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The Daily Iowan THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILY-IOWAN.COM 50¢ News To Know Nontenured faculty 80HOURS The weekend in arts & entertainment Thursday, April 19, 2018 rally for rights Nontenured faculty in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences gathered on the Pentacrest and delivered The UI Theater Department will immerse audiences through intricate design and personified characters in its production ofA Midsummer Night’s Dream. a list of demands to the UI administration. BY RHIANA CHICKERING | [email protected] SEE MIDSUMMER, 3B The wild rose players The classic Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night’s Dream will get a 1920sDESIGN BY LILY SMITH twist in Mabie Theater’s producPHOTOS BY LILY SMITH- On the web On the air Events calendar Get updates about local arts & Tune in to KRUI 89.7 FM at 5 p.m. on Want your event to be printed in The Daily Iowan entertainment events on Twitter Thursdays to hear about this weekend and included in our online calendar? To submit a tion@TheDailyIowan this weekend.in arts & entertainment. The listing,play visit dailyiowan.com/pages/calendarsubmit. is known for its Shakespearean language, but audiences should not feel over- whelmed, because the artistic team refined complex portions of the text. 80 HOURS Falbo’s to reopen Falbo Bros. plans to reopen this weekend after closing unexpectedly two weeks ago. The former owner had health issues that compromised his ability to run the restaurant, and it is now under new management. News, 3A Iowa softball’s star needs a team who can stand behind her Allison Doocy has been a bright spot for the Iowa softball team all season. Earlier in the year, Doocy led the Hawkeyes to wins over ranked teams such as Arizona State, Michigan, and Baylor. Her team hasn’t always Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan followed her lead, though. After Lecturer Anne Sand discusses her low wages during the We Are the Majority Protest on the Pentacrest on Wednesday. Faculty members and students marched for another impressive performance (7 IP, nontenured faculty’s rights. 1 H, 9 K) against Western Illinois, the Hawkeyes were dormant at the plate BY ELIANNA NOVITCH representation in policy decisions, unstable contracts, taught to undergraduates are by nontenure-track fac- again, wasting Doocy’s performance [email protected] lack of transparency surrounding the hiring and re- ulty,” Rhetoric Department Lecturer Anne Sand said. in a 2-1 loss. Sports, 6A newal process, stagnant pay raises, lack of insurance “If they want us to be the best, most giving teachers Nontenured faculty in the College of Liberal Arts & coverage, unequal access to parental leave, among oth- that we can be for our students, they need to treat us Sciences gathered on the Pentacrest onWednesday to er items. with the respect and show us that they see our value as Coming full circle show that they are essential to the university, not con- According to a report from the state Board of Re- much as tenured professors.” Iowa tennis player Adrienne Jensen was once the No. 1 recruit in the state. tingent. gents, in 2017-18 there were 3,270 faculty members Sand said she and her colleagues recognize that After starting her college career at The group of approximately 50 delivered a list of de- employed at the UI. Nontenure-track faculty currently these are tough financial times for public institutions, Drake, she transferred to Iowa as a mands to the Office of the President along with a letter make up 54 percent of UI faculty. Since 2015-16, there especially with recent budget cuts, but they wish to see full-time student to pursue a major of support with nearly 200 signatures. University of has been an increase of 165 nontenure-track faculty — budgetary constraints handled differently. in psychology. But that didn’t last Iowa President Bruce Harreld was not in his office at a growth of 10.4 percent. On March 28, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds long, as Jensen was reunited with the time. “We’re trying to make it clear that if the university signed off on budget cuts for fiscal 2018, which her first-ever tennis coach, Sasha The list of demands addressed a variety of issues wants to maintain its standards of education, it has Schmid. After receiving a call from that nontenured faculty face. Some include lack of to recognize that a huge percentage of classes being SEE FACULTY, 2A Schmid, Jensen made the transition to become a Hawkeye on and off the court. Sports, 6A IOWA POLITICS Brantley Gilbert returns The country