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The UI College of Pharmacy marks its 125th anniversary this year.
Underage fine may be eased One civil-rights expert says the $735 underagein-bar ticket is ‘grossly disproportionate.’ By EMILY HOERNER emily-hoerner@uiowa.edu
More than half of Iowa City city councilors on Monday night said they might support lowering the hefty fines doled out to underage patrons found in a bar after 10 p.m., and they agreed to vote on the issue this summer. The councilors discussed reducing the fine — $500 plus an additional $235 in fees — during their work session; University of Iowa Student Government liaison to the council Elliot Higgins had submitted a letter last Champion week with ideas to reduce councilor the amount of money associated with defying the 21-ordinance. Councilors Regenia Bailey, Connie Champion, Ross Wilburn, and Mike Wright expressed some interest in lowering the fines and fees. Being underage in a bar after hours comes with the $735 ticket, and if the minor is drinking, he or she could rake up another $365 in fines. “It’s a lot of money,” Champion said. “Especially when you add all the other [potential charges] into it.” SEE FINES, 3A
(TOP) CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/FRED KENT PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION UI LIBRARIES Pharmacy students work in assigned places in pharmacy laboratory. (BOTTOM LEFT) CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/FRED KENT PHOTOGRAPH UI LIBRARIES Pharmacy student filling medicine bottle, The University of Iowa, 1940s. (BOTTOM RIGHT) CHRISTY AUMER/THE DAILY IOWAN Residents of Oaknoll ask UI pharmacy students questions at the Oaknoll retirement home on March 25. The
UI College of Pharmacy is celebrating its 125th anniversary this academic year.
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Bernie Cremers has been in pharmacy for nearly 50 years. The 69-year-old graduated from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy in 1964, taught pharmacy students at the UI for 27 years, and co-owns and operates two local pharmacies. For Cremers, pharmacy filled his life. And the UI made it possible. As the College of Pharmacy celebrates its 125th anniversary this academic year, Cremers and others said the UI program has continually been a leader in the field. “For some reason, Iowa pharmacists have always been very committed to just practicing the best possible pharmacy we can,” Cremers said. The 10-month long anniversary celebration will conclude today with a seminar on pharmaceutics and transitional therapeutics.
Founded in 1885 as the Department of Pharmacy, the pharmacy school is the nation’s fourth-oldest program in a public university. The college boasts such accomplishments as establishing the first hospital pharmacy graduate program in 1938, developing the nationally used Unit Dose System in 1965, and being ranked 16th in U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 Best Graduate School pharmacy programs. But for many alumni, faculty, and current students, the college’s most enduring advantage has been its adaptability in an ever-changing field. “Today, it’s about more than just prescribing, it’s about caring for the patient,” said Barbara Kelley, the external relations director for the college. The original role of a pharmacist was to turn raw chemicals into products, said Jeff Reist, a UI clinical assistant proSEE PHARMACY, 3
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UI to adjust response to sex assault Vice President Joe Biden introduced the new guidelines at the University of New Hampshire. By NINA EARNEST nina-earnest@uiowa.edu
University of Iowa officials said they need to slightly adjust their sexual-assault response to bring it in line with federal regulations. The move comes after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent a 19-page “Dear Colleague” letter to institutions of primary and secondary learning as part of a new administration initiative to address sexual violence on campuses. The document discussed issues including preventing assault, allowing students to change classes after incidents, and reporting outcomes of investigations. Monique DiCarlo, the UI sexual-misconduct-response coordinator, said she didn’t DiCarlo see any major differences between the UI policies and sexualmisconductthe federal guidelines. response Instead, her initial impres- coordinator sions of the letter clarified policies and procedures with which universities nationwide have struggled in the past. Federal officials specifically addressed universities’ necessity to proceed with their SEE ASSAULT, 3
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Greg and Jean Thompson stood on an elevated platform in front of a crowd adorned with scarves, hats, and picket signs on the wind-blown Pedestrian Mall Monday. Greg Thompson wrote the song “Empty Houses” when the Maytag fact o r y i n N e w t o n cl o s e d down on Oct. 26, 2007, and he and Jean Thompson sang the tune for the ralliers. “Hang onto your retirement, folks, it’s going to be rough from here on out,” Greg Thompson said as he strummed on his acoustic guitar. Ralliers gathered on the Ped Mall to garner support for labor unions, bargaining rights, and civil rights as part of the NAACP’s We Are One campaign. “We’re trying to get everybody on the same page, to talk and meet each other,” said Mark Goldfarb, an activist for We Are One, a campaign to raise awareness of human rights. “I’m doing this for fair pay and workers’ rights.” People held signs reading “Workers’ rights are human rights” and “Stop the war on the working class” as they listened to protesters talk about their concerns with distrust for the government, and recent union efforts in the Midwest. The rally is part of a nationwide effort to promote human rights in conjunction with Monday’s anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. “I just wanted to come out, and meet with people, and show some solidarity,” said University of Iowa graduate Jamie Kearny, a paralegal for a local law firm.
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Mark Goldfarb speaks to a crowd about the vision of the We Are One campaign, which organized a rally on Monday on the Pedestrian Mall. The demonstration was one of many held across the country to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who included workers’ rights among his many causes.
Teach-in Groups to be represented at today’s teach-in at 1 p.m. at 125 Trowbridge Hall: • Students for Affordable Education • UE Local 896-COGS • AFSCME Local 12 • Service Employees International Union Local 199 • Iowa City Education Association • Iowa Policy Project Source: We Are One website
Since the Wisconsin Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker eliminated public unions’ bargaining rights early last month, Kearny has been to Madison three times to help the cause. “[The legislation in Wisconsin] was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Goldfarb said. He thinks students and citizens are now more con-
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cerned with their rights than ever before, he said. “We put these people in office, and they should be representing us. We have that common goal,” said UI graduate student Joe Fassler, an organizer of the event. One concern protesters brought up during the rally was people tend to overlook issues that don’t directly apply to them. “It’s really easy to be divested of the experiences that people are going through in locked-out positions,” said Rod Perdue, a member of the Iowa City School District union, the
Service Employees International Union. “We cannot distinguish what part we play in this. We come from backgrounds where we don’t even question how are monetary status works.” Labor unions have undergone recent scrutiny by multinational corporations and members of the GOP. “At the current moment, a lot of labor unions have become obsolete,” said John Twillmann, the UI chapter head for the Johnson County Republicans. “They were created at a time when [workers] were fighting for workers’ rights and competitive wages.” Twillmann said “protests and things like that are great,” but he is unsure how much control these unions have over their industries. But for Fassler, the importance of public involvement overrides those concerns. “If you can’t strike, what can you do?” he said.
