The Daily Iowan WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ A desire for access to a community Deaf and hard of hearing students in Iowa search for a sense of belonging in their hometown school. Sometimes they find that feeling at home, but other times they find it at the Iowa School for the Deaf.

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BY KELSEY HARRELL Iowa School for the Deaf. Matt Jergens said he felt they had to “jump through a ton of [email protected] Being one of the few deaf or hard of hearing children in a hurdles” in order to get their daughter into the School for the classroom can cause feelings of loneliness, but those feelings Deaf and at each step they were met with a roadblock. Not being able to hear teachers coupled with feelings of isola- typically change when these kids are exposed to Iowa’s Deaf According to the Iowa School for the Deaf website, students’ tion from her classmates caused Nichole Jergens to start strug- community at the School for the Deaf. “individual education family service plans” (IFSP) or “individu- gling socially and academically in high school. Her parents, The Jergens’ 17-year-old daughter is deaf in one ear. Once she alized educational program” (IEP) — the plans that detail what Janet and Matt Jergens, were concerned upon learning their started fifth grade in the Eagle Grove School District, it became services a child should receive — need to state the placement for daughter was barely passing classes and showing signs of de- clear she wasn’t understanding everything being taught in her a student at the School for the Deaf. pression. classes. Nichole also had expressed she didn’t feel like she fit in Matt Jergens said the family’s local Area Education Associa- Access, communication, community, and a sense of belong- with her peers, Janet Jergens said. But switching to the Iowa ing are some of the reasons students like Nichole enroll at the School for the Deaf wasn’t easy. SEE ASL, 3

UI COVID-19 NUMBERS Number of self-reported cases for COVID-19 Community Students: 0 new cases, 3,108 Crow becomes student regent to-date Employees: 0 new cases, 493 to-date A second-year human physiology student will take the praises Wilson’s student seat on the state Board of Regents. New cases as of April 30, 2021 credentials Source: UI COVID-19 campus update The state Board of Regents ONLINE released survey results for the four Two cases of the India presidential candidates last week. variant of the COVID-19 Incoming UI President Barbara virus recently detected in Iowa Wilson received the highest The Iowa Department of Public approval ratings among the Health has identified two cases of the India variant of the candidates. coronavirus, formally called SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617, in Iowa. Two BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT new cases of the variant were [email protected] reported recently in Jefferson County, the department an- New University of Iowa president Barbara Wilson nounced Tuesday. This variant, was a popular choice on campus. first detected in India, first After watching four forums for the new president, showed up in the U.S. in early the UI community filled out surveys regarding the can- April. The variant is not yet didates. classified as a “variant of con- On April 28, the Barbara Wilson cern,” as there is no evidence UI’s Presidential of increased transmissibility or Search Committee received the highest more severe symptoms caused released a summary level of support of by the variant, IDPH said in the Kate Heston/The Daily Iowan of the surveys. In- release. University of Iowa student Abby Crow poses for a potrait on April 20. Crow is majoring in human physiology and is the new student regent coming UI President any candidate, with on the state Board of Regents. Barbara Wilson Go to dailyiowan.com to received the high- read more. est level of support BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT Before Crow’s appointment, ISU student Zach of any candidate, [email protected] Leist was a member of the regents from 2019-21. with 80 percent of 80% The last Hawkeye to have this position was Han- respondents say- On an otherwise uneventful night in January, Ab- nah Walsh, who served from 2012-15. Crow, who will ing they would support of respondents by Crow sat on the couch at her home in Tiffin, Iowa, be the fifth UI student to serve on the board while her selection. saying they would enjoying her winter break with her parents, when taking classes, was confirmed unanimously by the Eight percent of re- Tune in for LIVE her phone went off. Iowa Senate on April 28. spondents strongly dis- support her updates As a movie played on Netflix, she saw she had re- Crow, a second-year student studying human agreed with her potential selection. Watch for campus and city ceived an email from the University of Iowa’s Office physiology, is a resident assistant in Slater Resi- selection in the survey news, weather, and Hawkeye of the President, inviting her to interview for the dence Hall and works as a nursing assistant at UI results. sports coverage every day at chance to be the next student to serve on the state Hospitals and Clinics. Of the 321 answers to Wilson’s survey, 126 respon- dailyiowan.com. Board of Regents. Crow said she’s enjoyed uplifting people around dents were faculty members, 116 were staff members, “I saw an email that said, ‘Board of Regents’ and her and being a helper in every way she can ever and 28 were students. Surveys were also distributed to I thought it was interesting, so I clicked on it,” she since she was a kid. She said helping students will alumni, senior administrators, and other Hawkeye com- 2021 said. “Then I spent 30 minutes reading about the continue to be her main goal as she takes her seat munity members. position and doing research on Zack [Leist], the cur- as a regent. The majority of respondents evaluated finalists Hari rent student regent, and what this process was like. I “This position is a natural extension of the work I Osofsky, Barbara Wilson, Wendy Hensel, and Daniel told my parents and scheduled an interview with the do here on and off campus and at the hospital,” she Clay from their Curriculum Vitaes and the forums that UI Office of the President for the next day.” said. “My work is centered around helping others ... were held for each candidate. Crow was appointed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds I’ve always enjoyed listening and improving myself When current UI President Bruce Harreld was select- on April 16, who also reappointed Regents President to help others more effectively. I think there will be ed, 1.8 percent of faculty and 2.6 percent of other respon- Mike Richards and Greta Rouse, who previously some late nights, but it’s going to be a very reward- dents found Harreld to be qualified for the position. The served as a student regent from 2008-12. ing experience for me.” other three candidates in 2015 – Joseph Steinmetz, Mi- The student regent position was created in 1973 During her first few semesters on campus, Crow chael Bernstein, and Marvin Krislov – all each individu- following the Vietnam War, when former Iowa State was a senator in Undergraduate Student Govern- ally received confidence votes of more than 90 percent of University and UI student Steve Zumbach was ap- pointed by former Iowa Gov. Robert Ray. 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Katie Ann McCarver CONTINUED FROM FRONT has her sights set high and she ISU, and University of North- As her term begins this Send address changes to: Visuals Director is exceptionally driven — two ern Iowa. month, Crow said she is excit- The Daily Iowan, Katie Goodale qualities that will help her as The main focus of her term ed to act on behalf of students 100 Adler Journalism Building, Iowa ment, eventually serving as the next student regent. will be how higher education in a new capacity, but she is a City, Iowa 52242-2004 DITV News Director the co-chair of the Internal Smock added that she in the state will transition as bit nervous. Bailey Cichon Affairs committee. knows Crow is a great com- the pandemic comes to an “I am very eager to get start- DITV Sports Director USG President Regan municator. 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He wrote that she is a pas- sionate, hardworking, and Kate Heston/The Daily Iowan knowledgeable student who University of Iowa student Abby Crow poses for a portrait on April 20. pushed everyone around her Crow is majoring in human physiology and his the new student regent for to be the best version of them- the state Board of Regents. selves. “Abby is smarter than I am,” “Abby is a very positive per- further into a safe and sus- he wrote. “And effortlessly son and she’s easy to work tainable life during COVID more confident. If you ask her with,” Smock said. “She has here,” she said. “As the vaccine about a topic and she’s not an a lot of passions and when I rollout has been coming along expert, you can bet that the found out [the next student and we need to be aware of next time the two of you meet, regent] was her, I was ecstat- what the regents’ universities she will be. Abby is the type ic. 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every weighed category, includ- Ten experience. Those surveyed WILSON ing questions about experience called her collaborative, ap- CONTINUED FROM FRONT with academic medical centers proachable, and authentic. and appreciation for athletics. Osofsky’s limited senior Hensel and Osofsky received management, health care, and the faculty-survey respondents. strong support from the cam- athletics administration expe- The report highlighted 16 pus community as well, receiv- rience proved to be negative positive themes from feed- ing 73 and 63 percent support, themes in the responses. The UI back about Wilson, including respectively. community commented on her her long-term commitment to Hensel was praised for her limited administrative experi- servant leadership at her cur- innovative ideas and steady ence in undergraduate educa- rent institution, being well po- presence. Respondents said tion and short tenure at multi- sitioned to handle university she seemed approachable and ple institutions. challenges and opportunities, demonstrated experience All three women candidates and her experience at a complex in closing achievement gaps were praised for their strengths academic institution. among student groups. in diversity, equity, and inclu- As for negative themes, re- Hensel’s weaknesses accord- sion. spondents said she was a more ing to the results were her limit- Daniel Clay received the least traditional academic leader, but ed experience in health care and amount of campus support, sit- there were “limited weaknesses athletics administration and oc- ting at an approval rating of 35 identified.” casional perceptions of a more percent. Clay also received the In the additional comments distant communication style. most negative themes accord- section of the feedback results The positive themes respon- ing to the survey results and saw said Wilson was “supported dents mentioned for Osofsky the highest level of respondents broadly by campus.” Wilson was her J.D. and doctorate disagreeing with his potential received “excellent” ratings in combination, as well as her Big selection, at 40 percent.

