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t's been four years since Iowa crowned more than one Big Ten individual champ, but that drought ended Sunday as the Hawkeye wrestling team won two individual titles. Cory Clark and Sammy Brooks were the winners for Iowa at 133 and 184 pounds, respectively, and the first pair of Hawkeyes to receive gold medals in the same Big Ten Championships since Matt McDonough and Derek St. John did so in 2012. SPORTS.
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Police face phone woes By TOM ACKERMAN | thomas-ackerman@uiowa.edu A judge has denied a request for data that would show Andrea Farrington’s cell-phone communication just before her death, a decision that thrusts a local case into a national conversation about encryption, the U.S. government, and privacy. Alexandar Kozak, a 22-year-old security office at the Coral Ridge Mall where Farrington worked at the Iowa Children’s Museum, al- Farrington legedly shot Farrington. victim Family members don’t know the 20-yearold Farrington’s password, and law enforcement can’t hack into the iPhone 5s with iOS 8.3 for evidence purposes, as they were able to in older phones. If the incorrect password is entered more than 10 times, the phone will delete all
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the data, according to court documents. “In everything we do, we have to just weigh time and costs versus what you have to gain out of it,” Coralville police Lt. Shane Kron said about the investigations. In many cases, he said, it’s not worth trying to get information from a phone because it takes hours away from more serious investigations that may be occurring. Kron couldn’t discuss specifics of the ongoing case, but said there have been more and more phones the department can’t access. This comes at a time of national discussion for what is and isn’t considered private information, reflected in the U.S. government’s current legal battle with Apple Inc., to create a program to allow authorities easier access to iPhones. Jude Pannell, an assistant Johnson SEE IPHONE, 3
Visin steps down By TOM ACKERMAN |
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University of Iowa Assistant Vice President and Interim Director of Public Safety Dave Visin has stepped down. The resignation comes after recent controversy concerning allegations Visin interfered with a hit-andrun collision in June 2015 involving stepson Sean Crane, who has a history of substance dependence. Until a replacement Visin is found, Rod Lehnertz, associate director the UI senior vice president for Finance and Operations, has appointed Lucy Wiederholt to the position. Wiederholt is the current UI police chief. “As a 30-year veteran of the university, Director Wiederholt brings a wealth of experience and leadership to the position,” Lehnertz said
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in the statement. “She and I will work closely to continue to ensure the safety of the university community during this interim period,” Lehnertz said. Wiederholt said she is honored to serve in the position. UI President Bruce Harreld said on Radio Iowa on March 2 he was unaware of the ongoing situation until last week, when the Associated Press reported the Johnson County Sheriff ’s Office was asking county attorneys whether they should pursue charges. Charges are not being pursued, but Harreld said he contacted the state Board of Regents to inform the regents of the situation. Visin will return to his position as associate director in charge of Clery Act compliance and support services. Visin was appointed to the interim position following the retirement of Chuck Green, who served as Public Safety director for 20 years, in January 2015.
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Evelyn Mozena and Pearl Shields read “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” with mixed spaniel Sadie for SIT, STAY, R.E.A.D with Therapy Dogs of Johnson County at the Iowa City Public Library on Sunday. The program is free to the public and has been going on for more than a year. (The Daily Iowan/McCall Radavich)
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In the world with words
By CASSANDRA SANTIAGO cassandra-santiago@uiowa.edu
One year after the release of his novel, the author of best-selling novel Descent is back in his hometown, Iowa City, for a reading Wednesday night. Tim Johnston committed to writing after publishing stories during his time in graduate school at the University of Massachusetts. Since the release of his first novel, Never So Green in 2002, Johnston has won numerous awards including the O. Henry Prize, New Letters Award, and the 2015 Iowa Author Award. Currently, he teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Memphis while balancing a novel in the works. When he’s not consumed by his writing, Johnston enjoys golfing, watching movies, eating nice dinners, and reading. In his words, he finds joy in doing “all the normal things that normal people do.” Johnston spoke with The Daily Iowan about Descent, his latest novel he spent more than six years writing, and his writing process. The Daily Iowan: What are some of your writer lifestyle habits? Tim Johnston: I find it very difficult to teach and
be a productive writer at the same time. I kind of need to have the whole day ahead of me to really get immersed into the writing world and the world of the characters. DI: What did the process of writing Descent look like? Johnston: It began with an idea that wouldn’t leave me alone when I was working on this house in Colorado … It was very Johnston i s o l a t e d author and I was in this house entirely by myself for weeks and months on end … I was actually, at the time, not even trying to write, I was trying to get this house finished off, but this family of four started bothering me in my brain. Before very long, I was not able to keep them out of my mind, so I stopped what I was doing and started writing. I knew that something bad was going to happen to this family in the Rocky Mountains, and beyond that I had kind of a general idea what was going to happen by the end of the novel, but there was that entire vast, scary wilderness between the begin-
ning and the end that I didn’t know much about. Once I had written sort of the catalyst event that gets the novel going, I jumped ahead two years in time to when the mystery of the missing daughter has not been solved in any way. The family is still just as in the dark as they ever were and that was the interesting time for me to pick up the story. I wanted it to be about people who were dealing with their daily lives with this cloud hanging over them constantly and endlessly. DI: Has writer’s block been a part of your career at all. If so, how do handle it? Johnston: I don’t believe in writer’s block; I believe in writer’s pause. I reached a point in the novel where I didn’t know where I was going, but I didn’t think of it as blocked … even though you’re not physically writing on a daily basis for a long period of time, at some level you’re still thinking about it. The novel is still turning its wheels quietly in the background. DI: What do you love most about Descent? Johnston: I love that it’s published and done and done fairly well. It’s been a great friend to me in that respect. I think
that I love most that I took my time with it … I never rushed and I never did less than I thought was the best I could do. Love is not the word I would use, but I’m just quietly proud of its quality from sentence to sentence. DI: Can you explain the significance of writing in your life? What does it do for you as a person? Johnston: I’ve always been trying to get some image or story out of my head one way or another. When I was a kid, it was drawing. At some point the written word took over in that means of expression and it took over absolutely. It means that there’s some essential need in me to get out what’s in my head into a storytelling form, into images. It’s just sort of who I am. If I weren’t doing it … I would not know who I was. And I feel that as long as I’m working on it, doing what I’m supposed to be doing, it keeps me from feeling like my life is a total waste of time.
WORDS Tim Johnston Reading When: 7 p.m. Wednesday Where: Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque Admission: Free
BLOTTER Emily Anderson, 18, Burge, was charged on March 5 with PAULA. Juan Andres, 20, West Liberty, was charged on March 5 with presence in a bar after hours. Colin Aubuchon, 20, 130 N. Linn St. No. 2430, was charged on March 5 with presence in a bar after hours. Daniel Balun, 20, 347 S. Governor St., was charged on March 5 with presence in a bar after hours. Delmargo Bruce, 25, Cedar Rapids, was charged on March 4 with possession of marijuana and violation of a no-contact order. Paul Biagas, 22, 632 S. Van Buren St. Apt. 5, was charged on Sunday with assault causing injury. Conor Bryant, 20, 42 West Court St. No. 408, was charged on March 5 with presence in a bar after hours. Nina Bumstead, 18, S305 Hillcrest, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours. Monica Carrillo, 18, address unknown, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours. Elias Clark, 28, 609 Woodside Drive, was charged on Sunday with an OWI. Tyler Clark, 27, Columbia, Missouri, was charged on Sunday with an OWI. Teresa Colletti, 20, 325 E. College St. No. 1621, was charged on March 5 with PAULA. Ryan Conrad, 19, N421 Currier, was charged on March on March 5 with presence in a bar after hours. Martin Corrigan, 18, E244 Currier, was on charged March 4 with presence in a bar after hours.
