By EMILY KRESSEemily-kresse@uiowa.edu

Nathalie Halcrow’s parents knew their daughter would excel in school when she finished an entire week’s worth of homework on the first day of the first grade.

“We thought she would get a packet every day to play with,” said mother Héléne Halcrow. “Obviously, we were mistaken.”

Nathalie Halcrow has yet to slow down. She graduated last spring from the University of Iowa with two degrees, B.A.s in English and French, both with Honors. It took her only three years.

Her academic pursuits coupled with her time spent working as a tutor at the UI and volunteering with the Kirkwood Learning Center made her a standout applicant for the Fulbright Scholarship. Halcrow had never heard of the Ful-bright program until one of her profes-sors recommended that she apply.

“It sounded like a dream come true,” she said. “Why would you not want someone to pay for you to go travel for a year?”

The Fulbright application process is famously demanding, and the UI out-lines steps starting a year before the application is due. Although Halcrow said she jumped for joy when she found

out she was awarded the scholarship, finishing the application itself felt like a huge accomplishment.

“It was really exciting to get it all do-ne, to put on the finishing touches,” she said. “You know you’ve tackled it from all angles.”

Starting in September, she will con-tinue her academic journey in Côte d’Ivoire, helping create lesson plans and teaching English to high-school

students in Abidjan, a primarily French-speaking city.

Halcrow has French and American citizenship and grew up traveling, so, her mother said she is used to interact-ing with other cultures.

“Being outside the U.S. is the thing that will be the most jarring, but it’s not what I’m most worried about,” she said.

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Paul Roesler, an outreach leader at Scheels sporting-goods store in Coralville, will fill the vacant seat on the Io-wa City School Board after Tuesday night’s special election.

Roesler, a father of two in the Iowa City School District and a husband of a kindergarten teach-er at Twain Elementa-ry, won 2,938 votes. J.P. Claussen received 2,612 votes, and Janice Weiner trailed with 203, accord-ing to unofficial results by the Johnson County Auditor’s Office.

“I’m excited. I’m ready to get start-ed,” Roesler said. “I had a get-together with supporters … to have that final result come in and have everyone feel excited was a special feeling.”

The board unanimously voted on June 7 to hold a special election to fill a vacant seat after Tom Yates resigned from the board on May 13.

In the days leading up the election, Roesler’s position stood firm in wanting to propose a bond issue that would be key for the district, he said. If passed, it would bring in money to help infra-structures at many elementary and secondary schools in the district.

Roesler also touted the district’s current facilities plan, including the decision to close Hoover Elementa-ry in 2019, which would benefit City High students because of plans to use Hoover’s land for upgrades.

“The facilities master plan, the way we have it right now, is pretty well thought out,” Roesler said. “We need to

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By AUSTIN PETROSKIaustin-petroski@uiowa.edu

The Iowa City City Council approved an $180,000-per-year contract for new-ly appointed City Manager Geoff Fruin.

Fruin was appointed by the council in June after the councilors decided not to conduct a nationwide search. Fruin had previ-ously served as the assis-tant to the city manager and interim city manager.

Fruin’s approved sala-ry is slightly higher than that of his predecessor, Tom Markus. In a me-mo read by Mayor Jim Throgmorton at the City Council meeting Tuesday, he noted that though Fruin’s salary would be higher than Markus’, he would not receive the $5,700 automobile allowance or the $9,400 given in personal time.

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Iowa Republicans say Indiana Gov. Mike Pence adds a conservative record to Donald Trump’s presidential ticket.

By BRENT GRIFFITHS and MARIA CURIdaily-iowan@uiowa.edu

A number of Iowa Republicans welcome Donald Trump’s pick of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his

running mate. Such a selection, they say, could quiet any questions of Trump’s lack of conservatism.

“I think Mike Pence was fantastic choice

for VP,” said Jeff Jorgensen, the chairman of Pottawattamie County Republicans. “We needed a solid conservative Republi-can who has a been in the trenches and knows how to get things done.”

Trump, who formally became the GOP’s presidential nominee Tuesday night, said he tapped Pence because of his record

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as a one-term governor — Pence was up for re-election this year. He will speak on prime-time television and in front of delegates at the GOP’s national convention tonight in Cleveland.

“He’s really got the skills of a highly talented exec-utive, leading the state of Indiana to jobs, growth, and opportunity, in spite of the relentless obstacles put in his way and every state’s way by the Obama admin-istration,” Trump said about Pence while introducing him at a press conference in New York over the weekend.

Once a top Republican on Capitol Hill, Pence al-so fulfills Trump’s need of someone with experience in Washington. Even before the former star of NBC’s “The Apprentice” considered spe-cific running mates, Trump stressed that he wanted a vice president who would complement his business experience. The 57-year-old Pence also served six-terms in Congress and served as chairman of the Republican

conference before he left to run for governor.

“He is a conservative and has experience as a con-gressman and at the execu-tive level as a governor,” said Scott County Republican Chairwoman Judy David-son. “It was a great choice.”

For a candidate such as Trump, who in the past has favored women’s choice on abortion and support-ive of Democratic candi-dates, Pence adds a definite conservative brand to the GOP’s ticket.

