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Three charged inassault

Three Davenport men werecharged Dec. 10 in conjunctionwith a downtown beating thatreportedly left one man in thehospital with life-threateninginjuries.

According to a complaint byIowa City police, Michael Henkel,18, and Francisco Vasquez, 21, werecharged after officers respondedto 112 E. Washington St. afterrecieving a report of an assault.

Tyler Powers, 19 — also ofDavenport — was charged 11 min-utes earlier in the same block ofWashington Street with willfulinjury causing serious injury,according to police arrest logs.

The complaint said officers, whowere given the description of thealleged aggressors, encounteredVasquez and Henkel near theSheraton Hotel. Witnesses statedthat Vasquez and Henkel stompedon the victim while he was on theground, according to the complaint.

The complaint also saidVasquez admitted to pushing thevictim. Both Vasquez and Henkelallegedly beat the victim so vio-lently that he required medicalattention for life-threateninginjuries, the complaint said. Bothallegedly had blood on their per-sons and allegedly showed injuriesconsistent with being in a scuffle.

All three men were chargedwith willful injury causing seriousinjury, a Class-C felony.

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By MELISSA [email protected]

The aisles of the IowaCity Wal-Mart rang withhigh-pitched shouts andlaughter this past week-end.

But the children pickingout items for shoppingcarts have not had a yearfull of smiles.

This year, local childrenwho have recently suf-fered a traumatic event orare in foster care wereselected to participate inthe Iowa City Police Asso-ciation’s annual “Shopwith a Cop.”

The event, which beganin 1996, pairs local chil-dren with Iowa Citypolice officers for a fewhours of shopping forneeded items, as well asgifts.

“In past years, we’dsolicit the schools to sendus lists of kids,” said JoreyBailey, a crime-preventionofficer for the Iowa Citypolice. “And this year,

we’ve really gone on per-sonal experience by theofficers with families; fam-ilies that officers knowhave children that maywant to come shop, and

that may be in need of theexperience.”

This year, there were 11officers and 20 children

By JORDYN [email protected]

University of Iowa facilityofficials say using ProMelt —an environmentally friendlysea-salt/beet-juice mixture —has proven to be cost- and envi-ronmentally effective.

After giving the mixture a

test run last year, ScottGritsch, the manager of land-scape services for UI FacilitiesManagement, said the univer-sity will continue to use theproduct unless problems arise.

“It is good with colder tem-peratures, and it doesn’t affectthe plant material or turf,”

Gritsch said.Landscape workers had cor-

roding issues with the calcium-chloride mixture the universitypreviously used for deicing.

“We are trying to use less cal-cium chloride,” Gritsch said.

By SAM [email protected]

DES MOINES — One foreign-policyexpert said Iowa caucus candidate NewtGingrich’s statement that Palestiniansare “an invented people” is “inflammato-ry.”

The remark — which Gingrich madelast week during an interview with theJewish Channel — came under fire atthis past weekend’s GOP presidentialdebate in Des Moines.

“Is what I said factually correct? Yes. Isit historically true? Yes,” Gingrich said,

Cop shopping progam aids kids

UI ‘beets’ the ice

Iowa City police Officer Sarah Kelly shops with a child this past weekend. The Shop with a Cop program has been put on by the Iowa CityPolice Department since 1996. (The Daily Iowa/Anthony Bauer)

UI groundskeeper Scott Shrader sprinkles sugar-beet juice on the sidewalk near the Blank Honors Center on Nov. 30,2010. Shrader said this was the first practical use of the product by the UI. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

The U.S. provided nearly$3 trillion in foreignassistance to Israel infiscal 2011.

Child victims oftraumatic eventswent on a Dec.10 shoppingspree with locallaw-enforcementofficials.

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By JORDAN [email protected]

Steve Easley, the ownerof Release Body Modifica-tion, gave himself his firstpiercing when he was 13.

“[It] was not professionalby any means,” Easley said.

He had no professionaltools to get the stud into theskin between his chin andbottom lip.

“The way I went aboutdoing it was absolutelyridiculous,” the 28-year-oldsaid. “I took a guitar pickand put it between my bot-tom lip and my gum. Then Itook an X-Acto knife andspun it into my lip until thehole was big enough to fitthe stud.

Now the hole is about thesize of nickel. It is filledwith a large stone that sep-arates his chin and bottomlip.

As a 7-year-old, he knewhe wanted to work in a tat-too shop. He could onlyenter the shops with anadult at that age, so he usedto make his uncle’s girl-friend pretend she was hismother so he could watchthe artists work.

“I used to draw a lot inelementary and middleschool,” said Easley, whonow has countless tattoossneaking out from thesleeves and neck of hisblack sweater. “But I lostinterest in doing tattoosbecause they are so perma-nent; the smallest error,and it completely fallsapart. Around middleschool, I became interestedin piercings.”

He began piercing as anapprentice at the age of 16,two years too young to getthe piercings he was givingto customers.

His work schedule didnot reflect his age. He wentto school from 9:30 a.m. tonoon, directly followed byapprenticeship until 8 p.m.He then slept for a fewhours until his job at a dog-food factory from 11:30 p.m.to 6 a.m., followed by a fewmore hours of sleep untilschool again.

Easley began working for

the shop he apprenticed atin Clinton and eventuallymade his way to Iowa Cityto do piercings at NemesisTattoo Studios.

“[Easley] has come a longway since I first met him,”said friend and colleagueKyle Bingham. “He waspiercing up in the front cor-ner of [Nemesis]. He tookthe money he made fromworking, saved it, andbought a bunch of jewelry.Doing that allowed him toopen [Release].”

Today, Easley has anapprentice of his own, 19-year-old Morgan Deheer ofDes Moines. Deheer, who isfour months into a two-yearapprenticeship, said shehopes she will be able tocontinue working withEasley once her apprentice-ship is complete.

“I started coming herebecause Steve is a reallygood piercer,” she said. “Hedoes a lot of cool stuff thatI’m interested in, like sus-pensions and pulls.”

People who practice sus-pension — piercing largehooks into a person’s skinand then lifting them offthe ground by the hooks —are uncommon in IowaCity, but Easley recentlystarted a suspension group.The group boasts about adozen people already, andEasley said he hopes it willgrow.

Suspension is a practicethat Easley said he’s cometo enjoy in the past sixyears since he first experi-enced it.

“Everybody has her orhis own reason [for suspen-sion],” Easley said. “Enter-tainment, religious prac-tices, rights of passage, toprove to themselves thatthey can.The way that I seeit, if you can have your bodylifted off the ground fromhooks in your flesh, thenwhat can’t you accom-plish?”

Piercing intelligenceSp tlight Iowa City

SShhiirreeeenn AAmmeehhddii, 19, 728 E.Washington St., was charged Dec.9 with presence in a bar afterhours. KKaalleeeenn BBaalluunn, 20, 600 S. CapitolSt. Apt. 305, was charged Dec. 9with presence in a bar afterhours. KKeevviinn CCrroonniinn, 19, 144 Slater, wascharged Dec. 9 with presence in abar after hours and PAULA. TThhoommaass DDrraakkee, 28, addressunknown, was charged June 23with second-degree theft. TTeerrrryy GGrreeeenn, 34, addressunknown, was charged Oct. 23with assault causing seriousinjury. MMiicckkeeyy HHaallvveerrssoonn, 21, 366 S.Clinton St. Apt. 2627, wascharged Nov. 1 with assault caus-ing injury, willful injury, and dis-orderly conduct. BBeerrnnaaddeettttee HHaammaann, 29, 1001Cross Park Ave. Apt. B, wascharged Dec. 9 with driving with

a suspended or canceled license. AAbbeell HHeerrnnaannddeezz, 19, 440 S.Johnson St. Apt. 7, was chargedOct. 6 with possession of a con-trolled substance with intent todeliver, possession of prescrip-tion drugs, and possession ofdrug paraphernalia. JJoohhnn HHoorrnn, 25, 287 HawkeyeCourt, was charged Dec. 11 withOWI. TTaammmmyy JJaacckkssoonn, 21, 730 E.Burlington St., was charged Dec.9 with driving with a suspendedor canceled license. JJaaccqquueelliinnee JJoorrddaann, 20, S322Hillcrest, was charged Aug. 1 withfifth-degree theft. TThhoommaass KKiinngg, 19, 440 S. JohnsonSt. Apt. 7, was charged Oct. 6 withpossession of a controlled sub-stance with intent to deliver, pos-session of drug paraphernalia,and possession of prescriptiondrugs. MMaatttthheeww LLaavviinn, 19, 112 E. College

St., was charged Dec. 8 with pos-session of marijuana. DDaanniieell LLeeiibbffrriieedd, 21, 2444 WaldenRoad, was charged Nov. 8 withpossession of marijuana and pos-session of drug paraphernalia. AAnntthhoonnyy LLeeoo, 23, 532 FosterRoad, was charged Dec. 8 withOWI and possession of drug para-phernalia. CCaasseeyy LLeevviiggnnee, 19, 4529 Burge,was charged Dec. 9 with pres-ence in a bar after hours. AAlleexxaannddeerr LLiimmkkee, 19, West DesMoines, was charged Dec. 9 withpresence in a bar after hours. HHoollllyy OOrrrr, 37, 2401 Highway 6 E.Apt. 4011, was charged Dec. 9with keeping a disorderly house. TTyylleerr PPoowweerrss, 19, Davenport, wascharged Dec. 10 with willful injurycausing serious injury. JJoosshhuuaa RRaammsseeyy, 21, 905 E.Burlington St., was charged Dec.10 with public intoxication. TThhoommaass RRiiccee, 19, 112 1/2 E. CollegeSt., was charged Dec. 8 with pos-

session of cocaine. PPaaiiggee SSuummnneerr, 20, Cedar Rapids,was charged Dec. 10 with OWI. Stephanie Swiatlo, 20, 600 S.Capitol St. Apt. 206, was chargedDec. 9 with presence in a barafter hours. AAnnddrreeww TToorroossssiiaann, 19, 146 Slater,was charged Dec. 9 with pres-ence in a bar after hours andPAULA. MMaarrggaarreett WWiinnnniikkee, 22, CedarRapids, was charged Dec. 9 withdriving with a suspended or can-celed license. PPaauull WWiittttaauu, 21, 366 S. Clinton St.Apt. 2627, was charged Nov. 13with disorderly conduct.EErriicc WWooooddrraasskkaa, 19, Oelwein,Iowa, was charged Dec. 9 withpresence in a bar after hours,unlawful use of an authentic dri-ver’s license, second-offensepublic intoxication, and obstruct-ing an officer. JJeessuuss ZZaavvaallaa, 52, West Liberty,was charged Dec. 9 with fifth-degree theft.

Steve Easley• Age: 28• Hometown: Clinton• Favorite Movie: The BigLebowski• Favorite Band: Arcade Fire• Category: Answer

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Woman faces drugcharge

An Iowa City woman wascharged Sept. 15 after she wasallegedly found in possession ofdrugs while baby-sitting.

According to a complaint byIowa City police, officers werecalled to 4802 Dolphin Lake PointEnclave for a report of a subjectusing heroin in the presence ofchildren.

The complaint said KimberlyRobinson, 45, was found alone atthe residence. She allegedlyadmitted to officers that she wasthere to baby-sit, but she hadtaken the children to the neigh-bor’s residence.

The complaint said officersconducted a consent search ofthe residence and located a bagin the upstairs bathroom thatcontained numerous needles,spoons with residue, and otherdrug paraphernalia. Robinsonallegedly denied ownership untilan officer located Robinson’swork ID in the bag, according tothe complaint.

Robinson then allegedly

admitted ownership of the itemsbut allegedly said the residuewas from crushed up pills she gotfrom old ladies, the complaintsaid.

The complaint also said theitems seized were sent to a labwhere they were shown to con-tain residue from heroin andmethamphetamine.

Robinson is charged with sec-ond-offense possession of a con-trolled substance, an aggravatedmisdemeanor.


UI student facesdrug charges

UI police charged a Mayflowerresident Dec. 1 with a controlled-substance violation and keepinga drug house after he allegedlysold Adderall to a female subject.

Timothy Rooney, 20, wascharged after officers executed asearch warrant at his residence,834D Mayflower. During thesearch, officers allegedly locateda prescription for Adderallbelonging to Rooney and multipleAdderall capsules throughout theroom, according to a complaintby UI police.

A female subject who waspresent was also allegedly foundin possession of two Adderallcapsules, which she reportedlysaid she purchased from Rooneyfor $5.

Officers allegedly located mar-ijuana and marijuana parapherna-lia during the search. The com-plaint said follow-up interviewsand investigation determinedthat Rooney allegedly stored andused marijuana in his residenceon a weekly basis.

Rooney was charged with aClass-C felony controlled-sub-stance violation for possession ofAdderall with intent to deliver. Heis also charged with keeping adrug house.


Prisoner chargedwith assault

An inmate at the JohnsonCounty Jail was charged Dec. 9after he allegedly assaulted asheriff’s deputy while beingmoved from visitation back to hiscell block.

According to a complaint bythe Johnson County Sheriff’sOffice, Charon Williams, 28, wasbeing transported back to his cellblock from visitation by a sher-iff’s deputy and was arguing withthe deputy because his visit wasended early. Williams allegedlyrefused to enter the cell blockwhen commanded and then wasordered to a holding cell severaltimes, according to the com-plaint. He allegedly refused to lis-ten.

The deputy grabbed Williams’arm, the complaint said, andWilliams allegedly jerked away.The deputy was then pushed intothe door of the cell block, and afight started, the complaint said.

Williams allegedly punched thedeputy in the face, knocking hisglasses off. The deputy sustainedseveral scratches to his face,neck, and arms from the incident,the complaint said.

Williams is charged withassault against a peace officercausing an injury and interfer-ence with official acts.


Steve Easley prepares to suspend a man during the grand opening for Nix Rue Tattoo in North Liberty inApril. (Contributed Photo/Scott Warren)

The local piercerbegan his appren-ticeship at age 16.

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working together to findthe items the childrenneeded, Bailey said.

Iowa City police Sgt.Denise Brotherton saidchildren typically cometo Shop with a Cop witha list of basic necessi-ties.

“We make sure thatthese kids get those basicsthat they need but also getthe toys they want,” shesaid. “ … You almost haveto push the kids to get toys.Usually, they’ll come withlists for the basic things.They just don’t know whatto do.”

This year, the childrenappeared to warm up to theofficers quickly, zippingfrom aisle to aisle andexcitedly showing officers— who volunteer their time

for the event — their find-ings.

