The protestors said they dont plan on backing down but continuing to voice their opinion as this moves forward. Covering the corridor in iowa city, mellaney moore, cbsbs news. President harrelds first day has been a busy one. Meetings a luncheon and for the first time an interview with local television. I spent some of the mornininwith president hhreld and asked him why he believes hes the right person for the job. Job. Im a common guy, a normal guy, just like everybody el. Bruce harreld wants a chance. A chance to let the university of ioio Community Get t to know him, and for him to hear from in return. Its only his first day on campus, but hes already been the target of multiple protests and a loud call among faculty and students for him to step down. Down. Its expected, and what i say to people is give me a chance, get to know me, lets sit down and talk. But getting gether with some has been harder than others. Others. I think thats been one of the more frustrating things. Some people ive reached out to havent been willing to even sit down and to me, thats unprofessional. Harreld is no stranger to difficult negotiations. Hee been a Vice President at ibm, and president of the Boston Market food chain. Hes also taught at his alma mater, harvard university, where he received an mba. He says criticism at hihibusiness background is far removed from academia just isnt true. This is an institution with a tremendous heritage, and its searching for its vision, what its next step is, and thats a similar, familiar process. Ive not only experienced and been part of, help lead, but also ive taught it. The 64year old says with confidence that with time he can lead the univeristy to greatness. And his experience transitioning companies through change his yeararof teaching and his leadership skills are proof enough that he is not afraid to make hard decisions. Decisions. Its not enough just to know where you want to go, you gotta get there, and getting there means you gotta make some pretty clear, direct, bold decisionsnsand build a culture to be action oriented. Harreld and his wife will be living in a twothousand dollar a month townhouse while the president s quarters are dergoing remodeling. Yoyocan see my full interview with a des moines man is charged afteteallegedly trying to smuggle ecstasy, thc and alcohol into Kinnick Stadium saturday. Saturday. Police say they stopd 24yearold tanner setka as he was walking into kinnick after they y otted a bulge in his back pocket. Police say he pulled out a small bottle of liquor, and as he was reaching for his ticket, he dropped a pill bottle with ecstasy powder. He also admitted to having thc wax on him, according to police. Also in iowa city, city,police are looking for a pair of suspected car burglars. At around 130 this morning, officersresponded to the 900block of west benton strere wwre they say they saw two men breaking into vehicles. Get away. Police also believe more vehicles were targeted so theyre asking anyone who may have been a victimor people with inforortionto contact them. A Corridor School district says it goes the extra mile to tackle bullying problems. Problems. The Iowa City CommunitySchool District is one of theop three districts in the state with the highest reported bullllng incidents. Incidents. Cbs 2 News Reporter steffi lee breaks down why the numbers may not reflect the entire story. District Officials Say its difficult to implement a uniform finition on bullying. One district might not have the same reporting standards as another one, so they suggest looking beyond the numbers to handle bullying problems. Problems. On paper it explains a lot. Lot. Obviously bullying and harassment is an area of need state data shows the Iowa City CommunitySchool District reported one of the highest numbers of bullying incidents with 46 between 2014 4 and 2015. 2015. To think that were one in a large context is a little unnerving. Equity director kingsley bbchway says hes not sure if the data shows the full picture compared to other districts across the state. State. I think that it probably happens at every School District within the state, we just might report it difffrently. Those whove researched iowas bullying data and antntbullying lala agree. Agree. Before we pass our judgments on these numbers, that we really do carefully consider what the definition a school might implement. Botchway says his districts policy takes everything into account from name calling, physical violence, and even social media. Media. Across the board, an area we need to do a better job in is getting everybody on the same page what we as a district view bullying and harassment is. S. He s ss these high numbers could mean a number of things and reflect a proactive approach. Approach. Our teachers are doing more of a job as far as as soon as it happens, they try to identify it right away. Away. Id be interested in trying to look and see what other districts do from that standpoint. The Iowa Department of education says its also working with school administrators. They say while the system is s impepeect, theyre hopipi to get more training out to School Districts to get a more concrete definition of bullying. Steffi lee, cbs 2 news. Today is the last day to cast an absentee ballot for tomorrows city elections across the corridor. In addition to several council races, some important issues will also be decided. Decided. One of them is a 27cent tax levy that would fund Public Library operations in cedar rapids. Supporters say the property tax hike is essential to retain many free programs the libraries offer. In the city of marion, voters will elect a new mayor. Ababntee babaots must be postmarked before midnight. Polls will open tomorrow at 7 am and will close at 8pm. Former pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum campaigned in davenport t this morning talking to the scott county republican party. Party. He explained and defended his tax plan, and talked about the need for all the republican candidates to make sure their gop debates stay on topic. He said the iowa straw poll being cancelled this year might be one reason the