Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 2015-08-04
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2015 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ Public holds PARTY forth on equity Kingsley Botchway, the ON THE Iowa City School District’s equity director, holds public feedback session for district’s Comprehensive Equity Plan. By BILL COONEY [email protected] PRAIRIE Around 20 community members The UI revels on as the No. 2 party school in the nation for a second year in a row. packed into a Iowa City Public Library meeting room Monday evening to dis- cuss equity and race in Iowa City schools. Monday’s meeting was an opportuni- ty for members of the public to provide feedback on the School District’s new Compre- hensive Equity Plan, dis- trict Equity and Staffing Director Kingsley Botch- way said. Botchway, also an Io- wa City city councilor, said the number of peo- Botchway ple attending meeting director surprised him. “There was definite- ly a bigger turnout then I expected,” he said. “It’s good people are getting out, looking at this plan, and giving feedback on it.” The Equity Plan outlines steps the School District plans to take to include all students in the learning experience in the district. Issues brought up at the meeting in- cluded discipline in schools, district hir- ing practices, and retaining a diverse teaching staff. Latasha DeLoach, a community pro- SEE BOTCHWAY, 3 Party School rankings: 1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reading 2. University of Iowa Center 3. University of Wisconsin-Madison 4. Bucknell University gets new 5. Syracuse University 6. University of California-Santa Barbara head 7. West Virginia University The UI, Education Department name new 8. University of Georgia reading director. 9. Tulane University By BEN MARKS [email protected] 10. Colgate University The University of Iowa and the Iowa Department of Education an- nounced on Monday that Deborah Reed will become the new director of the Iowa Reading Research Center. The center was established in 2012 By BILL COONEY sumed at parties at your school?” he said. “The party-school after education reform was passed by [email protected] ranking actually draws on data from five different ques- the Iowa Legislature, and it is part tions we ask students.” of a statewide push to From the madness of the late-night Pedestrian Mall to These questions ask students to rate the popularity of increase students’ lit- endless tailgates as the leaves change colors, it’s not hard hard liquor at their schools, the popularity of beer, perceived eracy before the end of to find a party in Iowa City. popularity of greek life on campus, how much students study, third grade. On Monday, the Princeton Review published its annual and how packed the stadium gets for football games. “She absolutely has ranking of the top-20 party schools in the nation, and for Franek said 97 to 98 percent of students answer the Princ- what it takes to help the second year in a row, the University of Iowa was ranked eton Review’s general questions about their schools online. us advance our litera- as the No. 2 school on the list. Data are collected throughout the academic year, but Franek cy efforts in Iowa,” said The University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign beat out the said the majority is collected from October to February. Staci Hupp Ballard, Reed UI for the top spot in this year’s rating, moving up from No. 5 Fall marks the beginning of the academic year and lots of the communications director in 2014. Completing the top-three finish for the Big Ten was rowdy students. Fall also means the start of a busy football director for the Educa- Wisconsin, rising five spots on the list to take third this year. season for the police, Iowa City police Sgt. Chris Akers said. tion Department. “She The Princeton Review bases many of the 62 different lists “The first three or four months of the school year are our has a lot of expertise in this field; it develops on more than 136,000 responses from college most active period, mostly because of football season starting she’s worked in both general and spe- students during the academic year, said Rob Franek, the up.” Akers said. “There are always exceptions, though; people cial education.” senior vice president and publisher of the Princeton Review. tend to get a little stir-crazy toward the end of the school year.” Christopher Morphew, the execu- The party-school ranking is unique because it draws from Despite the UI’s presence on the top-20 party-school list tive associate dean for Research and five different questions asked, Franek said. in recent years, Akers said, most of the arrests police see Innovation in the UI College of Educa- “The rest of our lists only draw on one specific question asked of students, such as: how much hard liquor is con- SEE RANKING, 3 SEE READING, 3 WEATHER DAILY IOWAN TV ON THE WEB INDEX HIGH LOW CLASSIFIED 6-7 82 63 • SCAN THIS CODE CHECK DAILYIOWAN.COM FOR HOURLY DAILY BREAK 5 • GO TO DAILYIOWAN.COM UPDATES AND ONLINE EXCLUSIVES. 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But instead of using a pottery wheel, the Iowa native prefers to craft her pieces out of clay slabs and coils. A sculpture by Elizabeth Shriver (left) of a village is on display in Chait Galleries on Monday. A number of sculptures by the artist are “I do a lot of build- on display inside the gallery. (The Daily Iowan/Sergio Flores) ing with slabs,” she said. “Which is basically just a sculptures is a nice addi- taken some drawing, paint- complete, which, Shriver flat piece of clay that you tion to round out the art- ing, and I just decided to said, she labored on five to can cut into any shape you work that we have.” try ceramics.” six hours a day to the point want.” Shriver did not expect to She also credits her in- the sculpture was so mas- A selection of Shriver’s become a ceramics artist structor for spurring her sive that it could barely be pieces wrapped up their growing up. passion in the medium. squeezed in her kiln. display in the Chait Gal- “[Art] was something “I had a really good in- For all artists and aspir- leries today. Emily Wolfe, I always knew I wanted structor. She was inspiring, ing artists, Shriver has a a gallery attendant, said to do,” she said. “I didn’t and I just found I loved it,” piece of advice. Shriver’s 3D pieces stand know I would end up doing she said. “I couldn’t sleep “It’s kind of a cliché, but out from the rest of the gal- ceramics; that was a sur- at night because I had im- get a day job if you can lery’s visual array.