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City picks firm for Linn/Court CA Ventures chosen as preferred developer for Court and Linn Streets property. By BILL COONEY william-cooney@uiowa.edu
ized tests, and with the class rank and things of that nature, I don’t think it’s going to lead to any decline in the quality of students admitted to the law school,” said Regent Robert Downer, also a lawyer in Iowa City. Though this program is new to the UI, it has been in effect at other law schools across the country, which is something schools can apply for as long as they meet certain standards. “Although Iowa law did not previously seek a variance from the LSAT, we decided to make this opportunity available to the small number of UI students who, for any number of reasons, have not taken the LSAT and hope to attend law school at Iowa,” Agrawal said. Until August 2014, the standards enforced by the American Bar Association ensured that law schools required students to take admissions tests, such as the LSAT. According to a bar-association spokesman, who spoke to The Daily Iowan anonymously, schools are now allowed to contact the association and ask for permission to have a variance for students not taking the LSAT.
The Iowa City City Council decided on its preferred developer for a new mixed-use building to be located on the site of the old St. Patrick’s Church parish hall, with CA Ventures coming out on top. CA Ventures will now likely construct the RISE at Riverfront Crossing building at an estimated cost of $102.5 million. The old building was destroyed by a tornado in 2006 and purchased by the city for approximately $3 million in 2008. It is being used as a parking lot. The city received numerous offers for the property and narrowed the field to two potential developers in December 2014. RISE will be a two-tower complex, containing one 15-floor residential tower and one 14-story hotel tower. The RISE design beat out HUB at Iowa City by CORE development, which was estimated to cost $95.5 million. Mayor Pro Tem Susan Mims and Councilor Kingsley Botchway were a part of the internal review committee that met to decide which developer was the best choice for the project. Mims said one of the main factors in the decision was price. “After talking to the city staff, it was decided that CA Ventures price was more reasonable for a high-rise building,” she said. “CORE’s budget left a few questions that needed to be answered.” “The affordable-housing aspect played a huge part in my decision,” Botchway said. “RISE offers one- or two-bedroom affordable housing units, while HUB was only offering efficiency units as affordable housing.” He said RISE offers a great opportunity for those new to Iowa City. “This is a great opportunity for more affordable housing in the downtown area,” Botchway said. “It
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A UI student utilizes a workstation in the Body Law Building. The UI College of Law is implementing a new admissions program in which taking the LSAT will no longer be a requirement. (The Daily Iowan/John Baker)
LSAT experiment continues at UI A recent program is going to allow law students to skip the LSAT.
By ALYSSA GUZMAN alyssa-guzman@uiowa.edu
So far, only two eligible University of Iowa students have shown interest in an LSAT-exemption program adopted by the College of Law. The Kinnick Law Scholars Program will allow UI students who meet certain requirements to gain admission to the law school without taking the Law School Admissions Test. “The Kinnick Law Scholars Program is designed to encourage the best and brightest UI students to stay at Iowa for law school,” law Dean Gail Agrawal said. In order to qualify, students must be enrolled at the UI, have a grade-point average of a 3.5 or higher through their junior years, or be in the top 10 percent of their class as well as score in the top 85th percentile of the ACT, SAT, GMAT, or GRE. Because of the rigor of other imposed standards to meet the requirements, officials said they are not worried that it will take away from the quality of students being admitted into law school. “With the criteria that are applied to it in terms of having successfully completed the number of comparable standard-
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A candidacy from the pulpit Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign launch comes during his first term in the U.S. Senate.
Estimates of up to $3 billion remain unclaimed after 2014 college-aid season.
By KRISTEN EAST kristen-east@uiowa.edu
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s decision to launch a presidential campaign at Liberty University was no mistake, and the story behind the venue’s selection could serve as a hint of the religious, faithbased rhetoric that will likely drive his campaign. Serving a convocation at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, Cruz announced before that he would seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 2016. Liberty, founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, is the nation’s largest, private, nonprofit Christian college, and students are required to attend convocations. The university also has deep ties to evangelism and courts evangelists, an electorate that Cruz is hoping to win over, especially in Iowa. “I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America. And that is why today I am announcing that I’m running for president of the United States,” Cruz said. Campaign advertisements released
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Sen. Ted Cruz engages with attendees at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition in Des Moines on Sept. 27, 2014. The coalition is a dedicated to educating the public and training Christians for effective political action. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert) Monday feature images of Cruz’s family praying at the dinner table. A chapel in a small town. Small children waving American flags. The images resonate with his rhetoric, and
the rhetoric resonates with the events Cruz has attended both in Iowa and across the nation.
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A recent study revealed college students have left billions of dollars in financial aid on the table. The study, conducted by Nerdwallet.com, found $2.9 billion of government-funded financial aid went untouched after the 2013-2014 Free Application for Federal Student Aid season. According to the study, the state of Iowa left almost $225 million in estimated Pell Grant money on the table in the 2013-14 FAFSA season. Of the graduating Iowa high-school class of 2014, approximately 6,035 qualified for Pell Grants but did not receive them because of not submitting the FAFSA. Nerdwallet analyst Gianna Sen-Gupta analyzed the application completion rates given by the U.S. Department of Education.
