The Daily Iowan THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2019 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ INSIDE 80 Hours The weekend in arts & entertainment Thursday, February 14, 2019 The 21st Century Dating Game Guns and Iowa schools: Sam, 23 2 miles away 1 year after Parkland DATING APPS SUCH AS TINDER, BUMBLE, AND GRINDR HAVE CHANGED THE DATING GAME FOREVER. BY NAOMI HOFFERBER, ADRIAN ENZASTIGA, & PHILIP RUNIA | [email protected] DatingI flip open the app in the early hours of theapps morning, such as Farmers Onlychange or Christian Mingle. something. We ended up staying there for four unable to fall asleep. I’m greeted immediately with a According to the Pew Research Center, as of hours talking.” 20-something man in light-wash denim and camo 2016, nearly 1 in 5 18-24 year olds used dating Kigen and Nick began dating one month fol- hat, holding a large fish. Two miles away. A swipe apps. This shift in how young adults find love, or lowing the initial date. She said that the dating left, and a girl with warm brown eyes, wavy hair, and at least hookups, has changed the dating game app has some benefits when it comes to social … a boyfriend hanging around her shoulders. Ugh, forever. interaction. A year after the mass shooting in swipe left. Swipe after swipe, everyone from familiar For some, dating apps have ended in real re- “It might be easier online dating, because you faces in bars to coworkers to close friends file through, lationships. University of Iowa sophomore Ma- don’t have to go out of your way to talk to some- 21st-centuryeveryone looking for everything from a quick hookup laika Kigen used her former romance Tinder account to one and just say, ‘Hey,’ ” Kigen said. “Going af- to real love. find her boyfriend of seven months, Nick. She ter people in person is a little scarier. [Tinder] The popularity of dating applications has sky- downloaded both Bumble and Tinder with the makes the playing field easier. It may be easier rocketed in recent years, with the mother of all purpose of finding someone to date. to get to know the person in person, though.” dating apps, Tinder, kicking off in 2012. The app, “We were talking for two weeks — about ev- On the other end of the relationship spec- Asas of lastmore year, has an estimated 5018- million users, toerything,” she24-year-olds said. “We decided to go to B-Bops; trum, some individuals turnuse dating apps solely according to TechCrunch. Apps such as Tinder, it was a new place for us. We were both very shy, in casual settings, not to find serious relation- Bumble, OkCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel, Hinge, but I ended up talking the whole time because ships. UI junior Robby uses such apps as Tinder Parkland, members of the Grindr, and Her offer a massive landscape for that’s what I do. My friends came with, not with and Bumble on a casual basis. people to find people, with some catering to us, but they came and sat near us to make sure I “Tinder is for meeting new people with the tospecific dating groups, like LGBTQ individuals, apps or apps wasn’t going suchto get kidnapped, or murdered, as or ideaTinder of it being for romantic or sexual and involve- Bumble, some say they aren’t aSEE DATING, 4B Iowa City community DESIGN BY NAOMI HOFFERBER 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 replacemententertainment events on Twitter Thursdays forto hear about thisforming weekend and included in our in-person online calendar? To submit a relationships@DailyIowanArts in arts & entertainment. but canlisting, help visit dailyiowan.com/pages/calendarsubmit. take voice concerns about the stress out of dating. proposals in the Iowa 80 HOURS, 1B Legislature that could First VP for Research potentially loosen candidate to visit UI gun laws. today The first of two candidates for UI vice president for Research will visit campus today for an open forum from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 166 IMU. The first candidate is J. Martin Scholtz, executive asso- Scholtz ciate vice pres- ident for Research at Texas A&M University College of Medicine in College Station, Texas. Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan LEFT: Junior Esti Brady, a member of Students Against School Shootings, poses for a portrait at City High on Wednesday. RIGHT: Senior Josefina Frisina poses for a portrait at City High on Wednesday. BY JULIA SHANAHAN [email protected] A year ago to the date, 17 people were fatally shot at the hands of a gunman with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle at Mar- Loving day amid unloving jory Stoneman Douglas High school in Parkland, Florida. The tragedy sparked a series of national protests, and in Io- weather wa City, high-school students led a walkout and a march on the Local businesses in Iowa City prepare for Valentine’s Day with Pentacrest. Now, a year later, Iowa schools are implementing intimate dinners, trivia, and active-shooter drills and additional safety measures. bouquets of roses. Faculty and students in the Iowa City School District ques- tion if those measures are enough. Go to dailyiowan.com “Hearing over and over again that people were being killed to see the full story. at schools or churches, concerts, and nothing was happening — it was just the most profound thing to imagine that this was something else that we were going to accept,” said City High junior Esti Brady, a founding member of Students Against School Shootings. 6A School District employees say proposed legislation that could loosen some Iowa gun laws could be detrimental to safety, and they said there is a need for more funding and support for additional safety programs. David Santiago/Miami Herald/TNS Parents and students on Feb. 25, 2018, walk near a memorial for the victims of the shooting at SEE SCHOOLS, 3A Stoneman Douglas High. Hawkeye women to Limited space means Staff Council defend undefeated home record Iowa women’s basketball is 12-0 in Carver-Hawkeye this season. Me- gan Gustafson and Company will no fast-food sites try to retain its undefeated home responds to record tonight with a matchup against Illinois. The UI doesn’t currently have any fast food or chain locations on campus, and have no plans to add them in the future. 6A public-private partnership The UI Staff Council President says it’s too early to judge the UI’s proposal. Iowa baseball searches BY CALEB MCCULLOUGH for go-to closer [email protected] The Hawkeye baseball season is nearly here, but the team still has The University of Iowa Staff Council responed to the several unanswered questions. While head coach Rick Heller isn’t university’s proposal of entering a public-private part- sure how his bullpen will take nership for its utility system in a meeting on Wednesday. shape, he feels comfortable with The UI announced Feb. 8 that it would consider part- the number of options he has. nering with a private company to maintain and operate its utility system after Gov. Kim Reynolds requested the state Board of Regents universities explore such an Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan agreement. Freddy’s is seen on Feb. 5. UI Vice President for External Relations Pete Matthes presented the reasoning behind the plan to the council, BY KELSEY HARRELL counts with chain-restaurant corporations. The outlining the financial issues that in- [email protected] Tune in for LIVE updates UI doesn’t have those agreements, she said. spired the university’s decision to consid- Watch for campus and city news, The closest options the UI has to a fast-food er alternative funding. weather, and Hawkeye sports Compared with other universities in the U.S., location is the Erbert & Gerbert deli sandwiches “Our mission, our ‘why,’ has not coverage every day at 8:30 a.m. the University of Iowa has a lack of fast-food or and Godfather’s pizza sold in the Union Station changed for 172 years. It’s education; it’s at dailyiowan.com. chain locations on campus, and there are no Food Court, Irvin said. research; it’s scholarship,” Matthes said. plans to change that. A study conducted by the Food Distribution “It’s what we do. How we deliver on that UI Housing & Dining is self-operated, and Research Society in 2015 found that more than Matthes why has changed.” all employees are university employed, Dining 70 percent of college students who were surveyed He spoke about the trend of declining state funding Director Jill Irvin said. Universities that have a ate fast food at least once a day. and rising tuition since the 1980s, as well as Iowa’s de- lot of franchise restaurants are typically run by a contracted company and may have national ac- SEE FOOD, 2A SEE COUNCIL, 2A 2A NEWS THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2019 Volume 150 CARBING UP The Daily Iowan Issue 101 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6030 Publisher. 335-5788 Email: [email protected] Jason Brummond Fax: 335-6297 Editor in Chief. 335-6030 CORRECTIONS Gage Miskimen Call: 335-6030 Managing Editors. 335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for accuracy and fairness in the Katelyn Weisbrod reporting of news. If a report is Marissa Payne wrong or misleading, a request for Visual Arts Director a correction or a clarification may Lily Smith be made.