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The tide goes out on university’s Seashore planBy CHRIS HIGGINSchristopher-higgins@uiowa.edu

AMES — Plans to renovate one of the University of Iowa’s oldest buildings will have to wait.

Officials announced at Tuesday’s state Board of Regents’ meeting new plans for modernizing Seashore Hall and its sur-roundings, which include building a new psychology facility nearby.

The proposal calls for $67.5 million in state funding over five years. The new

psychology building would require no leg-islative money; it would in-stead be paid for through donations and existing university resources.

Seashore, built in 1899 as the UI hospital, is the home of the Psychology Department.

“We’ve got folks who are actually stationed in former restrooms,” said Rod Leh-nertz, the director of planning, design, and

construction for UI Facilities Management. “The building is overcrowded and definitely outdated in its functions and value for the important programs that exist there.”

However, the regents took issue with its adherence to the academic and eco-nomic goals of the ongoing efficiency re-view, given its cost.

The regents voted to push its requested state funding stream back one year be-fore recommending it, along with a proj-ect by the University of Northern Iowa.

“Two of the presentations today were

basically remodeling outdated buildings,” said Regent Milt Dakovich. “That may or not be the right answer.”

Officials requested that funding begin in fiscal 2016 with $9 million, but it has been moved to 2017 under the regents’ recommendation. The new psycholo-gy-building construction is unaffected.

“The efficiency study’s never going to say that a 19th-century building is ade-quate,” Dakovich said. “What the efficien-

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By LINDSEY DRILLINGlindsey-drilling@uiowa.edu

Officials from the Iowa City police met with taxi drivers and owners to discuss new regulations about safety for cab drivers and their customers.

“The issues that have come to light during recent investigations are our objective …” said Iowa City police Sgt. Derek Frank. “Our goal is for safety not to cause hardships on the taxicab companies.”

Frank said new taxi regulations are still being planned and will not be presented to the Iowa City City Coun-cil just yet.

The police identified three main issues when it comes to public safety and taxi drivers during the Taxicab Ordinance Forum on Tuesday.

One of the issues discussed was that owners are not always able to provide accurate or timely information about the company’s current vehicles or oc-casionally even the drivers.

Solutions at the forum to solve cur-

rent issues included having compa-nies own all of their own cabs, as well as dispatch from an accessible office 24/7. By doing this investigating, offi-cers would be able to access taxi infor-mation at any time of day.

“Companies should have a log and be able to account for all their drivers and cars,” said Roman Schomanberg-er, a driver for Yellow Cab.

Roger Bradley, who owns Yellow Cab in Iowa City, said the business is working with new methods to help keep its customers safer.

“We are currently working with an outside company to help better train our drivers,” Bradley said.

Bradley said Yellow Cab is also one of the few companies that has GPS in all of its cars. The GPS locators help company officials know where their drivers and cars are.

Customers not always being able to identify authorized taxis and drivers was also addressed at the forum. The city recommends all drivers have Io-wa City-issued IDs in their cars.

Robin Reyes, owner of Red Line Cab, also said she would like to see an increase in safety measures this way. She added it would be beneficial for city color-coded ID cards to match the individual cab company’s colors.

Officials and company owners also discussed the necessity that each cab company is identifiable, using unique color schemes that are known by their customers.

Although sexual assault was not on the Taxicab Forum agenda, ma-ny owners and managers discussed pre-existing rules or programs for prevention.

Bradley said his company makes sure all the drivers are screened be-fore being hired. Their screening pro-cess includes a background check on criminal records and driving records.

Reyes said sexual assault is not tol-erated in her company.

“[If one of my drivers sexually as-saulted a customer], I would call the po-lice and have them arrested,” she said. “They would also be fired on the spot.”

Taxi drivers and owners met with officials from the Iowa City police to discuss public-safety issues.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jack Hatch speaks at the Sanctuary on Tuesday. Hatch was in Iowa City for a fundraiser. (The Daily Iowan/Lexi Brunk)

Arrests down on game dayBy NICK MOFFITTnicholas-moffitt@uiowa.edu

The University of Iowa police have seen a decrease in the number of ar-rests and citations in the first two home games, a trend other Big Ten schools have also experienced recently.

This year, the UI police have ar-rested or cited 26 people during their game-day operations, according to the department’s website. This number is significantly lower than the 74 report-ed last year after two home games.

These figures encompass game-day arrests, which include public intoxi-cation and interference with official acts, and citations, which include pos-

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The above graph reflects the changes in University of Iowa police arrests during the

first two games of the past two years.

Hopeful candidates focus on educationBy QUENTIN MISIAGquentin-misiag@uiowa.edu

The state’s two ma-jor-party gubernatorial candidates staked widely different posts into the state’s educational ground on Tuesday, signaled with public and private ap-pearances on how best to increase higher-education affordability and offer flexibility paying off in student-loan debt.

During a small gather-

ing in Iowa State Univer-sity’s Memorial Union and a stop at Drake University in Des Moines, Gov. Ter-ry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds announced new proposals to curb ris-ing college-education costs and offering up new ave-nues to pay off loan debt through a “fixed price” ini-tiative. They will stop at the University of Iowa on Thursday to discuss the same platform.

While approval will

still need to be sought by the governing body of the state’s flagship public uni-versities, the state Board of Regents, the proposal spearheaded by the five-term governor appears to side heavily with public institutions.

Two major cornerstones include a flat $10,000 price tag for a handful of pop-ular majors and at least 50 percent off the cost of

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Bradley Abraham, 29, Coralville, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Steven Abraham, 26, Coralville, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Kossigan Amouzou, 42, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 2605, was charged Aug. 13, Aug. 16, Aug. 19, Aug. 20, Aug. 22, Aug. 24, and Aug. 25 with vi-olating a no-contact domes-tic-abuse protection order.Caleb Anderson, 21, Springville, Iowa, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Kathleen Bangs, 18, Chica-go, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Austin Boyd, 22, Chariton, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Jesse Buchanan, 23, Mar-shalltown, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Cameron Cooper, 19, 2124 Burge, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Jason Dipple, 33, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 2402, was charged Aug. 28 with fifth-degree theft.Dustin Fobian, 33, 5302 American Legion Road, was charged Monday with driving with a suspended/canceled license.Grant Frieders, 18, 728C

Mayflower, was charged Sun-day with possession of a con-trolled substance and posses-sion of drug paraphernalia.Nicole Fritch, 21, 221 Hay-wood Drive, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Alex Gaddis, 20, 2614 Tri-ple Crown Lane Apt. 5, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Kevin Garza, 26, 721 E. Jef-ferson St. Apt. 5, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxica-tion.Tahnee Givhan, 28, Cedar Rapids, was charged Monday with criminal trespass.Lee Griebel, 44, Adel, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Dorothy Guise, 36, North Liberty, was charged Monday with a driving on a suspend-ed/canceled license.Abdiqani Haji Mohamud, 32, address unknown, was charged Aug. 30 with disor-derly conduct.Lawanda Harris, 39, Coralville, was charged Sun-day with OWI.Alexandra Haunsperger, 26, Marshalltown, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with posses-sion of an open container of alcohol in public.Makenzie Holt, 21, Coryd-on, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Matthew Hubbard, 31, ad-

dress unknown, was charged May 5 with second-degree theft.Shawn Johnson, 31, Cedar Rapids, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Racheal Jones, 24, 2730 Wayne Ave. Apt. 1, was charged Sunday with driving with a suspended/canceled license.Gregory Lange, 19, N225 Hillcrest, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Jose Lopez, 18, N301 Hill-crest, was charged Sept. 2 with possession of a con-trolled substance.Mitchell McElmell, 19, 1636 E. Court St., was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Aaron McKinnis, 23, Dav-enport, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.Carter Neilsen, 18, 738 Slat-er, was charged Sept. 5 with possession of drug parapher-nalia.Jaccob O’Connor, 20, 3217 Hawk Ridge Drive Apt. 3217, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Anthony Olivieri, 18, 2216 Quandrangle, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of drug paraphernalia.Amy Price, 25, North Liber-ty, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Ronal Rarey, 63, address un-known, was charged Aug. 27 with public intoxication.Coleman Rhatigan, 21, 515 S. Dodge St., was charged

Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Anthony Russell, 23, 2635 Roberts Road Apt. 2A, was charged Sept. 5 with fourth-degree theft.Blair Schoell, 30, Ingleside, Illinois, was charged Sept. 6 with possession of an open container of alcohol in public.Daniel Seibert, 42, Burling-ton, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication and interference with offi-cial acts.Devin Simpson, 26, Mus-catine, was charged Sept. 3 with unlawful use of a driver’s license.Devonte Stevenson, 21, 917 Harlocke St. Apt. 1, was charged Sunday with domes-tic abuse.Daniel Tatge, 22, 40 S. John-son St. Apt. 1, was charged Sept. 6 with keeping a disor-derly house.Jennifer Vasser, 30, Chicago, was charged Sept. 6 with pos-session of an open container of alcohol in public.Travis Weber, 27, Jesup, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Kevin Watts, 59, North Liber-ty, was charged Sept. 3 with third-degree harassment.Nolan Winans, 44, Vinton, Iowa, was charged Sept. 6 with public intoxication.Dustin Zook, 38, 1324 E. Dav-enport St., was charged Sept. 6 with OWI.

In the Sept. 9 story “Senate moves ahead on Citizens United,” The Daily Iowan incorrectly wrote that a consti-tutional amendment must be ratified by two-thirds of the states. It must be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures. The DI regrets the error.

Regents give thumbs up to new dorm

AMES — A new dorm will soon rise in Iowa City.

Officials requested at the state Board of Regents’ meeting in Ames on Tuesday that the board approved a new 800-bed residence hall costing $80 million to $90 million. It would be built on the site of the old Iowa City Water Plant, west of the north campus parking ramp on Madison Street.

Officials are still debating whether to expand Burge dining hall at a cost of $10 million to $12 million or to include dining facilities in the new dorm.

Petersen Residence Hall on the West Side is due to be completed by the fall of 2015.

Regents OK Coralville property deal

AMES — The state Board of Regents voted to approve a University of Iowa request to purchase two Coralville properties on Tuesday.

Officials said both the university and private buyers have looked into the property for years. The UI does not have an immediate use for the properties, which together cost $1.45 million.

It has paid $25,000 in good faith money to the owners and will now spend an additional $100,000 to that end with regent approval within 45 days.

The properties are located at 707 First Ave. near UIHC River Landing Clinic and the Marriott Hotel. They currently house a motel with an adjoining parking lot.

The university will not close on the deal for two years, officials said.

Regents back Hawkeye Court demolition

AMES — Hawkeye Court is no more.Regents agreed to allow the Univer-

sity of Iowa to remove the remainder of the Hawkeye Court graduate-student apartment complex from its housing system.

It has stood empty ever since a portion was demolished to make way for the new Aspire at West Campus graduate-student complex, which officials have deemed a success.

Construction company Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions has decided to exercise its option to construct, own, operate, and maintain Phase II of the Aspire project. The university antici-pates an agreement will be completed by the spring of 2015.

Nineteen buildings with 180 apart-

ment units total will be demolished.

Hospital ramp budget revised

AMES — A new University of Iowa parking ramp has cost more than officials expected.

Officials requested approval for a revised budget for the UI Hospitals and Clinics parking ramp 2 replace-ment, which was granted.

It was originally set to cost $66.2 million, but that figure has increased to $75.8 million. The change results from several unanticipated design changes as well as delays from extreme winter weather.

The UIHC will provide cash to the parking system to cover the increase.

— by Chris Higgins

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The University of Io-wa Student Government on Tuesday decided to continue the debate on whether to endorse a raise in the UI cultural arts fee.

The legislation pro-posed an increase of $5 per student, bringing the cultural arts fee from

$12 to $17 each semes-ter. This will increase funding to $350,000 per year.

The money is used to pay for production, la-bor, and other expenses necessary for putting on performances.

Alan MacVey, the di-rector of the UI Divi-sion of Performing Arts, spoke with UISG at the beginning of the meet-

ing, urging the members to consider endorsing the legislation.

He noted that funding for performing arts de-creases annually, while the need for more money increases.

Upon voting on the endorsement of the cul-tural arts fee, UISG sen-ators were reminded to consider the importance of proposed fee increases

and to vote to endorse only those that seemed necessary for the UI’s well-being.

MacVey said com-pared with other Big Ten schools, the UI has the lowest student tick-et prices for arts events.

Voting on whether to endorse increasing the cultural arts fee was ta-bled until the next UISG meeting.

UISG delays arts-fee decision

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cy study’s going to recom-mend is that integration between the physical facil-ity and our education-de-livery component to ascer-tain the wisest thing to do with that building.”

Iowa State University’s timeline for its suggested student innovation center remains unchanged.

“There were several el-ements of that one that more mirrored the things that we’re talking about,” Dakovich said.

He said the Iowa State’s new building is in line with ideals of the efficiency study.

He pointed to the inno-vation center’s ability to be used by numerous dis-ciplines and use of tech-nology. He also said its re-duced use of state money was a secondary factor.

Lehnertz and Dakovich were both mum on specify-ing what could and should change in the next year to satisfy the regents.

The Seashore plan is pre-liminary, and details still need to be ironed out. The first couple of million dol-lars would be used to create an opening cash flow.

“We won’t just wipe the whole lot clean,” Lehnertz said. “It would be the eas-iest thing to do, but we’re looking at making the high-est value of any decision

that occurs, and that could be a combination of demoli-tion and also modeling.”

Most building projects at the UI do not use state dollars, and officials tend to request them for con-struction on aging struc-tures, such as the Pharma-cy Building.

Seashore Hall has $28 million in deferred main-

tenance costs, and faculty who work inside say ren-ovation is long in coming.

“It clearly needs to be renovated functional-ly, aesthetically, and in every other way,” said UI psychology Profes-sor Alan Christensen. “I think that’s clear to everybody … it’s very embarrassing.”

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tuition in at least half of the majors offered at UI, ISU, and the University of Northern Iowa for in-state students, according to a campaign official.

For the current school year, in-state tuition and fees at Iowa State is $7,700. The rates at the UI and UNI are comparable.

Further details, includ-ing projected cost for the new education outlines, will be part of a revenue review set to be decided at the end of the year.

Just hours after Bran-stad’s announcement, Democratic challenger and state Sen. Jack Hatch slammed the five-term governor’s higher educa-tion roadmap, dubbing it a delayed and weak cam-paign promise that sin-gle-handedly neglects the state’s community colleges and private schools.

In a roundtable setting with The Daily Iowan, Hatch called Branstad’s education improvement answer “unrealistic and unworkable.”

“Today’s proposal is too little, too late,” Hatch, 64, said, maintaining that Branstad’s educational

endeavor relies too heav-ily on adjunct faculty and “will turn Iowa schools into the public university equivalent of the Univer-sity of Phoenix.”

In January, Hatch re-leased his higher-educa-tion guideline that includes a state-sponsored low-in-terest student-loan process and giving students the option to take any class at any Iowa college or univer-sity for equivalent credit under an “Open Doors Ac-celerated B.A. program.”

In his first year as gover-nor, Hatch said, he would like to usher in a third tu-ition freeze at the regents’ institutions, as well as de-

politicizing the regents by appointing a chancellor to assist in university presi-dential appointments and daily activities.

Hatch’s campaign oper-atives have submitted the contrasting education plan to UI President Sally Ma-son, ISU President Stephen Leath, and UNI President Paul Rudd, but have not pursued any discussions with them, Hatch said.

The real discussions would begin after the elec-tion, he said about com-munication with universi-ty administrators.

Regent President Bruce Rastetter, a loyal Bran-stad backer who has do-

nated to his re-election campaign, failed to return requests for comment by the DI Tuesday evening.

Albeit a more challeng-ing task to accomplish, students would also be able to dip into a pool of $150 million for low-inter-est student loans, if elect-ed, Hatch said.

Both the Hatch and Branstad plans may mull the opportunity to create dual-credit options for students in high school to earn college credit and incorporate a large online course platform. Texas and Florida have imple-mented similar programs.

