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Iowa City police have placed an officer on paid administrative leave after he fired a handgun at an armed subject early Sunday morning.

According to a release by police, officers responded to 1009 N. Summit St. at 6:11 a.m. for a welfare check on Chad Newmire, 21, after a request from a relative, who had received a despondent text message from Newmire.

The release said an officer encountered Newmire outside the house, armed with a handgun in the waistband of his pants.

Additional officers responded to assist, and police negotiated with Newmire for approximately 40 minutes before Newmire allegedly began making advancing movements toward the gun, according to the release.

One officer deployed lesslethal bean bag rounds at Newmire, another deployed his Taser, and a third fired a handgun to prevent Newmire from reaching the weapon in his waistband.

The release said Newmire was transported immediately to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where he is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Officer Alirio Arcenas, a twoyear veteran of the department, fired the handgun; he was placed on paid leave — a move consistent with department policy.

The release said the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is conducting an investigation into the incident, assisted by the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.

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Julie Heidger holds her sons, Piers and Paul, as they are being fed donated breast milk in the UIHC on Dec. 3. “The donations are truly a gift,” Heidger said. (The Daily Iowan/Jacklyn Couppee)

By DORA GROTE dora-grote@uiowa.edu

Twin boys. Two pounds. Two and a half months early.

Tightly nestled in mother’s embrace, with their miniature hands pressed gently against their tiny faces, Piers and Paul received a dose of human donor breast milk.

Holding her sons, Julie Heidger said the milk donations were “truly a gift,” because the premature birth of Piers and Paul prevented her from being able to nurse them herself.

“Every day, I see my baby boys getting stronger and big-

ger, and I am so thankful for the breast milk the hospital provided,” Heidger said. “I will never be able to adequately express how grateful I am.”

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics collects, stores, and distributes human breast milk to help nurture babies — especially preemies — through the Mother’s Milk Bank of Iowa, Iowa’s only milk bank.

The Milk Bank is asking lactating mothers for donations because its incoming milk level is “critically low.”

The Milk Bank has about a

month’s supply of pasteurized milk, and Jean Drulis, the director and cofounder of the Mother’s Milk Bank of Iowa, said the demand for donor human milk is rising.

“It’s a week-by-week struggle,” she said. “We have empty shelves in our freezers. I wish for them to become full once again. Human milk can be a matter of life or death.”

The Milk Bank dispensed more than 69,000 ounces of milk in 2010; based on its current practice, Drulis expects SEE MILK, 5

Sex shop’s lease yanked The Toolbox co-owners are petitioning to keep their store open and have had roughly 100 signatures in support.

By KRISTEN EAST kristen-east@uiowa.edu

Owners of Iowa City’s new “sex-positive” shop may soon Madison Montgomery (left), a shop cofounder, talks to customer Jill Davis in be without a space, following a the sex shop the Tool Box on Dec. 2. Montgomery said she hopes to have more termination of lease notice local artists’ works in the shop. (The Daily Iowan/Ya-Chen Chen) from their landlord.

1 The Toolbox, 128 ⁄2 E. Wash- day evening. the Toolbox’s lease. The notifiington St., opened its doors University of Iowa graduate cation said the space was last week, despite receiving a student Yelena Mejova went to intended to be used as an lease termination notice. Co- the Toolbox’s opening and said “office space” and they are not owners Julia Schaefer and she didn’t see a problem with allowed to sell any products Madison Montgomery have the store’s opening. that would “offend” their started two petitions in order “I don’t know why I had the clients. to keep their shop open, and assumption that people were Schaefer said she was given they have seen support from liberal here,” she said. “Iowa verbal consent to use the space customers and neighboring City totally needs a business for retail as opposed to an businesses. like this. It’s a great idea, and I office space. She said she “We had a petition in the would support it.” explained to the landlord, shop for people who support A move-out date was not Steve Elder, that the space the Toolbox opening and want given in the termination would be used for retail prior to see it stay open,” Schaefer notice, Shaefer said, and Tool- to a formal meeting with him. said, and they obtained about Box will continue operation Section 25d of the lease three pages worth of signa- Mondays, Wednesdays, and states that the tenant has Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m. and agreed not to sell products that tures this weekend.

The store’s owners also met Saturdays from noon to 5 p.m. will offend clients of the resistance in landlords willing until the landlord says other- Arcade Building Space.

One neighboring business to lease space earlier this year. wise.

Schaefer received two let- said it has absolutely no oppoSchaefer said she and Montgomery will approach local ters from Leff Law Firm on sition to the Toolbox.

“I don’t care,” said Monty businesses with their petition, Dec. 2 notifying her of the and an online petition is avail- landlord’s desire to terminate Hendricks, owner of Mon 1 Teaze! Hair Salon, 128 ⁄ 2 E. able on the Toolbox’s Facebook the shop’s lease.

The Daily Iowan obtained page. The online petition had roughly 20 signatures on Sun- copies of the notification and SEE SEX SHOP, 5

Ticket and travel package sales for the Hawkeyes’ trip to the Insight Bowl this year will increase over last year, officials predict.

The Hawkeyes learned Sunday night they’re heading back to Tempe, Ariz., for the second-consecutive year to face the Oklahoma Sooners at the end of the month.

Last year, Iowa defeated the Missouri Tigers at the Insight Bowl, 27-24.

Terry Tegen, the general manager of Winebrenner Red Carpet Travel of Iowa City, said Iowa’s matchup against Oklahoma is going to be a “big seller.”

“It’s Oklahoma being named as a foe, [former Iowa player and current Sooner head coach] Bobby Stoops, the whole scenario with Iowa and Ferentz,” Tegen said.

“I think it’s just going to be a great game.

It’s not a major bowl, but it’s a beautiful place.”

Tegen said his agency received more than 700 registration requests for its bowl-game packages before the bowls were announced this year. Additionally, nearly 300 more customers have indicated interest in a travel package.

Not every person who registered or expressed interest will end up making a reservation, Tegen said. But he estimated the agency will sell twice as many packages as it did last year, when it arranged slightly more than 400 trips.

Winebrenner is offering land and air packages — including travel expenses, hotel stays, and game tickets, among other amenities — ranging from $745 to nearly $1,600.

As of 9:30 p.m. Sunday, the university had sold roughly 1,000 of its 11,000 alotted tickets, said Pam Finke, UI director of ticket operations.

Insight Bowl tickets will range from $25 for upper level seats to $67 for lower level, according to the Athletics Department.

Finke recommended UI students call the ticket office directly when ordering to avoid additional fees and limits on ticket requests.

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Immigration hot-button GOP issue Most of the debate on immigration has focused on the U.S.-Mexican border, but candidates have also talked about retaining educated immigrants.

By ASMAA ELKEURTI asmaa-elkeurti@uiowa.edu

Most GOP candidates eyeing the party’s presidential nomination want to secure the United States against illegal immigration. A fence that would surround the southern border is one solution most candidates in the race agree with.

“I do believe that if you’ve been here recently and you have no ties to the U.S., we should deport you. I do believe we should control the border,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a debate last month.

Some conservative immigration groups are backing the Republican candidates, pushing for tougher border policy.

“The United States is being destroyed through the non-enforcement of our existing border,” said William Gheen, the SEE CAUCUS, 5

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Rainey is the creator of Writing My Way Back Home, a writing workshop to help soldiers express themselves. (Publicity photo)

By SAMANTHA GENTRY samantha-gentry@uiowa.edu

When Emma Rainey was a graduate student in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, she remembers reading articles about soldiers returning from war.

It seemed to her that some soldiers survived the horrors of war only to commit suicide because they couldn’t handle the trauma they endured.

“I couldn’t bear the fact that soldiers would come back and kill their child or wife and then kill themselves,” Rainey said.

She thought that if writing could help with her own life, then maybe it could help the soldiers as well. So, she started a writing workshop called Writing My Way Back Home.

The goal of the workshop is to provide a space for U.S. veterans to write about their wartime experiences in order to heal, to be heard, and to create meaningful expression.

The workshop is not meant to create a work of

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literary quality but rather offer the writing tools to help the veterans write about their feelings and reflect on certain experiences from war.

“I let the soldiers know how they can get started by making them use the path of writing so they can tell their stories,” Rainey said.

“Through that, I believe that the therapeutic effects of writing are renowned.”

In October, Rainey worked with UI Veterans Center Coordinator John Mikelson to create a workshop for veterans in the

Iowa City area.

Because she was living in California, she needed someone in Iowa City to help coordinate a space for the event and contact local writers and interested students.

This is the third workshop Mikelson worked on with Rainey, and he said the people involved were very impressed with the quality of instruction they received. “[Rainey] is a very caring person, and veterans are very close to her heart,” Mikelson said. “She believes everyone has the ability to write, and she wants them to get their story out there. No one really understands what veterans are all about, so if they don’t tell their own stories, who is going to know?”

While a student at the UI, Rainey often went to the Writing Center until she eventually became a tutor while teaching Rhetoric classes. She met Carol Severino, the Writing Center director, while teaching a nonfiction workshop.

