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The Daily Iowan THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ INSIDE UI pushes fall withdraw deadline, COVID-19 cases top 1,000 The University of Iowa pushed back its tuition timetable as coronavirus cases continue to rise. BY SARAH WATSON recorded 220 new positive With an updated time- delay comes "in order to Iowan previously reported. part in an on-campus or 3 [email protected] self-reported COVID-19 line, students now have provide greater flexibility The UI also announced in-person ceremony in the cases, bringing the se- until Sept. 27 to withdraw to students, and families," that December commence- future." The University of Io- mester total to 1,142 posi- without being responsible university administrators ment ceremonies will be "We know how much wa will push back its fall tive or presumed positive for 100 percent of tuition, wrote in the email. virtual this year. The UI these ceremonies mean to deadline to withdraw from COVID-19 cases among a week after the previous Twenty four students sent commencement cer- our students and their fam- classes without a tuition re- students. Since the UI be- deadline of Sept. 20. Stu- are quarantined in resi- emonies virtual for Spring ilies," the email stated. "And fund by one week as self-re- gan recording self-reported dents would be responsible dence halls, and 78 students 2020 graduates. For those while December seems a ported COVID-19 cases on COVID-19 cases Aug. 18, 16 for 25 percent of tuition are self-isolating, the UI re- planning on attending long way off, we feel it is the campus top 1,000, accord- UI employees self-report- through Sept. 13, 50 per- ported. The UI residence in-person winter gradua- right decision to make now UI studies effect of can- ing to a campus-wide email ed testing positive for the cent through Sept. 20, and halls have between 250 tion, the UI wrote it would to maintain the health and nabis on driving impair- Wednesday. virus — three more since 75 percent if they withdraw and 300 rooms available anticipate all 2020 grad- safety of the entire campus ment Since Monday, the UI Monday. before Sept. 27. The week for quarantine, The Daily uates will be able to "take community." The National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa is conducting a paid study to test can- nabis users to determine the levels of impairment. Researchers are currently looking into how different drugs will impact driving performances. 3 Calling in sick Students called in sick for school on Wednesday, demanding UI administrators and the Board of Regents UI professor to send met- move all classes online. al alloys to the Interna- BY NATALIE DUNLAP tional Space Station [email protected] A professor with the University of Iowa College of Engineering is working with NASA to study metals to be sent to the For hundreds of students at the University of International Space Station. Iowa, yesterday was a sick day. A coalition of undergraduate students, grad- uate students, instructors, faculty, and staff en- couraged students and faculty at the UI to call 80 in sick for classes on Sept. 2 and to demand all THE WEEKENDHOURS IN ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT classes go virtual. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 According to an Aug. 28 email from the Of- fice of Admissions, 78 percent of undergraduate The Age of the classes are held online. Virtual In an email to *The Daily Iowan*, the orga- Performance nizers of "UIowa Sickout" said when they were planning the campaign, they expected roughly 300 people to participate. As of Wednesday af- ternoon, more than 850 people pledged to call Age of Virtual Perfor- in sick. mance “We’re floored by the outpouring of support Due to COVID-19, the performing that the UIowa sickout has received. Hearing arts at the University of Iowa has the stories people have shared with us con- taken a hard hit. With recitals, firms what we already knew – the reopening shows, and performances having has failed,” the organizers said in the email. moved virtually, new approaches “Now, the University of Iowa must act quickly to have had to been developed for protect the health of its students, staff, faculty, the artists.. and the Iowa City community. Classes must be 80 hours, 1B Photo Illustration by Hannah Kinson SEE STUDENT, 2 6 Democrats warn of voter suppression COVID-19 disrupts STD contact at virtual Progress Iowa Corn Feed tracing in Iowa Iowa and national Democrats discussed the importance of voting in the With healthcare focus on Hawkeye men’s tennis 2020 general, and said Republicans were trying to make it COVID-19, less resources athletes still searching for more difficult to vote. answers are able to be allocated Now that the Big Ten fall season towards tracing sexually has been postponed, the Hawkeye tennis teams are looking to transmitted diseases. prepare for their spring seasons. They will have to adjust to new BY SABINE MARTIN practice regulations and schedules [email protected] in order to get the most out of their extended offseason while protecting themselves during the Shannon Wood normally traces STD pandemic. cases in Iowa, but the specialist in the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Sex- ually Transmitted Disease Program has changed tactics. From April through Au- gust, she’s had to focus her expertise to trace another disease: COVID-19. 