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LSAT CONTINUED FROM FRONT “This variance allowed some law schools to rely on a combination of high scores on a standardized test other than the LSAT and academic performance to satisfy the ‘valid and reliable admission test’ require-
CRUZ CONTINUED FROM FRONT In the last year, Cruz — a Southern Baptist — has attended a number of events for social conservatives throughout the state, including the annual Family Leadership Summit and the Iowa Freedom Summit as well as events from the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition. His next scheduled Iowa visit is an April 9 trip to the Statehouse for the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators’ eighth-annual “Homeschool Day at the Capitol.” Family Leader President and CEO Bob Vander Plaats said he thought Cruz’s announcement was “very well done” and that
THE DAILY IOWAN DAILYIOWAN.COM TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015 ment,” Agrawal said. The bar association concluded that high scores on other standardized tests, paired with outstanding academic achievement, are adequate predictors of success in law school, just as the LSAT is. Drake University has adopted this variance as well. “We have adopted the
ABA rule and are actively admitting students who qualify,” said Benjamin Ullem, the dean of Drake Law School. “A student that has demonstrated past performances can eliminate the cost of and the need to take the LSAT,” which costs $170. Applicants who meet the standards and apply to law school are not
guaranteed admission, and to Agrawal’s knowledge, no students have enrolled thus far under the new initiative. There have been two inquiries from potentially eligible UI students. “Ultimately, I believe this program could help UI keep some of Iowa’s most high-achieving students at Iowa to study law,” Agrawal said.
authenticity will help him go a long way in the Republican primaries. “He’s telling a very real life story, integrating his life with his faith and his leadership,” he said. “That will help him not only in Iowa but way beyond Iowa. If he wins the nomination I think he’s going to credit his life story through his faith.” Other Republicans weighing a White House run tend to speak candidly about how faith transformed their personal lives and leadership styles. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and 2012 Iowa caucuses winner Rick Santorum all attribute a strong faith to their successes.
Steffen Schmidt, a political-science professor at Iowa State University, said Cruz may have announced early and first as a way to get ahead of those other faith-based, Christian conservatives. He mentioned Huckabee, Jindal, Carson, and Santorum as potential candidates who have the ability to pick up voters that Cruz wants. “Probably all four of them will run … his problem was that they’re doing better in the polls or getting more attention,” he said, noting that Huckabee is a minister and Jindal has campaigned with ministers. While a campaign focused too heavily on one small group may prove fruitful in the primaries, one expert said problems
would arise for whoever becomes the Republican nominee. “If the contest becomes within the Republican Party who’s the most conservative and appeals most to the Christian conservative base, that’s going to be difficult in the general election,” said Chris Arterton, a professor of political management at George Washington University. Another concern is how the strategy of more socially conservative candidates may affect “establishment” Republicans. “A concern among some of the more establishment candidates … they have to be concerned that a candidacy like Cruz’s really catalyzes enthusiasm from the evangelical community of the party, that it will have to pull them to the right, making it difficult for them to get back to the center,” Arterton said.
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Sen. Ted Cruz waves to the crowd at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition in Des Moines on Sept. 27, 2014. (The Daily Iowan/ Margaret Kispert)
MONEY CONTINUED FROM FRONT “Our whole goal of the study was to try to convince students to fill the FAFSA out,” Sen-Gupta said. “Hopefully, with a little more publicity, we can get more people to complete the forms.” The rates were broken down by specific high schools and multiplied by the average Pell Grant amount given to applying students. Pell Grants are given to college-bound undergraduate students whose families’ expected financial contributions are below the cost
COUNCIL CONTINUED FROM FRONT will allow individuals in Iowa City to move closer to downtown if their job demands it; it will also provide an affordable option for recent graduates and those who are just moving into the city.” Mims said she believes the new building
Hotel ordinances pass The Iowa City City Council voted 6-1, with Councilor Jim Throgmorton opposed, to allow the construction of a new Hilton Garden Inn hotel at 328 S. Clinton St. The 12-story, 144-room hotel will have meeting and conference space, a restaurant, and a rooftop food and beverage garden. The new hotel will be located directly south of the new Voxman Music Building.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced Monday that he would run for president of the United States in 2016. Age: 44 Education: Harvard, Princeton Family: Wife Heidi, two children Work: U.S. senator from Texas Interesting fact: Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada, a fact that could pose some issues that he’d need to clear up should he decide to run for president in 2016. Cruz shed his Canadian citizenship in June 2014.
of attendance at their colleges. Sen-Gupta said the surplus of Pell Grant money not only accumulated this year, it has been compounded from years past. Recently, the surplus reached approximately $3 billion. In December 2014, Congress cut $303 million in funding from the Pell Grant program. “Students are encouraged numerous times to fill out the FAFSA,” said Cynthia Seyfer, the senior associate director of the Univeristy of Iowa Student Financial Aid Office. “Every year in December, we send postcards to the homes of students to make sure their parents are involved as well.”
