The Daily Iowan - 09/09/11

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10 years later, 6,220 more Americans dead

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INSIDE: • Updates from the Iowans who saw the attacks, Page 2A • Muslims still wrestle with Islamophobia, Page 2A • Editorial: Time to curb defense spending, Page 4A • How 9/11 changed the news, Page 5A

For campus veterans, War on Terror impossible to forget, Page 3A

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9/11 — 10 years later

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History, firsthand On Sept. 11, 2001 The Daily Iowan spoke to a handful of Iowans who wit ness e d the attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. A decade later, they reflect on that day and how it has shaped their lives.

By ALISON SULLIVAN alison-sullivan@uiowa.edu

Michael Weinstock When he opened the door and stepped outside, debris, ash, and asbestos fell like snow.

Weinstock went into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as a volunteer firefighter responding to the destruction on Sept. 11, 2001.

Though nearly a decade has passed, he still recalls the surreal snowfall. The substance blanketed lampposts and trees and everything around him. In that moment, he thought it was a dream.

“I felt all of the nerves and fear just pour out of my body,” said the University of Iowa alum.

He went out to unload rescue equipment when the tower fell.

“I ran right away,” he said. “I heard the noise, the man next to me, we made eye contact right away, and we just got it.”

But some were not as fortunate to escape and were buried under the rubble.

Weinstock said as he ran, others stood still, gazing up at the tumbling tower.

“They just didn’t get it,” he said.

Now an attorney in New

York, Weinstock said the years following were a challenge. And 10 years later, he feels the effect of 9/11.

When the North Tower fell, Weinstock lost his best friend and fellow firefighter.

“It’s been 10 years, and I miss him every day,” he said. “I’m watching his young sons grow up without him, and I see the challenges they have in their lives without their dad there.”

Libby Tucker Tucker was a graduate student in journalism at Columbia University on 11, Sept.

2001. In the aftermath, she and her classmates were sent to find and report the untold stories of those affected by the unfolding events. She watched as armored cars and heavy machinery passed in the street. Dust covered everything around her, and the smell of burning was heavy in the air.

“It was really overwhelming as a journalism student to never have really covered a disaster,” said Tucker, who contributed several pieces to The Daily Iowan’s coverage. “It really cut my teeth.”

Now, Tucker — who earned a bachelor’s degree at the UI — is the web editor for The Columbian based in Washington, and she will cover the 9/11 anniversary. And though her experience 10 years ago was a definitive moment in her journalism career, she is struck by fellow classmates who were not compelled to stay with journalism.

“I really feel like there is a civic duty to journalism and a real importance,” the 32-year-old said. “It’s hard for me to think of the number of people in my class who have not stayed with journalism, for whatever reasons, [but] who really learned how to be good reporters because of Sept.

11. What a loss that is to journalism.”

Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa Then a U.S. representative, Leach could see smoke pluming from the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. As everyone else evacuated Capitol Hill, Leach ran in make to sure his staffers were OK. “I was confident that many things changed [that day] and what that would mean for the country and for my family, and our world,” he said.

“It was my idea that a new kind of terrorism had been unleashed in the world and what was symbolic and somewhat clear and hardly focused on is that terrorism has existed throughout history, but this was the first time [this event] signified its globalization.”

As a politician, Leach took part in the country’s response to the terrorist attacks. He voted against going into Iraq and said he disapproves of the government’s swift and misguided action.

“It’s in the background of every issue because the world has changed,” Leach said. “It has appeared to have legitimized terror tactics of many different kinds.”

Christian Kurasek After being evacuated from the White House by Secret Service, Kurasek stood in a Washington D.C. bar, watching the events unfold before him. Kurasek was recent UI graduate doing an internship at the White House in September 2001.

“The scenario of the White House being threatened with an attack was so far outside the realm of security planning that there wasn’t even a protocol for evacuating — our first cue was seeing other staff running across the lawn, quickly followed by the fire

alarm being pulled and the swarm of Secret Service flooding the halls ordering nonessential staff out,” said the 30-year-old. “We didn’t know when, where, or how the next attack was going to come, and given the government’s epic failure to provide security that day, we had temporarily lost our faith in its ability to protect us.”

Tonya Lazar Ames Public transportation can still be an uncomfortable experience for Tonya Lazar Ames. Smoke on the subway or a high security alert, she said, still makes cauher tious.

“I’m very sensitive to that,” the UI alum said. “I have to get off the train … it’s been ingrained in me.”

As an advertising coordinator, Ames worked in the Empire State Building in New York and on 9/11 she and colleagues were forced out of their offices, leaving everything behind. Scared, Ames had to walk home to Queens from Manhattan without a cell phone or money that she had to leave behind in her office.

Eventually, she met up with others she knew, but the scene before her, she said was unsettling.

“I felt homeless for most of the day,” she said. “It’s still very vivid.”

Now, Ames lives in Chicago with her husband and 4-month-old daughter.

As a marketing recruiter for an advertising agency, she works again in a highrise building. Because of her experience in New York, small procedures such as a fire alarm can still leave Ames feeling anxious to this day.

“My emotions are still so raw; it’s still easy to go back to that day,” she said.

Despite the worries she faces, she doesn’t let it rule her life.

“You have to get past it,” she said.

Muslims still fight stigma Enrollment in Arabic classes and the number of people converting to Islam have both grown since 9/11.

By ASMAA ELKEURTI asmaa-elkeurti@uiowa.edu

University of Iowa student Gewiria Fadl entered a Best Buy store in Massachusetts one day in 2002 wearing a traditional Muslim headdress.

“Make sure she doesn’t have a bomb in there,” an employee manning the doorway said when the alarm at the entrance sounded.

Muslims across the country have experienced more incidents similar to Fadl’s since the four planes piloted by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field 10 years ago.

But the unforgettable attacks have also sparked curiosity in Islam, particularly locally.

In the UI’s Arabic-language program, enrollment has grown from 34 students in 2006 to 117 this fall. And the interest doesn’t stop there. Local Islamic leaders say they’ve seen about 10 converts annually

over the last five years, including more than a dozen this year. As of 2007, according to CNN, more than 1.5 million Americans had converted to Islam since 9/11.

“That’s one good thing that came out of [9/11],” said Ousainou Keita, the president of the Iowa City Islamic Center. “People became more inquisitive about Muslims and Islam.”

Sean Schwabenlander, a UI senior studying computer science, began to seek out information about Islam because the attention the religion received ? although largely negative ? piqued his interest.

“I wanted to learn about this religion that was being demonized by television and newspaper opinion articles,” he said. “And at one point I asked myself, ‘Is this Islam as bad as they say it is?’ ” Intrigued by the religion, he took the Shahadah, a Muslim oath, and converted from Christianity. He is now an active member in

the Muslim community and the secretary of the Muslim American Society UI student organization.

UI Arabic Assistant Professor Denes Gazsi said he believes that the university gives students the opportunity to become more openminded and aware of the misunderstood religion, and his language classes fill up quickly.

Still, prejudice against Muslims is not gone.

While discrimination against Muslims may be a prominent part of a post9/11 American society, many Muslims who have been a part of the local community for some time feel religious discrimination in Iowa City is minimal, thanks to a relatively open-minded population.

“Sometimes, I’ll get curious looks, and some people approach and introduce themselves and ask questions,” Fadl said. “Other times, I get weird looks, and not so often, I get disgusted looks.”

Gazsi said he believes

‘I feel that some people still think that it's every Muslim, it's every Arab, who supported what happened on 9/11.’ many stereotypes are colored with an underlying ignorance and misunderstanding.

“I feel that some people still think that it’s every Muslim, it’s every Arab, who supported what happened on 9/11,” he said.

“And I hope that my students belong to this last group, those who want to get a deeper understanding of Arab and Muslim culture. And I think that the university offers students a way to become more openminded.”

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9/11 — 10 years later

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‘We just followed orders; we never did critical evaluating or wrote papers. It’s like sending a toddler to college. Not to mention our mental health — everyone is screwed up.’

Student-vets fight a different war

Lars Headington stands with an American flag near his Iowa City home on Thursday. He enlisted straight out of high school in 1997. (The Daily Iowan/Christy Aumer)

After dragging on for 10 years, the U.S. War on Terror has waned from the public eye.

But for student veterans, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inescapable.

By JANET LAWLER janet-lawler@uiowa.edu

Amanda Irish was going to be a dancer when she graduated from high school in 2002, but on Sept.

