing Design class. “After taking that class, we realized this type of direction for students is needed,” she said.
Khalastchi and Ebensberger worked together to figure out what kind of classes would be helpful in the publishing industry. “We came up with this idea for this capstone project at the end of the track based on an internship that I had at the end of the summer,” Ebensberger said. Khalastchi said the Writing Center wanted to extend resources to students in order to help them with their career aspirations. “We really want this to connect with as many students as possible and let them experience this awesome opportunity,” he said. For those wanting to learn more about the track, there will be two informational meetings held in 66 Schaeffer Hall at 5 p.m. Feb. 23 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 24.
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Taking aim at the debt
A new student organization is focusing on bringing attention to national debt. By KATELYN WEISBROD katelyn-weisbrod@uiowa.edu
Among the different political voices on campus, one new group is seeking to give a bigger voice to the fiscally conservative. Turning Point USA is a new student organization at the University of Iowa that stands for free markets, capitalism, and limited government. Unlike many other political groups, Turning Point USA identifies itself as a nonpartisan group and focuses on economic issues, not social issues, but does have conservative ideals. UI sophomore Gina Jochimsen started the group in December 2015, and she is working to increase expo-
sure around campus. “I wanted to start it because I thought that we needed another voice on campus,” Jochimsen said. “You see so many Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters and g r o u p s , Jochimsen and I UI Sophomore think it’s good that the conservative principles also have their voice on campus.” The group is part of the national branch that was established in 2012. Turning Point USA focuses on
grass-roots activism to promote its cause. Member Christina Herrin said she speaks with students one-on-one, reminding them they are the next generation who will have to deal with the country’s growing debt. “We promote fiscal responsibility within our government,” Herrin said. “The United States is $23 trillion in debt, we spend $1 million a minute. We try to get students educated about the country’s spending habits and how that affects our generation.” The group members said they seek to get more millennials out to vote. Herrin said they hope to hold a voter-registration drive before the
elections in November. “We want to register anyone, whether you’re undecided, independent, Republican, Democrat, whatever,” Herrin said. Although Turning Point USA is a conservative group, it is not a Republican group, and it does not endorse candidates. “We’re all about different ideas and people contributing their different viewpoints,” Herrin said. “It’s nice that we’re nonpartisan, because it’s harder to sell a candidate. This is just selling some values and ideas and just trying to educate students. It’s a lot easier to get students involved in this.” Matt Lamb, the regional director of Turning Point
USA overseeing eight states, including Iowa, works with Jochimsen and Herrin to promote the organization at the UI. “It’s good to have a place for students who are conservative or libertarian or independent, or students who may be concerned about the debt, but they don’t have to identify with Republicans or Democrats,” Lamb said. “It’s a good way to talk about issues in terms of principles, not parties.” Turning Point USA plans to hold its first meeting on Feb. 23, with meetings every Tuesday. Jochimsen said she hopes the organization can start holding events and arrange for speakers to come to campus soon.
