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After the Hawkeye Completion Grant program was awarded $30,000 by UISG this past spring, 61 students received grants in order to continue their education and boost retention rates. mastura-ibnat@uiowa.edu
The result of Iowa’s game against Wisconsin might not have been what Hawkeye fans wanted, but that didn’t stop Kinnick Stadium from being electric before and during the game. Under the lights for the second game in a row, Kinnick was buzzing with black and gold.
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University of Iowa Student Government has awarded 61 grants to UI students after it allocated $30,000 to the Hawkeye Completion Grant Program in spring 2018 in an effort to help boost retention. The program, initiated by former UISG President Jacob Simpson, helps
students with $100 or more of overdue charges on their university bill. Overdue charges prevent students from registering for classes or receiving their degrees. Schmidt According to the state Board of Regents’ Annual Graduation & Retention Report for Fall 2017, the UI’s
retention rate for students returning for a second year was 86 percent, down one percentage point from the previous year. The UI’s retention rate is the second lowest among its 10 peer universities. Tristan Schmidt, the UISG director of academic affairs, took on a supporting role when Simpson introduced the program. He has now picked it up as a personal project.
The grant was primarily geared toward juniors and seniors with charges between $100 and $1,500 on their U-Bills. UI Director of Academic Support and Retention Mirra Anson said the average grant amount was $1,100. “We had $72,000 to award, so all the money goes to 61 students,” Anson said. SEE GRANT, 2
Oasis finds a home in Omaha Two UI alumni have added a second Oasis Falafel location, expanding its Middle Eastern cuisine to Omaha.
Team modifies Alternative Spring Break
The Hawkeye Service Team is modifying the Alternative Spring Break program for the spring 2019 semester with a required course for participating students to take on leadership and trip development.
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Thomas A. Stewart/The Daily Iowan Thea Basili preps food on Sept. 21. Basili, who has worked at Oasis for more than a year, said, “This is the friendliest kitchen I have ever worked in.”
Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition to host summit
Experts in U.S. drug crisis and overdose will come to the UI from Sept. 24-28 for the third-annual Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition summit. UI medical student Sarah Ziegenhorn cofounded the coalition, which provides health services to drug users in the community.
UI Student Security expands
Now in its third year, UI Student Security has expanded from about five students into a force of roughly 100 students, with officials hoping to hire even more. Go to daily-iowan.com to see the full story.
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caleb-mccullough@uiowa.edu Iowa City’s resident Middle Eastern café, Oasis Falafel, has expanded to Omaha. The Omaha location is operated by Council Bluffs natives and University of Iowa alumni Mike and Kellie Osler. After years of experience in the industry, Mike
Osler said, he wanted to return home and start his own restaurant. He started working at restaurants while at the UI. He had management positions at restaurants around the city, including Micky’s and Red’s Ale House, he said. He quickly discovered that his passion was in the restaurant business. “I started taking that work more seriously and found
Counseling Service champions new location The University Counseling Service’s second main location has gained traction among students since its opening in the fall of 2017.
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Paula Keeton, the director of clinical services. Of those numbers, Westlawn (West Campus) had 1,971 and the East Side 595. There were some people who were seen at both locations. The Counseling Service has had its main location in Westlawn for the last 20 years, Director Barry Schreier said. For the average undergraduate student, however, this seems far away. The East Side location housed the UI Quick Care center before the Counseling Service.
In order to help prevent farming-related injuries and fatalities, University of Iowa researchers have implemented a new project. Three agricultural centers — UI Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, University of Minnesota Upper Midwest Center, and University of Nebraska Medical Center Central States Center — have established the Telling the Story Project, an outlet for individuals affected by agricultural accidents in order to improve safety and preventative measures. The project allows people who have been affected by farm accidents to share their stories so that others can be more aware of agricultural dangers. After working for the Iowa Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program, which investigated work-related fatalities, Great Plains member Stephanie Leonard said she discovered that a large number of the injuries were agriculture-related. She and a colleague from the National Farm Medicine Center discussed how personal stories could be shared in order to spread awareness and hopefully lead to prevention.
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Nick Rohman/The Daily Iowan The front of the University Counseling Service in the University Capitol Center is seen on Sept. 28, 2017.
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New program seeks to prevent farm injuries
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A new program, which has collaborators from agricultural centers across the Midwest, allows people who have suffered injuries in farm accidents to share their stories.
Hornibrook’s big day downs Hawkeyes
Wisconsin quarterback Alex Hornibrook isn’t known as a stat-sheet stuffer. When the Badgers beat the Hawkeyes on Sept. 22, Hornibrook was the epitome of a game manager who stepped up when his team needed it. His clutch play helped put Wisconsin in the Big Ten West’s driver’s seat.
