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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ Sex-assault plan completed By ANNA ONSTAD-HARGRAVE [email protected]

The University of Iowa’s six-point plan to combat sexual assault has been completed, according to up- dates made on April 5 to the Office of the President’s website. This update comes just days after uni- versity officials were criticized in UI Stu- dent Government elections for not being DiCarlo transparent enough coordinator about the plan. Then-UI President Sally Mason in- troduced the six-point plan to combat sexual assault after making controver- sial comments concerning the issue in The north entrance of Quad is shown on March 31. Quad’s Residence Hall coordinator has just resigned; the dorm is scheduled to be demolished later this spring. (The Daily Iowan/Peter Kim) February 2014. Current UI President Bruce Harreld has indicated he will continue its momentum. Monique DiCarlo, the UI sexual misconduct response coordinator, said the number of reported sexual assaults has increased in the past Quad faces last days year, from 83 in 2014 to 92 in 2015. She said this does not mean that the number of incidents of sexual as- saults has increased, however. Soon-to-be demolished Quadrangle Hall is already falling apart. “These reports aren’t the same as in- cident rate,” DiCarlo said. “A report can range from somebody saying ‘I was sexual- By TOM ACKERMAN | [email protected] Because of this, it’s fallen to student staff and ly assaulted’ to some- temporary administration to keep the dorm func- body’s roommate who t’s around eight weeks until Quadrangle Hall tioning. isn’t sure what hap- comes down, and cracks are beginning to show. Built in 1925, Quad is the oldest dormitory on the pened but is afraid that I University of Iowa officials have confirmed UI campus and also one incoming students were a sexual assault may Quadrangle Residence Hall’s coordinator has re- least likely to see on a campus tour. In 2015, the have occurred.” signed because of the building’s immanent closure New York Times named Quad as one of the worst DiCarlo said that Pasquesi and demolition, prompting questions from students dorms in the country due to its “non-existent” water the higher number of committee head about the administration in the dorm for the re- reports simply proves mainder of the school year. SEE QUAD, 3 bystanders are more willing to take action because of education techniques implemented by the UI under the plan. The plan’s initial goal was to address six issues regarding sexual assault — to crack down on offenders, increase support to survivors, improve preven- tion and education, improve communi- Augmenting reality with baseball cation, increase funding to preventative and education services, and listen to By KATELYN WEISBROD student input and report back. [email protected] The UI has addressed these points in a number of ways, officials said. Baseball season, along with peanuts, Kira Pasquesi, the head of the Stu- Crackerjacks, and baseball cards, is back. dent Advisory Committee on Sexual Recently, University of Iowa Professor Misconduct, said according to the re- Kevin Ripka has designed two applications cent update to the six-point plan, three that will be displayed in the American offenders have been expelled from the Baseball Card Museum in Fresno, Califor- university since April 2014. nia, and some say it could be an innovative Second, the six-point plan promised way to view museum exhibits. increased support to survivors. The inaugural exhibit will début on Fri- day in the Madden Library at California SEE PLAN, 3 State University-Fresno. The exhibit contains 395 cards, includ- ing almost 40 featuring Frank Chance, the player-manager who led the Chicago Cubs to their last World Series win, in 1908. One of the apps called “Fresno Cards” al- lows people to interact with baseball cards, complete with statistics and information GO TO THE 80 HOURSTEXT about individual players. Users don’t need to be in the exhibit to use the app, but Ripka CALENDAR FOR A FULL said it enhances the museum experience. “Museums are boring, and people don’t UI Assistant Professor Kevin Ripka shows one of his two new apps in Adler on Wednesday. Ripka's apps are now featured in the American RUNDOWN OF TODAY'S know how to make them fun,” Ripka said. Baseball Card Museum. (The Daily Iowan/McCall Radavich) “I love exhibits, but I also hate how passive Ripka brought the apps to Jeff Jaesh, specialist at the library, said the baseball MISSION CREEK EVENTS. they are, so I wanted to design something curator for the American Baseball Card card exhibit will be special because of the more experiential.” Museum. The museum is only a temporary, new technology being featured. The other app, which is only available inaugural exhibit in the Madden Library “It’s pretty fascinating; we’re hearing while in the exhibit, allows visitors to right now, featuring baseball cards and so much more about augmented reality, view the cards through an “augmented Ripka’s app. so we’re really excited that it is going to reality.” Visitors can hold a card with Jaesh said he is excited to incorporate be featured in this exhibit,” Wathen said. a barcode under an iPad, and a virtual them into the exhibit. “It’s amazing how fast that technology is baseball card will appear in the app that “It seems to be the cutting edge of what evolving and we think this is going to be visitors can interact with. museums are doing in terms of enhancing more significant, so it will be interesting “You pass them under the iPad, and the experience,” Jaesh said. to see how this audience interacts with it.” you can feel the texture and the size and Madden Library sees nearly 11,000 visi- Ripka said he started the project as a weight of the card but look at it on the tors per day and holds 2,000 similar events screen,” Ripka said. a year. Cindy Wathen, a public-relations SEE CARDS, 3

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By BRENT GRIFFITHS ophthalmologist, three tionwide last summer, passed by Congress that [email protected] times, in 2008, 2010, and but Peters indicated was supposed to apply 2014 and John Archer, he was for it as far to all states and that a Chris Peters would re- senior legal counsel for back as his 2010 run given state did not want ally prefer you not call John Deere, in 2012. against longtime incum- to abide by, I think they it Obamacare, least you Peters was not even bent Sen. Bob Dvorsky, have a right to challenge remind him of the Af- supposed to run origi- D-Coralville. the law,” Peters said. fordable Care Act passed nally. Sen. Mark Chel- “I’ve always thought Looking abroad, Peters by the president he cau- gren, R-Ottumwa, was it made no sense that said he questioned the cused and voted for in the lone candidate we needed to define reasons to go to war in his adopted home of Io- for Loebsack up un- marriage one way or an- Iraq, and he wishes that FOLLOW US ON TWITTER wa in 2008. til March 11 when he other, so I’m a little dif- he is on record against @THEDAILYIOWAN To Peters, a term like dropped out. A first- ferent than some Repub- a war he characterized “Obamacare” is indica- term senator, Chelgren licans on that issue but as a mistake. Overall, tive of what he sees as drew national attention not all,” Peters said. he wants American in- the coarsening of politi- for his comments about But when it comes to volvement in the world, cal debate. executing undocument- how some in his party but wants to avoid mili- He is al- ed immigrants and ban- have use religious free- tary interventions. so in favor ning research between dom to deny services to “I think thoroughly of same- the University of Iowa LGBT Americans, Peters and richly engaged in sex mar- and Stanford in retalia- said societal forces will the world, but as much riage and tion for a half-time show. force changes over time as we can that should be abortion With Loebsack then that do not necessarily peaceful mechanisms. If rights. Not running unopposed, Pe- require legislation. we have to involved mil- to men- Peters ters considered running “Say there is a busi- itarily the threat must tion that doctor as an independent but ness that denies baking be cleared and defined, he has ultimately decided on cake or providing a flo- the goals and end points switched the GOP — a party he ral arrangement, I think clear and defined and political parties so many has not minced words generally people in so- congressional authoriza- times that he can strug- with, to say the least. ciety are going to take tion to engage in anoth- gle to recall just what “I have purpose- a dim view of that, and er country except in the faction he was aligned ly placed the phrase through market forc- case of an emergency,” with at a particular ‘two-party’ in parenthe- es alone, that type of he said. moment — although as ses, as I believe that discrim- Put simply, the Re- late as last month he in reality we have on- ination publican hopeful says was still active in the ly a one-party system will go Americans govern them- Iowa Libertarian Party of government, with away with selves, and he pointed and ran under its um- different branding for time,” Pe- to the 16-day federal brella once before. different consumers,” ters said. government shutdown But now Peters is run- Peters wrote on his “Assum- of 2013 as an example. ning as a Republican website when he ran ing there “You went to the and for now is the lone as a Libertarian candi- are other Loebsack store, stuff was on the challenger to Loebsack, date for the state Leg- bakers or representative shelves, and you know a five-term incumbent. islature in 2010. “If florists the mail wasn’t deliv- “I’m a weird Republi- one were to consider in a community I don’t ered and the nation- can,” he told The Daily carbonated sodas, Coke know why, if I was a al parks were closed Iowan. “I’m just my own and Pepsi are as much gay couple, and I was down, but most of life guy. I choose my own different as are Repub- refused one place, why I doesn’t depend on gov- path, and I guess it is up lican and Democrat.” would force someone to ernment,” Peters said. to other people whether But when it comes to bake me a cake if they “Most of what we do, we they are uncomfortable his views on a whole host didn’t want to.” self-organize and kind with the decisions I’ve of issues, Peters is unlike In that same 2010 of the paradoxical thing made in the past.” any recent candidate who survey conducted by the is we place so much em- Suffice to say Peters, a has run in Iowa’s 2nd nonprofit Project Vote phasis on what hap- father of three who works Congressional District. Smart, Peters said it was pens in D.C. or in Des primarily at Corridor Miller-Meeks and time for nullification — a Moines regarding the Surgery and Vein Center Archer were against constitutional view that state government, and in Coralville, is different same-sex marriage, and states can overrule the not that it doesn’t mean from anyone Loebsack Archer went so far as federal government — to those things are not has faced before. to argue for a federal come back. He maintains important there is cer- A former political-sci- marriage amendment. that position and pointed tainly a role for those ence professor at Cor- It should be noted that to Colorado legalizing institutions, but most nell College, Loebsack these races occurred marijuana despite feder- of what we do in our has dispatched Mario- before the U.S. Su- al law as an example. daily lives especially nette Miller-Meeks, a preme Court legalized “If you’re talking what gives us meaning U.S. Army veteran and same-sex marriage na- about a law that had it just happens.” BREIFS

