By REBECCA MORINrebecca-morin@uiowa.edu

Charges against a Uni-versity of Iowa student are still being processed after officials found questionable chemicals in his dorm room.

Authorities are still investigating what the

chemicals found on a Slat-er Hall third-floor room were being used for.

There are pending charges for a student, said Dan Stepleton, a special agent with the Iowa De-partment of Public Safe-ty’s Division of Narcotics Enforcement.

“We don’t think it was a manufacturing process going up there,” Stepleton said. “The room is safe to go into, and charges are pending.”

Stepleton said there was a report of a male student who seemed to display overdose symptoms that

could be caused by illicit narcotics.

On Sunday evening, University of Iowa police responded to a report of a disoriented resident in the Slater lobby, a resi-dence hall located across from Rienow, near the Field House and the UI

Hospitals and Clinics complex.

Authorities arrived on the scene about 7:45 p.m., according to information released by UI officials on Monday. The student was transported to UI Hospi-tals and Clinics for treat-ment about 8:20 p.m.

Slater staff informed police about chemicals, as well as other “suspicious items” in the resident’s room, the UI press release said.

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Charges pending in Slater caseA University of Iowa student who reportedly had chemicals in his room may face charges.

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By CHRIS HIGGINSchristopher-higgins@uiowa.edu

Some UI students have found themselves in closer quar-ters than expected as they join the largest freshman class in university history.

Approximately 160 students are living in expanded housing, according to assistant director for residence edu-

cation Greg Thompson, which is more than last year. Such students have to share desk and dresser space, and are charged a reduced daily rate.

“It is not troubling for us to do this,” said Von Stange, se-nior director of housing and dining. “It’s not a new phenom-enon, and it doesn’t pose any additional challenges for us.”

In order to accommodate the flood of freshmen into the residence halls, UI Housing and Dining officials have con-verted dorm lounges into temporary housing for up to eight students. Also, some rooms in Burge and Slater that housed

Nite Ride expandsBy LILY ABROMEITlily-abromeit@uiowa.edu

Women at the Uni-versity of Iowa can now take advantage of en-hanced safety measures both on campus and off.

Nite Ride, the univer-sity’s bus system to pro-vide safe rides to wom-en, extended its hours beginning Monday. Pre-viously running from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., the bus, which is operated by full-time UI security of-ficers, will now continue to run until 6 a.m.

Bill Searls, associate

director of UI Public Safety, said the change came following the UI’s Six Point P l a n , a l o n g with the a d d i t i o n of another bus last spring.

“ W h e n we added the ad-ditional bus, we added additional staffing, and our staff is on 9 p.m. to 7 a.m., so we have the ability to cover those hours,” he said. “We did

it through finals week, so we thought, ‘Why not do the rest of the year?’”

Following a string of sexual-assault-related Hawk Alerts last spring, the Six Point Plan was introduced to help keep students safer.

“With a portion of the Six Point Plan, President [Sally] Ma-son asked to increase Nite Ride services, and that’s what we’re do-ing,” Searls said. “It states in there that she wants to increase safe-

Nite Ride has extended running hours to fit the UI’s 6-point-plan.

Group discusses policeBy BEN MARKSBenjamin-marks@uiowa.edu

A lawyer, social worker, and ex-military person-nel were just a few of the people meeting to express concern about the same issue: reducing the cul-ture of fear surrounding the police and creating a positive dialogue with those they serve.

Following the slaying of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri, topics of police brutality and over-mil-itarization have been

brought to national at-tention.

In response, people have formed protests and groups to combat what they perceive as a grow-ing issue.

In Iowa City, a group of around 35 people met at the public library on Aug. 25 to bring these issues closer to home and discuss problems they see sur-rounding the Iowa City Police Department.

“We were born out of grumblings on Facebook, backyard conversations, and people saying, ‘This is ridiculous, this is crazy,’

” said Einna Ollutnev, the group’s organizer. “So I said, ‘You know what, in-stead of complaining, why don’t we do something about it?’ ”

Although Ollutnev or-ganized the group’s first ever meeting, she said she is not the leader. Rather, the group will be led col-lectively with every mem-ber making decisions.

“This is the first meet-ing, so we’re going to ad-dress what our group is and what our group wants to see out of this,” she said.

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Expanded housing is shown in Slater Residence Hall on Monday. There are around 160 students living in expanded housing. (The Daily Iowan/Valerie Burke)

University of Iowa Housing faces perennial space issues as the school year opens.

Student housingUniversity of Iowa housing has struggled with overcrowding the past few hears. However, a new residence hall is under construction.• Mary Louise Petersen Residence Hall is due to open in the fall of 2015.• The project is expected to cost $53 million.• It is the first dormitory to be built on campus since 1968.

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UI senior Julia Erickson goes through the shelves looking for textbooks on Monday. (The Daily Iowan/Peter Kim)

Iowa farmers are preparing for a favorable corn harvest. By DANIELLE SCHAEFERdanielle-schaefer@uiowa.edu

Corn is popping past expectations this year.

“This year, nationally and in Iowa, we are going to harvest a record crop,” said Jerry Mohr, an El-dridge, Iowa, farmer and Iowa Corn Growers’ As-sociation treasurer and secretary.

According to the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture, the expected corn harvest this year is 14 billion bushels, which would break last year’s record harvest.

Local farmers are ready for this year’s har-vest, but they are keep-ing their excitement in check.

“We’re cautiously op-timistic, but things are looking pretty good,” Steve Swenka, a Tiffin area farmer said.

Swenka’s average harvest is around 185 bushels per acres; how-ever, because of severe drought, the harvests were lower the past two years.

While he said he is hopeful for more positive results this year, Swenka said it is still hard to es-timate how much he can expect to harvest.

“You really need to get into your first field be-fore you have any idea what your harvest will be,” Swenka said.

One contribution to the increase in corn growth has been the lower tem-perature this summer, said S. Elwynn Taylor, an Iowa State University professor of agronomical meteorology.

This decrease in tem-perature, Taylor said, is a continuing result of the polar vortex, which the Midwest and East Coast experienced last winter, and it has helped perfect growing conditions for corn.

“This season has real-ly been helped by having these mild temperatures all summer long,” State Climatologist Harry Hil-laker said.

Other than the cooler weather this summer, wet conditions were al-

so ideal for the corn’s growth.

“The June rainfall pro-duced very wet soil con-ditions, which are very helpful for providing wa-ter to crops during the generally drier grain-filled months of July and August,” said Chris Anderson, assistant di-rector of Iowa State Uni-versity’s climatescience program.

However, Swenka said, he is unsure if the abun-dance of rain may have spoiled some corn on the field.

“Corn can become yel-low [on the outside] from being in wet soil for too long. You generally see that to an extent,” he said. “We didn’t see it too much last year because it was generally dry.”

Overall, the yellow corn is not expected to be a significant problem, and the surplus of corn will account for any that was damaged.

There are 39 million acres of corn in Iowa, and Hillaker said approxi-mately 5 percent will be

negatively affected by rain.

Another setback that farmers are expected to face is their harvest sea-son starting later than usual.

“The cooler summer has led to a two- to three-week delay on har-vest,” Mohr said. “If we can catch back up on our summer, we can expect to harvest soon.”

Farmers such as Mohr usually anticipate the harvest to start on Sept. 20. Instead, they now ex-pect to start on Oct. 1.

Despite these minor setbacks, farmers are still optimistic about the yields.

Mohr said that while his prices are usually set at $5.20 a bushel, they could drop to $3.40 be-cause of the high supply.

“The large crop will tell the world that Iowa’s corn is open for busi-ness,” Mohr said. “When you have a great supply, like we do, all of a sudden corn will come back into play.”

