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Bachmann, Pawlenty snipe at one another Call it the Minnesota feud — Iowa style. The simmering rivalry between Republican presidential-nomination candidates Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann spilled out onto the campaign trail Monday as the two Minnesotans campaigned in the leadoff caucus state three weeks before a test vote by Iowa Republicans that could hinder or help their bids.

“She has a record for saying things that are off the mark, and this is another example of that,” Pawlenty told 125 people in a Davenport restaurant as he responded to Bachmann’s criticism a day earlier that he had espoused the same policies as President Obama.

On Sunday, Bachmann issued a written statement quoting Pawlenty saying in 2006 that “government has to be more proactive and more aggressive.”

Wrote Bachmann: “That’s the same philosophy that, under President Obama, has brought us record deficits, massive unemployment, and an unconstitutional health-care plan.”

She refrained from such direct criticism of Pawlenty on Monday. None of the 50 people gathered at the Delaware County Fairgrounds asked about the dustup with Pawlenty. And this was as close as the Iowa native got to defending her record: “I’ve taken your voice that I heard growing up here in this great state to the halls of Congress very effectively. And I have fought and fought against all of this out-of-control spending.”

In separate appearances across the state, both encouraged Republican activists to attend the Iowa Straw Poll, an event seen as an early test of strength in the state where the nominating caucuses begin the 2012 primary sequence.

— Associat ed Press

Correction In the July 25 column “The implosion of Bob Vander Plaats,” Shay O’Reilly incorrectly wrote that Speaker Pro Tem Jeff Kaufmann was Vander Plaats’ Cedar County chairman in his 2010 campaign. Kaufmann was the Cedar County chairman in Vander Plaats’ 2002 campaign. The DI regrets the error.

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Tackling ed reform Underage drinking arrests down University of Iowa students accounted for more than 23 percent of 2011 public intoxication charges.

By BRIAN ALBERT brian-albert@uiowa.edu

MARY CHIND, DES MOINES REGISTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (right) is introduced by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad at the Iowa Education Summit on Monday afternoon in Des Moines. Christie warned that the debate over bolstering schools too often pits advocates against each other when cooperation is the only way change will come.

Gov. Terry Branstad emphasized creating a better support system for teachers and helping students master important skills.

By CHASTITY DILLARD chastity-dillard@uiowa.edu

National and local education leaders discussed ways to reform Iowa’s education system in Des Moines Monday, listing the future of teacher salaries and economic growth as two priorities.

“How can Iowa deliver a world-class education to all students, who must be better prepared than ever to succeed in a dynamic, knowledge-based global economy,” said Gov. Terry Branstad to a crowd of roughly 1,700 at the Iowa Education Summit.

The summit will reconvene today and end at noon.

Last week, Branstad said he will propose linking pay raises for Iowa teachers to classroom performance in an education-reform package for the next legislative session, the Associated Press reported.

“My hope is for this summit to be a

catalyst for statewide reform,” Branstad said Monday.

U.S. Secretary of Education and keynote speaker Arne Duncan argued a big step is to pay great teachers more for their efforts.

“One of my greatest worries is that great teachers have been beaten down,” he said. “Teachers are the unsung heroes of this society.”

Duncan said he would like to see a future in which a “great teacher could make $120,000 a year,” which could involve a tradeoff by lengthening school days and years.

Duncan also focused on Iowa’s slow shift towards mediocrity in education and agreed dramatic reform is necessary.

“Today, not enough of Iowa’s children are receiving the world-class education they need to succeed in the global economy,” he said, acknowledgSEE EDUCATION, 8

A study released Sunday suggests the frequency of underage OWI and public-intoxication bookings in Iowa City has decreased since 2010.

And while some officials are attributing the shift to the 21-ordinance, others are pointing to additional factors.

The independent study, conducted by John Neff, who has worked in a volunteer capacity for the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office over the past decade, uses nearly a decade of alcohol statistics taking age, day of the week, time of day, and crowd size into account.

Neff notes in his study there is “moderately strong” evidence environmental changes aimed at reducing the incidence of hazardous drinking have had a profound effect on students’ drinking habits since their implementation in 2010.

“Everyone sees the phrase ‘environmental changes’ and immediately thinks of the 21-ordinance, but there’s a lot more going on,” Neff said.

“The university hired nine new officers, so patrols have increased downtown, and people don’t want to get in trou-

Alcohol Citations Percent of tickets accounted for by UI students during the 2010-11 academic year in Iowa City:

OWI4% PUBLIC INTOXICATION 23.4% People under 21 cited between fiscal ‘02 and ‘10 (average) and in fiscal ‘11:

2002-2010 2011 319 OWI

216

2002-2010 2011 409 607 PUBLIC INTOXICATION Source: John Neff

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ble. That’s the most important environmental change.”

On average, from fiscal 2002 to fiscal 2010, more than 300 OWI bookings SEE ALCOHOL, 8

IC ‘walkable’ but lags behind big cities Iowa City scored 53 out of 100 points for its walkability.

By LUKE VOELZ

Walkability Top Five “walkable” cities in Iowa:

Dubuque Marshalltown

luke-voelz@uiowa.edu

Iowa City was recently named as the most “walkable” city in the state, but some local officials said the city could better that ranking on a national front with less reliance on public transit and more population density in and near downtown.

Seattle research program Walk Score ranked each city in the survey released July 20 based on the accessibility of public amenities such as grocery stores and places of employment in individual neighborhoods, with an overall goal of reducing car use.

Despite a score of 53 points out of 100 on Walk Score’s scale, Iowa City still falls as average on

Iowa City

Des Moines Muscatine

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Two women walk across the T. Anne Cleary Walkway on Monday.

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the list. Overall, the state’s scores remain low compared with large cities in other states — Chicago ranked 74, and Milwaukee scored 60.

Johnson County Supervisior Janelle Rettig said that unlike Chicago or Milwaukee, Iowa City has significant nearby land left to grow toward. As long as the city continues expanding, its “walkability” will remain low. Yet once that land is devel-

oped, the city will likely begin adding high-rises and other factors that build population densities in walking distance of downtown.

“When the Plaza Tower went up with the library, that began to change the landscape downtown,” Rettig said. “As more high-density towers come in, you’ll see people living in concentrated areas.

Now, it’s still two miles to the grocery store.”

Those two miles often demand transit, said University of Iowa urban and regional planning Professor John Fuller.

“To be walkable, a city needs to have not only local facilities and sidewalks but a concentrated population as well,” Fuller said. “Compared with other cities, in the East in particular, Iowa doesn’t have that concentration.”

A less-dense population requires many Iowa City

residents to use transit for accessing employment centers downtown and on campus. This, Fuller said, leads to a dependence on the city’s numerous public-transit sources — the Cambus, Coralville and Iowa City bus systems.

“It’s not especially surprising that Iowa City would do better than Des Moines or Cedar Rapids,” Fuller said. “Des Moines is more spread out, and the employment centers SEE WALKABLE, 8

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David Rich tattoos coworker Andrew Lindenboon at Vesania Ink in the Hall Mall on July 22. Rich took ownership of Exile Tattoo on May 1 and changed the name to Vesania Ink.

David Rich became the full owner of Vesania Ink in the Hall Mall in May.

By BEN SCHUFF benjamin-schuff@uiowa.edu

David Rich

David Rich likes to conquer new ideas.

If something he wants doesn’t exist, he’ll create it.

With tattoos inked up and down his arms, on the sides of his neck, and one hidden beneath black Dickie-brand shorts on his right thigh, the 26-yearold sat in his recently acquired Vesania Ink tattoo studio in the Hall Mall, talking about his young but incredibly successful career.

