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Officials: Be good sports UI President Sally Mason called for increased sportsmanship for the Penn State game this weekend.

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In light of the sanctions against Penn State University’s football program, University of Iowa President Sally Mason and other UI officials are concerned students may go too far with poor sportsmanship during Saturday’s Mason game.

UI President Mason told The Daily Iowan in an interview Wednesday she hopes to see an increase in good sportsmanship, not only for Saturday’s football game against Penn State, but for the rest of the season.

“I would really love it if instead of booing the team, which seems to happen all too often,” Mason said. “You know I see more and more fans from other institutions telling me that that’s not they way they do it at their institution. When the opposing team comes in, Nebraska has been an example where they don’t boo them. They don’t necessarily applaud them, either, but they’re cordial, they’re good hosts, and I’d love to see our crowd do that for Penn State.”

UI Student Government and the Hawks Nest have joined forces to create a social-media challenge for students to be more respectful towards Penn State. The slogan states “We are the Big Ten: Welcome Our Big Ten Rivals with Respect.”

“Sportsmanship is always important,” UISG President Nic Pottebaum said. “We want to welcome Penn State with respect. The players, the students, the referees as well.”

Hawks Nest President T.J. McCann said although overall he does not think respect is an issue at the UI, certain games can lead to some issues. “[Disrespecting opposing teams] is a case-bycase basis,” he said. “In general I don’t think it’s too bad. Certain things pop up that poses an issue, like with Penn State, it’s a national thing.”

UISG and Hawks Nest ask fans to refrain from booing when the opposing team enters the field, cheer during the game without degrading Penn State, and respect the game officials.

Students generally agree poor sportsmanship happens at games, and especially with situations such as Penn State’s, it could go too far.

“I would definitely be more careful [with Penn State],” fifth-year student Lisa Esdorn said. “In the past, there have been shirts made with offensive language, and yeah, they’re funny, but I’m personally afraid of choosing offensive language that talks about rape or children. I don’t think that’s something we want.”

One first-year UI medical student received his undergraduate degree from Iowa State University, getting to see both sides of sportsmanship at the UI. “Being in Ames, it isn’t all Cyclones, it’s a really good mix,” Matthew Donahue said. “You don’t See sportsmanship, 3A

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President Obama sharpened his rhetoric against GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s economic plan on Wednesday, characterizing it as “sketchy” while pushing his own plan during a stop in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

“His tax plan doesn’t add up,” the president said. “His jobs plan doesn’t create jobs. His deficit-reduction plan adds to the deficit. So Iowa, you know, everybody here’s heard of the New Deal.

You’ve heard of the Fair Deal. You’ve heard of the Square Deal. Mitt Romney’s trying to sell you a sketchy deal.”

Obama’s stop at Cornell College marked his ninth visit to Iowa this year, and before a reported crowd of 2,000, he continued his aggressive stance from the second presidential

President Obama speaks at the Richard and Norma Small Multi-Sport Center Gymnasium in Mount Vernon on Wednesday. Discussing the economy and education, Obama visited the Cornell College campus the day after the second presidential debate. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin)

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House Speaker John Boehner came to Iowa City Wednesday in support of the Romney presidential ticket.

House Speaker John Boehner speaks at the GOP campaign office in Coralville on Wednesday. Boehner campaigned for both local politicians and the Romney-Ryan presidential ticket. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin)

By Brianna Jett Locals stepped out of the rain and crowded into the Coralville Victory Office to listen to Speaker of the House John Boehner and 2nd District Congressional candidate John Archer at an event meant to fire up volunteers.

Both Archer and Boehner spoke in support of presidential candidate Mitt Romney and vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, emphasizing a need for change.

“There’s nobody in Washington

who has worked harder with President Obama to try to deal with America’s big issues than I have, and I have to tell you what — it’s been disappointing,” Boehner said in his address Wednesday. “What we need is leadership.”

The two men did not just ask for votes — they also made an attempt to mobilize supporters.

“People don’t believe much of what they see on TV, or hear on the radio — or for that matter read in the newspaper,” Boehner said. “But they do

believe 95 percent of what they hear from their friends and neighbors.”

Cary Covington, a University of Iowa associate professor of political science, agreed friends and family largely influence voters.

“One of the top sources of influence are people they know,” he said.

Archer emphasized how much time remains until Election Day. “In the next 20 days, we are going to have to double our efforts,” he See boehner, 3A

Accused woman agrees to plea deal Lillie Williams, a Coralville woman previously accused of first-degree murder in connection with the 2011 death of 14-year-old Raymone Bryant in a house fire, accepted a plea deal on Tuesday.

Williams faced life imprisonment had she been convicted of the original Class-A felony, but she will serve no more than 55 years in prison after

she pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter as well as first-degree arson and burglary.

The terms of the plea will require Williams to serve a maximum of 25-year sentences for both the burglary and arson charges consecutively, but with good time served, she could potentially serve less than 25 years.

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U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, spoke to elderly community members about the importance of education and earned benefits in the sparsely populated town of Tipton.

Currently serving his fifth term in the U.S. Senate, Harkin spoke to a crowd of nearly 30 people at the Tipton/Cedar County Senior Center and stressed his commitment to education in Washington. He also announced his support for House District 73 candidate Dick Schwab, who hosted the event.

As the current chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Harkin expressed his worries about the state of education in Iowa.

“We always took great pride in Iowa schools, we were the leaders,” Harkin said during his hour-long speech. “But I am sorry, we can’t say that anymore because the scores show differently. The graph for education in Iowa has gone down over the last 20 years.”

He emphasized the importance of state funding for the betterment of education, and said Schwab, 60, was the right candidate.

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U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, talks with seniors at the Tipton Senior Center on Wednesday. Harkin was there to help promote Dick Schwab (D) in his campaign for the Iowa House District 73 seat. (The Daily Iowan/Nicholas Fanelli) versities is going up, it keeps going up,” he said. “The single most important correlating factor for tuition going up is the lack of state support for higher education.”

Harkin added that support for education in Iowa has been historically bipartisan, but he is alarmed by recent attempts by the House to cut spending on education.

In June, the Iowa House proposed a $774.3 million education budget, a $37 million decrease from last year’s budget. The Senate on the other hand, proposed an increase of $79 million for fiscal 2012.

Bobby Kaufmann is Schwab’s Republican opponent in District 73, which comprises Cedar County, eastern Johnson County, and the town of Wilton in Muscatine County.

Kaufmann agreed with

Harkin’s claim of bipartisan support for education but said he wants the teachers of Iowa to decide the fate of education and not legislators.

“I have a family with seven educators. If I didn’t support education, I wouldn’t be allowed a Christmas,” the 27-year-old said. “If there is a group proposal on education for funding or anything else, and it comes through the Democratic Party and is good to teachers and school administrators for my district, you will see me hanging that Democratic Party banner way over my head happily.”

The senior community members present at the event however, wanted to hear more about the security of their Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Eleanor Droll said she is worried about the fate of her

benefits and believes GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s plan to privatize benefits is flawed.

“They are thinking about the few,” the 85-year-old said referring to the Romney campaign. “And it is a shame that they are thinking about the few in this country.”

Harkin spent the last quarter of his speech addressing the issue of earned benefits and said as long as Democrats are in charge, Medicare and Social Security will be intact.

“Since its inception, Wall Street has wanted to get its hands on the Social Security money,” he said. “If they can’t get it all, they want a part of it. So if Romney and Ryan were to win and the Senate went Republican, I think you can see the beginning of the end of Social Security.”

UI shows off mammoth finds Two different mammoths have been found at the Oskaloosa site.

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Sarah Horgen delicately removed the cloth cover from a large mammoth tooth and set one of her latest excavated artifacts onto the table.

“Finds like this don’t come around every day,” she said.

She and other University of Iowa researchers are preparing to reveal artifacts and other finds from their Oskaloosa excavation project to uncover mammoth bones.

On Wednesday evening, some of the fossils from the UI-led excavation were presented to the public as a part of the UI Explorers Series and in tribute to National Fossil Day. Roughly 40 community members crammed into the small Biosphere Hub in the Museum of Natural History.

Horgen is the educational and outreach coordinator for the museum.

“The more we dig, the more complex we discover it is,” she said.

Landowners in Oskaloosa found the bones in 2010 and took them to the UI, where researchers concluded they were mammoth bones. More fossilized remains were discovered shortly after, and the landowners asked for assistance from UI officials in April to help excavate the bones.

The landowner is retaining the bones, allowing the UI to excavate and study them.

The UI research team announced on Sept. 14 the discovery of two separate mammoth species at the site. One of the mammoths is the well-known woolly mammoth, and the other is a Columbian mammoth. The animals

Volunteers extract a mammoth vertebra at an archeological dig site near Oskaloosa, Iowa, on Sept. 16. Fossils from the excavation site were displayed for the public Wednesday as part of the UI Explorers Series. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin) are estimated to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years old.

An exact date has yet to be established, but UI professor emeritus of geoscience Holmes Semken said researchers will date the bones using radio carbon dating.

