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Wikipedia and Google were among the hundreds that staged an online protest against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act on Wednesday. The proposed legislation aims to crack down on online piracy, but many Internet-based companies oppose it, arguing that it would reduce the freedom of the Internet and give the government excessive censorship power. (Daily Iowan Illustration/Adam Wesley)
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Top 1 percent — 18 percent The working class — 82 percent
ON THE WEB TODAY: VIDEO: Public Space One organizers talk about their new fundraising campaign. VIDEO: Walking around on campus with headphones on could put pedestrians at risk. VIDEO: U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, explains why he decided to oppose controversial Internet-piracy legislation in the U.S. House. VIDEO: Hawkeye women talk about their plan to take down Wisconsin tonight’s basketball game.
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Controversial legislation aimed at curbing online piracy would be detrimental to the Internet, protesters on campus and around the country urged on Wednesday. Under the Stop Online Piracy Act — introduced in the U.S. House late last year — U.S. law enforcement would have the power to shut down websites which host or link to copyrighted material. Last November, website executives from such sites such Tumblr, Wikipedia, and Google launched campaigns to rally opposition to the proposal. On Wednesday, hundreds of websites hosted online protests. Google covered its logo on the homepage with a black box and offered a link to sign a petition. Wikipedia “went dark” for the day; its homepage stated “Imagine a
World Without Free Knowledge” and restricted access to information. And many Facebook users replaced their profile pictures with images criticizing the bill. Iowa’s Congressional delegation mostly opposes the proposal. Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, who represents Johnson County, is an opponent of the legislation, but he said he thinks piracy is a problem Congress needs to address. “[Loebsack] believes open access to free flowing information over the Internet is critical to competing in today’s diverse global economy, especially for Internet-based small businesses and blogs. However, we must also ensure that intellectual property is protected from foreign websites dedicated to online piracy,” Joe Hand, Loebsack’s communications representative, said in an email to The Daily
Visions of Iran By CHASTITY DILLARD chastity-dillard@uiowa.edu
UI graduate student and Iranian native Atekeh Sadat Mousavi Rad has delved into American culture. The 26-year-old moved to Iowa from Iran to join her husband studying at the University of Iowa more than four years ago. Having learned English and now pursuing a masters of social work, Mousavi Rad wants to share her experience of Iranian culture with Americans. “Iranians have a very rich culture,” she said. “Our people are very friendly people. They are very warm. It would be very interesting for people to know who Iranian people are, but this is something that is not said much about Iran and Iranians.” Mousavi Rad and a five-person panel of Iranians gathered Wednesday night at the
Iowan. “We can and should achieve both of those goals. The current legislation moving through Congress needs to be improved, including steps to ensure freedom of speech for domestic websites, before it moves forward.” “I’ve heard you,” Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, said on Twitter. “I strongly oppose #SOPA.” U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, D-Iowa, is a cosponsor of the Senate’s version of the bill, but has since asked Senate leaders to delay consideration of the bill. Grassley signed onto a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, saying, “ we have increasingly heard from a large number of constituents and other stakeholders with vocal concerns about possible unintended consequences of the proposed legislation.” SEE PIRACY, 3A
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Atekeh Sadat Mousavi Rad presents Iranian culture to a crowd on Wednesday in the Iowa City Public Library. The discussion was meant to stimulate thoughts on the Iranian people outside of political conflicts between the United States and Iran. (The Daily Iowan/Chastity Dillard) Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn St., in hopes of shedding light on the culture of Iran at a time when most Americans see only the actions of the country’s government.
“But people don’t know how different our culture is from the Middle East,” Mousavi Rad said. “Our culture is being looked at as a whole. We SEE IRAN, 3A
The elimination of two University of Iowa International Programs assistant deans has drawn criticism from the leader of a national study-abroad official. Earlier this month, the UI notified faculty it planned to lay off Janis Perkins and Scott King on Feb. 1. Downing Thomas, the UI dean of International Programs, said the restructuring is a result of an increase in the number of participants in international programs because of study abroad and international recruiting. “Things have grown so much in terms of international activity, with a much larger operation, we needed a different structure to best ensure we are fulfilling the mission of the university in those areas,” Thomas said. SEE INT’L, 3A
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Executive director Jeff Kellbach listens to a session of music therapy at the Pathways Adult Day Health Center on Wednesday. The center provides day services of therapy, meals, and socialization for the elderly and those who cannot take care of themselves. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)
Jeff Kellbach • Age: 36 • Hometown: Harvey, Ill. • Favorite sports team: Hawkeyes and Chicago sports teams with the exception of the Cubs • Favorite pastime: Playing basketball • Other Jobs: Treasurer for the Iowa Adult Day Services Association • Fun Fact: He has two daughters, Isabella and Evelyn. One was born the day before Christmas and the other was born the day before Easter. not be able to use the Senior Center on their own or who need help getting started with their day. The facility recently won the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce’s award for Nonprofit of the Year, and Kellbach believes that it is a very cost effective means to help keep loved ones at home or to give people the ability to have social outlets. “It’s a really cheap way of getting a lot of needs taken care of for people instead of
laying around watching TV and eating poorly,” Kellbach said. Chris Collins, the vice president of the Pathways Board of Directors, has a special connection with the facility because his mother, who suffered from dementia, went to the program so his father could continue to work. “I think it’s an absolute godsend and blessing to families who need adult day health support, because it allows for their loved one to be in a fun, safe, positive, upbeat environment,” Collins said. “I think it probably added years to my father’s life, and I know that we probably wouldn’t have been able to keep my mother out of a nursing home.” In the past six years that Collins has been with Pathways, he has been impressed with the work that Kellbach has done.. He considers himself very fortunate to be able to work with Kellbach. “He knows how to run the business, but he is also incredibly passionate and he knows how to talk to
families who are dealing with tough issues,” Collins said. “It’s called the long goodbye for a reason, and [Kellbach] is great at what he does. It is pretty powerful, and we are very lucky to have him and his staff.” Kellbach is trying to improve the program and awareness of Pathways’ existence. This past semester, he teamed up with a UI Public Relations class that set the facility up with social networks Facebook and Twitter. Samantha Saltess, one of the students in the class, enjoyed having the opportunity to see what it was like working with clients, all the things that go into making a nonprofit run, and what exactly public relations is all about. “Our class was very grateful that [Kellbach] allowed us to come in to assess Pathways,” Saltess said. “Even though we were just students, he really trusted us and listened to our advice. I think Pathways really benefited from our PR work and [Kellbach’s] willingness to listen.”
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Bleeding not necessarily cause for worry was trying to insert his penis into your vagina. Using a little lubricant, or spending more time in foreplay to enhance natural vaginal lubrication, may have helped make insertion more comfortable and pleasurable for you. Once your boyfriend’s penis was inside your vagina, your vagina may have lubricated more. It’s also possible that his penis helped drag vaginal lubrication throughout the vaginal canal, thus helping sex to feel better. Without much vaginal lubrication, the vagina is more prone to small cuts and tears, which may explain the blood that you noticed after sex. It can take a few days for these small vaginal cuts and tears to completely heal, and so occasional light vaginal bleeding in the days following sex is not uncommon — especially if the vagina is further touched in ways that aggravate the cuts and tears as they try to heal.
In the future, you might consider spending more time in foreplay to build up vaginal lubrication before intercourse. Using a waterbased lubricant can also help make quickies more comfortable, pleasurable and satisfying for both of you. If the bleeding persists, is associated with pain or discomfort, or if you have questions about your personal health, please check in with a health-care provider. You can also learn more about vaginal health by reading The V Book: A Doctor’s Guide to Complete Vulvovaginal Health by Elizabeth Stewart and Paula Spencer or a book that I co-authored with Vanessa Schick titled Read My Lips: A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva. Q: Should I be worried? I have been experiencing light bleeding off and on for the last three weeks. I am on the pill, and it is not time for my
period. Any suggestions? A: You shouldn’t necessarily be “worried” but I think it’s very wise of you to be attentive and to follow up with a visit to your health-care provider for a gynecological exam. Unusual bleeding should always be checked out. Spotting doesn’t necessarily mean that your birth control isn’t working; as long as you are taking your birth control pill as prescribed then you should have a significantly reduced risk of becoming pregnant should you have unprotected sex.
Michael Dickey, 23, Lone Tree, was charged on Jan. 14 with public intoxication. Cody Goodwin, 19, N016 Currier, was charged on Sunday with public intoxication. Evan Hafner, 20, 230 S. Lucas St., was charged on Sept. 26 with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia. Martarius Junious, 21, 319 West Minster Ave., was charged on Jan. 13 with driving while license was revoked. Teemesghen Kahsai Azene , 30, 2709 Muscatine Ave., was charged on Jan. 14 with an OWI.
Victor Kendricks , 25, Cedar Rapids, was charged on Tuesday with an OWI. Kyle Krob, 19, 327 College St., was charged on Jan 17 with an OWI. Meghan Marino , 20, 333 E. Church St., was charged on Sunday with presence in bar after hours. Robert Nietupski , 25, 810 W. Benton St., was charged on Sunday with public intoxication. Kyle Overmire, 18, 735 Stanley Court, was charged on Monday with possession of a controlled substance.
Thomas Piazzi, 22, 278 E. Court St., was charged on Monday with public intoxication. Charlotte Quant, 18, 1439 Burge, was charged on Monday with public intoxication. Taylor Quinlivan, 19, S320 Currier, was charged on Monday with public intoxication. Andrew Roth, 19, 336D Mayflower, was charged on Sunday with public intoxication. David Sherlock, 37, 35 Caroline Court, was charged on Monday with OWI. Kyle Williams, 19, N372 Hillcrest, was charged on Jan. 14 with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Dr. Debby Herbenick is a sexual-health educator at the Kinsey Institute and author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction and Read My Lips: A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva. Find our blog, sex information, podcasts, and archived Q&A at www.KinseyConfidential.org.
BLOTTER Jonathan Abruzzo, 19, 327 E. College St., was charged on Tuesday with possession of drug paraphernalia. Tracy Bahou, 21, 333 E. Church St., was charged on Sunday with possession of an open container of alcohol in public. Matthew Biagi, 18, N352 Hillcrest, was charged on Sunday with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Dee Brobston, 29, Coralville, was charged on Jan. 14 with public intoxication. Jacob Brown, 18, 735 Stanley Court, was charged on Monday with possession of a controlled substance.
