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Summit attempts rebirth

Breath test site takes breather

By Matt Starns matthew-starns@uiowa.edu

(From left to right) Jordon Mortensen, Kristen Sulkowski, Brad Temple, Anna Franke, and Kelsey Thompson bring out featured menu items at the Summit on Wednesday. Their updated menu was used as a way to bring a family friendly atmosphere to the restaurant/bar. (The Daily Iowan/Jessica Anderson)

The Summit is looking to revamp its reputation and appeal to an older crowd.

By Madeline Savoie madeline-savoie@uiowa.edu

At the end of their first week back in operation, Summit employees said they hope the physical and managerial renovations will help them achieve a sizeable goal: changing the bar’s notorious reputation.

“The place known as ‘Scummit’ was where the younger crowd went to get their dance on,” said UI senior and Summit bartender Ben Nadler.

Brad Temple became manager in June, when the Summit, 10 S. Clinton St., was handed over to a new owner, Andrew

White.

Temple said he remembers a horrible smell that accompanied the atmosphere in the restaurant prior to renovations.

“I don’t really get anybody saying, ‘Where’s the old Summit?’ ” he said.

Temple and White collaborated on revamping the business, which began over the summer.

Aesthetic renovations include new ceilings, refinishing woodwork, and new artwork. Temple said the changes to its atmosphere include trying to cater to an older crowd and not making alcohol the focal point of the business.

A website aimed at aggregating Iowa’s alcohol-breath-test results was shut down Tuesday afternoon following a request from the state’s Attorney General’s Office.

The recently created site held a database of breath-test results, breath-test machine certification records, and training records for officers operating the machines from law-enforcement agencies statewide. The searchable information was available both to law-enforcement authorities and the general public. But citing privacy concerns, officials shut down the site until further notice.

Division of Criminal Investigation criminalist Jim Bleskacek said the Attorney General’s Office is working with county attorneys to resolve the concern, which caused the site to shut down around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“There’s some question on whether or not the information we’re providing could be prejudicial toward the subject,” Bleskacek said Wednesday.

Bleskacek said concerns about the site revolve around what information is included with each individual’s breath-test result. He said the site did not include any names or driver’s license numbers but did display subjects’ dates of birth. “[The restriction] may end up expanding to exclude the birth date of the subject,” Bleskacek said. “This is an issue that will have to be hashed out, and not all attorneys agree, or understand or interpret open-records laws the same way.”

Johnson County prosecutor Janet Lyness said the birth dates are likely behind the slowdown.

“Privacy is a big concern,” she said. “If

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Schools move on nutrition New IDs flexible

The Iowa City School District hired a new food-service director for the school year.

UI students with new Iowa One Cards no longer have to carry a separate Prox card to gain entrance to their dorms.

By Lauren Coffey l-n-coffey@uiowa.edu

For Alison Demory, providing healthy and nutritious food for students in the Iowa City School District isn’t her toughest challenge. It’s getting the students to eat everything on their plate — including their fruits and vegetables.

The new food service director for the Iowa City schools faces new guidelines for a nutritional program, which began last month. Demory was hired in July following the retirement of the previous director. She said focusing on educating students about healthy options and providing locally grown food is key.

“I’m just trying to educate students and family about what to expect,” she said, “so they don’t come to school with these new changes. Educating them is the recipe for success.”

Demory is continuing the Farm to School program the district implemented a few years ago. The program brings locally grown foods onto the lunch menu.

Typically, a school lunch consists of five components — meat or a meat alternative, milk, grains, fruits, and veg-

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Three students at Twain Elementary enjoy lunch on Sept. 2, 2010. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo) etables. Included in the new lunch requirements are that students must take at least three of the five components and must take a fruit or vegetable.

School officials are trying to offer a variety of fruits and vegetables for students in an attempt to decrease the amount being thrown away in the trash.

“We plan our menu according to the fact that they have to take a vegetable

or a fruit,” Demory said. She said the Farm to School program helps gives the school system a variety fresh fruit and vegetable options.

The School District has seen an increase of 12 school gardens in the last two years, The Daily Iowan previously reported.

Unlike their predecessors, many University of Iowa freshmen will not have to carry numerous cards to gain access to sporting events, dormitories, or even their bank accounts.

UI spokesman Tom Moore estimated 9,000 new cards had been issued thus far. He also said that more than 5,000 of the 6,000 current students who live in the residence halls are accessing their buildings using their IDs. “We have a campaign in progress to re-card the rest of the residents in the next three weeks,” Moore wrote in an email. “When that population is served, we will begin the conversion to the Iowa One card for other students, faculty, and staff.”

New Iowa One Cards can be obtained at the Iowa One Card Center located in the lower level of Jessup Hall. Returning students with IDs can upgrade for free.

However, a $25 fee will still apply to those

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1-wheel ticket to the world

Patricia Wilton began unicycling at the age of 10, and she competes internationally.

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One wheel? No problem.

University of Iowa freshman Patricia Wilton is an internationally renowned unicyclist, and she recently competed at the international level in northern Italy. She came in fifth place for cross-country mountain unicycling in the 17- to 18-year-old female division.

“Unicyling is such a unique talent,” said the elementary-education major. “Balance and persistence are the main parts. You’re going to fall; the only way to improve is to get back up again.”

Wilton began unicycling at the age of 10 when she received a unicycle as a shared gift with her brother. She learned in a few hours, and she contends that anyone could learn how to ride in just 20 hours of work.

“I learned in a week; they say it’s 24 hours, but when you’re younger, it’s much easier,” said the 18-year-old.

Competitively racing in the mountains isn’t her only skill in the unicycling world.

In 2011, she earned second place at a national competition in the long distance overall, which accumulates the best overall points earned in the 10K, marathon, and timed trial.

Wilton has participated in several types of unicycling competitions. She has also participated in artistic unicycling, which resembles figure skating with the use of routines, music, and costume.

She has earned second place in the peers’ artistic

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DES MOINES — Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson will be on Iowa’s ballot in November after officials concluded Wednesday that a state law requiring a convention to get on the ballot is too vague.

A panel made up of Republican Secretary of State Matt Schultz, Democratic Attorney General Tom Miller, and Warren Jenkins, the chief deputy for Republican Auditor David Vaudt, voted unanimously to allow Johnson’sname to be listed.

Libertarians say they held a convention at the Iowa State Fair to get Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, onto Iowa’s ballot.

Johnson’s candidacy was challenged last week by two Iowa voters, Gloria Mazza of Clive and Dean Montgomery of Urbandale, who said Libertarians didn’t hold a real convention. Instead, the challenge says Libertarians had volunteers persuade fairgoers to sign a document that said they were delegates for Johnson.

Jay Kramer, who said in the documents that he is the Election Day operations director in Iowa for Mitt Romney’s campaign, signed the challenge as a witness.

Libertarians say Republicans fear Johnson will pull enough votes from Romney to allow President Barack Obama to carry Iowa. In a very close election, even small states such as Iowa are viewed as important.

category of artistic cycling, performing a routine with her brother Scott Wilton.

He is also highly skilled — he is a unicycle three-time world champion.

Patricia Wilton said artistic competitions are the most time-consuming and require the most effort.

Half of the performance score is based on the technique, and the other half is derived from the performance.

Now, she trains at the Madison Unicyclists Club in Madison, Wis., where her mother Ann O’Brien is the president.

Though she doesn’t have a coach, she uses her peers and unicycling events to learn new techniques and tricks. Other unicyclists use Internet resources, including YouTube, to attain new skills.

While in high school, Wilton was a dancer, cross-country runner and gymnast, contributing to the endurance aspect of her training and her lead-

ership skills, she said.

“She’s a natural leader, teacher, and coach,” O’Brien said.

Since moving to Iowa City, Wilton said, she has missed helping and teaching the younger and less experienced cyclists.

“I mainly miss watching the younger kids and helping them get skills. I usually help make their routines for nationals,” she said. “It’s fun for me to see them win medals because unicycling is such a unique talent.”

Unicycling, a sport that isn’t recognized at the Olympic level, differs from nearly any sport for two reasons, father Jeff Wilton said.

“There’s no money in it — maybe two people in the world have sponsors for a little money,” he said. “And it’s hard to take yourself too seriously on a unicycle.

You’re one step away from falling off.”

For him, unicycling is a family affair.

“Pretty much all of our family vacations since 2007 have all been unicycling events,” Jeff Wilton said.

These family vacations have taken Patricia Wilton and her family all over the world, including New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Denmark, Sweden, and most recently, Italy.

Patricia Wilton attributes much of her success to her parents’ support, including her mother’s involvement in leading her club.

“She does so much on the administrative side,” Wilton said. “Without her, we wouldn’t have traveled to so many places.”

With medals, experiences, and passport stamps under her belt, Patricia Wilton said the people she’s met have been her greatest prize.

“The best part is the community and how everybody is already unique because they’ve chose to unicycle,” she said.

The Republican Party and Romney’s campaign did not return messages seeking comment.

Judge rules for disclosure in Mills case

Stolar and the regents have 20 days to review the information and release it.

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— by Brent Griffiths

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that previously undisclosed communication regarding a former University of Iowa general counsel should be made public.

Marcus Mills sued the UI, UI President Sally Mason, the state Board of Regents, Regent Bonnie Campbell, and the Stolar Partnership for wrongful termination and defamation in 2010. He had been accused of mishandling a 2007 sexual assault involving two Hawkeye football players in Hillcrest Residence Hall.