“We will use radio carbon dating first on the bone,” he said, noting that researchers will use plant matter around the bone to establish a date.

“We’ll be able to date the flora, and we’ll be able to date the bone.”

The public had the opportunity to see various fossilized bones from mammoths discovered across the state that were donated by the UI Paleontology Repository for the event along with a few samples of the finds in Oskaloosa. The fossils from various mammoths across the state consisted of a humerus and vertebra from a baby mammoth along with a tooth and a tusk.

Tiffany Adrain, the collections manager at the UI Paleontology Repository, said once the fossilized bones are removed from the ground, they immediately be-

come very fragile. “[Researchers are] taking the bones back to the museum’s lab to stabilize them and make sure they don’t fall to pieces,” Adrain said. “You take them out of the ground, and they are instantly fragile; they can fall apart in weeks.”

Horgen said the site is yielding new finds with a higher concentration of bones being found the farther they work from the initial excavation.

“We think we are getting closer to the primary deposit,” she said. “The bone deposit is getting higher as we go back.”

The Columbian mammoth has been found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Central America, being the biggest species and having the longest tusks.

The woolly mammoth is known for its hairy coat and curved tusks.

It ranged from northern Europe, across Siberia, and into North America. Both species became extinct roughly 11,000 years ago, when the Ice Age ended.

The UI Museum of Natural History is leading the excavation project

Explorer Seminar There were several fossilized bones displayed at the Explorers Series Event.

• A humerus • Vertebra from a baby mammoth • A tooth • A tusk Source: Tiffany Adrain, collections manager at the UI Paleontology Repository

near Oskaloosa with the Geoscience Department, the College of Engineering, and the Anthropology Department. The UI is also partnering with Iowa State University, William Penn University, and the Office of the State Archaeologist as well.

Volunteers have made this project possible. Horgen has a list of 30 to 40 volunteers waiting to go back to out to the site to help with the excavation.

“We’ve been really grateful for the community involvement,” said John Logsdon, the director of UI Pentacrest Museums.

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have that here in Iowa City; it’s more polarized. I’ve seen more [disrespect towards opposing team’s fans] here than anywhere else.”

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said. “This is not a spectator sport. We are in Hawkeye territory over here.”

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debate by zeroing in on the vagueness he claims is in Romney’s economic plan.

“Usually, when a politician tells you they’re going to wait till after the election to explain a plan, they don’t have a pleasant surprise for you,” he said.

One University of Iowa political­-science associate professor felt that Romney’s and previous candidates’ vagueness on certain issues is either to avoid excluding the other side or alienating possible voters.

“Romney might want to sit down with members of Congress and work out the details in a bipartisan way,”

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fans do not see a difference in sportsmanship with UI students in relation to other university students.

“The fans blend in pretty well,” said Tyler Smith, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior who attended the Iowa/Nebraska game last year. “There are always a few freshman

[who are more disrespectful], but everyone else was pretty respectful.”

Big Ten university officials take efforts to increase respect in their own schools, and said they have not noticed a lack of respect at the UI. “On campus, we have an organization called

Wildside,” said Scott Hammer, Northwestern University director for athletics communications. “We sit down and have meetings about expectations and what’s acceptable and what’s not. If students do not conduct themselves well at games they know who they will talk to.”

Overall, officials can agree an increase in sportsmanship would help the family-friendly atmosphere the university is striving for Kinnick Stadium to have.

“We have so many people say they like to bring their children, their grandchildren, [to Hawkeye games],” Mason said. “They want

to come and enjoy themselves. It’s hard to enjoy themselves when you’ve got drunks around you, if you’ve got people that are wearing T-shirts or sweatshirts that have derogatory or just profane language. That’s just bad, and it certainly doesn’t promote any family friendly atmosphere.”

ing Archer than it did with electing Romney.

“Boehner’s appearance in this district probably had more to do with Boehner wanting to add another seat to the Republican majority in the House,” he said.

However, this was not necessarily a drawback for audience members.

“It’s nice to be able to

have an opportunity to hear what he has to say about what direction the Congress is going to go,” Larry Brown, Iowa City resident, said. “Hopefully, the Republican Party will hold the Congress.”

And Boehner’s presence could mean the Republican Party is confident itcan establish a majority in Congress.

“[His visit] is an indication that the Republican Party thinks this is a seat it can win,” Covington said.

The Iowa Democratic Party fears Archer’s association with Boehner could lead to a decreased focus on Iowa’s middle-class families.

“By choosing to stand with Speaker Boehner, the face of this unpopu-

lar Congress who puts millionaires over Medicare — Ben Lange and John Archer are sending a clear signal that they won’t stand with Iowa seniors and middle-class families,” Sue Dvorsky, the head of the Iowa Democratic Party, said in a press release.

Wednesday was part

of Boehner’s 45-day trip across the nation to campaign for Romney and energize voters.

“Boehner’s appearance here is designed to draw media attention,” Covington said. “The bigger the name, the more attention that will get. It will help generate enthusiasm.”

Tim Hagle said. “Everybody loves spending cuts until their stuff gets cut.”

Romney’s campaign responded to the attacks by targeting Obama’s statement during the debate that “some jobs are not going to come back” as well as his overall jobs plan.

“President Obama addressed his jobs plan at last night’s debate, saying ‘there are some jobs that are not going to come back,’ ” Shawn McCoy, Romney campaign spokesman, said in a press release. “After four years of failed economic policies that have left 23 million Americans struggling for work, President Obama has no new ideas, no vision for the future, and is simply giving up.”

According to Romney’s

website his five-point plan will create 12 million jobs during his first term by focusing on a variety of goals from North American energy independence to tax reform.

Obama further targeted the five-points of Romney’s plan saying it would create an unfair advantage for the wealthiest Americans and was akin to “failed policies” of the previous administration.

“The interesting thing is his five-point plan for the economy is really a one-point plan,” he said during the rally. “Folks at the very top play by their own set of rules.”

Obama said his economic plan has such facets as keeping the wind energy tax credit, which he said 7 million jobs currently depend on, and would help

pay down the deficit, which topped $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row.

“You grow this economy from the middle-class out,” he said.

“But we can’t just cut our way to prosperity; we need to invest.”

Obama has held 16 campaign events across Iowa this year, and according to a campaign official Iowa is critical to him in the election.

“Iowa is an important battleground state,” Elizabeth Purchia, Iowa press secretary for Obama for America, said in an email.

“It launched the president’s campaign back in 2008, and Iowa holds a close place in his heart.”

Hagle further said another reason campaigns avoid specifics is because it can lead to more attacks from their opponents.

“You start to provide more details, and it provides the

opponent with more fodder to attack with,” he said.

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Not denying pre-existing conditions most important P

resident Obama returned to Iowa Wednesday fresh off an energetic performance in Tuesday night’s debate to defend his record and tout the accomplishments of his first four years in office.

The signature achievement of Obama’s first term, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, once again came under fire on Tuesday night from Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who has pledged to repeal the current law and replace it with a plan of his own that would emphasize state-level health-care solutions.

In discussing his own plan, Romney twice claimed that it would mandate that insurance companies not deny coverage on the basis of a customer’s pre-existing medical conditions — first in a “Meet the Press” interview in September and again in the first presidential debate, on Oct. 3. Both times, the Romney campaign had to walk back the candidate’s claims.

Whoever wins the election, be it Romney or Obama, it is essential the government mandate that insurance companies may not deny coverage to anyone based on pre-existing health conditions.

An independent analysis by the Government Accountability Office released in March, using data from 2009, estimated the number of Americans with medical conditions that an insurance company could conceivably cite as grounds for refusal of service.

The study used five lists of qualifying conditions ranging from least to most inclusive and found that between 36 million and 112 million Americans have medical conditions that could disqualify them from receiving insurance. The most common of these conditions include hypertension, diabetes, and mental-health disorders.

A Congressional investigation conducted in late 2010 found that between 2007 and 2009, the four largest for-profit health-insurance providers in the United States denied coverage to more than 650,000 people on the basis of pre-existing conditions; all total, private health insurers turned away one of seven applicants.

The current legal framework pertaining to the relationship between consumers and insurance companies, established by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is insufficient to protect individuals in this country.

This law protects individuals with medical conditions and continuous, employer-provided health insurance from losing their insurance if they change employers. Current implemented law provides no protection for individuals moving between two individual-market plans or for anyone who is uninsured or whose insurance has lapsed.

The Affordable Care Act, when it goes into full effect in January 2014, will replace the convoluted regulations outlined in the 1996 law with a single blanket provision that universally bans

Last week, University of Iowa officials launched the Sustainable Citizen Program, which will attempt to join the efforts of students and community members to make the area more environmentally friendly and sustainable.

Though the university has strong sustainability efforts, reducing waste, cutting costs, and caring about the environment are not goals that stop at the borders of campus. In Iowa City, the entire community will benefit from learning about and joining the effort to become a more sustainable environment.

Some of the ways in which this university is seeing benefits from student-started sustainability initiatives include tray-less dining, which was strongly advocated by members of the UI Student Government, and Game Day recycling, which was initiated by a UI alumni.