11, 2001, she decided to become a Marine.

Now, she can’t walk out of a crowded lecture hall without a sense of distressed hyperawareness as people close in behind her.

After dragging on for 10 years, the U.S. War on Terror has waned from the public eye. However, for student veterans, the wars are inescapable.

Irish, 27, is working on her second bachelor’s in pre-med and human physiology and is the president of the University of Iowa Veterans Association. She enlisted soon after 9/11, during her senior year of high school.

Two weeks after she graduated, she began training as a nuclear/biological/chemical weapons defense specialist, and she served on active duty in the Marine Corps from 2004 to 2006.

“There is a duty to serve your country, and a lot of people don’t feel it,” Irish said as she pointed out that military servicemen and women make up fewer than 1 percent of the U.S. population.

“We don’t need everyone to serve, but the burden gets put on fewer than 1 percent to carry everyone.”

John Mikelson, the UI Veterans Center coordinator, said student servicemen and women make up slightly fewer than 2 percent of the student population here. There are approximately 500 student veterans, 35 of whom are on active duty — up from 360 last spring.

“They are a very nontraditional student,” Mikelson said. “Do the rest of the students feel the impact of the war? I don’t know. I do know student veterans when they hear the radio say something’s going on in Ramadi, they can find it on a map.”

Both Irish and Mikelson said the nontraditional qualities of student-veterans make reintegration into civilian life, especially college life, challenging.

“It sucks,” Irish said. “So many things are the hardest thing for us. Maybe you have a wife and child. If not, you might be divorced or looking for one. Now you have to balance a home all by yourself and on top of that try to focus on school work, which we haven’t done since we were in high school. We just followed

orders; we never did critical evaluating or wrote papers. It’s like sending a toddler to college. Not to mention our mental health — everyone is screwed up.”

‘An alternative universe’ Tamara Woods — a pre-doctoral intern at the Iowa City Veterans Administration Hospital under the direction of neuroscience doctor Michael Hall — is the instructor for Life After War Post Deployment Issues, a class only open to student veterans.

Woods said student-veterans are often significantly older than their freshman classmates, have advanced training in specific areas, and have gathered much more experience in the four years they were, as Irish said, “in an alternate universe.”

Woods also said around 20 percent of veterans will be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. She said it depends on the conflict, but PTSD could be more prevalent in wars such as the War on Terror in which there was no frontline and no safe zone.

“They are coming back with a host of things including chronic pain from carrying heavy packs and PTSD,” Woods said. “This puts them at a disadvantage when compared with other students; it’s harder to concentrate they feel more on edge and possible anxiety and depression.

“They need to know they are not alone, this is not unusual, not a weakness. PTSD is not a weakness especially. These are normal reactions to abnormal circumstances.”

Woods said there are many misconceptions about PTSD, but it is most simply a hyperawareness of the environment. She said a more severe symptom is the reexperiencing of events from certain stimuli such as loud noises or crowded rooms. Woods has even spoken to administration about educating faculty as to veterans returning with PTSD and how to accommodate them.

“But does that stop some freshman from throwing a chair from behind you? No,” Irish said.

‘Socially, we just don’t relate’ Mikelson said the job of the UI Veterans Center is to try to help as much as possible by reintegrating and socializing returning servicemen and women through mostly providing a place for them to meet others similar to them-

selves, people to whom they can connect with most easily.

“When you’re 26 and a freshman, it’s hard to hang out with your 18-year-old classmates in the IMU,” Mikelson said.

The Veterans Center also helps student veterans find community-related activities and services, everything from housing to daycares, Mikelson said. Irish said that even though veterans try to distance themselves, they do try to assimilate.

“If you saw me on campus, you would never know I was a veteran. I don’t have the camo backpack; I don’t wear my dog tags; I don’t have a chip on my shoulder.

I have a Marine tattoo, but no one’s gonna know that,” she said as she pointed out her attire — a white dress, sandals, and beaded necklace set off artfully by her tattooed arms, one of which depicts an eagle emblazoned on a globe clutching a banner.

“But socially, we just don’t relate. When I was 21 or 22, I joined a sorority — that was awful. They were all just trying to hook up. I found no sense of friendship or camaraderie as I had in the military,” Irish said.

As Irish pointed out, most veterans don’t want to be separated from the crowd.

“A lot of people don’t want handshakes and pats on the back or asked what it’s like to kill somebody,” Irish said. “God, no one wants to be asked that.”

‘I never envisioned a 10-year war’ Lars Headington, 32, has been out of the military since the early 2000s. Now describing himself as dissasociated with his military career, he is working on his second bachelor’s degree at the UI. He enlisted out of high school in 1997. He was cleaning the dining room at the barracks while taking classes to enter military intelligence when he put down the broom on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, to watch the television.

“I had joined when it wasn’t a frightening thing to join the military. We had the attitude that America was on top, and there was no chance we would ever have to fight. Just stay in for two years and get our benefits,” Headington said. “I never envisioned a 10-year war.”

Headington recounted his experience in the war lightly. He

remembers moving into Saddam Hussein’s vacant palace and living there for the months he was in Baghdad, likening it to MTV Cribs.

“Everything you didn’t think you could marble, was still marble; it was a pain to mop,” he said.

“I never felt my duty to fight terrorism; I just followed orders,” said Headington. “I don’t want to associate as a vet in college. I remember sitting in my classes and never volunteering I had been in the military. I said I was from Houston; I didn’t want to be a veteran. I’m done sacrificing; I’m not expendable to anyone anymore.”

‘I think Americans have tuned out’ Headington said the 9/11 attacks created a generation of soldiers who felt compelled to protect their country. However, with every year the war drags on, the disconnect between the country and the people who fight for it grows.

“I think Americans have tuned out,” Irish said. “God, can [campus students] even find Afghanistan on a map? That’s just gross.”

Dane Hudson, former vice president of College Young Democrats of Iowa, was in seventh grade during the 9/11 attacks.

And though he agreed there is a disconnect between Americans and the war, he attributed it to the fact that so many young voters were only in elementary or junior high school 10 years ago.

“There’s no draft, so the mindset is out of sight out of mind; it’s not a problem, so no need to advocate it,” he said. “It makes me sad how very far away it is in the mind of the public.”

Hudson said he supports the cause of fighting terror, but that other auxiliary wars were unreasonable, a stance that 26-year-old veteran Drew Hjelm agreed with.

Hjelm said the War on Terror had cultivated a culture that appreciated military service but didn’t think through what it was actually appreciating.

“In hindsight through reflection, the War on Terror wasn’t necessary nor a good thing; it accomplished the opposite of making America safe,” Hjelm said. “After 10 years and $8 trillion of national-security spend-

‘I remember sitting in my classes and never volunteering I had been in the military. I said I was from Houston. I didn’t want to be a veteran. I’m done sacrificing — I’m not expendable to anyone anymore.’ ing, 6,000 lives, they finally got the guy they could have gotten in 2001 just doing some paperwork.”

Hjelm said a lot of students don’t pay attention to the war because many were born into it — they never had an opportunity to know what normal was like.

“Our generation doesn’t vote, so even if it had an opinion, it wouldn’t be heard,” Hudson said.

“Even if it doesn’t affect you, you can stand up for someone else who might be in harm’s way.”

After 10 years, the effect of the War on Terror has been felt among few. Although the consensus of opinion was that it had made the U.S. as a country more vigilant and aware of its vinicibility, it will never be felt as much as wars such as Vietnam or World War II were.

“How many people are going to read this?” Irish asked. “If by some rare chance they do, how many will actually be touched by it?”

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Editorial

Post-9/11 defense spending continues to be illogical

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TASER AXON: Pretty cool CHRIS STEINKE csteinke25@gmail.com

Nearly 10 years after the horrific attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, our nation continues to struggle with the effects of that fateful morning. Unfortunately, the financial damage dealt, not even to mention the death toll, continues to increase every day.

Earlier this week, the Cedar Rapids Gazette concluded a monthlong investigation into how $250 million worth of Homeland Security Grants provided to the state of Iowa after 9/11 was spent. Its findings were unsettling, with gross excesses rampant in a program seemingly built to throw incredible sums of money at state and municipal agencies facing an undefined and unarticulated threat. Worse still, when prompted for details on certain equipment purchased, state officials were unable to determine where they had even placed some items.

Among the most glaring examples of this lax oversight was a nearly $100,000 video camera, purchased by the state in 2004, which the department claimed it had misplaced. Upon further examination, though, officials realized they had instead used the grant money to procure eight bomb suits. Officials later attributed the confusion to a clerical mistake.

