CREEK WEEK. 80 HOURS. 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. 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