Connor Cox, 20, 211 E. Davenport St., was charged on March 4 with keeping a disorderly house. Daniel Crum, 28, 2104 Davis St, was charged on March 5 with public intoxication. Kevin Cuellar, 22, Ottumwa, was charged on Sunday with an OWI. Michael Cullen, 19, Cary, Illinois, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours. Daveon Curry, 22, Coralville, was charged on March 5 with criminal trespass. Jacqueline Davis, 19, 402 Church St., was charged on March 4 with presence in a bars after hours and PAULA. Joel Fernandez, 19, West Liberty, was charged on March 5 with presence in a bars after hours. Steven Fessler, 18, 3237 Burge, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours. Zachary Fitzgibbons, 16, Tinley Park, Illinois, was charged on March 5 with public intoxication, interference with official acts, and presence in a bar after hours. Alejandro Garcia Lair, 22, Coralville, was charged on March 4 with an OWI. Jessica Gaskey, 19, 3524 Burge, was charged on March 5 with PAULA. Fabrice Gasore, 27, 1960 Broadway No. 3A, was charged on Sunday with an OWI. Lisa Greenwood, 19, Peosta, Iowa, was charged on March 5 with PAULA. Brant Gressel, 21, 754 Westgate St., was charged on March 5 with public intoxication. Nina Hammerbeck, 24,
Dubuque, was charged on March 5 with fifth-degree theft. Chantel Haughton, 19. 114 E. Fairchild St., was charged on March 5 with presence in a bars after hours. Theodore Heald, 70, 906 S. Summit St., was charged on Sunday with an OWI. Myles Hebets, 18, Cedar Rapids, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours, interference with official acts, and public intoxication. Destry Hughes, 61, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 2201, was on charged March 4 with driving while license under suspension/canceled. Pavlo Hutsalyuk, 18, Harwood Heights, Illinois, was charged on March 5 with presence in a bar after hours. Carly Iacullo, 18, 322B Mayflower, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours, and PAULA. Andrew Joran, 18, Tinley Park, Illinois, was charged on March 5 with public intoxication, interference with official acts, and presence in a bar after hours. Edward Kuzas, 20, 225 S. Gilbert St. No. 2711, was charged on March 5 with PAULA. Abraham Lemus, 18, 128 Arabian Court, was charged on March 4 with an OWI and possession of marijuana. Yiwei Lian, 21, Coralville, was charged on Sunday with driving while barred. Donzell Lindsey, 31, 201 N. First Ave. No. 407, was charged on Sunday with escaping from custody, interference with offi-
cial acts, and reckless driving. Alexandra Loux, 19, 1137 Quadrangle, was charged March 4 with presence in a bar after hours. Terry Madison, 19, 1401 Pine St., was charged on Sunday with presence in a bar after hours. Morgan Mankle, 18, 243 Slater, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours. Maurice Manning, 21, Burlington, was charged on March 4 with drinking while license revoked and an OWI. Darrell McGill, 33, 2104 Miami Drive, was charged on March 5 with fifth-degree theft. Samantha Mlavsky, 28, Savannah, Georgia, was charged on March 4 with interference with official acts and public intoxication. Kiley Murphy, 23, 2969 Heinz Road No. 6, was charged on March 5 with domestic assault with injury and OWI. Taylor Nickoloff, 20, 527 N. Dubuque St. Apt. 7, was charged on March 4 with PAULA and presence in a bar after hours. Karlim Noone, 19, 614 Slater, was charged on March 4 with presence in a bar after hours. Cortney Otte, 20, Keokuk, was charged on March 5 with presence in a bar after hours. Darian Patterson, 26, West Chester, Iowa, was charged on Sunday with OWI. Robert Perez, 48, 174 Paddock Circle, was on charged on March 4 with an OWI. Drew Pilati Warner, 19, 737 Slater, was charged on March 4 with PAULA.
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Farm economy slows statewide in Iowa By BILL COONEY william-cooney@uiowa.edu
Iowa, a state known for agriculture, is finds its farms on hard times. Prices for corn are the lowest in Johnson County since 2009 and soybeans since 2012, Kelvin Leibold, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University said. “When you look at the gross income from 2012 to 2015, we’re probably looking at $140 million to $150 million less in farming revenues per county,” he said. In eastern Iowa, where agriculture is big business, this loss of revenue is felt far beyond the farm, Leibold said. “This is definitely bleed-
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CONTINUED FROM FRONT County prosecutor, said local attorneys always work to get a search warrant as a general policy. “It just does a better job of protecting citizens’ privacy and ensuring everything is done fairly,” he said, adding it’s tough to say what the decision will be nationally. Pannell said there was a recent local gathering of prosecutors where
ing over to other industries, like machinery sales and fertilizer,” Leibold said. John Deere, which is based in Moline, Illinois, recently announced it would lay off roughly 100 people from its plants in Davenport and Dubuque. “You can definitely make a connection with the Deere plant and a decrease in revenue from farmers,” Leibold said. “You’re also going to see reduced rents, reduced costs for machinery, fertilizer, feed, and other chemicals.” Jerry Anderson, the regional manager for the Iowa Farm Bureau, said farmers would need to cut unnecessary expenses to deal with the loss in income.
“You’re probably not going to be buying any new farming equipment,” Anderson said. Steve Swenka, who farms a few miles outside of Tiffin, said part of the problem was a strong growing season last year. “We did too good a job growing stuff, and now there’s too much in the market,” he said. “We’ll probably have to wait until next season to see if the price changes.” Both Anderson and Leibold think the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement being advocated by President Obama would help Iowa’s struggling farmers. “It would reduce tar-
iffs on Iowa goods,” Leibold said. “This means we could increase exports and make more money.” Anderson said there’s a large market for Iowa-made goods in Asia, especially in China. “It would be real relief if we could get more trade, and increase the market for products made in Iowa,” he said. “[The Farm Bureau] has sent several delegates to other countries to sell products, especially China.” Diversification is one way farmers can get through the slowdown, Swenka said. “My farm is a diversified operation; I’m hoping to profit off of my Angus cattle until the price for grains rebound,” he said.
For now, the best-case scenario for many Iowa farmers is figuring out how to lose the least amount of money while the price of commodities is down, Anderson said.
“We’re working with a lot of farmers to lock them in the best least loss scenario they can get,” he said. “It’s really all we can do at this point.”
they discussed computer forensics and the legal changes occurring. “We had prosecutors from all over the country attend, and we spent some time talking about this,” he said. “Everybody nationwide is watching this case very closely to try to see where things will go.” The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in 2014 search warrants are necessary to acquire evidence and data from mobile devices. The question now is whether the government should
step in when evidence that might contribute to an ongoing case is on a password protected device. “It’s not just opening one phone,” Veronica Fowler, communications director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa said. Fowler said the ACLU is against the idea of Apple giving authorities easy access to phones. “It basically would allow other courts to give police new investigative tools to snoop on individual citizens,” she said.