This only furthers the theme that 9/11 reactionary spending was, and continues to be, quite literally out of control.

Of course, the inherent wisdom of hindsight makes such commentary easy. In 2004, the economy was performing much better, with unemployment under 6 percent (9 percent today) and a GDP growth rate hovering around 3.5 percent (1.5 percent today). And of course, the security threats seemed immeasurably more real at that point. But with current U.S. internal affairs and diminished foreign threats, cutting back on security and defense spending should seem obvious — yet no one in the federal government seems to propose it.

Although 9/11 undoubtedly changed the way we live and forced us to adopt additional security measures, it also served as a catalyst to our current financial insolvency.

The 10th anniversary of the tragic event offers an incredible opportunity to reflect on what was worth the effort, and the taxpayer burden, and what was not.

Clearly, “business as usual,” in the context of post-9/11 security and defense spending, is not a rational option for future policy.

The overall costs related to 9/11, namely increases in defense and security spending, have been staggering to say the least. While it’s impossible to put a price tag on the loss of human life during the terror attacks or in the ensuing days of conflict soon to follow, some have attempted to factor out the more tangible aspects.

Al Jazeera recently calculated the number to be more than $5 trillion, while a Brown University research project earlier this summer released a report calculating the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to be $3.2 trillion to $4 trillion alone.

Whatever the grand total may be, nearly everyone will agree 9/11 reactionary spending has contributed significantly to our current crisis of debt and insolvency.

Regardless of party affiliation, we must stop digging these bottomless trenches of debt. This begins with making tough, realistic decisions on where America should go with its defense spending and substantial security apparatus from this point forward.

For starters, and perhaps coming as no surprise to our readers, the war on terror and the all it entails demand an immediate and thorough appraisal. In terms of budgeting, both of our ongoing war efforts (in addition to recent Libyan operations) have been exorbitantly more expensive than anticipated. This does not even begin to account for the incompetence of both wars in terms of foreign diplomacy. A measured and sequential drawdown is the only logical solution left for salvaging our ledgers and national image.

On the home front, a more ubiquitous task awaits us.

While Americans have reached a low point in their fear of future terror attacks, domestic agencies continue to splurge on unnecessary equipment that will never be used. Nearly $75 billion is spent annually on domestic security, with no end currently in sight. Although some of this may be necessary, many expenditures, such as the Alaskan town of 1,500 receiving $557,400 in security funds, are common-sense budget cuts.

For the sake of those who paid the ultimate price on that morning in September 2001 or have in the days following in the sweltering heat of overseas deserts, let us move forward in opening the door to a new era of rational security and defense spending — one in which we don’t live in constant fear and instead turn to face existential threats.

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IC cops discouraging visitors On Sept. 3, my wife and I set out for a fun day to watch the Iowa Hawkeyes play Tennessee Tech. After parking in the west lot we set out to meet up with some family members that were a short distance up Melrose Avenue.

After leaving the parking lot and stepping onto the bridge, I

was met by a Iowa City police officer who was out for nothing more than to write tickets for open containers. The tickets were already made out so that all that

spend money at local establishments, tell them to keep doing what they’re doing.

I know they lost two customers that day.

Steven Korman

had to be added was the personal information.

I am 53 years old and was there for nothing more than to have a nice relaxing day watching the Hawks play. If they do not want fans coming into town to

Rhabdo trainers should be punished I was appalled that University of Iowa trainers would inflict an extremely painful and dangerous condition like rhabdomyolysis on

their athletes. Can you claim that such workouts are effective when muscle fibers are destroyed and enter the bloodstream in liquid form?

Whoever ordered such training should be fired, and the athletes should consider a lawsuit to ensure that trainers don’t indulge themselves in such sadistic “workouts” in the future without penalty.

Maria Houser Conzemius UI alum

Imagine an Iowa City Super Officer — even more super-duper than they already are — complete with an HD camera attached to her or his head. Imagine what that could mean for Iowa City’s “service,” “protection,” and whatever an open-container citation falls under.

The same company responsible for the TASER, TASER (stock symbol TASR), is poised on entering the HD-earcamera-for-cops market.

Its new product, called the AXON System, records everything a responding officer sees in crystal-clear HD, then uploads it to EVIDENCE.COM, a cloud database.

No, I don’t know why TASER insists on allcapsing every single one of its products and services. Well, I guess I do think entirely in capital letters when I consider the service that a TASER® TASER provides.

Several questions come to mind here.

First, will the cameras run constantly or only when an officer deems it necessary? On the one hand, I don’t want video evidence to mysteriously be unavailable if officers aren’t quite sure their actions are merited by law. On the other, I don’t want to see some firstperson view of a urinal in between cop breaks.

It also seems like a waste of the ever-finite Internet cloud space, which comes at a price.

Second, are these EVIDENCE.COM videos open to the public and to the press, or are they contained entirely within the police department?

Making the videos public would hold the police officers to the utmost accountability, but would also negate officer discretion. Officer Falcon can no longer put one kid vomiting on the Old Capitol in handcuffs, then feel sorry for the kid passed out behind DCs at 5 a.m. and let him go. There’s also that whole thing about protecting the identity of the innocent until proven guilty, which no one, including The Daily Iowan, seems to care too much about, anyway.

As it is right now, EVIDENCE.COM

requires an invitation from your “agency,” which is presumably your police department.

I wonder how much they would charge for that open-records request.

Ideally, they would add an EVIDENCE.COM “invitation code” line on the combined speeding-andPAULA tickets, so the defendant can review the evidence against her or him.

But, you know, that would never fucking happen.

So what can we expect should this technology be unleashed on Iowa City residents? A lot of videos of officers parting the Summit like the Red Sea, for one. We would be able to gauge exactly how many times a bike officer checks out his short-shorts in a given hour. Maybe, because of it constantly gathering evidence, we would only see two officers hovering around a pimple-faced freshman with a Coors instead of four.

Most importantly, we would see the Iowa City police held to a higher standard in terms of both integrity and efficiency.

But at what cost?

Well, $2,998.42 per user, to be exact. It seems steep until you look around this year and see Iowa City police driving around in brand new SUVs. The cost of one SUV would buy at least 10 of these devices.

The initial investment may be steep, but they may end up paying for themselves in the long run. TASER claims that cameras increase patrolling by 9.2 percent, which means the police could conceivably cut down on their force.

Of course, some could argue that patrolling would increase by well more than 10 percent if Kum ’N’ Go’s pastry cabinet were made obsolete — but that’s out of our control.

The greatest savings would come in a decrease in liability costs. According to a 2005 study, 93 percent of complaint cases were exonerated when video evidence was available. I bet that number will be drastically lower in Iowa City, but still, the system would prove beneficial within a few years.

Police spending in this town always seems to be disproportionate to the actual serious-crime rate. Why not buy some AXON? It would be entertaining if nothing else.

Guest opinion

UDems/UI Republicans Showdown: Job creation On Thursday, members of the UI College Republicans offered their solution to job creation in the first twice-monthly exchange. Today, the University Democrats respond.

The middle class is key.

The best way to create jobs is to create a situation in which people have the money to buy goods. There is an economic debate known as the supply-versusdemand debate. For those readers that don’t know about this debate, I’ll explain.

The supply side promotes the idea of decreasing income taxes on the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans because supply siders believe they drive economy.

Demand side of the debate says that the economy is driven by the other 95 percent of Americans, the consumers. There are valuable points to be made on both sides of the debate, and both sides should show each other the proper amount of respect. But that doesn’t mean we can’t

politely disagree.

As Robert Reich, the former secretary of Labor, said on Thursday, “Yes, I respect the supply side, but they are still wrong.”

Reich sees increasing economic inequality in the United States as the root of the problem. Right now, the top 5 percent of the country controls 37 percent of the purchasing power in the United States. This creates an economy that is prone to booms and busts because “the rich splurge and speculate when their savings are doing well but then pull back,” leaving the rest of the country in a lurch and picking up the mess.

We are prone to agree with Reich and, interestingly enough, so is history. During the time period between 1947-1977, the United States favored “demand side” economics. During this time, the income tax for the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans was around 60 percent and during President Eisenhower’s administration

(a Republican and by no means a liberal) the income tax for the wealthiest 5 percent was 90 percent. The nation grew, unemployment was down and the median wage increased. These are also known as “the good old days.”