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All the employees of the members of the Deaf com- ASL school — teachers, admin- munity feel that giving a deaf CONTINUED FROM FRONT istrators, dorm staff — are or hard of hearing child a co- fluent in ASL, eliminating chlear implant is an effort to the need for an interpreter, “fix” them. Deaf, that her grades were Gaw said. There are faculty She said she felt the deci- fine and she was passing her and staff on campus who are sion was what was best for classes. deaf, giving students Deaf her since her whole family is Members of their local AEA role models to look up to, she hearing and doesn’t sign, and told the Jergens for months added. she plans to go into health that Nichole couldn’t attend There are distinctions be- care in the future. the school, Janet Jergens said. tween someone who is deaf, “I have to conform to A group of AEA members, the condition in which some- the hearing world, as that’s school district administra- one can’t hear, and Deaf — where I’m going to be work- tors, and Nichole’s family met someone who identifies as ing for the rest of my life,” to discuss her eligibility to at- culturally Deaf and partici- VandeLune said. “It’s one of tend the School for the Deaf, pates in the Deaf community. those things I just kind of taking a tour of the school The class sizes at the came to terms with. So I got then voting to determine her School for the Deaf are also my cochlear implant, and future. The vote passed and small, providing more oppor- it helped me really become halfway through her soph- tunity for teachers to work more comfortable with my omore year of high school, closely with students, Gaw deaf identity.” Nichole transferred to her said. Elementary class sizes Students attending public new school in Council Bluffs. range from two to eight stu- schools in the state receive “Nichole wasn’t excit- dents, middle school ranges instruction in a variety of Jeff Sigmund/The Daily Iowan ed about it at first, she was from five to 10 students, and different ways, Tori Carsrud, Assistant Professor of Education Julia Rabe prepares for class on April 15. Rabe teaches American Sign Language scared,” Janet Jergens said. high school ranges from five Iowa Department of Edu- at Kirkwood Community College. But then, “...She loved it. She to 12 students depending on cation program consultant excelled, I mean she could the subject, Gaw added. for the deaf/hard of hearing, Taking ASL at the UI, Lar- Vizzini attended the Pennsyl- pendent on an interpreter to hear, she could understand, “So, the students get more wrote in an email to The Dai- son said was an eye-opening vania School for the Deaf and interact with her peers, she she learned sign language attention, not only when [in- ly Iowan. Students need to be experience for her. went to a mainstream school connected with people with- and could understand anoth- structors are] teaching core identified and have an IEP to “It was kind of like, why as a child. Vizzini has worked out any sort of barrier, she er way of talking to people.” classes just like you find in determine what services they didn’t I start this earlier? Why as a Deaf mentor for children signed. With her change in atti- any other school, like English need to receive. wasn’t this available to me at in the state and advocated for “I felt better about who I tude came an improvement and math and social stud- The services provided are an earlier time?” Larson said. the Deaf community and deaf was and how I identified with in Nichole’s academics; she ies and science, but they’re unique to each student with “Because this is such a more education. the Deaf-blind culture, and I soon got on the honor roll and also able to provide that an IEP, Carsrud wrote. The effective way of communicat- “When I moved to Iowa, I was proud of that identity,” is now class president, Matt support that the kids might teachers for deaf and hard of ing for me and a lot of other realized that people here are Keaton signed. “I think that Jergens said. need, especially in building hearing students around the people.” kind of behind the times in in a mainstream situation, They saw her change so- language,” Gaw said. “Our state know effective teach- Julia Rabe, an ASL instruc- terms of understanding Deaf people tend to focus on the cially too, Janet Jergens said. students often have gaps be- ing strategies and methods tor at Kirkwood Community people and Deaf culture,” medical view of a person be- Nichole started speaking her cause they miss the inciden- to support students and can College, grew up with a mix of Vizzini signed to an inter- ing deaf, rather than the cul- mind and wasn’t afraid to ask tal language that’s happening adapt them to meet the needs Deaf culture and hearing cul- preter who verbally translat- tural values. So at the School people to repeat something if around them … and they need of individuals, she wrote. ture around her. Her mother ed. for the Deaf I just felt that I she didn’t hear what they said someone to help fill in infor- When considering the best is hearing and her father is Vizzini has found that he’s could be myself and I had the first time, she said. mation.” educational option for their Deaf, making her a CODA had to advocate more for more access to learning.” The Jergens described University of Iowa first- child, parents and IEP teams — child of a Deaf adult. She himself in Iowa, he signed. The big difference between Nichole’s transformation af- year student Emma Van- need to work together to fig- worked as a teacher of the One thing he observed is mainstream education and deaf and hard of hearing in that school districts would education at a residential a mainstream school before keep one deaf or hard of school for the deaf is the di- leaving to get her doctorate hearing student at their lo- rect communication to peers in educational leadership. cal school, instead of sending and instruction, Iowa School Rabe said she’s conducted them to a school or school for the Deaf outreach coordi- research and reading related district with a group of deaf nator Tina Caloud signed. to language access and lan- students. Deaf children miss out on guage deprivation for deaf If a student in a main- information that hearing students, to work toward im- stream school needs an in- children can pick up on from proving deaf education pro- terpreter, it can be difficult their environment, Caloud grams. to know for sure if the inter- signed. If parents can give Rabe and others in Iowa preter is trained well. Vizzini their child access to language were involved with a bill in signed that Iowa interpret- before entering school, they the Iowa Legislature, HF 604, ers aren’t tested before get- can access anecdotal, envi- that aimed to set standards ting their temporary license, ronmental information early and benchmarks for deaf and making it difficult for him to on. hard of hearing students to know if he will get a quality Caloud encourages parents reach in their learning. This interpreter. to visit the School for the Deaf bill, introduced this legisla- To help make sure students to determine if it’s the right tive session, would have also have access to resources they fit for their child. She also provided a resource to par- need and parents understand encourages hearing parents ents to help them understand what’s available for their chil- to meet members of the Deaf learning options for their dren, the LEAD-K bill — HF community to give their child child. The subcommittee on 604 — was introduced in the role models. It’s important the bill recommended it pass, Iowa Legislature. to give deaf children access Contributed by Bob Vizzini but it did not make it past a HF 604 would have helped to language beginning when funnel deadline in March. parents move forward in they are an infant, Caloud ter transferring to the School deLune spent her time in el- ure out what’s best for the When working in a main- the process of getting their signed. for the Deaf as a butterfly ementary school at Cherokee student, she wrote. stream school, Rabe felt like child’s hearing tested and un- “There are many families, coming out of its cocoon; Elementary School in her “Parents and IEP teams she didn’t have support from derstanding how they can ac- not only in Iowa but all over they saw a complete shift in hometown of Cherokee, Io- have an important role in administrators and other cess language, Vizzini signed. the U.S., that aren’t even their daughter’s attitude and wa. She worked with a speech thinking about the ‘whole’ teachers. She said she ulti- Similar bills have been passed aware of the importance of emotions. pathologist and wore hearing child and then creatively mately made the decision to in Georgia, Louisiana, Ha- language,” she signed. “So Deaf and hard of hearing aids to help her hear teach- figure out how to best meet leave because she felt the stu- waii, California, South Dako- what they’re doing is they’re students in Iowa have the op- ers and classmates. After at- those needs that positive- dents weren’t being provided ta, and Oregon. waiting until later. So by the tion to attend public and pri- tending a summer camp at ly impact the ‘whole’ child,” the support they needed. “Parents need to know how time their child is four or vate schools across the state the School for the Deaf — 130 Carsrud wrote. She said since she has a to help their kids get an edu- five years old and goes into — usually referred to as a miles away when she was in Students who are resi- strong signing background, cation,” he signed. “Children school, they don’t really have mainstream setting — or the elementary school — she said dents of Iowa with hearing she often functioned as an in- who are deaf, that doesn’t any language, and they’re not Iowa School for the Deaf. she decided she wanted to go loss and who have an IEP and terpreter in other classrooms, mean that they’re just going ready for academics.” The School for the Deaf to school there. 504 plan — a plan that en- along with her responsibili- to be behind in everything. It Their experience trying to currently has 92 students “One thing that was always sures a child with a disability ties as a teacher. doesn’t mean that they have get Nichole into the School enrolled and living on cam- so intriguing for me just be- receives the proper accom- She said since her father a limited capability of learn- for the Deaf inspired Matt pus, and 16 students enrolled cause I didn’t know sign lan- modations — are eligible to is Deaf, Rabe said she sees ing. Deaf kids have the same Jergens to reach out to state through remote learning. The guage that well before going go to the School for the Deaf, how he doesn't always have capability of learning as hear- legislators and tell them school was established in 1855 to school there, all these peo- Carsrud wrote. the same access to informa- ing kids, if they start off in the why it's important to have a and was originally located in ple, these deaf people were Gaw said that the children tion that hearing people do, process and are given access.” School of the Deaf in Iowa. Iowa City, but it was moved communicating, and they who come to the School for allowing her to undersand Jennifer Keaton, who is He is now advocating on be- to Council Bluffs in 1870 be- were happy and it was just the Deaf often have gaps in the struggles of her former Deaf-blind, attended the Io- half of other children to make cause the city was more ac- such an interesting turn of their learning, so sometimes students. wa School for the Deaf from the admission process easier cessible by railroad. Students perspective for me because they need extra help in a cer- “I loved [teaching] right kindergarten through 12th to understand. can live in dormitories on I had never been exposed to tain subject. The school also away,” Rabe said. “I think grade and felt it helped her “I’m going to do everything campus or if they’re from the that,” VandeLune said. has closed captioning on all now even teaching higher ed, figure out her identity and I can, even though our child area, just attend class during After finishing middle the televisions and speech my heart is still in deaf ed, connect with a community. graduates this year, to see to the day. There is no tuition school at the School for the and language pathologists on that’s still where I want to be. Her family learned ASL it that future children don’t or room and board fees for Deaf, VandeLune returned to campus to help students, she But I also know that to affect when they found out she was have to go through this,” Matt families. The school serves her hometown high school. added. change, sometimes you have deaf. They gave her access to Jergens said. “Because there’s students from preschool to She said the School for the Classes at the school are to get out of deaf ed and you language and information, an untold number of kids out age 21. Deaf was far from home, con- taught with a mixture of have to be on the outside to something she signed that she there struggling, unnecessar- Along with other schools tributing to her transfer back ASL and English, Gaw said. affect change.” is fortunate to have received. ily because they can’t go [to across the state, the School to the school district in Cher- Teachers use written English UI ASL instructor Robert Because she wasn’t de- the School for the Deaf].” for the Deaf stopped in-per- okee. She also wanted to be when using whiteboards and son learning at the beginning challenged more. Sometimes will occasionally use spoken of the pandemic, Principal her classmates were farther English for students who are Rebecca Gaw said. Wear- behind in a subject than she oral or use listening skills, she ing masks has also provided was as students transferred said. some difficulties since the to the school at different Gretchen Larson, a UI grammatical structure of times. sophomore, went to a main- American Sign Language re- “It was a really hard deci- stream school up until her ju- lies on facial expressions, she sion, and I thought about it nior year of high school when said. for a while,” VandeLune said. she started online schooling. The School for the Deaf is “It sucks because it kind of She said that sometimes peo- a state Board of Regents-gov- felt like I was choosing, OK, ple don’t understand that she erned, state funded institu- do I want to be a part of the needs some accommodations tion. The classes at the school Deaf community or the hear- by looking at her because are taught in ASL, giving ing community. I think a lot she’s hard of hearing and her students direct instruction of hearing-impaired individ- speech is normal. instead of through an inter- uals have that issue, being She said at the UI, her ac- preter, Gaw said. stuck between them.” commodations in classes According to an Iowa De- VandeLune said another usually include sitting up partment of Education report reason for her transfer back front and getting notes from from 2018, 2,775 Iowa resi- home was because she want- professors. It has been chal- dents between birth and age ed to do everything other stu- lenging during the pandemic 21 are deaf or hard of hearing. dents could and didn’t want to understand what profes- Unique to the school, to admit there was something sors are saying because of roughly 60 to 65 percent of different about her. When mask wearing, Larson said. students live on the campus, she had issues hearing while Larson said that she some- creating a close-knit com- working at a summer camp, times feels isolated because it munity environment with she made the decision to get can be difficult to hear people Jeff Sigmund/The Daily Iowan students from all over Iowa cochlear implants, which talking when in public and of- Assistant Professor of Education Julia Rabe teaches a class on April 15. Rabe teaches American Sign Language at and some from Nebraska, she is a controversial topic in ten people get tired of repeat- Kirkwood Community College. She is also the ASL Club Advisor at Kirkwood. said. the Deaf community. Some ing themselves. 4 THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 Opinions

