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Iowa City in luck with new market
The exterior of Lucky’s Market is seen on Monday. Lucky’s Market is now set to open July 1. (The Daily Iowan/Cora Bern-Klug)
An abundance of dry food is perched upon a shelf in Lucky’s Market on Monday. Lucky’s is a new grocery store that will open in the Iowa City Marketplace. (The Daily Iowan/Cora Bern-Klug)
By RAPHAEL GELFAND raphael-gelfand@uiowa.edu
Come July, Lucky’s Marketplace will add some new variety to the Iowa City Marketplace. Formerly known as Sycamore Mall, the Marketplace was once the center of the community, said Lucky’s assistant
An aisle stocked with food is seen at Lucky’s on Monday. Lucky’s Market will open on July 1 in the Iowa City Marketplace. (The Daily Iowan/Cora Bern-Klug)
manager Ty Medema. “Sycamore Mall was known as a hot spot 20 years ago,” he said. “This is a great opportunity to bring some of that back to the neighborhood.” Currently scheduled to open July 1, Lucky’s Market originally planned to open its doors on June 17. Store manager Troy Bond said the delay was caused by the implementation
of a new inventory system. The company is originally from Boulder, Colorado, and started by husband and wife duo Bo and Trish Sharon as a little corner market, with an external bakery and café. Over the past few years, Lucky’s has decided to expand, SEE LUCKY’S , 3
A lifetime of passion, caring By BEN MARKS benjamin-marks@uiowa.edu
Barbara Latenser had many passions in life, but beyond her patients, her greatest passion was perhaps her love of travel. During her life, Latenser visited every continent except Antarctica, and many of the places she visited she did so as a doctor, helping everyone from burn victims in Katete, Zambia, to victims of the Bosnian War to Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. Latenser was the former University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Burn Treatment Center director, and on July 15, she died after a two-and-a-half year battle with brain cancer. When Karen Gano recalls her, she remembers a woman whose passion and determination never dwindled over their 25-year friendship, even after
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her diagnosis. “She was a very determined person who had a very strong will to live,” Gano said. “She was a physician, and she knew her diagnosis was a bad one, but she was determined to live the rest of her life like she did prior to her diagnosis.” In 2012, Latenser was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a common and aggressive form of brain cancer. Despite 90 percent of patients diagnosed with glioblastoma dying within one year, Latenser spent the majority of her time crossing items off her bucket list in countries from Cambodia to Australia. “For most people, that would be a demanding journey, and here is someone who had already outlived her prognosis, and she just kept going like the Energizer Bunny,” Gano said. Gano met Latenser in 1990
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er’s talent for playing piano, her fondness for reading, movies, restoring her turnof-the-century home, and her pearly rose Porsche.
The University of Iowa researchers will have more opportunities to find commercial applications for their research thanks to a $300,000 grant to the UI Venture School from the National Science Foundation. According to the NSF website, the agency’s Innovation Corps — which provided the grant — was created to “foster entrepreneurship that will lead to the commercialization of technology that has been supported by NSF-funded research.” The Venture School, part of the Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, was creat-
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Barbara Latenser stands in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Latenser worked at the UIHC from 2004 until 2012. (Contributed Photo) at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, now the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy, when Latenser went there as a trauma surgeon. Beyond medicine, however, Gano remembers Latens-
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Tom Walch, a member of the American Outlaws, watches the USA vs. Colombia soccer game on Monday. The American Outlaws is a group of fans of the women’s USA soccer team; the group meets at Donnelly’s Pub for every match. (The Daily Iowan/Cora Bern-Klug)
2nd trial begins in UI bias case By RYAN FOLEY
rors said later they believed Manning faced bias but not from Jones, who argued she was IOWA CITY — After merely a rubber stamp years of arguing that for faculty hiring recomliberal Iowa law profesmendations. sors illegally derailed The case would have her career, a conservabeen over if not for U.S. tive lawyer will get a Magistrate Judge Thomsecond chance to prove as Shields’ mistake in her claim to a jury. accepting the Selection of verdict. jurors began Shields erMonday in ‘All the talk about diversity is a lie. We cannot have those in our law schools roneously federal court declared a in Davenport teaching the First Amendment, violating it.’ mistrial and in a lawsuit dismissed jufiled by anrors after they ti-abortion — Teresa Manning, plaintiff reported they activist Terecouldn’t come sa Manning, Manning was one of ning contends the school to a unanimous deciwho contends that the University of Iowa Col- three finalists for two wouldn’t consider her sion. He called them back minutes later, lege of Law refused to jobs teaching legal anal- for later vacancies. Professors say they re- where jurors explained hire her for teaching ysis and writing in 2007. jobs because of her be- An Iowa law graduate, jected Manning after she they had agreed to rule she had recently moved performed poorly during in favor of Jones on the liefs and associations. Jurors will decide back to Iowa City to work a presentation in