In 1999, Trump told Tim Russert, then host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” that he had more liberal views be-cause he had lived in New York all of his life — a line Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has used against Trump.

“I’ve lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life,” Trump said. “So, you know, my views are a little different than if I lived in Iowa, perhaps.”

One longtime Iowa political expert said such a running with social conservative bona fides would serve Trump well in a place such as Iowa.

“I think Pence is basically a strong conservative in a

very identifiable way,” said David Redlawsk, the incom-ing chairman of the Political Science & International Re-lations Department at the University of Delaware and co-author of a book on the Iowa caucuses.

Trump finished second in the state’s 2016 Republican caucuses despite leading ma-ny public preference polls in the days and weeks before caucus night. Cruz, an out-spoken conservative voice in the U.S. Senate, edged out the New York businessman.

Pence has certainly not lived in New York all of his life. In fact, he was in the news in the spring of 2015, when he signed into law a re-ligious-freedom bill that went further than most states had gone before. The law overruled localities that had passed anti-discrimination protections for LGBT citizens and explicitly provided pro-tection for for-profit business-es if they were ever sued on discrimination grounds.

Pence’s popularity took a nosedive in his home state of Indiana. Fellow Repub-licans, business owners, and representatives of the NCAA and professional

sports chastised him and the state. Some even threat-ened to pull operations or cancel plans if the law was not amended, which eventually happened.

Not all Iowa social conser-vatives welcomed the news.

Radio host Steve Deace, a Cruz supporter who loathes Trump, wrote that Pence was a coward for capitulat-ing to criticism of the reli-gious-freedom law.

“It was the worst that we’ve ever been stabbed in the back by a Republican,” Deace said about Pence’s change of heart in Politico’s Playbook.

Cecil Stinemetz, an at-large Republican National Convention delegate from Urbandale, was also unim-pressed with the Pence pick. He also is not a fan of Trump.

“Pence sold the reli-gious people down the river when he caved on the religious-liberty case,” Stinemetz said in an email. “He fits with Don-ald Trump well. Donald Trump is who he is, and that will not change no matter who his VP is. You do not change a patholog-ical liar overnight or with a couple of picks.”

celebrate the things that we have completed in that plan already. Right now, I think we’ve got a good sec-ondary-level plan.”

The election centered on the controversial top-ic of school boundaries, and those played a big factor leading up to Tues-day evening’s results.

While a recent deci-sion overturned by the board to assign Kirk-wood Elementary stu-dents to North Central Junior High and Liberty High, set to open in 2017,

Roesler opposed the de-cision and hopes to re-spark the conversation.

“The board has on the agenda to revisit the secondary boundaries … I think that’s one of the first things they want to tackle,” he said.

Claussen, a former West High special-education teacher for 10 years, and Weiner, a retired U.S For-eign Service officer of 26 years, applauded Roesler on his victory Tuesday night.

“I thought that all three of us were really committed to this dis-trict, and I think the School Board would be fortunate to get any of

us,” Weiner said. “I con-gratulate Paul on his win and J.P. on being a really fine candidate and run-ning a great campaign.”

Claussen said he plans to run again in 2017 for the board, with the “ex-act same vision” come election time. His faith is sparked by the short time he was able to get community members involved and excited during his candidacy.

“I called Paul and congratulated him and Janice as well. I was very impressed by Jan-ice. Impressed by her knowledge and wisdom,” Claussen said. “She

jumped in the race very late, as did I.”

But Roesler is set to fill the empty seat after being victorious Tuesday night. He aims to try to fix issues with special education in the district, diversifying and integrating kids to help create “racially di-verse and economically balanced schools” as well as relieving a retaliation culture among teachers.

He will serve until September 2019.

“I think I have a pret-ty positive relationship with the board mem-bers,” Roesler said. “I don’t think there are any feelings of animosity.”

elements as part of the proposed contract, the first being the proposed base salary. The mayor noted that the salary was lower than that of some similar city man-agers’ salaries.

“The proposed base sal-

ary is considerably lower than the salaries for city managers [or] adminis-trators in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Davenport, and Ames,” he said.

The second part of his memo included the council specifying goals for Fruin. Throgmorton stated he would soon be asking for suggestions on what to in-clude in the goals.

Councilor Susan Mims said she was pleased with the job Fruin had done so far. She noted he had met and exceed-ed the expectations that had been set.

“I am thrilled we can keep Geoff, and hope-fully, we can have a long, fun ride to come,” she said.

Councilor Kings-

ley Botchway also ex-pressed his pleasure with the way Fruin has handled his job and said he was excited to see him continue.

“I am excited for the opportunit ies that you are going to have,” he told Fruin during the meeting.

The contract is set to take effect Aug. 1.

“Most of the things that con-cern me are things I can’t control; what’s the best way to get around the city, how about grabbing a taxi, what’s the price of a mango?”

Fulbright recipients are expected to be in-volved in the communi-ty, and Halcrow hopes to start a creative-writing

group that infuses both the cultural tradition of oral history and the cre-ative aspect of writing.

Lena Hill, a UI associ-ate professor of English and African American studies, first had Halcrow as a student in 2014 and was her thesis adviser during the past year. Hill said Halcrow stood out as a student, eager to learn and engage classmates.