“This is far beyond a simple ‘turn over what you have and tell us what you know.’ It’s compelling Apple to think of new ways to spy on people.” Fowler said Apple claims it wants to protect the privacy of its customers. Apple has said it’s cooperating with law enforcement and has pointed to the fact roughly 80 percent of the almost 10,000 requests from law enforcement in the past 12 months have been provided. The other 20 percent,
it said, involved information that didn’t exist or requests that were canceled. Kron said police aren’t interested in people’s personal information, just what could help them solve crimes, though he understands why people are upset at the thought of a loss of privacy. “Besides the fact that they’re doing illegal stuff, I think a lot of people, when they give us their phone, they give us the password, and they take us to what we want, what they’re re-
ally saying is, ‘I’m willing to give you the criminal stuff, I just don’t want you looking at all the personal stuff.,’ ” Kron said. “We’re OK with that.” Kron, who has worked for the Coralville police for 26 years, said even though policing and legal implications are always changing, investigators would continue to do their best to get the facts. “Our job is to gather all of the available information,” he said. “When it’s not available, it’s just not available.”
Dvorsky Century Farm is seen on Sunday. (The Daily Iowan/McCall Radavich)
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Branstad’s mixed legacy The crumbling Republican Party I Jace Brady Jace-brady@uiowa.edu
Fox News held a Republican primary debate in Detroit last week. This venue proved to be the perfect location for the shameful performance provided by Fox News moderators and several Republican candidates. Detroit was once the capital of American manufacturing and innovation. It boasted the highest per capita income in the country, and its proud citizens reflected the American dream at its finest. Now, it is a crumbling city on the verge of collapse. Whole neighborhoods have been deserted, and the population has been decimated. The Grand Old Party demonstrated that is has suffered destruction akin to Detroit’s. Lit by the scenery of Detroit’s crumbling infrastructure, the party of Lincoln and Reagan was embarrassed by Marco Rubio’s and Donald Trump’s mudslinging and by moderators who threw all journalistic standards out in attempt to bolster the image of their ordained candidate. As a writer who has made his disdain for Trump quite obvious over the last several weeks, I couldn’t help but pity the Republican front-runner during the March 3 debate. Fox News has made no secret that Sen. Marco Rubio is its candidate of choice. However, because Rubio has suffered in the primary season, Fox News took it upon itself to sacrifice the role of moderator and joined the debate as Rubio’s attack dog. Every assertion Trump made was quickly parried with an onscreen rebuttal. The moderators chose to call Trump a liar every time he answered one of their questions with numbers. While I am not refuting the accuracy of Fox News numbers
or accepting Trump’s, when you are making calculations of this nature, estimates can be off by billions of dollars. Regardless of whose facts were correct, the role of moderator is to ask questions, pose follow-up questions, and ensure that participants follow the rules. Critically attacking candidates’ claims in an attempt to reshape the debate is certainly outside a moderator’s job description; at least, that is how Fox News felt after CNN’s Candy Crowley made a minor fact-checking offense in 2012, when Mitt Romney was the nominee. Of course, the moderators were not the only travesty that occurred during the debate. Rubio and Trump went blow for blow in a mudslinging match for the ages. Somehow, the adage of sticks and stones no longer applied, as everything right up to penis size was up for discussion. The childish antics of these two were an embarrassment to the party and will hurt whoever the eventual nominee is in the general election. While Rubio’s attempt to stand up to the bully Trump is commendable, his method of lowering himself to Trump rather than opposing his behaviors from a higher plane will likely backfire. March 3 was a devastating blow to the Republican Party and to Fox News. The candidates and moderators seemed determined to bring Trump down, even if it meant burning everything else to the ground as well. The once-great party seems destined to suffer a collapse just like the one experienced by its host city of Detroit. Republican voters have obviously determined they will no longer allow the Republican establishment to force its nominees down their throats and are ready for a new Republican Party. While it is ugly to watch, perhaps Fox News, and Rubio’s efforts to burn the party to the ground will pay eventual dividend to the party’s disaffected voters. Perhaps from the ashes, we can build something better.
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n 2014, Gov. Terry Branstad was re-elected to his sixth overall term with 59 percent of the popular vote, winning every county except Johnson County. He is now the longest serving governor in U.S. history. Obviously, he must be doing something right to receive support from Iowa’s voters for this long. But has Branstad’s Iowa prospered as much as he promised it would? The Des Moines Register examined this question, interviewing the governor last month and comparing the state’s growth (or lack thereof) to Branstad’s statements. What it found is largely unsurprising: Iowa has enjoyed modest job growth since Branstad took office at the tail end of the Great Recession. But it has slumped in such state services as access to health care; other areas, including K-12 education, have only made slight gains. And Branstad’s appointments to the state Board of Regents have caused great controversy at the University of Iowa, where questionable funding proposals and a presidential-selection process marred with allegations of favoritism and hidden agendas have led many to denounce the governor in the same breath as they do the regents. Branstad’s hallmark pledge has been to bring 200,000 new jobs to Iowa, and it’s a promise that has resonated with voters. To the governor’s credit, a net 110,000 new jobs have come to Iowa, and its unemployment rate in December 2015 was a remarkable 3.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, down 3 percentage points from the height of recession in 2009.
But the biggest question about these rates is whether Branstad can truly take credit for them. After all, the national unemployment has been cut in half during a similar time period, falling from 9.8 percent in February 2010 to 4.9 percent today. In 2013, the Business Journal analyzed U.S. governors’ job-creation records, using private sector job-growth rates. Branstad was ranked 28th out of 45 (governors who had recently taken office were omitted). One telling statistic is the governor’s approval rating. In the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll, the percentage of Iowans that approve of the way Branstad is handling his job has fallen significantly, from more than 60 percent in February 2014 to 47 percent last month. Public Policy Polling found similar results in November 2015: Branstad only had a 38 percent favorability rating, coupled with 50 percent disapproval. Though the state’s overall economic fortunes have improved, perhaps Iowans just feel the governor hasn’t done enough to address the issues he campaigned on, such as raising family incomes and reducing the cost of government (according to 2014 exit polls, 80 percent of Branstad voters thought government was “doing too much”). Or maybe, after closing in on two decades in office, Branstad has started to wear out his welcome. Regardless of the reason, the nation’s longest serving governor won’t be up for re-election until November 2018, giving him two and a half years to improve his approval ratings and, hopefully, the state of Iowa along with them.
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Caitlyn Jenner & Ted Cruz Christopher Cervantes Crvantes@uiowa.edu
Election years have, and always will be, a maelstrom of ideologies and arguments that mash together into one big conundrum. Maybe that’s why whenever we hear any type of public figure show support for a high-profile candidate, there is a proverbial hailstorm of backlash from the media and public. Sometimes, there’s a
reason people take a double take. On March 4, in an interview the Advocate, transgender celebrity Caitlyn Jenner reported that she likes Republican candidate Ted Cruz and wants to be his trans ambassador. Jenner said, “I think he’s very conservative, and a great constitutionalist, and a very articulate man. I haven’t endorsed him or anything like that. But I also think, he’s an evangelical Christian and probably one of the worst ones when it comes to trans issues.” Ted Cruz is one of the biggest opponents of the LGBT community. He is against both same-sex marriage and civil unions,
urged states to ignore the Supreme Court ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges (which legalized same-sex marriage in the United States), and, in November, attended Pastor Kevin Swanson’s “Kill the Gays” rally. Concerning transgender issues, well, he ignores them. Ever since that comment, Jenner has been the subject of various criticisms on social media from her fans and icons alike, calling her clueless and out of touch. It’s not hard to see why people are upset. Jenner seems to want this role of “trans ambassador” for the sole purpose of educating Cruz on the seriousness of transgender issues. The first part
of changing people’s minds is educating them. Given Cruz’s past and current ideologies regarding the LGBT community, there is no doubt in my mind that he is in need of a proper education in common decency and inequality. But even if Jenner’s intentions are noble, I don’t think she should waste her time with Cruz. If she wants to work toward furthering the rights of transgendered people, then she should endorse a candidate who is aware of them so that work and progress can actually be done. If Jenner still wishes to educate, I suggest she wait a few months. The she can educate Sen. Cruz as much as she wants.