front key count but deadwhether Manning, who as associate director of of the faculty, and they locked on another that recently changed her the law school’s writing allege that she said she was later dismissed. An last name from Wagner, center. She had previous- wouldn’t teach legal anal- appeals court ordered a faced discrimination ly taught writing at the ysis — a key part of the new trial last year. “The university is and if so, how much she George Mason Universi- job. Manning disputes that claim, saying it was ready to re-try the case deserves in damages. ty School of Law. Manning contends fabricated to excuse their and seek the same reOpening statements are sult,” spokesman Joe that the 50-member UI political motivation. expected today. In what her lawyer has Brennan said. The long-running law- faculty, which included Manning, who has suit has been closely 46 registered Democrats called “a smoking gun” watched in higher ed- and one Republican, email, an associate dean continued working at ucation. Manning has didn’t want an outspo- told then-Dean Carolyn the university, recently reached a deal with a ken female opponent of Jones that he worried accepted a job teachpublisher to write a abortion rights to join professors were blocking ing writing to Virginia book about her experi- its ranks. A Republican, Manning’s hiring “be- Tech medical students ence, and has said the Manning had worked cause they so despise her and is expected to move retrial provides a “his- for social conservative politics (and especially next month, her attortoric moment” for social groups, the Family Re- her activism about it).” ney said. Her book is conservatives to expose search Council, and the Despite that warning, scheduled for release in what they claim is po- National Right to Life Jones upheld the facul- January, said Encounter Books President Roger litical discrimination Committee. She argues ty’s recommendation. During the first tri- Kimball. She will reagainst them in higher that the opposition to her appointment was al, in October 2012, ju- ceive a $7,000 advance. education. “She has a fairly draby Professor rors ruled that Jones “All the talk about di- driven accounting of versity is a lie,” Manning Randall Bezanson, who — the named defendant matic said in a recent speech helped draft the *Roe v. — didn’t discriminate what happened,” Kimto the Family Research Wade* decision that le- against Manning. Ju- ball said. Associated Press
Council. “We cannot have those in our law schools teaching the First Amendment, violating it.” For the university, the trial is another opportunity to persuade jurors that its former lawschool dean didn’t discriminate and end the drawn-out case.
galized abortion in 1973 while he was a clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun. One of the jobs went to an outspoken liberal who had less experience and struggled after being hired; the faculty decided not to fill the second opening. Man-
drug tax stamp and possession of a controlled substance. According to the Iowa City police, on March 31, officers searched Small’s apartment, and they reportedly found 12 bags of marijuana in a jar.
Small’s wife allegedly said he was selling it and knew the police would show up soon. She also said she was trying to get him to stop selling marijuana, but her attempts were unsuccessful.
Failure to affix a drug tax stamp is a Class-D felony, and second offense possession of a controlled substance is a serious misdemeanor.
mestic assault with aggravated or serious injury. Jerel Fowler, 21, 15 Aniston St., was charged June 19 with assault on a police, fire, or EMT personnel. Anthony Hicks, 33, 2430 Muscatine Apt. 3, was charged Sunday with possession of marijuana and
public intoxication. Jennifer Kennedy, 30, 3 Westgate Circle, was charged June 18 with OWI. Francisco Ortiz, 20, Chicago, was charged Sunday with public intoxication and falsifying driver’s licenses. James Palike, 54, 320 S. Dubuque St. No. 210,
was charged June 19 with first-degree harassment and disorderly conduct. Cody Miller, 24, Cedar Rapids, was charged June 20 with OWI. Curtis Seals, 51, 429 Southgate Ave., was charged June 22 with criminal trespass.
METRO Man faces drug charges Authorities have accused an Iowa City man of selling and possession of marijuana for the second time. Clifford Small, 21, was charged March 31 with failure to affix a
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BLOTTER Eddie Carey, 59, 1121 Gilbert Court, was charged Sunday with public intoxication and fifth-degree theft. Naithan Coley, 27, Coralville, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Samantha Ford, 24, 218 1/2 N. Lucas St., was charged Sunday with do-
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LUCKY’S CONTINUED FROM FRONT and it now operates in more than 10 states, primarily in college towns where communities emphasize higher-education, healthy living, and natural ways of healing. “We are going to have a wide variety of organic and conventional produce at rea-
NSF BOOST CONTINUED FROM FRONT ed in collaboration with the NSF for just this purpose, said David Hensley, the executive director of the center. “Our main goal is to provide these teams with entrepreneurial training,” he said. “We want them to be able to take their original research and make it to where it can be sold on the market.” Teams in the program
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While she was at Mercy, Latenser also volunteered with Operation Safety Net, a Pittsburgh Mercy Health System program that brings medical care to people living on the streets. Jim Withers, the founder and medical director of the program, met Latenser while they were both on faculty at Mercy. Shortly afterward, Latenser began volunteering with Safety Net, and Withers recalled she even bought a car that would allow her to get into the various homeless campsites around Pittsburgh.