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Hello, Republicans. What do you have to say about … What the? Hmm. Voicemail again. And I was going to ask them if they thought it’s odd that an Iowa Republican state senator would come up with a quite communist idea, apparently out of the blue. (Maybe that’s out of the red.) I thought most Republicans were still living in around 1955, when anti-communism was king and everyone on TV was white and middle-class, the president was Republican, and the top tax rate on the wealthy was 91 percent. Wait a New York minute, Trumpster — 91 percent? Was Bernie Sanders president? No, he probably was in junior high. Though I admit, sometimes presidents act as though they were still in junior high. We won’t name any names, because you know who you are. Bill. And George. Meanwhile, back at the Iowa Republican coddling up to communist ideas — well, OK, he’s probably not coddling communist ideas. They’re pretty hard to coddle, all things considered. Especially those from the Stalinist era, whose architecture will blind you. But Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan, thinks it would be a great idea if the University of Iowa and Iowa State would kick in $4 million a year or so to aid athletics at Northern Iowa. Hmm. Sounds like Stalinist architecture to me. Besides, the UI Athletics Department might have to spend $4 million a year defending itself against various lawsuits and a Title IX investigation. It’s not as if the university is rolling in dough and creating spanakopita. Just ask any UI TA. (Interesting sidelight about the field-hockey pro-
gram: Star player Stephanie Norlander, whose name was wiped from the 2015 roster after she decided to forgo her 2016 senior season, was featured as a Hawkeye star in a commercial during the Iowa-Minnesota game on Sunday. Apparently, the Big Ten Network hasn’t yet received the news that Norlander no longer exists.) Speaking of no longer existing, apparently that’s what has happened to President Obama’s fourth year of his second term. At least if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is to be believed. Yeah, I know; it’s hard to believe anything coming out of his mouth but spittle. McConnell, within hours upon hearing of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, famously said the Senate would not even consider any Obama nomination to replace Scalia. Unseemly? Well, sheesh; they hadn’t even had a funeral yet. Of course, asking a Republican such as McConnell to be seemly is pretty much like asking sandpaper to be silk. McConnell’s position, backed by Sens. Marco Rubio and our own Chuck Grassley, is that there’s 80 years of tradition of the Senate not confirming Supreme Court nominations in a presidential-election year. All well and good, except it’s not true. Current Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate in 1988, a presidential-election year, and definitely not 80 years ago. McConnell and Grassley, incidentally, both voted to confirm Kennedy, so apparently their 80 years of tradition has some holes in the fabric. Or they’re just full of hogwash. Which is a whole another fabric. And as Amy Howe of the SCOTUSblog points out, in the 20th century, there have been six times the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee in a presidential-election year. So it’s not exactly a virgin experience. Of course, McConnell and Grassley probably know as much about that as they know about arithmetic.
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at the ACLU Membership Conference in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2006. On Feb. 13, the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed that Scalia had died at the age of 79. (Associated Press/Chris Greenberg)
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upreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on Feb. 13 at a ranch in West Texas, where he was a guest. Scalia, 79, was a prominent conservative member of the court, and was well-known for his tendency to be outspoken. There is currently an open seat in the Supreme Court, and a successor has yet to be nominated. Whether nominating a successor would result in Senate confirmation is hard to say. Soon after the news of Scalia’s death reached Washington, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was quick to say that the Senate would block any attempt to fill the seat by President Obama. The filling of Supreme Court seats is an executive duty outlined in the Constitution. Republican Sen. and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz made the claim that an 80-year precedent of no appointments during election years should keep the president from nominating a new justice. Unfortunately, this is untrue — Reagan nominated Justice Anthony Kennedy in 1987, and the Senate confirmed him in 1988, an election year. Whether the president should be “allowed” to fill the spot is a weak argument. Not only is it constitutional law and no precedent exists that dictates he should act otherwise, but the American people voted Obama into office twice. That includes 2016, and thus the American people have had their say in the appointment of the next Supreme Court justice. The politicizing of the highest court in the United States has left many questioning the term limits of Supreme Court justices, who serve until death or resignation. It’s an immense power given to the executive, given the legislative capabilities of judicial review. A president who is lucky enough to appoint a new justice is wielding power in the long-term course of the nation. For example, this year’s docket includes
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the future of abortion, race-based admissions to universities, and public unions. There could be benefits in taking the power of nominating and appointing judges from the executive and legislative branches to the people, with term limits and elections. There are inherent problems in this possible solution, however. One important reason life terms exist is that they shelter judges from the influence of public opinion. This allows for judges to make rulings based solely on the law, not on how they think it will help them in the next election cycle. The Supreme Court has a long history of making unpopular decisions that seem obvious today. Until 1967, it was legal for states to outlaw interracial marriages. The states that constituted the Confederacy all had laws banning interracial marriage up to that point, and the decision was very unpopular, especially in the South, at that time. We’ve seen the negative implications of elected judges here in Iowa. After the ruling that legalized gay marriage in Iowa, three justices lost their posts in the next election, an extremely rare event. That they ruled in a way that was unpopular to a sizable and vocal population is commendable, but that isn’t the reality of politics today. The Daily Iowan Editorial Board believes that the GOP-controlled Congress should move past obstructionist mentalities and appoint a suitable nomination from the president. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be open to changing this system. The power of justices, and of the presidents appointing them, has grown immensely since the writing of the Constitution and the creation of “judicial review.” Moving forward, a constitutional amendment incorporating a term limit without chance of reappointment could be helpful in scaling back the power of the executive and judicial branches.