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Q: About a month ago my boyfriend and I were making out and went in for a quickie. It hurt when he was trying to insert his penis, but after he got it in, I was fine. When he finished, however, we noticed blood, and I noticed a little discomfort. Then a few days ago I attempted to masturbate and while it didn’t hurt upon penetration I still bled. Should I be worried? A: In all likelihood, no. This is a common experience. Here’s why: when a woman feels sexually aroused or has sex, it typically takes some time — even several minutes — for sufficient vaginal lubrication to kick in. Vaginal lubrication is a process; it doesn’t happen in an instant. So if you decided to have intercourse before you had sufficient lubrication, then it makes sense that it hurt while your boyfriend
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Jeff Kellbach, UI alum, is determined to help the elderly people of Iowa City stay with their families longer with his facility. Jeff Kellbach, the director of Pathways Adult Day Health Center, wanted to create activities for people of all different ages and illnesses so they could stay healthy longer. “It’s just a lot of fun, and if you can help people become better in some way, whether it is physically, emotionally, or mentally, then that’s really cool,” he said. “I’m basically getting paid to play. I was happy to be able to stumble into it.” After graduating from the University of Iowa in 1998 with a degree in therapeutic recreation, Kellbach worked at several different facilities as an activity coordinator before he was offered the job at Pathways in 2000 — and he’s been there ever since. Some of the activities for the participant include bingo, music therapy, book clubs, and lectures from people at the UI. “We have this wonderful volunteer base that enjoys performing and helping the community,” Kellbach said. “It provides participants to get socially active, and I think it’s a special community.” The facility runs Monday through Friday, and there are around 36 to 40 participants a day who are mostly over the age of 65. Pathways, 817 Pepperwood Lane, provides a place for elderly community members to go who might
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METRO IC man charged with interference An Iowa City man was charged on Jan. 17 with interfering with official acts resulting in bodily injury to law enforcement officials. According to Iowa City police, police attempted to gain entry to the home of Marc Katzenburger, 23, 417 Douglas Ct. in response to an alleged domestic altercation. Katzenburger allegedly told officers, “You better not come in here,” when they arrived.
Katzenburger then allegedly slammed the door shut on the officers, who then proceeded to gain entry to the house, the report said. Katzenburger then allegedly fought with officers but was eventually subdued, the report said. Several officers sustained injuries during the confrontation, police said. Interference with official acts resulting in injury is punishable by up to two years in jail and a maximum fine of $6,250. — By Conrad Swanson
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Go online to hear U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley explain why he’s decided to oppose the Piracy Act in the U.S. House.
Rep. Leonard Boswell, DIowa, talked to liberal blog Bleeding Heartland about the legislation. “While I am supportive of protecting copyrighted content and preventing piracy, I will not back legislation that could unfairly hinder freedoms of speech and expression and possibly hurt our country’s online innovators, most of which are small businesses,” he said. “At this time, I do not believe [the act] strikes the appropriate balance.”
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Piracy Act Protests Some of the websites that participated in the action: • Google • Wikipedia • Reddit • Mozilla • Flickr • Tumblr • Craigslist Source: Fight for the Future
Some locals agreed the legislation would be a bad move. UI senior Ian Tenney, for
instance, said the legislation would clog the open flow of information on the Internet. “[I’m] in support [of the protest] mostly because the Internet is a venue to exchange information and forums will suffer” he said. A UI instructor who studies media law agreed. “Sometimes silence is louder than words,” journalism Associate Professor Lyombe Eko said. “[The Piracy Act] is a horrible idea. They want to lock up information behind walls.”
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are not being differentiated. Actually, I don’t think we get a chance to be introduced.” U.S.-Iran relations are strained by the perceptions of the country’s government as sponsors of terrorism, said Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. To make matters more timely, most Republican presidential-nomination candidates have said the U.S. needs to maintain tough policies on Iran. Former Pennsylvania
Sen. Rick Santorum holds perhaps the harshest stance on Iran, telling the Daily Iowan in November 2011 that the US must neutralize Iran’s relationships with its closest allies as more indications of the country’s nuclear-weapons program arise. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have both said they want to see a regime change in Iran. Military force would be used, if necessary, Gingrich told the Hill last November.
“If we get to a point where the military believes that [the Iranians] are truly on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon, I would be prepared to use military force,” he said. Rubin said the situation has been bad ever since the 1979 Islamic revolution. “Iran went from being one of America’s chief allies before 1979 to one of its biggest adversaries, but that’s the government, not the people.” Perry and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have both called for sanc-
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experience leading university groups and has also worked in the office with study-abroad programs,” Thomas said. Lee will maintain his salary in the new position, $139,580, currently Thomas said. Lee said he is looking forward to starting his new position and expanding on some of the work he has done with study abroad.
“In my job with the Division of Continuing Education, I’ve helped to set up programs abroad, so this is an opportunity to expand on those efforts,” Lee wrote in an email. “There’s a lot of good, exciting work being done in International Programs, and I am happy to be part of it.” John Rogers, an assistant director of the Office for Study Abroad, said the
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But Mark Scheid, the president and CEO for the Institute for Study Abroad sent an email to President Sally Mason, stating his frustration on the decision to eliminate the assistant dean positions. “The abrupt elimination of the positions of the two assistant deans — both of them prominent in their fields — sends a clear message that competence in internationalization is not a priority for the UI administration, nor is it viewed as important for its students,” Scheid wrote. “The students at the University of Iowa deserve better.” Both King and Perkins played a significant role in the expansion of the International Programs, Thomas said. During 2009-10, 1,365 UI students studied, worked, or conducted research abroad, compared with 1,283 UI students the previous year. While working, Perkins worked to increase the number of students as well as the types of study-abroad programs offered. Also, a total of 2,722 international students came to the UI this fall, compared with 1,680 in fall 2008, when King and Thomas began recruiting extensively around the world. In addition to the elimination of King’s and Perkins’ positions, Doug Lee — currently an associate dean in the Division of Continuing Education — will assume the job as assistant provost of International Programs on Feb.1. Lee’s duties will include supervising studyabroad programs and international student and scholar services. “[Lee] has a great deal of
International Programs The University of Iowa has seen a steady increase in the number of international students: • Fall 2008: 1,680 • Fall 2009: 1,950 • Fall 2010: 2,373 • Fall 2011: 2,722 Source: Office of the Registrar
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Demonstrators protest in front of the building housing the New York offices of U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kristen Gilliband on Wednesday. Jan. 18 is a date that will live in ignorance — Wikipedia started a 24hour blackout of its English-language articles, joining other sites in protesting pending U.S. legislation aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content. (Associated Press/Richard Drew)
tions. Romney said President Obama should have “put in place crippling sanctions against Iran” during a November presidential debate. But Rubin said policy decisions shouldn’t be stuck on the regime. “We shouldn’t let the current politics of the regime get in the way,” Rubin said, who was a former Iran policy director for the Pentagon during the Bush administration. “The culture is different, and the problem with dictatorships is the culture isn’t always adequately portrayed.” The only GOP candidate to oppose strict Iran relations is Rep. Ron Paul, RTexas, who said the executive branch has no authority to decide on military
action. “We as commander-inchief aren’t making the decision to go to war,” Paul said during a November presidential debate. “… The Constitution, you go to the Congress and find out if our national security is threatened.” The UI enrolled 31 Iranian students during fall 2011 semester, up from 26 in fall 2010. UI law student and panel member Sara Ghadiri is half-Iranian and half-American — which, she says, gives her a unique perspective. “I’m fluent in Farsi,” she said. “I go back to see my family consistently. It’s sort of interesting to have sort of one foot in each country and kind of figure out what
it’s like to be an Iranian in America and American in Iran.” Ghadiri’s father first came to the United States to pursue higher education and later stayed when the Islamic Revolution took place. As an Iranian-American, Ghadiri said the best way to introduce the culture is through education. “People have all these preconceived connotations, and in order for people to be educated, they have to know what [the culture is],” she said. “I want to make sure I can be a cultural ambassador, and Iranians are some of the most kindhearted people.”
news was a shock to International Programs staff members. “It was a surprise to all of the staff here,” he said. “The idea is to create more communication between
programs, and it’ll be a work in progress.” King and Perkins will work away from their offices until Feb. 1. Thomas said the two would continue to receive health care
and access to university services, but he was unsure for how long. In 2011, King’s salary was $80,878, and Perkins received $80,698.
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Support those lobbying to close property tax loophole In a time when Iowa City is considering harshly regressive revenue-raising efforts — increases in water, landfill, and storm-water fees and bus fares — implementing a massive tax loophole that benefits the wealthy and hurts community funding would seem illadvised. But thanks to a decision issued by the Iowa Supreme Court in August 2011, that is exactly what will happen. Representatives from local government are lobbying to change the law, and they need vocal support from their constituents. Such a change would resolidify their tax bases and help to prevent future revenue sources target those that can least afford it. Starting this year, cities and localities will be forced to deal with a newly invented and privileged class of commercial properties known as “residential cooperatives.” This special class of commercial entities will be allowed to file property taxes as residential properties, providing them with a 50 percent cut in their property taxes. It is estimated that this will cost Iowa City around $380,000 in the coming year and more in the years that follow. Which, as Assistant City Manager Geoff Fruin pointed out on Wednesday, will force cities such as Iowa City to either raise taxes on all taxpayers or further cut services to address the costs of the loophole. “There is nothing that can be done at the local level,” Fruin said. Johnson County Supervisor Terrence Neuzil agreed. “Without a law change from the Iowa Legislature, there are two scenarios that are possible,” wrote Neuzil in an email to the DI Editorial Board. “First is a tax shift onto other local property taxpayers to make up the losses, and second, which is less likely, is that apartment owners with the windfall of money would look into enhancing their apartments and lower their rents.” This is just one example of what has become an increasingly disturbing trend in the United States at the local, state, and federal level. According to the Wall Street Journal, in 2008, 69 percent of all U.S. corporations qualified as non-taxable businesses. In fact, according to a recent paper released by Citizens for Tax Justice, the average Fortune 500 company in the United States paid an effective tax rate of 18.3 percent
(well below the statutory 35 percent) by exploiting industry subsidies and tax loopholes. The damage inflicted via corporate abuse of the tax code has not been limited to the federal level. As a study published by the same Citizens for Tax Justice revealed, the perversion of the tax code by corporate interests cost states more than $42 billion between 2008 and 2010. In past decades, the state of Iowa has come to rely more and more heavily on federal aid and subsidies to simply keep the state afloat. Between 1995 and 2010, Iowa has required more than $20 billion in commodity and crop subsidies and has received more than half a billion dollars in federal disaster subsidies. In fact, this reliance on federal dollars has become so pernicious that, in 2010, Iowa received $1.10 from the federal government for every $1 Iowans paid in federal taxes. Confronted with this reality, people across the entire state of Iowa need to ask whether we, as Iowans and Americans, can afford to see our tax base erode further. It is time that Iowans take a long hard look in the mirror and ask what kind of state we want to be. Do we want to be a state that drains dollars from the federal government and contributes heavily to the federal debt? Or do we want to be a fiscally prudent state that can proudly say that we paid our own way? If we as Iowans want to be able to look to other states and the federal government and demand that they get their fiscal houses in order, we must first address our own mess. Change starts at home. There is absolutely no good reason to provide costly tax benefits to narrow, moneyed, and selfish interest groups that promise to provide little in return. The time for tax loopholes is never; but the timing of the “residential cooperative” loophole is especially poor. The power of moneyed interests to lobby for tax benefits is not only harming Iowa City, it is harming the state of Iowa and the country as a whole. It is time that we demand that every member of the community invest in a more fiscally sound and self-sufficient America. Support your local government. Email your state representatives, and push them to change the law. Your turn. Should the new tax loophole be closed? Weigh in at dailyiowan.com.
