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Gannett lays off 700, 13 at Register Media conglomerate Gannett cut approximately 700 jobs on Monday, including at least 13 in Iowa.

The company owns two of the state’s biggest daily newspapers, the Des Moines Register and the Iowa City Press-Citizen. In an email leaked Monday morning, company officials blamed the cuts on slumping ad revenue.

“As we reach the midpoint of the year, the economic recovery is not happening as quickly or favorably as we had hoped and continues to affect our U.S. community media organizations,” wrote Bob Dickey, the president of the company’s newspapers division.

“National advertising remains soft, and with many of our local advertisers reducing their overall budgets, we need to take further steps to align our costs with the current revenue trends.”

Register business reporter Lynn Hicks posted a story confirming 13 of the cuts were at the Register.

“The Des Moines Register laid off 13 employees Tuesday as its corporate parent copes with an advertising slump,” Hicks wrote.

“The cuts primarily hit the Register’s newsroom.”

The company is not reporting any cuts from the Press-Citizen.

— Adam B Sullivan

Big Sioux nears ’93 crest NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. — The Big Sioux River will near its 1993 crest after heavy rains Monday night.

“As expected, the flow of the river is going to respond to the heavy rainfalls last night,” said Jeff Chapman, meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Sioux Falls office. “ We’re looking for the Big Sioux to rise another 1 to 2 feet from its current stage at the gauge in North Sioux City.”

The 1 to 3 inches of rainfall that fell up and down the watershed coupled with the backwater effects from the surging Missouri River will push the Big Sioux to near the 102-foot crest reached April 14, 1993, he said.

The Big Sioux was at 100.8 feet as of 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, approximately 1.8 feet above flood stage.

The full effect of Monday’s rain runoff should be seen by early morning Saturday, he said.

The record flood level of 108.3 feet was set April 10, 1969, and the next closest level was 104.5 on June 25, 1984, he said.

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UI graduate student Daniel Kinney draws with Dijon Genus (center) and Juan Neutzy Jr. at Wetherby Park on Tuesday. Kinney cofounded the CrossingBorders project, which aims to break down misconceptions and stereotypes about southeastern Iowa City.

Mural as a community net Daniel Kinney has conducted mural projects with children in Uganda.

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Powerful winds blew across Wetherby Park on Tuesday where children from the Broadway Neighborhood Center in Iowa City fought the breeze, playing basketball, jumping through misting water sprinklers, and navigating a crowded playground.

But a few kids, including 8-year-old Juan Neutzy Jr., were content to sit in the shade and draw. As instructed, he used paper and markers to visually reproduce something that represented one of his most defining, cherished moments.

He drew a Pikachu.

“I have my best friend because we both like Pokémon,” Juan said. “I went to recess, and Erika was outside after recess. I asked her, ‘Do you want to be my friend?’ and she

said, ‘Yes.’ She really likes Pokémon cards a lot — about as much as I do.”

Daniel Kinney, a teacher at Tate Alternative High, 1528 Mall Drive, and a doctoral student at the University of Iowa, oversaw the kids as they played. He, along with two other students, founded the CrossingBorders project, which aims to break down misconceptions about southeastern Iowa City and “reflect the changing community.”

And though the project has many goals, one is to let the kids tell their own stories through art.

“They’re sharing stories about their experiences as part of this community,” Kinney said. “We ask them to draw something that is special — something that defines who they are. Then we’ll take their images and incorporate them into a big, colorful mural.”

Kinney said he thought up the idea while speaking to Sue Freeman, the program director for Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County. Because he has visited Ugandan kids during the past two summers to teach and paint murals with them, Kinney said, he thought it would be a great idea to implement a similar program here.

“I thought it would be great to contribute something to the neighborhood center,” he said. “I think it’s a great opportunity for increased artistic dialogue in our community.”

One mural has been started in the stairwell of the Broadway Neighborhood Center, 2015 Broadway. Another mural, funded by the Iowa City police, will be painted on the backside of a strip mall, also along Broad-

Santorum blasts ethanol subsidy The GOP presidential-nomination hopeful wants an end to all energy subsidies.

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OSKALOOSA — Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum attacked Iowa’s “sacred cow” on Tuesday when he called to cut federal support for ethanol.

At a meet-and-greet with approximately 50 supporters, Santorum called for the elimination of energy subsidies, including those for ethanol, and condemned the Democrats’ health-care overhaul in 2010.

Santorum also said the U.S. should return to the “basic principles” of morality he said IAN STEWART/THE DAILY IOWAN he finds embedded in the Dec- GOP presidential-nomination candidate Rick Santorum (left) speaks with farmer laration of Independence’s Steve Boender at a meet-and-greet hosted by Boender on Tuesday in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Santorum, speaking to a crowd of approximately 50 supporters, called for SEE SANTORUM, 3 an elimination of federal energy subsidies, including those for ethanol.

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Melrose rules pass 1st test Some Melrose residents want to see tighter reins on vendors.

By NINA EARNEST nina-earnest@uiowa.edu

A new city ordinance regulating vendors on Melrose Avenue passed its first step Tuesday — but some Melrose residents still aren’t satisfied with the university’s and the city’s actions.

Jean Walker, a member of the Melrose Neighborhood Association, took the podium once Mayor Matt Hayek opened the public forum at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. Walker charged that the University of Iowa had not been a “good neighbor” in managing football game days and requested Melrose area residents be allowed to be more involved in discussions on the issue.

“Who best knows what is needed in the neighborhood but the neighbors?” Walker asked in her speech.

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A passion for knotty problems UI prof ’s compassion goes beyond the classroom. out possible candidates for her wife’s project. But according to Haslett, there is at least one more key component in their relationship.

“We like creatures,” Haslett said. If one were skeptical, it would only take a trip down to the couple’s basement to prove her right. There, the couple has taken two rooms and transformed them into spaces for their four cats, many of them found abandoned, to play.

“When we find an animal that needs help, we tend to take it,” Tomova said, extracting an uncooperative gray cat from the closet. The couple provides shelter to humans in need as well as foster parents.

In part, it was seeing the lost potential of the kids in their care that drove Tomova to consider a project at the high-school level. While she admitted that “math is hard,” she said she wants to show students that math “is not about adding numbers and solving for x.”

“I think people should not think of math as a tool,” Tomova said. “I think math teaches you how to think clearly about things.”

holds the first nominating caucuses, in order to concentrate his efforts in New Hampshire and other early voting states.

— Associated Press

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jon Huntsman joined the presidential race Tuesday with the Statue of Liberty over his shoulder, asserting that he and President Obama both love their country but have far different visions of its future.

He pledged to halt an “unAmerican” fading of national confidence and power.

Hoping to set himself apart from other candidates, he also promised to run a civil campaign for the GOP nomination at a time of heated partisan rhetoric.

The former Utah governor focused on Obama, not his

Republican rivals, in his announcement address in the patriotic setting where Ronald Reagan launched his fall presidential campaign in 1980.

Huntsman said, “The question each of us wants the voters to answer is, ‘Who will be the better president, not who’s the better American.’ ” As for his pledge of civility, he said, “Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day, that we are a great country because we are a good country.”