Former Johnson Neuzil’s last day as a Johnson Iowa City man charged was reportedly in possession of a County supervisor was Dec. 20, backpack that came from the bur- County supervisor 2015. He entered into a three-year with theft glary. Under Miranda, he allegedly resigns from new role contract with Kalamazoo County a Iowa City police have accused admitted that he pawned several of day later. Lisa Green-Douglass was an Iowa City man of stealing an the items from the burglary. Offi- A few months after staring his new elected to fill Neuzil’s vacant seat XBOX 360, an XBOX ONE, and cers reportedly located other stolen job as Kalamazoo city administrator, in January. other items. items at McClinton’s residence. Terrence Neuzil, a former Johnson He was first elected as a super- Michael McClinton, 19, 2401 McClinton denied committing County supervisor, has stepped down visor on Nov. 7, 2000, and served Highway E. 1008, was charged the burglary but said it is now from his position. on the board until his resignation. with second-degree theft. reasonable to believe the items Neuzil’s resignation was unani- The Kalamazoo administrator On March 3, 2016, a residence are stolen. The items he admitted mously accepted by the Kalamazoo included a salary of $128,356 a was burglarized in the 700 block to possessing or have pawned County Board of Commissioners year. On the Board of Supervisors, of Iowa Avenue. Numerous items total more than $1,500. He said he after a closed-door meeting, ac- his salary was $54,997 a year. were stolen including two vehi- made $50 from pawning items. cording to the Kalamazoo Gazette. It is unknown whether Neuzil cles, an XBOX 360, an XBOX ONE, Second-degree theft is a Kalamazoo officials initially put will stay In Kalamazoo following numerous games, and other items. Class-D felony. Neuzil on administrative leave on his resignation. On March 5, officers came in March 15 for undisclosed reasons. —by Bill Cooney contact with McClinton, and he — by Tom Ackerman THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 NEWS 3A

ing in the residence-hall “I think it’s sad such a QUAD system to other dorms. historic building’s coming CONTINUED FROM FRONT “We didn’t hire all the down, but it’s also cool that staff intended for Petersen we’re the last ones who get because we knew Quad- to stay in it,” UI freshman pressure, frequent cock- rangle was going offline,” Jackson Skiles said. roach sightings, and a lin- he said. UI freshman Julian gering mildew smell. Along with a new phar- King, who lives in May- Monica Marcelo, the UI macy building being flower and works at the assistant director for social built, a new ravine and Quad front desk, said he justice, has taken on some walking ramp is going would consider living in of the coordinator’s tasks, in on the northern side Quad a downgrade from said Assistant Vice Pres- of the Quadrangle area. Mayflower, but Skiles said ident Von Stange, the se- Project design Manager he disagrees. nior director of UI Housing Jenn Hoffman said this is “A lot of people say it’s & Dining. Marcelo was not not directly related to the the worst dorm on cam- able to provide comment construction of the new pus, but this place has by the time of publication. pharmacy building. character. I think it’s hom- “There was an opportu- “The walls and the side- ey,” he said. “It’s humbling nity for that staff mem- walks have severely dete- to stay in a place that’s not ber to relocate to another riorated. We had to close it state of the art, like a lot of school,” Stange said. “We last fall because it was no these other places. It gives would have preferred that longer safe,” Hoffman said, you a different perspective staff continue throughout referring to the old stair- on how to live.” The north entrance of Quad is shown on March 31. Quad is set to be torn down in around eight weeks. (The Daily Iowan/Peter Kim) the academic year, but well. “There was under- King said there are that was their decision to mining and safety issues green dots being placed no pictures for undis- vide funding for resi- but no details have been make, and we support it.” so it was a deferred main- on items throughout the closed reasons. dence hall scholarships. completed yet. Officials have begun tenance need to replace building, indicating what Places like the old He said plans are not “I think it’s a good idea preparing Quad for dem- the sidewalk and walls.” will be saved and what Quad dining hall, aban- completed, but officials to go out with a bang. It olition after the spring se- Meanwhile, the twilight will be thrown away. doned study halls, and hope to raise around gives us a really cool mem- mester is over, said Brett days of Quad are a strange On Tuesday night, stu- parts of the basement $100,000 from alumni ory to end with of the place Seelman, demolition proj- time for many residents who dents on the Quad Exec- were shown to students and UI supporters. that we spent our first ect manager. see the closing as both nec- utive Board gave tours on the tour. He also said there are year in college,” Skiles Stange said UI officials essary and upsetting due to of closed off sections of Stange said after the plans to have a Quad- said. “Down the road, we’ll have looked at the current the history and the closeness the building and offered demolition, there are rangle memorial, which be able to say, we lived in staff and will relocate those many residents share in the some historical facts plans to sell bricks from could preserve the gate one of the most historic who’d like to continue work- west campus community. about it but would allow Quad, which could pro- and other historic points, buildings on campus.”

way to integrate his love for he started collected base- up again as an adult. a great piece of Ameri- player’s cards was kind of CARDS baseball and his interest in ball cards when he was a “People love baseball, cana,” Ripka said. “There a defining connection to CONTINUED FROM FRONT data visualization. He said kid and recently picked it and baseball cards are was a day when having a that player.”