METRO Small fire empties Man charged with downtown businesses, OWI after wreck An Iowa City man was charged apartments with OWI after he allegedly Officials evacuated several downtown businesses and apartments after reports of smoke from a downtown bar Monday. Firefighters responded to the Union Bar, 121 E. College St., around noon, where small amounts of smoke were leaking from metal plating in the front of the building — stretching to Graze, 115 E. College St. Firefighters had to smash the glass doors of Union to enter, and several officials entered apartment buildings above Union and the Soap Opera, 119 E. College St., where they located light smoke, according to a press release. Officials said the fire was located in an overhang on the front of the Soap Opera, and crews spent two to three hours doing overhaul and extinguishing small fires in the awning. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, and the damage is estimated at $5,000, according to a press release. The release said there were no injuries, and occupants were allowed to return to their apartments after the fire was put out. — by Hayley Bruce
wrecked a client’s car. Jacob Stein, 31, 1688 Burns Ave., was charged March 30 with OWI and operating without consent. According to complaints from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Stein rolled a red Jaguar over on Interstate 80 at 1:07 a.m. Jan. 9. The report said Stein was coming from the Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon near Herbert Hoover Highway before he wrecked the vehicle. On scene, Stein allegedly told deputies the car was a client’s from his auto-repair business. The report said a blood sample taken at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics showed Stein to have a blood-alcohol content of .240. — by Hayley Bruce
allegedly removed Dilaudid from a medication machine under the name of 12 patients. In one case, when Moander was confronted by a patient’s nurse, he allegedly said he had entered the patient room number and inadvertently got it under the wrong patient. The report said the patient did not have a doctor’s order for the drug, and the doctor said he did not remember a call for a phone order, which Moander allegedly told police he received. The reports said Moander was not assigned to care for several of the patients and allegedly failed to provide the drugs to them, causing the hospital records to be inaccurate. — by Hayley Bruce
He must serve 70 percent of the sentence. — by Michelle McConnaughey
Coralville man faces numerous charges
Police arrested a North Liberty man after he allegedly illegally obtained prescription drugs while he was a nurse at Mercy Hospital. Adam Moander, 28, of North Liberty was charged March 11 with 12 counts of prohibited acts and one count of tampering with records. According to complaints from the Iowa City police, Moander
The accomplice of the so-called “ninja robber” was sentenced to 25 years in prison on first-degree robbery charges April 1. According to court documents, on Nov. 9, 2008, Fredrick Reid, 29, robbed Gasby’s, 1310 S. Gilbert St., while armed with a dangerous weapon. According to police records, officers saw two suspicious males enter Gasby’s convenience store and observed them rob the clerk with a knife. The clerk reportedly told police the two men implied Reid had a gun.
A Coralville man was arrested after allegedly stealing a woman’s wallet and using her credit card to buy a PlayStation 3. Nathaniel Burgs, 53, Coralville, was charged March 9 with second-degree burglary, unauthorized use of a credit card, thirddegree theft, and identity theft. According to police reports, a woman was home when her home was burglarized and her wallet was stolen, including her credit card. Thirty minutes later, the report said, Burg allegedly used the card to purchase gasoline at Casey’s Convenience Store and a PlayStation 3 at Kmart, totaling $320.99. Burg was identified by surveillance video at Casey’s and Kmart, and the credit-card numbers on the Kmart receipt corresponded with those on the woman’s credit card. The complaint said Burg has previous theft convictions from April 7 and July 1998. Burg was also charged Feb. 14 with unauthorized use of a credit card and third-degree theft for allegedly stealing, then using a woman’s credit card 14 times on Feb. 13. — by Hayley Bruce
was charged April 2 with public intoxication. Sheri Locke, 54, Ollie, Iowa, was charged April 2 with failure to post financial security. Katherine Privitt, 18, 922 E. College St. Apt. 1, was charged April 2 with PAULA and April 1 with keeping a disorderly house. Mason Propp, 24, 604 S. Dubuque St., was charged March 31 with OWI. Louis Richards, 19, 2125 Quad, was charged April 1 with public intoxication. Amy Sales, 41, Coralville, was charged April 1 with public intoxication. Russell Schlotfeldt, 20, 520 S. Johnson St., was charged April 1
with driving with a suspended/canceled license. Kellie Seales, 19, 5728 Daum, was charged April 1 with PAULA. Michael Sowa, 20, 4446 Burge, was charged March 29 with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Samantha Streif, 20, 507 Iowa Ave., was charged March 26 with PAULA. Alyssa Tisoncik, 19, 201 E. Burlington St. Apt. 1532, was charged April 1 with keeping a disorderly house. Dustin Tomlinson, 20, Norwalk, Iowa, was charged April 1 with keeping a disorderly house and public intoxication. Angela Tweedy, 21, 941 E.
Jefferson St., was charged Feb. 5 with prohibited acts, possession of a controlled substance, drug tax-stamp violation, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Jacob Vance, 20, Solon, was charged April 1 with firstdegree burglary and assault causing injury. Kyle Wickersham, 22, 401 Hawk Ridge Drive Apt. 4304, was charged April 2 with OWI. Jude Wilson, 48, 431 N. Lucas St., was charged April 2 with public intoxication. Eric Yohnka, 19, N266 Hillcrest, was charged March 30 with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance.
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BLOTTER Alberto Avilez, 32, 114 E. College St., was charged Monday with public intoxication. Rui Chen, 21, 629 S. Johnson St. Apt. 5, was charged April 1 with keeping a disorderly house. Tyrone Crosby, 48, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 3605, was charged Oct. 30 with assault. Resinaldo Deluna III, 19, Oswego, Ill., was charged April 1 with PAULA. Bruce Johnson, 22, 845 Cross Park Ave. Apt. 2D, was charged Sunday with driving with a suspended/canceled license. Jonathan Jones, 23, 2402 Bartelt Road Apt. 1A, was charged March 25 with fifth-degree theft and Sunday with obstruction. Rimas Lapimas, 18, 2226 Burge,
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METRO Education group opposes growth limit The Iowa State Education Association is opposed to the possibility of a 0 percent allowable growth in the budget proposal for Iowa public schools, said association President Chris Bern. It does not allow school’s money to cover higher costs of living, he said.
“We’re hoping that there is going to be a compromise between 0 and 2 percent,” he said. “We hope it’s closer to 2 percent.” According to the Education approximately Association, 1,500 jobs would be eliminated if the Iowa Republican Party’s proposal is passed by the state Legislature. The deadline for schools to notify staff about layoffs is April 30. — by Allie Wright
FINES CONTINUED FROM 1 Councilors agreed Monday to pursue a tiered system and placed the amendment on their July 1 agenda. Under the proposal, minors would face a $300 fine for their first offense. With the $235 in fee addition, the total amount of a first ticket would total $535. But if someone broke the law a second time, he or she would get the same $735 ticket currently in place. A third violation could total more than $900. “I would be willing to lower it some, not a huge amount,” Wright said. “If we’re going to graduate it, I would like the second fine to be just vicious.” One civil-rights expert in the state said the current $735 ticket is excessive and could be unconstitutional. Ben Stone, the executive director of the Iowa American Civil Liberties Union, said the harm of someone being in a bar compared with the penalty is “grossly disproportionate.” “I’ve never heard of anything that large before or that extraordinary,” he said. “It appears to be monstrously overthe-top.” Higgins praised the council’s decision to pursue lesser fines, saying after the meeting that he is “ecstatic.” “I’m thrilled that the council was responsive to the concerns I raised,” said Higgins, who is also the lone candidate running for UI Student Government president for the 2011-12 school year.