Kurt Penfold, the IowaCity Wal-Mart store man-ager, said he looks for-ward to the event everyyear.

“We’re always excitedabout more business in thestore, but especially excit-ed to see the kids; see howexcited they get when theyhave this opportunity,” hesaid.

Bailey said Shop with aCop is not just a positive

opportunity for the chil-dren but also for the offi-cers.

“Oftentimes, we dealwith families whenthey’re at their worst,”Bailey said. “And we lookforward to every opportu-nity we can to get out andinteract with communitymembers, specificallykids, on other levels. Sothis gives us that opportu-nity.”

To finance the shoppingtrip, Brotherton said, the

Police Association con-ducted fundraisers inwhich community mem-bers made enough contri-butions to successfullyrun the program thisyear.

Pen fo ld no t ed t hech i ld r en ar e ab l e t og ive in add i t i on t oreceiving.

“They’re going aroundthe store shopping, not justfor one person, but all theirsiblings and parents,” hesaid. “So it’s a great oppor-

tunity to have that feelingof giving.”

Brotherton said theevent helps build trustthroughout the communityas a whole.

“There may be distrustamongst the family andthe police,” she said.“This shows us in a dif-ferent light and helps usbuild relationships. Itshows that we’re notalways the bad guys andthat we’re here for sup-port, too.”

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“Using [ProMelt] helpsreduction of damage alongthe side of the sidewalksand concrete.”

The mixture would gettracked in by students,Gritsch said and replacingtile and extra lawncare isnot in the university’sbudget.

Though the UI still usesthe calcium-chloride mix-ture in small portions, theultimate goal is to stop

using the salt mixture com-pletely. Gritsch said the UIwill continue using boththe salt mixture and thebeet juice for the next fiveyears to make sure it doesnot cause any additionalharm.

Last winter, the UI usedroughly 14 pallets —roughly 40 bags in each —of ProMelt, Gritsch said.

“We order as we gothrough the winter; we canonly have a few pallets onhand,” Gritsch said, notingthat the university alsouses a rock-salt and sandmixture on streets andother sidewalks.

Bob Lackman, generalmanager of Beisser Lum-ber, a company that sellsProMelt, said the universi-ty has been one of the bestproponents of the product.

Lackman said the UIpurchased 96 of its bagsfrom the company at thecost of $8.51 per bag lastwinter, totaling $816.96.This winter, the cost perbag rose almost 75 cents to$9.25.

ProMelt has been avail-able for retail for aboutthree years, though majorairports have been using itfor five, Lackman said.

The amount of ProMeltused on university property

depends on the amount ofsnowfall and ice, Gritschsaid.

“It’s probably used everysnow event at differentscales,” he said. “It wasn’tused as much [Friday]… itwasn’t too bad.”

The city of Iowa City alsouses a similar de-icingproduct called GeoMelt.The city has used the prod-uct for two years, and cityofficials said they havefound it effective as well.

John Sobaski, IowaCity’s assistant superin-tendent for streets andtraffic engineering, said so

far this winter, GeoMelthas helped deice the roads.

“It’s very good at enhanc-ing salt and reducing saltuse up to 30 percent,” hesaid.

The city has a 3,000-toncontract for the winter andreceives half in Octoberand half in January. Thetreatment costs the city$10 a ton to mix four and ahalf galloons of the mix-ture. Last year, Iowa Cityreceived almost 35 inchesof snow and ice and used3,500 tons of GeoMelt.

The city plans to useGeoMelt to cut back on the

use of sand because thesediment is a form of pollu-tion, and officials are alsoexperimenting with a salt-brine liquid on a few hillswith a 300-gallon pickuptruck.

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defending himself duringthe debate at Drake Uni-versity. “Are we in a situa-tion where, every day, rock-ets are fired into Israelwhile the United States,the current administration,tries to pressure theIsraelis into a peaceprocess?”

Judith Kipper, the direc-tor of Middle East Pro-

grams for the Institute ofWorld Affairs, decried thestatement.

“I think that particularstatement was extremelyunfortunate,” she said.“Though [candidates] arefighting to win a racedomestically, they have tobe careful and sensitiveabout what is going toinflame the conflict. Thatstatement was definitelyinflammatory.”

During the debate, bothRep. Ron Paul, R-Texas,and former Massachusetts

Gov. Mitt Romney attackedGingrich’s statements.

Romney called the com-ments a mistake and saidsuch statements make mat-ters more difficult forIsrael.

“We stand with theIsraeli people, stand withour friends, and make itvery clear: We’re going totell the truth, but we’re notgoing to throw incendiarywords into a place that is aboiling pot when ourfriends, the Israelis, wouldprobably say, ‘What in the

world are you doing?’ ”Romney said

Gingrich responded bysaying he’s not making lifemore difficult for Israel, noris he trying to speak for thecountry.

Paul, who has frequentlycalled for limiting U.S.involvement in foreign con-flicts, said Gingrich’s state-ment is historically correct,but is an example of thereason the country gets“involved in so many mess-es.”

“This idea that we can be

the policemen of the worldand settle all these dis-putes, I mean, soon we’llhave to quit because we’reflat-out broke,” Paul said.“But we cannot continue toget into these issues likethis and getting ourselvesinto more trouble.”

The United States appro-priated nearly $3 trillion infunding for Israel for fiscal2011, according to the Con-gressional Budget Justifi-cation on foreign assis-tance. That figure has riseneach of the last four years,

and Congress has request-ed nearly $3.1 trillion forfiscal 2012.

Kipper said there’s“nothing new” in the finan-cial request and said Amer-ica and Israel have beenclose allies for 60 years.

“The United States hasalways supported Israel’sexistence,” she said. “It’s avery profound commit-ment. It doesn’t mean thatAmericans support everypolicy Israel follows. Andevery relationship hasstrains.”

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ProMelt Despite the price increase,the UI will use ProMelt todeice campus sidewalksand entrances.• 2010: $8.51/ bag• 2010: 96 bags purchased• 2011: $9.25/ bag

source: Bob Lackman,

general manager of Beisser Lumber

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The Daily Iowan Editorial Board endorses TexasRep. Ron Paul for the Iowa Republican presidentialcaucuses.

The reasons for endorsing Paul over the otherRepublican contenders are numerous and warranted.The differences between their beliefs on governing pri-marily motivate our decision.

Paul is a candidate who appeals to voters across thepolitical spectrum. He has also been exceptionally con-sistent in his time in Congress. He doesn’t play politi-cal games — even with his opponents — and remainstruthful to his word. This alone is a redeeming qualityin a candidate in today’s political sphere.

Despite the mainstream media writing him off asbeing unable to win Iowa, he is now polling in secondplace and may even be the most popular candidate inIowa, given the margin of error.

He holds many of the same political stances as for-mer New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson but is marketableto a wider base. He believes in a Constitutionally limit-ed federal government that would give much of itsimplied power back to the states. His Plan to RestoreAmerica would rationally cut $1 trillion from the feder-al budget.

He would end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,finally bringing our troops home and freeing money inthe budget to focus on problems at home.

His bold tax-reform plan would promote job creationwhile reducing the burden on the middle class.Eventually, when the time is right, he would lead aneffort to abolish the 16th Amendment to theConstitution and eliminate the federal income tax andreplace it with various “user fees” as a form of raisingrevenue.

He would repeal Obamacare and replace it with thenoncontroversial parts of the plan, giving individualsmore control over their health-care.

Though his illegal immigration stance is harsh bymost accounts, he does have some laudable plans tomitigate the perceived epidemic. For example, he woulddissuade people from entering the country illegally bymaking it easier to become a citizen legally.

He would also make the southern border safer byadvocating an end to the federal War on Drugs. Hewould stop the Drug Enforcement Administration fromactively pursuing drug producers, distributors, andpurchasers, and instead return that decision to thestates.

The candidates who have a chance of winning thestate often take stances that are not dissimilar to thatof President Obama.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney implementedmany of the same policies that Obama has supported.Not only would he disenfranchise many of the GOP’score conservative and libertarian constituency, he alsowouldn’t bring many new ideas to the table.

Gingrich’s abundant experience as former speaker ofthe House will in fact ail rather than aid him in a gen-eral election. Obama won’t need to elucidate any of

Gingrich’s faults, because the media will likely do thatfor him. Between his objectionable marital history, hisrecently adopted moniker as a Washington insider, andhis accumulated wealth over time, Gingrich will be tornapart by the Democrats.

Former Utah Gov. John Huntsman, Jr. has ran an all-around weak campaign. His lack of appearances inIowa and New Hampshire won’t get him the support heneeds to win. His having been a part of Obama’s admin-istration and praising his leadership will come back tohaunt him. The conservative base of the GOP wouldeasily abandon him.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry would not be a strong nomineefor the party. Amid his frequent gaffes, dodgy policyviews, and his unacceptable stance on gay marriage,Perry has not proven that he could lead this countryeffectively.

Paul’s stance on gay marriage is admirable, especial-ly when compared with the rest of the field. He believesthe federal government should have no role in the mar-riage process. He also voted to overturn Don’t Ask,Don’t Tell.

Bachmann is in a similar rut. Besides the ingrainedGOP talking points of a repeal of “Obamacare,” cuttingtaxes, and reducing regulations, she has not offerednotable specifics on how she would accomplish hergoals. She has often made egregious misstatements inthe debates and during media appearances that clear-ly devastate her credibility.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania takesBachmann’s blunders to a whole new level. Not only ishe a staunch religious conservative who would imposea quasi-theocracy on the entire country, he would alsoreadily engage our troops into a war with Iran over itsnuclear program.

Paul, on the other hand, strongly supports the with-drawal of all troops from the Persian Gulf area andsouthern Asia.

This leaves Johnson and Paul. Unfortunately forJohnson, he cannot secure the nomination with the wayhe has been conducting his campaign. His libertarianstyle of governing would be something that could causea fresh debate with the antithetical policies of Obama,and he would quickly fix the debt problem inWashington. But his “un-presidential” polish and oddcampaign-style have proven ineffective, and he polls inthe low single-digits.

With these facts in mind, an endorsement for Paul isthe only logical conclusion.

These differences from the rest of the GOP fieldwould be a positive for the presidential process. Weneed leaders that stand strongly and firmly with theirconvictions and avoid the seemingly endless partisan-ship in Washington, and Paul would bring that kind ofleadership to the White House.

Your turn. Whom do you plan to caucus for?Weigh in at ddaaiillyyiioowwaann..ccoomm..

You went about your

semester the same way

as the rest of your

friends did, more or less.

You started out strong,

scribing meticulous

notes detailed with

graphs, footnotes, and

coffee stains. You read

before you came to class.

You even emailed the

teacher once.

Of course, you don’t

keep that pace up for

the whole year — more

like a week and a half or

up to a month if you

don’t have friends.

You’re too busy. You

have people to do, things

to see, intoxicants to

abuse. By the time finals

come around, you’re way

behind on your reading,

your notebooks are lit-

tered with doodles of

zombie-ducks and you

… might know where

your book is? Jason’s

car, you’re pretty sure.

No matter. Everybody

does this. That’s what

finals week is for, to

learn four months’

worth of material 12

hours before your test.

Now, it’s finals week,

and you’re really start-

ing to stress out. You

aren’t learning the

material fast enough.

You visit that one per-

son’s Facebook page at

least three times as

often as you turn a page

in your book. You find

that you’re learning

more about Tim Tebow’s

throwing mechanics

than you are about

organic chemistry.

What’s the matter? All

your friends are study-

ing fine.

That’s because your

friends are on perform-

ance-enhancing drugs,

probably Adderall. And

if you care more about

your GPA than you do

about your “academic

integrity,” your health,

or the slim chance of

getting caught, you

probably will be, too.

So you try it.

Zoom! Zoom zoom! You

have no interest in

Facebook, all you want to

do is learn, learn this

right now, because if you

don’t get chapter three

done by 3:17 a.m., it will

mess up your whole

schedule, and you won’t

even have time for a

snack, but then again

snacks are a waste of

time. Time. Time? Six

hours before your test —

that’s basically eternity.

You have time to blow

through this textbook, go

home, clean your room,

call your mom, and read

at least half of that

Edgar Allan Poe antholo-

gy that’s been sitting on

your roommate’s shelf.

(Not that I would

know. You see, I have

academic integrity.)

What if you could live

every day of your life

like this? Well, unless

you have a prescription,

it’s pretty darn illegal.

The Food and Drug

Administration classifies

it as a schedule II drug

— just like opium and

cocaine.

So it has to be bad for

you if it’s illegal, right?

That’s why drugs are

usually illegal, you rea-

son.

You do some research

and find out … not a

whole lot. Don’t feel bad

— Canada tried to find

out, too, and it couldn’t

find anything, either.

After 20 deaths and 12

strokes were reported

among patients, they

tried to find out whether

Adderall increases the

risk of cardiac death,

but it couldn’t. So, it put

the drug back on the

market, where this is a

vehemently strong

demand for increased

cognitive ability. Yeah,

you can relate to that.

Some scientists

advocate for the wide-

spread availability and

distribution of Adderall

and other brain-enhanc-

ing drugs. Mentally

capable adults should be

able to make their own

decisions about taking

the drugs. If they want

them, they should be

able to take them, and

those that don’t should-

n’t be able to stop those

that do.

What a ground-break-

ing concept.

There are thousands

of studies out there. If

you’re interested, you

can look them up and

make your own deci-

sions. Talk to a doctor. If

you’re unable to be pre-

scribed, maybe the

drugs aren’t right for

you. It might be better

not to develop that kind

of dependency, anyway.

But then again, what

do I know about you?

Nothing. You know your

values, you know your

goals, and you have the

Internet.

Whatever you think

about the subject, you

should probably get off

Facebook and hit the

books right about now.

Adderall-or-nothing

CHRIS [email protected]

Caucus for Ron Paul on Jan. 3

Donate breast milkwhen able

If someone is eligible to

donate blood to a blood bank, I

believe he or she is morally obli-

gated to do so. The same goes

for breast-milk donations.

If someone is capable of sav-

ing another person’s life, espe-

cially one of a newborn child,

how could anyone pass up that

opportunity? Before reading the

story in The Daily Iowan, I was

unaware of this kind of a dona-

tion, as I’m sure many other

people were as well. I found the

article in Monday’s paper about

the breast-milk bank to be

incredibly informative and heart-

warming. Although most

University of Iowa students are

not going to be able to actually

donate breast milk themselves,

it is important for us to know

that this is a topic that needs

more attention. If the process of

donating is as simple as donat-

ing blood, then breast-feeding

mothers should without a doubt

donate to the bank. Especially

since the mother will also bene-

fit from the process of donation,

how could such an opportunity

be turned down?