An investigation by the Stolar Partnership accused UI of mishandling the case, which prompted UI President Sally Mason to fire Mills and Dean of Students Phillip Jones. In February, Jones appealed a district court ruling that dismissed his case.

Tuesday’s ruling in Mills’ case forces the disclosure of information that passed between any member of the Board of Regents or staff members and the Stolar Partnership that referred to the investigation of the sexual assault, people involved in the investigation specifically any mention of Mills, information on those who assisted in the investigation and progress reports about the investigation.

According to the ruling, the decision was in part due to a waiver from the Stolar report “to be completely open and transparent about the conduct of the investigation and its independence.”

interference with official acts.

Dimarco Harris, 33, 2437 Petsel Place Apt. 8, was charged Wednesday with driving with a suspended or canceled license.

Andrew Kral, 18, 5319 Daum, was charged Tuesday with interference with official acts.

Mathew Mukkada, 24, 315 E. Davenport St., was charged Tuesday with filing a false report to law enforce-

ment.

Herman Sims, 45, 1100 Arthur St. Apt. K2, was charged Sunday with fifth-degree theft.

Steven Smith, 66, 716 N. Dubuque St., was charged Monday with public intoxication and possession of an open alcohol container in public.

Michael Tiltson, 30, Augusta, Ga., was charged Monday with two counts of illegal dumping.

Murder trial delayed

A 6th district judge granted a motion to delay the trial of man accused of first-degree murder in connection with the death of an Iowa City landlord.

Judge Sean McPartland granted Justin Marshall’s motion to delay his trial on Wednesday providing Marshall’s defense files “any necessary and appropriate waivers of his right to a speedy trial by Friday” according to online court documents.

At a hearing on Monday, Marshall’s attorney, Thomas Gaul, expressed concern that Marshall had been questioned after he invoked his right to remain silent, which he contended he had discovered last week during depositions. Johnson County Assistant County Attorney Meredith Rich-Chappel countered by saying the evidence Gaul was referring to had been available to him “some time now.”

Marshall is accused of first-degree murder in the death of Broadway Apartments owner John Versypt. Versypt was found dead after checking in on one of his units in October 2009 with a silver gun and wallet near his person.

A scheduled conference call will be held in the coming days to set a new date for Marshall’s trial, which was scheduled for Sept. 18.

— by Brent Griffiths

Local VA subject of report

The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General released a report on the Iowa City VA Health Care System Wednesday, calling for the correction of some issues.

The VA inspector general said in the report the review of the system was in response to a request from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and was conducted over two visits.

Officials found that although health officials are providing quality health care, they found a lack of “staff problem-solving” support and could be a possible threat for patient safety.

“We recommend that the Veterans Integrated Service Network Director ensure that system leaders take appropriate action in response to identified problems and communicate action plans to staff,” the report said. “We also recommend that system leaders clarify organizational lines of authority and responsibility and improve components of Environment of Care and Pharmacy management.”

Follow-up reviews will be conducted in October in order to determine if officials have made the changes.

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Continued from 1A Temple, originally from the Des Moines area, said he is familiar with the University of Iowa’s social scene, having gone to every Hawkeye football game before attending the University of Kansas.

Temple recalled being at Summit 11 years ago, before it developed its reputation as a nightlife draw for young students.

“I was in college when this place opened,” he said.

“I was sitting in a booth over there thinking, ‘This place is unbelievable.’ ”

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School officials are especially concerned about the quality of the food in light of an audit released last fall by Synesi Associates that outlined many

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Continued from 1A who have lost their current IDs. New cards will have Prox technology integrated in them, eliminating the need for a Prox card, which is issued to any UI student living in the dorms. Prox technology was introduced

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Continued from 1A someone could look at an arrest record and then look at this database and use the information to steal someone’s identity, that’s a concern.”

Bleskacek said the site, while new to Iowa, is based on existing databases around the country.

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Temple said he thinks the past few years of constantly shifting management facilitated the restaurant/bar’s descent into disrepair.

The DI previously reported The Summit had been the most inspected bar by the Iowa City police just this past June, with authorities checking the establishment on 277 different occasions and writing 99 PAULAS at the location over the previous 12 months before closing for renovations.

Former owner Mike Porter was unavailable for comment as of Wednesday evening.

Kelly Bender, the UI

campus-community harm reduction initiative coordinator, said she thinks Summit will have to focus on how it serves alcohol in order to move past the reputation.

“If they want to establish a new culture, they just have to sell responsibly,” she said, noting that management has to make sure profits don’t take precedence over social responsibility. “I think the new owner is capable of this.”

Iowa City City Council Councilor Connie Champion said she thinks the notorious reputation can be amended if the management really promotes

itself in the community.

“I think they can beat the reputation, but they’re going to have to work on it,” she said.

UI senior John Enigh said he visited the restaurant/bar three times before its new management.

“It’s not a place you want to go, well, wanted to go,” he said, describing the bar pre-renovation as a shady, not very relaxing place.

While Temple declined to go into the specific costs of the renovations, he said it was not cheap.

Although the interior layout of both floors of the restaurant-bar remain essentially the same, the

ceilings, floors, upholstery, and woodwork has mostly all been redone and refinished. Hawkeye emblazoned pool tables were put in, along with many largescreen TVs both upstairs and down.

Jamie Smith, owner of Molly’s Cupcakes, 14 S. Clinton St., said she went into Summit the other day and thought it looked fabulous, though she was unaware of its previous reputation.

“I definitely support their efforts in classing up the place,” she said, as well as catering to an older crowd.

Though Nadler acknowledged that a total

name change would have eliminated any ties to the common nickname, “Scummit,” he said it would have required the restaurant to change much of the layout.

“The look of the place didn’t match with the quality of the food,” Nadler said, adding he thinks it has always had the potential to be a classier establishment.

And despite functioning as a bar at night, Temple said, he does not want to push alcohol.

“I want the Summit, and Summit family, to be a part of this community,” he said. “We want to be a positive impact on this community.”

points of improvement in the quality of food served in the cafeterias. Areas of improvement also included the transportation of food and options.

Demory was unable to provide costs for the new initiative.

Ann Feilmann, bureau chief of Nutrition and Health for the Iowa De-

partment of Education, said schools across the state are getting creative to ensure students are enjoying what they eat. Some offer a vegetable and fruit bar, a hummus option, and placing whole-wheat flour in more foods.

The local School District does not offer foods with trans-fat and has calorie

limits for each grade level.

Currently, half of the food offered needs to be whole-grain rich. In 2014, all of the school lunches will need to meet that requirement.

Feilmann said the updated guidelines would address the issue of missing nutrients on a daily basis.

“It provides a healthy

meal, a daily meal, that increases the nutrients that all kids are missing,” she said.

School Board member Karla Cook said educating students about nutritional value at an early age is important.

“I think [the nutritional program is] great,” she said. “I think the earlier we can introduce eating right, the better.”

In the next few years, changes will continue to be made to ensure students are getting the best meal possible at school.

“We still have lots to learn with the meal pattern,” Feilmann said. “But we’ve had really great feedback with many positive responses.”

to the UI residence halls four years ago and completed last fall. The project cost $3 million.

UI sophomore Blake Jorgensen recently updated his Iowa One card.

“It eliminates the need to carry the extra Prox card,” Jorgensen said. “I use it the same way I used my last one, but I like the fact that I can use it and get access to my hallway.”

The linking of Iowa One Cards to bank accounts is not a new process — the UI previously had a contract with the University of Iowa Community Credit Union. That five-year partnership came to an end in February.

Because the UI and the credit union did not renew their contact, the UI linked with Hills Bank. The contract will cost Hills Bank

$613,000 for branch rental space at the IMU and the UIHC. Hills Bank also installed 22 ATMs in March, with locations including Carver-Hawkeye Arena and Kinnick Stadium.

The new partnership has the exclusive right to market to freshmen, and that has increased Hills Bank’s business.

“During Orientation, we

connected over 25 percent of the incoming freshmen with ID cards that are also attached to their bank accounts,” said Ken Hinrichs, the vice president of e-banking services at Hills Bank and Trust Co. “There has also been very strong interest in new accounts with the IDs linked to the cards, as returning students have come back to school from the summer.”

UI sophomore Steven Bieber, a resident assistant in Daum, has yet to switch.

“I haven’t really heard much discussion about it,” he said about the new Iowa One Card.

Many current students may be tempted to switch because of the added features.

“I guess it just depends on personal preference,” he said.

ing Ohio, South Carolina, and Washington.

“I’m not reinventing the wheel,” Bleskacek said.

He noted the site “made my job a lot easier,” as he commonly has to fill requests for the information that would otherwise be available on the website.

And, in this case, easy is also cheap. Bleskacek said the maintenance on the site would cost less than $250 per month.

“It’s actually cost-saving

in the long run, assuming it’s up and running,” he said.

Chuck Green, the assistant vice president for the University of Iowa police, said he couldn’t think of a benefit the site would afford his department.

“Maybe we will discover some benefit to law enforcement, we just don’t see it right now,” he said.

Green said that his department uses breath tests on many subjects, with 156 OWI arrests in

2010 and 152 in 2011.

Green said the database wouldn’t be of immediate help with a new arrestee.

“If we arrest someone for OWI, we’re going to get all new information,” he said. “I’m not sure what the benefit [of the database] to law enforcement

would be.”

Lyness, however, said the site could be very useful for defense attorneys.

“We could save a lot of person power,” she said.

“As part of the discovery process, it would be a lot easier to refer them to the website instead of having

them file a discovery request.”

Useful or not, Bleskacek said he does not know when the site will be operational again.