James Baran, 18, 500 S. Gil-bert St. Apt. 18, was charged Sunday with PAULA.Carrett Baumann, 19, 529 E. Burlington St., was charged Aug. 23 with PAULA.Timothy Benvenuti, 19, 114 Wright St. Apt. 3, was charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Ryan Blake, 18, Osage, Iowa, was charged Aug. 23 with PAULA.Chase Bowler, 19, 630 S. Clin-ton St. Apt. 404, was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours, public intox-ication, and obstructing an officer.Dee Brobston, 31, North Liberty, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Robert Bryant, 44, address unknown, was charged Aug. 23 with second-degree bur-glary and third-and-subse-quent public intoxication.Jose Cartagena-Alverto, 44, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 2007, was charged Sunday with vi-olating a no-contact, domes-tic-abuse protective order.Daniel Charielle, 21, Oswego, Illinois, was charged Aug. 23 with littering/illegal dumping.John Chignoli, 20, 508 Dubuque St., was charged Aug. 23 with keep ing a disor-derly house.Sean Clausen, 20, 524 N. Lu-cas St., was charged Sunday with keeping a disorderly house.Caroline Cooley, 19, 278 E. Court St. Apt. 214, was

charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Shayla Curry, 35, Burlington, was charged Aug. 22 with fifth-degree theft.Aaron Davis, 20, North Liber-ty, was charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Lucas Deceault, 19, Oswego, Illinois, was charged Aug. 23 with littering/illegal dumping.Dillion Dieter, 19, 440 S. John-son St. Apt. 3, was charged Aug. 22 with public intoxica-tion and PAULA.Jonathan Dolder, 27, 1546 Buresh Ave., was charged Aug. 23 with public intoxication.David Doornink, 22, Oxford, Iowa, was charged Sunday with domestic assault with injury.Brian Dunkelberger, 19, 24 Lincoln Ave., was charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Eryk El-Ibrahim, 23, St. Cloud, Minn., was charged Aug. 16 with smoking tobacco in pro-hibited areas.Antonio Evans, 20, Waterloo, was charged Aug. 23 with driving with a suspended/canceled license.Matthew Evans, 21, 804 N. Dubuque St. Apt. 8, was charged Sunday with posses-sion of an open container in public.Ben Fullenkamp, 20, 923 Iowa Ave. Apt. 202, was charged Aug. 23 with keeping a disorderly house.Steven Gruszkowski, 19, Or-land Park, Illinois, was charged Aug. 23 with interference with

official acts and public intoxi-cation.Melvin Guardado, 23, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 3812, was charged Aug. 25 with domes-tic assault with injury.Efrain Guerrero Jr., 20, Coun-cil Bluffs, was charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Maxwell Hadley, 20, La Grange, Illinois, was charged Sunday with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Demetris Hall, 37, 964 Bostan Way Apt. 3, was charged Mon-day with public intoxication.Christopher Hanke, 18, 4236 Burge, was charged Aug. 23 with PAULA.Paul Hansen, 22, 411 S. Lucas St., was charged Sunday with interference with official acts and public intoxication.Suilman Hduale, 47, address unknown, was charged Aug. 16 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Jeremy Helmick, 19, 302 S. Gilbert St., was charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Ryan Hook, 21, Mount Ver-non, Iowa, was charged Sun-day with public intoxication and possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Patrick Horras, 24, 1000 ½ Church St., was charged Sun-day with driving with a re-voked license.Destry Hughes, 49, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 220, was charged Aug. 22 with driving with a suspended/canceled

license and OWI.Daniel Hurley, 18, 2106 Quadrangle, was charged Aug. 23 with PAULA.Christian Ingram, 24, Moline, was charged Sunday with in-terference with official acts and public intoxication.Joseph Iozzo, 18, 500 S. Gil-bert St. Apt. 18, was charged Sunday with PAULA.Saira Jacobs, 27, Riverside, Iowa, was charged Aug. 23 with driving with a suspend-ed/canceled license.Eric Jensen, 18, 3201 Burge, was charged Aug. 24 with PAULA.Braz Johnson, 20, 216 E. Bloomington St., was charged Aug. 23 with OWI.Cavan Jones, 19, 521 Melrose Ave., was charged Sunday with possession of an open container of alcohol in public, public intoxication, and PAU-LA.Joseph Julien, 19, 404 S. Gil-bert St. Apt. 826, was charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Casey Kearby, 20, 427 S. Dodge St., was charged Aug. 23 with interference with of-ficial acts, public intoxication, tampering with a motor vehi-cle, and littering/illegal dump-ing.Peter Keegan, 19, G38 Hill-crest, was charged Aug. 22 with PAULA.Grant Klenovich, 18, Winnet-ka, Iowa, was charged Aug. 22 with interference with official acts.

UI reports sexual miscon-duct

University of Iowa officials issued a

report of sexual misconduct Monday afternoon.

This is the first reported sexual misconduct for the academic year.

Reportedly, a student was sexually assaulted Aug. 22 by an acquaintance at a residence hall.

According to the Hawk Alert, the

student reported the incident to UI officials on Sunday.

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If you are a woman living in a college town, or any city for that matter, chances are that you’ve been catcalled before. Some prefer the term street harassment. Which-ever way you slice it, the attention is generally un-provoked and unwanted.

At the epicenter of activism against street harassment lies New York City, not surprisingly. Tales of harassment on the subway by complete strangers are common in the same city where to smile at a stranger in passing is a foreign social phenomenon.

An organization called Hollaback was found-

ed in 2005 in response to the growing public conversation about street harassment. Since the organization’s beginnings as a blog that served as a public forum for people to write about their own street harassment experi-ences, Hollaback has also conducted research on college campuses and has expanded not only outside of New York but also inter-nationally.

According to the organi-zation’s college-based re-search, 67 percent of study participants reported that they had been harassed on their college campuses. Unfortunately, what recip-ients perceive as harass-ment is often dismissed by others as complimentary in nature or harmless.

This past summer, I lived in a residential, student friendly area of Boston University’s campus, a mere walk from the heart of downtown Boston. I quickly settled into my own niche in this major American city; when

I wasn’t meeting with the professor I was working with or con-templating if I might be able to fit in my kitchen freezer to beat the heat, I was walking to the nearest Whole Foods store to get my coffee fix or pick up dinner.

It was on these some-times twice daily walks that I repeatedly en-countered the man who spurred me to make sure I never forget my sunglass-es or headphones when I left to grocery shop … tools that, in my mind, blocked his inappropriate comments as much as they did the screech of the passing subway train or the July sun.

The worst part was, like many cases of street harassment, that I could count on this man, sipping some sort of massive, diabetes-inducing drink, to be camped outside Dunkin’ Donuts every day like clockwork, as I tried to scurry past on my way to the grocery store. I won’t elaborate on the

things he would shout at me, because they aren’t worth any of my memory’s capacity, but I couldn’t seem to shake the feeling of lingering eyes wherever I went.

Other days, I was ill-prepared to encoun-ter harassment in other areas of the city; being whistled at as I waited at the crosswalk outside Barnes & Noble, having “hey, blondie” yelled at me, or run-walking away as a nearly toothless man rolled his minivan to a stop next to me on the side-walk.

If I look good, I proba-bly know it. I don’t need you to tell me. But street harassment is generally not about attraction, as women who find them-selves still being harassed while sweaty and running will tell you. Street harass-ment is inherently about power. After my experienc-es this sum-mer, I cannot conclude if the power is in ignoring the harassment or in talking back.

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COLUMN

So you all came back, which is good, because we were getting lonely. Not forlorn, you understand, because that would be rather pitiful. Lame, even, to use a word that is so much in vogue.

(No, not the magazine. Does it still exist? Or has it gone out of vogue?)

I don’t want to be awk-ward (to use another word so much in vogue), but it’s good to see you back. Without you, we pretty were much forced to just sit around and contem-plate the great questions of life. Yeah, I know — pretty lame.

Such great questions as, why does ice float? (Because Kurt Vonnegut told it to. Just trust me on this one.) Or, how does a thermos know how to keep hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold? Or, who’s going to vomit on the Ped Mall now that all the college kids are gone? (We drew straws on that one.)

