The Daily Iowan THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2018 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILY-IOWAN.COM 50¢ Remembering Mollie Tibbetts ABOVE: Community members gather to pay their respects to and remember Mollie Tibbetts during a vigil in Hubbard Park on Wednesday. Tibbetts vanished on July 18 in Brooklyn, Iowa. On Tuesday, authorities recovered her body and filed a murder charge against 24-year-old Poweshiek County resident Cristhian Rivera.Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan BOTTOM RIGHT: UI President Bruce Harreld observes a moment of silence during a vigil in memory of Tibbetts. Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan BOTTOM RIGHT: UI senior Haley Steele prays with friends during a vigil in memory of Tibbetts. Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan In the wake of Mollie Tibbetts’ death, Hawkeyes gathered to focus on her memory. BY CHARLES PECKMAN what made her so special was she was just in the University of Iowa community and [email protected] like anyone standing here — she loved to Dance Marathon, she was a prominent run, she loved Harry Potter, she loved the face on campus.” Hundreds of students clad in Dance Hawks, she loved her family, she loved her University Counseling Service Director Marathon and Hawkeye shirts gathered friends.” Barry Schreier said he was saddened by the in Hubbard Park on Wednesday evening UI student Breck Goodman said Tib- news of Tibbetts’ death, but he wishes the to remember Mollie Tibbetts, a University betts was her friend for many years and UI community could move forward with a of Iowa student who was found dead on cared deeply for those around her. sense of unity. Tuesday after a monthlong search. “I think the most important thing about “It’s a terrible loss losing one of our In the hours after Tibbetts’ death was Mollie is that she was friends with almost Hawkeye family, so we put a lot of messag- announced by law-enforcement officials, everyone that she saw,” she said. “Even if ing out as a university on social media to members of Dance Marathon and UI Stu- it was just passing her on the way to class, express how we’ve been feeling about it,” dent Government created “Vigil for Mollie she would smile and you would feel some he said. “This is such a terrible, bottomless, Tibbetts” on Facebook. By the time of the sort of comfort because ‘that really short tragic loss for this family, and you can see vigil, more than 2,000 students had indi- girl just smiled at me.’ ” the community feels this as well.” cated they were “interested” in the event. Dance Marathon Director Charlie Ellis Schreier said although there has been Jake Tibbetts, Mollie’s brother, urged said Tibbetts left a lasting impression on much hate speech on social media sur- everyone present at the vigil to greet one many people, including those in the Dance rounding Tibbetts’ alleged killer, Cristhian another and make a new friend. That way, Marathon family she was a part of. Rivera, continuing to speak about it “keeps he said, 1,000 people made a friend in Mol- “It is crucial we all show the utmost sup- moving the needle away from where it lie’s name. port for each other and all those surround- needs to be, which is community.” “The stories you’ve all heard about Mol- ing us,” Ellis said. “We ask that you please “I think one of the things that happens lie over the last month, they’re incredible,” focus on remembering Mollie in helping when cynicism acts up is there is so much he said. “She was incredible, and we’re one another tonight. The world felt the going to miss her dearly. But to be honest, loss of Mollie — between her involvement SEE VIGIL, 2A INSIDE Rivera worked in Iowa Tibbetts’ The weekend in arts & entertainment 1BThursday, August 23, 2018 family releases Since the ’90s, small self-produced anthologies of writing and art called zines have given the young, insistent, and atypical voices in Iowa City a chance to be heard. under false name CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE statement CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE Cristhian Bahena Rivera, charged with first-degree murder of CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE “Our hearts are broken,” CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE UI student Mollie Tibbetts, used a false identity to work in U.S. UI student Mollie Tibbetts’ family says on Wednesday. BY CHARLES PECKMAN [email protected] BY BROOKE CLAYTON | [email protected] DESIGN BY LILY SMITH & NAOMI HOFFERBER Iowa City is home to literary giants whose names grace publish whatever the result may be. zine’s theme. the shelves of Prairie Lights and whose faces pass discreetly “If they submit it, we put it in,” Bagnall said. When Bright was facing a debilitating dose of writer’s block by en route to Dey House. But the City of Literature, in all its Mental Floss dates the first zines back to the 1930s, where the last year, she turned to her camera. Photography was an old grandeur, has also always been a hotbed for underground art. sci-fi scene in Chicago started a tradition of producing fanzines hobby, and she decided to look through the lens again just to “Zines have always been a staple of counterculture,” Molly that lives on today. Defined by their local circulation, low cost, gain a different perspective. What began as photo shoots with Bagnall said. “The whole point is not to edit things or reject and self-publication, zines took off in other communities. Punk friends quickly evolved in to something more. things but just to give local artists and creators the chance to zines became incredibly popular in the ’70s, when copy shops Because of an initial coincidence, her models were all queer The Iowa Department of Public Safety re- have their work published in some sense, no matter how small made it easier than ever to mass-produce the publications. women, and the act of standing up to the camera seemed to scale it is.” Today, zines reign in the underground art and music scenes of empower them to reflect on the ways we can redefine femininity Bagnall is in the process of coproducing her fourth zine New York, London, and LA, and they have even been produced and beauty. since February. Each small, self-bound zine has had a theme: by big names such as Kanye West. Playing with the idea of being “seen,” Bright began using the the first that all submissions were 33 words or fewer, the Facebook and Twitter have been the breeding ground for hashtag #icwomen to promote the diverse faces of queerness in second interpreted family and home, and the third considered Bagnall's passion projects, connecting her with local students Iowa City. the body. Yet even those umbrellas act only as an usher, an and artists who would like to be published. One such person, Bagnall was one of Bright’s models, and together, they leased a press release on Wednesday with a invitation to get the artistic gears going, with the promise to UI senior Becca Bright, turned out to be the source for the next decided that the fourth zine should give voices to the queer SEE ZINE, 4B On the web On the air Events calendar Get updates about local arts & Tune in to KRUI 89.7 FM at 5 p.m. on Want your event to be printed in The Daily Iowan entertainment events on Twitter Thursdays to hear about this weekend and included in our online calendar? To submit a statement from the family of University of Io- @DailyIowanArts in arts & entertainment. listing, visit dailyiowan.com/pages/calendarsubmit. wa student Mollie Tibbetts. ‘Zine scene’ amplifies The press release also said an autopsy on Tib- local artists’ voices betts’ body was performed Wednesday. Students have collaborated The family’s full statement reads: since the 1990s to produce “Our hearts are broken. On behalf of Mol- small anthologies of writing lie’s entire family, we thank all of those from and art called zines. The around the world who have sent their thoughts outlet has provided young and prayers for our girl. and passionate artists with a “We know that many of you will join us as we chance to make their voices continue to carry Mollie in our hearts forever. heard. Zines can be found at At this time, our family asks that we be allowed White Rabbit, Prairie Lights, the Becca Scadden/The Daily Iowan the time to process our devastating loss and Record Collective, High Ground, An Iowa State Patrol car sits behind a closed road sign on 385th Avenue outside of Brooklyn, Iowa near the site of share our grief in private. the Haunted Bookshop, and the where UI Mollie Tibbetts’ body was found Aug. 21. “Again, thank you for the outpouring of love Iowa City Public Library. and support that has been shared in Mollie’s BY GAGE MISKIMEN and Eric Lang, Craig Lang’s brother. name. We remain forever grateful.” [email protected] Craig Lang is a former president of the state Tibbetts would have been a sophomore ma- Board of Regents as well as the former president joring in psychology at the UI this fall. After the attorney for Cristhian Bahena Rivera, of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.