He joins a GOP field that includes come candidates far better known than he as Republicans search for a strong challenger to Obama, a Democrat seeking his second term. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads most early national polls and some surveys in states that hold the first contests of the Republican nomination fight.

He has already signaled he intends to bypass Iowa, which

Gary Duffel, 43, 331 N. Gilbert St., was charged June 17 with public intoxication.

Tyler Eckhardt, 19, 712 E. Market, Apt. 4, was charged June 16 with PAULA. Jadonne Giles, 22, Coralville, was charged Monday with public intoxication.

Felishia Griffin, 25, 2401 Highway 6 E., Apt. 4602, was charged Sunday with possession of open alcohol container in public.

Jeremiah Hagen , 20, 307 E. College St., Apt. 1835, was

charged June 17 with PAULA. Yuhuncia House, 30, 2742 Triple Crown Lane Unit 8, was charged Monday with driving with a suspended/canceled license.

Deandre Irby , 19, address unknown, was charged Monday with fifth-degree theft, escape from custody, and third-degree harassment.

Karon Lucas, 19, Coralville, was charged Tuesday with public intoxication.

Alexander Porter, 22, Coralville, was charged Monday with public

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Maggy Tomova

As Maggy Tomova spoke with an accent betraying her Bulgarian origins, her black cat Smurfy wandered across the table looking for attention. Two dogs lingered on nearby couches, whose hair-covered cushion hinted at numerous furry companions. Animals, however, are not her only passion.

As an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department, she has spent a lot of time thinking about numbers.

“I like that the problems are hard and you can think about them for a long time,” Tomova said.

She specializes in topology and more specifically, the subfield of knot theory-the study of, well, knots.

The knots Tomova studies, however, are just as likely to be made of proteins as they are to be made of string.

“It has lots of applications to DNA folding,” Tomova said.

Research in this vein that recently garnered her the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award. The five-year,

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$235,000 attached grant is to be used both for research and teaching. The resulting project is a summer math camp Tomova has started this year with 20 local high-schools students.

“How well students do in math seems to correlate to the income level of their parents,” she said, describing her effort to find students, often those receiving free or reduced lunch, for the two-week program.

Her discussion with the selected students’ teachers helped her to find those who, with motivation and inspiration, have a high chance of success in the subject.

METRO/NATION Lone Tree woman charged with endangerment A Lone Tree woman was arrested after Johnson County officials allegedly discovered her son had been exposed to methamphetamine.

Wendy Lynn Whetstine, 44, was charged June 2 with child endangerment.

A search of Whestine’s home by the Johnson County MultiAgency Drug Task Force allegedly yielded methamphetamine and items consistent with its creation.

The report said Whetstine was home with her husband and her 9-year-old during the search. The child was removed, and hair samples were obtained from the child, deputies say.

On June 13, the child’s hair tested positive for exposure to methamphetamine, according to officials.

Child endangerment causing

bodily injury is a Class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $7,500.

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McCain declines to say he’ll run again WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain is brushing aside any questions about whether he might ultimately decide to run for president again in 2012.

McCain was asked in an NBC “Today” show interview whether he’d get into the sweepstakes if it looked like there was no clear frontrunner.

The Arizona Republican smiled and told interviewer Ann Curry, “There’s a long history of masochism in my family, but not so severe” as to make him want to run again.

McCain lost to Barack Obama in 2008 in a race that was not close.

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BLOTTER Derek Broerze, 31, Moline, was charged June 17 with possession of controlled substance and driving while revoked.

Eboni Calvin, 30, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 3803, was charged Sunday with possession of open alcohol container in public.

Kathy Cardoza, 19, 4494 Taft Ave. Lot C33, was charged Tuesday with driving with a suspended/canceled license.

Beverly Clark , 77, Conesville, Iowa, was charged Monday with fifth-degree theft.

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“I really like teaching the kids who don’t like math,” Tomova said. “My favorite thing is when I finally show them that math is cool.”

For recent University of Iowa graduate Matt Porter, Tomova’s instruction paid off.

“I gained a new appreciation for math,” said Porter, who was Tomova’s undergraduate research assistant for the past academic year. “I’ve always liked math, but her passion for math really got me excited … and I could tell it got everyone [in the class] excited too.”

It is similar mutual appreciation that defines another aspect of Tomova’s life.

Six years ago, a Ballroom Dancing class in Old Brick brought Karen Haslett into Tomova’s life. The couple married a year and a half ago. Haslett, a former adjunct professor of linguistic anthropology, said they had an intellectual, not just emotional, connection.

“Linguistics shares the language of math,” Haslett said. “We share the value of education.”

Indeed, as a special-education teacher at City High, Haslett was able to scout

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intoxication and obstructing an officer.

Ethan Richenberger, 21, Morning Sun, Iowa, was charged June 18 with possession of open alcohol container in public.

Tawanda Smith , 23, 1960 Broadway, Apt. A11, was charged June 14 with possession of open alcohol container in public.

Shadoe Vandamme , 18, Cedar Rapids, was charged Sunday with public intoxication and possession of controlled substance.

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“It should be quite a bit bigger,” Kinney said. “I can’t wait to see what these kids plan to do with the extra space.”

For those unable to see the murals themselves, Aust in Ch ad d e r d o n , a journalism student at the UI, will document the kids’ progress and upload it to the official CrossingBorders website.

“Our website is a civic storytelling process,” said Chadderdon, who works at The Daily Iowan. “Iowa City has a lot of new people from a lot of different places, and there are a lot of wild misconceptions.

We’re trying to overcome those.”

He said the mural idea

CrossingBorders Primary program objectives: • To highlight various projects being done • To voice community concerns, thoughts, and experiences • To provide an outlet for community members to display their work • To enhance understanding of media to express social ideas Source: CrossingBorders website

was a great form of dialogue, and it will cement the idea that the kids are part of their community.

“It’s a really great form of storytelling,” Chadderdon said. “These kids can co m e u p wi t h a gr eat image, and we can put that onto the walls and lock it in time. They can always look at it and say, ‘That’s me. That’s my story.’ ”

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Dijon Genus draws at Wetherby Park on Tuesday. The kids’ drawings were supposed to represent a cherished moment in their lives.

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That’s what Steve Boender, who hosted the event, said he was most attracted to.

“I appreciate the fact that he stood for social and moral values,” Boender said. “I just felt compelled to have social conservatives meet good Iowa people.”

One of many farmers in the audience, Boehner said he was also interested in Santorum’s comments about ethanol subsides.

“Believe me, the ethanol industry is a huge market for the crop I raise,” Boender said. “But that doesn’t mean that phasing out subsidies won’t allow it to stand on its own two feet.

I’m totally OK with him getting to the point where farmers stand on their own.”

Santorum said he supports the phasing out of all energy subsidies as a way of cutting the federal budget. He said since visiting Iowa, he has seen that ethanol “can and will be a competitive industry.”

“My position is that we should phase out all energy subsidies and create a level playing field,” he said.

“Our economic situation is dire with respect to the deficit.”

Sam Roecker, the communications director for the Iowa Democratic Party, said he thinks there’s “bipartisan support” for an eventual elimination of federal subsidies for the plant-based fuel.

