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DAILYIOWAN.COM POLL: How long can you go without using Facebook? I don’t use it — 14 percent I could stop for good — 37 percent A dance class led by Leslie Nolte of Nolte Academy of Dance works with patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease on Feb. 29. The dancing helps improve motor skills in patients with the disease. (The Daily Iowan/Jacklyn Couppee)
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Approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease each year. By DORA GROTE dora-grote@uiowa.edu
Bob McCown has Parkinson’s disease. But it didn’t keep him from twisting and turning to
Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up ” last week. And he wasn’t alone. The 72-year-old is a member of a local dance class led by Leslie Nolte of Nolte Academy of Dance, 1801 Second St., Coralville, that works with patients such as McCown to help them increase their mobility. “I think it’s pretty huge that you can surprise yourself with what you can do,” Nolte said during a class. “Parkinson’s says you can’t, but in here, we kind of break rules. Music and movement
keep you young.” Parkinson’s disease is a slowly progressing neurological disease resulting in the loss of dopamineproducing brain cells. McCown, who was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1992, said Tuesday — the day of the class — has become his favorite day of the week. In November 2011, the Eastern Iowa Parkinson’s support group, led by Judi Gust, joined with Nolte to offer the dance class for patients diagnosed with Parkin-
son’s. Recent research from the American Society of Neurorehabilitation detected a link between dancing and improving motor skills in patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s often experience loss of balance and coordination and slowed movement as the disease progresses. Gust, 73, who is married to McCowns, said roughly seven SEE PARKINSON'S, 3
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A dancer stands backstage at University of Iowa’s Nachte Raho over the weekend in the IMU Main Ballroom. The intercollegiate dance competition is sponsored by the UI Indian Student Alliance. The event featured 10 dance teams from six universities with a special showcase for Iowa’s teams. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin)
The former University of Iowa student killed in Afghanistan last week is believed to be just the second serviceman killed overseas after being deployed from the university since the Vietnam era. Chicago native Conner Lowry was reportedly killed March 1 while serving in the Marines in Afghanistan; he had been deployed in October 2011. He was attending the UI when he was enlisted. “The way we always Lowry described it was not if he former UI student was coming home, but when he was coming home,” said UI graduate Connor Brackin, a childhood friend and college roommate of Lowry’s. “You never SEE MARINE, 3
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Stepping up against diabetes A University of Iowa sophomore created a student organization to support juvenilediabetes research. By HANNAH KRAMER hannah-kramer@uiowa.edu
Many freshman college students deal with the high chances of catching mono or strep throat while living in the crowded, close living quarters of the dorms. Less likely is the potential that one of these common illnesses spirals into developing a life-changing disease. Sarah McCaffrey, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in December 2010, got the autoimmune deficiency from an onset of mono that attacked her pancreas’s beta cells during her freshman year of college at the University of Iowa. “When something like this happens, you can either let it bring you down or you can take advantage of it,” she said. After her diagnosis, McCaffrey began adjusting to life with diabetes as a college student. The insulin shots and dietary changes
were one part of her new lifestyle, but even more difficult was finding an outlet where she could talk about how the change was an emotional challenge. “I was having one of those bad diabetes days, and I thought ‘I just need to meet other people who have it,’ ” she said. “I couldn’t find anything [on campus].” That’s when she took matters into her own hands and created an organization on campus, Steps to a Cure, to support diabetes research and bring together students who deal with the disease or simply support the cause. “I think she’s always been very determined and interested in helping other people,” said Veronica McCaffrey, Sarah’s mother. Sarah McCaffrey, who studies social work and linguistics at the UI, said she wants to provide an understanding of the disease for people who are ignorant about it, as she admits she was before her diagnosis. “Honestly, the biggest challenge is other people and how they understand it,” the 19-year-old Iowa City native said. The Steps to a Cure organization has around 40 members, and several joined because they are friends of McCaffrey.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS University of Iowa sophomore Sarah McCaffrey stands behind the table for her student organization Steps for a Cure during the volunteer information fair in August 2011. McCaffrey started the organization to support diabetes research and bring together students who deal with the disease after she was diagnosed with the disease in December 2010. (Contributed Photo) “I thought it was surprising that there wasn’t anything remotely close to a diabetes organization,” said Ryan Klingensmith, the group’s treasurer and a friend of McCaffrey. “Sarah was my drive to get involved.” The 5K race last fall raised around $500, McCaffrey said, and on April 21, Steps to a Cure will host its second 5K. McCaffrey and her team hope that the upcoming race will see even more support for the cause after the first big event. In addition
to large efforts such as the 5K, the group also hosts educational talks about life with diabetes, and smaller events such as car washes to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. McCaffrey takes her recent diagnosis in an optimistic light, and she said it has taught her a lot about herself. “I actually discovered how strong I really am,” she said. “It’s a lot, it’s a weight, but I’m definitely a lot more empathetic and understanding and am willing to help people more now.”
presence of defendant Lillie Will Williams’ because of the age of the alleged victim, the nature of the alleged offense, and the potential harm to the victims, according to court documents. The child, having allegedly witnessed the setting or settings of a fire that resulted in the death of his cousin, has resulted in the child suffering significant trauma. Brian Sissel, one of Williams’ attorneys, said he didn’t know if it’s Constitutionally valid to close the courtroom to the media and public, but he understands the concern of the prosecution. Attorneys and other valid parties will be allowed at the hearing, but Miller has yet to issue an order regarding Williams’ presence. — by Beth Bratsos
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Sunday that United States will not hesitate to attack Iran with military force to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but he cautioned that “too much loose talk of war” recently has only helped Tehran and driven up the price of oil. Speaking to a powerful proIsrael lobby, Obama appealed to Israel for more time to let sanctions further isolate Iran. He sought to halt a drumbeat to war with Iran and hold off a unilateral Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear
facilities. “For the sake of Israel’s security, America’s security, and the peace and security of the world, now is not the time for bluster,” Obama told thousands at the annual American-Israel Public Affairs Committee’s policy conference. “Now is the time to let our increased pressure sink in, and to sustain the broad international coalition that we have built.” Quoting Theodore Roosevelt, Obama said he would “speak softly, but carry a big stick” — and warned Iran not to test U.S. resolve. Obama’s widely anticipated speech came one day before he meets at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who planned to address the group late today. Three GOP presidential-nomination candidates — Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich — were scheduled to speak to the conference via satellite on Tuesday, a critical day in the campaign when 10 states vote. To Israel and to Jewish voters in this country, Obama promoted his administration’s commitment to the Mideast ally. “You don’t have to count on my words. You can look at my deeds,” Obama said. He defended his record of rallying to Israel’s security and political sovereignty, saying: “We have been there for Israel. Every single time.” — Associated Press
with keeping a disorderly house and public intoxication. Douglas McCurn, 31, 1100 Arthur St. Apt. J8, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Ethan Neitzel, 22, Coralville, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Layla Pena, 20, 307 S. Linn St. No. 107, was charged March 3 with PAULA. Kayla Pins, 18, Earlville, Iowa, was charged March 2 with possessing or supplying of alcohol under 21. Jaren Quigle, 28, 739 Bay Ridge Drive, was charged March 3 with public intoxication. Blake Robinson, 28, Coralville, was charged March 2 with fifth-degree criminal mischief, third-degree theft, and public intoxication. David Robinson , 35, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 4005, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Ozzie Rostick , 46, address unknown, was charged Feb. 28 with criminal trespassing and public intoxication. Megan Ruzich, 19, Orland Park, Ill., was charged March 2 with PAULA. Conner Ryan, C222 Hillcrest, was charged March 2 with PAULA. David Sass, 34, West Liberty, was charged Feb. 29 with possession of drug paraphernalia. William Schulz, 19, 341 Slater, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.