Approximately 65 percent of UI undergraduates file their application yearly, she said. Students who typically don’t file for the aid assume they won’t qualify because of their parents’ income, she said. However, Sen-Gupta said, there are other reasons students and parents leave their FAFSA forms blank. “There are many students who can’t afford to pay full tuition,” she said. “But we’re talking about 17- and 18 year-olds who may be overwhelmed, who have never made such a big financial decision before.” A rumor also persists among students and families that FAFSA forms are
particularly time-consuming to complete. Sen-Gupta, Seyfer, and Iowa City West High career coordinator Russ Johnson said the estimated completion time for the form ranges from 15 minutes to an hour. “Approximately 60 percent of our graduating seniors from West High School complete the FAFSA,” Johnson wrote in an email. “Parents with complex financial situations have expressed unfavorable comments about completing the FAFSA, but generally, parents find the application to be very simple. The IRS data-retrieval option makes the financial section very easy to complete.”
will benefit Iowa City, especially the Riverfront Crossing area. “A project like this is a catalyst project,” Mims said. “This will draw a lot of people into the
office space, and hotel that will be going in as well.” Botchway also believed the hotel would benefit Iowa City. “The hotel aspect of
of the residential taxes from the same building,” Botchway said. “In a few years, when property-tax rates begin to decrease, this will be an important source of revenue for the city.” Now that the council has approved the project, the developer must meet with the city to make a development agreement. Once the agreement is made, construction can begin, Botchway said.
‘This is a great opportunity for more affordable housing in the downtown area.’ — Kingsley Botchway, councilor Riverfront Crossings area, not just for the housing, but the businesses,
this project is great because that provides additional tax revenue on top
Throgmorton thought that more discussion could be had regarding the financing of the hotel. The City Council also voted 6-1, with Throgmorton dissenting, to approve a rebate to the developer of the hotel in the form of a portion of hotel-motel tax derived from the new hotel. This resolution allows for half of the new hotel-motel tax generated by the hotel to be rebated to the developer. The remainder would be
distributed in the same way as the taxes collected from all other lodging properties in Iowa City.
Council defers vote on Leepfrog The city councilors deferred providing indication they have no objection to Leepfrog Technologies expanding in Coralville.
Leepfrog, an academic software developer, recently submitted a request for financial assistance from the state of Iowa and the city of Coralville. Coralville indicated the state asked for a letter from the city of Iowa City indicating it had no objection to Leepfrog’s expansion. Leepfrog has operated in Iowa City since 1994. The council chose to defer due to questions regarding state law on the issue. — by Bill Cooney
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Latino Studies seek growth
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Nation’s new JFK Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has the ability to captivate the nation and rise from a relatively unknown to a political juggernaut as John F. Kennedy did in the 1960s, more than 50 interviews with The Daily Iowan show. By QUENTIN MISIAG quentin-misiag@uiowa.edu
Martin O’Malley can work a room, they say: Whether it’s an expansive hotel ballroom with several hundred in attendance or a dimly lit restaurant and bar over pizza. He’s careful and precise in his articulation of speech and “someone you can believe in.” He packs the executive leadership often craved by presidential voters: eight years at the helm of Maryland government and before that as mayor of Baltimore, where, supporters say, he reversed the Eastern industrial city’s decline. Then there’s his dashing smile, an appetite for tech (he’s an avid user of Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter), and youthful age. Oh, and he’s made trips to Iowa a top priority, something that presumed Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton hasn’t. O’Malley has the ability to captivate the nation and rise from a relatively unknown to a political juggernaut as John F. Kennedy did in the 1960s, more than 50 interviews with The Daily Iowan show. “He’s a new breed of Democrats,” Davenport Mayor Bill Gluba, an
Obama supporter, said following a private lunch with O’Malley on March 21. O’Malley has slowly but surely chipped away at Rodham Clinton’s political gravitational pull, climbing from a inadequate public speaker to prime presidential product, should he announce a Democratic run. Diane Bolte has watched O’Malley mature, even before the closing of the 2014 midterms, when she saw him at a fundraiser in Clinton. “I’m ready for somebody different,” said Bolte, a 2nd District Democratic Central Committee Executive Board member, wincing when asked if somebody different meant an alternative to Rodham Clinton. “He’s somebody you can believe in.” He faces an increasingly less-steep climb against Rodham Clinton and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, according to the interviews. But if polls are any indication, O’Malley is barely a blip on the radar. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted last month showed Rodham Clinton with a commanding lead among individuals labeled as “likely caucus goers,” garnering 61 percent. Warren, who has said repeatedly she will not seek the presiden-
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cy, came in second place with 19 percent. Fewer than 1 percent of poll respondents said they would vote for O’Malley. He has far and away out-Iowa’d the man many here want him to become. He made a big splash here during his first return to Iowa in 2015, logging nearly 400 miles of travel and appearing at more than a half-dozen events, the Scott County Democrats’s Red, White, and Blue dinner, a Davenport Irish pub, a small town drop-in at Tipton, a visit to Des Moines, and a trendy Council Bluffs eatery. Presidential historian and political pundit Tom Whalen, who specializes in the tenure and assassination of JFK, said the two have the same charisma, particularly in relation to domestic policies such as income equality. O’Malley has worked to establish himself as a crisis manager while governor and mayor, as JFK did during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, Whalen said. Whalen said O’Malley leads JFK’s early presidential career in at least one definitive area: speech delivery. “JFK wasn’t really JFK until he gave that famous inaugural speech,” he said.