sonable price,” produce manager Kevin Erhardt-Hansen said. “We want to make sure all people can shop here; healthy quality food should be a right, not a privilege.” Lucky’s will also house a juice bar, as well as something called the “Sip and Stroll” program, in which ofage customers can drink ontap local beers as they walk through the store. One of the major competi-
tors during the summer and fall months for many Iowa City produce stores is the Iowa City Farmers’ Market. “First thing people are introduced to when they walk in is the produce department,” Erhardt-Hansen said. “We want to make it like they are walking through a farmers’ market.” Bond said Lucky’s will bring in 10 percent of its produce, meat, and baked
goods from local sources. A large percentage of the store is devoted to food cooked on site and catering. The kitchen will have a deli, pizza station, bakery, and sushi bar. One of the departments that could make Lucky’s stand out is its unique bulkgoods section, which occupies almost a fifth of the grocery side of the store. “It’s a neat new way to
shop,” Medema said. “You can take a bunch of different ingredients and actually have some fun with it; customers can mix together certain products however you want.” Medema, who has lived in Iowa City for the last 15 years, is an alumnus of the University of Iowa. “I live on this side of town,” he said. “So I’m really excited for us to have
something like this here; this store really speaks to Iowa City.” Lucky’s plans to work with local nonprofits, and it has a program in which if customers bring their own reusable bags, they are given a choice to pick which local charity Lucky’s donates to. Lucky’s plans to donate $20,000 to charity the day of its grand opening.
consist of at least one researcher, one entrepreneur, and one business mentor, Hensley said. The $300,000 grant from the NSF will allow the Venture School to give each team more money for such things as market research, consulting, and prototypes of products, said Jennifer Ott, the liaison for training and engagement at the Entrepreneurial Center. “This grant also makes our start-up teams eligible for the national program in
Washington, D.C.,” Ott said. “There, the teams will get more money and learn how to market their product to a national audience.” Since forming in 2013, the Venture School has helped 81 start-up teams, she said. “Not all of them have been successful,” Ott said. “Many of our teams do succeed, though, and there are some great examples out there of businesses that got started with us. Ott said CartilaGen, a biotechnology start-up that
specializes in cartilage-repair strategies, and Immortagen, a cancer-treatment planning start-up, were two notable examples. Kristi Thiel, the president of Immortagen, said things have been moving fast for the company since her team got started with the Venture School. “We consulted Venture School in either March or April of last year,” she said. “We’re still in the research and development phase, but it really was a crash course
in business.” Immortagen will use a predictive algorithm to give a person personalized cancer care based on the her or his tumor’s genetic profile, Thiel said. “A tumor has a different genetic profile than the person it is inside,” Theil said. “For the last several years, there has been a Cancer Genome Atlas in development online.” This online database contains years of research and treatment on all known types of cancer, she said,
and by going to doctors and pharmaceutical companies, her company was able to find out which drugs and which therapies are most effective against certain types of tumors. “Our algorithm will use all of these sources together to match up a patients with the therapy, doctor, and drug regimen that is most effective against their type of cancer,” she said. “We’re still in the testing phase, but we’re very excited about the direction we are headed.”
“The folks on the street loved her,” he said. “She was a surgeon and a doctor, but she was also a people person.” Withers also said Latenser provided a lot of life counseling to him and many others. “She was just very affirming of other people, very positive,” he said. “She had a lot of her own challenges through her own life, and she gave life and meaning a lot of thought.” In the late-90s, Latenser left Pittsburgh to work as the director of burn trauma at the former Cook County Hospital in Chicago, now the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. “I met her in the burn unit; I was a fellow in trauma and critical care, and
she was running the entire burn unit by herself 24-7365,” Stroger Hospital attending physician Dorion Wiley said. “I don’t think she’d had a single day off in several years. “There was absolutely nothing she wouldn’t do for a patient. She had a cot in her office because quite often she’d sleep there and get up at the wee hours of the morning and start again.” In 2004, Latenser moved to Iowa City after accepting the job of Burn Center director at the UIHC. UIHC nurse Becky Jallo-Knorrek remembers Lat-
enser’s relationship with the nursing staff. “She was a nurse; that’s how she started, and I don’t think she ever forgot what it was like,” Jallo-Knorrek said. “She would always go up to the nurse caring for her patients and ask what else she could do. That’s just a really nice thing to do; no other doctor I’ve worked with does that.” At the UIHC in 2008, Latenser met now-medical student Jason Heard. Heard is a burn survivor and was treated at UIHC. Several years after, when he was touring the UI as
a potential undergrad, he visited the burn unit nurses who took care of him and was introduced to Latenser. Heard traveled to Zambia with Latenser, where she spent hours in the burn warn playing with the children there. “She’s always looked out for me; she’s kind of like a mom to me,” he said. “I’ve always wanted to go into medicine since I was burned myself, and she really solidified my interest in burn medicine as well as international medicine. When I establish myself as a surgeon, I’m definitely going to
continue her efforts.”