“I hope it gets back online,” he said. “It was a very useful tool while it was up.”

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The rich, the poor, and the struggle with multiple sclerosis

By Benjamin Evans benjamin-evans-1@uiowa.edu

I care very little about the Republican National Convention — in fact, I don’t care at all.

Nothing of significance gets done, and the conventions have become ceremonial more than anything else.

But when re-watching the MSNBC coverage of the prime-time speeches while reading at my desk, I came upon news anchor Lawrence O’Donnell’s analysis (if we are going to use that word) of Ann Romney’s speech and immediately threw The Great Gatsby at the screen.

O’Donnell started with reckoning himself a sort of expert when it comes to “these conventions” and quickly pivoted to Romney’s speech, saying he “was surprised that she tried to relate to women by talking about women’s struggles in this economy and in life that she actually, in her life, doesn’t know anything about.”

O’Donnell then went on to paint Romney as a woman who never needed any government support and therefore does not know anything about true struggles in life, economically or in general.

Let’s put aside the fact that traditionally in a presidential campaign, that’s what the spouse of a candidate does: relate to women in the way a male candidate cannot. Let’s put that aside and unpack the awesome dedication to manipulation it takes to tell the American public that a person who is economically secure doesn’t know anything about struggle.

Ann Romney has multiple sclerosis.

Relatively little is known about this disease except the debilitating lesions that sprout up on the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves, leading to such symptoms as numbness in the limbs, paralysis, loss of vision, fatigue, balance problems, bladder dysfunction, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, intense pain, loss of cognitive function, depression, migraines, seizures, and speech disorders.

Let me give you an example of an everyday MS symptom.

A 19-year-old boy is telling his mother good morning but finds she is barely conscious. She is unable to control her speech, so she is slurring her words. This is normal for the morning, so the boy thinks nothing of it, until the mother tries to make her way to the bathroom. She is unable to control her legs and almost falls, but the boy grabs her in time. She is unable to control her bladder, so she begins to urinate on the white linoleum, while crying because she doesn’t want her son to see her in such a state.

This is considered a mild day for MS symptoms.

The other issue with these symptoms is that they are simply unpredictable and vary from one case to another. Though we don’t officially know what kind of MS Romney has, the most common form is a relapsing-remitting course.

People with this type of MS experience attacks or relapses, in which their neurological functioning is severely worse than when they are in remission.

Let me give you another example. A 10-year old boy and his father are sitting in front of the television one evening watching the news, when the boy’s mother drags her body into the room, unable to speak, legs like jelly, and pain like hot nails being driven into the soles of her feet.

The father lays her flat on the couch, and the boy, unable to do anything, sits by her for something like 20 minutes, grasping her limp hand as her eyes dart from side to side. She is unable to speak, she is unable to move, and she is trapped inside her body until the disease lets her go, and she is able to function again.

That is a relapse of MS. O’Donnell is aware of Romney’s condition — he did a

segment on it during his MSNBC show on June 18 in which he addressed Mitt Romney’s comments that riding horses, particularly dressage, has been therapeutic to Ann Romney’s health.

“There are a lot of things you can do to try to deal with MS,” said the cable news anchor. “But come on.

Dressage does not appear in any of the more traditional courses of treatment. And if it’s true that dressage is how wildly rich people deal with this very difficult mental-health problem, then why, why does the horse appear on Mitt Romney’s tax return as a business expense.”

OK, I’m a little tired of liberals yelling at conservatives because some Republicans want to see President Obama’s birth certificate, then turning around and demanding to see Mitt Romney’s tax returns — it’s a little hypocritical and it makes them look petty.

But that’s a different isue. Here, O’Donnell tried to shroud Ann Romney’s chosen therapy as a luxury.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society describes physical therapy, with a particular emphasis on strength, balance, and posture as essential in combating the disease’s symptoms.

“The ultimate goal is to achieve and maintain optimal functioning and prevent unnecessary complications such as de-conditioning, muscle weakness from lack of mobility, and muscle contractures related to spasticity,” said the society’s website.

And so comes the issue of dressage, or what O’Donnell alleges “how wildly rich people deal with this very difficult mental health problem …”

In dressage, the rider uses his weight, legs, and seat to influence the horse, as stated by the U.S. Dressage Federation. In order to do this correctly, the rider has to be “aligned and balanced.”

Asking a person with MS to be aligned and balanced is sort of like asking a person to stand up straight on a bed of broken glass, holding 50-pound sacks of potatoes.

So, does it require strength, balance, and posture? I’d think so.

But that’s not the bigger picture. The bigger picture is people, such as O’Donnell, who subscribe to the idea that if you are rich you have no problems, or you don’t have the same caliber of problems as someone who is poor.

Ann Romney can escape from her disease in any way she damn well pleases, and her actions to fend off the monster that is MS should not be judged by anyone.

If it takes a stupid horse to get her better, then you get a horse. You don’t stop and say, “How the hell am I going to get a tax write-off for this thing?” you get the best horse you can, because you are helpless against this disease. You get the horse because you can’t do anything else.

The Romneys are rich — I’d imagine they could afford a pretty good horse. But at the end of this conversation, rich or poor, a person is fighting against the same disease.

My father is not rich. My mother has MS, and there is nothing my father would not buy or would not do to help her in any way possible. There is nothing I would not do to help her in any way possible.

Did Ann Romney need government assistance? No. But, does she have struggles some people with less money don’t have? Yes. The more money you have in your bank account does not mean you have fewer problems. And the next time someone like O’Donnell says so, feel free to throw a book at him.

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Rule change helps special interests Every election year, voters question the influence of their vote.

Voting is encouraged, because it is among the best and most influential ways to participate in a democracy. However, the Republican-nomination process has illustrated a different tale. Last week, the power of money defeated strategy and grass-root support, which silenced the will of many voters.

The Republican Rules Committee effectually disenfranchised the will of many Iowans with a new rule prohibiting states from allocating delegates to Ron Paul or any other candidate in the case of a non-binding caucus.

The rule states that the party’s nominee, in this case Mitt Romney, is allowed to overrule state caucuses and conventions and choose the whole of the delegates on his own, as reported by the New York Times.

The Romney campaign proves time and again that this election is more about the cash flow and less about the issues or the will of the American people. Though Romney lacks grass-roots support, his campaign has gained enough money to hire lawyers to change the rules to guarantee his nomination and silence the voices of those in his own party.

Iowa is the first state in the nation to caucus, and that means that there are usually more candidates in Iowa’s caucus than will stay in the race by the time of the national convention. Because candidates drop out and issues change over time, the Iowa system essentially allows active voters to caucus in January and then to decide the dele-

gates in June after some candidates have dropped out.

Iowa has 28 Republican delegates, three of whom work for the Iowa Republican Party, and the other 25 are undeclared until the state convention, as reported by the Washington Post.

At the state convention in June, 21 of our 25 undeclared delegates went to Paul supporters.

But because Paul is not the Republican nominee for president, none of those delegates could vote for him at the national convention. Iowa is not the only state affected.

States should continue to decide their own means of selecting their presidential nominee.

However, now that the new national convention rule has been put into practice, the rules and votes decided by the states have been overruled and the process is ruined.

This Republican Party has made it clear that in this election, money matters more that political strategy or support.

Many fear now with the new rule that special interests and friends of the nominee can be filled into now meaningless delegate positions, favoring big money over pure Republican ideals.

The Republican Party has become a party with extreme values, unwilling to compromise, and it is now showing its willingness to split its own party rather than include other valuable party platforms. The voices of all deserve to be heard — even those chanting “Ron Paul 2012.”

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Don’t go with the sext flow

By Sri Ponnada sriharshita-ponnada@uiowa.edu

A man was charged last week for stealing a phone at Union Bar in January and posting several naked pictures of a woman that he found on the phone to the woman’s Facebook wall in an attempt to blackmail her, as reported by the Des Moines Register.

Though this was in no way her fault, nor could it have been foreseen by the woman, this leads me to ask, are smart phones that smart to use for sexual behavior?

The Harris Interactive poll sponsored by Lookout Mobile Security earlier this year showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans with a smart phone claim to have used it for sexting — sharing explicit text messages or photographs with others, as reported by Digital Life.

You might think, “I only send these kinds of messages to my boyfriend/girlfriend.”

Don’t get too comfortable with that thought.

The results of a Knowledge Networks survey showed that 17 percent of teens report sharing the graphic sexts they receive with others.

Chances look pretty good that “the only person”

you sent those pictures to may have forwarded them to a few friends.

And heads up: Teens aren’t the only ones who jumped on the sextwagon. Lookout Mobile Security says 1 in 5 moms and dads of kids under 18 say they use their smart phone to sext.

Interestingly enough, 1 in 10 people age 55 and older said they sexted as well.

However, does the fact that many are sending sexts make it safe to do?

It has only been a little over a year since ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal was widely publicized.

We all saw what happened to him. A single racy picture or text could not only cause you intolerable embarrassment and humiliation, but also cost you your job and perhaps even your family. It is imperative that we constantly remind ourselves of the numerous consequences that our actions may have.

Be smart with your smart phone. Use it to access readings for your classes on ICON or play Temple Run. You could even write a bestselling novel, as the author of Fifty Shades of Grey did.

Just make sure you don’t become a character.

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Hawk Catrell rides offensive surge Junior forward Ashley Catrell has scored as many goals this season as she did in her entire college career prior to 2012.

By Tom Clos thomas-clos@uiowa.edu

Ashley Catrell scored 5 goals during her first 24 months in Iowa City.