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On Feb. 13, conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at the age of 79 after suffering a heart attack on vacation at a Texas resort. He was nominated by former President Ronald Reagan and was the first Italian-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Scalia’s death, given the lifetime appointment nature of the court, opens a much sought-after and influential seat, allowing President Obama the chance for the nomination, which would further cement his legacy in the final moments of his presidency (he has appointed two justices to the highest court). If Obama were able to get another person on the court before the end of his term, the balance would
undoubtedly shift left. Of the eight justices currently serving, the split is down the middle. But, in their tradition of vehemently opposing any of Obama’s endeavors, there has been talk throughout the Republican majority in Congress of blocking any nomination until Obama’s successor takes office. The rationale, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is tradition. On Feb. 13, he said, “It’s been standard practice over the last 80 years to not confirm Supreme Court nominees during a presidential election year. Given the huge divide in the country, and the fact that this president, above all others, has made no bones about his goal to use the courts to circumvent Congress and push through his own agenda, it only makes sense that we defer to the American people who will elect a new president to select the next Supreme Court justice.” Justice Anthony Kennedy’s confirmation in the
election year of 1988 aside, Obama’s necessity to use the courts to achieve any of his goals is a direct result of the bone-headed mentality of the Republican majority during his time in office. From 2007-2014 alone, there were 133 filibusters that successfully prevented a final vote from taking place, according the Washington Post. In 2013, the Republican majority went as far as to shut down the entire federal government for 16 days in response to the Affordable Care Act. This cost roughly $24 billion, according to the financial services company Standard and Poor’s. These last-ditch, juvenile, monkey-wrench tantrums Republican Party officials have resorted to in the past years have revealed themselves to be just measures of self-preservation in nation methodically shifting left. The same could be seen with the 1950s and ’60s era of the Southern Democratics and their reprehensible
abdication from the Civil Rights Movement. South Carolina Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond waged a 24-hour filibuster on the 1957 Civil Rights Act, which helped to ultimately kill the piece of legislation. Robert Byrd, a former Klan member and Democratic senator from West Virginia, tried the same just before the now historic 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, holding up the vote for 14 hours and 13 minutes throughout the night. Like flipping the Monopoly board, the “if I can’t win, no one can” mentality has always been a sign of desperation in Congress. Filibusters, government shutdowns, and ensuring the vacancy of judicial seats for political gain is just the thrashing moments before dated political ideology dies. Halting the mechanics of government and blocking the casting of votes is not representative democracy. In fact, it’s hardly governance at all. Grow up and do your job.
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Find “Death,” Replace with “Taxes”
• Better to flee from taxes than feel their grip. HOMER, The Iliad • Our life dreams the Utopia. Our taxes achieve the Ideal. VICTOR HUGO, Intellectual Autobiography • You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look taxes in the face. IAN FLEMING, You Only Live Twice • The thought of taxes deceive us; for they cause us to neglect to live. LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims • Taxes are when the monsters get you. STEPHEN KING, Salem’s Lot • No life that breathes with human breath / Has ever truly long’d for taxes. ALFRED TENNYSON, The Two Voices • To conquer taxes you only have to die. ALANE FERGUSON, The Angel of Death • Taunting taxes … means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose. J.K. ROWLING, The Tales of Beedle the Bard Andrew R. Juhl will file on time.