republican field is still so crowded. One of things ive seen in president ial campaigns is that president ial campaigns are more like demolition derbies. If you can hide your car in the corner and let everybody else get smashed up and come out in the end thats probably a pretty good strategy to use. Use. Santorum also said poll numbers dont have much to do with a candidates ability to win. He said when he won the iowa gop caucus back in 2012, more than half the people who caucused for him made their decision in the last few days. Days. Remember, the weeks top political stories can be seen each sunday morning on iowa in focus. It airs at 1030 right here on cbs 2. The city of kalona is looking at the possibility of banning guns anywhere on city property. Itittems from a compmpint made by a user of the citys library. But now, an outoftown Gun Rights Group is taking the issue headon, conversation. Well explain their message, what the city wants, and w residents feel, feel,coming up tonight on the cbs 2 news ten at ten. A slowdown is happening in the midwest economy. Economy. Thats according to new figures in the mid American Business conditions index from crcrghton university. It shows a nearly six point drop since last month to 41pointnine. Anthing below 50 in the index suggests economic decline. Analysts say weakness in the Global Economy is contributing. Meanwhile, john deere has announced plans to acquire a europeanbased company which manufacturers precision planters. Monosem has four facilities in france and two in the us. Deere e ys the new compmpy will help them expand their expertise in planting technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The weather still really nice today, but the leaves are falling d that means they all have to go somewhere. Somewhere. Still ahead tonight at six, six,the issue that has one corridor city facing a suction problem, and how its the city of North Liberty has a suction problem, and its slowing fall leaf collection. The city says one of its vacuum trucks accidentally sucked up a piece of concrete, destroying the truck. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, but now w the city will have to rely on only one, less efficient truck. Officials are asking residents to remember to keep leaf piles clear of any sticks, rocks or other foreign debris, and to avoid parking in front of leaf piles. When was the last time you saw november weather like this . It feels a lot like spring out there. There. Chief meteorologist terry swails has your weather first forecast to help you cbs 2 news. At 10 p. M. On effect monday the el nino answers to getethe can count on. Outlook you winter facts and a give you the science to down the will break terry swails meteorologist terry swails will break down the science to give you the expectations are high on the hardwood in ames. Next in sports. Find out where the cyclones are ranked in the first Ap College Basketball poll. Cbs 2 news connects with you. Ca us at 1800222kganemail us at news at cbs 2 iowa dot comconnect with us on facebook at before saturday. There was no reason to have any faith in the iowa state defense. In the three games prior. The cyclones had given up point totals of 66, 45, and 45. But then texas came to town. Town. Wally burnhams unit shut down and shut out the longhorns on saturday night. They gave up just 11 first downs. 85 passing yards. And 204 total yardsn. The lowest ever for a paul rhoads team againin an fbs opponent. And the head coach says. He wasnt surprised. Ive seen a higher level of the conclusion of texas tech and into tcu and into baylor and that steady improvement was gonna show up in a performance like this. This. I tnk everybody has that confidence level pretty sky high r rht now and we gonna play with that confidence and swagger on saturday. The first Ap College Basketball rankings were released today. Iowa ate rhecks in at number seven. The highest preseason n ranking in cyclone history. Steve prohms team opens their season with an exhibition game against grand valley state on riday night. A quick glanceat the winloss record for uni football. Doesnt quite do this team justice. All three of their fcs losses have come against difficult conference opponents. And in tight games. Recently. Theyve bucked the trend. Susuenly. The panthersrsre winners of two in a row. And theyre alive and well in the National Playoff hunt. But coach mark farley doesnt want to hear any of that big picture talk just yet. Hes you get to november. Think were all in that situation in november. Its that time of year where youre Getting Better right now. Or poure not. Youve plateaud or youre Getting Better. Hopefully weve hit a stage now that weve made progress. And thats our emphasis. Weve gotta make progress again that third week in a row. The gritty, gutsy Kansas City Royals got it done. They raraied back w wh two runs in the ninth. Then scored five in the twelfth. To bring kc their first world series since 1985. Salvador perez was the world series mvp. But this was a team. In t t truest sense of the word. Everything they set out to accomplish. They did. They wanted to win the division. They won it by eleven games. They wanted to win home fiel vantage for the playoffs. They did. They wanted to win the world series. They did. So i mean its just a special, special group that doesnt come around very often. Thats a check of sports, tt2watx nd p bt q 40 tt2watx nd p a q68t tt2watx nd p bm q 3x tt4watx nd r dztq cw tt4watx nd r entq 3sh tt4watx d r gzt t0 tt4watx nd r hnt z\ tt4watx nd r iztq p3 tt4watx nd r jntq nd r thanks for watching your cbs 2 news at six. Entertainment tonight is up next. We hope youll join us tonight at ten. Until then. Enjoy your evening. Blake shelton and Gwen Stefanis hollywood romance. Theyre Seen Holding Hands anan more. Plus, a rare look inside brad and angelinas marriage. Its whats coming up right now. On entertainment tonight. Thats what ten years of marriage will do to you. Candid and side by side wlachlt she is saying about her cancer scare and brad looks on. Whatevers got to be done. 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