Tray-less dining has only started on this campus this semester, but other colleges have documented anywhere from 25 to 30 percent reduction in waste per student after going tray-less.

The benefits from Game

Day recycling were immediately obvious at the first game; volunteers were able to increase recycling from a previously recorded 25 percent to 40 percent.

With driven students and interested community members, initiatives such as these could benefit the larger Iowa City community.

“We feel that the sustainability knowledge in action is what makes a sustainable citizen,” said Craig Just, a UI assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and the director of the Sustainable Citizen Program. “The Sustainable Citizen Program launched this week in Los Angeles, and it was very well received.”

One important aspect of this program is the Circle Groups, which each have a specific goal designed to promote active involvement in sustainability.

These groups may have a community coordinator or a student leader, but the leader does not need to be an expert in sustainability. One positive goal of the program is to encourage even those who are not necessarily focused on sustainability to learn more and find ways to make the community more sustainable.

Though the project is still in the very earliest stages, the goals are clear: to increase awareness, gain knowledge and skills, and to help the community become oriented toward action.

Voting is not sexy President Obama visited the campus of Cornell College in Mount Vernon on Wednesday. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin)

insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions.

But while Romney has praised this provision as one of the components of the president’s health care law that he supports, he has also pledged to repeal it and start over.

Romney’s plan for reforming access to health insurance would likely rely on the expansion of provisions in the ineffective 1996 law to include protection for people transitioning between individual-market insurance plans. Romney’s insurance reforms, similar to the 1996 law, would apply only to individuals who have been continuously insured for 18 months without any lapses longer than 63 days.

For most of the 48 million uninsured people in the United States, 72 percent of whom have been without insurance for more than a year, Romney’s plan would provide no protection from insurance companies seeking to deny coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions.

Romney has said that states should help subsidize purchases for individuals whose pre-existing conditions make insurance prohibitively expensive, but he has outlined no mechanism by which his administration would protect consumers after repealing the Affordable Care Act as promised.

Romney has made political hay out of his opposition to the act during this election season, but he has not been shy about cherry-picking the law’s popular provisions and co-opting them without regard for his actual health-care plans.

Romney continues to pay lip service to individuals with pre-existing medical conditions, saying that he will protect them from being denied insurance, but he offers no plan to make it happen.

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More malarkey-laced rhetoric spewed in Tuesday’s presidential debate than the vice-presidential debate Oct. 11. But this time, the malarkey came from UISG’s politicians instead of the talking heads onscreen.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the IMU watch party sponsored by President Nic Pottebaum and all of UISG came with its fair share of propaganda, including a get-out-the-vote effort that featured an adolescent, needy, and entirely desperate effort to be the center of attention.

I’m talking about the student organization giving out T-shirts with the key phrase “Voting is Sexy.”

Before you start drafting your letters, I have nothing against voting — in fact, I encourage everyone with half a brain (yes, even the ones who spout platitudes only worthy of bumper stickers at me) to vote.

But, undeniably, voting is not sexy. And this was just

a stunt to attract attention. “[The purpose of the logo] was to really stand out and attract attention from students,” Vice President Jessie Tobin said in an interview with The Daily Iowan.

“If you have something that just says, ‘Go Vote,’ students might look over it, but when you have something that says, ‘Voting is Sexy,’ students are going to say ‘Hey, what’s that? I want that shirt.’ ” I mean, sure, even I could make voting sound sexy: “My heart fluttered with anticipation as my eyes gazed gently onto the fresh ballot, waiting for my touch...”

But come on, guys — it’s an insult to make such an obvious appeal to sexuality to get college kids to vote.

The act of voting isn’t about getting babes and scoring with a few chickadees, it is about the moral obligation all citizens have to pick a government that best represents them.

Promoting sexuality alongside civic duty is sort of like giving Anthony Weiner a seat in Congress and access to a Twitter account or giving Bill Clinton the title of commander in chief and access to an intern. Either way, you lower the standard of citizen, and somebody eventually gets screwed.

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Sports notebook Continued from 8A to host national tournaments bookending your season … that’s a great honor, and we want to make the most of both of those tournaments being held here in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.”

Printy to return to lineup Iowa brings in a lineup that returns four starters: senior Morgan Johnson at center, with sophomores Sam Logic and Melissa Dixon and senior Jaime Printy at the guards. Printy has been the leading scorer for the Hawkeyes since her freshman year, but she went down with a torn ACL in the closing seconds of an overtime win over Wisconsin last

gaglione Continued from 8A emerged as a strength of the already solid Iowa defense.

Ferentz said he was proud of the way Gaglione has overcome injuries and become a disruptive pass rusher. He says

winslow Continued from 8A team’s first tournament of the year.

“I just felt a little off,” he said. “There were some distractions from school, and I didn’t quite make it. Those distractions are gone, and I can continue to work hard and play well.”

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year on Feb. 2.

Despite her crippling injury, Bluder said she’s confident that Printy will be ready for Northern Illinois.

“I can’t tell you if she’ll be 100 percent at that point,” Bluder said. “I can tell you that she’s working as hard as she can to get to that point. And I can tell you that I have 100 percent belief in Printy her when guard she shoots the ball and that she will help our team reach our goals.”

Printy said her knee feels good, but she noted that she has to be smart not to rush rehabilitation and come back to play too early.

The toughest part so far is rebuilding her swagger around the hoop, she said.

“I think the biggest

thing, building that confidence back up to go and take some hits around the basket,” Printy said. “I had my first fall the other day — that was kind of scary.”

that his work ethic and toughness is representative of the defensive line as a unit.

“That’s frustrating for any player, because you can’t get better,” Ferentz said. “If you’re not out there practicing or playing, you can’t get better.

So that really has been a big impediment to his progress and it’s neat to

Frosh could have effect on 2012-13 squad Iowa inked a talented recruiting class that features some players that could make an impact early on in their careers as Hawkeyes.

Claire Till, Kayla Timmerman, Nicole Smith, and Kali Peschel round out this year’s freshman class.

Peschel started on her varsity basketball team as an eighth-grader in Sauk Centre, Minn.

“I was the tallest person on my team as an eighth-grader,” the 6-1 player said. “Being able to get that experience at that young of age helped a lot. I’m versatile, I know the 1-5

(Left to right) Kali Peschel, Claire Till, Kayla Timmerman, Nicole Smith, and Kathy Thomas jump for the ball at the Iowa women’s basketball media day in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)

spot.”

Bluder iterated the value Peschel could have for her squad even at a young age, saying her abilities and

versatility make some intriguing options.

“She can really play a 2, 3, or 4 for us,” Bluder said. “I expect that she’s going to be in

the mix of things right away. She’s a very good player, and we need to have Kali Peschel on the floor even as a freshman.”

see that he stuck with it. ... So now he’s getting some rewards.”

And even though many fans and members of the media were unsure about Iowa’s front four going into the season, other members of the defense said they were confident in the line all along, adding that the success of the defensive

front makes their jobs easier.

“Joe is playing really well right now,” linebacker Anthony Hitchens said.

“I think as a core, seniors Steve [Bigach] and Joe are leading them. [Joe] is pulling guards. He’s closing on them. He’s taking the tackles into the backfield — that’s one fewer lineman, there’s only four

now. He’s just doing a lot of great things for our defense.”

Gaglione’s fellow linemen said he makes the unit better because of the disruption he creates on opposing offensive lines, but also because of a little jealousy that may linger when it comes to his sack totals.

“You like having Gags

on your team because he’s a big powerful guy and can create havoc,” fellow defensive end Dominic Alvis said. “That’s always good to have. There’s a little jealousy between him and me. It just creates competition. It’s great. We tease each other, but we really don’t.

“I know I have to catch up to him.”

In his first tournament of the year, the Golfweek Conference Challenge, Winslow carded a score of 4-over and finished tied for 15th place individually. He holed the third most birdies in the event.

Winslow again was a birdie machine in the Hawkeyes next tournament, the Rod Myers Invitational. His 14 birdies

finished third-most in the event and he tied for 18th place with a three-round score of 2-over.

Being able to improve and adjust quickly is something head coach Mark Hankins said has helped Winslow persevere through the more difficult times in his career.

“He’s getting better. He’s already gotten better,” the

sixth-year coach said. “He came back from the summer and didn’t qualify. We needed to change some things. He worked on his golf swing a little bit, and he was open to listening.

Those changes have made golf a lot easier for him.”

The success Winslow has seen so far was far from a surprise to anyone on the team. Winslow came to Iowa specifical-

ly to compete. That very same objective was the reason Hankins recruited the golfer.

“He was the highest-ranked junior golfer we’ve recruited,” Hankins said. “He was probably ranked around 20th in the nation by the [American Junior Golf Association].

From there, it was just getting him acclimated to college golf and playing to

his potential.”

Winslow said that despite what individual successes and despite any pressures he may face, he may achieve in the next few years, the success of the team will always come first.

“My No. 1 goal is for the team to do well,” he said.

“To help the team do that, I’d like to shoot under par every round.”