By BENJAMIN TOWAR benjamin-towar@uiowa.edu
After years of planning, the Latino Studies minor is underway and seeking to grow. In January, the University of Iowa started the introduction class for a Latino Studies minor. History Associate Professor Omar Valerio-Jiménez teaches an introductory course for the minor with 10 students. The UI was the last university in the Big Ten to adopt a Latino Studies Program. “The other Big Ten schools are starting to see the demographics changing and the population of Latinos increasing [in the United States], and they know that there will be more Latino students,” he said. “Iowa was the last to see that.” At the conclusion of the spring 2014 semester, university officials approved the creation of a Latino Studies minor after several failed attempts at creating the program since the early 2000s. Currently, the Latino Studies program has two codirectors: Valerio-Jiménez and Claire Fox, a professor in the Departments of English, Spanish, and Portuguese. They are looking for a third. The UI’s Latino Studies
minor is working with professors in other programs, including the Communication Studies Department, to attract more students to the minor. “We are starting small; it does not cost the university much money because the administrative staff is all here,” Valerio-Jiménez said, referring to the UI faculty members who are in other fields of study. “We start with a minor, then build student interest, and then see if there is administrative support for a bigger program, possibly a major, as a long-term goal.” According to the UI student profile for fall 2014, Latina or Latino students make up approximately 5.6 percent of the student population. The U.S. Census Bureau reports Latinos made up 5.5 percent of the population of Iowa in 2013. Indiana University-Bloomington has had a Latino Studies program for 16 years. “I believe that it is really important to have Latino Studies grow in the Midwest because Latinos are settling in nontraditional areas,” said Sylvia Martinez, an Indiana associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies & Latino studies. “We are seeing populations in the Midwest sprouting out.” Martinez, who is among
the leading faculty members of Latino Studies at Indiana, said typically, in a Latino Studies class of 30 students, only six to eight of them are of Latino origin. The University of Michigan’s Latino Studies program has existed for more than 30 years. “It is correct to say that [the Latino population is growing], but it would be incorrect to say that they are new to the Midwest,” said Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a Michigan associate professor and department head of the school’s Latino Studies program. “Latinos have been here for more than a 100 years.” The U.S. Census Bureau lists Latino populations accounting for 6.4 percent of the population of Indiana, 4.7 percent of the population of Michigan, and 16.5 percent of the population of Illinois. Both Valerio-Jiménez and Carla Gonzalez, a UI graduate student and an advocate for the minor, emphasized the importance of Latino Studies in a world of ever-changing of demographics. “A lot of people assume that ethnic studies are only for those who belong to that ethnicity, but what they need to realize is that it’s a scholarly field for everyone,” Gonzalez said.
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Voter-ID laws misguided
Beau Elliot beauelliot@gmail.com
So President Obama would like to see mandatory voting in the United States, and 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ten Cruz, R-Texas, would like to see mandatory Christianity, starting in the United States but moving all over the world. Yeah. And the Hawkeyes wiped the floor in Seattle with Gonzaga because the Zags zigged when they should have Zagged, and the Hawks jigged to the Sweet 16. If you believed any of the above, how are you going to make it through April Fools’ Day? (And, by the way, I’ve got some cheap tickets available for the Iowa-UCLA game.) So, no, Virginia, Obama does not want to make voting mandatory in the United States. Or anywhere else, for that matter. In a long statement (the transcript is readily available on the Internet) answering a question about campaign financing, Obama noted that “Australia, and some other countries” have mandatory voting. At least in a sense. In Australia, the fine for not voting is $20 Australian, I’m told. That works out to around $15 and change in U.S. currency. Basically, a parking ticket. What Obama actually said was there were too many hurdles to jump to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, so the way to fight the crazy campaign-financing situation we have is to get more people to vote. But he never mentioned making voting mandatory in this country. Cruz would like to make Christianity mandatory in the United States? Oh, come on. While the Texas senator believes in some crazy stuff, and I’m sure he would probably like to see the pulpit put back
in the bully pulpit, I don’t think he’s ever said Christianity should be mandatory. For one thing, there would be a First Amendment problem. Now, there are some weird things about Cruz. For one thing, Cruz apparently forgot something about the Interet — he didn’t register Tedcruz.com. According to Daily Kos, somebody else did. Maybe Cruz thought you had to be a scientist to procure a dot com. And as we all know, Cruz is famously not a scientist. And then there’s the golf-course thing. As ThinkProgress points out, in 2012, on Cruz’s Senate campaign website, Cruz apparently believed the famously liberal billionaire George Soras backed a U.N. resolution that would ban, among other things, golf courses. Um, huh? The resolution in question is apparently a 20-year-old one signed by 178 nations, including the United States (the president then was famous liberal George H.W. Bush). It takes aim at unsustainable environments. The resolution is nonbinding. And no golf courses have been harmed. So, golfing Hawkeyes, Finkbine is still around, as anyone who drives down Melrose Avenue can see. Another thing Cruz apparently believes — it’s one of his favorite lines when he makes a stump speech, and when he stumps somewhere, it stays stumped — is that the IRS has 110,000 agents, which drives conservatives nuts. Only the agency doesn’t. It has, according to FactCheck, around 82,000 total employees, and that figure includes secretaries, clerks, IT personnel, and the guy who changes the clocks at Daylight Saving Time. (No, Virginia, DST is not a IRS plot.) According to the IRS Data Book, 15 percent of those 82,000 have the title revenue agent. So. Obviously, who needs April Fools’ Day when we have Cruz Control.