out I had a knack for it,” he said. In 2015, the Oslers started studying business with the idea of opening a restaurant, he said. “We just kind of had a wild idea to open our own restaurant and kind of do our own thing,” he said. That idea came to fruition after a casual conversa-
The second main University Counseling Service location — the first such space on the East Side of campus — has become increasingly popular among students since its fall 2017 opening. Officials said more than one-fifth of the people the service saw last year were seen at the East Side location, which opened last year in the University Capitol Center. Last year, the service saw 2,627 people, said
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COUNSELING CONTINUED FROM FRONT “We thought, in some ways, being only [in Westlawn] was a bit of the barrier to accessing the service,” Schreier said. The services offered in the East Side location mirror those offered in Westlawn, Keeton said. Students received 16,038 hours of counseling last year, Keeton said — 8 percent more than the previous year. Of that, she said about 1,688 hours were delivered at the East Side location. Keeton
FARM CONTINUED FROM FRONT “Pretty much everyone affected by a tragedy or a serious injury makes a similar comment to the effect of ‘If this information can help someone else avoid what we went through, we want to share our experience,’ ” Leonard said. Leonard, who grew up on a farm, shared her story for
GRANT CONTINUED FROM FRONT Students who were eligible and applied for the grant generally received it. “The total number of applications, if I’m counting the numbers correctly, was around 70,” Schmidt said. However, the challenge wasn’t deciding who received the grant but rather getting people to apply in the first place. Cindy Seyfer, the UI senior associate director of Student
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noted the bulk was at Westlawn because the group sessions take place there. “We have started offering group here [East Side], but only after hours,” Keeton said. “We don’t have the space to do so during business hours.” Schreier said students are asked to wait a little longer if they choose to be seen at the East Side location. On an average, the longest a student has to wait is two weeks, Schreier said. The UI is doing what it can to listen to and accommodate student voices, Keeton said. “That there are these waiting times shows that stu-
dents use the services,” she said. Officials believed the service needed to expand, Schreier said, because the space in Westlawn seemed inadequate. “Needing the space and the convenient location, we thought this was an excellent opportunity, because we needed more staff on the East Side,” he said. Keeton said that while the East Side sees about a quarter of the Counseling Service’s users, the staff stays busy. “… If you look at the staff, four of us make up fewer than a quarter of clinicians,” she said. “So, we stay pretty busy.”
The Counseling Service also added seven new staff members over the last few years, Schreier said. This was made possible after the state Board of Regents approved a $12.50 mental-health fee that had been proposed by student-government leaders in the fall of 2016. “The university is doing a great job with [mental-health awareness], especially in times when the university’s resources are shrinking,” Schreier said. In addition to the new location and hiring more staff, Schreier said the Counseling Service has created more options for students.
The service has two embedded counselors at Catlett Hall to serve students living in the dorms. It additionally has two counselors dedicated to student-athletes and one counselor serving the College of Dentistry. The university has done a great job responding to students’ mental-health needs, said UI Student Government Sen. Sammy Stoll, also the president of Active Minds, a student organization dedicated to raising awareness surrounding mental-health
issues. The Counseling Service’s East Side location and having counselors in the residence halls are a few examples. Stoll said it is great that there are other student organizations, in addition to the university, that aim to raise awareness about mental health. “Whether some people need help with [mental health] or not, that’s variable,” she said. “But mental health is important, because we all have it.”
the project about breaking her wrist in an accident with a ladder. The Telling the Story Project website features a number of stories from farmers who have sustained serious injuries. As of now, eight stories, including Leonard’s, are featured on the website. The stories vary in both content and severity; some discuss major injuries or subsequent illnesses from farm work, while others touch on fatalities. “Talking about injuries,
learning what went wrong and how to avoid the same scenario, helps people be more aware of risky situations and hazards,” Leonard said. “Hearing or reading about someone’s personal experience and how they were affected days, months, or years later has some sticking power. They are compelling and easy to relate to.” Brandi Janssen, the director of the UI Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, said sharing stories from the
incidents is a great way to encourage others to be advocates for farm safety and to be more aware of the dangers in agriculture. “This model of interviewing people and recording their narrative accounts of events, then packaging them and sharing them with others, can be effective in a lot of different communities and settings,” Janssen said. “As students think about how to be change-makers and influence social systems to be safer,
healthier, more sustainable, or any number of things, using a storytelling model could be a good approach.” In 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that agriculture ranked third in recorded injuries, following the health care and warehouse/ transportation industries. Data from the Iowa Department of Public Health Occupational Health Safety Surveillance Program also show that while agriculture makes up 5 percent of the state’s
workforce, farm workers sustained 32 percent of occupational injuries between 2009 and 2013. “One in 5 Iowans work in jobs related to agriculture, generating over $112 billion to the economy every year,” Great Plains Center Director Renée Anthony said. “Iowa is a national leader in agriculture, and we want Iowa to be the national leader in safe agriculture.”
Financial Aid, said she found it difficult to distribute and spend the grant money surprising. She said the process involved reaching out to students, asking that they finish the application, and following up with phone calls because students were unlikely to respond to emails. “People don’t read their emails, and I understand that with the number of emails people get,” Seyfer said. “That’s why we moved to phone calls. But we also had very specific criteria for how we were looking at students to encourage them to apply.” The criteria included contract-
ed charges that hadn’t been met, she said. The grant could not cover overdue charges that came from parking, fraternities or sororities, or extra food costs. Eligible applicants must also use all the financial-aid options available. Kelsey Ryder, an assistant director of Student Financial Aid, said this had an effect on the response rate for the grant applications. “There was typically about a 50 percent response rate, so there were a lot of students who received the option to apply but just didn’t apply,” Ryder said. “So about half the students that
we sent the application to, half of them just didn’t fill it out.” Despite this, the grant has positively affected graduation rates at the UI; 81 percent of students who received the grant, or 50 out of the 61 recipients, are currently enrolled in the fall semester. “Twenty-three of those students have their degrees, and 28 are currently enrolled in the fall, and it adds to 61 because there was a student that also received a degree and also registered for classes again,” Schmidt said. Of the pool of applicants who didn’t receive the grant, a number of them still found a way to
enroll for the fall semester or graduate. “Sixty-two percent have their degree or they were enrolled again for the fall, so they found some source to help them with that,” Schmidt said. “So, we saw that this definitely has a high impact on their ability to graduate or register.”