“I saw both her in-

dependence and genu-ine curiosity, as well as her aptitude,” Hill said. “Sometimes, you get stu-dents who are very good at being students, they know how to make good grades, but they don’t have the same authentic investment in learning new things.”

Hill is confident Hal-crow will be both person-ally successful and an ambassador for the UI

English Department.“Taking the initiative

to apply for Fulbright really represents what the [English Depart-ment] value in our stu-dents, and that is taking what you’re learning in the classroom to more fully engage the world around you and to think of yourself really as a global citizen,” Hill said. “Nathalie really encap-sulates that.”

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thing Michigan in Chicago will be a sight to see. Butt will be at the center of it, as he returns to Ann Arbor

as the reigning Mackey Award winner as the best tight end in the country.

He has expectations

placed on him, and his team does, too. How can they possibly live up to them?

He has a chance to see a total revolution during his time at Michigan. Can he make the decision to re-

turn to school a good one by making the Big Ten Championship game and possibly the playoffs?

those players will contribute, but another ball handler is needed.

Subtracting those four for-wards, it leaves six guards left to pick from— Kastanek, junior Christina Buttenham, and freshmen Makenzie Meyer, Alexis Sevillian, Kath-leen Doyle, and Bre Cera.

There are a couple of things to think when consid-ering who of the six guards will earn that final spot; Bluder has shown in recent years she likes to start a pair of point guards to make her offense run, but she also leans toward experience at the beginning of the year.

That being said, through two weeks of Game Time action, it looks like there are three women realistically vying for the final spot: Kas-

tanek, Buttenham, and Doyle.Kastanek brings both the

experience, being a senior, and the ability to handle the ball at the point. She was a very important piece at the beginning of last season be-fore Davis was inserted into the starting lineup, hitting on better than 40 percent of her 3-point attempts early in the year.

With Kastanek, the ques-tion is whether she can keep her turnover numbers at a

reasonable number. She has a tendency to make mis-takes, which lands her on the bench.

Buttenham could find her-self in the starting lineup if her shooting numbers rise in her third year on campus. She does a ton of things well; she rebounds (both on offense and defense), she gets out in transition, and she plays good defense. The problem is that she shot only 37 percent from the field a year ago.

Doyle is an interesting prospect, making her com-mitment to Iowa late in the recruiting game after de-committing from Nebraska. She has arguably been the best player in Game Time this summer, doing a little bit of everything. She scores from everywhere, rebounds well for her size (she’s 5-9), and loves to get into pass-ing lanes on defense.

She is young, however, Bluder typically likes her

freshmen to come off the bench at the beginning of the year.

When Iowa tips off against Oral Roberts in its first regular-season match-up of the year, Kastanek is the safe pick to have in the starting lineup.

However, it would be a mild surprise if Doyle doesn’t work her way into the starting lineup some-where around early to mid-December.

5) Troy

Is Troy ready to make the step into contention? Return-ing most of the defense helps, but there are some serious questions to be answered on offense. Bowl eligibility could be in the future if consisten-cy can be found.

6) Louisiana-Lafayette

The Ragin’ Cajuns have been one of the Sun Belt’s more consistent programs over the past five years. From 2011-14, Louisi-ana-Lafayette went 9-4 each season, winning the New Orleans Bowl three times. However, recent sanctions have put a bit of a damper on things (which included 11 lost scholarships), and last year’s 4-8 mark didn’t help, either. There’s still plenty of

talent on this team but ques-tions to answer as well.

7) South AlabamaThere’s some hope in the

Jaguars’ offense, with a num-ber of solid offensive players returning this season. How-ever, finding a quarterback who can play consistently is a must and will make or break the team.

8) IdahoThis could be one of the

Vandals’ last seasons as a bowl-subdivision school. The Sun Belt voted to re-move Idaho and New Mexi-co State from the conference following the 2017 season. There’s a good chance the Vandals move down after that. There’s a slight chance they could play as an inde-pendent school, but that seems unlikely.

9) New Mexico StateMan, it must be terrible

to have to spend two more seasons in a conference that’s already voted you out. An incredibly awkward sit-uation as the Aggies might also be headed to the cham-pionship subdivision. Then again, this has been one of the worst bowl-subdivision teams over the past few years, so it doesn’t exactly come as a surprise.

10) Texas StateFirst-year coach Everett

Withers will have his hands full trying to turn around a program that went 3-9 a year ago. There’s still a waiting period with this team.

11) Louisiana-MonroeAfter bottoming out at 2-11

last season, it will be hard to be much worse. There’s a new coaching staff in town, but it will take some time for Matt Viator to figure out how to rebuild this program.

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By HELAINA THOMPSONhelaina-thompson@uiowa.edu

What do genetical-ly modified organisms and QR codes have in common?

There are better things to worry about.

On July 14, Congress passed a bill requiring foods made with geneti-cally modified ingredients to be labeled. The bill, which President Obama is expected to sign, would inform consumers which foods on grocery store shelves contain the mod-ified ingrediants by as-signing them a symbol, text, or a QR code. The ab-surdity of this legislation begins with its faith in QR codes. Who uses those things, anyway?