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aws mandating forms of identification in order to vote have been consistently ruled constitutional despite the potential implicit consequences for citizens likely to have problems acquiring the necessary forms of identification. The Supreme Court has just rejected an appeal by the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge Wisconsin’s law mandating photo identification in order to cast a ballot. Voters would be required to have “Wisconsin driver’s license, a passport, a military ID or an ID from a Wisconsin college or university” to present when attempting to vote. The motivations for these laws have usually stemmed from fear of rampant voter fraud and are backed by predominantly Republican interests. However, Democratic contingents point to more underhanded motivations for the implementation of these laws such as preventing minorities and the poor from voting using de jure loopholes to keep potential Democratic voters out of the voting booth. An investigation conducted over two years and released in May 2014 by then-Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz found only 134 possible instances of “election misconduct” in the state that resulted in illegitimate votes. When one compares this with the nearly 1.6 million votes that were cast in the 2012 general election, it’s clear voter ID is a solution without a problem, at least in Iowa. While these sorts of laws may prevent what voter fraud exists, they also carry the potential to keep away citizens likely to have difficulty obtaining valid forms of photo
identification, and those just happen to be target voters of the Democratic Party. Because of the propensity this practice has for inciting discriminatory practice, the issue of voter identification has become one in the wheelhouse of the ACLU. Voter identification laws serve a legitimate purpose on paper, but the real-world implications carry the potential for misuse and exclusion. The right to vote should not be used as a political weapon to disfranchise potential voters aligning with either party. It is a universal right, not one that should be exploited or perverted to further political agendas. As of now we are toeing a thin line that, without proper adherence, threatens to send our voting patterns tumbling back into the age of poll taxes and literacy tests. More than anything, the American people cannot allow the strategic use of rhetoric and scare tactics to allow their fundamental rights to be stripped away. The highest forms of bureaucracy cannot be relied upon to single-handedly protect the population from political agendas that aim to undermine those who do not benefit said agendas. While our government is designed to serve our interests first and foremost, the prevalence of partisan disagreement and differing ideologies have served to skew the motivations of our elected officials. Public opinion and the resulting policy cannot be determined in its entirety by conflicting messages put out to further partisan ideological agendas.
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The very high costs of obesity Chris Clegg chris-clegg@uiowa.edu
It is hard to believe that in a world in which 805 million people go to bed starving each night, more than twice that number of individuals can be categorized as obese, according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute released in November 2014. The report showed that, globally, more than 2 billion people (yes, that’s billion with a B) fall under the category of “obese or overweight,” while taxpayers often pay the price for it. This price is a steep one. McKinsey finds that nearly $2 trillion worth of treatment goes into this “disease” each year, composing nearly 3 percent of the world’s GDP. Furthermore, obesity is
second only to tobacco in the category of preventable deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Not only has obesity permeated its way across America and the rest of the developed world, but its prevalence can also be seen right here in Iowa. Iowa is the 12th-fattest state in America for adults and 14th-fattest state for children, according to stateofobesity. org, an organization that tracks obesity data and statistics across individual states. Along with being one of the 15-fattest states, stateofobesity.org ranks us 30th among states in “current adult diabetes rate” and 26th in “current adult hypertension rate.” These statistics, along with the “obesity epidemic” fueled by fast food and even faster choices that has been sweeping across the country in the past decade put us on pace to not only become the fat-
test nation in the world (we’re currently second behind Mexico) but the fattest nation in history. This is one milestone that I really hope stays out of American-history classes in the future, but in order to accomplish this, we have to start emphasizing the necessity of healthy living not for the sake of the individual but for the sake of the country as a whole. In order to slash the amount of money we are allocating toward obesity treatment, we should tailor our education system to highlight the negative consequences of obesity on more than just an individual level. It is important to inform young people how raising obesity rates directly correlate with rising health-care costs and that rising health-care costs affect everyone, not just the people who benefit from the services. Additionally, this information should be required throughout
numerous different grade levels, as opposed to the single required “health” class you were probably forced to take in seventh or eighth grade. By making personal health a priority and consistently doing so at a young age, hopefully, our education system can be used as a vehicle to drive future generations into an era not marked by excessive body-fat indices. Much like how climate change and rising sea levels are recognized issues but don’t generate enough bipartisan support to be addressed, obesity is a recorded epidemic that doesn’t seem to be important in the eyes of the American public or government. Issues such as these need to be swept from under the metaphorical rug of ignorance and be cleaned up before a hole from all that ignored buildup rips through our floor and creates something we cannot fix.