For Rich, the important part isn’t necessarily the particular tattoo a customer wants but rather how he is going to handle it.

“It’s just like what tattooing styles have been done already — this has been done, this has been done, and this has been done,” he said about the process he takes customers through. “These are your options, but this is what we should do to stay away from it because

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this is something new and different.

“The main idea is trying to conquer. That’s what I do — always trying to be steps ahead.”

Being steps ahead is something Rich has done throughout his life when it comes to art forms.

He began tattooing in 2006, when he started an apprenticeship with Exile Tattoo — the former name of Vesania Ink. In his first five years, he won awards at tattooing conventions attended by 50 to 60 other tattoo shops. He received recognition in various cate-

gories such as color, portraits, and horror, among others, and he has earned 12 awards to date.

“I always describe David as a prodigy,” said Javier Silva, who has worked alongside Rich since 2008.

“It’s insane the amount he has accomplished in such a short period of time.

“It actually shocks people when they find out, like professionals — people who have been in the industry for decades — they find out how short a period of time David’s been tattooing, and it blows them away.”

Art has been a big part of Rich’s life since his school days, when he consistently took art classes ahead of his grade level.

He enrolled in a juniorhigh art class in elementary school, and in his first year at City High, Rich was the only freshman in an advanced upperclassman class.

A self-described “comicbook dork,” Rich attributed part of his tattooing skills to his previous work drawing comic books for

fun. He’s also an avid comic collector; he has 64 boxes sitting in his home containing an estimated 10,000 comic books.

All of his previous experiences have been a factor in Rich becoming a master of his current craft. “ ‘Amazing’ is usually the best word,” said Nikki Powills, a fellow artist.

“He just has people describe things to him, and then he takes it and makes images right there.

It’s exactly what they want.”

In May, Rich became full owner of the tattoo shop, which is when he changed the name to Vesania Ink. Taking on the role of owner also brought about a profound change in the new businessman.

“In the beginning, I was thinking all about myself,” Rich said. “When I bought the shop, I realized it wasn’t for me. I’m here — and so is everyone else who works here — for everybody else that is out there.

We put good work out there for our customers.”

and grabbed her throat with two hands, squeezing until she passed out.

Police said Krueger straddled her abdomen, and she tried to pull his fingers away from her throat.

The defendant and the woman split up five months ago after a nine-year relationship, the report said. Krueger has an arrest in May for domestic assault.

— by Brian Albert

child endangerment and firstdegree harassment.

Reports said Peterson’s exwife, with whom he has two children, asked him to watch the kids while she was away on Sunday.

When she returned, Peterson was allegedly passed out on the kitchen floor, and as the children, ages 4 and 6, were “running around unsupervised.”

According to the complaint, a tub full of poisonous household cleaning supplies was left on the floor, as well as three pairs of scissors. One child was wearing only underwear; the other was naked.

Officers said the ex-wife woke Peterson up and told him to leave. After an altercation, Peterson allegedly threatened her by saying, “I’m going to kill you,” prompting her to call the police. He was later arrested.

— by Brian Albert

METRO Man faces felony drug charges

Man faces numerous charges

Officers arrested a local man Sunday after allegedly discovering several pounds of marijuana in his residence.

Nicolaus Walsh, 24, 1716 E. Court St., was charged July 24 with a controlled-substance violation and possession or distribution of a taxable substance without a tax stamp, both Class D felonies.

Reports said Iowa City police executed a search warrant at Walsh’s home, which led them to discover several pounds of marijuana, packaging material, glass pipes, and scales in the common areas of the residence.

Walsh allegedly admitted to knowing there was marijuana in the house and smoking marijuana.

— by Brian Albert

Iowa City police arrested a man who allegedly strangled his former girlfriend in her apartment, causing her to pass out.

Jonathan Krueger, 39, address unknown, was charged July 23 with domestic assault with intent, willful injury causing bodily injury, and first-degree harassment.

Police said Krueger entered his ex-girlfriend’s apartment on Lakeside Drive at 2 p.m.

After she told him to leave, Krueger allegedly grabbed her by the throat, forced her to the bed, and said, “If I can’t have you, nobody can … you are going to die now, bitch.”

Reports said Krueger stopped squeezing, allowing his ex to ask why he was trying to kill her. He allegedly told her to quit yelling

Man charged with endangerment, harassment An Iowa City man was arrested after he allegedly got drunk and passed out while taking care of two young children.

Chad Alan Peterson, 44, 1631 Muscatine Ave. Apt. B, was charged July 24 with no-injury

BLOTTER Jordan Allsup, 22, Fairfield, Iowa, was charged July 22 with public intoxication.

Jordan Bontrager , 25, 1113 Penkridge Drive, was charged Sunday with public intoxication and public urination.

Kameron Bulechek, 21, Solon, was charged Sunday with driving with a suspended/canceled license.

Christian Durnan, 24, Adel, Iowa, was charged July 15 with possession of open alcohol container in public.

Jason Erdmann, 22, Tiffin, was charged Monday with public intoxication.

Joshua Ericson, 31, Center Point, Iowa, was charged July 17 with second-offense OWI.

Travis Hotz, 26, 3230 170th St., was charged July 16 with possession of an open alcohol container in a vehicle.

Nikolas Petersen, 25, Riverside, Iowa, was charged July 16 with public intoxication.

Kurtis Soper, 21, Keokuk, Iowa, was charged July 23 with public intoxication.

Ricardo Steward, 31, Coralville, was charged Sunday with simple assault.

Joshua Stuart, 26, 2419 Shady Glen Court, was charged July 22 with second-offense OWI. Kalsy Williams, 23, 845 Cross Park Ave. Apt. 2D, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

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County facility gets LEED rating The certification process for the building cost roughly $10,000.

By BRITTANY TREVICK brittany-trevick@uiowa.edu

The Johnson County Conservation Board is now working in a building with cabinets made out of compressed sunflower seeds and countertops made out of recycled glassware.

The new building, Conservation Headquarters, was just awarded LEED certification — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — at the Gold Level last week.

The offices, along with the Conservation Maintenance Facility Building, are t h e f i r st Jo h ns o n Count y d e p ar tme nt a l buildings to receive such a high sustainability rating.

Several University of Iowa bu i l d i n g s a r e expected to receive LEED certification in the next three years.

Harry Graves, the Conservation Board director, said the buildings are important because they demonstrate the county’s commitment to helping the environment.

“As conservation people, we don’t just wear the shirts,” he said. “We walk the walk and talk the talk.”

The bu i l d i n g s, b o t h loca te d i n K e n t Pa rk , 2048 Highway 6, cost a little under $2 million to

University of Iowa buildings with, or expected to receive, LEED certification: • Beckwith Boathouse • Sports Medicine Clinic • State Hygienic Laboratory • Stuit Hall Renovation • Carver-Hawkeye Arena Renovation Source: UI Facilities Management

create. In order to be gold certified, each building had to meet criteria in energy use, lighting, and the water and material used. The facilities are also made of materials that came from within 500 miles of the site.

Though built in March 2010, the lengthy certification process, which cost roughly $ 1 0 ,0 00, required the buildings to go through a cooling and heating season. Graves said the environmental benefits are worth the price.

“There is no question in my mind the energy savings of a building of this design will more than offset this,” Graves said.

John Shaw, the architect who became LEEDaccredited to design the Johnson County buildings, said he plans to create more such buildings

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The County Conservation Education Center is quiet on Monday. Officials said the building demonstrates the county’s commitment to helping keep the environment green. because they conserve energy.

“I think it’s everyone’s social and environmental responsibility to produce buildings that are as considerate of our resources as possible,” he said.