But no, really, we’re glad you’re back. For one thing, this means football can’t be far behind. (Oh, yeah, I forgot; you guys don’t dig football any-more. I’ll tell you a secret, if you promise not to tell: I don’t really dig football, either, and I used to play it.)

Although I am puz-zled — what in the world happened to the Hawkeye football ticket sales? Apparently, it’s the same across the Big Ten, according to reports, any-way. What’s up? You don’t want to see really huge guys try to make hash of each other? You got some-thing against hash?

Speaking of the nation-al game — football, not contemplating the great questions of life — the nickname of the Wash-ington NFL team bubbles up from time to time in

the social construct of our times (not to use the word “time” several times in one sentence).

Actually, I know why the Washington NFL team’s nickname is what it is.

Unfortunately, the Boston Red Sox didn’t call themselves the Boston Green Sox. If they had, the Boston Braves NFL team, which moved from the baseball Braves’ park to Red Sox’s Fenway in the early 1930s and renamed itself, that NFL team (which later moved to Washington, D.C.) would have been known as the Boston Greenskins, and there’d be no contro-versy about the team’s nickname. Well, except perhaps among the lepre-chauns.

Which exist only in the sense that Rep. Steve King and Rep. Michele Bachmann have minds.

We gutted House Speaker John Boehner’s immigration bill, Bach-mann crowed to the news media after House con-servatives did just that shortly before the August adjournment — nice cojones, Boehner; that’s what made you a leader: tremendous knowledge of Spanish.

The Bachmann-King rewrite of the House bill, while exciting the tea-party base, probably means the GOP can kiss the Latino vote goodbye (the fastest-growing de-mographic in the coun-try) for at least the next 10 years. Good forward thinking. Or any other kind of thinking. Not that Bachmann or King have ever been exalted for either.

See what happens when you’re gone? We start contemplating the great questions of life and wind up at Michele Bachmann and Steve King.

Which means we’re back at the great ques-tions. Such as, if the words “lame,” “awkward,” and “like” didn’t exist, could 20-somethings converse?

Well, of course. That’s why we’re glad you’re back.

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From the LA riots of 1992 after the Rodney King verdict to the Ferguson, Missouri, protests af-ter the slaying of Michael Brown, the American

public has repeatedly demanded police accountability. Recently, these demands have changed from vague policy changes to feasible goals, especially in Iowa City.

The Iowa City police plan to acquire body camer-as for all officers out on patrol by the end of the year. They currently only have a dozen for a select few.

“Right now, officers going out with vehicles aren’t taking the cameras; if they’re out walking, they might have them,” police Sgt. Jorey Bailey said.

Body cameras are small cameras that can be mount-ed on the chests of police officers. They constantly re-cord both video and audio while police officers are on duty.

Getting these cameras isn’t cheap. Bailey said the acquisition is still being considered, and it could cost anywhere from $200,000 to $600,000. But the benefit they bring in terms of accountability is intangible.

A whitehouse.gov petition created on Aug. 13 calls for “all state, county, and local police” to wear body cameras. This petition is a public response to the recent situation in Ferguson, in which unarmed Mi-chael Brown was shot at least six times. While details surrounding the encounter are still murky, Brown is only one of many unarmed victims of police over the years. In 2012, 18-year-old Gil Collar was naked when he was shot by a University of South Alabama police officer outside police headquarters. Now, there may fi-nally be a way to stop these abuses of power.

The Brown petition proposes that requiring all of-ficers to wear body cameras would reduce police mis-conduct (i.e., brutality, profiling, and abuse of power) as well as ensure that officers follow appropriate pro-cedures. Officers would be held accountable for any-thing they do while on duty.

While this certainly would be a costly law to en-force, its effectiveness could be unprecedented. In Ri-alto, California, complaints against the police dropped

88 percent after one year of mandatory use of body cameras by on-duty officers, according to the New York Times.

Police officers wearing body cameras would operate under the knowledge that every action they perform could be scrutinized in the event of a complaint. Even if a police department covers up an officer’s miscon-duct, an investigation would be able to hold the de-partment responsible for producing the relevant foot-age.

One criticism of a body camera mandate is the idea that always-on cameras would be an invasion of pri-vacy. There are concerns that police officers would re-cord footage that some citizens would not consent to having recorded. If an officer arrived on the scene of a domestic dispute or private residence and entered, the private residence would be subject to recording.

This doesn’t present an issue, however. The le-gal ramifications surrounding warrants and Fourth Amendment rights would still apply. In fact, body cameras could decrease the rates of Fourth Amend-ment violations. A common accusation is that officers falsify reasons for searches without actually having a reasonable suspicion. With body cameras, police offi-cers would be unable to lie their way into unconstitu-tional searches of private residences.

The Daily Iowan Editorial Board believes manda-tory use of body cameras on a local and national scale could reduce police misconduct. Injustices like those against King, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford, Collar, and Brown would drop significantly, and appropriate ju-dicial action against those that perpetrate them will increase. While Iowa City has not seen high-profile cases such as those, it’s always a good idea to improve police accountability.

The police are meant to serve and protect the citi-zens of the nation. The use of body cameras will en-sure that remains true. They will provide a means for the public to check the power of police without sacri-ficing their inviolability.

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Police cameras would preserve the peace

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Catcalling isn’t harmless, it’s harassment

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A president remains on vacation

Every public-relations firm knows that it is the immediate response after a tragedy that determines public perception.

A great example of this occurred during one of America’s greatest trage-dies: Sept. 11, 2001. It was after this disaster that former President Bush stood at Ground Zero with a bullhorn and announced to the world that “the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” This sym-bolic imagery of the presi-dent with his arm around a firefighter captured the hearts of millions, and the

world knew that America was serious about fighting terrorism.

When I woke up to the gruesome photos and videos of James Foley, an American journalist abducted in Syria in 2012, beheaded by the terrorist group ISIS, I expected a similar response from the most powerful nation on Earth. The thought of this group conducting such an atrocity to an American made my blood boil. I waited with anticipa-tion to hear President Obama’s speech. I didn’t have to wait long.

The president spoke in a grave tone about captur-ing those responsible for the killing, stating that “a group like ISIS has no place in the 21st centu-ry.” I nodded my head in agreement, imagining in my head a covert oper-ation similar to the one that brought down Osama Bin Laden. I thought of how the president must be organizing the heads

of every department of government against what has become the most radi-cal enemy of the country.

It was to my astonish-ment that I heard only a few hours later that the president was back vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard for another game of golf. While crit-icism on this has come from both the right and the left, I would like to add my own two cents. By rushing to play golf after his speech, the president failed the only real job he has — representing the American people. A simple Google search for “Foley,” “Obama,” and “speech” brings up with photos of the president smiling in a golf cart. Is this the response we want to portray? I can already see members of ISIS searching for news on their mobile phones after the slaying …

Presidential vacations have always been a topic of debate. How much va-

cation should be entitled to the most powerful man in the world? Previous presidents have received their fair share of bashing on this issue. Anyone who has had to work more than one job at one point or another to support their family understands that while vacation time is important, work should always take precedent when you have people de-pending on you. With the entire population of the United States relying on the president’s represen-tation, there is no way to describe Obama’s actions on this other than being out of touch.

I hate debating another man’s vacation schedule. It is not my duty to judge his workload, hours or stress level. After all, the office of the presidency has got to be one of the most difficult jobs on the planet. Nevertheless, Obama created this con-troversy himself.

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Ben Carson speaks to supporters at the Marriott on Monday in Cedar Rapids. Carson is pondering a run for the presidency in 2016. (The Daily Iowan/Valerie Burke)

By ALEXA SANDONalexa-sandon@uiowa.edu

The University of Iowa Student Government is pushing for new initia-tives this year, focusing most on sustainability and transparency when it comes to international and domestic student re-lationships.

Over the summer, UISG President Patrick Barto-ski and UISG Vice Pres-ident Jeffrey Ding began preparing for the 2014-15 initiatives.