It’s taken her two weeks to double that.

The junior forward had limited playing time during her freshman and sophomore seasons, recording just 12 points in 18 games coming off of the bench.

But now, the Overland Park, Kan., native has awakened from a twoyear slumber to burst onto the Big Ten soccer scene with 10 points on 5 goals through the first four games of 2012. She is also tied for the conference lead in scores with teammate sophomore forward

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ment, learning to swing new clubs can take up to a few weeks.

Golf clubs, especially drivers, have had numerous options to adjust how precisely athletes can hit the ball for years. For example, different weights can be screwed into the club to eliminate slices or hooks.

The angle of the club can be adjusted to affect the loft of the ball. Driv-

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If we’re winning and have that ‘W’ on the scoreboard, I’m fine.”

And even though Burkhead’s numbers may pale in comparison to Ball’s

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on how the game goes.

Anything can happen. Injuries can happen.”

Something worse than an injury almost happened to Rogers two seasons ago.

During bowl preparation in December 2010, doctors discovered an ailment in his heart. He was given a

Cloe Lacasse.

Catrell believes that the offensive surge is the result of getting the time on the field she had been waiting for since arriving at Iowa in 2010.

“I’ve been getting more minutes now, which has led to more opportunities,” she said. “My teammates have also been very supportive, which has helped a lot.”

Iowa head coach Ron Rainey isn’t surprised Catrell has broken out.

He said that when the upperclassmen arrived at fall camp, he could tell she was a different player than before.

“She came into 2012 at a nice fitness level, and she earned a spot out on the field,” Rainey said.

“And she’s handled the increased playing time really well.”

Catrell, known as one of the best finishers on the team, has 10 shots on goal this season after entering 2012 with 18 in her career. The upperclassmen said that all of the practice she put in leading up to this season, especially this past summer on, has rewarded her with the strong beginning.

“This summer I trained with a whole bunch of my club teammates [in Kansas],” Catrell said. “I’ve also been getting a lot of reps shooting and finishing on goal.”

Lacasse has reaped the benefits of Catrell’s breakout start as well. Both of the sophomore’s assists have come courtesy of the junior.

“Ashley’s always been a really good finisher, everyone knows that,” Lacasse said. “Other teams are scouting her now, and she’s been getting double [coverage], but she’s doing really well.”

Rainey, though excited about Catrell’s start, was adamant that the competition level Iowa will face is due to rise drastically over the coming weeks, especially once Big Ten play arrives. He said that tweaks will have to be made to the team’s strategy and that Catrell will likely have to adapt to a less offensive style of play.

“We play opponents coming up where there will be a little more work defensively,” Rainey said.

“We’ll be able to make adjustments and give feed-

er heads are even taking aerodynamics into account in order to create less wind resistance and boost club head speed.

Finkbine director of golf Jeff Moore has seen the evolution of clubs take place.

“Clubs changed more in the late-90s and early 2000s than they have in recent years,” he said.

“With the way that clubs can be adjusted, someone who doesn’t hit certain clubs as well can make changes so they can hit them better.”

In Division I golf, players are allowed to receive the equivalent of a spon-

Iowa forward Ashley Catrell crosses the ball against North Dakota at the Iowa Soccer Complex on Aug. 19.

Catrell scored in the 48th minute as the Hawkeyes recorded a 3-0 victory. (The Daily Iowan/Nicholas Fanelli) back to her, as opposed to keeping the defensive role she’s had to play in the first few games.”

He also noted that the number of minutes each player will get this season is not set in stone but said the junior was ready for whatever role she happens to fall into as the season progresses.

“Over the next couple of weeks, we want to keep setting our rotation and figure out who we want to play in close games,” Rainey said.

“And she’s done very well dealing with that.”

No matter how the season ends up shaking out, Catrell’s magical start has to be one of the feel-good stories of the young sea-

son for the Hawkeyes. It’s a story that keeps getting better with each game and one Catrell has been waiting half of her college career to write.

“I’ve been able to get a lot of shots off in the games so far, and I’ve been finishing really well lately,” she said. “It’s different starting now.”

sorship from different golf companies, such as Calloway and Titleist. The companies provide clubs on a rental basis to the players for free through the university.

“It’s basically a way for the university to get out of paying for all of our clubs,” Ihm said. “The football players need pads, and we need clubs.”

Last year, Hawkeye Ian Vandersee used Titleist AP2 Irons. They cost $154 a club for steel clubs or $175 a club for graphite clubs, according to Titleist’s website. An entire set of clubs similar to what Vandersee used costs

$1,911 to $2,108. This year, Vandersee is using TaylorMade driver and irons, and Ihm is using Calloway clubs.

There are rules prohibiting players from changing the settings on their clubs during an event. Players must have their sticks set up to their preferences before the event starts. If a player makes an adjustment to his club during a round, he is disqualified.

Surprisingly, the most important attribute to the clubs Ihm uses isn’t how well he hits with them but rather how they look.

“I like clubs that look good and feel good,” he

said. “I don’t like clubs that are hard to look at.

Some clubs just look crazy.”

Given how quickly golf technology advances, players have to get new clubs often. Vandersee gets new wedges twice a year because of how quickly he wears them down, and he gets new irons every spring.

Despite the challenge of breaking in new clubs, he hasn’t had any trouble adjusting to his new equipment.

“I just got done working on my wedges,” he said.

“But I feel that you can

never have enough practice on chipping and putting. It only takes a couple of weeks to get used to the clubs.”

Clubs are arguably the most important part of a golfer’s equipment, and the Iowa men’s golf athletes seem to think they have the right clubs needed to play their best.

“I don’t think that people understand how incredible golf technology is,” Vandersee said. “There are engineers working on clubs to get the specifications down to a ‘T.’ Any player can get exactly what he wants in a club.”

33 touchdowns a season ago, head Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said that he wouldn’t replace his running back for anyone in the country. And he meant anyone.

“He’s, to me, the definition of what a role model is and what a student-athlete should be,” Pelini said.

“The type of example he

sets on a daily basis, what he’s accomplished in the classroom, I wouldn’t trade him for another player in the country. That’s how much I think of Rex and what he is to our program and the University of Nebraska.”

Nebraska has playmakers on the other side of the ball to equal its offense.

Linebacker William Compton returns as the leader of the defense, and tallied 89 tackles in 2011. Daimion Stafford returns as the general in the secondary, and his 10 pass breakups from last year will make opposing quarterbacks wary about throwing in his direction.

Burkhead and the rest

of the talent on Nebraska’s roster could explain the confidence Pelini displayed when asked if he’d experienced any hiccups with his team’s transition to a new conference.

“I’ve already transitioned into the Big Ten,” he said. “I grew up in Big Ten country. I knew going in what to expect.”

Compton took a more humble approach when asked about his transition into the Big Ten, citing specifically all the new rivalries he hopes to create between Nebraska and the conference incumbents.

“We look forward as a team in creating a bunch of rivalries in the Big Ten,” Compton said. “To us, we go into games as a rivalry.”

50-percent chance of ever playing football again.

But he recovered — perhaps miraculously, considering he’s an Iowa running back — and returned four games into last season.

The team’s running game showed an immediate boost, and Rogers was named the team’s Comeback Player of the Year.

Having withstood that setback, Rogers is a soft-spoken team leader.

Davis said he works so well with the young backs

that he’s “like an assistant coach.” The junior showed that type of perspective when talking about Iowa’s rash of injuries and suspensions at his position.

“At this point, all we can say is everybody [has to] be prepared,” Rogers said.

“From the true freshmen on up, everybody has to come in and know what to do.”

That’s why Rogers spent

fall camp studying the plays for both positions: He’s preparing himself to play either. His proven track record as a lead blocker makes him a good option as a fullback. But in high school, he showed ability running with the ball, too. He scored 18 rushing touchdowns in his career at Central Catholic High School in Toledo.

This week, Rogers in-

sisted he had no preference. But back on Aug. 6, he gave a sheepish grin and admitted to one. The answer was both surprising and revealing.

“Actually, I really like fullback a lot,” he said. “I get excited more for when other people score, especially when I’m the lead blocker. It’s more proud for me knowing I helped somebody else score.”

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Rogers remains a rock Huskers pack power punch

Rex Burkhead and Taylor Martinez return to give Nebraska one of the most explosive running attacks in the nation.

By Ben Ross

Benjamin-d-ross@uiowa.edu

Iowa fullback Brad Rogers pauses during Hawkeye football media day Aug. 6. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley)

part NINE

in a 10-part series Follow along as The Daily Iowan takes a look at each position unit on the Hawkeye football team in the days leading up to the season-opener on Sept. 1.

Aug. 20: Defensive backs Aug. 21: Wide receivers Aug. 22: Linebackers Aug. 23: Offensive line Aug. 24: Defensive line Monday: Coaches Tuesday: Special teams Wednesday: Tight ends Today: Running backs Friday: Quarterbacks

As more and more Iowa running backs vanish, the dependable Brad Rogers stays ready to do whatever is asked of him.

By Sam Louwagie samuel-louwagie@uiowa.edu

Greg Davis can’t count on much when it comes to his team’s running-back situation. After watching almost all his options at the position vanish over the summer, Iowa’s new offensive coordinator understands almost nothing is a certainty.

That’s what makes Brad Rogers so valuable.

“We talk about how the best ability is dependability, and he has that to a ‘T,’ ” Davis said at the team’s media day on Aug. 6. “We know what we’re going to get from him every single day.”

Running-back coach Lester Erb agreed.

“Brad is a dependable guy. He really is,” Erb said. “He’s a guy who we can always rely on.”