GUEST OPINION The Doctor is In | Ibuprofen, Stomach Bleeds, and Kidney Dysfunction — What’s the link? Ibuprofen, a common over-the-counter drug can wash away fevers, headaches, inflammation, and so much more. However, taking too much can cause serious side effects.

Ibuprofen is a common less common. Prostaglandins promote a ceration. over-the-counter (OTC) and To learn how this happens, natural reduction in stomach The same prostaglandins non-steroidal anti-inflam- let’s look at how Ibuprofen acid, increase blood flow to that protect the stomach al- matory drug (NSAID) that is works…. the stomach, and promote mu- so protect the kidney by pro- considered by many college cus secretion to the stomach moting blood flow to it and students to be a miracle work- How does Ibuprofen work lining. This helps protect the increasing the efficiency of er. It can be used to get rid of its magic? tissues of the stomach and GI urine production. Inhibiting headaches after a long night of tract from all the food/fluids these functions can lead to studying (or drinking), reduc- Ibuprofen works by inhibit- we eat and drink. kidney injury that can prog- es fevers/inflammation, and ing COX1 and COX2, enzymes When prostaglandin levels ress to kidney failure and as- much more. Like most things that make chemicals called are decreased by ibuprofen, sociated signs/symptoms such in life, moderation is key. prostaglandins. Other OTC the stomach is more prone to as lower back pain, blood in the Taking excessive amounts NSAIDs such as Naproxen irritation due to its acidic envi- urine, decreased urine output, of ibuprofen can cause serious, and Aspirin work through the ronment, making it more vul- numbness in the legs, and con- life-threatening side effects. In same mechanism as Ibupro- nerable to ulcers and stomach fusion/dizziness. fact, several studies show that fen. Prostaglandins contribute bleeds. This can often present gastrointestinal (GI) compli- to pain, fever, inflammation, as abdominal pain, stomach So how should Ibuprofen drug manufacturer. Everyone inal pain, and/or back pain, cations resulting from NSAID and other symptoms we asso- cramps, nausea, and vomiting. be taken, and how much reacts differently to NSAIDs, immediately stop taking ibu- use are among the most com- ciate with feeling “run down.” In addition, prostaglandins is safe? so it’s better to start at a low profen and seek immediate mon drug side effects in the So eliminating the chemi- help the blood clot by enhanc- dose and see how you feel af- medical attention. U.S. These GI complications cals that make us feel this way ing platelet clumping. Platelets Take ibuprofen with food/ ter. range from minor stomach is obviously the solution, right? help the blood clot faster when water to coat the stomach and Be sure to consult your pri- — Riley T. Mohr, Third-year cramps to serious problems Not quite. we are bleeding. By inhibiting protect it against the irritating mary care provider or local Pharmacy Student, Class of like stomach ulcers (open prostaglandin production, effects of NSAIDs. Remember pharmacist for any questions 2022 sores). Kidney impairment/ What happens if I take too platelets aggregate less fre- to take medications as pre- you have about taking OTC — Vijayvardhan Kamalum- failure among chronic NSAID much Ibuprofen? quently and can exacerbate scribed by a health care pro- medications. If you notice pundi, First-year Medical Stu- users can also happen, but are bleeding from stomach/GI ul- vider or recommended by the black/dark/red stools, abdom- dent, Class of 2024