Ding said one of the ma-jor initiatives this year is sustainability.

“[We will be] extend-ing funding support for sustainability projects through the Green Initia-tives Fund,” he wrote in an email. “And supporting a summer gardener posi-tion.”

The Green Initiative Funding Program is part of UISG’s environmental-ly oriented initiatives on campus, providing grants for organizations that practice sustainability.

Bartoski said UISG partnered with the Co-ca-Cola Foundation to ex-pand the grant program.

“The biggest problem that most student orga-nizations face is funding,” Bartoski said. “We have been partnering with the various [organizations] to discuss their options for finding resources [… and] have been partnering with newly formed groups to get them aid.”

Recycling was another project expanded on over the summer, which will continue into this year.

“We have been contact-ing the landlords of apart-ments … to increase recy-cling,” Bartoski said.

George McCrory, a com-munications specialist with the UI Office of Sus-tainability, said the office will partner with UISG on several other programs to be launched this year.

One will promote a bike-sharing program on campus in order to re-duce the carbon impact of transportation.

Ding said another ma-jor initiative UISG will

Possible Presidential hopeful stumps in IowaBy CASSIDY RILEYcassidy-riley@uiowa.edu

University of Iowa Student Government is preparing to focus on sustainability and international student relations this year.

CEDAR RAPIDS — In the middle of a two-day tour of eastern Iowa, Ben Carson told a crowded room on Monday morning that he’s going to let the people decide if he should run for president.

“If people indicate that they’re ready for a country that is for, of, and by the people, I’ll be all in, and if they indicate they want government to control every aspect of their life, I’ll go do something else,” Carson told The Daily Io-wan during a campaign event for U.S. House hope-ful Rod Blum.

Carson was in Cedar Rapids to stump for Blum, the GOP candidate for

Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. There, the retired neurosurgeon stressed the importance of personal re-sponsibility in politics.

“This is one of the most critical periods in our history as a nation be-cause what we have right now is a dysfunctional system in Washington,” Carson said.

He has never been elected to office or held a government position, but there are some pockets of the Republican Party pressing for him to consid-er running for president. He is not, however, a reg-istered Republican and at one time was a Democrat.

During a previous stop in Des Moines a day ear-lier, Carson won the Polk County “Summer Sizzle & Straw Poll” with 62 per-cent of the vote.

Though one expert was wary about how the re-sults of those kinds of polls should be viewed.

Justin Holmes, an assis-tant professor of political science at University of Northern Iowa, said straw polls are often unreliable because of the small sam-ple sizes that often lean toward extremes.

Holmes said one of Car-son’s largest liabilities if he were to decide to run

would be his lack of experi-ence in public service.

“I think that’s a huge problem,” he said. “It’s one thing to be a smart guy, and it’s another to be somebody who has a record.”

Looking toward 2016, Holmes said Carson might have a better chance in Iowa than any other state because Iowa Republican caucus goers tend to be more conservative. Howev-er, even voters who agree with him on the issues may realize on a national stage he may be too con-servative to win in a gen-eral election.

Carson’s stop in Cedar Rapids came in between his planned Iowa stops to promote his book One Na-tion: What We Can All Do

UISG outlines year’s goals

implement this year is the International Student Ad-visory Board, a program newly created over the summer.

“[It will] provide an in-stitutional voice for in-ternational students on campus and … promote initiatives to better inter-actions between interna-tional and domestic stu-dents on campus,” he said.

This organization will allow international stu-dents to voice their con-cerns more directly to their peers as well as to help them connect to the UI.

“It will consist of 12 stu-dents who interact with liaisons from the Diversi-ty Office and Internation-al Programs to hear the concerns that internation-al students face,” Bartoski said.

Ding said the structure of the organization was fi-nalized over the summer months, and it will be fur-ther promoted during the semester. It is a part of UISG’s greater goal to en-gage students on campus.

Sophomore Kirbee Van De Berg said one thing she would like to see is for “UISG [to] have a greater presence on campus.”

UISG intends to meet this need by focusing on strengthening the connec-tions between itself and the diverse organizations on campus, as well as uni-versity officials.

“I’m excited for this year and I hope to see UISG continue to strengthen relationships with other student [organizations], administrators, commu-nity groups, and govern-ment officials,” Ding said.

This year through UISG, there will also be a soft launch of the Iowa Ideas website, a crowd-sourcing resource for various projects and concepts begun by UI stu-dents.

“Think of it as the Red-dit for University of Iowa student ideas,” Ding said.

Summarizing this year’s UISG goals, Bartoski said he wants “every student’s voice to be heard, and I want safety to be a top priority on-campus.”

to Save America’s Future.The roughly 270 people

in attendance of the event said Carson has the right ideas for the country.

“I think he makes a lot of sense and makes what we feel is so complicated sound doable and easy,” said Julie Beimer of Mount Vernon, Iowa. “I really like his confidence and the way he comes across.”

Carson also campaigned for Iowa’s 2nd Congressio-nal District Republican candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks at the Care Center for Active Seniors in Davenport.

Blum said he appreci-ates Carson’s endorsement because he thinks the doctor has appeal across parties, and he shares Car-

son’s belief in people.“I’m a person who be-

lieves in people more than in the power of gov-ernment, “ Blum said.

Ben CarsonCarson campaigned for several candidates on Monday and had a number of book tour stops in the last two days.• He is a retired neurosurgeon.• He is currently on a national book tour for One Nation.• Identifies as an independent but believes in many conserva-tive principles.

Source: Daily Iowan archives

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ty on campus, and part of that is increasing Ni-te Ride.”

While the idea to add hours was formed last year, Searls said the department decided to wait until the first day of classes, because rid-ership is always down in the summer.

This year, however, Nite Ride has already seen an increase in the number of women using the service.

During the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights before the first day of school, ridership increased ev-ery day compared with last year. Saturday showed the most differ-ence, with 88 more rid-ers this year than in the past.

Searls said he antic-ipates this trend con-tinuing.

“I think they’re al-ready recognizing Nite Ride is out there, so I hope we see increased ridership,” he said. “Hopefully, it’s a posi-tive reaction, and they utilize the service.”

UI senior Leslie Wille has used the service in the past and said she is supportive of the change, especially in light of the many Hawk Alerts that

have occurred in the past.

“I think it will give students who want to stay on campus more opportunity instead of feeling pressure to rush home sooner,” she said.

Jen Carlson, the ex-ecutive director of the Rape Victim Advocacy Program at the UI, said she appreciates the UI’s dedication to making students feel more safe and secure.

“I think that it is a good tangible example of their continued dedication of that Six Point Plan by of-fering more resources for students … and to utilize the Nite Ride opportu-nity to make sure their

classmates get home safely,” she said.

Despite being pleased with the increase in hours, Carlson said there is still much more to be done.

“There are a lot of real-ly interesting programs that are in development through the university with a large focus on by-stander intervention, so I would love to see those programs implemented and student leaders on campus to continue to step up and raise the bar,” she said. “There are many, many stu-dents that are already doing that so we just want to continue to see that participation.”

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two students last year will now house three.

Stange said some stu-dents might spend the en-tire fall semester in loung-es, whereas all residents last fall found permanent homes before spring 2014. Last year, about 60-90 students were moved out of lounges within the first two weeks.

UI freshmen Guilherme Miguel Müller and Rafael Santos Pereira, both from Brazil, ended up in ex-panded housing in Stanley this year. Miguel Müller said he is pleased for now, but he would like a sepa-rate room for more privacy.

However, Santos Pereira said he prefers the lounge because it is a better space to practice speaking En-glish.

UI freshman Hannah Kutchen was placed in a double converted into a triple.

“When I found out our room was a triple, I was really bummed out about less closet space,” she said, noting there is also less space for appliances and electronics. “My roommate

and I did not realize it was a triple when we selected the room on the housing site.”

However, Kutchen said she is ultimately pleased with her housing situa-tion.