Rogers is the only one of the five players head coach Kirk Ferentz said will be

in Iowa’s backfield mix with significant playing time. The others include sophomore tailback Damon Bullock, freshmen Greg Garmon and Michael Malloy, and fullback Mark Weisman.

Rogers’ time has come almost exclusively at fullback, where he paved the way for many of Marcus Coker’s 1,384 yards in 2011. But as the Hawkeyes’ ball-carrying options dwindle, it becomes more and more likely that Rogers takes a few handoffs this year.

But the Toledo, Ohio native isn’t making any assumptions. He, too, has seen how quickly things can change.

“I really don’t know,” Rogers said about his role for Saturday’s game against Northern Illinois. “Coach has talked to me about playing both [halfback and fullback]. … You never know. It all depends see ROGERS, 5A

The Nebraska Cornhuskers ran for an average of 217 yards per game last season, good for 15th in the nation.

They’ll have no shortage of offensive talent returning, and those numbers should only improve in 2012.

Dual-threat quarterback Taylor Martinez will start for the third-consecutive season, as does punishing runner Rex Burkhead, who amassed nearly 1,400 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns a season ago.

Burkhead may be in a position to unseat Wisconsin’s Montee Ball as the Big Ten’s leading rusher. But the native of Plano, Texas, said he just wants to see his team have continued success.

“I’m willing to do whatever it takes for our team to win,” he said. “I’m not really worried about yards or carries. see NEBRASKA, 5A

NINTH in a 10-part series The Daily Iowan will unveil its 2012 Big Ten predictions with a feature on each team in the conference. Follow along this week as we rank the Legends Division bottom-to-top.

Monday: No. 6 — Minnesota Tuesday: No. 5 — Northwestern Wednesday: No. 4 — Iowa Today: No. 3 — Nebraska Friday: No. 2 and No. 1.

Golfers Frosh V-ball player fitting in join the club Outside hitter Erin Radke, a former South Dakota Gatorade Player of the Year, looks to contribute as the lone freshman starter.

The Iowa men’s golf team receives new clubs — an investment as expensive as $2,000 per athlete — prior to every season and spends time adjusting to the technological advancements they offer.

By Tommy Reinking Thomas-reinking@uiowa.edu

Not all golf clubs are created equal.

In fact, the technology in golf clubs has advanced so dramatically that some older clubs are archaic in what they offer.

“My driver has more than 100 different settings on it,” senior Iowa men’s golfer Steven Ihm said. “I can do things like add or remove weights or change the loft. There really isn’t a single thing that you can’t change.”

To prepare for the upcoming season, the Iowa golf team is in the process of receiving and breaking in brand-new clubs to be used throughout the year. With the height of technology incorporated into golf equipsee Golf, 5A

By Carlos Sosa carlos-sosa@uiowa.edu

Erin Radke was the Gatorade Player of the Year her senior year in South Dakota.

Here at Iowa, however, her rank is a bit different. She has just begun her freshman year of college.

As freshmen, most athletes are given time to learn the system and sit on the sidelines observing how the college game is different from high school. But Radke won’t get that luxury.

In the Hawkeye Challenge last weekend, outside hitter Radke was able to get 27 kills over four games, but her play was shaky. She performed admirably but showed that coming in as a freshman and competing isn’t easy.

“I thought [her play] was a little inconsistent,” head coach Sharon Dingman said. “But in the South Dakota State match, she played a huge role for us and certainly keyed us to a victory.”

Radke had her best game against a familiar foe, South Dakota State. She killed the ball 13 times and fit comfortably in the offense in just the second game of her college career. With only a short time to prepare for her first tournament, she showed a glimpse of the player she can become.

“It’s an honoring experience, the way I can come in and work hard in the preseason and have so much to learn,” Radke said. “It was fun to get some experience that was well needed before Big Ten play.”

Radke will have to wait over three

Iowa outside hitter Erin Radke practices in the Carver-Hawkeye on Wednesday. Radke, a freshman, tallied 27 kills in four games during the Hawkeye Challenge last weekend. (The Daily Iowan/Rachel Jessen) weeks to see her first Big Ten opponent.

But by that time she will have had 13 possible matches to get settled within the offense that includes a variety of outside hitters, including sophomores Alex Lovell and Erin Leppek and juniors Chante’ Thompson and Rachael Bedell.

Lovell faced the same situation during her freshman campaign in 2011. She was looked at as a potential ball killer and had to learn quickly and contribute early.

“It’s nerve-racking as a freshman,” Lovell said. “[Radke] experienced that last weekend, so the nerves are a little bit gone, but once Big Ten starts, it’s differently harder.”

Radke will play behind a slew of women who are more experienced and, with more depth on this year’s squad, won’t be burdened with carrying as much of the load as Lovell was last year. But she will

still be asked to perform at the level she is capable of playing.

“There are times we want her to be top fiddle,” Dingman said. “Because she is capable physically, she is capable of being an impactful attacker. She is quite a presence at the net.”

Radke finished her high-school career with a Class AA state championship along with 1,095 kills. But with her college career now underway, all those accolades are now an afterthought. Radke said she will look to her older teammates for guidance while trying to find her way as a freshman with hefty expectations.

“I just want this year to be a big learning year,” she said. “I’m at a big program with big expectations and [I want to] keep the mentality of not getting frustrated.” see Radke, 5A

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Yotopia

Iowa City’s original locally owned frozen-yogurt shop.

What you should know: Partnered with Molly’s Cupcakes to serve cupcake bits as toppings on the yogurt.

You bet.

By Rana Moustafa rana-moustafa@uiowa.edu

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he market for frozen yogurt has exploded in Iowa City.

Downtown Iowa City’s first frozen-yogurt business, Yotopia, opened in September 2011, but it will no longer be the only frozen-yogurt establishment. Two new places — Orange Leaf and Aspen Leaf — celebrate their grand openings this fall.

Orange Leaf had its opening Aug. 18; Aspen Leaf plans to open in late September.

The increase in the number of “froyo” — as the text-message generation labels the industry — businesses this fall means more competition for storeowners and a whole lot of yogurt options. Each of the three businesses features a variety of options.

In addition to such flavors as chocolate, red velvet cake, and pistachio, all three serve no sugar-added, lactose-free, and glutenfree yogurt.

“For some people, it will be about the taste — for others, it will be about the sustainability of the restaurant, and for others, it will be about the customer service,” said Karen Kubby, the Downtown District president.

The growth is a reflection of a nationwide trend. Over the past five years, frozen yogurt revenue grew 5.9 percent according to estimates from IBISWorld’s November 2011 report. Similarly, froyo servings increased 11 percent in 2011, reaching 128 million.

Kubby said it is hard to determine whether all three businesses will be able to survive, given that they are near each another.

“They will either learn to have a centered atmosphere, or we will end up having yogurt war in Iowa City, and that competition will fuel customer service,” she said. “How much yogurt can be eaten in Iowa City? We will see.”

Yotopia, 132 S. Clinton, opened in the fall of 2011 after owner and entrepreneur Veronica Tessler pursued the idea for Iowa City’s first frozen-yogurt business.

While Aspen Leaf and Orange Leaf are nationwide franchises, Tessler said, she’s not concerned because she has plans to enhance Yotopia and make it stand out against the new competition.

“We’re getting into the breakfast arena and opening a breakfast bar,” she said. “We are going to serve local organic breakfast yogurt as well as fresh fruits, nuts, and local granola.”

Tessler also stressed that her establishment, which uses live active cultures in its yogurt, will be more sustainable — she plans on having her service ware be 100 percent compostable material.

“Going green has always been a goal of mine,” she said. “Sustainability is a very important goal stressed here in the Iowa City community.”

Owner’s favorite: Tessler — Tart, Georgia Peach, and Red Velvet Cake yogurt.

Orange Leaf A weekly selection of 16 flavors, selected from 72 flavors overall.

What you should know: Giving out free 3-ounce yogurt coupons until Oct. 1.

Orange Leaf, 17 S. Dubuque St., also plans on playing a big role in the community.

Travis Overhue, the owner of the local Orange Leaf, said its main focus is to help organizations around the community raise money and donate money to them. He said the business owners organized charitable events and fundraisers at their other location in Omaha.

“We do a lot with the community,” he said. “If we want to raise money, we set up sponsors and raise money for churches, high-school games, Little League, and other community members.”

Other than community involvement, Overhue said, the business — which uses a powdered mix to create its yogurt daily — stands out because of the variety of flavors offered.

“We have 16 different flavors on display at one time and 72 flavors to choose from,” he said. “When customers come in every week, they will have new options to choose from out of the 72 that we have.”

Owner’s Favorite: Overhue — Peanut butter with hot fudge, Reece’s, and brownie toppings.

Aspen Leaf A frozen-yogurt business that doubles as a chocolate factory.

What you should know: All yogurt served is kosher and comes from Rainbows End Farms in California.

Aspen Leaf, 125 S. Dubuque St., will bring something new to the table in late September.

“What’s going to make us different is we are owned by the Rocky Mountains chocolate factory, which has been around since 1981 and has around 400 locations worldwide and around 300 nationally,” said Steve Perlowski, Aspen Leaf’s retail-operation manager.

The Iowa City Aspen Leaf will be a co-brand featuring the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, he said.

“How we diversify ourselves is we don’t only serve yogurt,” he said. “If you don’t want yogurt, you can get caramel apples, chocolate-dipped strawberries, chocolate-dipped bananas, chocolate-dipped cheesecake, apples decorated in crushed butter fingers, M&Ms, and Snickers.”

