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WHAT’S INSIDE: METRO Rep. Dave Jacoby, D-Coralville, says he’ll run for re-eleciton to the state House. Page 2

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A real home room Council ponders payday lenders

Some faculty members concerned with new strings attached to federal research dollars. Page 3 Despite national contraception controversy, locals say feminism and religion are compatible. Page 3 OPINIONS College Republicans, University Democrats spar over voter ID proposal. Page 4 Conservatives wrong on tax policy. Page 4

One local financial adviser said payday lenders are detrimental to college students.

New Pioneer ought to stay.

Page 4 SPORTS Cartwright picks up the pace to boost Hawks. Page 10

By KRISTEN EAST

GymHawks say they’re focusing on “prehab,” not rehab.

Page 10 Women tacksters see “brutal” workouts in front of outdoor season. Page 10

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Caroline Young organizes freshly gathered eggs on the family farm south of Iowa City on Tuesday. Caroline and her younger sister, Natalie, run their own small egg-distributing business as a part of their homeschooling curriculum. (The Daily Iowan/Jessica Payne)

Men’s tennis struggling this season with tougher schedule.

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Homeschooled students can be dual-enrolled in their local public schools, where they can receive school materials for free.

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Caroline and Natalie Young recently put down their science-lesson materials and ran outside — to attend to their daily chicken business, the Golden Egg. Running the business coincides with their studies as homeschooled students. Natalie says she enjoys the experience and responsibility.

“My favorite part is being able to run a business and have a business by ourselves and being able to play with the chickens,” the 9-year-old said as a chicken ate from her out-

stretched palm.

While gathering eggs might not seem like a typical school day for most, it is for these girls.

Caroline, 11, and Natalie are just two of the 1.5 million children homeschooled nationwide, according to the 2007 National Center for Education Statistics. The number has almost doubled since 1999.

Over the last decade, the national appeal of homeschooling beyond religious reasons has grown, said Brian Ray, the president of the SEE HOMESCHOOL, 5

Local payday lenders could soon face tighter restrictions on where they can set up shop in Iowa City.

The Iowa City city councilors unanimously decided Tuesday to have the planning and zoning staff look into zoning amendments that would restrict the development of new payday lenders in certain areas. The local chapter of Citizens for Community Improvement asked the council to take action on these proposals last month.

Payday lenders allow people to take out a short-term loan between paychecks and pay the business back with interest after their next pay check.

David Goodner, the Iowa City community organizer for Citizens for Community Improvement, said payday loans trap people in a cycle of debt.

“Loan sharking is the worst it’s been in this country’s history,” he said, noting a 400 percent interest rate for payday loans.

Councilor Connie Champion was a bit more hesitant.

“It’s usually the people who don’t have

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UI cool to one-year business M.A.s Women make up about 32 percent of graduate students in the Henry B. Tippie School of Management.

At present, 12.5 percent of school funding comes from local property-tax revenue.

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Some schools are seeing a jump in female students when they increase the number of one-year specialized master’s business programs. But University of Iowa leaders say they aren’t headed that direction.

“I would not promote them here,” said Gary Fethke, a professor of management sciences and economics in the UI Tippie College of Business. “In fact, I worked to get rid of several one-year M.A. programs.”

But Bob Ludwig, director of media relations for the Graduate Management Admissions Council, said one-year specialized master’s programs are important to increase the number of women in graduate business schools.

He said the council annually administers an application trend survey, which in 2011 SEE FEMALE BUSINESS, 5

Officials disagree on K-12 funds

By ANNA THEODOSIS anna-theodosis@uiowa.edu

Yikun Chen, a sophomore majoring in business, studies in the Pappajohn Business Building on Tuesday. Female enrollment in the graduate business school has increased by 1 person from 2010-2011, and women still are underrepresented in graduate school. (The Daily Iowan/Asmaa Elkeurti)

A bill in the Iowa House calling for the state to fully fund K-12 schools has opponents saying such an action would force legislators to cut support for other programs.

Currently, the state funds 87.5 percent of K-12 funding. Each school district receives $5.40 per $1,000 of revenue from taxable property in the district. Since different-sized school districts would get different amounts of money, the bill would provide districts currently with less revenue with additional support.

Proponents of the bill say differences in revenue from the taxable properties among school districts would be leveled by fully funding the school, allowing the smaller districts to receive more funding.

House Education Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Forristall, R-Macedonia, said the bill will support schools who need funding the most.

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UI sophomore Mike Castro (left) and Brandon Willis play basketball at College Green Park on Tuesday. Temperatures reached 70 degrees in the afternoon. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin)

METRO Man faces several charges A local man was charged with theft, burglary, and criminal mischief.

According to a Iowa City police complaint, Michael Shrock, 33, 1131 Third Ave. No. 1A, was charged Jan. 29 with two charges of second-degree theft, thirddegree burglary, and seconddegree criminal mischief.

On Jan. 30, police officials arrived at a woman’s residence, where she reported her vehicle had allegedly been stolen, along with a few items inside the vehicle.

The vehicle was recovered one block away from her residence Feb. 6, and her coat had been pawned, the complaint said.

During the search of Shrock’s residence, police officers reportedly found items from a different burglary on Jan. 29.

Third-degree burglary is considered a Class-D felony.

Second-degree theft is considered a Class-D felony and is punishable of up to five years in jail and a maximum $7,500 fine.

Second-degree criminal mischief is considered a Class-D felony and is punishable of up to five years in jail and a maximum $7,500 fine.

— by Jordyn Reiland

Jacoby to seek reelection Rep. Dave Jacoby, D-Coralville, has announced he will run for reelection. Jacoby is currently representative for the House District 74. For his re-election, Jacoby told The Daily Iowan Tuesday night he would be focusing heavily on economic development and tax reform throughout his campaign.

Jacoby is serving his fourth term in the Iowa House of Representatives.

Voting in the primaries will take place on June 8.

— by Anna Theodosis

Coral Ridge to get 3 new stores Coral Ridge Mall officials announced Tuesday the opening of three new stores: White House | Black Market, Bare Escentuals, and Teavana.

Mall officials estimated the stores will open this summer.

White House | Black Market will be located near the Banana Republic. The store will sell

white-and-black women’s apparel.

Teavana, a tea shop, will be located next to White House | Black Market.

Bare Escentuals will be located near Sheels All Sports. The store will sell zero-irritability makeup.

— by Derek Kellison

Council approves water-main project The Iowa City city councilors approved plans for the Iowa River Water Main Crossings Project on Tuesday evening.

The project calls for the installation of two new water mains under the Iowa River, replacing existing mains exposed and damaged during the 2008 flood.

City officials estimate a roughly $290,000 construction cost.

City councilors approved the plans on a 7-0 vote.

— by Kristen East

Council OKs improvements for Trueblood Area The Iowa City City Council approved phase three of the improvements project for the Terry Trueblood Recreation Area — a project that will cost an estimated $3.7 million.

According to city officials, improvements include the park lodge, parking, shelters, canoe and fishing jetties, and a nature playground.

City councilors approved the plans on a 7-0 vote.

—bby Kristen East

State senator endoreses Loebsack challenger A state senator who criticized college students about lobbying for increased higher-education support announced his endorsement for Congressional candidate Dan Dolan on Tuesday.