Severino received the chance to work on Rainey’s M.F.A. thesis committee, which included creative writing of personal essays about her relationships with family members and the community. “[Rainey] is a fantastic writer,” Severino said. “Her workshops are such a helpful outlet to veterans, and they produce wonderful work.”

Rainey lives in California, where she is working with veterans who are living in a nursing home. The facility is known for working with post-traumatic stress disorder and researching mental health of the soldiers.

Every Friday, she visits the facility and talks with veterans from World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Korean War. She recalls the stories that all of the men have told her.

“To hear a man who can’t get over the experience he had at 18 years old gives me the chills,” Rainey said.

“You can never predict what is going to come out of their mouths.”

gaining entry by breaking the lock and door jamb. The complaint said she then proceeded to the bedroom, where she allegedly assaulted her exboyfriend, causing redness to the left side of his face and pain in his neck, according to the complaint.

Jackson allegedly also assaulted a woman in the residence, pulling her hair and biting her.

First-degree burglary is a Class-B felony, and domesticabuse assault with intent is an aggravated misdemeanor.

— by Matt Starns

editor, recently received a Hearst Journalism Award.

According to a Dec. 2 press release from the Hearst Foundation, Zilbermints placed fifth in the feature-writing category for her story “Out on the fly: Iowa authorities struggle with warrants.”

“I feel wonderful,” she said.

“I’m really, really excited that my hard work on this story paid off.” The story was about warrant enforcement in the state of Iowa. Zilbermints, who now works for the Des Moines Register, traveled to Pennsylvania in order to gather information for her piece.

Zilbermints received a $1,000 scholarship along with her fifthplace award.

— by Asmaa Elkeurti

METRO Thompson enters plea deal in Versypt slaying Charles William Curtis Thompson has entered a plea deal with the state following the 2009 shooting death of an Iowa City landlord. He was originally charged with first-degree murder.

Court documents said Thompson, 19, pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact, an aggravated misdemeanor on Dec. 2. He also signed court documents stating he knew Justin Marshall — another suspect — committed the slaying of Broadway landlord John Versypt on Oct. 8, 2009.

His plea also said he helped Marshall dispose of his clothing in a Dumpster, he believed Marshall may have been involved in Versypt’s death, and he kept this information from police.

A press release from Johnson County prosecutor Janet Lyness said officials continued their investigation into Versypt’s death following Thompson’s firstdegree murder mistrial in September. The release said they later determined that accessory after the fact was an appropriate resolution for Thompson, and he pleaded guilty on Dec. 2.

Marshall and Courtney White have also been charged with first-degree murder in the Versypt case. They face separate trials in 2012.

Thompson’s sentencing is set for June 11, 2012, at 11 a.m.

— by Eric Moore

UI student charged with assault A University of Iowa student was charged with assault causing bodily injury Dec. 3 after an alleged altercation in his Reinow dorm room.

According to a complaint by UI police, Evan Bridwell, 18, was involved in an altercation after a subject refused to leave his dorm

room. The complaint said both the victim and a witness stated Bridwell assaulted the victim, allegedly causing cuts, bruising, and swelling on the victim’s forehead.

The complaint said the victim was seen by medical personnel and responded incorrectly as to where he was and what year it was.

Bridwell allegedly denied involvement in the altercation.

Bridwell is charged with assault causing bodily injury, a serious misdemeanor.

— by Matt Starns

Regents to consider changes to naming Local man faces policy drug charges The state Board of Regents at its meeting this week will consider requiring centers named after elected officials to hold off until that official is out of office.

The proposed revisions to the Regents’ New Centers and Institutes policy comes after the board in April approved the controversial naming of an Iowa State University public-policy institute after Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

The revision would require all proposed honorary names of centers and institutes at the three state universities — including at the UIHC — to obtain specific approval from the regents.

— by Sam Lane

Area woman charged with domestic-abuse assault A North Liberty woman was charged Dec. 3 with first-degree burglary and domestic-abuse assault with intent after she allegedly broke into a residence with the intention of assaulting her ex-boyfriend, who was inside.

According to a complaint by North Liberty police, Keisha Jackson, 34, allegedly broke into the residence around 7 p.m.,

An Iowa City man was charged Dec. 3 with possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver and failure to affix a tax stamp to a taxable substance after officers conducted a consent search of the vehicle he was in.

A complaint by Iowa City police said Dimione Jamal Walker, 18, was charged after officers responded at approximately 1 a.m. to 1100 Arthur St. for a 911 call hang-up. While entering the apartment complex, an officer made contact with a vehicle leaving the area of the building. While in contact with the occupants of the vehicle, the complaint said officers noticed open containers of alcohol in the car.

The complaint said after obtaining consent to search the vehicle from the driver, officers located a plastic bag containing seven individually packaged amounts of crack cocaine — allegedly belonging to Walker — in the back seat of the vehicle where Walker was allegedly seated.

Possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver is a ClassD felony.

— by Matt Starns

Ex-DI staffer wins Hearst award Regina Zilbermints, a former Daily Iowan reporter and Metro

UI looks to purchase Melrose properties UI officials are seeking the regents’ approval to purchase two properties on Melrose Avenue for $1.1 million.

The UI plans to purchase the two properties — 711 Melrose Ave. and 1 Melrose Place — in order to eventually construct a $3 million parking lot. Officials want to demolish universityowned structures at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Melrose Place for the project. If the purchase is approved, the UI will lease the 711 Melrose Ave. property back to its sellers from January 2012 to December 2016 for $600 a year.

The 250-space parking lot would be used for UI Hospitals and Clinics staff and physicians who will be displaced upon the construction of the West Campus Transportation Center and the Children’s Hospital.

— by Sam Lane

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Suspect’s friends tell of ‘rough patches’ A family friend said he never saw ‘any kind of anger’ from Plummer during his teenage years.

By ERIC MOORE eric-moore-1@uiowa.edu

Friends of Branden Plummer said he experienced a few rough patches growing up.

Plummer, a University of Iowa student, was charged last week with attempted murder of an Iowa City police officer.

Kelly Rapp, 20, who has known Plummer since

third grade and attended Valley High School with him in West Des Moines, said his friend had “unfortunate circumstances growing up.”

Rapp said Plummer’s father died of cancer a few years following his parents’ divorce.

“He already had a poor family situation.” Rapp said. “I’m sure that [his death] did affect him.”

Plummer, 20, was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly strangled Iowa City police Sgt. Brian Krei and slammed his head against the ground on Nov. 18 before fleeing the scene.

Police arrested Plummer on Nov. 29 after an anonymous tip identified him based on a wanted poster in an Iowa City Kum ’N’ Go.

Police report said Plummer was disrupting traffic on the intersection of Linn and Burlington Streets before Krei attempted to stop him, at which point Plummer began to fight.

According to Iowa court documents,Plummer was charged with an OWI July 2010.

Rapp said Plummer crashed into a house shortly after his father’s death.

“It was at a T-intersection, and you know even that was unfortunate, because he was driving another friend home who had drank too much that night,” Rapp said.

Kelly Rapp’s father, John Rapp, said Plummer lived at their residence for a portion of his final semester of high school.

Though Rapp said there was “no logical reason” for

the incident with the police officer, he said Plummer had difficult teenage years.

“I describe the whole situation as extremely sad,” Rapp said. “His dad had passed away of cancer … prior to that, his mom and dad had gotten divorced, and his mom probably didn’t give him as much attention as was probably warranted.”

He said Plummer had issues with his mother and stepfather that caused him to move into the Rapp home.

“His mom came over, and we chatted about it in our living room,” Rapp said.

“Everything was agreeable, and she was fine with him coming to stay with us, which made it a little easier.”

Plummer’s mother was

unable to be reached Sunday evening.

Rapp said despite Plummer’s difficulties, he didn’t observe any obvious change in his Plummer’s demeanor.

“Even though it might have been a troubling situation, it wasn’t a horrible situation,” Rapp said.

“Everybody has issues when they grow up, everyone’s got this or that to go through. I wouldn’t have described it as anything different from other people who went through divorces or that kind of thing.”

UI student Sara Allen, who knew Plummer in high school, said he was always nice. “… he hasn’t had the easiest life, but he’s a very good kid,” she said, and she

belives his father’s death “made him who he is.”

But Allen said it’s hard to tell how much the death affected Plummer.

“I don’t know if that affected him more than we think it did or what,” Allen said. “It’s not an excuse for anything, but it could have affected him. He’s obviously made a very big mistake, but he’s a good kid.”

Patrick Ingram, Plummer’s attorney, declined to comment Sunday evening.

As of Sunday, Plummer was being held on a $100,000 cash-only bond at Muscatine County Jail.

Plummer is set to appear in court for an initial hearing at 2 p.m. today at the Johnson County Courthouse.

Troy Dickerson , 50, 2446 Lakeside Drive Apt. 12, was charged Dec. 1 with violating a no-contact, domestic-abuse protective order.

Kelly Divita, 19, 308 S. Gilbert St. Apt. 1124, was charged Dec. 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Andrew Eck, 19, 325 E. College St. Apt. 1628, was charged Dec. 1 with keeping a disorderly house.