Taxes weren’t the only thing lifting up the economy.

The domestic policies of four Democratic presidents and two Republican presidents helped. They stimulated the economy by building schools, hospitals, lowincome housing and roads. During the period between 1981 to the present day we have seen a complete reversal of these policies. The wealthy have received tax breaks, and their lawyers find endless loopholes in the tax system. The middleclass wages began to stagnate in the late1970s, and more and more families began to go into debt in order to sustain their family’s quality of life. This trend of placing the economic burden on the low and

middle class is completely unsustainable.

The best way to create jobs is to learn from our past and follow the policies that worked during the Era of Great Prosperity (1947-1977). We need to recognize that our economy of more than 300 million people is a consumer economy. When the wealthy get tax breaks, they save them for a rainy day. When the low- to middleclass Americans gets a tax break, they use it to buy food, clothing, and school supplies for their children.

President Obama needs to do three things: 1) Increase taxes on billionaires; 2) Decrease taxes on the middle class; 3) stimulate the economy through public works.

We recognize these ideas aren’t popular in a Republican Congress. Let’s see if Congress can “man up” to the challenge.

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9/11 — 10 years later

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Journalists reflect on 9/11

By ALLIE WRIGHT allie-wright@uiowa.edu

Lisa Rossi drove all night from Iowa City to reach Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001.

That night and for the next few days, the former Daily Iowan news editor and reporter led a team of four college journalists in the most intense breakingnews exercise of their careers.

Rossi, 30, who now works as an associate local editor with Patch.com in Maryland, recalls that Tuesday morning 10 years ago. She went to work, unsure of what her assignment would be.

“I remember I just showed up to the newsroom that day, you know, wondering how I could help, and [Editor-in-Chief Joseph Plambeck] was just like, ‘You’re going to New York City. You’re doing this. And you’re going to lead a team of people to get coverage from there,’ ” said Rossi (then Livermore). “And that was it.”

Since that day — the day journalists had to adapt to a changed national atmosphere — the news media have also changed.

According to analysis of evening news by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Journalism.org, news content since 9/11 has strayed from reporting on domestic issues and focused more on foreign-policy issues and global conflict.

The importance of religion has also increased in daily news. Hagit Limor, the president of the Society

of Professional Journalists wrote in her media blog that journalists “discovered” religion when Islam emerged as a point of interest and, for some, fear. Journalists now pay more attention to how religion affects social, economic, and political decisions, Limor wrote.

But before these longterm changes came about, journalists had to react instantly on 9/11. One expert said news reporters had to fall back on basic journalistic instincts.

“It’s not the kind of thing you could plan ahead for,” said Ralph Izard, the former interim dean of the Louisiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication and the author of Lessons from Ground Zero. “As a result of this, they started doing the kind of journalism that is the hallmark of greatness.”

Izard said reporters who covered the three attacks were able to produce quality journalism despite the short time period and a lack of equipment.

They were forced to track down anyone they could on the streets and report solely on “straight, factual material,” he said, because no one knew anything further. City officials were not primary sources because no one knew details about the attacks right away.

James Carey, the former CBS professor of international journalism at Columbia University, wrote in the article “Journalism After September 11” that the most immediate and wide-

spread effect of 9/11 was to “draw journalists back within the body politic.” In this way, Carey wrote, the growing distance between the press and the public was not acceptable anymore.

Izard said this return to more personal journalism was necessary.

“That has been something over the years that too many in the media have gotten away from,” he said.

“They talk to the officials and believe that that is coverage. For Sept. 11, they were forced to go to the people.”

For Rossi, that was all she could do when the four DI reporters arrived in New York City.

Rossi and her team threw on their Daily Iowan T-shirts and hoped someone, anyone, would talk.

She approached volunteers at Ground Zero and finally got someone to talk. First he babbled, she said, but then he started to focus and speak to her about what he was seeing.

“I have never seen someone with that look on his face,” she said. “He was wearing a white suit covered in ash. That ash was the remains of the buildings and the people who were in those buildings.”

Covering the terrorist attacks took a toll on her.

After coming back to Iowa, she considered leaving journalism forever.

“I thought, there was just so much misery in the world, and I don’t know if, personally, I could handle that,” Rossi said, noting that she took a couple of weeks off from the DI. But the work wasn’t

The Daily Iowan ran this wire photo on the front of its Sept. 12, 2001, edition. limited to New York City coverage. DI employees and leaders scrapped all the stories planned for the day and instead published nearly 20 original stories with an Iowa City angle.

“We had people all over Iowa City,” Plambeck said.

“Talking to professors, talk-

ing to students, talking to all kinds of people about what it meant for the city.”

Ryan Foley, the DI managing editor at the time who now works as a reporter for the Associated Press in Iowa City, reminisced as he skimmed

through the DI coverage from 10 years ago.

“It’s an incredible learning experience, and that’s what it was the most,” he said. “How to react quickly, how to make good decisions, how to try to tackle a huge story like that from a lot of different angles.”

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Hawk/Cyclone food drive set to go

By MATT STARNS matthew-starns@uiowa.edu

a difficult During stretch for food shelves across Iowa, rising enthusiasm ahead of the state’s most anticipated football game should provide some relief.

Today marks the third annual Iowa Hospice Iowa State vs. University of Iowa Food Drive. More than two dozen Hy-Vee stores across the state — including the location at 1914 Eighth St., Coralville — will participate in the food drive.

Monica Hayes, the director of admissions for Iowa Hospice, said fans choose which team their nonperishable food items will support. The Hawks took the proverbial trophy last year.

“The rivalry across the state will excite people and encourage them to make donations to push ‘their’ team ahead of the other,” Hayes said in a press release.

Iowa Hospice officials said they hope this year’s food drive will bring more than 20,000 items. In addition to food, volunteers manning the donation stations will accept monetary donations, a first in the history of the event.

Last year, fans donated more than 17,000 food items across the state.

“We’re doing this to help all the food banks across the state of Iowa,” said Stacie Rasmussen, the coordinator of the Iowa City donation center. “Any donations, be they mone-

Iowa State fans walk to the entrance of Jack Trice Stadium for the intrastate rival matchup between the Cyclones and the Hawkeyes on Sept.

15, 2007, in Ames. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo) tary or food, will help the food banks, and that’s really the goal.”

Volunteers and staffers from all 14 Iowa Hospice locations will cheer on their local communities as they attempt to beat last year’s record.

“It’s a great opportunity to be able to give back to our community,” said Katie Simms, coordinator for the Ames food drive. “All the food is going locally to the food banks and shelters.”

She said food banks should be especially grateful this year.

“They’ve been running low the last few months,” she said. “That’s a big motivator for us.”

The winner of the food drive will be announced during the Iowa State/Iowa football game on Saturday.

A check will be presented, along with the food donations, to the Food Bank of Iowa at Iowa Hospice’s tent, located southwest of

Iowa State’s Hilton Coliseum.

Items in the highest demand include cans of vegetables, fruit, chicken, tuna fish, soup, boxes of macaroni and cheese, crackers, rice, noodles, fruit juice, coffee, and tea.

Ultimately, the competition will take a back seat to the drive’s main goal: helping those in need.

“That’s kind of what hospice is about,” Simms said.

“Taking care of others.”

Iowa vs. ISU Food Drive Donations received will go to the Johnson County Crisis Center • When: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Where: Coralville Hy-Vee, 1914 Eighth St. • What: Nonperishable food items and monetary donations Source: Stacie Ras,issem. coordinator for Iowa City donation center

Sp tlight Iowa City

Councilor knows the spin

By SAMANTHA GENTRY samantha-gentry@uiowa.edu

Strolling down the halls and singing ballads to his colleagues is a normal practice for Ross Wilburn while at the office.

But a quirk some of his coworkers may not know is that aside from being the former mayor of Iowa City, a city councilor and mayor pro-tem, and the equity director for the Iowa City School District, he spends his free time as a spin-class instructor.

After cycling outdoors for the past 15 years, Wilburn decided it was time to take his passion indoors.

“One day I picked up a bike, started riding, and I haven’t looked back since,” he said.

When Core Fitness — located in Iowa City and North Liberty — was in need of instructors, he didn’t hesitate. He went to a two-day training program to become certified to teach.

He started teaching the RPM program with a team,

City Councilor Ross Wilburn leads a spin class at Core Fitness. Wilburn, who also participates in RAGBRAI, leads two cycling classes a week.

(Contributed photo) but in October, he will send a video of himself teaching a class alone for further certification.