Aspen Leaf uses live active cultures to create its frozen yogurt.

Retail Operations Manager Favorite: Perlowski — Brownie batter with peanut butter, cookie dough, and hot fudge toppings.

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Don’t miss Leon Russell When: 8 p.m. Thursday Where: Englert, 221 E. Washington Why you should go: Leon Russell is a musical legend who has been in the business for 50 years. He has collaborated with such artists as Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, and Marvin Gaye, just to name a few. In 2011, Russell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Based on a true story, Possession tells the tale of a father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a mother (Kyra Sedgewick) who find nothing out of the ordinary when their daughter becomes infatuated with an antique wooden box she bought at a yard sale. However, soon the little girl grows more and more out of control, and the parents discover that they have to free their daughter from a dibbuk — a dislocated spirit that devours the human it chooses to inhabit — that was contained inside the box.

Celeste and Jesse Forever

Bill and Angie Tisor look inside a 1978 Silverado truck during the Chassy Classy Cruisers car preview at the Highway 6 Dairy Queen in Iowa City on Aug. 25 for their “Cruise Night” car show on Aug. 31. (The Daily Iowan/Leslie Stake)

The Classy Chassy Cruisers car club welcomes classic vehicles, from Mustangs to lawn mowers, for the Cruise Night on Friday.

By Emma McClatchey

emma-mcclatchey@uiowa.edu

A sea of sleek, stylized hoods, chrome bumpers, and round, protruding headlights covering the Sycamore Mall parking lot signals another gathering of Iowa City’s Classy Chassy Cruisers car club. And milling among these antique features are more than 200 families who share a common passion: preserving and celebrating classic vehicles.

Classy Chassy Cruisers, a local club that restores and displays vintage automobiles of many years, makes, and models, will host its fifth Cruise Night from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday in the Sycamore Mall parking lot. As with dozens of other club events throughout the year, Cruise Night will provide club and community members with the opportunity to see hundreds of vehicles.

“You can’t believe the number of cars that come out of the woodwork. I had no idea that there were so many old classic cars around,” said club secretary Donna Heacock, one of the club’s founders. “We started the club in 2001, with nine members. We’re up to 209 families now from all over the state of Iowa, from Illinois and different states.”

Club President Mark Heacock said the event is not just for hard-core car lovers. Besides presenting the chance to enjoy different vehicles, Cruise Night also offers various prizes and entertainment provided by club sponsors, such as door prizes and clowns as well as ’50s and ’60s music and an Elvis impersonator.

The evening will also include charity events — such as a can and money drive for the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Crisis Centers and a 50/50 raffle benefiting the Hospice Center — which raise approximately $2,000 to $3,000 a season.

Classy Chassy Cruisers car club What: Cruise Night When: 5-9 p.m. Friday Where: Sycamore Mall parking lot Admission: Free, but the club asks that visitors bring either $1 or a canned-food item to donate to the Crisis Center

“It’s for anybody,” Mark Heacock said. “People like to see the old cars, and the kids love them, so it’s a nice thing to do on a Friday, and you don’t have to spend any money to do it.”

Participants in Cruise Night and Classy Chassy Cruisers in general go beyond ordinary vintage-car enthusiasts, he said.

“That’s one thing nice about our club — and why people like to join our club — is we don’t care what kind of car you have or whether it’s a car or not,” he said. “We’ve had motorcycles here, we’ve had trucks, we’ve had lawn mowers, we’ve had people with pedal cars come in, we’ve had people with dragsters come in. So it’s people who like whatever they drive. If they like it, bring it in.”

With the club having hundreds of members dedicated to hundreds of types of vehicles, Emily Wentzell, a University of Iowa assistant professor of anthropology, said it is clear to her that automobiles hold a particular interest for many people.

“The kind of cars will change over time, but the U.S. has a special place for cars,” she said. “When dating culture became a thing, it opened up new ways to travel and visit with people outside your parents’ basement. They symbolize freedom and individuality, which is very important to Americans.”

Mark Heacock said the club works to preserve

the vehicles and the memories they hold for older members.

“It’s nostalgia,” he said.

“It’s something that ourage people — we grew up and saw these cars when we were growing up, and some of us, if we’re old enough, have been driving them, so it’s something that you look in the past and enjoy.”

Rick Funk, a Classy Chassy Cruisers member and the owner of a limited edition ’68 Shelby Cobra Jet KR Mustang, said there are few better feelings than purchasing and driving a piece of automotive history.

“When I found out the Shelby was a ‘KR,’ which means ‘King of the Road,’ I just said, ‘Oh my God.’ They’re super rare,” he said in describing his signed Carroll Shelby car, which he and his wife have enjoyed for 18 years.

“It’s very fun to drive; when it gets out, it kicks pretty good. Our intentions are to keep it until I’m gone and pass it on to our son and daughter.”

Wentzell said cars have a knack for bringing together people of all ages with similar interests and experiences.

“Vehicles provide a way to demonstrate one’s technical skills and show identity while simultaneously creating a community around their passion,” she said. “People find it really meaningful to externalize memories and share them with people. It makes them real and allows people to create an identity and community around them.”

Mark Heacock said this sense of solidarity is a central focus of the Cruise Night and the car club, and it will remain important as the club drives into the future.

“It’s something that people can do together; they can get out and drive their cars,” he said.

“It’s camaraderie. It’s like-minded people doing like-minded things.”

Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) are growing apart.

They met in high school and married shortly after, but they now find that she is on her way up and he is on his way to nowhere. Celeste persuades Jesse that a divorce is the best option, and they attempt to remain friends despite the separation. Painful realizations ensue as the two deal with their decision.

at the bijou

Your Sister’s Sister Showtimes: 7 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Saturday, 5 p.m. Sept. 2

When Jack attends, then makes a scene at his deceased brother’s memorial party, a friend offers her family cabin on an island off the Pacific Northwest. He accepts the offer and attempts to reconcile his emotions when an unexpected love interest enters the picture.

beer

music

• Huey Mack, 7 p.m., Blue Moose, 211 Iowa • White Tornado, 9 p.m., Mill, 120 E. Burlington • Mixology, 10 p.m., Gabe’s • Pressure Drop Dance Party, 10 p.m., Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington • Shipbuilding Co., 10 p.m., Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn

words

• “Live from Prairie Lights,” Michael Perry, fiction or not, 7 p.m., Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque

film

• Proseminar in Cinema and Culture, TITLE, 6:30 p.m., 101 Becker • Beyond the Black Rainbow, 7 p.m., Bijou • Campus Activities Board Film, The Five Year Engagement, 8 and 11 p.m., 348 IMU • The Invisible War, 9:15 p.m., Bijou

miscellaneous

• Campus Activities Board Variety, Open-Mike Night, 10 p.m., T-Spoons, 301 E. Market

Friday 8.31 music

• Mike Page, 8 p.m., Blue Moose • Illinois John Fever, with Porch Builder, 9 p.m., Mill • Funkma$ter vs. Rich Rok, 10 p.m., Yacht Club • Local Electronic Music Showcase, 10 p.m., Gabe’s

words

• International Writing Program reading, 5 p.m., Shambaugh House

film

• Your Sister’s Sister, 7 p.m., Bijou

• Campus Activities Board Film, The Five Year Engagement, 8 and 11 p.m., 348 IMU • The Queen of Versailles, 9 p.m., Bijou

lectures

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Workshop, 9 p.m., 2520 University Capitol Center

miscellaneous

• Campus Activities Board Night Hawks, Mini Golf and Movie, 10 p.m., Hubbard Park

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The Ommegang Abbey Ale is a versatile beer that will satisfy people willing to deviate from their normal light beer. The Abbey Ale comes from a “Belgian-style Abbey Dubbel,” so you can count on the beer being a fantastic pairing to chocolate. Despite its darker brown coloring, the beer actually pairs nicely with nearly any kind of food. At 8.5 percent alcohol by volume, an Ommegang contains about double the alcohol of the average light beer.

Smell: Ommegang’s smell is enticingly mysterious but crisp and not overpowering. It’s unquestionably fruity, with notes of honey, orange, raisins, and possibly a bit of cherry. 4.8/5 Appearance: The tan head stands tall at first pour but rather quickly dissipates into a comfortable size foam perfect for drinking. The body of the beer itself is a deep, chestnut-brown. I was pleasantly surprised by the high level of carbonation, even 10 minutes after I poured the beer. 4.7/5 Taste: The Abbey Ale packed a fruity flavor with a bite of unexpected spice. Although it was strikingly strong in smell and appearance, the taste was gentle and seemed to coax my palate into another drink. The consistency was extremely smooth, not too creamy or malty, a perfect balance. The Abbey Ale is one of the best beers I’ve ever tasted. 5/5 Overall: 14.5/15 - by Dan Verhille

Matt Jennings, with Mike Pinto When: 9 p.m. Saturday Where: Mill Why you should go: Matt Jennings has a new style in the American music scene, which he likes to call international rock. He traveled and played around the world, and those musical influences and inspirations can be found on his latest self-titled EP.

music

• Cris Williamson, Ferron, and Bitch, 8 p.m., Englert • Heligoats, 10 p.m., Gabe’s • G. Love & Special Sauce, 9 p.m., Blue Moose • Dennis McMurrin & the Demolition Band, 10 p.m., Yacht Club

film

• Your Sister’s Sister, 4 and 8 p.m., Bijou • The Queen of Versailles, 6 p.m., Bijou • Campus Activities Board Film, The Five Year Engagement, 8 and 11 p.m., 348 IMU

Sunday 9.2 music

• Piano Sundays, 1:30 p.m., Old Capitol Museum • An Evening with Lindsey Buckingham, 8 p.m., Englert • Mill Pub Quiz, 9 p.m., Mill

words

• IWP reading, 4 p.m., Prairie Lights

film

• Movies at the Museum of Natural History, Last Extinction: What Killed the Mammoths?, 2 p.m., Macbride • The Queen of Versailles, 3 p.m., Bijou

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A journey from puppet plays She calls

herself ‘Bitch’

By SAMANTHA GENTRY samantha-gentry@uiowa.edu

UI freshman David Freeman prepares for an interview in his room at Stanley Hall on Wednesday. Freeman received the Iowa Center for the Arts Scholarship, which is awarded to entering theater majors who show achievement and potential. (The Daily Iowan/Joshua Housing)

By Justus Flair justus-flair@uiowa.edu

David Freeman became involved with theater in a fairly typical way. The UI freshman started for the same reason most children begin anything: It was entertaining.