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Midwives: Heroes or felons? On Dec. 11, 2011, when CNN acclaimed Robin Lim (a former Iowan) as the “Hero of the Year,” midwives and mothers the world over rejoiced. “Mother Robin” earned the title for her humanitarian work in Indonesia, where she has founded two free midwifestaffed maternity clinics. Ironically, the very practice of midwifery that gained Lim international renown could have landed her a felony charge
had she been reported for practicing midwifery in Iowa, her home base of many years. That’s because Certified Professional Midwives such as Lim are not allowed licensure within the state and thus are charged with practicing medicine without a license — despite the fact that the midwife credential has been proven for its safety and excellence and is the standard of midwifery licensure for many other states nationwide. It makes sense why midwives would be needed in the
developing world, where health-care costs can be prohibitive. However, many people don’t realize that midwifery care saves lives even in Western nations. The United States is a far cry from the safest place on Earth to give birth, according to statistics. The top five European nations utilized midwifery in 70 percent of all births in 1990. Iowa-born and educated midwifery champion Ina May Gaskin has proven the benefits of midwifery care in her prac-
tice in Tennessee. Gaskin has maintained excellent statistics in maternal and newborn outcomes with extraordinarily low complication rates. So which way is it — and how should it be? Are midwives such as Lim and Gaskin heroes — or felons? America at large has given its answer in voting Robin Lim a hero. If you agree, get in touch with Friends of Iowa Midwives at friendsofiowamidwives.org. Cheyenne Francis Mount Sterling resident
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Porn stars, come to IC By ADAM B SULLIVAN adam-sullivan@uiowa.edu
Iowa City and Los Angeles don’t have a lot in common. One’s a Midwest college town, and the other is a major metropolis. One thing the two communities do share, though, is a progressive take on sexual freedom. Or, at least, they did until this week. The LA City Council recently approved an ordinance requiring porn actors to wear condoms while filming in the city. That falls out of line with LA’s history of sexual freedom. The council and the community both have repeatedly shown support for LGBT issues and for women’s abortion rights. Last year, for instance, the councilors celebrated the city’s first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Heritage Transgender Month by passing a handful of pro-gay resolutions. All the way back in the mid-1990s, when it was tougher to be socially liberal than it is today, the LA City Council passed a measure allowing cops to crack down on disruptive pro-life protesters. And LA is one of relatively few cities in the country to have an openly gay council member, Councilor Bill Rosendahl, who has served since 2005 and who voted in favor of the new condom rule. The rationale for supporting pro-LGBT and pro-abortion policies is clear: People’s bodies are their own, and governments ought not regulate sexual behavior. But porn stars, I guess, don’t qualify for those rights. Opponents of the city’s new condom requirement say it could be costly to
enforce and it might send the porn industry out of LA. “Strictly on a matter of what we should and shouldn’t be going after when we are nearly broke, this isn’t where we should be spending our resources,” Councilor Mitchell Englander reportedly told the New York Times this week. “We don’t know how much this will cost us to enforce, how we will enforce it, and whether it will cost us the loss of jobs.” Condomed porn won’t sell as well, those in the industry say. “The only thing that the city could potentially achieve is losing some film-permit money and driving some productions away, but you can’t actually compel an industry to create a product that the market doesn’t want,” Christian Mann, general manager of a film production company, reportedly told the Associated Press. Disgruntled porn producers should consider setting up shop in Iowa City. We have easy access to an airport and a major interstate. The few social conservatives we have don’t wield enough power to run anyone out of town. Safesex resources here are easy to access. And, most importantly, we won’t regulate your sex. To be clear, I endorse condom use. Even if you’ve been tested and have another form of birth control in place, it’s a good idea to put some rubber between you and your partner. But we’re naïve if we think porn stars need legislation to tell them about the risks of intercourse. If two consenting adults — gay or straight, condom or none, in front of a camera or in the dark — want to have sex, I think the rest of us ought to stay out of it.
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‘Eliminating’ international-studies positions a huge mistake As a longtime administrator in the field of higher-education, a former senior international officer at a top-20 university, and currently the president and CEO of the Institute for Study Abroad, an organization sending more than 2,500 students a year to experience semester-long studyabroad enrollment at the world’s top universities, I write to express my amazement and dismay at University of Iowa’s recent
gutting of its international offices. This is not a complaint about the Institute losing students from Iowa; not many Iowa students go on our programs. However, as a longtime international administrator and a founding board member of the Forum on Education Abroad, the field itself is very important to me — and to America’s future. The abrupt elimination of the positions of two assistant deans — both of
them prominent in their fields — sends a clear message that competence in internationalization is not a priority for the UI administration, nor is it viewed as important for its students. UI students deserve better. From the study-abroad side alone, former Assistant Dean Janis Perkins has increased participation in study-abroad at Iowa from 300 students a year to more than 1,400 a year. With those numbers,
and with Perkins’ service on a number of national committees, including the Institute’s National Advisory Counsel, UI has become a major player in the study-abroad world. In fact, through Perkins’ leadership, the UI was one of the National Charter Members at the founding of the Forum on Education Abroad, the leading organization in the field of study abroad. Similarly, former Assistant Dean Scott King, in his position since
2003, has distinguished himself in service to NAFSA, the major organization in the field of incoming international students and scholars, and has served as head for two NAFSA regions. Ironically, given the way in which Iowa has treated its senior international administrators, King currently serves on the national NAFSA membership committee as its ethics coordinator. Most of all, it is cowardly — and surely you must
know it is classless — to dismiss these experienced and dedicated international leaders who have spent their careers building Iowa’s international reputation not for cause but through the questionably legal fig leaf of “eliminating their positions.” People associated with such an action should be ashamed of themselves. Dr. Mark Scheid is the president and CEO of the Institute for Study Abroad in Indianapolis.
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Iowa officials The danger of headphones flunk web test No Iowa congressional member ranked in the 112th Congress Gold Mouse Awards, which evaluate a political leader’s personal website. By ASMAA ELKEURTI asmaa-elkeurti@uiowa.edu
Iowa’s elected officials may have some work to do when it comes to the quality of their personal websites. An article published recently on Iowa Wesleyan College’s Public Interest Institute responds to the 2011 Congress Gold Mouse Awards, which were given to more than 50 members of Congress whose personal websites demonstrated transparency and an abundance of information, among other factors. No Iowa congressmen received an award. Jennifer Crull, an IT specialist with Public Institute, said the awards might signal Iowa political leaders need to improve personal websites for their constituents. “I think our elected officials need to improve their websites and address the issues that are being evaluated in this study and the information people want to see on their websites,” she said. Other factors for the awards included accessibility, timeliness, innovative value, and communication. Voting records, committees on which the officials serve, positions on issues, and the legislative process were pieces of information the committee evaluated. “If you don’t find information, you have a tendency to think people are trying to hide something,” Crull said. “You expect to go to the web and find everything you want, and when you go to their website and you can’t find everything you want, I think that’s a little frustrating.” When University of Iowa freshman Danijel Pejkanovic, a member of UI College Republicans, wants to research positions a candidate takes, he uses news sites and Wikipedia. “Mainstream websites are easier to access and more straightforward,” he said. Jill Kozeny, a spokes-
Congressmen on the web Iowa elected officials on Twitter: • Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa: @SenatorHarkin • Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa: @ChuckGrassley • Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa: @BruceBraley • Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa: @SteveKingIA Source: Twitter
woman for Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said information on Grassley’s website is updated on a regular basis. “The goal is to completely represent the work he does every day and every week,” Kozeny said. “New material is put on it every day in real time as much as possible.” Kozeny also said Grassley is on such social networks as Facebook and Twitter. Grassley updates his own account, Kozeny said. Crull said she feels social-media sites are important tools to allow congressmen to connect. “I think it’s the way to connect with people nowadays. It’s the area that’s grown the most, and I think they need to make effective use of that,” she said. “Social media are prevalent now, so I think elected officials need to use it to effectively get their message out.” Crull said the released evaluations could provide Iowa leaders with an opportunity to improve their online presence. “I do feel that our elected officials are trying to be transparent with their websites, but they have some work to do,” she said. “The information released is a good opportunity to see how they need to improve with those of us here in Iowa.”
Pedestrians crossing streets distracted by headphones are more likely to be involved in accidents due to lack of auditory cues from vehicles.
