By CORY PORTERcory-porter@uiowa.edu

A crowd of people gathered in front of the Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu Academy, 614 S. Dubuque St., on Dec. 13 to memorialize the building, along with two other cottages that may soon be demolished.

Roughly 25 to 30 were there hold-ing signs that read “Support Neighbor-hoods” and “Vote for Preservation” after the City Council vot-ed 4-3 against a public hearing concerning the historical status of the cottages, which would have put a 60-day hold on demolitions.

Alicia Trimble, the executive director of Friends of Historic Preservation, said the service on Dec. 13 was a way for people to share their memories of the cottages and hopes for what will happen in the future.

“Everyone took an opportunity to talk about their feelings on the issue [and] what they didn’t think the City Council was taking into ef-fect,” Trimble said.

At the memorial, she spoke of re-cent changes, which included the re-moval of electric and water meters and shrubberies and trees. Trimble said she took these acts to signify an imminent demolition.

City Councilor Michelle Payne, who voted against the public hear-ing, said it had more to do with the process than the question of the cottages’ historical value.

“My vote was no, because I feel like they were trying to circumvent the pro-cess,” Payne said.

Any future votes on the issue would not be tied to previous votes, she said, but instead what new evidence she hears at any future meetings.

“Everybody will still pay attention regardless of how they voted last time,” she said. “That doesn’t mean I’ll vote the same way the next time, nor does it mean I won’t vote the same way the next time; you have to listen to a differ-ent set of facts.”

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By ALEKSANDRA VUJICICaleksandra-vujicic@uiowa.edu

A rise in the number of students around the world seeking higher education has been seen in undergraduate programs at the Uni-versity of Iowa, but graduate and profession-al enrollment experienced the opposite trend.

The UI’s undergraduate international-stu-dent population has grown significantly, with more than seven times as many enrolled since 2005. This year, there were 2,490 stu-dents enrolled, compared with 340 in 2005, according to data from the UI Office of Inter-national Students and Scholars.

However, graduate and professional enroll-ment has fallen by around 13.7 percent. In 2005, there were 1,755 enrolled, and this year that number fell to 1,515.

Several UI officials said the changing pop-ulations are a result of a few key factors.

Lee Seedorff, the senior associated director of International Student and Scholar Ser-vices, said the trend of increased numbers of undergrads, especially from China, is pretty

much nationwide in the United States and due more to the educational system in China.

She said this trend, in part, comes from a lack of higher-education resources in China to accommodate the growing number of stu-dents seeking undergraduate degrees.

“China literally doesn’t have sufficient sys-tems to accommodate everyone who wants to go to college, so for them, in one sense, it’s a matter of space,” she said.

This is further helped by improving eco-nomic circumstances in the last decade and a half, she said, in which more families can af-ford to send their students to college abroad.

UI sophomore Jiahong Xu, a student from China, said a large contributing factor to the increasing number of undergrads is that an American education has become more afford-able for Eastern Asians.

“They can pay the high tuition fees,” he said. “I don’t think that was possible for Chi-nese people to do a couple years ago.”

Along with affordability, Seedorff said, the

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A UI student studies in the IMU for finals on Sunday. The IMU provides students with a number of events and free things to relieve finals’ stress, including coffee, popcorn and massages. (The Daily Iowan/Mikaela Parrick)

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By BEN MARKSbenjamin-marks@uiowa.edu

The IMU will once more hold its traditional Finals@IMU, a series of events and ac-tivities such as yoga, massage chairs, coffee, and healthy snacks designed to help worn-down college students make it through finals.

This semester, however, will bring a few changes.

Every year, Bret Gothe, the director of IMU Marketing and Design, who helped to plan the event, said officials give students a survey to fill out regarding their experiences of the finals event at the IMU.

This year, he said, some changes to the programming have been made based on those surveys.

“It’s really important for us to get student input so we can be better at meeting what is use-ful to you all during finals,” he said. “And one thing we heard from students is that they want those opportunities available to them throughout the week.”

Tyler Hackman, the mar-keting representative for Mar-keting and Design, said that last year, the late-night-event block only ran from Sunday through Thursday.

“However, what we found was [that] a lot of students had left by the time Thursday night came, while the build-ing was very busy on Satur-day,” he said.

To deal with this, Hackman said, officials simply shift-ed the events from Sunday through Thursday to Saturday through Wednesday.

“We hope this will reach out to more students,” he said. “We’re hoping it proves successful.”

In addition to shifting the events, Hackman said, they al-so altered the times of the indi-vidual events to better coordi-nate with students’ schedules.