[the ball] … Things like that will deflate you,” Iowa coach Sharon Dingman said. “I don’t know what happened, but I don’t think we were very sharp mentally tonight. We let them push us around until there was no more push.”

Nebraska eventually found its rhythm after a close first set. The Huskers startled the Hawkeyes in the second set and were able to finish them quickly in the third.

Iowa’s loss of focus proved to be the difference as it dropped its third-straight conference match.

The Hawkeye defense allowed Nebraska to hit over .400 in each of the last two sets after holding the Cornhuskers to

.143 in the first. The Hawkeyes, however, only hit .084 in the game, including hitting negative in the third set.

“We came out strong. We were right there with them point-for-point in the first set.

I think after we lost the first set, it just went downhill from there,” team captain Bethany Yeager said. “We didn’t come out fired up in the second set, and it showed. It hurt us a lot that we couldn’t find a way to push back against them.”

Junior Rachael Bedell paced the Hawkeyes with 14 kills, while also adding 7 digs. Classmate Nikki Dailey registered another double-double in assists (26) and digs (13).

NEBRASKA 3, IOWA 0

sports Volleyball falls to Nebraska The Iowa volleyball team (10-12, 2-7 Big Ten) fell to No. 5 Nebraska (16-2, 8-1) in straight sets (25-22, 25-14, 25-9) Wednesday evening in the Hawkeyes’ annual Breast Cancer Awareness match.

The Hawkeyes started off the match with a sense of urgency.

They got out to a 19-14 lead, but they were then doomed by seven errors in the first set alone.

The Hawkeyes were unable to maintain the level of play or focus throughout the match.

“We didn’t compete very hard, and it was disappointing.

We’d get Nebraska out of system, but then we would shank

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Ex-Hawk Marion cleared of charges Former Iowa wrestler Montell Marion, who was charged with domestic assault in August, has been cleared.

Marion told The Daily Iowan that the “incident was completely fabricated” by the female involved, who claimed that Marion had picked her up and slammed her into the fireplace in his home, as reported by the DI on Aug. 30.

The charges were dropped on Oct. 12, but Marion said he still fears his reputation has been permanently damaged, especially after running into legal trouble in the past during his tenure as a Hawkeye.

“This situation has been detrimental to my image and could hurt my career,” Marion said. “My main concern is to bring back honor to my family. This has hurt my father, and I am upset that this false charge could reflect poorly upon him as well.”

Marion credits his father for the positive effect that helped him change his life and for “raising [him] right.”

“I don’t hit women. I’ve never done that in my life,” the wrestler said. “I wasn’t raised that way; I was brought up better than that.”

— by Molly Irene Olmstead

— by Carlos Sosa

Middle blockers Chanté Thompson (left) and Alessandra Dietz attempt a block in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Wednesday. Nebraska defeated the Hawkeyes, 3-0. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)

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• I have no idea what the official policies are of the university or the department on things like making up classes. I pick some stuff up here and there, but the department administrative assistants know much better than I do. Ask them.

• If you are interested in a research career, don’t wait until your last quarter of your senior year to come see me. The earlier you come to me, the more projects we can work on. Even if you haven’t taken the major research methods course, I can think of something beyond just cleaning my car.

• If you tell me that you want to take a course, and I say something like, “Yes, you could absolutely do that; that certainly would be an option,” read between the lines.

• Don’t assume I’m going to be scary and intimidating until I am.

• When debating whom to work with (or whom to take in a class), listen to friends (or websites) but consider the source.

Hard-asses are often the best professors.

• In general, surprisingly enough, I have a life. If you email me Friday night and need something before Monday morning, my wife and son might have other plans (often involving Buzz Lightyear, but enough about my wife).

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GEMINI (May 21–June 20) A straightforward approach to what you’ve been asked to do will be necessary if you don’t want to be criticized for your tardiness. Too much detail will be just as unacceptable as too little. You must strive to balance whatever you do.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Follow through with your promises, and enjoy the praise you deserve. Love is on the rise. Making a subtle change at home that will enhance your surroundings or setting the stage for romance will pay off, as well as boost your confidence.

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‘Gags’ was worth the wait

Winslow bounces back Joseph Winslow has overcome numerous obstacles en route to being one of Iowa’s top golfers.

By Tommy Reinking Thomas-reinking@uiowa.edu

Gaglione was unranked by ESPN coming out of high school in 2008. And he didn’t produce for most of his time at Iowa, either.

He redshirted his freshman year, then was forced to sit out the 2009 season with a shoulder injury. The following year he saw garbage time against Iowa State, but that was it. Gaglione saw sporadic action as a junior in 2011, recording 7 tackles in 10 games. But now, in his last season, he is showing that he could have made an impact all along.

Gaglione is leading the Hawkeye defense with 4 sacks and 35 total tackles. He also has 8 tackles for a loss, just one behind the conference leader. The Novelty, Ohio, native is leading a defensive line that had many unfamiliar names going into the 2012 season — a line that has slowly

Iowa men’s golfer Steven Ihm needed only one word to describe teammate Joseph Winslow: Persistent.

After battling pneumonia and unpredictability in his game in the fall of his freshman year, Winslow turned everything around to become only the sixth All-American in the history of Iowa golf.

“He’s one of those guys that can make nine birdies in a row without even thinking about it,” Ihm said. “Last year, his game was a little inconsistent in the Winslow fall. He’d make a lot golfer of those birdies, but he’d also make a lot of big numbers.

This year, he’s just learned to keep the big numbers off the scorecard.”

With three years left in his college career and those initial struggles behind him, the sophomore firmly believes he can continue to be one of the greatest assets to the Hawkeyes.

“I want to be an All-American again this year,” the Overland Park, Kan., native said. “I’m going to be patient and take everything one tournament at a time. If I focus and work hard, it can definitely happen.”

Winslow didn’t have the best start to this season, however. The sophomore didn’t play well enough to qualify into the starting squad sent to the Golden Gopher Invite, the

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Iowa defensive linebacker Joe Gaglione attempts to tackle Iowa State running back Shontrelle Johnson in Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 8. Gaglione leads the Hawkeyes with 4 sacks on the season. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)

Joe Gaglione leads Hawkeye football with 4 sacks this season.

By Ben Ross benjamin-d-ross@uiowa.edu

Joe Gaglione didn’t have many college coaches knocking on his door coming out of high school.

The senior had offers to play college football from Iowa, Indiana, and Pittsburgh, but the Hawkeyes may have had the best recruiting tool of all: Ricky Stanzi.

Gaglione was high-school teammates at Lake Catholic with the former Iowa quarterback and current Kansas City Chief.

Stanzi served as Gaglione’s host on an official visit, and he said other defensive linemen on the Iowa roster helped sway his decision to play for Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz.

“Mike Daniels and Karl Klug really attracted me when I came here to visit,” Gaglione said. “I knew Ricky … It was nice to come out here and be able to know someone.”

IOWA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEDIA DAY

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Johnson set for her final season

Hawk hoopsters excited

By Cody Goodwin cody-goodwin@uiowa.edu

Iowa women’s basketball head coach Lisa Bluder didn’t hesitate. Not a bit.

Bluder said, with complete confidence, that Morgan Johnson is the best center in the Big Ten. “Morgan Johnson, I think, is one of the best centers in the United States,” she said during the Iowa women’s basketball team’s media day. “I love coaching her … She’s wonderful to have on the court.”

Johnson, a senior, made just under 55 percent of her shots a year ago, which was good enough for seventh in the country and best in the Big Ten among all positions. Johnson was also 26th in the country in blocked shots, averaging 2.3 per contest. That stat was good for second in the conference.

The expectations have risen because of last year’s stats for Johnson. She knows this. The Platte City, Mo., native was humbled by the praise Bluder has given her. Johnson understands that last year was a big year for her, and she’s ready to do even better.

“Seeing those numbers is a great thing. But you always want to do better,” Johnson said. “That’s just me being the perfectionist I am.”

Johnson is one of this year’s cocaptains for the Hawkeyes, and she knows she has to help instill confidence in the rest of the team. Because she shot so well last year, she said she could be taking even more shots this coming season.

But that won’t be the only thing pushing Johnson this season. She mentioned this season could be the final year she plays basketball completely.

Her body has taken a toll over the last four years. She noted how her knees had been frustrating her, pushing her to take a year off to help regain her health.

Johnson also talked of pursuing medical school, pending an acceptance let-

Jaime Printy is back, so the Iowa women’s basketball team could make it sixstraight trips to the NCAA Tournament.

By Ben Ross benjamin-d-ross@uiowa.edu

Iowa center Morgan Johnson stands in Carver-Hawkeye Arena during the Iowa women’s basketball media day on Wednesday. Johnson finished seventh in the NCAA and first in the Big Ten in shooting percentage last season at .546. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley) ter — “We’ll see if that happens, or not.

If it doesn’t, no big deal,” she said — as well as looking into opportunities to go overseas and do developing-country medicine for a year.

The latter, Johnson said, may be something she wants to eventually do once she’s finished with school. But ultimately, her doors will be kept open so she can “explore life.”

