(Iowa City, Iowa), 2016-05-04

(Iowa City, Iowa), 2016-05-04

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2016 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ ELECTION 2016 NOT SO FAR AWAY Cruz An Iowa law graduate introduces a Daily Iowan photographer to the refugee crisis in Greece. departs 2016 race By MITCH MCANDREW [email protected] Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose anties- tablishment rhetoric and evangelical appeal secured an Iowa caucus victory in February, has dropped out of the 2016 presidential race. “I said I would continue on as long as there is a viable path to victory,” Cruz told a crowd of supporters in Indianapolis Tuesday night. “Tonight, I’m sor- ry to say, that path has been foreclosed.” The announcement comes after he suffered Cruz a crushing loss against senator Donald Trump in the Indiana primary, effectively removing all doubt whether Trump will be the Re- publican Party’s presidential nominee. Despite Cruz’s recent attacks on Trump, the real-estate mogul secured 53.2 percent of the vote in Indiana, Children in the refugee camp near the Macedonian border flash peace signs in Idomeni, Greece. The camp holds nearly 15,000 refugees from countries including Syria, Afrghanistan, and Iraq. trouncing Cruz’s 36.7 percent, accord- (The Daily Iowan/ Mary Mathis) ing to preliminary results. Trump won By MARY MATHIS | [email protected] all of the state’s 51 delegates. Cruz went after Trump on Monday, calling him a turned my face to the bus window, sob- asked me the only words she knew in English: “pathological liar,” a “narcissist,” and a bing silently, hoping the Syrian refugees “The borders … open?” I just shook my head and wouldn’t see me from their seats across the peered outside to the barren landscape, continu- SEE CRUZ, 3 aisle.I How was I, a privileged 19-year-old Amer- ing to wipe the tears from my eyes. ican girl, supposed to answer one, who had just SEE GREECE, 6 DO YOU SAY: ‘LOSING THE FAITH IN HUMANITY’ ... ? A diet I LOST IT. — SARA MONTESINOS, VOLUNTEER of more CONGRESS than grass By ANNA ONSTAD-HARGRAVE [email protected] The world now knows writer Walt Hogg pushes early voting at UI Whitman was one of the first advocates for the paleo diet, thanks to journals re- By MARIA CURI cently rediscovered through an online [email protected] database after being misattributed for more than 150 years. The main goal of Sen. Rob The journals were Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids, on uncovered when Uni- Tuesday was simple: Get out versity of Iowa grad- the vote. uate student Zachary Hogg, who is vying for the Turpin compared an Democratic spot to go up advertisement in the against Sen. Chuck Grassley New York Atlas under for the U.S Senate, was on the the name of Mose Vel- Turpin Pentacrest Tuesday morning sor with a handwritten graduate student encouraging students to vote note from Walt Whit- early for the 2016 Democrat- man. He discovered the ic primary before leaving for two were nearly identical. the summer. “Let the main part of the diet be Early voting started for rac- meat, to the exclusion of all else,” es for less competitive local Whitman wrote in Manly Health ballots such as Johnson Coun- and Training, a nearly 47,000-word ty Board of Supervisors, in ad- journalist series. dition to the congressional and Mose Velsor was one of many pseud- Legislature races. onyms Whitman used and is the reason The ability to vote early is a the journals were missing for so long, key instrument in Hogg’s goal Turpin said. to “uplift” democracy, because “It’s the idea of personal perfect- it increases flexibility to vot- ibility, health, vigor, daily happiness, ers, he said. The 49-year-old and connection with your happiest said he would like students Sen. Rob Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids, talks to a student on the Pentecrest on Tuesday. Early voting in Iowa will continue till June 6. (The Daily Iowan/Ting Xuan Tan) self,” he said. to vote before they leave for Turpin noted that Whitman’s sug- summer. The primary election the administrative inconve- The last primary in Johnson cording to the Johnson County gestions in Manly Health overlapped is on June 7. nience natural to Election Day County was held in June 2014 Auditor’s Office. with some of what he wrote in Leaves of Hogg also said it decreases and encourages people to vote. and 3,376 ballots were cast, ac- SEE HOGG, 3 SEE WHITMAN, 3 WEATHER DAILY IOWAN TV ON THE WEB INDEX HIGH LOW 61 41 • SCAN THIS CODE CHECK DAILYIOWAN.COM FOR HOURLY CLASSIFIED 7 • GO TO DAILYIOWAN.COM UPDATES AND ONLINE EXCLUSIVES. FOLLOW DAILY BREAK 10 Mostly sunny, very windy. • WATCH UITV AT 9 P.M. @THEDAILYIOWAN ON TWITTER AND LIKE US OPINIONS 4 SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE CONTENT. SPORTS 12 2 NEWS THE DAILY IOWAN DAILYIOWAN.