“When I was younger, just for fun, I wrote short puppet plays for my church to put on,” he said.

“I started off just doing it for fun, and it still is now, but in a different way. I like to feel I’ve grown as a performer.”

The Iowa Center for the Arts scholarship committee certainly agrees that Freeman has progressed from his childhood puppet plays. Each year, the organization awards scholarships to entering theater majors who demonstrate achievement, as well as future potential, in theater.

After submitting a résumé of theatrical and academic credentials, an original essay, and a 70-page oneact play, Freeman won the prestigious scholarship.

Originally from the Twin Cities area, his résumé

boasts a number of accomplishments. Not only did he attend the Main Street School of Performing Arts in Hopkins, Minn., where he wrote, directed, and acted in numerous shows, he also cofounded the nonprofit theater group These Friends of Mine Theater Company, which continues to produce shows in the Minneapolis area.

“The first step toward understanding anything you’re going to do is empathy,” the playwright said. “The theater helps you to identify with individuals you wouldn’t usually understand.”

And those who work with him lauded his efforts.

“When David puts his mind to a project, he never really lets it go,” said Ethan Weiser, Freeman’s cofounder of These Friends of Mine. “When he’s passionate about something, he’s not going to give up or fail.”

Others say Freeman’s talent and devotion have been apparent for many years.

“One of David’s strengths as an actor is

that he reads a lot. As a playwright, it is very important to be familiar with the work of others,” said William Leaf, Freeman’s high-school theater director. “He is fascinated by other playwrights’ works and the way they manipulate text. As an actor, it’s huge to be familiar with others’ works. He’s passionate. He likes to dive into things to get them correct. He likes to converse with people and gain understanding.”

His work ethic remains strong as he enters the UI’s theater program.

“I’m looking for challenges this year,” he said.

His first opportunity came very quickly. Auditions for 12 productions were held Aug. 23 and 24, and Freeman and other students prepared three-minute presentations for the shows’ directors.

Even if not cast in a role, he says, he loved the audition experience. His main goal for the theater this year is to finish with “no regrets” — something he believes he can do by

seizing every opportunity presented to him, including auditioning for and becoming involved with as many shows as he is able to.

Freeman chose the University of Iowa’s Theater Department over his second choice, Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, partially because of UI’s location. The more heavily populated town, with its culturally diverse students and residents, allows actors to observe a wider range of people, seeing the way they walk, talk, and behave.

“I like to think of myself as an actor who works from the inside out,” he said. “Where you realize motivation, tactics, obstacles, and let them manifest themselves in your body.

One of the actor’s best tools to manifest those emotions is observation of those around you.”

She’s an electric violinist.

She has an alligator. She’s not afraid of boundaries.

She calls herself Bitch.

The musician wanted to “carve out a space in the public arena of a woman who is super-empowered in her body and outspoken” when she chose her stage name.

“It’s an active reclaiming to make it an empowered and positive thing for everybody,” she said. “The women’s music scene has embraced me and my wild, violin electric spirit for many years now.”

She will perform a set based on her most recent project, Beach, as a opening act for legendary female musicians Cris Williamson and Ferron at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Englert, 221 E. Washington St. Admission is $25 in advance, $27.50 at the door.

The three acts are part of the 19th-annual Iowa Women’s Music Festival, which supports and promotes the work of female artists from all over the country.

The Iowa Women’s Music Festival will begin at noon Saturday in Upper City Park with a set of stage performances. Admission is free.

Laurie Haag, a musician and the founder of the festival, started the event in part from a suggestion from a community member.

“It’s important to create spaces that are friendly to women as performers and audience members,” she said.

Kelly O’Berry, who has volunteered for the event since its first year, is also surprised that the festival has remained free.

“It’s kind of amazing that it all happens year after year,” she said. “It’s laid-back and easy and really is one of my favorite events in Iowa City.”

O’Berry, along with

spouse Kasia Laskowska, help with the kitchen portion of the event, which will sell hot dogs, brats, lemonade, and baked goods.

In addition to the stage performances during the day, the Iowa Women’s Music Festival will host a film screening and a workshop.

Bitch will showcase her film Thunder at 1 p.m.

Sept. 2 at the Women’s Resource and Action Center.

Admission is free.

“It’s a surrealist tale that tells some of Ferron’s story,” she said. “My album Boulder was my take on Ferron’s songs, and it was kind of like how I wanted the world to hear her, and this [film] is the way I want them to see her.”

After the film, at 3 p.m., musicians Lisa Ferraro and Erika Luckett will present a workshop called “Body Talk.”

When Luckett was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in May, it came as a shock to the yoga practitioner, because she thought she embodied a close awareness of her body, mind, and spirit.

Luckett considers herself to have had a “pretty dramatic and miraculous healing,” and that is something she wants to share with other women.

“We will talk about perceiving the body as a healing ground rather than a battleground,” she said. “We will also show the tools to nurture the healthy body, mind, and spirit connection.”

In addition to her workshop, Luckett looks forward to performing in Iowa City for the first time.

“I think what is so wonderful about being a part of a women’s festival is you get to experience the collaboration,” she said.

“We look at the individual, but there is a recognition of how everyone is a part of a whole.”

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New Super Mario Bros. not so super, after all

By Sam Stewart sam-stewart@uiowa.edu

Just as we all begin to quell our Olympic gold lust, New Super Mario Bros. 2 tempts us into relapse. As the sequel to New Super Mario Bros. for the DS, Mario Bros.

2 continues the series’ classic side scrolling game

play but with a twist.

While the goal is still to defeat Bowser and rescue Princess Peach, collecting coins is now a focus, rather than just an aside, as you attempt to collect 1 million in total. Although this quest for gold certainly adds something new to the play and level design, it isn’t enough to set the

game apart from the other games in the series.

As always, controlling Mario is a dream. By keeping the controls simple (run, jump, move left and right) the game retains the “simple to learn, harder to master” play.

The level design is top notch, and even though the world themes are all

retreads (desert, swamp, snow) the coin collecting manages to keep the levels feeling fresh.

Despite the new features, upgrades are one of the places where Mario Bros. falls short.

Your arsenal consists of three main power ups: the Mushroom, the Fire Flower, and the Super Leaf, which was recently resur-

rected in Super Mario 3D Land and is a blast to use.

But sadly, that enjoyment won’t last for six worlds.

The game sorely needs more item variety, even if it is only five to six hours long.

Its graphics are comparable with those of its Wii counterpart. Very colorful and very detailed, you will

feel right at home if you are a veteran fan of the series.

However, it just isn’t original. Every single Super Mario game has dared to be different, dared to try something new but Super Mario 2 seems to be content with being nothing more than a level pack for the series.

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Julia Child Foundation, Thermador in food fight

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press

BOSTON — A foundation set up by late chef Julia Child is locked in a legal fight with the manufacturer of Thermador ovens for touting her use

of its high-end appliances.

The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts claims BSH Home Appliances Corp. is using Child’s name and image without permission. The Irvine,

Calif.-based manufacturer says it is simply making a factual reference to Child’s use of its appliances.

BSH filed a lawsuit in Boston against the foundation last week, asking a federal judge to determine

the rights of both sides. The foundation countered by filing two lawsuits this week against BHS, one in state court in Santa Barbara, Calif., where the foundation is based, and the other in federal court in Los Angeles.

The lawsuits ask for an injunction to stop BSH from using Child’s name and seek unspecified monetary damages.

Child, who died in 2004, had a Thermador oven in her Cambridge kitch-

en. It’s now displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington.

She also used Thermador products on the set of her popular television show, “The French Chef.”

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In the rhythm of ice

By Dan Verhille Daniel-verhille@uiowa.edu

It only takes a couple of pages of In the ice house for Genevieve Kaplan to prove she paid her dues in the harsh Iowan winters. In what could be considered tribute to howling winds and frigid temperatures, the collection of poems takes the view of the interior of a house that seems to be barely withstanding the elements.

Kaplan graduated from the University of California-Santa Cruz before attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and graduating with an M.F.A. in 2003.

Unsurprisingly, the tone of her collection reads like cabin fever.

At times, the voice is tiny and indistinguishable from the icy landscape.

Other times, the voice is in conflict with the domestic order of the household.

Often it occupies itself observing how one cycle fits into another, ad infinitum.

Kaplan keeps close attention to the restless energies that compel us to sit and stand, over and over again. Ice house admires “the motion [of] the puzzle.”