METRO Dvorsky opposes 2-year budget Sen. Bob Dvorsky, D-Coralville, said Monday he does not support passing Gov. Terry Branstad’s two-year state-budget plan. Dvorsky, the head of the Appropriations Senate Committee, said a two-year budget has not been passed since 1983 and a one-year budget has “worked out really well.” A two-year budget takes away the state Legislature’s Constitutional power and lessens its influence, he said. The senator said he plans to send a one-year budget to the Senate and “see what happens and go from there.” — by Allie Wright
Amendment plan: Possible changes to the $500 fine for underage patrons who are in a bar after hours: • $300 fine for first offense • $500 fine for second offense • $625 fine for third offense Source: Iowa City City Council
At the work session, he told councilors the fines should change because the financial burden is severe and harsh in comparison with other fines the city doles out — especially for students who are overwhelmed with tuition and fees. “People make mistakes,” Higgins told the council on Monday. The $315 fine for underage possession of alcohol in Iowa City is comparable with the home cities of Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa — a first offense costs $330 in Ames and Cedar Falls. But the $100 fine for presence in a bar underage in Ames is much less than the $735 ticket in Iowa City. Cedar Falls doesn’t follow a 21-ordinance. But Bailey said it’s important to remember the original intent of the $500 fine — to “deter” a student population that had been used to going to the bars from breaking the new 21-only law. “I think we have to send a consistent message,” she said. “I think that is fundamentally important.”
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ASSAULT CONTINUED FROM 1 own investigations into violent incidents rather than waiting for the completion of a criminal proceedings. “This letter provides guidance that you can’t wait for that,” DiCarlo said. “You have to go forward with your own process.” Her office wants to see who has the responsibility of keeping victims informed with periodic updates. UI Dean of Students David Grady said he noticed items that were both consistent and inconsistent with the UI policy. As did DiCarlo, he noted the need to stay in contact with the complaining party. “We just want to make sure that our campus is safe,” he said. “We want to
PHARMACY CONTINUED FROM 1 fessor of pharmacy. While that practice is still taught and used today, the majority of drugs are commercially made, leading to a shift in attention. “There’s been a big change in our focus — we’re increasingly patientfocused,” said Reist, who received a B.S. in pharmacy from the UI in 1982 and a doctorate from the University of Florida in 2007. Cremers said he treats his patients like family. But when he started 47 years ago, pharmacists were not encouraged to interact with patients at all. Officials have implemented “high-energy activities” — like taking patients’ blood pressures or interacting with a patient who has allergies — to give students real-life experience, Reist said.
Reporting sexual assault The following resources are available on campus in the event of a sexual assault: • Rape Victim Advocacy Program • Emergency Treatment Center, UI Hospitals and Clinics • UI police • UI Sexual Misconduct Response Coordinator look at the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter and make sure we’re following what the expectations are.” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said the letter marked the first time an administration released extensive guidance for compliance with Title IX, the 1972 federal legislation that prohibits discrimina-
UI College of Pharmacy Facts about the program: • 410 professional students, 73 grad students, 84 faculty, and 4,544 living alumni • Alumni practice in 94 of 99 Iowa counties • Half of all practicing pharmacists in Iowa are UI College of Pharmacy grads • Doctor of Pharmacy ranked 16th in the nation • More than 650 applicants for 108 Doctor of Pharmacy places in 2010 Source: UI College of Pharmacy
“We’re still involved with products, but we’re adding to that,” he said. “In addition to providing a product, now we take the next step and look at the positive outcomes we can offer.” The college has also organized more projects — such as health fairs — to give students real-world
tion on the basis of sex in federally funded programs and education. “Every school would like to believe it’s immune from sexual violence, but numbers suggest otherwise,” Duncan said in a conference call Monday. Vice President Joe Biden presented the new guidelines in a speech at the University of New Hampshire. According to the letter, college campuses reported nearly 3,300 forcible sex offenses defined under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security and Campus Crime Statistics Act. Karla Miller, the executive director of the Rape Victim Advocacy Program, said the letter could serve to create uniform policy in universities throughout the country. “We need to have some-
thing consistent with this letter immediately so that we don’t have more cases where the system doesn’t work well,” she said. The UI has come under criticism about its response to assaults in the past. The reportedly botched investigation into allegations of a sexual assault in Hillcrest resulted in the termination of two officials and a revamping of policies. DiCarlo’s position was created soon after. Miller said the situation on the UI campus has improved in the past four years. “There’s still a ways to go, and some serious areas that need attention,” she said. “But there is also generally much more collaboration throughout the university in working on the issue of violence against women and violence on campus.”
experience interacting with patients. Around 15 students provided health screenings and educational information regarding diabetes to residents at Oaknoll, an Iowa City adult retirement community, on March 25. “Getting out in the community and having these opportunities are invaluable,” said Megan Mormann, a third-year pharmacy student. In addition to one-day projects, fourth-year pharmacy students participate in five-week rotations with various participating practitioners who mentor and teach the students, Kelley said. More than 600 practitioners in Iowa — ranging
from hospitals to drug stores — participate in the program. And after graduation, the training continues. The college community pharmacy residency program was the first reaccredited program nationwide, Kelley said. Students can choose a one- or two-year residency in which they receive further training in a specified setting. These evolving, handson opportunities in the college are essential for continuing the school’s benefits to the state and nation, Reist said. “We try to put into practice the things we’re teaching,” he said.
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Should convenience stores be allowed to sell hard liquor? Yes
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Apparently, Iowa City is worried about making it remotely easy for people to purchase liquor. Iowa City Mayor Matt Hayek expressed concerns last week about a new law that allows convenience stores to sell liquor in the main section of the store, without a separate entrance. “I don’t think this is a good thing for Iowa City,” Hayek told The Daily Iowan. I could fully understand hesitation if this bill was going to open up a new venue for the sale of alcohol of all varieties. But convenience stores already had the ability to sell beer and liquor (this latter if it is separated from the other booze), so why not make it easier on everyone and include hard liquor on the main shelves as well? “I have a feeling that there would be more customers [at convenience stores]. It is more convenient for people who live nearby,” Rhenn Atwell, a cashier at a Deli Mart in Coralville, told the DI last week. That’s the point. Convenience stores were made for a reason — they’re convenient. That doesn’t mean all patrons will turn to them as their one and only source for alcohol. But if they’re allowed to sell one form of alcohol, opening up the playing field to include all kinds (without requiring major reconfiguration) isn’t really changing much. Sure, it’s worth considering that hard alcohol has the ability to get someone more intoxicated in a shorter time. But, in the end, both forms of alcohol have the same effects and are typically taken to produce the same outcomes. Furthermore, many are hesitant because this could open a new avenue of availability to minors, but this one’s really quite simple: Hire some trustworthy employees (employers should always have some faith in who they are hiring). At the very least, have someone higher up monitoring them, preventing minors from obtaining alcohol. It should be no different from the way businesses ran before this new law. So as much as I’d like to say I understand the concern on this one, I’m just not so sure I do. This new law has the potential to not only make the lives of citizens in Iowa City more convenient but also improve profits for local stores. As long as it is monitored correctly, and by the right people, it shouldn’t have much of a negative effect. — Taylor Casey
While you’re refueling and grabbing a bag of chips to accompany your bucket of soda, should you be able to stock up on vodka or rum as well? Now that Gov. Terry Branstad has signed HF 617, Iowa convenience stores will soon be able to sell hard liquor without an extra entrance or cash register. While I’m a fan of all three — and apparently, so is the state Senate, which voted 33-14 in favor of the legislation, is, too — the hangover effects of this bill will only serve to worsen the situation in Iowa City. According to estimates by the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, “over the next two years, 200 additional convenience stores will obtain liquor licenses.” Increased revenue for the state: good. But pouring more spirits into the Iowa City cocktail doesn’t go down so easily. Making liquor more accessible practically negates everything our soon-to-be “Coordinator of CampusCommunity Harm Reduction Initiatives” will work toward. Additionally, providing harder booze at the same store that provides gasoline certainly tempts the drunk-driving fates. While these may seem like mere trivialities — anyone who drives to a liquor store faces the same “quandaries” — the bill’s main provisions pose a more severe threat to alcohol restrictions. Convenience stores would not be forced to cordon off hard liquor, either through a special entrance or otherwise, or ring up sales on a separate cash register — making it more visible to shoppers and starryeyed minors. “Reducing the commercial availability of alcohol to underage youth may help to reduce underage drinking and alcohol-related problems, especially if an initiative of this nature is conducted as part of a comprehensive prevention strategy,” found a 2007 study by Mallie J. Paschall et alia. Sound familiar? It also noted that sales to underage patrons were more likely to be present in grocery and convenience stores. While this new law may aid convenience in more rural parts of the state, it does not bode well for boozeplagued Iowa City. — Kirsten Jacobsen Your turn. Do you support hard liquor in convenience stores? Weigh in at dailyiowan.com.