Evan Selsor, 19, N271 Hillcrest, was charged Feb. 28 with public intoxication. Christian Setzer , 21, Amana, Iowa, was charged March 3 with public intoxication. Jordan Sinkler, 19, Davenport, was charged Feb. 29 with unlawful use of a driver’s license, public urination, public intoxication, and interference with official acts. Lawrence Steele, 58, 332 Ellis Ave. No. 35, was charged March 1 with driving while license revoked. Daquan Thomas, 23, 1282 Dolan Place, was charged March 3 with OWI. Christopher Varcadipane , 18, North Liberty, was charged Sunday with OWI. Yevgeniya, Vetokhina, 19, 412 N. Dubuque, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours and unlawful use of a driver’s license/ID of another. Mary Wright, 18, S002 Currier, was charged March 2 with public intoxication. Stephanie Yousif , 18, E16 Hillcrest, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours. Kaley Zimmerman , 19, 815 E. Burlington St., was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours and PAULA.
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NATION Businesses go to court to stop Von Maur deal Business entities across Iowa City are asking the Johnson County District Court to temporarily prohibit the proceeding of a real-estate transfer of the Sycamore Mall department store Von Maur to Coralville. The city of Coralville has set up various agreements with an independent contractor, Oliver McMillan, and Von Maur to transfer the property to Coralville. Transactions include granting McMillan the exclusive right to develop the new property site for fees above $3 million, a $1.5 million grant allowing Oliver McMillan to purchase the Von Maur property and then sell it to Von Maur Inc, and a $9.4 million grant for Von Maur to construct a new department store, according to court documents. The lawsuit alleges these transactions are unlawful and will have devastating effects on local individual business interests and economic development as a whole, as well as home property values. It also claims the actions should be prohibited because the Von Maur deal was “constructed and put in place under the radar, through undisclosed, private deals that avoided the critically important transparency and fairness of normal bid and request for proposals process.” Gerry Ambrose, Thomas Bender, Steven McCoy, Kevin O’Brien, Hunter Parks, Randy Miller,
Douglas Paul, Garry Hamdorf, and 18 businesses applied for a preliminary injunction on the Von Maur deal, which they said would result in “great and irreparable injury to Johnson County developers, businesses, taxpayers, and residents.” A hearing on the application for preliminary injunction is scheduled for March 20 at the Johnson County Courthouse. — by Beth Bratsos
Judge tells prosecution to produce documents A judge on March 2 ordered that the state produce documents regarding a 5-year-old witness in a case involving an Iowa City woman who allegedly started a fire that killed a 14-year-old boy. Assistant Johnson County prosecutor Anne Lahey said she originally didn’t provide child-abuse assessments and juvenile-court records involving the witness to the defense because the material was confidential. The order issued by 6th District Judge Paul Miller requires the prosecution to produce the documents and the defense to file supplemental writings expressing legal authority to receive the information. The court will decide if the documents are relevant to the case. Miller also agreed the hearing determining the competency of the witness be closed to the media and public. Lahey originally asked the hearing be closed to the public and not in the
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BLOTTER Ryan Blanton, 22, 1100 Arthur St. Apt. G1, was charged March 2 with assault causing injury. Delaney Boldman, 18, 100 Slater No. 834, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours. Benjamin Burnham, 24, 505 E. Burlington St. Apt. 16C, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Javonte Carter, 24, 2013 Kountry Lane No. 203, was charged Feb. 27 with driving while license revoked. William Chang, 19, 2207 Quad, was charged Feb. 29 with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Garland Coble III, 35, Chicago, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Christopher Considine , 23, Bettendorf, was charged March 3 with public intoxication. Daveon Curry, 18, 2640 Whispering Prairie, was charged Oct. 20, 2011, with domestic assault Alexander Dean , 22, 1 Arbor Circle, was charged March 3 with disorderly conduct and public intoxication. Joshua Doyle , 27, Bettendorf, was charged March 2 with public intoxication. Jose Duran, 22, 526 S. Johnson St. Apt. 8, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Adalberto Ervies, 39, 311 Melrose
Court, was charged March 2 with OWI. Kristen Fijal, 19, 225 S. Gilbert No. 2711, was charged March 1 with presence in a bar after hours. Ioanna Florakos, 18, 808 Slater, was charged March 2 with obstruction of an officer and presence in a bar after hours. Kyle Gardiner, 23, North Liberty, was charged March 2 with OWI. Taylor Geyer, 20, 1848 W. Benton St. Apt. 304, was charged March 3 with OWI. Mary Goodall, 23, Des Moines, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Jasmine Grindeland, 19, 123 Iowa Ave. No. 6, was charged March 1 with presence in a bar after hours. Derik Heal, 26, address unknown, was charged Feb. 16 with with violating a no-contact domesticabuse protective order. Lorenzo Johnson, 29, Coralville, was charged Jan. 16 with possession of marijuana. Tyler Kamperschroer, 21, 522 S. Dubuque St. Apt. 4, was charged Sunday with keeping a disorderly house. Jared Lettow, 18, Urbandale, was charged Sunday with public intoxication. Brooke Luckenbill , 20, 230 Ronalds St., was charged March 2 with presence in bar after hours. Adam Meyers, 21, 522 S. Dubuque S Apt. 4, was charged Sunday
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PARKINSON'S CONTINUED FROM 1 people attend the group each week. “It’s the combination of people and music,” she said. “It encourages Parkinson’s patients to keep moving even though they can feel tired and stiff. It really inspires my husband, and I think it’s really helped him.” For 45 minutes every Tuesday, the group of roughly seven gathers to twirl scarves, balance beanbags, wiggle their feet, and stretch. Nolte said she changes the class’ dances and styles every week to keep it interesting for the participants. “I continue to find differ-
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really thought about [him not coming home] because it was Conner — you thought nothing would ever happen to him.” Brackin said the 24-yearold always took care of everyone and always knew how to make people smile. “He always lit up the room he came in,” he said. “He was a really special person. He always took care of his friends and family. If anything happened, he was always the first one there.” Members of the UI Veterans Association also mourned the loss of Lowry. “These are our brothers,” said UI Veterans Center coordinator John Mikelson. “We are saddened by each and every loss because these are the people that are doing the jobs we help.” Mikelson said Lowry is one of only two students since Vietnam to be killed
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ent ways to work the muscle groups without them knowing it,” Nolte said. “I got to know everyone first and their limits. We work everyone out without exceeding anyone’s limits.” Though aerobic exercise and dance may be helpful for patients, there is no specific scientific evidence to prove that it actually combats the disease, said Ergun Uc, a University of Iowa associate professor of neurology. “Dance can have an effect on the disease course itself, but it’s different than benefits in terms of improving the systems,” Uc said. “It does not necessarily mean it is slowing the progression of the disease.” Scientists around the world are conducting research regarding the effects of dance on physical
ailments. “Dance has many different levels where it helps patients in different ways,” Uc said. “Dance or aerobic exercise are all promising that they can slow the progression and perhaps other diseases as Alzheimer’s.” Participant Pat Fountain, 65, said the class has kept her Parkinson’s-diagnosed husband Ralph, 66, mobile. “It helps him with stiffness and rigidity,” she said. “It’s a fun activity with a group of people that helps you and makes you feel great.” And the group keeps her motivated, too. “It’s better than trying to do it at home,” she said. “The group has the same needs, and everyone here is trying to do it for the same purpose.”
in combat after being called up while enrolled at the UI. “Other than those two, we haven’t lost anybody since,” Mikelson said. “Our sympathies go out to his family and friends here in the Iowa City area.” The Daily Iowan was unable to reach Lowry’s family as of Sunday evening. Other UI veterans said they feel the pang of Lowry’s death. “When you’re in combat, you’re always thinking of your family and friends,” UI sophomore and veteran Andrew Robertson said. “Truthfully, you don’t really think about [death] and you don’t think about you’re own life. It’s horrible for the family [that loses someone in combat] because they’re not going to see each other again.” Robertson said coming back to the UI after being in Afghanistan has been a huge adjustment. “It’s kind of hard just because you’re used to having structure, s*** that
you’re supposed to do each day,” he said. “You get back into college, and everything’s on you.” Unlike Lowry, UI Veterans Association President Amanda Irish said most military students at the UI had served full-time before they came to the university. “The vast majority of our students have fulfilled their service obligations after being on active duty,” she said. “We do also have a number of students in the Guard and Reserve components.” Irish said students who deploy after graduation usually consist of those in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Robertson said he saw few college students during his tour as well. “There was only a handful — I’d say maybe 10 in my platoon,” he said. “The sergeants all have college education, but they’ve also been out of school for a while. The other guys have mostly been going to school and haven’t graduated yet.”