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Racism? No, never racism Beau Elliot beauelliot@gmail.com
You’ve just got to hand it to Fox News, for proving the existence of parallel universes if nothing else. Let’s see: nine dead African Americans in a mass shooting. One white suspect (Dylann Roof) who proudly displayed a photo of himself on his web page that featured him wearing a jacket with images of two flags on it. One flag was that of Rhodesia during the white-supremacist, quite racist regime. The other flag was from South Africa under apartheid. (Do we even need to note that apartheid was institutionalized racism?) So Fox News must be right — what racism? The shooting was not about racism, it was about the ongoing war on Christianity. Or as Fox News host Elizabeth Hasselbeck put when introducing a show segment, “A horrifying attack on faith killing nine people …” A war on Christianity? Where? A vast majority of Americans are Christians. So if there’s a war on Christianity, it’s not working because it’s so thoroughly disorganized. The United Nations must be running it. (It’s kind of like the socalled war on Christmas. What war? Christmas seems to have no trouble coming around every Dec. 25. Maybe conservatives just need more wars, because the ones we have don’t sate their appetite.) Not to pick on Fox News, because that’s a turkey shoot. There are other people on the conservative-thinking side of the Universe who can’t seem to find any racism in the Charleston, South Carolina, massacre.
Rudy Giuliani, for instance. He told Fox News: “We have no idea what’s in his mind. Maybe he hates Christian churches …” Or Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on “The View” last week: “It’s 2015. There are people out there looking for Christians to kill them.” (Later, Graham, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, told the New York Times, “The only reason these people are dead is because they’re black.”) Former Sen. Rick Santorum, also a Republican presidential candidate (but then, who isn’t?) said, according to the Washington Post, “This is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we — you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time, and we’re now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before …” Oh, well. It’s a tragedy, and sometimes, in the aftermath, people say things they later wish they hadn’t. But for racism, we only have to look at Dylann Roof’s own words (not to mention those two flags on his jacket). One of the survivors of the church shootings reported that Roof said, “I have to do it. You rape our women, and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” And on June 19, some Internet savvy people found Roof ’s “manifesto,” which is full of vile nuggets. “[N-word] are stupid and violent,” he writes.”At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick. Black people view everything through a racial lens.” Roof also denied that slavery in America ever existed and wrote, “Integration has done nothing but bring whites down to level of brute animals.” I guess he might know a thing or two about being a brute animal. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “So it goes.”
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The price of national fear P
resident Obama has begun a potentially fruitless attempt to reform nationwide gun-control laws following the aftermath of the devastating mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in which nine lives were taken by a single gunman. This will be the second time for the president to attempt to push such an agenda following a tragedy, the first being the horrific 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which 20 children and six adults were killed. The president admits that Congress will be, if anything, reluctant to enact any substantial measures in terms of curbing the firearm epidemic that plagues the country, citing Congress’ distinct lack of meaningful action following the Sandy Hook shooting. While the president’s efforts to reform our country’s gun-control laws are certainly a necessity, a change in legislation alone will only address the symptoms of a much larger disease. The disease that riddles this country is fear, a fear so deeply ingrained in our subconscious we have ceased to register it in our daily lives. It has become a part of how we as a society perceive the world and each other. The most explicit symptom of this disease has become gun violence because it is arguably the most tangible and visceral extension of fear. Death in its certainty and irrevocable nature has a way of dispelling any contemplation about the existence of injustice in the world. We can debate motivations, perspectives, and ideologies, but death is indisputable. For that reason alone, it is the primary vessel through which fear spreads. Can you remember the last time you turned on the news and the breaking story wasn’t covering a shooting? A few days ago, Obama took to Twitter to make a disheartening observation about this country’s rampant gun violence in comparison with other countries. The tweet
simply said, “Per population, we kill each other more with guns at a rate 297 times more than Japan, 49 times more than France, 33 times more than Israel.” Not only are these statistics frightening, they refer to an issue that extends further than legislation. Human beings are not bound to the words they put on paper. A law is meant to outline ideal behavior, and this is because words alone cannot mandate behavior. Our fear runs too deep to be solved by ink on paper. Surely the thoughts that lead people to kill each other exist in other countries, so why the extreme disparities gun violence in this country versus others? The answer lies in the common rhetoric of pro-gun advocates and even the Second Amendment. We have developed this notion that we are in a constant state of danger that requires hyper-vigilance and caution at every waking moment. The argument is frequently made that if guns are made harder to get, the good, upstanding members of society won’t be able to defend themselves from the bad guys. But who are these bad guys? We live in a country that incubates fear, distrust, and animosity toward complete strangers. We are told at every corner that somebody is waiting in the bushes to do horrible things to us, and as a result, perpetual fear has become our default setting. This fear clouds our judgment and skews our perception of the world. We have become afraid of Middle Eastern people on airplanes, black men wearing hoodies, and now white males in our schools and churches. The truth is that there is evil in the world. However, a generally frightened population overly saturated with instruments of death only exacerbates the situation. The problem is not gun-control laws. The problem is that we live in a society in which people are more open to the idea of killing one another than they are to actually trying to understand one another.