Creating these buildi ngs c an al s o be m or e expensive than normal construction — around 1 percent to 5 percent more — but these are also offset by the low maintenanc e c os t s, s ai d L i z Christiansen, the director of the UI Office of Sus t ai nabi l i t y. P r i c es have also decreased over

t he pas t few year s as LEED certified buildings have grown in popularity. “[T he bui l di ngs ] ar e becoming the new norm,” she said.

The U.S. Green Building C ounc i l devel oped L E E D c er t i fi c at i on i n March 2000 to push for s us t ai nabl e bui l di ngs and procedures through a rating system.

Buildings can earn a certified ranking with more than 40 points, silver with more than 50 points, gold with more than 60, and platinum with more than 80.

“The Johnson County Conservation Board’s LEED Gold certification for these two buildings demonstrates tremendous green building leadsaid Rick ership,” Fedrizzi, the president, CEO, and founding chairman of the Green Building Council, in a press release.

LEED buildings are also present on the UI campus, the first being Beckwith Boathouse constructed in 2009. The boathouse also received a gold rating.

Renovations that have earned or are expected to earn a LEED rating at the university include Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Stuit Hall, and the College of Public Health.

Christensen said the buildings help the community because their overall costs are cheaper and they also help the environment.

“That’s a public building, and the long-term costs and maintenance costs are lower,” she said.

“They are much more environmentally efficient and energy efficient.”

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Should Congress work to cut the national debt now or later?

BEAU ELLIOT Now

Later

Working to cut the nation’s debt is vital even in the midst of possible economic stagflation.

While many aspects of the U.S. economy have yet to recover to pre-recession levels (most notably the high unemployment rate), we also face the unsettling possibility that more economic troubles lie ahead. As evidence, take the recent closing of a Roberts Dairy plant in Iowa City or the layoff of more than 350 people at a Whirlpool plant in Amana. The U.S. economy remains fragile, with many continuing to struggle with the rising costs of living.

Nevertheless, right now it is essential the United States show the rest of the world we are serious about our determination in addressing the immense debt we have accumulated. With both Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s threatening to downgrade the rating on U.S. Treasury bonds, the possibility for recovery-crippling aftereffects remains.

If credit ratings on Treasury bonds take a hit, the economy will face another round of debilitating recession. At best, whatever progress has been made will be negated, and unemployment rates will jump even higher. Worst still, interest rates will likely increase with credit becoming less and less available to those willing to take a risk in the unstable housing market.

“Interest rates for state and local government, corporate and consumer borrowing, including home mortgage interest, would all rise sharply,” Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner said in a January letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “Equity prices and home values would decline, reducing retirement savings and hurting the economic security of all Americans, leading to reductions in spending and investment, which would cause job losses and business failures on a significant scale.”

So while our economy remains in a precarious position, the detrimental implications of sitting idle on our debt obligations require us to address the problem immediately by cutting the deficit and preventing the increase of the U.S. debt. If we fail to do so, things will only become much, much worse.

— Matt Heinze

There’s nothing wrong with a deficit every now and then, and the current fervor for budget cuts and deficit/debt reduction could do more harm than good.

No matter how much Congress may talk up the debtceiling debacle, the key issue facing the United States is our sluggish economy. With about 14 million Americans out of work, and a jobless recovery primarily benefiting banks, this is no time to worry about the national debt.

The national debt, of course, is essentially the deficit we’ve accumulated over the years. It’s possible to pay down the debt without increasing the deficit, but to do that would require consistent economic growth — growth larger than the yearly deficit, at least percentage-wise. This consistent economic growth is not represented in current U.S. economic trends.

In other words, we need to fix the economy before we fix the debt. And to fix the economy, the government may need to rack up further debt. Large-scale infrastructure investments, government-funded work projects — Roosevelt’s New Deal worked, and I’ll admit to being a Keynesian. The reason the stimulus failed wasn’t because John Maynard Keynes was wrong but because of the deficit racked up by previous administrations, little groundwork set for infrastructure projects, and a political backlash across the country.

None of the viable options for reducing the deficit will have a large effect on the debt (a long-term problem that requires a long-term solution), and none of them will facilitate economic recovery. Cutting government spending will result in greater unemployment and fewer social services to help those already suffering in the wake of the economic downturn; higher taxes may have a chilling effect, and high enough taxes to take a chunk out of the deficit would stifle economic growth. Increased government investment, on the other hand, could revitalize the market and lay the groundwork for a future, long-term debt reduction plan.

Deficit spending in times of crisis isn’t a problem if our economy makes a smooth recovery. Now is not the time to cut spending (excepting ending overseas wars and cutting the military budget — more a matter of morality than economics). We should get our economy on the right track before attending to debt.

— Shay O’Reilly

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Enjoying the Murdoch scandal I know it is rude to delight in someone else’s misfortune.

The last time I did anything so cruel was during Richard Nixon’s tearful resignation speech in 1974. It was a most laughable set of circumstances. Nixon, who once refused to give amnesty to Vietnam resisters in Canada

and federal prisons, found himself in tears after he got busted for burglary, illegal wiretapping, and lying to the public. It wasn’t a “national nightmare.”

It was a national joke.

I didn’t feel sorry for him anymore than I did when Rupert Murdoch uttered, “This is the most humble day of my life,” just last week at the Westminster Palace before the British House of Commons.

That, too, would have been very funny if it were not for the severity of his crimes. And, like Nixon, Murdoch will probably walk. Some thug/sycophant will get to serve Murdoch’s time, just as Magruder, Colson, and Ehrlichman went to the Big House for Tricky Dick while he and his wife went into a comfy retirement in San Clemente.

Remember, these guys are conservatives; they are the

“law and order people.” That myth won’t excuse the public for its continued support of Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal, or any of Murdoch’s sleazy operations.

We can simply make a decision to stiff-arm this corruption until Murdoch finally slinks into the sunset with all the other hypocrites.

Marty Kramer UI student

There is a wonderful — no, delightful and fabulous and funny and filled with deadpan Dada (which you should not try at home, because deadpan Dada is closer than it appears in the mirror when you shave) — video out there from the band OK Go involving a Rube Goldberg machine.

Not just any old Rube Goldberg machine — you can get one of those from any bill in Congress. Or any lobbyist proposing a bill for some congressional somebody or other to bring up.

Especially just about any Defense-spending bill. Take the $250 million apiece wasteextractor recombination mechanism device on the $100 million apiece subsonic attack helicopter, which will simultaneously extract and compound and recombine the crews’ waste in said helicopter so that when said waste is vertically delineated over enemy territory, no one crew member’s DNA may be identified.

OK, go. I exaggerate.

No such waste-extractor exists, to my knowledge.

Not to mention said helicopter. But you get the idea. These are the people who own the $500 hammer from the ’80s. I believe it’s sitting in the Pentagon, down one of those dusty, dank, seldom-used corridors where they stuck George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner. (Well, OK — there never actually was a $500 hammer, but the $500 hammer became the symbol of shoddy Pentagon spending practices.)

Think what that would cost these days.

Even the people from Goldman Sachs would blush.

Well, no. Nothing, but nothing, makes the people from Goldman Sachs blush. I think it’s in the contract you sign when you join: No Beau-ties, no measly 9.7 returns, no blushing.

And if anyone from Planet Money of NPR/“This American Life” phones, we’re not home. Never have been.

Ah, yes. Rube Goldberg lives on.

Except, of course, that he passed away in 1970, but details, details.

Reuben Lucius Goldberg was a cartoonist, and he’s also credited (by my imagination, anyway) with inventing the Reuben sandwich — which, you have to admit, is a complicated contraption of a sandwich.

You could, I suppose, see Rube Goldberg contraptions as metaphors for our times — which I kind of like, but then I never met a 4 I didn’t like. Except for Mitt Romney, who never met a flop he couldn’t flip.