But she has business to attend to on the court before she can walk through those doors.

“It means leave it all on the table,” Johnson said. “There’s nothing I can hold back now.”

Her final season comes with a treat: She and Bethany Doolittle will get to play alongside each other on the court this year. Doolittle, who called Johnson her mentor last season when she played center, will be making the switch to power forward this year.

Putting Doolittle in the 4-spot this season will add versatility to the Hawkeyes, along with some height.

This gives Bluder more room to work with different schemes and plays, knowing Doolittle will be able to post up near the paint.

The transition has been “pretty smooth” so far, Johnson said. The amount of different looks the Hawkeyes are capable of showing now will help to put opposing defenses on their heels, making Iowa’s attack more potent than previous seasons.

Doolittle’s confidence this season will do wonders, no matter which position she’s at. She said she has Johnson, who helped to train her all of last year, to thank because of that.

“The mentality, really,” Doolittle said.

“It’s the mindset of always being positive and giving my 100-percent during every drill and game.”

Hawkeyes could capitalize on a favorable home schedule.

The Iowa women’s basketball team will open its season in a tournament at Carver-Hawkeye Arena and close the season in a tournament also played on its home court.

The first exhibition will kick off on Nov. 9, when Northern Illinois travels to Iowa City for the preseason Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The Hawkeyes could also play host on the biggest stage of women’s college basketball — Carver will hold the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament on March 24-26.

Head coach Lisa Bluder said that her squad is fortunate to find itself in such a position.

“Our goal this year is to open the season by winning a tournament game at home and end the season by winning tournament games at home. It’s not very often that you get the opportunity See notebook, 5A

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BETTER

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles and local Iowa choirs will join to perform It Gets Better to raise awareness about bullying of the GLBT community.

By SAMANTHA GENTRY samantha-gentry@uiowa.edu

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hen actor and vocalist Jason Currie came out, he said, it was more of a natural progression rather than a big declaration.

Raised in Atlanta, Currie attended a performing-arts high school, and his mother first approached him about his sexuality.

“I remember she asked me why on earth I wanted to sleep with a man, and then I asked her the same question, and she joked, saying, ‘I don’t. I haven’t slept with your father in 15 years,’ ” Currie said. “So my immediate family was very supportive.”

But there are many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth in the country not so fortunate as Currie.

In 2011, the National School Climate Survey found six in 10 LGBT students reported feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation and four in 10 said they felt unsafe because of their gender expression.

This weekend, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles will come to Iowa City — considered by a national gay news magazine to be 2010’s third-most-gay-friendly community in the United States — to perform its first production of It Gets Better in a response to bullying of the LGBT community.

It Gets Better When: 7:30 p.m. Friday Where: IMU Main Lounge Admission: $10 for students and youth, $31.50 for seniors, and $35 general admission Go to DailyIowan.com to see Dan Savage’s original “It Gets Better” video and view more photos from Hancher’s performance.

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Art of being unfinished

By Justus Flair justus-flair@uiowa.edu

When attending an art festival, one expects to see completed designs on display, presented for the audience’s appraisal. This is not the case for Iowa City’s Works-in-Progress Festival.

The festival, taking place today through Saturday at various locations, features artists of nearly all media presenting unfinished works.

“Watching artists and makers and thinkers from all disciplines put forth new ideas, step out of their comfort zones, reach out for advice, cross platforms, etc., really made me feel like everything we do in life is and can be an art form, but also that the most exciting thing about making, creating and sharing is the process,” said 2010 and 2012 festival artist Lori Felker.

“The basic idea is that we showcase unfinished work or work that is in progress,” said Richard Wieber, a cofounder of the festival.

“We’re also really interested in works that can only work in the present moment or just an idea for an impossible project. It can be a more creative interpretation of ‘in-progress.’ We’re very adamant about having every type of art represented. We really want artists to think about projects across different media.”

Representing every art form requires a lot of artists. More than 50 local Iowa City artists will present their art during the festival, in addition to other professionals.

“The thing that I think is really, really important about it is that we want to replace the difference between amateur and professional artists,” Wieber said.

“In addition to local artists, we bring in each year very distinguished artists. They engage in conversations with local artists in addi-

Works-in-Progress Festival Today • Keynote by multimedia artist Chip Lord, 6:30 p.m.

•IWP and Anthology readings/ performances and performance

by XOXO (Dora Malech, A.C. Hawley, Jason Livingston, Kyle Stine, Chad Vollrath), 9 p.m., Public Space Z, 120 N. Dubuque

tion to sharing their own works in progress.”

Each year the featured artists change, bringing their own special input to the festival. This year the festival will feature Chip Lord, a digital-media artist, and Kenneth Goldsmith, a poet. Organizers of the festival are very excited for both to show off their current projects. “[Goldsmith] is going to be presenting a work in progress that he’s been working on for eight years that he feels may never be finished,” Wieber said.

In addition to sharing their projects, guest artists will also listen to audience feedback and converse with attendees.

“It is an interactive festival,” Wieber said. “It’s a situation where audience members can actually have ideas about how to finish projects. It’s important that we’re collaborating with other parties and departments.

We have aspiring undergraduate writers working alongside graduate and professional writers. It’s merging the playing field so these aspiring artists can work alongside professionals.”

“What’s most valuable is that the audience is invited to respond with their ideas about the works presented,” said Chelsea Cox, a participant and graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. “The excitement and enthusiasm

Friday • Kenneth Goldsmith, 7 p.m., The Center, 10:30pm @ Walnut Farms • “This is Always,” hosted by Walnut Farms, 1517 N. Dubuque

For a more detailed list of events, visit the Works-in-Progress Festival website at dsph. uiowa.edu/conferences/wip2012/

about the work presented is palpable, because what the project could be is yet to be determined.”

The afternoon panels included in the festival will also contain a mixture of professional and amateur artists.

“The panels are made up of four artists,” said Wieber.

“We program it so that each of those artists are working in a different medium, and we give them each 15 minutes to present, and then we open it up to audience questions. It allows people to present what they’re working on and then participate with the audience.”

The Works-in-Progress Festival is unique because of this interactive element and inclusion of all media as well as its display of incomplete work.

“I founded the festival with my colleague Andrew Ritchey,” Wieber said.

After attending a typical film festival, the two said they were struck by the frustration surrounding typical festival practices.

“So we thought about what we could do that would be a bit more interesting,” Wieber said.

“It creates a vulnerability in the artist to be on display in this way. Iowa City seemed like a unique place to do that, because the arts across the board are very strong, so it seemed like a self-evident idea that these people should be talking about their work and their process.”

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READING Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founder of UbuWeb When: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 Where: Dey House Frank Conroy Reading Room Q&A When: 11 a.m.

Where: Frank Conroy Reading Room

smith. “Shhhh … the new radicalism is paper. Right.

Publish it on a printed page, and no one will ever know about it. It’s the perfect vehicle for terrorists, serial killers, and sensitive poets...”

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Today 10.18 music

• Kronos Quartet, 8 p.m., Englert, 221 E. Washington • Balmorhea, 9 p.m., Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington • MNPLY, 9 p.m., Blue Moose, 211 Iowa • Big Box LP Release Show, 10 p.m., Gabe’s • Mixology, 10 p.m., Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn

words Paranormal Activity 4 Paranormal Activity is back for its fourth installment just in time for Halloween. A mother and son go missing after a mysterious double-murder occurs. Five years later, Alice and her mother start to experience strange happenings when their new neighbors Katie and 6-year-old Robbie move into town. Oh, yeah.

• “Live from Prairie Lights,” Laird Hunt, fiction, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque

film

• Fall 2012 Proseminar in Cinema and Culture, 6:30 p.m., Bijou • Campus Activities Board Film, Magic Mike, 8 and 11 p.m., 348 IMU • Samsara, 9:30 p.m., Bijou

theater

• Manning Up, 7:30 p.m., Riverside Theater, 213 N. Gilbert • Lady M, Mainstage Series, 8 p.m., Theater Building Thayer Theater • The Stellification, Gallery Series, 8 p.m., Theater Building Theater B

lectures

Alex Cross Detective/psychologist Alex Cross (Tyler Perry), his friend Tommy Kane (Edward Burns), and Detective Monica Ashe (Rachel Nichols) work together at the Detroit Police Department. Cross’ latest puts him on the trail of a serial killer by the name of Picasso (Matthew Fox). Picasso is after multinational industrialist Giles Mercier, and Cross must find a way to catch the killer before he strikes again.

at the bijou

V/H/S Showtimes: 9 p.m. Friday, 4 and 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, 5 p.m. Oct. 21

A hired group of petty criminals must wade through piles of VHS tapes to retrieve a rare piece of footage. The task turns out to be more difficult than imagined, as the tapes document an endless assortment of horrifying scenes.

The tapes were also found in a room with a corpse and several television sets in a rundown house in the middle of nowhere.

beer

of the week Ass Kisser Porter Pounder

By Justus Flair

bored of sculpture. However, I was fascinated by the words, so I dropped the sculpture and began making text pieces. Soon, I became bored of having to materialize language and devoted myself to working exclusively on the computer and writing books. I now sculpt with words.”