“The triples are actually not as bad as they sound,” she said. “My roommates and I have plenty of space for our stuff, and it’s nice to have someone to do stuff with when the other room-mate is gone.”

To try to ease overcrowd-ing, UI Housing and Din-ing offered to let students out of their contracts for free past the deadline ear-lier this summer, freeing them to find alternative residences. Stange said

approximately 50 students did so.

Iowa State University has experienced housing woes of its own, having to turn students away. Uni-versity of Northern Iowa is below capacity.

Petersen Hall, under construction on the UI’s West Campus, is due to open next fall and bring more beds with it. Stange said it could alleviate crowding issues, depend-ing on how large future freshman classes are.

Director of Admissions Michael Barron said the incoming class has “re-cord-breaking” numbers, but an official count will not be available until 10 days of class have passed.

Among the various is-sues raised during the meeting, police account-ability, police militariza-tion, and the pros and cons of police body cams were discussed.

Additional issues in-cluded the disproportion-ate rates of arrests for mi-norities and better citizen right’s education as well as Johnson County’s recent acquisition of a mine-re-sistant ambush-protected vehicle.

However, one of the big-gest issues raised was the importance of opening a

dialogue between resi-dents and police.

Iowa City police Lt. Kevin Heick was not in attendance, but he said he shares this belief.

“Open discussions are always beneficial, but there should always be someone on the other side,” he said.

Currently, the police are near the final stages of se-lecting a body-cam vendor to outfit their officers.

Because the various topics the group wants to tackle are broad, Ollut-nev hopes the next meet-ing will establish smaller groups with members who share the same interests and expertise.

“I’ve been involved in

issues of police practice for 30 years, and I was a mem-ber of the City Council for seven years,” said Carol deProsse, an Iowa City resident. “Since the war on drugs under Nixon, I’ve seen police tactics become increasingly oppressive, and I’m here to change that.”

Rather than being in-volved for many years, one member of the group said she has become more in-terested in recent weeks.

“I’m a white girl from Iowa who has never really been affected by the police,” said Iowa City resident Kelsey Carr. “But I’m here because I wanted to learn more about the issues I saw on social media.”

officials evacuated the res-idents of the 499-bed dorm while the chemicals were assessed and removed.

“When we got into the room, we saw things that look like chemicals,” Green said on Sunday at a press conference. “We were very concerned if they were haz-ardous, and that’s why we evacuated the building.”

According to the UI press release, Johnson County Drug Task Force authorities, as well as agents from the Iowa Divi-sion of Narcotics Enforce-ment, obtained a search warrant for the room after the chemicals were found.

“We found no threat of explosion or toxic gas, our two main concerns,” Chuck Green, the assistant vice

president for the UI po-lice, said in a statement. “Student safety is our top priority, and we’re grateful for Slater residents’ coop-eration.”

Officials allowed all res-idents to return to Slater at about 11:20 p.m., except for those who lived on the third floor.

Green said on Sunday in a press conference that the third floor was considered a “crime scene.”

After the investigation of the area was complet-ed, authorities and resi-dence hall staff allowed the third-floor residents to return.

According to the news release, the male student is continuing to recover at UI Hospitals and Clinics. Officials from the Office of the Dean of Students are inspecting whether the student violated any UI policies.

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The University of Iowa débuts the new Nite Ride bus on the Pentacrest on March 21. The additional bus was part of President Sally Mason’s Six-Point Plan to Combat Sexual Assault on campus after the increase in the number of reported assaults this school year. (The Daily Iowan/Alyssa Hitchcock)

Expanded housing is seen in Slater on Monday in Iowa City. There are around 160 UI students living in expanded housing. (The Daily Iowan/Valerie Burke)

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Caution tape lines the construction zone at the IMU on Sunday. The IMU, along with Mayflower, was affected by flooding this summer. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)

Flood work progresses on campus

Construction is continuing on major parts of the university to prevent future flooding.

By NICK MOFFITTNicholas-moffitt@uiowa.edu

Despite flooding and other setbacks, flood-mit-igation project construc-tion at the Iowa Memori-al Union and Mayflower Residence Hall are con-tinuing on as planned.

“This summer as a campus, we were as vul-nerable as we’ve been since the 2008 flood with the construction going on right now,” said Rod Lehnertz, the director of planning, design, and con-struction for UI Facilities Management.

Lehnertz said despite the flood danger this sum-mer at both Mayflower and the IMU, the UI, along with contractors, have been able to keep pace with the expected

project finish date.The budget for the

two remain unchanged, Lehnertz said, and the combined bid for the two projects is just under $25.7 million, as officials built in incidental funds for extra hours into the budget.

The flood-mitigation projects, which have a projected completion date in 2015, aim to raise the flood-protection level of UI buildings to the 500-year flood level with an additional two feet for extra safety.

“The 2008 flood has been what we think is close to 500-year levels,” Lehnertz said. “In coor-dination with FEMA and our engineers, that is what we have determined to be safe, responsible,

and cost-effective.”The flooding this sum-

mer brought the local wa-ter level in the Iowa River up to 25 feet, according to the National Weather Service. The number is subject to further review but is currently consid-ered to have reached ma-jor flood stage.

Major flood stage has only been reached in the Iowa River in two other years: 1993 and 2008.

The projects at May-flower were the most troubling, Lehnertz said, because the flooding went through to Dubuque Street. This left crews with very little time to finish access points before students started arriving for move-in.

“This is something we’ve been through be-

fore,” UI spokesman Tom Moore said. “We have some experience with this, and both the move-in process and the con-struction process should go very well — that’s our goal.”

The Mayflower con-struction was halted for a week during move-in. It will continue throughout the fall, but full access to the residence hall has been restored.

Amy Franco, the May-flower coordinator, said the only thing that was

changed from previous move-in dates was allow-ing students to start mov-ing in a few days early, re-gardless of their original move-in date.

“The access to both our north and south parking lots was in full capacity,” she said. “Now, with the removal of the flood pro-tection, we have our ded-icated bus lane and origi-nal bus stop back.”

Moore said the IMU flood mitigation could be delayed, but he does not consider it to be a issue.

Construction isn’t the main issue for students.

University marketing employee and UI junior Melanie Slattery said the noise at the IMU can be bothersome at times, but it is mostly not as bad as she had initially expected.

“Getting in to work hasn’t been a problem at all, and my coworkers haven’t really had trou-ble, either,” she said. “The noise can be really annoy-ing, but headphones seem to tune it out.”

• Story Time, 10 a.m., Defunct Books, Sycamore Mall• Poster Sale, Center for Student Involvement &

Leadership, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Hubbard Park• Center for Diversity, and Enrichment Welcome

Week: Carnival Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 24 Phillips• Toddler Story Time, 10:30 a.m., Iowa City Public

Library, 123 S. Linn•“Digging Into Badges: Designing and Developing

Digital Credentials,” EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Short Course, Office for Teaching, Learning, & Technology, noon, N150 Lindquist Center

• Tech Help, noon, Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn• Farmers’ Market, 3 p.m., Iowa City Marketplace• Live TV Broadcast, Tom’s Guitar Show, 6 p.m.,

Uptown Bill’s 730 S. Dubuque• Peyote Stitch Techniques, 6 p.m., Beadology, 220 E.