The university also ing to conduct end-of-the- lows you to measure how ment that the needs and an important step for- PLAN gets feedback from stu- year surveys to see how often our community is priorities identified by ward but I am committed CONTINUED FROM FRONT dents by anonymously the numbers compare. experiencing this issue. the University of Iowa to continuing the momen- surveying all students on “We’re hopeful that the It will be important to Antiviolence Coalition tum,” he said. “I’ve been campus in climate sur- climate survey will begin continue to do this as a will shape work done in pleased to see students “There’s been a real- veys. DiCarlo said the the ability to measure way to measure whether the future. take a leadership role and ly strong commitment university did initial sur- the incident rate,” she the incident rates are go- “Achieving the goals set will continue to ask for to continue our work on veys at the beginning of said. “Having an anony- ing up or down.” forth in President Ma- their support and guid- campus and strengthen the year and are prepar- mous climate survey al- Harreld said in a state- son’s six-point plan was ance on this issue.” not only our prevention work but also do policy review work,” DiCar- lo said. “We’ve also in- creased access to exter- nal resources.” Another goal of the six- point plan was to improve prevention and educa- tion. Though education and prevention were in- creased, DiCarlo said she would like to see more do- ne in this area. “This is a cultural prob- lem. We can’t wait until people get to college to teach prevention. We need to be doing that earlier,” DiCarlo, who proposed education and teaching prevention in K-12 public schools as well. Additionally, according to the plan’s update, the equivalent of one full-time employee at the Rape Vic- tim Advocacy Program and one and a half posi- tions at the Women’s Re- source and Action Center have been hired. The fourth piece of the six-point plan was to im- prove communication. This has been ad- dressed by implementing so-called timely warnings, said Georgina Dodge, the UI chief diversity officer. Dodge said changes in- cluded language adjust- ments and trigger warn- ings in communications to students. “The Student Advisory Committee met regularly with President Harreld and other administra- tors,” Dodge said. For the fifth point, Di- Carlo said the university has increased funding to UI Office of the Sexu- al Misconduct Response Coordinator. According to the plan update, this includes a 2014 Depart- ment of Justice Office on Violence Against Women $300,000 Campus Grant. Finally, the UI has been fulfilling its obligation to listen and report back through implementation of the Student Advisory Committee, officials said. Dodge said that the stu- dent Advisory Committee has been able to update the timely warning sys- tem and address issues such as safety walks. “I’m grateful for the students that participate on the Student Advisory Committee,” DiCarlo said. “They are certainly en- gaged with our work and have clearly demonstrat- ed a commitment.” 4A THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Opinions — FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION COLUMN EDITORIAL Fossil-fuel Corruption unearthed industry and going viral ecently, a leak of unprecedented proportions lem of global tax avoidance generally is a huge problem. should be occurred. The documents are being called the The problem is that a lot of this stuff is legal, not illegal.” R“Panama Papers,” after the Panamanian law One of the largest examples of offshore tax avoidance firm from which the documents came, Mossack Fonseca. is Apple. According to a Bloomberg article from last It is the fourth largest offshore law firm in the world summer, Apple has nearly $202.8 billion in cash, 89 per- held liable according to The Guardian. The leak came from the law cent of which is held overseas and cannot be repatriated firm’s database and included 11.5 million files amount- without paying the 35 percent corporate income tax — ing to 2.6 terabytes of information. To put that volume the highest of any industrialized nation. into perspective, the massive WikiLeaks leak was a Apple’s tax avoidance is technically not illegal — In July 1977, James F. measly 1.7 gigabytes — that’s less than 0.001 of the even as Tim Cook, its CEO, has previously been called Black, a senior company Panama Papers. into court for the practices — but the question of eth- scientist for Exxon, told Given the bewildering scale of the leak, there is still ics must be applied to these holdings. As Apple’s (and a gathering of the most a lot of information yet to come out and documents that other large companies’) international sales have sky- powerful people in the still need to be read, but the implications are mount- rocketed, so, too, has the overseas money that cannot company that carbon ing. Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime be brought back to its U.S. investors. The Daily Iowan dioxide from the use of Minister David Cameron, and the former prime min- Editorial Board will not claim to have a solution to the Hannah Soyer fossil fuels would even- ister of Iceland, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, have all problem of corporate and wealthy individual tax eva- [email protected] tually harm the planet been identified as individuals with possible ties to the sion, but lest the Panama Papers reveal information and those living on it. In leak. Iceland’s prime minister offered his resignation on about American corporations, the U.S. federal govern- California’s Senate is response to this, Exxon Tuesday morning, according to AP. ment must devise a way for our nation’s corporations to introducing a bill known began to research even In response to the papers, President Obama has bring their overseas money back to the United States. as “The Climate Science further the effects of car- called for tax reform that would prevent Fortune 500 The information that has come out (and will continue Truth and Accountability bon-dioxide emissions companies from storing money in offshore holdings to to come out) of the Panama Papers, though damning, is Act,” which would allow on the Earth. Howev- avoid taxes. The issue of tax avoidance through offshore not entirely earth-shattering. The major tax reform that oil companies to be sued er, about a decade later, holdings has played a role in this election as candidates the Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign has pushed since the for deceiving the public it completely switched on both sides have addressed the issue. start of his campaign lies at the heart of the issues pre- about the link between sides and began propa- There is a lot yet to come out from the Panama Pa- sented by the Panama Papers and the commitment to re- gasoline use and climate gating climate-change pers, but right now there are two things the documents form on these policies played a role in The Daily Iowan’s change. This bill would denial, probably because undoubtedly reveal. First, the lack of trust in federal caucus endorsement of Sanders. allow these companies to the conclusions it drew government that exists among U.S. and world citizens However, it is now clear as the information from be sued for environmen- would spell danger for its seems to be better placed now than ever. And second, the leak grows that the problem of corruption tally damaging events or business. widespread and major tax reform will be required to fix among wealthy individuals, corporations, and gov- actions that took place as Now, if California’s the problems caused by the use of offshore holdings. ernments around the world is far bigger than we far back as 30 years ago. bill were to pass, Cali- As Obama told press, “There is no doubt that the prob- have previously known. Sen. Ben Allen, D-San- fornia fossil-fuel compa- ta Monica, who intro- nies could face similar duced the bill, said in a investigations, and legal statement, “Given the consequences. Hopefully, environmental, health, this bill is passed in Cal- Letters to the editor and economic impacts ifornia, and hopefully, that Californians are other states or even the RE: Iowa’s nitrate compounds to make the water safe for approach to this problem by working the politicians and create think tanks to already paying for as a federal government will our communities. with farmers to create better systems provide messaging to these mouthpiec- result of the fossil fuel begin to follow suit. contaminated water I cannot fathom why companies that to reduce runoff and to create more es. And so, education, welfare, Social industry’s many years of Such legal measures make a product that has dangerous side sustainable models of farming. Security, Medicare, and the worker are all public deception and the will undoubtedly cause I have been following the discussion effects are not required to help pay the under attack, health care remains private efforts to block action on gas prices to rise due on our state’s nitrate-contaminated water costs of cleaning up the toxic byproducts Mary Tarnoff and unaffordable for many, and the cost climate change, it is im- to potential lawsuits that comes from runoff of agricultural of their products. of college is growing beyond students’ portant to hold the in- against these oil- and fertilizers. I listened with distress when I know some people will object to financial capacity — all for a parasitic dustry responsible.” gas-producing compa- Gov. Terry Branstad suggested that we this idea. Some will suggest that fertilizer Sanders the only solid group of super wealthy (many of which There is no doubt nies, but this is just take money away from our schools to help manufacturers will just pass this added inherited its privilege). whether the bill will face something that will have clean up the water. cost onto farmers. This will be true to some candidate Production has risen steadily since much opposition when it to be dealt with in a I may have missed it, but so far, I haven’t degree. But companies can only raise their the 1940s, but since the 1980s, the goes to the floor. Howev- productive way. Ideally, heard anyone suggest the most obvious prices so much before there is a backlash. Reagan dropped taxes on the upper working classes and poor have lost er, it would be wise of the other forms of fuel and source of funding for cleanup. So here it is: At some point, the fertilizer manufactures bracket of the rich from 70 percent to ground. Those working are working California government transportation will be- Companies that manufacture the will have to realize they will have to bite the 30 percent, supported policy that weak- more hours for less, and while one to overlook partisan dis- come cheaper and easier nitrogen- and phosphorus-based bullet and start making a slightly smaller ened unions, and raised debt with ques- earner supported a family in the 1950s, agreements and approve to attain. In order for the fertilizers that are contaminating our profit. This is what free-market capitalism is tionable foreign interventions. Clinton two earners today barely get by. it. Various investigations use of fossil fuels to be ef- water should be required a portion of all about, so we should hear no complaints broke Glass-Steagall, deregulating the The U.S. needs to raise the minimum have recently found that fectively eradicated, the the cleanup costs of the water, based on from the Republicans on this. And since banks, signed NAFTA outsourcing jobs, wage to $15 per hour ($30,000/year), ExxonMobile and the oil large oil companies need volume of sales in our state. the fertilizer industry is a $15 billion to $20 and through his welfare reform further establish national health care, re-establish industry were aware of to be penalized, not in- To me, it makes perfect sense that billion a year industry, I think they will be primed the prison pipeline. George W. taxing the upper bracket of the rich fossil fuel’s negative ef- dividual consumers, and part of the cost of doing business is survive. Bush cut taxes for the rich while blowing (under Dwight Eisenhower it was 91 fects on climate change California’s proposed bill cleaning up after yourself. No one is In any case, the cost of cleaning this trillions on Middle Eastern safaris. The percent), re-regulate the banks, fund edu- nearly 40 years ago. is a great place to start. denying these fertilizers are an integral contaminated water is high, and it will have Supreme Court Citizens United decision cation, demand United States businesses part of most farmers operations. But the to be shared by EVERYONE involved. It can’t allows the rich to spend unrestrictedly in stay home, and stay out of other people’s byproduct of their use is the poisoning just be passed on to the taxpayers. any national contest. And a bizarre cabal countries except to offer aid. of our water, creating health risks, But this approach is short-term, of zero-taxation zero-government policy For all these reasons, Bernie FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @THEDAILYIOWAN especially for infants, pregnant women, it does not get rid of the cause of makers has risen to power. Sanders is the only solid candidate for nursing mothers, and elderly people, the problem. I would also hope that The results: The profits have risen president in 2016. and creating huge costs to municipalities lawmakers will start to take a more straight to the top few percent, which that must remove these dangerous intelligent, comprehensive, long-term has used it to buy up the media and Brandon Ross STAFF

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They will be have a problem. utilize more chemical fertil- Water Works, says “What Steve Corbin, chosen for print publication when they are deemed to be well-written and Besides chemical fertil- izer and manure to grow 2 we see every time we hear professor emeritus of izers creating a problem, million acres more corn this collaboration is buying marketing, University of to forward public discussion. They may be edited for length and style. the disposal of livestock year than previously. It’s time, a defense for the sta- Northern Iowa THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 NEWS 5A Art comes to the riverbank Professional and student artists will display their work in the IMU Saturday and April 10 — much of it for sale — during the Spring Art Exposé.

By ISAAC HAMLET “[The event] is ex- event’s marketing. “That’s tography,” Meier said. er and I created a piece The time and care de- [email protected] tremely well-planned; not happening this year “When I was a little kid based on trees we’d seen manded by art often leads there’s a warm feeling because of the transi- on vacation with family, in the Mediterranean to artists’ personalities Art can draw from an to it,” said Doug Adams, tion from the Studio Arts I’d always have a camera that had the look of being leaking into their work. unending palettte of sights a sculptor and veteran Building to the new arts with me. Anytime I’m out constantly blown over by “Through the years, I and textures to color our event vendor. building. So we thought and about, [I still] have the wind,” Adams said. guess I’m proud to see emotions. Artists use tem- Organized by the Uni- we’d give about 10 or 15 my camera with me.” After spending a num- how I’ve progressed, par- pered talents to express versityof Iowa Fine Arts student artists a chance Whether capturing east- ber of years making ticularly in the technical thoughts and truths unre- Council, the event allows to display their work.” ern Iowa landscapes or sun- trees, he got involved in aspect,” Meier said. “I strained by the limitations artists to feature and sell Even with the inclu- licked cacti during trips to making furniture, even- don’t have a particular fa- of spoken syllables. their art. sion of student artists, California, Meier roots his tually fusing the two. vorite; they all tell a story, On Saturday and April This year, the event the focus remains on art photographs in nature. “My most recent piece and it’s all my story.” 10, 70 artists from across will not only house the available for purchase. Adams is similarly was a real challenge,” he the country and numerous work of typical art ven- Josh Meier found his grounded in his sculp- said. “This Art Exposé art forms will converge, dors but also allow a few way to the Exposé in tures. Using twisted alu- will be the first time Spring Art Exposé coming with creations in art students to display 2012 after customers, minum and copper wire, anyone will have seen (Riverbank Art Fair) tow to set up shop in the their work. who saw his photographs he depicts trees that what I call ‘The Forest.’ IMU for the Spring Art “Normally around this while buying from him wouldn’t look out of sorts It’s the image of trees on When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday Exposé. The first day of time, students have some- at the Farmers’ Market, as the setting of a Clay- a curved piece of walnut 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 10 the event will, fromnoon thing called Arts Fest,” suggested he look into mation film. with an arch above it and Where: IMU to 3 p.m., include a wine said Annalise Castro, getting involved. “I started right out of the roots extending down Admission: Free and craft-beer tasting. who is in charge of the “I always loved pho- college when my broth- beneath it.”