Prospective label re-quirements have trig-gered a nationwide debate about genetically modified ingredients. Proponents for genetically modified crops point to lower food costs, less pesticide use, and robust crops that can withstand environmen-tal extremes. A 2015 Pew Research study found that 88 percent of scientists be-lieved that the ingredients were safe. However, only 37 percent of the general public believed the same.

Those who argue against the use of such in-gredients often base their concerns on the “what if” principle: Scientists are experimenting with a sub-

ject far from fully under-stood. What if one small genetic change results in unexpected and wide-spread catastrophe? Fair enough. Yet, after years of research, no widely ac-cepted data suggest modi-fications have contributed to any human health risk.

There is also a number of opponents who reject the entire industrial farm-ing framework supported by such crops — a frame-work that encourages deforestation, animal cru-elty, pollution, and crop uniformity. But industrial farming is a beastly sys-tem bound by strong tra-ditions, and the modified crops, labeled or not, are mere byproducts. To tack-le industrial and factory

farming, opponents must first battle corporate con-trol of government, over-population, and a society that eats too much meat.

At the end of the day, our nation is talking about informative label-ing, how food is grown, and what happens to our bodies when we eat it — this is a great thing and a solid jumping-off point for important con-versations. But in mak-ing a big deal about the labels, I am concerned we are worrying about the wrong issue. The best way to learn about the food we eat is not by scanning a QR code but by walking to the Iowa City Farmers’ Market, buying a bushel of spin-

ach, and shaking hands with the person who grew it. What label could ever accomplish that?

Before we give our-selves headaches over modified-crop labels, con-sumers should look for nutrition facts and ingre-dients lists that reveal added sugars, saturated and trans fats, and high calorie counts. A genet-ically modified carrot is a healthier snack than a non modified cookie any day. Assuming Obama signs the labeling bill in-to law, I hope Michelle Obama, a strong advocate for solving the obesity ep-idemic, stands beside him to iterate that message. Or, better yet, makes a rap video about it.

If 2016, the year of Corrupt Warmonger vs. Hate-Fueled TV Bigot, has taught us any-thing, it should be that U.S. politics is in shambles — left and right. At a time when our country is filled with systemic hate and perpetu-al hurt, we need to be able to see clearly. We need to be able to separate our Demo-cratic and Republican can-didates into singular issues, ridding ourselves of the nev-er-ending blame game that is the two-party system.

It can be hard to hear over mass media’s aimless TV pundits, who are bent on creating inflammatory head-lines and generating revenue for doing so. Thanks to corpo-rate media, Donald Trump is all that anyone is still think-ing or talking about. It took me a while to see how point-less an anti-Trump cam-paign is — the lack of focus amounts to no actual change. But the media narrative has taken hold. And right now, Trump is the only threat ac-tivist organizations such as NextGen Climate seem to be able to visualize.

Currently, NextGen (along with other organizations) is planning rallies against Trump around the country. But anyone can stick a mid-dle finger to Trump; it’s easi-er than dealing with internal conflict. The real issues Next-Gen could organize around directly oppose its founder’s motives. Billionaire Tom Steyer has helped raise mil-lions for Hillary Clinton, but she has been, and still is, a global proponent of fracking.

It’s ironic — the states in which the environment is getting torn apart the most have been left out of Next-Gen’s nationwide day of ac-tion. States such as Colorado have been hit hard by the oil and natural-gas industry.

It’s not easy to organize campaigns around frack-

ing (especially when federal agents monitor anti-fracking movements [The Intercept]), but we have an obligation to highlight fracking’s horrific environmental ramifications, including where the revenue from fracking goes. Singular actions against Trump won’t help here.

And just like fracking, we need to focus on politicians with a nonpartisan micro-scope. While Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is be-ing publicly bashed for his blocking of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and many of his other views, people forget how important some of his work has been.

Grassley, the same Grassley who is anti-abor-tion, wrote the “Whis-tleblower Protection Act of 1989,” which protected many FBI whistleblowers from legal ramifications (President Obama won’t even think about pardon-ing Edward Snowden).

Grassley also led a pro-gram to assess possible tax evasion of six differ-ent ministries, attempting to make sure public funds were being used wisely. For a conservative, Grassley is curiously skeptical about the U.S. establishment, and although his overall political stance warrants criticism, these specific ac-complishments go without public notice or credit.

The business of the two-party system in the U.S. has obfuscated real prob-lems with millions of dollars, ultimately used to attack each others’ candidates on surface-level issues instead of focusing on collaborative efforts. Many people in the U.S. realize there is some-thing wrong with our es-tablished political system, and they have the right to be angry. But to be of any use, this anger must be fo-cused constructively.

U.S. citizens have been lulled into a deep neoliberal/neoconservative sleep by our media’s profitable red her-rings; it’s time we delve into our nation’s complicated to-do list with fewer TV person-alities in our heads and some actual research in our hands.

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In 2009, Rio de Janeiro learned it would host this year’s Summer Olympics. It was a time to celebrate, and the residents of Brazil and Rio did. They would show off the picturesque city to millions of people all over the world. They would be the first Olympics in South America, leaving a legacy and improving the quality of life.

Rio started a project to try to address the urban problems that the city faced. One of the biggest issues was mobility. People

had trouble getting around because there was limited access to buses, trains, and light rails. This became the major focus as the games approached. For residents, getting more access to these types of transit would re-duce the travel time to and from work.