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Why pull Hamilton’s face? Joe Lane joseph-lane@uiowa.edu
“It’s all about the Benjamins” is a familiar line uttered by hip-hop artists across the country. While the line may not resonate with all of American culture, the point is clear. It’s all about the money. Of course, “Benjamins” refers to the $100 bill, which prominently features Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. There is little doubt that Franklin earned his place on US currency. His contributions to U.S. society — political, scientific, and otherwise — were instrumental in the creation of this great country. Achievements such as these have solidified Franklin alongside Abraham Lincoln and George Washington as the faces of our currency. However, when I
heard that Alexander Hamilton will soon be removed from the $10 bill and replaced with a prominent American woman, I was left wondering what he did to deserve the removal. Last week, the U.S. Treasury announced that the next $10 bill would feature a prominent female figure in national history. In order for this to happen, the current face must give way (although, there has been some discussion of circulating two $10 bills; one featuring a woman and the other continuing to feature Hamilton). The move is highly anticipated and certainly important for the advancement of women in America. However, the move is a big misstep for the Treasury, which could use this opportunity to not only make a statement about women in America but about tumultuous race relations as well. Replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill would make much more sense than replacing Hamilton, sending out a bigger
statement for the country. Jackson, though a president with a plethora of accomplishments, is perhaps best known for his horrific treatment of Native Americans, resulting in the infamous genocide known as the Trail of Tears and his slave ownership. With hate crimes, police brutality, and the overwhelming strain on race relations in the United States, removing Jackson would be more meaningful than removing Hamilton. Though I fear that many may assume Hamilton earned his place on the $10 bill as president, his role in U.S. history is as secretary of Treasury to President Washington. According to Forbes, not only did Hamilton play an important role in the creation of the U.S. Constitution but also in the free-enterprise system, as we know it today. Moreover, Hamilton came from a modest background, born out of wedlock in the West Indies; he was an early exemplification of the American Dream.
Forbes adds that the Treasury’s explanation for removing Hamilton, but not Jackson, is that the $10 bill is due for security updates. Security updates need not mean a face-change on legal tender, and it’s certainly not a valid excuse to pull Hamilton, leaving Jackson. When it comes down to it, there is little doubt that Hamilton is the figure whether will be removed — as plans have already been set in motion — and little can be done to mend this misstep. However, it is important for the woman who replaces Hamilton to make a big statement. Most of the discussion surrounding the change has focused on Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt; excellent choices, to be sure. While Roosevelt was no doubt one of the most powerful women in U.S. history, Tubman is the better choice. While police powers fall to the states, the federal government can make a powerful statement by picking a notable woman in the fight for civil rights.