Pointing to public con-

cern over the direction of Iowa’s national education reputation, UNI politi-cal-science Associate Pro-fessor Christopher Larim-er said Branstad could see a boost in favorability.

Although the announce-ment wasn’t necessary to hold his lead in several polls, he said, Branstad has to continue to show that he is leading the state.

“I don’t know if he’d be in danger of losing the election if he didn’t [intro-duce] it, but the public still wants him to be out there and active,” Larimer said, adding that education im-provements are often eyed as a bipartisan topic.

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session of alcohol under the legal age, possession of an open alcohol container, and public urination.

Charles Green, the as-sistant vice president for the UI police, said the on-ly thing that has changed from last year is the num-ber of staff that are pa-trolling, noting that the force lost several of the people on the stadium de-tail from last year.

“[It’s] based on weath-er, ticket sales, or even

the number of officers out there,” he said.

Green said the time of the game can also affect the number of problems the police see.

“The parking lots open at 6 a.m. regardless of when the game is, so the later the game, the longer people have to drink,” he said.

Michigan State Uni-versity and the Universi-ty of Nebraska-Lincoln, have seen a decrease in the number of incidents as well.

David Trexler, the depu-ty chief of police at Michi-gan State, said part of the

reason they have seen a decrease is a stricter set of tailgate rules that de-crease the incidence of larger parties.

“From my view, reason-able rules are the reason for it,” he said. “Kids are going to drink regardless, but if you limit the time and create a more family environment, it will re-duce numbers.”

Nebraska has seen something similar, said Koan Nissen, the educa-tion and personnel officer at University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln police.

Nissen said previously the university police sent

out teams to search for people with open contain-ers, minors in possession, and cases of public intoxi-cation. Over the last couple of years, the department has decided to reallocate its resources, something he said has decreased the number of incidents.

“Years ago… we used to crack down on consump-tion; I’m not sure that’s re-ally effective,” Nissen said.

Nissen said when there is a large number of people in the area, resources can be focused on things other than searching for offenses.

Green said that’s some-thing the UI police have to

take into account as well. UI police Capt. Loren

Noska said the department has to pull around 60 to 70 officers from surrounding areas who are used to help increase police presence around the stadium.

Green said the experi-ence of those officers on the stadium detail has a lot to do with the numbers of arrests and tickets.

He also said the status of the game is huge for what type of crowd offi-cials anticipate will come to the game.

“Sometimes, it is the opponent that matters,” Green said. “If Iowa plays

a top team in the Big Ten, those things can affect en-forcement.”

With the upcoming Io-wa State game, which is sold out, UI police expect an extra 30,000 to 40,000 people to be in the area around the stadium. This is something Green said they expect will bring a few challenges.

He said the number of of-ficers on duty will be a chal-lenge for the department.

“We are not trying to eliminate alcohol con-sumption for those of a legal age, just enforce the laws that are there,” Green said.

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The penitentiary sys-tem is one that no lon-ger serves its primary function. The focus has shifted from rehabilitat-ing offenders with the idea that they may tran-sition back into society. Instead, it has become a place to store those who have broken their social contract. Upon comple-tion of their sentences, many members of the incarcerated community quickly find there is no longer a place in society for them. Any sentence becomes a life sentence when one considers the

stigma that follows a convicted felon for the rest of her or his life.

With the goal of opening up a dialogue between the incarcer-ated and the rest of the Iowa community, the first Incarcerated in Iowa symposium was held this past weekend. Various projects were presented, ranging from ways to promote literacy and scholarship in the prisons to reducing the overall increase in the prison population. While I think this is great start in terms of what can be done for those in the sys-tem, there is something else that takes priority. The idea of giving skills to prisoners to use in the outside world is the equivalent of putting a Band-Aid on a broken arm, because for the large majority, they will

never be allowed a plat-form to use such skills.

More needs to be done for those members of the incarcerated population who, upon completion of their sentence, find difficulty in picking up where they left off. According to statistics from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, more than 50 percent of inmates serve 10 years or fewer, which means eventually they will return to society and be expected to carry on with their lives. When a prospective employer asks if they have a prior criminal conviction, their fate is basically sealed.

Lack of opportuni-ties and social stigma perpetuate a cycle that results in inmates fre-quently being re-incar-cerated. The most recent study from the Bureau

of Justice Statistics states, “three out of four former prisoners in 30 states were arrested within five years of their release.” If there aren’t any incentives to stay out of prison, how can one expect to reduce the prison population?

We cannot deal with unruly citizens by sim-ply locking them up and throwing away the key. It cannot be definitively said that every person released from prison will become a produc-tive member of society, but uncertainty is not grounds for denying him or her the opportu-nity. One poor decision should not mark people as guilty for the rest of their lives. If given the opportunity, we all have the potential to prove we can be more than our past choices.

On Sept. 6, President Obama released a state-ment announcing that he will hold off on any executive action regarding immigration reform until after the November elec-tions. The decision comes as a surprise considering the president had previ-ously vowed to act before the end of the summer.

As usual, the attacks started coming in on both sides.

Political organizations supporting immigration reform bashed Obama for pushing the decision back. Cristina Jimenez, the managing director of Unit-ed We Dream, said the de-cision was “another slap to

the face of the Latino and immigrant community.” Meanwhile, Republicans quickly asserted that this is just another political stunt to help save the Democrats in the Novem-ber elections. The presi-dent defended himself in an interview stating, “I want to spend some time, even as we’re getting all our ducks in a row for the executive action, I also want to make sure the public understands why we’re doing this.”

Regardless of whom you agree with, the delay adds even more uncertainty to an issue that seems to be-come increasingly difficult to resolve the more we talk about it.

As I was watching the bickering erupting on all sides of the political spectrum, I couldn’t help but wonder how this is possible in our society. A democracy is intended to be a form of government that evades a despotic

regime through the repre-sentation of its citizens.

The issue of immigra-tion reform is extremely controversial, and I’m sure that if Obama could pass immigration reform through Congress, he would have. In June, he stated that, “I take executive action only when we have a serious problem, a serious issue, and Congress chooses to do nothing.” Thus, the proposition becomes that if Congress doesn’t do what he wants (since he would still need to sign the bill), he will do it himself. The notion defeats the whole pur-pose of a representative democracy and vastly increases partisanship.

In all fairness, Obama is far from an executive-or-der power-user; he had signed 187 of them as of Aug. 20. In comparison, George W. Bush issued 291 and Franklin D. Roo-sevelt sits at a whopping

3,522 (the most of any president). The constitu-tional authority seems to come from a few lines in Article II, which dictate that the president “take care that the laws be faith-fully executed.”

Executive orders may have a place in our form of government, but they definitely create confu-sion. We have a system that’s already riddled with 1,000-page bills and a tax code that requires us to hire someone to under-stand it. Any additional uncertainty is uncalled for.

Obama was elected with a 51.1 percent of the popular vote in the last election. This still leaves 48.9 percent of voters who did not agree with his views and elected their own state representatives and senators to be their voice in Washington. The role of executive orders needs to be re-examined to preserve our voice in government.

OpiniOnsCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

— FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

Executive orders harm voters

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Recent technological breakthroughs have changed the U.S. energy landscape dramatically. The United States is now the world’s No. 1 producer of natural gas, and new oil is bringing new profits. Profit really is the key word here — the boom of American fuel has brought new jobs and is a prime reason the nation has risen out of the 2008 recession.

The technique respon-sible is called “fracking,” which involves using very high-pressure water to blast through rock, giving access to previously unavailable natural gas and petroleum reserves. The miracle technology doesn’t come without severe consequences. The dream technique becomes a nightmare for the local environment. Fracking destroys sediment, dis-rupts the ecosystem, and is especially harmful to the water systems in the surrounding area. Natural gas leaks into the ground water, killing wildlife and even leading to scenarios in which the local population is poisoned.

The environmental hazards to both the habitat and humans are far reach-ing. Very few know how devastating it can be more than the people of Loui-siana and the other Gulf Coast states.