His books are not the only way Goldsmith sends messages to the world. In 1996, the University of Pennsylvania professor founded UbuWeb, an online source for avant-garde materials, including film, MP3s, visual art, and poetry. The Internet has become the new norm for publishing works, so poetry on this site reaches far more people than printed literature.

“I’m going to drop a real secret on you,” said Gold-

weekend events

Saturday • Katie McGowan, 9:30, Public Space One, 129 E. Washington

Enthralled with ‘dull’ Most people have a stereotypical view of what a poetry reading will contain: dark lighting, coffee, and artsy people. Kenneth Goldsmith, a poet and founder of UbuWeb, refuses to fit into these clichés.

“Whatever he does, it’s not going to be your typical poetry reading,” said Richard Wiebe, who has worked with Goldsmith for the Works-in-Progress Festival.

“He’s going to make you rethink poetry and language.”

Iowa City will have this chance to rethink language and attend an atypical poetry reading by Goldsmith at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Dey House Frank Conroy Reading Room. Fans can also join him in the same space at 11 a.m. Oct. 22 for a Q&A. Goldsmith had an unconventional beginning as a poet. At the Rhode Island School of Design, he trained as a sculptor.

“In 1986, I made a book out of wood,” he said. “After that, I spent the next three years creating books out of wood. They were carved and painted. In 1990, I was bored of the book form and

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Serving Style: chilled bottle Size: 12 fluid ounces It’s no longer an oddity to find beers with ostentatious brand names in your local cooler. Gaudy names based on innuendos or curse words gamble on grabbing consumers’ attention, no easy task in the mature, saturated beer market. As far as marketing techniques go, the Ass Kisser Porter Pounder is as atypical as possible. The Porter Pounder comes in a purple fourpack, the label sports a donkey with lip prints on its buttocks, and a slogan that suggests the beer is perfect for consumers to bribe their bosses.

Smell: The beer’s aroma is rather strong; spices, coffee, and mocha are dominant at first whiff. Hints of dark fruits, including raisin and some type of wild berries, can be detected on deep inhalation. 3.2/5 Appearance: The Porter Pounder pours almost ink black into the glass, where it supports a dark khaki head that holds decently with minimal lacing. 2.3/5 Taste: The texture was smoother than I expected, given the appearance of the body, although the flavor was lacking. Bitter chocolate, coffee, mocha, and roasted grains hit the taste buds in a delayed strike, followed by undertones of smoke that fade to an astringent metallic aftertaste that I didn’t care for. 2/5 If any Ass Kisser beers catch your eye in the beer cooler, I recommend that you note the cleverness of the marketing tactics at work, acknowledge the perverse affinity we have for brand names that are edgy or inappropriate, and instead select a beer from a more experienced brewer.

Sometimes, supporting new, family-owned breweries is a good practice to encourage beer variety, but in the case of Ass Kisser’s Porter Pounder, support seems to encourage skillful marketing rather than expert brewing techniques. My parting advice: If you want to butter up your boss, pick a better beer. Overall: 7.5/15 - Dan Verhille

• U.S. Student Fulbright Grant Workshop and Panel Discussion, 1 p.m., 1117 University Capitol Center • “So You Want to be a Trans Ally?,” 6 p.m., Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center

miscellaneous

• Spanish Conversation Group, 12:15 p.m., UIHC Pomerantz Family Pavilion Melrose Conference Room 3 • S(H)OMOS Latinos, 6:30 p.m., W15 Pappajohn Business Building • Campus Activities Board Comedy, Seaton Smith, 10 p.m., Public Space One, 129 E. Washington

Friday 10.19 music

• John Rapson/Brent Sandy Quartet, 5:30 p.m., Mill • Kantorei and University Choir, 7:30 p.m., IMU second-floor ballroom • Joe & Vicki Price, 8 p.m., Mill • Rosanne Cash, with Pieta Brown, 8 p.m., Englert • The Olympics, Danger Ronnie & the Spins, the Wheelers, 8 p.m., Blue Moose • Candyland, Singularity, Mitis, 8 p.m., Blue Moose • Crisis Center Dueling Pianos Fundraiser, 8 p.m., First Avenue Club, 1550 S. First Ave. • Secondhand Smoke and Sublime Tribute, 10 p.m., Yacht Club • Roster McCabe, 10 p.m., Gabe’s

film

• Detropia, 7 p.m., Bijou • Campus Activities Board Film, Magic Mike, 8 and 11 p.m., 348 IMU • V/H/S, 9 p.m., Bijou

theater

• Manning Up, 7:30 p.m., Riverside Theater • Steel Magnolias, 7:30 p.m., Iowa City Community Theater, Johnson County Fairgrounds, 4265 Oak Crest Hill • Lady M, Mainstage Series, 8 p.m., Thayer Theater • The Stellification, Gallery Series, 8 p.m., Theater B

dance

• Ballroom and Latin Social Dancing, 7:30 p.m., Old Brick, 26 E. Market

Saturday 10.20 music

• Yelawolf, 7 p.m., Blue Moose • Minor Decline, 9 p.m., Yacht Club • Shade of Blue, 9 p.m., Mill • Family Groove Company, 10 p.m., Gabe’s

words

• Writing Tailgate in the City of Literature, 3 p.m., Iowa City Public Library Meeting Room A, 123 S. Linn

film

• V/H/S, 4 and 8:30 p.m., Bijou • Detropia, 6:30 p.m., Bijou • Campus Activities Board Film, Magic Mike, 8 and 11 p.m., 348 IMU • Midnight Movie Series, Young Frankenstein, midnight, Englert

theater

• Manning Up, 7:30 p.m., Riverside Theater • Steel Magnolias, 7:30 p.m., Iowa City Community Theater • Lady M, Mainstage Series, 8 p.m., Thayer Theater • The Stellification, Gallery Series, 8 p.m., Theater B

miscellaneous

• Fifth-Annual Al Ritmo, 10 p.m., IMU Ballroom

Sunday 10.21 music

• Andrew Phillips, horn, 6 p.m., University Capitol Center Recital Hall • Electronic Music Studio Recital, 7:30 p.m., 101 Becker • Paleo, 8 p.m., Gabe’s • Modern Convenience, 9 p.m., Mill

words

• “Live from Prairie Lights,” Jeff Biggers, nonfiction, 1 p.m., Prairie Lights • Story Time Adventures, Beavers, 3 p.m., Macbride Mammal Hall • Was the Word, 7 p.m., Englert • Kenneth Goldsmith reading, conceptual poet, 7:30 p.m., Dey House Frank Conroy Reading Room

film

• Detropia, 3 p.m., Bijou • V/H/S, 4 p.m., Bijou

theater

• Lady M, Mainstage Series, 2 p.m., Thayer Theater • The Stellification, Gallery Series, 2 p.m., Theater B

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No hope for Evil Lite

By Sam Stewart sam-stewart@uiowa.edu

I don’t know what Resident Evil 6 is trying to be.

As with its monstrous creatures, this new entry in the once-venerable Resident Evil series has mutated beyond recognition, becoming a lifeless shell of what it once was. It mindlessly shambles forward, seemingly content to fall in line with the pack of soulless shooters that have flooded the gaming market. If you are a Resident Evil fan hoping that your once-beloved series will return to its former glory, you should heed the warning on the back of the case: No Hope Left.

Longtime followers of Resident Evil know the story has become quite a mess, and Resident Evil 6 makes things worse.

Once again we follow our heroes as they attempt to stop a bioterrorist from spreading a zombie virus across the world. It sounds like a simple story, but it quickly becomes incomprehensible. Characters are cloned, everyone is double-crossed, and villains won’t stay dead.

The story is told through four campaigns, each from a different character’s perspective. After finishing all four, I still didn’t have a good grasp on what had happened. The game tries to drive its plot forward by raising a million questions about what is going on, but in the end only answers a handful of them.

Making things worse is the terrible character development and interaction. The game wants me to care about the protagonist’s squad members, but I can’t when I don’t even have time to learn who they are before they are killed off.

Play in Resident Evil 6 is best described as functional but boring. The game uses a third-person, over-the-shoulder view similar to Resident Evil 5, but the “big” difference this time around is the ability to move while shooting, something that

Resident Evil 6 DI Rating: 6/10 Released: Oct. 2 Publisher: Capcom Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Cost: $59.99 ESRB Rating: M for Mature

most Resident Evil games forbid to ramp up tension.

This might be new to Resident Evil but not to anybody who has played a third-person shooter before. You can roll to dodge and take cover, but both are badly implemented and overly complex.

Luckily, enemies are simple and rarely require any strategy to defeat.

They will either fire from afar or run at you and swing their weapons wildly. When shot, enemies might mutate and grow a new limb, such as a blade arm. Seeing these mutations was cool, but even stronger mutated enemies won’t require any extra finesse to defeat, just more bullets.

Guns are now found randomly during the story and can’t be upgraded.