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Stream of consequence Chris Clegg chris-clegg@uiowa.edu
Since the dawn of the 21st century, Americans have fundamentally changed the way they listen to music. With the emergence of companies such as Pandora and Spotify, technology has all but replaced traditional methods of purchasing music, such as buying CDs (remember those?) or even individual songs off of iTunes. While these services are no doubt advantageous for the consumer, because they provide access to millions of songs for relatively cheap, what about the artists? How do the companies fare? Well, it is complicated, and there may not be an all-encompassing answer to that question. I would
argue that the music industry’s shift toward a streaming-based system is actually more beneficial to artists than models of the past that relied on album sales and individual song downloads. First of all, it is important to understand how streaming services distribute their revenue to the ones that provide their content. Take Spotify, for example. The company makes its money in two ways: through premium subscriptions, in which the consumer must pay a monthly fee to gain unlimited access to all the songs in Spotify’s database, and (of course) through advertisers that pay Spotify to run commercials on its free service. After all this revenue is collected, according to Spotify’s website, it retains “approximately” 30 percent, while distributing the other (“approximately”) 70 percent among its content providers as well as those who generate the most streams, thus receiv-
ing the most money. This is where it gets tricky. Spotify pays royalties to the “rights holders” of the music. Be it a label or, in some cases, an independent artist, Spotify then distributes X amount of dollars to everyone who helped in the production of that music from the artist themselves all the way down to, say, the songwriters. So, even if Artist A is generating a million streams a month, he or she could still make less off the service purely because of contractual obligations than, say, Artist B, who is an independent and doesn’t have to share the money. Logically, one could make the argument that, unless you are an independent artist, streaming services will generate less revenue for particular artists because their share of royalties is split among three, 10, or maybe even 50 people. However, what an artist may lack in payment from streaming is made up in the consequen-
tial power that streaming services give to the artist. The entire existence of streaming services depends on rights holders to agree to give their content away. This, combined with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s report that more and more people are turning to streaming sites than ever before, puts the artist in an extremely powerful position. If the top-five artists streaming on Spotify pull their content, which they have every right to do, the streaming site could most certainly feel the hit more than the artists themselves — take, for instance, Taylor Swift’s recent removal of her songs from said website. Going on this logic, if artists band together and pulled their content, much like how a union bands together workers, they would have the ability to demand more from the service, and have the power to change it.
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Possibilities that come to mind whenever I hear somone say they want someone else “in the worst way” • In an open-topped Calcutta rickshaw during the rainy season. • On the men’s room floor at closing time after a live show at the Yacht Club. • In the elephant pen at the circus about a day and a half after a delivery of rotten peanuts. • Chin-deep in the Chuck E. Cheese ball pit, 10 seconds after numerous “code yellows.” • In the puppy cages at Petland, in front of the eyes of young, inquisitive children. • On the sticky back aisle floor of a cinema playing any film starring Rob Schneider. • In the crowd at the New York Stock Exchange, waiting for bids. • Saddled atop of a generously proportioned donkey meandering its way down the Autobahn. • In the security line at LaGuardia, dressed in abayas and thwabs, ululating at climax. • On the subway, sandwiched between a really fat guy and the wall with all the gum stuck to it. • Suspended upside-down, covered in spicy mustard, and situated directly above of bin of feisty marmots. • In the recycling center’s newspaper bin, ass-deep in unfunny Ledges. Andrew R. Juhl wants her in the normal, garden-variety way (covered in ranch dressing).
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t wait to be told what to do. Step up, take responsibility, and you will stand out from the crowd. Update your appearance and the way you do things. Taking progressive action will bring positive results. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Learn as you go. Be willing to admit when you make a mistake. Getting along will be half the battle when faced with professional problems. Do whatever it takes to improve your health and emotional wellness. Diet and exercise will make a difference. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t give in to demands from people looking for a handout. Do whatever it takes to make positive changes at home or to your appearance. What you do to enhance your life will lead to a romantic opportunity. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Make a couple of alterations at home that will add to your comfort or lower your overhead. Don’t get angry when you can focus on your own success and happiness. Honesty and integrity will outshine emotional deception. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will get ahead and complete your journey if you set realistic priorities. You can accomplish your goals and have fun if you make the decision to do something you love for a living. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll be fed false information. Someone will try to make you look bad. Stick to your plan, and don’t leave room for error. Precision and practicality will guide you in any challenge you might face. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep your emotions tucked away where no one can see your vulnerability. Speak with authority and confidence, and you will bypass any competitors looking for a way to outmaneuver you. Don’t share personal information. Love is in the stars. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may think you have more disposable cash on hand, but saving for a rainy day will ease your stress. Someone will be all too happy to help you make lavish purchases. Don’t try to buy love. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): An emotional problem will crop up if you have been hiding information or avoiding someone’s questions. A trip that will take you out of proximity to what you are trying to avoid will buy you time, but it won’t solve the problem. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Taking a short business trip, looking into a new product, or collaborating with one of your peers will lead to an interesting but unusual opportunity. Don’t feel you have to make a quick decision. A methodical approach will lead to success. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Check out your options, and make a move. Partnering, improving your home, and using your skills to bring in extra cash will add to your security. Romance will brighten your day and improve your life. Avoid emotional spending. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Emotions will be close to the surface, making it difficult for you to keep your feelings a secret. Try not to engage in discussions that will back you into a corner. Offer kindness and undivided attention, not criticism.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu
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FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM 8 Having the interior linemen back will be critical in short yardage situations, where Iowa was relatively successful a season ago. Power Success Rate, a Football Outsiders metric that measures short yardage
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Christian Kirksey (LB, Cleveland Browns) Kirksey played in 684 defensive snaps and 256 snaps on special teams for the Browns in 2014 — splitting time with veteran Craig Robertson at left-side linebacker and using his 4.50 speed to his benefit as a pass defender. In Cleveland’s 3-4 defensive scheme, two of its four linebackers are pass rushers, usually beginning plays on the line of scrimmage. That means that there’s more competition for the two in-
THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2015 situations, calculated Iowa as having a 69.2 percent success rate on third- and fourth-down plays with fewer than two yards to go. It also includes first-and-goal and second-and-goal situations of fewer than two yards. The inexperience is somewhat alarming, but right now, it’s what Iowa football has to work with.