OASIS CONTINUED FROM FRONT tion with Oasis owners Naftaly Stramer and Ofer Sivan. In February 2016, while eating lunch at Oasis, Mike struck up a conversation with them. “A guy was sitting on the window bar and turned to us and said, ‘You know, one day I’d like to open something like you guys,’ ” Stramer said. “He just jokingly, casually, nonchalantly said, ‘You should open an Oasis,’ ” Mike Osler said. “It was one of those things I just kind of thought about for a couple months.” Eventually, the Oslers decided they were ready to open their own Oasis. They worked at Oasis in Iowa City for about eight months to gain experience, Mike Osler said, and in May 2017, the couple moved to Omaha and began searching for a location. It took over a year to get everything up and running, and the restaurant officially opened for business on Sept. 13. The Oslers have seen success so far,
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Thomas A. Stewart/The Daily Iowan Thea Basili preps food on Sept. 21 at Oasis. and they are optimistic about the future. The business is located in the downtown Omaha, which, Mike Osler said, was a great lunch spot. He said they have found a niche. “One of the more fun things is the fact that there’s so many people here connected to Iowa City,” he said. Iowa City native Francesca Rizzo is one of those people. She
grew up in Iowa City, and Oasis was one of her favorite restaurants, she said. Rizzo, who has been in Omaha since 2014, said she is glad to have Oasis in her area again. “I think Oasis is a gem of Iowa City,” she said. “Oasis coming to Omaha is really bringing the best food and culture that Iowa City has to offer.” Omaha’s Oasis has mostly the
same menu as the one in Iowa City, Mike Osler said. However, he is putting special emphasis on the vegan options and has plans to change the menu in the future. “We’re from this area, but we lived in Iowa City for so long that it became home to us,” Mike said. “To literally bring a piece of Iowa City home with us is really special.”
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Coalition works on syringe services The Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition, co-chaired by UI student Sarah Ziegenhorn, will host its third-annual summit this week to educate the Iowa City community about needle-exchange programs and prevention of drug-related disease. BY KATIE ANN MCCARVER katie-mccarver@uiowa.edu
The Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition will hold its third-annual Harm Reduction Summit this week, featuring events and lectures by experts in U.S. drug crisis and overdose, as well as people with direct experience using drugs or dealing with the program. Cofounded by UI Carver College of Medicine student Sarah Ziegenhorn, the coalition advocates for the legalization of syringe-service programs in the state and provides health services to drug users in the community. “We are now the largest distributor of Naloxone to drug users at risk in Iowa,” said coalition cochair Daniel Runde, a UI clinical associate professor of emergency medicine. “Sarah makes it happen, even when people tell her this kind of implementation is not possible.” According to the coalition’s website, the medication Naloxone reverses opioid overdose and does not require prescription or insurance. The group hopes to push its legislative agenda, which primarily advocates for the legalization of syringe-service programs, safe housing for drug users, and medically assisted therapy. Runde said the drug-using community often shows no interest in going into a health building, so the coalition can be an organization in which they
Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Sarah Ziegenhorn stands for a portrait at the Daily Iowan newsroom on Sept. 22, 2018. feel safe to seek medical care. In its two years of existence, the organization has faced skepticism for sympathizing with drug-users, but Runde said syringe services are proven to decrease diseases that would otherwise cost the state for treatment while not increasing drug use or drug-related crime. “We understand that people are going to make their own decisions,” coalition community and volunteer organizer Tiffany Carter said. “We can’t change those decisions, but
we can make sure they do so in the safest way possible.” Syringe-service programs have been legalized in 36 states, she said, with positive results. The upcoming summit will be primarily educational with panel discussions featuring researchers, law-enforcement officials, and experts in the area. Acting as a link between the drug-using community and access to public health, the coalition makes cautious efforts to abide by state law, providing supplies and
services only so far as it allows in an effort to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C. Carter said this relationship of trust is among one of Ziegenhorn’s biggest accomplishments, and, as the group’s co-chair, she has established herself as a leader and expert in a large network of highly educated professionals. “I worked at a syringe-services program in Washington, D.C., and was able to see firsthand how it impacted … so many lives,” Ziegenhorn said. “I established the [co-
alition] to disprove everyone who thinks Iowa is too rural, too conservative, or too Midwestern for its own needle exchange.” In response to belief that the coalition has stirred controversy, Ziegenhorn said the only major criticism come from public-health figures. “Legislators and law enforcement are pragmatic and realize that legal syringe programs will ultimately make for a safer public,” Ziegenhorn said. “An exchange program would be peer-serviced and not require health professionals, threatening their credibility.” Because of the Iowa City health department’s proximity to the court system, many drug-users in the community do not feel safe seeking out treatment. “A community where drug-users feel welcome and loved and supported medically has not been done in Iowa before,” Ziegenhorn said. “In an ideal world, a local health department should be somewhere anyone can go.” To bridge the gap between drug-users and medicine, the coalition meets them in their own environment, including the street, bars, under bridges, etc. “We started as a small group of folks doing street-based global outreach,” Ziegenhorn said. “Now, we have distributed over 5,000 overdose prevention kits in 15 months and reports of over 300 lives saved.”
