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Ruxandra Looft was announced as the new director of the Mar- garet Sloss Women’s Center on Wednesday afternoon, after a series of forums and interviews. Looft, known to students, faculty 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. pg8 the route, exploding into an especially nasty confrontation 02 Iowa State Daily Monday, May 21, 2018

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The route was set and Dakota Access was in a hurry. Every day the pipeline was delayed, Da- kota Access was losing upwards of $20 million dollars, they claimed. And hurry they did. It took only three years for oil to begin flowing through the Bakken pipeline, but the impact it made in Iowa might take a lifetime to fix.

Muddy Domains It was not long after the pipeline was announced that Dakota Access came to part-time farmer Dave Lowman and offered to buy a right-of-way through a 100-acre parcel of his land outside of Ames. The right-of-way consists of a 150-foot long strip of land. The 30-inch pipeline is typically buried in a 50 foot segment, surrounded by two adjacent 50 foot segments that are used to keep the dirt while work is happening on the pipeline. Lowman refused, citing environmental and housing development concerns. “I didn’t like the offer...plus I thought it was an environmental accident waiting to happen,” ZACH STREUBER/ IOWA STATE DAILY said Lowman. LaVerne Johnson was given the “Century Farm” award in 2016, just days before construction started on his property. Dakota Access proceeded through eminent domain. The pipeline ran through a 100-acre Iowa, Steve Hickenbottom said the pipeline plot of land that contained some woodland wreaked havoc to his fields. The owner of and farmland, crossing a small stream twice in about 1,000 acres of farmland, Hickenbottom “It will never return to the process. Lowman had been agitated before also resorted to eminent domain when Dakota by the company after they burned the trees Access offered to buy a right-of-way on his land. they cut down instead of giving it to him like On an eight-acre swath of land running across its original state. It is they promised but was astonished to see them a 170-acre field, the pipeline was buried deep working on the pipeline shortly after a flash in the ground. flood warning had been announced in his area. It took six excavators and eight bulldozers to maginal if most of it can “They went out and started pushing my top- complete the job, which was too much weight soil...they pushed all of the topsoil when it was on such a small area of land, Hickenbottom said. return to productive soaking wet, which was definitely something “When you dig [the pipeline] 25, 30 feet they said they would not do,” said Lowman. deep or even 10 feet deep, you’ve disrupted For Lowman, the ground was virtually that normal flow of moisture going through the corn or soybean use... destroyed, especially in areas that had previ- ground... and when you put the dirt back in and ously been used for crops. They were “basically pack it down, the grains of soil aren’t like they pushing mud and damaging the structure of were before so now that water, that was flowing much of it will never the soil,” he said. through there, is not flowing through,” he said. A few miles west of Lowman, tenant and Hickenbottom now says he has water con- be productive from an retired farmer Tom Ross had much the same tainment issues, something that he has worked experience. The oil company accessed Ross’ five half his life to perfect. Terraced ridges built to acres of farmland through eminent domain after contain the water flow have been destroyed and economic standpoint.” he refused offers of direct compensation. Ross the tiling beneath the surface has been ripped saw firsthand the pipeline’s rapid progress but apart, Hickenbottom said. was not pleased when he found them working “We’ve been in the drainage business and in wet conditions. dirt works for about three generations, and you obvious to Hickenbottom where the pipeline pipeline placement and soil remediation among “They were just ignorant with rain, and they cannot move 30 feet of dirt and put it back like lay. “Where they went through with the pipe- other things, Puntenney believes that Dakota would be out there pushing dirt and driving it was before. You might make it look like it on line, [the yield] was like zero. It drew some stalk Access has effectively destroyed the productive their Cats [equipment]...it just got packed as top, but it’s never going to be the same,” he said. but there was no corn,” he said. capacity of much of the 6,000-acre route the hard as a road; you probably couldn’t pound a For Hickenbottom, the drainage issues are pipeline took across Iowa. hammer into the ground,” said Ross. “I think more immediately concerning than the produc- “It Will Never Return to its Original State” “It will never return to its original state. It is that [if] you would ask anybody, they would tivity of the soil. “It isn’t any good remediating For Boone native Keith Puntenney, soil marginal if most of it can return to productive agree with me on it, that as a farmer after a big the soil if the ground is too wet to farm on,” health is a major concern and a negligible yield corn or soybean use... much of it will never rain, we obviously stay out of the field, because he said. from farmland is a worst-case scenario. Owner be productive from an economic standpoint,” we knew the consequences that we would pack Hickenbottom planted corn in the field last of 610 acres, Puntenney did not hesitate to chal- he said. the ground hard,” he said. year and assessed the damage that he believes lenge Dakota Access’ right to eminent domain The pipeline’s construction practices were the pipeline had wrought. Although there was a when the company came calling. The Silent Thief not confined to central Iowa, either. In Fairfield, drought throughout the growing season, it was A lawyer and farmer by trade, Keith Punt- As a leading research university in agronomy, enney has been at the forefront of the charge Iowa State is aware of the pipeline’s potential against the oil company, helping to take a law- risks to cropland in Iowa. In a partnership with suit challenging their right to eminent domain Dakota Access, scientists led by Mehari Tekeste in Iowa to the Iowa Supreme Court. at Iowa State are researching the pipeline’s Therefore, when Dakota Access started con- impact upon the soil. The research project is struction on Puntenney’s and close friend and aimed squarely at evaluating the effects of neighbor LaVerne Johnson’s land, Puntenney’s pipeline construction and soil compaction and perspective was only affirmed. Using a commer- remediation of the soil. cial drone to gather pictures of the construction, This research is funded by a $600,000 subsidy the farmers said they found evidence of Dakota from Dakota Access. A spokeswoman from Access damaging their soil. parent company Energy Transfer Partners only “We know that there is a lot of really deep responded to the Daily through email. subsoil compaction based on the pictures and “We are pleased to have partnered with Iowa everything else we have discovered,” Puntenney State University on this research project and said. look forward to the project’s development over Puntenney also discovered that Dakota Ac- the next couple of years. Regarding the Dakota cess had been mixing the topsoil and the subsoil, Access Pipeline, we are pleased to confirm that something that could be very damaging to crops. it has been safely operating for nearly a year. “They changed the till, they changed the We understand that landowners and others composition of the soils, they totally disrupted have varying opinions on infrastructure projects the enzymes and the micronutrient activities such as Dakota Access. We always strive to that has been percolating there for over 10,000 work cooperatively with landowners, as we will COURTESY OF DAKOTA ACCESS years,” he said. be part of the communities through which we The proposed route of the Dakota Access Pipeline through 18 of Iowa’s 99 counties. Combined with other construction malprac- pass for decades,” the company said. tices, such as soil compaction, poor drainage, Tekeste declined to disclose any information 04 Iowa State Daily Monday, May 21, 2018