By CONRAD SWANSON conrad-swanson@uiowa.edu
Dean Krawczykowski crossed the street from the T. Anne Cleary Walkway in the typically frigid January weather with no coat on and Dr. Dre Beats headphones on his head, unafraid of the weather and cars. “Music is more important than my life to me,” the University of Iowa freshman said. One expert, Richard Lichenstein, found that more pedestrian accidents are caused by distractions from headphones. Lichenstein’s study, released this week, showed the number of pedestrian/vehicle accidents in the last six years had tripled when pedestrians were distracted by headphones plugged into portable devices such as an iPod, phone, or MP3 player. “This isn’t just a car/driver problem,” said Lichenstein, a physician at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. “It’s a problem for pedestrians who are distracted or impaired by their headphones.” According to data from the Iowa Department of Transportation, 266 pedestrian/vehicle accidents have occurred in the Iowa City/Coralville area over the last 10 years. Of those 266 accidents, at least 11 have involved pedestrians who were distracted or inattentive. Michael Pawlovich, a traf-
Pedestrian accidents Over the last decade, Iowa City has had 266 pedestrian-related accidents: • 2011: 27 accidents (incomplete data) • 2010: 32 accidents • 2009: 23 accidents • 2008: 27 accidents • 2007: 24 accidents • 2006: 22 accidents Source: Michael Pawlovich, Department of Transportation traffic-safety/crash-data engineer
fic-safety/crash-data engineer for the department, was reluctant to say if the number was significant. “It’s such a small number,” he said. “It also could be that the Johnson County enforcement personnel didn’t fill in that detail in their reports.” When compared with the 116 accidents in six years Lichenstein collected from across the nation, he said 11 accidents in an area over 10 years is a very significant number. Lichenstein said he thinks there were probably a lot more than 11 accidents involving distracted pedestrians, but often law enforcement fails to include that in reports. Krawczykowski admits wearing headphones while crossing the street is dangerous, even recalling a time when he almost ran into a cyclist. Dr. Dre Beats headphones, he said, also block
Paige Johnsen crosses the street near the Pentacrest on Wednesday. A recent study from the University of Maryland shows that people wearing headphones while crossing the street are more likely to be involved in accidents. (Jessica Payne/The Daily Iowan) out more sounds than normal earbud-style headphones that come with the purchase of an iPod. “I have headphones on, and I wouldn’t be paying attention if a car honked its horn,” Krawczykowski said. Iowa City Police Chief Sam Hargadine said wearing headphones isn’t only dangerous when crossing the street. “I think it goes deeper than the accidents,” he said. “When you’re not aware of your surroundings, you’re more likely to be hit. You’re not thinking of your safety, and you’re
more likely to be a crime victim. Are you being as safe as you possibly can be?” Hargadine recalled the a string of incidents that occurred in 2007 when a man, dubbed “the groper,” grabbed repeatedly women in the areas near downtown. He said the majority of those victims were also distracted either by phones or headphones. “My instincts tell me that it’s more the collegeage group,” Hargadine said. “Very rarely do you see someone my age ‘plugged in.’ ”
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Ice hangs from a car bumper in the IMU parking lot on Wednesday. The low for the night was zero degrees with 7 mph winds. The cold weather is forecast to ease by the end of the weekend. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner)
UI lags in parking citations Officials at regent universities say fines are raised to deter illegal parking. By BETH BRATSOS Bethany.Bratsos@gmail.com
Revenue from parking citations is on its way down at two of the state’s three regent universities, representatives of the schools said. The University of Iowa generated $455,560 in parking-citation revenue in fiscal 2011, compared with approximately $1.02 million at Iowa State University and $533,536 at University of Northern Iowa. Revenue totals have been decreasing at the UI and ISU in recent years, while UNI saw a slight increase over the last two fiscal years. Jim Sayre, an associate director of UI Parking and Transportation, said the reason the UI’s total revenue is significantly lower than Iowa State’s is probably because fewer students drive to campus in Iowa City, lower fine amounts, and strict control of more parking lots. “When we keep the gates down at the lots we control, fewer people can park there illegally,” he said. Mark Miller, the manager of the parking division of the Department of Public Safety at ISU, said total revenue dropped by $50,000 three years ago, when parking fines were raised. “We raised fines for expired meters, illegal parking, and counterfeit permits in 2009,” Miller said. “Our goal is not to
ticket people; it’s to make the fine high enough to get people to park legally.” For example, he said, when the illegal parking fine was raised from $15 to $30 in 2009, ISU’s fine revenue from those violations was cut in half. Ann Kjeld, the parking department supervisor at UNI, said the university routinely compares its fines with the other regent universities. “While we do want our fines to be a deterrent, we do understand the price of going to school has increased consistently over the past several years,” Kjeld wrote in an email. “Although the receipt of parking fines is a choice, not a necessity.” Sayre said the UI parking department uses a number of strategies to educate people about parking rules and how to avoid fines. Attending student and employee orientations, working with the student government to put together a “top 10 ways to avoid parking violations” flier, and issuing all vehicles one warning before a fine is assessed are a few ways the department educates students. Also, UI employees who forget their campus parking permit can call officials and any ticket they’re issued will be voided. Fines doled out to students who don’t have a parking permit can be canceled if they obtain one within 48 hours, Sayre said. Of the total number of tickets written, expired meter citations are among the top three most common at each school. Half of the parking tickets issued at the UI in fiscal 2011 involved expired meters. At
NATION Romney fights tax controversy SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Mitt Romney tried doggedly Wednesday to sidestep the political furor he had started a day earlier by revealing he pays federal taxes at a rate of about 15 percent, less than millions of middle-income American families. Facing a new controversy, his campaign confirmed that Romney has money invested in the Cayman Islands but said he was not getting any tax break. Newt Gingrich, his main rival in this weekend’s South Carolina primary, poked at Romney anew and disclosed that his personal tax rate is more than double that of Romney. Just before Saturday’s South Carolina voting, Romney is trying to wrap up his push for the Republican nomination, but it’s been anything but smooth. He’s spent nearly two weeks answering questions and criticism about his personal wealth and tenure at Bain Capital, the private-equity firm he founded, and those subjects are
sure to come up again in tonight’s debate. Gingrich slapped at the GOP front-runner, saying in Winnsboro that he himself paid 31 percent of his income in taxes for 2010, more than twice what Romney said he paid. Gingrich’s campaign said the 31 percent was the effective federal rate on income, apparently not including Social Security payroll taxes. Gingrich told reporters that he is not criticizing Romney for paying a tax rate below what many wageearning Americans pay. Gingrich has proposed a plan that would give Americans the option of paying a 15 percent flat tax — which he notes is the same rate Romney is citing. “My goal is not to raise Mitt Romney’s taxes but to let everyone pay Romney’s rate,” Gingrich said. Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he intends to push it anew today. “If Mitt Romney intends to be our nominee, he needs to open up his tax records today, no later than tomorrow by debate time,” Perry told CNN on Wednesday. — Associated Press
Parking tickets This graph shows the total number of parking tickets issued and the total number of parking tickets issued due to expired meters at Iowa’s three regent universities. Total tickets issued Number of tickets issued for expired meters
University of Iowa
30,000
Iowa State University
30,000
University of Northern Iowa
60,300
72,000
40,047 10,331
30,000
60,000
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ISU and UNI, expired meters made up 42 and 26 percent of total parking citations, respectively. The actual fine amounts at the three regent universities also differ for parking violations. Expired meter fines are $5 at the UI, $10 at ISU and UNI. UNI also assesses a $2 late fee when officials don’t receive payment within 10 days. Parking fines are charged to student university accounts at all three schools, with the option to use other forms of payment. ISU has a “smart card” system in place for students to use like a debit card at pre-pay lots. “I think this has helped because some students don’t carry that amount of change,” Miller said. “It gives them more options to park legally.”
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U.S. factories experience surge in production By DANIEL WAGNER Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. factories are roaring back from the depths of the recession, cranking out more machinery, vehicles, and energy. Factory production has surged 15 percent above 1 its lows of 2 ⁄ 2 years ago and is helping drive the economy’s recovery. A jump in manufacturing output last month coincided with other data suggesting that the economy began 2012 with renewed vigor. Wholesale prices are tame. Demand for U.S. Treasury debt should help keep borrowing costs low. Even homebuilders are more optimistic. Signs “that manufacturing in the U.S. is gaining global market share appears to be growing, and this could be an important dynamic supporting growth in 2012,” said John Ryding of RDQ Economics. Manufacturing rose 0.9 percent from November to December, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday. It was the biggest monthly gain since December 2010. Overall output at the nation’s factories, mines, and utilities grew 0.4 percent. Warm weather dampened demand for energy produced by utilities. Over the past year, factory output has risen 3.7 percent. Factories benefited in particular in the second half of 2011 from several trends: People bought more cars. Businesses spent more on industrial machinery and computers before a tax incentive expired. And companies restocked their supplies after cutting them last summer. The growth has also fueled more hiring. Factories added 23,000 jobs in December, the most since July. That helped reduce the unemployment rate to 8.5 percent, the lowest level in nearly three years. Among the manufacturers faring better is Steris Corp., which makes sterilization equipment and other medical supplies. Hospitals and drug companies are buying more of the company’s products. Steris, based near Cleveland, says it has added 250 employees in the past 18 months and is still hiring. It has more than 5,000 employees globally, about half of them in the United States. Spokesman Steve Norton said Steris has bene-
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fited from being part of a regional cluster of biomedical firms and research facilities. Some manufacturers in the region that once focused on auto parts are now also making components for medical devices, he noted. “The Midwest continues to be a manufacturing leader,” Norton said. Still, Europe’s debt crisis has begun to dampen demand for American exports. That trend, should it continue, could slow manufacturing and threaten growth this year. That hasn’t happened yet. December’s gains suggest the industry “is still resistant to the apparent slowdown in growth elsewhere, particularly in Europe,” said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist with Capital Economics.
Ford Focus vehicles move on the assembly line at the Ford Michigan Assembly plant on Dec. 12, 2011, in Wayne, Mich. U.S. factories roared to life in December, creating sharply more goods to meet strong demand for business equipment, materials, vehicles, and energy. (Associated Press/Paul Sancya)
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Tired of the 4 letters Dear NBC Sports Network: Please give ESPN some competition. By IAN MARTIN ian-martin@uiowa.edu
On Jan. 1, NBC launched a new sports network (creatively named the NBC Sports Network) with intentions of eventually competing with ESPN. This is me begging it not to become ESPN but to conquer it.