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Open letter to Bruce Harreld Dear President Harreld: One of the University of Iowa’s proudest traditions is its long history of robust shared governance. For many decades, the state Board of Regents, the president, Faculty Senate, and Student Government have cooperated to ensure that each has a voice appropriate to its legitimate interests and campus role in arriving at important decisions. For a century, the American Association of University Professors has been the national enunciator and protector of academic freedom and shared governance. As the local affiliate of the association, we cite two of your recent actions — the appointment of Jean Robillard as the College of Medicine dean and the extension of Athletics Director Gary Barta’s contract — that we believe are inconsistent with both association policies and Iowa’s highly valued governance practices. Throughout the association’s policies, the term “primacy” describes the role each governance group should have in those areas of university operations most closely related to its direct responsibility. For example, the faculty has primacy in carrying out the university’s academic mission; its judgment in that area should generally be deferred to. In the “Statement on Government of Colleges and
Universities,” adopted in 1967, AAUP emphasizes that “[t]he selection of academic deans … should be the responsibility of the president with the advice of, and in consultation with, the appropriate faculty.” In accordance with this approach, regent policies require the president to initiate a search for a departing dean and to keep the regents informed on its progress. (Regents’ Policy Manual, Chapter 4, section 4.05C) Yet on Feb. 9 of this year, your office announced that Robillard would occupy the combined offices of vice president for Medical Affairs and dean of the College of Medicine, replacing thenDean Debra Schwinn in the latter role. The regents gave the change retroactive approval at its meeting on Feb. 25. So far as we are aware, no consultation with the faculty of the College of Medicine took place and certainly no search was conducted to identify Schwinn’s replacement. Similarly, AAUP policy speaks clearly to the role of the faculty in overseeing and regulating intercollegiate athletics. In a 2002 policy titled “The Faculty Role in the Reform of Intercollegiate Athletics: Principles and Recommended Practices,” specific mention is made that “the preservation of integrity in the college athlete’s academic life is
directly dependent upon the faculty’s ability to assert its primacy in ‘defining and monitoring the educational experiences of athletes’ … Therefore, it should be the responsibility of the institution to have the decisions that affect their lives as students made by those who know them as students – the faculty.” Surely one of the “decisions that affect [the] lives” of student athletes most strongly is the identity and vision of the university’s athletics director. Iowa has a university committee tasked to assist in searches for professional staff who work with student athletes and formulate and enforce policy with respect to intercollegiate athletics, the Presidential Committee on Athletics. This committee reports regularly to Faculty Senate as well as to the president. Despite these directives that faculty be involved in important decisions involving student-athletes, early this year your office extended the contract of Barta for an additional five years. There was no consultation with the Athletics Committee. This happened in a year in which, though there was impressive success on the playing fields, significant concerns were raised regarding gender equity in athletics. The university now faces investigation by the U.S.
Department of Education in response to student-athletes’ complaints. We wish to be clear: AAUP does not claim that you made the wrong decision in either of the matters referred to above. Indeed, without consultation, a faculty body could not offer an informed opinion on either matter. It is the lack of consultation and the concomitant failure to accord the faculty its appropriate primacy in matters of university governance that we deplore. These decisions reflect the sort of top-down management style more associated with corporate than with academic governance. To the extent that is the model you follow as university president, it will validate the concerns of those who opposed your appointment. Although we welcome your enthusiasm for “shared governance on steroids,” we hope that it will be informed by past Iowa practice and AAUP policies. We look forward to meeting with you soon to discuss our concerns further. Katherine Tachau Professor of History President, UI AAUP Chapter Lois Cox Clinical Professor of Law Chairwoman, Committee A UI AAUP Chapter
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UI works on Chinese special ed By MADELINE MURPHY SMITH madeline-m-smith@uiowa.edu
A University of Iowa professor is working to make special education more accessible in China. Youjia Hua, an associate professor of special education at the UI, said special education in his home country of China is segregated for students who have special needs. Hua said children with disabilities in China are the most likely to be overlooked in terms of their education. “People willingly overlook those with special needs,” he said “China is a big country so even those in rural areas without disabilities don’t have enough resources to support all children.” He said although there are teacher education programs for students with more obvious disabilities, such as blindness or deafness, others don’t receive such services. “Students with learning disabilities, autism, emotional disabilities,
they haven’t been recognized in terms of having an efficient teacher-education program,” he said. Hua came to the United States in 2000 to learn more about special education. He received a Ph.D. in the field in 2008, and soon became increasingly interested in Applied Behavioral Analysis. Applied Behavior Analysis uses an understanding of why behavior occurs to address a wide range of social issues, including helping individuals to learn. “Applied Behavioral Analysis is based on the science of behaviors,” he said. “[It] is appealing to special-education teachers because it does not focus primarily on the disability of a particular student.” Hua and two faculty members created the first-of-its kind education course for teachers and parents of students with autism. The course will allow these individuals to be Board Certified Assistant Behavioral Analysts. He said the four-class
core sequence is designed for instructors and parents to learn a systematic way of teaching the analysis and how it relates to special education. He said this will help teachers and parents be better prepared to instruct those with special needs. Chengan Yuan works at the Lindquist Center as a lead instructor for the online analysts course to train future behavioral analysts in China. “People are aware of the need for special education but they realize special education is hard work,” he said. Yua said a lot of evidence based practice needs to be used when teaching students with special education. He said teachers in China are not using evidence-based practice because they are not use to dealing with special needs students. “I think the trend in China now is: If we can teach students with special needs then they will be more included in society, so why not do that?”
Youjia Hua, a UI associate professor of teaching and learning, explains his passion for special education in the Lindquist Center on March 4. He said children with disabilities in China are overlooked in terms of education. (The Daily Iowan/Mary Mathis) he said. Working closely with the online course is Fan-Yu Lin, an adjunct faculty for the course and provides supervision for the practicum. She said the program will provide direct training for teachers that want to learn the analysis and apply it to the classroom. “Some teachers work
in inclusive settings like an elementary school and don’t know what to do with the students,” she said. The program, she said, will give teachers the tools they need to properly teach students with special needs. “This program is innovative and has a unique
international component. When teaching this course we have to adapt to the different culture of China and take into consideration the time zone change when planning out instruction,” she said. “That makes it a unique and exciting course. I’m looking forward to the future of this program.”
She said she would like the laptops to become a part of the library’s bookmobile in the future, a library on wheels that was recently approved on Feb. 17. “I’d love to see the
bookmobile delivering our laptops as well as our books,” she said. “I think it would really help kids who are at a disadvantage and can’t get to us or don’t have access to computers.”
Library now features laptops By SAVANNAH GUYER savannah-guyer@uiowa.edu
The Iowa City Public Library has found a way to aid community members without computers or internet access. Starting March 1, the library allowed patrons to check out any one of five brand-new laptops to use for seven-day periods. The new devices are available to everyone with a library card, excluding those who are not in their service area, said Kara Logsden L o g s d e n , coordinator the library community and access services coordinator. However, those who are under the age of 18 must have a permission slip signed by their parents or guardians in order to check out a laptop. “We wanted to make sure that all community members had access to the resources they needed,” Logsden said. “A lot of people come here to use our Internet computers, but it’s not always convenient for them to get to us. We also have a two-hour limit on those computers, and sometimes people need to use them for longer.”