Pass the steering wheel, and don’t be surprised when you spit out “spatula” and “wind” in the same mouthful. Kaplan can rove at a delirious pace between the kitchen and the forest with syntactical precision. Winter is just around the corner, so when the snowplows block you indoors, give Kaplan’s In the ice house a try if you want to give your cabin fever a more entertaining voice.

Because this is my first poetry review, I’d like to step back and address the practicality of these reviews for a moment. I realize that in all reality, the average reader won’t go out and buy a collection I’ve recommended.

While I hope I can inspire you into reading one collection or another this winter break, I’d settle for getting you to consider.

Why are we so reluctant to read poetry?

We’re willing to read Twitter feeds chronicling the brutally mundane day-by-day agenda items of our acquaintances.

We’ll read status updates, email inboxes, schedules, text messages, hard news, sports news, celebrity gossip, political updates, local retailers with discount prices, and what Wiz Khalifa is doing every three hours.

However, literary capital of the world or not, most of us are not reading the poets Iowa pumps out.

I know you probably don’t like poetry; most of us have enough puzzles in our lives. The myriad of life choices ahead of us keeps us up at night without the nagging persistence of a poet’s words

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coloring our interpretations of the world.

You don’t have time for poetry, it’s football season in Iowa, I understand. You don’t care for inaccessible garments and self-aggrandizing academic references, let’s talk Black and Gold and Big Ten history instead. Leave deliberately elusive allusions to the recluses who couldn’t tell the weak side of the football field from the strong side if a lifetime of iced coffees from Prairie Lights depended upon it.

What more do you need to be taught? You know at least one couplet: “In heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here.”

Indulge me, if you have a moment, by imagining you’re freezing your fingers off at a tailgate and arguing with your friends about what was the greatest Iowa football play ever. You remember every detail: the year, the stadium, the weather, the atmosphere, the records, the road before, the impact of the game on the rest of the season, and victory on the line.

Bottle every little detail up in your head, then shake ’em around like your Cyclone buddy forgot to say, “Pretty please,” when he asked for a beer.

Now, when your buddy starts jawing about how your team has always “gotten lucky,” imagine you drop that perfect story on him like a ton of bricks.

Obviously, you don’t have time for every detail, but you toss in little flakes such as a veteran cook slanging spices in the game-day chili.

You even remember the announcer’s lines word for word, such as Gary Dolphin before the catch, “Drew Tate doesn’t know … the game is going to end on this play.”

After erupting into “Touchdown Iowa” and repeating it a couple of times to cap off your passionate re-enactment, you go back to watch highlights with color commentary without ever considering that what you might have done is a kind of performance poetry.

Does it really seem that ridiculous that the

two worlds overlap? I’m not suggesting that every game needs to have a poem written about it, but we’ve all got a friend who hushes the room when he tells stories.

If the story happens to be snowed-in and cabin fever, Genevieve Kaplan should be your go-to poet.

If you’re not ready to dive into poetry until after the snow comes, take baby steps, and deliver your perfect-game story like you mean it.

Museum going to the cats

MINNEAPOLIS — Warning: This is a story about online cat videos. If you’re among the seemingly tiny minority of the general population not interested in watching a 1-minute clip of a cat in a T-shirt pounding on a keyboard, then move along.

For everyone else, a new measure of respectability is looming for an Internet pleasure that is both massively popular and, for some people, a bit embarrassing. The Walker Art Center, a well-regarded museum of modern art in Minneapolis, today will present its first “Internet Cat Video Film Festival” to showcase the best in filmed feline hijinks.

With around 70 videos over 60 minutes, the Walker is mounting a social experiment as much as a film festival. At issue is whether cat-video lovers used to gorging on the clips in the privacy of their homes will do so in public — an online community of fellow aficionados interacting face to face for the first time.

“It is a cultural phenomenon that raises some interesting questions,” said Katie Hill, the Walker program associate who first suggested the festival.

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But Hill, a self-described “art historian and cat lady,” was quick to add: “I’m not a behavioral psychologist; I’m not a sociologist. I just think they’re funny and cute, and I think a lot of other people do too.”

The numbers bear it out.

Some of the classics of the form have racked up tens of millions of YouTube page views. The aforementioned “Keyboard Cat” posted 26.3 million page views since it was posted in 2007. A 30-second clip titled “Very Angry Cat” — can you guess the plot? — has 78.5 million page views since 2006.

“Some you just watch over and over and over again,” said Angie Bailey, a cat blogger and owner from Chisago City, Minn., covering the film festival for the website Catster.com. “When you want to laugh and feel good, it’s sort of an escape from what happens in the real world.”

Walker programmers got approximately 10,000 submissions for the festival after initially expecting several hundred. They whittled that down to the 70 videos to be shown on an outdoor screen on the museum’s grounds.

— Associated Press

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REWARDING, fun, part-time positions in Iowa City/ Coralville/ North Liberty/ Solon/ Kalona and surrounding areas providing care, supervision and engaging in fun activities with children and adults with disabilities in their homes and in the community.

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Please send cover letter and resume to: The Arc of Southeast Iowa Attn: Liz Byram 2620 Muscatine Ave. Iowa City, IA 52240 or email to: lizbyram@arcsei.org TOW TRUCK OPERATORS Several part-time positions available. Flexible but does include rotating nights and weekends. Perfect for students.

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Staff are required to be 18 or older; have a clean background check; valid driver’s license and a registered/insured vehicle.

For immediate consideration, contact via phone or email: Comfort Keepers (319)354-0285

RENTAL ASSISTANT needed for a large apartment complex in Iowa City. $10/ hour plus health insurance and other benefits. Monday-Friday 9-12 and 1-5 and Saturdays 9-noon.

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Evenings, no late nights. $7.75/ hour plus $1.75/ delivery plus tips. Must be at least 18, have own car, liability insurance and a good driving record.

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IOWA CITY pub hiring wait staff, bartenders and kitchen. Management positions also available.

Call (319)541-2871.

LA CAVA MEXICAN RESTAURANT now hiring all positions.

Apply within: 1810 N. Coral St., Suite B, Coralville, IA 52241.

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8B - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Thursday, August 30, 2012

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today’s events Clues that Charlie Brown should have been treated for clinical depression: • “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

• “There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters. I could be their leader.”

• “I’ve developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.”

• “I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.”

• “That’s the secret to life … replace one worry with another …”

• “I feel like going home to bed, but it’s only noon.”

• “Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, ‘Why me?’, then a voice answers, ‘Nothing personal; your name just happened to come up.’ ” • “I almost wish there weren’t a holiday season. I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?”

• “I’ve killed it. Oh. Everything I touch gets ruined.”

• “(writing) Dear Pencil-pal, did you have a nice summer?

Mine could have been better, but it could have been worse.

For me, that’s good.”

• “This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand.

The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. …” · “I’m dying, and all I hear is insults.” · “Everything seems hopeless … I’m completely depressed.” · “Good grief.”

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Thursday, August 30 – by Eugenia Last

ARIES March 21–April 19 Share your feelings and your plans for the future. Someone you work alongside will let you know if you are not being realistic. Weigh the pros and cons, but base your decision on your abilities, not someone else’s.

TAURUS April 20–May 20 Don’t give in to a bully when you are far smarter and more capable. Saying no will give you greater control and the feeling of power. Love is in the stars, and letting someone know how much you care will bring good results.

GEMINI May 21–June 20 Don’t let responsibilities overwhelm you. Emotional confusion will set in regarding matters pertaining to home, family, and your status. A change may be required, but it shouldn’t cost you. Clear the air, but don’t pay for someone else’s mistake.

CANCER June 21–July 22 Take a trip or sign up for a seminar, trade show or something that will inspire you to make some much-needed changes at home or at work. Love is in the stars, and more time spent with someone special will ease your stress.

LEO July 23–Aug. 22 Generosity will help connect you to people who have something to offer. A money deal with an unusual twist will entice you, but before you take part, find out how much input you will have in the outcome. A trip will pay off.

VIRGO Aug. 23–Sept. 22 Be honest about your abilities and what you have done in the past. Someone will be quick to remind you of some of your less favorable moments if you brag or try to control a situation that needs expertise you can’t offer.

LIBRA Sept. 23–Oct. 22 You will be a magnet for information. Listen up; the knowledge you receive will help you diversify and excel. A change in a partnership is likely to occur. Don’t let anyone bully you.

Take control, and make what you want very clear.

SCORPIO Oct. 23–Nov. 21 Don’t trust anyone who promises unrealistic offerings or results. Make the changes that suit your needs and that will allow you to remain in control of your future prospects.

Take competition by surprise by offering something unique.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22–Dec. 21 Add a little excitement to your life. Communicating with people who share your enthusiasm and energy will lead to an opportunity to join a team or partnership on the rise. Make adjustments at home that suit your current lifestyle.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22–Jan. 19 Personal investments can pay off, but only if you stick to what works for you instead of being enticed to follow someone else. Emotional connections must not be allowed to interfere with your financial dealings.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20–Feb. 18 A false sense of belonging will lead to personal problems. Try not to judge or to make assumptions that will cause friction with someone you love. You must secure your personal relationships by doing your best to make your home and family inviting.

PISCES Feb. 19–March 20 Get serious about your professional goals. Talk to anyone in a position to help you advance. Socializing and celebrating late in the day will help build your confidence and improve your personal life. Honesty will alleviate confusion

tunes of the market

The band Extra Credit Project (ECP) plays at the Farmer’s Market’s final day of the summer in Iowa City on Tuesday, August 29, 2012. The day was full of music, free food samples, and locally produced goods. (The Daily Iowan/Juan Carlos Herrera)