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Protecting students’ rights on loans In an economy increasingly built on innovation, the most important skill you can sell is your knowledge. That’s why higher education is, more than ever, the surest ticket to the middle class. But just when it’s never been more important, it’s also never been more expensive. The average undergrad who borrows to pay for college ends up graduating with about $28,000 in student-loan debt. That’s why my administration has worked hard to make college more affordable. We expanded tax credits and Pell Grants, enacted the largest reforms to the student-loan program in history, and fought to keep interest rates on student loans low. We’ve acted to let millions of graduates cap loan payments at 10 percent of their incomes so they don’t have to choose between paying the rent and paying back their debt. I’ve sent Congress my plan to bring the cost
of community college down to zero, because two years of higher education should be as free and universal as high school is today. I recently unveiled another way that we can help more Americans afford college. It doesn’t involve any new spending or bureaucracy. It’s a simple declaration of values — a Student Aid Bill of Rights. It says: Every student deserves access to a quality, affordable education. Every student should be able to access the resources to pay for college. Every borrower has the right to an affordable repayment plan. And every borrower has the right to quality customer service, reliable information, and fair treatment, even if he or she struggles to repay their loans. That’s it. Just a few simple principles. But there’s a lot that colleges, lenders, and the people you send to Washington can and should do to live up to them.
Consider the other actions I took two weeks ago. We’re creating a way for borrowers to ask questions about their loans or file a complaint and get a fast response. We’re going to require businesses that service loans to provide clear information about how much students owe and their options for repaying it, and help them get back in good standing if they’re falling behind, with reasonable fees on a reasonable timeline. We’re also going to take a hard look at whether we need new laws to strengthen protections for all borrowers, wherever their loans come from. If you believe in a Student Aid Bill of Rights that will help more Americans pay for a quality education, I’m asking you to visit WhiteHouse.gov/ CollegeOpportunity. Sign your name to this declaration. Tell your families, friends, and fellow students. I’m going to ask members of Congress,
and lenders, and as many business leaders as I can find. Because making sure that students aren’t saddled with debt before they even get started in life is in all our interests. This issue is personal to me. My grandfather had a chance to go to college because this country decided that veterans returning from World War II should be able to afford it. My mother was able to raise two kids by herself in part because she got grants that helped pay for her education. And Michelle and I are where we are today because of scholarships and student loans. We didn’t come from families of means, but we knew that if we worked hard, we’d have a shot at a great education. That’s what this country gave us. In America, a higher education cannot be a privilege reserved only for the few. It has to be available to everyone who’s willing to work for it. President Barack Obama
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WHITE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 But one look at Twitter or to the stands in KeyArena before or after the game Sunday, and one can be sure that there was joy among Iowa fans, even if the criticisms weren’t completely absent. He helped a program get back on track and became one of the greats as well. There’s no guarantee that Iowa will be back in the NCAA Tournament next year or the year after that. Maybe the program falls off. Maybe it doesn’t bring in recruits. Maybe McCaffery’s teams stop improving.
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NOTEBOOK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 me and Andrew [Donnal] and Tommy Gaul. We’ll go shoot guns or go fishing, one of the two.” Of course, taking a break from shooting for Monday’s Pro Day is only a step toward those former Hawkeyes’ dreams of going to the NFL, and the consensus was generally positive. Donnal said he increased his 225-pound bench-press reps from 17 at the NFL Combine last month. Scherff said wide receiver Damond Powell was “cruising” in his 40-yard dash. Carl Davis said he did 28 bench reps. Even more, Donnal said he has a visit scheduled with the Denver Broncos and Davis with the Buffalo Bills as well as an individual workout in Iowa City with the Carolina Panthers. “Everything went well,” Davis said. “… [Scherff and I] had a little contest with the hand size. He got me by a little bit — I had 11 [inches], but I think he had a little bit more than 11.”
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But that seems unlikely after this season. The mark of great college programs isn’t necessarily how successful they are in one particular season. It’s how they deal with turnover. No matter the university, every coach losses a key player at least every four years. It’s unavoidable. At the start of this season, replacing Devyn Marble seemed difficult. About eight months from now, replacing the do-everything White will seem daunting. But the foundation is there. And that might be the most important part. After Senior Day, which White called a day he will always remember, he was asked about his relation-
ship with Roy Marble, who had been honored that day. White said it was good. That they had talked frequently. And that White had learned plenty from the only player at Iowa to score more points than him. He just wished that Iowa hadn’t stopped at honoring him. He wished that Marble’s jersey were retired that day. He wasn’t the only one who thought that. Marble’s jersey should have been, and still should be, retired. Before we know it, maybe White’s will, too. Follow @JacobSheyko on Twitter for updates, news, and analysis about the Iowa basketball team.