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METRO Democratic legislator says he’ll run against Loebsack Sen. Joe Seng, D-Davenport said he plans to run against Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register. Seng said he wants to run because he said he believes a moderate Democrat would help create some needed change, according to the Register. He has collected around 150 signatures since the morning of March 2, according to the Register; he needs 1,229 to get on the ballot. Seng has until March 16 to get the signatures. Seng is serving his third term as senator but is not up for reelection this year. He also served a term in the Iowa House and was a former mayor pro tem and alderman at large in Davenport, according to the Register. He is also a veterinarian who was in favor of the “Ag Gag” bill, according to the Register. Loebsack’s campaign declined to comment on Seng’s plans to run. — by Jordyn Reiland
Trial set in endangerment case A trial date has been set for an Iowa City woman charged with child endangerment. Natasha Kriener, 26, 2018 Waterfront Drive, was charged Feb. 15 with child endangerment causing bodily injury after the father of her 23-month-old child took the child to the doctor after reportedly noticing signs of poor balance. The child was diagnosed with intoxication and had a .09 blood alcohol concentration, according to court documents. Authorities say Kriener is the primary custody holder of the child. Sixth District Judge Sean McPartland on March 2 ordered that Kriener be released from custody under the supervision of
the Department of Correctional Services. Release conditions replacing Kriener’s $20,000 bond include the requirement she undergo further assessments, evaluations, and recommended treatments, including intensive outpatient treatment. McPartland also ordered Kriener make no contact with her two children until further notice. Kriener’s attorney, Dennis Cohen, said she had a very strong case for release because she has obtained a substanceabuse evaluation, she has no criminal history, and her children are with their father, among other items. A pretrial conference is scheduled for June 1, and the trial is set to begin June 12. — by Beth Bratsos
CR man faces drug charges A Cedar Rapids man was charged with a controlled-substance violation and distribution without a tax stamp. According to an Iowa City police complaint, Andre Gervin Jr., 23, was charged March 2 with a controlled-substance violation and distribution without a tax stamp. Officers had previously received an anonymous tip about Gervin and approached him as he was getting off a bus, according to police officials. After searching Gervin, police officials allegedly found two ounces of Ecstasy in tablet form and more than 100 separate tablets. Police allege that Gervin admitted it was Ecstasy and that he intended to sell it. Distribution without a tax stamp is a Class-D felony, and controlled-substance violation is a Class-C felony. — by Jordyn Reiland
CR man charged with assault A Cedar Rapids man was charged with assault causing
bodily injury. According to an Iowa City police complaint, Travis Clark, 27, was charged March 3 with assault causing bodily injury. Clark and the victim were driving when Clark allegedly started driving recklessly and pushed the victim’s head into the dashboard. Clark also sent the victim a text saying he would “make this as painful as possible” and another that said “I’ll show you pain,” according to a complaint. Assault causing bodily injury is a serious misdemeanor and is punishable of up to one year in jail and a maximum fine of $1,875. — by Jordyn Reiland
School District acknowledges withholding documents The Iowa City School District admitted last week it wrongfully withheld documents requested under Iowa’s open records law. District parent Edwin Stone and former district assistant physical-plant director David Gurwell filed a lawsuit in April 2011 alleging the district did not provide them with records — pertaining to a series of district construction projects — requested between 2009 and 2011. According to correspondence between Stone and Gurwell’s lawyer and the district, the district acknowledged the documents Stone and Gurwell requested were pursuant to the Iowa Open Records Act. The district will also pay Stone and Gurwell $4,769.84 in court fees. The lawsuit named Superintendent Steve Murley, former district executive director of administrative services Paul Bobek, and all seven members of the School Board prior to the most recent board elections. — by Luke Voelz
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Should classes be suspended after a HawkAlert is issued? No HawkAlert doesn’t necessarily have the best trackrecord as an emergency system. I speak from personal experience when I say that my mother usually hears about these so-called “threats” hours before I do. And on many an occasions, I have been in a discussion or lecture when a fellow classmate or professor remarks, “Did anyone hear about this guy with a knife or something?” Just before Thanksgiving break, on Nov. 14, 2011, a potential armed suspect who apparently posed a supposed safety threat to the university was found and arrested 30 miles away from the University of Iowa campus. There is also some discrepancy as to how long it took for the consequential HawkAlert to be issued and if — when issued — it was even timely. Thus, the actual efficiency of the program in the first place is somewhat questionable. HawkAlert’s ability to prompt class suspension should be reserved for real, pressing, large-scale threats that have been confirmed and directly concern the immediate well-being of students on campus. The purpose of the HawkAlert is to alert students and staff when there is a situation that might pose a potential threat to the health or safety of the university environment. Its purpose is not to retard academic progress or regulate daily life. This a simple issue of power, nothing more. A system that has evident flaws and inconsistencies should not be afforded the authority of adversely affecting the fluidity or productivity of a school day — especially when so many of the alerts seem to involve a “possible armed suspect.” The result of temporary class-suspensions in the event of a HawkAlert would mean the fragmentation of academic subject-matter, the interruption of lectures, the readjusting of syllabi, and an overall inconvenience for the masses on campus. Allowing HawkAlert to affect our daily lives any more than it already has would be regretful. But HawkAlert does exist for more than just creating an awareness of local perps. It was also created to alert students and staff of natural disasters and severe on-campus security breaches. So, this is a circumstantial issue. If there’s a tornado, please call off classes. If there’s a student playing Dirty Harry in MacLean, shoot me a text so I can hop on my 10 speed and get out of there. But when it comes to Ped
Mall crazies and guys who steal cell phones from pedestrians, spare me the news, because I’m here for an education. — Samuel Cleary
Yes I’m one of those guys who likes to curl up in a ball when there’s trouble. Call me a coward, but I think staying alive is more important when starring down a barrel of a gun. That’s why UI should cancel or postpone classes when there is a HawkAlert — because it is a life-or-death situation. It’s always the same process. There’s the text message or the phone call with some vague recording — the last of which was a gunman on campus. I usually don’t know what to do, whether to stay inside even if I have class and get docked attendance points or go outside and risk getting robbed at knife point. You would think my priorities would be clear in this situation, but when you get 2 percentage-points per absence, you don’t want to miss class. Ever. And there is no precedent for it. Of course, I don’t know many professors who would take off points if one of their students was robbed or mugged, but I can imagine a professor thinking a student is abusing the HawkAlert to get out of class. If UI had a clear-cut policy concerning attendance and HawkAlerts, then the procedure would be streamlined. If you have a reasonable fear against going outside, then you should not have to go to class. No student should be made to go outside if a gunman is loose and in the area. This is why UI should make it clear and cancel classes when there is a HawkAlert. If the situation warrants a HawkAlert, it most likely warrants classes being postponed until the safety of the students is relatively certain. But until then, once I get that text message, I will curl up into the fetal position on the floor, and not go outside until the UI police tell me it is safe. — Benjamin Evans Your turn. Should classes be suspended after HawkAlerts? Weigh in at dailyiowan.com.