artist will be back in Counseling Cedar Rapids next month as part of his The Ones That Like Me tour. Ahead of the show, Gilbert spoke with The Daily Iowan and discussed the set, his new role as a father and husband, a UI students stick in senetics recent tour bus fire, and writing for his next album. News, 3A to be A sophomore’s hot streak with Facebook continues into the track and field outdoor season Despite the recent controversy about the social-media Laulauga Tausaga has been on a roll licensed for the Hawkeyes since the indoor platform and its letting Cambridge Analyticause its data, some season. The Spring Valley, California, The state of Iowa will require native has carried that momentum to UI students won’t delete Facebook. the outdoor season, where she has licenses for genetic counselors, broken school records in the shot put and discus. After seeing herself professionals who help patients primarily as a discus thrower, Tausaga understand genetic contributions is finding out that she has other strengths that are superior to others to diseases. in program history. Sports, 6A BY AADIT TAMBE [email protected] Effective Jan. 1, 2019, the state of Iowa will recognize genetic counseling with licensure, a profession that specializes in medical genetics and counseling. Tune in for LIVE updates Genetic counselors provide support to help patients Campus and city news, weather, understand and adapt to the impli- and Hawkeye sports coverage cations of genetic contributions to every day at 8:30 a.m. at diseases, said Colleen Campbell, the daily-iowan.com. UIHC director of genetic counsel- ing. “We are non-directive and facili- Erin Scott/Zuma Press/TNS tate informed decision making and WEATHER Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washing- provide psychosocial support and ton on April 11. Campbell advocate on behalf of the [patient or] family coping with genetic conditions,” she said. HIGH LOW BY SARAH WATSON lion Facebook users’ information was shared with Families and family members at high risk of diseas- 50 25 [email protected] data company Cambridge Analytica without con- es are identified, and preventive action such as high- sent. risk screening is taken. Mostly sunny, brezzy. A week after Facebook executive Mark Zucker- It started with a downloadable quiz app devel- For example, if cancer is identified and other indi- berg testified before Congress, some University of oped by a psychology professor called “This is Your viduals in the family are at higher risk of developing Iowa students voiced concern about the aggregate Digital Life.” The data were shared with Cambridge cancer, those individuals are given personalized, pre- INDEX of data compiled but not enough to leave the so- Analytica, which later worked with the Trump ventative recommendations. OPINIONS 4A cial-media platform. campaign to create targeted political ads. “Genetic testing is becoming more complex,” she UI sophomore Alexia Healey said she’s used The data shared included details on users’ iden- said. “Genetic counselors [help ensure] patients who DAILY BREAK 6B Facebook regularly for the past six years and she tities, friend networks, and “likes,” which Facebook want genetic testing [get] the right tests the first time, CLASSIFIEDS 5A wasn’t going to change her activity on the so- amasses on its nearly 2.2 billion users every day. [with correct interpretation of results].” SPORTS 6A cial-media platform — for the time being. “It’s creepy,” Healey said. As of now, 23 states in the United States recognize “The only thing that changed was my awareness, Though, she noted, it would take a huge ca- licensing, she said. but no action was taken,” Healey said. “I haven’t tastrophe to motivate her to leave Facebook. “Basically, this [legislation] establishes a scope of checked my settings at all.” In trying to make its policies more transparent, practice for genetic counselors and it provides require- Last week, Zuckerberg testified before Congress on a number of privacy-related topics after 87 mil- SEE ZUCKERBERG, 2A SEE COUNSELING, 2A 2A NEWS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILY-IOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018 NURSING A CAREER Volume 149 The Daily Iowan Issue 173 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6030 Publisher. 335-5788 Email: [email protected] Jason Brummond Fax: 335-6297 Editor in Chief. 335-6030 CORRECTIONS Grace Pateras Call: 335-6030 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Managing Editor. 335-5855 accuracy and fairness in the Katelyn Weisbrod reporting of news. 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