Kevin Smith coming to Literature jumps into a crawl Iowa City Modern-day renaissance man Kevin Literature lovers have the chance to explore all the known and unknown literary crawl spaces of Iowa Smith, famous for directing the films Chasing Amy, Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob City with Mission Creek’s Lit Crawl. Strike Back – the latter two of which he also starred in –, will head to the En- By DEVYN YOUNG val from the very begin- writers and many, many or people that drive in time,” he said. “There are glert, 221 E. Washington, on Saturday. [email protected] ning and Mission Creek, spaces you don’t normally … some of the audience not many chances like this Smith has also become famous now in its 11th year, the get to see them,” Tiefen- members who I get to to go engage in so much in recent years through his podcast The Lit Crawl has been literature has definitely thaler said. talk to and find out what new writing … there are “SMODcast,” and other related online an annual occurrence grown along with all of Although he is excited they liked and what they not many opportunities ventures. He’s broke into the world for the past seven years these other components,” to spend time with various discovered. Also, what did here to see so much new of TV with his new show “Comic Book during the Mission Creek Tiefenthaler said. members of the literary they not like? And what work from our commu- Men” on AMC. Festival and will return to The crawl consists of profession, he is also ea- did they miss? I think it’s nity’s writers and from Smith has a written mini-series for Iowa City this weekend. more than 50 authors ger to see the community always just fun to see that people who come and be a Marvel, adding another feather to his On Friday evening, the and 17 publishers coming members who show up to group of audience-goers part of this festival.” already impressive cap. This doesn’t crawl will wind its way together for an evening the Mission Creek Festival. traveling from one venue mean he has stopped making films, through numerous loca- of reading new work, “I love just seeing peo- to the next.” though; his latest, Red State, was a tions in central Iowa City. discussing the literary ple walking around from Tiefenthaler encourag- WORDS critical success, and he has more on Joe Tiefenthaler, the world, and socializing. event to event,” he said. es the community to come the way. Mission Creek Festival Some of the professionals “In past years, I’ve been to the event because it pro- Mission Creek Lit Crawl Whatever antics Silent Bob a.k.a. literary director, orga- are coming in from Los really excited by the num- vides an opportunity they Smith has in store for Saturday nized the seventh-annual Angeles and New York to bers of people I see out, don’t get in everyday life. When: 5 p.m. Friday night, rest assured, he’ll have Lit Crawl. attend the festival. and the faces that I know, “[The event] has jam- Where: Downtown Iowa plenty to say. “Literature was a core “[The event] has spaces and the faces I don’t, peo- packed so much talent City, various venues component of the festi- where you expect to see ple from the community, in such a small period of —by Bill Cooney 6A THE DAILY IOWAN DAILYIOWAN.COM THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 Daily Break the ledge This column reflects the opinion of the author and not the DI Editorial Board, the Publisher, Student Publica- tions Inc., or the University of Iowa.

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Thursday, April 7, 2016 horoscopes by Eugenia Last

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Face emotional issues, and clear up press- ing matters that could hinder your ability to focus. You’ll come up with reasonable solutions if you are understanding and remain calm. Make plans to share something you enjoy doing with someone special. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Choose quality over quantity. An opportuni- ty to work at something you enjoy doing will be made available. Getting along with your peers will help you gain respect and clout. A money matter is best handled privately. Don’t share personal information. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do something that will make you feel good. Good fortune could result from doing something unexpected for someone you love. You can form a closer relationship if you sur- prise someone with a romantic rendezvous. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep your emotions under control. Handle situations with diplomacy. Keep unique alternatives in mind in order to offset anything you may not like. Try not to make a fuss if you encounter difficulties. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t let your ego get in your way. Concen- trate on what’s truly important and put your differences aside. There is no point in arguing when your energy should be put into taking action and getting things done. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll have some great ideas to share with your peers. Working as a team will bring results that exceed your expectations. Be liberal with your ideas and conservative with your spending, and you’ll reach a happy balance. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A partnership will help you explore new territory. Taking a vacation or just enjoying time with someone spe- cial will open your mind to an alternative lifestyle. Let passion take over and romance lead the way. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Look for something that stands out, and you will find a workable solution. Your keen perception and under- standing will give you an advantage when dealing with relationships. Seeing all sides of a situation will help you gain support. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stay active. Your involvement in physical challenges will require enthusiasm and the will to succeed. Don’t underestimate your competition. Put everything you’ve got into winning. A romantic evening will be celebratory. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Take one step at a time. Ease into any situation you face involving friends, family or community discussions. If you want to bring about change, do so by offering a solid plan as well as incentives. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do something that will update your look or help you set a trend. Your desire to experiment will be appeal- ing to someone who wants to be more like you. Enjoy the compli- ments and plan something romantic with someone you love. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Keep your story straight. It’s import- ant not to deviate from the truth and to allow others the benefit of the doubt. Simple and straightforward dealings will bring the best results. Protect your reputation.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition, and myth frame our response. — Arthur Schlesinger THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 SPORTS 7A

The home runs came cour- exceptionally cold, windy games even more signif- Field for a double-mid- toughest stretch where we MIDWEEK tesy of senior first baseman conditions made the game icant this year is that week affair, playing have the double-midweek CONTINUED FROM 10A Tyler Peyton and junior even more pivotal. the team hasn’t lost one games April 12-13. games, and all those guys third baseman Mason Mc- “When it’s cold out like of them. The Hawkeyes The 14-8 Falcons will are going to be stretched a Coy. it was today, and rainy, it are 4-0 when playing present challenges Hell- bit more,” Heller said. “But I Wednesday’s contest McCoy, in his first year challenges the strength nonconference teams at er and the team haven’t feel really good about head- against Milwaukee didn’t with the Hawkeyes after of your team, how tough Banks Field, 6-1 overall seen yet in their non- ing in to next week with the just feature the young pitch- transferring from Illinois your guys are,” McCoy on their home turf. conference schedule. The way our guys threw today.” ers, however. The game also Central Community Col- said. “We’ve showed how But the midweek sched- coach said, however, the allowed the Hawkeye bats lege, said that every non- tough we are this year ule is about to get quite previous midweek games Follow @RealJake- to garner more practice, conference contest provides with our midweek games.” a bit tougher for the have prepared his team Mosbach on Twitter for outhitting the Panthers 8-2 a unique challenge for the Perhaps what makes Hawkeyes. Next week, Air for a fight. Iowa baseball news, up- and crushing 2 homers. Hawkeyes, but Wednesday’s the nonconference Force will come to Banks “Now we’re going in to the dates, and analysis.

ly out to right field, Ritter fourth inning, with 5 runs more in the eighth thanks to we’re at with our team But everyone has bought RECAP said the plan was to keep on 4 hits. Junior third base- some patience at the plate. culture.Tonight is the in, and everybody is giv- CONTINUED FROM 10A the ball away from a Mil- men Mason McCoy had the Daniels, senior Nick Roscet- night we let down if ing great effort, and waukee lineup littered big swing of the inning, hit- ti, Peyton, and freshman things aren’t going well that’s what we preach as with left-handed hitters. ting an opposite field 3-run Luke Farley all walked in inside the clubhouse. a staff.” the Hawkeyes after throw- “Coach Brickman told me home run over the right the inning, with Daniels and ing 5.2 scoreless innings out I needed to keep the ball on field wall. Roscetti eventually coming of the bullpen this season. the outside corner and keep “The wind was blowing around to score. Ritter did not allow a hit in them off balance with my out there,” McCoy said. Three wild pitches, a two innings of work, striking curve ball and changeup,” “I was just trying to score passed ball, and a balk out 2 and walking 2. he said. “I definitely tried to some runs, I think there helped the Hawkeyes move Freshmen Cole McDon- get them to hit the ball the was maybe one or two outs station-to-station. ald, Sam Lizarraga, and opposite way with the wind there, and I tried to put it Heller said it could have Zach Daniels, along with blowing like it was.” in the gap. I’ve felt better been a trying game for his sophomore Nick Allgeyer Senior Joel Booker scored swinging it lately, but I got team, and he credited his se- and senior Tyler Radtke, the first run of the game in under that one a bit. But it niors for keeping the squad combined to allow just 2 hits the bottom of the first when got in the wind.” on the right track. with 6 strikeouts. a Nick Roscetti comebacker Senior first basemen Ty- “The last few weeks, Lizarraga picked up the to the mound forced Milwau- ler Peyton added another we’ve been giving great win for the Hawkeyes, the kee pitcher Austin Schulfer run in the bottom of the effort and playing pret- first of his career. into a throwing error. fifth with a solo shot of his ty good baseball,” Hell- On a night in which the The Hawkeyes blew own to right field. er said. “Tonight was a wind was blowing strong- the door wide open in the The Hawkeyes added two good example of where