The city also found an interesting way to try to save money. Money has been a major topic because people do not want to break the bank in order to host the Olympics, especially because Brazil’s economy has not been the most sta-ble. Most of the budget has come from the private sec-tor. The city has worked to attract investments from individuals and businesses, helping to change the focus of government money.

Rio has also tried to en-sure that the sports areas

will not be useless after the Olympics. Officials de-cided to go for simplicity while maintaining Olym-pic quality and tried to leave a legacy in the area. In many underprivileged communities, officials plan on giving the facilities to the communities after the games; they do not want the venues they built to go unused after the Games. Olympic areas in other cit-ies have gone unused, and the money that the coun-tries invested has gone to waste. Building facilities that will be used after the Games will help everyone.

This is a very ambitious project, because there was so much to accomplish, and the organizers have faced it in the best way they know: hard work. The city is much better than it was few years back. The eyes of the world

are on Rio right now, and people need to realize how far the city has come.

It is a priority to make the city a better place while not breaking the bank. Everyone can be a winner because of how much the Games can af-fect the city. Athletes will have amazing faculties, and the community will be much better off because of all the improvements that will have been made.

Take a second before you talk bad about the Summer Olympics. Rio has gone through a ma-jor rejuvenation in the past few years, and the Olympics will help not only the athletes but also the community. The Olympics are right around the corner, and it will be interesting to see how the venues look.

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-In response to Samuel Studer’s “Liberal Menace Destroys Education” Published 7/14/16

Bruce Walters · Professor at Western Illinois

UniversityI agree that students should be

presented with all view points, but the headline “liberal menace” turns a po-tentially meaningful discussion into a cheap black and white fallacy -a simple proganda technique. Note: a liberal education is concerned with broaden-ing a person’s general knowledge and experience. In politics, it means open to new behavior or opinions. It is derived from the the Latin “liber” which means free. George Washington was liberal. So was Abraham Lincoln. The author, instead, has used Rush Limbaugh’s cartoon use of the word -designed to end rather than open debate.

-In Response to Jacob Prall’s “Pro-test and Open Carry Laws” Published

7/13/16Hoss Green · Hard KNocks CentralOh bless your heart Jacob, do you

realize that there are more white people killed by polce officers than dark skined people?

What I see happening is that white folks know that more than likely white criminals killed by police deserved it, on the other hand black people kill each other at an exponentially higher rate than the police, and in almost every instance the perp was resisting. Now I’m not saying that police shouldn’t be held accountable, but then not all are guilty of murder.

Brian Smith · Colerain High School“If you were to swing a knife near

an officer, you’d be arrested. If you carry an automatic rifle, the officer is supposed to look the other way.” So, here I stopped reading, because the au-thor doesn’t understand the difference between carrying tools and (mis-)using them. Context matters, too---if the knife you swing ‘near an officer’ is used to prevent or end an attack on

him by someone else, then you might very well NOT be arrested. Why does Prall, and SO MANY like him, seem to believe that anyone carrying a firearm, except a police officer, automatically intends to murder someone with it? (And conversely, that police officers are magically exempt, somehow, from ill intent?) I manage to carry a knife every day without stabbing anyone, but it seems too much for some people to comprehend that the same might apply to a gun.

-In Response to Marcus Brown’s “Dangers to Populace Seen in ‘Robotic’ Killings by Police” Published 7/13/16

Michael Young · University of IowaThis is a ridiculous argument. To

suggest that because the Dallas Police used a tool to end the crisis and then to suggest that the use of the same tool would become a “creative method of police brutality” is a huge leap. Whomever wrote this piece is living in a dream world and has no concept of what police officers must endure each and every day to protect the com-

munities that they serve. Most of the time the citizens demand that police protect them, they just don’t really want to know the details of how that happens. Sometimes it gets messy. You people need to grow up and use some common sense.

Steve Abram · Adjunct Lecturer at University of

IowaPersonally I think this was a brilliant

use of existing technology. This was an active shooter that had already killed 5 police officers, sorry but in my opinion there is no trial needed. This action saved the lives of countless other police officers and civilians. Your effort to demonize all police and the methods used to protect us is ridiculous and careless. Yes, I am against police bru-tality in the situation of an unarmed person who is of no immediate threat, but lets not tie the hands of our police departments when it comes to handling a serious and lethal threat. Your editorial is simply irresponsible journalism and a thinly veiled attempt to jump on the anti-police bandwagon. Shame on you!

COLUMN

Fighting the modified battle

With no widely accepted evidence suggesting genetically modified organisms endanger human health, a nation in the midst of an obesity epidemic is better off paying attention to food labels that reveal fats and added sugars. (The Daily Iowan/Helaina Thompson)

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today’s events

the ledgeThis column reflects the opinion of the author and not the DI Editorial Board, the Publisher, Student Publica-tions Inc., or the University of Iowa.