(It’s a lot more complicated than you’d think at first glance.)

The OK Go 10,000square-foot (give or take) extravaganza, in which some stuff gets destroyed in coolly complicated ways, seems a perfect metaphor for the debt-ceiling, budgetdeficit brouhaha going on in Washington.

I mean, there are tons of complicated things going on, 10,000 press conferences per day with 100,000 talking points, and with all this flurry of motion and countermotion, what we end up with is: Nothing.

Nada.

For instance. Not to pick on Republicans, but there’s a large segment of them who seem to refuse to compromise on anything, while the Democrats, especially President Obama, seem intent on giving away most of the liberal store.

(For that matter, a recent poll showed 53 percent of Republicans believe nothing all that bad will happen if the U.S. defaults on its debt — a belief that most economists I’ve read think is on hallucinogens.)

But whatever. This past spring, congressional Republicans passed a budget that included the so-called “Peace Dividend,” the money the U.S. will save by withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan.

But now, when Democrats try to include the “Peace Dividend” in their debtceiling proposals, the Republicans label it a budget gimmick.

Ah, yes. In this brouhaha, the accent is on haha.

Some days, you just want to say, OK Go.

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Fake sharia threat distracts from real problems It pays to get some education. Unfortunately, ignorance rules the United States and will continue to for a long time.

Recently, GOP presidential-nomination candidate Rick Santorum said the “Koran was written in Islamic.”

Really? This alone demonstrates the unintelligence of the current generation of Americans.

Our decade-long military engagement in the two ongoing Middle Eastern conflicts speaks volumes about the ignorance.

So far, it has cost the country more than $1 trillion and thousands of innocent lives. The return on that costly investment is dismal.

In the meantime, approximately 14 million Americans are jobless.

Millions are losing their homes — once a hallmark of the American dream.

The stereotypical hollering on Sundays from the pulpits about the “sanctity of life” has lost its meaning. But the GOP is worried about sharia, of all things.

In their first debate in New Hampshire, the Republican hopefuls offered no plausible solution to the financial quagmire — a quagmire that President George W. Bush forced upon the nation by paying out trillions to the machinery of war. Devoid of concrete ideas, the can-

didates offered the fear of sharia.

This is nothing new. In the last election, the New York-based Clarion Fund distributed the DVD “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” to perpetuate a message of hatred, divisiveness, and fear — and attempt to influence voters to support John McCain. This backfired, of course, as fear-mongering invocations of sharia should do in this election cycle.

Americans (the GOP hopefuls included) could get some real education about the hyped demon of sharia by learning from real Muslims — including

those who gave an informational session at the University of Toledo, a video of which is available online.

Arabic word The “sharia” literally means “way of life.” Moses was given the sharia code, and so was Jesus. The followers of both Judaism and Christianity were prescribed a divine road map to lead a peaceful, morally enriching successful life.

If Muslims in America choose not to have bachelor or bachelorette parties prior to solemnizing the sacred pact of marriage between a man and a woman, how does that threaten American society? If American-Muslims

refrain from eating pork, drinking, gambling, infidelity, and their teens are averse to premarital sex, how does it add to our country’s burgeoning debt? Is it wrong for American Muslims to be honest and law-abiding?

Is it too much for Muslims in America to adhere to the lifestyle prescribed to the followers of Moses and Jesus?

I love my country, but I feel sorry for its Herman Cains and Michele Bachmanns. Hiding behind the thin veneer of false patriotism, they are trying to shake the very fundamental principles that this country was founded upon: Freedom for all.

And that includes the freedom to practice one’s faith — whatever that may be.

One look at the decadence pervading the Europe, and I marvel at the gushing fountain of faith that Americans from all walks of life so sincerely and so proudly exhibit.

So as much as all the Cains and Bachmanns of this world might try, more churches, more synagogues, and of course more mosques will continue to be built on the blessed soil of America.

Abdul-Majeed Azad is a University of Toledo professor and a 2010-11 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy Technology at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

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MEET ME AT THE FAIR Each year, the Johnson County Fair provides opportunities for Iowans to participate in 4H and Future Farmers of America events. The fair also hosts several public contests, including a Beef Chili Cookoff, Hula-Hooping, and Sunflowers Seed Spitting. Roughly 70,000 people visit the fair annually.

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Right: Two young boys look at the geese at the Johnson County Fair on Monday.

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Contestants could win in one of several categories for including hairiest, oldest, and sexiest.

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Laif Eastland tries to pet a goat at the Johnson County Fair while his mother, Kristen Eastland, looks on Monday. This is Laif’s first time at the fair.

Kendra Eschen hoses off her sheep at the Johnson County Fair on Monday. In addition to sheep, Eschen shows goats and poultry.

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Rides sit in idle at the Johnson County Fair on Monday. The rides tend to be more popular in the evening, once the temperature cools down. Children can also get involved through talent contests.

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A: Probably the circumflex.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 — by Eugenia Last

ARIES March 21-April 19 Throw a little fun into the mix. Getting together with friends or planning a vacation will pump you up. Anything is possible: If you can imagine it, you can make it happen. Love is highlighted; enjoy the moment.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 Don’t overdo, overspend, or overindulge. Focus on how you can improve relationships, and avoid impulsive moves that will cause havoc in your personal life. What you do for others will make the best statement and leave a good impression.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 You will be on the go and quick to take advantage of whatever comes your way. Your mind will be in overdrive, and much can be accomplished both personally and professionally if you work diligently on your to-do list. A change of plans will bring romance.

CANCER June 21-July 22 Pace yourself. Someone may pull a fast move to make you look incompetent. Don’t give in to anyone trying to dump responsibilities in your lap. Use your imagination, and you will come up with a suitable way to get what needs doing out of the way efficiently.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Volunteer for a cause that will bring you in contact with influential people. Let your ideas be heard. A change of location will turn out to be a good move personally and professionally. Offer more, and you will be well-received.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 You will have trouble with people you deal with professionally. Forge ahead on your own, applying as much detail as possible. The results you get will impress the people you aim to please.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Gather information by getting into playful discussions with experienced individuals. Your thirst for knowledge needs to be fulfilled, and it will lead to a great opportunity. Check out the job market, an apprenticeship or a business venture.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Offer help where you can, but don’t do so at the expense of your family or your well-being. Practicality will be your saving grace, especially when dealing with financial matters. Don’t let an emotional relationship cost you financially.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 As long as you are upfront about the way you feel and the things you are doing, you are up for a great day with spectacular results. Interacting with others will lead to excellent connections that will no doubt help you advance.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Keep everything moving forward steadily. You can stabilize your plans by discussing what you want to do with people who can help. Don’t make an impulsive decision; an alternative is all that’s required.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Test the waters. Join in the fun. You need an outlet that makes you enthusiastic about life. Love is highlighted, and mixing business with pleasure will pay off. There is money to be made if you put your skills to good use.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Don’t play or associate with people who use head games to make gains. You are best to avoid being backed into a corner or upsetting any situation that is already on shaky ground.

Observation is your best alternative.

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• Summer Playgrounds, 1 p.m., Wetherby Park • Library-Community Writ-

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Gymnasium, 2701 Bradford • Summer Playgrounds, 9:30 a.m., Creekside Park, Fairmeadows Park, Willow Creek Park

• Pearl Knotting, 6 p.m., Beadology, 220 E. Washington • Stained Wine Club, 6 p.m.,

• Kids Rule Summer Film Series, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, 10 a.m., Syc-

Mansion, 538 S. Gilbert St. • “Live from Prairie Lights,”

camore 12 • Tech Help Tuesdays, 10 a.m., Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn • Toddler Story Time, 10:30 a.m., Iowa City Public Library

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ALCOHOL CONTINUED FROM 1 involved people under the age of 21. In fiscal 2011, the number dropped to a little more than 200. Public-intoxication numbers also saw a drop, with an average of 600 incidents between fiscal 2002 and 2010 and 400 in fiscal 2011.