“Not only does he have how much playing time at 6 p.m. Friday. FOOTBALL the ability to make the any of them will get, but Doors will open at CONTINUED FROM 10A wild catch, consistent Kennedy was happy with 4:30 p.m. with auto- plays, be a consistent their progress as a unit. graph session preceding player, gives good effort “We have a young the practice. After the A mix of receivers on the perimeter block- group coming back. But practice, a 45-minute ing,” Iowa wide receivers I’m excited about this youth clinic will take While Iowa will have coach Bobby Kennedy group,” Kennedy said. “I place, open to the first to replace wide receiv- said. “But he’s a guy that think if we continue to 275 children aged 7-12. er Tevaun Smith, it will this game, doing well, is work hard and improve “We certainly look bring back one of quar- really important to him.” daily, we’ll have a chance forward to seeing ev- terback C.J. Beathard’s However, VandeBerg to be a good group. But erybody in Des Moines favorite targets. is listed at wide receiv- like I always say, we’re this Friday. It’s a big Matt VandeBerg had 65 er, while Jerminic Smith not a finished product event. We’ve made some catches (tied for fifth in the — who flashed against right now. We’ve got a changes to it,” Wallace Big Ten) for 703 yards and 4 Illinois last year — as long way to go.” said. “We’re looking for- touchdowns. Perhaps most the starting split end. ward to see the youth importantly, he was one of Jay Scheel is currently Off to Des Moines up there, be able to see Beathard’s favorite targets his backup, while Riley our fans up there, kind on third down and tallied McCarron is at the other Iowa will host an open of reconnect with that 17 first-down catches in a wide-receiver position. practice at Valley Stadi- area of the state here truly impressive season. It remains to be seen just um in West Des Moines mid-spring.” 8A SPORTS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 Young gymnasts wait in wings By RICARDO ASCENCIO prepare for the end of the ed … he’s just everyday ‘head but Beyer and Vazquez have [email protected] season and in the off-season down, do the work,’ and he also left early impressions for next year. has improved every single in their first seasons. With the Big Ten Champi- While it is nontraditional week, which is very difficult Beyer has proven to be a key onships coming to a close last for freshmen gymnasts to to do as a freshman.” addition; the Cedar Rapids na- weekend, and the season near- make an immediate impact, While the expectations are tive impressed observers at the ing its end in just a few weeks, Brodarzon has in no way high for Brodarzon, the young Big Ten Championship with a the Iowa men’s gymnastics shied away from the limelight. gymnast from Paramus, New 14.200 on the vault. team has much to reflect on. He has competed in ev- Jersey, knows what he has to Vazquez has also been a From its overachieving se- ery single meet this season, do for the future. solid force recently, posting a niors to the all-around efforts just recently coming off an “I will be a great resource season-high mark of 14.500 that led to their top-10 finish, impressive performance at for the incoming freshmen,” on the rings in the March there is much to be proud of. the 2016 Big Ten Champi- he said. “I will be fresh off 12 meet against Penn State While the coming weeks onships in Columbus, where what they are now, so I feel and Nebraska. will be a goodbye for the senior he posted marks of 13.150 like looking to me, with me While Brodarzon, Beyer, Iowa gymnast Jake Brodarzon performs a floor routine in the Field House on Feb. 27. gymnasts, it will also be hello on the floor and 14.100 on having competed in every and Vazquez will try to add The Hawkeyes beat No. 6 Nebraska and No. 8 Penn State. (The Daily Iowan/Mary Mathis) for this season’s freshmen. the parallel bars. meet, I will be able to show to their impressive résumés, Iowa freshman Jake “Jake has been phenom- them that it does get easi- Johnson will try to prove “As much as I have strug- coming to a close, it is im- Brodarzon, Todd Beyer II, enal,” head coach J.D. Reive er, and they will be able to himself next season. gled, I have learned that I can portant to look ahead into Rogelio Vazquez, and Kevin said. “Obviously, with his take comfort in knowing Johnson was not able to pull through this,” he said. “I next season and with up and Johnson have absorbed a lot work ethic and just coming that freshmen can actually make any lineup this sea- know I can be where the [up- comers such as Brodarzon, in their first year in Iowa, in from the recruiting pro- make an impact.” son; however, the young perclassmen] are now, and I Beyer, Vazquez, and Johnson and they will try to live up cess, this was a kid who did Brodarzon has been the pommel-horse specialist is can do what they have done.“ at the helm, things continue to their potential as they what he was told and execut- leader of the freshmen pack, not discouraged. With the 2015-16 season to look up for the team.

Softball drops two By MARIO WILLIAMS with an RBI single through homer. The contest went on [email protected] the right side of the infield. with two-straight scoreless Nebraska came pushing innings, but Nebraska add- After getting its first Big back in the bottom of the in- ed to its lead in the bottom Ten win last week, and play- ning, sending three runners of the fourth and the bot- ing arguably its best game of home on three hits. The tom of the fifth. the season, the Iowa softball Huskers didn’t stop there Iowa finally got things go- team could not continue that as they tacked on another ing in the top of the sixth by momentum in Nebraska. run in the bottom of the loading the bases. Schmieder- The Hawks dropped second because of an Iowa er got an RBI single to put the two in a double-header error and two singles. Hawks down by just 2. against the Cornhuskers Iowa was down by 3 in the The Hawkeyes had an- Wednesday evening. top of the seventh but came other opportunity with the Iowa lost the first game, fighting back to be down by bases loaded and one out but 6-5, on a walk-off single, and 1. Sophomore Angela Schmie- couldn’t bring more runners fell, 3-1, in the second game. derer sent a 2-run double home. Iowa left eight on base The Hawkeyes are now 9-23, down the right-field line to put in the second game. 1-7 in conference play. the Hawks back in the con- “Nebraska has some of “We had a lot of runners test. Nebraska then changed the best hitters in the con- on and a lot of chances,” Io- pitchers, and sophomore Allie ference,” Looper said in a wa head coach Marla Loop- Wood tied the game at 5 in the release. “You have to tip er said in a release. “It’s frus- top of the seventh. your hat to them. In the trating. We just needed a Nebraska secured the win first game, we gave them too little bit of luck and that key in the bottom of the seventh many free passes. We held hit, and it could have been a with a leadoff walk. them to 5 hits in the second different story tonight.” Following the first game, game and only 7 in the first, Iowa scored in the first Nebraska got back on top but we gave them too many inning when Holly Hoff- in the second in the first in- extra opportunities. We just man put the Hawks on top ning, plating a run on a solo have to be sharper.” THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 9A SPORTS THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 FOR UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE OF HAWKEYE SPORTS, FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @DI_SPORTS_DESK DAILYIOWAN.COM

SPRING FOOTBALL Wide open at will linebacker

By JORDAN HANSEN | [email protected] (will) round out the first-stringers. a defense that was one of the best in the However, it’s not a deep group to begin nation last season. Iowa is now at the halfway point of its with and with Niemann out, it gets slimmer. Mends and Jack Hockaday are bat- spring practice period, and plenty of posi- “If you’re able to spend time at our prac- tling for Fisher’s spot, and the competi- tions are still mostly up for grabs — espe- tice, you’ll find we give reps to the ones, tion has apparently been back and forth. cially at linebacker. twos, and threes,” linebacker coach Seth “I’d like to say it’s real close,” Wallace After losing do-everything outside line- Wallace said during Wednesday’s media said. “There are days where you walk backer Cole Fisher to graduation and with availability. “I go into every staff meeting off the field, one may have had a bet- Ben Niemann out for the spring with an in- every day saying, Coach, I don’t have any ter day than the other. That’s going jury, a lot of shuffling has taken place. The threes. My threes are my twos.” to be the case at that position.” only starter who can be penciled in at this Replacing Fisher — who led the team in point is middle linebacker Josey Jewell. snaps and had the second-most tackles — Bo Bower (outside) and Aaron Mends will be one of the biggest holes to fill on SEE FOOTBALL, 7A

IOWA 9, MILWAUKEE, 1

Iowa infielder Mason McCoy celebrates with teammates after hitting a home run at Banks Field on Wednesday. The Hawkeyes beat Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 9-1. (The Daily Iowan/ Alex Kroeze) PANTHERS NO PROBLEM By JAKE MOSBACH | [email protected] they’ll start getting more innings on the weekend … it By BLAKE DOWSON | [email protected] gives you a good feeling.” As the Hawkeye baseball team navigates through its One of the young pitchers Heller refers to — freshman The Iowa baseball team (12-14, 3-3 Big Ten) jumped challenging Big Ten schedule, nonconference midweek right-hander Shane Ritter — the 6-4, 175-pound right- on Wisconsin-Milwaukee early and often on Wednesday contests dot its schedule. hander from Plainfield, Illinois — has become accustomed evening en route to a 9-1 victory. Teams such as Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Hawks’ op- to coming out of the bullpen for the Hawkeyes this season. Six pitchers threw for the Hawkeyes, including four ponent Wednesday night, Northwestern College, Bradley, But against Milwaukee, Ritter got the nod to start, the freshmen. The staff did not allow its first hit until the and others make appearances on Tuesdays and Wednes- first of his college career. seventh inning. day nights throughout the season. After the start, he stressed the importance of the non- “I was really pleased with the way we came out and To the common fan, the games might not catch the eye. conference midweek games and the opportunity it present- played,” Iowa head coach Rick Heller said. “I thought we Opponents from non-Power 5 conferences coming to Iowa ed for him to take the mound in the top of the first inning. had a lot of energy. I thought the guys were locked in. I’m City in late March, early April? Why would that matter? “You’ve got to treat every game like it’s a Big Ten game,” really happy with the progress of our freshman pitchers. Hawkeye head coach Rick Heller has an answer. Ritter said. “In baseball, anything is possible, and any team We had four of them go out there, and all four of them did “The thing that I really enjoy about the midweek games can beat anyone. You’ve just got to play your game and play a really good job. I couldn’t be happier about that.” is getting to see our young pitchers throw and how they’re as hard as you can.” Freshman Shane Ritter made his first career start for developing,” he said after Wednesday night’s 9-1 victory over Milwaukee. “We’re getting to a point where maybe SEE MIDWEEK, 7A SEE RECAP, 7A

Drenth stands alone for GymHawks By RICARDO ASCENCIO nastics when I was just 4 her, she was able to come out [email protected] years old,” said Drenth, “It of her shell. was just something I want- “She is far more secure in While the season may be ed to do … I am actually the herself,” she said. “She was a over for the Iowa women’s first person in my family to little shy at first, but now she gymnastics team, one Gym- get into it.” has really just come to her Hawk still has work to do There was no significant own. She is very confident in heading into Fort Worth, Tex- learning curve for Drenth; she her abilities and has now be- as, for the 2016 NCAA Cham- quickly proved herself, rising come one of our leaders.” pionships on April 15-16. through the ranks at her Flor- Drenth has parlayed her Junior Mollie Drenth’s per- ida gymnastics institution. confidence and her skills formance in last weekend’s Drenth faced a number into a national champion- NCAA regional competition in of options in choosing which ship berth, the first by a Carver-Hawkeye has earned college program she would GymHawk in over six years. her a place as an individual take her talents to, but it While it may seem exclu- competitor in the finals. turned out to be the easiest sively like a personal victory, Drenth led the Hawkeyes decision of her life. Drenth’s achievement will in every event, posting near- “The school is so beautiful help give Iowa a bit of fame. ly flawless scores of 9.900 in and when I met the coach- “Of all the individual fi- both bars and beam. es and the rest of the team, nalists in regional competi- Without a doubt, she is I knew it was just meant to tion, [Mollie] had the highest among the elite gymnasts in be,” she said. score in the entire nation,” Iowa gymnast Mollie Drenth swings off the bar during a NCAA regional in Carver-Hawkeye on April 2. Iowa took the NCAA, and while most Head coach Larissa Libby Libby said. “Her being out fourth place at 195.450. (The Daily Iowan/Peter Kim) in her position carry heavy admitted Drenth didn’t have there being seen by the com- bloodlines in the sport of the easiest time adjusting to peting schools, the judges, of her team, is glad to have the most genuine and loyal one of the hardest workers gymnastics, the junior from her new life as a college ath- and the club teams will bring Drenth on their side, because teammates I have ever had I have ever met. She is like Riverview, Florida, took it up- lete, but as she became more a lot of positive attention to she is not only an elite gymnast the experience of knowing,” a little sister to me, and it’s on herself to master her craft. comfortable with the pro- the Hawkeye name.” but also a grade A teammate. senior Alie Glover said. “She been such a special experi- “I started practicing gym- gram and the team around Libby, along with the rest “[Mollie] is just one of always has your back and is ence getting to know her.” 80HOURS The weekend in arts & entertainment Thursday, April 7, 2016 TO IC WITH A MISSION MARC MARON