“We’ve historically given out coffee at 1 or 2 in the morning,” he said. “And we found a recur-ring theme in feedback that they wanted it earlier, so we

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Gary Ball, 25, 2401 High-way 6 E. Apt. 3803, was charged Nov. 30 with do-mestic assault with injury.Toby Becker, 33, 429 South-gate, was charged Dec. 11 with public intoxication and criminal trespass. Kyle Combs, 28, 110 Pad-dock Circle, was charged Dec. 12 with driving with a suspended/canceled license.Shelly Cronbaugh, 51, 1131 3rd Ave. Apt. 4B, was charged Dec. 11 with fifth-degree theft.Brendan Daily, 27, Wau-kee, Iowa, was charged Dec. 12 with OWI.Markez Fox, 18, 923 E. Mar-ket St., was charged Dec. 11 with criminal trespass.Vincent Furino, 21, 302 Rid-geland Ave., was charged Dec. 13 with public intoxication.Briyanna Guise, 18, North

Liberty, was charged Dec. 12 with fourth-degree theft.Richard Hart, 29, West Liberty, was charged Sunday with OWI.Scott Hoff Jr., 25, North Liberty, was charged Dec. 11 with driving with a sus-pended/canceled license.Jamar Jackson, 30, Muscatine, was charged Sunday with pub-lic intoxication, obstructing an officer, and disorderly conduct.Kevin Jefferson, 21, 1556 S. First Ave. Apt. 7, was charged Sunday with disorderly conduct.John Lawson, 41, Madison, Iowa, was charged Dec. 13 with possession of marijua-na and six counts of posses-sion of prescription drugs.John Millin, 20, 421 N. Gilbert St., was charged Sunday with keeping a disorderly house.Milton Nunez Lopez, 28, 2128 S. Riverside Drive Lot. 57, was

charged Sunday with OWI.Marcos Perez, 29, Burling-ton, was charged Nov. 22 with assault.Vincent Robinson, 20, 2811 Eastwood Drive, was charged Dec. 12 with driving with a suspended/canceled license.Darrell Routson, 29, 20 Vid-eo Court, was charged Dec. 13 with public intoxication.Kendra Schiebout, 24, 219 S. Johnson Apt. 4, was charged Dec. 12 with driv-ing with a suspended/can-celed license and OWI.Stephen Sengbusch, 26, Solon, was charged Dec. 13 with OWI.Michael Smith, 39, Tama, Iowa, was charged March 26 with third-degree theft.Anthony Spurgeon, 24, 429 Southgate Ave., was charged Dec. 13 with fifth-degree theft.

Raymond Sutton, 20, Coralville, was charged Dec. 13 with obstructing an officer.Sean Tyler, 22, 126 Bowling Green Place, was charged Dec. 13 with possession of drug paraphernalia. Adrian Vazquez, 19, 2132 Taylor Drive, was charged Sun-day with public intoxication.Derrick Waller, 23, 1229 Louis St., was charged Sunday with disorderly conduct, public intoxi-cation, and interference with official acts.Ontivia Young, 26, 338 S. Governor St. Apt. 5, was charged Dec. 13 with driv-ing with a suspended/can-celed license.Zachary Ziemer, 25, 514 S. Johnson St. Apt. 1, was charged Dec. 13 with pub-lic intoxication.

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Recent improvements to a database software that collects patient infor-mation in Haiti, developed by members of University of Iowa Information Tech-nology Services, allow vol-unteer health workers to better gather information on HIV patients in Haiti.

Doctors can now bet-ter track the progress of individual patients and follow up with them af-ter their regular absenc-es from Haiti. This can mean the difference be-tween life and death for some Haitians.

This technology was developed between Sep-tember and December 2012, and it is continu-ally updated to keep up with the clinic’s needs.

Most recently, IT workers added param-eters to aid in the col-lection of information regarding HIV in Haiti.

“[IT] seems kind of dorky, but it’s the kind of stuff that may change the world,” said UI Clin-ical Associate Professor of emergency medicine Chris Buresh.

UI senior IT support consultant Stephen Yagla met Buresh at an inter-faith luncheon at which the latter gave the talk “Where was God in the Rubble?,” about efforts to provide medical care to impoverished Haitians.

Yagla was so inspired

he immediately ap-proached Buresh to find out what he could con-tribute despite his lack of medical skills.

Buresh said people speaking to him about getting involved often express a similar worry regarding their deficit of medical knowledge.

Yagla ended up joining Buresh on a trip to Haiti in January 2012 and no-ticed problems with the collection of patient data.

Buresh said the clin-ic originally used simple Microsoft Excel spread-sheets and pieces of card-stock, which patients were required to bring with for each visit. He said they only brought the pieces of paper back 5 percent of the time.

“With the format [they were using], they were never going to be able to use all the da-ta,” Yagla said.

Upon his return, he be-gan to collaborate with ITS workers Steve Bow-ers and Ted Fitzgerald over their lunch breaks to solve the problem.

They decided to use Ap-ple’s file maker to create a database system sim-ple enough that it could be taught to people in two to three hours. Yag-la combined letters from Fitzgerald and Bowers’ names to come up with an easy-to-say moniker for the system, TEBOW.

“It’s a client-server ap-plication … one server be-

ing used by multiple peo-ple,” Fitzgerald said.

TEBOW uses three dis-tinct pieces of information to collate patients with their medical data.

Patients have their photographs taken with an iPhone, their name and phone number re-corded, and they are given unique patient identification numbers. The system is compatible with Windows and Ap-ple devices, running on a combination of iPhones, iPads and laptops.

“It’s amazing how powerful [TEBOW] is and how much it helps,” Buresh said.