In a press release, Sen. Shawn Hamerlinck, R-Dixon, noted Dolan’s experience in small business and the energy industry.

“As owner of Dan Dolan Homes, he has proven his ability to create jobs and grow business at the local level,” he said in the release.

Hamerlinck also said he believe Dolan’s energy experience would help him reduce federal regulations and increase job growth.

Dolan is a Republican challenging Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, for his 2nd Congressional District seat.

— by Alison Sullivan

Council passes 1st reading of exposure/urination separation Iowa City City officials are one step closer to creating two separate offenses for “indecent exposure and conduct” and “public urination and defecation.”

City councilors passed the first consideration of an ordinance amending the City Code 85-6. Currently under City Code, those charged with public urination are also considered sexual offenders, and the same section is cited regardless of the specific offense.

Cody Graham, University of Iowa Student Government liaison to the City Council, suggested the amendment.

A city ordinance requires three readings; the city councilors will vote on the second consideration of the ordinance at their next meeting, March 20.

City councilors passed the first consideration on a 7-0 vote.

— by Kristen East

Council’s approval of the intersection-improvement project.

City officials will now move forward with the project, which includes pavement widening, median reconstruction, asphalt overlay, installing an 8-foot wide sidewalk, and installing a new traffic-signal system.

The cost is an estimated $1.8 million.

The project will be funded with a $200,000 USTEP Grant, Iowa Department of Transportation funds, water revenue, and general-obligation bond proceeds.

City councilors approved the plans on a 7-0 vote.

— by Kristen East

Bus fare likely to rise

The intersection of U.S. Highway 6 and Sycamore Street will see some major changes following the Iowa City City

Passengers on city buses will probably see increased fares this summer.

The Iowa City City Council passed the first consideration of an ordinance amending publictransportation fees.

Chris O’Brien, the city’s director of transportation, said the department has moved from being supported by the general fund to an enterprise fund.

“We had to make some changes in the budget, we had to make some cuts, and we have proposed a change in the fare structure,” he said.

The Transit Department lost $1.1 million because of the change, but the elimination of several job positions and increasing transit fares, O’Brien said, would allow the department to make up for lost funds.

Transportation officials would like to see user fees cover 30 to 35 percent of operation costs.

City Councilor Susan Mims said it’s worth nothing that the last fare increase was in 1996.

“We haven’t done anything in 16 years, and that’s important,” she said.

Mayor Matt Hayek agreed, noting the passing of the ordinance would lead to a more self-sustaining Transit Department.

The proposed changes would take effect July 1.

The councilors will vote on the second consideration of the ordinance at their next meeting, March 20.

— by Kristen East

fying a driver’s license.

Amit Mitra, 27, Hillside, Ill., was charged Sunday with possession of a controlled substance.

Victoria Mufson , 19, 333C Mayflower, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours.

Tyler O’Brien, 19, Chicago, was charged March 3 with public intoxication.

Gary Parker Jr ., 21, address unknown, was charged Monday with fifth-degree theft.

James Ray, 18, Crystal Lake, Ill., was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

Landon Schuttler , 21, 624 S. Governor St., was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

Lorenzo Segura, 33, 111 Apache Trail, was charged Feb. 29 with driving while license suspended/canceled.

Joohn Sevier, 20, 3317B Lodge

Building 3, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

Giovani Timmons, 21, Burlington, was charged Feb. 11 with fourthdegree theft and carrying a concealed dangerous weapon.

Michelle Touchette, 53, 818 E. Market St., was charged Feb. 24 with simple assault.

Joseph Warmuth, 19, 2319 Burge, was charged March 3 with public intoxication.

Russell Weston, 52, 416 N. Clinton St., was charged Monday with possession of an open alcohol container in public.

Lisa Woodrow, 22, 922 E. College St. No. A6, was charged March 1 with fourth-degree theft.

Xiangyu Zhang , 21, 340 E. Burlington St. No. 1, was charged March 3 with simple assault.

Board passes assessor’s budget The Iowa City Conference Board convened for the second time this year to pass the city assessor’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal.

Iowa City city councilors, Johnson County supervisors, and Iowa City School Board members voted to adopt the budget and pursue merit pay.

The conference board previously voted during its Jan. 31 meeting to eliminate a proposed $3,525 longevity expenditure.

An evaluation subcommittee of the board was formed during the meeting to evaluate adopted jobs and merit scores. Mayor Matt Hayek, Supervisor Janelle Rettig, and School Board member Karla Cook will represent their respective parties on the subcommittee.

The board will reconvene before July 1 to assess the subcommittee’s evaluations.

— by Kristen East

Council moves ahead on Highway 6/Sycamore project

BLOTTER Shelby Avenarius , 20, 105 Mayflower, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours and unlawful use of a driver’s license.

Sarah Breuer , 20, 909 E. Burlington St. No. 5, was charged March 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Sarah Charlesworth , 18, S429 Currier, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours.

Bradley Farrar, 18, 2322 Burge, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours.

Garrett Harmsen , 18, E229 Currier, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

Kylie Havel, 19, 633 S. Dodge St. No. 9, was charged March 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Kyle Haley, 20, 530 S. Dodge St., was charged March 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Morgan Janssen , 20, 227 Quadrangle, was charged March 3 with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Jessica Kukielka , 20, 302 S. Gilbert St. No. 123, was charged March 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Amanda Lindemann, 20, Cedar Rapids, was charged March 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Madeline Maharry , 19, 500 S. Gilbert St. No. 7, was charged March 2 with presence in a bar after hours, public intoxication, and interference with official acts.

Rebecca Marra, 20, Antioch, Ill., was charged March 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

James Menges , 19, 2110 Quadrangle, was charged March 3 with public intoxication, interference with official acts, and falsi-

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New research rules loom

By BETH BRATSOS Bethany.Bratsos@gmail.com

The Department of Health and Human Services issued a compromise on the contraception bill on Feb. 10.

By CHASTITY DILLARD chastity-dillard@uiowa.edu

Religion and feminism seem to be clashing on the national level.

In recent weeks, policymakers and advocates across the country have sparred over whether the federal government should mandate that insurance companies cover birth control. Some religious leaders say forcing companies to pay for those services may interfere with some religious beliefs.

But a handful of locals representing many faiths say feminist interests and religion needn’t be at odds.

Roughly 15 community members joined in a panel discussion on the role of faith and feminism hosted by the Hillel Foundation and the UI Feminist Leadership Majority Alliance organization on Tuesday night.

“I wanted the panel to be a collaboration and a conciousness-raising opportunity for women to talk about our experiences as women,” Rebecca Bacon Ehlers said, a member of the UI feminist group.

Before the event, UI student and panelist Jorie Slodki said many women turn to religion as a source of strength. Slodki, who was born and raised in the Jewish faith, continues to practice Judaism despite experiencing sexism growing up.

“I found out I couldn’t read from the Torah for my Bat Mitzvah [in an Orthodox synagogue] as a child,” she said. “That really affected me and my central relationship with the text of Judaism.”

In strict Orthodox practices, females are not allowed to read the Torah in public.

But Slodki said sometimes customs become so entrenched in communities that they become a force of law.

“I think part of it is a cultural context of what

A UI student shows her Ortho Evra birth-control patch. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo) pushing for female equality.