COLUMN Iowa Medicaid shouldn’t be able to discriminate Iowa law that allows Medicaid to deny coverage for necessary procedures is discrimination – plain and simple. BY EVAN MANTLER recently filed a lawsuit against The ACLU of Iowa claims found denying Medicaid cov- with one’s gender identity have Public opinion shows an in- [email protected] the state of Iowa. The lawsuit this practice and the statute erage for gender-affirming been demonstrated time and creasing acceptance and under- challenges a 2019 law that would that reinstated it violates the surgery violated the Iowa Civil time again. standing of transgender people, Health care for transgender allow Iowa to discriminate equal protection requirement Rights Act. Shortly thereafter, According to the National with 73 percent of Americans people is just that — health care. against transgender individuals of the Iowa Constitution — and the Republican-controlled Leg- Center for Transgender Equal- saying that transgender people The American Civil Liberties and deny them Medicaid cov- they’re right. islature created a loophole that ity’s 2015 report, 23 percent of should be protected from dis- Union of Iowa and the nation- erage for necessary gender-af- The 2019 law followed an would specifically allow for such trans respondents did not see a crimination. al ACLU LGBTQ & HIV Project firming care. Iowa Supreme Court case that discrimination. doctor when they needed to be- Iowa should not be opening This amendment to the Io- cause of fear of being mistreated loopholes in laws designed to wa Civil Rights Act is blatantly as a transgender person, and 33 protect its citizens, nor should discriminatory. Its whole pur- percent did not see a doctor be- it be implicitly encouraging dis- pose is to allow the state to deny cause of cost. crimination. coverage for medically neces- Further, 39 percent of re- Even the U.S. Supreme Court sary health care simply because spondents were currently expe- in 2020 ruled in favor of trans- someone is transgender, even riencing serious psychological gender individuals in Bostock v. though Iowa Medicaid covers distress, while the same was Clayton County, finding that the the same surgical procedures true for only 5 percent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which pro- for people who are not transgen- U.S. population. Similarly, 40 hibits discrimination on the ba- der. It’s clear the motivation be- percent of trans respondents sis of sex, also protects LGBTQ hind this law is just transphobia. reported attempting suicide in employees. By denying Medicaid cover- their lifetime, compared to 4.6 It is clear the tide is changing age, this law makes it function- percent of the U.S. population. on transgender issues through- ally impossible for many trans Aside from the mental and out the country. Transgender people to receive the care they physical harm this law causes, it people are not going away. Iowa need. Particularly when it has also displays Iowa’s willingness should get with the times and no basis in medicine or science, to discriminate against trans- start actually protecting and this law should not come be- gender people and further an- caring for all its citizens. tween a person and their doctor. ti-trans attitudes. The fight for trans equality Medical treatment is not op- With transgender people is just beginning. This lawsuit tional. Laws like these can have facing disproportionately high shows just how much we have disastrous effects on the lives rates of violence, it is important yet to accomplish. If Iowa is not of transgender people. The psy- to cultivate a culture of respect, ready to fight for trans rights, Katie Goodale /The Daily Iowan chological and physical strains rather than one of hostility and it should at least stop fighting The Iowa State Capitol building is seen in Des Moines on April 9, 2019. of living in a body incongruous discrimination. against them.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Thank you from the Search Committee The University of Iowa campus should show gratitude for the University of Iowa Presidential Search Process.

Dear Campus Community, bring to campus. The com- office, strategic communi- the search process followed process led to an impecca- Hirsch. I am very proud mittee, consisting of facul- cations, as well as various the Presidential Search ble level of transparency, to have worked with the As one of the co-chairs of ty, students, staff and two members of the Board of Best Practices Document, integrity and open com- entire committee on this the recently completed Uni- regents worked collabora- Regents office. On April 30, which she painstakingly munication. Her leadership search and look forward to versity of Iowa Presidential tively throughout the entire the Board of Regents unan- co-authored after the sanc- through the entire process the leadership of our new Search process, I would process. imously selected Dr. Bar- tions imposed by the Amer- helped to bring the search UI President, Dr. Barbara J. like to publicly thank the The committee received bara J. Wilson as the 22nd ican Association of Univer- to a very successful con- Wilson. 21 member search commit- tremendous support from President of the UI. sity Professors following clusion. The entire campus tee for their tireless work AGB Search and many I would especially like the previous presidential community owes a tremen- Sincerely, these past eight months campus partners in human to thank my co-chair San- search. dous amount of thanks John Keller, Co-chair UI to identify four extremely resources, information dra Daack-Hirsch. Sandy The effort that Sandy to the search committee, Presidential Search Com- high-quality candidates to technology, the president's worked diligently to assure dedicated to this search especially Sandy Daack- mittee

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Tax-free forgiveness: who benefits? A new non-taxable status for student loan forgiveness will benefit longtime borrowers but may not do the same for current students.

According to the Nation- that he has serious con- al Center for Education cerns about the Biden ad- Student Loan Statistics, the average total ministration’s proposals price to attend any college to cancel student debt be- (four year, two year, pri- cause it would dispropor- vate, public) has increased tionately benefit students Joe Biden has from $4,885 in 1985 to and families with above Debt $23,835 in 2017. That num- average incomes. suggested canceling $10,000 ber has increased by any- Grassley is referring to per student loan borrower. Chuck where from $500 to $1,000 statements Biden made Schumer and Elizabeth Warren advocate for each year, with the total during his presidential cam- canceling $50,000 per borrower. price including tuition, paign that advocated for room and board, and addi- forgiving $10,000 in student tional fees charged by the loan debt per borrower. institution. “It’s unfair to taxpay- Biden announced the ers who saved for college, American Families Plan or paid off their loans or 44.7 million Americans on April 28. While the plan who do not have a college have student loan debt. includes goals such as giv- degree to pay for the ob- Source: studentloanhero.com ing Americans two years ligations others willingly of free community college took on," Grassley wrote. and “making college more "And on top of that, only a affordable for low-income third of Americans hold a families,” the plan does bachelor’s degree or high- not include canceling er while the majority debt broad student debt. is held by individuals with Total student loan debt in the The U.S. Department graduate degrees like doc- U.S. amounts to $1.71 trillion of Education, however, tors and lawyers.” Source: studentloanhero.com has announced that some Grassley wrote that re- form of relief would be lief should be targeted at coming to certain popu- students based on need lations of borrowers, in- and address why gradu- cluding permanently dis- ates are leaving college Infographic by Kate Doolittle abled borrowers at risk of with so much debt. having discharged loans “Incoming students need reinstated and borrowers to have the full picture and BY BRIAN GRACE Financial Aid, said the law track, said that even year in which she’ll contin- who could prove their edu- a breakdown of what the [email protected] tax-free status will be sub- though he does current- ue working at a local medi- cational institution partic- true cost of college is be- stantially more important ly have student loans, he cal clinic. ipated in misconduct with fore they sign on to take A provision in President for borrowers who have hadn’t heard of the tax- “Nobody should be their loans. out more loans than they Joe Biden’s American Res- been making payments free provision and doesn’t $100,000 in debt after they U.S. Sen. Chuck Grass- need or can afford with the cue Plan Act of 2021 that on student loans for 20 think it will benefit him. graduate, that’s going to ley, R-Iowa, wrote in an degree they are seeking," makes federal student loan to 25 years through an in- He said loan forgiveness be a couple of years before email to The Daily Iowan he wrote. forgiveness tax free until come-driven repayment should target underrep- they actually save money, 2025 won’t have a signif- plan. Such plans allow bor- resented and underprivi- that’s ridiculous,” Koethe icant immediate impact rowers to make monthly leged students rather than said. “But at the same Incoming students need to have the full on students with relatively payments on loans based forgiving loans for large time, I don’t agree with new loans, but could prove on income and family size, swaths of populations who complete cancellation of picture and a breakdown of what the true cost of more beneficial if Biden according to the Federal might not need it. student loans...if I had a college is before they sign on to take out more directly cancels student Student Aid website. Sheyanne Koethe, a UI loan I would still expect to loans in future legislation, For those utilizing an senior from North Liberty pay something for college. loans than they need or can afford with the degree according to the Univer- income driven repayment studying health and human I feel like the idea of free they are seeking. sity of Iowa Office of Stu- plan, borrowers who hav- physiology, said she doesn’t college is just not really dent Financial Aid. en’t paid off the entirety of agree with sweeping can- plausible.” Biden said during his their student loans by the cellation of student loans, —U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley presidential campaign that time their payment period but moderate loan relief he would advocate for leg- is up, but have paid toward legislation would be worth islation to cancel $10,000 it consistently on time and pursuing. Koethe in student loans per bor- in accordance with the said she hasn’t rower. So far, he hasn’t plan they were given, have taken out introduced any legislation the remainder of their student to do that, though some loans forgiven. This pop- loans for Democrats like Sens. Eliz- ulation will benefit from her under- abeth Warren, D-Mass., new tax-free status of loan graduate and Chuck Schumer, forgiveness most notice- degree D-N.Y., are pushing for ably, but Biden’s provision but an- legislation forgiving loans applies to anyone with ticipates at an amount of $50,000 student loans and receives doing instead. loan forgiveness. so when Section 9675 of the Amer- “After the 20- or 25-year pursuing ican Rescue Plan states that period, depending on the a master’s the non-taxable status will plan, the remainder of the degree in apply to all forms of stu- loan is forgiven but, in the hospital dent loan forgiveness, ef- past, this dollar amount adminis- fective from Dec. 31, 2020 was taxable,” Seyfer said. tration until Jan. 1, 2026. “This could make a signif- follow- Historically, any loan icant impact on taxable ing a forgiveness a borrower re- income. Now with the tax- gap ceives would be reported free status for student loan to the IRS and classified forgiveness, there would as income, which would not be any tax implication then be taxed based on on the portion of the loan the borrower’s tax bracket. that is being forgiven.” This provision effectively Seyfer said currently en- ensures that if the bor- rolled students could see rower does have a certain more of an impact from amount of their loans for- this piece of legislation if given, they won’t need to Biden ultimately imple- pay anything on that for- ments direct loan forgive- giveness. ness, such as his adminis- For example, if Biden tration’s baseline target of passed legislation result- canceling $10,000 in stu- ing in the forgiveness dent loans per borrower. of $10,000 worth of stu- The U.S. Federal Re- dent loans per borrower, serve estimates that as of and the borrower made Dec. 2020, U.S. citizens $50,000 per year within a owe slightly over $1.7 tril- tax bracket of 22%, the bor- lion in student loans com- rower would have needed bined, while on average, to pay $2,200 in taxes on individual borrowers owe the forgiven loan. $32,000. Cindy Seyfer, assistant Will Eggers, a UI junior provost and director of from Algona studying po- the UI’s Office of Student litical science on the pre-