Neff, a University of Iowa professor emeritus of physics/astronomy, said he used Johnson County Jail reports from the eightyear time period to create the record. In addition, he consulted data from Thomas Baker, the UI associate dean of students, and Charles Green, the assistant vice president for UI police.

Peter Nathan, an alcohol expert and a UI professor

EDUCATION CONTINUED FROM 1 ing that his message may be unpopular.

Margaret Crocco, the dean of the University of Iowa College of Education, believes the secretary’s words were tough to hear for the audience because of the complexity of Iowa educational issues.

“Sometimes, I feel [the topic] is oversimplified,” she said.

In March, Iowa City School District officials made plans to cut 22 teaching positions at secondary and elementary levels in effort to level the near $6 million shortage faced by the district.

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emeritus, said the study appeared to be have been done competently.

“The study strongly suggests that the 21-ordinance has succeeded to this point in reducing one of the most troublesome consequences of underage drinking in Iowa City — public intoxication,” he said.

Kelly Bender, the coordinator of the UI Campus and Community Alcohol Harm Reduction Initiative, said increased patrolling has a profound effect not just on local safety but on forming a community stance that illegal activities will not be tolerated.

The university is looking at the statistics carefully, she said, and more must be done before there is a clear picture of Iowa City’s drinking situation.

“We’re just starting to

collect a lot of data and see effects on a larger scale,” she said. “Right now, we have a lot of anecdotal data about house parties and such, but we can’t just look at one segment like that.”

Not everybody is ready to accept the numbers as proof Iowa City’s alcohol problem is lessening. Matt Pfaltzgraf, the former coordinator of anti-21 ordinance group Yes to Entertaining Students Safely, said he believes the numbers are “tainted.”

“It seems that once the UI gets its hands on any numbers, they always seem to work out in the city’s favor,” he said. “It’s hard for me to take anything they do seriously because they’re so into their own propaganda. It wastes everybody’s time.”

Iowa City police Sgt. Denise Brotherton said

the department’s numbers correspond with Neff ’s research, and she noted an increase in the number of officers contributes to Neff’s findings.

“When you see increased patrols on the streets, you should be less likely to be obnoxious,” Brotherton said. “We’re also giving out more warnings, so hopefully, people will take those and make smarter decisions.”

Pfaltzgraf believes students aren’t drinking less, they’re just drinking at different times and in different places.

“Students are drinking earlier,” he said. “People are drinking and more prone to having problems because they’re at house parties, where police aren’t called.

The city is celebrating the non-reporting of calls. It’s really disingenuous.”

percent allowable growth.

Local schools will deal with last year’s budget levels while experiencing increasing costs.

Throughout the day, discussion cited Iowa as complacent and being passed up by other states, despite being at the top in previous decades.

“In the knowledge economy, the countries that out-educate us will outcompete us, and the hard truth is that Iowa has started slowly slouching toward educational mediocrity,” Duncan said, noting that Iowa is the only state that hasn’t made a significant growth in years.

Both Branstad and Duncan placed impor tance on using charter schools, which was a cause of concern for Iowa City School District Superintendent Stephen

Murley.

“Under this thought process, it is a good thing to relax state regulations for non-public charter or private schools and allow state funding to follow children to [charter or voucher] schools,” Murley said. “I would challenge this thinking. If the national and state regulations are prohibiting schools from innovating, perhaps we should consider exempting not just those non-public schools from it but also our public schools.”

Some educational leaders are wary about the discussion of Iowa’s school systems. “[The negativity] is unfortunate, because Iowa has had a proud tradition of education,” said Sen. Bob Dvorsky, DCoralville. “To say that all of a sudden, we have lost

our initiative is not the thing to do.”

And Lew Finch, the executive director of the Iowa Urban Education Network, agreed.

“There are some good comments that seem to make sense to us,” said Finch, who attended the summit. “And there are some things that we wouldn’t entirely agree with.”

Finch said there needs to be a complete change on how we assess our classrooms.

“Our students today are probably more educated than they have been,” he said. “You have to be careful how you paint the picture so it doesn’t look like you’re blaming the teacher.”

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are not concentrated as greatly as ours in the center.”

The points Iowa City did obtain, said city planner Karen Howard, likely come from older neighborhoods near downtown. These communities were built for easy walking, with grid-based street patterns, small properties, and short city blocks. Newer neighborhoods toward the city’s outskirts tend to be more spread out.

This, she said, creates high demand for neighborhoods near downtown.

“There are a lot of families competing with students to live close to where they work downtown,” she said.

Though running errands in Iowa City may not be as foot-friendly as in the larger Midwest cities, Howard said, urban developers try to design new neighborhoods as close to amenities as possible.

“We do try to think where neighborhood community areas are in relation to where new neighborhoods are,” she said. “We try to build street connections, pedestrian connections, and trails that connect all those places.”

151 UI physicians make Top Doctors The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has 151 doctors listed on the U.S. News & World Report’s Top Doctors, a new searchable directory of more than 30,000 physicians in the country, according to a press release.

The peer-nominated doctors from the UIHC and other medical institutions in the U.S. in one database allows consumers to search for the top doctors by location, hospital affiliation, and specialties.

Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. complied the list from regional hospitals as well as private practices.

“Given the unsettled future of the delivery and financing of

Christie summit appearance draws fire

By CHASTITY DILLARD chastity-dillard@uiowa.edu

Controversial New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered his ideas for improving education at the Iowa Education Summit on Monday, but some in attendance questioned his involvement.

“I can’t agree with him,” Lew Finch, Iowa’s Urban Education Network executive director, said, noting that others wondered about his pervious history with handling education funding. “I would not hold him up as a model governor on schools.”

Fliers being passed out at the event voiced similar beliefs.

Other Iowa Republican leaders questioned whether Christie’s appearance was related to a potential GOP presidential-nomination run, according to the Associated Press.

The AP reported Christie has received encouragement from some Republicans to run.

Monday, the governor’s senior political adviser, Mike DuHaime, told the AP, “If he feels compelled that he can make a difference, he may endorse a candidate.”

“Anytime Christie comes out here, he’s obviously going to take some air out of the room,” former Republican governor nominee Doug Gross told the AP. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has in previous interviews described Christie as a “rock star,” and he said the New Jersey governor had made some tough decisions to turn the state around.

Christie took part in a fundraiser for Branstad during his gubernatorial campaign, according to the AP. Branstad introduced

Christie Monday, praising him what he has done for New Jersey.

There, Christie is pursuing measures that would rid teachers of tenure and establish merit-based pay, which Branstad recently endorsed for Iowa teachers.

Last year, Christie cut $820 million in state aid to schools, which heavily affected poor districts.

That was reversed by the New Jersey Supreme Court in May, which ruled the governor’s move violated the state’s seminal ruling on school funding, Abbott v. Burke.

“I didn’t cut funding to public schools because I hate it, but I cut it to balance the checkbook,” Christie said at the summit, citing the nearly $11 billion budget deficit gave him no choice.

health care and the changing nature of physician practices, it is critical that consumers have trusted sources of high-quality information about both doctors and hospitals,” John Connolly, the president and CEO of Castle Connolly, said in the release.

The directory is related to the Best Hospital rankings, which ranks the UIHC nationally in 19 specialties and lists five specialties as high-performing.