Fulbright recipient tackles Hawkeye Service water issues in Romania Team hopes to Barbara Okeke conducts water-quality and water-behavior research in Romania as part of the Fulbright Program.
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josie-fischels@uiowa.edu Among various rural and urban communities in Transylvania, Romania, University of Iowa human toxicology graduate student Barbara Okeke will spend the next nine and a half months conducting important water-quality and water-behavior research. Her research in Romania may be used to improve human health in the area, thanks to the Fulbright Award she received in the spring. Okeke received the award after a rigorous application process with guidance from several UI faculty members. Okeke said water contamination from nitrites and nitrates, pesticides, and bacteria has been a growing concern in areas of the country in which water sources aren’t regulated by the government. “Most people in Romania are using private sources that aren’t government-regulated,” she said. “No one knows the amount of contamination that’s in [the water], because there’s no one from the state that’s coming to check it. I thought this would be a unique to give to that community.” This year, the UI has sent 11 scholars abroad via the Fulbright Program, which
sponsors students from institutions across the U.S. every year to participate in education, research, and the arts in other countries, according to the International Programs website. “Fulbright is looking not only for academic excellence but also connections abroad,” said Associate Director of International Fellowships Karen Wachsmuth. “You need a strong affliction with a project that needs to be done and also a track record of community service and ability to work with people. Fulbright is looking at a person, not only a GPA.” Coincidentally, Okeke was introduced to the idea of applying for a Fulbright while spending time in Romania on an Minority Health International Research Training Program. There, she learned more about toxic exposures to drinking water and health concerns in the areas of the country that prompted her to continue her research. “Even here in Iowa, we’ve had our own nitrate/nitrite scares, so I thought this was an amazing opportunity to take it a step further when thinking about global health,” she said. Outside of research, Okeke plans on immersing herself in
Romanian culture through volunteer work. One program in particular she wants to get involved in is the Fulbright Teacher Exchange, which will allow her to learn more about the culture of Romania while also pursuing her passion for improving public health. UI biostatistics Professor Kai Wang, who served as a member of Okeke’s dissertation committee while she worked for a Ph.D., has high hopes for Okeke’s future. “Barbara was a hardworking student; she is very bright,” Wang said. “She finished her Ph.D. in a relatively short period of time and did an excellent job defending her dissertation as a student here.” Okeke, who will leave for Romania later this week, said she was excited to embark on a new journey in which she will be able to pursue her passion for research and the betterment of human health. “If you are awarded a Fulbright or any other international awards, you are joining a community of scholars and open-minded people; it’s a whole new network of connections and family,” she said. “I just want other people to know that these opportunities are out there.”
The Hawkeye Service Team has made some modifications focusing on leadership to its Alternative Spring Break Program. The program is designed to promote learning through service, social justice, and community building during the University of Iowa spring break. The first of the many modifications is a required course for student leaders to prepare them for their trips. Maya Altemeier, a returning Hawkeye Service Team leader, will head to Louisville, Kentucky, to foAltemeier cus on public-health issues with her group. “Next semester, the student leaders are required to take a course on leadership and trip development,” she said. “This will help us to plan more effective and exciting trips than in previous years.” The knowledge and skill gained through the modifications will help student leaders become more engaged in topic-focused discussions with students and faculty, Altemeier said. There is an added emphasis of quality over quantity, she said, which will produce better collaborations. Altemeier noted that another addition to the newly devised mission is more social-justice topics and locations. “More topics and locations will help Alternative Spring Break and Hawkeye Service Team’s appeal to a larger array of students and maximize our impact,” Altemeier said. “With well-trained student leaders, increased presence on campus, and an increased choice for trip topics, this year should be our best yet.” An executive board has also been added to the Hawkeye Service Team’s spring break program to use the members’ expertise to better the experience. “The executive board comprises
four students who have previously led teams in past Alternative Spring Break trips,” said Charlotte Brown, the coordinator for leadership and service programs in the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership. Positions on the board include promotion and retention, logistics, team development, and activation, she said. Brown stressed the importance of the new position of activation and its attempt to continue providing opportunities to practice active citizenship beyond the alternative break. In addition to these modifications, a new panel series will also be added called “Social Justice in Conversation.” “Each month, we will focus on one of the social issues that our teams address through a panel of experts in those particular fields,” Brown said. “They’ll talk about the issue and how it relates to students here and what they can do about it.” The first panel of the semester will take place in the IMU Iowa Theater from 5 to 6 p.m. today. The event is open to the public. “I take pride in knowing that the Hawkeye Service Team helped me gain and understand of the ways that I can serve in my community, but the importance of community engagement as an active citizen,” said Sandra Amouzou, the director of logistics on the executive board. Topics for the 2019 Alternative Spring Break trip include food justice, disability rights, gentrification, public health, homelessness, youth education, children’s health, racial justice, housing, and education equity. Applications for the Alternative Spring Break trip with Hawkeye Service Team are available on the the team’s website; they are due at 5 p.m. Oct. 17. “My freshman year, I applied for this experience because I knew I was interested in service,” Altemeier said. “I ended up participating in something that helped me grow as a student, a person, and as a leader.”
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Online presence is something I rarely think about, but because a recent misidentity issue I had happen, I think it’s something that everyone needs to be made more aware of.