Instead, there is a skill shop in which you can use skill points earned from enemies to upgrade your characters stats such as defense and firepower.

These upgrades affect all of your characters, so you can’t customize skills on a per-character basis. Being forced to use a preset group of weapons is par for the course in third-person shooters, but it is a step back from the weapon systems in previous Resident Evil games.

Fortunately, the game gives you an alternative to old in the form of the new melee system, which allows you to perform powerful numerous-hit combos with a single button. Few moments in the game are more satisfying than drop-

ping kicking a zombie, then smashing his head into a nearby table. There are rare moments when the game shines, but a majority of the time, it is a series of boring firefights. The game tries to mix up the play with vehicle sections, but these are usually tedious and can be completed by simply pressing forward.

The past few Resident Evil games have all looked very good, and Resident Evil 6 is no exception. In fact, it is one of the best-looking games in recent memory. Character models look realistic and detailed, environments are varied and appropriately devastated, and enemies are grotesque.

Cut scenes look great as well but are used too frequently.

The game can be played cooperatively, and this feature is one of its saving graces. Having a friend with you helps relieve some of the frustration and boredom, but don’t be afraid of playing solo. Unlike Resident Evil 5, the AI in this game actually works very well. I never struggled with getting my computer partner to do what it needed to, such as pressing a switch. Better yet, computer partners are invincible and can only be killed in certain scenarios. This was a very smart decision, and I was able to play through most of the game solo without any problem.

I’m not sure who the intended audience for this game is. If you are a Resident Evil fan, this is not the game you wanted, and if you are a shooter fan, this will feel like a cheap experience. The series seems to be suffering an identity crisis. It no longer wants to be survival horror, but it doesn’t want to commit to being an action game, either. Never in my life have I played a game that felt so out of touch with what its fans want.

Narrative & the game

By Dan Verhille dan-verhille@uiowa.edu

Narrative components are not normally the focus when a new video game drops, but it’s the difference between success and failure for any title whose play is adequate but not phenomenal. Dishonored didn’t need an intricate narrative delivery to compensate for shoddy play, so its tactful storytelling methods just serve to complement the play.

Lazy and straightforward storytelling has become a bit of problem for video-game developers, who seem to believe that telling a story too complex will lose dumber gamers or alienate new ones. Dishonored doesn’t seem to worry if anyone is too slow or lazy to follow along — it uses an assortment of narrative devices focuse on delivering the story to the player in ways that feel fresh and unique at each twist and turn of the plot.

Dishonored follows the tale of Corvo, the Empress’ loyal bodyguard who is framed for the murder of the Empress and the kidnapping of her daughter at the outset of the story. From that point forward, the player can proceed to make a bloodbath of the situation or slip behind enemy lines undetected, preferring nonlethal methods of resolution.

The level of chaos created as a result of the player’s actions shapes the city as the story progresses.

The variety of narrative devices used to tell Corvo’s story permits Dishonored to subtly manipulate the

Screenshot of the game ‘Dishonored’

Dishonored DI Rating: 8.5/10 Developer: Bethesda Rating: Mature Cost: $59.99

tone of the game.

Loading screens set some scenes with a concise sentence or two, but the majority of Dishonored takes place in first person through Corvo’s eyes. Dishonored does a wonderful job of showing players Covo’s close personal ties to the royal family with short pieces of dialogue and a hug exchange or two rather than having non-player characters conspicuously spout off the nature of their relationship.

Dishonored’s choice to force the player to land feet first and start running with the plot is refreshing in the way that it requires players to figure out the relationship dynamics at play. Personally, I’m exhausted with introductory game phases in which another character serves as an obvious guide, telling the player all the details of the story that developers were too lazy to incorporate naturally.

Eavesdropping upon policemen, thugs, and allies

is Dishonored’s method of naturally telling the players how their actions have affected the city around them. Chatter about how someone mysteriously disappeared or the massacre at the palace attempts to give the players the sense that their actions had direct consequences, even if it does come off a bit regurgitated and artificial.

My favorite technique at work is the Heart, a mechanical heart that functions like a compass to guide the players toward important items while reciting “songs” of the people who had previously possessed them. The songs are usually eerie and ambiguous, but they provide color and depth to Corvo’s world to make it feel as if it is inhabited by real people rather than just stock characters.

Although I believe Dishonored could have still benefited from a little less “lock the player in place while someone gives him a speech tactic,” and possibly some larger temporal shifts between scene changes, it still manages to tell a story that is diverse enough in its delivery to always be gripping, yet tailored enough to player choices to give a sense of consequence.

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Returning for the Englert A native son returns home to perform with friends to benefit the Englert.

By Emily Burds emily-burds@uiowa.edu

“The Englert is a gem, and Iowa City is so lucky to have it,” said Dave Olson, a folk musician who grew up in Iowa City.

Olson will return to town Saturday evening to join local bluegrass band and longtime friends the Feralings in a intimate benefit concert at the Englert Theater, 221 E. Washington St. The event will raise money for the historic landmark on its 100th anniversary. The show begins at 7 p.m.; tickets are limited.

Patrick Bloom, a member of The Feralings, said he is excited to see his old friend, who moved to St. Paul.

Olson’s Kickstarter campaign for his latest album, No October, brought him back to Iowa City and back to the Englert.

Olson said that as part of his campaign, he would do a free concert for the highest donor.

That donor then donated his private show to the Englert as a way to help it raise money.

“The Feralings and I are thrilled to be able to support it in this way,” Olson said.

Olson said the Feralings members couldn’t agree more.

The band members’ connection to the Englert is deep, and they have been heavily involved in its restoration over the years.

Bloom and Stacey Webster, the band’s guitarist, were part of a movement

several years back that saved the Englert from being bought and turned into a nightclub.

Bloom, running a studio in town at the time, helped create a benefit album of local artists, including him and Webster.

They were successful and are a large part of why the Englert can celebrate its 100th anniversary this year.

On Saturday, the audience will get the pleasure of joining the Feralings and Olson onstage for the show.

“The Feralings and I both play a style of music that works better in an intimate setting, and so this format is right up our alley,” Olson said.

“It brings the audience closer to the music — literally and figuratively.”

Andre Perry of the Englert said funds raised by the event will not be allocated for anything specific.

Olson “loves the theater … he just wanted it be his way of giving a gift to the theatre,” Perry said.

Both Olson and Bloom said performing a benefit at the Englert is something they look forward to participating in.

“Seriously, I know of few other venues anywhere that will feature Emmy Lou Harris, a reading from Marilynne Robinson, a screening of Caddyshack, and the Nutcracker all in one season,” Olson said.

And as Bloom sees it: “It’s a vital part of our downtown. It’s a vital part of the area.”

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Englert Benefit Concert When: Saturday, 7 p.m.

Where: Englert Theater Admission: $10 Why: To raise money for the historic landmark on its 100th anniversary.

Arts and Entertainment Celebrating Middle Eastern culture Those seeking to experience and explore Arab culture and arts will have their chance to do so this weekend.

The University of Iowa Arab Student Association will host an event open to the community at 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at the new Hala Hala Hookah, 327 S. Gilbert St. The event includes Middle Eastern food such as falafel and hummus, Middle Eastern music, unlimited hookah, and live entertainment by a belly dancer. Event tickets are $15.

Tickets can be purchased by contacting an Arab Student Association member through email at studorg-arabstudents@ uiowa.edu.

— by Alicia Kramme

Lit meets gridiron

Literature and football.

Two words nearly synonymous with Iowa City. And for the

first time, fans will be able to participate in both on game day.

As part of the National Day on Writing, Iowa City writing programs will sponsor a “Writing Tailgate”from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a number of activities, including literary scavenger hunts, Scrabble scrambles, magnetic poetry, a haiku contest, Twitter stories, digital storytelling, a Hemingway challenge, and others. There will be free tailgate food and writing inspired door prizes.

Between 3 and 4 p.m., Iowa Review authors James McKean and Kim Lozano will read from their work.

Aspiring teachers will lead short writing exercises and from 4 to 5 p.m., there will be an open mic event for writers to share their work.

— by Alicia Kramme

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A well-bubbled place

THEATER

‘That sister light’

By Emma McClatchey emma-mcclatchey@uiowa.edu

The One Piece Room at the Bubbleology Karaoke and Café is seen on Sunday. The business was opened by UI student Edison Wang and designer Waiwing Chang. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)

By Rana Moustafa rana-moustafa@uiowa.edu

With furniture from California, 3D wallpapers from Europe, and boba tea from Taiwan, a new business in Iowa City is attracting a lot of attention.

Store manager and designer Waiwing Chang partnered with University of Iowa marketing student Edison Wang to open Bubbleology Karoke and Café, 325 E. Washington St. two weeks ago because they wanted to bring their Asian culture to Iowa City.

“In Hong Kong and China, karaoke is popular, so we added boba tea to that idea, and now we have this place,” said Chang, a former fashion designer in Korea and now a Mount Mercy University graphic-design student.

Patrons of the establishment can enjoy boba tea — a Taiwanese drink made of tea mixed with milk or fruit juice and sometimes with tapioca pearls — in any of the café’s six theme rooms.