By GIRINDRA SELLECK | [email protected]

amed comic, podcaster, friend of the presi- dent, and garage-dweller Marc Maron will Fmake a stop at the Englert Theater, 221 E. Washington, as part of Mission Creek Festival at 7 p.m. Friday. Perhaps his most well-known project, Maron began “WTF with Marc Maron”, the acclaimed podcast, in 2009. It has become one of the most successful comedy podcasts of all time. “WTF” has garnered high praise from publications such as the AV Club, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times, the latter of which labeled the show a “must-listen.” On the show — which is run out of the garage

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KURT VILE

By GIRINDRA SELLECK | [email protected]

o close out Mission Creek week on April 10, the Englert, 221 E. Washington St., Twill welcome headliner Kurt Vile, a post- folk lo-fi indie-rock singer/songwriter. That might seem like a lot of hyphens, but Vile is not an artist who can be classified by and rel- egated to one genre of music. Vile’s music defies conventional boundaries of style; instead, it oc- cupies a sonic landscape in which its architect is free to experiment fearlessly, bringing in influenc- es from a variety of seemingly disparate genres. “I think in the past I’ve had plenty of practice at not quite nailing things,” Vile said. Since his début album in 2008, Vile has tried to incorporate the banjo into his compositions to little success. The motivation is at least partially

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LISA JANE PERSKY & KEMBEREW MCLEOD

By JUSTUS FLAIR | [email protected]

orty 40-year-old photographs, print- ed on vinyl and hung by giant safety Fpins, cover the white walls of the En- glert Theater’s second floor gallery. Black and white faces smile, smirk, and smize from the shots Lisa Jane Persky captured with her original Nikon F. In tandum with her upcoming memoir, Per- sky — a photographer, writer, and actress — scoured 20 rolls of film to wind up withX-Of - fenders: A Year in the Life of a Proto-Punk, February 1966-February 1967. The exhibit serves as a visual memoir of how it felt to live in this moment of time.

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TODAY 4.7 FRIDAY 4.8 SATURDAY 4.9 SATURDAY CONT’D.

MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MISCELLANEOUS • EVERYTHING EVERYTHING, 8 P.M., ENGLERT, 221 E. • INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING MACHINE, 4:30 • CHRISTOPHER THE CONQUERED, 3 P.M., • SPACE JAM: READING ROOM & WASHINGTON P.M., MOTLEY COW CAFÉ, 160 N. LINN CATHERINE’S BOUTIQUE, 7 S. DUBUQUE LOUNGE, 10 A.M., DEADWOOD • AWTHNTKTS, 9 P.M., BLUE MOOSE, 211 IOWA • GOSH, 7 P.M., MILL • NAT BALDWIN, 5 P.M., REVIVAL, 117 E. COLLEGE • ICE CREAM COMIC/ZINE FAIR, 11 • CUTICLE, 9 P.M., GABE’S, 330 E. WASHINGTON • A$AP 12VY, REMY BANKS, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES, • LOVAR DAVIS KIDD, 8:30 P.M., MILL A.M., PUBLIC SPACE ONE, 120 N. • SUBATLANTIC, 9 P.M., MILL, 120 E. BURLINGTON 8 P.M., BLUE MOOSE • AKWI NJI, 8:40 P.M., MILL DUBUQUE • YONATAN GAT, 9 P.M., YACHT CLUB • WAXAHATCHEE, 8 P.M., MILL • CONE TRAUMA, 9 P.M., YACHT CLUB • LITERARY MAGAZINE & SMALL • THE JOY FORMIDABLE, 9:15 P.M., ENGLERT • ESTRAVISION, 9 P.M., GABE’S • PSALM ONE, 9:10 P.M., MILL PRESS BOOK FAIR, 11 A.M., MILL • TROUBLE LIGHTS, 10 P.M., GABE’S • ESME PATTERSON, 10 P.M., GABE’S • AMERICAN CREAM, 9:45 P.M., YACHT CLUB • WHAT A LOAD OF CRAFT, 11 A.M., • THE WANDERING BEARS, 10 P.M., MILL • MAIDS, 10 P.M., YACHT CLUB • DAISY CHAINS, 10 P.M., TRUMPET BLOSSOM, 310 BLUE MOOSE • SAGE FRANCIS, 10:15 P.M., BLUE MOOSE • PILLAR POINT, 11 P.M., YACHT CLUB E. PRENTISS • DINNER AT TRUMPET BLOSSOM, • PHOX, 11 P.M., MILL • SAN FERMIN, 11 P.M., GABE’S • KING’S COURT TOUR: BLACK MILK, SLUM VILLAGE, 6:30 P.M. • YACHT, 11 P.M., GABE’S • PURE BATHING CULTURE, MIDNIGHT, YACHT GUILTY SIMPSON, PHAT KAT, 10 P.M., GABE’S • MISSION: BEAT, 8 P.M., BLUE MOOSE CLUB • SAUL WILLIAMS, 10 P.M., MILL • MIRACLES OF GOD, 10:35 P.M., YACHT CLUB FILM WORDS • GARY WILSON, 11:35 P.M., YACHT CLUB • AN EVENING WITH TERRY ZWIGOFF, 7 P.M., • X-OFFENDERS: ARTIST TALK WITH LISA JANE FILMSCENE PERSKY, NOON, ENGLERT WORDS SUNDAY4.10 • TH E ANNUAL LIT CRAWL, 5 P.M., VARIOUS • JOHN D’AGATA & RICHARD PRESTON, WORDS VENUES NOON, PRAIRIE LIGHTS • POROI RHETORIC SEMINAR: • MARC MARON, 7 P.M., ENGLERT • SAUL WILLIAMS Q&A, 4 P.M., PRAIRIE WORKSHOPPING LISA JANE PERSKY’S MUSIC • LIT CRAWL AFTER PARTY, 8 P.M., MOTLEY COW LIGHTS MEMOIR, 11:30 A.M., OBERMANN CENTER • PURLING HISS, 7 P.M., ENGLERT • PETER AGUERO WITH GUESTS, 10 P.M., MILL • CAROLA DIBBELL, 6 P.M., WHITE RABBIT, • KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS, 8:15 • GARTH GREENWELL & PAUL LISICKY, 6 P.M., 112 S. LINN P.M., ENGLERT PRAIRIE LIGHTS, 15 S. DUBUQUE • JAMIE IREDELL, 6 P.M., FOX HEAD, 402 E. • POETS: ZACHARY SCHOMBURG, ANAIS LECTURES MARKET DUPLAN, KELLY SCHIRMANN, 8 P.M., YACHT • ALT: DIGITIZED: THE EVOLUTION OF MUSIC IN THE • RICHARD SIKEN WITH ALEXANDRA MISCELLANEOUS CLUB, 13 S. LINN • BRUNCH AT THE MILL, 11 A.M., AGE OF CONNECTION, 5 P.M., IOWA CITY PUBLIC KLEEMAN, JENNY ZHANG & JOSE ORDUNA, MILL LIBRARY 6 P.M., MILL • AFTER PARTY, 10 P.M., MILL THEATER • KEVIN SMITH, 7 P.M., ENGLERT • PREVIEW: THE EVOLUTION OF BRUNO LECTURES LITTLEMORE, 5 P.M., IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY, MISCELLANEOUS • ALT: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE PROCESS OF 123 S. LINN • SPACE JAM: READING ROOM & LOUNGE, 11 MAKING DESIGN TO CONNECT, 1 P.M., IOWA CITY A.M., DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY LECTURES • ALT: DISTRIBUTED LEARNING: RESHAPING • ALT: LIGHTNING TALKS, 6 P.M., FORBIDDEN PLANET, CURRICULUM WITH TECHNOLOGY, 2 P.M., IOWA CITY 111 S. DUBUQUE PUBLIC LIBRARY • ALT: HIGH GROWTH: TECHNOLOGY-FUELED ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 3 P.M., IOWA CITY PUBLIC MISCELLANEOUS LIBRARY • SPACE JAM: READING ROOM & LOUNGE, 11 • ALT: AUTOMATION: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, 4 A.M., DEADWOOD, 6 S. DUBUQUE P.M., IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY • DINNER AT CLINTON STREET SOCIAL CLUB, 6 P.M. • BLACK ART/WHITE SPACE, PART II, 7 P.M., IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY