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Response to ‘de facto segregation’ I read Chris Steinke’s column, “Digging into de facto racial segregation,” last week in The Daily Iowan, and I would like to express my thoughts and perspectives coming from someone with Asian heritage (Korean), yet distinctly American. I was born and raised in Chicago (yes, the real city of Chicago) and moved to a majority white suburb (greater than 90 percent) and have lived in either of
those areas for all of my life. That being said, I do not identify myself as a Korean nor American. To quote Diogenes, “I am a citizen of the world.” And it is always disheartening to realize that other people will judge me for the way that I look rather than for the person I am. I had to deal with it nearly my entire life, and coming to a university full of white, suburban kids, I have found and will continue to find a diversity of friends. As a freshman, there have been at least a dozen times where people thought I was Chinese or spoke Chinese, in which I reply, in perfect
English, that I don’t. That being said, all of the friends I have met here are white, and indeed nearly all of my best friends back at home are white. I don’t fully agree with the notion that racial segregation is the issue at hand — rather, it is a segregation of culture. As Steinke said, the language barrier is perhaps part of the reason, but the issue here seems that the Chinese international students don’t want to socialize with Americans and vice versa — or perhaps its like Steinke said and we’re just scared of each other.
Granted that there may be a few students here that are genuinely racist, I have never encountered them, and I consider take the UI Meme Facebook page as just typical stereotyping and the white kid’s frustration with dealing with the influx of international students. Although I am not an international student, I am often treated like such, and although I have had no problems, I attribute that to the fact I can relate to everyone on a cultural level more than a racial one. Michael Choi UI student
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Emergencies: Protect yourself An ambulance screeches to a halt at the entrance of the University of Iowa Hospital’s Emergency Department. A 20-yearold college student is pulled out from the ambulance and rushed into the emergency department as healthcare professionals sprint to the patient. As the emergencyroom doctor runs in, he yells, “Do we have a name on this patient? Have we contacted the family?” Unfortunately, this 20-year-old is unconscious and unable to provide any information to the health-care providers. Think about it. If you were the patient in this situation, how would first-responders or emergency-care providers contact your family or caregivers? As of 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that 1.6 million emergency-room patients could not provide contact information because of some sort of impairment. There is a solution to this problem. “In Case of Emergency” is an application that can be easily programmed into your cell phone to include important information in the event that an emergency or accident would happen to you. Although the campaign is just gaining publicity in the United States, it has proven successful in the United Kingdom since 2005. Paramedic Bob Brotchie began the campaign in May 2005, and it began to receive wide attention after the London terrorist bombings, on July 7, 2005. Working as a paramedic, Brotchie understood the importance of having all necessary medical information at the time of an emergency, rather than hours later. The campaign was initiated to create an international symbol that could be
used for this purpose. If you do not have a smart phone, you can program your cell phone with the acronym ICE in your contact list, followed by the names and phone numbers of those whom you wish to be notified in an emergency. Also, with the increasing emergence of smart phones, the applications are becoming available for download, allowing pertinent medical information and emergency contacts to be stored conveniently in your cellular devices. This information may include allergies, major medical conditions, medicalinsurance information, current medications, and past medical procedures. Having this information readily available to emergency personnel allows for improved safety with the delivery of medical care and saves hours of searching for medical information when no one is available to communicate it. Downloading the application is simple. All you have to do is search for the application in your iPhone store or Android market. There are a variety of applications available for download, each with varying components. Choose the application that best fits your needs. Now is the time to act. Talk with family members or friends that you would like to include as your contacts. Teach them about the initiative, and help them store this vital information in their phones as well. Don’t assume that accidents only happen to other people. The fact is, anything can happen to any of us, so we must be prepared. Program your contacts, download your application, and protect yourself in case of an emergency. This editorial is provided by Larissa Buelow, Hannah Dunn, Stephanie Johnson, Michelle McNeil, Jessica Rhode, Hannah Swanson, and Stephany Walk are seniors in the UI College of Nursing. Their goal is to help promote improved safety and quality of emergency care.
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Neuzil responds to ‘attacks,’ works on Justice Center It is a shame to the integrity of this office the deplorable bullying tactics, name-calling, swearing innuendos, half-truths, emails, and other means that two members of the Board of Supervisors have done to try to force my hand and vote their way on the financing of the Justice Center. I will stand up for my convictions and will work to find an agreement that a majority of us can agree on. I came into Feb. 29 meeting with a notion that we would seek compromise; instead, it was nothing but a “do it my way” or we’ll put our hands up and quit working on the Justice Center issue and blame you, and only you, for killing it. To create a more safe and secure courthouse and jail, the Justice Center project would utilize our existing Courthouse, phase out the existing jail and would
include a new five-level Justice Center on the hill behind the Courthouse. It would have full construction of a 243-bed Jail and Sheriff’s Office, new space for the Clerk of Court, five additional courtrooms and judge’s chambers, additional office space and programming for treatments and alternatives, a new secure entrance way into the existing Courthouse, and all site development on the Courthouse block including 50 parking spaces. To help save money in the bond vote request, the board agreed we would reduce the size and scope of the architects’ full cost of the Justice Center Project from $53.197 million to $48.123 million. We would do so by eliminating existing Courthouse remodeling and renovation for the county attorney and meeting rooms ($3,130,091). We would also eliminate com-
pletion (shelling) of two new courtrooms in the new facility ($425,000), eliminate a new 64-space parking lot on the south block ($250,000), and reduce additional project soft costs ($1,269,521). With all five supervisors in agreement, we looked at using all of the County’s Capital Reserves Fund of $5.2 million, bringing the costs associated with a voter approved bond vote of $42.9 million. I was the holdout on that number. My goal was to put “more skin” into the process in an effort to show to taxpayers that our board would sacrifice and tighten our belt on future priorities, just as we are asking residents to tighten their belt in support of a bond referendum. My original number was to keep the bond-request at or near $39 million as what the Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee had agreed to and come up with
an additional $4 million by doing a combination of strategies. These include using future debt-service bonding. By doing so, we would not be saving dollars, but we would be encumbering those dollars toward this project and not be putting it into other priorities. I was lambasted as “playing politics” by Supervisor Rod Sullivan and was repeatedly told that this was “dishonest” by Supervisor Janelle Rettig. Without consensus, I then compromised my position by meeting halfway to $40.9 million, agreeing to just using future capital-improvement dollars in fiscal years 2014 and 2015, equaling $2 million. Again, no consensus, particularly out of concern of “making” a future board put those dollars toward the project, even though we have funding “placeholder” mechanisms — through
trust-accounts within the budget — if a future board could not meet that obligation. I then offered to look at ballot language that would include selling the existing jail building and applying those dollars toward the project. Unfortunately, namecalling and other bullying tactics prevailed drowning out any chance for this idea or any other issue to have future discussion. We left the meeting without unanimous consent and some members of the board declaring the Justice Center was over. Despite the rhetoric, the Justice Center is not dead. Late on March 2, I was requested by Sullivan to identify proposals for the board to review for a meeting that we have scheduled for this coming Wednesday at 2 p.m. That information has been forwarded, through an organizational
chart that I have developed, to the Board and to members of the coordinating committee. Wednesday’s meeting is essential because it will allow our county financial team, including members of the Treasurer’s Office and other financial experts, to finally have a look at all of the proposals. In the end, there will be compromise to place this issue on the ballot for the people to decide. I also believe our finance team will likely scrutinize my plan and the majority’s plan and will give us a third option that likely will show more caution toward the Reserves Fund. I will plan to keep an open mind and can only hope others will respecfully do so as well. Terrence L. Neuzil is an elected supervisor of Johnson County.