BP is making headlines again for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico four years ago. Not only are local economies still re-covering all this time later, but massive negligence was involved in the spill itself. BP faces penalties in the tens of billions … But to its profit margin, that isn’t too big a deal. Besides, it has enough friends in D.C. to avoid paying penalties like that, at least in full. What’s

the point of these penal-ties if they clearly have not deterred negligence in the past, for BP or any oil company operating in the United States?

There has to be a better way to dissuade this sort of destruction — even if it means dampening the economic growth of some corporate executives’ bank accounts. Which brings us to the questions that we have to ask ourselves? What is more important to us, the citizens of the United States? Jobs and economic output or ecosys-tems and public health?

The greatest poll in the United States, the pres-idential election, is right around the corner.

Democrats have been established environmen-talists for a while now, and that trend does not appear to be changing any time soon. Across the aisle, however, is considerable opposition. One Republican candidate is in support of the cleaner, safer, and eco-nomically viable of alter-native energy: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

This against-the-grain ideology could threaten his favorability as a candidate for the GOP, but it may sway independent voters to back him.

The effect would be big nationally, but locally, it could also be very powerful. Companies such as Alliant Energy and MidAmerican Energy are building wind farms across Iowa, creating jobs for trained, specialized workers.

What is in our best interests? I think the three can live harmoniously, but only when environment is put in the driver’s seat. When we focus on better-ing the environment, we can choose economically lucrative options. When we unify behind protecting our homeland from destruction, we can help bridge the par-tisan gap and work toward a common goal. You don’t have to be an environmen-talist to care about your backyard, your local parks, your state’s showpieces, and your nation’s beauty.

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Iowa’s Democratic candidate for governor, Sen. Jack Hatch, D-Des Moines, met with the Daily Iowan Editorial Board on Tuesday to discuss ed-

ucation reform. The difference the candidates’ stances could determine who receives the majority of the stu-dent vote in the upcoming election.

Hatch released his plan for higher education reform last fall. “Open Doors for Iowa Students” is a plan that focuses on providing accelerated learning, a streamlined system for transferring credits among institutions, and a locked tuition rate for four years. By focusing on ac-celerated learning, Hatch aims to reduce the amount of time students need to be enrolled in college while still maintaining appropriate standards of education. By ensuring these standards are agreed upon by all high-er-learning institutions, Hatch wants to give students the ability to transfer credits between institutions.

One proposal Hatch strongly focused on is the prem-ise of locked tuition. This is the idea that students will pay one tuition rate for their four-year college career, protecting them from rising college costs.

Hatch also spoke about his plans for rewarding graduates who volunteer by reducing their student loan debt.

He emphasized that he wants to reward exception-al students rather than incentivize volunteering. He believes there is no sense in giving students incentive for doing something that is already grounded in our roles as citizens, though this proposal seems some-what at odds with that view. We hope to see more de-tails of this incentive program.

Hatch also wants to cut student costs by 25 percent across the board. This is a very lofty goal, and the DI Editorial Board questions whether this is feasible. Although accelerated learning within and among in-stitutions, along with the novel idea of maintaining a single tuition for four years, seems to be great starting points, these proposals will need to be offset by funding increases for state universities to account for lost tui-tion, something that may not be possible depending on the partisan makeup of the state Legislature.

Hatch’s opponent, five-term Republican Gov. Ter-ry Branstad, just released his plan for higher-educa-tion reform. Branstad’s plan includes offering a fixed $10,000 degree for four majors and the chance for stu-dents to reduce their debt by volunteering at the local level through a Student Debt Organization. These flat-rate degrees would fall within the most popular ma-jors, though specifics have yet to be worked out.

Hatch expressed his concern about Branstad’s plan, comparing the flat-rate model to the for-profit educa-tion model used by institutions. For-profit universities account for 13 percent of the U.S. student population, but they are responsible for more than half of stu-dent-loan defaults. Turning the current public uni-versity model into the for-profit model will not benefit students in the long run.

The Editorial Board believes the sanctity of educa-tion should trump the business of learning, and politi-cians must realize this. We believe Hatch has the right idea on higher education but hope he fleshes out his proposals to prove their viability.

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Iowa City school board examines diversity policyThe Iowa City school board discussed the diversity policy’s place in the new zoning process.

Bank shows off history

On Sept. 5, MidWestOne Bank saw the removal of scaffolding and the reveal of new cornices, orna-mental features, around the top of the building that are reminiscent of the original building design in 1912.

Construction so far is on sched-ule and within the budget, the bank’s Executive Vice President Kent Jehle said.

In June, the building’s top three floors were completed with modern finishes while maintaining the integrity of the building’s history.

The final project will showcase

the importance of the preservation of historical buildings in downtown Iowa City, Downtown District Director Nancy Bird said.

The renovations bear efficiency in mind with automatic lights and desks that can be elevated electron-ically for ease of use.

“I think they've done a great job

maintaining the character of the original building and mixing it in with all of the fittings of a modern facility,” said Jeff Davidson, the city economic-development director.

Founded in 1934, MidWestOne Bank has had its headquarters in Iowa City for 80 years.

Over the years, the bank has

seen several updates. With the building being on the National His-toric Register, it has been important to restore the historic character of the building.

For the fourth through sixth floors, construction crews were able to reuse materials at a rate of 70 percent, Jehle said.

The bank plans to make its summer 2016 deadline for the completion of the basement, lobby, second, and third floors as well as its 1984 addition.

MidWestOne also plans to com-plete construction of a branch bank in River Crossings in June 2015.

— by Christian Hahn

By MITCH MC ANDREWmitch-mcandrew@uiowa.edu

After a lengthy discus-sion about the future of its diversity policy, the Iowa City School Board approved several mo-tions Tuesday night that deal with the policy’s implications with the at-tendance areas.

The board approved the new attendance-ar-ea proposal, which was made by Superintendent Steve Murley, with the exception of Brecken-ridge and Longfellow El-

ementary Schools. The proposal aims to

rezone enrollment areas surrounding elementary schools in anticipation of the new elementary schools due to open in the next six years.

District officials be-gan working on the plan earlier this year. Start-ing this past summer, the board held listening posts to receive feedback from Iowa City commu-nity members.

The last listening post was held Monday.

“We made progress to-

night with the approval of the new zones,” board President Chris Lynch said.

Board members also approved closing open enrollment in the high schools and disallowing open transfer at sever-al elementary schools because of a scarcity of open seats in classrooms. In addition, the board made open transferring at the elementary level to be an annual applica-tion process.

Once the planned new schools are completed,

students living in that respective school’s at-tendance area will be required to attend that particular school.

These votes came on the tail end of a lengthy dialogue about the new attendance area zones and the challenges they present for upholding the board’s diversity pol-icy.

“Given the constraints in the districts, it seems impossible to meet the demands of the diversi-ty policy,” board member Jeff McGinness said.

The policy, adopted by the board in February 2013, lists several goals for the district in regards to its students’ socioeco-nomic status, namely students who receive free or reduced price lunches.

The policy aims to maintain a gap of no more than 10 percent between high-school stu-dents that receive free or reduced lunch and students that do not. For junior high and elemen-tary schools, the pursued gap is 15 percent.

The policy presents a

challenge when drawing attendance areas as low-er-income students are not so evenly distribut-ed throughout the city, board member Tuyet Dorau said.

The board later dis-cussed the role of sur-rounding municipalities in assisting with this problem, suggesting a collaboration for more inclusionary zoning pro-cesses.

“We need help with this issue; it is not limit-ed to the school system,” Dorau said.

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Harkin’s last hurrah By CASSIDY RILEYcassidy-riley@uiowa.edu

This year marks the end of Sen. Tom Harkin’s 40-year career serving Iowans in the U.S. Congress. But for Democrats around the country, 2014 also means an end to an event that has acquired nearly as much fame as its eponym.

The 37th Harkin Steak Fry will be the last such event at the National Balloon Classic Balloon Field in Indianola, Iowa, on Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. The event is known for attracting powerhouse Democrats with an eye on the White House to the first-in-the-nation caucus state and has often served as a launching pad for campaigns.