Feminism and “Religion, historically Faith and still today, has been a The UI’s Feminist of oppressing way Majority Leadership woman,” said the member Alliance group organized a panel representing the of Secular Students at following belief systems: Iowa. “It justifies and codi• Christianity fies so many male privi• Judaism leges.”

• Islam Peterson said he doesn’t • Atheism wish to attack anyone and that feminism comes was considered OK and before religion. not OK for women to do in “We can’t let religion communities [in the divide us because the past],” she said. “Now, main goal is achieving women are really trying to equality for women,” he take back those commandsaid. ments. It’s really about Cynthia Garrity-Bond, a doing what makes you feel Ph.D. student in women Jewish and being closer to studies in religion at ClairGod.” mont Graduate UniversiSarah Sentilles, an ty, said feminism promotes author and a scholar of religion, said women need the full humanity of to reclaim their authority women.

“It liberates, and it to tell new stories about shines a truth of life onto God. where the scriptures, “Throughout human history, human beings women are not subjugated have been imagining based on texts that could about what God they want be misinterpreted,” she to believe in,” she said, said. “And then the chalwho writes for a blog cen- lenge becomes what do tered on feminism and you do about those texts.” religion. “Women need to Bond said feminism and be able to reimagine a God faith can coexist. that is bigger than the ver“[Feminism] is always sion of a sexist god that self-evaluating and we’ve been taught to expanding,” she said.

“It’s believe in.” never stagnant, because But Colin Peterson, another panel member, our relationship with the said it’s very hard to make divine is never stagnant. an argument that religion And that’s how we should has ever been strong in be.”

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Some University of Iowa faculty members are concerned about federal rules governing conflicts of interest in government-funded research.

Under new rules from federal Public Health Service — which oversees the National Institutes of Health — researchers at universities that receive NIH funding, such as the UI, will have to disclose more details about possible conflicts of interest in research. For instance, when the policy goes into effect this summer, a researcher getting paid by a company that might be affected by the research would have to disclose more information to federal authorities.

Kathy Hancock, an assistant NIH grants-compliance officer, said one of the few requirements under the old policy was to disclose a few basic details about conflicts of interest in research, but researchers didn’t have to give much information.

“Basically, the whole reason behind why [revisions were made] was pressure from Congress and from the public for greater transparency and increased oversight on NIH’s part,” she said. “University of Iowa has a lot of Public Health Service-supported research, so it will definitely be of significance.”

Hancock also said the old rules gave investigators the responsibility to determine whether financial interest was related to research. If the individual or group did not decide it was related, the conflict was not reported to the institution or the NIH. The new regulations move that responsibility to the institutions overseeing the research, and when a financial conflict of interest arises, they are required to report it to NIH within a certain amount of time.

UI law Professor Sheldon Kurtz and UI economic Associate Professor John Solow voiced strong concerned over some of the language in the new policy.

Kurtz said he disliked the new policy defining an entity as a for-profit, nonUI organization, and he would rather return to the

old language of requiring all investigators to disclose potential conflicts with nonprofit organizations.

“My concern is, why, if UI investigators have an interest in a nonprofit organization, or an income flow from it that funds their research — why that doesn’t have to be disclosed?” he said.

Solow said the new policy isn’t clear enough about what makes a sufficient link between a potential conflict of interest and its relation to the research and what investigators are required to disclose.

Kurtz said he opposed the regulations because the Faculty Council doesn’t understand them, nor would the Faculty Senate

be the right body to approve such a complex order.

But Faculty Senate President Richard Fumerton disagreed, saying he was confident the new policy would come with easily understandable guidelines on what a researcher should disclose.

“Some version [of the new regulations] is going to be approved,” he said “If it’s going in the [UI] operations manual, I would like the Senate to have approved it.”

Hancock also said the new policy would require institutions to przovide sufficient training on the new regulations.

“The institution has a responsibility to develop a policy and make it available,” she said.

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Republicans, Democrats spar over Iowa’s proposed voter ID UI Republicans: Require voter IDs to ensure democracy Secretary of State Matt Schultz defeated a popular incumbent in 2010 based on a single issue — photo identification of Iowa’s voters. Every day, Iowa citizens are required by law to use their IDs to apply for jobs, buy tobacco or alcohol, board planes, drive cars, and many other instances. However, none of these activities are as crucial to our fair and open democracy as the act of voting — which somehow has yet to merit an ID. Schultz’s bill is simple — the ID must show the name of the individual, a photograph, and contain an expiration date. The Democratic political machine would like you to believe voter ID is a Republican plot meant to suppress students, the elderly, and the poor, but why let the facts get in the way of a good talking point?

Let’s get the facts straight.

The Democrats pretend to be concerned with the poor’s access to photo identification, yet proof of identity is required to apply for poverty programs such as food-stamps. Schultz’s bill also takes careful steps to involve our state’s poor by allowing individuals without accepted forms of ID to obtain a voter-identification card from the Department of Transportation free of charge.

The Democrats pretend to be concerned with limiting the elderly from voting, yet once again, photo IDs are required when applying for Social Security and Medicare benefits.

Most notably, the Democrats pretend to be concerned with limiting students from voting with our own University of Iowa Student Government passing a resolution opposing the secretary of State’s bill.

UISG complained the cost of adding expiration dates to our student IDs could be in the millions.

(Disclaimer: not true) But let’s be realistic, with two years to implement the expiration dates, the university could easily add a six-year expiration date with little to no cost. Maybe UISG could focus on encouraging students to participate in our democratic process rather than prioritizing free cab rides for students. Heck, maybe even UI President Sally Mason could find it in her heart to donate her pay raise to assist in similar student causes — much like University of Northern Iowa President Ben Allen.

Make no mistake, the Democrats will use any form of aggression to prevent Schultz from being successful in ensuring our democracy is strong — apparently even going so far as to steal his very identity. On Jan. 20, Zach Edwards, President Obama’s 2008 Iowa new-media director — and then an employee of Link Strategies, a Democrat-affiliated organization — was arrested for allegedly attempting to use the identity of Matt Schultz with the intent of falsely implicating Schultz in illegal or unethical behavior.

With examples like this, it only makes sense that Iowans support voter-ID requirements by 76 percent.

Even the majority of Iowa Democrats polled support voter ID by 59.5 percent.

Over the last several years, many states have begun to require voters at the polls to present valid forms of photo identification before casting ballots in state-run elections. In both Indiana and Georgia voting turnout has increased substantially since implementing voter-ID laws. Georgia saw the second highest increase in turnout of any state in the country, with a 6.7 percent increase in 2008 from the 2004 elections. After Indiana implemented voter ID, Democratic turnout actually increased 8.32 percent, while Republican turnout went down 3.57 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Voter ID is not a partisan issue. We must protect

the security and reliability of our elections. With the Iowa caucuses being determined by less than .028 percent, and many state House and Senate races being determined by razor-thin margins, we must verify the results to ensure the integrity of our process.

Unless, of course, there is something our state has to gain from widespread election fraud.

— UI College Republicans

UDems: Voter IDs would disenfranchise many and cost millions The biggest problem with photo-ID laws is that they do not solve any tangible problem. Photo-ID laws, such as the one proposed by Secretary Schultz, are only used to prevent individuals from impersonating others.

