Herky the Hawk Celebrates 70Th Birthday
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The Daily Iowan MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILY-IOWAN.COM 50¢ INSIDE 36 Herky the Hawk celebrates 70th birthday UI mascot Herky the Hawk celebrated his 70th birthday since he was originally drawn by University of Iowa journalism instructor Dick Spencer in 1948. Hawks snag a win on night game No. 1 Iowa picked up a 38-14 win over Northern Iowa in its first night game of the year. The Hawkeye offense finally stepped up, and the defense continued to prove itself. It wasn’t against a team that’s the same caliber as Wisconsin, but the Hawkeyes shone once again under the lights. Mill presents The Great Satan The Feed Me Weird Things Series partnered with FilmScene’s Late Shift at the Grindhouse to bring Ev- erything Is Terrible’s The Great Satan film to a local audience on Sept. 13. Go to daily-iowan.com to see the full story and video. David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan Herky the Hawk celebrates with the Iowa cheerleaders against Northern Iowa at Kinnick on Sept. 15. The Hawkeyes defeated the Panthers, 38-14. 3 BY JOSIE FISCHELS Roth and her mother have donated a total of drawn Herky to be more “strong, aggressive, and [email protected] 48 original drawings of the mascot to the Univer- determined.” Hutchinson donated his artwork to sity Archives over the years. Roth’s father, Frank the University Archives in 2016, where it was also The third floor of the University of Iowa Main Havlicek, worked with Herky’s creator, Dick Spen- arranged for display for Herky’s 70th birthday cel- Library was filled with black and gold balloons on cer, when the idea for the mascot was first imag- ebration. Sept. 14 thanks to an exhibit set up by the UI Librar- ined in 1948. “Today, we are so grateful that those sketches re- ies Special Collections and University Archives to “Those original drawings were given by Dick to side here in the University Archives,” UI Librarian celebrate Herky the Hawk’s 70th birthday. my father, and I didn’t want them to sit in a box,” John Culshaw said. The Hatching Herky exhibit, curated over the Roth said. “I wanted them to be preserved and Exhibit curator Waryan worked closely with Uni- summer by recent UI graduate Chloe Waryan, was shared through the university, and that’s why I do- versity Archivist David McCartney over the sum- made possible by a collaboration between the UI nated them to Special Collections.” mer to organize the event, searching through the Libraries and the Athletics Department, along with Hutchinson was called on to reimagine Herky archives for documents, early sketches, and other the donations of original sketches of Herky by Jane when he was a senior at UI in 1973. In the April 17, Democratic Party leaders Roth and Merrill James Hutchinson, Jr. 1973, issue of The Daily Iowan, he said he had re- SEE HERKY, 2 aim to energize base Ahead of midterm elections, Dem- ocratic leaders stessed urgency at the grassroots level to elect Democrats to office. Miss Iowa flows with IOWA POLITICS 8 ‘unforgettable experience’ Court hears After the Miss America event, Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw will continue on her year of service for the state. Dakota Hawkeye football needs Pipeline case to clean up penalties If Iowa wants to beat Wisconsin when it comes to Kinnick on More than a year after the Dakota Access Saturday, it needs to cut down on penalties. The Hawkeyes saw laun- Pipeline began pumping crude oil under dry on the field 10 times in their Iowa, a lawyer argued the company illegally win over Northern Iowa. Wisconsin may have one loss, but Iowa can’t used state-approved authority to bury the afford to make the same mistakes in its Big Ten opener. pipeline on people’s land. BY JULIA SHANAHAN AND SARAH WATSON Shine wins Woody Greeno [email protected] gold Iowa cross-country runner Andrea The Iowa Supreme Court recently heard arguments Shine took first at the Woody from representatives of Iowa landowners in a case regard- Greeno Invitational, hosted by ing the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which runs Nebraska. It was the second-con- secutive race Shine has won, and underneath 343 miles of Iowa. in addition to the victory, she and Lawyers representing the Sierra Club and Iowa land- the rest of her teammates got a owners argued that acquiring land under eminent domain glimpse of the course that the Big Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan when the pipeline was under construction violated the Io- Ten Championships will use. Miss Iowa 2018 Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw poses for a portrait on June 22. wa Code and the Iowa and U.S. Constitutions. Online Under Iowa Code, the Iowa Utilities Board can grant companies the right to complete an underground pipeline BY ALEXANDRA SKORES in scholarships from Miss Iowa and on land without permission from the owners when the [email protected] $3,000 from Miss America. board determines the land is “suitable” and the project is “I was in complete shock when they “in the public interest.” A UI student competed in the 2018 announced my name,” she said. “The Wallace Taylor, an attorney representing the Sierra Club Miss America pageant as Miss Iowa, women I competed with in Iowa are and Iowa landowners, said in court Sept. 12 it did not qual- Tune in for LIVE updates and though she didn’t win the title, she some of the most accomplished women ify under public use. Watch for campus and city news, left with what she described as the ex- I have ever met. They are scholars, ad- “The Legislature has not specifically defined the term of weather, and Hawkeye sports perience of a lifetime. vocates, leaders in their communities, public use,” Taylor said. coverage every day at 8:30 a.m. Just last semester, Mikhayla Hughes- and some of my dearest friends. I was The 1,172-mile-long Dakota Pipeline began pumping oil at daily-iowan.com. Shaw was walking around the Univer- honored, excited, and speechless when a little more than a year ago from the Bakken oil fields in sity of Iowa campus, ordering coffee at my name was called.” North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to a termi- the Java House and being a typical col- Excited and hopeful about the com- nal in Illinois. Its construction has faced heavy criticism lege student. Now, she will return to the petition, Hughes-Shaw traveled to At- from Native American groups, environmentalists, and UI in the fall of 2019 for her senior year as the Miss Iowa winner with $11,000 SEE MISS IOWA, 2 SEE PIPELINE, 2 2 NEWS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILY-IOWAN.COM | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 Volume 150 IT’S IN THE BAGS The Daily Iowan Issue 20 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6030 Publisher. 335-5788 Email: [email protected] Jason Brummond Fax: 335-6297 Editor in Chief. 335-6030 CORRECTIONS Gage Miskimen Call: 335-6030 Managing Editors. 335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for accuracy and fairness in the Katelyn Weisbrod reporting of news. If a report is Marissa Payne wrong or misleading, a request for Visual Arts Director a correction or a clarification may Lily Smith be made. 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Business Manager Advertising Manager Debra Plath. .335-5786 Renee Manders. 335-5193 Classifieds/Circulation Manager Advertising Sales Juli Krause. 335-5784 Bev Mrstilk. 335-5792 PIPELINE CONTINUED FROM FRONT Attorney Bret Dublinkse, The appellants for the representing the Dakota case include Keith Punt- Pipeline, on Sept. 12 argued enney, Laverne Johnson, farmers. that the pipeline is operat- Richard Lamb, Marian “This is a case of first im- ing in commercial services Johnson, Northwest Iowa pression for Iowa — wheth- to provide products to re- Landowners Association, er a private [crude oil] pipe- finers and processors that Iowa Farmland Owners As- line that provides no direct rely on it. sociation Inc., and the Sier- service to Iowans whatso- “The pipeline is an estab- ra Club Iowa Chapter. ever, and provides only in- lished fact, and this case is The appellees in the case cidental benefits, is a pub- entirely a moot one,” Dub- listed on the Iowa Supreme lic use under this state’s linkse said.