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“You show up at a Harkin Steak Fry, and you’re a national Democrat, that sig-nals to people in Iowa and around the country that you’re interested in running for president,” said David Yepsen, the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University and an Iowa native who covered politics for more than 30 years at the Des Moines Register.

This year’s speakers include former Secretary of State and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her hus-band, former President Bill Clinton. The event will be her first visit to Iowa since finishing third in the 2008 caucuses.

First held in 1972, the Steak Fry began

as a small fundraiser on a farm in Mad-ison County for 32-year-old Harkin run-ning for a seat in the U.S. House of Repre-sentatives. Until the 1990s, the informal picnic was held on an irregular basis, but since then, it has been a must-go event for Democratic presidential hopefuls to test their chances in Iowa.

In the past 20 years, the event was only canceled once — in 2001 because of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Speakers at the event have included Bill Clinton, who first visited in 1992, when he was running for president against President George H.W. Bush and also appeared in 1996 and 2003; former Vice President Al Gore in 1999, while he was also vying for the Democratic nomi-nation; and President Obama, who made his first appearance in Iowa as a junior Illinois senator at the 2006 Steak Fry.

The Steak Fry has been known to at-tract thousands of loyal Democrats. It was widely reported in 2007 that 15,000 people turned out to see the many candi-dates hoping for a win in 2008 — includ-ing then-Sen. Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Obama, at that time a former state senator from Chicago.

The event is organized and paid for by the Iowa Democratic Party and the To Organize a Majority PAC. All profits are split evenly between the two entities. The event is open to anyone who buys a tick-et, and party leaders say they expect a strong turnout this year in honor of Har-kin’s retirement.

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While the Steak Fry has meant a lot to national politics over the years, active Iowa Democrats say they, too, have fond memories.

Sue Dvorsky, a former chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Party, said she par-ticularly remembers 1992. She recalls husband Sen. Bob Dvorsky, D-Coralville, and their two daughters waiting in line to meet Bill Clinton.

“Just before he got to us, they had him go to the car,” she said.

For days, her oldest daughter, Ann — who is 24 today and the current finance director for the Iowa House Truman Fund — tried to call the White House on her toy phone to speak with the president.

Another memorable year was 2011, when political consultant Paul Begala, part of President Clinton’s administration, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., spoke.

“It was raining; we were all huddled un-der tents, and literally, the rain was being driven in horizontally,” Dvorsky said.

Christopher Larimer, an associate pro-fessor of political science at the Univer-sity of Northern Iowa, said the event has served as a tool to engage voters in the form of retail politics Iowans expect.

“They expect to be able to walk up to a candidate who’s eating lunch and talk to them one-on-one without any cameras around, without any script,” he said.

The Steak Fry has also been a fun way to reward the volunteers who work for the

party, said Gerene Denning, the head of the Johnson County Democrats.

“When you have a largely volunteer or-ganization, it’s particularly important to appreciate that — to be able to have that fun,” she said. “It can’t just all be work.”

Scott Brennan, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, said that while this will be the last Harkin Steak Fry, party lead-ers hope to maintain a similarly fun event. If Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, is elected to take Harkin’s place this November, Bren-nan said, the Bruce, Blues, and BBQ event may serve as a suitable replacement.

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Many say they look forward to honoring Harkin’s long career at his last Steak Fry.

“The Steak Fry has been a staple in Iowa for as long as I can remember, and I know thousands of Iowans – myself in-cluded – cherish the opportunity to come together and celebrate Tom and Ruth and all they have done for our state,” Braley was quoted as saying in an email.

More so this year than any other, the event is about paying respect to the man who made the Iowa Democratic Party what it is today, Dvorsky said.

“The highlight of the event is him,” she said. “It always has been. Tom Harkin re-ally is a beloved figure.”

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Branstad stretches lead in poll

Gov. Terry Branstad commands a strong 22-point lead over Democratic challenger Jack Hatch, according to a new poll released by Loras College.

The poll, conducted Sept. 2-5, indicates that 55.5 percent of respondents support the incumbent governor, while 33.5 support Hatch. This is a slight increase from the Loras College poll distributed after the June primaries. In that poll, Branstad led Hatch 51.7 to 37.8 percent.

Respondents were also asked about whether they thought the country and the state were on the right track or wrong direction. A majority of respon-dents said they believed the country was going in the wrong direction, while a larger majority said they believed Iowa was on the right track.

The Loras College Poll surveyed 1,200 likely voters. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 2.82 percent.

— by Kristen East

Gov. Branstad to appear on UI campus

Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will stop by the Univer-sity of Iowa campus on Thursday for a campaign event.The event will start at 2 p.m. in 181 IMU. Branstad is running for his sixth nonconsecutive term as governor.

His Democratic opponent, Jack Hatch, was in Iowa City on Tues-day night for a fundraiser with Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City.

3rd Congressional District candidates to debate

Candidates vying for retiring Rep. Tom Latham’s seat will face off on Thursday evening in a debate spon-sored and broadcast by Iowa Public Television. The long-serving Republican will be succeeded by either Democrat Staci Appel, a former state senator, or Republican David Young, a former chief of staff to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The debate will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Iowa Western Community College Arts Center in Council Bluffs. The de-bate is open to the public, but it can also be viewed live on TV, as well as streamed online through iptv.org.

Last Harkin Steak Fry on Sept. 14

The 37th Harkin Steak Fry will also serve as the last for retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will attend the Steak Fry as featured speakers. This is the third Steak Fry for Bill Clinton and the second for Rodham Clinton. The event will take place on Sept. 14 in Indianola, Iowa, at the National Balloon Classic Balloon Field from 1-4 p.m. Gates will open at 12:30 p.m.

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UI group works for wishes

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This year’s University of Iowa Wish Makers organization has more members than ever before. By ALYSSA GUZMANalyssa-guzman@uiowa.edu

In the past four years, the University of Iowa Wish Makers has been able to grant two wishes.

However, with an increase in the number of members, the group hopes to grant an-other wish this year.

“This year, we’ve had more people at our meet-ings than we’ve ever had before,” said UI sophomore and Wish Makers Fund-raising Director Taylor Scudder.

Each wish costs ap-proximately $8,200, and it is the goal of the Wish Makers to raise $5,000 this year to help grant the wish of a child.

Wish Makers is dedicat-ed to helping children with life-threatening illnesses and their families make lasting memories through support groups and fund-raising to grant wishes.

Scudder said she be-lieves a significant con-tribution to the success of the first meeting is that the Wish Makers members were able to attend both of the fair days and volun-teer days to reach out to incoming freshmen.

Last year, the members were not able to do that.

UI junior Daisy Clymer, the Wish Makers execu-tive director, said there are around 100 members this year who are actively involved. She hopes that those 100 members are able to branch out to their friends and family.

UI freshman Olivia Carey heard about the UI Wish Makers through a friend and decided to join.

“I’ve always wanted to be a part of Make a Wish, and making [children’s] wishes come true is very important to me,” she said.

In order to make the children’s wishes come

true, lots of fundraising is necessary.

The Wish Makers is a nonprofit organization, so all funds raised go straight to the child whose wish the members work toward granting.

Scudder is in charge of coming up with a new fundraising idea every month. For the month of September, she de-cided that a scavenger hunt would be a great way to start.

Ideally, Scudder wants students to form teams of five people and pay a $5 entrance fee.

Students will go around and find different things on campus and take photo-graphic proof, which Scud-der also thinks will be beneficial for freshmen in getting to know the cam-pus better. The winners will receive a gift card.

Another event that Scudder and Clymer

said they are looking forward to is the annual Walk for Wishes, which will be a Halloween theme on Oct. 25.

“We’re going to target it toward the communi-ty and students,” Clymer said. “Essentially, people can come dressed in their costumes, and we’ll have UI Wish Makers hand out candy and do other activities.”

Clymer said the second wish the UI Wish Mak-ers successfully granted was based purely on the money they raised at the Walk for Wishes; the en-trance fee is $20 per per-son, which went toward the $5,000 goal.

Scudder said she thinks the increase in numbers will make this goal more attainable.