KRUI programming today’s events • Black History Month 2016, through Feb. 29; events, visithttp://csil.uiowa.edu/multicultural/month/ black-history-month/ • Intramural Powerlifting Registration, Campus Recreation & Wellness Center first-level weight area • Postdoctoral Workshop, Zhihong Lin, 10:30 a.m., 1459 Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building • Biochemistry Workshop, Jacob Michaelson, 12:30 p.m., 283 Eckstein Medical & Research Building • Operator Theory Seminar, 1:30 p.m., Erin Ferguson Griesenauer, 1:30 p.m., 309 Van Allen • Math Physics Seminar, Marc Herrmann, 2:30 p.m., 309 Van Allen
• Microbiology Seminar, Susan Hafenstein, 3 p.m., Bowen Watzke Auditorium • Faculty Senate Meeting, 3:30 p.m., Old Capitol Senate Chamber • How Housing Impacts the Health of a Community, 4 p.m., MidwestOne sixth-floor conference room • Study Abroad Trivia Night, 6 p.m., Mill, 120 E. Burlington • Exhibition Lecture: Neal Rock, 7:30 p.m., 116 Art Building West
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Get involved in something that matters. Surprise someone with an unexpected gesture. A chance to change your vocational path to a more academic position will lead to a higher income and greater satisfaction. Don’t let anyone bully you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t hold a grudge or argue about the way things get done. Do your part, and you will have no regrets. A partnership will go through changes, but in the end, it will bring you closer together and help you make personal gains. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t sit back. Speak up, and share your ideas. If someone tries to intervene or suggests unrealistic plans, take action that will allow you to stick to your plan without complications or taking on more than you can handle. Emotional manipulation is apparent. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep an open mind when dealing with authority figures or institutions. Reserve judgment, and get all the facts without sharing too much about your personal life. Look for alternatives, and don’t be afraid to do things differently. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Refuse to argue. Remain calm and reticent about how you want to go about your business. Try to get everything in place before you make your next move. An interesting turn of events will develop while networking. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Keep your feelings to yourself. Don’t let anyone put demands on you. Take care of your responsibilities and move on to more enjoyable pastimes. Love and romance will help you resolve a misunderstanding or concern. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take the plunge, and sign up for something you want to do. Whether it’s a course, trip or an event that gives you incentive to move forward, now is the time to put things in place. Walk away from situations that cannot be resolved. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Keep moving. Idle time will lead to anxiety and run-ins with people who don’t see things the same way you do. Focus on something that takes you away from your ordinary routine and allows you to develop a unique plan. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotional tension will mount if you haven’t been honest. Make changes at home that will help you gain confidence and allow you the freedom you need to excel. Think matters through, and do what’s best for you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t worry about what others do. Focus on your goals, and follow through with your plans. It’s up to you to protect your position, assets, and possessions from anyone who is manipulative or has ulterior motives. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The changes you make at home will be beneficial but challenging. The chance to begin a new routine is within your reach. Don’t get upset when you should take charge and set the stage for the way you want things to be. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your unpredictable nature will wreak havoc when dealing with colleagues, friends, and family. Don’t let your emotions take over, causing you to overreact or make assumptions that will put you in a vulnerable or awkward position.