PIPELINE pg3 increases in payments over time. Puntenney will be arguing that Dakota Ac- on the project to the Daily, stating only that cess didn’t take into account the potential value findings of the study won’t be published for of the land in a district court in 2019. “The another year or two. problem is that when you destroy land, you While Tekeste looks into the impacts of are destroying the future value of the land... the pipeline, other researchers such as Dr. everything you put on it is losing money,” David Kwaw-Mensah are also in the process Puntenney said. of studying the effects of soil compaction. Hickenbottom also thinks that the pipeline Kwaw-Mensah is a research associate at Iowa reduces the value of his land, due to its location State who specializes in soil management in the fields. and is not affiliated with the pipeline research Since the pipeline cuts diagonally across project. the field, it significantly depreciates the rest of “[Soil compaction] increases the soil bulk the 162 acres in the field, Hickenbottom said. density, which in effect impacts the volume “You’ve not only touched eight acres, you’ve of roots that can grow in that soil,” he said. affected the whole 170 acres... you can’t fill an “When the roots of that plant cannot explore eight acre strip out,” he said. a wider volume of the soil, it means that the Hickenbottom believes that Dakota Access plant will not have enough nutrients, it will did not take this into consideration when he not have enough water and the plant won’t was compensated. “They didn’t pay me near have enough air and this is what affects root what that ground was worth,” he said. growth,” he said. “Some people call it the silent Hickenbottom was paid $15,000 for eight thief,” he said. “It steals from a plant.” acres. According to the Iowa State University Central Iowa’s soil is composed largely of Farmland Value Survey, the value of eight loam clay, which Kwaw-Mensah thinks is acres of similar land in Southeast Iowa was some of the worst soil to conduct construc- estimated to be upwards of $30,000. tion in. In the survey, the average value of all the “When they crush the soil like that, espe- grades of farmland (low, medium and high cially with a good clay content and it dries grade for crop production) per acre in central up, it becomes like concrete. It’s hard, like Iowa was estimated to be $8,097. In southeast cement,” he said. Iowa, the average value of all grades was ap- “The amount of water that a soil can hold proximated to be $6,864 per acre. also reduces when subjected to compaction,” Hickenbottom estimates that the tile that Kwaw-Mensah said. had to be repaired from the construction and This will result in drainage issues, which can other remediation costs have totalled more damage the crops surrounding the affected than $100,000 and will largely come out of his area, he said. own pocket. As of May 2018, Hickenbottom Right now, the farmer say biggest issue has been paid for a blunder in the pipeline’s confronting them is how to fix it. construction and for five years worth of crop “It’s like you have a wound. The wound damages. would take time to heal. But once it heals, Ross has been paid for crop damages and the scar is the there. And in case you want to says that he has been compensated fairly remove the scar... if you are going to use some for his losses. “They have been very good at products to remove the scar, it is going to take not questioning the payments for damages. some time,” he said. They’ve been good about that,” he said. According to Kwaw-Mensah, the soil could However, Puntenney and Johnson haven’t take anywhere from a minimum of three years been paid yet. Those who have been fighting to decades to start being remediated, and even Dakota Access with lawsuits and haven’t then, it might never be fully restored to its made any side agreements have been ignored, original condition. For farmers, this often isn’t Puntenney said. feasible economically. “We have not gotten paid for anything. For “A year that goes by without a farmer using crop damage, for remediation, for anything. his land to make an income is like slow death,” Dakota Access has just walked away from us said Kwaw-Mensah. and said ‘see you later,’” said Puntenney. Energy Transfer Partners responded, stating An Issue of Compensation