Wilburn, who participates in RAGBRAI, said cycling is a great way to stay in shape. But it’s become more than just a workout in his daily life.

“Cycling is a great stress

reliever, it gets you strong, and it increases your metabolism,” he said.

Every Friday night and Sunday morning, a group of several regular cyclists take Wilburn’s spin class, and there are usually four or five newcomers as well.

Rozy Warder recently took her first spin class with Wilburn. She has known him ever since she moved to the School District.

She said Wilburn made her transition into the community and his spin class a positive experience.

“Ross came early and assisted me in selecting a bike and adjusting the seat height to fit my stature,” Warder said. “He also cued me on the particular spin verbage. There is a spin language, and he made sure I knew what was meant by terms like the ‘racing position.’”

Familiarizing new students with the language and set up of the class is very important to Wilburn.

“When someone is new I find out a little about them

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so I can help them maximize their workout,” Wilburn said. “You just want to make them feel comfortable during their riding experience.”

During each 45-minute class, nine different songs accompany the ride. As the music changes, Wilburn provides the students with different cues in order to stay on top of their workout.

“I tell them the amount of resistance to have, when

to ride on the beat of the music, or whether it’s a power climb,” he said.

“Coaching them on how much push, pedal speed, and what position they should be in is the main focus.”

Making a personal connection with his cyclists is something he strives for.

Rick Spear, a fellow cycling instructor, has known Wilburn for about 20 years.

“I know how much [Wilburn] enjoys meeting new people and engaging them in conversation,” Spear said. “This is what makes him a good instructor and a valuable asset to this community. He is engaged and involved whether he is [wearing] a tie or in lycra [spandex].”

As long as Wilburn is a member of Core Fitness, he said, he plans on teaching spin classes.

“The cycling community is like a team,” he said.

“Everyone is working toward the same goal and supporting each other. It makes working out fun.”

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Rights panel floats plan

By ASMAA ELKEURTI asmaa-elkeurti@uiowa.edu

Officials with the Iowa City Human Rights Commission said they are unsure how the City Council will receive the group’s recommendations about improving the lives of the city’s immigrants.

Dianne Day, a member of the commission, said four members of a subcommittee spent the summer compiling information about surveys they distributed to the local immigrant community. That information is set to be presented to the council at its work session on Sept.

19.

The latest development comes after councilors put on hold all discussions about the possibility of an immigrant “sanctuary city” last March.

That ordinance would have given illegal immigrants in Iowa City amnesty from federal antiimmigration laws in the hopes of reducing fear of deportation, which contradicts federal regulations.

Despite a wealth of information, members are unsure if the council will act on the committee’s proposals.

“If City Council adopted all nine, I would be amazed and grateful,” said Karla Detweiler, a member of the Sanctuary City committee.

The commission is urging councilors to educate the public to reduce discrimination through a series of nine recommendations. These proposals include increasing access to city services by immigrant communities, using Human Rights Commission resources to hold public forums on immigration issues, and changing identification requirements.

“There was no differentiation between a picture ID and a driver’s license,” Day said. “That to me, personally, is an example not of

intentional discrimination or singling out any group, it’s totally unintentional due to lack of awareness.”

She said she believes education and communication are the best means of reducing fear among immigrants and expanding the public’s awareness.

“We can promote education and promote understanding through knowledge,” Day said. “The communication has to be there to acknowledge whether things are fact or fiction.”

One recommendation suggested the city implement a program similar to the “Employee Authority in Immigration Matters” municipal code in place in St. Paul and Minneapolis.

The program would limit immigration enforcement by city officials.

At the City Council’s last discussion of the proposals, in March, a few councilors were skeptical about making Iowa City a “sanctuary city.”

“The punishment for ignoring federal law on the issue is losing access to the federal crime database, which would be a terrible idea for any law-enforcement association,” Iowa City Mayor Matt Hayek told The Daily Iowan after that meeting.

Suit against deceased prof, UI on hold The case against a deceased University of Iowa professor who was accused of trading grades for sexual favors might now go to trial as late as December 2012.

According to court documents, a 6th Judicial District judge agreed Wednesday to exempt the case from a rule that requires civil cases to be tried within a year of their filing. The

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case will continue to be exempt from that rule until Dec. 31, 2012.

Miller, who was charged four counts of crimes relating to allegedly giving students higher grades for sexual favors in 2008.

He went missing in August and committed suicide while lawenforcement authorities searched for him in Iowa City.

Two former UI students filed the lawsuit against Miller’s estate and the UI in May 2010.

— by Eric Moore

2 Iowa City residents saved from blaze

Warner Karakas, 20, 227 E. Market St.No.42,was charged Sept.2 with PAULA. Brendan McInerney, 20, 10 N. Johnson St., was charged Wednesday with use of a fictitious driver’s license/ID.

Sean McGrath, 19, 325 E. College St. No. 1616, was charged Wednesday with PAULA. Patricia Miller, 64, 1010 Scott Park Drive No. 305, was charged with

Firefighters from the Iowa City Fire Department saved two locals from a second-floor blaze.

According to an Iowa City press release, on Wednesday, Fire Department personnel responded to reports of a building on fire at 2401 Highway 6 E., the Dolphin Lake Enclave.

Once firefighters arrived, they were informed that two residents were visible in a second-

floor window. While officials were waiting for additional units to respond, they placed a ladder by the second-floor window and began rescuing occupants. A third occupant escaped without assistance.

The fire was brought quickly under control once other units arrived. The fire lasted approximately 30 minutes and was contained to the room of origin.

There were no injuries to either the residents or fire fighters.

Damage to the building is estimated at $10,000.

— by Brittany Till

BLOTTER Michael Estabrook, 21, Walcott, Iowa, was charged Thursday with public intoxication.

Eugene Harris, 45, Coralville, was charged Thursday with thirdoffense public intoxication.

first-degree theft.

Matthew White, 22, 3042 Newport Road N.E., was charged Thursday with second-offense OWI.

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THE CY-HAWK SERIES

Soccer wary of ISU speed Soccer won’t overlook Iowa State’s team speed heading into tonight’s game.

By BEN WOLFSON benjamin-wolfson@uiowa.edu

have played well for them,” Ferentz said on Tuesday, referring to the 16 starters returning from last year’s team.

“They’ve had a lot of good moments, so we’re going over there expecting a real tough game.”

Iowa State’s flashiest player

Even though freshman striker Cloé Lacasse has scored the same number of goals (six) as the entire Iowa State soccer team has this season, Iowa views tonight’s showdown with the Cyclones as its biggest game of the 2011 season. “[This game] is a big rivalry for the C y- H aw k Trophy,” sophomore Katie Nasenbenny said.

“They’re a tough team, and they like Ron Rainey to go really hard, Iowa head coach so we’ll have to match their intensity. We have some really talented people offensively — and good defenders — and as long as we stick to how we play, we should be OK.” Because of the speed the Cyclones possess, Iowa head coach Ron Rainey said the outcome of the game could be decided in the early minutes.

“I think they are a team that will come out and be very intense,” Rainey said. “They’re going to play hard and competit i v e, a n d t h o s e a r e t h i n g s w e have to match right from the get-go. Those are the keys to the first 15 to 20 minutes of the game.”

The Cyclones are 3-2-1 on the year under fourth-year head

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Iowa running back Brandon Wegher rushes during the Iowa/Iowa State game on Sept. 12, 2009, in Jack Trice Stadium. Wegher gained 101 yards and scored his first touchdown in the third quarter, contributing to Iowa’s 35-3 victory. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

Ferentz expects tough game Iowa State will provide the Hawkeyes with a much stiffer challenge than Tennessee Tech did last week.

By SETH ROBERTS seth-roberts@uiowa.edu

Given the volume of the instate trash talk and swirling speculation about the CyHawk Trophy, one could forget one very important thing about the Iowa/Iowa State rivalry.

There’s a football game to be played on Saturday.

Softball set for ‘fall ball’ The Iowa softball team will open its fall exhibition season at 6 p.m. today against Iowa Central Community College at Pearl Field.

The Hawkeyes finished 27-24 (9-11 Big Ten) last season; the Tritons compiled a 45-13 record.

Marla Looperenters her second year as Iowa’s head coach after replacing longtime coach Gayle Blevins when the latter retired before last season. Marla Looper is head coach Looper assisted by Adrianna Baggetta and Stacy a former May-Johnson, Hawkeye who helped lead Team USA to the 2011 World Cup of

Haddy among Wall honorees Longtime athletics communications staff member Phil Haddy is one of four members of the media to be inducted into the Kinnick Stadium Media Wall of Fame, according to a release on Thursday.