According to the New York University Brennan Center for Justice, in the United States, occurrences of impersonating are rarer than getting struck by lightning. In addition, the Justice Department released an investigation of elections between the years 2002 to 2007. Out of 300 million people voting, prosecutors convicted only 86 people. Moreover, this investigation found no cases of voter impersonation.

This type of fraudulent behavior is not a concern nationwide and especially not in Iowa. Such restrictive laws on voting rights are obviously only worthwhile if they solve more problems than they create, yet this law would add unnecessary barriers to voting and have high costs for taxpayers — and the University of Iowa in particular.

This type of law would most directly affect the elderly, the poor, and students, populations who have more barriers to obtaining valid Iowa IDs. In order to execute said law, the government would have to ensure access to IDs for everyone, which would in turn cost Iowa taxpayers millions.

For example, a similar voter-ID law passed in Wisconsin that cost taxpayers nearly $6 million — those costs included a substantial education program, $2 million to cover additional employees at the Department of Transportation and the cost of free IDs. In Iowa, a study by the Iowa State Association of County Auditors concluded that providing free photo IDs would cost the state of Iowa $420,660 per year. In order to solve the “Catch-22” problem wherein a voter needs a certified birth certificate in order to obtain a free photo ID but needs a photo ID in order to obtain a certified birth certificate, the state would also have to issue free birth certificates. This would cost nearly $1.3 million per year.

The cost of this law would also disproportionately affect students. Under this law, university IDs are only valid for voting if they include an expiration date, something that is not standard practice in our state and would require that IDs be updated before they are valid.

Under the law in Wisconsin, the re-issuance of student IDs that did not comply with the new voter-ID law cost more than $1.6 million; a law in Iowa could potentially cost the university a similar amount.

Overall, this bill would be damaging to the state. The Brennan Center for Justice released a study that found that voter-identification laws “could make it significantly harder for more than 5 million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012” nationwide. Imagine the difference 5 million votes could make.

The University of Iowa Democrats do not believe that this legislation addresses a legitimate problem of voter fraud and believe that its effect would be detrimental to eligible voters, particularly students, and taxpayers.

— UI Democrats Your turn. Should voters be required to show identification?

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Local co-op in financial trouble New Pioneer has signed an option-to-buy pay-agreement for the Coralville store. If we are unable to exercise the option when it comes due, New Pioneer will eat that cost and continue to be renters well into the future.

Remodeling of the Coralville store was a priority of the board until it got the idea of relocating to the intersection of Gilbert and College Streets. Will that remodeling occur while New Pioneer is attempting to save the money to

make a multimillion dollar down payment on a mortgage for the proposed new store?

Only 8 percent of members spend more than $2,000 a year at both stores combined. The mortgage payments could well be more than $300,000 per year — principal plus interest. Over the course of 25 years, we would pay a mortgage company more than $8 million, with $3.3 million of that being interest.

Our taxes will be considerably higher, we will need more employees, there will be parking costs of $70 to $80,000 per year,

and there will be condominium fees to pay.

I don’t want my co-op to be on the ground floor of an eight-story building. I don’t fear flooding or Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods. I do fear on-line shopping where one can buy almost anything sold at New Pioneer for considerably less with free delivery right to the door.

Finally, I do not like the feeling that the board seems to be pushing this project on us in an optimistic belief that we can spend this amount of money and sur-

vive financially. Financial predictions are like anything else in life: They can turn out to be true, or they can turn out to be wrong.

There is simply no guarantee of this project’s viability, and the risk of losing everything appears too great.

I believe that New Pioneer coop should stay in its present location in Iowa City and direct planning toward the goal of opening a third store on the East Side of town.

Carol deProsse Iowa City resident

DO TAX CUTS HURT THE POOR?

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Immoral tax cuts DANIEL TAIBLESON daniel-taibleson@uiowa.edu

Conservatives have wielded the issue of taxes like a cudgel for the past few decades, using it beat down opponents. Interesting however, is how they have managed to use tax rhetoric so effectively despite a lack of compelling evidence to support their claims about taxes. They argue tax cuts do not add to the debt — the Bush tax cuts for the top 5 percent alone have added $1 trillion to the debt since 2001. They argue a rising tide fueled by tax cuts lifts all boats — there are more millionaires now than ever before, but median wages are at their lowest point since 1996.

So, how is it that the above facts have done nothing to diminish the effectiveness of anti-tax rhetoric? The answer is simple. Conservatives have, over time, managed to frame the debate over taxes as a moral issue rather than one of equitability. By arguing that higher tax rates facilitate excess spending, they have managed to conflate increasing taxes with increasing government debt — implying that the only way to avoid the “moral hazard” of footing others with the bill for what we buy today is to cut taxes.

This, however, gets the reality totally backwards. Tax revenues are what allow us to pay our bills today and to thereby avoid forcing someone else to pay them tomorrow. Progressive taxation is how we avoid shifting costs onto those who can least afford them.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and the Iowa Legislature are entertaining a number of taxcutting proposals liable to further increase the size of the bill shouldered by Iowa’s poor and working class. Not because cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy inherently increase the tax burden on the poor but rather because the resulting reduction in state services shifts the cost burden onto localities that rely on more regressive revenue-raising instruments.

For example, Cedar

Rapids is considering a 1 percent increase in its sales tax to fund the maintenance of its floodprotection system — a measure that will be particularly damaging for the 12 percent of Cedar Rapids residents who live below the poverty line, which is $22,000 a year for a family of four. This is especially true when you consider people living below the poverty line are forced to spend almost all of their income on goods subject to sales taxes — clothing, etc.

Furthermore, when taxes are cut in one place, they must go up somewhere else, because states are required to balance their budgets.

This means that it is inevitably true that regressive tax increases that hit the poor and working class hardest will go up when progressive taxes that require more of the wealthy and corporations go down.

This is why as every single Iowan is staring down the barrel of a possible 10-cent increase in Iowa’s gas tax to make up the $200 million shortfall in Iowa’s road maintenance and construction budget, while corporations stand to benefit from a $300 million commercial property-tax cut.

To be sure, conservatives will argue that these big tax cuts will pay for themselves — increasing state revenues and alleviating the burden shifted onto localities and the poor in the long run. However, as Iowa Policy Project Research Director Peter Fisher told me: “I do not have any research that shows that these kinds of tax cuts pay for themselves” and that “[the] losses have to be made up by raising taxes on everyone else.”

Counter to the contention of conservatives, tax cuts do not prevent immoral cost shifting. If anything, tax cuts increase that risk because they facilitate shifting the responsibility of implementing wildly unpopular tax increases and budget cuts elsewhere.

Recklessly cutting taxes for corporations and the well-off at the state level shifts costs onto localities and increases the burden borne by the poor and working class — that is immoral.

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National Home Education Research Institute .

Iowa has followed the trend.

The Iowa City Homeschool Assistance Program consists of approximately 130 children, and although this number stays fairly stable each year, Stephanie

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found 83 percent of master’s finance programs that took one year to complete reported an increase in applications nationwide over the previous year.