Alec Finn, 19, 411 N. Linn St., was charged Sunday with keeping a disorderly house.

Natalie Franc e , 32, 2434 Lakeside Drive Apt. 4, was charged Dec. 1 with fifth-degree theft.

Jordan Garr, 20, Davenport, was charged Sunday with PAULA. Robert Glaspey , 25, 1015 W. Benton St. Apt. 52, was charged Nov. 29 with violating a no-contact, domestic-abuse protective order.

Jakob Gregorich , 19, address unknown, was charged Dec. 2 with public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

Kye Grenko, 19, 2116 Quadrangle, was charged Nov. 29 with public intoxication.

Kaitlin Hillner , 20, 430 S. Johnson St., was charged Dec. 3 with PAULA. Trenton James, 21, 17 S. Governor St., was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

Ryan Jansa, 278 E. Court St. Apt. 407, was charged Dec. 3 with keeping a disorderly house.

Jaclyn Jensen, 19, 84 Broadmoor Lane, was charged Dec. 2 with second-offense OWI and unlawful use of an authentic driver’s license.

Nicholas Kent, 20, Cedar Falls, was charged Sunday with public intoxication and providing false reports to law enforcement.

Timothy Kettering , 444 S. Johnson St. Apt. 7, was charged Sunday with presence in a bar after hours.

John Koenen, 20, 325 E. College St. Apt. 1628, was charged Dec. 1 with keeping a disorderly house.

Stephanie LaMartino, 21, Normal, Ill., was charged Nov. 30 with fifth-degree theft.

James LaMotta , 20, 17 S. Governor St., was charged Dec. 2 with public intoxication.

Theodore Lane , 20, 513 N.

Dubuque St. Apt. 5, was charged Dec. 3 with public intoxication.

Melvin Marin, 22, Kalona, was charged Dec. 1 with driving with a suspended or canceled license.

Joseph Mescher , 19, 325 E. College St. Apt. 1628, was charged Dec. 1 with keeping a disorderly house.

Jose Molina, 20, 2444 Nevada Ave., was charged Sunday with OWI. Zakary Morton, 24, Cedar Rapids, was charged Nov. 30 with public intoxication.

Alexa Murtagh , 20, 319 E. Burlington St. Apt. 108, was charged Dec. 3 with PAULA. Lauren Negaard, 19, 313 S. Gilbert St. Apt. 2020, was charged Dec. 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Jamie Noble, 22, Amboy, Ill., was charged Dec. 3 with possession of an open alcohol container in public.

Darcy Norem , 48, address unknown, was charged Dec. 2 with third-degree theft.

Katrice O’Neal, 27, Cedar Rapids, was charged Dec. 3 with interference with official acts.

Gary Oldaker , 46, address unknown, was charged Dec. 2 with public intoxication.

Rollie Opalacz , 21, 112 1/2 E. Washington St., was charged Dec. 2 with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and failure to affix a drug tax stamp to a taxable substance.

Sean Papreck, 600 S. Capitol St. Apt. 408, was charged Dec. 2 with public intoxication.

Hussein Razick , 24, 415 1/2 Bowery St., was charged Sunday with OWI and reckless driving.

Kimaya Reese , 19, 842 Longfellow Court, was charged Dec. 2 with fifth-degree theft.

Jason Roling , 40, Solon, was charged Dec. 2 with third-degree theft.

Timothy Showalter , 60, 2715 Dubuque St. N.E., was charged Nov. 29 with public intoxication.

Graham Shute, 51, 2104 Davis St. Apt. A, was charged Nov. 30 with criminal trespass.

Taylor Smith , 20, 201 E. Burlington St. Apt. 1534, was charged Dec. 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

Chad Stapes, 19, 525 Iowa Ave., was charged Dec. 3 with OWI.

Stacy Stein, 21, Lincolnshire, Ill., was charged Dec. 3 with possession of an open alcohol container in public.

Simeon Talley, 27, 1247 Melrose Ave., was charged Dec. 3 with public intoxication and simple assault.

Connor Taylor, 20, 278 E. Court St., was charged Dec. 3 with public intoxication.

Melanie Thier , 19, 2263 Quadrangle, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

Eli Vargason, 20, 1112 Hotz Ave., was charged Dec. 3 with PAULA. Garrett Warner , 18, 1110 N. Dubuque St. Apt. 704A, was charged Sunday with OWI. Bradley Weaverling, 19, 3326C Mayflower, was charged Nov. 29 with unlawful use of an authentic driver’s license.

John Williams, 22, 614 Orchard Park, was charged Sunday with public intoxication.

Tkeyah Wright, 19, 801 Southlawn Drive, was charged Dec. 2 with fifth-degree theft.

Tyler Ziegenhorn, 20, Muscatine, was charged Dec. 1 with possession of drug paraphernalia.

BLOTTER Thomas Aldrich, 20, 522 S. Dodge St., was charged Dec. 3 with PAULA. Dalesha Barton , 19, 319 S. Westminster St., was charged Dec. 3 with driving with a suspended or canceled license.

Beau Belger, 21, 630 S. Capitol St., was charged Dec. 3 with public urination.

Derek Bleile , 22, 40 Thistle Court, was charged Oct. 3 with check forgery.

Mitchell Brozovich, 18, Minooka, Ill., was charged Sunday with interference with official acts and public intoxication.

Connor Burke, 20, 325 E. College St. Apt. 1628, was charged Dec. 1 with keeping a disorderly house.

Nicholas Capdevila , 22, 2521 Nevada Ave., was charged Dec. 3 with public urination.

Olivia Croskey, 26, 807 Woodside Drive, was charged Sunday with possession of an open alcohol container in a vehicle.

Tommy Curry, 22, 2110 Broadway Apt. E, was charged Dec. 2 with interference with official acts.

Randi Davolt, 19, 621 Iowa Ave. Apt. 4, was charged Dec. 3 with presence in a bar after hours.

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Medical experts debate effectiveness of HPV vaccines Harper: Gather information and make your own choice Direct communication and full information are necessary to make health-related decisions.

As a physician who routinely treats women and men with HPV-diseases, my experience includes having sat at the bedside of women dying of cervical cancer; having performed tens of thousands of colposcopies; having surgically treated preinvasive HPV-related disease; having been actively involved in HPV cancer-prevention research for more than 20 years at the National Cancer Institute, Dartmouth, and University of Missouri-Kansas City; having served as the state director for the CDC Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Programs; having served as a consultant to both Merck (which manufactures the HPV vaccine Gardasil, the one used by University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics) and GSK (which manufactures the HPV vaccine Cervarix) on the vaccine trial designs as well as the phase-II and phase-III trials for FDA approval of both Gardasil and Cervarix; having served as a consultant to the World Health Organization; and having been an invited visiting professor to more than 70 countries about cervical cancer-prevention and HPV-associated diseases. So it’s refreshing to see an editorial (“Recommend Pap smears, not vaccines” Nov. 29 The Daily Iowan) that does not shame or fear people into being vaccinated with Gardasil.

The current Pap-screening program in the United States has resulted in an average incidence of 8 per 100,000 cases of cervical cancer per annum. Black and Latina women have higher rates at 11.1 per 100,000 and 12.8 per 100,000. The very best that Pap screening can do is to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer to 2 to 3 per 100,000 women because of false-negative testing.

Ignoring Pap screening and making generous assumptions that Gardasil will last your whole life (for which there is no proof, only speculation), that the efficacy will remain at 100 percent for your whole life (again no proof, only speculation), that Gardasil will provide complete protection from HPV-16 and -18 and partial protection from HPV-31, and that every single female receives three doses on time, the lowest incidence of cervical cancer that Gardasil can achieve is 14 per 100,000 after 60 years of Gardasil use.

Making similar assumptions about Cervarix, but with the difference being protection against six of the cancer causing HPV types, the lowest incidence Cervarix can achieve is 9.35 per 100,000. Making similar assumptions about the monovalent Gardasil+5 vac-

cine that is being tested on women at the UI, the lowest incidence of cervical cancer achievable is 9.3 per 100,000 women.

Clearly, if one has to choose between Pap screening and vaccination, Pap screening is the way to detect early lesions so that these lesions caused by all 15 of the cancer causing HPV types can be treated and thus, cervical cancer prevented. Clearly, there is also a choice in which vaccine a woman may want if she chooses to add vaccination to her Pap screening program.

If you take a belts-and-suspenders approach and use both Pap screening and HPV vaccination, we have to go to modeling to see what the conjoined effect will be, because there are no real data. All costeffective models published in a wide range of countries show that if the vaccine is given at 11 to 12 years of age and does not last for at least 15 years (over the period of time she is most sexually active and most at risk of HPV infection), there will be NO cancers prevented.

The cancers will still develop, but now at older ages. If modelers make the assumption that the vaccines will last a lifetime without waning efficacy, then the number of cancers that could be prevented above what Pap screening is currently doing (not accounting for better outreach and access to screening and treatments) is so small that vaccination statistically does not lower the population incidence of cervical cancer over what Pap screening can currently do.