But on other issues, such as repealing “Obamacare,” two-party support for Santorum’s plans might be harder to garner. Santorum campaign staffer Jamie Johnson said the candidate and his supporters fear the current government poses a threat to

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Two young Rick Santorum supporters hold a sign outside Steve Boender’s farm near Oskaloosa, Iowa, on Tuesday. The former Pennsylvania senator is running for the Republican presidential nomination.

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“I think he’s concerned about the loss of personal freedom of choice such as how one spends his money on health care,” Johnson said.

Santorum Indeed, sharply criticized last year’s health-care bill, listing it among the bailouts and the stimulus package as one of his key reasons for getting into the race.

Santorum recently called for greater cuts than are put forth in U.S. the deficitreduction plan penned by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. Ryan’s plan would cut the budget in part by reducing Medicare funding. Roecker said that is something Iowans will have trouble understanding.

“Why should their bill for Medicare go up $6,000?” Roecker said. “I

The candidate attended several events in Iowa on Tuesday, including: • A private session of the Iowa Senate Republican Caucus • A meet-and-greet in Oskaloosa • A meet-and-greet in Creston • A house party in Council Bluffs Source: Santorum campaign

think it’s an issue that’s going to come up, not just for him but for other Republicans.”

Those are the kinds of policy points that will work in President Obama’s favor, Roecker said.

“Iowans are going to be out there supporting the tremendous progress and leadership he’s shown so far,” he said.

But Santorum had a different spin on the result of the last presidential election.

“You gave us Barack Obama,” Santorum said referring to candidate Obama’s victory in the 2008 Iowa caucuses. “It’s your obligation to give us the antidote to Barack Obama in this election.”

City officials began crafting the ordinance after an Iowa City panel in April recommended an all-out ban on the vendors. Residents called for the vendors’ removal because of problems caused by tailgating, including trash, vomit, and public urination. But the possibility of a ban sparked outrage from fans.

The new regulations call for a $75 football game-day temporary-use permit — uniting several provisions already required under the city code and represent an early compromise. First consideration of the ordinance passed with a 7-0 vote. Following a vote on July 5, the measure could be adopted.

Walker presented additional requests, including limiting the vendor zone, the banning of shish-kebab sticks, and a comprehensive review of the game-day experience with UI involvement.

Doug Boothroy, the city’s director of Housing and Inspection Services, told the councilors that UI officials recently agreed to possibly include more trash cans and portable toilet

Melrose Further requests from Melrose residents: • Slightly limit the vendor zone • Have the University of Iowa provide more portable facilities and trash cans • Ban shish kebabs • Require cleanup by noon the day following football games.

Source: Jean Walker, member of the Melrose Neighborhood Association

facilities on university property.

Some councilors agreed more cooperation was necessary to review game-day regulation.

Councilor Regenia Bailey asked Boothroy if further discussion could be brokered between the university and the other parties.

As of now, no such discussion have been brought up, Boothroy said. But he said he believed future collaboration was possible.

Councilor Mike Wright recommended there be a follow-up meeting after the first season of the ordinance’s implementation.

“I think it would be important to have some sort of conversation with the parties involved after

the season this year to see if there’s been any improvement or need for tweaking,” Wright said.

Bailey suggested such a meeting should occur before the football season.

“It might be nice to sit down before the season starts,” she said. “[And see] what it’s going to look like and how’s it going to go.”

Ron Christensen, the owner of Game Day Iowa and the only vendor who spoke at the forum, said more trash and toilet facilities were needed to keep the area clean.

“Hawkeye fans are fantastic people if you give them a chance,” he said.

Melrose-area resident Shelton Stromquist also spoke at the forum, addressing criticism directed at the neighborhood that suggested they should have known what to expect living in the tailgating area.

“Of course we knew there was a Kinnick Stadium,” Stromquist said. “We didn’t know or expect the outrageous and illegal behavior of some Iowa fans.”

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WHAT SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS?

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Don’t forget issues and ideals during election season As the Republican field battles for the party’s nomination, President Obama’s re-election campaign is out in full force. Last weekend’s Pride festivities in Iowa City were flooded with enthused Obama volunteers, eager to get as many people “in” as possible.

The pundits and prognosticators, their sights set on November 2012, have decided that the decisive question (after the state of the economy) is whether Obama will be able to rally his liberal base. The Republicans, at least, have more of a choice in the matter.

Meanwhile, politics continues. Not the partisan sniping and congressional sex scandals blasting the airwaves but the earnest attempt to alter policies and shape America’s future. The brief fervor surrounding the four-year presidential election runs the risk of eclipsing current policy struggles and providing an avenue for reflexive rejection of the ruling party — regardless of how little substantive change might occur.

And with campaigns stretching longer every cycle, Americans can’t afford to put policy on the back burner or subsume political complaints to party loyalty.

Not only are elections ideally a minor part of a functioning democracy, but they also ought not to serve as an appeasement on contentious issues.

Iowa may be facing a flood of Republican candidates (and Obama is expected to campaign heavily, because it is a swing state), but it also struggles with a budget stalemate. Iowa’s senators are involved in talks about agriculture subsidies, which directly affect thousands of Iowan farmers.

These issues won’t be highlighted by the upcoming campaign. And the issues that are — such as the deficit and America’s foreign wars — may not be enacted after the election, with savvy grass-roots organizers pacified following the selection of their preferred candidate.

It’s one of the pitfalls of the American two-party system. University of Iowa political-science Associate Professor Cary Covington says the candidates still focus on governing, but the public’s basis for evaluating the incumbent changes. Instead of evaluating the president in absolute terms, the public starts evaluating him in comparative terms. This perception has tangible effects.

Covington says that public-opinion polls consistently show a decrease in approval ratings in a president’s first three years and an increase in approval ratings in the last three years (provided he wins re-election).

This means, for example, that instead of holding Obama’s feet to the fire over the war in Libya, voters may be considering whether he is handling the war better or worse than any of the Republican candidates could. The public stops looking for the best poli-

cies and starts looking at the better ones.

The American public can sit back and assume that the previous four or eight years’ troubles will be reversed by simply electing someone of the opposite party. Once every four years we have a referendum on the status quo, ignoring that challenges to the status quo typically exist in the form of policies, not candidates. Obama’s presidency didn’t end the war; it ended the visible antiwar movement, which in hindsight was an antiRepublican movement.

In other words, it’s a regular intrusion of realism — perhaps best dubbed “fatalism” — into the American political arena. Constrained by the two-party system, voters are bound to choose the lesser of two evils while losing any ability to push actual, substantive issues. Intra-party dissenters are discouraged from voicing their complaints, lest they damage their candidates’ chances; differences between parties are hopelessly exaggerated.

Even seasoned politicians know how campaign season can distort the issues. In a 2010 opinion piece for The Hill, former House Republican leader Robert H. Michel wrote, “Campaigns reduce issues to their simplest form. Governing unravels their complexities.

Campaigns define issues; governing resolves them.”

He was writing to encourage new House Republicans to communicate with Democrats, but the sentiment holds true: With its grandiose posturing and interruption of the usual deliberation, campaign season has both a reductive and a paralytic effect.