The Heidger twin boys havebeen saved by this donation, amoving story that should inspireeligible donors to save thefuture lives of newborn babies tocome.

MMaaddeelliinnee CCoorrnneelloo

UI freshman

More wind turbinesneeded

We are still living in an era inwhich fossil fuels rule our sourceof energy. For obvious reasons itneeds to start changing now,and advocating private wind tur-bines is a great step in the rightdirection.

I believe the people of thiscountry see that there is a prob-lem with our dependency on fos-sil fuels and that they arebecoming a big problem, but allbig movements start off small.I’m banking that the people ofJohnson County will embrace theidea of using wind turbines as aclean source of energy. The fuelis practically free.

Yes, the structure itself is

expensive, but in time we know

technology gets cheaper and

more efficient. Another plus is,

once you buy it, you build it, and

that’s it. No emissions — it saves

the owner money, and it will pay

itself off eventually. Some say

that they are ugly, but I say that

beauty is in the eye of the

beholder. I think they are great

and are a symbol for change and

clean energy.

If there aren’t very many pri-

vate owners of turbines in the

future, then what will stop the

city of Iowa City, a city that is

famous for setting examples in

many other things, from switch-

ing over to a green energy

source and building a wind farm?

I love my city, and I’m very

happy to see that it is starting

somewhere. We may not live to

see the entire nation using

renewable energy, but I would

want to see the start — wouldn’t

you?KKyyee GGrreennkkoo

UI student

Plan B should beavailable to thoseunder 17

Health and Human Services

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

unfortunately overruled the Food

and Drug Administration’s

approval of the over-the-counter

Plan B One-Step emergency con-

traceptive for females under the

age of 17. No health secretary had

ever publicly overruled the FDA

before this case on Wednesday.

After all the concerns of teen

pregnancy, one would think the

vast majority would be for this

form of birth control. Scientist and

politicians have been at odds for

years whether to make Plan B

available over the counter. After

all, who do we trust with our

health: scientists or politicians?

The studies and experts all agreed

that young women would benefit

from having easy access to the pill

and did not need the intervention

of a health-care provider. Also,

there are many drugs available

over the counter that are far more

dangerous than contraceptives,

such as acetaminophen, which is

available to everyone.

Instead of safely preventing

unwanted births, an opportunity

was lost to possibly lower the

unintended pregnancy rate for the

age group. Overruling the recom-

mendation of the FDA scientists

suggests that the decision had

been driven by politics and not

science.

SSaarraa NNeellssoonn

UI student



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Allison Heady works on a project in the Studio Arts building on Sunday. Heady is an undergraduate pur-suing a B.F.A. in printmaking. Art Building West will open for classes in the spring semester for thefirst time since the 2008 flood. A shuttle will run between Art Building West and the Studio Arts build-ing. (The Daily Iowan/Christy Aumer)


Iowa City scooter andmoped motorists will beslapped with fines if they try topark in bicycle racks in 2012.

A new city ordinance, set togo into effect Jan. 3, will out-law moped and scooter park-ing in Iowa City bicycle racks.City officials said that becauseof the cold winter months, it isunlikely they will issue ticketsimmediately.

“We’ll have an extendedperiod where we’ll issuewarnings,” said ChrisO’Brien, the Iowa Citydirector of transportationservices. “… It’ll be a pro-hibited parking area atthat point.”

Roughly 142 moped/scoot-er stalls are available on cityproperty for parking inanticipation of the comingordinance, O’Brien said. Theparking spaces were desig-nated in late fall 2011.

“Because of the largenumber of mopeds andscooters downtown, we hadsome safety concerns,” hesaid. “Most of the bikeracks are located in high-pedestrian areas.”

City officials are stillwaiting for signs to be com-pleted for the spaces,O’Brien said.

“The parking spaces will bein convenient locations,” he

said. “I anticipate it will be arelatively smooth transition.”

To inform motorists ofthe new ordinance, O’Briensaid, maps depicting thenew permit parking loca-tions will be made avail-able at Parking Services,335 Iowa Ave.

He said officers will issue$15 citations for bike-rackparking, after a grace peri-od of issuing warnings,which is expected to lastinto the spring.

However, the new ordi-nance may cost people.

O’Brien said an unlimit-ed number of $45 city per-mits will be available topark in the designated lots.

This permit will not coverUI parking requirements.

“We issue permits,” saidDave Ricketts, UI directorof Parking and Transporta-tion. “In order for people topark motorcycles or mopedsin a university motorcyclelot, they must buy permitsfor $8 a month.” However,he said, “in a cashieredfacility, you can park thereand pay upon exiting.”

The University of Iowaforbids motorcycle andmoped drivers from park-ing in bicycle racks on cam-pus property.

“There was some confu-sion because the city didnot have the same rules,”Ricketts said.

He said he thinks the new

ordinance will cut down onsome motorist confusion.

Ricketts noted that moststudents who drive mopedsand scooters on campuspurchase a nine-monthparking permit for $72.

Bryan Ilg, the founder ofMopedU, said he does notbelieve the new ordinancewill affect moped rentals.

“The city parking is real-ly nice right now,” he said.“… We do still provide uni-versity parking passes.”

And Ilg said MopedUwill also work with the cityto inform its customersabout the new ordinance.

Currently, the UI alsoissues $15 parking viola-tions for parking in bicycleracks.

“Every fall, there are newpeople who don’t know,”Ricketts said. “So there’s alittle education about it inthe fall. Once you get pastthe first few weeks ofschool, we don’t see it veryoften.”

Though city and univer-sity policies are now closelyaligned, Ricketts said theUI did not have directinput on the decision toenact the new ordinance.But he said he understandsthe reasons behind the reg-ulation.

“It’s like parking your caron the grass,” he said. “Itjust doesn’t belong there.”

Mopeds line the sidewalk next to the Old Capitol Town Center on April 13. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

Currently, Iowa City has 142 moped/scooter spaces.

Moped parking to change

BY ARTHUR MAX ANDKARL RITTERAssociated Press

JOHANNESBURG,South Africa — The hard-fought deal at a global cli-mate conference in SouthAfrica keeps talks alive butdoesn’t address the coreproblem:The world’s biggestcarbon polluters aren’t will-ing to cut emissions of green-house gases enough to staveoff dangerous levels of globalwarming.

With many scientistssaying time is running out,a bigger part of the solutionmay have to come from therise of climate-friendly tech-nologies being developedoutside the U.N. process.

“We avoided a trainwreck, and we got someuseful incremental deci-sions,” said Alden Meyer ofthe Washington-basedUnion of Concerned Scien-tists. “The bad news is thatwe did very little here toaffect the emissions curve,which is accelerating, andthe impacts of climatechange, which are climb-ing day by day.”

Scientists say that if lev-els of greenhouse gasescontinue to rise, eventual-ly the world’s climate willreach a tipping point, withirreversible melting ofsome ice sheets and a sev-eral-foot rise in sea levels.

They cannot pinpointexactly when that wouldhappen, but the two-

decade-long climate nego-tiations have been focusedon preventing global tem-peratures from rising morethan 2 degrees Fahrenheit(1.2 degrees Celsius) abovecurrent levels by the end ofthis century.

A report released beforethe Durban talks by theU.N. Environment Pro-gramme said greenhouse-gas emissions need to peakbefore 2020 for the worldto have a shot of reachingthat target. It said that’sdoable only if nations raisetheir emissions pledges.

In Durban, they did not.Sunday’s deal extends

by five years the KyotoProtocol, the 1997 agree-ment that has bindingemissions targets forsome industrial countriesbut not the world’sbiggest carbon polluters,China and the UnitedStates.

The Durban agreementalso envisions a newaccord with binding tar-gets for all countries totake effect in 2020. And it

sets up the bodies that willcollect, govern and distrib-ute tens of billions of dol-lars to poor countries suf-fering the effects of cli-mate change.

“But the core questionof whether more than190 nations can cooper-ate in order to peak andbring down emissions tothe necessary level by2020 remains open — itis a high-risk strategy forthe planet and its peo-ple,” Enviornment Pro-gramme chief AchimSteiner said.

Climate talks havebeen bogged down by riftsbetween rich and poor,between fully industrial-ized nations and emerg-ing economies, about howto share the burden ofreducing greenhouseemissions.

Held back by a skepticalCongress, the UnitedStates doesn’t want tocommit to any bindingdeal unless it also imposesstrict emissions targets onChina and India.



By ALLIE [email protected]

Former Sen. Rick Santo-rum, R-Pa., said inCoralville Sunday he wantsto end federal funding fororganizations that performabortions.

During a stop at Taber-nacle Baptist Church, hedescribed abortions knownsmedically as intact dilation& extraction as “horrific”and compared the proce-dure to an execution.

“[The abortion] is aninhumanity that shouldnot occur in this country,”the Iowa caucus candidatesaid. “[Tax dollars] shouldnot be used for things thatare morally objection-able.”

According to last year’sPlanned Parenthoodannualreport, the federal govern-ment supplies $7.9 millionto the program under TitleX. Two percent — roughly

$158,000 — of those fundsgo directly to abortion serv-ices in cases of rape, incest,or if the mother’s life is indanger.

As a senator, Santorumalso wrote legislation out-lawing intact dilation &extraction and led the pass-ing of the Born Alive InfantProtection Act and theUnborn Victims of ViolenceAct.

Though some may notnecessarily agree withSantorum’s proposal tomake abortion illegal, Uni-versity of Iowa economistPatrick Barron said manydon’t believe the servicesshould be supported by taxdollars.

“It’s a duty of the govern-ment to protect life, liberty,and property,” he said. “Anytaxation the governmentdoes beyond that in order tospend money for lifestyleissues, such as PlannedParenthood, means peoplehave money taken andspent in ways we wouldn’tnormally do.”

According to a July 2011Gallup poll, more than halfof Republicans were in sup-port of banning federalfunds for abortionproviders.

Barron said legislation

to e l iminate federalabortion funding couldearn support in Con-gress.

“It might pass,” he said. “Ithink that there’s a goodchance that the nationprobably would [supportcuts]. Anecdotally, mostpeople feel that abortionshould not be made illegal,but they also say we shouldnot support abortion withtax dollars.”

Others said slashes toorganizations similar toPlanned Parenthood couldbe detrimental to the econo-my.

Christina Carberry, thepresident of the FeministMajority LeadershipAlliance at the Universityof Iowa, argued such organ-izations should receivemore funding in order toboost job creation.

“I think it’s unfortunatethat the Republican candi-dates choose to focus onchoosing a right thatwomen have been given asopposed to talking aboutother major issues in ourcountry like the economy,”Carberry said. “… we needmore funding for PlannedParenthood so it can createjobs for people.”

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PlannedParenthoodreceives $7.9million in federalfunding throughTitle X.

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UITV schedule

• Fraternal Order of EaglesDiabetes Research CenterSpecial Lecture, DeborahMuoio, Duke University School ofMedicine, Muoio is a candidatefor the Fraternal Order of EaglesDiabetes Research Center direc-tor position, 9 a.m., 1289 CarverBiomedical Research Building

• Parent and Toddler Fit-ness Program, 9:30 a.m., Scan-lon Gym, 2701 Bradford

• The Journey to April, 10a.m., Senior Center, 28 S. Linn

• Mississippi Valley Region-al Blood Center Blood Drive,10:30 a.m., Mercy Iowa City, 500E. Market

• Toddler Story Time, 10:30a.m., Iowa City Public Library,123 S. Linn

• Emergency GeneralSurgery Conference, noon,0091 UIHC Colloton Pavilion

• Family Medicine NoonConference, 12:15 p.m., 01125UIHC Pomerantz Family Pavilion

• Psychiatry Research Sem-inar, “Preventing Relapse inSchizophrenia: Oral Compared toInjectable Anti-Psychotics,” DelMiller, 12:30 p.m., 1502 GeneralHospital

• Hand & Foot, 1 p.m., IowaCity/Johnson County Senior Cen-ter

• Voices of Experience Con-cert Series, 2:30 p.m., IowaCity/Johnson County Senior Center

• Surgical Oncology Teach-ing Conference, 5 p.m., 4638John W. Colloton Pavilion

• Affirmationists Toastmas-ters, 5:30 p.m., W401 PappajohnBusiness Building

• River City Toastmasters,5:30 p.m., Gus’, 2421 Coral Court,Coralville

• Zumba, 6 p.m., UnitarianUniversalist Society, 10 S. Gilbert

• Zumba classes, 6 p.m.,Coralville Recreation Center,1506 Eighth St.

• Fair to Midland, with DeadLetter Circus and Aficionado,6:30 p.m., Blue Moose, 211 IowaAvenue

• Poetry Out Loud: IowaCity Senior Center, 7 p.m, IowaCity Public Library

• Campus Activities BoardMassage Chairs, 9 p.m.-mid-night, IMU Hubbard CommonsUnion

• One-Night Stand, 9 p.m.,Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn

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Daily Break

ARIES March 21-April 19 Being spontaneous can work both ways. If you combine your actions with pressure ordemands, you will be pushed back. But if you are clever, witty, and progressive, you will capture attention,favors, and the help you require to move forward.

TAURUS April 20-May 20 Put greater trust in the ones you love. Conversations will lead to decisions regardingyour future. Bold action may be required on your part, but don’t go overboard. An unusual partnership mayrequire some posturing before it works well.

GEMINI May 21-June 20 Playful, enlightening banter will get you further than arguing. Use your intelligence andimagination, and you will come up with suggestions that will be accepted by the majority. Don’t let an emotion-al connection with someone slow you down.