Nobody should be $100,000 in debt after they graduate, that’s going to be a couple of years before they actually save money, that’s ridiculous. But at the same time, I don’t agree with complete cancellation of student loans...if I had a loan I would still expect to pay something for college. I feel like the idea of free college is just not really plausible.

— Sheyanne Koethe, UI senior Graphic by Kate Doolittle 6 THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021

A passion forAmplify teaching and filmmaking Trevon Coleman, a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Iowa in film and video production, learned valuable lessons while working in Florida as a caricature artist. Now, he teaches students, creates experimental films, and explores his art with the main idea of understanding while prioritizing Black identities.

BY GRACE SMITH was rude. You hear yourself? working in animation, comic [email protected] You’re equating Blackness to books, and illustration, Coleman animals.” learned a lot about himself and Trevon Coleman was draw- Because of the encounter his art. ing an 8-year-old boy during his with his professor, Coleman “That’s where I would say I previous job as a caricature art- started creating work that test- would have my biggest arts ed- ist in Orlando, Florida. The boy’s ed the spaces he was in and how ucation, was from being around father mentioned an insecurity they were viewing Blackness. so many different kinds of peo- that his 8-year-old son had about His “Super” series work involved ple,” he said. his large gums. the idea of Black bodies in hood- After his experiences as a “It’s up to us to let him know ies transitioning to Black bodies caricature artist, Coleman has that there’s nothing wrong with in superhero costumes. These worked hard to help others back that,” Coleman said to the father. films, focusing on assumptions at the University of Central Flor- After Coleman finished his and perceptions, give superhero ida, and here at the University drawing, the father circled back iconography to Black bodies, but Iowa as a teaching assistant. to him. He told Coleman no one there are no fight scenes or char- After his job as a caricature had ever let him know he had acters with superpowers. artist at a local theme park, permission to tell his son there is “So if that’s the case for this Coleman acquired his BFA in nothing wrong with insecurities. superhero film, what’s your case studio art, and his BFA in film “For me that was wild to be for the idea of what Black people and video production during his in a position to help someone accomplish for imagination? Be undergrad years at the Univer- else help someone who meant that fear, be that fetishization, sity of Central Florida, until he something to them to feel seen be that anything,” Coleman said. graduated in 2019. While there, like that,” Coleman said. “It’s im- “Super,” focusing on percep- Coleman says he was always portant for people to know that tions of Black bodies, resonates looking for ways to mentor, Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan how they are is OK, and some- with Coleman in terms of how guide others, and get involved. Second-year graduate student in the MFA program in film and video production at the University of Iowa Trevon one sees them regardless.” people are seeing him. At UCF, Coleman was a student Coleman poses for a portrait in his office at the Becker Communication Studies Building on April 28. As a Black American and sec- Friend and former roommate liaison in the school of visual arts ond-year graduate student in at the University of Central Flor- and design, a resident assistant Watson, who just recently the MFA program in film and ida, Dro Watson, who played for four years, and also worked graduated with her MFA in fea- video production, Coleman has the LGBT superhero in the film, in equipment checkout. ture filmmaking at UCF, also applied this story and lesson to speaks about Coleman’s passion Teaching students now at the mentions Coleman’s receptive- his life and pieces of work. during the production of this University of Iowa, Coleman ness and willingness to evolve Coleman had created the film. said he does his best to help oth- and change ideas when receiv- “Super” series as a response “It was just wonderful to see ers create work they are passion- ing new information. to an encounter he had with a him in his element directing and ate about. Watson has worked on proj- professor. He had created a self working on this project,” Wat- “Can you see ways to make ects with Coleman ranging from portrait in caricature style paint- son said. the things you’re interested her own thesis feature and proj- ing in which he emphasized his Coleman has been creating possible? If not, I can help you ects, to other people’s work, and a teeth. visual content based around see those,” Coleman said to his few of Coleman’s projects as well. The professor misread this understanding ever since his job students. “Are you interested in “Something that I have painting and made a comment as a caricature artist. From 2003 making new lanes? I can help learned that is most important about Blackness and showing to today, Coleman continues his you figure that out.” to me from Tre is really prospec- teeth. caricature work. As a creator, Coleman has tive and the way to approach “They likened showing the “I was always a storyteller,” worked on about 30 film sets media,” Watson said. teeth with being angry, and to Coleman said. “Very imagina- for films and projects in total, Coleman does not necessarily horses when they get angry and tive, I would say — I got into art operating the camera, working follow conventional narratives showing their teeth,” Coleman through telling stories.” with actors, and facilitating in a that have a beginning, middle, said. “And I was like, that one Being on the job with others collaborative way, helping those and end with his experimental on set feel understood and seen. work. “I think that Tre himself is “I’m playing with exposure, They likened showing the teeth with being sensitive, and I think that he I’m playing with frame to frame angry ... you're equating Blackness to animals. is sensitive to other people. I changes,” Coleman said. “I’m think that he is sensitive to con- playing with editing. I’m inter- cepts and sensitive to changing ested in the way editing can be — Trevon Coleman information,” Watson said. used to disrupt a narrative.” Coleman also creates work that focuses on how others are being seen through a cam- era, and experimented with this idea on the first film,- ti tled “Work,” that he made and Contributed by Trevon Coleman worked on. The film, which began in have worked on projects and as- that has been said or environ- 2016, was an experimental film signments together. ments that I’m in,” Coleman working with hula hoop danc- “When working with others, said. “I’ve made some more ers. In collaboration with others, Trevon is very positive and has personal works in this time that Colemam was able to create a a sincere interest in everybody’s are not trying to speak to some film that spoke up about- top contributions,” Zhou wrote in sort of broader idea, but [are] ics like the male gaze (the way an email to The Daily Iowan. “He really me sitting alone in a room women in films are looked at) always makes you feel that your grappling with things that I’m by audience members and cam- ideas are worthwhile, and he struggling to understand about era operators. In addition to can quickly expand and connect myself.” the gaze, he also brought light them in other areas that you Coleman continues to work to motion in the human figure, never thought about.” on his films and art in conjunc- and addresses how the camera Along with Coleman’s posi- tion with the act of understand- overlooks racialized bodies. tivity and connectedness on set, ing. Influenced by everything, “Work” evolved over the Zhou mentioned learning from Coleman’s many goals for the course of four years, with four Coleman’s feedback and advice future include learning more different versions of the film. when working on his own ideas about himself, and the space he As seen through “Work,” and works. is in. Contributed by Trevon Coleman Coleman takes an atypical and “I’ve tried to learn from Trev- Coleman is working on a interesting approach. on’s strong ability to think from piece right now that includes the “For me, I’m more interested different (and even opposite) conversation of Blackness and in what the camera sees,” Cole- perspectives,” Zhou wrote. “This climate change. man said. is a great ability for all areas in “You’ve created this thing that Coleman has made work life but especially for creating is now bigger than you. And you where he utilizes actors who art, stories, and characters.” can’t control it, you can't con- speak different languages, and Coleman’s collaborative film- tain it, you can’t stop the change even though he doesn’t un- ing process altered because from happening,” Coleman ex- Calendar derstand what the actors are of the pandemic. Without fo- plained. Virtual Community Events on Campus saying, the message still comes cus groups with community He further explains climate through. members and a normal filming change as a destruction, and “I like not knowing what the schedule and set, Coleman has why he compares Blackness to it. May 6 @ 7:00 p.m: Black Lives on Screen: Black Spring end is going to be,” Coleman been able to create pieces of “There was a world that was said. “I want to learn through work that are more personal to built around exclusion," he said. the process of making.” him. "And there’s a way to tear that May 6 @ 6:00 p.m.: Latinx/a/o Virtual Graduation With Coleman’s abstract “I usually make responsive down and destroy that world work, there is less of a definite work addressing something and rebuild something else.” answer in these films, but it May 8 @ 12:00 p.m.: Bar-B-Queer leaves the audience with more questions. There was a world that was built around Coleman pursues a very col- exclusion. And there's a way to tear that down and May 11 @ 7:00 p.m.: Rainbow Graduation 2021 laborative process. Hao Zhou, a second-year in the MFA pro- destroy that world and build something else. gram for film and video - pro duction, shares an office space May 13 @ 11:30 a.m.: UI Latinx Council Monthly "Meet and Eat" with Coleman, and the two — Trevon Coleman