Such one-year specialized master’s programs are usually less course-intensive and are more specialized in a specific area. Ludwig said the programs typically do not require prior

ED FUNDING CONTINUED FROM 1 “In some districts, there is a lot of taxable property per child — in others, there is little property tax per child,” he said. “There would still be that initial $5.40 because it would raise more [money] in some districts than others, but the [state] picking up the balance would help some

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any other resources who are using [the payday lenders],” she said. “I don’t like them, but they do serve a purpose.”

Goodner said the proposals would particularly help the South and Southeast Sides of Iowa City. “… For years, people have talked about what to do about the South and Southeast — that’s where the payday lenders are located,” he said. “They’re all located in those poor neighborhoods. [Lenders] have a business model that preys on and exploits poor people.”

The Citizens for Community Improvement chapter asked City Council to adopt a one-year moratorium on new payday lenders, pawnshops, and any check-cashing businesses downtown.

Goodner said the ban

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Phillips, an administrator of the program, says she has seen a statewide increase.

“We have some parents who are [homeschooling] because their students are involved in sports or in the performing arts,” she said.

“I didn’t see that 25 years ago, when I was teaching in the schools.”

Homeschooling can provide more flexible time for students who are heavily involved in competitive activities, she said.

Caroline’s and Natalie’s mother, Susan Young, said

she decided to homeschool her four children after one winter break when she and her eldest son — then in second grade — spent an afternoon at their house playing with science experiments.

“He said, ‘Mom, I like to learn this way; I wish we could do this every day,’ ” she said while glancing at son Elliot, now a sophomore at City High. “I had been a teacher, but the idea of homeschooling was new to me.”

Other local homeschooling groups have seen simi-

lar patterns, said Tom Ertz, the director of the Marion homeschooling program.

“I think more than anything, parents are looking for choices in education,” he said.

The Marion Homeschool Program currently has an enrollment of 825 students and 360 families.

Yet one Des Moines-area mother said she initially had trouble finding nonreligious homeschooling information.

“When I first started looking for information on homeschooling in Iowa,

there was no website that just gave me the basic information,” Bobbi Meister said in an email. “So I made one.”

Her website, IA Home Educators, provides information for parents who are interested in homeschooling their children.

“People are diverse,” she said. “I felt there should be a place for a person to seek out the information to homeschool where that diversity was recognized and information was presented in a general way that could suit almost any-

one.”

Young said homeschooling has given her children opportunities they would not have had in traditional schools.

“People have the misconception that homeschool kids live in a bubble,” she said and laughed. Young said her children often take field trips and conduct daily hands-on experiments as a part of their schooling.

“My kids have gotten to do possibly more than kids in the public schools,” she said.

job experience, which attracts women to enroll after completing their undergraduate degrees.

But UI officials said there are other options.

Colleen Downie, the senior associate dean of the Tippie School of Management, said its part-time M.B.A. program is a good alternative for women compared with the two-year options.

“Part-time is flexible,” she said. “You can finish the degree from anywhere to two-and-a-half years to 10.”

Women made up 41 percent of those who took the council’s Graduate Management Admission Test, a

new national high, Ludwig said, and the results don’t correspond to enrollment rates.

“While women taking these tests are increasing, we’re not seeing the numbers of [business school graduate students] grow in sync with the number of women taking those tests,” said Elissa Ellis-Sangster, executive director of the Forte Foundation, a national consortium of business schools and corporations.

Locally, the numbers have remained static. Last year, the number of females in UI graduate business programs only increased from 315 to 316. Currently, there are 996 graduate stu-

dents in the UI College of Business.

UI officials said they used to have more one-year master’s programs, but they were eliminated more than a decade ago, and officials aren’t sure if the benefits would outweigh the costs of bringing the programs back.

“Generally, we have decided not to pursue this routine primarily due to cost considerations,” said Dean of the UI Tippie College of Business William Hunter. “Should the economics of the situation change, we may certainly consider this option in the future.”

Currently, the UI only

offers a one-year master’s in accounting, but does not have any one-year degrees in the M.B.A. program.

But sex balance is always considered, Hunter said.

“We are mindful of the need to have good gender balance — and international balance as well — in our M.B.A. programs and work hard in our recruiting processes,” he said.

UI officials said they don’t believe the addition of these programs are ideal for the UI specifically.

“For me, [one-year programs] distracted our resources from our mainline M.B.A. programs, which now enroll about

1,000 students,” Fethke wrote in an email. “So my feeling, when [I was] dean, was that the one-year programs did not align strategically with what we were doing at Iowa. This does not mean that they aren’t a good idea for others.”

UI officials said one-year master’s programs are completely different than two-year M.B.A. programs.

“It all depends on your career goals,” Downie said.

“Choosing a master’s over an M.B.A. should be a decision you make on your career goals. Which of those two programs will lead you to those skills needed in the marketplace?”

districts out.”

Brad Hudson, a governmental specialist for the Iowa State Education Association, said the bill would still create gaps in other areas of the state budget.

“If you take the money out of the general fund, then there isn’t going to be any funds for other priorities,” he said. “We like having property taxes as a portion [of the revenue] and the state as another portion. [The state] would have to cut other programs

to make sure that it follows through on its commitment.”

Opponents of the bill, however, are skeptical of the motives behind the legislators supporting it. Rep. Dave Jacoby, D-Coralville, said the bill would only shift where taxpayer revenue comes from. “[The bill] does not increase any money to the K-12 schools,” he said. “It would shift [revenue gains] from property tax to income tax.”

Jacoby said the shift in funds would only put more money into the general fund.

“It’s a kind of political trick that says, ‘Hey look, we’re going to lower your property tax’ — but it increases your personal income tax to pay for it,” he said. “I do not support the bill at all because it will cost you more in your personal income taxes.”

Jacoby said legislators would be better off compromising on the bill.

“The problem with poli-

tics is that it’s too darn political,” he said. “I think [Forristall and I] both feel strongly that our side of the coin is right, and I don’t think anyone of us is wrong, but I think that we need to come to a compromise.”

If passed, the funding changes would be phased in over the next eight years.

One area school board member said he is skeptical about the state’s ability to follow through with proposed funding if the bill passes.

“I think that if you could

count on the state, [the bill] could be beneficial,” said West Branch School Board President Mike Owen. “But I don’t have that trust in the state.”

Owen said he’s unhappy with the state’s past lack of funding for K-12 schools.

“What we have seen over the years is an unwillingness to fund the K-12 schools,” he said. “To turn around now and say ‘trust us to take care of all the funding’ is too big of a leap of faith for me.”

would give the council time to debate and pass a “strong zoning policy” without more similar businesses developing.

He said the preventing the development of these businesses can also affect students.

“In other states, we’ve seen these places start to open up on college campuses, and they’re trying to scalp students,” he said.

Jeff Rudolph, an Edward Jones financial adviser in Iowa City, said payday lenders are “extremely detrimental” to college students.

“We recommend that people set aside money for emergencies so payday loans are not necessary and also to live beneath your means,” Rudolph said.

Though City Attorney Eleanor Dilkes said city officials don’t have control over interest rates and can’t license payday lender facilities, these types of businesses must obtain licenses from the state in order to operate.

“Cities have the authority to regulate zoning power,

and the kind of things we would do is to regulate the proximity of those establishments, what zones they may or may not be located in,” she said.

Similar zoning restrictions are in place for drinking establishments and bars.