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Regents back marketing Iowa sees little identity theft The UI has a $170,000 partnership with Mind Over Media. By KRISTEN EAST kristen-east@uiowa.edu
Despite marketing efforts at all three state Board of Regents’ universities, school officials support the regents’ new “Iowa Brand” campaign. The regents approved an agreement last week with ZLRignition, a marketing communications firm based in Des Moines. “The University of Iowa is supportive of the board’s initiative as another means, along with ongoing outreach efforts at each university, to demonstrate the profound impact that public higher education has on Iowa’s future,” said Tysen Kendig, the University of Iowa vice president for Strategic Communication. Regent Robert Downer told The Daily Iowan last week the creation of an “Iowa Brand” would help garner more nonresident enrollment. In recent years, each regent university has paid thousands for similar assistance. The UI already has a one-year $170,000 partnership with Mind Over Media, and officials expect to complete work with the firm this summer. Kendig was unable to cite specific outcomes of the partnership with the Pittsburgh-based marketing firm because research is still in progress.
“Our relationship with Mind Over Media is to conduct research that will guide our communication efforts for years to come,” he said. John McCarroll, the executive director of university relations at Iowa State, said the Board of Regents’ agreement with ZLRignition will bring similar positive results to the state. “ZLRignition is a very good firm; there’s a lot of good expertise there, and I think they’ll be very helpful,” he said. “… It’s certainly helpful to bring in officials.” Iowa State has partnered with ZLRignition for more than 10 years. Marc Harding, the director of admissions and enrollment services at Iowa State, said ZLRignition helped the university launch its “Adventure” recruitment campaign in 2005 to reverse a trend in declining admissions applications. “Undergraduate enrollment has been steadily increasing during the past five years,” Harding said. “I believe the work that [ZLRignition] has done for Iowa State has contributed to a greater awareness of Iowa State and enrollment growth.” Marketing officials for Iowa State were unable to provide specific contractual costs because fees have var-
ied over the years. The school’s current contract with ZLRignition runs through September 2014. One marketing expert said the number of colleges and universities partnering with marketing firms has skyrocketed in the last three years. “It’s mostly due to the fact that in the past colleges and universities have been poor marketers,” said Elizabeth Scarborough, the CEO of a Virginia-based marketing research firm. “In the last five or 10 years, they’ve learned that their brand is an asset, and it needs to be managed.” The University of Northern Iowa had a $113,000 contract with Edge Partnerships, a Lansing-based marketing firm, from 20092010. The firm helped UNI launch its “I Am … UNI” brand initiative two years ago. James O’Connor, the executive director of university relations at UNI, said though the school no longer has funds to work with outside sources, it’s important for the school to utilize its own resources. “Our budget has been cut so severely so we’re not doing anything now,” he said. “[But] we’ve always done [marketing] internally,” he said. “We always want to conduct research on a regular basis.”
Some surprised by street news By JENNY EARL jennifer-earl@uiowa.edu
Iowa City leaders say they’ve heard positive feedback from business owners about a plan to alter Washington Street, but that’s news to some business owners who say they didn’t know about the project until they read about it in the news last week. “I have not heard about it from the city or anybody,” said Benjamin Chait, the owner of Chait Galleries Downtown, 218 E. Washington St. He said it wasn’t until the news got out last week about the construction that he was informed about the project. City officials announced on March 2 that construction would likely begin next week on Washington Street, converting it to a two-way street. The street was made into a one-way in 1976 as a part of the city’s urban-renewal project. Kristopher Ackerson, a transport planner for the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Johnson County, said officials first considered converting the street following resident input on an Iowa City 2008 bicycle master plan. Officials talked to downtown business owners and the Downtown Association to explain the benefits of the transformation, he said. The project is estimated to cost $60,000 though a construction company hasn’t been selected. “[We] explained the other benefits like making it easier for people to find parking and easier for visitors to find their destination Ackerson downtown,” said.Though Louise Rauh, a designer at Iowa Artisans Gallery, 207 E. Washington St., supports the change, she, too, was not informed about a meeting between city officials and business owners. “I think it will help,” she said. “I think it will just make downtown less complicated to get around and a little bit easier to find us and a little more visibility. I never understood why [Washington Street] ever was a one-way.” John Yapp, the executive director and transportation planner for the Metropoli-
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Washington Street City officials said there are four key benefits that will result from the construction: • Better navigation downtown • Better direct travel for shoppers • More direct routes for emergency vehicles • More bike access Source: Kris Ackerson, transportation planner, Metropolitan Planning Organization of Johnson County
tan Planning Organization of Johnson County, said the change will only help residents and businesses. “This [change] makes everything a little easier,” he said. “We went to a Downtown Association meeting last fall and got a very positive response — so far no negative feedback.” City councilors initially expressed interest in the change at a July 2011 work session. “I think it is long overdue,” said City Councilor Terry Dickens, the coowner of Herteen & Stocker Jewelers, 101 S. Dubuque St. “I think it will help the flow of traffic around downtown as well as making it easier to bike downtown.” City Councilor Jim Throgmorton said the project will enhance the downtown atmosphere. “What we need now is a traffic pattern that enhances our downtown’s urban ambiance and facilitates a lively pattern of face-to-face interaction,” he said. Iowa City Fire Chief Andrew Rocca also supported the conversion, citing ease of access for emergency vehicles as a primary benefit. “It certainly should [help], rather than having to drive the long way around to a location in an emergency scene taking the shortest most direct route will improve response
times to the central business district on Washington Street,” Rocca said. Construction is set to begin between March 9 and March 12 and will take about two weeks. “We intentionally are doing it around spring break, so that part of the construction will occur when people are gone so it won’t be too inconvenient,” Ackerson said. “We also want it to happen during the semester because we want people to see it happening. Spring break is only one full week. When students are here, they’ll see the construction happening and, hopefully, be more aware that change occurred.”
By JORDYN REILAND jordyn-reiland@uiowa.edu
Identity theft continues to raise countrywide concern, according to a 2011 Federal Trade Commission report, but Iowa faces less of the crime than other states. Iowa, with 1,208 identity theft complaints in 2011, ranks 45th out of the 50 states. Yet local police officials said identity theft is relatively prevalent in Iowa City. According to records from the Iowa City police, there was one filed complaint of identity theft in 2011. Yet, Sgt. Dave Droll said, many cases are not officially filed. “It’s not that uncommon for someone to report that their identity has been stolen,” he said. “We do probably have several a week.” One state expert said an increase in technology may have sparked an increase in identity theft cases nationwide. “Twenty-five years ago, [scams] came through the mail … now so much of it is done electronically,” said Bill Brauch, the director of the Consumer Protection Division at the Iowa Attorney General’s
Office. The new electronic technology has provided both relief and concern for retailers and residents. “We have had your traditional Dumpster-diver thefts; it’s still around,” Brauch said, referring to scammers who rifle through trash for personal information on discarded mail. “Today, it is so much easier for the scam artist sitting at the computer to intercept transmissions anywhere in the world.” But one FTC official said the new technology might also help catch identity thefts. “It’s not an all-or-nothing kind of thing,” said Steven Toporoff, a director in the division of privacy and identity protection. “Technology has made it possible to detect and deter a certain amount of identity theft.” A large percentage of identity theft is related to the misuse of a credit card, he said, but new technology has helped customers communicate with credit-card companies about possible fraudulent charges. In 2011, Iowa had 215 reported credit-card frauds. Despite the possible deterrence, Brauch said
attempts at electronic identity theft have still seen an increase nationwide. “You have seen a tremendous uptick in the last 10 years in the number of electronic attempts because of the growth of the Internet and technology,” Brauch said. But overall, officials said Iowa has been proactive against identity theft. “We have a lower incidence than average,” Brauch said. “I think Iowans have done a pretty good job identifying [scams] and not falling for them.” States with lower identity-theft rates than Iowa included West Virginia, Montana, and Maine. David Torok, head of the FTC’s planning and communications unit, said identity theft will continue to pose a problem for consumers until those consumers learn how to protect themselves. “Identity theft is still a significant problem given the number of complaints we receive, and it’s a challenging one to correct,” he said. “We try to encourage consumers to be very wary and realize that this crime goes on out there.”