side-backer spots, where players begin every play in a two-point stance a few yards behind the line. Robertson is listed as the starter on the depth chart at present, but because Kirksey is younger and therefore theoretically has more room to grow, he might take even more playing time from Robertson this season. Both had similar statistics last season, but the NFL is a young man’s game. For this reason, Pro Football Focus rated Kirksey at “average” and Robertson at “below average.” The depth chart may read Robertson as the starter, but in reality, it’s likely Kirksey’s job to lose.
PRIME TIME CONTINUED FROM 8 first Prime Time game with 29 points, 12 rebounds, and 4 assists in a loss on Sunday. Early in league action, he’s shooting 39 percent from 3-point land. Hutton, who plays alongside Jones for coach Kevin Sanders, has been impressive in his own respect and also appears to be a candidate for early playing time under McCaffery. The 6-6 wing is a strong, fluid athlete, and he scored 29 points with 14 rebounds
in Waterloo on Sunday. His most impressive showing, however, came after his 8-point, 4-rebound début and away from the eyes of spectators. “My goal is to be the best defensive player on the team, a lockdown defensive player. The best in the Big Ten, as a matter of fact,” Hutton told reporters after his first game. “I know that when I show Coach I can have lockdown defense, that will get me out on the floor.” Wagner is similar to Hutton in size and as an athlete, and he has turned in two respectable perfor-
mances. He recorded 11 points, 2 rebounds, and 4 assists June 18, followed by 13 points, 10 rebounds, and 2 assists on Sunday. Also a talented football player in high school, Wagner has a promising physical presence on the floor, particularly in transition. Williams has shown elusive quickness in transition and uses his length to cause trouble defensively and create distance between the ball and defender when finishing at the rim. He and Fleming have played only one game, with Fleming dropping 25 on 10-of-19 shoot-
ing from the field while going 3-of-6 from deep. Still early, fans have the rest of summer to watch the youngsters grow. “That’s what has so many people out here,” Commissioner Randy Larson said. “We don’t know anything about them yet. That’s the beauty of it though, is that in a couple weeks I will know, because we get to see it for ourselves.” Follow @KyleFMann for news, updates, and analysis of Prime Time League basketball.
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Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard calls a play to the offensive players during the spring scrimmage on April 25. The Hawkeyes scrimmaged against each other in front of fans in Kinnick Stadium, and the offense outscored the defense, 29-28. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard)
Relativity theory: most-improved By JORDAN HANSEN jordan-hansen@uiowa.edu
Earlier this month, Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard and safety Jordan Lomax were asked which position group on their respective sides of the ball had made the most improvement since spring began. “I’d probably say our offensive line,” said Beathard, who is expected to start this season for the Hawkeyes. “Over the course of the spring, [the players] improved a lot, and they’ll need to continue to do so if we want the season to go the way we want it to.” Lomax was also quick to answer the question. “You’d have to give it to our linebackers,” Lomax said. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to have new linebackers’ and worrying about the position, but they came through spring ball, and I think they did a pretty good job.” If there’s any truth to what Beathard and Lomax say,
it’s good news for the Hawkeyes. During spring ball, both groups appeared in need of work in the limited reps open to the public. The progression, however, can’t stop. It’s something that Beathard referred to in his answer and is partially because of the void created by Brandon Scherff and Andrew Donnal leaving for the NFL. Offensive tackles Ike Boettger and Boone Myers are untested — they’ve played in a combined 12 games with exactly zero starts. Center Austin Blythe leads all the returning linemen with 35 career starts, and guards Jordan Walsh and Sean Welsh have 24 and seven, respectively. Iowa’s linebacking corps is in a similar position. Of the likely starters (Bo Bower, Ben Niemann, and Josey Jewell), only Bower has started more than 10 games — logging 13 thus far in his Iowa career. Jewell has started just four, and Niemann has played in 13 games but did not start a contest in his freshman campaign.
Phil Steele of Steele’s College Football Preview said Iowa’s offensive line has just 69 starts returning, which puts it tied for 57th in the country, eighth in the Big Ten. Defensively, the Hawkeyes have just over 58 percent of their number of tackles recorded in 2014 — 85th in the country and 12th in the conference, Steele said. The linebacking trio has just a combined 96 tackles while at Iowa, and Jewell owns the majority of them at 51. With Quinton Alston graduated and Reggie Spearman departing via transfer, Iowa is as young at linebacker as it has been in quite some time. Youth and inexperience, however, will be combated in part having Blythe, Walsh, and Welsh back on offense. Senior linebackers Travis Perry and Cole Fisher should be in the mix as well.