AUSTIN YERINGTON
austin-yerington@uiowa.edu At the tap of a finger, anyone could find post from my middle-school years all the way to my most recent professional ventures. Online presence is something I rarely think about, but due to a recent misidentity issue, I think it’s something that everyone needs to be made more
ers saw something on an applicant’s social media that caused them to not hire said applicant. That means, in my case, future employers could have seen content that is inappropriate, illegal, false, or anything else that looks unprofessional. I was never aware that people may look me up on social media before meeting me, and I was shocked when they mistook me for someone else. I quickly reviewed some of my past posts, and after seeing some truly cringe-worthy items from my middle-school years, I was pleased with what others could see about me.
‘I was never aware that people may look me up on social media before meeting me, and I was shocked when they mistook me for someone else.’ aware of. I recently sat down with a writing coach who I had never met before, and once I was in her office, I was quickly met with “Oh, you’re Austin Yerington.” She told me that to prepare for our meeting, she Googled me and found another “Austin Yerington” on Facebook and Twitter. After quickly looking at
I was left with this one constant thought, though: Anyone could search and find that I shared the new Captain Marvel trailer or even find that I wrote this very article that’s being read. This is something no other generation has ever had to deal with in the past. At the tap of a finger, anyone could find posts
The stigma of selfishness and attention-seeking surrounding mental illness, self-harm, and suicidal tendencies is ridiculous and harmful to a person’s mental health.
NICHOLE SHAW
nichole-shaw@uiowa.edu Society has come a long way with mental-health awareness and suicide prevention. However, there is still a great deal of detrimental stigma that surrounds individuals who harm themselves or have suicidal thoughts. For example, the argument that people who harm themselves are doing it for attention is ridiculous, and the notion that those who have suicidal thoughts are selfish is toxic. We must start having conversations about how to respond to the discovery of someone you know or love who harms herself or himself or has suicidal tendencies — what is appropriate and what isn’t. The perspective that people who harm themselves are doing it for attention is incredibly judgmental, and the impression that the people who struggle with these tendencies or thoughts are selfish is just wrong. “For those folks who respond that way, it’s based on ignorance about the level of distress a person is in,” JED Foundation Doctor of Education Nance Roy said. “It usually comes from a lack of awareness that the person going through this is going through a lot of emotional pain and emotion.” Suicidal individuals are going through intense, unrelenting emotional pain. It’s why they’ve chosen to injure themselves as a coping mechanism
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or why they might be having suicidal thoughts. If people they know and trust throw judgmental words in their face, it will make them feel even more isolated because they are misunderstood. This is unacceptable. Rather than belittle their experiences, try to understand them. “The best way to bust through stigma is just to ask openly and honestly but with empathy and genuineness,” Crisis Center Director Beau Pinkham said. “Don’t ask questions in a way that would force a person to be dishonest. Ask honestly. Use that lethal language if you think it’s suicide — talking about the method they use is OK. That’s the coping strategy that they’ve clung on to, and they want to hear that reflected. If they don’t feel that you can talk about it in a good way, they’re not going to talk about it in a good way.” Better coping mechanisms and hope for the future can appear for suicidal or self-harm-
ing individuals when the people who surround them make a direct effort to be open and understanding with them. Mental illness, self-injury, and suicidal thoughts are all things that can be managed if they are approached in the right way and people have appropriate conversations about them. People going through a difficult period and struggling with immense pain are alienated when people surrounding them adopt judgmental attitudes regarding mental health. Brigham and Women’s Hospital has reported that more than 20 percent of students experienced crippling stress that was associated with mental-health diagnoses, self-harm, and suicidal tendencies. To help individuals manage their emotional pain, Pinkham said, “Make yourself available. Make the concerted effort to reach out to that person … Don’t diminish anyone’s feelings, especially someone
who’s feeling isolated and just went through this big transition, like college students.” That is crucial to the stability of people and their mental and physical health. Surround them with support and show them no one is giving up on them. Research their tendencies, talk to them about it, empathize with them, make a connection — anything to better understand what they’re going through. “Simply listening is one of the best ways to show your support,” National Alliance on Mental Illness states. “Try to recognize and acknowledge the pain, anxiety or confusion rather than getting into unnecessary arguments … use statements that give your perspective rather than imposing perceived behavior.” Stop dismissing people for their struggles and start helping them get the resources they need to get better. See the person, not the illness or injury.
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With all the ruckus in this current political climate, it can be difficult to tell which news source ‘Before applying for a job, you should notify the provides the most news, and the most accurate news. My recommendation? CBS News. employer of your correct social-media handles sumes that if an audience many different sources, I heavily on pundits giving so an issue such as mine doesn’t happen.’ this doppelgänger, she thought I posted quite a few inappropriate images and texts, and she was worried about who she was meeting. I quickly explained my media handles I go by on social media and was relieved to find out that the accounts she saw weren’t mine. This can be seen as a silly, humorous anecdote or as a worrisome flag about how others, especially employers, see you on social media. Social media are almost a necessity at this point in time, and because of that, many might forget how it can be a timeline of all their past mistakes and proof of past inappropriate posts. According to a 2017 Huffington Post article, 54 percent of employ-
from my middle-school years all the way to my most recent professional ventures. I feel vulnerable and worried about what others may think about some of my posts after years had passed. This isn’t some article about how to delete all your accounts or turn off all social media, it’s about how we, as users, should monitor our personal and external sides that almost anyone can see. Before applying for a job, you should notify the employer of your correct social-media handles so an issue such as mine doesn’t happen. In today’s world people can, and do, quickly search you. They may get a look at your digital fingerprint before you ever walk into their office.