that “our restoration efforts along the route, ZACH STREUBER/ IOWA STATE DAILY The past few years, farmers have needed including in Iowa are still in progress, which Eminent domain and voluntary easement are both ways of acquiring property from every scrap of land they own. According to is why our easement agreements contained a landowners, but involve different negotiation processes. figures released by Iowa State University, the payment schedule for crop loss, which is 100 average price of corn per bushel from 2015 percent the first year, 80 percent for loss year lines to construction into a large case study. passed on to the next generation, and we were to 2017 dropped 37 cents and soybean prices two, and 60 percent for year three.” According to Puntenney, what he has seen trying to protect those acres and our farms in dropped nine cents. In the end, however, Hickenbottom says so far indicates that Dakota Access has not. general to be passed on to the next generation,” This, coupled with unproductive land and that one of the most valuable things he has Independent inspection firm ISG is cur- Puntenney said. rently inspecting the surface and subsurface Hickenbottom also has his kids in mind, soils, drain tile and soil remediation in 13 of and passing the farm down is his whole objec- the 18 Iowa counties. Once the inspections tive. But now, he is not sure that he wants to. “I spent 30 years fixing are finished, the ISG reports will be sent “Right now, depending on what comes out to the county auditors where they can be of this whole thing, I don’t know if I want to accessed. The county supervisors will then try to pass it on to my children, I mean would this [land] up. . . I don’t decide whether Dakota Access followed the you? Would you feel comfortable leaving them Mitigation Plan. with that kind of liability?” he said. have another 30 years While ISG could not give the Daily a time- Three years ago, farmers across Iowa expe- line on when the reports would be completed, rienced Big Oil through the Dakota Access Puntenney is confident it will be within the Pipeline. Some, like Ross, have had relatively to fix it again.” next couple of months. minor issues compared to the experiences of “We are helping people get ready to go Hickenbottom. to the county and say ‘hell no’ and then the “It’s taken hundreds and hundreds and hun- county will have to investigate,” he said. “We dreds of years for the soil to create its structure have 1,257 parcels and 910 landowners at risk that it has, and when you go down that deep expenses to repair the soil surrounding the lost is time. “I spent 30 years fixing this [land] here. That’s what we have in 17 counties. And and tear everything up and put it back, it’s just pipeline, leave farmers in a daunting situation. up... I don’t have another 30 years to fix it most of them don’t know how much damage not that simple,” said Ross. Dakota Access is required by law to pay again,” he said. has been done, and we are trying to let them For farmers like Hickenbottom, the whole for taking land through eminent domain. The know,” Puntenney said. experience has left more than just a bad taste company paid Puntenney $16,000 for two A Persistent Problem in their mouths. and a half acres, a sum that Puntenney says is When the Iowa Utility Board granted Da- A Fight for the Future “I have not talked to one person who has gross undersell. kota Access the right to put a pipeline through When the battle against Dakota Access had the pipeline go through even if they con- “That’s a very low amount for the land,” he Iowa, the Board required that the company started, Puntenney and Johnson knew that sented to it would do it again today if they had said. Puntenney was planning on adding his follow an Agricultural Impact Mitigation Plan they were not going to be fighting for only to do it over again,” he said. “The trouble is, sum of his farmland to the wind turbine field to help keep soil destruction to a minimum. themselves. it’s not over yet. But the media hype is done.” that surrounds his property, which would have Puntenney has compiled his findings on “I’m old and LaVerne’s old — we’re both made each acre worth more than $10,000 with whether Dakota Access followed the guide- in our 70’s. Our farms were legacy farms to be Monday, May 21, 2018 Iowa State Daily 05