The four media members have all covered Hawkeye athletics during the past 40 years, and they will be inducted Sept.

16-17. The group will be honored on the field at Kinnick Stadium before Iowa’s home football game against Pittsburgh on Sept. 16.

Haddy joined the Iowa staff as an assistant sports-information director in 1971, and he has aided several Hawkeye sports in the 41 years since then. A graduate of Iowa, he became the third sports information director in school history in 1993 and

Much has been made of the recent inequality of the CyHawk Series. After all, Iowa has won the last three in a row and outscored the Cyclones, 70-10, in the last two meetings. Up until the fourth quarter of the 2010 matchup, the Black and Gold had held Iowa State without a touchdown for 17-straight

Softball crown.

Both Iowa’s starting pitchers — junior Chelsea Lyon and sophomore Kayla Massey — return, and they are joined by nine additional letter winners.

Infielder Katie Keim and catcher Liz Watkins are the only seniors on the Iowa roster; the two are joined by seven juniors, six sophomores, and four freshmen.

Iowa will play four home games during “fall ball” — today, Sept. 16 against Indian Hills Community College, Sept.

30 against Kirkwood Community College, and Oct. 7 against Muscatine Community College.

The Hawkeyes will also travel to Des Moines to take part in the Big Four Classic on Sept. 2425. Iowa will play Iowa State, Drake, and Northern Iowa.

— by Sam Louwagie held the position through 2010.

As part of his phased retirement, Haddy now serves as the special assistant to the Iowa football team, and he will officially step down sometime this school year.

Haddy is the longest-serving member of a Big Ten sports information office, and his 41 years is third-longest tenure in the conference’s history.

Other inductees include Associated Press writer Chuck Schoffner, who covered Iowa events from 1972-2005, former Waterloo Courier sportswriter and Editor Kevin Evans, who covered the Hawkeyes from 19652006, and current KCRG-TV sports director John Campbell.

Campbell’s present stint at KCRG, which began 32 years ago, coincided with Hayden Fry’s hiring as Iowa’s head football coach.

— by Matt Cozzi

quarters — and that score came in garbage time against Iowa’s second-string defense.

But Hawkeye head coach Kirk Ferentz cautioned against overlooking an Iowa State team that head coach Paul Rhoads calls his best yet.

“They’re three years into the program, certainly, [and have] a lot of good players back who

Golfers not sure what to expect

Iowa senior Chris Brant watches his shot on Wednesday. Brant will play in his fourth Gopher Invitational this weekend. (The Daily Iowan/ Anthony Bauer)

The Iowa men’s golf team will play in its first tournament of the fall in Minnesota this weekend.

By BEN SCHUFF benjamin-schuff@uiowa.edu

The Iowa men’s golf team should start getting some answers this weekend.

The Hawkeyes will tee off in their first tournament of the fall season on Sept. 11 at the Gopher

Invitational in Wayzata, Minn.

While the 14-team field includes three other Big Ten schools — host Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Penn State — Iowa will face solid competition from five other teams that finished the 2011 spring season ranked in the top

50: Arkansas (No. 17), Kent State (No. 27), Liberty (No. 35), North Texas (No. 44), and Notre Dame (No. 48).

Iowa head coach Mark Hankins’ team ended last year ranked No. 9 in the country by golfstat.com.

But following the graduation of what Hankins

deemed the “top two players in the history of the program” in Vince India and Brad Hopfinger, it remains to be seen what this team is capable of accomplishing.

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Daughter, father clash

Iowa freshman Erin Leppek puts the ball over the net during Iowa’s 3-1 loss to Marquette on Aug. 27 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Leppek and the Hawkeyes will face Chicago State tonight in the Iowa Invitational. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner)

Iowa volleyball senior Megan Eskew will face a special opponent in the Iowa Invitational this weekend — her dad.

By MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD molly-olmstead@uiowa.edu

Iowa volleyball outside hitter Megan Eskew wants to kill Chicago State in the opening game of the Iowa Invitational this weekend.

Her father, Bob Eskew, is the Cougars’ head coach.

Iowa (3-3) will face Chicago State at 7 p.m. today in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, and it will take on Loyola-Chicago at noon and Oakland (Mich.) at 7 p.m. Saturday. Despite the three-game weekend, the Hawkeyes say they are energized and looking forward to the family battle.

Megan Eskew has known about Chicago State’s visit since the spring, when head coach Sharon Dingman asked her permission to invite the team to Iowa City.

At first, the idea fueled playful jokes from the team — if Eskew scores, will her father cheer for her or not?

But now, on game day, the team said it realizes the uniqueness of the situation calls for a few changes.

“I honestly don’t think knowing Megan’s dad is the coach will change the way we perform but rather the way we cheer and how we react to points won,” senior blocker Mallory Husz said.

Bob Eskew is in his second season with the Cougars, but Iowa has challenged Chicago State on two other occasions. In 2004 and 2006, the Hawkeyes defeated the Cougars in only three sets each game. Iowa currently holds a 2-0 record against the team from the Windy City.

Chicago State is 1-7 this season, and Bob Eskew is 1-40 for his career entering the tournament, but the benefits of inviting Chicago State to participate in the invitational tournament go far beyond the competition.

“Megan’s dad is a college coach, so it’s hard it is for him to see his daughter play [very often],” Dingman said. “It gives him a chance to watch her a couple times, but also it’s just a good

opportunity. How many moms or dads get to play against their daughter’s college team?”

Bob Eskew played an influential role in his daughter’s volleyball career. For 22 years, he served as the head volleyball coach at Bloom Township High in Chicago Heights, Ill., and his daughter frequently tagged along to practices and participated in the training.

“My dad got me into the gym in the first place,” Megan Eskew said. “And then, he pushed me really hard. He always told me that I didn’t work hard enough — but then [Dingman] tells me I’m the hardest worker she’s ever had, so I think he really pushed to make me be a better volleyball player.”

Megan Eskew is a usually “intense, serious player” and a “go-getter girl,” said Husz. Eskew agreed and said she doesn’t think her dad’s rare presence at the game will affect her performance, even though he’ll

Iowa (3-3) vs.

Chicago State (1-7) What: Iowa Invitational When: 7 p.m. today (Saturday vs. Loyola-Chicago at noon and vs. Oakland at 7 p.m.)

Where: Carver-Hawkeye Arena Where to listen: HawkeyeSports.com be the opponent on the other side of the net.

“I’m approaching it like a normal game,” Megan Eskew said. “Afterwards, I’ll look to talk to my dad, but during game time, it’s just going to be the same me — the same intensity, the same work-now, playlater [mentality].”

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— and the one who provided the Cyclones with their best moments in the team’s 20-19 win over Northern Iowa last week — is one who wasn’t anywhere near the state of Iowa last year. Quarterback Steele Jantz began his career at Hawaii, transferred to City College of San Francisco in 2009, and joined Iowa State after throwing for more than 3,000 yards and rushing for 600 more last season with the Rams.

Jantz had early problems against UNI, but he led a charge late in the fourth quarter to secure the one-point win. He helped score each of Iowa State’s three touchdowns, running for two and tossing for another.

The 22-year-old is the second-straight dualthreat quarterback to face the Iowa defense; the Hawkeyes shut down Tennessee Tech’s Tre Lamb last week.

But Jantz is a different level of quarterback than Lamb, and Ferentz said Jantz’s poor season-opening numbers (18-for-40 and 187 yards) don’t tell the whole story.

“There were three quarters where he struggled — looked like a guy who was new, a guy who wasn’t comfortable,” Ferentz said.

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THE INTERRUPTERS

Iowa’s Adrian Clayborn tackles Iowa State running back Alexander Robinson in Kinnick Stadium on Sept.

11, 2010. Clayborn recorded three tackles in the Hawkeyes’ 35-7 win. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

Iowa (1-0) vs.

Iowa State (1-0) When: 11 a.m. Saturday Where: Jack Trice Stadium, Ames Where to watch: MC22 or Comcast Sports Plus

“Then, in the fourth quarter, he did a great job of helping his team win. At the end of the day, that’s what counts in that ball game … I think he’s got his jitters, the first game jitters, down the tubes now, and he’s ready to go.”