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14 Reasons Moviegoers Demand Refunds: • Premise of action movie “not far-fetched enough.” Dearth of punching/kicking also noted. • Frustration after putting up with two hours of faux-English accent and zero instances of Meryl Streep “getting ’em out.” • Was able to get through one Big Munch XXL Vat O’ Popcorn with Butter Eruption during film screening, which “should never happen.” • Title of movie (We Bought a Zoo) was said to give away important plot twist. • Did not once desire to “roll in the aisles” as promised in advertisements. • Vampire mythos of film described as “all wrong.” • Too many sadomasochistic rape scenes. • Too few sado-masochistic rape scenes. • Children’s film did not adequately capture the imagination/hold the attention of 39-year-old dockworker. • 3-D effects insufficiently “in-your-face-y.” • Box of tissues brought to melancholic drama proved unnecessary. • Deeply rooted beliefs were questioned, thoughts were provoked; simply unacceptable for a piece of art. • Armrests didn’t go up; made it difficult/complicated to make out with date. • Movie described as “not very good.” — Will Hartman works at the Bijou and will gladly listen to your complaints.
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UITV schedule 3:15 p.m. University Lecture Committee, Ananya Roy, March 26, 2010 4:30 UI Symphony Orchestra, Selections from West Side Story, Lincoln Portrait, narrated by Jim Leach, Feb. 16, 2010 5:45 Dance Highlights, selected works from the Dance Department 6 Human Rights Week, “Educating Leaders in Health Care for the 21st Century, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of University of MarylandBaltimore County, Jan. 19, 2010 7 “Civility in a Fractured Society,”
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Campus channel 4, cable channel 17 Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities and former Iowa congressman, Feb. 16, 2010 8:15 University Lecture Committee, Ananya Roy, March 26, 2010 9:30 Daily Iowan Television News 9:45 “How Evolution Illuminates Past and Present,” Christopher Brochu, Geoscience, Feb. 18, 2010 10:30 Daily Iowan Television News 10:45 “Civility in a Fractured Society,” Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities and former Iowa congressman, Feb. 16, 2010
Monday, March 5 — by Eugenia Last
ARIES March 21-April 19 Express your feelings and what you intend to do to make your life better socially, personally, and emotionally. Don’t allow someone else to make choices for you. Recognize that too much of anything will bring you down. TAURUS April 20-May 20 Take precautions when it comes to your home and family. Protect your assets and reputation. Don’t let emotions complicate matters by overreacting to occurrences that need practical attention. Learn from past mistakes, and you’ll avoid an unpleasant situation. GEMINI May 21-June 20 You will annoy someone with your choices, but you must follow the path that suits you best. Take care of any paperwork that might pose a problem if left undone. Follow all rules and regulations, and move full steam ahead. CANCER June 21-July 22 Put your heart into your work and improvements you can make. Don’t let changes affect your productivity. An aggressive and playful approach to your important personal relationship will give you a better understanding of friendship and love. LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Stick to basics, but be original. You can create a stir if you use your quick wit and charm to impress someone you’d like to get to know better. Travel plans will lead to information that will help you make an important decision. VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Make your investments work for you. Don’t leave anything to chance. Focus on getting the most for the least, and stick to whatever budget you set. Love and romance are in the stars, but that doesn’t mean you should spend. LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Look at your personal and professional relationships, and make changes to strengthen the connections or to rid yourself of the people who are holding you back. Don’t make a fuss when all that’s required is to move on. SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Get your priorities straight. You may feel like having fun, but you need to take care of your responsibilities first. You can make or break a relationship with someone depending on how you handle your share of the work. SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Avoid storytelling or getting involved in gossip. You should focus on your investments and contracts and network with people who motivate you. Any changes made to your domestic scene will pay off. Love is in the stars. CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 You may not want to initiate a conversation about emotional matters, but you’d be wise to clear up any misunderstanding or problem before you try to move forward with your plans. You can stretch your money by making the choice. AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Nothing is as bad or difficult as it might seem. Taking care of personal matters or getting together with someone special will help ease your stress. Keep things simple, and be direct when discussing money matters to come out ahead. PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Don’t go overboard or someone who can influence your future may think you are extravagant. Use your ingenuity, imagination, and ability to get others to do things for you for free, and you will show skills that impress and bring you rewards.
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Do you know someone in the military who has served in the current and recent U.S. conflicts? How many? ‘Not personally, but a friend’s girlfriend’s parent has, and one of my frat brother’s dad is in the National Guard.’
Tanner Gardiner UI sophomore
‘No’ Lisa Remetch UI freshman
‘Cousin served in Iraq. He’s not active now, but he did serve a year.’ Shelsey Monroy UI freshman
‘No, but I had a relative who refused to serve because he is Middle Eastern and didn’t want to fight his own people.’ Mohammed Amro UI junior
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Iowa junior Matt McDonough counters a shot by Michigan State’s Brenan Lyon in Mackey Arena during the Big Ten championships on March 3. McDonough pinned Lyon in 1:59 to advance to the semifinals, eventually winning the tournament. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner)
(ABOVE) Nebraska forward Jordan Hooper pulls down a rebound against Iowa center Bethany Doolittle in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis on March 2. Hooper had 15 points and 10 boards in the Cornhuskers’ 80-68 victory over the Hawkeyes. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)
Iowa forward Aaron White drives to the hoop against Northwestern on March 3 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Northwestern defeated Iowa, 70-66, in the teams’ final regular-season game. (The Daily Iowan/Toan Nguyen)
Iowa junior Matt McDonough collects his thoughts before the 125-pound title match of the Big Ten championships in Mackey Arena on Sunday. McDonough beat Minnesota’s Zach Sanders, 6-1, to win the championship for the second-straight year. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner)
Iowa senior Montell Marion tries to escape from Michigan’s Kellen Russell during the Big Ten championships in Mackey Arena on Sunday. Marion lost the final match by decision, 7-2, to win third. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner)
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season, which included a win over Gonzaga and a 4point loss to Missouri. Don’t forget they toppled Michigan State and Ohio State in conference play, too. And Iowa might want to check if 7-0 incoming freshman Adam Woodbury can enroll early considering the way Illinois’ 7-1 Meyers Leonard dominated inside in the teams’ first meeting. If anything, Iowa does have a little bit of history on its side. “I’ve said all along, this program has showed in the past that it’s doable,” senior guard Matt Gatens said.