An open letter to the recently established NBC Sports Network: Dear Enbeesee, I heard you just moved into Versus’ old house. We didn’t hang out with her much, but she always froze that pond she used for summer fishing for killer pickup ice hockey out back. Honestly, if we’re going to hang out, you gotta freeze that pond. Oh, you do play hockey? Sick, bro. Play anything else? Soccer? Well, some people like that — but you only like MLS? There’s a kid down the block with some better toys, all the sporting equipment in the world, and she has English soccer, too. We can’t decide if this kid, Espin, is more bully or
beautiful. Either way, we fear her and would never want to get on her bad side. She knows she’s the only person in town with a basketball hoop and enough games for everyone to play, and it reels us in like Odysseus to the sirens. (Well, LeBron to Miami might be a better example.) We know it’s wrong to choose her for the materialism, but it’s just so freaking sweet sometimes. But if we play basketball with her, or maybe throw the football around, then it’s always what she wants to talk about. Lately, it’s been her boyfriend Tim, but there have been others. It’s just about whoever she thinks is worth talking about or what’s going on at her house next week. And you should’ve seen the looks she gave us when we’d hang out with Versus during the winter. Until we had our annual final tournament, she wouldn’t even acknowledge Versus lived on our street. What I’m trying to get across, Enbeesee, is that everyone else who lives here, goes to our school, and especially everyone who likes sports is getting a little fed up with Espin. She’s fun to tailgate with, watch games with, and she tells some great stories. But when it comes to being a great friend, she’s really terrible. She
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doesn’t tell us information that’s important; instead, her gossip is always speculative. I don’t know who the hell all these “sources” are, but most of the time they’re wrong. One time, she told everyone that she knew about whether Brett Favre was leaving or not. She then changed her story around 20 times, and at the end took credit for having told everyone first. Bulls**t, she did. I know with the economy the way it is — and because your parents aren’t as rich as Espin’s — it’ll be hard to make everyone hang out with you. But secretly, man, we all want to. Numerous people have told me you’re trying to woo away Espin’s friend Scott Van Pelt to hang out with you more. That’d be sweet. Honestly, Espin keeps picking terrible friends. She even pays Lou Holtz to chill in her basement. You ever talked to Holtz and stayed dry? Me, neither. Anyway, just get our street’s public reaction for a lot of things, and we’ll guide you in the right direction. We want you to be our best friend — or at least threaten for it, so maybe Espin will wake up and realize she’s not the only cool person around. We’re all hoping you’re cool. Just don’t let us down. See you for the hockey tournament.
Memphis Grizzlie guard Tony Allen, New Orleans Hornet guard Marco Belinelli (left) and forward Jason Smith (14), and Grizzlie forward Josh Davis (background) scramble for the ball in the first half in New Orleans on Wednesday. (Associated Press/Gerald Herbert)
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CONTINUED FROM 10A lem for the Hawkeyes, especially in light of the numerous injured role players. Dealing with injuries is nothing new for Iowa, but keeping the remaining players healthy
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JOHNSON CONTINUED FROM 10A product of her upbringing. “I’ve never been called athletic, so working hard and that kind of thing has gotten me a lot of places,” the 6-5 Missouri native said. “That’s something I’ll always carry with me, espe-
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and out of foul trouble will be key. “We hope that our bench will do good things when called upon,” junior Morgan Johnson said. “This would be a really good moral victory to lift our spirits after a deflating loss last game.” Johnson took a nasty tumble against Purdue and was kept on the side-
line to be treated while the Hawkeye offense went stagnant and fell behind by 14. “Morgan is one of our leading scorers, rebounders, and shot-blockers,” Bluder said. “She runs our offense really well, and when she goes out, we miss her presence on the floor. Johnson has had prob-
lems with knee tendinitis in her career, and Bluder said she has noticed the team sometimes appears to be worrying about Johnson when she’s out of the lineup instead of adapting. “Teammates always worry about teammates and what’s happening with them,” Bluder said. “But at that point, you
can’t; you have to focus on the task at handle. Our players have got to learn that you can’t worry about your uncontrollable situations like that.” Follow DI women’s basketball reporters Matt Cozzi and Ben Wolfson on Twitter for live updates from Carver-Hawkeye Arena— @mfcozzi & @bwolfs08
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reach out to professional choreographers to help them with their routines. The team said that it will continue to work on improving its routine
year-round. But what makes a particular dance superior to others? Haley McMenamin said she thinks the harder the
dance is, the higher score it should yield. “We don’t really give ourselves a break,” she said. “Dance is such a subjective sport; as long as we
push and make our routine more physically and emotionally difficult, it will get better. Every dance should be able to try to tell a story. You decide
what you want the audience and judges to feel. “It’s about how you make people feel, how memorable your dance is, and how people react.”
cially when I’m on the court.” And as long as Johnson keeps getting up when she falls, it doesn’t appear that Bluder wants her to change a thing. “She runs our offense really well, and she’s had three years of experience. When she goes out, we miss her presence on the floor,” Bluder said. “… But she’s smart, and she passes those concussion tests, so
that’s a good thing.”
starters exposed — all five are averaging at least 28 minutes per game in Big Ten play, and four are logging more than 30 minutes per contest. Part of the issue is also likely due to the sudden disappearance of the 3point shot as a reliable weapon. The Hawkeyes are just 17-of-63 (27 percent) from long range since they buried 12 in a 31-point win over Northwestern in the
Big Ten opener. But luckily for the Black and Gold, going on late-season runs to improve their résumé for the NCAA Tournament has become something of a tradition. Iowa reeled off fivestraight wins to close the regular season last year. The team won seven of its last eight games the year before that and finished the 2008-09 campaign with six victories in a row.
“We’ve been through it; a lot of the people on this team are old and mature enough to know we still can get to the tournament and still have a great opportunity ahead of us,” said junior guard Jaime Printy, who is averaging a teamhigh 36.6 minutes per game in conference play and leading the squad with 17.7 points per contest. “It’s just time to do it right now.”
Digging out of a hole — again The Hawkeyes haven’t enjoyed the consistently positive season many expected they might, and sit at 10-8 (2-3 Big Ten) with 11 games remaining. Part of the problem has undoubtedly been caused by a spate of injuries to the bench that has left the
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LINCOLN, Neb. — Indiana fans might be worried, but coach Tom Crean isn’t. The 11th-ranked Hoosiers lost their thirdstraight game, this time 7069 to a Nebraska team that started Wednesday night tied for last in the Big Ten. “I’d be in there throwing stuff around, angry, screaming if I felt like we didn’t care or I felt we couldn’t get better,” Crean said. “That’s not the case at all. They care, and we can get better. That’s exactly the attitude we’re taking toward this.” The Hoosiers (15-3, 3-4) squandered a 13-point second-half lead against an opponent that was averaging a league-low 51 points in conference games and ranked at or near the bottom in most offensive categories. Jorge Brian Diaz gave Nebraska (10-8, 2-5) its first lead since early in the game when he made two free throws with 11 seconds left. Indiana couldn’t score on its last possession. “You look at the scoreboard, and Nebraska earned it,” Crean said. “We’ll go back, make the corrections we’ve got to make, but the key is to play
with the edge and energy.” The student section emptied after the final buzzer to celebrate the Huskers’ biggest win since they knocked off then-No. 3 Texas in February 2011. Some of them picked up Dylan Talley, who highfived as many as he could. A couple students even tried to hoist Diaz but gave up. After all, he’s 6-foot-11. “It was a good win, guys, it was a great win,” Nebraska coach Doc Sadler said. “What can you say? We needed it and needed it bad.” The Hoosiers never got a good shot off at the end. Jordan Hulls lost control as he tried to take off for a driving lay-up. He lost the ball, recovered it, and missed a desperation shot from in front of his bench as time ran out. The ball bounced back toward Hulls, and he kicked it in defeat as Nebraska’s student section emptied. “We certainly never played Nebraska like they’d won one game,” Crean said, referring to the Huskers’ conference record. “We knew how good they were. Our guys had great edge tonight. They had excellent energy. We did so many good things.” The Hoosiers shot 62
percent while building a 41-34 half time lead and finished at 51 percent for the game. But they committed 15 turnovers, their average in Big Ten play, with many coming in the second half as Nebraska was rallying. Toney McCray had 11 points, and Diaz and Talley 10 apiece for the Huskers, who shot just 38 percent. Cody Zeller led the Hoosiers with 18 points, and Hulls added 12. “That’s a tough one to swallow,” Zeller said. “Every game in the Big Ten is tough. I thought we played better, but it wasn’t enough, I guess.” The Hoosiers had been hoping to break out of a mini funk from losses to Minnesota and Ohio State after a 15-1 start that included upsets of then-No. 1 Kentucky and the thenNo. 2 Buckeyes. But Nebraska, coming off a 5-point loss at Wisconsin on Sunday, wouldn’t quit after the Hoosiers seemed to have taken control. The Hoosiers were up 6966 with 39 seconds left after Hulls made two free throws. Bo Spencer missed on the other end, but Talley followed with a putback, and it was a 1-point game. Brandon Richardson fouled Hulls in the back-
court on Indiana’s next possession. Hulls, an 89 percent foul shooter, missed the front end of a one-andone with 24 seconds to play. “He’s a human being,” Crean said. “No one is more disappointed than him right now. We wouldn’t want anyone else at the line.” Hulls’ miss allowed Nebraska to set up its winning possession. who Richardson, rebounded Hulls’ missed free throws, got the ball upcourt to Spencer, who fed Diaz. The center went right to the basket. He got fouled by Hulls and then made the tying free throw. After Indiana called time-out, he swished the go-ahead free throw. Indiana was within seconds of posting its first Big Ten road win against an opponent other than Penn State under fourth-year coach Crean. The Hoosiers are 2-29 in conference road games since Crean took over. Playing in Lincoln for the first time since 1942, the Hoosiers led by 8 points in the first half and were poised to make it a blowout after Nebraska went more than five minutes without a field goal to start the second half.
Swinging in to early success Freshman gymnast Emma Willis deflected credit for her recent Big Ten award to her teammates. By ALEX FRENCH alexander-french@uiowa.edu
Emma Willis sat at a table by the southern exit of Carver-Hawkeye Arena on the evening of Jan. 13. She wore a jovial look on her face as she signed auto- Willis graphs for gymnast fans. In her first two weeks of college gymnastics, the native of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, won the allaround competition and helped her team to a 193.225-190.175 victory over Michigan State. She also finished in the top 10 in the vault and beam competitions in the Can-
cún Classic, leading the team in both events. On Jan. 10, she was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week. No wonder she was smiling. “It was a big surprise — I didn’t know it even existed,” Willis said on Tuesday evening. “It was really humbling. I was going in [to the Cancún meet] to do my gymnastics, and that’s what happened.” Her efforts haven’t gone unnoticed by Iowa coach Larissa Libby. “We’re very pleased with her — she’s one of those very understated kids,” Libby said on Jan. 13. “She will never say anything about herself or what she’s accomplished.” On par with Libby’s words, Willis was quick to deflect her personal success toward her teammates. “There’s a strong backbone of the team,” she said. “I wouldn’t have been where I am now without [my teammates] cheering me on.” One of those teammates is fellow freshman Emily
Bigras, who grew up competing both alongside and against Willis in Canada at the same gymnastics club. She said Willis is quick to return the favor. “We did club together for about 10 years,” Bigras said. “She’s always there cheering me on, and it’s just comforting having her here.” Strong team unity became evident early in the season, Willis said. She said her teammates were excited to hear the news of the conference award, and they have also been helpful easing the transition into college competition — a large part of her early season success. “The [older] girls have made it incredibly easy,” she said. “They’ve helped us with our mental stability and physical strength just because they’ve been there before.” Willis said coming from elite-level gymnastics to the college game is different in terms of scoring and skills performed in routines, but NCAA competition is more fun and entertaining overall.