Chances are pretty good Iowa’s gunslinger won’t have jitters, either — although James Vandenberg did say the first time he took the field in Jack Trice Stadium, in 2009, he

was so nervous he thought his legs wouldn’t support him.

“I took a five-step drop, and I almost fell down — and then I threw a onebouncer to Keenan Davis,” he said on Tuesday, smiling. “Then, the next play, I hit Don Nordmann on a deep crossing route, and after that I was good to go.

I remember my legs were like Jell-O walking in there.”

But now that he has a few starts under his belt, Vandenberg said the nerves are mostly gone.

That’s a positive for the Hawkeyes, who will need his leadership more than usual considering the running game might be fairly one-dimensional on Saturday. After starter Marcus Coker, who fumbled twice

in his first four carries last week, the tailback situation is thin; No. 2 back Jason White has two career carries.

Still, offensive lineman Adam Gettis said he’s not worried about which running back he will be blocking for.

“We have a pretty good offensive line, and we want to block people,” he said. “That’s what we’re going to do.”

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weekend],” senior Barrett Kelpin said.

Joining Kelpin at Spring Hill Golf Course will be seniors Chris Brant and Brad George, sophomore Steven Ihm, and redshirt freshman Ian Vandersee.

This will be the fourthyear the straight Hawkeyes will play in the Gopher Invitational, and the fourth time Kelpin and Brant will participate in the tournament. The two are arguably the most experienced golfers on this year’s team and will be leaders for the Black and Gold.

Brant said Spring Hill is one of his favorite courses to play.

“It’s one of the best-conditioned courses I’ve ever played,” he said. “It’s very well designed. It’s a shotmaker’s golf course.”

Two golfers will make their Hawkeye débuts.

Ihm is a junior-college transfer from Indian Hills Community College (Ottumwa, Iowa) playing in his first Division-I tournament.

Vandersee will also represent the Black and Gold for the first time after redshirting last year.

Given some of the new faces, Hankins said, he hopes for a top-five finish for the team and hopes all his players are aiming for

full years as Iowa’s

“Iowa State will be

Iowa (5-0-0) vs.

Iowa State (3-2-1)

head coach, and he led

able to put us under

the Hawkeyes to a 4-0

more pressure than any

When: 7 p.m. today (Sept. 11 vs. South Dakota, 1 p.m.)

Where: Iowa Soccer Complex

win last year in Ames.

of the opponents we’ve

GOLF CONTINUED FROM 1B

Iowa redshirt freshman Ian Vandersee watches his drive on Wednesday. Vandersee will make his first career appearance for Iowa this weekend. (The Daily Iowan/Anthony Bauer)

SOCCER CONTINUED FROM 1B coach Wendy Dillinger, and they have a young roster. Last season, 10 cracked freshmen Dillinger’s starting lineup. From an offensive standpoint, each of the team’s top-five point producers were first-year players.

This

season,

the

Cyclones have recorded wins against Drake, Northern Illinois, and N o . 2 3 Wa s h i n g t o n .

They tied Wisconsin-

“[The Cyclones] have had a good start to the

said.

The Hawkeyes have scored first in every g a m e i n 2 0 1 1 s o f a r, and they will need to put pressure on sophomore goalkeeper Maddie Jobe, who has started five of the Cyclones’ six games.

“We have to come out h a r d ,” M e l i n s a i d . “ I f we play our best soccer, we’ll come out with a win.”

ers respond to Iowa State’s speed.

s e a s o n ,” R a i n e y s a i d .

So far this season, the

“The win against Wash-

backline has been made

ington was a great

up of seniors Rachel

result, and they played

Blakesley and Morgan

well in Minnesota …

S h o w a l t e r,

Outside of the Big Ten,

Rapids native and nat-

it’s probably the most

ural midfielder who

noticeable

made the switch to

game

on

[our] schedule.”

The Hawkeyes (5-0-0) have not faced a ranked opponent so far this season, and they sit on

both No. 22 Wisconsin-

top of the Big Ten with

Milwaukee and Georgia

a perfect record.

Rainey has never lost to Iowa State in his five

Classic last weekend.

faced this year,” Rainey

that streak, a key for Iowa is how the defend-

Green Bay and lost to

in the Minnesota Gold

In order to continue

a

Cedar

defense this year.

Freshman Katie Brown has started as well, and other players including freshman Melanie Pickert, sophomore Alex Melin, and junior Jade Grimm have been shuffled around on the line.

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top-20 individual finishes.

“We’ll find out [how good we are], we don’t know. We’ve only been playing against ourselves,” Hankins said.

“After our first competition, it will give us a little better indicator of how we’re playing and how good we might be.”

In addition to transitioning into competition play, the team is looking for new leadership.

Hankins said before the team’s practice on Wednesday that the program is in the early stages of finding a new assistant coach.

Former Iowa assistant Tyler Stith left Iowa last week to take the same position at Minnesota.

Hankins said it’s still unclear whether a tempoor permanent rary replacement will be hired this year.

“This time of year, you have a lot of people who are in jobs that they don’t want to leave,” the fifthyear coach said. “We may go temporary until the break in December, then put an all-out search on and bring guys in for interviews.”

Iowa at Minnesota Event: Gopher Invitational Where: Spring Hill Golf Club, Wayzata, Minn.

When: First and second rounds played on Sept. 11; final round on Sept. 12 Course facts: Par 72; 7,020 yards from back tees

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No. 15 field hockey heads east

Iowa freshman forward Sara Watro battles Kent State’s Abbie Carrico for the ball on Sept. 2 at Grant Field.

Iowa beat the then-No. 25 Golden Flashes, 7-3, and it will face Providence today. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner)

By NICK SZAFRANSKI nicholas-szafranski@uiowa.edu

The Iowa field hockey team jumped into the top 20 this week, and it will face Providence (1-3) on the road at 1 p.m. today.

Through the first four games of this 2011 season, the Hawkeyes (3-1) have equaled their victory total from last year. A 2-0 loss to No. 1 North Carolina is Iowa’s only loss so far this season.

It took the Hawkeyes nine games in 2010 to pick up their third win of the year, and that edition of the team ended up finishing the season with a 3-14 (0-6 Big Ten) record.

“It feels a little different from last year,” head coach Tracey Griesbaum said. “I can’t speak enough about every single person on this team. We are a new team, but there are a lot of returners. The work they’ve done in the past nine months is starting to pay off now, and I’m really happy for them.”

The Hawkeyes lack a conventional “superstar” player, though, and they have instead relied on spreading the ball around the field. Seven different

No. 15 Iowa (3-1) at Providence (1-3) When: 1 p.m. today (Saturday vs. Brown, noon) Where: Friar Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, Providence, R.I.

players have scored on the season — including five different players in a 7-3 win over then-No. 37 Kent State on Sept. 2.

“It’s not a person we’re trying to get the ball to; it’s an area on the field or a reading of the defense, and just putting the ball into a space for who is there,” Griesbaum said. “That’s what makes us hard to defend … we’re very balanced, and I think that’s what I’m enjoying about this team.

“We don’t have superstars, and we don’t have anyone who is at a deficit.”

Iowa has knocked off three ranked teams: thenNo. 20 Wake Forest, thenNo. 36 UMass, and thenNo. 37 Kent State. The squad also took down then-

No. 24 Louisville in a preseason exhibition game, all en route to its first top-20 ranking of the season.

“We need to really rely on trusting every player,” Griesbaum said. “They have a lot to do individually … our sport is really demanding, [so] they can’t just not take care of themselves and their bodies.

We’re going to repeat everything, not change a lot, and just crank it up.”

The Hawkeyes will also take on Brown (1-1) at noon on Saturday in Providence.

Iowa handed the Brown Bears a 5-0 loss in Iowa City in 2010, but Brown received votes in the 2011 Nat ional F ield Hockey Coaches Association poll after defeating CaliforniaDavis on Sept. 4. Brown’s loss came against No. 12 New Hampshire, 5-0, on Sept. 2.

“We can’t get ahead of ourselves, or we might fall,” junior Geena Lesiak said.

“We need to take every game for what it is and not underestimate any opponent. We have a lot to gain this season still, and it’s still early.

BLUE JAYS 7, RED SOX 4

Jays trip up Red Sox ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Ricky Romero won for the seventh time in nine starts, J.P. Arencibia hit a threerun homer, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-4, on Thursday night.

Edwin Encarnacion and Eric Thames added solo shots as the Blue Jays won back-to-back games for the first time since Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 at Baltimore.