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Baseball has some holes to fill By BLAKE DOWSON blake-dowson@uiowa.edu
After losing four starting position players from last year’s squad, head coach Rick Heller did his best when describing how he'll fill the vacancies in the Hawkeye lineup at the team’s media day on Feb. 11. With the Hawkeyes’ first series of the spring coming up this weekend at Dallas Baptist, Heller seems to have a lineup in mind to begin the season. Filling gaps in the outfield was a main concern for Iowa this off-season after losing starters Eric Toole and Kris Goodman to graduation and the MLB draft. Toole started all 59 games in center field in 2015, and Goodman started 36 in left. Senior Joel Booker, who also started all 59 games in right field last season, will move over to center. Taking Booker’s spot in right field will likely be freshman Robert Neustrom, a top-500 national prospect, was named Gatorade Player of the Year in Iowa after his senior highschool season. “Robert Neustrom from Sioux City North has played very well this fall and early sea-
son indoors,” Heller said. “I think you will see Robert get a lot of at-bats and have a pretty big role with this team.” Senior Eric Schenck-Joblinske will start in left field, replacing Goodman. Schenck-Joblinske started 10 games in left field last season, hitting .140 in 43 at-bats. The Hawkeyes have a hole at third base after losing Nick Day to graduation. He started 37 games for Iowa in 2015 and hit .273, while also only committing six errors at the hot corner. Junior Corbin Woods is slated to start the year at third base. Woods has one start under his belt at third, but he was mostly used as a pinch runner in 2015. “Last year, I learned what it takes to play at this level,” Woods said. “Nick Day was a great player along with the other seniors, and they taught me what it takes to be a Hawkeye and what it takes to play in the Big Ten and Division-1 level.” The last position Heller needs to fill will be at second base, which was manned by Jake Mangler a year ago. Mangler recorded 59 starts at second base in 2015 and had a .291 batting average.
Iowa outfielder Joel Booker talks to the media during the media day at Richard O. Jacobson Athletic Building on Feb. 11. (The Daily Iowan/Peter Kim) Heller said at media day Mason McCoy would be the man for the job, after transferring to Iowa from Illinois Central College. McCoy was the Northwoods League MVP last summer after setting records for hits, total bases, and runs. McCoy played shortstop at Illinois Central and in high school, but he will move to the other side of the bag to play alongside senior shortstop Nick Roscetti. Although Heller spoke at length about what his defensive alignment
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may be, the batting order he wi l l em pl oy was not di s c us s ed at m edi a day. T he one bi g ques t i on s t i l l r em ai ni ng i s who wi l l be Iowa’s Sat urday s t ar t er aft er l os i ng B l ak e Hi ck m an, who fi l l ed t hat r ol e a year ago. Heller said three candidates, sophomore Nick Gallagher, senior Ryan
Erickson, and sophomore C.J. Eldred, would compete for the job. “The third spot is really a battle,” Heller said. “We’re just trying to make the right decision. Ryan Erickson, and Nick Gallagher, and C.J. Eldred are the three guys who are really competing for that spot … we’re in good shape with any one of them.”
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Strength in the Hawkeyes 800 club By ADAM HENSLEY adam-hensley@uiowa.edu
Heading into the Iowa State Classic, the Hawkeyes’ middle-distance group had made great strides. In Ames, the group churned out its best performances of the season. Iowa’s Carter Lilly, Will Teubel, Pavlo Hutsalyuk, and Ryan Dorman showed fans just how powerful they could be in the 800 meters. Lilly finished seventh with a time of 1:49.09. Not only was that his college best, the time ranks second all-time at Iowa. “There were a lot of fast people in my heat, so I wanted to get out fast,” the sophomore from Sioux City said. “I had the ‘rabbit’ in my lane, so that helped me get in front of everyone right away. I just stuck with the ‘rabbit’ and then kept pushing after he stepped off, and I ended up going fast.” Assistant coach Jason Wakenight believes Lilly is one who leads by example. “I think Carter is a guy who doesn’t talk much about what he’s going to run, he
WRESTLING CONTINUED FROM 10 coaches’ association succeeds. Iowa gets North Carolina State on Feb. 22, a team that went 22-1 this year and is coming off a win over a good Missouri team. It will be a tough dual for the Hawkeyes, but it’s not the championship meet, the place in which they should be. Just because the two undefeated teams are from the same conference, there’s no reason they should not be able to battle it out for any sort of title. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened in college sports (looking at you Alabama and LSU), and it probably wouldn’t be the last. Sometimes, one conference really does have the best teams in the nation.