“Hopefully, we can reach our goal this year because there are so many people,” she said.

By CHRIS HIGGINSchristopher-higgins@uiowa.edu

Iowa needs to do a bet-ter job of taking steps to reduce agricultural nutri-ent pollution, according to a recent Environmental Protection Agency report.

A recent EPA inspec-tor-general report found that 12 states need to take stronger action in monitoring and strate-gizing methods to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into the Mississippi River.

Such nutrients, used in agriculture for fertil-ization, wash off into the Gulf of Mexico, which has created a hypoxic “dead zone,” or one of low-ox-ygen, in the Gulf, which kills off marine life.

In 2008, the national Hypoxia Task Force called on river states to reduce their nutrient loads by 45 percent. However, the av-erage size of the dead zone has not budged.

The report said states are in the process of devel-oping plans to address the problem, but they need more weight behind them.

Iowa does not have a timeline set for achieving the 45 percent goal, which John Lawrence, director of the Iowa Nutrient Re-

search Center, said is to be expected, given the magnitude of the required changes in agricultural practice and cyclical farm economy.

“It’s not just a few bad actors making some small changes, it is a dramat-ic change in the way we farm,” he said. “We’re po-tentially talking decades, depending on what the practice might be.”

The Iowa Legislature has devoted nearly $45 million since 2013 to im-proving water quality and more than $4 million in cost-share subsidies to en-courage farmers to change practices.

Johnson County farmer Russell Meade has taken advantage of some of the subsidies as well as mak-ing independent changes.

He said he has invested in soil scanning to bet-ter distribute fertilizer, installed runways and native plants, and has transitioned to no-tillage farming on erodible land.

“I think most farmers have it on their minds,” Meade said, noting farm organizations have spread information about the is-sue.

He, like Lawrence, stressed patience.

“It’s one of those things

that doesn’t have an over-night fix, and I think what’s hard for the pub-lic to understand is that this is something that is going to be measured in years and decades versus months,” he said.

He said farmers have made efforts to reduce nutrient use for their own economic benefits, and farmers are producing more food with less nutri-ents than 20 years ago.

Minnesota is the only involved state out of 12 to have set a timeline for reduction. However, it did so under a reduced “inter-im” plan of a 20 percent reduction in nitrogen and 25 percent in phosphorus by 2025, said University of Minnesota agriculture Professor David Mulla.

“Right now, we don’t feel that it’s technologically feasible or economically feasible to try to attain that 45 percent reduc-tion,” he said. “We need other technologies that we don’t have right now in order to reach the higher goals.”

Mulla said Iowa and Minnesota are the only two states to have put sig-nificant legislative fund-ing toward researching and fixing the issue.

Lawrence said there is

disconnect between the media and annual agricul-tural schedule.

“We live in a 24/7 news cycle,” he said. “The farm-ers get one crop a year, and so the farmer may be making changes, it’s just that you won’t see that until a year from now.”

Scudder said she thinks the increase in numbers will make this goal more attainable.

“Hopefully, we can reach our goal this year because there are so many people,” she said.

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Transfer dovetails with golf team

Frosh V-baller opens some eyes

By COURTNEY BAUMANNcourtney-baumann@uiowa.edu

Wisconsin transfer Jessie Jordan has found herself a

place in Iowa City. The senior golfer from

Urbana, Ohio, will play in her first meet as a Hawkeye on Saturday and Sept. 14 at

the Fossum Invitational in East Lansing, Michigan.

Following the 2012-13 sea-son, Jordan transferred from Wisconsin after contacting

Iowa head coach Megan Menzel. Jordan said she has loved her time in Iowa.

“Jessie was a good fit for us,” Menzel said. “She had some good junior playing experience, and we felt good about her coming to Iowa. We thought she would be able to contribute and help us out.”

In high school, Jordan had an impressive résumé. She finished sixth her se-nior year in the Division II Ohio State High School Golf Championship and led her team to a sixth-place fin-ish overall. She was named Southwestern Ohio Player of the Year that same year and qualified for the USGA Women’s Amateur Public Links tournament as well as the Callaway Junior World Championships twice.

Although Jordan has not seen college action yet, she is excited to compete this weekend as an individual rather than for the team.

“It gives you a bit more freedom,” she said. “When you’re playing as a team, your teammates rely on you.”

Jordan believes that play-ing as an individual will be a good thing going into her first tournament as a Hawkeye. She said that the lessened pressure will giver her a good starting point.

Assistant coach Todd Selders agreed. He said playing as an individual would be good experience for her starting out the season.

“I think it’s more pres-sure when you play as a part of a team. There will be pressure, of course, be-cause it is her first event and she will be nervous, a little bit, but we will coach her the best we can through it,” Selders said.

Jordan has been doing what she can in order to prepare for the tournament in East Lansing.

“I’ve just been getting out to the course as much as I can,” Jordan said. “I’ve been working on a few mechani-

cal things before I head into the weekend so I can rely on feel … and getting my classes in order so I can be ready to go.”

Selders also noted her the work Jordan has put in, saying that she has been working hard in the practices the coaches have planned for the week and has been doing a good job getting ready for her first tournament in a while.

Becoming a Hawkeye seems like it has come easily to Jordan, and both the golf-er and Menzel said that the transition into the Iowa golf program has gone smoothly.

“Jessie is a hard worker and she’s got a great per-sonality so we really just enjoy having her around,” Menzel said.

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Hawkeye senior golfer Jessie Jordan hits the ball on the fairway during practice at Finkbine on Tuesday. (The Daily Iowan/Peter Kim)

The powerful 6-3 hitter was named to All-Tournament team during her début weekend.By KYLE MANNkyle-mann@uiowa.edu

Jess Janota was a highly regarded athlete coming from Ohio, and she’s always been a little ahead of her competition. When former Iowa head coach Sharon Dingman signed Janota, she pre-dicted a relatively easy transition process.

Perhaps nobody would have expected, howev-er, just how quickly she would become an impact player.

“We knew plenty about her,” Iowa Head Coach Bond Shymansky said. “I knew she was a capable middle, but we had this idea this pre-season to train her on the right side and see how it would go. I had no idea it would turn in-to what it did.”

At 6-3, Janota is an imposing figure to have in the middle, but Shy-mansky’s experiment to move her outside has paid off immensely. Her size, along with her exceptional strength and athleticism, makes Janota a dynamic weap-on on the right side.

“Sometimes tall play-ers are tall, and lanky, and thin, and weak, but Jess is very strong. So as a blocker, she’s a shut-down blocker,” Shyman-sky said. “Then you add on top of that that she hits like a thug — she just beats on the ball — when you hit that hard, good things happen.”

Both Dingman and Shymansky were aware that Janota was a tal-ented player with loads of potential. She was a standout athlete all throughout high school and was All-State cal-iber in more than just volleyball.

Perhaps some of Jano-ta’s athletic prowess comes from her basket-ball background; she was a post player at Gilmour Academy in Concord, Ohio, and was named third-team All-State as a senior.

“I did actually think I was going to play bas-ketball in college,” Jano-ta said. “But between about my sophomore and junior years, I kind of switched my focus.”

Right about that time, she blossomed as a vol-leyball player, and she went on to be first-team All-Ohio during her ju-nior and senior year. She was also an Un-der Armour All-Amer-ican nominee and was

a member of the 2012 USA Women’s Nation-al Training Team, the first steps to someday playing volleyball as an Olympian.

Despite her accom-plishments, Janota came to Iowa with hu-mility.

“I didn’t r e a l l y know what to expect,” she said. “I was just c o m i n g here trying to make the transi-tion as easily as possi-ble. It seems to be going pretty well for now.”

Indeed, it does. After her first two weekends as a college player, the freshman is second on the team with 2.6 kills

per set and 52 kills overall, behind only Alex Lovell. She is al-so third with 18 blocks overall and .9 per set. She was also named to the All-Tournament team at the Texas A&M Tournament.

“It’s definitely a good start. I obviously couldn’t have done it without the rest of the team,” Janota said. “I think it’s just a starting point, and I’m ready to go up from there.”

Early in her Hawkeye career, Janota has made an impression on her el-der teammates.