Any establishments that qualify as bars under City Code must be separated by at least 500 feet, with exceptions for grandfathered institutions, Dilkes said.

City Councils in Clive, Des Moines, and West Des Moines have all passed zoning ordinances that have cracked down on payday lenders.

“It’s happening all over the state,” Goodner said. “It wasn’t controversial at all in those other cities. [The councils] have been generally very receptive.”

City officials in Ames and Ankeny are also expected to vote on similar zoning amendments in the next month.

Mayor Matt Hayek said

he’d like city officials to look into the issue by identifying the location of payday lenders and the dispersion, density, and per capita levels, among other things.

“With the liquor licenses, we’ve developed that empirical information, and made a decision locally,” he said. “I’d want us to pursue this in the same fashion.”

The proposals will be forwarded to the Planning and Zoning Commission, where staff will prepare a report to introduce to the City Council sometime this spring.

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Amazing, But True (But Not): • Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

• Cat’s urine glows under a black light. This was only discovered after a stoner’s cat peed on his Pink Floyd poster.

• Human birth-control pills also work on gorillas. We know this because of a few really slutty gorillas. Slutty but pragmatic.

• The penguins that inhabit the coast of South Africa are called “jackass penguins”— mainly because they play pranks on any humans that come near them and participate in stupid painful stunts … which are HILARIOUS. • The first bomb dropped on Berlin in World War II killed an elephant at the Berlin zoo. (They mistook it for Goebbels after he went off his diet.)

• Napoleon lost more troops in Haiti than in Waterloo, but to be fair, there wasn’t a lot of tourism road signs in Haiti.

• In our lifetime, we make 17 gallons of tears. Even more if The Notebook is one of your favorite movies.

• Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine. This is why it’s OK to feed your cats diesel.

• The fingerprints of koalas and humans are indistinguishable, which is why there are so many innocent men imprisoned for crimes obviously committed by koalas.

• Snails can sleep up to three years, possibly more if they forget to set their alarm clock.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 — by Eugenia Last

ARIES March 21-April 19 Forget about what you cannot change right now, and focus on work, advancement, or getting a job. Practicality will be required if you want to maintain your status quo. Enthusiasm will be well-received.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 Make a suggestion, take on a challenge, or try something new. Most of all, be a participant. Networking, socializing, and connecting with others will bring stellar results and can also enhance your love life. Live in the moment.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 Don’t let your emotions take over, causing an argument between you and someone you love. Keep things in perspective, and you will find a solution to any problem you face. Working alongside others is the way to go.

CANCER June 21-July 22 Worrying about a change of plans is futile. You are better off working with whatever you are given and doing the best you can. Show strength and courage when making personal decisions, and you’ll reap the rewards. Love is highlighted.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Put an idea into motion, and don’t look back. It’s up to you to do the legwork and to demonstrate what you can offer. Your unique presentation will lead to an interesting new way to bring in cash.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Learn by watching others. Your perception and intuition will guide you to recycle, improve, and redirect your skills to suit the current needs that are growing in your community. Romance is in the stars, along with travel and socializing.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Don’t keep secrets regarding money matters, health, or a commitment or contract you are involved in. You have to clear the air if you want to be able to make the moves most beneficial to you. A change of mind is likely.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Don’t let uncertainty ruin your plans. Move full speed ahead, and let everyone see how capable you are when faced with change. Home improvements will help your personal relationship and enable you to expand a service you offer.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Keep your thoughts to yourself, and don’t expect favors. You are best to go it alone and to make whatever changes are necessary to reach your goal. An unexpected change at home will be quite beneficial.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Examine your position, and you will come up with a plan that will benefit you financially, physically, and romantically. A change to the way you live will lead to a better relationship with the people in your life who count.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Put more effort into relationships at work and home. Avoid overdoing it in any way, shape, or form. Discipline will be the key to getting ahead. A change in your routine or the way you earn your living looks promising.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 You’ll be drawn to highly energetic people capable of making a difference in your life. A partnership can help you market what you have to offer with positive results.

Compatibility coupled with equality will make your pursuit successful.

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How often do you ask your parents for money, if at all?

‘I don’t; I have a job.’

Eilis Baranow UI freshman

‘Never, because I don’t want to. They are already spending enough for me to be here.’

Tanner Woody UI junior

‘Not very often.’

Kathy Corcoran UI junior

‘Never.’

Froilan Orozco UI senior

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“We’ve gotten back to our conditioning work,” he said.

“I thought that even though we were fit indoors, it just didn’t come together.

We’re looking to make

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starting toward” Cartwright against the Illini, which would be the senior’s second start in about a month. He missed games against Penn State and Indiana in mid-February with an injured ankle and came off the bench upon returning before starting against Northwestern on Senior Day. “He has had a very unique season in light of his injury situation,” McCaffery said. “I’m proud of how he persevered,

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them a little mentally tougher.”

On Tuesday afternoon at Cretzmeyer Track, he had his tracksters jump 11 hurdles during a run that didn’t quite clear the entire 400-meter loop. In comparison, the official 400-meter hurdle event only has 10 hurdles spaced evenly throughout the track.

Roberts described the

workout as “brutal” but said he hopes it will help break down the mental barriers he said his athletes carry.

“If you ask them, that’s tough,” he said. “It’s great to get the 400-meter hurdlers outdoors because it helps simulate what they’re going to be competing in when the season comes around. Getting out-

because he certainly had high expectations for himself — and we had higher expectations for him. But it was all out of his control.”

A sellout crowd of 15,400 saw just how important Cartwright can be for McCaffery’s offense when the Hawkeyes hosted Northwestern. The Compton, Calif., native was forced to the bench with a pair of fouls at the 4:33 mark of the first half and Iowa up, 33-23. When Cartwright came back in with 1:33 to play until halftime, the Wildcats had taken a 36-33 lead.

Costly turnovers played a role in Iowa’s threeminute drought, but the Hawkeye offense wasn’t

the same without Cartwright’s leadership on the floor.

“Our running game is so much better when he’s out there,” McCaffery said.

Marble, May working back for tournament Guard Devyn Marble and forward Eric May should both be available for Thursday’s first round of the Big Ten Tournament.

Marble banged his left elbow on an opponent on March 3, causing the sophomore to lose feeling in his hand. He played through the injury but said after Iowa’s 70-66 loss that he didn’t have full feeling back in his fingers. The sophomore said on Monday that

doors is great for us.”

Doris and Sowinski qual ify for NCAAs Iowa seniors Troy Doris and Erik Sowinski made the list of national qualifiers for the NCAA indoor meet announced Monday by the NCAA. Doris will compete in the triple jump; his best jump — a mark of 53-5 feet (16.28 meters) — has been ranked as high as third in he’ll be good to go against Illinois, despite still having a “tingly” feeling.

May is a different story; the junior has battled back spasms for several weeks.

The junior started and played double-digit minutes in Iowa’s first 21 games. Since then, May has seen 10 or more minutes in one of the team’s past seven contests.

“I don’t think he’s doing great,” McCaffery said.

“He’s really trying. He’s better than he was, but he has no explosion — which is what his game is.”

McCaffery recalled a play against Illinois on Feb. 26 in which May caught a pass near the left wing on a fast break; instead of

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the nation this season. The two-time Big Ten champion holds the school record in the event with a leap of 54-0 feet.