MBB CONTINUED FROM 10 Block party Led by Player of the Year candidate Jarrod Uthoff, the Iowa men’s basketball team ranks tied for third the Big Ten in blocks per game with 5.5, third in the conference with 138. Only Maryland, which averages 5.6 blocks per game, swats away more shots than the Hawkeyes. The Terrapins also have 146 blocks, and Ohio State has 143. Uthoff has more than half of the Hawkeyes’ blocks, with 74 through the first 25
WBB CONTINUED FROM 10 After once again losing the lead, a go-ahead jumper by junior guard Ally Disterhoft put the Hawks up 76-75 with eight seconds on the clock. Disterhoft turned in her usual impressive stat line, ending the night with 20 points and 5 rebounds. However, that’s when things took a turn for the worse. Minnesota’s Banham was able to break free of Hawkeye defenders, draining the 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded. Other scorers for the Hawkeyes included Chase Coley (21 points), Whitney Jennings (8), and Kali Peschel (5). Iowa shot just 39.4 percent from the field, Minnesota 45.2 percent. The
just goes out there and does it,” Wakenight said. “I think from that standpoint, he’s a guy people can count on.” Teubel followed closely behind, coming in at 1:50.48. While it may not have been his best time overall, it was still the fastest he has run this season. The race helped to boost morale, but the senior believes that he still has more to prove. “I’m feeling pretty confident,” he said. “It wasn’t my [career] best time [or] my best race. The rabbit went kind of slow through the 400. It shows that I’m in shape, and I can close well in my race. I can still finish strong. I was just excited to be in a quick race in a big meet with a bunch of other good runners, and I was ready to run.” Teubel’s career best in the 800 is 1:48.60, which he set at the Beach Invitational in 2015. Of Iowa’s four runners in the 800, Wakenight said Teubel has been the leader of the middle-distance group for the last two years. He credit’s Lilly’s success to being a teammate to a top
runner in Teubel. “What you saw Carter do is just a product of him and Will training well together as training partners. I think that’s just the product of the environment as a whole,” he said. “The relationship that Carter and Will have, that’s something that’s pretty special.” As close as the two are, both want their name atop the record for best 800 in school history. “I want it really bad,” Lilly said. “Will and I have been talking about the school record all year, and it’s been one of our goals since the beginning. If I keep working hard in practice and I can get completely healthy, I think both of us have a shot at breaking the record.” Freshman Hutsalyuk finished behind Teubel but ran a career-best 1:50.88, earning him 27th in the meet, eighth in program history. Even with a top time, Hutsalyuk was not pleased with the way he ran. “Obviously, I’m happy with my time, but I didn’t really like my race,” he said. “I was just all over the
Right now, the Big Ten is that conference. If the Big Ten is going to continue to have the best teams in the nation, the format for the National Duals needs to reflect that fact. It’s not hard, then, to understand why so many people don’t take the National Duals seriously as a championship. In their eyes, the NCAA Championships should be the only thing to determine a national title. However, another part of the wrestling world very much wants to make the National Duals part of deciding a national champion. It’s an argument and a philosophical difference that pervades the sport. On one hand, wrestling is a sport that is very much individual and, of course, an athlete’s entire team is not on the mat with him when he competes. Thinking like this, it makes sense
to determine a national champion through the performances of teams as they move through a bracket. Using how a specific wrestler holds up against the best competition in the country to award a team national championship has worked for a long time. However, having a dual meet to decide the national champion has some benefits of its own. Dual meets are shorter than championship-style events, are more easily televised and can be incredibly exciting. Of course, that’s not to say the NCAA Championships aren’t entertaining but simply more drawn out. With that said, until the coaches’ association picks a format to stick with, the most important competition is going to be wherever the NCAA decides to host the national championships.
games. Uthoff averages 3.0 blocks per game and has 10 more blocks than any other player in the conference. In his three seasons as a Hawkeye, Uthoff has totaled an impressive 165 blocks. Uthoff was never an under-the-radar player this season, and he’s shown exactly why thus far. He’s an elite scorer and a strong defender, but his shot-blocking ability might be the strongest part of his game.
back to last season. For all the decrying of the crowds and students, Iowa does play exceptionally well on its home court, as would be expected. Iowa is winning its games in Carver-Hawkeye by an average of nearly 14 points. In all games, Iowa’s margin of victory is 12.1, which ranks 24th nationally and fourth in the Big Ten behind Michigan State, Purdue, and Indiana. If the Hawkeyes play as well in a de facto home game in Des Moines, where most NCAA bracket projections place the Hawkeyes, there’s a good chance the dreams of the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament becomes a reality.