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Don’t criminalize students As a 17-year-old freshman, not a night of my college career will be spent legally drinking. However, I feel strongly about current legislation and its enforcement. While various laws/fines may have decreased alcohol abuse, they have also
created a climate of fear and anger among students and distrust between them and the citizens of the city they inhabit. Sometimes, the University of Iowa and the police seem more excited about catching students red-handed than helping them to make healthy choices. I do not oppose the 21-ordinance or punishing those who
violate the law, but clearly, fining and admonishing the student population can only go so far in cultivating a happy and healthy atmosphere at the university. I think law-enforcement officials and school administrators need to remember the goal of their jobs: to protect and assist their constituency. Community service and alcohol-
education classes can be much more effective responses to violations than a slap on the wallet — erm, wrist. I don’t drink. I’m that scholarship girl who gets touted as “well-behaved.” But I want harmony and cooperation to flourish at the UI as much as anyone else. Eliana Parnas UI freshman
HOW CAN THE UI OFFSET STATE CUTS WITHOUT RAISING TUITION?
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I don’t watch network TV or cable TV, not because I’m some elite liberal snob (though I probably am) but because my TV doesn’t receive any TV signals. (What kind of TV is that, you ask, that doesn’t pick up any TV signals? Well, I suppose it’s the kind of TV that you get for free. You gotta admit, you can’t beat the price.) So my TV, I suppose, is not exactly a TV but more a DVD player with a screen. All of which means that I learn about what occurs in the foreign country named TV from friends and people such as Gail Collins, who is much better connected than I am. (Well, Collins is a New York Times columnist, so of course she’s better connected.) And so you can imagine my astonishment when Collins told me (Well, via one of her columns; it’s not as if we get together and chat on the phone or anything. Besides, I don’t have a phone. Yeah, I know. Some of my friends accuse me of still living in the 20th century.) Anyway, Collins told me recently about an episode of something called “Celebrity Apprentice” in which two contestants, if that’s what they’re called, debated whether this was the 21st or the 20th century. And my friends think I’m behind the times. This goes hand-in-hand with the news that U.S. students rank 23rd in the world in math and science. No. 1? Students in Shanghai. (Yes — China has Shanghai-ed our math scores.) And so it comes as no surprise that Transocean, part of the crew that contributed (at least reportedly) to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, has awarded some of its executive big bonuses for — wait for it — the company’s safety practices. No, really.
So you’re correct: Vonnegut and Kafka (along with Borges and Cortázar) are still collaborating on creating our times. I love those writers. I just wish they weren’t so right all the time. Couldn’t they be wrong just once in a while? Meanwhile, Dutch researchers contend that by 2050, with the world’s population at around 9 billion, meat will be in short supply, and humans should turn to insect meat. No, really (not to repeat myself, though I, along with most humans, often do — just listen sometime instead of, say, oh, texting). Yuck, you say (or text). Insects. Cockroaches (cleaner than human beings, according to some scientists), grasshoppers (a delicacy among some societies), eels (well, not an insect, and smoked eel is a delicacy in northern Germany, among other places, as I can attest — even though the last batch also involved some grub worms; my digestive system dealt with them quite fine). The Dutch scientist I heard on BBC Radio pointed out that some tomato sauces and peanut butter invariably contain some insect meat, and your digestive system does quite fine, too. And you still do not want a firsthand knowledge of how sausage is made. Just a thought. On the cheery side of life, there were 14 “nearmiss” incidents at U.S. nuclear reactors last year, according to a recent report. Which leads us to 1997, when nine U.S. nuclear reactors were shut down by the NRC for the year to fix safety problems. This didn’t sit well with the nuclear industry, so its representatives went to Congress in 1998 and said, in the words of one expert on public radio’s “Science Friday,” get the NRC off our backs. So Congress, in 1998, told the NRC to stop being so picky about enforcing its safety regulations or face a 40 percent budget cut. The NRC, staunch regulatory agency that it is, backed off. Kind of makes you want to eat insects.
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Student loans and college costs: Is anyone listening? Nationally, 70.1 percent of 2009 high-school graduates enrolled in college, a continuing upward trend. The fall 2010 enrollment numbers echo this trend with Iowa State University reporting an all-time high of 28,682 students enrolled and a freshman class of 4,552, the second largest ever. Community colleges reported enrolling more than 106,000 students. These students must, somehow, pay for college — from savings, work, scholarships and grants, or loans. Unfortunately, Iowa students rely heavily on loans and are being devoured by debt. The Project on Student Debt reported that average
debt for undergraduate degrees in 2008 was $23,200, increasing 6 percent a year. Sixty-seven percent of graduates had loans to repay. Iowa students had the highest student-loan debt in the nation, an average of $28,174. This year, the Iowa average is now $28,883, and 74 percent have loans — second in the nation. Of the three regent schools, graduates of Iowa State have the most debt on average, at $30,411, with 71 percent carrying loans. The “fiscal 2008 Official Cohort Default Rates,” published in September by the U.S. Department of Education, shows that, as of 2010, Iowa was one of only 17 states with more than
75,000 borrowers in repayment, 80,622. Of these, 8,053 were in default, a rate of 9.9 percent. This ranks fourth, behind Arizona, Arkansas, and Colorado — all with default rates of more than 10 percent. Nationwide, 7 percent of borrowers are in default. Students graduating from Iowa colleges and universities have more debt than most, and more are defaulting. Yet the presidents of the public universities and the state Board of Regents has increased tuition significantly. The regents voted March 23 to approve overall in-state resident undergraduate tuition increases of 5 per-
cent at the University of Iowa, Iowa State, and Northern Iowa. For technical and specialty degrees, the increases are even larger. Sophomore engineering students at the UI will see a 21.3 percent tuition increase, to $7,436 — from the $6,128 they and their parents thought they were paying originally. Most egregious of all, UI freshman nursing students will see a 41.4 percent increase, to $8,662. In contrast, the Higher Education Price Index, a compilation of costs affecting higher education, rose less than 1 percent in 2010. This was the lowest increase ever for the index,
which includes staff salaries, benefits, and energy costs. Colleges use the Higher Education Price Index to help evaluate their tuition rates — yet apparently not the regents, as the proposed increases for 2011-12 are significantly higher. They and the presidents of the regent universities argue that because of state funding cuts, large increases are needed to maintain an “effective and high-quality” program. “Squeeze Play 2010,” a report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, states that 54 percent of Americans believe “colleges could spend less and still
maintain a high quality of education.” Sixty percent believe that colleges can increase enrollments without raising tuition or cutting quality. People are “frustrated with higher education” and are “dubious” that colleges are “costeffective and doing all they can to keep tuition affordable.” One imagines that business, engineering, and nursing students will agree. Are the regents listening? Deborah Thornton is a research analyst for the Public Interest Institute, a Mount Pleasant-based nonprofit research group. These views are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Public Interest Institute.