COLUMN Phone replicas sacrifice quality

BY SANDEEP.STANLEY Cell phones have become one of the most ubiquitous Cheap lookalikes, nearly indistinguishable from the while the Goophone only has 4 GB; the iPhone’s camera @iowastatedaily.com sights in our interconnected society — they are one of the authentic product, for a fraction of the cost — sounds is a staggering 12MP while the Goophone can only claim most versatile tools for both business and everyday life. perfect, right? Not exactly. 5MP; the list goes on and on. With the astronomical prices that even mid-range First of all, there is the issue of the internal components Goophone has also been the subject of some worrying name brand phones are, however (a new, unlocked iPhone — after all, with a $470 price difference, some corners have legal and ethical controversies in the past. 7 costs $549 when purchased from Apple, and a Samsung obviously been cut; the drop in quality, however, is steeper In 2012, Goophone used leaked images of the iPhone Galaxy S7 costs $399 from Walmart), there is a rapidly than most believe. 5 found online to patent an iPhone 5 design in China expanding market for low-cost cellular devices. A major component that falls short in the Goophone i7 before Apple could. Enter Goophone, a manufacturer of smartphones, is the CPU itself. The iPhone 7 harnesses the A10 Fusion, They went so far as to aggressively threaten legal action tablets and smartwatches based in Shenzhen, China. which was designed by Apple and is manufactured by against Apple — while no suit was filed, in no small part Goophone is one of various Chinese and Thai elec- TSMC in Taiwan. This high-end processor costs a stag- due to a provision in Chinese intellectual property law pro- tronics manufacturers that are creating knockoffs that gering $429 at Walmart, while the MediaTek MT6580 tecting any designs which “[have] been publicly disclosed look almost exactly the same for half the price. Their (the CPU utilized by the Goophone) is a modest $80. in publications in the country or abroad”, it was only one products can be easily found on almost any The A10 Fusion fully warrants its steep price, however, incident in a growing series of patent infringement cases wholesale website — for example, the handily outperforming its Chinese competitor in almost involving Apple and Chinese manufacturers. Goophone i7 (the knockoff version of every specification. The clock speed, which is an indicator With China having long overtaken the United States as the iPhone 7) costs only $71.25 of how fast the processor is able to perform tasks, sets the the world’s largest smartphone market — and with India on DHgate.com, a popular tone, with the Apple chip performing at an impressive 2.34 in second — imitation is becoming more and more of a supplier. GHz while the MediaTek processor comes in at 1.3 GHz. concern. Manufacturers of these knockoffs can sell them in Other numbers back up this suggestion that the max- bulk to unscrupulous street vendors and electronics stores imum speed of the A10 is superior, boasting six CPU in China and India for sale with an enormous markup, threads to the MT6580’s four and a front-end width of taking advantage of unsuspecting customers. six over a measly two. In fact, the presence of Goophones and other imitations Because of its relatively weak processor, the Goophone on wholesale sites like DHgate indicate this is already also loses some important features. Apple’s quad-core taking place. construction is designed with two high-capac- Not only are Goophones and other knockoff phones ity cores and two other low-power cores, low quality products, the manufacturers use dubious meaning that a judicious user can assign practices to obtain their designs. The market for low-cost simple tasks to the low-power cores to phones contains so many other options — reputable man- conserve battery. ufacturers like Huawei and Honor provide comparable However, not only do the Goo- quality to brands like Samsung and LG for a fraction of phone processor’s four cores all run the price. at the same speed (meaning that pow- Goophones also offer none of the security features that er-saving mode is not an option!), the Apple and Samsung offer built into their operating sys- speed they clock in at is barely higher than tems; in fact, with how unethical their practices have been, that of the Fusion’s low-power cores. it would be wise to check for invisible malware, spyware, This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes and adware that have been installed in their place. to the Goophone’s deficiencies. The iPhone’s reso- So next time an ad pops up for something that looks lution is 1334 by 750 pixels while the Goophone’s is like a Galaxy S7 for $60, just remember the old maxim: if a measly 960 by 540; the iPhone has 128 GB of storage it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