Libby pointed towards Willis’ experience as another reason for her early success. “She’s a seasoned competitor. She comes off a world championship team from Canada, so she’s more experienced and seen a lot more,” the eighth-year coach said. “She’s doing a good job becoming a go-to person, very young. That’s not something you have to rely on — your freshmen becoming your ‘go-to’ people — but if they’re going to able to stand up and do that, then more power to them.” Willis’ results speak for themselves, but Libby said her gymnast is more focused on the team’s success and the big-picture goal of winning a Big Ten championship. “She didn’t even know what it meant — nor did she care to know,” Libby said. “Her objective is to take Iowa to the top, and that means Iowa as 13 team members, not just herself.”
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Hawkeyes face go-go Badgers The Hawkeyes will try to regroup after their loss to Purdue. By BEN WOLFSON benjamin-wolfson@uiowa.edu
Only 11 games remain in the regular season, and now is the time for head coach Lisa Bluder’s women’s basketball team to try to make a late-season run to get into the NCAA Tournament. The squad — sitting at 108, 2-3 in Big Ten play — has been depleted by injury, and it is coming off a 2-point loss to No. 17 Purdue on Sunday. The Hawkeyes said they see tonight’s game against Wisconsin (5-12, 1-4) as a mustwin on their home floor before they leave to face Penn State and Nebraska on the road. “[Wisconsin] has one of the more deceiving records in the Big Ten,” Bluder said. “They’re a team that has progressively gotten better throughout the year. They’re certainly a team that we have to play our best basketball in order to get them.” The Badgers have been molded into a quick transition team under head coach Bobbie Kelsey. They also like to shoot a lot of 3s, making them almost a mirror image of Bluder’s squad. One of Kelsey’s best players this season has been sophomore Morgan Paige, a Marion native who grew up playing with and against Iowa guard Jaime Printy. They played in the same AAU program, although at different age levels, and competed against each other in high school — Paige at Marion High and Printy at LinnMar. Paige is now starting for
Kiper taps Reiff ESPN’s Mel Kiper released his first NFL mock draft on Wednesday, and former Iowa offensive tackle Riley Reiff is projected to go to Miami with the No. 9 overall Reiff pick. offensive tackle “Reiff would offer [the Dolphins] an immediate starter and make the offensive line a big strength,” Kiper wrote. “Reiff’s tape was exceptional this past season, and he has a lot of experience and a proven ability against top competition.” Kiper has been high on Reiff for quite a while and has consistently ranked the South Dakota native among his top-10 players in his periodically released Big Boards. The longtime analyst also named Reiff the secondbest tackle available, behind only USC stud Matt Kalil (who is Kiper’s No. 2 overall prospect and is projected to go to
Zobrist to hold clinics Tampa Bay Ray outfielder Ben Zobrist will come to Iowa City this weekend to conduct several baseball clinics, including one held at Zobrist Parkview Church. outfielder The “Baseball Bash at Parkview” is scheduled from 6-8:30 p.m. Saturday at Parkview Church, 15 Foster Road, and it will feature a home-run derby along with hitting, pitching, and fielding stations. The event is aimed for younger players; an adult must accompany each child. Zobrist will share about the day-to-day life of a professional baseball player, among other top-
NOTEBOOK
Johnson keeps getting back up Morgan Johnson said she’s fine after her a scary fall against Purdue last week. By SETH ROBERTS seth-roberts@uiowa.edu
to get back on a winning streak.” Wisconsin’s fast-paced style that favors the 3-point shot could prove to be a prob-
Iowa center Morgan Johnson hit the deck in obvious pain, clutching at her lower leg as she lay on the hardwood. Head coach Lisa Bluder knelt next to her star junior, wearing a look of grim concern. Johnson was carried off the floor at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. The reactions of Johnson and Bluder didn’t make it look as if she Johnson would return for the rest of center Iowa’s game against Purdue on Jan. 15. But Johnson was back on the court just five minutes later. She finished with a teamhigh 16 points to go along with 5 rebounds in 32 minutes of the Hawkeyes’ 57-55 loss to the Boilermakers. “I’m fine, just a little bit of an ankle tweak,” Johnson said on Wednesday. “When I hit my head, it looked worse than it felt … we laughed about that at practice the other day, when I fell — again — for the umpteenth time.” And so goes Johnson’s 2011-12 season; on the numerous occasions when she has been knocked down, she has gotten back up. “I did tell her yesterday [at practice] I might have her start wearing a helmet,” Bluder said, laughing. “… Morgan doesn’t do a whole lot graceful, and falling isn’t either. She gets the job done. That’s what I like about Morgan; she’s blue-collar. She gets the job done, [even if] she doesn’t always look beautiful.” Johnson said the gritty, “blue-collar” style she has become known for — even though it includes taking some nasty spills, like the one against Illinois that left Bluder thinking her center didn’t know who she was — is a
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Iowa guard Jaime Printy passes out of the paint during the game against Nebraska in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Jan. 8. Printy had 27 points in the Hawkeyes’ 77-72 loss to the Huskers. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley) the Badgers and averaging more than 7 points per game. “She’s a great player, [and] it’s been fun growing up together,” Printy said. “She can shoot the 3 and get to
Minnesota with the third pick). The 23-year-old tackle announced he would leave Iowa a year early on Jan. 3, bringing an end to a three-year Black and Gold career in which he picked up 37 career starts and was named to all-conference teams three times — including a first-team nod this past season. He made the preseason Playboy All-America team prior to the 2011 campaign. The 6-6, 300-pound Reiff is the sixth Hawkeye since 2002 to forgo his final year of eligibility, joining Dallas Clark (2002), Shonn Greene (2008), Bryan Bulaga (2009), Amari Spievey (2009), and Tyler Sash (2010). The first four have carved out productive careers in the NFL; Sash recorded 17 tackles as a rookie safety with the New York Giants this year. Reiff will presumably be the 10th offensive lineman under Kirk Ferentz to be drafted, and he could potentially be only the third to be taken in the first round (Bulaga and Robert Gallery). — by Seth Roberts
ics, according to the church’s website. In addition to the Baseball Bash, Zobrist will conduct clinics for boys ages 8-16 at Diamond Dreams Sports Academy, 216 E. Ninth St., Coralville, on Saturday. The cost is $10, and participants are instructed to go to the facility’s website to register. Zobrist had one of his best seasons of his career in 2011. The Eureka, Ill., native hit .269 with 20 homers, 19 steals, 91 RBIs, and 99 runs scored. He had one of the league’s best performances in the last several years on April 28 of this past season, when he went 7-for10 with three doubles and 10 RBIs in a double-header against the Minnesota Twins. Parkview head pastor Jeff Gilmore’s daughter, Jullianna, is married to Zobrist. — by Matt Cozzi
the rim. She’s offensively minded and likes to have the ball in her hands. “A big win is definitely needed against Wisconsin. We’ve had a couple tough losses, and it would be good
COLLEGE DANCE & CHEER CHAMPIONSHIPS
Routines far from routine The Iowa woman’s dance team qualified for finals in two events at the National Championships in Orlando. By BEN ROSS benjamin-d-ross@uiowa.edu
Due to its almost obscure nature beyond Hawkeye sporting events, most people might not consider the Iowa woman’s dance team to be anything more than halftime entertainment. The truth of the matter, though, is that the Iowa dancers are coming off one of the most successful seasons in recent memory. The dancers returned home from Walt Disney World late Tuesday night. They had participated in the Universal Dance Association’s College Dance and Cheer Championships, held each year in Orlando, Fla. Iowa has earned an invitation to the championships for the past three years and appeared in the finals for the “Pom” and “Jazz” dance competitions as well. This was the first year the dancers ever qualified for finals in the Pom category; they fin-
Members of the Iowa dance team perform at Iowa’s season-opening football game against Tennessee Tech on Sept. 3, 2011. The dance team spent winter break preparing for and performing in the College Dance and Cheer Championships in Florida. (The Daily Iowan/Christy Aumer) ished eighth out of 15 teams in Pom and 10th out of 22 in Jazz. Though the dancers have made it to the tournament before, returning to the competition is no easy task. Sophomore Callie Sorteberg said making it to Orlando is a yearround project. “Back in October, we sent our routine tape to the Universal Dance Committee,” the Edina, Minn., native said. “[Once football is over], we cover all the basketball games while holding our own practices. We have lifting and our own workouts, but right now is kind of the
low-key time while girls work out on their own.” While most other students were home enjoying their winter breaks, the dancers stayed in Iowa City for two weeks practicing their routines before leaving for Orlando on Jan. 13. They only had one week of true vacation time, but Walt Disney World did make its parks exclusive to the dancers for two entire days. The dancers maintain that the work was worth it, and senior captain Shannon Chrusciel said she thinks competing at Nationals is particularly rewarding because they
are dancing for themselves, instead of at a University of Iowa event. “It’s definitely different to travel when it’s just us,” she said. “A lot of people don’t realize we have a season outside of what we do for the university. It’s exciting that we did this for us. We all love to do this; we’ve done this our entire life. “We love traveling and dancing for the school, but this is really exciting.” The dancers come up with their own choreography for Iowa sporting events, but whenever they make it to Nationals, they SEE DANCE, 9A
Glue of the arts scene By HANNAH KRAMER hannah-kramer@uiowa.edu
Members of the Public Space One gallery look to local community members to support its alternative mission in the arts.