He said the clinics use it to set up maps tracking patients in need of chron-ic care, so they can record trends, measure their ef-ficacy, and provide infor-mation to native health-care workers. Individuals with chronic conditions

make up 95 percent of the patients they see.

Teams of doctors visit Hai-ti about five times a year.

Having TEBOW al-lows volunteers to gather useful data on trends in public health and pro-vides a tangible sense of progress. For instance, it makes it much easier to order the correct amount of medication required for each return trip.

“It’s critical that we can prove to ourselves and everyone else that we’re not wasting our time and money,” Buresh said.

Yagla, Fitzgerald, and Bowers continue to modify the software to improve and refine the handling of specific kinds of data.

“[TEBOW] has defi-nitely changed the way I look at what we do and changed the way I look at people in IT,” Buresh said.

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Ted Fitzgerald holds an iPhone, Steve Yagla holds a laptop, and Steve Bowers holds a iPad in the University Capitol Center. They make up the team that developed the soft-ware that aids health-care workers in Haiti. (Contributed photo)

3 face numerous charges

Authorities have accused two Iowa City men and a North Liberty man of participating in armed robbery, among numerous other offenses, on Dec. 4.

Mozell McKee, 20, was charged with second-degree theft, fourth-de-gree criminal mischief, third-degree burglary, first-degree robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon, criminal gang participation, possession of

drug paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana, second offense.

Xavier Wright, 19, was charged with second-degree theft, fourth-degree criminal mischief, third-degree burglary, Class D Felony, criminal gang participa-tion, first-degree robbery, and fifth-de-gree possession of stolen property.

Cordarro Pearson, 18, was charged with second-degree theft, fourth-de-gree criminal mischief, third-degree burglary, criminal gang participation, and first-degree robbery.

According to online court docu-ments, various reports of robbery, burglary, motor-vehicle theft, and gun-related incidents took place from 6:13 p.m. to 8:17 p.m. on Dec. 4. The incidents ranged from the 300 block of East College Street to the 200 block of South Dubuque Street to the 800 block of Iowa Avenue to the intersection of Gilbert and Fairchild Streets.

In one incident, he group arrived at the victim’s home and knocked on his door. Once he answered, McKee

allegedly pointed a gun at him and asked him for his wallet.

The victim complied and gave McKee his wallet.

The three men also reportedly took off with several pieces of the victim’s property, including his iPhone and backpack.

McKee was reportedly later seen in a video wearing the victim’s backpack.

The victim later identified McKee, Wright, and Pearson in a photo lineup.

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bumped it up to 11 p.m.”A few years ago, Hack-

man said, finals pro-gramming didn’t start until late at night, but officials discovered that a bulk of students stud-ied in the IMU during the day.

In response to that demand, officials be-gan the “Flippin’ into Finals” pancake break-fast a year and a half ago, which Hackman said really made the numbers skyrocket.

In the following se-mesters, the IMU began offering yoga as well as a “healthy snack” pro-gram in the morning and evening.

“The trend we found is that during the day

people want to do more healthy study breaks like yoga,” he said. “They want to eat fruit and things, and we found when it gets later, closer to crunch time they just want candy or pop.”

Hackman said the healthy-snack program was so successful last semester that this year the IMU has doubled the amount of fruit to hand out.

In total, Hackman said, attendance has shot up dramatically.

Last fall, 391 students participated in “Cabs and Caffeine.” In the spring, that number had climbed to 750.

UI senior Devynn Paulsen said her favorite finals service the IMU of-fers is the coffee, and she said she really appreci-ates that it was moved to earlier in the night.

“I stay here for a long time during finals week, and as the night goes on, I get more unproductive until 1, when I could have my coffee,” she said. “But now I can be more productive earlier in the night.”

UI junior Caitlyn Strack said she’s do-ne almost all of the events the IMU offers, and she really appreci-ates how they promote healthy studying with yoga, massage chairs, and the fruit.

Junior Willy Tan agrees with her.

“It’s way better than stress-eating high-end carbs like chips and queso,” he said.

Go online to after-class.uiowa.edu/events to see a full listing of fi-nals week events offered this semester.

Chinese college entrance exam, the Gaokao, may create an incentive for Chinese students to study internationally.

If students want to attend a higher-education institution in China, they must pass the exam.

“It’s some-thing that students might spend months and years studying for, and it’s very high pressure from their families, al-most kind of in an un-healthy manner in some respects,” she said. “If someone’s coming to the U.S., then they don’t have to take this exam.”

For the Graduate Col-lege, the data for interna-tional enrollment are going in the opposite direction, with numbers decreasing.

Graduate College Dean John Keller said that for many years, U.S. graduate education was a destina-

tion for many foreign stu-dents, particularly those from Asian countries.

As other institutions around the world have no-ticed the increasing trend of international students, they have put tremendous efforts into recruiting these students, he said, providing graduate stu-

dents with more choices. Abhay Shah, a fourth-

year UI graduate stu-dent working toward a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, received his undergrad-uate degree in India.

He said that if he had attended the UI for his undergrad -uate course-work, it may have been more benefi-cial, because

some departments offer a five-year track in which students can receive an un-dergraduate and graduate degree.

“There are more un-dergrads coming be-cause they can save time and money with depart-ments that offer five-year programs,” he said.