“Top Doctors has a similar mission,” Avery Comarow, the editor of U.S. News health rankings, said in the release. “We want to help consumers find the doctors in their areas who come highly recommended by other physicians.”

— by Ariana Witt

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PRIME TIME LEAGUE

Basabe leads All-Stars Melsahn Basabe, Roy Devyn Marble, and Matt Gatens highlight Iowa’s contributions to the 2011 Prime Time All-Star team.

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The Prime Time League season has come and gone, after Falbo/Culver’s took home the title on Sunday.

The season was full of excellent performances, and The Daily Iowan broke down the box scores to decide its annual list of Prime Time All-Stars.

MVP: Melsahn Basabe (Iowa) Basabe was a force on the low block.

His size and speed caused trouble for most defenders, and the 2011 Big Ten AllFreshman team member made himself even more dangerous when he added a consistent midrange jumper to his game.

He played with a ton of confidence, which was evident in his numbers; through the regular season, he averaged a monster 24.6-point, 11.6-rebound double-double.

James Anthony (Northern Iowa) James was one of Prime Time’s most dynamic players with a ball in his hand.

The UNI point guard formed a formidable onetwo punch with teammate Anthony Hubbard, and he was able to break his man down at will to either create a shot for himself or find his teammates.

James went down late in the season with an ankle sprain but finished the summer with a robust 24.2 points per game scoring average.

Roy Devyn Marble

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Melsahn Basabe attempts to tip the ball in during the first half of a Prime Time game on June 28. Basabe averaged 24.6 points and 11.6 rebounds per game in the Prime Time regular season.

(Iowa) Marble showed fans in North Liberty his full arsenal this summer.

After a subpar freshman year, he was outstanding in the Prime Time League.

The guard was asked to carry most of the scoring load for a team that thought it would be a good idea to draft Devon Archie in the first round, and Marble responded with a league-best 27.5 points per game in the regular season.

Anthony Lee (Temple) The 6-9 combo forward showed off his versatility this summer; he posted up, shot from midrange, passed, dribbled, and blocked shots.

His height alone was a

problem for opposing players attacking the basket.

What makes Lee’s 21point, 12.8-rebound average even more incredible is that the Prime Time games were the first action he had seen since he had a major back surgery to fix a herniated disk.

Matt Gatens (Iowa) Gatens was a Mr. Consistent all season; he averaged 22 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 6.0 assists per game.

He scored from the freethrow line, 3-point range, and by attacking the basket to help lead Falbo to the Prime Time championship.

Honorable Mentions: Bryce Cartwright and Eric May (Iowa) Cartwright led his team

in scoring, with 19.6 points per game, and was the Prime Time’s leading assist artist with 7.0 dimes per contest. He was a floor general, and he always kept his team in the game, even when his teammates struggled to score.

May was brilliant this summer and was able to score at will. May never had a consistent secondary scorer, because Andrew Brommer missed most of the season while recovering from off-season surgery, but the native of Dubuque still fought and played the tough defense Hawkeye fans have come to expect while scoring 23.3 points per game.

INDIANS 3, ANGELS 2

Indians rally, snap streak ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Indians’ slogan throughout a season of improbable comeback wins has been “What If?” Rookie Jason Kipnis added a new twist Monday night: “Why not?”

That’s what Kipnis thought as he came to bat with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning, before delivering his first career hit to give Cleveland a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.

“That was so cool,” Kipnis said after hitting a 1-0 pitch from Hisanori Takahashi between first and second base to give the Indians their 11th last atbat home win and break a four-game losing streak.

Kipnis was acutely aware he was 0-for-5 since being called up July 22 and really wanted a hit.

2 new Hawks perform well in Junior Pan Ams Two incoming Iowa freshmen helped the United States earn 59 medals at the Pan American Junior Championships from July 22 through Sunday, according to a release.

Kayla Beattie won gold in both the 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters at the championships, which were held in Miramar, Fla. She won the 3K with a time of 9:30.63 on July 23 and dominated the competition in the 5K with a 16:48.44 time on Sunday — a full six seconds ahead of the secondplace finisher.

Gabe Hull took home the silver

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“I actually thought, ‘Why not now? I might as well do it,’ ”he said.

Kipnis was mobbed by teammates as the club’s latest late-inning hero.

First-base coach Sandy Alomar Jr. gave the ball to the 24-year-old after retrieving it from a fan when Angel right-fielder Torii Hunter tossed it into the crowd.

“I’m very appreciative of that,” Kipnis said. “I’m going to keep this one a long time.”

Indian manager Manny Acta will savor the muchneeded victory awhile, too.

“This is a good way to break a little losing streak,” he said. “We showed a lot of heart, and he couldn’t pick a better spot for his first hit in the big leagues.”

Tony Sipp (5-2) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win after Bobby Abreu’s two-run homer off Vinn i e Pe s t a n o p u t t h e

Angels ahead 2-1 in the eighth.

Angel closer Jordan Walden then blew his seventh save in 30 tries.

Michael Brantley opened the ninth with a line single to left and stole second — getting Kipnis to think.

“I mapped out what had to happen to get me up there or just be cheering,” Kipnis said. “And that was bases loaded, two outs.”

After Walden struck out Asdrubal Cabrera on a 3-2 pitch clocked at 98 mph, Travis Hafner drove the first pitch he saw to leftcenter, easily scoring Brantley to tie it at 2.

“Great at-bat there by Michael and then by Hafner,” Acta said. “These guys believe when we get to the ninth and are close, we can win. I’m just glad the lineup turned over to put those guys in position to do it.”

Walden then walked Carlos Santana and hit Jack Hannahan in the right ankle with an 0-2 pitch to load the bases.

Angel manager Mike Scioscia brought in Takahashi to pitch and summoned Hunter from right to play as an extra infielder between first and second base.

“You have to defend what you can in that situation,” Scioscia said. “Any fly ball is going to beat you.”

The ploy worked when Travis Buck tapped a onehopper to Hunter, who threw home for the forceout.

“I was thinking, ‘Gee, we can’t even hit a ball over an outfielder playing the infield,’ ” Acta said. “But we pitched great one more time. When you pitch well, you have a chance.”

medal in the discus with a toss of 189-7, and he was only beaten by a Pan Am Junior meet-record 218-5 mark from a Jamaican thrower.

Hull was an Indiana state champion in the event while in high school, and he told USA Track & Field his previous successes served as motivation during the Pan Am games.

“At the beginning, I was just thinking I would settle for whatever I could get,” he said after his medal-winning throw in the final round. “Then I [remembered] I had done well before, so I could do well again. I almost reproduced the good things I had done before, so it ended up well.”

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Baseball Hawks pick up hot shortstop

.425 in each season with the Eagles.

In 2010, Goodman was selected by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball to participate in the Breakthrough Series, a showcase for high-school upperclassman players. The Chicago White Sox also chose Goodman to play in the 2010 Double Duty Classic AllStar Game for top high-school players.

Goodman is also a standout hockey player, and he lettered three times for Apple Valley. He was the 2010-11 team MVP and earned all-conference honorable mention honors.

— by Seth Roberts

The Iowa baseball team added middle infielder Kris Goodman to its 2011 recruiting class, head coach Jack Dahm announced on Monday.

Goodman, a shortstop and second baseman, led Apple Valley High (Minn.) to a 13-8 record in 2011. He was named the team’s MVP and best offensive player after a campaign in which he batted .435 with 21 RBIs and a 1.202 OPS, according to MaxPreps.com.

The 6-1, 170-pound Goodman earned all-conference honors in 2011 and batted at least

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Doolittle, a freshman center, recovered from a 0-for-4 s tar t f r o m t h e field and hit her next six shots to g i v e h e r 1 2 points at the break. She was able to hit running hooks, scoop shots, and even got ahead of everybody for a fast-break layup.