Washington• “See Yourself in a New Light” Dinner with a Doc, 6

p.m., Hy-Vee, 1720 Waterfront• The Dog, 6:15 p.m., FilmScene, 118 E. College• BYOBook, 7 p.m., Trumpet Blossom, 310 E. Prentiss• Tango Club Practica, 7 p.m., Senior Center, 28 S Linn•Boyhood, 8 p.m., FilmScene

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Daily Break

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Be assertive, and follow a hunch. A service or skill you have to offer can be turned into a lucrative business venture. Express your thoughts, and put together a plan that will entice some-one you’d like on your team.TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make suggestions, or discuss work-related matters with your peers. Your show of enthusiasm will help you gain respect and support. Don’t be afraid to use alternative means or methods to improve your efficiency, knowledge, or skills. Speak from the heart. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Look past the obvious. Situations will not be as they appear. An emotional setback will develop if you ignore what’s being said or done. Honesty and straightforwardness along with moderation and practicality will help. Ask for approval before making changes at home.CANCER (June 21-July 22): Look at your to-do list, and choose what’s most important. Putting your energy where it counts will help you avoid criticism. An unexpected change in a relationship must be handled with care. Follow through with whatever promise or commitment you make.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take a closer look at your financial situation. Overspend-ing will lead to added stress. Practice moderation, and look for cheaper ways to proceed with your plans. You may crave change, but stay within your means.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Feeling anxious is likely if you are uncertain about what others do or say. You are best to take a wait-and-see approach, especially where money matters are concerned. Don’t allow anyone to guilt you into parting with your cash.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Listen to, and sum up the changes being sug-gested. Look for a way to satisfy the people you care about or the cause you believe in without jeopardizing your position or disrupting your home and family life. Do your own job finding facts.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will attract attention if you express your unique suggestions to your peers or someone who is in an influential posi-tion. Spending too much time with anyone will lead to a misunderstanding. Don’t let anyone take advantage of you.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): False information from someone who isn’t trustworthy will set you back. Travel plans along with poor communication will cause uncertainty and could ruin the strategy you put in place. Have a backup plan ready to counter whatever comes your way.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Look, calculate, and follow through with your plans. You can move into a strategic position that will allow you to make decisions that are sure to improve your standard of living and future prospects. Say what’s on your mind.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look for any professional opportunities. A shift in the way you do things will intrigue and entice someone to consider forming a professional relationship with you that should allow you both to prosper. Romance is in the stars.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Put passion, greater effort, and calculated plans into play, and you will get ahead personally and professionally. Size up what you have to offer and what’s being offered in return before you make a com-mitment. Emotional finagling is apparent.

8-9 a.m. Morning DriveNoon-2 p.m. Sports Block5 p.m. KRUI News6-7 p.m. Iowa Comedy7-8 p.m. Abby and Ian’s Show10 p.m.-Midnight Into the Void

A partial list of things I should probably tell

every prospective girlfriend:

• I like to blow my cigar smoke out while standing with my hands on my hips so I look like Superman using his ice-breath powers.

• Unlike most men, I do not have a nickname for my penis. I refer to it by its full Chris-tian name: Maximillian Ham-mercock Juhl.

• I have spent years refin-ing an educated, sophisticated taste in Legos.

• People are always unjust-ly accusing me of having a per-secution complex.

• After sex, I think it’s im-portant to always have an honest discussion with each other about who won.

• I haven’t hit my rock bot-tom yet, but I’m finally almost willing to admit that I have a mining problem.

• When we go someplace nice, don’t expect me to dress any higher than to the sixes.

• What I look for most in a woman is someone who has a sense of humor about being in-credibly attractive.

• I brush three times each day. My teeth are so white they own a timeshare in Bran-son.

• If truly loving you is wrong, then I will never be wrong.

Andrew R. Juhl is monolin-

gual and ready to mingle.

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.

— Abraham Lincoln

By CODY GOODWINcody-goodwin@uiowa.edu

Maryland, along with Rutgers, officially joined the Big Ten on July 1. But it wasn’t until both teams joined the rest of the league in Chicago for the 2014 Big Ten media days in August that the move felt official.

There, inside the Chica-go Hilton, Maryland head football coach Randy Ed-sall experienced firsthand what the conference was all about. He said he was thrilled and that he and his team were very im-pressed with how the Big Ten conducted itself.

“We know we have a tre-mendous challenge that’s ahead of us this year as we enter the Big Ten, but one that we’re really looking forward to,” Edsall said. “We have 10 new oppo-nents that we have to pre-pare for. So the spring and

the summer has been a whirlwind for us as coach-es from the standpoint of getting to know the teams here in the Big Ten.”

The Terrapins, who left the ACC to join the Big Ten, will perhaps have the warmest welcoming to their new league. Ed-sall and Company are scheduled to play Indiana, Ohio State, Iowa, Wiscon-sin, Penn State, Michigan State, Michigan, and Rut-gers this year.

For those keeping track, those teams went 67-37 last year, and all but In-diana and Penn State reached a postseason bowl game.

On paper, it seems al-most unfair that Mary-land was pitted against the conferene’s perennial contenders. But players have said they’re looking forward to the challenge of facing the Big Ten’s best.

“Obviously, this is a very

physical conference. It’s al-ways been that way,” said Maryland defensive back Jeremiah Johnson. “But I think that we are a physi-cal team as well, and we’re looking forward to coming in and proving that.

“We understand that every game in this con-ference is a battle. There are no easy games on our schedule. And one by one, we have to handle them accordingly.”

Fortunately for the Terps, three teams — Ohio State, Iowa, and Michigan State — will all travel to College Park and play in Byrd Stadium. Edsall said that’s certainly more favorable for them than having to journey the 843 miles it takes to get to Madison, Wis., the longest of the team’s road trips.

Regardless of where the team plays, it won’t be short on talent in some ar-eas. Stefon Diggs, a junior

wide receiver, is a name most Maryland support-ers speak highly of when asked about their team.

Diggs was a huge con-tributor in 2013, account-ing for 34 receptions, 587 yards, and 3 touchdowns before missing the final six games because of in-jury.

A native of Gaithers-burg, Md., Diggs said he’s excited about the move to the conference, but that it won’t feel official to him until Maryland journeys to Bloomington to open its Big Ten schedule against the Hoosiers on Sept. 27.

“This is one of our first encounters with other schools,” Diggs said at the Big Ten media days. “It really won’t feel [official] until we get on the field and start playing against them.

“… We got a good sched-ule with big teams and big stages. I wouldn’t have it

any other way.”

Follow @codygoodwin

on Twitter for updates, news and analysis on the Iowa football team.

By SHELBY STITESsstites@uiowa.edu

After suffering injuries last season — which con-tributed to a 21st-place fin-ish in the NCAA Midwest Regional — the Hawkeye women harriers hope to stay healthy this year.

Head coach Layne An-derson said team health is at the forefront as Iowa gets set to kick off its 2014 sea-son.

“Overall, I just want us to remain healthy as a team and get this group through the season without any sig-nificant injuries.” Anderson said. “I’m excited to show what we are capable of; we have a lot of talent here.”

Junior Lisa Gordon hopes this year’s Hawkeyes

will train smart and stay healthy throughout the season.

With solid runners re-turning, senior Shannon Maser shared her coach’s belief, saying Iowa has to stay healthy to be compet-itive.

Gordon said that prepa-ration for staying healthy began in the off-season and was a focus of the runners during training. Even with the season set to kick off Friday at the Drake Invita-tional, the team’s mentality hasn’t shifted.

“Last year was a disap-pointment for various rea-sons, but this year, we are looking to come out with vengeance,” Gordon said.

Rebounding coexists with the team’s optimism about

the season, she said.“Focusing on staying re-

ally positive and keeping high expectations through-out the season,” Maser said. “Cross-country is more of an individual sport, but becoming close with your team really helps.”

The harriers’ ultimate goal is in early November at the Big Ten championships. After finishing 12th last season, the Hawkeyes can literally go no place but up.

For Anderson, that starts with confidence. Entering his 11th year at Iowa, men-tality is key for his team’s success.

“We can’t let the doubt rule the day,” he said. “We must continue to quietly develop confidence within ourselves to succeed as a

team.” If that happens, he said,

the young Hawkeyes have to be determined this sea-son if they want their hopes of showing the Big Ten what they are capable of accomplishing to come true. Anderson and his team are confident that can happen.

“We are excited for the meets and definitely have the Big Ten meet in the front of our minds,” Maser said. “Everything we do is leading up to that meet.”

For Anderson, the goal is much bigger than a Big Ten improvement.

