Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 2018-05-10
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The Daily Iowan THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2018 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILY-IOWAN.COM 50¢ News To Know Protests reach Harreld’s office 80HOURS Nontenured faculty stage ‘grade-in’ at UI President Bruce Harreld’s office with list of demands. The weekend in arts & entertainment | Thursday, May 10, 2018 s, just as fiery eturn re’ r i BY TROY ALDRICH | [email protected] n F o Local musicians will be performing the music of Bob ’s Dylan at the Englert Friday night. Artists include Brian el Johannesen, David Zollo, Kevin “BF” Burt, Greg Brown, e The Recliners, Elizabeth Moen, and Ingrid Streitz. h W is h T ‘ UMBIA• OL CO C L U • A M I B B I M A U • bob dylan L C O This wheel's on fire O C Side 1 L • iC 319 al 52240 U sTereo A P 2018 Di inc. M I B Celebrating the music & words of Bob Dylan B I M 1. DaviD Zollo & The BoDy eleCTriC 2. kevin "B.f." BurT A U 3. greg Brown • L 4. The reCliners of iowa CiTy C O 5. Brian johannesen O C 6. eliZaBeTh moen L • U A I This concert will be performed at The englertM B Theatre on friday, may 11, at 7 p.m. B I M A U • L C ‘This Wheel’s On Fire’O celebrates Dylan Local artists including David Zollo, Kevin Burt, Greg Brown, and Elizabeth Moen are set to play the works of Bob Dylan at the Englert DESIGN BY LILY SMITH AND NAOMI HOFFERBER onOn Friday the web eOnvening. the air TheEvents calendar event cele- 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 brates@TheDailyIowan Dylan’sin arts & entertainment. work listing,throughout visit dailyiowan.com/pages/calendarsubmit. his career for the second year in a row. 80 HOURS Results are in for this year’s top Hawks It has been an entertaining year for Hawkeye fans. While the per- formances of some athletes were better than others, two rose to the occasion and were named The Daily Jackson Iowan’s Top Athletes: Josh Jackson and Megan Gus- tafson. Both Roman Slabach/Daily Iowan put up stellar Nontenure faculty participate in a sit-in at the President’s Office in Jessup Hall on Wednesday. Nontenure faculty discussed issues such as higher wages and health care. numbers and were two the best in the BY ANDY MITCHELL ty members on campus. to college leadership. Gustafson country in [email protected] “We are treated as contingent to the mission of the On May 4, Kregel emailed the organizing commit- their respective sports. The stats university when actually we are essential,” Weiss said. tee to recommend forming a committee to address they accumulated in the regular Protests came to University of Iowa President “Our work is important, we care about it and do it the nonbudgetary issues following university policies season and postseason earned Bruce Harreld’s office in the form of a sit-in on well, and now we’re doing it in conditions that aren’t and procedures starting in the beginning of the fall them the honor from the DI. Wednesday. Nontenure-track faculty members occu- sustainable.” 2018 semester. Sports, 6A pied his office in the interest of the university meet- On April 18, Harreld received a letter from the non- “People have had a lot of grievances for a long time, ing a set of demands. tenure faculty organizing committee demanding a but we’ve been relatively isolated or siloed and didn’t Behind the narrative The list of demands include standard yearly pay meeting, and because it was an issue pertaining to know other people have the same issues as us,” said After performing at Iowa City’s raises to keep up with the costs of living, health in- faculty, asked Associate Provost Kevin Kregel to reach Brooke Larson, a visiting assistant professor of lin- Mission Creek Festival, Julien surance, parental leave, and retirement benefits. The out to the group. The letter was co-signed by 205 non- guistics. Baker came out with a new album aimed at creating a narrative full list of demands can be found on the Service Em- tenure faculty. The UI released a statement on the sit-in protest rather than a string of songs. The ployees International Union Iowa Faculty Forward Kregel, along with Faculty Senate President Russ stating, “Adjunct and nontenure track faculty are pieces are vulnerable, detailing website. Ganim and Assistant Provost for Faculty Diane Fin- vital to the University of Iowa’s mission, providing her struggles with depression, Lecturer Elizabeth Weiss, a sit-in protester, said