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get a statement win on the road. The Buckeyes closed the half on a 17-3 run, and went into halftime only down by 1. The second half was all Ohio State, which won, 84-71. Iowa came out hot in the
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sion to a major, and in this race, every little point is huge.” All those little points added up, and Penn State proved last season’s narrow victory was no fluke. “It’s hard to compare two
Baseball takes 2 of 3 The Iowa baseball team won two of its three games this weekend in the Austin Peay/Riverview Inn Classic. The most dramatic game was the weekend’s finale against Youngstown State on Sunday in which the Hawkeyes posted a season-high 20 hits against the Penguins. None was more important, though, than Taylor Zeutenhorst’s pinch-hit RBI double in the bottom of the 10th inning to secure a 16-15 Iowa victory. Third baseman Chett Zeise led off the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Eric Toole. Zeutenhorst ended the game by sending an offering from
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“That’s what we’re going to try to do.” The 2001 Hawkeyes — which won four games in four days as the conference’s No. 6 seed — remain the only team in the tournament’s history to take the title without the aid of a first-round bye. But that was also a group that boasted a formidable inside-outside duo in honorable mention All-American Reggie Evans and Luke Recker, as well as a third-team All-Big Ten point guard in Dean Oliver. Evans, the nation’s leading rebounder, gave the Hawkeyes an interior force absent from this season’s bunch. For this Iowa team to do the same would be a hell of an accomplishment, but it’s also about 10 times as farfetched. And that’s OK.
Gatens, with his career winding down, gave a previously embarrassed Iowa fan base reason to roar again in Carver-Hawkeye Arena with historic performances against Wisconsin and Indiana. Talented youngsters gave those same fans promise for the future — four of the Hawkeyes’ top five scorers are underclassmen. And Fran McCaffery, in only his second season, added to that promise by securing a recruiting class ranked as the nation’s 20th-best by ESPN.com. A pre-weekend exit from the Big Ten Tournament appears imminent. Iowa
first half against the Huskers in Indianapolis. Wahlin and freshman Sam Logic paced the Hawkeyes before Husker guard Lindsey Moore drained a half-court 3 to send Nebraska into half only down 3. “They just seemed to be a team where they step up at the right moments,” Wahlin said after the game. “It’s one of those things where we knew it was coming in the second half. We knew in
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Iowa forward Zach McCabe fights Minnesota forward Oto Osenieks for possession of the ball in CarverHawkeye Arena on Feb. 1. McCabe and the Hawkeyes will play Illinois in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday in Indianapolis. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley) still may squeak out a trip
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the locker room. We said, ‘Hey — we’ve got to continue to play hard, continue to battle.’ ” But that didn’t happen as Iowa failed to make adjustments in the second act. Logic and fellow freshman Melissa Dixon struggled after being two of the team’s best players during the eight-game winning streak. Dixon finished with 8 points and failed to live
up to her reputation as the Hawkeyes’ best perimeter defender. The freshman wasn’t able to force Moore into taking bad shots; Moore finished with 26 points on 10-for-15 shooting and was able to get anywhere she wanted on the floor. Logic said the team knew the Huskers would hit shots. “We just had to bounce back from it, and we just
didn’t this time,” she said. Watching the second half against Nebraska raises concerns about how Iowa will perform in the NCAA Tournament. The team was unable to make adjustments when it mattered, even though several players admitted they had anticipated Nebraska’s game plan. Iowa won’t go far in the NCAA Tournament if its
second-half play is repeated against ranked teams. “We didn’t step up in the second half,” Wahlin said. “It’s one of those things where we still have to learn from those top teams and learn how they play … [the loss] is one of those things where you can’t focus on it too much, but you have to learn from it more than anything.”
years,” Ruth said. “Last year was last year. This year is this year. But to win it again, I feel like we just made that big of a statement.” There were positives for the Hawkeyes on Sunday. Matt McDonough dominated the 125-pound bracket and won his secondstraight conference title. Sixth-seeded Derek St. John capped off a shocking run through the tournament by winning the 157championship. pound
Ethen Lofthouse rebounded from a tough semifinal loss on March 3 by wrestling back for third place. But two Hawkeyes, Vinnie Wagner and Mike Kelly, failed to qualify for nationals. Grant Gambrall dropped a consolation match and took fifth. And the rest — Tony Ramos, Montell Marion, Evans, and Telford — came up short in championship matches. Ramos lost to Ohio
State’s Logan Stieber for the second time this year. He was stuck on the bottom for almost a full match against Stieber in January and failed to get an escape after an early takedown on Sunday. So he was forced to choose to begin the third period from his feet, forfeiting a chance to earn an escape point in an eventual 5-2 loss. Ramos lunged at Stieber and shouted in his face after the match. Referees separated the two, and
Ramos attempted to walk off the mat without shaking hands. “He was frustrated and let it show,” Hawkeye head coach Tom Brands said. “It’s hard to always keep your emotions in check in this sport. I don’t fault him for that.” It was that kind of day for Iowa, which had to watch Penn State assert itself as the conference’s dominant team. “We don’t feel good about it,” Gambrall said. “We
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Youngstown State pitcher Erik Okleson down the right-field line and scoring Zeise. Iowa (3-6) had previously broken out the bats during the weekend. The Hawkeyes beat Akron, 17-3, on March 2. Iowa batters connected for 15 hits against the Zips, led by Zeise’s two home runs and a double. The senior’s first blast to center field scored Mike McQuillan and capped a fiverun third inning. Zeise led off the top of the ninth with a solo shot to center field and ended the game as one of four Hawkeyes with two or more hits. The Hawkeyes’ lone loss of the weekend came to Austin Peay on March 3. Iowa led 3-1 through 61⁄3 innings, but the Governors scored single runs in the seventh, eighth,
and 10th innings to record their sixth win of the season. The loss marked the fourth time the Hawkeyes have been defeated by one run. Iowa will head to Winter Haven, Fla., for a game against Georgetown on March 10. — by Ben Schuff
hold onto a 4-run lead through the first four frames and allowed the home squad to rally late for the 6-5 win. The teams traveled to Oklahoma City the next day for the second game. Iowa defeated the Cowgirls, 5-3. The Hawkeyes were behind, 3-1, by the second inning, then used back-to-back two-out doubles in the bottom of the third to set up sophomore Brianna Luna’s two-run home run and a 4-3 lead. Iowa scored once more and held Oklahoma State scoreless for the rest of the game. Iowa played No. 8 Oklahoma in the second game of a doubleheader in the capital city and scored the game’s first run on an error in the top of the second.
Iowa extended its lead by 2 more runs in the following inning. But the Sooners rallied and kept Iowa from pushing another run across for a 6-3 win. The squads traveled to Norman on Sunday to close the weekend on the Sooners’ home turf. Oklahoma took an early 4-0 lead and never looked back, holding the Hawkeye bats to just 3 hits in a 4-2 decision. — by Ben Ross
Softball drops 3 of 4 The Iowa softball team (9-9) lost three out of its four games this past weekend at the Hall Of Fame Tournament in central Oklahoma. The Black and Gold faced No. 23 Oklahoma and No. 8 Oklahoma twice in the trip. Iowa split the games with the Cowboys, starting with an extrainning loss on March 2 in Stillwater. The Hawkeyes couldn’t
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Tennis Hawks roar back The Hawkeyes rallied around a strong singles performance to upset No. 38 DePaul. By PATRICK MASON patrick-mason@uiowa.edu
The Iowa women’s tennis team bounced back from a shutout loss to No. 17 Notre Dame on March 2 to upset No. 38 DePaul, 5-2, on Sunday in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes opened the DePaul meet slowly in doubles. Head coach Katie Dougherty continued to toy with pairings and spot placement, and the Black and Gold showed a couple new looks: Freshmen Morven McCulloch and Shelby Talcott were paired at the top spot, and senior Sonja Molnar moved to the second slot for the first time in her career. Iowa’s freshmen doubles duo of Ellen Silver and Katie Zordani owned the lone doubles win at No. 3
and picked up an Iowa-best fifth win this season. The rest of the moves weren’t the answer — the Blue Demons won two of the three matches. Dougherty challenged her team to play with energy and to get match wins as the Hawkeyes entered singles down a point. “We talked a lot after a disappointing performance at Notre Dame about competing and fire, and we still came out a little flat in doubles,” she said. “But in singles, we came out ready to play and ready to win. I said, ‘Somebody has to get out there and erase it quick. We need to get Dougherty on the board head coach early, and we need first-set wins,’ and that’s what we did.” Iowa played like a different team in the singles portion of the meet. Five of the six starters secured firstset wins, and Iowa eventually won five matches. Christina Harazin suffered
the only singles loss, but took Kelsey Lawson to a third set in the No. 5 spot. Molnar — who suffered her first loss of the season at Notre Dame — improved her team-best record to 7-1 as she defeated No. 121 Jasmin Kling (6-4, 7-5). “The girl I played was really good,” said Molnar, the country’s No. 110 player. “I kept my level the same all the way through, and she was a little more up and down. When she was up, she was really playing awesome, and I needed to just keep it going.” The senior said she and her teammates were disappointed in the 7-0 loss to the Fighting Irish because they didn’t show their potential. They wanted to prove what they were made of against DePaul, she said. McCulloch said the meet was crucial, and the crowd’s intensity helped the Black and Gold run their record to 5-0 at the Hawkeye Tennis & Recreation Complex. The freshman from Scotland said she can feel the fans’ emo-
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tion and intensity and takes comfort knowing they’re pulling for her. “It feels great,” she said. “You can feel the vibe in the place and it’s awesome. It’s definitely better when we have a big competition like this … you can hear everyone shouting and cheering you on, and it’s a completely different atmosphere from on the road. The crowd support helps so much.” But the Hawkeyes will need to find a way to win without the home crowd as they prepare to embark on a six-meet road trip that spans three weeks. The first two matchups are against nationally ranked squads; they begin the trip by traveling to Lincoln, Neb., to face off against the No. 36 Cornhuskers in the first Big Ten meet of the season. Iowa will also face No. 30 Tulsa while in Lincoln.