“We want to include ourselves in the conversa-tions of entering the NCAA championships,” Anderson said.

“We want to represent

our school well,” Gordon said. “And we hope to do so by moving up in the rank-ings.”

Follow @shelbystites on Twitter for news, updates, and analysis about the Io-wa women’s cross-country team.

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Iowa women harriers seek to bounce back

In the Penn State energy bubbleBy JACOB SHEYKOjacob-sheyko@uiowa.edu

One by one, they ap-proached the microphone. Questions flew in, and ge-neric answers spilled out. Players talked about being in the best shape of their lives, and coaches talked about how excited they were about the season to come.

Big Ten media days are fairly scripted, and it’s hard to blame players and coach-es. They can only answer the same questions over and over until they form pre-determined answers.

But not James Franklin. Candid and honest, Penn

State’s new head coach kicked things off by telling the crowd of media mem-bers how he had avoided using the elevator that week because the one with a Penn State logo didn’t line up with his room.

“I refuse to ride any other elevator up there, so I had to end up walking up the floors,” Franklin joked.

Some coaches try to get through their press confer-ences as fast as possible. Not Franklin. He owns the podium. He doesn’t want to just tell you that Penn State will win; he wants to persuade you to the degree where you’ll have no other conclusion.

And it’s not a façade. His players witness it every day in practice, from the exces-sive and never-ending posi-tivity to Franklin’s practice rule that if you have some-where to go, you better get there by running.

“That’s very true,” run-ning back Bill Belton said. “He made me run around in circles until I found out where I had to go, so it’s true.

“I thought it was kind of pointless at first, but then I was like, ‘All right, when we’re on the field, we have to run.’ Just practicing good habits.”

Despite taking over a new team, Franklin has the luxury of coaching perhaps the league’s most talented quarterback in Christian Hackenberg — if only be-cause Ohio State’s Braxton Miller suffered season-end-ing shoulder injury.

Aside from Hackenberg, Penn State also returns Belton, who ran for more than 800 yards on 5.1 yards per carry last season.

In all, Penn State lost nine starters, none more valuable than wide receiver Allen Robinson, who caught 97 catches for 1,432 yards last season.

However, at the end of the day, all eyes will be on Franklin. Judging by past performance, good things are about to happen in Happy Valley.

In his three years as head coach at Vanderbiwlt, Franklin took a 2-10 team and turned it around to the tune of three-straight bowl appearances and a 24-15 record.

Even more, in the short

time the players have got-wten to know their new coach, the Nittany Lions have figured out one thing.

Just as Franklin is con-fortable with how he takes care of business, he lets his players be who they are.

And that’s been the case from Day One.

“You see a whole bunch of teams, and you see a whole bunch of coaches, wthey change; the coaches aren’t wthe same,” said Belton, who was first recruited by Franklin to play at Vander-bilt. “One thing I can say about [Franklin] is that he’s been the same person ever since I met him.”

Franklin is not go-ing to change. Whatever the Nittany Lions do on the field during his time there, they’re going to do it just as their new head coach would: with copious amounts of energy.

“We feed off of his ener-gy,” linebacker Mike Hull said. “I wouldn’t want an-other head coach with dif-ferent energy.”

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After a tough 2013 season, the Iowa women’s cross-country team is prepared to get this season’s campaign.

Maryland to face some of the Big Ten’s bestMaryland’s first football season in the Big Ten includes a gauntlet of the league’s powerhouse programs.

Hawkeye cross-country coach Layne Anderson speaks about the upcoming season on Monday. Anderson noted the incoming talent and said he has high hopes for the season. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard)

Iowa’s Broderick Binns takes down Penn State’s Justin Brown on Oct. 2, 2010, in Kinnick Stadium. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

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would be a good thing.”Ferentz said the

Hawkeyes aren’t going to use a two-quarterback sys-tem just to use a two-quar-terback system. There has to be a reason to do so, he said.

But Davis said he thinks it could be a good option for his team.

Now in his third year as the offensive coordinator, Davis said both quarter-backs grew plenty during and after spring ball. But much of the hype sur-rounding Beathard could stem from the spring game, where he performed just as well — if not, better — than Rudock.

Beathard threw numer-ous deep balls, the highlight being a 40-plus yard touch-down pass to spring sensa-tion Derrick Willies.

Both Davis and Ferentz kept their plans close to the vest, so it’s unclear if Iowa plans to use them on more a situational basis or if each quarterback will get a cer-tain percentage of snaps. (Remember, the Hawkeyes traditionally go with one sig-nal-caller and stick with one signal-caller.)

“They’re more similar than dissimilar. If you put

them in a 40, they would be really close,” Davis said. “C.J. probably has a little bit more short-area quickness.

“Jake is a little bit quicker at getting through the reads and getting the ball down to a back or whatever if it’s not there, where C.J., because he has a big arm, he wants to sit and wait and wait. But they’re really pretty similar.”

Either way, both guys have experience, with Ru-dock holding an advantage after starting each game a year ago. That’s something that is going to help them mesh with an experienced

group of receivers Iowa has at its disposal.

In typical Rudock fash-ion, the Weston, Fla., native played off questions at Io-wa’s media day that he may take fewer reps. The junior said his job is to help the team win in any way possi-ble and to not worry about which quarterback is the one helping to do so.

“If it gets the W at the end of the day, I’m all for it,” Ru-dock said.

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ways talk about is that they have to be tough football players, they have to be smart and give great effort,” defensive coordinator Phil Parker said. “That’s what we start with, the whole base of our defense, you have to be disciplined.

“The more you can teach these guys and understand the game of football, the better play-ers they become.”

Iowa has fielded a lot of great defensive backs over the years. But before any of them were great, they faced a learning curve. Some struggled with it more than others, but they all faced it.

“Bob Sanders couldn’t backpedal when he got here. But obviously he

did a good job in the NFL,” Parker said, who before acting as defen-sive coordinator was the defensive-back coach at Iowa for 13 years. “… Every guy that I had here, it took time.”

That learning process takes place both on the field at practice and of-ten in the film room, where Lowdermilk said the biggest learning

curve occurred as he learned not only what to watch but how to watch it.

“There’s a lot of men-tal things that go into it,” he said. “It’s definite-ly not just physical. That might be something a lot of people don’t realize.”

That’s not to say that learning can’t occur on the field in front of a packed stadium, because that’s exactly what King,

now a sophomore, had to do last season when he was thrown into the fire after Lomax’s injury in the season-opener.

King picked up things on the fly, and now he returns as arguably the best returning second-ary player for Iowa.

However, the learning is never done.

“Just coming off that season, and all the tre-

m e n d o u s games we had, even in the loss-es, that I still need

to improve, and there’s more room for me to im-prove,” he said.

Iowa’s pedigree, par-ticularly Parker’s, speaks for itself when producing NFL talent in the secondary.

From current pro play-ers such as Micah Hyde to former ones such as Sanders, Iowa spits out pro-ready defensive backs on a consistent basis. Many observers

will notice players such as Hyde and Sanders for their speed, but that speed starts with work in the off-season.

“Once they catch on, they spend a lot of time in the film room, under-standing what’s going on,” Parker said. “And the more experience you have, and the more knowledge you have, the faster you can play.”

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round,” he said. “But I’m still content with my play.”

Regardless of what hap-pens this season, Bulling-ton and Vandersee have plenty of memories in their time as Hawkeyes. From triumphs to challenges, both have raised their games from elite levels to team leaders.

In a sport where a rela-tively easy course is hard to come by, Bullington and Vandersee agree that one course is the most difficult they have played at in col-lege: the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Flori-da. Perhaps it’s no surprise

that the course will host both the men’s and wom-en’s NCAA championships this season.

“I remember playing Big Ten Match Play there,” Bul-lington recalled. “I’d have to pick that as the most difficult NCAA course I’ve played at.”

Three years have pro-duced several memories both on and off of the golf course. Between Big Ten honors and a plethora of other honors, the memories make the game special.