Iowa forward Aaron White (30) listens to Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery during a time-out in the game against Gonzaga in Seattle’s KeyArena on Sunday. Gonzaga defeated Iowa, 87-68. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)
tling, on the whole, is no longer as exciting as it used to be. I remember, specifically, watching Northwestern’s Jason Tsirtsis wrestle Iowa’s Brandon Sorensen in the finals of the Big Ten Tournament. Tsirtsis won, 2-1, with the help of riding time. He secured that riding-time point by not trying to turn Sorensen
but by simply making sure Sorensen did not escape. There was a moment in the third period of the match in which Tsirtsis broke Sorensen’s hips down and just laid there. He did not move. Sorensen could not build a base, so Tsirtsis just sat there for roughly 10 to 12 seconds. Tsirtsis’s brother, Alex, a
former Iowa wrestler, cheered from the stands behind me as Tsirtsis’ riding-time advantage eclipsed a minute. Is that really what we want for the sport of wrestling? For wrestlers to just sit there and clamp down on their opponents’ legs so they can’t move? No. It’s not. We want turns. We want pins. We want back
points, takedowns, exciting throws, and fancy aerial moves. In a word, we want action. “But getting rid of riding time won’t solve the problem,” some will say. “Wrestlers will still simply ride out for the 1-0 win in regulation.” Cool, so the next step, then, is to stand the wrestlers back up if the top guy isn’t progressing toward
earning back points or a fall — which is exactly what they do in freestyle, one of the Olympic styles. Come to think of it, just wrestling freestyle in college wouldn’t be a bad idea after all.
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This does nothing to hurt such guys as Davis, Donnal, Scherff, and defensive tackle Louis Trinca-Pasat. Davis and Scherff could hear their names called in the first two rounds, while Donnal and Trinca-Pasat have a decent chance of getting drafted as well. “Any Iowa guy coming out of Iowa and going into the league, they’re kind of like a second-year guy in the league already,” Trin-
ca-Pasat said. “We’re taught technique here, we’re really disciplined; you don’t get that from a lot of other programs.”
is a near-lock to be in attendance, and Davis is projected at the No. 52 spot. Their thoughts on attending the event shouldn’t surprise those familiar with the Iowa football team. “I’m not fully decided on that, but I’m leaning toward it,” Scherff said. “My agent told me I should go, so you have to listen to him. Wanted to go back to Denison, but he said ‘You should probably go, it’d help you better.’ ”
Davis, one for the limelight, had another opinion. He wants to walk across the stage at the Auditorium Theater and pose for a picture with his new team’s jersey. “I haven’t gotten my invitation yet to Chicago,” Davis said. “If I get the invitation, I’ll be there.”
All 32 NFL teams had representatives at Iowa’s Pro Day, which shouldn’t come as a surprise. Certain Hawkeyes have had bountiful careers in the league, most notably on the offensive and defensive lines. He’s just one of many, but former Hawkeye and current Baltimore Raven guard Marshal Yanda was rated the NFL’s top offensive lineman last year by ESPN.
Scherff, Davis have different opinions on NFL draft Davis and Scherff are the only two former Hawkeyes that will potentially be at the NFL draft in Chicago in early May. Scherff, who is projected as the No. 9 overall pick by CBS Sports,
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Amazing Facts for Kids (If You Know What I Mean): • If you tell me you’re a birdwatcher, I’ll hit you. Two for finching. • I don’t think anyone in my life has ever been happy to see me shirtless. • The main reason I’m looking for a long-term relationship is because I’m tired of loading the dishwasher without receiving any “constructive criticism.” • Every time I don’t clog a toilet, I feel like I’ve gotten away with something. • If I had a quarter for every time I disappointed a girlfriend’s parents, maybe I’d finally be good enough for Mr. Danby’s precious little Jessica. • Not only to I put the toilet seat down, I break it off its hinges and chuck it into the trash. The Juhl Household is a Hover Household. • It takes me 10 minutes to order at McDonald’s, 30 at a real restaurant, and sometimes upwards of an hour to decide what I’m going to watch on Netflix — so, um, yeah, no tattoos for this guy, sorry. • I don’t smoke, but I do love standing outside in the cold at parties; so if you smoke, that’s cool with me. • I might not be in the best shape, but I can still fit into the Starfleet Academy uniform I wore to prom. Andrew R. Juhl can still fit in to his mother’s wedding dress, too.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Look over your financial situation, and you’ll find a way to cut corners or earn more. Contracts can be negotiated and deals put into place if you are persistent. Business functions will help you connect with someone who can influence your future. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make love, not war. Use your intuition, charm, and compassion to find the right way to deal with anyone or any situation you face. Keep your response simple and mindful. Once you establish a solution, take action. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will be determined to complete what you start, but be realistic or you’ll face disappointment. You can make changes, but don’t sacrifice when it comes to hard work and precision. Emotions will be hard to control. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t make an impulsive offer that you will end up regretting. Spend your time doing things that make you happy or that will enhance your skills and lead to greater earning power. Romance can improve your day and your personal life. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Get involved in activities that will allow you to show off your talents and leadership ability. Make professional changes that will encourage you to use your social skills. Learn from experience and be persistent, and you will reach your goal. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Take time to do something you enjoy. Shopping for something that will make you feel or look good will encourage you to be more social. Romance is in the stars, and it will lead to personal improvements with someone you think is special. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll have lots of options to choose from. Partnerships will take a turn, but if handled properly, will put you in a much better position. Size up whatever situation you face at home, and make adjustments that will bring you peace of mind. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t be tempted by a deal someone offers. Joint ventures will be costly and will require insight, but if you choose to proceed alone, you will find the road to victory. Love is in the stars. Put time aside for romance. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your ability to get things done will put you in a good position. Don’t let anyone slow you down or mislead you. A lack of honesty can be expected when dealing with others. Don’t share personal information. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take one step at a time. Refuse to let anyone push you into something that makes you feel uncertain. Stick close to home, and nurture your relationships with the people in your life who count. Make special plans for two. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Consider what brings you the most happiness. Focus on reviving an old skill or looking for a position that allows you the freedom to do what you enjoy most. Don’t let anyone discourage you from following your dreams. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Get together with someone you haven’t seen in a long time. The more you get to share your thoughts with someone with whom you have a history, the closer you will come to finding the perfect solution to help you advance.