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Internal Committee What is Amplify?

Sarah Watson Kate Doolittle Kelsey Harrell Caleb McCullough Hannah Pinski Amplify is the Daily Iowan’s community. It looks to heighten Alexandra Skores Josie Fischels Mary Hartel Molly Milder Ally Pronina community section, focusing on voices within our audience, and topics and features surround- provide an opportunity for our Cesar Perez Katie Goodale Eleanor Elizabeth Neruda Jenna Post ing culture within the Iowa City readers to engage with the DI. Shivansh Ahuja Austin Hanson Hildebrandt Sophia Perez Julia Shanahan THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 7

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Animator shares artistic influences A love of cartoons and childhood video projects set the groundwork for UI animator Jacob Smithburg to pursue a career in animation.

BY JENNA POST taking notes. [email protected] He then transferred to ISU’s College of Design. Jacob Smithburg had been During his summer off, he an animation hobbyist before became a camp counselor, he fully understood anima- where he found that working tion. Whether it was making with children allowed his cre- stop motion videos using ativity to flourish. He said that Legos and action figures or the camp made him question creating moving drawings what he wanted to do with his using the Flipnote app on his career, and he decided to take Nintendo DS, Smithburg said a gap year. he liked using his creativity to While job hunting during bring characters to life. his time away from school, he “In elementary school, I came across an animation in- would do flipbooks all day ev- ternship through Disney. ery day,” Smithburg said. “I “I didn't really know what did the bouncing ball flip book I wanted to do because that stuff before I even knew really summer camp and just like anything about animation or having so much creative free- that you can work in anima- dom,” Smithburg said. “I got tion.” back home from this camp Smithburg said that while and I saw this Disney posi- growing up, cartoons largely tion open kind of applied on affected his art style. The Car- a whim.” toon Network show Adventure Smithburg said he was sur- Time was perhaps the most prised when he was contacted influential, he said, because for an interview with Disney of its whimsical art style and for animation. While a bigger expressive characters, which fan of Pixar, he was still excit- appealed to his love for char- ed for the opportunity. acter design. Shortly after the interview, “I want to be able to look he received word that he’d at a character and go, ‘I know been selected for an intern- Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan exactly what they want, what ship. Not long after that, his Cinema major Jacob Smithburg poses for a portrait with his animations on screens behind him in an editing lab located at the Becker their motives are, what they've internship was canceled be- Communication Studies Building on April 26. Smithburg is an animator who spends hours working on projects that he is interested in. “Go with the been through,’” he said. cause of COVID-19 spreading flow, do the work, follow your gut,” Smithburg says. “Be adventurous. Experiment and push the boundaries of a given medium! Go buckwild! Own it! Smithburg said that while across the U.S. Weirdness is the brand, baby! Also get a fun pair of socks. It's thrilling. It's fun. You'll love it. Go bananas.” animation was an obvious He then decided to attend career choice in hindsight, he the University of Iowa for a more valuable resource. pect of pre-production for an- cide exactly what he wants to is that he wants to work with a first attempted to pursue en- cinematic arts degree. During He used YouTube to learn imation, video game design, do post-graduation. creative team who isn’t afraid vironmental science at Iowa his free time, he’s learned new an animation program called and all of that, so I'm always “I don't know where I would to be innovative in their ani- State University. While tak- animation techniques and EbSynth, which he used to like, what else can I do? What feel most at home,” Smith- mation. ing courses, he realized that software using YouTube tu- turn actors into animated sea else can I learn?” he said. burg said. “I'm always like, “I just want to have fun and the field didn’t allow him to torials. He said the university creatures in his play for the The now-junior said that ‘what's the next thing?’ And I work with people who want be creative, so he ended up doesn’t offer many animation Ten-Minute Play Festival. he enjoys trying new hobbies, hate to tie myself down.” to create together,” he said. doodling more in class than classes, so YouTube has been a “I feel like I know every as- which makes it difficult to de- What Smithburg is sure of “That's the big picture.” English professor talks second poetry collection

Donika Kelly, an assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa, released her second collection of poetry this week through Graywolf Press. The collection follows its narrator through life’s hardships.

BY DELANEY OREWILER Natasha Trethewey, Carl I needed to put them some- her poetry. [email protected] Phillips, Mary Oliver, and where,” Kelly said. “I came to “I hope that readers feel When I write during the semester... it's Richard Siken. poetry because I was full up welcomed into the space of In the words of author because I'm feeling compelled, like I have some Kelly described her style of and the feelings needed to the book, that they feel safe,” Donika Kelly, the publica- poetry as lyrical, a style that go into something else that Kelly said. “The book is deal- tion of her second poetry things that are more urgent to say. is less concerned with form was not me.” ing with some difficult sub- collection, The Renunciations, — Donika Kelly and more about getting feel- In addition to using her jects, and I hope that it res- has been “a long time com- ings down on a page. She poetry as a mechanism to onates with folks that have ing.” ative process as something her responsibility; she is began this style, and her ca- deal with her own feelings, had similar experiences.” The University of Iowa that she actively plans out. small in comparison to the reer as a poet, when she was Kelly said she hopes that Next Tuesday, May 11, assistant professor of En- She writes in concentrated universe. She also pulls in- a senior in high school and she can connect to read- Kelly will conduct a virtual glish released her collection intervals for one to three fluence from the poets she overflowing with emotions. ers and make them feel at reading on Zoom, hosted by this past Tuesday, May 4. weeks at a time and is most enjoys reading, including “I had a lot of feelings, and home within the pages of Prairie Lights. Published through Graywolf productive in the late-night Press, the poetry book cov- hours, between 10 p.m. and 1 ers heavy topics including a.m. During the school year, childhood abuse and adult Kelly is unable to stay up late, divorce. so in between those planned “Between 2015 and 2018 out intervals, she keeps track I was writing newer poems of memories and elements of that ended up in the new the natural world that she is book, but there are poems interested in writing about. in the book from 2013. I was She said that even though writing and eventually I re- she doesn’t schedule time for alized I had a book which writing poetry during the I had the time, space, and academic year, if inspiration opportunity to put togeth- strikes her, she will make er,” Kelly said. “I kept a draft time. of the manuscript for about “When I write during 4 months, and in January the semester, it’s because 2019 I sent it to my editor, I’m feeling compelled, like Jeff Shotts, and asked if they I have some things that are would be interested in it, more urgent to say. Being and they were.” a poet is all the time, and I Kelly said that the long try to show up for my poetry period between January 2019 when it calls,” Kelly stated. and the publication date “It’s a very soft relationship I gave her ample time to re- think, when I don’t have any- ceive notes from Graywolf thing to write about, I don’t Press editors. She also added have anything to write about that the two years she had and that’s okay, and when I was the perfect amount of do, I make time.” time to write the collection, Kelly writes about a vari- especially when the time that ety of things, but her most goes into her role as a profes- common theme involves the sor is taken into account. natural world. She said that Kelly described her cre- it makes her feel in scale to Contributed 8 80 HOURS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 WEEKEND EVENTS THURSDAY 05.06 FRIDAY 05.07