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Reading with relish the inner organs Jason Burke created the James Joyce Book Club to gain support for the books he had been reading for 15 years. By LAURA WILLIS laura-willis@uiowa.edu
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At the age of 19, Jason Burke first became lost and mystified by the invented language and literary dream sequences of James Joyce’s classic novel Finnegan’s Wake. The book, which took the Irish author and poet 17 years to write, begins with only part of a sentence, aiding in its reputation as one of the most challenging books in English to read. “The way [Joyce] puts in all of these puzzles and illusions and obstacles makes you have to look things up and take a scholarly approach,” the now 34year-old said. “That hasn’t come naturally to me before, but he forces you to do that.” After completing graduate school at the Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2002, Burke moved to a variety of places to work as an acupuncturist. Throughout the process of moving he lost numerous books, including several editions of Joyce’s Ulysses. In September 2010, he was offered a position at Acupuncture of Iowa, and moved to Iowa City. of novels Boxes remained scattered about his new home, except for a new copy of Ulysses that Burke had recently received from a friend.
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“I had this new copy on my nightstand, taunting me,” he said. To gain support for books he had been reading for 15 years, Burke started a James Joyce Book Club. He created a website for the group in January, not expecting anyone to sign up. To his surprise, nine members joined, and with a different number of people attend each Tuesday night meeting at Dublin Underground, 5 S. Dubuque St. The first book on the club’s list is Ulysses. Members aim to read 80 pages a week, with a goal of finishing the novel within the next month. “I think that a weekly Joyce group would be espe-
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Jason Burke (left) meets with James Joyce Book Club member Anthony Donofrio in the Dublin Underground on March 29. Burke, who moved to Iowa City in September 2010, started the club in January. cially worthwhile for participants,” said UI Adjunct Assistant Professor Heidi Carrier. “The careful attention and collaborative effort of an ongoing group would certainly aid its members in encountering the many challenges and reaping the enormous awards in Joyce’s work.” The hourlong meetings are kept casual and spent
drinking a pint or two and swapping interpretations of the text back and forth. Recent topics have included Ulysses’s main character Leopold Bloom. Burke, who had never been a part of book club before, depended on others to direct the tone of conversation. Together the group traced classical Greek and Latin words, searching for
clues Joyce left behind. Despite taking an unfamiliar role as a literary leader, members feel that Burke has kept persistent discussions. “[Burke] is a great club leader because he is never out of questions,” said club member Anthony Donofrio. “He has a very sharp mind, which is perfect for reading literature of this type.”
Burke acknowledges that Joyce’s style of writing isn’t for everyone. Whether it be two people that show up to the book club meeting or all nine, what matters most is reaching the ultimate goal: piecing together each of Joyce’s narratives. “This to me is a personal challenge,” Burke said. “Some people want to climb Mount Everest — this is the benchmark for me.”
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Iowa City firefighters attempt to locate the source of smoke at the Soap Opera on Monday. Light smoke was spotted in the Union and the Soap Opera around noon, bringing roughly 18 firefighters to the scene. They found a fire in the overhang at the front of the Soap Opera and extinguished it. No one was injured in the incident, and the Iowa City Fire Department estimated the total coast of damage to be $5,000.
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ARIES March 21-April 19 Uncertainty regarding partnerships will cause friction. Don’t be afraid to reveal what’s bothering you or what you feel must be resolved before you offer your services. Overreacting will work against you. TAURUS April 20-May 20 Put more emphasis on the way you express yourself. You will have to make a calculated decision based on your intuition, not on what you are told. Step back, and choose what changes must be made to move forward. GEMINI May 21-June 20 Don’t feel pressured by what others do or say. You have time to examine any challenge or proposal that comes your way without making a commitment. Take control, and you will not fall victim to someone’s pushy attitude. CANCER June 21-July 22 Keep everything as simple as possible. Don’t let anyone complicate matters by asking too much of you or putting you on the spot. Any partnership you are in must be equal. Otherwise, consider moving on or going it alone. LEO July 23-Aug. 22 You may not see what’s going on around you too clearly. Don’t let your emotions take over, causing a problem professionally. It’s what you accomplish that will count. Taking a positive approach will bring the results you are hoping for. VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 You will learn through your experiences. Don’t be afraid to push someone in order to move forward with your own plans. A change at home will help you improve your personal relationships. LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Buy or sell items that will grow in value or bring you a profit. You need to be money smart if you want to pursue your goals. A partnership may be holding you back. Focus on your happiness and following your dream. SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 You will make a worthwhile connection with someone you meet while networking. Your genuine appreciation of what others can do will help break the ice. Your willingness to freely discuss your plans and vision for the future will bring a favorable response. SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Deal with recurring problems once and for all. Once you make your position clear, you can move forward with ease. One of your peers may give you a hard time. Question her or his motives. Form your business plan, and stick to it. CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Don’t listen to negativity or complaints that have nothing to do with you. Put your effort into home, family, and the people who have always supported your efforts and ideas. Take better care of your emotional and physical well-being. AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Rely on what and who you know well, and you can work your way around someone trying to play emotional games with you. An opportunity to make a career move or turn a skill into a profitable commodity should be foremost on your mind. PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Get together with old friends. New opportunities will develop, but you have to be prepared to act fast. Use your innovative ideas to spark enthusiasm in what you are doing. Use past ideas and ask acquaintances for help.