nerty, met with the organizing committee on April 23 relationships, and confronting she is frustrated by the treatment of nontenure facul- and asked the members to direct budgetary concerns SEE SIT IN, 2A problems. News, 3A It’s win or leave The postseason is finally here for softball. Iowa, the No. 12 seed in Hawk Alert the Big Ten Tournament, heads to Talent to tell tales Madison, Wisconsin, to play fifth- seed Ohio State. It will be key for the Hawkeyes to get a good quits calling start out of Allison Doocy on the mound, who led Iowa to the marks UI senior tournament. The Hawkeyes have shown their potential to play Skyler Knutzen reflects on his time at the UI, where he classroom any team close, and that will be tested today. discovered a passion for storytelling. Sports, 6A phones Hawks look to improve at outdoor Big Tens Since May 4, the Hawk Alert With the Big Ten Championships rapidly approaching, Iowa track system no longer sends and field wants to add to the notifications to classroom successful weekend it had at the Drake Relays. After a week of rest, telephones. the Hawkeyes will be ready to go. The meet is one of Iowa’s final chances to avenge its fifth-place BY TIAN LIU women’s finish and seventh-place [email protected] men’s finish at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, and it has the As of May 4, the University of Iowa Department of talent to do so. Sports, 6A Public Safety no longer sends Hawk Alerts to class- room telephones. Under the previous system, 230 classroom tele- phones received voice notifications when Hawk Alerts were issued, an email sent to students said. “The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety’s top priority is the safety of students, faculty, and staff,” Public Safety emergency-management Tune in for LIVE updates coordinator Floyd Johnson said in an email to The Campus and city news, weather, Lily Smith/The Daily Iowan Daily Iowan. and Hawkeye sports coverage UI senior Skyler Knutzen stands outside the Adler Building on Wednesday. Knutzen, whose passion for storytelling has When the majority of classroom phone calls were every day at 8:30 a.m. at taken him from Panama to New York and back, will travel to Italy this summer. unanswered, it not only slowed the system, it also daily-iowan.com. delayed the system to send voice notifications to the BY AADIT TAMBE newly discovered passion: storytelling. other phone numbers on the contact list. [email protected] “This is when I decided to transfer back to Iowa as a “The classroom phones are an ineffective tool junior and decided that this is what I wanted to do — when it comes to quickly sharing emergency in- WEATHER University of Iowa senior Skyler Knutzen came to I want to go out and tell these stories,” Knutzen said. formation now that nearly everyone carries a cell- the UI to study physical education but instead dis- It is important for other peoples’ stories to be phone,” Johnson said in the email. HIGH LOW covered a passion for storytelling. heard, he said. The purpose of the change, he said, is to help 79 51 “I didn’t have a major when I first came to the “The most important thing about storytelling for Hawk Alert voice messages be delivered more University of Iowa; cinema had bounced around as me is sitting down, and listening to someone, and quickly. Mostly sunny, light winds. 40% chance of an idea but wasn’t necessarily the plan when I first giving somebody the space to tell their story,” he said. “The overall number of voice notifications being rain/ T-storms later came in,” he said. “Just having that opportunity to get to know some- sent are what cause delays in delivery,” he said. At the time, Knutzen was toying around with the one, I feel lucky and privileged.” Before the change was made, Public Safety dis- INDEX idea of studying physical education after being in- At his time at the UI, Knutzen was involved with cussed the change with Faculty Senate leadership and spired by an eighth-grade teacher. Fools Magazine, where he showcased his photography consulted with Information Technology Services. OPINIONS 4A “I thought of going into physical education, but Io- and videography skills. Johnson encouraged people on campus to update DAILY BREAK 4B wa does not offer that program, so I transferred to Io- Knutzen interned in Panama, where he told peo- their Hawk Alert settings to help the system func- wa State and I did that for a semester …” he said. “After ple’s stories for three months.