CANCER June 21-July 22 Take what’s going on in your personal life to heart. Do whatever you can to sympathizewith someone you respect and love. Don’t let uncertainty regarding responsibilities lead to complaints. Dowhat’s expected of you, and move along.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Think before you act. Anything short of the right move will be taken the wrong way and willwork against you. Focus on personal change and what you can do to make your life and what you do moreinteresting. Uncertainty is prevalent.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 You may want to help an outsider, but in the end, it will cause a rift with someone count-ing on you at home. Gauge your time carefully, and make sure you distribute personal, family, and work timeevenly. Love is highlighted.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Stick to what you do best. Entertain, but don’t go over budget. Use your imagination, andyou will surpass expectations. Don’t submit to emotional blackmail. Gather information, and make a decision.A reversal can be expected.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 A change of heart will favor you. Someone’s uncertainty will enable you to make a strate-gic move. A chance to modify how you do business will bring new opportunities. Socialize with people whoshare business interests.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Anger will not resolve anything. Do what’s required physically to get the bestresults. Take care of your personal concerns, and make alterations to the way you look or do things that willenable you to stand out.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Put your heart on the line, and reveal your true feelings. Once you have made clearwhat you want, you will be able to move forward without feeling repressed or guilty. Honesty is the best routeto happiness.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Don’t give up on something you want. Bide your time, work hard at what’s required ofyou, and eventually, you will be rewarded. An encounter with someone you feel strongly about can positivelyalter your personal life.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 You’ll be caught in the middle. No matter what you choose to do, there will be a priceto pay. Make sure whatever you decide is worth the consequences. Love is in the stars, and romance shouldbe allowed to flourish.

“ ”Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone,somewhere, may be happy.

— H.L. Mencken

Noon UI Explorers Lecture Series, “Sus-taining Biodiversity in Coral Reefs,” NancyBudd, Geoscience, Nov. 18, 20101 p.m. Latino Youth Leadership Develop-ment Summit, “What Does it Mean to beAmerican?” Will Perez, Oct. 15, 20102 Martin Luther King Human Rights WeekOpening Celebration, Odell McGheeKeynote, Langston Hughes Company ofPlayers, UI gospel choir Voices of Soul, theQuire, UI Breakers, Youth United DrillTeam , Jan. 174 UI Explorers Lecture Series, “SustainingBiodiversity in Coral Reefs,” Nancy Budd,Geoscience, Nov. 18, 20105 Latino Youth Leadership DevelopmentSummit, “What Does it Mean to be Ameri-

can?” Will Perez, Oct. 15, 20106 Henry B. Tippie Midwest One Communi-ty Lecture Series, “Business Lessons,”Henry B. Tippie, March 77:30 Martin Luther King Human RightsWeek Opening Celebration, Odell McGheeKeynote, Langston Hughes Company ofPlayers, UI gospel choir Voices of Soul, theQuire, UI Breakers, Youth United DrillTeam , Jan. 179:30 Daily Iowan Television News9:45 Hawkeye News Conferences, headcoach news conferences for the week10:30 Daily Iowan Television News10:45 Iowa Percussion Concert, The Per-cussion Music of Robert Moran, DirectorDaniel Moore Dec. 4, 2010

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Words Irecently

learned andwhat I origi-nally thoughtthey meant:

• gadzookery (the use ofarchaisms): where people

house their gadzooks.• brandish (to shake or

wave menacingly): trade-marky.

• subvention (subsidy froma government or foundation):

large gathering of hoagie,grinder, and hero lovers.• potboiler (inferior work

produced chiefly for profit):someone who doesn’t knowhow to correctly use mari-

juana.• bumbershoot (umbrel-

la): well, um, you see, whena two people really like each

other, and they trust eachother, and they have maybea few drinks one night, and

one of them asks the other ifthey’d like to “try something

new tonight …”• jackleg (lacking skill or

training): what a homelyguy calls his penis.

• spear-carrier (a bit actorin a play): a Caucasian?• haruspex (a diviner in

ancient Rome basing hispredictions on inspection of

the entrails of sacrificialanimals): I dunno, but Idare you to say it three

times into a mirror.• haywire (emotionally or

mentally out of control): anonconductive filament.

• axiomatic (taken forgranted): possible model

name for my new line of stur-dy lumberjack automatons.

• adumbrate (to foreshad-ow vaguely): anything above

$20 for a private dance.• compurgator (one who

under oath vouches for thecharacter of the accused):

the unholy fusion of asupercomputer and an alli-

gator — akin to thecyberdile.

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ON THE STREET

Where do you like to study on campusand why?

‘Third floor of the library.The third floor past all thebooks, there’s a little areaalong the wall. You go inthere, and no one’s there.You can do whatever youwant, no ones around. It’swonderful.’Jake McInnisUI sophomore

‘Probably the MainLibrary or the medicallibrary. It’s a lot moresecluded.’Thomas Koch UI freshman

‘If the weather’s nice, def-initely on the Pentacrest… But probably the fifthfloor of the library. It’sreally quite in there, and Iget a lot of work done.’Sara CunninghamUI freshman

‘The law building, becausethere’s a bunch of smartpeople who are good-look-ing, and it’s very quite andnice.’Jassi SinghUI freshman



By JENNY [email protected]

For Stephen Bishop, hisbedroom is the quietestplace to prepare for his fourfinals this week.

The University of Iowajunior said past attempts tostudy in space on campushave proven unsuccessfulbecause of the noise aroundhim.

“I think [study places]get packed at times — theyget a little rowdy,” he said.

UI officials admit studyspaces are tight on campus,but upcoming projects willprovide more areas for stu-dents to study as soon asthe spring.

“We’ve definitely hadsome challenges with theflooding and that kind ofstuff, but we try really hardto accommodate studentneeds,” said Kristi Bon-trager, the coordinator ofpublic relations for the UILibraries. “We understandstudents need a quiet placeto study and group studyspaces — we’re gettingthere.”

Following the 2008 flood,the Main Library gave upspace to house the Art andMusic Libraries, she said.

Additional space has beenlost with the library’spreparation forreconstruction beginning insummer 2012.

Art Building West willreopen before the springsemester, and the ArtLibrary will move back.

Currently, the MainLibrary only has enoughseats for 8 percent of theundergraduate studentpopulation, but studentsshould expect to find morestudy space available forthe next set of finals, shesaid.

The Learning Commonswill be built where thelibrary staff offices arelocated, and the staff willmove to the fifth floor, open-ing up a whole half of alevel to students previouslyunavailable.

“It doesn’t do much for usnow, but next semester thatwill open up quite a bit ofspace on the floor in thewest side of the building,”Bontrager said.

With the library’s lack ofspace, she said, the IMU isthe best alternative.

The IMU study features344 chairs, 131 comfychairs, and 86 study tables.In addition, the MainLounge is now open untilWednesday with addedtables and chairs locatedaround the perimeter andcenter of the room.

Dean of Students DavidGrady said it’s a good ideato get the word out to stu-dents so they know of safeplaces to study.

Beginning this week, theIMU will open more meet-

ing rooms on the secondfloor after 9 or 10 p.m. Meet-ing rooms on the third floorwill also be made available,and the University BoxOffice is open 24 hours nowfor laptop checkout.

UI junior Austin Wakatsaid the university shouldoffer a lot more space, espe-cially during finals. Wakatsuggests the school open upmore classrooms in otherbuildings on campus ratherthan packing the libraryand IMU full.

“We know we need moreseating — that’s anotherpart of why we’re renovat-ing the library — becausewe have more students,”said Bontrager.

Study space tight on UI campus24-Hour AccessFrom Sunday to Friday, thefollowing buildings will beopen 24 hours:• Pappajohn BusinessBuilding Library• IMU • Main Library

Source: University of Iowa Student

Government

Students study for their finals in the Main Library on Sunday. (The Daily Iowan/ Elvira Bakalbasic)

The UI Main Library only seats 1,800.



By DORA [email protected]

Chris Kyhl’s years at theUniversity of Iowa weren’tspent solely on betteringhimself.

Instead, he spent themajority of his timeenhancing other students’college experiences throughhis active involvement inan education program — anoutlet for his passion forteaching.

“Kyhl is making a differ-ence in the lives of peoplearound him,” said NancyLangguth, a UI clinicalassociate professor of edu-cation. “What I admire isthat he can answer anyquestion you might askhim, but you are nevermonopolized. He nevertakes over in any way andalways gives people time togather thoughts.”

The 22-year-old UI stu-dent will graduate at theend of this week with a B.A.in mathematics and a cer-tificate in education.

Kyhl’s biggest dedicationas a student was serving asa resident assistant for theUI College of Education’sRealizing Educational andCareer Hopes program forthe past two years. Hehelped assimilate studentswith cognitive and learningdisabilities to college life.

He said his experienceswith the program helpedhim develop skills that hewill transfer into the class-room as a teacher.

“I’ve learned that I can’ttreat all my residents thesame, and I can’t teach allmy students the same,” hesaid. “Every individualneeds a different way ofapproaching things and dif-ferent things to make heror him tick. It’s reallytaught me patience issomething you can learnand is not necessarily just avirtue.”

Amy Vander Busard, theprogram’s coordinator forstudent life, said Kyhlalways makes a special con-nection with the students.

“One of my favorite sto-

ries of Chris as an RA waswhen a returning studentshowed up, and [Kyhl] wel-comed back the student byname,” Busard said. “Themom was in tears that heknew her student byname.”

Kyhl’s ability to connectwith students and recog-nize their individual abilitylevels is “quite novel,”Langguth said.

“Whenever I would seethe REACH students shep-herded, Chris was often inthe middle,” Langguth said.“He brought a gracious andkind presence. I was sointerested and curious totap into that.”

Langguth taught Kyhl’ssecondary education class-es and said he was alwaysthorough with his work andwill “hit the ground run-ning” in the education field.

“He has been so skilled infostering relationships withchildren with specialneeds,” Langguth said. “Ithink Chris will bring anawareness of ability levelsand the means to differenti-

ate his instructions so all ofhis [students] experiencesuccess.”

While at the UI, Kyhlalso played active roles inthe Marching Band andCru. He served as a tutorfor students through TRiO— a program for first-gen-eration college students.

Kyhl said speaking withhis hometown mathteacher sparked his inter-est in education.

“I always knew I wantedto do something with math,but really found that I waspassionate about helpingand influencing kids, whichled into the RA [job], whichled into teaching,” Kyhlsaid.

He spent his twopracticums at ReginaJunior High School andWest High School, and heis

currently student-teachingat Jamesville High inCedar Falls.

He is in the process ofapplying for teaching posi-tions in the Cedar Fallsarea for after graduation.

His ultimate career goalis to obtain a master’sdegree and teach high-school math while being avarsity football and basket-ball coach, he said.

Busard said the traitsKyhl has developed at theUI will aid him in hisfuture.

“He is very determinedand dedicated and passion-ate for making a differencefor the lives in the peoplehe has worked with,”Busard said. “Those quali-ties aren’t learned in thetextbook, they’re learnedthrough experiences.”

RA has special touch

UI senior Chris Kyhl will graduate this week with a B.A. in math and a certificate in education. (Contributedphoto)

Chris Khyl is atwo-year resident assistantin a UI education program.

By DOUGLAS BIRCHAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Theloss to Iran of the CIA’ssurveillance drone bris-tling with advanced spytechnology is more than apropaganda coup andintelligence windfall forthe Tehran government.The plane’s capture haspeeled back another layerof secrecy from expandingU.S. operations againstIran’s nuclear and mili-tary programs.

Just as the SovietUnion’s downing of theAmerican U-2 spy planerevealed a hidden aspectof the Cold War, Iran’srecovery of the drone hasshed light on the espi-onage that is part of U.S.-Iran hostilities.

Iran has charged the U.S.or its allies with waging acampaign of cyberwarfareand sabotage and of assassi-nating some Iranian scien-tists. The U.S. has accusedthe Iranian government ofhelping kill U.S. troops inAfghanistan and plotting tomurder the Saudi ambassa-dor in Washington.

“It’s beginning to looklike there’s a thinly veiled,increasingly violent, globalcloak-and-dagger gameafoot,” Thomas Donnelly, aformer government officialand military expert withthe American EnterpriseInstitute, said at a Wash-ington conference.

The covert operations inplay are “much biggerthan people appreciate,”said Stephen Hadley, for-mer national securityadviser under PresidentGeorge W. Bush. “But the

U.S. needs to use every-thing it can.”

Hadley said that if Irancontinues to defy U.N.resolu-tions and doesn’t curb itsnuclear ambitions, the quietconflict “will only get nastier.”

Some historians and for-eign-policy experts com-pared the drone incidentwith the Soviet Union’s1960 downing of the U-2spy plane and pilot Fran-cis Gary Powers. Whilethose two countriessparred publicly on manyissues, the world only occa-sionally glimpsed eachside’s secret operations.

“When I first heardabout the drone, my firstthought was thank good-ness there wasn’t a pilot init,” said Francis Gary Pow-ers Jr., the son of the U-2pilot and founder of theCold War Museum.

The U-2 downing shockedU.S. military planners, whothought the advanced aircraftflew too high to be hit by aSoviet missile. Likewise, Iransays it used advanced elec-tronic warfare measures todetect, hack, and bring downan RQ-170 Sentinel drone.

Iran aired TV footageDec. 8 of what current andformer U.S. officials con-firm is the missing Sen-tinel. The robotic aircraftsuffered what appeared tobe only minimal damage.

Iran protested Dec. 9 tothe United Nations aboutwhat it described as“provocative and covertoperations” by the U.S. TheTehran government calledthe flight by the drone a“blatant and unprovoked airviolation” that was “tanta-mount to an act of hostility.”

Some say dronedowning echoes U-2incident

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MMoorree tthhaann ffoouurrFear not , Hawkeye

fans: The men’s basket-ball team has only a 5-5record to start the sea-son, but there are rea-sons to be positive.

Maybe I’ve been sip-p ing on too much o fWhite Magic ’s Koo l -Aid, but this team hasthe abi l i ty to accom-pl i sh something thefootball team couldn’t— it will win at leastf ive games in confer-ence play.

Devyn Marble hascontinued to evolve inhis second season as aHawkeye. Marble hasestablished himself asIowa’s best player thisseason , as was seenwhen the silky-smoothscorer from Southfield,Mich. , erupted for 21po ints and 5 ass i s tsagainst the Cyclones.

Fans have to beencouraged by Marble’sattitude. Down big atIowa State, the sopho-more helped lead Iowaback into the game.

Looking at the BigTen schedule, theHawkeyes get OhioState, Michigan ,Nebraska, Minnesota,Wiscons in , Purdue,Penn State, Indiana,and Northwesternat home.

Let ’s look at gamesthat Iowa should win.

The first is Nebraska.Who knew the Corn-huskers even had a bas-ketball team?

Second , Iowa cansplit the season serieswith Minnesota andWisconsin by beatingboth of them in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Min-nesota is hurting withforward Trevor Mbakweout for the season, andIowa tends to play Wis-cons in wel l ; theHawkeyes took theBadgers to overtime inCarver-Hawkeye lastyear and would havewon if not for some Jor-dan Taylor magic.