COLLEN MAHONEY
collen-mahoney@uiowa.edu “FAKE NEWS. FAKE NEWS. FAKE NEWS.” You can hear the chants coming from all different directions. Finger-pointing, shouting, cursing, it’s all there. With the mass hysteria going on about media bias, it’s probably time we start trying to clear the field. First, the Pew Research Center has done research to determine the political ideological placement of, not necessarily the networks, but of the people watching the networks. This research generally as-
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consistently leans one direction, that the network itself would also consistently lean that direction. This research also confirmed a lot of what many people talk about: CNN’s viewers tend to be more liberal, and Fox News’ viewers tend to be more conservative. This was something
have had plenty of opportunities to interact with the sources listed above. Some of them are written, others also have a televised broadcast. For this particular article, I would like to focus more on the televised broadcasters. Out of the major televised networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox
‘I highly recommend taking the time to figure out for yourself, as objectively as possible, which news source is best at reporting the news, not commenting on it.’ that many of us knew. However, some other news sources were ranked much closer to the middle, including CBS News, Google News, Bloomberg, ABC News, USA Today, Yahoo News, and the Wall Street Journal. As someone who consumes a lot of news from
News), CBS News is the least-biased broadcasting news service. I have taken the time to sit down and watch the reporting of each of them; I found CBS to be more focused on getting the story, not storytelling. A lot of the other news sources relied
opinions, but CBS spent a majority of the time getting stories from reporters on-scene. I feel like this is much more of what is expected of news sources, but perhaps in today’s current political climate, I’m wrong. Perhaps people are seeking more to hear what they want to rather than to hear the truth. The truth can hurt sometimes, but that pain helps us to ensure that political figures are held to a higher standard and kept in check. Without proper reporting, we will never get to that point. I highly recommend taking the time to figure out for yourself, as objectively as possible, which news source is best at reporting the news, not commenting on it. I personally believe this is CBS News, with its stellar reporting of stories and all-around professional coverage.
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Kinnick magic runs dry
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Iowa and Wisconsin battled back and forth for the majority of four quarters, but the Badgers came out on top against the Hawks, 28-17.
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HAWKEYES BADGERS Clockwise from top: Wisconsin wide receiver A.J. Taylor catches a touchdown pass during Iowa’s game against Wisconsin at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 22. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan) Iowa running back Ivory Kelly-Martin carries the ball. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan) The Hawkeyes take the field before their game against Wisconsin. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan) Iowa’s Chauncey Golston tackles Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor. (Shivansh Ahuja/ The Daily Iowan) Wisconsin players celebrate after a fourth-quarter interception. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan) Iowa wide receiver Nick Easley laterals the football on the final play of the game. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan)
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Hawkeye soccer tops Indiana The Hawkeyes beat the Hoosiers, 3-1, in their fourth Big Ten game, putting an end to their losing stretch. BY MICHAEL WHALEN
michael-whalen@uiowa.edu Iowa soccer won its first Big Ten match of the season on Sunday, beating Indiana, 3-1, to end its five-game winless streak. The game started with a lot of Hawkeye possessions until their first goal in the 12th minute on a cross by Leah Moss to Hailey Rydberg. Indiana quickly struck back with a goal in transition by Mykayla Brown in the 19th minute. The Hawkeyes scored again in the 38th, as Rose Ripslinger put the ball in the back of the net, and the Hawkeyes took a 2-1 lead going into the half. Iowa came out of the break firing, getting its third and last goal of the game from Natalie Winters in the 45th minute. Iowa’s defense has been strong for the majority of the season, and it showed again against the Hoosiers. “I think that just comes with practice and having trust with the back line,” Iowa goalkeeper Cora Meyers said. “We know we can compete at this high level, so we know when we are calm on the ball, we create our best chances. I trust them, and they trust me, so that creates a nice, calm dynamic.” Having a strong leader on both sides of the ball is important for keeping a team strong and playing well. Without these leaders, the Hawkeyes may not have a winning re-
COLUMN CONTINUED FROM 8 8-of-24 for 41 yards and a pick just last year. He played like one of the conference’s best signal callers. Yet, it resulted in a loss. It didn’t go to waste, though, because Iowa’s
Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Hawkeye goalkeeper Cora Meyer kicks the ball back in play against Purdue on Sept. 20 at the Iowa Soccer Complex. Iowa and Purdue tied in overtime, 1-1. cord. They need to keep this mindset as they continue the Big Ten play. It was a very different Iowa soccer team from what fans have seen in the squad’s other Big Ten games. The Hawkeyes kept possession for most of the game and scored numerous times. One major key was
applying more defensive pressure. “This was much needed,” Iowa head coach Dave DiIanni said. “We’re getting countered on too quickly on our set pieces, and that’s how they scored today. Defensively, we have been pretty good. They haven’t scored on the run-a-play
at all; we’ve just been getting stretched out recently in set pieces in terms of our shape. That’s one thing we have to address because that’s what has given us trouble over the past few weeks.” Winters is a key player for the Hawkeyes, as she has shown throughout the season;
her goal was her fifth of the season. Having a leader such as Winters makes the offense successful. “Just knowing that when someone gets the ball, we have to keep moving to create space and moments for us,” Winters said. “We wanted to come out with a strong mentality
to compete, and we knew we needed points this week, and that’s what we got.” It’s important for Iowa’s success to maintain a strong offense and continue its stellar defense. Now 5-4-2, the Hawkeyes will face Ohio State on Thursday and Penn State on Sept. 30, both on the road.