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always want to be on top. But you don’t deserve anything, you’ve got to earn it. Nothing has been taken from us, we just haven’t gone out and taken it the last two years, like some [Iowa] teams did in the past.”
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BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Nittany Lions roar again; Iowa 3rd Penn State won the Big Ten team title for the second year in a row as Iowa only crowned two individual champions. By SAM LOUWAGIE samuel-louwagie@uiowa.edu
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Iowa wrestlers hustled out of the locker room with the brims of their hats pulled low and hoods up over their heads. They headed out of Mackey Arena and onto their team bus. The last match of the Big Ten championships had ended fewer than 10 minutes earlier. But the Hawkeyes, who finished third, had no plans to wait around for the trophy presentation. Penn State wrestlers gathered out on the arena floor. They exchanged hugs, high-fives, and smiles. They burst into cheers as team members and coaches were given numerous postseason honors. Iowa heavyweight Bobby Telford had to squeeze past them on his way to the locker room after becoming the fourth Hawkeye to lose a championship match on Sunday. The Nittany Lions clinched their second-consecutive Big Ten title just
Iowa redshirt freshman Mike Evans gets taken down by Penn State's David Taylor during the Big Ten wrestling championships in Mackey Arena on Sunday. Evans lost the match by major decision, 11-2; Penn State took the team title for the second-straight year, and Iowa finished third. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner) over halfway through the final round of the tournament. Last season, Penn State edged Iowa by a single point in a tournament that wasn’t decided until the very last match. On Sunday, it steadily pulled away from the competition and clinched the title with Ed Ruth’s championship
at 174 pounds. The Nittany Lions finished with 149 points — 15 more than second-place Minnesota and 23 more than Iowa. “It was a team effort,” Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson said. “These guys just wrestled well.”
Penn State sat in third place after two sessions on March 3. It only sent three wrestlers to the finals — Iowa had six — and suffered numerous semifinal upsets. But they bounced back in a big way on Sunday by dominating all three of their final matches. Frank
Molinaro won a technical fall at 149, Ruth a major decision at 174, and David Taylor a major decision over Iowa’s Mike Evans at 165. Taylor led 8-2 and had top position on Evans with five seconds left in the match. He could have coasted to a title but
instead leveraged Evans over to his back to pick up near-fall points, an 11-2 major decision, and an extra bonus point for the Nittany Lions. “The team picture is the big thing,” Taylor said. “It went from a deciSEE WRESTLING, 8
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Tourney title? Um, not quite
Huskers ambush Hawks
JORDAN GARRETSON jordan-garretson@uiowa.edu
Fran McCaffery’s Hawkeyes have taken big steps forward this season, but four wins in four days is out of reach. The Hawkeyes are still talking about the NCAA Tournament. Iowa’s slim hopes for an at-large bid evaporated with a Feb. 26 loss at Illinois. But players spoke of a different route into the field of 68 following Sunday’s 70-66 defeat to Northwestern. The route runs through Indianapolis and requires four wins in four days beginning Thursday in the Big Ten Tournament. “We have it in us,” freshman Aaron White said. “ … [If] we get hot, who knows what we could do.” But it’s hard to believe these Hawkeyes really do have it in them. Iowa should be happy with its season. Sixteen wins — including eight in the Big Ten and four against ranked teams —
are a lot considering the program’s recent struggles. But the team simply doesn’t possess the parts to cut down the nets in Banker’s Life Field House on March 11. That’s not an indictment of their will to win — it’s a matter of reality. Iowa hasn’t won four games in a row all season, let alone in four days. Their only two threegame winning streaks came against Chicago State, North Carolina A&T, and Northern Illinois and Drake, Central Arkansas, and Boise State. Not exactly Big Ten competition. The conference is the country’s deepest and best. Top seed Michigan State awaits the winner of Thursday’s Iowa-Illinois tilt, providing the toughest of quarterfinal roadblocks. The Hawkeyes are fresh off allowing 14 offensive rebounds to Northwestern, the league’s worst rebounding team. Try to envision a scenario in which they knock off the Spartans, who happen to be the conference’s best glass-cleaning unit. But Iowa must reach Friday before it can even assume that challenge. To do so, the Hawkeyes must beat Illinois — about as scary of a No. 9 seed imaginable. The Illini sputtered in conference play but only after an 11-2 start to the SEE B-BALL, 8
(Left to right) Iowa’s Theairra Taylor, Morgan Johnson, Jaime Printy (back), Kalli Hansen, Kamille Wahlin, and Melissa Dixon look on from the bench in the final seconds of the Hawkeyes’ quarterfinal game against Nebraska in the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis on March 2. Iowa lost, 80-68. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)
BEN WOLFSON benjamin-wolfson@uiowa.edu
INDIANAPOLIS — The Iowa women’s basketball team came into the Big Ten Tournament with arguably the most momentum of any team in the conference. The Hawkeyes had won eight-straight games, six of which had come without leading scorer Jaime
Printy. They received a gift in the first half of their quarterfinal matchup with No. 24 Nebraska when foul trouble held Cornhusker forward Jordan Hooper to two minutes of playing time. But the Hawkeyes only had a 3-point lead heading into halftime — and the wheels fell off in the second half. Nebraska made back-toback-to-back 3-pointers to take the lead in the second stanza and ended up beating Iowa, 80-68. Head coach Lisa Bluder seemed to be trying to
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wrap her head around the 12-point loss as she and senior guard Kamille Wahlin spoke to the media after the game on March 2. A reporter asked Wahlin if she was concerned about playing in the NCAA Tournament because Iowa was “1-6 against ranked teams.” Bluder jumped in to interject. “I think we’re 2-6 — wins over St. Johns and
Purdue,” Bluder said. “I’m not taking any of those away from us. Sorry.” Regardless, Iowa’s inability to perform the entire 40 minutes against ranked teams has been a recurring problem this year. Iowa was in Columbus to face then-No. 12 Ohio State on Jan. 2. The Black and Gold jumped out to a 15-point first-half lead with five minutes left. It looked like smooth sailing for Iowa and a chance to SEE HOOPS, 8