FOOTBALL CONTINUED FROM 12 Fla., native led St. Thomas Aquinas High to two national championships, three state titles, and three district and regional trophies. He holds school records for total yards (5,082), touchdown passes (73), and wins (31).

All that was enough to make ESPN.com’s talent evaluators drool. “[Rudock] leads receivers with zip and touch at the same time,” a scout said on Rudock’s profile. “[He] is very efficient as a signalcaller. He is a deceptively good athlete capable of eluding the rush and keeping a play alive while keeping his eyes downfield. Can tuck and run if need be and is a tough guy.”

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A Dixon 3-pointer off a Krei assist gave the team a 4 3 -3 6 a d v a n t a g e at halftime.

On l y s e v e n p l ay er s suited up for Vinton, and they looked tired as the g a m e p r o g re s s e d . The team combined to shoot only 10-for-32 in the second half, and Krei said that was because of an up-tempo attack from her Cullen squad.

“We kept pushing the pace and had good ball movement,” she said. “It

just wears people down after a while.”

The trio of Krei, Dixon, and Armstrong will now play for the Game Time cham pi ons hi p on Wednes day. T hey wi l l face undefeated Monica’s/Bob’s Your Uncle, led by for m er Hawk eye Kachine Alexander. In two previous matchups, Al exander ’s t eam has won by a combined 77 points. “ We had bad l uck against them the past

He’ll be buried on the depth chart for a while, but don’t be surprised if he jumps up the list in the near future.

1) Ray Hamilton, tight end Hamilton’s recruitment was a circus.

The native of Strongsville, Ohio, sifted through somewhere between 21 and 30 potential scholarships — including offers from such heavyweights as Wisconsin, Stanford, and Oregon — before landing at Iowa.

So what was all the hullabaloo about?

Oh, nothing much — just a four-star prospect considered to be the No. 8 tight end in the entire country.

Hamilton stands 6-5 and was as good a high-school receiving threat as anyone in the nation; he finished his prep career with 119

catches for 1,189 yards and 23 scores, and he would have had more if he hadn’t missed half his junior season with a knee injury.

He also possesses a nasty competitive streak, and ESPN.com said he plays with an “angry approach.”

“Anything I do — whether we’re sitting at home playing a video game, competing in school, anything — my competitive nature is high as it can be,” he told the DI in February.

That’s a good thing for Hamilton, who will have to compete against a deep pool of Iowa tight ends for significant playing time as a freshman.

Still, Iowa has become a veritable tight-end factory — think Dallas Clark, Tony Moeaki, and Allen Reisner — and Hamilton could be

DI Player of the Game K.K. Armstrong Cullen/Falbo: • 23 points • 10 rebounds • 11 assists

two times,” Hamlin said. “[But] it’s hard to beat a good team three times — and I think we’re a good team.”

the best talent in years.

Honorable mention: Austin Blythe, offensive line At 6-3 and 285 pounds, Blythe is a large young man — and he knows how to use his bulk well enough that he holds the Iowa high-school wrestling record for career pins, with 143.

Throw in a high-school football career in which he racked up 123 tackles, 40 tackles for a loss, and 14 sacks as a defensive lineman, and it’s easy to get excited about the product of Williamsburg, Iowa.

The Big Three is a five-part series and will be published all week.

Rangers stomp Twins ASSOCIATED PRESS ARLINGTON, Texas — Ian Kinsler homered and drove in 4 runs as part of the Texas Rangers’ offensive barrage in a 20-6 rout of the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.

Kinsler had four of the Rangers’ league-best 27 hits. Mike Napoli and Nelson Cruz also had 4 hits as all the Rangers starters had at least 2 except for third baseman Chris Davis, who was hitless in six atbats.

Michael Young also went deep and had 3 RBIs for Texas, which had 18 runs by the end of the fifth inning.

Things were so onesided that Michael Cuddyer moved from right field to the mound to pitch the eighth for the Twins. Cuddyer gave up a double to Napoli, a bloop single to Mitch Moreland, and walked Kinsler with one out to load the bases.

But Cuddyer retired Elvis Andrus on a fly ball

and David Murphy on a pop-up for a scoreless inning.

The last Twin position player to pitch was outfielder John Moses against California on July 31, 1990.

Derek Holland (9-4) easily won his careerhigh ninth game of the season, allowing an unearned run and 5 hits in six innings with 4 strikeouts to surpass his eight-win rookie season in 2009.

Josh Hamilton and Endy Chavez also drove in three runs each to help the Rangers surpass Cleveland’s output in a 19-1 blowout at Kansas City on May 16.

Texas also passed the 25 hits that the Los Angeles Dodgers had against Minnesota on June 27.

Holland once again was the recipient of excellent run support, with the Rangers putting up 14 runs and 16 hits after only four innings against three pitchers.

Texas has scored at

least 4 runs in each of Holland’s last 12 starts, with Holland going 6-3 with three no-decisions during that stretch.

AL West-leading Texas has won 15 of 18 to open a four-game pad over Los Angeles, which was beaten by Cleveland, 3-2, on Monday night.

Jason Kubel hit a 449foot homer off Arthur Rhodes in the eighth for the Twins, who have lost six of nine.

Minnesota starter Nick Blackburn (7-7) was knocked around for nine runs — six earned — and 11 hits in 2 2⁄ 3 innings.

The Rangers jumped to a 3-0 first-inning lead a day after they were limited to four singles by Toronto’s Brett Cecil in the Blue Jays’ 3-0 victory on Sunday night.

Andrus reached on an infield single and scored on Hamilton’s double. Young followed with his ninth homer into the right field seats on Blackburn’s 1-0 pitch.

In the second, RBI

doubles by Kinsler and Hamilton and Young’s single run-scoring gave Holland a 6-0 pad, and Kinsler added a three-run blast in the third.

When Andrus followed with a single, Blackburn’s shortest outing of the season was over, matching the most runs he’s allowed in any of his 113 career starts.

Minnesota got on the board in the fourth with an unearned run aided by an error by Andrus at shortstop. After Alexi Casilla singled, Joe Mauer hit a sharp grounder that Holland gloved. Holland fired to second to start what appeared to be an easy double play, but the throw bounced off Andrus’ glove.

Casilla scored on Cuddyer’s double-play the grounder, but Rangers stretched their edge to 14-1 with a fiverun fourth highlighted

by Moreland’s two-run double.

Yanks romp; Ms’ streak hits 16

BY HOWIE RUMBERG Associated Press

NEW YO RK — Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira each homered and drove in 3 runs, Freddy Garcia stifled his former team, and the New York Yankees handed the snakebit Seattle Mariners their 16th-straight loss with a 10-3 victory Monday night.

A rain delay of 1 hour, 57 minutes was the only thing that slowed the loss for Seattle. The game was barely under way when Teixeira crushed any pregame hopes Seattle had of jumping out early and snapping the streak, hitting a rare homer into the second deck in left field after Curtis Granderson walked in the first. In the third, Jeter hit his first homer since connecting for hit No. 3,000 on July 9. He also tripled in the eighth.

Five Yankees had RBIs in the fourth against Jason Vargas (69), an inning in which the Mariners made two errors and were on the wrong side of what appeared to be a missed call at first base — one of two calls to go against Seattle.

After scoring 29 runs in the past six games and still breaking the franchise’s 1992 record of 14 losses in a row, the Mariners went down meekly against Garcia (9-7). With only the occasional player standing at the railing at the top step of the Seattle dugout until the game was well out of hand in the eighth, the Mariners mustered just three hits through the first six innings.

Garcia got his start with Seattle in 1999, was a two-time All-Star, and went to the AL championship series twice in his five seasons in the Pacific Northwest.