The problem with American voters isn’t that they’re uneducated about candidates or that they pay too little attention to politics; it’s that the political sphere overemphasizes elections. After the post-election high wears off, instead of holding candidates accountable on their promises and on the issues that matter, Americans resign themselves to voting differently in the future — or taking whatever is offered to them. And when the bloated campaign season lumbers into sight, substantive discussions and policy drives are shoved aside.

The coming years can be better, but only if Americans refuse to be lulled by hypnotic campaign promises — or be mollified by promises that one candidate is at least better than the other. A vibrant, politically engaged citizenry requires a firm commitment both to lofty ideals and to action on policy issues.

American politics doesn’t begin and end with elections. Neither should the attention and participation of American citizens.

Your turn. Are American voters overly fatalistic?

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Standing with Iowa students I heard about Sen. Shawn Hamerlinck and his insulting comments to those

University of Iowa students who sought to exercise their right to petition elected representatives with their grievances. I include my name with all of yours, in the hope

that the good senator recognizes how your numbers translate into changes in the Statehouse.

To all of those who answered the call: Stand firm! Voices and

numbers do matter in these situations.

Best Regards from a Badger alumnus (’78).

Timothy Gerg McLean, Va.

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Presidential politics has become a joke.

As an inveterate small-d democrat, it pains to me to say so.

But the nascent 2012 presidential race — and, of course, the noxious media spectacle that was Weinergate — has only reminded me of the unfulfilled promise of our democracy.

Commodification of candidates and simplistic media coverage have come to characterize the presidential-selection process. Both strip our politics of substance, debasing a potentially noble and empowering endeavor and turning it into a vapid game of red versus blue.

The first problem comes with the conception of politics as a marketplace. Candidates must “brand” themselves and develop an image conducive to success. Voters are consumers, and candidates market themselves accordingly, playing to some of their worst inclinations. Framing and messaging become more important than the stances themselves.

It’s a politics of manipulation and prevarication; substantive discussion is jettisoned in favor of slick salesmanship.

The approach was illustrated memorably in John Schneider’s The Golden Kazoo: “Don’t sell the welfare state, the free-enterprise system, or whatever screwball utopia you’ve got figured out for the U.S.A. … [The candidate] is a can of beer, a squeeze tube of deodorant, a can of dog food.

Sell him.” Schneider’s book came out in 1956; Obama’s 2008 campaign, which has received advertising awards, indicates things have only deteriorated.

The second problem is the media. While not a monolith, the mainstream media’s coverage of presidential elections is typically abhorrent.

Focusing on “electability” as fundamental questions go unanswered — what are the implications of rising income inequality? — the media only exacerbate the commodification problem.

Exhibit A is former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who officially announced Tuesday he’s vying for the GOP nomination.

Despite attracting scant support and

revealing little about his actual stances, the mainstream media have treated Huntsman as a top contender. Last month, Time magazine called Huntsman the “potential Republican presidential candidate Democrats most fear.”

The Christian Science Monitor took a similar tack, asking if Huntsman is “the one Obama fears most.” And this Sunday, the New York Times Magazine will feature an expansive profile of the former China ambassador.

All this for a candidate who, in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, attracted just 1 percent support from Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

The problem isn’t that the media are giving Huntsman coverage but the type and amount. There’s little reason for Huntsman to receive profiles when he’s said little of substance. Gary Johnson, for instance, has similar polling numbers and executive experience, yet the sporadic mainstream media attention he does receive casts him as an oddity instead of analyzing his policy prescriptions.

The mainstream media have exposed themselves — not as phalanx of left-wingers but as profoundly presumptuous and arrogant in their coverage.

(They know better than the electorate: Ron Paul has no chance, Huntsman shows promise.) They like to fancy themselves as arbiters of the “serious” but can’t bring themselves to report on the serious issues the next president will confront.

Huntsman unwittingly encapsulated the problem well in the Times piece, saying, “You know it’s not about you … It’s about the process. It’s about the drama. It’s about the entertainment.”

At least it’s become that way.

Its odious reputation notwithstanding, politics isn’t inherently iniquitous. At its core, it should involve making decisions about the problems and issues that affect us collectively: climate change, public education, the war on drugs, etc. Presidential elections are just one component of this (and democracy involves more than just electoral politics as well). But it’s an important part.

The complex choices of politics are more substantive than selecting Trix or Wheaties at the grocery store, and its implications are of greater import than the outcome of a boxing match.

Our candidates and media coverage should reflect that.

Guest opinion

Obama must keep his promise to factory farmers Iowa produces more factory-farmed hogs than any other state and ranks fourth in large-scale cattle feedlots. While the state rankings may not seem like a big deal, the proliferation of factory farms has been largely driven by the rise of meatpacker monopolies that make it nearly impossible for farmers to get a fair price.

Some farmers get big to deal with persistently low hog and cattle prices; some get out. In 1992, fewer than a third of hogs were raised on factory farms, but by 2007, the latest figures available, 95 percent of the 18 million hogs produced in Iowa were raised on factory farms. Over the same period, Iowa has lost

around three-fourths of its hog farms, falling from 31,700 in 1992 to 8,300 in 2007.

The story is similar for cattle production in Iowa.

From 2002 to 2007, the number of industrial-scale cattle feedlots in Iowa almost doubled to 1.2 million head. Despite the growth in giant feedlots, Iowa’s cattle operations and production has been shrinking during this time.

We’ve lost 15,000 cattle operations since the mid90s and produce 80,000 fewer head annually. So while the number of farmers and total number of cattle steadily decreases, factory farms get bigger and bigger.

The negative effects of

this extreme concentration of animal meat production and factory farms have been well-documented, from the manure spills and runoff leading to water pollution to hydrogen sulfide and ammonia air pollution to the plight of rural communities to the increase of food-borne diseases such as E. coli in our meat.

What has not been addressed well is that the concentration and proliferation of factory farms is not the result of economic efficiency, but rather, it is the result of market abuses by the large meatpackers.

The top four companies slaughter more than four out of five cattle and two out of three hogs. This mar-

ket control by a handful of corporations over the vast majority of meat production has led to monopolistic practices and market abuses.

One of the worst market abuses by theses large packers has been giving sweetheart deals to favored factory farms and feedlots — better prices for the same number and quality of hogs or cattle.

Medium-size and smaller farmers often get lower prices and worse contract terms from the packers.

For example, when a few independent hog producers join together to fill a tractor-trailer full of hogs, they typically get a lower price than an identical trailer full of hogs from a single

factory farm.

These types of special deals were supposed to be outlawed by the antitrust Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, but 80 years later, it still lacks the teeth to be properly enforced. Fortunately, one year ago today, June 22, 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed rules that would address some of these market abuses by the meatpacking industry. Unfortunately for farmers and consumers, these fair farm rules have yet to be implemented.

Also fortunate is that President Obama, who is ultimately the boss on whether these rules are implemented, campaigned

specifically on this issue.

Food & Water Watch is spearheading a national call-in day with thousands of people and dozens of organizations around the country to the White House to demand these rules are implemented. I hope you can take a minute today to join us and call the White House to demand these rules be implemented immediately.

Preventing the meatpacking industry from abusing its economic power to run family farmers out of business is long overdue.

And it is time for Obama to follow through on a campaign promise.

