A SYSTEMIC ABDICATION’ STATE Title IX Complaint Filed by Tennis Player DAILY 21 MAY SARAH HENRY/ ISD MONDAY 2018 Vol 129 No
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IOWA ‘A SYSTEMIC ABDICATION’ STATE Title IX complaint filed by tennis player DAILY 21 MAY SARAH HENRY/ ISD MONDAY 2018 Vol 129 No. 163 New Sloss HIKING HIGHLIGHT director chosen BY K.RAMBO @iowastatedaily.com Ruxandra Looft was announced as the new director of the Mar- garet Sloss Women’s Center on Wednesday afternoon, after a se- ries of forums and interviews. Looft, known to students, fac- ulty and staff as Sandra, was born in Romania and holds a doctorate in German and comparative lit- JILL O’BRIEN/ ISD erature. If you need a break from Ames Looft has been with Iowa State but don’t want to drive far, Don since 2010, as a lecturer of German Williams Park offers recreational and international studies and an activities such as hiking, swim- Academic Advising Coordina- ming and fishing. PG7 KENNEDY DERAEDT/ IOWA STATE DAILY tor in the world languages and Sophomore Erin Freeman played for Iowa State Tennis on April 23. Freeman went 2-6 against Viadica Babic of cultures department starting in OSU. The Cyclones fell 0-4 against Oklahoma. 2013, though she began with the SPECIAL department in 2010. BY NOAH.ROHLFING Freeman says that members of the university have Looft also lectures in the wom- OLYMPICS @iowastatedaily.com attempted to “drive me out of the women’s tennis en and gender studies department program and have deprived me of educational oppor- and leads a study abroad program Iowa State women’s tennis player Erin Freeman has tunities based upon my race.” in Germany for the College of filed a Title IX complaint against Iowa State Universi- Freeman mentions former assistant coach Olga Liberal Arts and Sciences. ty through the United States Department of Educa- Elkin multiple times in the complaint. According to Alissa Stoehr, a sociology and tion, Office of Civil Rights, according to her attorney, Freeman, Elkin “frequently engaged in openly hostile women’s and gender studies pro- Don Maurice Jackson. behavior towards both African-American players,” fessor and interim director of the and “stated that the [women’s tennis program] would Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, The complaint filed on Wednesday alleges that, save money if they were not required to include Liera said she’s looking forward to work- among other things, the Iowa State athletics depart- Bender, the other African-American team member, ing with Looft. ment created a “hostile educational environment.” on road trips.” “I am very excited that Dr. Looft Freeman provides 67 statements in the complaint, The allegations involving Elkin do not stop there. has joined the staff at the MSWC,” naming Iowa State Athletic Director Jamie Pollard, According to Freeman, Elkin left her near the campus Stoehr said. “She has a wide range Senior Associate Athletic Director Calli Sanders and of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, of knowledge and experience that MIKINNA KERNS/ ISD assistant coach Olga Elkin. Former women’s tennis Florida, during a February 2018 trip. Bethune-Cook- will lend well to the mission and An Iowa Special Olympics ath- head coach Armando Espinosa was also named in values of the MWSC.” lete competes in the Women’s the filing. TITLE IX PG6 Stoehr moved into the role as 100 Freestyle during the swim- interim director in February 2018, ming portion of the summer after the departure of Lorraine games in Beyer Hall on May 18. Acker. PG6 Of Mud and Oil: The Dakota Access Pipeline Looft said she has her goals and ideas but is deeply interested in BY ZACH.STREUBER hearing input from students, fac- DELTA TAU DELTA @iowastatedaily.com ulty and staff. She said she wants to continue the trend of the Sloss LaVerne Johnson popped a Lifesaver mint into his mouth Women’s Center being open to all and motioned out in the direction of the field outside his on campus. house. Looft said she applied to be “I want to tell you how brazen these people are,” he said. the director for many reasons and Johnson’s wrinkled face grew serious as he paused. “These had been involved with the Wom- sons-of-b*****s don’t have any care at all. They don’t have any en’s Center since first arriving on care at all about anything,” he said. campus. Johnson was upset — angry, even. Less than a football “My own research and writing field length away, a giant valve sprouted from the ground. Zach Streuber/ IOWA STATE DAILY in publications are all focused To a typical passerby, the valve might be the only sign of the “I think the ground I have, what they did to it, I don’t think that it will on gender studies,” Looft said. Dakota Access Pipeline. But this is Johnson’s land, and he ever come back to be what it could be,” said Steve Hickenbottom. “Naturally, my scholarship factored doesn’t need to look at the valve to see the pipeline’s impact heavily into what I teach, it also on his property. in North Dakota in November 2016. factors highly into my involvement JILL O’BRIEN/ ISD In June, 2014, the Texas-based company Dakota Access Dakota Access was able to continue its march to Illinois on campus.” LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, announced through a reversal by the Trump administration and agree- Delta Tau Delta fraternity was its intentions to build a $3.8 billion, 1,172 mile-long pipeline ments in Iowa with the Iowa Utilities Board to access land charged with a level two sanction Check out the Dai- from North Dakota to Illinois. via eminent domain. What land Dakota Access couldn’t buy, ly’s events calendar on May 15, according to the Of- Throughout the Dakotas, Iowa and Illinois, Dakota Ac- it took through eminent domain. Through subcontractors inside. fice of Student Conduct. It is the cess started buying up land. Across the Midwest, farmers, Precision Pipeline and Ellingson Tile, the company began fraternity’s third sanction since environmentalists and Native American tribes retaliated. to start construction on the pipeline in June 2016. 2016, and one of 36 greek-related Protests against the pipeline’s construction stretched along PIPELINE PG3 sanctions. 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