COLUMN Suburban poverty fails to be addressed

BY DANIEL.SHAW, Suburban poverty is a shrouded development that has In a testimony given before the House Ways and but just aren’t making enough to get by. [email protected] blindsided the nation within the past couple decades. Means Committee, Elizabeth Kneebone, research A study by GOBankingRates released earlier this In the past, suburbs were understood to be regions director at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing year analyzed the cost of living in 35 major cities and where middle-class Americans could settle down and Innovation, discusses these challenges that are particular their suburbs to determine where it was cheapest to live. get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. However, to suburban poverty. The results revealed that living in the city was cheaper in in a recent Brookings Institution analysis of the 2015 She reasons that the lack of public transportation 25 out of the 35 areas studied —clearly demonstrating U.S. Census and American Community Survey data, means that, “by and large, suburban residents are depen- that the cost of living is generally higher in suburban the population of people in poverty living in suburban dent on owning and maintaining a car—and must bear communities. communities surpassed 16 million — outnumbering the associated costs—to reach employment opportuni- Another Brookings Institution analysis from 2014, the poor population in cities by more than 3 million. ties that are often growing in other parts of the region”. on the geography of low-wage work, revealed that 67 Despite this development, poverty continues to be In addition, due to the common misconception that percent of workers in low-wage occupations lived in generalized as an “inner-city problem.” In a Quartz arti- poverty is mainly an issue in the inner cities, “philan- suburban communities. With a higher cost of living and cle titled “American Poverty Is Moving to the Suburbs,” thropic resources continue to disproportionately flow large amounts of low-wage employment, being a work- Dan Kopf explains how the geography of poverty in the to urban centers,” leaving suburban communities with ing-class member of the suburban community often United States is continually misrepresented. less assistance, which further compounds the problem. does little to change a person’s dependency on welfare. For example, in his inauguration speech in 2016, The nonprofit safety net in suburban communities Clearly, Trump’s idea that being employed is all it President Donald Trump painted a picture of “(m) also, “tends to be stretched thin, with relatively fewer takes to reduce welfare dependency is fundamentally others and children trapped in poverty in our inner providers serving larger catchment areas than in cities.” flawed. cities.” While he was not wrong in stating that poverty These suburban challenges clearly differ from the dif- In the future, it is imperative that more research is still an issue in our inner cities, he failed to bring the ficulties found in the inner cities and serve to illustrate in taken into consideration — and that much more slightest attention to the larger population of people how suburbs are less prepared to provide assistance for time is spent crafting policy that will meet the needs that struggle with poverty. those in poverty. of more people. It’s time to update Franklin D. Roos- This dangerous misrepresentation of the geography In recent news, Trump signed an executive order, evelt’s “war on poverty” to keep up with the changes in of poverty will lead to policies that end up doing more promoting work requirements for safety-net programs. the geography and challenges of poverty; making our harm than good. It’s clear that Trump is pushing to decrease welfare de- suburbs better prepared to accommodate low-income People who struggle with poverty in the suburbs face pendency by attempting to promote employment with populations is a vital part of this initiative. very diverse challenges, much different than people who incentives; however, this would actually cause even more Society today finds it easier to keep generalizing struggle with poverty in the inner cities. suffering to people who are already struggling. poverty as an issue of the inner cities, when it is a crit- While some might argue that suburban surroundings In a 2010 Brookings Institution analysis on unem- ical issue in other places as well. Educating the public provide a comparatively better chance for people to ployment, suburbs contained 6.4 million people that on the new challenges people face with poverty will work their way out of poverty, due to lower crime rates were unemployed - more than double the number in help kickstart the conversation around solutions and and better schools, suburbs often fail to offer many of cities. The executive order would, in fact, be harder on help the American people to move forward as a less the same resources that inner cities do to help people in suburban communities, due to their higher populations divided nation. poverty. Some of these resources include access to public of unemployed people. transportation, philanthropic aid and a strong safety net. On the flip side, there are many people who have jobs 06 Iowa State Daily Monday, May 21, 2018 Special Olympics: More Than Medals