Matt Ohloff is an Iowa-based organizer with Food and Water Watch.

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Planned Parenthood targeted GOP hopeful Ron Paul releases a statement on his budget priorities.

By ZACHARY POUND zachary-pound@uiowa.edu

GOP presidential-nomination hopeful Ron Paul wants to balance the budget, and he said cutting Planned Parenthood funding is one way to do that.

The Texas Republican released a statement on Monday outlining his plan to cut the federal deficit.

Part of that plan is vetoing any bill that contributes funding to Planned Parenthood or other family planning programs if he’s elected president in 2012.

“Like millions of Americans, I believe that innocent life deserves protection, and I am deeply offended by abortion,” Paul said in a statement Monday. “It is unconscionable to me that fellow pro-life Americans are forced to fund abortion through their tax dollars.”

The Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which covers both Iowa and Nebraska, services 65,000 men, women, and

families a year, said President and CEO Jill June.

June said Paul’s “ideological agenda” would eliminate basic preventative care for men and women including breast exams, cancer screenings, well-woman exams, family planning, STI testing, and treatment and education.

“This is a political attack on Planned Parenthood but also an attack on the women and men who rely on us for quality health care,” June wrote in an e-mail. “… For some, Planned Parenthood nurses and doctors are the only providers they see. We are adamantly against taking away health care from the people who need it the most.”

June said just 6 percent of the Heartland chapter’s budget comes from state government grants, which totals about $1.4 million annually, and abortion is less than 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides. June also

Planned Parenthood Ron Paul said he would veto any bill that provides funding to Planned Parenthood. About the local Planned Parenthood: • Receives $1.4 million in government grants • Heartland clinic services 65,000 women, men, and families a year • 6 percent of total budget is provided by goverment grants Source: Jill June, presdent and CEO of Heartland Planned Parenthood

said federal rules prohibit any tax dollars from being used to fund abortions.

Paul’s other budget-balancing plans include ceasing Obamacare and repealing “unconstitutional and burdensome” regulations on American businesses.

Mary Gansen, the president of the anti-abortion Four Seasons for Life, said she agreed with Paul’s statements.

“I agree with what he said 100 percent I’m glad that he is working to cut the budget,” said Gansen, and she believes Paul would make an excellent president because he “walks the talk.”

“He has a good track record, is a following Christian, and is even a doctor, so he knows what he is talking about when it comes to this subject,” she said.

June iterated Planned Parenthood’s role of providing health care to those whom may otherwise not have it.

“It’s difficult to understand why people who are opposed to abortion want to undermine family planning and contraception that helps prevent the need for abortion,” she said. “Planned Parenthood does more than any other organization to encourage the use of contraception for women wanting to avoid pregnancy.”

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METRO Council approves management change The Iowa City City Council approved a resolution to eliminate the current assistant to the city manager position and add an new assistant to the city manager position during the council meeting Tuesday night.

The measure passed 7-0.

City Manager Tom Markus recommended the change as a cost-saving measure, resulting in an approximate annual savings of $26,475.

The change will provide for internal growth and provide a succession plan for future openings for the city manager position, according to the council.

The changes will go into effect after current Assistant City Manager Dale Helling’s retirement.

— by Nina Earnest

Council OKs property acquisition near landfill The Iowa City City Council approved the city’s plan to proceed with authorizing the

acquisition of land near the Iowa City Landfill and Recycling Facility at a Tuesday meeting.

The council approved the measure 7-0.

The acquisition would be necessary to comply with Department of Natural Resources regulations regarding groundwater near the landfill.

The project would include a landfill buffer, constructing additional monitoring wells, possible groundwater and leachate management systems, and possible landfill cell construction.

Property owner Roger Hurt spoke during the public hearing, criticizing the plan.

“I don’t feel you as a council really understand what is happening out there. And the only way is if you would come out and I would take you around there,” he said. “You aren’t getting the full story.”

Mayor Matt Hayek said the city did not like to acquire property but that it “may be part of operating with a facility like this.”

— by Nina Earnest

Legendary artist, professor Burford dies Burford was also a circus performer, musician and actor.

By JULIANA FABIANO juliana-fabiano@uiowa.edu

When Byron Burford was only 13 years old, he k new e x ac tl y w h at h e wanted to do with his life — join the circus. Often being called an artist in everyth i n g h e d i d , h i s passion for life was clear and hi s p r e se n c e wa s unmistakable, those close to him said.

The University of Iowa professor emeritus, artist, musician, and entertainer died in his sleep on June 17 at the age of 90.

“With Byron’s passing comes an end of a legend, an end of an era,” said close friend and colleague Wallace Tomasini. w ho s e Tom as i n i , friendship with Burford dates back to 1958, said Burfor d was a cl o s e friend who was always there to h e l p r e s o l v e problems and was a very generous friend to all.

A native of Mississippi, Burfor d c ame to I o wa City as an undergraduate to study art under the d ist in g u i s h e d p ai nt e r Grant Wood. His teaching career began in 1947 in the UI School of Art and Art H i sto r y, an d h e retired in 1986 and was named professor emeritus.

Je f f M a r t i n , t h e U I Museum of Art manager of exhibitions and collections, said Burford was a very talented artist—his w o r k i s d i s p l ay e d n o t only in the UI Museum of Art but in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. S. Guggenheim Collection in New York City, and the Des Moines Art Center, among others.

“I do not want to stray from the fact he was a very good teacher and will be remembered by st ud ents as w e l l a s artists,” Martin said. “It’s not a surprise he was a good artist, but he was good at other aspects of the job.”

He is best known for his re n o w n e d c i r cu s them e p ai n ti n g s a n d prints, and he is also recognized for his love of the circus — even joining it whenever he could, often

UI Professor Emeritus Byron Burford Burford died on June 17.

• Served in the U.S. Air Force during WWII • Paintings are figurative and done with a muted palette • Leader of several private circuses around the Midwest • Prime developer in performance art and installation art Source: UI School of Art and Art History

as a drummer in the circus band.

B u rfo rd ’s d a u g h t er, N a n a B u rfo rd , r e cal l s watching her father in the circus at a young age.

“My favorite memory of him was watching him play the drums in the circus,” she said. “He just looked so happy; he loved it.”

B u rfo rd ’s s o n K e vi n B u rfo rd r e ca l l e d hi s father always saying the most important thing is to do what you love.

He said he remembered his father inspiring him and his sisters creatively at a young age, giving t h e m d rawi n g l e s s o ns wh e n t h e y t r av e l ed around the United States and Europe in the family’s RV. “ He wa s a t e rr i fi c fa t h e r a n d cr e a t i v e i n every aspect of his life,” Kevin Burford said.

Burford’s love for King Kong encouraged him to purchase a gorilla suit, K e v i n B u rfo rd s a i d, which he wore when he traveled with a circus.

Sometimes, he even surprised people around the house with it.

“He had such a wonderful sense of humor; everyone loved him and his warmth,” Nana Burford said.

Byron is preceded in death by wife Kathleen “Kay” Burford, who died in 2009.

“They were a creative and wonderful couple,” To m a s i n i s a i d . “ T hey were always there when I needed them, when anyone needed them.”