While many medical professional organizations recommend HPV vaccination as something to consider in your tool kit for cervical-cancer prevention, no professional organization mandates HPV vaccination. All organizations recognize that more than 95 percent of HPV infections never progress into a cancer and that Pap screening is absolutely necessary for cervical cancer early detection and treatment.

Most organizations recognize that the HPV vaccines are a choice to consider for your cervical-cancer prevention program, like sprinkles on an ice cream cone — that is why they are recommended.

Everything done in medicine has both benefits and harms. It is your ability to gather information from many perspectives to be able to weigh the value of the benefits and harms of HPV vaccination for you that is most important.

Diane Harper, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., is a professor of medicine and the director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Stapleton: Discouraging HPV vaccine ‘irresponsible’ The recent DI editorial titled “Recommend Pap smears, not vaccines” provides misleading information that may discourage UI students and other readers from receiving a vac-

cine that could save their lives.

As a physician who has treated young women with cervical cancer, a scientist who has conducted research on HPV vaccines, and a father of two daughters, I find the DI’s suggestion irresponsible.

Pap smears are a diagnostic test, not treatment. The editorial correctly points out that Pap smears are safe and important in identifying precancerous lesions of the cervix.

However, despite the widespread availability of Pap smears, 12,000 women are diagnosed with and 4,000 women die of cervical cancer each year in the United States.

Several excellent studies show that women screened by Pap smears are six to 10 times less likely to develop invasive cancer of the cervix.

Unfortunately, 15 percent of women never have a Pap smear, and far more women do not have regular Pap smears.

Thus, many pre-cancerous lesions remain undiagnosed until cancer has begun. In addition, Pap smears frequently give false-negative and false-positive results (i.e., they miss pre-cancerous lesions or they falsely identify lesions as pre-cancerous). False negatives occur in 10 percent to 29 percent of cases, and women with false-negative results will not know to seek preventative therapy for their pre-cancerous condition. Finally, the widespread availability of Pap smears has clearly not eliminated cervical cancer in the United States.

So how can we reduce this preventable cancer, which is diagnosed in 30 women every day in the United States? We should encourage women to have Pap smears AND receive the HPV vaccine. The DI editorial suggests that Pap smears alone are sufficient. However, the editors failed to mention the following key points: First, cervical cancer is linked to HPV infection in more than 99 percent of cases.

A woman simply does not get cervical cancer if she is not infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. Second, Pap smears detect HPV infection as “pre-cancerous lesions.”

Large clinical studies that included more than 16,000 women show that the two HPV vaccines prevent virtually all of the pre-cancerous lesions and HPV infections caused by HPV strains contained in the vaccine.

No one advocates using the vaccine and abandoning good, preventative women’s healthcare, which includes Pap smears. However, the HPV vaccine adds another layer of protection to Pap smears and maximizes efforts to reduce cervical cancer. Furthermore, by preventing pre-cancerous lesions, the vaccine will reduce

the number of invasive procedures (i.e. colposcopy, LEEP) and reduce the frequency of women being told that they have “pre-cancer.” In addition, HPV vaccination will decrease the need for the intense medical follow-up required for abnormal Pap smears, including biopsies. These biopsies have risks, including potential problems with future pregnancies.

Finally, the DI editorial quotes Dr. Diane Harper as the sole expert used to defend its editorial “Recommend Pap smears, not vaccines.” Based on the editorial, I assumed that Dr. Harper would not prescribe the HPV vaccine to her patients. However, I e-mailed her to ask that question, and she informed me that “Yes, I offer both Gardasil and Cervarix to parents and to women.

At least half of the young women opt to have protection from the 20 percent chance of abnormal Pap test.”

Her response is neither consistent with the idea that HPV vaccines should not be used nor consistent with recommendations of U.S. government health organizations, including the FDA and CDC, or with professional organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the American College of Physicians. These professional organizations convened panels of people with expertise in a wide range of relevant areas including women’s health, pediatrics, public heath, infectious diseases, immunology, cancer, vaccinology, nursing, and statistics. The panels review the primary data from the research studies of the HPV vaccines and make recommendations based on their consensus conclusions. All of these organizations recommend use of the HPV vaccine.

Relying on a single source to support one’s own opinion may be dangerous for your health.

In conclusion, a combination of good women’s preventative health-care (including diagnostic Pap smears) and the preventative HPV vaccine is the best way to reduce the risk of cervical cancer. If a DI reader has any questions regarding the HPV vaccine, I encourage her or him to review the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. If anyone would like to discuss HPV vaccine issues with me further, I would be happy to do so.

Jack T. Stapleton, M.D. is a medical professor in the University of Iowa’s Division of Infectious Diseases.

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Q&A: Grassley talks energy Q: What’s the outlook for windenergy?

A: Wind energy is a valuable source of renewable energy, and the federal tax-credit for wind-energy production should be extended beyond its scheduled expiration date of Dec. 31, 2012.

In addition, the tax-credit should be extended long enough to give investors certainty in order to maximize the opportunities. Wind is free, inexhaustible, and environmentally friendly. There’s good reason to foster more extensive development of this alternative energy-source. Many top-performing wind farms can generate electricity that’s nearly cost-competitive with new coal- or natural gas-fired power plants.

Conventional energy sources, including oil and gas, enjoy countless preferential tax policies, and most of them are permanent law. Any argument made for eliminating renewable-energy tax incentives is intellectually dishonest if it doesn’t include a review of all energy-tax incentives.

Q: How exactly does the tax-code encourage economic activity related to alternative energy?

A: Tax incentives to level the playing field for renewable resources have helped grow wind-energy from almost nonexistent to the success story of today. In 1992, I wrote and won enactment of the first-ever wind-production tax credit. This incentive gave the then-fledgling wind-energy industry the ability to compete against coal-fired and nuclear energy.

Developers depend on the production tax-credit to improve a renewable energy facility’s cost-effectiveness by freeing up money for investment. I’ve worked to extend and expand the incentive several times. Separately, I worked for the enactment of a comparable incentive for municipal utilities, rural electric cooperatives, and even hospitals and schools to get in the wind-energy business with Clean Renewable Energy Bonds.

Q: What are the results?

A: Iowa is second in the nation, behind only Texas, in installed windenergy capacity. Iowa currently generates 20 percent of its electricity needs from wind. This energy powers the equivalent of 1 million homes.

There are nearly 3,000 utility-scale turbines in Iowa. They generate lease payments to landowners worth $12.5 million annually. Iowa is a leader in manufacturing wind-energy equipment. There are major wind-manufacturing facilities in Newton, West Branch, Cedar Rapids, and Fort Madison.

Iowa’s wind-energy industry employs 3,000 full-time workers, and Iowa’s outstanding workforce and its wind-energy potential are a great combination.

We grow a lot of things in Iowa. It’s wonderful to see Iowa growing rapidly as a producer of wind-energy and wind-equipment manufacturing.

Chuck Grassley is Iowa’s senior U.S. senator

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Detach elections from corporate interests I am older now, but I was once a student. I remember what America was.

In 1962, I was in Key West and watched American ships armed with nuclear weapons sailing to Cuba. I remember how it was when we tried to avert war, not

create it. After the Kennedy-Nixon debates, it became apparent the media wanted to crown a homecoming king who would look good on TV and pander to corporate interests, not elect a president who would serve the common good.

That is why I am writing. Iowa is getting hosed.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul is winning straw poll

after straw poll and simultaneously getting summarily ignored by the same corporate-owned interests that brought us the TARP bailout, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, economic catastrophe, massive foreclosures, and unpayable college tuition. While I am a political independent, I am an American first. Therefore, I am asking students to act like intellectuals, not sheep.

The public financing of elections — and giving equal time to all — would go a long way to restore “Republic” to the United States of America envisioned by Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Founders.

Glenn Seaman Madison, Wis.

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cussions on Friday but haven’t made any decisions Washington St. “Their hours are very reasonable, and they’re not doing anything bizarre.”

Schaefer said the only example of offensive products Elder provided her was the selling of “marijuana bongs.”

Elder declined to comment Sunday evening.

Schaefer and Montgomery were directed to contact Dan Black at MidwestOne Bank in order to “coordinate an orderly separation from the leasehold space.”

Black was also unavailable for comment Sunday evening.

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on how to proceed,” said Sue Kirk, an Iowa City attorney.

Kirk will meet with Schaefer and Montgomery today to discuss and review the documents and decide how to proceed. Kirk had no comment regarding the lease Sunday because she said she hasn’t read it yet.

Schaefer and Montgomery are planning a grand opening for Dec. 16.

Reporter Jordyn Reiland contributed to this story.

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However, some immigration experts say not having a “road to citizenship” for illegals already here is bad policy.

Current federal law restricts immigrants eligible for resident status from applying if they initially came to the country illegally. Once they leave, they face a bar from returning for 10 years, said Barbara Schwartz, a University of Iowa clinical professor of law.