He hasn’t been an AllStar since but has been a steady addition to the Yankees’ rotation this season.

He gave up eight hits and three runs in a season-high 7 2⁄ 3 innings, helping New York improve to 3-1 in a 13game stretch against teams currently below .500.

The Mariners were at .500 on July 5, two games back in the AL West and an early season surprise. But everything has fallen apart since.

Their skid is the longest in the majors since Kansas City lost 19 in a row in 2005.

Ichiro Suzuki cut the lead to 2-1 with a sacrifice fly in the third after the first two runners reached. The rally was halted when Franklin Gutierrez was thrown out trying to advance on a ball that bounced in the dirt.

The Yankees put it out of reach in the fourth.

After Vargas struck out Nick Swisher to start the inning, Russell Martin reached when third baseman Adam Kennedy couldn’t handle his tough grounder down the line. Andruw Jones then was called safe on a toss play to Vargas at first base, but replays appeared to show Vargas won the race to the base.

Eduardo Nunez and Brett Gardner followed with RBI singles. Jeter then hit a grounder to second. Dustin Ackley made a poor throw home for another run.

Granderson had one of his two sacrifice flies, and Teixeira made it 8-1 with a single.

Vargas gave up 8 runs — 4 earned — and seven hits in four innings.

Justin Smoak had an RBI single in the seventh, and Brendan Ryan a run-scoring double in the eighth.

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THE DAILY IOWAN TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2011

Woolridge to be honored Former Iowa basketball star Andre Woolridge will be inducted into the Nebraska Black Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, according to a release.

Woolridge, a native of Omaha, played three seasons for the Hawkeyes in the 1990s after spending his freshman campaign at Nebraska. He ended his Iowa career as the school’s all-time assist leader, with 575. He has since been passed by Jeff Horner.

The 6-0 point guard averaged 20.2 points and 6.0 assists per game as a senior in 1996-97, a season in which he was named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press and became the first player ever to lead the Big Ten in both scoring and assists in the same year.

Iowa’s ninth-leading scorer, with 1,525 career points, wasn’t picked in the 1997 NBA draft. Instead, the now-37-year-old Woolridge played professionally in France, Greece, Italy, and Turkey. He participated in the Denver Nuggets’ training camp in 2000 but didn’t make the team’s final roster.

“The Iowa basketball program would like to congratulate Andre Woolridge for this well-deserved honor,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said in a release. “Andre had phenomenal success … and cemented himself as one of Iowa’s all-time great point guards.”

— by Seth Roberts

GAME TIME LEAGUE

Dixon, Krei spark victory Northern Iowa point guard K.K. Armstrong’s triple-double lifts her team to a 99-68 victory in the semifinals of the Game Time League playoffs.

Hawkeyes add 2 2012 recruits The Iowa football team has added a pair of recruits for 2012.

Running back Michael Malloy gave an oral commitment during an unofficial visit on Monday.

Malloy, a native of Sioux City, is a three-star recruit and the No. 5 running back in the state, according to Rivals.com.

The 6-0, 180-pound Malloy has been timed with a 4.41-second 40yard dash, and he helped lead Bishop Heelan High to the Class 3A championship game in 2010. Iowa offered Malloy a scholarship last month, although HawkeyeInsider’s Rob Howe said it remains to be seen what position he will play for the Black and Gold. “[The coaching staff] said they would figure that out when I get there,” Malloy told Howe. “I played running back all my life, so I definitely prefer that. But wide receiver isn’t far behind … I run routes all the time, so I’m used to that, too.”

Joining Malloy as a 2012 Hawkeye is Ryan Ward, a 6-6, 270 offensive lineman from Chicago.

Ward chose Iowa over Boston College, Michigan State, and Northwestern.

Rivals calls Ward a four-star recruit and the No. 12 offensive line prospect in the country despite Providence High’s 2-8 season last year.

— by Seth Roberts

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K.K. Armstrong brings the ball upcourt during a Game Time League playoff game on Monday in North Liberty. Armstrong recorded a 23-point, 10-rebound, 11-assist tripledouble in a 99-68 win.

By KYLE HUGHES kyle-hughes@uiowa.edu

Great players play their best when it matters, and there were three great players on one team during Monday night’s Game Time League semifinal.

Kelly Krei, K.K. Armstrong, and Melissa Dixon took over on both ends of the court during the second half and led a 33-10 run over the final 11:28 to cruise to an easy 9968 win and advance to the championship game.

Dixon scored 7-straight points to start the run and ended with a game-high 26 points.

“We played really aggressively,” she said. “My defense helped with that run, [a n d ] e v e r y o n e was m ovi ng t he bal l around so well that it helped me to get shots.”

The Iowa freshman wasn’t the only player on Cullen/Falbo who turned in a great playoff performance. Armstrong

posted a triple-double with 23 points, 10 presence in the final 10 minutes of the rebounds, and 11 assists. The Northern game.

Iowa point guard, who pushed the ball at Doolittle and Hansen led the team with every opportunity, said her scrappy play 17 and 16 points, respectively, but they fell and quickness allowed her to take advan- off in the second half and were forced into tage of the opposition. taking tough shots that kept Iowa forward Kelly Krei also ‘ ... everyone was coming up short. played well, scoring 21 points Cullen coach JoAnn Hamlin moving the ball said her team earned the victoand grabbing 11 rebounds.

“It was a good team effort around so well that ry because it played some of the defense of the season durtonight,” she said. “My teamit helped me to get best ing the second half. mates were doing well, [and] shots’ “The first half, we were a litthey were passing the ball tle [relaxed] on defense, which Melissa Dixon great.” has been the trend of the seaVinton/McCurry’s was playing without Iowa guard Kamille Wahlin, son,” Hamlin said. “They got a little tired who averaged 22.3 points per game during [at the end], and I noticed that. I made the regular season. She received an injec- sure I rotated our girls in.”

The game went back-and-forth for most tion in her right knee for worn cartilage, of the first half as both teams relied on a which she said caused her to miss a week. balanced offensive attack.

Iowa teammates Bethany Doolittle and Kalli Hansen attempted to pick up the slack, but they seemed to miss Wahlin’s SEE GAME TIME, 10

THE BIG THREE GAME TIME NAILBITER

3 frosh with large upsides SETH ROBERTS seth-roberts@uiowa.edu

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Kachine Alexander plays defense during a Game Time League playoff game on Monday in North Liberty. Alexander scored 30 points to overcome a slow shooting night from the rest of her team and led the squad through to Wednesday’s championship game, 65-63.

The Iowa football team added 25 new players to its roster in the off-season, including 24 freshmen. The following are the three freshmen The Daily Iowan believes will end up having the biggest careers in the Black and Gold.

3) Darian Cooper, defensive line Cooper isn’t the biggest incoming lineman to strap on pads for the Hawkeyes this season, but height only matters for so much.

The 6-1, 295-pound tackle played a prominent role in helping DeMatha High (Hyattsville, Md.) to a 9-3 record in 2010, and he earned All-State honors and a four-star grade from

ESPN.com for his trouble.

And while the website repeatedly mentions Cooper’s lack of height, it also raves about his power and leverage.

“He displays the ability to be able to quickly … muscle his way to the backfield,” a scout said on Cooper’s player profile. “He can be violent with his hands and displays the upper body strength to be able to … push blockers aside.”

In short — no pun intended — he’ll fit in just fine on an Iowa defensive line full of strong, explosive players.

2) Jake Rudock, quarterback Unlike last year’s highly touted quarterback prospect, A.J. Derby, there’s no doubt that Rudock is a pure signal-caller.

He has the potential to be a damn good one, too.

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