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beginning of summer to start recovery. “It really had me down in the dumps because the coaches had recruited me to come here and do big things, and I felt like I was letting them down, letting me down,” the native of Clinton said. “It was a really depressing time.” It wasn’t until about mid-July last summer that Holmes was able to begin his rehab by swimming in a pool inside the Jacobson Athletics Building. He finished his summer by continuing rehab in Iowa City. “That was the biggest difference,” said assistant coach Joey Woody, who coaches Holmes in the hurdles. “If he hadn’t done that, we would’ve been pretty far behind in our training at the beginning of the year, and he probably wouldn’t have had the same indoor season he had this year.” The indoor season Woody
referred to was highlighted by Holmes’ recognition as an All-American after being a member of the 4x400 meter relay group that placed fourth at the indoor NCAAs. Holmes also had meets during the indoor season that Woody said were “turning points in his career.” At Arkansas, he ran his first sub-48 second 400 meters. He ended the season with a personal-best 400 time of 47.85 at the Last Chance qualifier at Iowa State. At the first meet of the outdoor season last weekend at the LSU Invitational, head coach Larry Wieczorek said Holmes “picked up right where he left off in the indoor season.” The 20year-old placed first in the 400-meter hurdles, an event in which the Hawkeyes lost last year’s Big Ten champion Ray Varner to graduation. His time of 51.85 seconds was
Iowa sophomore Ethan Holmes takes a break during practice on Monday in the Recreation Building. Holmes placed sixth in the 110meter hurdles in the LSU Invitational this past weekend. also better than any time ner is gaining confidence Holmes posted throughout because of it. all of last outdoor season. “Last year going into He also placed sixth in races, I would kind of grade the 110-meter hurdles and myself at a lower level than his 4x4 group crossed the finish line in fourth at the everybody whom I was racing against,” Holmes said. LSU meet. Holmes said he has gone “[This weekend,] I wasn’t into meets this year, includ- nervous before any of my ing nationals, as if “I’m run- races. It’s a really good sign ning scared, like something when you can go into a race is chasing me, like I’m and have confidence that scared for my life.” Running scared has you’re going to go out and turned nerves into results. compete to the best of your And the now healthy run- ability.”
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column Monday afternoon arguing that Butler was not a midmajor but a major program, and it was breaking ground for every small-school team by getting respect. The best line of that was probably: “Don’t call this year’s Butler a “mid-major” just because it’s a small school and doesn’t play in the Big Ten. Butler is just a damn good college-basketball program.” Now, am I calling Butler a bad college basketball program? Absolutely not. Yet an elite team doesn’t have its worst game of the season in the championship. I’m simply saying to be ever more cautious of the Cinderella. It should’ve been easy to see to that a team that lost numerous games in the Horizon League might falter on the biggest stage. The other premise of my initial column I wrote — confident that Butler would at least keep it close if not win the whole tournament — was essentially that major conferences are overrated. Another line that was almost printed: “But as much as size and resources come from the enrollment at a school, the history of the program is what’s more important. After all, should South Florida or any other historically poor basketball school be
considered “major” just because of its conference? No.” Yet, after watching UConn win an ugly, hideous, make-JamesNaismith-roll-in-hisgrave type game Monday evening, I realize that South Florida might fare as well in the tournament as a midlevel mid-major. Yes, Butler would probably beat South Florida in a best-ofseven series, but if the game were close and the level of play was up to its potential, the Bulls would have a ton of experience playing great players in tough games. Really, Monday night taught the value of the conference. All season, we heard about the amazing quality of play of the Big East, and then when only two teams made the Sweet Sixteen, there was chatter of being overrated. But really, it’s just bad luck. Teams that played in the Big East, or any major conference, for that matter, have an advantage of quality of play. Now, in the tournament, a lot of its teams lost some close games, but still a team that finished *ninth* in the conference won the freaking NCAA Tournament. Staying with that logic, Butler simply had a lot of good luck in this tournament. Not to diminish its accomplishments or the team’s
CONTINUED FROM 10 shooting percentage is almost 10 points higher than your overall fieldgoal percentage, you probably didn’t win that game. UConn scored 53 points, made one 3pointer in a championship game, and won by 12. And so many fans were blind-sided by the bad basketball. There’s a difference between a legitimatly great mid-major program, something UNLV established in the early 1990s, and getting hot during the tournament. Note that UNLV is still the only non-major conference school to win the title in the tournament era. No one would have been fooled by this Butler team if it had been pretty much any other non-major school making a Cinderella run. Granted, repetition was a factor, because Brad Stevens’ gang made it back a second year. But to think this year’s Butler team would have defeated last year’s is incorrect. Even I had fallen under the spell of Cinderella after the Pittsburgh game, in which Butler won essentially on a touch foul. I originally wrote this
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much more legitimate run last season, but if a tip-in by Matt Howard in the first round rims out, the Bulldogs become the team that was in the championship in 2010. Also, the team had the fortune of playing Virginia Commonwealth in the Final Four. As an eighth seed, Butler was three seeds higher than its opponent in the national semifinals. Of course, Butler’s last two years are still amazing. Right now, I feel betrayed by a team that I believed in two years in a row not coming through, especially in the manner it didn’t get it done this season. But in five, 10 years, whether Butler is still a nationally prominent program or not, it’ll still be interesting to look back on. Actually, while the game may have set the mid-major reputation back for a few seasons, letting major conference elitists bring up points — albeit usually valid ones — about why the Pac-10 is better than the Mountain West, it’s this type of reaction that may be more shocking. It used to be something for a mid-major just to get to the Final Four. Now it’s infuriating that they can’t win it. Even if tonight’s game wasn’t progress, that probably is.
Hawks: Bye to bye-week blues As the men’s gymnastics team prepares for the NCAA championships, it will try to improve on its trend of low scores following off-weeks. By RYAN MURPHY ryan-e-murphy@uiowa.edu
The final men’s gymnastics regular season rankings are in the books, and the Iowa men’s gymnastics team’s final ranking of 11th has qualified the squad for April 14’s NCAA Qualifier, the prelude to the NCAA championships in Columbus, Ohio. Now the challenge is managing the off-week that has been rough on the Hawkeyes this season. Three of the five lowest scores for the Iowa men’s gymnastics team have come in meets that were preceded by weeks with no competition, including the season-low 330.100 against Minnesota on Feb. 11. Sophomore Matt McGrath, who placed seventh on floor exercise at the conference championships,
said a new attitude will help the Hawkeyes with their bye-week struggles. “We have a different mindset for our routines now,” the sophomore said. “We’re not thinking about what happens if we fall, we’re thinking about how well we are going to hit our routines. We are just building up our confidence.” Iowa head coach JD Reive, who is entering his first NCAAs as the Hawkeyes’ coach, said his team needs to be as tuned in as possible in practice this week to be ready for the biggest event of the season. “There can be absolutely no letdown in energy or intensity in the gym this week,” he said. “I have to keep pushing [the gymnasts] super hard.” Keeping the Hawkeyes in a rhythm is a crucial in combating any drop-off, he said.
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He held two intrasquad meets the week before this past weekend’s Big Ten championships and said it helped keep his s q u a d sharp entering the meet. “We had those intrasquad meets, and our first three events at Big Tens were really good,” the first-year coach said. Reive will conduct another intrasquad meet at the end of the week, he said, and the team will travel to Columbus early next week to get two days of training in the St. John Arena, the site of the NCAA Qualifier and championships. One Hawkeye who knows all about what is needed for success at NCAAs is senior Mike Jiang, who was an AllAmerican in pommel horse last season. The senior placed ninth on the event at Big Tens.