The walls of Iowa City’s basement gallery Public Space One are tacky with fresh white paint. Much of the venue’s space is bare, and it leaves observers with a feeling of emptiness. That feeling won’t last long. In the coming days, those plain white walls and their enclosed space will serve as a backdrop for hundreds of prints, paintings, installations, and performances created by local and regional artists who use Public Space One as a platform for their work. “We are a do-it-yourself space,” program director John Engelbrecht said. “We’re 95 percent volunteerrun, and we have a really loose skeletal organizational structure. We like being accessible to people.” Public Space One, 129 E. Washington St., will kick off its Week O’ Fun & Fundraisin’ beginning Friday with a silent auction. The event will run through the end of next week. “We have a lot of people from different circles,” Engelbrecht said.
“We want as many different groups during this week, not only to raise funds for themselves but also to raise awareness.” Throughout the week, events including readings, musical performances, and improv shows will take place at Public Space One. The artists are doing their part and hope the local community will too. “Its fundraising efforts are absolutely vital,” said Sarah Kanouse, a University of Iowa assistant professor of art. “It is a space that is doing some of the most interesting work, but it exists at the scale a little bit under what can get a larger type of grant.” She said the artist-run space is an important aspect to the structure of the Iowa City arts community. The start of a new year is a time for Public Space One to highlight what it has to offer to the community. “Anyone who comes here, I think finds, and I truly hope finds, something that they won’t find anywhere
else,” said Public Space One art director Eric Asboe. Engelbrecht said this week’s silent auction is the most lucrative component of the fundraising week and one of the year’s most important, as well. With the event now in its third year, Engelbrecht and Ashboe said they expect to receive bids from around $25 to a few hundred dollars for the hundreds of contributed pieces. “For the auction, we look for pieces that are both representative of the artist and representative of our space,” Asboe said. “In terms of the space, [we are] a nontraditional and alternative space that operates outside the commercial and school system.” In past years, in accordance with the gallery’s abstract atmosphere, auction pieces include art that goes beyond the expected sculpture or painting. For example, last year, one of the SEE PUBLIC SPACE ONE, 6B
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Iowa musician Ed Gray will bring his folk arrangements to the Mill on Jan. 22.
Underworld Awakening
By SAMANTHA GENTRY samantha-gentry@uiowa.edu
Ed Gray started playing shows before he started playing the guitar. Now, 20 years later, his unconventional style of creating music has made him an inspiration to musicians around Iowa City. “You start off making a lot of noise, and if you can get it to play loud enough, the guitar starts to play by itself,” Gray said. “From there, I started to learn chords and write songs.” Gray, with local musicians Doug Nye, Erik Whittaker, Eli Lueders, and Cale Pruess, will perform 9 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Admission is $6. The Clinton, Iowa, native may not have a traditional way of making music, but he hopes that his folk style communicates something a little deeper than what the audience may expect. “Unfortunately, folk music has come to be known as nothing more than a throwback to some ’60s-era ideal,” Gray said. “But it is currently the most representative entertainment tool that communicates thoughts and feelings.” Even though Gray is now in his mid-40s, performing is still a big part of his life, something that he isn’t quite ready to give up. Touring has become harder for him, but playing live at local venues, such as the Mill, keeps him going. “The Mill keeps asking me to play shows, so I feel kind of obligated, because it appeals to my ego, and it makes me think that a few folks might be interested in seeing and hearing what I still have to offer,” he said. “Live music is just about the only entertainment that still has the capacity to surprise or move you in ways that you aren’t expecting.” During the show at the Mill, he will accompany
Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as Selene for the Underworld series’ fourth installment. Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein directed the action/horror film in which humans have started a war against the Vampire and Lycan clans after discovering their existence. Fresh from imprisonment, Selene must join the battle against the humans.
Mission Creek announced earlier this week the artists that will join the preliminary lineup for its always anticipated festival. The new acts will include folk/root artist William Elliott Whitmore and Justin Townes Earle, Afro-beat legend Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Tim Hecker, hip-hop artist Black Milk, and comedians Jon Benjamin & Jon Glaser. The performers will join the
LECTURES
• Free Soul Dance Party, 9 p.m., Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington • Phantom Vibrations with Attic Party, Nebula Was, 9 p.m., Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn • The Robot Dentist, with MCK, 10 p.m., Gabe’s
• “Life in Iowa: Volunteering,” 5 p.m., 1117 University Capitol Centre • UI Museum of Natural History Explorers Seminar, Trina Roberts, 7 p.m., Macbride Auditorium
MISCELLANEOUS WORDS • Paul’s Book Club, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque
FILM • Campus Activities Board Movie, Drive, 10 p.m., 348 IMU
Friday 1.20
• Celebration of Human Rights, Community of Color, 4 p.m., Currier Multipurpose Room • Campus Activities Board Comedy, Tig Notaro, 10 p.m., Public Space One, 129 E. Washington
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MUSIC
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Ed Gray will be performing at The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St., on Friday.
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Ed Gray, with Doug Nye, Erik Whittaker, Eli Lueders, and Cale Pruess
Go online to listen: Edward Gray and Company’s “Chafe” from thier album The Old Bending River
friend Nye on the electric guitar. “[Nye] knows a lot of musicians here in town, and he is always looking for new people who are playing music so he can try to get them a leg up by putting them in shows,” Gray said. “When I play with him, I will add some folk flavor to his musical soufflé.” Nye said he finds it rather mind-blowing that Gray is even interested in playing with him — he was once an obsessed fan of Gray’s music. “[Gray] hasn’t followed the normal recipe for songwriting and has been almost like a child when exploring sounds that most musicians might be afraid to do,” Nye said. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, he explores a territory that I really enjoy, and he has shown me [how] to drop all the walls and confines of music and
reminded me to be a kid again.” Gray will be featured in several tracks on Nye’s album, which will be released later this year. “It’s flattering that he wants to play with me,” Nye said. “His experimentation would be the thing that really drives his music.” Whittaker, one of the other guitarists playing that evening, said he looks forward to musically diverse night at the Mill. “I”ve only seen [Gray] play a few times, but every time, it has been a very sincere, cathartic, and fuzzed-out experience,” he said. Gray believes that this show consists of a very strong lineup that features some of what he considers to be the best singer/songwriters in Iowa City and then of course him, “the biggest, oldest, cherry on top.” “It’s a Sunday night, so people have no excuse to do anything else,” he said. “Expose yourself to what the guy who’s bagging your groceries has got to say.”
indie-pop band the Magnetic Fields, comedian David Cross, and singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten, among around 16 other artists scheduled to participate. Andre Perry, the festival’s founder, said that the recent announcement speaks to the diversity of what the festival has to offer. “We are elated to host artists as varied and essential as Nigeria’s Afro-beat player Seun Kuti, Montréal’s ambient/electronic composer Tim Hecker, one of Detroit’s leading
rapper/producers Black Milk, and our very own banjo-playing Iowa native William Elliott Whitmore,” Perry said. “We are looking forward to a good time.” The Mission Creek Festival will begin March 27 and continue through April 1. All-access passes are currently available for purchase online at Midwestix and the Englert Theatre box office for $115. Tickets for individual shows are also available at Midwestix and respective venues. — by Samantha Gentry
When: 9 p.m. Jan. 20 Where: Mill, 120 E. Burlington Admission: $6
ARTS Mission Creek adds acts
MUSIC
In this dramatic movie directed by Stephen Daldry, Oskar (Thomas Horn) is trying to deal with the death of his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. After finding a key in his father’s closet Oskar begins a search through the city to find the lock that fits it and discover what he is sure will be a last message from his father.
AT THE BIJOU
WORDS • “Live from Prairie Lights,” Wapsipinicon Almanac, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights
FILM • Melancholia, 6:30 p.m., Bijou • The Skin I Live In, 9:15 p.m., Bijou • Campus Activities Board Movie, Drive, 10 p.m., 348 IMU
THEATRE • Guys on Ice: An Ice
Jet Edison, with Organic Underground Where: Yacht Club When: 9 p.m. Why you should go: The Colorado natives are more than just a traditional rock quartet ? they combine a blend of several different genres to create original songs with strong lyrics. Jet Edison has gained rapid recognition across the mountain area, and it was recently awarded Best Rock/Jam/Improv Band in Colorado.
Fishing Musical Comedy, 7:30 p.m. Riverside Theatre, 213 N. Gilbert
Melancholia In this psychological disaster movie directed by Lars von Trier, Melancholia, a blue planet, is on a collision course with Earth. Meanwhile, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) are in the middle of their wedding day, and Justine must deal with family tensions and a strained relationship with her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) as the end of the world draws closer.
BEER OF THE WEEK Ruthless Rye Our first beer of the week of 2012 is Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless Rye, a seasonal IPA from the seasoned brewers in Chico, Calif.
Drinkers are first met with a light front and a peppery, citrusy aroma. The Ruthless Rye ends with a spicy and citrus-hop finish. Aside from the Ruthless Rye being one of the best Sierra Nevada beers I’ve had, it also features the best artwork I’ve seen on one of the bottles. This spring seasonal brew replaces the Sierra Nevada’s Glissade, and according to Joe Hotek of John’s Grocery, it should be paired with any spice-laden dish. So drive through Taco Bell, douse your volcano burrito in fire sauce, and chase it with this delicious new beer. Cheers. – by Jordan Montgomery
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• Gone South, with Item 9, Madhatters, 9 p.m., Blue Moose, 211 Iowa • Dubstep for Dummies, 10 p.m., Gabe’s
Tracks from the Past— Led Zeppelin IV
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MUSIC • Ninth Anniversary Party, 3 p.m., Yacht Club • Punk Farms 2012, 7 p.m., Gabe’s • The Emilees, with Stinky Jones, Old Charlie, Sullivan Gang, 9 p.m., Mill
FILM • Melancholia, 4:15 & 9:30 p.m., Bijou • The Skin I Live In, 7 p.m., Bijou • Campus Activities Board Movie: Drive, 10 p.m., 348 IMU
THEATRE • Guys on Ice: An Ice
Quietdrive Where: Blue Moose When: 6 p.m. Saturday Why you should go: Quietdrive is back in Iowa City to promote its third full-length eponymous album. The alternative rock band from Minneapolis will share its new original songs and thought-provoking lyrics with audiences across the country.