Rack ’em up Despite several cardiac episodes, the Hawkeyes have a reputation for winning at home, tallying 13 straight dating
Hawkeyes connected on only 4-of-19 from 3-point land (21.1 percent). The Gophers hit 10-of-19 3s (52.6 percent). Iowa outrebounded Minnesota, thanks in large part to freshman Gustafson, 46-38. However, they lost the turnover battle with 13 compared with the Gophers’ 10. The next game for Iowa will come at home against Purdue on Thursday night. Despite the recent losses, Bluder remained confident after Monday night’s loss that her team can finish the season strong. “If we come back and practice hard and get prepared for Purdue, we can have a great victory on Thursday night on our home court,” Bluder said in the release. “Being on our home court is going to be great.” Thursday’s tip-off is set for 7 p.m. in Carver-Hawkeye.
IOWA HAWKEYES (76) MIN FG 3P Coley 34 8-21 0-0 Gustafson 32 6-12 0-0 Disterhoft 39 8-14 2-6 Davis 36 2-6 0-2 Jennings 36 2-9 2-6 Kastanek 7 0-2 0-2 Buttenham 4 0-1 0-1 Peschel 12 2-6 0-2 TEAM TOTALS 200 28-71 4-19
FT 5-5 2-2 2-2 4-4 2-2 0-0 0-0 1-1
RB 11 19 5 0 3 0 0 2 6 16-16 46
MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS (78) MIN FG 3P FT RB Lamke 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 Banham 39 15-31 5-9 0-0 9 Starr 19 2-3 0-0 0-0 3 Bailey 18 2-6 1-2 0-0 0 Wagner 38 8-17 1-2 0-0 2 Mullaney 26 2-5 2-2 2-2 1 Edwards 33 3-5 0-0 0-1 9 Hedstrom 20 1-5 1-4 0-0 5 Barnes 4 0-1 0-0 0-0 2 TEAM 7 TOTALS 200 33-73 10-25 2-3 38
A 3 6 1 5 1 1 1 2
TO 2 1 1 4 1 2 0 0 2 13 10
TP 21 14 20 8 8 0 0 5 6 76
A 0 8 2 1 3 3 0 0 0
TP 0 35 4 5 17 8 6 3 0
TO 0 1 3 0 2 4 0 0 0
17 10 78
Iowa’s Brendan Thompson (right) and Mitch Wolff head to the hand-off exchange during the 4X400-meter relay at the Iowa Dual on Jan. 16 in the Recreation Building. (The Daily Iowan/Brooklynn Kascel) place, bouncing back and forth. I got boxed [in] at the end, so I didn’t run what I wanted to run. I think next week, I can run a smarter race and run faster.” Earlier this season, he won the 800 at the Big Four Duals, clocking a time of 1:53.23. Dorman finished around five seconds behind Hutsa-
lyuk — about two seconds slower than his career best — but his coach sees promise in the sophomore. “I think Dorman has some really good races ahead of him this indoor season, going into the Big Ten meet,” Wakenight said. “I think he’s another guy that is definitely going to contribute and have a shot at making the final.”