Wednesday, July 20, 2015 by Eugenia Lasthoroscopes

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do something you think will help improve your peace of mind, whether it’s a retreat, therapy group, or spending time with someone you find encouraging. Romance is in the stars, and expressing your feelings will improve an important relationship. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A nonchalant approach will be needed when dealing with others. Patience will help you avoid a situation that has the potential to be upsetting. Put greater emphasis on pampering yourself or spending time with family. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As long as you keep your spending in check, you’ll have a super day. Stick close to home or spend time with some-one you love. Seek out free or affordable activities that you can enjoy together. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expand your environment, or clear a space to pursue your creative projects. Don’t feel like you have to pay for oth-ers. Putting in extra hours to make more money will be satisfying and lead to an interesting offer.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Questions will arise when dealing with relation-ships. Don’t hold back if you feel as if there has been an injustice. You can’t fix a problem until you begin looking at possible solutions. Make romance a priority. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You have more options than you realize. Offering help to others will result in getting something you need in return. An emotional plea will encourage you to try something new. Don’t let uncertainty cloud your vision. Ask questions, and make a decision.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Plan to get out and have fun. Make plans that include the people you enjoy being with the most. An update to your appearance or an enlightening revelation will improve your life choices. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Problems getting honest answers will lead to indecision. Back away, and let things settle down a bit before you address concerns. Reconnect with someone from your past to help you put your current situation in perspective.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Discuss health, financial, and legal matters. Settlements and negotiations will turn in your favor. Make per-sonal changes based on facts, not what others tell you. Discipline will pay off when it comes to money matters and personal growth. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be open to suggestions, but don’t give in to someone’s bad idea just because you feel sorry for them. Choose what you believe is best for you, and don’t look back. Use your experi-ence to make wise choices now. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you feel left out, start doing things that will entice others to join in and participate. Promote what you are doing,and throw in an incentive that will keep your friends and family coming back for more. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Uncertainty will leave you feeling con-fused. Take a closer look at what everyone else is doing before you decide what your next move or decision will be. Don’t let your emotions spoil your ability to be productive.

A partial list of things I should probably tell every

prospective girlfriend

• I will never, ever forget about or disappoint you, except for the first

eleventy-hundred or so times — but definitely not after that … probably.

• If we’re watching a movie or an episode of television and there’s a dead body in the shot, the only thing I’m paying attention to is whether the actor playing the corpse is noticeably breathing.

• It might sound paranoid, but I’ll need you to sign an affidavit prior to our third date, testify-ing to the fact you’re interested in a relationship with me and not simply using me as a way to gain access to my father’s unprecedented collection of

pornographic knockoff Hum-mel figurines. I’ve … I’ve been

burned too many times.

• I can promise, here and now, to always love you, just the way

you aren’t.

• I will never wrap your pres-ents. At most, I will put them

in one of those reusable gifting bags. More likely, however, you will simply not get presents.

• If I had to describe my perfect mate, it would be a human-sized tabby cat that

wears glasses, eats nothing but cheese, and likes to discuss the

finer points of superhero movies while letting me rest my head

on her soft, furry belly.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.— Gertrude Stein

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Gabbard to appear at Loebsack BBQ

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, will be in Iowa City on July 24 as a guest speaker for Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack’s Brews and BBQ fundraiser.

In March, Gabbard appeared in an ad titled “The Cost of War” in which she endorsed presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and praised his foreign policy. Gabbard served a 12-month tour in Iraq and included her support for Sanders’ vote against authorizing the Iraq War in the ad.

In addition to serving in Congress, Gabbard was also Democratic National Committee vice chairwoman but quit in February after a disagreement with DNC Chairwoman Debbie

Wasserman Schultz over how many debates should be held during the party’s primary season. Gabbard was in favor of more debates, arguing that they would give the American people an opportunity to participate in a better democracy.

Gabbard still supports Sanders; Loebsack endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last fall. After months of speculation, Sanders endorsed Clinton on July 12, shortly before the party’s national convention, which will be held in Philadel-phia next week.

Loebsack’s fundraiser will also feature U.S. Senate candidate and former Lt. Gov. Patty Judge and 1st District Congressional candidate Monica Vernon.

— by Maria Curi

By MITCH MCANDREW | mmcandrew@uiowa.edu

CLEVELAND — “Hillary for Prison 2016” signs spread across the Republican Convention floor, and choruses of boos showered at any mention of the name “Clinton,” suggesting that Hillary Clinton — not Donald Trump — has been the most effective at bringing the GOP together at its national get-together this week.

In interviews with The Daily Iowan, the members and delegates from the Republican Party of Iowa have been stronger in their disapproval of the presumptive Dem-ocratic presidential nominee than in their approval of their own party’s nominee.

“There are lots of misgivings out there about [Clin-ton],” said Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who is serving his sixth term as the state’s executive. “They’ll unify be-cause they don’t want Hillary Clinton.”

Iowa Republicans, along with many speakers at this week’s convention, cited Clinton’s email scandal and the 2012 Benghazi attacks, during Clinton’s time as secre-tary of State as reasons for their contempt.

Earlier this month, FBI Director James Comey rec-ommend no charges be filed against Clinton for her use of private email when she was at the State Department, but he said Clinton and her colleagues were “extremely careless” with classified information, which numerous convention speakers included in their addresses.

“The point is: there’s so much at stake,” Branstad said. “We literally can’t afford Hillary Clinton.”

With sizable factions of libertarian, socially conserva-tive, and moderate-leaning Republicans, the Iowa GOP is no stranger to ideological dissonance.