Following the council’s special meeting Dec. 9, the Historic Preservation Com-mission voted unanimously during its Dec. 11 meeting that the cottages were historically significant.

The next step of the process falls to the Planning and Zoning Com-mission, which will vote on the matter at its next meeting.

Trimble said she an-ticipates the vote to be in favor of the cottages’ historical status.

“We fully expect a unani-mous vote on that,” she said.

If the Planning and Zon-ing Commission does vote in favor of the cottages’ his-torical status, the issue will return to the City Council,

at which point the council-ors will most likely call for a public hearing.

At that point, a 60-day moratorium would be put into effect.

Will Ingles, the owner of the Book Shop, anoth-er cottage business, said the situation is currently

in flux and it’s anyone’s guess about what will happen next.

“It’s hour to hour, day to day,” Ingles said. “If you asked everybody concerned, from the city to the develop-er to the opposing attorneys to the property owner to the tenants, nobody knows exactly what’s going to hap-pen, or when, or if.”

He said that if his cot-

tage, which he has rented since 1986, is demolished, his prospect of finding an-other space is slim.

“There’s no place that’s anywhere near afford-able; this is both my workplace and my home, and I can’t afford even one of those things to

replace what I have here,” he said. “There’s no place where the rent is reason-able enough to open a store, let alone a home.”

He fears that if the cottages are demolished, that will lead to the en-tire block’s stores being demolished to make way for new development by Hodge Construction.

“This is the keystone or the linchpin to the destruction of the whole block,” Ingles said. “If it comes down, I fear the war is lost.”

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fear the war is lost.’— Will Ingles, Book Shop owner

Tuba players gather on the steps of the Old Capitol to play Christmas songs on Dec. 12. Concert attendees brought new, unwrapped toys to be donated. (The Daily Iowan/Mikaela Parrick)

‘They can pay the high tuition fees. I don’t think that was possible for Chinese people to do a couple years ago.’

— UI sophomore Jiahong Xu

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Imagine the inside of an old semi trailer fully refurnished with metal crates from wall to wall for female dogs to spend the rest of their days re-producing. With the wire flooring in the kennels, it makes it easy for the dogs’ feces to simply fall through the holes and rain down on the dogs underneath them. Not to mention what hap-pens to the dogs that be-come too old and no longer can reproduce. The best-case scenario is that those dogs become strays and have a chance of finding an owner. Welcome to the puppy mills.

Iowa has worked its way to being ranked as the No. 2 state with the most puppy mills, following Mis-souri. Some believe that the state’s high ranking is because of Iowa’s large agriculture interest, but mostly it is because Iowa does not have as strict hu-mane-animal-treatment laws as other states do.

There is no set descrip-tion of what a puppy mill looks like because they come in all different colors. If you are curious about whether the place you’re buying a puppy from is a mill or not, ask to see the mother and where the pup-py was born. If they say no to these requests, a red flag should be raised. Puppy mills are usually very un-sanitary and lack proper veterinarian care.

Puppy mills sell fresh-ly weaned pups, as young as 6 weeks old, to a bro-ker who then sells to the highest bidder, either to sellers on the Internet or in most cases to brokers who sell the puppies to certain pet stores.

Now, don’t fool yourself; these places are no better

than these puppy mills. When you walk into those types of stores, what do you see? Three or four puppies in the same small box shar-ing the same area day in and day out. They sleep in the same type of kennels that they did at the mills; the only hope for them is that someone thinks they are cute and saves them from the cruelty.

I am not saying that all dog breeders are the same by any means. The two dif-ferent types of dog breed-ing licenses are very dif-ferent. USDA licensees sell puppies wholesale through brokers, who then sell the puppies to distributors or pet stores. Iowa-licensed commercial breeders sell their puppies to the public through ads, Internet, etc.

USDA-licensed breed-ers can sell their animals nationwide to any kind of buyer interested. Those with state licenses can only sell in state, and they have a limit of dogs they breed, usually keeping their breeding dogs as household pets. Pet stores have a US-DA license and more times than not, they are getting the animals from brokers all across the nation.

There are in fact breed-ers who care immensely about their puppies and where they end up. Some breeders have their buyers sign a contract ensuring proper care of the animals. The one way to take mat-ters into your own hands is to know where your an-imals are coming from. If no one purchases from the stores that have animals from mills, they will have no other choice than to close their doors.

The sad truth is that there are dogs out there being used only to produce litters after litters of pup-pies. No animal deserves to be treated like this. How-ever, not one person can make the change. As long as people are buying pup-pies from pet stores, pup-py mills will continue to thrive. So the real question is, do you know where your puppy is from?

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Despite a seemingly unproductive year filled with hyper-partisanship, our representatives were able to deliver a spending bill this year without shut-

ting down the government. A 56-40 Senate vote on the more than 1,600-page bill symbolizes a break in budget-ary bickering, at least until September 2015, when the bill will expire.

This time around, both the Democrats and Republi-cans got a little of what they wanted, which signals that perhaps more bipartisanship may be on the way.