DRINKS OF THE WEEK

COCONUT CREEK AN EFFEN VODKA CHERRY SIBERIAN JIM’S OLD ORCHARD

SIMPLE, LIGHT, AND FROTHY. PERFECT TO JUST CHILL CRANBERRY WITH FOAM PILLOWING OVER THE MELTING ICE WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THE MILL’S JIM BEAM AND LISTEN TO ONE OF THE SEVERAL BANDS PLAYING WITH THE FIRST SIP OF THIS COCKTAIL, I FELT AS IF I CUBES, THE MILL’S CHERRY SIBERIAN FOR MISSION FILLED, MISSION CREEK INSPIRED, RENDITION ON THE ACROSS THE CITY FOR MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL. THE GOT PUNCHED IN THE FACE — BUT IN THE BEST WAY CREEK FESTIVAL LOOKS LIKE A BORING OLD CLASSIC OLD FASHIONED? MILL’S COCONUT CREEK OFF THEIR MISSION CREEK POSSIBLE. THE MILL’S AN EFFEN VODKA CRANBERRY, CAPPUCCINO. ONE SIP IN, THOUGH, AND I KNEW IT RIGHT AWAY THERE IS AN AROMA OF ORANGE FESTIVAL MENU IS THE PERFECT MIX TO RELAX AND WHICH IS PART OF THE RESTAURANT’S MISSION CREEK WAS ANYTHING BUT. THAT SEEMS TO BE NO LONGER PRESENT WHEN YOU KICK OFF THE WEEKEND OF EVENTS. FESTIVAL SPECIAL DRINK MENU, IS TART AND SWEET EFFEN BLACK CHERRY VODKA, KAHLUA, HEAVY ACTUALLY TASTE THE DRINK. APPLE AND CINNAMON EFFEN CUCUMBER VODKA, COCONUT JUICE, LIME AND WILL GET YOUR NIGHT ROLLING. CREAM, AND DR. PEPPER MAKE UP THIS DRINK. DOMINATE THE TASTE BUDS. I’VE NEVER BEEN TO AN JUICE, AND GINGER BEER ARE MIXED TOGETHER AND EFFEN VODKA, BASIL SIMPLE SYRUP, CRANBERRY THE KAHLUA HIT MY NOSE BEFORE THE DRINK HIT APPLE ORCHARD, BUT IF I WERE TO EVER BE INVITED POURED OVER ICE. THE FLAVORS CREATE A PERFECT JUICE, AND LIME JUICE ARE ALL MIXED TOGETHER, MY LIPS. IT’S A FAIRLY BASIC DRINK, THE KAHLUA TO A RAGING PARTY ON A SUMMER NIGHT AT ONE, I BALANCE OF CUCUMBER AND COCONUT, WITH ONE ALONG WITH TWO SLICES OF LIME CRUSHED AT DOMINATING, BUT DEFINITELY WORTH GETTING HOPE THERE WOULD BE AN OPEN BAR SERVING THIS NOT OVERPOWERING THE OTHER. IT MADE ME FEEL LIKE THE BOTTOM OF THE GLASS. THE DRINK WAS BEFORE IT’S OFF THE MENU. DRINK ALL NIGHT LONG. I WAS BACK ON A BEACH RELAXING FOR SPRING BREAK SURPRISINGLY TART AND FELT LIKE IT MATCHED MY THE DRINK’S ON THE HEAVY SIDE, SO I SUGGEST THIS DRINK IS FOR THE FIREBALL DOWNING, ANGRY (YOU KNOW, IF I WENT TO A BEACH FOR SPRING BREAK). PERSONALITY — SLIGHTLY NICE BUT ALSO A LITTLE SIPPING. IF YOU’RE TRYING TO PACE YOURSELF — ORCHARD LOVER THAT REALLY WANTS TO CLASS IT UP THIS DRINK IS FAR FROM HEAVY. ADD A LIME TO BITTER. IT’S SOMETHING THAT WILL WAKE YOU UP AS MAYBE TO MAKE SURE YOU MAKE IT TO ALL THOSE AT A THURSDAY DINNER PARTY. THE KENTUCKY FIRE GARNISH, THOUGH THIS DRINK IS PRETTY PERFECT ON YOU MOVE FROM VENUE TO VENUE THIS WEEKEND. SHOWS — THIS IS IDEAL. BOURBON BECOMES MORE APPARENT AROUND THE ITS OWN. IT’S THE BEST WAY TO START ONE OF IOWA THE MILL’S SPECIAL COCKTAILS DON’T NEED MUCH HALFWAY MARK. WITH THAT BEING SAID, YOU COULD CITY’S MOST RENOWNED WEEKS OF THE SPRING. TO ADD; THEY ARE SIMPLE AND CLASSIC. MAYBE JUST PROBABLY HAVE ANOTHER ONE OR TWO BEFORE PACE YOURSELF BECAUSE I’M FEELING A LITTLE TOO MAKING ANY JIM BEAM FUELED MISTAKES. GOOD, BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THAT IT WAS MY SECOND COCKTAIL IN AN HOUR.

— by Rebecca Morin — by Rebecca Morin — by Justus Flair — by Jordan Gale THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 80 HOURS 3B Drive, the future said The future may be closer than previously thought with self-driving cars on the horizon. Daniel McGehee will give a lecture on the topic as part of the Mission Creek Festival.

By JORDAN RYDER as well, McGehee said. As the technology passengers up and drop GO TO [email protected] “The main issue why progresses, it’s going to them off after being called DAILYIOWAN.COM automation is so critical change how we drive and for with a smart phone, The sky may not be filled to driving safety is that how we think about vehi- eliminating the need to FOR A VIDEO OF THE with flying cars yet, but 95 percent of crashes cles, which some govern- park or own a car at all. DRIVERLESS CAR cars are learning to drive — in which 35,000 peo- ments are preparing for. themselves. With technol- ple die in the U.S alone McGehee will take a look ogy’s rapid advances, cars — are due to driver er- at some programs, such as with automated features ror,” McGehee said. “But Drive Sweden, a 50-year will be a reality. automation doesn’t get initiative just announced. Daniel McGehee will sleepy, doesn’t get im- This initiative focuses give a lecture at 4 p.m. paired or distracted.” on vehicles that will pick Saturday at the Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., as part of the Mission Creek experience. McGehee, the director of Transportation and Vehi- cle Safety Research Pro- gram at the University of Iowa Public Policy Center, will discuss the current technology as well as the future of drivers. Riding in the Volvo XC90 that will be used as a demonstration was alarm- ing but exhilarating. The number of tasks the car can The National Advanced Driving Simulator projector is shown on Tuesday. The simulator perform is amazing. Sensors creates realistic 360-degree street views of Iowa City. (The Daily Iowan/Tawny Schmit) scan every direction for cars and pedestrians, allowing it to signal if something was in the blind spots, brake — very smoothly — with traffic ahead, provide a top- down view when in reverse, and park in stalls entirely unaided. It even courte- ously refused to park in a handicap spot. The sensors were also smart enough to read road signs and adjust speed accordingly. It was honestly disappointing to go back to my own car. Automated driving is important step, not just for convenience but for safety 4B 80 HOURS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

Robin Williams. disappointing your fans, the dark subconscious of dotal degree) a one-time has been a regular guest MARON Maron’s most famous comedians, fatherhood society, and in doing so, he actor in Cameron Crowe’s on a variety of late-night CONTINUED FROM 1B episode, however, is un- and overcoming fear.” manages to isolate and il- Oscar-winning Almost shows including David doubtedly the 2014 in- Maron’s relentless wit, luminate what percolates Famous. He continued Letterman’s, Jay Leno’s, terview with President no-holds-barred comedic on its underbelly. his career as the regular Jimmy Fallon’s, Jimmy of Maron’s house in Los Obama, on which the two style, and acute self-aware- It’s a skill Maron sharp- host of a series of left- Kimmel’s, Bill Maher’s, Angeles — Maron has in- talked for hours about — ness make him one of this ened over the years. He wing radio talk shows, and Conan O’Brien’s. terviewed everyone from from Maron’s website — generation’s most exciting first rose to relative prom- including “Morning Sedi- Maron holds the record the Amys — Poehler and “college, fitting in, race comics and most uncon- inence in the 1990s as a tion” and later “The Marc for most appearances by Schumer — to Sir Ian Mc- relations, gun violence, ventional cultural critics. standup comedian and (to Maron Show.” a standup comedian on Kellen and the late, great changing the status quo, He is unafraid to tap into a lesser, now merely anec- Over the years, Maron O’Brien’s program.

ized that his heirloom banjo “That’s just the way I write — a timely album that ac- for the world, but in a John ble is in its best form. VILE wasn’t good enough to bring music now.” complishes as much with Cougar Mellencamp type “We’ve all come into CONTINUED FROM 1B into the studio. Vile possesses a sonic its nostalgic escapism as it of way, I kind of was speak- our own,” Vile said. “With “So I got a new banjo,” he tenacity and a relentless does with its confrontation ing to the common man.” our latest drummer, Kyle, said, then laughed. approach to the creative of seething millennial anxi- At the Englert, Vile will we’ve found a real organic sentimental; his father gave Vile has said previously process that, he admits, can ety — is a five-minute med- be accompanied by his feel, and we’re tighter than Vile his first banjo when his latest album b’lieve I’m border on compulsive. itation on disillusionment longtime backing band the we’ve ever been right now, Vile was a young boy. goin’ down … (Matador, “I get my obsessions and with and disassociation Violators, consisting of Rob in particular.” “I had been trying to cap- 2015) drew upon a wide listen nonstop in a way oth- from modernity. Laakso (guitar and bass) ture the banjo thing for the range of influences, includ- ers don’t,” he said. “I walk “I was burned out, [when Jesse Trbovich (guitar, last few records. I had my ing the landmark jazz of into my room and turn on I wrote “Pretty Pimpin”], bass, and sax), and Kyle old banjo I got when I was John Coltrane and Thelo- a country record, walk into going through mental Spence (percussion). a kid, and it didn’t quite fit,” nious Monk to the stripped- my car and turn on some- turmoil, emotional roller Audience members have he said. down confessionals of Neil thing else, touch a couple coasters in my own mind,” reason to be excited, be- After playing around Young. And yes, Vile’s arse- chords on the piano, and Vile said. “I wasn’t singing cause Vile said the ensem- with the instrument at nal on the new album does then next thing I know I’m home and on vacation, and include a banjo. in the studio.” eventually failing on a way “It’s not any kind of in- “Pretty Pimpin,” the to incorporate it, Vile real- tentional pastiche,” he said. opening track to b’lieve