“Now what that law does is provide such a strong disincentive for them to regularize their status, even though they have a qualifying relationship because there’s no process to do it that works,” Schwartz said. “If they follow the law and do what they’re supposed to, they’ll be barred from returning. This has been the law since 1996, which is one explanation for why we have such high immigration rates.”

Schwartz said loosening the law would make immigration policy more fair and resolve the high number of immigrants.

“That would resolve it — if we went back to what the law was before 1996,” she said. “You’re still deporting people who, once they’re here, engage in behavior that justifies kicking them out, but for the most part, we’re talking about people who, although they technically violated law, haven’t done anything that poses a serious threat to everybody.

They just come in looking for work.”

Dianne Day, a member of the Iowa City Human Rights Commission, said federal officials should make it easier to gain legal access to the country, whether in the way of legal residency or citizenship.

“I would like to see a revision and rewriting of the quote of the federal immigration laws. I think they need to be updated,” Day said. “We’re more of a global policy now than we were 20 or 40 years ago, and historically, we’ve always had waves of immigrants to the coun-

This is the sixth in a 10part series previewing the top issues of the 2012 caucus season, leading up to a special voter guide on Dec. 12.

• Nov. 28: Health care • Nov. 29: Energy • Nov. 30: Taxes • Dec. 1: Afghanistan and Iraq • Dec. 2: Military spending • Today: Immigration • LGBT issues • Jobs • Higher education • Federal debt

try. Many times legislation has been adapted to fit the needs in our country.”

While the Iowa City community has become more receptive to illegal immigrants, Day said, she still believes illegal immigrants should have more access to government services and change still needs to happen.

“The emotionalism that’s tied to immigration is slower to change than the rational, empirical side of it,” Day said. “People will resist change for a long time, in general.

What we remember is always much rosier than what actually was.”

Some conservative immigration activists say the current level of legal U.S. immigration — about 1.6 million people per year — is too high. They say that puts American jobs at risk.

“We’ve already got a hyper-level immigration rate,” Gheen said. “Capable American high-skilled workers are being laid off at an unprecedented number to be replaced by immigrants.”

Aside from U.S.-Mexican policy, most of the Republican caucus candidates thinks the country ought to encourage highly skilled immigrants to come to the United States, particularly those with science, math, and engineering training.

“I’d staple a green card to the diploma of anybody who’s got a math, science, a master’s degree, a Ph.D. We want those brains in our country,” former Massachussets Gov. Mitt Romney said at a debate last

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the number to climb 15 percent in 2011.

Human breast milk provides nutrients that formula cannot, because breastfeeding provides many benefits to infants including an enriched immune system, reduced risk of chronic diseases, and enhanced feeding tolerance.

“Mothers produce the most incredible life-sustaining liquid that not only nourishes their infant but protects him or her, too,” Drulis said.

The mother also benefits from breastfeeding by decreasing the risk for breast and ovarian can-

cer, she said.

“She has the satisfaction of knowing that she has given her infant the best start in life,” she said.

Nurses help feed Piers and Paul every three hours but not always by a bottle. Heidger said the bottle can be tiresome for the “little guys,” so the milk containers have tubes connected to the babies’ noses.

One donor can testify to this.

Laura Bonebrake’s son was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and relied on donor breast milk while she was unable to make it.

“It really helps [the preemies] recover faster,” she said. “When I could do it, I knew it was something I really wanted to do.”

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Bonebrake said the process of donating milk is simple. It requires filling out a questionnaire and having one’s blood drawn.

Heidger said she feels blessed to be at a hospital that believes in the milk program, especially with her twin boys currently in the intensive-care unit.

“It made my hospital experience so much better knowing that my babies were receiving milk,” Heidger said.

She expressed her gratitude for the mothers who donated the milk.

“I owe the mothers who donated the milk so much,” she said. “There are no words to express my gratitude. My babies are now five pounds, and it’s just so remarkable to see that.”

Regents to consider tuition again The state Board of Regents is scheduled to again look at the tuition and fee proposals for the state’s three universities.

In its October meeting, the board considered conditional tuition and fee proposals for the 2012-13 school year. The 3.75 percent tuition increase for in-state students that the regents considered in October has not changed, according to materials released Dec. 2 as part of the agenda for this week’s telephonic meeting.

Under the proposal, nonresidents who attend the University of Iowa will see a 4.75 increase in tuition next year, if the regents approve the proposal.

— by Sam Lane

Candidates’ immigration positions Mitt Romney Romney supports building a fence on the border but opposes amnesty and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. He supports recruiting high skilled immigrants to the US. He does not believe the government should provide social services to undocumented immigrants.

Michele Bachmann Bachmann supports putting in a fence around the United States.

She also believes amnesty is a magnet for illegal immigrants to come to the United States. “We need to move away from magnets, not offer more,” Bachmann said in a Nov. 22 debate on CNN. month.

The caucus pack has also discussed providing some federal services to illegals. For instance, as the governor of Texas, Gov. Rick Perry supported legislation to give in-state tuition to illegals who had been in the country since they were young.

“If you say we should not educate children who’ve come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart,” Perry said at an October debate. “We need to be educating these children because they will become a drag on our society.”

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania responded by saying restricting in-state tuition would not prohibit children from attending a university.

“I think you’re making this leap that unless we, the taxpayers subsidize this, they won’t be able to go,” Santorum said to Perry. “Not that they can’t go. They can go, they just have to borrow money, find other sources to be able to go.”

Newt Gingrich Gingrich said he does not think immigrants who have substantial ties to the United States should be deported, especially if they have been here more than 25 years, a stance most GOP candidates disagree with. He supported certain measures of the Dream Act, such as allowing in state tuition for illegal immigrants.

ing amnesty to illegal immigrants and said social services should be provided by churches, not the government.

each state with their own policies. He believes the GOP should ‘tack to the middle’ on immigration.

Rick Santorum

Gary Johnson

Santorum believes that the government should provide no benefits and services to illegal immigrants, and that they should not be given any in-state tuition. He also believes a fence should be built on the border.

Gary Johnson said he feels if the border were opened, a flood of Mexicans would become taxpayers. He does not believe creating a fence on the border will prevent illegal immigration. He said the government should focus on making it easier and simpler for willing workers to come to the U.S. with a temporary work visa, pay taxes, and fill jobs as the market demands.

Ron Paul

Jon Huntsman

Paul has voted yes to securing the border as well as to reporting illegal immigrants who receive hospital care. Paul is against giv-

Huntsman supports bringing in high-skilled worker immigrants.

Huntsman said he wants to federally secure law instead of having

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Toy ducks at sea and other tales

Hohn will read his work today at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St., at 7 p.m. (Publicity photo)

Visiting writer Donovan Hohn tells his story of following the trail of rubber ducks through the Arctic.

By JORDAN MONTGOMERY jordan-w-montgomery@uiowa.edu

Author Donovan Hohn heard a story about thousands of yellow rubber ducks that were lost at sea.

His desire to follow the story lead him on a yearand-a-half-long adventure through the Arctic and into China.

And from that journey, he wrote his nonfiction book Moby-Duck.

Hohn will read at 7 p.m. today at Prairie Lights Books, 15 S. Dubuque St..

Paul Ingram of Prairie Lights said readings such as this are an important part of Iowa City’s culture and Hohn’s appearance is yet another way for people in the area to involve themselves in this literary culture.

“I remember thinking that it was a crazy thing,” he said. “First, that containers fall off ships was news to me. And the image of the yellow rubber duckies floating on the high Pacific was astonishing.”

As Hohn traveled, he wrote for the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and Outdoor. He spent time on a variety of vessels, including catamarans, tankers, ferries, container

Donovan Hohn When: 7 p.m. today Where: Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque Admission: Free

ships, scientific vessels, and a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.

But his most adventurous memory is from his time on a homemade plywood cabin cruiser.

“Probably the most reckless trip I went on was one that was totally unplanned, improvised to this wild isthmus to a southern edge of Alaska,” he said. “I accepted a free ride form someone I didn’t know, and I ended up in his tiny homemade boat going to remotely accessible places.”

Moby-Duck covers a variety of themes, not just the story of the children’s toys lost at sea. The story incorporates environmental issues and the economics of international shipping.

“Imagine that you’re on a beach in New England and you see a rubber duck stranded at the tide line,” he said. “You simply ask yourself, how did that get here. The book, in many

ways, answers that question.”

Hohn said that the story of the ducks opened up many questions and certain areas of mystery.

When he received a map from an oceanographer that show the route of the toys that his project really took off.

“Once you have a map with an actual trail on it, it is hard to resist,” he said.

John D’Agata, an associate professor in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, invited Hohn to Iowa City for the reading.

“It is Donovan’s first book-length work of nonfiction and it is something I have been waiting for,” he said. “He has been writing essays for years, and I have loved all of them. This book is exactly what I was hoping he would produce.”

D’agata noted that Hohn’s style in his work is rare, and that keeps him reading the author’s work.

“He possesses a journalist’s eye and a poet’s ear,” D’Agata said. “With that combination, he is able to create exquisite inquiries into the contemporary world.”

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UI sexual-assault policy to be reviewed

By DORA GROTE dora-grote@uiowa.edu

Focusing on preventing sexual assault trumps stricter mandatory-reporting policies, one state official said.