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Heartbreak Hotel for Hawkeyes By JAKE MOSBACH jacob-mosbach@uiowa.edu
Things just haven’t been going the Iowa women’s hoops team’s way recently. On Monday night in Minneapolis, the Hawks fell victim to a Minnesota game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer from Rachel Banham to lose, 78-76. The loss dropped Iowa to 15-11 overall this season, 5-9 in the Big Ten. Banham, who scored 60 points on Feb. 8 against Northwestern, dropped 35 points to go with 9 rebounds and 8 assists against the Hawkeyes. After the game, Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder had high praise for the Minnesota star. “Rachel Banham is a special player,” she said in a release. “She was tough to guard, and you knew she was going to be the one that took that last shot.” Overshadowed by the stunning defeat was Hawkeye freshman forward Megan Gustafson’s huge night. Gustafson corralled 19 rebounds along with 14 points and Gustafson added 3 assists. freshman Gustafson’s rebounding total was the most for any Hawkeye player since Sam Logic collected 17 boards during a game in 2013. “Megan did a great job on the boards,” Bluder said in the release. “I don’t think anyone has had 19 rebounds in a lot of years.” As has been the story recently, the Hawkeyes possessed a 13-point lead at the 8:37 mark in the third quarter. But the Gophers came charging back to take a 62-60 lead with 7:57 left in the game. The frantic fourth quarter saw Minnesota extend its advantage to 69-64, but the Hawkeyes came back and retook the lead on two Tania Davis free throws with 18.9 seconds left. Davis ended the game with 8 points and 5 assists. SEE WBB, 8
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National Duals a National Joke Iowa forward Dom Uhl lays the ball up against Minnesota on Sunday in Carver-Hawkeye. The Hawkeyes defeated the Gophers, 75-71. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)
BENCHED & PINING AWAY FOR POINTS Iowa bench points in the last three games:
By IAN MURPHY ian-murphy@uiowa.edu
The play of the bench of the Iowa men’s basketball team has been praised all season, and for the most part, rightfully so. Nicholas Baer and Dom Uhl were both strong scorers for Iowa early in Big Ten play. Recently, however, bench scoring has been almost completely absent. Over the past three games, the Hawkeyes have managed a measly 14 points from its reserves. Iowa was at its worst against Indiana; Uhl and Baer combined for 4 fouls and 0 points in 25 minutes. The bench went a combined 0-of-4 against the Hoosiers, with no trips to the free-throw line and just 3 rebounds. The bench was marginally better on Feb. 14, scoring 6 points against Minnesota and providing some rebounding help. Ahmad Wagner was especially active on the glass, tallying 7 rebounds. “You look at the offensive rebounding in particular, Baer and Ahmad, when we really needed it. Those guys were all over the glass,” Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery said. “They weren’t mistake guys. That’s what you need: rebound, energy, defend, don’t make mistakes, and the points will come.” As McCaffery said, the bad shooting carried over against the Gophers; the Hawkeyes subs were just 2-of-8 from the field. However, the two free throws and two baskets proved to be of vital importance, because without them, a one-game lead on the rest of the conference would have turned into a loss and a three-way tie for the Big Ten lead. If the Hawkeyes want to make a deep run in March, the bench players will have to do much more than they have in the last week. SEE MBB, 8
7 points DOM UHL
4 points NICHOLAS BAER
3 points AHMAD WAGNER
0 points BRADY ELLINGSON
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Penn State and Oklahoma State will wrestle each other for the National Wrestling Coaches Association’s National Duals Championship title. Despite being the only undefeated team not named Penn State and having beaten the Cowboys this year, Iowa doesn’t get to wrestle for a National Duals title because the Nittany Lions and Hawkeyes are both members of the best wrestling conference in the nation. It’s a sham, it’s a miscarriage of justice, and quite simply, a joke. The reason that they won’t is complex. The National Duals format of the recent past — numerous teams advancing in a bracket — was scrapped this year for something completely different. Instead, the coaches’ group decided that eight Big Ten teams would host duals. The teams would be chosen based on their place in the national rankings and then matched up with a regular-season conference dual-meet champion from a non-Big Ten conference. There’s also now one wildcard team, which fills out all 16 spots. On the surface, there’s potential in the idea. Having teams wrestle a bigname opponent at the end of the year — much like the college football bowl system — is a good thing. People want to see some of the best teams go head-to-head, and in that, the SEE WRESTLING, 8