6 Wood said the department has had fewer resources to trace sexually trans- mitted diseases infections since the pandemic began, although the Iowa De- partment of Public Health is still tracing cases of HIV and early stages of syphilis. “We've actually done less of [STD con- Hawkeye tennis programs tact tracing], because we were pulled to preparing for spring work on COVID-19 contact tracing,” she seasons said. “We completely stopped doing con- Now that the Big Ten fall season tact tracing for gonorrhea.” has been postponed, the Hawkeye Ryan Adams/The Daily Iowan According to the Iowa Department of tennis teams are looking to Former U.S. Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks in a pre-recorded message during Progress Iowa's Cornfeed event on Public Health 2019 Disease Surveillance prepare for their spring seasons. September 2. This is the sixth annual cornfeed event for Progress Iowa. Data Report for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, They will have to adjust to new and Syphilis, there were a total of 21,716 practice regulations and schedules BY CALEB MCCULLOUGH right now, at the start of what’s going to be America’s of these infections in Iowa. Compared to in order to get the most out of [email protected] deciding decade for this century, is going to shape the 2018 report, that’s 1,909 more cases. their extended offseason while everything for the rest of our lives,” he said. Kathryn Edel, Johnson County Public protecting themselves during the Iowa Democratic elected officials and national fig- Ashley Biden, Joe Biden’s daughter, appealed to Health Department health educator, said pandemic. ures implored Iowans to vote in the general election her father’s policy proposals, including expand- her department also has not been able to and warned of voter suppression in the state and na- ing the Affordable Care Act and addressing climate test as frequently as it did before the first tionally during the sixth annual Progress Iowa Corn change and gun violence, and she said Republicans COVID-19 were reported in March and Feed. in Iowa are trying to make it harder to vote. cases began to rise. The event, held virtually over Facebook Live with Republican state lawmakers passed a bill in June “That's dramatically changed the level around 2,000 viewers at its peak, featured a slate of that barred Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate from of access,” she said. speakers in mostly pre-recorded messages, includ- sending out absentee ballot requests to all registered The department previously offered ing former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Butti- voters on his own, but the Republican-led Legislative free rapid testing Monday through Fri- gieg, Ashley Biden, U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., Council authorized Pate to mail out ballots in July. day in the clinic located in the Human Tune in for LIVE updates Democratic Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield, The Trump campaign sued three Iowa counties — Services Building, , Edel said, but now Watch for campus and city and Iowa’s Democratic members in the U.S. House, Johnson, Linn, and Woodbury — for sending out ab- only offers tests via appointment. news, weather, and Hawkeye as well as House candidates J.D. Scholten and Rita sentee ballots with pre-filled information. Wood said for the Iowa Department sports coverage every day at Hart. “In the end, the best way to fight back is at the of Public Health, there is less money for dailyiowan.com. Buttigieg, who won the Iowa caucuses in Febru- ballot box,” Biden said. “...Together, we can reclaim testing resources in Iowa. ary before dropping out of the presidential race, said our future, and help our country move closer to its “The STD program is losing some the coronavirus pandemic has exposed injustices in founding promise of a more perfect union,” she said. money and that money pays for the test- political and economic systems, and that the future Greenfield, who is in a competitive race with Re- ing at some sites, and then the treatment should not go back to “an old normal.” “I’m convinced that the decisions we’re making SEE CORN FEED, 2 SEE STD, 2 2A NEWS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 PIERCINGS IN IOWA CITY Volume 153 The Daily Iowan Issue 9 STAFF BREAKING NEWS Publisher.

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