Jiang said the squad will overcome its bye-week struggles if the Hawkeyes concentrate on only themselves. “It’s what we’ve been talking about this entire season: We need to focus in on ourselves and not everybody else,” he said. “We’re physically ready; now, we just need to be mentally ready.” Reive said he hopes the disappointment of the Big Tens will drive his team to work hard in practice in the week before the national qualifier. “I made them sit there and watch the finals, and they were a little bit pissed,” Reive said. “They realized that the guys in the finals were not much better than they were, and I think that will motivate them to work really hard this week.”
the other teams in the Big Ten will see her as a threat and learn to pitch around her. Her challenge as the season progresses is to learn to hit pitches over both the inside and outside of the plate, depending on where the opposing pitcher thinks her weak spot is. “The biggest thing is for her to be confident and comfortable with that outside pitch,” head coach Marla Looper said. “They’re going to continue to throw her out[side] because of where she stands in the box. Her challenge is to adjust throughout the game and not assume the pitches
FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM 10 was hampered heavily by a devastating broken foot suffered his sophomore season. Approaching his final chance to make an impact as a Hawkeye, Bernstine looks like a senior with a sense of urgency, Prater said. “When that window gets tight, I think it usually brings the best out of players,” Ferentz said March 23. There may be no better
she favors are always coming.” Ochoa’s main fear-factor for her opponents is her ability to hit the ball hard, no matter where it’s pitched. As the Big Ten pitchers try to figure out how to defeat Iowa’s strongest batter, they’ve seen her hit all their tricks. “More than they realize it, they’re pitching right into her strengths,” Johnson said. “If she wants to continue to hit at this level, she’s going to have to figure out how to hit both sides of the plate consistently, and she’s learning fast. So far, she’s done a great job on the outside, and she’s hit the inside really, really hard when they’ve given it to her. They’re definitely a little bit afraid.” candidate than Prater to lead a group that appears so clouded in mystery. Senior defensive tackle Mike Daniels gave him perhaps the most important compliment — Prater makes his teammates better. “Have a player like Shaun coming back, with the energy he brings to the field, to the game, to the practice field, to the meeting room, lifts, speed work, classroom, whatever he does, he brings it,” Daniels said. “It influences everyone around him to do the same.”
FOOTBALL Wegher named in custody suit Ex-Hawkeye running back Brandon Wegher has been named in a petition for legal custody, visitation, and child support, according to 3rd District Court records. Megan Glisar, a former high jumper at Iowa, has asked for sole legal custody of the son she had with Wegher on Nov. 4, 2010. The petition requests that payments child-support should be based on “imputed income” to Wegher on the basis that his earning capacity is “far greater than his actual income.” Glisar’s claim also asks for Wegher to pay for her legal fees as well as birthing and medical expenses. Records indicate the petition was filed on March 21. Wegher ran for 641
yards and a freshman-schoolrecord eight touchdowns for Iowa in 2009, but left the squad after two days of fall camp in August 2010. The Dakota Dunes, S.D., native was granted his release to transfer in December. He then walked on at Oklahoma in January, but head coach Bob Stoops said on March 23 he was no longer with the team. — by Jordan Garretson
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Power reigns in Lala land Hawkeye reliever Patrick Lala has blown away hitters and posted ridiculous numbers in his first year at Iowa. By SETH ROBERTS seth-roberts@uiowa.edu
Patrick Lala was in a jam. The junior right-handed reliever had two men on base with two out. Two runs had scored in the inning on two doubles and a pair of walks, and Lala was just trying to escape without further damage. He got the sign from catcher Tyson Blaser, reared back, and whipped the ball to the plate. Batter Justin Scanlon swung but could only loft a gentle fly ball to right field. Ball game. The ninth inning was the only frame of Iowa’s victory over Michigan State on Sunday in which the Spartans gave Lala any problems. The Marion native threw three perfect innings before running into trouble in his fourth, and those three innings were much more indicative of his season. Armed with a low-90s fastball and kneebuckling slider, the 20-year-old is what baseball types consider a power pitcher — and Lala he has used his junior arsenal to blow away opposing hitters all season. Lala boasts a team-best 2 1.37 ERA through 19 ⁄ 3 innings, and he has held opposing hitters to a measly .167 batting average. He has been particularly good against left-handed hitters, who are batting just .083 against him. Not bad for a guy who faced junior-college batters last season. Lala transferred to Iowa after two seasons at Kirkwood Community College, where he was a two-time All-Region honoree for an otherwise underwhelming Eagle team. While he admitted he wasn’t sure what to expect from Division-I opposition, he said he isn’t completely surprised by his superb numbers.
“After I got a few outings under my belt, I definitely thought the type of year I’ve been having was possible,” he said. “The coaches believed in me, too, so that helped my mental approach.” He still isn’t perfect, though. He has suffered from occasional flashes of wildness, with two wild pitches and three hit batsmen. He has also issued 17 walks, second only to starter Matt Dermody’s 18 — and Dermody has thrown almost twice as many innings as Lala. In his first few appearances this year, the 6-2, 190-pound righty tended to nibble at the corners of the strike zone with his slider and splitter instead of pounding the zone with his fastball. “I can’t tell you how many times he was 0-2 and would go to 3-2 and end up walking the guy,” head coach Jack Dahm said on Sunday. “It was driving us crazy. He was trying to be too fine, and he may have given too much credit to the hitters.” Ever since pitching coach Chris Maliszewski helped Lala tweak his approach and tighten his slider, though, the young fireballer has been nearly unstoppable. He handcuffed the potent Spartan lineup and was only touched up when his pitch count rose above 45 and he appeared to run out of gas. “That’s what we expect from [him] every time he goes out,” Blaser said after the game. “He’s going to fill up the zone, and guys are going to have a hard time getting good swings on him.” His improvement hasn’t gone unnoticed by the coaching staff — and Dahm said he still thinks Lala has untapped potential. “He’s just getting settled in,” the eighth-year coach said. “It’s so important for our ball club to have a power guy come out of the bullpen … if he makes them swing the bat, he’s going to be very, very good for us.”
HAWKEYE SPORTS Hawkeyes improve in Learfield Directors’ Cup Iowa sits in 33rd place in the most recent Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings with 264.25 points. The season-long competition was developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and USA Today. Points are awarded based on each institution’s finish in national-championship competition in up to 10 men’s sports and 10 women’s sports. Iowa’s current point total is a
42.25 point improvement from a year ago. The Hawkeye wrestling team and track and field squad provided a huge help to the boost. The wrestlers finished third at the NCAA championships, and the men’s track and field team took home an eight-place finish — a school record. The men’s and women’s track and field team accounts for 100.75 of the total points, and the grapplers are responsible for 85 points. Iowa finished last season in 55th place. The Big Ten leads the country with five teams ranked in the top 10. Iowa currently ranks seventh in the conference. — by J.T. Bugos
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BASEBALL Patrick Lala has solidified himself as one of Iowa’s most trustworthy options in the bullpen. 8
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Striking fear in pitchers Softball slugger Stephanie Ochoa’s success inspires fear in the Big Ten. By MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD molly-olmstead@uiowa.edu
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Iowa’s Shaun Prater runs after intercepting a pass in the fourth quarter of the Hawkeyes’ game against Penn State on Oct. 2, 2010, in Kinnick Stadium.