Bullington’s favorite memories came from the road trips.

“Between visiting differ-ent cities to playing differ-ent courses, I have a lot of memories from traveling,” he said.

Vandersee’s came on the final day of regional com-petition in the 2011-12 season, in which a strong performance advanced the Hawks to their most recent NCAA championship.

“I shot a 66 in the fi-nal round of regionals, which was the low round,” Vandersee said. “We were really proud of the seniors that year, and everyone was proud to be on this team.”

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2014 Position PreviewsThe Daily Iowan’s Pregame staff will preview each position of the Iowa football team during this first week of the fall semester.Monday: Running Backs & LinebackersToday: Quarterbacks & SecondaryWednesday: Wide Receivers/Tight Ends & Special TeamsThursday: Offensive Line & Defensive Line

Iowa men’s golfer Brian Bullington hits the ball at Finkbine Golf Course on Monday. Bullington is one of the two seniors on the team this year. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)

Iowa defensive back Desmond King tackles Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon in Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 2, 2013. King totaled 7 tackles during the game. (The Daily Iowan/Alyssa Hitchcock)

‘The more you can teach these guys and understand the game of football, the better players they become.’

— Phil Parker, coach

‘Between visiting different cities to playing different

courses, I have a lot of memories from traveling.’

- Brian Bullington, golfer

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Derek Jeter drove in 2 runs in his final scheduled trip to Kauffman Stadium, backing a sharp outing from Michael Pineda and helping the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals, 6-1, on Monday night for their fifth-straight win.

Jacoby Ellsbury drove in a run in the seventh inning with the 1,000th hit of his career, then added a 2-run homer in the ninth. Stephen Drew and Martin Prado also homered for New York.

Pineda (3-2) gave up a solo shot to Mike Moustakas leading off the third inning, but that was about it in his third game back from the disabled list. Pineda struck out five without a walk in 6.1 innings to win for the first time since beating the Cubs on April 16.

James Shields (12-7) allowed 6 runs over 6.2 innings for Kansas City.

The game was a makeup of a rainout in June. And if you’re willing to count it as a true series, it would be the first time in their last 11 that the Royals have dropped one.

Jeter, who will retire after the season, answered a standing ovation as he stepped to the plate in the third inning with a groundout to shortstop that gave New York a 1-0 lead.

Moustakas tied the game with his 15th homer in the bottom half.

Drew gave the Yankees the lead back in the fourth with his home run, and they piled on 4 more runs off Shields in the seventh to put things out of reach.

The last of those runs was scored by Ellsbury, who came home on a sacrifice fly by Brian McCann. Ellsbury initially was ruled out at the plate, but the call was overturned after a two-minute video review showed his left leg sliding just under catcher Salvador Perez’s tag.

That was plenty of support for Pineda, who had gone through the ringer since his previous win. He served a 10-game suspension for getting caught with pine tar on his neck in a game against Boston, then landed on the DL with shoulder trouble that kept him out until mid-August.

Pineda was stuck with a pair of no-decisions in his first two starts back.

TRAINER’S ROOMRoyals: 1B Eric Hosmer was

cleared to begin taking dry swings after sustaining a stress fracture in his right hand on July 20. “It feels good. It’s healed up very nicely,” Hosmer said. “We’re ready to start the hitting progression.”

SCOREBOARD

MLBNY Yankees 8, Kansas City 1Tampa Bay 1, Baltimore 9Philadelphia 3, Washington 2St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2Boston 4, Toronto 3Oakland 8, Houston 2Miami 7, LA Angels 1Texas 2 , Seattle 0Milwaukee 8, San Diego 1Colorado 3, San Francisco2

SoccerManchester City 3, Liverpool 1

WNBAAtlanta 92, Chicago 83

Possibly seeing double

Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard scores a 5-yard touchdown during the fourth quarter in Ross-Ade Stadium in West La-fayette, Indiana, on Nov. 9, 2013. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

By JACOB SHEYKOjacob-sheyko@uiowa.edu

All football positions have learning curves. And a lot of that learning hap-pens behind the scenes, away from the eyes of the fans and media, who often see the athletes only on game days, when their mis-takes often garner more attention than their suc-cesses.

This is what makes the job of a defensive back so often misunderstood.

People see what occurs on the field on Saturday and don’t put much thought into how that deflection came into play or how the player made the right read because he read the scout-ing report or watched film or how he got his finger on the ball because he used the right technique, one he

perfected in the off-season. That off-the-field work

has become crucial for Io-wa’s secondary, which lists Desmond King, John Low-dermilk, Jordan Lomax, and Greg Mabin as start-ers. It’s the kind of work that the Hawkeyes hope will come to the forefront when they take the field.

“The first thing we al-

Seek to leadSecondary nature

A lot goes into how Iowa’s secondary prepares for a game. Most of it goes unnoticed.

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By NICK VITTOREnvittore@uiowa.edu

Brian Bullington and Ian Vandersee are two elite golf veterans who have experienced the ups and downs of the sport. But no season would mean more to the two than this one, in which Iowa’s two senior men’s golfers hope to lead the team and possibly earn a berth at the NCAA championship.

Bullington has left his mark on the program already, earning second-team All-Big Ten honors last season with a 73.14 stroke average. In the off-sea-son ,he continued to earn impressive results, including at the Canadian Amateur, where he earned 13th-place and was tied for the lead after the first round.

“It was my first time playing outside of the United States,” the Frankfort, Il-linois, native said. “I gained a valuable experience in the process.”

Vandersee, who is from West Des Moines, also earned second-team All-Big Ten honors last season, averaging 73.32 per round.

Last month, he tied for seventh at the Iowa Amateur. Despite shooting a 76 in the first round, he followed up with round scores of 71 and 71 in a three-round tournament, finishing at 2-over.

“I wish I had played a better first

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Iowa defensive back John Lowdermilk chants the fight song after the game in Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana, on Nov. 9, 2013. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

FOOTBALL: POSITION PREVIEWS

FOOTBALL: POSITION PREVIEWS

Both Jake Rudock and C.J. Beathard might take snaps under center this season.

By DANNY PAYNEdaniel-payne-1@uiowa.edu

Following Iowa’s 8-5 2013-14 campaign that ended with a loss to LSU in the Outback Bowl, there was talk that the Hawkeyes would have an open competition at quarterback.

It didn’t last too long, however; offensive coordinator Greg Davis named Jake Rudock the starter early on in spring practice.

However, just because Rudock will enter his second-straight season under center doesn’t nec-essarily mean he will be the only guy taking snaps.

Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said backup C.J. Beathard could see some time this year if the situ-ation calls for it. Beathard played in five games last year, going 9-of-27 for 179 yards, 1 touchdown, and 2 interceptions. The Frank-lin, Tenn., native also added two scores on the ground.

“[Beathard] is a little bit differ-ent and offers a couple different things to his repertoire than may-be Jake does,” Ferentz said at Io-wa’s media day on Aug. 5. “… But if we can find a way to maybe get a competitive edge, make it tough-er for opponents to prepare, that

Iowa men’s golfers Brian Bullington and Ian Vandersee are optimistic about making their senior years count.

Yankees rout Royals in makeup game

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UPCOMING HAWKEYE SCHEDULE

Volleyball at Texas A&M, College Station, Texas, 10 a.m. FridayCross-Country at Drake Invitational, Des Moines, 5 p.m. FridaySoccer vs. Fresno State, Iowa Soccer Complex, 7 p.m. FridayVolleyball vs. Texas-San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. FridayFootball vs. Northern Iowa, Kinnick Stadium, 11 a.m. SaturdayField Hockey vs. Wake Forest, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1 p.m. Saturday

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Iowa quarterback Jake Rudock passes in Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 5, 2013. Rudock threw for 241 yards and completed 26-of-46 passes. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

New York Yankee Jacoby Ellsbury (left) is congratulated by teammates after hitting a 2-run home run in the ninth inning against Kansas City at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Monday. (Associated Press/Colin E. Braley)