Library board President Robin Paetzold said the library decided on just five laptops to start with to help measure the amount of demand in the community. If there is a high need, the library might consider budgeting more money toward getting more laptops, she said. “The idea is that there are a lot of people who
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can’t afford to have computers, or laptops, or even Internet access,” Paetzold said. “We want to help as many of them as we can so they can stop being forced to use their phones in order to do important tasks that should done on computers, such as filling out job applications.” Last fall, the library decided to include the budget for five laptops in its strategic financial plan that began in July 2015, but, Logsden said, it took the library awhile to find exactly what it was looking for. “We needed something
to fit everyone’s needs,” Logsden said. “We wanted to find a laptop that was durable enough to handle a lot of use, and we wanted it to be versatile as well, so it could have many different uses. It took us sometime to find a case that would be strong enough to protect the laptop and to identify a process we could use for confidentiality.” Logsden said every time a computer is returned, everything on it will be erased to protect the identity of the person who last Fisher used it. program librarian Just like any other library material that can be checked out, Logsden said, people who have the laptop in their possession will be responsible for any damage that might happen to it. Program librarian Beth Fisher said she believes the laptops would positively affect community members. “I think they will be a great resource for teenagers and families,” Fisher said. “Some families don’t have computers or the extra money to go out and buy one, and this program allows them to have more time to do the
things they need to do.” The library also came up with a directory of all the places within Iowa City that have free WiFi so that people know where to go for Internet access, Paetzold said.
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Future American Coats of Arms: • A half-empty, economy-sized bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, a half-empty magnum of Yellowtail merlot, and sweatpants — on field of Netflix scarlet. • A hand with a blinged-out mani, clutching a vodka-cranberry-Red Bull — on a striped field of alternating fake-bake orange and pink velour. • Two Bichon Frisés, rampant, wearing little cheerleader outfits — on a checkered field of Diet-Coke and Match.Com logos. • A row of prescription bottles positioned over the masks of comedy and tragedy — on a field of subdued gray. • Grilled cheese, served on a butter dish next to cheap beer — on a checkered field of unpaid bills and student loan notices. • Two stunted children, strapped into human harnesses, leashes held by parents in a helicopter, hovering above — on a repeating field of Mickey Mouse ears. • A single teardrop, bursting into flames — on a checkered field of donkeys and elephants. • A pristine gym membership card, already expired — on a striped field of ketchup, mustard, and barbecue sauce. Andrew R. Juhl thanks his LC friends for contributing to today’s Ledge.
KRUI programming today’s events • Chemistry Seminar, Aruni Gankanda, 12:30 p.m., 104 Iowa Advanced Technology Labs • Diabetes and Obesity Talks, Ana Maria Cuervo , 1 p.m., 1289 Carver Biomedical Research Building • Nuclear/Particle Physics Seminar, Delalcan Kilic, 2:30 p.m., 618 Van Allen • Biostatistics Seminar, Sanvesh Srivastava, 3:3 p.m., C217AB College of Public Health Building • Physics/Astronomy Colloquium, Amanda Weinstein, 3:30 p.m., 301 Van Allen • Fitness Testing, 4:40-6:30 p.m., Campus Recreation & Wellness Center inside main entrance • Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: A Friendly Forum, 4:40 p.m., 1117 University Capitol Center
• Heidi Worsham, piano, 6 p.m., University Capitol Center Recital Hall • Six-Week Startup, 6 p.m., 1204 UI Regional Center • “Live from Prairie Lights,” Christopher Kloeble, fiction, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque • University Band/Concert Band, 7:30 p.m., IMU Second-Floor Ballroom
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Follow your heart, and bring about the changes you deem necessary. Rely on your instincts to help you make choices that will influence your future and add to your security. Progressive actions will boost your confidence. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Refuse to let your emotions get in the way of good judgment. Let your intuition guide you, and you’ll avoid being taken for granted. Don’t wait for something good to happen. Take the initiative and be the driving force. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Focus inward, and make personal changes that are geared toward advancement. Relying on others could be a mistake. Take care of business, and you’ll avoid disappointment. Use diplomacy, strive for perfection, and you’ll stop someone from sabotaging your plans. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Stick to your agenda. Don’t worry about what someone else is doing. You don’t have to follow the crowd. Doing things your way will help you stand out and impress someone who will want to collaborate with you. Expand your interests. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Deal with money and health matters intuitively. Take responsibility when it comes to money matters, settlements and negotiations. Take on a physical challenge instead of letting uncertainty take over. Romance will lead to future plans and greater stability. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Show compassion when dealing with others, and you will avoid arguments. Talks will lead to an interesting proposition, but before you make an impulsive move, question the motives behind the offer. Don’t overreact when a simple ‘yes‚‘ or ‘no’ is all that’s required. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep the peace. You’ll be far more effective if you are diplomatic. Put more emphasis on self-awareness and being your very best, and less on trying to change others. Love and romance will ease your stress and improve your day. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Socializing with friends or hosting a get-together will help you connect with the people you want to spend more time with. Share your ideas, and you will find people who want to tag along on your journey. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Making assumptions or believing everything you hear will be your downfall. Get your facts straight, and don’t give away personal information that might be used against you. Self-improvement projects will pay off. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t feel obligated to pay for others or to donate money toward responsibilities that belong to someone else. You’ll benefit the most by getting back to your own plans for the future. If you don’t like something, say so. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): High energy combined with hard work will help you reach whatever goal you set. Whether it has to do with getting ahead professionally or raising your profile by offering to do more than what’s expected of you, it will help you gain recognition. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Listen to advice, but don’t feel pressure to do exactly what others think you should do. You have to consider the uniqueness of your situation and let your instincts lead you down the path that makes the most sense to you.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional. — Hunter S. Thompson
