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THE LATTER. SPORTS. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ Coming into faith at Iowa UI sophomore Jessica Graff; Photo by Margaret Kispert UI senior Joe Rajchel; Photo by Joshua Housing UI junior Asaju Walker; Photo by Margaret Kispert UI senior Quentin Hill; Photo by Margaret Kispert By BEN MARKS | [email protected] While not a shocking statistic — this trend has occurred Walker enters the Iowa City Mosque on a Sunday evening. since the 1980s — it’s easy to see why this number is worri- After a ritual cleanse, he chats with the people milling around. hen Quentin Hill entered the University of Iowa some to many religious institutions, which are losing young Salaam, they say. Eventually, as he does in his own apartment, as a freshman, he was an atheist. Now, nearing believers at ever increasing rates once they enter college. Walker faces east toward Mecca and begins praying. Whis time to leave as a senior, he does so as a Jew. Hector Avalos, a professor of philosophy and religious Although Baptist throughout high school, Walker had been Originally a Baptist, during his first year at the UI, junior studies at Iowa State University, said the idea that college interested in Islam as a culture and said it was hard to rec- Asaju Walker became a Muslim. liberalizes students’ religion has been seen sociologically for oncile the depictions of Muslims shown in the media in the While also at the university, senior Joe Rajchel went from decades, traditionally because college is the point in students’ aftermath of 9/11 with the Muslims he knew. atheist to spiritual, and sophomore Jessica Graff went from lives when they are exposed to a much broader world. “This didn’t make sense to me, because the people I was New Thought Christianity to Pentecostal. This happens, Avalos said, because college works like a meeting were a lot kinder to me than almost any of the Amer- From belief to another, each of these students has under- magnifying lens, intensifying and concentrating the diversity ican Christian students I knew,” he said. “The sense of com- gone radical shifts in both faith and lifestyle during their time of the nation. munity and brother- and sisterhood they showed each other at college accomplishing something a rising number of young “In college, you have groups from dozens of religions, and didn’t seem like a terrorist’s ideal lifestyle, so I would ask people aren’t — not only maintaining a faith in college, but that exposure alone can affect you,” Avalos said. “Now, you’re them tons of questions.” developing one. free to explore; you can hear other ideas.” Eventually Walker enrolled in Kirkwood Community Col- According to the most recent Gallup Poll, 16 percent of And although rising college secularism has been a long- lege to pursue biomedical engineering, and he said by his sec- adults in the U.S. identify as nonreligious. term trend, Avalos said it was only accelerated with the ad- ond year there, he had abandoned his Baptist roots. However, in 2014, nearly 28 percent of college freshmen did vent of the Internet. The Internet, he said, provided students “Ultimately being born into something doesn’t mean that’s not identify with a religion, the highest percentage ever re- with access to a much larger database of religions and cul- what resonates with you,” he said. “When you’re little, it was corded since the Higher Education Research Institute began tures much sooner than students had ever had before. good for teaching you sharing, caring, treating thy neighbor measuring in 1971. But some students are going against the grain. as you would like to be treated, and I still held those values, The bottom line: College students are more secular now but [Christianity] didn’t feel right anymore.” than they have ever been. • • • SEE RELIGION, 7 2016 IOWA CAUCUSES Photos GOP nomination race a big ‘lump’ show real By BRENT GRIFFITHS and ALEKSANDRA VUJICIC China [email protected] By LI DAI WAUKEE, Iowa — For near- [email protected] ly five hours this past weekend, nine GOP presidential hopefuls Chinese photographer Wang Wenlan, contested for the attention of with a career spanning the post-Mao de- more than 1,000 attendees at a cades, has produced a rich chronicle of a gathering for social conservatives. changing society. Packed into plastic the- “The whole process of China’s reform ater seats in a sanctuary that over the past four decades — whether go- looked more like an audito- ing forward or stalling — I’ve been deter- rium, onlookers to the Iowa mined to and have managed to document Faith and Freedom Coalition’s it all,” Wang said. Spring kickoff exited at the A photo exhibition of Wang’s work will end of night more aware of the run through May 12 in the Adler Jour- White House contenders but nalism Building Resource Center. Photo- far from ready to commit. graphs include representations of bicycle “There’s a good bunch,” said repairmen and construction from the Janice Haag, a Johnston resi- 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. dent, who liked former Penn- “My biggest regret was not to capture sylvania Sen. Rick Santorum anything meaningful during the Cultur- but caucused for former Texas al Revolution period; it would’ve been a Rep. Ron Paul in 2012. “There precious record,” he said. are a lot more good conser- The Cultural Revolution, now widely vative candidates than there Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition in Waukee, Iowa, on April 25. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert) regarded as a dark phase in the country’s were last time.” history, was a social-political movement in The Iowa Faith and Freedom with similar formats. lary,” Hampton, Iowa, resident Cruz had an “excellent speech.” China from 1966 until 1976 under former Coalition, led by Iowa’s Repub- In interviews following the Sam Dirksen said after saying Lost in the rhetoric, stories, Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. lican National Committeeman event, attendees struggled to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Wis- and biographical sketches was Wang joined the national English-lan- Steve Scheffler, draws presi- separate one candidate from consin Gov. Scott Walker and any semblance of a front-run- guage newspaper China Daily in 1981, dential hopefuls to the state the bunch. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz were a several times a year for events “I kind of feel sorry for Hil- few of his favorites, adding that SEE GOP, 3 SEE CHINA, 3 WEATHER DAILY IOWAN TV ON THE WEB INDEX HIGH LOW 64 39 • SCAN THIS CODE CHECK DAILYIOWAN.COM FOR HOURLY CLASSIFIED 10-11 UPDATES AND ONLINE EXCLUSIVES. FOLLOW Mostly sunny, breezy. • GO TO DAILYIOWAN.COM DAILY BREAK 6 • WATCH UITV AT 9 P.M. @THEDAILYIOWAN ON TWITTER AND LIKE US OPINIONS 4 SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE CONTENT. 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