Penn State i sgarbage, and Purdueisn’t as good as it hasbeen in the past.

The Hawkeyes arecapable of

pul l ing o f fan upset over

Michigan , Indi -ana, or Ohio State,

as ev idenced bythe ir Senior Day

victory last yearover then-No. 6

Purdue.Iowa is 5 -5 despi te

having last year’s bestplayers — forward Mel-sahn Basabe and pointguard Bryce Cartwright— be almost invisible.

Those two players arebound to pick it up soon(I hope), and freshmansniper Josh Oglesbygives McCaffery’s teama n ice group o fweapons.

Stay pat ient , Iowahoops fans. This team isbetter than it has beenplaying recently.

— by Ben Wolfson

LLeessss tthhaann ffoouurrDespite another year

o f exper ience underhead coach FranMcCaf fery ’s sys tem,the Iowa men’s basket-ball team won’t be ableto ec l ipse last year ’stota l o f f our Big Ten

wins. The main rea-son

forthisi s thestrengtho f theBig

Ten.The B ig

Ten i s arguab ly the

best men’s basketballconference in the coun-t ry. In CBS Spor ts ’Jerry Pa lm ’s mostrecent projection, nineBig Ten teams wi l lqualify for the NCAATournament. The sheerdepth o f the l eaguewill make it very diffi-cult to get five confer-ence wins, which wouldbe more than the foot-ball team’s four.

Of the Hawkeyes’ fivewins, only Indiana-Pur-due For t Wayne i sranked in the nation’stop 250 byRealTimeRPI. TheMastadons s i t a tNo. 160.

McCaffery’s squad— ranked 191st inthe country byRea lT imeRPI —has l os t everytime it has beentested and by at

least10

points. Teams suchas Ohio State, Purdue,Mich igan State , andWisconsin will be teststhe Hawkeyes jus tcan’t pass, especial lyon the road.

The only place in theBig Ten in which Iowahas won a road game in

the past two years hasbeen at Indiana, andjudg ing f rom theHoosiers’ victory overKentucky on Dec. 10,that team is unlikely tolet the Hawkeyes winin Assembly Hal l forthe third year in a row.Iowa’s best chances fora road win this seasonmay come on Feb. 16against Penn State or

on Feb. 29at Nebras-

ka.The Hawkeyes

play both the Nit-tany Lions and Corn-

huskers twice, but atl eas t one o f thoseteams will take a gamefrom the Hawkeyes —i f no t bo th . Even i fIowa upsets a team athome, like last year’svictories over Purdueand Michigan State, itwould s t i l l l eave theteam short of five con-ference wins.

Four conference wins

may be enough to keep

the Hawkeyes out o f

last place in the confer-

ence, but it would not

be enough to top the

football team’s four-win

total.

— by Ryan Murphy

Big Ten wins for hoopsters?POINT/COUNTERPOINT

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Vikings’ rally fallsshort

DETROIT — Joe Webb faked apass before moving slightly tohis left, trying to cap an improb-able comeback with yet anotherscramble.

Detroit’s DeAndre Levy wasclose enough to reach out andgrab Webb. Just before Levy’shand tugged the quarterback’sfacemask, the ball popped free,and Minnesota’s rally came to asudden end.

“I can’t remember it really. Ihad so many things runningthrough my head, I was just try-ing to make a play,” Webb said. “Ican’t take that play back. Theonly thing I can do is learn fromit.”

The Vikings would have lovedone more snap at the end of theirwild 34-28 loss to the Lions onSunday — and they seemed tohave a case when replaysshowed Levy pulling on Webb’sfacemask on the final play. Butno penalty was called, andWebb’s terrific fourth quarterwent for naught.

Trailing 31-14 in the third,Webb replaced starting quarter-back Christian Ponder. He ran fora 65-yard touchdown and threw a2-yard scoring pass to TobyGerhart to pull the Vikings (2-11)back within 6. Then Minnesotadrove all the way to the Detroit 1with 9 seconds left.

“It’s a play of immediacy. Hehas a choice — either throw thestop-fade or throw the fade,”coach Leslie Frazier said. “If not,throw it out of bounds and stillhave a chance.”

Webb wasn’t able to do any ofthat because of Levy’s pressure.After the ball popped free, line-backer Stephen Tulloch batted ittoward midfield. Webb racedback to try to pick it up, but hewasn’t able to hold on, andDetroit’s Cliff Avril eventuallyrecovered all the way back inMinnesota territory.

—— AAssssoocciiaatteedd PPrreessss



served as a strong rolemodel and mentor for all ofour players and our entirestaff.”

The Hawkeyes struggledat times defensively thisyear, finishing in the bot-tom half of the Big Ten ineach of the four majordefensive categories. Butthat didn’t stop six mem-bers of Iowa’s defense frombeing named All-Big Ten in

November. Nor did it deterthe American FootballCoaches Association fromhonoring Parker with itsAssistant Coach of the Yearaward late last month.

A series of health issuesprevented Parker fromcoaching from the field hislast two years with theHawkeyes. His right footwas amputated in Septem-ber 2010 because of dia-betes complications. Hehad previously been admit-ted to the University ofIowa Hospitals and Clinicsbecause of back pain andhad had two toes removed.

But he worked his wayback so that he was able to

coach from the press boxduring Iowa’s 27-24 winover Missouri in the 2010Insight Bowl. He was fittedwith a prosthetic andlearned to drive a golf cartby using a stick to press thepedals.

And he never lost hissense of humor, O’Keefesaid; speaking before theteam’s spring game inApril, the offensive coordi-nator remembered a con-versation he had withParker about the weather.

“He said, ‘Yeah, it was sodamned cold my [artificial]leg fell off,’ ” O’Keefe said.“And I’m like, ‘What?’ … Hedidn’t even blink. He

thought it was funny.”Parker didn’t appear

comfortable talking to thepress about his varioushealth problems — he saidhe felt embarrassed by theattention at the team’smedia day in August.

The native of HazelPark, Mich., lettered infootball four times at East-ern Michigan, which wasalso the school that gavehim his first college coach-ing job — he tutored theEagles’ offensive line in1968. He spent time atWake Forest (1969-71),Minnesota (1972-76), Illi-nois (1977-79), and EastCarolina (1980-82) before

settling in at MichiganState. He helped the Spar-tans go to seven bowlgames in his 12 years inEast Lansing, Mich.

He coached at Vanderbiltfrom 1995-97 before com-ing to Iowa City with Fer-entz and O’Keefe.

“My wife, Linda, and allthe members of our family,were very pleased to bemembers of the Hawkeyefamily,” Parker said. “Wetruly enjoyed our timehere. After 48 years ofdoing something I love, it istime to enjoy some timewith the grandkids.”

PARKERCONTINUED FROM 14

Football gets oralcommitment

The Iowa football teamreceived a new oral addition toits 2012 recruiting class onSunday.

Kevin Buford, a 5-10, 170-pound cornerback from Michigan,reportedly accepted a scholar-ship offer at the end of his officialvisit to Iowa City this weekend.

Buford had originally commit-ted to Toledo, but he backed outwhen former Rocket head coachleft the school to fill the vacantIllinois spot.

“I felt like I always had thepotential to play in the Big Ten,”Buford toldRivals.com onSunday. “Idon’t want tosound cocky oranything, but Ifeel I can playat the highestlevel of colle-giate football. Iknew I had thatpotential but had to work hardand get better this year.”

The two-star (Rivals) defen-sive back helped lead Canton

(Mich.) High to an 8-3 record hissenior year; the Chiefs were 10-1and the eighth-best team in thestate during his junior campaign.He played cornerback and run-ning back for the Chiefs and alsoreturned kicks.

ESPN.com’s scouting profilesaid Buford shows the mostpromise as a defensive player,but he still has plenty to work on.

“Displays good anticipationand recognition skills … possess-es good ball-hawk skill set, butwe would like to see more con-centration to consistently make aplay on the ball,” the website

said. “Can line up in box [and]wrap up ball carrier in space, butneeds to be more consistent as awrap-up tackler, sinking hips, anddriving through … Overall, Bufordis a physical, determinedprospect with versatile skill set.”

Buford is Iowa’s 14th oral com-mitment of the class and the sec-ond in the past week; four-stardefensive end Faith Ekakitie gavehis on Dec. 7.

The class so far consists ofseven defensive players, fouroffensive players, a kicker, andtwo athletes.

—— bbyy SSeetthh RRoobbeerrttss

Bufordrecruit

FOOTBALL RECRUITING

tape] and probably work ona lot of things over finalsweek.”

Along with fixing the Xsand Os with which theHawkeyes seem to bestruggling, head coachFran McCaffery said thefinals week break fromgames comes at a good timebecause a number of hisplayers are “banged up.”

“You squeeze all thesegames in before finals —everywhere I’ve ever been,every team does the samething. You got to get themall in [before finals],” hesaid. “Then you take aweek off. They need time torest. Eric May is bangedup, [Devon] Archie isbanged up, [Gabe] Olaseniis banged up, [Devyn] Mar-ble is banged up. We gotguys banged up. But we’reno different than anybodyelse. If you start playingevery other day and youdon’t take practices off,they need time to rest theirbodies.”

McCaffery also saidpoint guard BryceCartwright didn’t look likehis normal self in Amesafter missing Iowa’s gameagainst Northern Iowa onDec. 6. Cartwright playedsix early minutes off thebench against Iowa State,but he never came back inafter his initial stint.

Even those who appearto be fully healthy, such asBasabe, said the finalsweek break will allow timeto physically prepare forthe final three games of thenonconference schedule.The Hawkeyes will openBig Ten play against Pur-due on Dec. 28 at home.

“I still need to get my

legs under me, still need toimprove my conditioning soI can be a more effectivedefensive player,” saidBasabe, who scored 18points and grabbed 9rebounds against IowaState. “I know when thefilm of [of the Iowa Stategame] comes, there’s goingto be a lot of me on there.”

BASKETBALLCONTINUED FROM 14

DAILYIOWAN.COMLog on for exclusive coverage of the Hawkeyes’third-straight loss to IowaState, including articles

and a photo slide show.

Hawkeyes Melsahn Basabe and Andrew Brommer chase an offensive rebound during the Hawkeyes’ 86-76loss to Iowa State in the Hilton Coliseum on Dec. 9. Iowa couldn’t recover from a 21-point halftime deficitin the loss. (The Daily Iowan/Christy Aumer)

BY PAT GRAHAMAssociated Press

DENVER — MarionBarber’s two late blundersopened the door for anotherTim Tebow comeback.

First, the Chicago Bearbackup tailback ran out ofbounds late in regulationwhen Denver had no time-outs, stopping the clock andeventually giving Tebowenough time to lead theBroncos to a game-tyingfield goal.

And later, in overtime,Barber fumbled the ballwith Chicago in field-goalrange, allowing Tebow toadd another chapter to hisever-growing mystique.Tebow led Denver down thefield before turning thingsover to Matt Prater, whoconnected on a 51-yardkick to lift the Broncos to a13-10 win over the reelingBears on Sunday.

Another improbable winfor Tebow, who’s making ahabit out of these late-game rallies. Anotherdemoralizing loss for thefaltering Bears (7-6), whoare 0-3 since Caleb Haniereplaced an injured JayCutler, the former Broncoquarterback who has a bro-ken thumb on his throwinghand and is out indefinite-ly.

“All losses are tough, but

this one was especiallytough,” Bear coach LovieSmith said. “This onehurts. There’s not a lotmore I can say.”

It’s a game the Bearsthought they had in thebag.

Leading by 3 points withjust over two minutesremaining, all they had todo was run down the clockwith a couple of runningplays and punt with littletime left.

On second down after thetwo-minute warning, Bar-ber took a handoff andskated around the left sideof the line. He broke onetackle and, in the process oftrying to gain a few extrayards, was shoved out ofbounds.

It saved the Broncos (8-5)at least 35 seconds, valu-able time that Tebow woulduse to engineer his fifthfinal-quarter comebackthis season.

This was a surprisingmistake from a veteransuch as Barber, who wasfilling in for injured starMatt Forte.

“He knows better. Youcan’t do that,” Bronco cor-nerback Champ Baileysaid. “But I don’t think hetried to do it.”

Barber, who hasn’ttalked to reporters sincetraining camp, avoided themedia after the game.

Smith came to hisdefense — but not withouta little lecture as well.

“We all know what typeof player Marion is,” Smithsaid. “All running backs aretrying to get a couple moreyards here and there. Butwe have to know the situa-tion. In that situation, wehave to be able to keep theball inbounds. He’ll tell youthat. I know we’d all like tohave that one back.”

Instead, it gave Tebowthe ball back with 53 sec-onds remaining. More thanenough time.

Tebow found his rhythmas he guided the Broncosinto field-goal range. Praterhit a career-best 59-yardkick with three seconds leftto send it into overtime.

The Bears received theball first in OT, and Haniehad them on the move, sur-prising the Broncos’defense with a passingattack. With the ball at theDenver 38 — well withinkicker Robbie Gould’srange — Barber found anopening through the mid-dle and appeared to be offto the races. Then, line-backer Wesley Woodyardreached out and jarred theball from Barber’s hands.

Elvis Dumervil pouncedon the football. Just likethat, it was Tebow’s time towork his magic again. He

picked apart the Bearsdefense and then watchedfrom the sideline as Praternailed the winner.

The Bears were up 10-0late after a 9-yard TD runby Barber and a team-record 57-yard field goalfrom Gould. It appearedmore than enough, espe-cially given the way thedefense was clampingdown on Tebow and theBroncos’ unorthodoxoffense.

Only, it wasn’t.“We gave it away,” Devin

Hester said. “We were up10 points.”

Hanie couldn’t agreemore.

“I hate to say it, but wegave this one to them,” hesaid.

Then again, the Bearsweren’t facing just anyteam. Tebow has made ahabit out of late comebacks.

“We missed some oppor-tunities in the game. That’spretty much it. It wasn’tanything special that hedid,” Julius Peppers said. “Ididn’t see anything that hechanged. Pretty much thesame offense they ran allgame — he just startedchecking the ball down.

“We didn’t play wellenough to win. That’s whatchanged at the end of thegame.”

Tebow rallies againBRONCOS 13, BEARS 10 (0T)

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POINT/COUNTERPOINTHow many Big Ten games will the men’s basketballteam win this season? 1111AA

By SETH [email protected]

The Iowa football programannounced Sunday eveningthat longtime defensive coor-dinator Norm Parker willretire following theHawkeyes’ appearance in the2011 Insight Bowl.