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2016 FRISBEE WEATHER The Daily Iowan Volume 149 Issue 183 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher 335-5788 Email: [email protected] William Casey Fax: 335-6297 Editor-in-Chief 335-6030 Stacey Murray CORRECTIONS Managing Editor 335-5855 Call: 335-6030 Danny Payne Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for accura- Metro Editors 335-6063 cy and fairness in the reporting of news. Bill Cooney, Cindy Garcia, Anis If a report is wrong or misleading, a Shakirah Mohd Muslimin request for a correction or a clarification Opinions Editor 335-5863 may be made. 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Production Manager 335-5789 Send address changes to: The Daily Iowan, Heidi Owen 100 Adler Journalism Building, Iowa City, Advertising Manager 335-5193 Iowa 52242-2004 Renee Manders Ding nears graduation, reflects Advertising Sales Staff Bev Mrstik 335-5792 By KENDREW PANYANOUVONG global internships to leader- Cathy Witt 335-5794 [email protected] ship experiences in student organizations,” he said. “But As Jeffrey Ding prepares to what I value most are the part ways with the Universi- people at the UI who sup- ty of Iowa he reflected on the ported me, kept me ground- “amazing opportunities” he’s ed and believed in me.” received while at the UI, which UI senior Laura Wang include being awarded four said she and Ding lived next distinguished recognitions. to each other when they UI senior Ding will pur- were freshmen living in sue a Master of Philosophy Daum. Ding was a UI Pres- degree in international rela- idential Scholar at the time, tions at the University of Ox- the highest reward the uni- FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM ford in England with support versity grants to incoming @DAILY_IOWAN of the Rhodes Scholarship. first-year students. Jeffery Ding reflects on his time at the UI on Tuesday. UI senior Ding will The scholarship is tout- “He’s very accomplished. pursue a degree at the University of Oxford in England with the support of a ed as “the oldest and best- But I can’t say I’m very Rhodes Scholarship. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert) known award for interna- surprised. He’s super-hard- tional study, and arguably working and also very gen- “Oh, man. I remember presentation Tuesday. the most famous academic uine,” she said. “He’s done a wanting so badly to get out After graduation, Ding award available to Ameri- lot, but I never got the feel- of here for college, but now will intern at Perseus Strat- can college graduates.” ing he does anything for the that I’m graduating, I wish egies, a law firm specializ- Ding was one of 32 Ameri- recognition. I’m really glad I could stay longer,” he said. ing in international human cans chosen as a Rhode Schol- it’s really paid off for him.” For most of his senior rights, followed by another ar representing the United Ding will walk away year, Ding had been study- internship opportunity with States in 2015. Nearly 90 from the UI with numer- ing and interning abroad the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, scholars were selected world- ous degrees, including a in Beijing with the support Senegal, before heading to wide from among a competi- B.A. in political science, of the Boren Scholarship at England in the fall. tive pool of applicants. economics, and Chinese. Peking University. There, Ding shared some final ad- After presenting at the Ding is also a recipient he studied economics and vice for UI students as his time Iowa City Foreign Relations of the Udall and Truman international relations, in as a Hawkeye nears an end.

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