While this highly awaited spending bill passed, the result did not come to fruition without the normal politi-cal drama. All week, senators debated the easing of Wall Street banking regulations that are transcribed in the bill. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and House Minori-ty Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., were on the frontlines in an attempt to kill the controversial addition.

The provision is a reversion of a sector of the Dodd-Frank act, passed in 2010 after the financial collapse. The new spending bill eliminates the rule that bans banks from making certain risky derivative trades with government guarantees. The change was introduced by Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., in June, who said “this is about the farmer in your district who wants to get a loan.” Democrats saw the bill as a bow to the big banks. On the Senate floor, Warren repeatedly asked, “Whom does Congress work for?”

Most importantly, the spending bill tackles the issue of Obama’s executive action on illegal immigration. Con-sidered to be the greatest threat of causing another shut-down, the bill pushes the decision back until the results of the midterm elections are reflected. It does this by con-tinuing funding for the Department of Homeland Securi-

ty only until Feb. 27, at which point both chambers of the Republican controlled Congress will presumably attempt to cut funding for the implementation of Obama’s exec-utive action.

Perhaps in all the chaos the most significant Demo-cratic win came by accident. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, delayed the spending bill in an effort to deny Obama’s immigration actions right away. Not only did the action backfire, with the vote on his measure failing 74-22, he also managed to give Democrats the opportunity to seek approval for presidential appointees. Some of these ap-pointees had been stalled for quite some time. Cruz’s ac-tion shows that these symbolic actions need to be better prepared to be effective. Otherwise, he risks hurting his own party.

This drama on Capitol Hill took over the headlines and prevented news stations from covering other actions in the bill. Hidden in the spending bill is another shocker: it bans the District of Columbia from legalizing marijua-na despite a voter-upheld initiative. The action is a step backward from what seemed like an accelerating pace of marijuana legalization across America.

The Daily Iowan Editorial Board believes that overall, the spending bill represents a rare surge of bipartisan-ship in Congress as both Republicans and Democrats were able to push through some of their initiatives. How-ever, on a broader level, lawmakers should stop attempt-ing to jam unrelated legislation into giant spending bills. This creates a scenario in which it is almost impossible for the public to properly debate the issues and know what is going on. Instead, everyone feels rushed to get the bill passed as fast as possible in order to prevent an-other shutdown.

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As the holidays ap-proach, Americans are busy; they are out buy-ing presents, preparing food, and scheduling family visits. Children of divorce, however, have to clear some extra time to spend with both mom and dad. If you have a significant other to spend the holidays with, you might have to set time to not only meet with both your own divorced par-ents, but hers or his, too.

The common saying goes, “Over 50 percent of mar-riages end up in divorce.”

But that just isn’t true anymore, at least with marriages that have oc-curred in the last 30 years.

It might seem surpris-ing to some to hear that. The narrative has been in-grained in our skulls that marriages just don’t last.

The prototypical nuclear family is gone. Don’t for-get to sign that prenuptial agreement, because the odds are against you.

Statistically, they are not.According to the Census

Bureau, the divorce rate was 3.6 per 1,000 people in the most recent data avail-able, 2011, which is much fewer than the number in 1981, when 5.3 people per 1,000 people divorced.

Since peaking in 1979, divorce rates have consis-tently fallen.

What does this mean in the grand scheme of things for Americans?

For those who study the effects of divorce on child-hood development, they would say that it means everything. Accredited social-science journals continually emphasize the negative effects that divorce has on children. Whether it’s emotionally or mentally, the scars from witnessing your parents divorce can follow children into adulthood.

A report from Patrick F. Fagan on how divorce affects children showed that children with di-

vorced parents perform more poorly in school and have higher high-school-dropout rates. Financially, approximately 50 percent of families going through divorces tend to depreciate to levels of poverty after they are finalized.

Just the mere fact that divorce rates are declin-ing doesn’t necessarily mean that poverty lev-els will decrease and the U.S. educational system will be resurrected, but it is definitely a step in the right direction.

Because society is in-herently composed of ma-ny families connected to one another through mar-riages, there is reason for optimism when looking at the declining divorce rates. Strengthening marriages, the foundation of our society, is beneficial for both our children and country at large.

I am lucky to have grown up in a household with parents who have been married for more than 30 years. I am so proud of my parents for making it to that mile-stone. Things were sta-

ble at home growing up, and I never had to deal with the burdens chil-dren of divorced parents had to go through.

For those who have gone through a divorce, I could never condemn you. The divorce rate may have declined in the last three decades, but there is no measure-ment for happiness in the marriages that weren’t terminated. Ultimately, being happy and living a personally fulfilling life is the goal to which we all aspire to attain; if a mar-riage is not conducive to that, then it is appropri-ate to end it.

This holiday season, whether you are spend-ing time with your mom and dad separately, or with them together, I hope all is filled with joy in the time you spend to-gether. Behind the raw numbers and statistics, what really matters love you feel from spending time with family and friends, regardless of what is considered to be the “normal” nuclear family.

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Divorce and the holidays

Avoiding the shutdown

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As a longtime supporter of the University of Iowa, I found your editorial re-garding the lack of access to the president of the uni-versity to be well-written and frankly disturbing. In contrast, I was surprised to find that Vice President for Strategic Communi-cations Joe Brennan’s re-sponse was weak at best. He focused on the trivial while ignoring the larger issue, a communications technique used by ma-ny PR organizations de-signed to take the reader’s attention away from the core issues.