Parker, 70, came to Iowa in1999 alongside head coachKirk Ferentz and offensivecoordinator Ken O’Keefe.

“I would like to personallythank [Athletics Director]Gary Barta, Kirk Ferentz, the

coaches, and players at Iowa,along with the fantastic fans,”he said in a release. “It hasbeen a great time, one thatmyself and my entire familygreatly appreciate.”

The Hawkeye defenseunder Parker was routinelyamong the country’s best —although the 2011 season hasdeviated from that trendsomewhat.

The Black and Gold fin-ished in the top 10 nationallyin rushing defense five timesin Parker’s 13 years, and itwas in the top 10 in scoring

defense in three of the lastfour. Parker coached 34 futureNFL players while at Iowa,not counting the Hawkeyeson the 2011 team who couldadvance to the next level.

“Norm’s contributions toour team the past 13 yearsare deeply appreciated, andhe has had a tremendousimpact on our program,” Fer-entz said in a statement. “As Ihave said publicly on manyoccasions, Norm is a superbdefensive coach and has

By BEN [email protected]

AMES — The Iowa men’s basketball teamshould be happy Royce White no longerresides in the Big Ten.

The Iowa State forward, who transferredfrom Minnesota, torched the Hawkeyes tothe tune of 7-of-7 shooting for 14 first-halfpoints and 17 total last Friday. He helpedlead the Cyclones to their third-straight vic-tory over the Hawkeyes, 86-76.

Iowa (5-5) fell behind early and trailed by21 points at halftime. No sin-gle statistical category toldthe story at Hilton Coliseum.Both teams made 22 freethrows and committed 12turnovers, and Iowa Statewon the rebounding marginby only 3.

But as has been the case inseveral of its losses this sea-son, Iowa allowed an oppo-nent too many open looksoffensively. The Cyclones took advantage,and shot just under 55 percent from the field.

“We were playing like we were in FrightNight because of the crowd, because of theenvironment. We weren’t really guardinganybody,” Iowa forward Melsahn Basabesaid. “This isn’t high school — guys aren’tjust going to be missing at this level.”

When asked what the Hawks will work onduring their eight day lay-off — Iowa willhost Drake on Dec. 17 — guard Matt Gatenssaid a lot of attention will be paid to thedefensive end of the court.

“It’s something we’ve been working on for awhile, so it’s disappointing — it seems likewe haven’t made too many strides in thatarea,” Gatens said. “There’s a number ofthings. I think our motion offense needs toget better. We’ll break down [the Iowa State

Women swimmersset marks

The Iowa women’s swimming

and diving team posted three

pool records on Dec. 9 on the

way to a 176-124 road victory

over in-state rival Iowa State.

Captains Daniela Cubelic and

Danielle Carty had said the team

needed to bring the same ener-

gy to Ames that it brought to

the Hawkeye Invitational on

Dec. 2-4, and head coach Marc

Long said he felt his team

accomplished that goal.

“I’m proud of how well the

Hawkeye swimmers and divers

performed tonight,” he said in a

release. “It was an exciting win

in a very tough environment.”

Sophomore Abbey

Tuchscherer, freshman Becky

Stoughton, and senior Veronica

Rydze led the charge for the

Hawkeyes.

Tuchscherer broke pool

records in the 100 and 200 but-

terflies with respective times of

54.77 and 2:01.17, both of which

rank second in Iowa history.

Stoughton broke the Beyer

Hall Pool record in the 200 indi-

vidual medley with a time of

2:03.70 and also claimed victo-

ries in the 1,000 and 500

freestyles.

Rydze took first place in both

the 1- and 3-meter diving

events; her score of 312.30 in

the 3-meter event was a pool

record and a personal best for

the senior All-American.

The Hawkeyes will next com-

pete on Jan. 6, when they trav-

el to Tucson, Ariz., for a winter

training meet.—— bbyy TToorrkk MMaassoonn

Metcalf takes goldin test event

Former Iowa wrestler BrentMetcalf took gold in 66-kilo-gram freestyle wrestling at anOlympic test event in London onSunday.

Metcalf was also named out-standing wrestler of the men’sfreestyle meet.

“Metcalf was a monstertoday,” USA Wrestling freestylecoach Zeke Jones said in arelease. “Henailed downhis points andwas down-right stingyon defense.”

M e t c a l ffaced 2010Junior WorldC h a m p i o nKotaro Tanaka in the finals andwon both rounds, 5-0. Hedefeated Jabrayil Hasanov ofAzerbaijan (3-0, 0-1, 4-0) andGergo Woller of Hungary (0-1, 5-0, 3-0) in the earlier rounds.

The U.S. national teamclaimed four more medals at theevent in addition to Metcalf’sgold — silver medals at 55 and74 kilograms and bronze medalsat 60 and 96 kilograms.

Metcalf plans to compete atthe U.S. Olympic Trials, whichwill be held in Iowa City on April21-22 of next year.

“We stood in the arena, andwe felt the Olympic Gamestoday,” Jones said. “We won’tforget it all the way throughAug. 12 [the final day ofwrestling at the Olympics in2012].”

Metcalf wrestled for theHawkeyes in 2007-10 at 149pounds. The Davison, Mich.,native won two NCAA and BigTen championships with theBlack and Gold and earned All-American honors all three yearsat Iowa.

—— bbyy MMoollllyy IIrreennee OOllmmsstteeaadd

By BEN [email protected]

Two Hawkeyes dressedin street clothes gave outhigh fives, offered words ofadvice, and congratulatedtheir teammates duringeach time-out of the Iowawomen’s basketball team’s98-45 victory last Fridayover Western Illinois

These two players wereseniors Hannah Draxtenand Megan Considine.

Draxten is in her firstseason as a student assis-tant coach after being onthe team for three seasons.Considine, who joined theteam in January 2010 as asophomore walk-on, suf-fered a torn Achilles tendonthat will sideline her for theentire season.

Draxten, a native of Fer-gus Falls, Minn., played in30 games as a freshman in2008-09. She made 23 3-pointers, the fifth-most inschool history for a first-year player.

But she was limited to 28games over her next twoseasons and was forced toend her playing career ear-lier this year due to recur-ring back injuries.

“It’s definitely differentfrom being on the court,”Draxten said on her adjust-ment from playing to coach-ing. “It [changes from] try-ing to produce out there, to

just being energetic andkeeping the team up andpositive.”

Considine was named ateam captain before theseason despite her career-ending injury and receivedheavy praise from headcoach Lisa Bluder at theteam’s media day in Octo-ber. Bluder was askedwhich player her teamwould look to as a leaderafter former star KachineAlexander graduated.

“The thing we missKachine most is the fire shebrings, the enthusiasm shebrings,” Bluder said.“Megan Considine wasreally trying to fulfill thatrole for us, and she wasvoted captain by our teamas a senior; unfortunately,with her torn Achilles, she’son the sidelines.

“It’s a lot tougher to bethat role when you’re onthe sidelines. You can stillcontribute, but it’s a lotharder to do.”

Considine agreed, butsaid she has embraced herrole as the Hawkeyes’ emo-tional and social leader.

She said she always triesto bring positive energy andspeak in a way that givesher teammates confidence.

“One of the reasons I gotvoted captain was because Iworked hard, no matterhow many minutes I wasseeing.” Considine said. “…I got on this team because afew people were injured —to name one, Theairra Tay-lor — and now I get to seeher battle from rehab andplay this year. It’s still

rewarding to watch her andknow that I get the oppor-tunity to be on this team.”

Draxten said Bluderapproached her aboutremaining with the teamafter she decided to end herplaying career.

Draxten now aids Bluderand the rest of her staff as astudent assistant coach.She attends practices to

assist players with drills ordo any extra work in theathletics offices.

Draxten said her newrole is beneficial becauseshe is interested in coach-ing in the future.

“I’m there to do whateverthey need,” she said. “I lovebasketball so much, I justdon’t know if I could give itup when I graduate. I wantto be a part of it.”

Norm Parker to hang it up Hawkeyeswelcomefinals break

Inspiring the hoopstersInjured HawkeyesHannah Draxtenand MeganConsidine stillhave a majorimpact on thebasketball team.

Hannah Draxten speaks with the Hawkeyes after the first half of Iowa’s98-45 win over Western Illinois on Dec. 9 in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.Draxten, a senior, was named a student assistant coach after back injuriesforced her to end her playing career. (The Daily Iowan/Toan Nguyen)

Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker answers questions during the Iowa football team's media day at the Kenyon Practice Facility on Aug. 7, 2009.Parker announced he will retire following the Hawkeyes’ appearance in the Insight Bowl on Dec. 30. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

Parker will step away from the Hawkeyes after 13 seasons.

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IOWA STATE 86, IOWA 76

McCafferyhead coach

Norm Parker’s college-coachingcareerIowa: 1999-2011

Vanderbilt: 1995-97

Michigan State: 1983-94

East Carolina: 1980-82

Illinois: 1977-79

Minnesota: 1972-76

Wake Forest: 1969-71

Eastern Michigan: 1968

DAILYIOWAN.COMLog on for full coverage ofthe Hawkeyes’ 53-pointwin over Western Illinoislast weekend, including

articles and a photo slide show.

Finals week comes at agood time for the banged-up Hawkeyes.

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Metcalfwrestler

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Paul would allow tax creditsand deductions for all med-

ical expenses.

Paul favors removing restric-tions on drilling for oil and

using coal and nuclearpower.

Paul calls for an immediateelimination of the federal

income tax and the InternalRevenue Service.

Paul has called for $832 bil-lion in cuts to defense

spending over four years.

Paul is against givingamnesty to illegal immi-

grants and said social servic-es shouldn’t be provided by

the government.

Paul has said marriage is astate issue, but he is in favorof the Defense of Marriage

Act.

Paul’s “Plan to RestoreAmerica” calls for the elimi-

nation of the U.S.Department of Education,

among other federal depart-ments.

Paul says he will balance thebudget by the third year of

his presidency. Paul wants toeliminate such federal

departments as Energy,Housing and Urban

Development, Commerce,Interior, and Education.

Romney would allow states toexpand health-care access tolow-income citizens through

block grants for Medicaid andthe uninsured.

Romney supports oil drillingand exploration in the UnitedStates, burning “clean” coal,

and utilizing natural gas.

Romney said he’d keep andreform the current income-

tax system.

Romney has said he wouldlike to increase non-combatdefense spending to expand

Navy and Air Force fleets.

Romney supports building afence on the border butopposes amnesty and in-

state tuition for illegal immi-grants.

Romney opposes same-sexmarriage but supports otherprotections for gay couples.

Romney was in favor of elimi-nating the U.S. Department of

Education in the 1990s, buthe has been a supporter of

No Child Left Behind and the“Race to the Top” program.

Romney wants to cut non-defense discretionary spend-ing by 5 percent. He wants tocap government spending at

20 percent of the nation’sGDP and pass a a balanced-budget amendment to the

Constitution.

In Congress, Bachmann haspushd to make medical

expenses 100 percent tax-deductible.

Bachmann is in favor of theshale-gas industry and stop-ping the EPA’s cap-and-trade

policies.

Bachmann wants to reformthe alternate minimum taxand eliminate the federal

inheritance tax.

Bachmann has said the UnitedStates can’t cut defense

spending by $500 billion asone deficit plan suggests.

Bachmann believes amnesty isa magnet for illegal immi-

grants to come to the UnitedStates.

Strongly opposed to same-sexmarriage, Bachmann has alsovowed to reinstate the “Don’tAsk, Don’t Tell” military policy.

Bachmann would abolish theU.S. Department of Education,and she has said she would

give all the money previouslyinvested in the department to

states and localities.

Bachmann supports repealingthe Patient Protection and

Affordable Care Act and wouldaccept an increase in the debtceiling only if extensive stepsare taken to reduce spending.

As a U.S. representative in1993, Gingrich supported

something similar to the indi-vidual mandate, but he has

since backed off.

Gingrich favors replacing theEPA with an Environmental

Solutions Agency.

Gingrich wants to eliminatethe capital-gains tax andreduce the corporate tax.

Gingrich has defended militaryspending in several debates.

Gingrich has said long-termillegal immigrants should not

necessarily be deported.

Gingrich thinks gay marriage“fundamentally goes against

everything we know.”

Gingrich has called the federalstudent-loan program an

“absurdity,” but he would notabolish the U.S. Department of

Education.

Gingrich says cuts in govern-ment spending will spur eco-nomic growth and reduce thedeficit. He believes job cre-ation will help balance the

budget.

Johnson would give block grantsfor Medicare and Medicaid to the

states. He would also push tolegalize marijuana for medicinal

and recreational use.

Johnson wants to limit regula-tions on oil and natural gas.

Johnson wants to eliminate thecapital-gains tax and the corpo-rate tax while simplifying the taxcode for individuals and families.

Johnson is calling for a 43 per-cent reduction in defense spend-

ing.

Johnson has said the govern-ment should focus on making it

easier and simpler for willingworkers to come to the U.S.

Johnson supports gay marriageand opposes “Don’t Ask, Don’t

Tell.”

Johnson would abolish the U.S.Department of Education, and he

is an advocate of homeschool-ing.

Johnson wants to eliminateexcess spending, stop stimuluspackages, and end farm subsi-dies. Johnson said he wants to

stabilize Social Security andMedicare through reforms andeliminate the Federal Reserve’scontrol over monetary policy.

Perry says Medicare benefitsshould be paid to recipients on

a sliding scale based onincome.

Perry favors increased oil andgas production and wants toremove subsidies for renew-

able energy.

Perry would cap federal spend-ing at 18 percent of GDP andgive taxpayers an option of a

single 20 percent flat tax.

Without offering specifics,Perry said he’s open to start

bringing U.S. troops home fromAfghanistan.

The border-state governor saysa fence along the entire U.S.-

Mexican border is implausible.

Perry opposes gay marriageand thinks “Don’t Ask, Don’t

Tell” “worked very well.”

Perry would abolish the U.S.Department of Education, and

he believes the federal govern-ment should get out of educa-

tion altogether.

Perry’s “Cut, Balance, andGrow” plan seeks to reform

Medicare and give employersthe choice to opt out of SocialSecurity. He wants to cap gov-ernment spending at 18 per-

cent of the country’s GDP.

Santorum has supportedhealth savings accounts thatwould be exempt from some

taxes.

Santorum supports oil, naturalgas, coal, and nuclear energy.

He supports drilling in theArctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Santorum wants to eliminatelong-term entitlement pro-

grams such as Medicare andSocial Security.