Some of the themes include Hello Kitty, Super Mario, Hawkeye, and “One Piece” (a Japanese anime).

The rooms each have a bigscreen TV, colorful leather furniture, and karaoke machines updated each week with songs in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese. Some rooms include Wii systems.

Patrons can rent rooms for $20 to $60 per hour depending on room size and whether it is a weekday or a weekend.

Chang — who designed the rooms and created the cafe’s menu — said customers come to Bubbleology Karaoke and Café for birthday parties, studying, relaxing, and even wedding

rehearsals.

“At first, people come to have a drink, but then we show them the rooms, and they become interested to try it,” Chang said.

The theme rooms have proven to be a successful option for students who don’t want to go to a bar on the weekends — so far, the rooms has been completely booked on Fridays and Saturdays until the business closes at midnight.

UI actuarial-science student Travis Gaule, a regular customer of Bubbleology, said he prefers the cafe’s atmosphere over other more traditional coffee shops downtown.

“Every other place is kind of dull, but here, it is more lively; the designs are unique and original,” he said. “And also, the furniture is very comfortable.”

UI accounting and finance student Ling Li, an employee at Bubbleology, said the establishment has 24 boba-tea flavors right now, and by next week, it will add two more.

“We have a lot of choices here, and we try very hard to make the best boba tea,”

Bubbleology Most Popular Flavors: • Original Milk Tea with tapioca bubbles • Honey Dew Boba Tea • Strawberry Boba Tea • Thai Tea Business Hours: • Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m.-Midnight • Friday/Saturday 10:30 a.m.-4 a.m.

• Saturday/Sunday

she said. “We don’t want to stay where we are — we want to always improve.”

The café is working on adding different coffee products to the menu.

Another regular customer, Kiki Li, said she has never seen better customer service than at Bubbleology.

“They ask their customers how the milk tea tastes, and if the customer says it’s too sweet, they’ll make a new one for free,” said the UI nursing student. “I haven’t seen that in other stores.”

“Mystery creates wonder,” Neil Armstrong once said about humankind’s relationship with space. “And wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”

This desire is captured and explored in The Stellification, a science-fiction play with some distinct twists, and a part of the University of Iowa Theater Department’s Gallery Series.

Gallery plays are original, Actors Megha Puranam and Keegan Lockhart rehearse for Stellification at never-before-performed the Theater Building on Tuesday. Stellification will open on Friday at the pieces written, produced, Theater Building. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh) and acted by UI students.

Written by UI M.F.A. student Bella Poynton and di- Go online to see a photo slideshow of Stellification a Stellification dress rehearsal from rected by Janet Schlapkohl, this week. the play will première at 7 What: Gallery Series, The p.m. today in the Theater Stellification Building Theater B and run When: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturas if they have human through Oct. 21. day, 2 p.m. Oct. 21 For lead character Rose thoughts and emotions,” Where: Theater Building Bergen, an impassioned Poynton said. “I think it will Theater B astronomy Ph.D., there is have a very brightly colored Admission: Free for UI stunothing more wondrous comic-book kind of feel to it. dents with IDs, $5 for general and desirable than the idea It’s my own personal blendpublic of exploring outer space for ing of the spiritual and the herself. But when this op- scientific — which I think portunity is crushed with aren’t so different.”

Schlapkohl agreed, say- not one-dimensional or the cancellation of NASA’s shuttle program, Rose’s life ing The Stellification gives two-dimensional. They’re life to numerous themes really complex individhits a tailspin. uals, and they have nu“She’s absolutely gutted; and concepts.

“It’s an interesting merous objectives — and it’s a heart-wrenching experience for her,” said UI se- blend,” she said. “You they’re confused.”

According to Renault, nior Simone Renault, who could appreciate this play plays Rose. “She’s in a pe- as an earth-bound per- Poynton has succeeded, riod where she doesn’t feel son interested in human constructing a relatable like she belongs on Earth. relationships. You could character in Rose.

“I think we all have She’s obviously very intel- also appreciate this play ligent, but that doesn’t stop if you were a ‘Doctor Who’ those intrinsic dichotomies of being both very strong her from being extremely fan.”

Poynton said she and very weak, of being insecure.”

The drama surrounding sought not only to cross motivated and passionate among and being extremely hopeRose’s confliction is a main boundaries focus of the story, but it genres with her work, less,” she said. “At the end takes a distinct science-fic- she wanted to expand of the day, what’s fantastic tion turn when stars, gal- the role of a typical fe- about the play is that if you strip it all away, the lights axies, and black holes — male character.

“Usually, you see a and the costumes and stuff which are personified in the play — decide to stage woman on the page, and like that, it is an extremely a protest against Earth’s she’s so one-dimension- human, relatable show.” abandonment of the cosmos al,” she said. “I want and select Rose as their am- to kind of break out of that tradition into somebassador.

Read a full version of this “I like to think about thing that’s more genstory online things that aren’t human uine. Women today are at dailyiowan.com

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The performance, hosted

by Hancher, will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday in the IMU Main Lounge. Admission is $10 for students and youth, $31.50 for seniors, and $35 for the general public.

Tod Macofsky, a colleague of Currie in the production, has been a part of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles for almost 12 years.

The Los Angeles native wanted to be one of the six members in the production so he could support the gay youth, because he had a relatively easy coming-out experience.

“I just wanted to do something for all the kids who are suffering in small towns and don’t have the resources that I necessarily had,” Macofsky said.

In the show, the Los Angeles native plays a conservative Republican talk-show host who is closeted and afraid to come out, a complete 180 from what Macofsky describes as himself.

“I love being able to play a character who is completely not me,” he said.

“It’s almost like an adult having a kid’s experience.”

In writing the production, Liesel Reinhart, the director of It Gets Better, wanted to include the experiences of her cast members into a larger fictional story that she describes as being almost like a fantasy.

“The show is funny, entertaining, and it makes people feel,” she said. “It’s very emotional but not depressing, and the response

Pianist Sasha Sacket reads the score as Jason Currie of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles directs the rehearsal on Tuesday with local participants who will accompany the Gay Men’s Chorus in It Gets Better. The production will also include a song by Alanis Morissette. (The Daily Iowan/Juan Carlos Herrera)

‘We are hoping we can learn what is working in Iowa and that your community is a model to give us new insights about these issues’ - Leisel Reinhart, Director we have received so far was very energetic.”

The project seeks to improve conditions in a community rather than telling people things will get better. The cast will go into communities and encourage the members to make things better right now, so people don’t have to merely imagine a future.

“We are hoping we can learn what is working in Iowa and that your community is a model to give us new insights about these issues,” Reinhart said.

One way the project will include the community is through local Iowa choirs.

Audra King, the manger of the Quire, eastern Iowa’s LGBT choir, said this is a great opportunity to represent part of the Iowa City

community for a wonderful cause.

“I think that we can all relate to the core of what is at this project,” she said.

“We’ve all been in the situation where we’ve felt like we needed to find a way to get out, and we didn’t have anyone to call on.”

In addition to the local choirs, the project will showcase the University of Iowa’s version of an “It Gets Better” video, which was created last spring by students and faculty in the LGBT community.

The video follows the format of columnist and author Dan Savage’s YouTube video , which was created in 2010 to inspire hope for the LGBT youth who were facing harassment.

UI sophomore Jeno Sing-

son had a more difficult coming-out process, but he wanted to participate in the video to help young LGBT students know that their lives will get better.

Singson didn’t come out until his first semester in college. He told one of his good friends he was gay, and the friend slowly started to stop talking to him until there was no commu-

nication at all.

But being a part of the GLBTAU organization on campus and being a resident assistant at Mayflower has provided a support system for Singson.

“Coming out is a really hard process, so I guess a word from the wise is always ask a person who just came out how they are doing, because I struggle with it every day,” Singson said. “If you are a friend or an ally, just recognize that you have their support.”

UI senior Hanna Wright was asked last spring if she would be interested in sharing her story with other students, and she agreed.

“I think that anything that promotes the idea of its getting better is something that is really important,” she said. “It’s not always easy to put yourself out there, but I think if you can do that, then it’s a phenomenal message, and it creates a community and support system within it.”

During Wright’s sophomore year of high school, she started to date one of her really good friends, but she didn’t tell a lot of people about her relationship.

A few months in, the Illinois native’s parents sat her down and said they knew about her relationship and that she wasn’t allowed to see or talk to her friend again.

When Wright came to the UI, she believed it was her chance to start over.

She talked to the LGBT Resource Center on campus, and the people there encouraged her to tell a close friend who ended up embracing her.

“I never got to come out to my parents; I was kind of called out by them,” she said. “But college gave me the ability to choose to come out to someone and be honest.”

While Wright’s sexuality is still the elephant in the room with her parents, she said, the important thing is to keep one’s head up and to be positive.

“Live the day, and no matter what, there is always someone out there who will support you and embrace you,” Wright said.

“My hope is that it’s not just LGBT people telling others that it gets better, that it’s allies, too, standing together and showing everybody that all it boils down to is love.”