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Baseball drops series at Southern Illinois The Iowa baseball team dropped two of three games in Carbondale, Illinois, over the weekend. By JAKE MOSBACH jacob-mosbach@uiowa.edu
The Iowa baseball team dropped two of three games against Southern Illinois March 4 through Sunday in Carbondale, putting its season record at 3-6. The Hawkeyes lost in heartbreaking fashion March 4 against the Salukis, falling in 11 innings 2-1 after a walk-off sacrifice fly to center field by Dyllin Mucha. Iowa head coach Rick Heller said after the game he was disappointed in his team’s inability to close a game that they led 1-0 at one point. “It was a frustrating game and a tough loss,” Heller said in a release. “When you have one like we had tonight, you have to finish the deal, and we weren’t able to do that.” Hawkeye freshman righthander Zach Daniels suffered the loss (0-1) after entering the game in the 10th inning. The game’s starter,
C.J. Eldred, worked a no-hitter through 7.2 before allowing an unearned run. Eldred had 4 strikeouts and 1 walk. “He was dominant. They weren’t putting good swings on him and didn’t even really threatening the entire game,” Heller said in a release. “He was fantastic, had command of all his pitches, and stepped up when we didn’t have Tyler Peyton.” Junior infielder Mason McCoy was Iowa’s offensive leader in the first game, going 3-for-5 with an RBI. Game 2, on March 5, featured a stunning Hawkeye comeback victory — Iowa’s only win of the weekend. Southern Illinois led the Hawks 5-1 in the going into the sixth inning, but Iowa plated 4 runs to knot the score via RBIs from Nick Roscetti, Tyler Peyton, and Austin Guzzo. From there, Iowa took its first lead in the seventh inning — a lead it never gave back. Sophomore Nick Gallagher earned his first win of
the season (1-1), with senior Luke Vandermaten picking up his first save of the year. Offensively, outfielder Joel Booker led the Hawks — the senior went 3-for-5 with a double, a run scored, and an RBI. The series’ final game Sunday went the Salukis’ way from the first pitch, and the Hawkeyes lost, 6-1. Heller was frustrated after the game. “It was a frustrating day, but it was one of those days where baseball isn’t fair,” he said in a release. “I don’t think we pitched that poorly, but they had a day where everything found a hole. They hit ground balls that got through, jam shots that fell in, and balls that weren’t square up that fell in.” Senior starter Calvin Mathews took the loss (01). He exited in the fourth after allowing 4 runs on seven hits. Roscetti continued to lead the Hawkeyes at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a run
Iowa first baseman Tyler Peyton swings and misses duringthe Big Ten Tournament against Indiana at Target Field in Minneapolis on May 22, 2015. The Hoosiers defeated the Hawkeyes, 10-2. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert) scored. He is hitting .333 with six RBIs this season. Heller said the offense in Game 3 of the series wasn’t terrible — Iowa collected 8 hits — but Hawkeye hitters just couldn’t find a gap. “We didn’t punch out a lot — we put the ball in play,”
Hawks split in tennis By SHAFIN KHAN shafin-Khan@uiowa.edu
The Iowa women’s tennis team snagged its first road win of the season March 5 by defeating Illinois-Chicago, 6-1, at the XS Tennis Center in Chicago. Iowa started off strong by winning the doubles point with Kristen Thoms and Anastasia Reimchen beating Rachel Le Comber and Oana Manole (61). Then Natalie Looney and Aimee Tarun locked up the doubles point for the Hawkeyes by defeating Jackie Altansarnai and Bianca Zuzu (6-0). “We got off to a good start with doubles and carried that Dougherty momentum head coach into singles,” Hawkeye head coach Katie Dough-
erty said in a release. “We had a number of tight sets that we were able to close out and played better in second sets.” The Hawkeyes dominated the scoreboard in the singles matches as well with five Hawkeyes putting up wins. Iowa had only one singles loss, with Tarun falling to Melika Leblanc (64, 6-4). Reimchen, at the No. 1 singles spot, beat Altansarnai (2-6, 6-2, 6-3). Kristen Thoms beat Ann-Sophie Hahn (7-5, 6-2), and Zoe Douglas propelled the Hawkeyes even higher by winning against Manole (7-5, 6-4). “[Illinois-Chicago] came out strong in singles, and it is tough to play at its place,” Dougherty said in a release. “The team did a great job competing.” Freshman Hawkeye Montana Crawford stepped up as well by de-
feating Bianca Zuzu at the No. 6 spot (6-4, 6-2). Adorabol Huckleby beat Comber (6-3, 6-0). The Hawkeye men’s team went up against Drake on March 4 and fell in a close match, 4-3. No. 36 Drake started a step behind to begin the match by losing the doubles point at the No. 1 and No. 2 spot. Hawkeye sophomores Jake Jacoby and Lefteris Theodorou claimed the first victory, and senior Dominic Patrick and sophomore Josh Silverstein followed up with a doubles victory of their own. “We started off the match really well with doubles, got up a break on No. 1 and 2 doubles and were able to carry the momentum and get that first point,” Iowa head coach Ross Wilson said in a release. Going into the singles matches, the Hawkeyes started off strong again
with Jacoby defeating Tom Hands (6-1, 7-5). Iowa junior Robin Haden was handed a loss (6-7, 6-3, 6-2). Following that match, everything came down to Silverstein playing against Drake’s Vinny Gillespie. Gillespie squeaked out the victory (7-5, 2-6, 6-4), giving Drake the edge. “Extremely tough loss for us today. I think the home crowd really helped Drake out at the end of the match, but our guys battled, and that’s what it’s about,” Wilson said in a release. “We’ve got to be able to be comfortable in this environment and pull of a couple wins with matches like this if we want to accomplish our goals this year.” The team will next play next at home March 11 to go up against Nebraska to kick off their first match of the Big Ten season.
in the 1-meter event for the women, and seven for the men. There will be nine qualifiers in the 3-meter for the women, and seven for the men, and on the platform, there will be nine qualifiers on the women’s side and eight for the men. The Hawkeyes will travel to College Station with nine divers set to compete. Freshman Will Brenner, junior Brandis Heffner, seniors Addison Boschult and Andrew Hull, and sophomore Evan Hull will compete on the men’s side. Sophomore Morgan Rafferty, freshman Jacintha Thomas, and juniors Cali Head and Lydia Lehnert will compete for the women. Boschult finished sixth at the Big Ten Championships in the platform competition with a score of 350.45. Hull finished 14th with 320.25 points. Boschult also finished seventh in the 3-meter springboard with 359.25 points, and Brenner was Iowa’s top finisher in the 1-meter, placing 11th. On the women’s side, Head had a successful Big Ten Championship performance, finishing in third place on the platform with 312.20 points, tying Lehnert’s school record. — by Blake Dowson
in vault after posting a 14.700. Junior Mark Springett also impressed observers with an event score of 14.450. The Hawkeyes also had impressive performances from their freshman gymnasts. Freshman Rogelio Vasquez set a season high with a 14.100 on high bar, good enough for 11th.