Rookie David Cooper went 3-for-4 and had two RBIs as Toronto evened its record at 72-72.

Boston lost for the fourth time in five games and failed to gain ground on the first place New York Yankees, who lost, 5-4, in 10 innings to Baltimore earlier in the day. The Red Sox are 2 1/2 games behind New York with 19 left to play.

Romero (14-10) came in 2-6 with an 8.08 ERA in 11 career starts against the Red Sox, including an 0-3 record and 10.62 ERA in five home starts. But the left-hander turned his luck around in this one, allowing three runs and five hits in 6 2/3 innings. He walked

three and struck out seven.

Romero has lost just once since July 21, dropping a 64 decision at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 3.

Casey Janssen worked 1 1/3 innings, and Frank Francisco pitched around Jason Varitek’s leadoff homer in the ninth to finish it.

A two-out error by Kelly Johnson and a base hit by Marco Scutaro brought Dustin Pedroia to the plate as the tying run, but Francisco struck him out to end it.

White Sox slam Cleveland CHICAGO — Brent Morel hit two homers, and Paul Konerko had a grand slam, lifting the Chicago White Sox to an 8-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians on rainy Thursday night.

Morel hit a solo shot off Indian starter David Huff (2-4) in the third and a three-run homer off Frank Herrmann in the seventh. It was Morel’s first career multi-homer game and his four RBIs were a career-high.

Konerko’s 10th career grand slam tied Robin Ventura’s White Sox record and capped Chicago’s seven-run seventh.

Gavin Floyd struck out four

dailyiowan.com for more sports and held Cleveland to one run and five hits in 52⁄3 innings. Matt Thornton (1-4) retired all four batters he faced, striking out three.

Huff gave up three runs and five hits in 61⁄3 innings, striking out five, as the Indians lost their fourth-straight.

The small, subdued crowd at U.S. Cellular Field saved its biggest cheers for Cleveland’s Jim Thome, whose RBI single in the first scored Asdrubal Cabrera for the game’s first run.

The White Sox honored Thome in a ceremony before the game in recognition of his 600th career homer, which he hit on Aug. 15. Thome, who played for Chicago from 2006 to 2009, also

received a standing ovation before his first plate appearance.

Morel tied the game with a homer to left-center in the bottom of third. Later in the inning, Juan Pierre singled for his 2,000th career hit and became the 268th big-leaguer to reach the milestone.

Despite holding the Indians to one run, Floyd fell behind a number of hitters working from a slippery mound, running up his pitch count. At one point in the sixth, he requested that the field crew come out and apply sand around the pitching rubber.

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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Unusual Details in New NFL Labor Agreement: • Popsicles will be readily available if temperatures break 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and hot chocolate and snuggies will be provided if temperatures fall below 45.

• The third Sunday of every month will be casual pants and socks day.

• Lineup pictures will have a theme every week, from angry faces to pets and baby pictures.

• Mascots will no longer be costumes but the real thing. The Lions will have lions, the Bears will have bears, and the Patriots, Ricky Stanzi (sorry, Chiefs).

• All future Super Bowl rings will light up and have sound effects.

• Each NFL team will play one college team during the season, at the college stadium, so now I can finally watch a pro sport in Iowa.

• Because the Pro Bowl has become a joke, it will now be a noholds-barred game of Red Rover on the side of the Mauna Loa volcano.

• There will now be a limit of four total fieldgoal attempts per game.

(Take some chances, you damned wussies).

• All DVRs found to have recorded a game without expressed written consent will auto self destruct.

• From now on, only beer, meat, and trucks can sponsor the NFL. This isn’t soccer.

• Favre will be sacrificed to the Gods of Football to appease them for his myriad crimes.

— Nathan Wulf can’t wait for the Hawkeyes to play the Jaguars on Halloween costume night.

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Friday, Sept. 9 — by Eugenia Last

ARIES March 21-April 19 Don’t share your thoughts. You will get far more accomplished if you work quietly on your own. You don’t want to waste time explaining your reasons for doing things. Don’t let personal matters slow you down or put a damper on your mood.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 An outsider may lead you astray. You must focus on what needs to be done at home or on the promises you made to those close to your heart. Love is on the rise, and it will be directly linked to how you treat others.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 Take a creative approach when dealing with acquaintances. Questioning the motives of others can be tricky and can lead to suspicion. Your best bet is to show what you have to offer and what you expect in return. Honesty is favored, no matter who it will hurt.

CANCER June 21-July 22 Step up and take over. You can enjoy the benefits of being the center of attention if you take on the responsibilities that go along with being the leader. Love is highlighted, but you shouldn’t feel compelled to overspend to impress someone.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Prepare to make whatever changes are necessary to make your life better. Financial gains can be made, but you may have to give up something to turn things around. Figure out what you can do without, then put those assets on the market.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Helping others can be a beautiful experience. By volunteering your services, you will open doors to greater opportunities. Align yourself with people who have as much to offer as you, and you will find that you are included in an extraordinary group.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Do things differently, and most of all, show how creative and intelligent you can be. You will attract attention, both good and bad. You have plenty to contribute, and the only crime will be not saying what’s on your mind.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 You have to scope out the whole scenario if you want to react to what’s going on around you. Stand up for your rights and your beliefs. A passionate but honest approach will win you the support you need.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 It is best to keep your thoughts to yourself until you fully understand what you are up against. You can be true to yourself, but question your motives before moving forward.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Someone from your past may bring back emotional memories that cloud your vision. You may need to rely on a trusted friend’s judgment to make a personal decision.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Consistency will help to stabilize your life.

Honesty regarding your feelings and where you see yourself heading in the future will help you make a positive move. Strategize; set a workable budget that will allow you to invest more in you and your surroundings.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Impulse must be avoided. You have to pick a direction. If you start changing your mind, you can expect to be questioned. Spending downtime with someone who has your best interest at heart will be enlightening.

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• Engaging Communities to Advance Environmental Health Policy: National Conference and Environmental Justice Listening Session, 8 a.m., Sheraton Hotel Dean Ballroom • Preschool Story Time, 10:30 a.m., Iowa City Public Library, 123 S. Linn • Senior Tech Zone, 10:30 a.m., Iowa City Public Library • Tai Chi Fundamentals Classes, 10:30 a.m., City Ballet of Iowa City, 700 S. Dubuque • UI College of Public Health 2011 Richard & Barbara Hansen Distinguished Lecture, Kenneth Olden, 11 a.m., Sheraton Hotel Dean Ballroom, 210 S. Dubuque • UI DeGowin Blood Center S.T.A.T Blood Drive, 11 a.m., US Bank, 204 E. Washington • Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar, “The Application of Biomedical Engineering Techniques in Chiropractic Research,” Ting Xia, Palmer College, 12:30 p.m., 101 Becker • Organic Seminar, “Sordarins and Related Antifungal Agents,” Rebekah Shippy, 12:30 p.m., 40 Schaeffer Hall • Pharmacology Graduate Student Workshop, “Cerebrovascular Dysfunction and Aging: Role of ACE2 and Oxidative Stress,” Ricardo Pena Silva, 12:30, Bowen Auditorium 2

• Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program, 1 p.m., Senior Center, 28 S. Linn • Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging Seminar, 2 p.m., 3315 Seamans Center • Teen Tech Zone, 3 p.m., Iowa City Public Library • Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Graduate Seminar, 3:30 p.m., 104 Iowa Advanced Technology Labs • Department of Chemistry Colloquium, “Chemical Strategies in Nanoscience,” Stan Wong, SUNY-Stonybrook, 3:30 p.m., W151 Pappajohn Business Building • Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Seminar, 3:30 p.m., 3505 Seamans Center • Open Studio, 4 p.m., Beadology Iowa, 220 E. Washington • South Asian Studies Program Seminar, 4 p.m. 315 Phillips • Walking Club, 4 p.m., HyVee, 812 S. First Ave. • Wonders of Chemistry, Lou Messerle, 4 p.m., Main Library North Exhibition Hall • Green Drinks, 5:30 p.m., Red Avocado, 521 E. Washington • Parties in the Park, 6:30 p.m., Benton Hill Park • Country Dance and Lesson, 7 p.m., Eagle’s Lodge, 225 Highway 1 W.

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Concert, at the IMU, June 17 6:30 Iowa Summer Music Camp Faculty Recital, Piano Concert, June 14 8 WorldCanvass, Images of the American West, International Programs and Joan Kjaer, December 2010 10 Dance Performances, M.F.A.Thesis Dance, March 30