After an alleged sexual assault controversy broke at Penn State University last month, Gov. Terry Branstad asked the state Board of Regents to review its sexual-assault policy during its meeting this week.

Stephen Scott, the head of the Iowa Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Task Force, said tightening the University of Iowa and state mandatory reporters’ law might not be the solution to solving sexualassault cases.

Scott said colleges and high schools should enforce strict policies to prevent sexual assaults altogether.

“If facilities aren’t open for use to coaches with a child or youth, that very easily stops [sexual assault] from happening,” Scott said when referring to the Penn State sexualassault scandal. “It wasn’t so much the reporting, but it was the access given.”

Regent Robert Downer said the review is necessary in light of the Penn State incident, though he wanted to review the laws before further commenting on specific changes.

Iowa Code states that mandatory reporters, including social workers, certified psychologists, licensed school employees, counselors or mental-

health professionals, must report sexual misconduct “in the scope of professional practice or in their employment responsibilities.”

“But if a teacher is out at Target and sees something you aren’t happen, required to report it because it is not happening during your professional practice,” Scott said.

He said policies should be enforced to restrict children from being alone with an adult on a college campus and making sure high schools do not let adults take unrelated children home without parental permission.

The UI overhauled its sexual-misconduct policy two years ago after university leaders were heavily criticized for mishandling sexual-abuse allegations between UI student-athletes. A third-party report found two administrators mishandled the case. The university fired those men shortly thereafter.

Monique DiCarlo — the UI’s sexual-misconductresponse coordinator, whose position was made full-time in the wake of the UI’s 2008 alleged sexual assault — said the UI’s mandatory reporter code does not concern minors.

According to the UI’s Manual, Operational mandatory reporters, referred to as academic and administrative officers, include UI administrators from department heads to the university president.

The officers are required to report any kind of sexual misconduct to the Office

of Equal Opportunity and Diversity if it involves staff or faculty and DiCarlo if it involves students.

But DiCarlo said UI academic and administrative officers are not required to report sexual misconduct to law enforcement unless they are deemed necessary under the Clery Act. DiCarlo said the security authorities are required to report the misconduct if the assailant is unknown.

University police then review the risk and decide whether a HawkAlert should be issued, but if authorities find out it was an acquaintance, the warning may not be issued.

“The greatest risk is an acquaintance, because they let your guard down,” DiCarlo said.

DiCarlo said she could not specifically pinpoint what changes might occur to the sexual-assault policy, but often, reviews bring changes.

“This type of issue requires an ongoing commitment of education and policy,” DiCarlo said. “It’s something we should continue to collaborate with staff, faculty, students, and community members.”

Scott said it’s important for officials to go beyond their required duties to report incidents of misconduct.

“It’s more of a moral failure than a legal failure,” Scott said. “People do not go beyond their required duties.”

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• When are we gonna get a new letter? We’ve been stuck at 26 for what seems like forever. Personally, I’ve got an idea for an “m” with a third hump.

• WHY ARE WE STILL EATING SCONES? There are foods with TASTE out there, people.

• I think my cat’s depressed. She never leaves the house.

• Guy Fieri knows it’s almost 2012, right? I bet his favorite band is Smash Mouth.

• How I imagine ad execs talk: “This online movie trailer isn’t generating enough revenue. Let’s make the viewer watch an ad before watching our ad. While we’re at it, let’s put an ad at the start of our BluRays extolling the virtues of BluRay. That should persuade the viewer to buy one.”

• If Mikey eats anything, why wouldn’t he eat Life cereal? Those other kids should’ve asked him to eat something more creative, like a shoe. Stupid illogical fictitious children.

• It occurs to me that the “flesh” colored crayon is making assumptions about who is using crayons.

• Why does nutritional information for popcorn have to be so confusing? Why bother listing nutrients for unpopped? I’m not just eating kernels.

• Do reception halls rent out little kids to run around at weddings along with the dance floor reservation?

• Mood swings. Love ’em, hate ’em.

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4:15 University Lecture Committee, Ananya Roy, March 26, 2010

Coach Tom Brands post-match news conference from Dec. 4

5:30 Bad Boys Double-BassConcert, a quartet of double bass performers, May 26, 2010

10 Lisa Bluder News Conference, Coach Lisa Bluder’s weekly news conference, Dec. 5

7 University Lecture Committee, “Sustainable Foods and Climate Change: Fixing a Broken System,” Frances Moore Lappe, Nov. 1

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Monday, December 5, 2011 — by Eugenia Last

ARIES March 21-April 19 Take your goals seriously. Do as much for as little as possible. It’s the quality you give others for a good price that will lead to your advancement. Conservative and thoughtful dealings will leave a lasting impression.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 Shopping, getting together with youngsters or a loved one, or even creating some interesting surprises for the people you cherish will all turn out well. Don’t waste time trying to impress people when all you have to do is be yourself.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 Engage in plans that can lead to a better position. Putting a little bit of money into selfimprovement will bring high returns. Network, talk to your bank manager, or deal with any agency or institution that can help you advance.

CANCER June 21-July 22 An emotional issue is likely to hold you back. Don’t allow your uncertainty or someone else’s to ruin a partnership that has potential. Work around any problems you foresee with caution, intent on making improvements.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Don’t worry about making last-minute changes. It will turn out better for you in the end and help you avoid someone who makes you feel uncertain. Don’t let a work or financial project cost you. Stick to whatever budget you set.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 A trip will enhance your knowledge and awareness, whether the journey is physical or spiritual. Open your heart, and share your thoughts. You will meet people who are heading in the same direction. Your adventure will clarify what to do next.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Keep things playful and avoid any discussions that have the potential to disrupt your personal or professional world. Bringing emotions into the mix will end in disaster. Don’t play favorites, or you will pay for being unfair.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Present whatever you have to offer visually. A lack of understanding is likely to occur if you try to explain your position. Taking an active role in a plan you want to execute to make your work more efficient will pay off.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Get your home ready for the festive season. Open your doors to friends and group get-togethers. An opportunity to express your feelings for someone should be acted on carefully. You don’t want to send the wrong impression.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Focus on home and family. Making your residence a fun, comfortable safe haven for the ones you love should be your intent. Don’t allow outsiders to take up your time or lead you in a direction that takes away from what’s most important.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Your ideas need to be executed with an element of surprise in order to get the highest return. Good fortune can be yours as long as you don’t let jealousy, possessiveness, or anger interfere.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Stick close to home, and do not engage in travel or communication that has potential to turn insidious. Protect what you have, and watch out for anyone who is trying to start an argument or take advantage of you.

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Ramos: I’m the best

By SAM LOUWAGIE samuel-louwagie@uiowa.edu

AMES — The question didn’t appear to catch Tony Ramos off guard.

After a dominant weekend featuring two bonuspoint wins — one against third-ranked B.J. Futrell of Illinois — Ramos was asked if he is the nation’s best 133-pounder.

He didn’t hesitate.

“I believe I’m the best,” Ramos said. “There are tough guys and tough competition, but [the match] doesn’t have to be close.

That’s the attitude I went out with against B.J. and anyone else I’m going to wrestle.”

On Sunday, the Hawkeye sophomore allowed Iowa State true freshman Shayden Terukina to whip him to the mat with a duckunder just 20 seconds into their match. Ramos fought Terukina off and earned an escape. He then unleashed a flurry of takedowns that eventually ended in a pin of Terukina at 4:32.

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[Lira],” Brands said. “He maybe wasn’t so smart in a couple of situations there, but he bailed himself out with smart wrestling. He capitalized early, got [Shafer] in trouble early …

That’s the difference in the match.”

The difference in another match had less to do with smart wrestling and more to do with technological issues. The scoreboard went down, the clock malfunctioned, and there was match-changing dispute over 0.2 seconds in Hawkeye Vinne Wagner’s 184pound match.

Wagner lost to Boaz Beard in a 10-9 decision that came down to fractions of a second. He opened the first period with a takedown in 48 seconds but quickly fell behind and let Beard lead 8-4 going into the third period.

The match was stopped with 13 seconds remaining because of blood on the mat, and Beard only had 1:12 in riding time. Wagner rode Beard for the remainder of the match, and the buzzer sounded with one minute of riding time under Beard’s name.

After a lengthy discussion between the referees and timekeepers, it was

Ramos said he was reaching too much at the beginning of the match, which allowed Terukina to slip under his defense for a takedown. Once Ramos started keeping his elbows tight, though, he became the only wrestler forcing any action.

“I don’t think anybody likes getting taken down,” Ramos said. “But some guys are going to get you.

You’ve got to be able to make adjustments, and that’s what makes the difference between the best wrestlers and the good wrestlers. That’s something I had to do: make an adjustment and get back to my scoring.”

Ramos shook off the early deficit and recorded six takedowns in just three minutes before pinning his opponent late in the second period.

It was such an explosive performance that Iowa State head coach Kevin Jackson said he “felt bad” for Terukina, a native of Hawaii.