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Iowa forward Aaron White (30) shoots over the Gonzaga defense in Seattle’s KeyArena on Sunday. White finished the game with 19 points, 3 steals, and 1 rebound. Gonzaga defeated Iowa, 87-68. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)
A star for the ages If Iowa continues its winning ways, fans will look back to Aaron White as the foundation of success.
Jacob Sheyko jacob-sheyko@uiowa.edu
Aaron White’s career came to a bittersweet end Sunday. As the Hawkeyes walked off the court in Seattle following their 87-68 loss to Gonzaga, White shook hands with the Bulldogs, then headed for the locker
room amid a standing ovation from the Hawkeye faithful in attendance. Unlike Senior Day, a mutual love-fest that concluded with White acknowledging the crowd with outstretched arms in front of the scorers’ table, White walked off the floor with his head down and a towel draped over his neck. Not oblivious but unresponsive to his surroundings. He left Iowa as quietly as he arrived. That’s only true to an extent, though. Nothing about White’s play in last month was quiet. He dominated. Simple as that. As a result, Iowa basketball is back, metaphorically speaking. Fans will look forward to next season with optimism.
Much of that can be attributed to White. Yes, the contributions of players before him cannot be understated, nor should the contributions of current players not named White, including fellow seniors Gabe Olaseni, Josh Oglesby, and Kyle Denning. And without head coach Fran McCaffery and his plan, White probably would have never became a Hawkeye. But whatever becomes of the Iowa program in years from now will be traced back to White and the foundation that his teams created. He gave Hawkeye fans a lot in his four years at Iowa. A simple rundown of the stat sheet will prove that.
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College wrestling taken for a ride If college wrestling wants to produce better overall results, it will start by getting rid of the riding-time rule.
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Hawks excited at Pro Day
Former members of the Hawkeye football team spoke after Iowa’s Pro Day workouts on Monday.
Cody Goodwin cody-goodwin@uiowa.edu
Wrestling season is over now, so let’s address one glaring issue that’s caused the sport to take a giant step backward and become more frustrating than I ever thought possible: riding time. We need to start a movement to get rid of the dumbest rule that’s ever been implemented in any sport ever. And I don’t say that as an exaggeration. It’s a ridiculously silly rule. The idea of riding time has hurt wrestling more than any other rule in the book. Get rid of it. Now. This is not some groundbreaking hot take that will shake up the sport. Far from it. This is a common sentiment shared by members of the media, coaches, and athletes in and around wrestling. It’s an integral part of a slew of other rules that are slowly making college wrestling unbearably boring and, to varying degrees, annoying. At the Big Ten Championships earlier this month, 19 matches ended with the winner scoring 2 points or fewer. At the NCAA Championships this past weekend, 17 bouts ended the same way. Who wants to see a wrestling match end 1-0, 2-0, or 2-1?
He’s the program’s second-leading scorer, third in rebounds, had countless crowd-raising alley oops, and an unhealthy number of free throws. But amid the stats, White and Company gave something to Iowa fans that had been lacking for a long time. Joy. Sure, the team last year was fun. But even then, people — including me — were busy picking it apart. McCaffery trusted his bench too much. The team fell apart in the second half. It rarely stopped.
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The top wrestler, by definition, does not have to try to score to earn a point. The goals, then, have shifted. Rather than trying to turn the guy on bottom, he simply doesn’t want the guy to escape. That’s not producing action. That’s not attempting to better his position. If you really think about it, wrestlers are stalling — that dangerous word that’s often used irrationally at tournaments by some fans who don’t truly know what it means to stall.
Monday was a different scene at Iowa’s new football complex. During the year, players are often focused on prepping for opponents and generally uninterested in talking with reporters. That wasn’t the case when various former Hawkeyes and nowNFL prospects met with the media following Iowa’s Pro Day. People were happy and cheery for a variety of reasons — after all, they are going to have a chance to get paid (some in the sev- Scherff en-figure range) to play offensive lineman football soon, and the process getting there is something many students at Iowa would be envious of. “It’s been fun; the best part is no school,” offensive lineman Brandon Scherff said. “We’ll do some workouts,
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Iowa heavyweight Bobby Telford rides Connor Medbery of Wisconsin during the semifinals of the Big Ten Championships in St. John Arena on March 7 in Columbus, Ohio. Telford defeated Medbery, 3-1, in sudden victory. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard) If you raised your hand, you’re lying. When you wrestle, your goals are simple: Score a lot of points and pin your opponent. Riding time, by definition, does not encourage either of those goals. A wrestler is awarded a riding-time point when, at the end of three periods, he has more than a cumulative minute of “controlling” his opponent on the mat. “Controlling” is not trying to score points. “Controlling” is not trying to pin the other guy. “Controlling” means to restrict activity, to restrain something — basically, to not be aggressive.