Santorum does not endorsePresident Obama’s timetable

for troop withdrawal.

Santorum believes that thegovernment should provide nobenefits and services to illegal

immigrants.

Santorum has said he’d pushfor each state to ban gay mar-

riage.

Santorum would not eliminatethe U.S. Department of

Education, but he wants it toplay a less prominent role in

higher education.

Santorum supports a balance-budget amendment to theConstitution. He says whilespending cuts help in theshort-run, long-term fiscal

security can only be achievedby passing the balanced-budg-

et amendment.

Huntsman said he would “rollback” the Patient Protection

and Affordable Care Act.

Huntsman supports drilling foroil in the United States and

wants to remove the laws pre-venting the exportation of coal.

Huntsman wants to eliminateall exemptions and deductionsand implement just three indi-

vidual income-tax brackets.

Huntsman says the UnitedStates should end combat

operations in Afghanistan andIraq.

Huntsman supports bringing inhigh-skilled worker immigrants.

As governor, Huntsman pro-posed legislation to allow

same-sex couples to have civilunions in 2009.

Huntsman prefers local controlon education and plans to

abolish No Child Left Behind.

Huntsman wants to repealrecent health-care reforms and

related taxes to reduceincreased spending on healthcare. His proposals have con-centrated more on decreasingregulatory reforms and says

job creation would improve theeconomy.

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By CHASTITY [email protected]

Former MassachusettsGov. Mitt Romney is confi-dent in the private sector’sability to successfully driveAmerica’s economic recov-ery and stimulate jobgrowth.

“Having spent my life inthe private sector, I under-stand where jobs are creat-ed,” the Iowa caucus candi-date said during this pastweekend’s debate in DesMoines. “They’re not creat-ed in government. They’renot created in Washington.They are created on MainStreets and streets all overAmerica.”

Romney said a handfulof plans will make Americathe most attractive in theworld for economic growth— competitive employertax rates, fewer regula-tions, and a balanced budg-et, for instance.

“It is economic growth,not government growth,that provides productiveopportunities for Americanworkers,” Romney’s region-al press secretary, AmandaHenneberg, wrote in an

email. “Mitt Romney’s plandoes not increase the size ofthe federal budget orbureaucracy. To the con-trary, it cuts spending andstreamlines regulation. Itdoes not promise the imme-diate creation of someimaginary number of jobs,because government can-not create jobs — at leastnot productive ones thatcontribute to our long-termprosperity.”

Predicting a 11.5 millionjob increase within fouryears of his presidency,Romney said the Obamaadministration has failedto jump-start the economyand the “Band-Aids” won’thelp in the long run.

“The right thing to do istalk about how to makeAmerica competitiveagain,” he said during thedebate. “I spoke with busi-ness people all over thecountry — I’ve been onemyself for 25 years — peo-ple aren’t investing inAmerica because this presi-dent has made America aless attractive place forinvesting and hiring thanother places in the world.”

But Paul Zarembka, an

economics professor at theUniversity of Buffalo, saidthe United States, likeEurope, is headed for disas-ter.

“Tax decrease on thewealthy to stimulate jobs istotally false,” Zarembkasaid. “Anyone arguing fortax reductions to includethe wealthy is simply anargument of the 1 percent.And the corporationsalready have enoughmoney — they don’t needsubsidies. They are sittingon trillions of dollars ofmoney.”

With just more than 20days until the 2012 Iowacaucuses, Romney’s statusamong voters is lukewarm.Recently, an ABCNews/Washington Post pollhas Romney at 18 percentin second place, 10 pointsbelow Iowa front-runnerNewt Gingrich.

But Henneberg saidAmerica is in need of bolddecisions and a plan to getAmerica back to work.

“Mitt Romney is callingfor a fundamental changein Washington’s view ofhow economic growth andprosperity are achieved,

how jobs are created, andhow government can sup-port these endeavors,” shewrote. “It is at once adeeply conservative returnto policies that have servedour nation well and a high-ly ambitious departurefrom the policies of our cur-rent leadership.”

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By CHASTITY [email protected]

Iowa caucus candidateJon Huntsman believesdistrust in the nation’s gov-ernment has devastatedthe lives of many Ameri-cans.

For the former Utah gov-ernor, restoring the econo-my and stabilizing the jobmarket depends on levelingthe nation’s uncertainty.

“Well, we’ve been talkingabout the economic deficit,and you can’t have a com-plete discussion in thiscountry without talkingabout the second deficit,which is a trust deficit,”Huntsman said during lastweek’s “John King USA”interview. “I would arguethat it is equally corrosivein this country. You can’tjust handle the economicdeficit while leaving thetrust deficit untouched.”

Huntsman’s plan to spurjob growth entails taxreform and regulatoryreform — including therepeal of Obama’s health-care legislation and the

Dodd-Frank financial-reg-ulation law. It also includesan energy independenceplan, and breaking up thebig banks to prevent futurebailouts.

Campaign spokesmanTim Miller said Huntsmanis the right candidate forall voters, and he will fol-low through with his plans.

“Jon Huntsman is some-one voters can trust on theissues of the day,” he said.“He is not going to pander.He’s not the candidate whois going to sign pledges. Heis going to do what is bestfor this country and not thedemands of the interestgroup.”

But with just 22 days leftin the Iowa caucus race,national polls, such as arecent ABC News/Wash-ington Post poll, showHuntsman lingering at 2percent. Reports do showan increase of support inNew Hampshire at 8 per-cent.

But Robert Hockett, aCornell University profes-sor of financial and inter-

national economic law, saidthough Huntsman is morereasonable than some ofthe other Republicans inthe race, his views are still

wrong-headed for wantingto balance the budget.

Hockett said the federalgovernment should runsurpluses during booms toprevent bubbles, which canburst, leading to recession.

He also said repealingDodd-Frank and the

Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act willworsen the economy.

“Basically [demandingbalanced budgets or object-ing to financial or healthinsurance regulation is]telling government that itshouldn’t do what it’s there

for in an economy as largeas ours is,” Hockett said,noting that Obama’sdeficits helped soothe theBush-era bubbles. “I thinkall of the Republicans, evenHuntsman, still calling forsomething like that is com-pletely absurd.”

FORMER UTAH GOV. JON HUNTSMAN

By KRISTEN [email protected]

Rep. Michele Bachmann,R-Minn., said she’s themost consistent conserva-tive in the Iowa caucusrace.

The Minnesota Republi-can has made a habit oftaking shots at the Democ-ratic president. On immi-gration, for instance, Bach-mann has pledged her sup-port for the construction ofa double fence along theentire length of the U.S.-Mexican border, somethingthe president opposes.

The congresswoman wasthe first GOP candidate tosign the Americans forSecuring the Borderpledge.

Bachmann’s stances onimmigration also includedeporting undocumentedillegal immigrants who areintercepted and requiringthe federal government topay for deportation costs.

“President Obama hasfailed the American peopleby failing to secure thesouthern border. I willsecure that border, andthat will be job 1,” Bach-mann said at an event inPerry, Iowa, in October.

One immigration expertsaid building a fence is pos-sible, but having one along

the entire U.S.-Mexicanborder isn’t necessary.

“There are a series ofbarriers, but it’s definitelyfeasible,” said StevenCamarota, the director ofresearch at the Center forImmigration Studies.“There are areas where youwouldn’t need the fencewhere the topography is sodeep, and the [Rio Grande]river is wide in some spots,so you probably wouldn’tneed it over the entire bor-der.”

Camarota said Democ-rats and libertarians don’ttypically support a fencebeing built because of itsnegative symbolism.

“A fence is stark,” hesaid. “It creates a barrierbetween the two countries.Although a fence might beeffective, it’s stark.”

When asked how thecountry would afford build-ing a fence, Bachmann saidat a forum earlier thismonth that undocumentedimmigration costs theUnited States more than$100 billion per year.

“The cost is absorbed bythe states,” she said, andeach American householdpays roughly $1,000 for allof the illegal immigrants inthe United States. “It mustnot [get dumped on thestates]. The [federal] gov-

ernment needs to deal withsecuring the border … It’snot the states’ role.”

Another top priority ofBachmann’s is repealingthe Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act signedby President Obama.

During a debate in DesMoines this past weekend,Bachmann criticized for-mer Massachusetts Gov.Mitt Romney and formerHouse Speaker Newt Gin-grich on their policiesregarding health care. Bothof them have at some pointsupported governmentrequirements for citizens tobuy insurance.

“ ‘Newt Romney’ is forObamacare,” she said. “I’vetaken on Obama. He knowsme … I won’t rest until werepeal Obamacare.”

According to the most

recent poll conducted bythe Des Moines Register,Bachmann is a favoriteamong 8 percent of Repub-lican caucus-goers. Bach-mann tied with business-man Herman Cain beforehe suspended his campaignthis month.

Despite seeing adecrease in support sincewinning the Ames StrawPoll in August, Bachmann’scamp is optimistic aboutthe caucuses.

“The caucuses will helpher out,” said Eric Woolson,Bachmann’s Iowa cam-

paign manager. “The cau-cuses are about building anorganization that believesin the candidate and that iscommitted to turning out.Whatever the conditionsmay be, that’s somethingthe Bachmann campaignhas worked on.”

U.S. REP. MICHELE BACHMANN, R-MINN

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks before a crowd gath-ered at Carroll’s Pumpkin Farm in September, 2006 in Grinnell. (TheDaily Iowan/File Photo)

Iowa caucus candidate and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks at a town-hall meeting in Milford,N.H., in December. (Associated Press/Cheryl Senter)

Iowa caucas candidate Michele Bachmann stops at the Longbranch Hotel and Convention Center in CedarRapids in September. (The Daily Iowan/Christy Aumer)

Personal InfoAge: 51Family: Mary Kaye (wife1983-present), five daughters,two sonsEducation: B.A. 1971University of Pennsylvania ininternational politicsReligion: MormonWork Experience:1993-2001: Vice chairman andexecutive member, HuntsmanCorp.1995: President, HuntsmanCancer FoundationElectoral History:1992-1993: Singapore, U.S.ambassador, George H. W.Bush2001-2003: U.S. trade ambas-sador, George W. Bush2004-2009: Governor of Utah2009-2011: China, U.S. ambas-sador, Barack Obama2011-present: Current 2012presidential-caucus candi-date

Source: ABC News, Jon2012.com

Personal InfoAge: 64Family: Ann Romney (wife1969-present); five sons and16 grandchildrenEducation: B.A. 1971 BrighamYoung University; law andbusiness administration 1975HarvardReligion: MormonWork Experience:1975–1998: Bain and Co.,Boston-based consulting firm1998: Began work for 2002Salt Lake City OlympicsElectoral History:1994: Lost to incumbent Sen.Ted Kennedy, D-Mass2002-2006: Governor ofMassachusetts.2007–2008: GOP presidentialnomination bid; lost to Sen.John McCain

Source: ABC News, MittRomney.com

Personal InfoAge: 55From: MinnesotaFamily: Husband, five chil-dren, 23 foster childrenWork Experience:Evangelical ChristianWork Experience:Attorney for the IRSElectoral History:U.S. House - 2007-presentMinnesota Senate - 2001-07

Source: michelebachmann.com

By KRISTEN [email protected]

In addition to supportingcontinued troops on theground in the current U.S.conflicts in Iraq andAfghanistan, former Sen.Rick Santorum, R-Pa., isopen to entering anotherconflict in the region.

Santorum’s plan to stopIranian aggressionincludes isolating Iranfrom other countries byneutralizing Iran’s rela-tionships with its closestallies and promising toenforce military action ifIran refuses to prove it isn’tdeveloping nuclearweapons.

“I’ve been out here talk-ing about [national securi-ty] for a long time,” he said.

He sponsored the IranFreedom and Support Actin the Senate in 2005. Withhis foreign-policy plan, hesaid, he would reinstatefull funding for the bill thatprovides funds to assistpro-democracy groups inIran. Santorum also spon-sored the Syria Account-ability Act in 2003 — a billaimed to end Syria’s pres-ence in Lebanon and thecountry’s alleged develop-ment of weapons of massdestruction.

The debate over whetherIran is developing nuclearweapons has been a press-ing issue in the newsrecently.

A September report fromthe International AtomicEnergy Agency said Iran isnot implementing “a num-ber of obligations” and isnot providing “necessarycooperation” to the agency.Iran reported to the agency15 operating nuclear facili-ties and nine facilities inwhich nuclear material ispresent.

“If Iran does not open upits facilities to make it very,very clear to U.S. inspectorsand other inspectors to getin there and examineexactly what’s going on, wewill at some point take outthat [nuclear] capability,”Santorum said.

Michael Rubin, a resi-dent scholar at the Ameri-can Enterprise Institutewho focuses on Middle Eastsociety, said he doesn’tthink there has beenenough discussion aboutforeign-policy strategiesduring current or pastpresidential campaigns.

“Every candidate shouldanswer the question, ‘Whatdo you want the Middle

East to look like two yearsfrom now?’ and outlinegoals,” he said. “I don’tknow any Democratic orRepublican president whohas done that.”

In addition to extensivetalk about foreign affairs,Santorum’s stance on mostsocial issues has also been afocal point on his campaign— he supports a HumanLife Amendment and hassponsored anti-abortionlegislation in the Senate.

And at the FamilyLeader Thanksgivingforum in Des Moines lastmonth, Santorum com-pared gay marriage andslavery.

“Gay marriage is wrong,”he said. “As Abraham Lin-coln said, the states do nothave the right to do

wrong… just like the statesdidn’t have the right to doslavery.”

A recent poll conductedby the Des Moines Registerreported Santorum tiedwith Texas Gov. Rick Perrywith 6 percent amongRepublican voters in Iowa.That puts him below every-one in the Register pollexcept former Utah Gov.Jon Huntsman.

However, recent polling

numbers haven’t fazedSantorum’s campaign staff.

“When it comes time tovote, we’re supremely confi-dent that Rick is going toshock a lot of people. Peopleare just beginning to payattention,” said Hogan Gid-ley, the senior communica-tions adviser for Santo-rum’s campaign. “Thesepolls only reflect, at thispoint, whose name is in thenews. We think this race is

fluid; we think this race isever-changing.”

Gidley said Santorum’svisits to all 99 counties inIowa will help him in thelong run.

“We’ll do very well, hav-ing built the base of the 99counties,” Gidley said.“That’s our opportunity toreally show Iowa what Rickis really all about. He’s out-lining a vision for the peo-ple of the state.”