“I felt bad for my little Hawaiian kid,” Jackson said. “A year ago, he was wrestling on an island in high school, beating up on other Hawaiian kids, not being exposed to the competition we see in Iowa.

Now, he’s in Ames in the biggest dual meet in the country — in the greatest rivalry that exists in wrestling.”

The pin was only the second-most impressive match of the weekend for Ramos, though; on Dec. 2, the Carol Stream, Ill., native faced the Illini’s Futrell in a match with national-title implications. Ramos and Futrell entered the match ranked No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. The wrestlers split a pair of matches last season, with Ramos avenging a December loss with a win at the Big Ten Tournament in March.

The gap between them this year doesn’t appear as small, however.

Ramos recorded five takedowns in a 13-5 major decision.

He wasn’t taken down once.

Ramos oozed confidence after that match. He said he wrestled Futrell several times throughout their high-school careers, but never beat him until last season’s Big Ten tournament.

He claimed he “broke” his longtime nemesis on Dec. 2.

“Kids break, and you saw B.J. break tonight,” he said.

Head coach Tom Brands stopped short of agreeing that Ramos is the nation’s best at his weight class.

But as the two sat at a podium together in the basement of Hilton Coliseum, Brands grinned as Ramos made that claim.

“You go back and look at how he talked when we recruited him,” Brands said. “He called out everybody in our room before he even got in. He was calling out [former Iowa wrestler and current assistant coach] Mike Zadick and [former Hawkeye NCAA champion Brent] Metcalf.

We love it.”

determined that Beard had exactly 1:00.2 in riding time and his hand was raised. “[It was] math to me,” Brands said. “I’m not very good at math, but I’ll tell you, that’s a goofy, goofy deal there.”

Iowa State head coach Kevin Jackson agreed that the match was unusual but said he didn’t think his wrestlers handled the ups and downs of the day as well as the Hawkeyes did.

“I do think emotionally, I see some things that I didn’t like to see as far as how they walked out on the mat,” Jackson said. “I do think sometimes you do have reside from matches before.”

The Hawkeyes won the first five matches and tallied pins from 133-pound Ramos and 157-pound Derek St. John in under five minutes apiece. St. John said the match streak

wasn’t about momentum; it was just business as usual.

“I’m not really sure if it’s a momentum thing as much as it is just guys getting ready for themselves and going out and taking care of their own business,” St. John said. “Once you do that, it’ll take care of the team. They know that.

Everyone knows that.”

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MARBLE CONTINUED FROM 12

Marble is averaging 7.5 points, 2.9 assists, 2.8 rebounds, and 1.5 steals while playing only 20.8 minutes per game off the bench. He seems to be embracing his role — and he’s thriving in it, too.

BOWL CONTINUED FROM 12 and I loved it. I still love it … It was like I’ve been there, done that,” Stoops said during a teleconference Sunday. “This [Oklahoma] is something new, exciting, and let’s face it — a great tradition, too. I thought this is what I need to do.”

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The Southfield, Mich., native said his objective is to provide energy “in any way possible.”

“It just depends on how the game is going and what we really need when I’m coming off the bench,” Marble said. “That’s not necessarily scoring but just being more aggressive. I like that feeling coming off the bench. I like the energy.

It fits well.”

Cully Payne’s injury prompted coach Fran McCaffery to slide Marble into the backup pointguard role last season. The position was unfamiliar to Marble, but he accepted it.

“He’s kind of one of those guys who will do whatever the coaches call on him to do,” Gatens said.

Marble’s point-guard abilities continue to progress this season — he

still handles some relief work for starter Bryce Cartwright. His 5.75 assistto-turnover ratio ranked sixth in the country as of Sunday afternoon, a strong improvement from last year’s 1.21 mark.

But McCaffery has preferred to utilize him more as a wing player, which Marble described as his “natural position.” He played off the ball at Lath-

rup High and averaged better than 20 points per game in his junior and senior seasons.

“I think you look at it and say I’ve got to play him off the ball some,” McCaffery said. “He’s just too good as a scorer. He’s a slasher. He scores on the baseline. He his runners. He makes more steals. He’s a rebounding wing player …

Playing over there kind of

coaching career at Iowa overlapped with some of Ferentz’s tenure as an offensive line coach under Fry (1981-89). The two remain close friends.

“I’ve had tremendous respect for him on all levels,” Ferentz said. “He does a great, great job, he and his coaching staff.”

The Sooners were ranked No. 1 in both the AP and Coaches’ preseason polls. They started 6-0 before falling to Texas Tech, 41-38, on Oct. 22. Stoops’ team also dropped two of

its last three, falling at Baylor and Oklahoma State on Nov. 19 and Dec. 3, respectively.

Iowa State was the two teams’ lone common opponent. Oklahoma defeated Iowa State in Norman, Okla., 26-6, on Nov. 26, and the Cyclones outlasted the Hawkeyes in triple-overtime, 44-41, on Sept. 10 in Ames.

Iowa’s defense will face one of its biggest challenges of the season as Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones anchors the nation’s fourth-

best passing attack, which averages 365.1 yards per game. The Sooners’ average of 40.3 points per game is also the No. 10 mark in the country.

But Jones won’t be the first elite Big 12 quarterback Iowa has played in recent bowl memory. Eventual first-round NFL draft pick Blaine Gabbert went 41-of-57 for 434 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions for Missouri against Iowa last season.

“We have a very tough draw, a great challenge on

our hands,” Ferentz said.

“We’re playing another great team from the Big 12 conference. Like last year, this team’s very, very talented. Like last year, they’ve got an outstanding quarterback, who I would assume is a first-rounder for sure.

“We have a lot of work on our hands. … To get a fourth [straight bowl win] is going to be quite a challenge. We’ll start that work here at the end of the week.”

HAWKEYE INVITATIONAL

Swimmers shine but come up short Iowa broke records over the long weekend and made progress towards its goal of winning the Big Ten championship.

By BEN ROSS benjamin-d-ross@uiowa.edu

The Iowa men’s swimming and diving team was unable to come away as the winner of the Hawkeye Invitational this past weekend, but the Long Black and head coach Gold were still able to make strides toward their goal of earning a Big Ten championship.

No. 10 Iowa (4-1, 4-1 Big Ten) placed second in the six-team field with a score of 723 in the three-day event. No. 1-ranked Michigan took home the hardware, as the Wolverines

handled the competition in nearly every event to cruise to a 967-point win. Notre Dame came in third with a score of 511, followed by Denver. Wisconsin-Green Bay and Wisconsin-Milwaukee rounded out the scoreboard by placing fifth and sixth.

Iowa redshirt freshman Grant Betulius may have made the biggest name for himself over the weekend — he set the school record in the 100 backstroke with a time of 47.65. His time is also the 19th-fastest for the 100 back in the nation this season.

Michigan had sealed the win long before the final event, but that didn’t keep the No. 9-ranked Iowa 400free relay team of AllAmericans Duncan Partridge, Paul Gordon, Ryan

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Phelan, and Jordan Huff from competing well. The Hawkeye quartet recorded a time of 2:54.78, barely falling to the Maize and Blue’s time of 2:54.38.

Head coach Marc Long said he couldn’t select any individual as his MVP. His team’s performance, he said, was a collective effort.

“It’s hard to choose one person right now,” Long said. “That last relay was outstanding. I know we got touched out, but we’re going to keep moving on and practicing. We’re working toward the end of the

year. There were so many great performances in ways of school records broken. It would be hard for me to single someone out.”

This is the only time Iowa and Michigan will meet before the Big Ten championships in late February, and it’s likely the Wolverines will be the only team standing in the way of Iowa’s championship hopes. Gordon said facing Michigan once prior to the championships is an undeniable advantage, and that he’s looking forward to the rematch.

“Before my [400-free relay] race, I was thinking I was going to be racing all these same guys, in the same pool, in the same lanes,” the Sioux Falls, S.D., native said. “I got to race all the best guys in my events,

and everyone else did, too.

So there’s not going to be any surprises come Big Tens.”

Sophomore Dustin Rhoads echoed his teammate’s words, saying he was glad the Hawkeyes got the opportunity to race Michigan before the conference meet. He added that he thinks they have the potential to come out ahead next time they clash.

“This meet gave us confidence,” Rhoads said.

“Swimming against some of the swimmers in the country, we’ll see them right here again. We’ll go right back to training hard again, now we got to kick up the intensity a bit and prepare for Big Tens in February and NCAAs in March.”

BLACK AND GOLD INTRASQUAD MEET

Veterans lead intrasquad meet The Iowa men’s gymnastics team started its season with a solid outing buoyed by the veterans.

By RYAN MURPHY ryan-e-murphy@uiowa.edu

Iowa men’s gymnastics head coach JD Reive didn’t expect a perfect meet from his team in Sunday’s Black and Gold Intrasquad meet.

As he said, “It’s only Dec. 4.”

But the performance his No. 10 Hawkeyes gave in the Field House — while far from perfect — left him pleased with about a month left before Iowa’s first official event.

“I expected it to be a little chaotic, but it went really good for us,” Reive said.