A n i n fo r m a l r e m e m brance for Burford will be held at the home of Kevin and Helen Burford later this week.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

UI Professor Emeritus Byron Burford is seen in this contributed photo. Burford died last week at the age of 90.

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

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Presidential Perks I bet You Didn’t Know About: • The president can wear Crocs without being ridiculed.

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• The president can borrow the gun of any member of the Secret Service to shoot pop cans off the Lincoln Memorial.

• Every president is automatically “frenemies” with Bill O’Reilly.

• When playing Monopoly, if the president goes to jail, s/he is allowed to pardon him/herself and not pay the $50.

• The president has a timeshare in Boca that Gerald Ford bought because “it seemed like a sound investment.”

• When meeting other heads of state, the president has the option to challenge them to an arm-wrestling match. Whoever loses has to ride in the front of the limo with the driver and make awkward chitchat.

• The president can make sexist and racist jokes without coming across as a jerk.

• When playing Gotcha’ Nose, the president does not have to give you your nose back.

Daniel Frana wishes he could be president for a day...well, not really.

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• The president is allowed to force any member of Congress to “drop and give me 20.”

Former presidents are allowed to do the same to incumbent presidents.

• The president can go into the White House kitchen and eat all of the chocolate out of the Neapolitan ice cream without consequences.

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horoscopes

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 — by Eugenia Last

ARIES March 21-April 19 Keep things moving. Don’t break the momentum.

It’s important that you finish what you start before beginning something new. Patience and diplomacy will help you come to an agreement and a decision.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 Opportunities are within reach. Don’t wait for someone else to jump in and take over when it’s up to you to make things happen. You will only benefit if you are honest and your motives are sincere.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 Mixed emotions will cause havoc for you if you let your personal life interfere with your professional or financial business. The time to strive for perfection in all that you do is now. A contract or an investment you’ve been working on will take a positive turn.

CANCER June 21-July 22 Recognize what you want, but don’t make an impulsive move without putting the proper strategy together. A partnership will help give you the push you need to accomplish your goals.

Don’t limit what you can do because you lack confidence.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Don’t ponder over what you can do when you should be embracing change and making things happen. Talking to experts and traveling to see people firsthand will help you make an important decision that will affect your future.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Someone will misinterpret you or cause a problem for you at work. Don’t let your emotions take over, causing you to react unprofessionally. Offer a stable, secure, and bankable image.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Interacting with people who can offer you knowledge or expertise will bring about a plan to help you get ahead. Don’t allow anyone to pressure you. Pursue your own interests.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 There is plenty you can do to improve your life personally and professionally. Check out an opportunity that can lead to a contract or investment opportunity. A change that can help to redesign your lifestyle is within reach.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Nothing will be as it appears. Don’t exaggerate what you can offer. Your reputation will be at risk. Don’t try to get ahead at the expense of someone else. Play fair.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Make decisions based on facts, not emotions.

You will confuse everyone if you keep changing your mind. Focus more on home, family, and improving your environment. Someone you love will need reassurance.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 You’ll have plenty of chances to improve your current situation and make amends with people you want back in your life. Financial gains will result if you make alterations to your living arrangements. Love is on the rise, and important relationships can be enhanced.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Don’t talk yourself into thinking someone is offering you something when, in reality, it’s more about taking from you. Nothing is free, but that doesn’t mean you should shy away.

Negotiations can turn in your favor if you play hardball.

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BASKETBALL CONTINUED FROM 12 with two steals that helped cut the Ready Mix/Vinton lead to 7 at the break.

In the second half, it seemed Cartwright was much more comfortable with the fast, aggressive pace of the game. He managed to tie the game, and the pressure appeared to affect May. The Hawkeye junior missed two free throws that would have given his team the lead with under three minutes to play, and he was called

for a travel that led to Seth Tuttle hitting a pair of free throws to tie the game at 78.

Then May was sent to the foul line once again — and once again, he missed them both.

“Eric May is a very talented kid, but he’s so humble that sometimes he doesn’t have enough cockiness in him,” Larson said.

Cartwright’s team wasted no time after the missed shots taking the ball up court. He was met by a wave of defenders from McCurry’s/Gatens, though, and was called for a fivesecond violation with 11.5

Sports seconds left in the game.

The turnover was his third of the night.

With 2.4 seconds left in the game, May drove to the basket and was fouled once again. The 6-5 wing didn’t disappoint onlookers this time, knocking down both free throws to give his team the 2-point lead that held up.

“I thought that it was a really nice sign that, when it mattered, he knocked them down,”Larson said.

Although Swetalla said he was disappointed by the close loss, he said, he was thinking about improvements for next week.

“We need to not take so many bad shots in the first half,” he said.

Other notable players to watch where incoming Iowa freshmen Gabe Olaseni and Josh Oglesby.

The 6-10 Olaseni scored 4 points, pulled down 4 rebounds, and laid a monster block on Michael Adleman in the second half that brought loud cheers from the crowd.

Oglesby followed his 10point performance on Sunday with a 7-point game on Tuesday. He knocked down 3-of-8 shots, including a 1for-4 night from behind the 3-point line.

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PRIME CONTINUED FROM 12 ular play of the summer so far.

Ahead of his defender on a fast break, Hubbard rose up for an alley-oop, caught the ball with one hand, and then threw it down with authority — so much authority that the ball rattled around the rim and popped out.

“I’ve missed two dunks now,” he said. “I thought it was in there. I was telling [my teammate] just throw the ball up in the air … he threw it, but I missed it.”

Each team had five players in double figures.

Hubbard received plenty of help from teammates from UNI, as James, Chip Rank, and Christopher Olivier combined to score 55 points.

That proved to be too much for Marble and his teammates on Monica’s/L.L. Pelling Co. to overcome. Former Iowa

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Bryce Cartwright looks for an opening during the first half of a Prime Time game on Tuesday. Cartwright scored 20 points and dished out seven assists, but his team lost, 80-78.

FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM 12 games.

For defensive lineman Broderick Binns, the improvement lies in making sure the rest of the defense is in good enough shape to finish games, which was one of the many criticisms leveled at the squad last season. The 6-2, 261-pound senior from St. Paul, Minn., said he has been using the memories of those games as a primary source of motivation during preseason workouts.

“We use it all the time, [and] if someone’s slacking, we get on him,” he said. “We tell him, ‘Last year, we lost too many close games, and it’s because guys couldn’t finish. The conditioning level starts now.’ If we start conditioning well now, it won’t be a problem during the season.”

And for senior cornerback Shaun Prater, the improvement doesn’t lie so much in polishing his own game — he is one of the few Hawkeyes to enter the season with expectations and hype, and he has collected several preseason AllAmerica honors — but in

helping his teammates make themselves better.

“Everyone’s trying to push one another, [and] we’re constantly battling against one another,” he said. “The thing I keep preaching is, don’t focus on your strengths this summer. The summer is to make sure you are [at] your best when the season gets here.

I’m constantly preaching to guys and telling them, ‘Attack your weaknesses.

Figure out what your weakness is, and if you don’t know what your weaknesses are, go ask a coach.

They’ll tell you, flat-out.’ ” Prater said he preferred

to praise McNutt than preach to him, though. He said the 6-4 wideout looks excellent after he missed spring ball while recovering from shoulder surgery, and the receiver said he and the rest of the team will be at full strength when the season begins — no matter what the hype machine might say.