Fishing Musical Comedy, 7:30 p.m. Riverside Theatre • Turn of the Screw, 8 p.m., Englert, 221 E. Washington
Sunday 1.22 MUSIC • Dead Larry Early All Ages Show, 5 p.m., Yacht Club • Ed Gray, with Doug Nye, Erik Whitaker, Eli Lueders, Cale Pruess, 9 p.m., Mill
FILM
• The Skin I Live In, 5:45 p.m., Bijou
THEATRE • Guys on Ice: An Ice Fishing Musical Comedy, 2 p.m., Riverside Theatre • Turn of the Screw, 2 p.m., Englert
• Melancholia, 3 p.m., Bijou
Do yourself a favor and newly discover or revisit Led Zeppelin IV. It is the best album created by one of the most prolific and wellknown rock and roll bands ever. The album, released on Nov. 8, 1971, has been listed in the hardrock, heavy-metal, and folk-rock genres. Led Zeppelin IV is one of the best-selling albums worldwide. The album has gone platinum 23 times, having sold 23 million units in the Unites States. It is the third-highest-selling album in the United States behind Michael Jackson’s Thiller and the Eagles’
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975). It is hard to highlight specific songs on the 45 minute and 25 second album because every one is a classic track that should never be forgotten. Led Zeppelin IV earned five-star ratings from Blender, Q Magazine, and Rolling Stone, and A-plus from “Entertainment Weekly.” Listen to this album, burn copies for your friends, ingrain the “Stairway to Heaven” introduction in the minds of your children. — by Jordan Montgomery
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Icy laughter, with beer BY JULIA JESSEN julia-jessen@uiowa.edu
Musicals are often known for swelling ballads and intricate dance numbers, not macho men clad in snowmobile suits and snow boots doing cartwheels and dancing the Charleston. The Riverside Theatre’s presentation of Guys on Ice: An Ice Fishing Musical Comedy doesn’t fit the stereotype. The show will open at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Riverside Theatre, 213 N. Gilbert St. “It’s about two or three guys whose whole world consists of ice-fishing, beers, the Packers, and having trouble with women,” said Ryan Westwood, the actor playing Ernie the Moocher in the show. “All of the jokes surround those four issues that sum up a lot of guys.” The musical focuses on the characters Lloyd and Marvin as they sit in their ice-fishing shanty in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Lloyd’s wife recently left him, and he can’t fathom why, and Marvin is falling in love with a local “checkout girl.” Both men long for their chance to appear on a cable icefishing show. “They remind me of my dad, and my dad’s friends, and my uncles, who looked at me funny for wanting to
Guys on Ice: An Ice Fishing Musical Comedy When: Jan. 20-Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m.Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays Where: Riverside Theatre, 213 N. Gilbert Admission: General public, $29; Over 60, $26; Under 30, $26, 18 and Under, $15 dance, sing, and paint,” said John Watkins, the actor portraying Lloyd. “They’re like those guys, but at the same time, they’re up there, and they’re singing, and they’re dancing.” The characters would be easy to turn into stereotypical caricatures of Midwestern men, but director and Riverside resident artist and production manager Ron Clark made sure to push the actors to keep every moment truthful. “The temptation is to turn them into cartoon, two-dimensional characters,” he said. “If you do that, the play loses its humor because it loses its heart.” This will be Riverside’s third time to produce the musical, but Clark said this year’s performance will be as fresh and hilarious as the first time the show tune “Ode to a Snowmobile Suit” rang across the stage.
Iowa City, IA- Ernie the mooch leads the audience in a cheer during the after-intermission "Half Time Show" at Guys on Ice. The musical opens this Friday at Riverside Theatre. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin) fishing, and hanging out “It’s the same score and it displays. “They just roll with laugh- with your best friend, and the same script, but the times have changed, and ter when they see this thing, they say ‘Oh, I can relate to the talent has changed, so and it’s so much fun to ride that,’ ” he said. He enjoyed working on people are going to see a those waves of laughter with the musical, he said, and it very different production them,” he said. Clark said he’s seen involves many belly laughs this year than in past women drag their hus- that come from heartfelt years,” he said. Watkins, who previously bands or boyfriends to see humor and joy. “This isn’t King Lear,” he held the role of Ernie the it, and couples leave recomMoocher, said that along mending the show to their said. “I’m not leaving my whole heart on the stage, with the musical’s tight friends. “It’s a lot of guys who I’m not opening a vein. I’m construction, and catchy and beautiful music, the might not usually go to a just having a great time element he enjoys most musical, but they hear that exploring this really funny, about Guys on Ice is the joy it’s about beer, football, heartfelt little comedy.”
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My reactions to Esquire’s 1,000 Things [I] Don’t Know about Women: • No. 107: “When we point out something sweet we saw another guy do, we want you to do it for us, too. Obviously.” (I shouldn’t get in the habit of expecting women to communicate directly. Got it.) • No. 110: “It’s not that we don’t know anything about sports, it’s that we know that you like explaining it so much.” (Besides not communicating directly, women are also liars who mistakenly think that men don’t find a basic understanding of sports sexy. Got it.) • No. 119: “We complain about you not listening but really have only heard two out of three of the last things you’ve said.” (Besides being poor communicators and straightup liars, women are also hypocrites. Got it.) • No. 621: “We know when our male friends have a crush on us. We just pretend we don’t so that you’ll fix things and take us places without us having to sleep with you. And we’re sorry.” (Women are sort of evil, but … they’re sorry about? But not really? I guess?) • No. 311: “We as women want to be independent, but it would be awesome if you could save us some money by paying for everything.” (Women are just … just … argh. THEY ARE EVIL.) • No. 15: “It’s not always chocolate or a foot massage. Sometimes it’s Johnnie Walker Black on the rocks.” (Yea! There’s a woman out there for meeee!) — Andrew R. Juhl thanks Matt Gorman for pointing him to this ridiculous Esquire article.
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ARIES March 21-April 19 Pick your battles. Stay active, and pursue your goals. A challenge will help you redirect your energy and focus on something worthwhile. Arguing will be a waste of time. Offer your experience and know-how to those in need. TAURUS April 20-May 20 Invest in you and your goals, not in someone else or in something that will not benefit you personally. Be careful not to let anyone take advantage of you emotionally or financially. Put your energy into advancement and recognition. GEMINI May 21-June 20 Look over your personal papers and take care of important correspondence. Learning a new skill or expanding your knowledge will help you get ahead. Discipline will enable you to complete an unfinished project. Relationship problems will surface. CANCER June 21-July 22 Don’t mix business with pleasure. Someone you like will try to use you to get ahead. Offer suggestions, but don’t promote someone or something unless you truly believe in the outcome. Conversations can lead to good fortune. Focus on home and family. LEO July 23-Aug. 22 You will aspire to great heights if you change your environment. A short trip or visiting someone who has something to offer you will give you a different perspective regarding the possibilities that exist. Think big, but don’t overstep your financial limits. VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Get out and try something new. Surround yourself with people who share your curiosity. Avoid emotional situations at home or with a partner who doesn’t see things your way. You might want to reevaluate your life and relationships. LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Enjoy the company of friends who like to try new things. A little adventure or a trip will keep you away from the responsibilities at home that are getting you down. Take a break from your everyday routine. SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 The time and effort you put into helping someone will lead to knowledge that will allow advancement in other ways. Working electronically to reach a wider variety of clients is apparent. Expand your business interests. SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Emotional matters will escalate. Avoid any sort of situation that might lead to verbal or physical abuse. Know when to step back and move on. A change at home will do you good and help you consider better options. CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Someone from your past may cause a problem for you now. Don’t give in to threats or blackmail. Back away from anyone trying to get something from you. Take control, and you will avoid a situation that could turn ugly. AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 A change of plans will work in your favor. Look at job opportunities and how you can tie in what you know and the experience you have in other fields that interest you. Raising your income should be the deciding factor. PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Stick to what you can do, not what you cannot. Worry will only lead to emotional turmoil and poor judgment. Offer assistance to someone who can contribute to your future goals. What you put in, you will get back.
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With players’ recent departures, do you still plan to buy football tickets next season? ‘I will definitely still buy tickets. College players aren’t around as long as professionals anyway, so I don’t get quite as attached to them.’
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PUBLIC SPACE ONE CONTINUED FROM 1B items up for bid was naming an art show at the space. Also, a Chicago-based music artist donated an offer to perform a cover song of the bidder’s choice. The gallery focuses on local art in order to create a between relationship artists and the community. “People like art that they know,” Engelbrecht said. “People want work from people they know. We do get work from other places,
and it’s great to be able to promote other artists.” This year, another anticipated auction piece is a sixmonth subscription to the Iowa City Community Supported Art program, which was launched in December. In this effort, a group of up to 15 art supporters in the area subscribe to the program for $350 and receive six pieces made by six local artists in a six-month period. The artists are paid $500 for the work they produce for the subscribers. “It was conceived as a way for people who like the idea of our art space and contemporary art activated in Iowa City but maybe not in a commercial way,” Engelbrecht said.
80 hours The model for this program is Community-Supported Agriculture. In this system, shareholders pledge support for local farmers in return for the goods that a season’s harvest yields, regardless of weather or economic variables. The art program provides opportunities for local artists to produce and sell their work as well as create a bond with community members at pickup and meet and greet events through the Public Space One platform. Public Space One contributors said that the space is vital to the tradition and future of art in Iowa City. “I think that Public
Space One is an absolute local gem,” Kanouse said. “It provides that interface between what the university does, which usually takes more money and brings in more established artists, and is a great resource for local and regional artists.” While Engelbrecht and Ashboe acknowledge the setbacks of running a public art gallery on a donation- and grant-dependent budget, they have a passion to remain inclusive of various interests in the Iowa City arts community. “There’s always a challenge, because we want to do a lot, and it takes time,” Engelbrecht said. “We do a minimal amount of grant writing, depending on vol-
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unteers, and we’re looking into the [Community-Supported Art] to support us a little bit.” Engelbrecht is the only paid employee of the gallery. More than 100 volunteers give hours of their time to creating art in the space. “Part of the mission that we have is to never have closed doors,” Ashboe said. “Something that drives me personally is that it becomes not just a place where I see exciting things happening but also the potential I see for other things to happen.” Russell Jaffe, a participant at Public Space One, echoes the mission of the local art space. He will present the Strange Cage reading and Zine Swap at 6
p.m. on Jan. 24. “I didn’t think places like PS1 existed in real life,” he said. “Only in the utopiansounding Wiki sites I read about my favorite artists.” After studying poetry in Chicago and working on his literary trade in New York City, Jaffe knew moving to Iowa City would be a big change in all aspects of his life. He said Public Space One provided an outlet for his creativity. “I had never been to [a gallery] quite like Public Space One that I felt was doing so much good for the community. It’s an art scene for the same types of people who know about that scene,” he said. “It practiced what it preached about accessible points of entry.”