MIKINNA KERNS/ IOWA STATE DAILY Athletes competing in the Iowa Special Olympics enter Hilton Coliseum during the opening ceremony May 17. This is the 34th time Ames has hosted the Iowa Special Olympics.

BY TREVOR.HOLBROOK Habermann said that tennis is his favorite @iowastatedaily.com sport, but he’s dipped his toes in other events as well. Billy Habermann earned a pair of gold med- “Tennis, softball, basketball, bowling, golf als in singles and doubles tennis at the Special [and] track,” Habermann said when he listed Olympics this week. off the different events he’s done. COURTESY OF DON MAURICE JACKSON Habermann had his medal he won on Habermann said he doesn’t know when he’ll An exerpt from Erin Freeman’s Title IX filing. Friday morning secure in his shorts pocket. stop competing, but his father said he doesn’t Meanwhile, he sat with his friends and chatted, think Billy has any plans to stop soon. TITLE IX pg1 while watching other doubles teams compete. The foundation of Habermann’s athletic When asked to show his gold medal, Haber- experiences has been his family. Habermann man College is a historically black college coach Armando Espinosa and the Iowa State mann threw it around his neck with a smile — a Sioux City, Iowa native — had his moth- and Freeman said in the complaint that Elkin women’s tennis staff was informed that they on his face. The gold medal was important to er and father, Bill and Cathy Habermann, in leaving Freeman there “appeared to be based would not have their contracts renewed. Habermann, but it took a backseat to other attendance in Ames. upon both her hostility towards (Freeman) John McCarroll, Iowa State director of uni- things gained from the Special Olympics. The Habermann family bonds throughout and her apparent lack of desire to be present versity relations, declined to comment when Through the Special Olympics, Habermann the Special Olympics, and Bill coaches other on the campus of a historically black college.” reached out via email. Sanders also declined can cultivate friendships with the other com- members of the Sioux City Knights. Freeman also alleges that Elkin “engaged in to comment. petitors. “Three years of tennis, but other sports [I’ve conduct that was calculated to remove me from “Ms. Freeman’s treatment within the ISU Habermann connected with his doubles coached] six or seven years,” Bill Habermann the women’s tennis program and to terminate Department of Athletics represents one of the partner, but he also gets to meet thousands of said. “I got started because [of] my son, Billy. my financial aid.” most troubling abdications of authority that I athletes from across the state — in 2017, the It’s just something I love to do, it’s honestly the Freeman was sent a letter of suspension have seen in a university athletic department,” Special Olympics Iowa report tallied 14,961 most rewarding thing I do.” from Senior Associate Athletics Director Jackson said in a statement provided to the participants. Billy has a platform to grow as a person Callie Sanders on April 11, court documents Iowa State Daily. “She approached two senior “It’s a good way to keep in touch with friends through new relationships, new locations show. The letter from Sanders indicated that level administrators in the ISU Department of that they normally wouldn’t see since they aren’t and new sports. The Habermann family has student-athletes on the team had come to Athletics and requested that they address her together everyday,” said Billy’s father, Bill. a platform to grow as a family, but while Billy Sanders of their own volition and that her selectively harsh treatment. On each occasion, Iowa has been Habermann’s main location is building new friendships, so are the Haber- behavior was “affecting your teammates.” she was summarily dismissed. for competition, but he said that he plans to manns. According to Freeman, the meeting was “The ultimate responsibility for her treat- branch out by attending the National Special “It’s a great community of families, too,” set up by Elkin and a trainer named “Ashley” ment rests on the shoulders of Jamie Pollard Olympics in Seattle in July. Cathy Habermann said. “We have so many through a group text that Freeman says she and Calli Sanders. There appears to be a sys- Habermann said he’ll stick to the tennis family friends that our family is friends with inadvertently received. Freeman also provided temic problem in the ISU Department of Ath- courts in Seattle. their family, because our children/adults com- photo evidence of the text conversation in the letics relative to the manner in which female Special Olympics provides an opportunity pete and have competed for years, so it’s just an complaint. and minority student-athletes are treated.” for its athletes to not only branch out geo- extension of our family.” Subsequently, Freeman received another Jackson called the situation a “systemic graphically, but also in the sports in which they letter from Sanders on May 8 that reinstated abdication of responsibility in the athletics participate. her to the tennis program. The same day, head department.” Marner: Overturn on sports gambling ban is good