The facts are simple: The student body is one of UI’s most important con-stituencies, and the DI is a major channel to this con-stituency. Over the years, the university has appro-priately recognized the importance of the student population by providing the DI with regular one-on-one access to the uni-

versity president. In February, a DI arti-

cle included a direct quote from President Sally Ma-son that some readers ap-parently misinterpreted, and the one-on-one access was subsequently termi-nated and replaced with a vehicle that would allow the university to control the message and limit its exposure to unpleasant topics. What caused this change? I sincerely doubt that it was orchestrated by Mason. After all, there must have been other occasions on which the DI published an article or quote that she disap-proved of, yet one-on-one access continued unabat-ed. What is different is the hiring of Brennan in July 2013. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume that Brennan was the instiga-tor of this change and as such has attempted to de-fend his position.

Shortly before he ar-

rived at the UI, Brennan made a presentation enti-tled “PR in the Age of Dis-ruption: The New Rules for Thriving,” which in-cluded the following:

Rule No. 5: Communi-cate to Build Community:

The leaders who will be most successful in the age of disruption are those who recognize that com-munication today is not a one-way process in which authoritative information is transmitted from the powerful to the powerless — or from leaders to fol-lowers or from businesses to consumers.

In the age of disruption, communication must be a two-way process. Smart leaders recognize that they must listen as much — or more — than they speak. Smart leaders communi-cate to build community — guiding the conversation, not dictating the message.

In this kind of commu-nication, people are invit-

ed to help create shared meaning. The goal of communication is to help organizations and their publics adapt to each oth-er. Authentic two-way com-munication builds trust and reduces friction in relationships. It is needed more than ever in the age of disruption.

Mason and Brennan should adopt Rule No. 5 and re-engage with the DI to recover a constructive working relationship. Ma-son is not just any univer-sity president, she is the UI president and, as such, is a very important news creator for the DI. Simi-larly, the DI is not just an-other newspaper; it is the newspaper for the UI com-munity. It is clear that the university president and the DI have always had, and hopefully will contin-ue to have, a unique and special relationship.

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rights in the Cy-Hawk series. Instead, Iowa’s young lineup took com-mand while continuing to break school records and claim a 206-94 vic-tory over the Cyclones.

After the Hawkeye Invitational on Dec. 5, Long was happy with his team’s performance but thought there was still some gas left in the tank.

He proved to be right. The Hawkeyes swam to record-breaking times and won 14 of the 16 events during the meet.

“I know we have made step towards our break-through swims,” soph-omore Emma Sougstad said. “But I know there is so much left in the tank for our team.”

Sougstad was able to break two more school records against the Cy-clones. She placed first in the 100 breaststroke, touching with a time of 1:00.14, and earned first place in the 200 breaststroke at 2:11.71.

Nine Hawkeyes qual-ified for NCAA B cut times. And divers con-tinued to execute in the well with a 1-2-3 Iowa finish on the 3-meter dive and senior Lau-ren Kelba winning the 1-meter competition (282.83), followed by Io-wa senior Joelle Christy (269.4/third) and soph-omore Lydia Lehnert (259.43/fourth).

The Iowa freshmen combined for five wins, led by Meghan Lavelle in the 100 and 200 back-

stroke and Tereysa Leh-nertz in the 100 butterfly.

Junior Olivia Ka-bacinski continued to stand out, winning the opening 200-medley re-lay (1:40.6) with fresh-man Rowan Hauber, Sougstad, and freshman Carly O’Brien. The lead-ing sprinter was also able to qualify for an-other NCAA B cut time in the 100 freestyle at 49.82.

“We have been having some good training in the pool,” senior Becky Stoughton said. “It has led us to some exciting breakthroughs.”

The exhibition 50-freestyle competi-tion between the Iowa head wrestling coach Tom Brands and asso-ciate head coach Terry Brands brought peo-ple to their feet for the intense matchup, and Tom Brands came

out on top, finishing at 35.52 seconds.

In the end, Iowa claimed bragging rights against its in-state rival.

“At the end of the day, you want to be in NCAAs,” Long said. “And we have several people that are right there.”

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ning plays when they needed to.”

At 8-2, the Hawks look every bit like players us-ing the early going as a springboard to launch themselves into the top of the Big Ten standings.

However, the Hawks have not been without their fair share of grow-ing pains.

Doomed by foul trouble in their loss to Arkansas and without an answer to the physicality of No. 7 Louisville, the Black and Gold have received two pretty strong wake-up calls a little more than a month into the season.

“I think the physicality of Arkansas really sur-prised us,” Bluder said.

“Not so much against Col-orado because we knew what to expect after that, but I think the Arkansas game really caught a lot of our players off guard.”

And while it hasn’t been easy for them, the Hawks’ schedule has pre-pared them well for the challenge that lies ahead in conference play.

“Wins like that are huge,” junior Kalli Peschel said after Iowa State. “They’re really im-portant ahead of the Big Ten season. This can car-ry over [once we start]. It’s great to feel that hype and the emotional bounce, and hopefully we can carry it over.”