The Hawks will try to turn things around in Carver-Hawkeyes on March 12 for their final home meet of the regular season against Minnesota on Senior Night. Iowa seniors Boyle, Loochtan, Emmanuel Monroy, Del Vecchio Orozco, Doug Sullivan, and Cyrus Dobre-Mofid will be honored. — by Ricardo Ascencio
SPORTS Softball splits in Oklahoma The Iowa softball team on March 5 and Sunday competed in the Tulsa Tournament and improved from its previous tournaments, winning two games but dropping two. Iowa fell on March 5 in the opening game against Tulsa, 2-1, but rebounded against Lamar later in the day, 4-3. The next day, the Hawkeyes lost again to Tulsa, 9-7, and dominated Lamar, 14-8. Redshirt junior Sammi Gyerman knocked in all 4 runs in Iowa’s win on March 5, including a walkoff sacrifice fly. She also had a career-high two doubles. “It was nice to be able to finish that second ball game,” Looper said in a release. “It’s a simple game, and we made it look simple that last inning. That’s what we have to do more often. It feels good to finally get that 1-run victory.” On Sunday against Lamar, Iowa zapped 12 runs in the final three innings to get its second win. Not only did the Hawks win, but they collected a season high number of hits, 13, and runs scored, 14. Iowa, now 6-13, will head to Honolulu on March 16 to compete in the Rainbow Wahine Invitational. —by Mario Williams
Iowa preps for Zone D Diving
Divers from 19 different schools will look to earn a bid to the NCAA Championships, to be held from March 24-27. NCAA Zone D includes schools from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota. The top-five women and top-four men in each event move on to dive at the championships in Atlanta. Additional divers from each zone are eligible to qualify for the NCAA Championships based on the number of divers from that zone that finished top 16 at NCAAs a year ago. In Zone D, there will be six qualifiers
Men’s gymnastics streak over
The No. 6 Iowa men’s gymnastics team could not continue its winning streak, falling to No. 3 Ohio State and No. 7 Nebraska at the Arnold Challenge in Columbus, Ohio, on March 5. The Buckeyes took advantage of the event being at home and came away victorious with a team score of 447.400. The Cornhuskers came in second with 437.600, followed by the Hawkeyes at 426.950. Iowa seniors Matt Loochtan and Jack Boyle were once again neck and neck in competing for the all-around title. Boyle and Loochtan both set career highs in parallel bars with scores of 15.000 and 14.850. Loochtan came in second in allaround competition with a cumulative score of 86.300, just .100 short of surpassing his career high. Boyle followed with a third-place finish of 85.850. Junior Andrew Botto led the team
Heller said in a release. “But we just couldn’t find a hole.” The Hawkeyes will host Northwestern (Iowa) College
on Tuesday at Banks Field hoping to return to their winning ways. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
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RECAP CONTINUED FROM 10 and Brooks’ names will be added onto the long list of wrestlers who have their monikers hung up in Iowa’s wrestling room. “I’m in that wrestling room so darn much, and every time I walk in, I see those names,” Brooks said. “How can you not want to be on that wall?” Both came back from unsavory matches over the past couple of weeks. Brooks’ occurred at the National Duals, where he lost a 7-3 decision to Pete Renda, and Clark in his semifinal, and
MBB CONTINUED FROM 10 While Uthoff and the offense fueled the team to open the game, the defense that limited Michigan and allowed the Hawkeyes to lead by double digits on several occasions. “Defensive intensity at the start, I thought that was critical,” head coach Fran McCaffery said. “You go on the road, you play a team that has a lot of offensive weapons, you’ve got to get into them. I thought it really sort of propelled our offense as well.” The Hawkeyes let the Wolverines crawl back to within 5 in the second half but ultimately held Michigan to just 36 percent from the field and never relinquished their lead. Iowa, struggling from beyond the
CLARK CONTINUED FROM 10 becoming Iowa’s first individual Big Ten Champion since Tony Ramos in 2014. Coincidentally, Ramos also won his title at 133 pounds. “It’s a unique feeling,” Clark said. “It’s almost like the work and stuff I’ve been putting in throughout the year, you feel it pay off. It’s kind of a hard feeling to explain. “It’s almost a little bit of relief.” Even with the title, Clark was adamant he wasn’t close to being done with his season. After all, he was the runner-up at the NCAA Tournament last season at the weight. His disappointment with his performance in the title match last season has long been a motivation for Clark, who hadn’t finished better than third at the conference tournament until Sunday.
WBB CONTINUED FROM 10 Hawks’ NCAA Tournament chances. “We’ll have to wait and see,” she said. “I do know we played in one of the toughest conferences in America, and we had a tough schedule. You have to look at the whole body of work, how we did in nonconference, our strength of schedule, and things like that.” Iowa went 11-2 in its nonconference schedule. And according to RPIRatings.com, the Hawks played the 27th-toughest schedule in the country, an impressive mark. “We only played the bottom teams in our conference once, and so sometimes, you look at conference rankings or conference standings,” Bluder said. “When you play only five teams [twice] and the rest of them are single, it depends on who you play.” Iowa ended the Big Ten regular season in ninth place with an 8-10 record. In the Big Ten
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placed eighth because of a medical forfeit in the seventh-place match. Of those who placed, seven earned automatic bids to the nationals. Rhoads and Stoll are the only ones who did not, but head coach Tom Brands will make a case to the committee for the two to get at-large bids. Brands, while happy that two of his athletes nabbed Big Ten titles, was not content with second place. “I feel like I feel every other time that we’ve gotten beat,” Brands said. “But there’s a lot of things to be said for positives, and it’s an individual sport, and so that’s how you go forward going into nationals.”
although he won, Clark was displeased with his performance during the first day of the tournament. Brooks said he needed to “check himself mentally” after the match, and he became one of the many wrestlers who have said that it is easier to move forward with success. Clark released a statement after his semifinal match, saying he was not satisfied and did not want to make a big deal about making it to the finals, because that was not his goal. The next step for the Hawks is nationals at Madison Square Garden in two weeks, so Clark and Brooks won’t cele-
brate their titles for long. “The season’s not over. I still have improvement, and my focus has to be at a prime,” Clark said. “This isn’t how I want to define my season, the NCAAs is. It’s just kind of moving in the right direction. It’s easier to move forward with a Big Ten championship.” Seven other Hawkeyes made the podium on Sunday. Brandon Sorensen and Nathan Burak both lost their championship matches to take second, Thomas Gilman earned a bronze, Edwin Cooper Jr. took fourth, Alex Meyer took fifth, Patrick Rhoads took seventh, and Sam Stoll
arc in recent games, shot only 28 percent from 3 but had Uthoff to lead the way again in the second half. He had 13 in the half and finished the game with quite the impressive stat line: 29 points was his highest mark in nearly three months (32 on Dec. 10, 2015), to go along with 7 rebounds, 4 steals, and 3 blocks. “I think his mindset was to come out aggressive just like he did before,” McCaffery said. “When he’s playing like that, it changes everything for us.” Iowa desperately needed Uthoff to have a strong performance before entering Big Ten Tournament play, and more importantly, the Hawks needed to see that they really could still win games. They had insisted they were not panicking despite being in the midst of a los-
ing streak, and now they get to finish the season with the last laugh. Nineteen assists and 8 turnovers demonstrates a return to the fast-pace ball movement characteristic of the Hawkeyes at their peak, and Uthoff playing like a Wooden Award finalist is a requirement if Iowa is to have success in March. It could be noted, however, that the recently struggling Peter Jok was 2-of-10 from 3 with 4 turnovers, and the oft-absent bench returned to relative futility with only 5 points collectively. Regardless, Iowa did the one thing it absolutely needed to do: win. “We lost to three really good teams, played another good team tonight; played better,” McCaffery said following the game. “We’re
fighting, we’re back to 19 assists, 8 turn[over] s; that’s more like us. Hadn’t been like that for a little while, so that’s nice to see.”
“It’s easier to move forward with success than it is failure,” 184-pounder Sammy Brooks said after winning Iowa’s other individual Big Ten Championship. “It was sweet wrestling here and getting this opportunity.” Iowa head coach Tom Brands was happy with Clark’s and Brooks' individual titles, but the idea there is still more out there to accomplish is very alive and well. “It’s a badge on honor, not the badge of honor, but it’s a badge of honor,” Brands said. “It’s a tribute to them.” The win was also revenge for an earlier loss this season. Richards beat Clark 5-3 in overtime earlier this season during a Jan. 8 dual and was trying to repeat. Clark wasn’t about to let that happen. Despite the low scoring match, there was plenty of activity from both wrestlers, and the officials called no stall warnings.
In the time Clark wasn’t desperately trying to fend off shots from Richards, he was trying to create offense of his own. A talented defensive wrestler, Richards hardly gave Clark any sort of opportunity to put up points, one of the major reasons the bout went into overtime. After trading shots and feints for the first minute of sudden victory, Clark managed to escape in just four seconds against Richards during the first tiebreaker round. He still had to keep Richards from doing anything during the second round, but the points required for the win were already Clark’s. “I’m not really even satisfied with how I won the match,” Clark said. “I’m a hard person to satisfy. I got to get a takedown, got to get some points on the board. No reason that it had to go to overtime.” Unsatisfied or not, Clark’s
and Brooks’ names will now be added to one of two boards that hang in the Iowa wrestling room. One is for Big Ten titles; the other is for NCAA titles. There’s more to accomplish, yes, but it should say something that those two boards are right next to each other in a place of prominence in the room. Quite a lot, actually.