But in an election year characterized by hyper-parti-sanship, stopping Clinton is one of few subjects the party presents a unified front on.

“Republicans in the state will end up choosing Trump,” said Tim Hagle, an associate professor of political science at the University of Iowa. “He isn’t their first choice, but for them, he’s better than Hillary Clinton for sure.”

Wes Enos, an Iowa district-level delegate and support-er of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, acknowledged the disagree-ments inside the party but said they were no match for the Republicans’ hatred of Clinton.

“There are always going to be detractors,” he said. “But in reality, there’s only one big decision to make: Trump or Hillary.”

In the first two days of the national convention, ma-ny speeches focused on tearing down Clinton instead of building up Trump.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, for example, spent

his entire Tuesday night speech “prosecuting” Clinton by presenting “facts” to the convention floor and asking delegates to return verdicts.

Based on the results of the 2016 Iowa caucuses, Cruz was Iowa Republicans’ first choice. He won Iowa’s first-in-the-nation contest with 27.6 percent of the vote, best-ing Trump’s 24.3 percent.

Additionally, as The Daily Iowan reported, 11 of the 12 district-level delegates elected in April to the national convention were Cruz allies.

Still, Republican National Committee rules state all Iowa delegates must vote as a block if only one name is submitted for nomination, which was the case Tuesday night when Iowa cast all 30 of its votes for Trump.

First in the nationWhile Iowa Republicans vary in their support of

Trump, party members said they are much more unified at this year’s convention than in 2012.

That year, with 2012 presidential-candidate Ron Paul supporters occupying key leadership roles in the party, including former Chairman A.J. Spiker, the state award-ed 22 of its 28 delegates to Paul at the Republican Na-tional Convention in Tampa, despite his third-place fin-ish in the Iowa caucuses.

Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann marked this event as a low point in the state party’s history and a moment when the state came close to losing its place as the first GOP caucus.

“We had lost our credibility nationally. They had embarrassed us at our convention in Tampa,” he said. “We were on the verge of losing our first-in-the-nation status.”

Four years later, Kaufmann was determined not to im-peril Iowa’s prized caucuses again.

This year, he said the Never Trump movement posed the biggest threat to the state’s first-in-the-nation sta-tus. The group on Monday led a push to force a roll-call vote on rules that would free up delegates to vote their conscience.

Iowa was one of at least nine states that initially of-fered a majority of delegate support to force the vote, but the delegation later withdrew its support to protect the caucuses’ leading role in the primaries.

“What worries me about this Never Trump is what they’re asking us to do: forgo our grass-roots process,” Kaufmann said in an interview last week. “That, more than anything, will put our first-in-the-nation in jeopardy.”

GOP BONDS ON ‘WICKED WITCH’

Iowa GOP unites on anti-Hillary Clinton and the state caucuses but not on Donald Trump.

The University of Iowa Electronic Markets are small-scale futures markets using real money that can lead to a payoff depending on economic and political events — including the 2016 presidential election. The stocks are based on $1.

Here are the bids for the 2016 Presidential Vote Share Market, which is similar to a poll that will determine which party a voter will choose.

The number of votes Democrats could get this election has gone down slight-ly while it has increased for Republicans— although still below the peak for the GOP set last summer.

Here are the bids for the 2016 Winner-Take-All Market, in which the prices in the graph are the probability of that party winning the two-party popular vote this November.

According to the latest bid, the probability that Democrats will win is 70 percent, which is a decrease from June when the highest point since trading began in November 2014 was set above 90 percent. While the chance Republicans will win has increased slightly to 30 percent.

BID ASK LAST

BID ASK LAST

DEMOCRAT

REPUBLICAN

DEMOCRAT

REPUBLICAN

69% 74.4% 70%

52.6% 53.2% 53.2%

45.1% 47.0% 46.6%

30.7% 32.1% 30.7%

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By BLAKE DOWSON | blake-dowson@uiowa.edu

There is a multitude of talent coming back to the Iowa women’s basketball team this year.

On a team that likes to get up and down and score the ball at a high clip, the Hawkeyes return 80 percent of their scoring from a year ago — much of that coming from the four starters who return to the lineup.

The Hawkeyes will again face expectations, after not hav-ing done much of anything in that department a season ago. That could be seen as a hurdle for a team that is still extremely young, but it could also (and should) be seen as progress.

The 2015-16 season was a gap year, a disappointing cam-paign considering it snapped a streak of eight-straight NCAA Tournament appearances, but the talent and experience on the roster set up much better for the 2016-17 season.

So here we are now, with four-fifths of the starting lineup and four-fifths of the scoring back in a quest to put their dancing

shoes back on in March.There’s little question about the leadership of this team; Ally

Disterhoft and Alexa Kastanek are both in their senior seasons, and both are good leaders. The team is young, but the incoming freshmen look more than ready to contribute to the team, as their No. 7 recruiting ranking would suggest. They lost a point guard last year with Whitney Jennings transferring, but Tania Davis looked like she was moving into that role anyway.

With many questions marks from last year seemingly an-swered heading into the fall, there is one more important ques-tion to ask — who is that fifth starter going to be?