“She’s done a really great job of terminat-ing the ball,” senior Alessandra Dietz said. “When we need a big swing, we can count on Jess to terminate the

ball, and it’s really ex-citing to see a freshman come in and make that kind of impact on the court right away.”

She arrived as a promising recruit, but one mere position switch later, Janota has become an impact play-er much sooner than ex-pected.

“She’s really dynam-ic over there and has been a force, so that’s a testament to her,” Shy-mansky said. “She’s one of the best surprises we’ve had from a per-sonnel standpoint; she’s been a real hidden gem for our lineup.”

Follow @KyleFMann on Twitter for news, updates, and analysis about the Iowa volley-ball team.

Transfer Jessie Jordan is adjusting easily to the Hawkeye golf program.

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UI men’s golf, by the numbersBy NICK VITTOREnvittore@uiowa.edu

The following is a num-bers-driven feature about the Iowa men’s golf team.

There are many ways to preview a season, whether through pre-dictions, carefully cal-culating what needs to happen during each competition to win, or another method.

Another way is to look at similarly ranked teams — both past and present — and provide context based on those numbers.

The Iowa men’s golf team is ranked 36th by the Golf Coaches Asso-ciation of America head-ing into the 2014-15 sea-son. Reigning champion Alabama is tied with runner-up Oklahoma State for first place.

The Big Ten’s top ranked team is No. 6 Illi-nois, the sole conference representative in the top 25, followed by Purdue at No. 35 and Iowa at No. 36. Iowa State is No. 37. The Boilermakers and Hawkeyes are sepa-rated by just two votes, while the Hawks and Cyclones are separated

by five, 18-13. But the Cyclones finished tied for fourth in their NCAA regional and qualified for the NCAA champi-onships last year, unlike the Hawks.

The turning point for the Iowa program was 2008-09, where the Hawkeyes returned to the NCAA champion-ships for the first time in 14 years and finished 17th. Iowa has reached that tournament in three of the last six sea-sons, most recently in 2011.

The 2009-10 team came 1 stroke short of a repeat appearance at NCAAs. The next year, Iowa redeemed itself with the best season in program history, ascend-ing from a preseason rank of No. 35 to fin-ish tied for 10th in the 30-team NCAA champi-onships. Iowa finished tied for fourth place in the 14-team NCAA re-gional. Since that peak, the Hawkeyes have fin-ished as follows:

• In 2011, they went in 19th and qualified for the NCAA champion-ships, in which they fin-ished tied for 22nd.

• In 2012, their pre-

season rank was No. 33, and they finished 11th in the Southeast Regional.

• In 2013, the Hawkeyes went into the season ranked 42nd and finished ninth in the 14-team Columbia Re-gional.

How does Iowa com-pare with other teams ranked in the mid-30s this year? Last season, Purdue had a much stronger regional perfor-mance, finishing third in the NCAA Central Regional. However, the Boilermakers earned a lackluster 27th-place finish at the NCAA championships.

Iowa State qualified for the big dance at the Columbia Regional by a 9-stroke margin. Howev-er, the Cyclones finished 25th — five slots from last place.

If this year’s poll is in-dicative of the region’s strength, Iowa will need to play its best to secure a championship berth. Oklahoma State, Arkan-sas, LSU, and Virginia are all in Iowa’s NCAA region and each is in the preseason top-25. With the exception of Virgin-ia, each of those schools qualified last year.

The 2014-15 men’s golf season will kick off on Sept. 14 at the Golfweek Conference Challenge in Burlington.

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their film, you see how they interact with the sideline, how they inter-act with our players. Then you get in the first game, and they talk so much so it doesn’t take that long to really get used to the rivalry and not like them.”

Alston is from New Jer-sey, but said that didn’t mat-ter when it came to learning to hate the Cyclones. From Day One, the linebacker said, he realized how much the rivalry means.

One of his teammates, however, learned about the rivalry a different way.

“Being in there the first time, it was a big expe-rience, a lot of people out there,” Iowa wide receiver

Damond Powell said. “I didn’t know they hate us like that, and I got to be a part of that, so that was different.”

Stopping the runBoth quarterbacks Io-

wa has faced this sea-son — Northern Iowa’s Sawyer Kollmorgen and Ball State’s Ozzie Mann — have been one-dimen-sional. They strictly passed and were never expected to make plays with their feet.

That will change this week. Just like the Hawkeyes, the Cyclones’ leading rusher is the quar-terback, Sam Richardson, who has totaled 90 yards through two games and can hurt teams in more than one way.

Running backs Aaron Wimberly and DeVondrick

Nealy have each totaled fewer than 100 yards on the season.

That should play into Io-wa’s strengths, as the de-fense has allowed an aver-age of 57.5 rushing yards during the first two games.

“We want to be able to force teams to put the ball in the air, to get them off the ground,” Da-vis said. “They’re a good team. They competed well against Kansas State, and they have an explosive team. The quarterback is good. He can make plays. They’re going to come in ready to play.”

Jewell clearedJosey Jewell was cleared

to practice on Tuesday, ac-cording to Ferentz. The outside linebacker has been out with an injury

since the end of fall camp.“He’s been cleared.

That doesn’t mean he’ll be able to play effective-ly,” Ferentz said. “… At the very least, he can help us on special teams. We’re not the deepest

group right now at line-backer, so hopefully he’ll get involved in that.”

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dominant play last year, will play heavily into the coaches’ decision as to who will be named the starter for the Big Ten opener against Illinois and beyond.

“This year I think Kiley came in with more confi-dence; it’s her senior year and she earned it — Han-nah came in good as well,” assistant coach Julie Hanley said. “Kiley jumped out and

earned it, and I think Han-nah is getting back to where she was last year as well.”

While Beck and Clark seem to be the frontrun-ners for the position, fresh-man Tina Cardamone is not far behind the pair.

Cardamone has not seen any competitive action so far in her young college career, but Hanley was quick to lump her in with the other two keepers on the squad.

“They’re all three ex-tremely hard workers, and they’re all really support-ive of each other; I think it’s a good mix,” Hanley

said. “Tina obviously in her first year so she’s kind of learning from Hannah and Kiley, but all three of them —day in and day out— they’re a hard work-ing group.

“They’re all really coach-able, which makes my job a lot easier.”

Easier to work with maybe, but it makes picking one of them to be the starter that much more difficult.

At the end of the day however, one does have to start and the other two will have to watch and

wait for their chance.“We’re all just trying

to get game time, and I’m guessing that goes through everyone’s mind, so we’re just pushing each other to get there,” Clark said. “The main thing is making sure we all get better, and it’ll help with the team, too.

“Whoever plays, plays and we’re going to encour-age her.”

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Penn State was origi-nally banned from postsea-son play until 2016, and it wouldn’t have received a full complement of schol-arships until the same sea-son. These sanctions were levied against the program in July 2012 in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child-sex-abuse scandal.

In addition to the heavy sanctions, Penn State had to pay a $60 million fine and also forfeit more than 100 victories from when Joe Paterno was the head coach. The school must still adhere to those two penalties.

The NCAA endorsed the recommendations set forth on Monday by former Sen. George Mitchell, the school’s independent ath-letics-integrity monitor.

“Penn State’s commit-ment to the integrity of its Athletics Department and

its progress toward meet-ing the requirements of the consent decree are clear,” Northern Arizona Presi-dent Rita Hartung Cheng said in a statement. “We thank Sen. Mitchell for his meticulous and exhaustive work over the past two years. Mitchell’s efforts and the dedication of Penn State officials made today’s decisions possible.”

Illinois football earns week-ly awards

Two members of the Fighting Illini football team took home weekly confer-ence awards, the Big Ten announced on Monday.

Quarterback Wes Lunt, who transferred from Okla-homa State after the 2012 season, was named the league’s Offensive Player of the Week. He completed 35-of-50 passes for 456 yards and 3 touchdowns in a win over Western Kentucky.

Mike Dudek, a freshman receiver, was awarded the

Big Ten’s Freshman of the Week award. He caught 4 passes for 55 yards and a touchdown this past week against the Hilltoppers.