BY AARON.MARNER for good. I’m speaking strictly from a sports fantasy team” became a kind of rallying cry for Now? Games will be far more interesting @iowastatedaily.com perspective. fans, coaches and players who wanted to focus to fans who have money on the action, lead- The overturn on the ban is one of the greatest on the action on the field. ing to increased viewership and, hopefully, a On May 14, the United things to happen in the sports world... Ever. But make no mistake — this will draw in better product on the field as leagues focus on States Supreme Court over- I was listening to The Sports Fanatics on casual fans by the thousands, increasing visi- improving themselves instead of adapting to turned a 25-year-old ban on KXNO radio this week, and Chris Williams bility for issues in the realm of sports and also draw more eyes. sports gambling, effectively summed it up nicely. highlighting its beauty. It’s been estimated by the American Sports AARON allowing each state to make MARNER “This is the same thing as fantasy football I think the same thing can happen for the Betting Coalition that $58 billion will be spent their own laws regarding wa- 15-20 years ago,” Williams said. “The NFL MLB, NHL, NBA and college athletics as soon wagering on football games this year, with only gering on sports. exploded when fantasy football became easy to as sports gambling is made legal here in Iowa. $2 billion of that being wagered legally. Almost immediately, bills were introduced in use on the internet. Fantasy football in its purest Interest in sports will go up. Events like the Now that it’s open, less money will be ex- states across the country in an effort to legalize form is a form of gambling. NCAA Tournament, which already sees a ton changed under the table. If anything, overturn- sports gambling. Per the Des Moines Register, “People watch the NFL differently now.” of money wagered on it, will become even more ing the federal ban will help with transparency State Rep. Jake Highfill already has plans to Williams nailed it. Unlike the MLB and intriguing. and corruption. introduce a proposal in January. NBA, the NFL’s schedule makes playing fan- Professional baseball has struggled slightly The ban being overturned is good for the There are positives and negatives that come tasy sports easy. The rise of fantasy sports in in recent years with attendance and viewership. sports world. It will change how sports are with the overturn on the sports gambling ban. the 1990s and 2000s coincided with the NFL’s MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has made viewed for a long time, a change the world of From a sports perspective, the positives over- popularity boom. it a goal to improve pace of play, as one of the sports desperately needed. Casual fans now whelmingly defeat the negatives. This became something of a joke in recent common critiques of the game is that it’s played have a reason to care about sports before the I’m not going to drone on about how great years as fans would tweet at athletes about their too slow, with too much downtime between playoffs, and that will make the product on the it will be for the state of Iowa to use the money fantasy performances. “Nobody cares about your the action. field even better. Monday, May 21, 2018 Iowa State Daily 07 HIKING HIGHLIGHT Don Williams Park offers activities for all ages BY JILL.OBRIEN @iowastatedaily.com

Named for the Iowan singer, Don Williams Park is located about 26 miles from Ames (about a 33 minute drive) and has hiking trails, a 150- acre lake, campsites and a nine-hole golf course. The 600-acre park is located on the Don Williams Reservoir, which overflowed when a dam was being constructed just outside the park. The lake is open to those fishing, boating and swimming, according to the Iowa DNR. It is also the headquarters for Boone County Conservation, and the campgrounds are open from April 15 until Oct. 15.