Sowinski will run the 800 meters, the same event in which he won a conference title this year. His preliminary run in the event set a school and Big Ten meet record; he crossed the line at 1:47.62 minutes.

Head coach Larry Wieczorek said his two seniors were the most deserving athletes on the team to

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attacking the hoop aggressively, he dribbled under the rim before passing the ball back out to the perimeter.

“He’s just not [himself],” the second year head coach said. “Eric May would have normally gone up there, but he just kicked it back out … he’s lacing them up and giving us some quality minutes, but he’s not himself.”

qualify for the national championships.

“They both go into the NCAA championships as team captains, school-record holders, and Big Ten champions,” he said in a release.

“We think they’re ready to compete with the best athletes in the nation, and we have high expectations for what they can accomplish.”

Doris and Sowinski will compete for national titles on March 9-10 in Nampa, Idaho.

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Men’s tennis faces tough grind The Hawkeyes’ schedule of 14 ranked teams is among the hardest head coach Steve Houghton has ever assembled.

By TOM CLOS thomas-clos@uiowa.edu

The Iowa men’s tennis team is in the middle of perhaps the most difficult schedule in program history.

The Hawkeyes are playing a slate featuring 14 ranked teams, nine in the Big Ten. Steve Head coach Houghton, now in his 31st season at the helm of Hawkeye tennis, said the 2012 schedule is “by far, in my years of coaching, the hardest.”

Houghton expected his team would be able to successfully navigate through the difficult calendar, but that hasn’t been the case so far this season. Iowa is winless against all five ranked opponents it has faced, with losses coming to No. 18 Illinois, No. 43 Drake, No. 47 Arkansas,

No. 57 Dartmouth, and No. 73 DePaul.

“We knew there were going to be some losses this year, even if we had all of our manpower going,” Houghton said. “Part of my scheduling was my belief in [the players] characterwise, so if we did run into tough competition, [they] could hopefully handle it the right way.”

The Hawkeyes are 1-8 and still have to face nine ranked opponents in the regular season, six of which call the Big Ten home: No. 2 Ohio State, No. 20 Michigan, No. 29 Indiana, No. 49 Northwestern, No. 54 Nebraska, and No. 66 Minnesota.

With this in mind, the team has started to make adjustments in practice with the hopes that they will better prepare the Hawkeyes for the intense competition that lies

ahead.

“We’re trying to find something that makes us click leading into the Big Ten,” Will Vasos said.

Scheduling is an important factor in whether a team reaches the postseason; the teams able to defeat top competition on a weekly basis are the teams invited to the NCAA Tournament. That’s why Houghton gave his team such a difficult task entering the year, he said.

“It’s all about getting into the NCAA Tournament,” he said. “It’s computerized, which means if we beat the ranked teams, then we’re going to make it.”

Just being in the Big Ten is enough to raise a team’s tournament profile: The league features seven nationally ranked teams, including four in the top 30.

The conference’s strength boils down to several factors, the first being the schools’ branding. The Big Ten features 11 major public institutions; the smallest, Nebraska, still has a student enrollment of 24,593.

“Every school is pretty popular, with their football programs and such,” senior Tom Mroziewicz said. “They don’t have much trouble recruiting good kids.”

Houghton said tennis is experiencing a rise in popularity that has lead to an “arms race” for quality head coaches; that, in turn, has made the conference stronger than ever before.

“Big Ten coaching jobs have become very much in demand,” he said. “In my time, this is the best group of coaches.”

Four-year starter Vasos has seen a rise in the cal-

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Valley experience binds hoops team Five members of intramural basketball power DRB played hoops together at West Des Moines Valley High.

By MATTHEW CABEL matthew-cabel@uiowa.edu

Teamwork is easy to identify in college basketball and the NBA, but team chemistry tends to be missing in intramurals; teams usually consist of fraternity brothers or floormates who have never played together before.

But this isn’t the case with intramural squad DRB. Five of the 10 University of Iowa freshmen on the team played basketball together at West Des Moines Valley High. A few also played on a club team before their high-school careers.

Connor Blythe, Alex Hahn, Tyler Brommel, Zach Kenkel, and Joe Maigaard all played on Valley High’s junior-varsity team; Maigaard and Hahn went on to play on the varsity squad.

“We could have all played Division-III basket-

ball, but we all wanted to go to Iowa,” said Blythe, DRB’s captain. “We knew our style of play would work well in the realm of intramural sports.”

The five former Valley Tiger players filled their roster with high-school opponents they rediscovered while at the UI. Every team member had a general knowledge of each teammate’s style of play, a familiarity that added depth and talent to what otherwise looked like a standard team.

“We really know each other’s strengths,” Kenkel said. “It helps to know who can play what position, who to pass to, and who can shoot.”

The Tigers never made a deep run in the high-school playoffs during the DRB players’ tenure, thanks in part to tough in-state opposition. The quintet wants to change that in intramurals, and the five have

worked hard to succeed in both basketball and flag football.

“Right now, we just want to win our division,” Brommel said. “Then we want to see how far we can fight in the playoffs.”

DRB is scorching through its division on the back of its strong team selection and deep roster.

The first game forced DRB to come back from an early 10-point deficit to win, 6451. The team controlled its second game from the tip and showed its prowess by burying its opponent early to win by 33 points in a 6633 game. DRB was down by 10 points at halftime of its third match before Maigaard took charge in the second half to lead his team to a 55-42 victory over a previously undefeated team.

Former Hawkeye point guard Jeff Horner (200206) started coaching Valley High’s varsity team last

season, when Maigaard and Hahn were on the roster. He raved about his former players in an email to The Daily Iowan.

“I’m just glad to see guys wanting to play basketball,” he wrote. “Both of those guys were a big part of my first year. As a coach, it feels very good to see that they want to continue on and play basketball.

They play the game right way.”

This teamwide chemistry could be the drive that wins the players the championship they so desire. DRB possesses a rare completeness for an intramural team; the players look as if they haven’t skipped a beat since their high-school careers. The team members’ chemistry, shot selection, and willingness to share the ball make it easy to see why DRB is quickly becoming the intramural team to beat.

iber of play — both in the Big Ten and throughout the country — and said he believes tough schedules are becoming the norm.

“College tennis has gotten better as a whole,” he said. “The schedule is great, and it was inevitable to have to play as many good teams as we have.”

Houghton said he knows the schedule is arduous and losses will happen, but he feels the real test is in whichever meet follows a defeat.

“It’s how you’re going to handle the losses,” he said.

“Are you going to recognize that it’s going to make you better in the end playing good teams? Or worse if you just can’t handle the losing?”

Next Up: Iowa vs. Tulane When: March 16 Where: Jake Hess Tennis Stadium, Houston

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INTRAMURALS Basketball team DRB is 3-0, partially because half its roster played together at West Des Moines Valley High. Page 8

MEN’S BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK NOTEBOOK

Hawks: Cartwright critical Tracksters tackle new training Varied workouts keep the Hawkeyes on their toes.

By CODY GOODWIN cody-goodwin@uiowa.edu

A different Cartwright was on display about a week later, when the point guard recorded 8 assists in a start against Northwestern. That Cartwright ran Iowa’s fast break to near-perfection as he found open shooting chances for teammates.