Dudek is the first Illinois freshman to catch a touch-down pass in each of his first two games.

“I think if you ask them, they’d compliment the whole football team,” Il-linois football coach Tim Beckman said. “They’re team players, and all awards that are received are received as a team.”

Maryland unveils star-span-gled uniforms

The Maryland football team, through its part-nership with Under Ar-mour, has unveiled a new uniform that it will wear this coming Saturday in its game against West Virginia.

The uniforms are a pa-triotic style — the lyrics to Francis Scott Key’s “Star-Spangled Banner”

decorate the helmet and both shoulders. The outfit is intended to commemo-rate the 200th anniversary of the Battle for Baltimore.

Saturday’s game will kick off at 11 a.m. (CDT) and will air on the Big Ten Network. That day also marks 200 years to the day that soldiers successfully defended Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.

“We are excited to con-tinue our outstanding partnership with Under Armour as we usher in a new era of Maryland athletics in the Big Ten,” Maryland Athletics Direc-tor Kevin Anderson said in a statement. “Kevin Plank and his entire team have been strong supporters of our athletics programs and our student-athletes who proudly don the Under Ar-mour brand.”

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Iowa defensive lineman Drew Ott and defensive back Desmond King tackle Ball State wide receiver Roy Denson in Kinnick Stadium on Saturday. Ott led the team with 13 tack-les on the game. Iowa defeated Ball State, 17-13. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

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Iowa defender/midfielder Natalie Krygier kicks the ball down field at the Iowa Soccer Complex on Sept. 1. Iowa defeated Butler, 3-2. (The Daily Iowan/McCall Radavich)

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SCOREBOARDPenn State all smiles

Hawks rich in goalies

Iowa has three goalkeepers on the roster, and they are fighting for one starting spot.

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Iowa goalkeeper Hannah Clark dives for a ball during practice on Sept. 10, 2013. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

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Penn State is now allowed to go bowling and will have its full complement of scholarships next season after the NCAA lifted the sanctions on Monday.

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Iowa soccer falls from poll after 1-1

weekendFollowing a loss to Iowa State

(4-2) on Sept. 5, Iowa (5-1) fell out of the National Soccer Coaches Associa-tion of America Great Lakes poll.

The Hawks beat Colorado State (1-3) on Sunday, but it was not enough for them to stay in the top-10 poll.

The Big Ten again dominated the poll — eight teams from the conference are ranked.

Wisconsin (6-0) is the new No. 1 team in the poll, jumping over now No. 2 Penn State (4-1). The Nittany Li-ons are followed by No. 3 Rutgers (4-0), No. 4 Illinois (5-1), No. 5 Michigan State (6-0), No. 6 Nebraska (4-2), and No. 7 Northwestern (3-1-1). Michigan (2-2) was also included in this week’s poll, coming in at ninth.

— by Jordan Hansen

Field hockey shots up in rankings,

Cafone honoredThe Iowa field-hockey team has

moved up 13 spots in the latest National Field Hockey Coaches Associ-ation rankings to No. 7 this week.

The Hawkeyes were preseason No. 20, and they moved up this week after defeating No. 11 Wake Forrest and No. 6 Virginia. Iowa’s only loss of the season came to then-No. 2 North Carolina two weeks ago.

No. 3 Maryland, Penn State (No. 6), Northwestern (No. 13), and No. 19 Michigan State represent the Big Ten in the poll.

The Black and Gold will be back in action this weekend, when they take on California-Davis, Pacific, and No. 12 Stanford this weekend.

Forward Natalie Cafone has been named offensive Big Ten Player of the Week. The Fairfield, New Jersey, native scored a hat trick in the Hawks’ 4-3 win over Virginia on Sept. 4.

— by Ryan Rodriguez

Mystery clouds Hawkeyes

Both Brandon Scherff and Drew Ott suffered setbacks early this week — one football-related and one non-football-related.

By DANNY PAYNEdaniel-payne-1@uiowa.edu

Tuesday morning was strange. Numerous me-dia reports said Iowa left tackle Brandon Scherff had undergone knee sur-gery and would miss a few games.

Shortly thereafter, the news broke that Hawkeye defensive end Drew Ott had been in a moped acci-dent Monday morning.

At his weekly Tuesday press conference, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz

dodged every question regarding Scherff and re-fused to confirm any sur-gical procedure.

However, starting right tackle Andrew Donnal said Scherff did have a procedure following Fer-entz’s time at the podium.

“I was with him last night after he got the news,” Donnal said. “Of course, he’s bummed, as anyone should be, but he has a great attitude to-ward everything. He han-dled it as well as anyone possibly could.

“He’s a strong-willed person, and he’ll get back fast, and he just wanted to get it over with.”

Bleacher Report’s Matt Miller reported Scherff had meniscus surgery and will miss two to three weeks.

Regarding Ott, Fer-entz said he fortunately walked away from his ac-cident sore and received only a few stitches.

“Drew is a tough guy, I’m not surprised that he could just get up and walk away from some-

thing like that,” Iowa de-fensive tackle Carl Davis said. “… I don’t have a moped. I have a car, but I know a lot of people the mopeds are what they have as a means of transportation. I like to stay safe in my car.”

Rivalry weekAs fans across the

state know, Iowa State is scheduled to come to Kinnick Stadium on Saturday to compete for the 2014 CyHawk Series

Trophy. As such, a noticeably

different Quinton Alston talked with the media Tuesday. He usually keeps things relatively light during interviews, but Tuesday, he was fo-cused and direct when speaking about the Cy-clones.

“They don’t like us; we don’t like them. We’re go-ing to go out there and give it our best shot,” Alston said. “… You watch

By JORDAN HANSENjordan-hansen@uiowa.edu

With Big Ten soccer play around the corner, the Hawkeyes still have an im-portant question to answer about their starting lineup.

Who is going to be the goalkeeper?

Last season, it was not much of a question; then-sophomore Hannah Clark had the position nailed down early in the season and

was very successful through-out the year.

This year, there has been a much more visible compe-tition for the spot, and senior Kiley Beck has started five of Iowa’s six games.

“I think it’s a healthy thing; we come out here ev-ery day, and we push each other — we each know when we can do better, and we make it known,” Beck said. “Individually, what I’ve learned over the past three

and a half years now is you have to worry about yourself and be the best you can be.”

Through six games, Beck has allowed just 2 goals and registered three shutouts while compiling 11 saves.

However, the 2 goals that she allowed came in a loss to Iowa State, one of the better teams that Iowa has played so far.

That, along with Clark’s

Iowa forward Natalie Cafone drives down field at Grant Field on Sept. 8, 2012. Cafone was named offensive Big Ten Player of the Wekek. (The Daily Io-wan/Joshua Housing)

Iowa offensive lineman Brandon Scherff fist-bumps wide receiver Tevaun Smith in Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 6. Scherff suffered an injury during the game and may miss two to three weeks. (The Daily Iowan/Rachael Westergard)

By CODY GOODWINcody-goodwin@uiowa.edu

The NCAA announced Monday that Penn State’s postseason ban has been lifted, meaning the Nittany Lions can play in a bowl game this season, should they qualify for and are invited to one.

The program will also receive a full complement of football scholarships beginning next year.

Penn State head coach James Franklin talked with members of the Big Ten media on Tuesday and expressed his excitement about the NCAA’s ruling.

“We had a team meeting and brought the whole team together, and I’d say 99 percent of the team knew already,” Franklin said. “… I’m getting a phone call from [Athletics Director Sandy Barbour] as it’s being reported. It’s just the way social media works nowadays.”

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Field hockey vs. California-Da-vis, Stanford, California, 3 p.m. ThursdaySoccer vs. Illinois, Iowa Soccer Complex, 7 p.m. ThursdayVolleyball vs. Eastern Illinois, Brookings, South Dakota, 10 a.m. FridayField hockey at Stanford, 2 p.m. FridayCross-country at Illinois State Invitational, 5 p.m. FridayFootball vs. Iowa State, Kinnick Stadium, 2:30 p.m. SaturdayWomen’s golf at Fossum Invita-tional, East Lansing, Michigan, all day Saturday

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