What Don Williams Has to Offer Before you drive out to Don Williams Park, get to know what the park has to offer so you can prepare for what you want to do: MIKINNA KERNS/IOWA STATE DAILY • Self-registered campsites (first come, first serve) Rules at Don Williams Don Wiilliams Park offers recreational opportunities, such as camping, swimming and hiking. • 128 electrical campsites with 30 amp breakers ($18/ If you’re interested in visiting, here are the night) do’s, don’t’s and need-to-know’s of Don • 20 electrical campsites with 50 amp breakers ($20/ Williams Park: night) • 2 group campsites ($18/night) Park hours: 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. • 27 non-electrical campsites ($11/night) Vehicles: Only licensed vehicles are • Boating allowed on park property. • No wake lake Camping: Camping is allowed, but camp- • Hiking trails ers cannot stay for longer than 14 days. • Bait and tackle shop Quiet hours: Quiet hours are enforced in • Nine-hole golf course and restaurant campsites from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. • Swimming beach Pets: Must be leashed at all times Courtesy of mycountyparks.gov Handicap accessible: Yes Jethro’sJethro’s BBQBBQ All You Can Eat Graduation Brunch Buffet Saturday May 5th Sunday May 6th 8:30am-3pm HAND CARVED PRIME RIB AND PIT HAM CREATE YOUR OWN OMELET BAR Jethro’s Slow Smoked Wings Bubba’s Boneless Wings FRESH ATLANTIC SALMON TEXAS BRISKET PULLED PORK CHICKEN FRIED STEAK BISCUITS AND GRAVY LOADED EGGS CORN BEEF HASH HASHBROWN CASSEROLE French Toast Bacon Sausage Mac & Cheese Green Beans Mashed Potatoes & Gravy Fresh Fruit Bread Pudding Strawberry Shortcake Cheese Cake Brownies Cookies Muffins Toast And Many More Jethro’s Favorites 1301 Buckeye Ave 515-598-1200 MIKINNA KERNS/IOWA STATE DAILY Call for Reservations of 6 or More Don Williams Park is Boone County Conservation’s largest park and includes a 150 acre lake. Iowa State Daily Monday, May 21, 2018 NEWS 08

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MIKINNA KERNS/ IOWA STATE DAILY DON WILLIAMS PARK Emotional support dog Emma enjoys a drive to Don Williams Park for a night of camping with her human friends. Delta Tau Delta sanctioned Chapter receives third sanction since 2016

COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Men’s golf makes NCAA Championships

BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com

The Iowa State men’s golf team has qualified for the NCAA Championships, after a third- place finish in the Stockton Regional. The Cyclones had a final team store of -17 JILL O’BRIEN/ IOWA STATE DAILY and finished the third day with a team score of Delta Tau Delta will be required to hold an alcohol awareness workshop for new and active members prior to the first day of fall term classes, where there must be 90 percent attendence. 3-under-par 285. Senior Denzel Ieremia entered the day alone in third place on the individual leaderboard, but Delta Tau Delta fraternity has been tempt is defined as: According to the OSC website, Delta he shot a 2-over-par 74 and fell to ninth place. charged with a level two sanction from Failure to appear before any univer- Tau Delta will be required to hold an Sophomore Sam Vincent made a move up the Office of Student Conduct, accord- sity adjudicatory or regulatory body as alcohol awareness workshop for new the leaderboard with a 2-under-par 70, finishing ing to their website. It is the third sanc- summoned; and active members prior to the first day in a tie for fifth place at -8. Freshman Lachlan tion that they have received since 2016. Failure to comply with any disci- of fall term classes, where there must Barker finished with a final round 70 as well. The sanction, dated May 15, included plinary sanctions or interim measures; be 90 percent attendance and review Freshman Frank Lindwall shot an even-par the misuse of alcoholic beverages and Failure to comply with the directive risk management policies and prevent 72 and sophomore Tripp Kinney shot a one- contempt. According to the Student of authorized university officials or unregistered events from occurring by over-par 73 to round out the Cyclones’ scoring. Disciplinary Regulations handbook, police officers; Sep. 14, 2018. The Cyclones are one of seven Big 12 teams misuse of alcoholic beverages includes Failure to identify oneself or to show In addition, the fraternity’s conduct to make the NCAA Championships, joining “the illegal possession, use, manufacture, an identification card when requested to probation and social host probation Kansas, Baylor, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma distribution or sale of alcoholic bever- do so by authorized university officials have been extended through Dec. 15, State and Oklahoma. ages or controlled substances both on or police officers; or 2018. The NCAA Championships will be held on and off campus” and providing alcohol Providing, procuring, or seeking to Of the 39 sanctions listed on OSC’s May 25-30 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. to anyone who is underage. procure, false testimony in any univer- website, 36 of them are greek. According to the handbook, con- sity or administrative process.