Taking into consideration the roster, the existing starters, and head coach Lisa Bluder’s way of thinking, the final starter is going to be a guard. That takes such players as senior Hai-ley Schneden, sophomores Hannah Stewart and Carly Mohns, and freshman Amanda Ollinger out of the equation. All four of

By JORDAN HANSENjordan-hansen@uiowa.edu

Part seven of The Daily Iowan’s look at the college-football land-scape: the Sun Belt.

1) Appalachian StateAfter going 11-2 last season, the

Mountaineers went to their first bowl as a Football Bowl Subdivision school, beat-ing Ohio. For a team that is just three years removed from being a Football Championship Subdivision program, that’s quite impressive. Appalachian State returns a pretty good number of players and will certainly contend for a Sun Belt championship once again.

2) Arkansas StateThe defending conference champions,

the Red Wolves continue to be one of the most consistent programs in the Sun Belt. The Wolves have had four eight-or-more-victory seasons since 2011 and could be well on their way to another this year. Oh, and fun fact: Gus Malzahn and Hugh Freeze (coaches at Auburn and Ole Miss, respectively) spent a year as head coaches at Arkansas State.

3) Georgia SouthernLife as a mid-major is difficult. If the

team does well, the coach often jets off for better positions at differ-ent schools, which can kill recruiting. It’s hard to build a team, which the Eagles know first-hand. Head coach Willie Fritz is now in the same position at Tulane, and Tyson Summers is the new man in charge. A powerful rushing offense has gotten the team off the ground and should help continue its dominance in the conference.

4) Georgia StateA team that brings back a load of ex-

perience, the Panthers’ major question mark is replacing quarterback Nick Ar-buckle. If they can find an answer among last year’s backups and transfers, this could be a team to be reckoned with. If they don’t, that bowl game last year will be nothing but a distant memory.

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By BLAKE DOWSONblake-dowson@uiowa.edu

With Big Ten football media days be-ginning in Chicago on July 25, the col-lege-football season is officially upon us.

Sort of. We’re still more than six weeks away from kickoff Saturday, but media days are the first opportunity the me-dia have to talk to the players after they break summer camp. For that reason, The Daily Iowan has put together a list of the five players who have the most to answer in Chicago next week.

Obviously, a team isn’t going to send a player to media days who is going through an investigation. The players sent to Chicago are the faces of the pro-gram, but they will still face some tough questions.

C.J. Beathard, IowaIt’s inevitable.“C.J., are you guys for real or was last

year a fluke?”“Did you guys benefit from an easy

schedule last season?”Oy, I will not envy Beathard for having

to answer all of those questions during his turn at the podium.

All Beathard did was win the first 13 games he started in the Black and Gold, but he and his team were still met with skepticism throughout the campaign. Af-ter losing their final two games on the big stage, those questions will be ramped up a notch.

Riley Bullough, Michigan State

Has Michigan State been noticed at all this off-season? The word out of the East

Division has been Michigan, the quar-terback situation at Michigan, Jim Har-baugh, Michigan’s defense, the versatili-ty of Jabrill Peppers … OK, the point is made. The Spartans, coming off a Big Ten championship and a trip to the College Football Playoffs, are an afterthought.

Bullough, a senior linebacker, will an-swer the questions on why that is hap-pening. He is the biggest leader on the team, seemingly a leftover from a special 2015 squad.

The cupboard is pretty bare on offense, but luckily for Bullough, the magnificent defense from a year ago brings back more than half its starters.

Tommy Armstrong Jr., NebraskaThis guy is hard to understand. He is

a good athlete, but he has never really shown he can be an elite quarterback. It feels like he’s a tweener — a bit too small to play the wideout position, not quite explosive enough to be a back, but good enough to be on the field. So the Huskers run him out there under center and have him throw arm punts.

For some reason, he’s always been giv-en the excuse that he’s young and needs to grow. That time is up. He’s a senior leading a Nebraska team that was below .500 last season.

The most confusing thing for Arm-strong will be fielding questions about how he has severely underachieved in his career, how he’s also being tabbed as a dark horse Heisman candidate, and how his team is a dark-horse play-off contender.

Maybe he can explain what he did to deserve the recognition.

William Likely, MarylandThe Terrapins were a bad football team

last year, and there’s not a whole lot of optimism around the program that this year will be any better.

Likely has been one of the better play-ers on the roster in the past, so he should assume a leadership role. If he’s not a vo-cal type of guy, he should have led by ex-ample last season after he posted a 6-in-

terception season as a sophomore. Instead, he didn’t pick a single ball off

last year, and his tackles were cut in half. What happened to him?

Jake Butt, MichiganThe swarm of media around every-

College football looms in July, and that’s no lie

Let the Sun Belt shine in

Iowa’s Christina Buttenham swats at the ball in the hands of Michigan forward Kelsey Mitchell on Jan. 28 in Carver-Hawkeye. The Hawkeyes snatched a win against the Wolverines, 85-69. (The Daily Iowan/Anthony Vazquez)

HAWKS TREASURE CHEST OF TALENT

SEE MEDIA DAYS, 3

SEE BASKETBALL, 3

Summersnew coach

Four starters return to the lineup, but that leaves one spot to fill.

SEE FOOTBALL, 3

Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard throws a pass at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh on Sept. 20, 2014. Beathard threw for 98 yards, and Iowa defeated Pitt, 24-20. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)