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transition for easy buckets, and converted open looks from 3 when Iowa’s shots fell short.

“We didn’t come out with the swagger you have to have on defense,” guard Mike Gesell said. “Espe-cially with a high-potent offense like that.”

Iowa’s 60-55 win over North Carolina on Dec. 3 was supposed to mark a turning point for the

Hawks this season. Adam Woodbury said

that was a game Iowa would not have won last season. The Hawkeyes countered every North Carolina run with one of their own and came up with defensive stops when they needed to.

It was a game won with toughness and defense, as-pects this year’s Iowa team had built its identity on, and something that was lacking against Iowa State.

“The disappointing thing from my end was that we just accepted it and acted like we couldn’t compete,”

White said. The Cyclones tore

through sold-out Carv-er-Hawkeye Arena, leav-ing behind a team search-ing for answers and a direction to go from here.

It’s still only one game, one Gesell said the Hawkeyes would use as a learning experience, one that Iowa would have to sit with for a whole week before it plays another game.

After searching for the right word, White fi-nally found one that ac-curately depicted Iowa’s performance.

“It’s almost embarrass-ing,” he said. “We’re bet-ter than that. It’s just disappointing because I know we’re better than that. I know I’m better than that. I know as a group we’re better than that. It’s just frustrating and unacceptable, to be honest. That’s best word for it; it’s unacceptable.

“Moving forward, that can’t happen at all.”

Follow @JacobShek-yo on Twitter for news, updates, and analysis about the Iowa men’s basketball team.

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Swimmers participate in the 200 freestyle in the Campus Recreation & Wellness Center during the Iowa-Iowa State meet on Dec. 12. The Hawkeyes beat the Cyclones, 206-94. (The Daily Iowan/Courtney Hawkins)

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and senior-laden football teams in the SEC.”

Many of those true freshmen have played well above any expec-tations. Derek Barnett, a 6-3, 267-pound defen-sive end, has climbed his way into the Ten-nessee record books just a year after he starred for Brentwood Academy in Nashville.

Barnett has 20.5 tack-les for loss this season, second-best in the South-eastern Conference and fourth-most in the coun-try. His 10 sacks also rank fourth in the SEC. Both of those figures are the most in a single sea-son by a true freshman in program history.

On Sunday, Barnett was asked about adding to those totals, and he said he’ll have to beat Outland Trophy winner Brandon Scherff in order to do so.

“I look forward to it,” Barnett said. “He’s a good ballplayer. I’ve watched film on him. I’ve gotta come ready to play. I played a bunch of good guys in the SEC. It’s another good guy I’m going to face, so I’ve gotta be ready.”

Barnett, along with his teammates, will have plenty of time to prepare. Tennessee will have 15 extra bowl practic-

es ahead of Jan. 2. This, Jones said, bodes well for the team.

“There is so much. It is continuing to elevate your game, obviously, on the field with the extra practices. But in the strength and condition-ing room, monumental,” Jones said. “They would be home right now. A lot of these individuals have gone though an in-season strength and conditioning program as opposed to a develop-mental program.

“So to be able to get them back in the weight room, get them spending time with their teammates, the football intelligence part of studying more film, it is invaluable.”

That time will need to be used properly, said defensive back Cameron Sutton, who sang Iowa’s praises when asked his initial impression of the Hawkeyes.

“Impressive team,” Sutton said. “Kind of compared them to our-selves. They play real-ly hard, no matter the opponent. They’re big up front. On defense, they fly around to the ball, and they’re really impressive on special teams, too.

“But at the end of the day, we can only control the things that we do out there on the field.”

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By RYAN RODRIGUEZ ryan-rodriguez@uiowa.edu

The addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten has add-ed mounds of already-intense pressure on a conference that is among the best for women’s basketball, and teams have pre-pared accordingly.

Suddenly, teams have fewer nonconference games to use as preparation for Big Ten play, which will roll around toward the end of December.

The Hawkeyes aren’t taking any chances.

With a smaller number of games to work with, head coach Lisa Bluder’s Hawks have squeezed every bit of learning out of their murder-ous schedule to prepare for an increased Big Ten workload.

“I think we’ve really chal-lenged ourselves with the nonconference schedule this year,” Bluder said. “Our goal is to get ready for the Big Ten, but it’s also to get quality wins for the selection com-mittee so that we have hopes at the end of the year. That’s the ultimate goal.”

Two fewer nonconference games matchups means replacing easier matchups with the likes of Dayton, Ar-kansas, Louisville, Gonzaga, and Colo-rado, quality opponents that certainly haven’t made it easy on the Hawkeyes in the early going.

But more than just scheduling tough teams, Bluder’s Hawks have learned

to make adjustments in game-time scenarios against quality competition, something that could pay dividends come March.

Nowhere was this more evident than in their 76-67 victory over Iowa State on Dec. 10.

“You look at the first half of that game, we gave up 13 offensive re-bounds in the first; the second half we only gave up 3,” Bluder said. “We shot really well in the first half, then turned around and did a much better

job of boxing out and crashing in the second.”