The Gold team claimed victory in the meet, which was held in conjunction with the women’s team, 473.60-460.65.

Reive pointed out veterans such as Matt McGrath, Anton Gryshayev, and Broderick Shemansky as some of the leaders for the Hawkeyes. Those three, along with junior Javier Balboa, combined to record Iowa’s highest scores in all six events. The day’s highest overall score was a 15.10, achieved twice by Hawkeyes who controlled their events in the 2010-11 season. McGrath recorded the score on the floor exercise, where he was nationally ranked for most of the season, and Gryshayev earned the 15.10 on the still rings. The Littleton, Colo., native owns the top five scores on the rings in school history.

Iowa junior Javier Balboa performs a routine on the parallel bars during the Iowa intrasquad meet in the Field House on Sunday. (The Daily Iowan/Ricky Bahner) Reive also said freshman Mitchell Landau’s performance was encouraging, and McGrath said the performances of young Hawkeyes such as Landau and fellow freshman Devin Clarke is a good sign.

“It’s always good to get good performances out of the younger guys,” McGrath said. “I think the meet went pretty well for us.”

Balboa was one of two gymnasts to record teamhigh scores in more than one event — the vault and the pommel horse. The other was Shemansky, who led the Hawkeyes in the high bar and the parallel

bar. Balboa said the team’s talent level has jumped between the first and second years under Reive.

“You could tell, we look a lot better this year than we did at this time last year,” Balboa said. “We are really starting to settle into [Reive’s] program, and it’s showing for us.”

Before the team returns to competition on Jan. 14, 2012 in the Windy City Invitational — a meet that features some of the top teams in the Big Ten — Reive said his Hawkeyes simply need to keep the intensity up in practice.

“Repetition, repetition, repetition,” he said. “That’s

the most important thing we need to do.”

McGrath said he and his teammates need to ensure they are fully prepared for their entire set on the floor so that they don’t tire at the end.

“The one thing we need to work on is endurance,” he said. “You could tell guys were a little gassed at the end of their sets, so that’s something for us to work on.”

The women’s side was highlighted by Rachel Corcoran’s 10 on the floor exercise. Emma Stevenson put up scores of 9.95 on both the uneven bars and the floor exercise.

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gets him going, and I think that’s important for him.”

Sophomore forward Melsahn Basabe — his roommate for the last two years — said Marble’s return to the wing has improved his comfort level on the court.

“He’s a real natural talent. I think he’s just showing his talent now,” Basabe said. “It’s only been a matter of time.”

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THE DAILY IOWAN MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011

NO. 1 IOWA 27, IOWA STATE 9

2011 INSIGHT BOWL

Wrestlers crush ISU

Familiar face in Hawks’ foe Iowa will face the 19th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners, who are coached by former Hawkeye defensive back Bob Stoops.

By JORDAN GARRETSON jordan-garretson@uiowa.edu

Iowa 141-pound wrestler Montell Marion maintains control over Iowa State’s Luke Toettl on Sunday at Hilton Coliseum. Marion won in a major decision, 17-5. (The Daily Iowan/Jacklyn Couppee)

The Cyclones wom the 184-pound match with .2 seconds of riding time.

By MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD molly-olmstead@uiowa.edu

AMES — The Iowa wrestling team has faced “big question marks” in three different weight classes so far this season: 149, 184, and 197 pounds.

But two of those three weights won in Iowa’s 27-9 victory over Iowa State on Sunday.

Weight classes that seemed consistent coming into the meet — such as Ethen Lofthouse’s 174pound spot and Mike Evan at 165 pounds — came out sluggish. But the weights that struggled before performed well in tough matches, coach Tom Brands said.

Mark Ballweg wrestled

negative-5 rebounding in the second half, including giving

The Iowa women’s basketball team was unable to get a win in

them 8 offensive rebounds in “A lot of times it’s about

losing in overtime to Kansas

possessions, and they had three more opportunities to

The loss dropped Iowa to 5-3

shoot the ball than we did.”

on the season.

The game was tied 32-32 at

“They came

halftime, but the Wildcats went

out and shot

on an 18-5 run after the break.

l i g h t s - o u t ,”

Iowa came back behind Printy’s

head

coach

scoring; the Marion native had

Lisa

Bluder

11 points in a row for the

said. “Kansas Bluder State is tradi- head coach tionally

Hawkeyes

to

bring

the

Hawkeyes to within 4, 62-58.

not

Wahlin nailed a 3-pointer to

that good of a scoring team,

cut the Kansas State lead to 1,

and we let them be that way.”

and the Hawkeyes were able to

Junior Jaime Printy led Iowa

gather their first lead with just

with 21 points and 6 assists,

over five minutes remaining

and junior Morgan Johnson

after senior Kalli Hansen hit a

added

trey.

17

points

and

6

rebounds.

The score was tied again with eight seconds left in the

Senior point guard Kamille

game, 74-74, and Printy missed

Wahlin — who was held score-

a 3 that would have won the

less for only the third time in

game.

her career in Wednesday’s victory over Virginia Tech — added 13 points, including 3-of-4 from long range.

Kansas State took control in overtime and won.

Iowa will try to regroup before going down the road to Ames to face Iowa State on

Bluder said her offense

Wednesday.

“took a step forward” in the

“This was our second road

loss, but the Hawkeyes still

game,” Bluder said. “Hopefully,

need to work on grabbing

we’re getting into that routine

boards.

of how to play on the road [and]

“This game was lost on

how we have to mentally pre-

rebounds,” the 12th-year head

pare to handle playing on the

coach said. “We were up 2

road.”

[rebounds] at half; we were

SEE WRESTLING, 9

SEE BOWL, 10

Marble thrives off the bench

the second half.

the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge, State on Dec. 3, 81-78.

fall, and an escape against Cole Shafer to win the match, 10-6.

Brands said Lira used his “big motor” to come out victorious.

“Smart wrestling wins the day, especially with

IOWA 75, BROWN 54

KANSAS STATE 81, IOWA 78 (OT) K-State bites Hawks in OT

up a weight class from his previous 141-pound status and defeated Iowa State’s Joey Cozart at 149 pounds in a 4-3 decision. Ballweg’s victory was his second at 149 with the Hawkeyes.

Tomas Lira also dominated his somewhat shaky 197-pound class for the Hawkeyes. Lira tallied two takedowns, a 3-point near-

The Iowa football team will head to the Insight Bowl for the seco n d straight season, but there Ferentz s h o u l d head coach still be plenty of intrigue surrounding its matchup.

The Hawkeyes (7-5, 4-4 Big Ten) will meet No. 19 Oklahoma (9-3, 6-3 Big 12) at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz., on Dec. 30 at 9 p.m. on ESPN. Iowa knocked off thenNo. 12 Missouri in last year’s Insight Bowl, 2724, earning a third-consecutive bowl victory for the first time in school history.

Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said he had conversations with Insight Bowl representatives as recently as Dec. 3 at the Big Ten championship game, but he heard nothing definitive until the phone call he received Sunday afternoon.

Barta cited Iowa’s strong fan showing and the TV rating of last

year’s game as reasons the Insight Bowl invited the Hawkeyes again.

“I think over the years what I’ve learned is, what bowls want is a matchup that’s going to draw a good crowd and is going to do well in television ratings,” Barta said. “We had not been in their bowl prior to last year at all …

The combination of the two programs and their strong history — it made a lot of sense.”

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops — an Iowa safety from 1979-82 and assistant coach under Hayden Fry from 1983-87 — attended the 2010 Insight Bowl with his family, clad in Hawkeye gear.

Iowa interviewed Stoops for the opening created by Fry’s retirement in late 1998. But Stoops said he had already received an offer from Oklahoma by the time he was done interviewing for the Iowa position. He has since led the Sooners to nine 10-plus win seasons, including a national championship in 2000.

“To be quite honest, I was at Iowa for 10 years,

— by Ben Wolfson

Coming off the bench hasn’t kept Devyn Marble from filling up the Hawkeyes’ stat sheet.

By JORDAN GARRETSON jordan-garretson@uiowa.edu

Devyn Marble scored 11 points in the first half of Iowa’s 75-54 win against Brown on Dec. 3. The sophomore guard spent his first 13 minutes of play conducting a scoring clinic, going 4-of-6 from the floor.

He was shut out in the second half, but he wasn’t any less effective.

Marble recorded 3 steals and 4 assists in the second 20 minutes. Two of those dishes — one on a hook pass to Aaron White for a dunk and a no-look to Gatens for a lay-up — came on back-to-back fast breaks that brought the Carver-Hawkeye Arena faithful to their feet.

The lanky 6-6, 194pounder finished his day with 11 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 steals.

In short, he did pretty much everything for the Hawkeyes.

“He had a great game,” senior guard Matt Gatens said. “He was just all over the place today, and that’s what we need out of him on both ends of the court.”

Iowa’s Devyn Marble lofts a jumper against Brown in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Dec. 3. The sophomore had 11 points and 7 rebounds off the bench in the Hawkeyes’ 75-54 victory over the Bears. (The Daily SEE MARBLE, 10 Iowan/Adam Wesley)