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REVIEW OF THE WEEK: Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race

BY JENNA POST brought into the work room ers that got old quickly. Symone being the first queen alities and infectious good [email protected] in pairs before being told to The season found its foot- from Arkansas to win, Rosé attitudes. In some seasons, meet on the mainstage to ing after the original three being the first to bring Scot- tensions between the top During the latest season lipsync for their lives. The episodes. Symone cemented tish heritage to the stage, and queens are high, but Kandy, of RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul losing half of the cast were her place as the frontrunner Gottmik being the first trans Gottmik, Rosé and released his new single, then sent to the “Porkchop by winning the episode’s act- man to compete on the show. Symone felt like sis- “Lucky.” The song’s chorus dock” — a reference to Vic- ing challenge and stunning For the first time, it includ- ters, which made says, “You’re so lucky tonight, toria “Porkchop” Parker, the viewers on the runway with ed a surprise ball, where the the finale a joy to ‘cause I’m giving you the first queen to be sent home her durag train look, and De- queens had to present three watch. show that you want,” which during season one. nali proves she’s the season’s runway looks within the cat- R U couldn’t have been more ac- Unlike Victoria Parker, no lip sync assassin by defeating egories of “black and white,” P A curate. one was actually sent home. Kahmora Hall in what was “red all over” and “grand fina- U L ’ Beginning on the first day For the first few episodes, the most one-sided lip sync le eleganza extravaganza.” S

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the franchise’s history, with their groups before coming officially named the season’s Symone beat out Gottmik C 16 episodes total. If the sea- together to meet the rest of lip sync assassin. and Kandy Muse and secured E son had a less likeable cast, it the cast following the loser’s Unlike Symone, third and her well-deserved spot as the could’ve felt like a drag, but circle’s episode. fourth place winners Gott- season’s winner. this group of queens was one This twist allowed the au- mik and Rosé didn’t imme- Despite Symone being of the most endearing in re- dience to get to know each diately appear to be front- the technical victor, the los- cent memory. queen better from an other- runners, but later proved ing trio will undoubtedly The season began with a wise large group, but it also they could rival Symone in find great success outside new twist. Unlike in previ- caused unnecessary drama acting and fashion. All three of RuPaul’s Drag Race due ous seasons, the queens were between the winners and los- queens made history, with to their charming person- THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 9 10 THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021

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Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Iowa midfielder Ellie Holley attempts to score during the Big Ten field hockey tournament quarterfinals Iowa midfielder Ellie Holley waits for the ball during a field hockey game against Maryland on April 4. “[We] against Maryland on April 21. “What makes us feel at home is the people,” Holley said. “For me personally, I kind of took it as an opportunity,” Holley said. “We took the fall as, yeah our season was canceled, but we had have one of the best support systems out here. I think I’ve been adopted by maybe 20 different people and I seven freshmen and in season it can be really hard to bond because you're just so busy. And having the, four work at the hospital with patients who are all like, ‘you don’t have a family, let us adopt you’ and I think that or five months to actually get to know the freshmen, going into a spring season we’re such a unit now that it's, the best thing about coming out here is how generous and kind everyone is.” we’re not, you know, wasting time with the ‘Oh, hi. Where'd you like the ball? What's your name?’ Like we all know each other so well. I think that's really helped us flourish.”

Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Iowa forward Maddy Murphy hits a penalty corner during a field hockey game against Maryland on April 4. “We have so many traditions involved in our warmup and it’s just so cool that we get to do that," Murphy said. “Everyone is a bit nervous and stuff before the game and everyone is kind of like zoning in and focusing in, and just coming together for the game. We do some dumb stuff that would not make sense to anyone else outside of the team. I think those are the moments that I’ll probably miss the most, is just everyone being so authentic and having a team that allows you to be unapologetically yourself.”

Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Iowa midfielder Esme Gibson fights for possession of the ball during the Big Ten field hockey tournament semifinals against Michigan on April 22. "What distracts me I would say is frustration, whether that's at myself or decisions made on the field," Gibson said. "I've improved a lot on that, but sometimes what people say to me on the field will focus me. There have been times where Ell or Nikki have turned around to me and been like, 'Yeah, we're playing, whatever it is you've got to get over it and deal with it later.'”

Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Iowa defender Anthe Nijziel sweeps the ball during the Big Ten field hockey tournament semifinals against Michigan on April 22. "It's more what happens before a game," Nijziel said. "If there are too many things going Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan on, I can get really distracted by Iowa midfielder Esme Gibson runs up the field with the ball during the Big Ten field hockey tournament that and that gives me a little bit quarterfinals against Maryland on April 21. “I've just been really grateful even though we didn't really have a of anxiety before a game. But I try season in the fall,” Gibson said. “Just to be able to train and to be able to be with such a supportive group of to keep my routines the same for people. And to be able to do something other than school, because if we hadn't been able to train, it would each game. So I know once I do all have been horrible. It was horrible being at home in lockdown for like four months, I think. We were allowed of that, that I'll be ready." to exercise once a day. We could leave our house once a day. Shopping once a week. It was just not a fun experience.”

you don't know where the in the morning and train as The now .233 hitter has corded two hits, one of which GOLF ball’s going. So, he made a team before we go to the SOFTBALL helped advance Iowa runners was double, that resulted in CONTINUED FROM 12 some changes. He worked golf course but with [the CONTINUED FROM 12 all year via the bunt. two RBIs. at it tirelessly over the last early] tee times, we kind So far, Sheehy has racked On two occasions, Sheehy ton of mistakes, so I'll still year. His level of just com- of let the guys warm up on Shaw pitched one of her up eight sacrifice bunts in has hit the ball three times beat a lot of people.” mitment to golf, and to their own once they get to best games of the season 2021. in one game. She did so once McClear’s confidence training, is just second to the course. But Mac, Satur- April 24. The LaGrange, On April 24, the Newtown, against Michigan State Feb. and love for golf convinced none.” day and Sunday, he's up at Ohio, native gave up just Pennsylvania, native reg- 28 and again in a game with Hawkeye head coach Tyler Stith said McClear’s 6:30 in the morning work- one earned run on five hits istered one sacrifice bunt Northwestern April 17. Stith to recruit McClear to commitment to bulking up ing out in the hotel gym against Minnesota. and went 3-for-6 across two Iowa’s last two series of Iowa out of high school. Ac- physically in the gym has before he goes to the golf When Iowa played Penn games of action. the season will be against cording to Stith, those char- also paid dividends. course and then he warms State in Florida March 12, Sheehy also lifted the Nebraska from May 7-9 and acteristics, coupled with “I hear stories about Luka up again.” Lehman tossed eight innings Hawkeyes to victory April Illinois from May 14-16. Tel- the swing improvements Garza, talking to [strength Iowa men’s golf now fac- and surrendered no runs. 24, hitting a walk-off single evision and streaming pro- McClear has made, enabled and conditioning coach Bill es a two-week break before in the 10th inning of a game viders for most of Iowa’s McClear to become this Maxwell] and [head basket- it begins NCAA Regional 8 Riley Sheehy sacrifice against Indiana. remaining eight games have year’s Big Ten Champion. ball coach Fran McCaffrey] play May 17-19. Should the bunts Last Sunday, Sheehy re- yet to be announced. “He's always had some- and his teammates how he Hawkeyes advance out of thing special,” Stith said. just outworked everyone, the NCAA Regional round, While Riley Sheehy cer- “His confidence, just a and I just can't help but they’d play for a national tainly isn’t the best hitter While Riley Sheehy certainly isn't the best self-belief, that's always think that Mac is kind of championship in Scott- on Iowa’s roster, she’s still been there. But it's hard to in that same mold,” Stith sdale, Arizona, May 2 to found a way to help the hitter on Iowa's roster, she's still found a way to be able to show that when said. “We typically get up June 2. Hawkeyes offensively. help the Hawkeyes offensively. Sports WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 THE MOST COMPLETE HAWKEYE SPORTS COVERAGE IN IOWA DAILYIOWAN.COM