Other teams have started to take notice. Most recently, Iowa State head coach

Bill Fennelly remarked at how well pre-pared Iowa looked in its victory against the Cyclones.

“That’s as good of a team as well see in a lot of ways,” Fennelly said. “Good balance, well-coached, and made win-

By CODY GOODWINcody-goodwin@uiowa.edu

Tennessee football coach Butch Jones said last week that he hadn’t begun watching film on the Hawkeyes in preparation for the 2015 TaxSlayer Bowl just yet. Most of what he knew about Iowa stemmed from when he studied the program when he first became a head coach in 2007.

On Sunday, Jones addressed the media after his team had a “very short practice, about an hour.” The Volunteers will take today off, he said, but he and his coaches will begin game planning for Iowa this week.

“With the dead period in recruit-ing, [this] will be an opportunity to go game plan now, watch a lot of Io-wa video,” Jones said. “And then our players will be in the strength and conditioning room, and then we will resume practice on Tuesday.”

Jones, now in his third year in Knoxville, has continually preached about Iowa’s physicality, consisten-cy, and how well-coached the players are. He said on Sunday that the way his team prepares for the Jan. 2 bowl will speak volumes about how they’ll play.

“To play 24 true freshmen is very difficult,” Jones said. “In terms of, not only the physicality and the de-velopment, but the mindset. Because you are trying to develop a mindset where they are going against junior-

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‘THE SAME CRAP’ Vols begin bowl prep

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Prepping for conference gauntlet with nonconference foesA tough nonconference schedule has prepared Iowa for a tough Big Ten.

The Iowa women’s swimming and diving team beat Iowa State on Dec. 12, 206-94.

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Iowa guard Mike Gesell tries to pass on Dec. 12 in Carver-Hawkeye against Iowa State in the Cy-Hawk Series. Gesell finished the game shooting 4-of-12, and the Hawkeyes lost to the Cyclones, 90-75. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)

In Iowa’s 90-75 loss to Iowa State, its second-half struggles came back to bite Iowa again.

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The Volunteers will start their bowl preparation this week, which means a lot of film work so they can prepare for a ‘veteran team in Iowa.’

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By JACOB SHEYKOjacob-sheyko@uiowa.edu

After Iowa’s 90-75 loss to Iowa State, Aaron White struggled to put into words what had just occurred. It all happened so fast.

He pointed to Iowa’s State hot shooting — 53.1 percent from the floor and the Hawkeyes’ lack of en-ergy and over-reliance on an offense that shot 39.4 percent from the field.

But the thing that frustrated White the most was that Iowa had reverted to its old ways — the same ways that last season caused numer-ous second-half breakdowns for the Hawkeyes.

The ways that White — and the Hawkeyes — thought they were done with.

“I don’t really have anything else for you,” White said, clearly frus-

trated. “Obviously, we can learn a lot from this, because it’s the same crap that happened last year. I thought we were over it.”

Cyclone guard Matt Thomas’ only points of the game, a 3-point shot at the buzzer to end the first half, was arguably the biggest shot of the Dec. 12 game.

The 24-footer at the buzzer ended a half that had seesawed for the first 19 minutes of the contest, and it gave Iowa State all the momentum head-ing into the break with a 5-point lead.

“That’s big, but you can’t let that dictate the whole second half,” White said. “ … I just felt like our energy level was zapped.”

Then the wheels fell off. Iowa State missed its first shot of

the half, then made 10 straight. In just under seven minutes, the Cy-clones turned a 5-point lead into a

25-point rout. Suddenly, Hawkeye fans were re-

minded of the team’s collapse last season, a season full of poor second halves, in which 10 of Iowa’s 13 losses occurred when the Hawkeyes were ei-ther tied or winning at halftime.

“Well, there are only couple of things,” head coach Fran Mc-Caffery said when asked what he could do as a coach in those situa-tions. “You’ve got to start pushing different buttons.”

So McCaffery pushed. He subbed in bench players, pressed the Cyclones full-court, trapped them in the half-court, and tried to get the ball in the paint on offense. But nothing worked.

Iowa State shot 63.3 percent from the field in the second half, outrebounded the bigger Iowa team 39-37, got out in

Iowa forward Kali Peschel attempts to shoot the ball but is blocked by Iowa State guard Fallon Ellis in Carver-Hawkeye on Dec. 11. The Hawkeyes defeated the Cyclones, 76-67. (The Daily Iowan/Alyssa Hitchcock)

By SHELBY STITESshelby-stites@uiowa.edu

It was another night for the re-cord books when the Hawkeyes dominated the pool against Iowa State on Dec. 12. It marked Iowa’s fifth-consecutive win against the Cyclones in the Cy-Hawk series, and the Hawkeyes capitalized on their potential as the young team con-tinued to prove it has what it takes to win.

“I’m so proud of this group for hav-ing such a great one-week period and pre-paring as well as we did for this one,” head coach Marc Long said. “Iowa State always brings their best when they come here, and it was good to get a win tonight. We have a lot of Iowa kids on the team, and so do they, so it always makes for a competitive and emotional meet.”

Iowa State came into the match-up 5-1 with a veteran lineup ready for redemption and the bragging

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