positives can translate into light at the end of the tunnel heading into the rest of the conference schedule. Iowa’s defense contained Jonathan Taylor — didn’t completely stop him but held him under somewhat — to 113 yards on 25 carries. Aside from the go-ahead strike and a garbage-time
touchdown, the Hawkeyes held Wisconsin to just 14 points through most of the game. Aside from Penn State’s Miles Sanders, Iowa won’t face a better back this season. That’s a good sign. Not just Stanley but the rest of the offense was balanced. Iowa had a solid ground game, and, while it
wasn’t overly consistent, it averaged nearly 4.8 yards per carry — the same average Wisconsin finished with. But the point remains — all of this worked in Iowa’s favor, but miscues punctuated a night full of what-ifs. Each time the Hawkeyes scored, it appeared as though they had all the mo-
mentum, just like any night game at Kinnick. There’s something special about night games at Kinnick. The Hawkeyes, as well as their opposing players and coaches, will say the same. But whatever magic Iowa had against Pittsburgh in 2015 and Michigan in 2016, it ran out on Sept. 22.
There are plenty of positives from the loss, don’t get me wrong. But Iowa can’t afford to win with as many miscues as it had against Wisconsin. For Iowa to reach Indianapolis, the Hawkeyes will need more than just some Kinnick magic to catch the Badgers in the race for the Big Ten West.
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Volleyball takes down Michigan State Big Ten volleyball opened up this past weekend with Iowa beating Michigan State but struggling against Michigan. BY PETE MILLS
peter-mills@uiowa.edu With Big Ten volleyball now in full spike, Iowa saw two tough opponents in Michigan State and Michigan visit Carver-Hawkeye this past weekend. The Hawkeyes beat the Spartans for the first time under head coach Bond Shymansky, 3-0, but lost to the Wolverines, 3-1, ending a seven-game winning streak. Strong showings from veterans Cali Hoye and Taylor Louis allowed the Hawkeyes to sweep the young Spartan squad on Sept. 21. Having graduated their entire starting lineup last season, the Spartans were at a disadvantage against the experienced Hawkeye squad led by seniors Louis and Molly Kelly. The senior leadership proved valuable with Louis posting 10 kills and Kelly pulling out 9 digs against the Spartans. This same advantage of experience was not as prevalent in the Sunday match against the Wolverines. Seniors Carly Skjodt and Jenna Lerg are leaders of the Michigan squad, with Lerg pacing the Big Ten in digs per set and Skjodt posting high numbers in the conference in kills per set. Michigan had an 11-1 record heading into Carver-Hawkeye,
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most recently dropping its first Big Ten match of the season to Nebraska. The Hawkeyes sought to stretch its seven-match winning streak and pick up their second Big Ten match of the season. The first game of Sunday’s match started out well for the Hawkeyes. Contributions came from everyone on the floor. Hoye, Louis, and Reghan Coyle all contributed to a Hawkeye run that allowed the squad to take an early lead. The defense continued its solid play with blocks from Orr and digs from Hoye and Kelly. But the Wolverines were resilient, battling back to tie the game at 11. That momentum proved too much for the Hawkeyes, and the Wolverines claimed the game, 25-22, despite efforts from Hoye and Meghan Buzzerio. The second game was tougher for Iowa, because Michigan seized the momentum early. Strong blocks and kills gave the Wolverines the edge, giving them a lead by as many as 4 points. A service ace from Louis and a double-contact call brought the Hawkeyes back into it, and they later tied the game. This led to a very contentious second half of the game with numerous lead changes. Some more back-and-forth play ensued, a theme common complicated,” Hornibrook said. “Everybody knew what we had to do, and we just locked it in and got the drive going.” Hornibrook’s antics as a silent assassin killed Iowa, along with the Hawkeyes’ own mistakes on special teams.
Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa’s Taylor Louis goes for a kill against Michigan State on Sept. 21. The Hawkeyes defeated the Spartans, 3-0. in the second game. A late kill from Hoye gave Iowa a 1-point lead and brought the crowd members to their feet. Louis posted a strong kill to close out the game for the Hawkeyes and tie the match at 1. Although the third and fourth games were somewhat close, Michigan closed them out fairly easily and left Carver with a win. Its level of intensity was too much for the Hawkeyes to
compete with. “We knew what to do, but we didn’t exactly know how to implement [scouting reports], so we’re going to work a lot harder to use that against our opponents,” Orr said. The Hawkeyes see the loss as a learning opportunity and are optimistic, given their previous sweep of Michigan State. “We learned that we’re capable of beating anyone [this
weekend],” Kelly said. “Michigan State was a great way to start off, now we just have to keep going and rolling with it. We’ll learn from this loss.” Iowa will not dwell on this loss, especially given the caliber of its opponents. However, it sees what it should do to improve. The Hawkeyes will try to increase their focus and competitiveness, and they have their eyes set on matches against
Illinois and Northwestern this weekend. “We will spend time watching video from this weekend, but what we are most interested in this weekend is how we are going to stack up against Illinois, how we are going to stack up against Northwestern,” Shymansky said. “If you start trying to project and get too far ahead of yourself in the league, you get really distracted.”