Prater has a lofty goal Shaun Prater enters the 2011 season as the most seasoned member of Iowa’s secondary. By JORDAN GARRETSON jordan-garretson@uiowa.edu
If Shaun Prater has his way, each of his teammates on Iowa’s starting defense will share his ultimate goal this fall. Win a national championship. Sure, it’s lofty and maybe even unreasonable. The Hawkeyes lost 26 seniors — including Derrell JohnsonKoulianos — from a 2010 squad that went only 8-5. Realistic to the outsider or not, people would be hardpressed to doubt Prater when they hear the words come from his mouth. The 5-11, 180-pound senior cornerback may not be the most physically imposing Hawkeye, but he may be the most confident. And that goal is one of the biggest reasons he chose to return for his senior season. Prater heavily considered forgoing his remaining eligibility and entering the 2011
NFL draft, but he announced via Facebook and Twitter on Jan. 11 that he would come back. Even then he wrote; “let’s go get that National Championship hawks!!” “I have a chance to come back and be a senior,” he said on March 30, explaining his thinking when he was weighing his options. “I have a chance at my No. 1 goal — win a national championship — and lead my team to that ultimate goal.” Helping Prater attempt to reach that goal will be some new faces in the defensive backfield. And the old faces — or face — may even be in a new place. Micah Hyde, who started 13 games at cornerback last season, is the only other returning player besides Prater who boasts substantial experience. But he may move to one of the safety positions — both of which have been vacated with the departures of Tyler Sash (NFL draft) and Brett Greenwood
(graduation). Those two players combined to start more than 80 games in the Black and Gold. Said head coach Kirk Ferentz on March 23; “We might fool around with that. We’re just going to look for the best combinations.” The junior from Fostoria, Ohio, native lined up at free safety with the first-team defense during a practice on March 30 that was open to the media. Prater said Hyde doesn’t appear to be out of place. “I see Micah back there back-peddling and breaking sometimes; he just makes it look so easy,” Prater said. “He’s doing well, and I see good things coming out of him from that position.” Senior Jordan Bernstine and a name most may not have heard — Collin Sleeper — split time at the other safety spot during that practice. The junior walk-on from Solon is slotted as the starting strong safety in the
team’s spring depth chart. As Ferentz said, “Sleeper is the right name. He’s kind of been lurking in the background.” Spring depth charts can sometimes carry very little long-term meaning, but Prater said there’s a reason Sleeper is listed where he is. “He’s still learning, but honestly, he’s a guy who can get in there and get the job done,” Prater said of Sleeper. “He’s learning, but he’s a guy who will give it everything he has every single practice, and he will never quit.” In contrast, Bernstine is a player Iowa fans are probably very familiar with — but not necessarily for the reasons they had hoped. The Des Moines native entered the program ranked as the nation’s 51st best overall prospect in the class of 2007 by Rivals.com. In three seasons, he’s yet to start a single game, though his progress SEE FOOTBALL, 7
In the 2010 season, Stephanie Ochoa batted .181, but this year, the senior leads the Iowa softball team with a batting average of .430. There has been no drastic change to her approach; instead, a little bit of confidence has helped Ochoa rake in 34 hits in 33 games so far this season. Ochoa originally hails from Stanton, Calif., but relocated to Estherville, Iowa, to play for Iowa Lakes Community College. With the Lakers, she tallied a .509 batting average in 2008 and .498 in 2009. However, upon becoming a Ochoa Hawkeye in 2010, Ochoa’s senior average dropped to .181 for the season. But the statistics might be misleading. Ochoa frequently made contact with the ball and hit it hard, but she often had trouble finding a hole in the defense to earn a base hit, said former Iowa assistant coach Shane Bouman, now the head coach at Iowa Lakes. “She’s always been a great hitter,” Bouman said. “Hitting is contagious; a lot of the time, once you get hot, you can stay hot for quite a while. The trick is to hit with a lot of confidence, and that just comes with practice and repetition.” When the Hawkeyes changed their coaching staff this year, Stacy Johnson entered the batting cage as Iowa’s hitting coach. Johnson’s small changes to batting-practice routines have benefited Ochoa by helping her gain confidence in her abilities as a batter. The Hawkeyes try to take about the same number of swings each day during batting practice in order to create a stable routine regardless of the opponent ahead of them, Johnson said. “Coach Stacy does a really good job with our drills each and every single day,” Ochoa said. “She’s good at working with hitting what we need to work on, like a certain side of the plate or hitting to a certain place.” The consistency in the batting cage has helped Ochoa gain confidence behind the plate, and that confidence has translated into a team-leading batting average and a .491 on-base-percentage that puts her second among the Hawkeyes. “She’s been really confident this year, there’s no doubt about that, because you can see it in practice and in the games,” Johnson said. “And that confidence has helped her learn to make small adjustments in the game that allow her to be successful.” As Ochoa continues to excel offensively,
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THE SPORTING DISCOURSE
Becoming the Butler of jokes Butler’s proves the importance of conference and overvalue of mid-majors.
IAN MARTIN ian-martin@uiowa.edu
THE SPORTING DISCOURSE is a weekly column that will discuss relevant issues in the college sporting world. The game Butler
played Monday night set the mid-major movement back around 10 years. All the work of Gonzaga, Memphis, and, yes, those usually scrappy Bulldogs has been wiped away by a performance in which they shot 18.8 percent from the floor — and keep in mind they played in the title game last season. When your 3-point SEE DISCOURSE, 7
HAWKEYE BASKETBALL
Running scared and running well
Report: Cully Payne to transfer
Confidence is building for Ethan Holmes in his sophomore year.
basketball men’s Iowa sophomore guard Cully Payne has been granted his release from Iowa and will transfer, Hawkeyereport.com’s Tom Kakert reported late Tuesday night. A Tweet from Payne Tuesday was consistent with that report. “It’s about that time that I close this chapter in my life and get ready to move on,” he wrote. The Schaumburg, Ill., native took a medical redshirt this past season after recovering from sports hernia surgery in November. He averaged 8.7 points per game while starting all 32 of Iowa’s contests as a true freshman in 2009-10. Check Wednesday’s Daily Iowan for more coverage. — by Jordan Garretson
By BEN SCHUFF benjamin-schuff@uiowa.edu
Last spring, Ethan Holmes was hurting. Late in the outdoor track and field season, the then-freshman was ailing from a stress fracture on the left side of his pelvis. He started noticing the pain around the time of the Big Ten championships. If the injury affected him, it didn’t show. Holmes posted a personal-best time of 14.49 in the 110meter hurdles in the 2010 conference meet. But as the season was coming to a close and he advanced to the first round of the NCAAs, the pain became too much. “It hurt to walk. It hurt
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Iowa sophomore Ethan Holmes stretches on a hurdle during practice on Monday in the Recreation Building. Holmes placed sixth in the 110-meter hurdles in the LSU Invitational this past weekend. to roll over in bed,” he said. “It pretty much hurt all the time. It even hurt just laughing.” Holmes did very little
laughing, however — he spent the better part of a month bedridden at the SEE TRACK, 7