“Just wait for the games,” McNutt said. “You never know what’s going to happen. I’m sure nobody probably had us picked to go to the Orange Bowl two years ago, but stuff happens.”

Cal keeps magic run alive

By ERIC OLSON Associated Press

OMAHA — California coach David Esquer called on all hands to save his baseball program, and he’s doing the same to keep his team playing in the College World Series.

Freshman utility man Derek Campbell drove in two runs in the No. 9 spot, closer Matt Flemer pitched three scoreless innings in his longest outing of the year, and the Golden Bears kept up their improbable postseason run with a 7-3 victory over Texas A&M. “I’m happy our guys kind of ground it out, because that’s kind of how we do it,” Esquer said. “We don’t do it easy.”

The Bears (38-22) won their first College World Series game in three appearances since 1980 and will play either Virginia or South Carolina on Thursday in another elimination game.

The Big 12 regular-season and postseason champion Aggies (47-22) went two games and out and are 2-10 in five all-time College World Series appearances.

Aggie coach Rob Childress said he told his players that they should expect to come back next year.

“We didn’t play like we’re capable of playing the two games that we

were here,” Childress said.

“It’s nobody’s fault.”

The Bears led 6-1 after scoring three runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth. Campbell, a .255 hitter who came in with five RBIs in 22 games, delivered RBI singles each inning.

Freshman left-hander Kyle Porter (6-0) allowed three runs in six innings.

Flemer finished for his sixth save, giving up three singles and striking out five. They combined to stop an A&M club that had recorded 17 comeback victories this season.

Esquer wrote Campbell into the lineup at second base for the fourth-straight game so Tony Renda, the Pac-10 Player of the Year, could rest an injured quadriceps. Renda, who had lobbied Esquer for the start at second, had two hits and drove in a run as the designated hitter.

“Well, sometimes your best moves, you stumble into them,” Esquer said. “We were completely comfortable with Derek out at second base, the defense he can play, and he can chip in and help our offense. So we felt like let’s go with that lineup and let’s make it work.”

California would need three more wins to reach the best-of-three championship round next week. Then again, the Bears’ coaches and players believe anything is possible after the

way their season has evolved.

The Cal administration last fall announced plans to cut the program in 2012 for budgetary reasons, but boosters and alumni raised $9 million to save the Bears.

The program was reinstated in April as the Bears were on their way to a sixth-place finish in the Pac-10.

After losing in the first round of regionals, they swept through the tournament before losing 4-1 to Virginia in their College World Series opener June 18.

“We were down as a program, and we were down in this tournament as well,” Renda said. “You lose this first game, and you have to win ball games against very good teams, or you’re going home. We know the task and what we need to do, and we know what it’s going to take.

“Throw our best guys out there, keep turning over the lineup, and get to that championship series.”

The Aggies led 1-0 in the fourth after Adam Smith homered into the left-field bullpen.

“The left-hander did an amazing job for them,” Childress said. “He got them off to a really good start. The guy hadn’t had a lot of starts. He matched Michael pitch for pitch. He made one mistake against Adam and wasn’t fazed by it.”

The Bears responded with six runs the next two

innings against Michael Wacha (9-4).

After Chad Bunting reached on an error and Darrel Matthews singled in the fifth, Campbell singled home the Bears’ first run.

Campbell singled into center for a five-run lead after Mitch Delfino’s RBI double and Bunting’s runscoring single.

Campbell said he has tried to forget that he’s playing on college baseball’s grandest stage this week.

“I don’t like to think too much, because when I think too much that doesn’t work well with me,” he said. “I’m not going to go do more than I’m capable of. But in that process success comes.”

Texas A&M scored twice on three hits and an error in the sixth. Flemer entered the next inning and held off the Aggies the rest of the way. He hasn’t given up a 2 run in 8 ⁄3 innings over his last seven games.

Porter also started an elimination game in the regionals, giving up three hits in 62⁄3 shutout innings.

He was just as good against the Aggies.

“As for as the elimination games, I don’t treat it any differently than any other game,” he said. “I try not to be caught up in the moment.

I try just to not think out there, just go ahead and throw. It usually doesn’t hit me until after.”

Five members of the Iowa football team, including offensive lineman Riley Reiff and cornerback Shaun Prater, received preseason honors on Tuesday.

Reiff, a junior from Parkston, S.D., was named to the Consensus Draft Services’ preseason All-American second team, and Prater and defensive linemen Broderick Binns and Mike Daniels received honornods. able-mention Consensus Draft Services becomes the fourth media outlet to give Reiff All-

players Duez Henderson and Darryl Moore turned in strong performances, tallying 20 and 12 points, respectively. Current Iowa big man Devon Archie struggled in the first half, going 0-for-5 from the field. He started strong in the second period, though, scoring the first 4 points for his team and knocking down a pair of free throws — which had been an area of concern for the forward in 2010-11.

High-flying point guard Wes Washpun provided much of the excitement for the gym full of fans, though. Washpun repeatedly sliced through the lane, leaped high into the air, and converted acrobatic lay-ups.

Lehman called Tuesday night’s 3-point thriller one of the best summer-league games he has participated in, and Marble expressed his excitement for the July 12 rematch.

“We’ll see them again,” he said. “We’re going to get them next time.”

American honors and the second to give Prater the same distinction. All four players have been named to at least one All-Big Ten team in the past several months as well.

In addition, kicker Mike Meyer was named to the College Football Performance Awards Watch List as a placekicker and a kickoff specialist.

Meyer, a sophomore from Dubuque, connected on 14-of-17 field goals in 2010 (82.4 percent). His longest kick of the season came against Indiana on Nov. 6, 2010, when he booted a 42-yarder for one of his four field goals in the 18-13 win.

— by Seth Roberts

RACE CONTINUED FROM 12 spent the weekend socializing and attending seminars.

And while the race itself won’t begin in Iowa City, many of the racers said they enjoyed their short time in the area. “[Iowa City is] full of young people — it’s very alive,” said JoAnne Alcorn, who came to the city from Winter Haven, Fla. “It’s clean, well-kept, and — of course — there’s plenty of beer.”

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Hawks shrug off spotlight

May’s late heroics spark win Eric May makes just 4of-9 free throws, but he hits a pair with two seconds left to give his team the win.

By ERIK PAPKE erik-papke@uiowa.edu

side the Fry Football Complex, and wide receiver Marvin McNutt said he’s itching to strap on pads and get going.

“I’m ready for camp to come — I’m ready for football season,” McNutt said. “This is a great time of the year where we have to get better, and improvement is key right now. This is a great time.”

For McNutt, that improvement will center on giving everything he has to the team — even at the expense of his own stats. He said he would be happy to finish the season with 100 total receiving yards if it meant the Hawkeyes won 12

The Prime Time League action at the North Liberty Community Center on Tuesday night could have been confusing.

Just before the two games slated for 6 p.m. tip-offs were about to start, their locations were switched so the large crowd gathered to watch new Hawkeye Anthony Hubbard could be accommodated in the bigger gym.

However, the fans who stayed in the smaller, older gym to view the matchup between Bryce Cartwright and Eric May weren’t let down.