“All good point guards make players around them better,” fellow guard Matt Gatens said on Monday.

And that’s exactly what Cartwright has done in Iowa’s wins.

He dished out 73 assists in the 15 Hawkeye victories in which he played; he tallied just 49 in 13 losses.

Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery said he is “probably leaning

The Iowa women’s track and field team will take full advantage of its time off between the indoor and outdoor seasons.

The Hawkeyes wrapped up indoor competition with a 10th-place finish at the Big Ten meet on Feb. 25. Head coach Layne Anderson opted not to send any athletes to last-chance meets in order to give his team time to relax and recuperate. Because of this, the women tracksters won’t compete again until the Arkansas Invitational on March 30-31. That’s 33 days off between live competitions.

“We’re going to revamp, revitalize, and reorganize some initiatives we haven’t done to get this team to understand the true potential it has,” Anderson said.

In other words, Iowa’s women’s track team will spend the next four weeks training for the outdoor season. But the Hawkeyes won’t work out in the fashion that they’re used to.

“Some girls will take some time off, as needed. Others will do a little bit of crosstraining as needed,” he said. “We encourage a lot of time in the training room for everybody.”

Anderson handed a large share of the training duties to fourth-year assistant Clive Roberts; fellow aide Christi Smith told The Daily Iowan that Roberts “has really taken control of how our athletes train.”

Roberts said Iowa’s 21-point showing at the Big Ten meet left him feeling like his

SEE BASKETBALL, 8

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Iowa guard Bryce Cartwright drives downcourt against Minnesota in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Feb. 1. Cartwright had 6 points in the Hawkeyes’ 63-59 comeback victory over the Gophers. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)

Fran McCaffery said Bryce Cartwright will probably start against Illinois, and his production could determine Iowa’s tournament fate.

By BEN SCHUFF benjamin-schuff@uiowa.edu

Bryce Cartwright needs to be an integral part of the offense if Iowa is going to beat Illinois in the first round of the Big Ten tournament on Thursday.

The Hawkeyes struggled to convert on fast-break opportunities early in their visit to Champaign, Ill., on Feb. 26, and squandered a chance to build a sizable lead before normal Illinois starters Brandon Paul and Meyers Leonard entered the game from the bench.

Cartwright finished that contest with 2 assists in 14 minutes.

HAWKEYE SPORTS Baseball releases camp schedules The Iowa baseball team announced the dates for its annual summer instructional youth camps on Tuesday.

Head coach Jack Dahm and his players will host three camps over the of course three days in Dahm June. Each head coach session will be held at Banks Field and include both basic and advanced skill work.

Iowa’s first two camps will be geared toward kids ages 6 to 13 and will both take place on June 4. The Hawkeye Baseball Youth Hitting Camp will take place from 9-11:30 a.m. and cost $75.

The Youth Pitching Camp begins at 1 p.m. and runs through 3:30 p.m.; it also costs $75.

The Hawkeye Skills Development Camp will have sessions in the mornings of June 5-6; it is open to children in kindergarten through sixth grade. That camp will cost $110.

Parents will receive a discounted price of $225 if they sign up for all three camps.

All registration will be conducted online at iowabaseballcamps.com; questions should be directed to assistant coach Brian Miller, whose email address is brianmiller@iowabaseball.com.

— by Seth Roberts

Fencers fare well The Iowa Fencing Club’s women’s sabre team finished in fourth place at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships last weekend in South Bend, Ind. The team’s highest finish ever was good enough to beat four varsity programs and 11 other clubs. The club finished behind only Ohio State, Notre Dame, and Northwestern — all of which are nationally ranked varsity squads.

The Iowa club was the No. 5 seed in the women’s sabre bracket, and sent Krystal Titus, Sara Pettit, and Katie Jacobsen to face No. 12-seed Oakland in the first round on Sunday. The trio of UI seniors only dropped 1 point on the way to a 5-1 win over the Golden Grizzlies.

No. 4-seed Michigan State was more of a challenge; the Spartans hung around but finally fell, 5-3, in the quarterfinals.

But the Iowa club had less luck against No. 1-seed Notre Dame in the semis; the team was swept, 5-0. It fell to No. 3seed Northwestern in the thirdplace match, 5-1.

Still, the club’s finish was good enough for first place among club teams; that distinction earned the squad the Lawrence Schiller Award for women’s sabre.

The Iowa women also placed in the top 10 in épée and foil and finished eighth overall.

Iowa placed 13th as a school; the men tied Xavier for 17th in their division.

— by Seth Roberts

‘Prehab’ helps keep GymHawks healthy Iowa’s women’s gymnastics coaching staff and trainers have developed a special training program designed to prevent injuries.

By ALEX FRENCH alexander-french@uiowa.edu

The members of Iowa’s women’s gymnastics team aren’t strangers to daily aches and pains.

Women’s gymnastics has the third-highest injury rate of any NCAA sport, behind only football and wrestling.

Iowa gymnastics team trainer Jon Fravel knows this, and he and the coaching staff developed what they call “prehab” as a result. This training, he said, is modeled after a program created by U.S. Olympic gymnastic trainer Larry Nassar.

“Every day, they have some type of prehab they’re required to do,” Fravel said. “[We focus on] knees, shoulders, core strength.”

Three out of the four events — balance beam, floor exercise, and the vault — work the muscles and joints in the lower half of the body, making it more susceptible to injury, assistant coach Caleb Phillips said.

“Three events involve tumbling, so [the lower extremities] are taking high impact often,” he said.

“There’s only so much a tendon or ligament can take if not properly strengthened.”

That’s where Fravel and his staff come in.

The fourth-year trainer said he targets the areas of the body that are more subject to high impact; those include the ankles, knees, quadriceps, shins, and calves in the lower body.

Upper-body work focuses on shoulders, elbows, and wrists.

Based on his program, the team has implemented a detailed training process and works on such things as fine motor movement with single lower extremities.

Senior Jessa Hansen said this type of training is beneficial because it strengthens often-used muscles and joints.

“We’re working on the same motions we do when we perform our skills,” the former Daily Iowan employee said. “It makes our bodies a lot stronger.”

The team does prehab in addition to strength and conditioning to combat the large number of impacts each athlete’s body takes every day.

And while the injury rate is high in gymnastics, the severity of maladies varies.

Phillips and head coach Larissa Libby both said athletes deal with minor aches and pains on a daily basis.

But the number of severe injuries has decreased significantly since Fravel partnered with the

Iowa senior gymnast Annie Szatkowski tapes her ankle during practice in the Field House on Tuesday. Women’s gymnastics has the third-highest injury rate of any college sport. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh) GymHawks. Iowa dealt with eight season-ending injuries a few years ago, Phillips said; over the past three years, there have been four.

Libby said she doesn’t know where the team would be without Fravel and student athletics trainer — and former Iowa soccer player — Emily Moran.

“They know it’s on them to keep [the athletes] in the gym, and they do a fantastic job of doing that,” she said. “They’re what keeps us going. We feel very

lucky; behind every great team is a great athletics trainer.”

Keeping the Hawkeyes out of the training room is what’s most important, Phillips said — and that involves prehab, not rehab.

“The ultimate goal is to keep them healthy,” he said. “Some people wait to get sick while others work to stay healthy. We’re one of those teams who works to stay healthy.”