Hornibrook isn’t really thought of as a top-tier quarterback, though. He was prone to mistakes in 2017, ranking second in the Big Ten with 15 interceptions, trailing only Nebraska’s Tanner Lee. He doesn’t put up crazy stats,
either — through four games, Hornibrook is fifth in the conference with 800 passing yards and also places fifth with 6 passing touchdowns. But when Hornibrook helped the Badgers beat Iowa, he did exactly what he needed to do.
He was accurate, efficient, and pick-less all game. “There’s not a lot talked about him or written about him, but you think about how many games they have won when he’s in charge, I think they know that better than anybody, they
know who he is and what he is, and when they go to him, he responds pretty favorably,” Ferentz said about Hornibrook. “So he didn’t do anything that hurt them tonight, and he made some really good throws and some good plays.”
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Have a day, Hornibrook Alex Hornibrook wasn’t flashy, but he managed Wisconsin well enough to give the Badgers a win.
Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Wisconsin quarterback Alex Hornibrook drops back against Iowa at Kinnick on Sept. 22. The Badgers defeated the Hawkeyes, 28-17.
BY PETE RUDEN
peter-ruden@uiowa.edu Wisconsin quarterback Alex Hornibrook isn’t on any Heisman Watch lists like Badger running back Jonathan Taylor. Taylor, who broke the FBS record for most rushing yards in a season by a freshman in 2017 with 1,977 yards, was certainly on Iowa’s radar, and the Hawkeye defense tried to make the Badger offense one-dimensional. Iowa couldn’t stop Taylor in the first half; the sophomore racked up 80 yards as the Wisconsin offensive line bullied Iowa, gaining yards at will. “We haven’t played an offensive team like them, and I think every-
body, pretty much everybody who follows Big Ten football, knew the kind of potential they had offensively,” Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said. “They came out and played well, and they ran the ball well. The back’s an excellent player. He’s not good, he’s excellent.” Taylor was slowed down exponentially in the second half, though, gaining just 33 yards after the break. That’s when Hornibrook stepped up. He managed the game in a nearly flawless way, completing 17-of-22 passes for 205 yards and 3 touchdowns with no interceptions. “We knew Hornibrook’s a tough guy, experienced guy, and credit to him,” safety Jake Gervase said. “Really talented offensive line; he had some time back there to make plays, and the receivers made plays. We did a pretty solid job against the run, but they had some
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The Iowa Report Card
The Big Ten West is Wisconsin’s to lose
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Uncharacteristic miscues not only led to Iowa’s loss, they made the idea of winning the Big Ten West that much more out of reach.
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Nate Stanley didn’t put up the numbers he did against Ohio State in 2017, but his outing against the Badgers was one of his best games in a Hawkeye uniform. His passes combined with Iowa’s solid ground game formed a pleasant surprise against a defense giving up roughly 275 yards per game (Iowa gained 404 yards of offense).
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adam-hensley@uiowa.edu One game doesn’t define a season. But Iowa’s loss to Wisconsin sure sets it back in 2018. Iowa’s season isn’t over by any means. There are eight regular-season contests remaining, and the Hawkeyes could still win the Big Ten West. But it’s a lot harder now that Wisconsin escaped Kinnick with a conference-opening win, and now the West is Wisconsin’s to lose. The Badger win means the Hawkeyes are a game behind in the race, and by the looks of the West division, none of the other teams seem to have a shot at surpassing Wisconsin. I think what stands out to me about the Badger victory isn’t Alex Hornibrook’s go-ahead touchdown pass with under a minute remaining. The special-team miscues stand out to me
big plays in the passing game, and that’s stuff we’ve got to clean up.” His best piece of work came in the fourth quarter with Wisconsin down by 3. Starting at the Badger 12-yard line, Hornibrook led a 10-play, 88-yard drive capped off by 17-yard pass to A.J. Taylor for 6 points and a lead with 57 seconds left. The drive was detrimental to Iowa, taking some of the life out of Kinnick Stadium. The Hawkeyes followed by throwing an interception on a tipped pass before Wisconsin’s Alec Ingold took a run 33 yards to the house to put the Badgers up by double-digits. When it came down to it, Hornibrook knew what he had to do, and he responded.
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The Hawkeyes didn’t stop the Badgers when they needed to the most. But aside from that go-ahead drive, Iowa held the Wisconsin offense in check. Jonathan Taylor churned out his lowest rushing total of the season (113 yards), well below his 171.6 average rushing yards per game. Allowing Alex Hornibrook to methodically drive down and score late was not good, though.
Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan Wisconsin wide receiver A.J. Taylor catches a touchdown pass against Iowa’s at Kinnick on Sept. 22. The Badgers defeated the Hawkeyes on two late TDs, 28-17. the most. Touching the punt instead of clearing out when it rolled, fumbling the ball after a great return, and calling for a fair catch at the 3-yard line — three uncharacteristic mistakes by Iowa set the
Hawkeyes back time and time again, yet it was still a close game. Despite the special-team errors, Iowa was in it till the very end, which makes the final outcome sting even more.
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Shaun Beyer touched a ball that he shouldn’t have. Kyle Groeneweg signaled for a fair catch at the Hawkeye 3-yard line and fumbled the ball on another return. What could go wrong went wrong for Iowa on special teams. Miguel Recinos hit a field goal, however.