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ence, Dear” about Persky. more queer and artsy PERSKY She remains close friends than gets represented.” CONTINUED FROM 1B with the band’s members. Lance Loud, television’s She opened her address first openly gay man, seen book and photo albums to in the gallery slumped on It came to rest in the McLeod, so when it came a couch, cigarette limp be- Englert after artist and time for Mission Creek, tween his lips, was a punk communication-studies he asked her to prepare musician in The Mumps. Professor Kembrew Mc- the photo gallery. It was Beloved drag queen Di- Leod met her years ago perfect preparation for vine performed in punk at the annual Pop Confer- finishing her memoir. theater; he sits, face free ence in Seattle. McLeod “I’m just not a person of makeup, in front of a was working on Parallel who looks back that much, mirror in a dressing room Lines for the 33 1/3 book but I decided I was going he shared with Persky, in series, released last week. to,” Persky said. “One of one of her photographs. “The premise is, it takes the reasons you might “New York punk rock an album, but it’s not re- stay away from that — and underground theater ally just the making of an and I did — is because were evolving simultane- album, it’s using an album it’s painful. There’s a lot ously in the same neigh- as a jumping off point to of loss in this. I grew up borhoods, right around talk about a larger con- in a period where people the blocks from each oth- text,” he said. “It’s about died from drugs, Viet- er,” McLeod said. “There downtown New York and nam, AIDS, so there’s was a lot of crossover. And the punk and disco scenes a lot of grieving that I also with the art world — that Blondie came out of.” hadn’t really done. Andy Warhol was part of He knew Persky, a jour- “There’s a lot of people these scenes. This show nalist and actress in New that are gone, all these in particular takes you York at the time, might people,” she said, looking through the street life, be interested and able to around the gallery. “But the cultural life of the share information. not everyone. Before I’m avante-garde punk New “I was telling her that gone, I want to honor York scene in the ’70s.” I was working on this them. A lot of the writing McLeod’s upcoming book, and she said, ‘You is honoring the ghosts, be- next book will trace know about my connec- cause they meant so much punk back further, into tion to Blondie, right?’ I to me.” the ’60s and explore all said, ‘No, what’s that?’ ” As Persky honors her of downtown New York McLeod said. friends, McLeod honors in those decades. The connection ran the scene that he said fre- The gallery covers on- deep. When the band was quently gets caricatured. ly one year though; all on the rise, Persky was “Punk comes out of things end, after all. dating original bassist diverse roots,” he said. “The punk scene dis- Gary Valentine. Valentine “It often gets boiled bands,” McLeod said, “be- wrote Blondie’s hit “(I’m down to angry white cause everyone blows up Touched by Your) Pres- guys. Punk was much big or flames out.” THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 80 HOURS 5B Crazy like a PHOX

Contributed The alt-folk group will perform today at the Mill as part of the Mission Creek Festival.

By CLAIRE DIETZ very aware of what it’s streamlined process to [email protected] like to grow up in Wis- this. Just the nature of consin and not have having wanted to take Monica Martin never a lot of culture, I still on different tasks.” really sang publicly be- think there’s a lot of Martin is working fore PHOX, the six-piece valuable things going on with PHOX to produce alternative-folk band there. They have people its second record, for from small town Bara- coming together to put which Martin is the boo, Wisconsin. beautiful artistic fes- main lyricist. For this PHOX will perform as tivals together despite record, she decided to part of Mission Creek our bad rap, debunking try a different approach, Festival at 8 p.m. today our stereotype.” reaching out for advice at the Mill, 120 E. Burl- Martin will also debunk in her songwriting and ington. trying to “Our big- come at it gest goal ‘They have people coming together to put beautiful with a bit as far as artistic festivals together despite our bad rap, more focus. writing “I’ve been songs and debunking our stereotype.’ reaching out arrang- — Monica Martin, PHOX to friends ing songs and people would be that I ad- allowing pretty open ac- stereotypes when she par- mire and asking them cess to all the different ticipates in the “Black for their insight, so even things that influence all Art/White Space, Part II” stepping into a sort of of us as individuals,” Mar- panel at 7 p.m. today at situation where they tin said about the band’s the Iowa City Public Li- will have a conversa- “frantic” sound. “Just ser- brary, 123 S. Linn St. tion about song ideas I vicing the melody, so to PHOX’s creative pro- had,” she said. “Maybe say, there’s not really a cess, used for its first I’ll show them the first conversation like, ‘I want- and in-process second verse and chorus. ed to sound like pop-what- albums, is far from con- “For a while, I would ever, or this, or that.’ ” ventional, Martin said. have not considered that; Aside from that one of “If I shared any I would have thought if I her favorite bands, UK- amount of information do cowrite with someone based Everything Every- about the process for outside of the band, then thing will play, Martin someone to apply to it means that it’s not all said Mission Creek is their own practice, I feel PHOX. [But], PHOX is not helping the Midwest lose like I would probably interested in creatively the term “flyover country.” hinder someone else,” limiting ourselves, so I’m “I’d never heard that Martin said. “We have trying to step out and try- [term] before,” Martin little frame of reference, ing to find inspiration in said. “As much as I am so it’s like there’s no friends and conversation.”

Music from the family Esme Patterson continues a family affair with her performance for Mission Creek.

By GRACEY MURPHY [email protected]

In a family of singers, it’s nearly impossible to not adore music. Esme Patterson will perform at 9 p.m. Friday at Gabe’s, 330 E. Washing- ton St., as part of Mis- sion Creek Festival. “I had always been sing- ing ever since I was little,” Patterson said. “My dad was an amazing singer and my sister was great, too.” Contributed Patterson began her music career in a band Each album has been “There’s nothing like with her sister and a different and special to it. The kind of perfor- few friends in Denver in Patterson. Woman to mance I do, I try to con- 2006. They were called Woman took about three nect everyone in the Paper Bird, and Patter- days. She wanted that room,” Patterson said. son performed with the album to feel very raw, “I bring everyone to- group for a while before immediate, and alive, gether and have their transitioning to work whereas with We Were hearts beating at the backed by her own band. Wild, she wanted to cre- same time. It’s really an “In Paper Bird, it was ate more artifice around incredible feeling to feel more of a collective kind it, a sort of complex, fan- that communion and of thing,” Patterson said. tastic sound, she said. connection with a room “The idea was that there But music isn’t the on- full of strangers.” was no front person. It ly form of art Patterson Patterson’s music has was a romantic idea, but admires. When writing been described as root- it wasn’t all that func- her songs, other art me- sy, soulful dream rock, tional; someone has to be dia are a source of inspi- acoustic, and many in charge, otherwise it’s ration for her. more. She doesn’t classi- just like a bunch of kit- “It’s interesting for me fy her music any specific ties cats running around. to see different people’s way, though. I really like having my modes of expression and “I’m not really picking own band. I feel like I can different kind of ab- fruit off of different trees express my ideas more stractions and feelings,” and mixing them togeth- clearly. It’s very freeing.” Patterson said. “I find er,” Patterson said. “I’m Since then, Patter- inspiration everywhere.” just making what is in son has come out with Having been touring my heart to make. I’m not such albums as Woman for 10 years, Patterson trying to make it sound to Woman, All Princes, had to adjust to the un- like anything particular. I, What Do You Call a comfortable travel, she I’m creating the sounds Woman; her latest al- said. However, the ad- I want to hear, and other bum We Were Wild is set venture and performance people can describe them to release on June 10. makes it worthwhile. however they want to.” 6B 80 HOURS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 Formidable spawns joy The Joy Formidable promises a powerful, passionate performance today at the Englert as part of the Mission Creek Festival. By ALEX KRAMER “With anything written rience. I think it serves its on TV or YouTube, everyone [email protected] by us, we enjoy the process own respects in that way, it’s in the crowd is going wild, of making it,” he said. “I its own discipline. It’s more and I really hope I get to see Lyrically driven and with think writing is a very dif- about being in the moment, that a little bit on Thursday a recent social stance on the ferent thing. It can be really for us, and that’s a great night,” he said. “This is my objectification of women in exhausting, and doing this thing; that’s quite a rare first time seeing them, and the media, live-wire band album was exhausting. We thing these days.” I wasn’t going to miss it for Joy Formidable is here to wrote a hell of a lot of mu- Aly High, the English the world.” make an impact. The group sic, but [we were] happily marketing director, said Wilson said he loves the will play at the Englert, 221 exhausted. It was just a re- the band’s ability to put group’s interesting style, E. Washington St., at 7 p.m. ally fruitful period.” on such a great show pulling elements of alterna- today as part of the Mission The band is known for should draw people. tive, indie, and shoegaze, as Creek Festival. putting on killer live shows, “They’ve filled arenas well as its loud-quiet-loud Hailing from Wales, the and Dafydd attempted to touring with bands like the format made famous by band has been active since lay out the band’s secret Foo Fighters and Muse, so bands such as the Pixies. 2007, and it appears to not formula. it will be a treat to see them “They have some mo- have stopped moving since “Live, we’ve never felt re- in a smaller, more intimate ments where they sound Contributed then, having just released stricted by ‘Oh, we’ve got to setting,” she said. like an orchestra of peo- its third full-length studio make the live feel exactly The performance is draw- ple despite the fact that en’t about just doing loud “It all comes down to ba- album, Hitch, on March 25 like the record,’ ” he said. ing people far and wide; there’s only three of them music. He said there are sically feeling the soul and while on its headlining tour. “No, in fact it’s actually Zach Wilson, a freshman up there on stage, which many different bands that the passion in the lyrics,” Bassist Rhydian Dafydd probably good to be a little from Illinois State Universi- is so rare,” he said.” showed him personally he said. “You want each [re- said everybody can and will bit different than it. You’re ty will make the journey so The band’s sound is very how powerful music can cord] to have its own flavor take something different never quite sure what you’re see the band live. lyrically focused, Rafydd be and provided a gateway — you’re not expecting the from the record. getting from the live expe- “Whenever I watch them said; the musicians ar- to all kinds of music. same thing every time.”