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HAWKEYE UPDATES Women’s tennis freshman Alexa Noel earns Big Ten Athlete, Freshman of the Year Iowa women’s tennis freshman Alexa Noel has been named Big Ten Athlete of the Year and Big Ten Freshman of the Year, per a Monday release. Noel is the first player in Iowa Noel women’s tennis history to receive Athlete of the Year recognition, and the sixth to be named Freshman of the Year. Now- senior Elise van Heuve- len Treadwell was the last Iowa player Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan to be named Big Ten Freshman of the Iowa midfielders Ellie Holley, Esme Gibson, and forward Maddy Murphy celebrate during a field hockey game against Maryland on April 4. “There are times when we can be really stressed Year in 2017. with field hockey and it's very tense, but I think you forget about how good the moments are off the field when we spend with each other,” Holley said. “Being with the team and just, I Noel also received first-team All- miss dinners. Like sitting at a restaurant, you are just laughing for two hours with your teammates. I mean I do miss those moments and I think those are some of the moments that I'm Big Ten recognition and was the only going to cherish and remember those the most. Just being with each other.” Iowa player to be named to the All-Big Ten Tournament team this season. BY HANNAH KINSON national athletes reflected on the struggles and ern part of the Netherlands. Although their families In her first season of collegiate [email protected] benefits of playing a spring season, while - balanc are across the ocean, these athletes have found a tennis, Noel went 23-0 in singles — 16 ing a life halfway across the globe. Forward Maddy home at the University of Iowa. of those victories came against Big Coming off a Big Ten Tournament win in 2019, Murphy, one of five children in her family, is from “To talk about how COVID kind of changed, it was Ten opponents. the Iowa field hockey team was forced to delay a small town in northern Tasmania, and midfielder just a lot of sacrifice,” Holley said. “We have a lot of “I am incredibly proud of Alexa nearly an entire year of progress during 2020. The Ellie Holley, one of three daughters, is from a city like COVID team rules and I just think that shows and the work she has put in to have limitations of the pandemic interrupted training, in southern England. With an extra year of eligibili- the commitment of the team, how much we wanted an incredible season,” Hawkeye head team development, and championship plans, but ul- ty, both seniors will graduate in December after the a season. And how committed our team is to sup- coach Sasha Schmid said in a release. timately brought the team closer together during an fall 2021 season. Living about an hour away from porting each other and protecting each other while “She is unquestionably talented, but extended offseason. Holley’s city, sophomore midfielder Esme Gibson is also just trying to keep on our goals of trying to go she also works and competes so hard A third of the team is made up of players from from a small town in the hilly midlands of England, all the way.” and has earned every recognition. countries other than the U.S. Four of those inter- and junior defender Anthe Nijziel is from the south- SEE FIELD HOCKEY, 11 Winning Freshman of the Year is a great honor and being named Player of the Year speaks to the respect she has earned from the coaches in this league. To go through the Big Ten sea- McClear gains momentum By the numbers: son at No. 1 singles as a freshman and be undefeated is a huge statement and an incredible accomplishment. Sophomore Mac McClear claimed his second individual title of the Iowa softball She set high goals for her first colle- giate tennis season and she is really season last Sunday at the Big Ten Championships. meeting all of her expectations.” As the 2021 college softball The Summit, New Jersey, native season winds down, The Daily was a mainstay at the No. 1 spot in the Hawkeye lineup, and she took down Iowan examines some of Iowa’s eight ranked opponents over the most impressive numbers. course of the season. Noel, paired up with junior Sa- mantha Mannix at the No. 1 spot, also BY ISAAC GOFFIN finished the season 8-4 in Big Ten dou- [email protected] bles matches. Noel is ranked No. 18 nationally in Through 36 games in 2021, Iowa softball has ITA singles rankings and achieved an posted a 20-16 overall record — good for a share Iowa women’s tennis program-best of fifth place in the Big Ten Conference standings. No. 13 ranking earlier this season. She With eight games remaining on the Hawkeyes’ is the third player in Big Ten history to schedule, The Daily Iowan examines the most po- be named Big Ten Athlete of the Week tent numbers Iowa has put up this season. four times in one season. Senior Elise van Heuvelen Tread- 24 Denali Loecker RBIs well was also named to the All-Big Ten first team Monday. She is the first This season, freshman first baseman Denali women’s tennis player in Big Ten his- Loecker has driven in 24 runs for Iowa. Loecker tory to receive first-team All-Big Ten currently ranks ninth in the Big Ten in total RBIs. recognition five times. Loecker’s .327 batting average is tied for 16th in The Seaford, East Sussex, England, the league. native had a record of 19-4 in singles Last Saturday, Loecker amassed three RBIs with and is ranked No. 114 in the ITA singles just one swing of the bat — vaulting a three-run rankings. home run over the Rutgers Softball Complex fence in Piscataway, New Jersey. In four games against Minnesota April 23-25, Hannah Kinson/The Daily Iowan Loecker hit .308 and racked up six RBIs. QUOTE OF THE DAY Iowa's Mac McClear watches other players on the green during the men's golf Hawkeye Invitational on April 17 at Finkbine Golf Course. On April 24, Loecker went 3-for-6 and hit five RBIs across two contests with the Golden Gophers. “She is an Iowa girl. BY CHRIS WERNER swing changes he made, finding success in some One of Loecker’s best games of the season came She is making a good [email protected] offseason tournaments. against Purdue on March 28 in West Lafayette, In- name for Iowa.” Before he returned to Iowa City for the school diana. Locker went 3-for-4 from the plate, hitting a Last year, Mac McClear ranked fourth on the year, McClear finished the Illinois Open in a home run, a double, and four RBIs. -Hawkeye soft- Iowa men’s golf team in stroke average, taking tie for ninth place overall and a tie for second As a team, Iowa’s .226 batting average ranks 11th ball head coach just under 76 shots per 18-hole round. among amateurs. in the Big Ten. Iowa’s 126 RBIs are good for sev- Renee Gillispie The Hinsdale, Illinois, native played in just McClear has continued to improve this spring, enth in the league. on senior pitcher four of the Hawkeyes’ six tournaments as a competing mostly in collegiate competitions. Allison Doocy freshman in 2019-20. McClear believes the key to his success has been 2.45 Earned Run Average Last Sunday, McClear claimed his first-ever his mental approach. individual Big Ten title — increasing the num- “My coach said, kind of early in the season, he Behind three solid senior pitchers — Lauren ber of solo championships he’s won this year to said, ‘If you can go into a golf round, and you're Shaw, Allison Doocy, and Sarah Lehman — Iowa two. mentally prepared and you're making good deci- has posted a 2.45 ERA this season that ranks fifth McClear’s Big Ten Championship victory sions, picking out the right clubs, right lines, you in the Big Ten. STAT OF THE DAY dropped his scoring average to 71.6 on the 2020- can, basically, you could beat half the field,’” Mc- All three starting pitchers on Iowa’s staff boast 21 season — more than four strokes better than Clear said. “Basically, just by not being stupid, ERAs that rank inside the top 25 in the Big Ten. his 2019-20 average. you can beat half the field. And that’s what I've Shaw’s 2.01 ERA is good for ninth, Doocy’s 2.11 McClear has played 10 of his 18 stroke-play tried to do. I'm just trying to control the things ranks 11th, and Lehman’s 2.90 is 21st. Against tournament rounds at even-par or better. I can control. If I happen to hit some good shots Rutgers last Sunday, Doocy threw a five-inning In an interview with The Daily Iowan, McClear along the way, it's going to produce some pret- no-hitter — the Hawkeyes’ first since 2015. The day 18 said he fixed some mechanical things in his ty good results. And then when the swing’s not before, Doocy became the sixth player in Hawkeye swing after a lesson last summer with former there, I'm still not going to make, you know, a history to record 700 strikeouts. Alexa Noel's current rating in Hawkeye assistant golf coach Jeff Schmid. After the ITA's singles rankings. that, McClear began to reap the benefits of the SEE GOLF, 11 SEE SOFTBALL, 11