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Hawk newbies wow fans early
NFL: Sophomore surge By CHARLIE GREEN charles-green@uiowa.edu
Similarly to 2015, three Hawkeyes heard their names called in the 2014 NFL draft. What’s surprising is that not a single one of them was a defensive or interior offensive lineman — although one of them might as well be. Two linebackers, Christian Kirksey and Anthony Hitchens, saw significant playing time in 2014 after productive careers at Iowa. The highest of the three picked in that draft was C.J. Fiedorowicz (pick 1, round 3), who failed to replicate the impact of his former teammates during his rookie season. Here’s a look at the second-year Hawkeyes in the NFL:
C.J. Fiedorowicz (TE, Houston Texans) Last season saw Fiedorowicz nab one more reception (4) than Houston’s all-everything defensive end J.J. Watt (3), despite the former Hawkeye’s logging 471 offensive snaps. Tack on another 96 snaps on special teams, and at least the tight end found his way on to field often for a rookie. From his days running the offense of the New England Patriots (mostly recently in 2011), it’s clear that head coach Bill O’Brien loves himself some tight ends — it’s not
uncommon to see the Texans line up in two-tight end formations. When the team selected the 6-6, 265-pounder, his role figured to be primarily as a blocker. Fiedorowicz hauled in just 30 passes as a senior in 2013, but his exceptional size made him one of the top prospects at tight end. So it’s not alarming that he only hauled in 4 catches for 28 yards as a rookie — especially considering he was only targeted seven times. Part of the problem is Houston’s lack of a franchise quarterback. The team ranked 24th in the league in passing yards per game last season at 209.5. Although Ryan Fitzpatrick played decently in 2014, he’s anything but a game-changer at the position. The offense still runs through running back Arian Foster, who ran for 1,246 yards on 260 caries and added 38 receptions. Fiedorowicz’ big frame could make him a nice option in the red zone, but he needs to develop his skills as a receiver first, and his second training camp provides a solid opportunity to add a new element to his game. But going into this season, it looks like his primary role will be opening holes for Foster and backup halfback Alfred Blue. Just to show how unorthodox the Texans’ offense was
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Iowa tight ends Ray Hamilton and C.J. Fiedorowicz celebrate at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Sept. 28, 2013. Fiedorowicz currently plays in the NFL for the Houston Texans. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo) last year, Watt had 3 touchdown receptions; Fiedorowicz had 1 — a pass thrown on a trick play by Foster in Week 16. That sums up the Texans’ offense; don’t expect the second-year tight end from Iowa to put up big numbers as a receiver anytime soon.
Anthony Hitchens (LB, Dallas Cowboys) The most valuable asset Hitchens gained from his rookie year was versatility — seeing time at all three linebacker spots. And he also proved that when given the opportunity to start, he could be productive. Against St. Louis on Sept. 21, he logged 13 tackles and added another 12 on Nov. 27 against Philadelphia. He
also had an interception in Week 16 against the Colts. Hitchens is projected to start at weakside linebacker for the Cowboys heading into training camp, alongside a returning-from-injury Sean Lee and suspended Rolando McClain. While Hitchens proved to be an effective run defender last year, he had his struggles in the passing game. If he doesn’t improve in that area before the start of the season, expect the Cowboys to leave the more athletic Lee and McClain in games during passing situations, likely in a nickel package to handle tight ends and running backs out of the backfield. SEE NFL, 6
Aside from the allure of Iowa’s star players, perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Prime Time League is that fans get their first look at incoming talent. This summer, Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery put together a recruiting class making that aspect particularly exciting. With four freshmen and a junior-college transfer playing in the league, fans are getting to know a few of the newcomers. Freshmen Andrew Fleming, Brandon Hutton, Ahmad Wagner, and Christian Williams have all proven to be among the most gifted players in Prime Time and transfer Dale Jones has elicited smiles around the gym in his first two games. At 6-8 and 220 pounds, Jones has some room to fill out, but appears adequate physically to rebound effectively. What truly separates him though is his confidence and range as a shooter. Height and length allow him to get his shot off over most defenders, and early in the summer, it is clear that he will let it fly at any moment. “Going down to Tyler, Texas, and playing for Mike Marquis (head coach at Tyler Junior College), he really instilled that in my game,” Jones said. “Playing free, playing with a lot of confidence, and using what I worked on outside the floor, on the floor.” He followed a pedestrian showing in his SEE PRIME TIME, 6