Cartwright scored 20 points and dished out seven assists, but they weren’t enough to stop May and his team, McCurry’s/Mike Gatens. The Iowa junior scored a game-high 26 points and knocked down a pair of free throws with 2.4 seconds left in the game to give his team an 80-78 win.

The game started fairly slowly, and May’s team pulled ahead with a comfortable lead. Sloppy play from Cartwright and his teammates led to a 14-point deficit at one point.

“We played really well [in a seasonopening win] on Sunday, but now we have three new guys here,” said coach Ray Swetalla of Ready Mix/Vinton.

“The things we did well Sunday we didn’t do very well today.”

Cartwright’s two first-half turnovers were products of the senior Hawkeye trying to force the ball to his teammates, who had trouble getting open all night against the stingy defense run by coach Randy Larson.

Cartwright redeemed his poor play later in the half, though, by coming up

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Iowa wide receiver Marvin McNutt answers questions during a media conference in front of the Iowa football complex on Tuesday.

The Hawkeyes appear unconcerned with lack of respect as summer sevenon-sevens begin

By SETH ROBERTS seth-roberts@uiowa.edu

At this point a year ago, it seemed everyone was salivating over the Iowa football team — and with good reason — the Hawkeyes were returning most of the talent they rode to the Orange Bowl a few months before.

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This year? Not so much.

After all, the team’s big-name players are gone; the Black and Gold stumbled late in games on several occasions and needed a miraculous pick-6 to win the Insight Bowl; and Iowa’s long off-season was punctuated by a series of arrests, team dism i s s a l s, a n d s om et hi ng called rhabdo.

The hype that surrounded the 2010 Hawkeyes is long gone.

That suits offensive lineman Markus Zusevics just fine.

“I don’t care either way,” the right tackle from Arlington Heights, Ill., said. “Expectations don’t really involve us — it’s just what a bunch of outside people think, or say, or need to write about. We’re just going to control what we can control. If that means we’re going to be in the spotlight, all right. If we’re not, we’re not.”

The spotlight will get a little brighter this week, starting today when the Hawkeyes begin seven-on-seven drills.

Several members of the team spoke to the media on Tuesday afternoon in the sunshine out-

On wings of desire Prime Time fireworks The 2011 Air Race Classic was supposed to start in Iowa City on Tuesday but weather got in the way

By CONRAD SWANSON conrad-swanson@uiowa.edu

Minnetta Gardinier refers to the Air Race Classic as her own little summer camp. Unfortunately, the camp activities g o t r ai n e d o u t o n Tuesday.

The annual race of small aircraft was supposed to take off from the Iowa City Municipal Airport on Tuesday morning, which would have been the first time the multistate race had come through Iowa City and the first time the race had begun in the state of Because of Iowa. inclement weather, however, the race will skip the first several stops and launch in Alliance, Neb., instead of Iowa City.

This news came as a disappointment for Gardinier, an associate dean in the UI Graduate College and associate professor of pharmacology who spent months organizing the race.

“I’m looking forward to the race still, but it’s a lit-

tle disappointing — especially since the community has done a lot,” she said.

Even if the majority of the work Gardinier put i n t o t h e e v e n t was erased, she said, she wi l l s t i l l participate as a pilot.

The allwomen airplane race s t a r t e d i n Minnetta 1977 — Gardinier although it organizer has roots in the 1920s —and typically lasts for four days. The 2011 race was scheduled to make nine refueling stops in e i g h t d i ffe r e n t s t a t es before a final push for the finish line in Mobile, Ala. The race often has two divisions: a competitive section and a division for p i l o t s wh o j u s t want flight experience. Gardinier has participated in t h e ra c e t h re e t i m es before and typically signs up for the competitive section, but she said she doesn’t have any delusions of grandeur. She said she considers the race to be a competition against herself and her time handicap, and her goals are simple.

“My rule of thumb is that I’m going to have fun and be on speaking terms with my copilot by the end of the race,” she said.

She said tensions in the two- to three-person

teams can run high and create friction, and Gardinier’s goal is to keep things positive with copil ot C har i s s a DyerKendler.

Gar di ni er c o-owns a 1978 single-engine Cessna Cardinal Classic with Dan Eberl, the director of the UI genetics graduate program, and she hopes to surpass 1,000 hours of flight time during the 2011 race.

Aviation has been in her fam i l y for qui t e a whi l e.

Her m ot her worked for Sky Chefs, a company that provides airplane passengers with food during their flights.

Her family was able to fly for fr ee, al l owi ng her early access to pilots and their planes, and Gardinier learned to fly in 2003.

That flying experience eventually drew her to the Air Race Classic, and she volunteered to organize the 2011 event. The race brought 105 women and 50 planes to Iowa City, and Patrick Sheridan, a line manager at the local airport, said the publicity the race brought before the cancellation was beneficial.

“It’s good for us,” he said.

“There are a lot of people who don’t even know we exist out here, even though we’re only a mile or so out of town.”

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Roy Devyn Marble scores 27 points, but Anthony Hubbard comes out on top in a Prime Time showdown.

By KYLE HUGHES

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Anthony Hubbard of catches a breather during a break in a Prime Time game on Tuesday in North Liberty. Hubbard played an all-around Anthony Hubbard is excellent game and led his team to a 3-point victory. such a draw to this sum“I thought I played mer’s Prime Time League DAILYIOWAN.COM aggressively,” Hubbard that Tuesday night’s game Log on for an exclusive had to be moved to a bigsaid. “Once you’re aggresvideo featuring interviews ger gym to accomodate with Anthony Hubbard and sive, you can make things fans.

Roy Devyn Marble. happen. If I’m taking it to But Hubbard wasn’t the the basket and somebody only stand-out in the team’s deficit to 1 point. comes to guard me, I He also made big defenmatch-up. Each team had pass it off. I try to simplifive players with double- sive plays down the fy the game as much as up a He picked stretch. digit figures. possible.”

Hubbard’s Prime Time steal while pressing and Coach Kevin Lehman scored a quick deuce, League squade faced off said he knew what he was against the team lead by then knocked the ball getting when he drafted Roy Devyn Marble in a away again with only a Hubbard. back-and-forth contest in minute left and his team “What I like about down by 3. which Marble scored 27 Anthony — first of all, he’s Marble’s play wasn’t points but Hubbard a great young man and a turned in an all-around enough though to oververy unselfish teammate,” performance to lead his come Hubbard’s strong Lehman said. “Some guys team to a 97-94 victory. performance and North- shoot too much, some pass Marble played aggres- ern Iowa guard Anthony too much, some dribble too sively all night. He made James’ game-high 32 much, but you can never hard cuts, showed off a points for Coach’s Cor- rebound too much. That’s wide variety of isolation ner/Two Rivers Bank & what he does.” moves, and knocked Trust, though.

Hubbard led his team down mid-range Hubbard’s play on both with 9 rebounds, scored 11 jumpers. With around 16 ends of the floor freed up points, dished out 5 minutes left in the game, his teammates for open assists, and nearly came he streaked down the shots and fast-break up with the most spectacfloor for a fast-break opportunities, which made slam dunk that cut his the difference in the game.

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