Tournament, the team upended eighth-seeded Michigan and put up a ferocious fight against top-seed Maryland. The players are confident they could put up a fight against anyone. Junior guard Ally Disterhoft said after the first game in Indianapolis, the win against Michigan, that Iowa basketball still has it. “[After a slow start to the game], we know that’s not us,” Disterhoft said. “Let’s go out and show everyone what Iowa basketball is all about.” It’s clear that the
Hawkeyes are capable of playing at a high level, certainly a level deserving of a spot in the NCAA Tournament. However, failing to eclipse the 20win mark could be the nail in the team’s coffin. The late-season slide certainly won’t do it any favors, either. So now, with a streak of eight-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, the Hawks will hold out hope to make it nine, but they aren’t making any predictions. “We’ll just have to wait and see,” Bluder said. “You just can’t predict those things.”
Michigan guard SieraThompson shoots over Iowa’s Ally Disterhoft during the BigTenTournament in Indianapolis on March 3.The Hawkeyes defeated theWolverines, 97-85. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)
IOWA HAWKEYES (71) MIN FG 3P Clemmons 35 4-7 2-3 Gesell 33 3-7 0-2 Jok 33 4-14 2-10 Uthoff 38 11-19 4-10 Woodbury 29 4-7 0-0 Wagner 11 1-1 0-0 Williams 7 1-3 0-0 Uhl 7 0-2 0-1 Baer 7 0-2 0-2 TEAM TOTALS 200 28-62 8-28
FT 2-4 0-0 0-0 3-3 1-2 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0
RB 3 3 4 7 11 2 0 0 2 3 7-10 35
MICHIGAN WOLVERINES (61) MIN FG 3P FT Donnal 28 4-10 1-3 0-0 Walton Jr. 38 5-11 4-9 0-0 Abdur 36 4-13 0-6 2-3 Irvin 35 4-13 1-6 2-4 Robinson 28 2-9 1-6 3-4 Chatman 8 2-3 1-2 0-0 Wilson 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 Dakich 2 0-1 0-1 0-0 Dawkins 13 1-3 0-1 0-0 Doyle 11 1-1 0-0 0-1 TEAM TOTALS 200 23-64 8-34 7-12
RB 10 5 4 8 8 1 1 1 0 2 3 43
A 2 11 4 1 1 0 0 0 0
TO 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 1
TP 12 6 10 29 9 2 3 0 0
19 8 71
A 0 6 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0
TO 0 1 1 4 3 1 0 0 1 0
TP 9 14 10 11 8 5 0 0 2 2
13 11 61
Iowa’s Sam Stoll attempts to pin Maryland’s Youssif Hemida during the Big Ten Championships in Carver-Hawkeye on March 5. Stoll defeated Hemida in a 15-4 major decision. (The Daily Iowan/Brooklynn Kascel)
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Two titles, but no team title
Iowa's Cory Clark grabs hold of Ohio State's Johnni DiJulius during the Big Ten Championships in Carver-Hawkeye on March 5. Clark defeated DiJulius, 7-3. (The Daily Iowan/Brooklynn Kascel)
Big Ten title doesn’t satisfy Clark By JORDAN HANSEN jordan-Hansen@uiowa.edu
Cory Clark got to celebrate his 133-pound Big Ten title not once on the mat, but twice. The first time, he popped up from the mat, celebrating after an excruciating battle to keep Illinois’ Zane Richards from escaping in tiebreakers, preserving his 2-1 victory. Then, however, the Illini coaches wanted the referees to review whether the wrestlers had locked hands, which is a technical violation. The loud Iowa crowd in Carver-Hawkeye didn’t immediately notice the little red flag being waved and roared as the junior began celebrating. Cheers dimmed and turned to boos, though, as the Hawkeye faithful realized what was happening. Several minutes later, they got the chance to erupt again, as Clark’s hand was officially raised,
Wrestlers settle for second
TEAM SCORES
1. PENN STATE 150.5
2. IOWA 127.0
3. OHIO STATE 126.0 4. NEBRASKA 117.0 5. RUTGERS 106.5 6. MICHIGAN 89.5 7. ILLINOIS 88.0 8. WISCONSIN 67.5 9. MINNESOTA 51.5 10. PURDUE 34.0 11. INDIANA 30.5 12. NORTHWESTERN 11.5 13. MICHIGAN STATE 10.5 14. MARYLAND 7.5
By COURTNEY BAUMANN courtney-baumann@uiowa.edu
One of the mantras for the Iowa wrestling team is that “It’s easier to move forward with success,” and two Hawkeyes will do just that as the team gears up for the NCAA Championships. Cory Clark and Sammy Brooks placed first at the Big Ten Championships on Sunday in Carver-Hawkeye. The team took second in the tournament with 127.0 points, trailing Penn State, first with 150.5 points. Ohio State put up a close fight and rounded out the top three at 126.0. Bonus points were the theme of the weekend. All five of the top teams — Penn State, Iowa, Ohio State, Nebraska, and Rutgers — scored more than 100 points. That many teams had scored in triple digits only once before in the history of the Big Ten Championships. Although they did not win the team trophy, Clark’s
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Waiting, with no pins, no needles By JAKE MOSBACH jacob-mosbach@uiowa.edu
INDIANAPOLIS — After a loss to Maryland in the Big Ten Tournament, the Iowa women’s basketball team sits with a 19-13 record, awaiting its postseason destination. That could perhaps be a spot in the NCAA Tournament; the Hawks’ current RPI is 58, putting them just inside the field of 64. However, ESPN.com “bracketology” puts Iowa under the “First Four Out” list. If that were the case, the Hawkeyes would most likely be headed to the NIT. Not the Big Dance, but it would be a postseason tournament nonetheless. One might think that the team is on pins and needles awaiting the news of their next stop. That couldn’t be further from the truth, however. “We’re going to watch the [NCAA Tournament] selection show together,” freshman guard Tania Davis said after the team’s loss to Maryland. “If we get in, that’s great. But if we don’t, our plan is to win the NIT.”
Hawkeyes bounce back Jarrod Uthoff led with 29 points as Iowa beat Michigan, 71-61, on March 5. BY KYLE MANN kyle-mann@uiowa.edu
Lisa Bluder remained positive after the team’s loss to Maryland. The coach made one final case for anyone listening regarding the
The Hawkeyes got a much-needed victory on March 5, besting Michigan in Ann Arbor, 71-61, to finish the 2015-16 season with a 21-9 record, 12-6 in the conference. More importantly, the Hawks avoided finishing the season on a five-game losing streak. Iowa got off to a hot start, taking its first lead at 5-3 and using a 10-2 run to extend its lead to 15-5 just before the first me- Uthoff dia time-out. Jarrod senior Uthoff had 16 points in the first half and shot 4-of-8 from distance, leading the Hawkeyes to a 36-30 advantage at halftime.
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Iowa forward Christina Buttenham attempts to drive to past Michigan guard Seria Thomspon during the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis on March 3. The Hawkeyes defeated the Wolverines, 97-85. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert) The season didn’t go according to plan for Iowa, there’s no denying that. The Hawks opened the season ranked 23rd nationally and went on to be ranked as highly as No. 19
before losing to Iowa State in Ames on Dec. 11. After that, Iowa began a slide that would eventually led to its losing 10 of its final 16 games. But Hawkeye head coach