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Iowa caucus candidate Rick Santorum addresses the media in Juuly at the Kirkwood Hotel in Cedar Rapids.(The Daily Iowan/Anthony Bauer)

FORMER U.S. SEN. RICK SANTORUM, R-PA.


Iowa caucus candidateand Texas Gov. Rick Perryis going all-in on Iowasocial conservatives, oneobserver says.

Perry’s campaign shiftedits focus to social issuesearlier this month when itreleased an ad in Iowa,pushing the candidate’ssupport for prayer in schooland proclaiming that thegovernor is “not ashamedto admit that I’m a Christ-ian.”

The Perry video,“Strong,” has more than600,000 “dislikes” andapproximately 20,000“likes” on YouTube, makingit the most disliked video inthe website’s history.

Rutgers University polit-ical expert David Red-lawsk, the author of WhyIowa?: How the Caucusesand Sequential ElectionsImprove the PresidentialNominating Process, saidPerry is trying to appeal toa specific demographic ofpotential Iowan support-ers.

“Iowa Republican cau-cus-goers are socially con-servative,” he said. “Perry istrying to reset. He’s tryingto say, ‘Social conservatives,this is a real conservative.’

He needs to get attentionagain, and certainly this adhas gained him attention.”

However, not all ofPerry’s campaigning hasfocused on social and reli-gious issues. In an email,Perry told The Daily Iowanhe is concerned first withthe economy.

“My campaign is aboutgetting America workingagain,” he wrote. “I’ve pro-posed several policies — aflat tax, a balanced budget,job creation throughdomestic energy produc-tion, and the creation of apart time citizen Congressin order to overhaul theWashington establishmentand unleash our privatesector to create the jobs ournation needs to return tothe path of prosperity.”

And he also said he has aspecific plan to improve theU.S. economy.

“I’ve laid out a proposalto create over 1.2 millionjobs through executiveaction. Furthermore … I’veproposed a flat individualand corporate income taxrate of 20 percent. Thisplan is optional for individ-uals and preserves deduc-tions for mortgage interest,charity, and state and localtaxes,” he wrote.

However, University ofIowa economics Professor

Beth Ingram said it’s hardto say exactly what suchpolicies would do the econo-my.

“It’s not as simple as say-ing if you deregulate, thenjobs will be created,” shesaid. “Sometimes, if youthink about it, creatingmore regulations wouldproduce more jobs and viceversa … It’s not as simpleas the candidates are mak-ing it seem. This is verycomplicated, and they don’thave time to explain it in-depth.”

Redlawsk said this focuson the economy is typical ofthe Republican field of can-didates vying for the 2012presidential nomination.

However, he said, “thechallenge for candidates isto differentiate themselvesas candidates.”

Perry stumbled in a

November Republicandebate in Michigan whenhe forgot one of the threefederal Cabinet depart-ments he wants to elimi-nate.

Perry said that gaffewon’t be detrimental in hispresidential bid.

“I had a humanmoment,” he wrote in the

email. “And Americansunderstand that.”

However, Perry has fall-en in the polls recently.

According to Galluppolling data tracking regis-tered Republican voters,Perry was trailing with 6percent ballot support forthe week of Dec. 4 throughDec. 8.

Perry is behind NewtGingrich’s 37 percent, MittRomney’s 23 percent, andRon Paul’s 9 percent. He istied with Michele Bach-mann.

“To the extent that thepolling can be believed,”Redlawsk said, “he’s verymuch an ‘also ran’ at thispoint.”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during the 28th-annual National Association of Latino Elected and AppointedOfficials conference in San Antonio on June 23. (Associated Press/Darren Abate)

TEXAS GOV. RICK PERRY

By SAM [email protected]

Ron Paul is a stoic man.The 75-year-old U.S. con-

gressman and Iowa caucuscandidate gives rousing,hourlong speeches oftenwithout so much as crack-ing a smile. Meanwhile, themassive crowds followinghim like a cult hoot andholler as if witnessing theGrateful Dead.

For instance, he broughtout around 1,000 under-grads at the No. 4 partyschool earlier this fall. Theevent started at 8 p.m. onthe Friday of Homecomingweekend.

In all the commotion,Paul’s message is simple:America must protectagainst a governmentinterfering with citizens’civil liberties. Further, hesays government should bealmost invisible, an entityin charge of enforcing theConstitution, but one thatstays out of peoples’ lives.

“Why shouldn’t you havefree decision on what you eat,smoke, drink, and put intoyour own body?" Paul toldthe rambunctious, standing-room-only crowd at the Uni-versity of Iowa in October.

With a plan to cut thefederal budget by $1 trillionduring his first year inoffice and balance it by thethird year, Paul would

change the status quo, saidDrew Ivers, who headsPaul’s Iowa campaign.

Paul’s deficit-reductionplan would eliminate fiveCabinet departments: theDepartment of Education,the Department of Energy,the Department of Com-merce, the Department ofHousing and Urban Devel-opment, and the Depart-ment of the Interior. Addi-tionally, he’d abolish theTransportation SecurityAdministration, squelchcorporate subsidies, haltforeign aid, end U.S. wars,and return most otherspending to 2006 levels.

Paul would reduce thefederal workforce by 10 per-cent through attrition andpersonally take a salary ofjust under $40,000 — morethan $300,000 less than thecommander-in-chief ’s cur-rent salary.

Paul’s plan — dubbed bythe campaign as the Plan toRestore America — lowersthe corporate tax rate to 15percent and extends contro-versial income tax cuts putin place under the Bushadministration. Paul wouldpush to repeal the Democ-rats’ Patient Protection andAffordable Care Act, Dodd-Frank — a financial-regu-lation-reform act — andSarbanes-Oxley, whichchanged standards for

boards of public companies.By 2016, the campaign

claims the plan would cut$832 billion from thedefense budget and $645billion from Medicaid. Also,the elimination of the fivedepartments would report-edly save the federal gov-ernment around $700 bil-lion more.

In the most recent DesMoines Register Iowa Poll,Paul garnered 18 percent ofthe vote, enough for secondplace behind former HouseSpeaker Newt Gingrich.Paul received 12 percent ofthe vote in October andonly 7 percent in June,

according to the Register.However, some doubt the

viability of eliminatingentire departments of thefederal government. ButIvers said “essential” partsof the departments wouldremain and others wouldbe consolidated into otherareas, though he couldn’tgive any specifics.

“To assume that govern-ment must intervene to haveprosperity contradicts histo-ry,” Ivers said. “This countrygrew tremendously from1800 to 1900 and continued

growing through the ’20s and’30s. At time when the gov-ernment was the smallest,the country grew the most.”

Some pundits — such asCNN’s Wolf Blitzer — havecalled Paul’s plan radical,and others have questionedthe Paul platform’s abilityto earn Congress’ approvalif he is elected president.

But Doug French — thepresident of the Mises Insti-tute, a libertarian and Aus-trian economics think tank— said Paul’s plans aren’t

radical. Taking $1 trillionout of the federal budgetisn’t going “back to the StoneAge,” French said, notingthat type of cut would sim-ply return the country tofunding levels similar toabout a decade ago.

“I think if we ever wantto see the economyimprove, government’s gotto get out of the way,”French said. “To get out ofthe way, some [federal]departments have to bedone away with.”

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids in April. (The DailyIowan/File Photo)

U.S. REP. RON PAUL, R-TEXAS

Personal InfoAge: 53From: PennsylvaniaFamily: Wife, seven childrenReligion: Roman CatholicWork Experience:AttorneyElectoral History:U.S. Senate - 1995-2007U.S. House - 1991-95

Source: ricksantorum.com

Personal InfoAge: 75Birthplace: PittsburghEducation: GettysburgCollege and Duke UniversitySchool of MedicineOccupation: Specialist inobstetrics/gynecologyFamily:Wife, Carol, five children, and18 grandchildrenElectoral History:U.S. House - 1977-1985;U.S. House - 1987-presentOther facts:Served as a flight surgeon inthe Air Force in 1960s, claimsto have delivered more than4,000 babies

Personal InfoBirthplace: Paint Creek,TexasAlma mater: Texas A&MUniversityFamily: Wife, two childrenExperience:Governor of Texas;Commissioner of Agricultureof Texas;State Representative in Texas

Source: RickPerry.org

By ERIC [email protected]

Many of former NewMexico Gov. Gary John-son’s stances on socialissues make him more lib-eral than most GOP candi-dates, but one pundit saysJohnson’s greatest down-fall may be his similarity tofellow Iowa caucus candi-date Ron Paul.

David Peterson, theinterim director of theHarkin Institute of PublicPolicy at Iowa State Uni-versity, said though John-son’s stances on issues sethim apart from many othercandidates, many sociallyliberal or libertarian voterswill vote for Paul beforethey would vote for John-son.

“There isn’t necessarilysomething that is a starkdifference between the twoof them on an issue that anoticeable number of peo-ple in the Republican cau-cus or Republican primaryreally care about,” Petersonsaid. “Paul has been themore popular person. He’sbeen there first, he’s better-known, he’s better-financed.”

Trailing Paul and therest of the candidates inmost polls, Johnson’s mediaprofile and fundraising has

lagged behind most of therest of the GOP pack.

“He is running a cam-paign on issues. He is run-ning a campaign based onwhat he would do if hewere president,” Petersonsaid. “You could run a cam-paign based on charismaand ads, and those kinds ofthings if you have themoney to enable you to doit.”

Johnson breaks from therest of the Iowa caucuspack on some key issues.The former governor of aborder state, Johnsonpushes for more lenientimmigration policy. He’salso in favor of same-sexmarriage and marijuanalegalization.

Carl Olsen, creator ofIowaMedicalMarijuana.org,said heagrees with John-son’s views on marijuanabut said federal policymight not be the best wayto fix the problem: “This isnot a federal issue; it’s astate’s rights issue.“Theidea that the president willissue some kind of execu-tive order is nonsense. Idon’t think he’s got achance, but it’s going totake more than a presidentto fix this.”

But if Johnson does haveany advantage over fellowlibertarian Paul, Olsen

said, it’s Johnson’s hands-on approach to the issue ofmarijuana legalization.

“The thing that GaryJohnson has done is he hasattended a lot more mari-juana-legalization eventsthan Ron Paul,” Olsen said.

Johnson, who admittedto illegally using marijuanafor health reasons, detailedsome of his reasons for sup-port in a debate held earli-er this year.

“Ninety percent of thedrug problem is prohibi-tion-related, not use-relat-ed,” he said. “… so I advo-cate legalizing marijuana:control it, regulate it, taxit.”

On another issue whereJohnson breaks from theGOP, immigration, the for-mer businessman said thefederal government needsto offer more opportunitiesfor foreigners to work herelegally.

“Immigration needs to beabout work, not welfare,”Johnson said. “With regardto the 11 million illegalimmigrants who are herein this country right now, Ithink we need to recognizethat the government’s themain reason they’re hereillegally, it has made itimpossible to get a workvisa.”

Johnson has struggled

throughout the campaignto earn media attention.He’s also been shut out ofmost of the race’s national-ly televised debates, withdebate organizers citingJohnson’s poor poll show-ing — he wasn’t even listedon the Des Moines Regis-ter’s latest poll results.

“There are a number ofcandidates who haven’tbeen invited to many ofthese debates,” Petersonsaid. “I think the peoplewho are broadcasting thesedebates have an agenda,and their agenda is to getas many viewers as theycan.”

Johnson addressed hisnot being included in manydebates in an interview

with Fox News Businessover the summer.

“I never envisioned beingexcluded from the table ofdebate, and here it is, that’swhat’s happened,” Johnson

said. “I can’t help buthalfway think it’s becauseof what I’m saying andwhat I’m saying really isdifferent from what’s beingsaid out there.”

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FORMER NEW MEXICO GOV. GARY JOHNSON

Iowa caucus candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnsonspeaks in Hubbard Park on in 2010. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

By MARY KATE [email protected]

Former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich’s ideas forfixing the nation’s prob-lems this caucus season areas numerous as the prob-lems that need fixing.

“The biggest issue is theeconomy,” Gingrich toldThe Daily Iowan last week.“If you look at what’s hap-pening around the world,we could get in real trouble,because the world dependson us. We need more jobs inAmerica, and we need toget the economy growing.”

The best way to solvethis problem, he said, is tolook at the solutions usedby past presidents.

“Ronald Reagan provedthat it’s a four-part plan,”Gingrich said. “Lowertaxes, regulations, energy,and encouraging peoplewho create jobs.”

Gingrich would extendand make permanent taxcuts which are set to expirein 2013, repeal legislationsuch as the Dodd-Franklaw, which regulates the

financial industry, and theCommunity ReinvestmentAct, which offers support tosome low-income homeowners.

But one expert said fol-lowing Reagan’s plan maysound more promising thanit will actually prove to be.

“Reagan initially pro-duced the worst recessionsince the Great Depression… and suffered greatly inthe midterm elections of1982,” said Professor DavidRohde, a political-scienceexpert at Duke University.“Does one appropriatelyinfer that he adopted goodpolicies that pulled us outof the recession?”

When considering theeffect Reagan’s policiesactually had, he believes itis difficult to predict howany proposal may actuallyaffect the economy.

“Most of what goes on inthe economy is not causedby what the governmentdoes,” Rohde said. “Thatmakes it even more diffi-cult to evaluate the newpolicies that Mr. Gingrich

proposes and to assesswhat they are likely toaccomplish.”

In addition to his criti-cisms, he said this planmight be a voter attractionrather than a substantialsolution.

“[Presidential candi-dates] are not economists,”he said. “Therefore, a largepart of what candidatespropose is shaped not bywhat they think is going to

work but by what will workpolitically.”

But Katie Koberg, Gin-grich’s deputy Iowa caucusdirector, said this is merelyone person’s opinion.

“Newt Gingrich has beenfocusing on solutions foryears,” she said. “He is asolution-oriented candidate.”

One recent poll, releasedby the Des Moines Registerearlier this month, hasGingrich listed as the cur-rent front-runner with 25percent support from likelycaucus-goers, a significantincrease from his 8 percentin the October poll.

In response to the candi-

date’s jump in the polls,Koberg said plans havebeen made to maintainGingrich’s position.

“[We] wouldn’t want toturn over the playbook, butthe other team shouldknow we are ready to play,”she said. “We are ready togo.”

FORMER U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH

Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters in the IMU in July. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)


The Republican caucushas earned the vast majori-ty of attention this caucusseason, but the Democratswill caucus in January aswell.

And though PresidentObama will be the Democ-ratic Party’s presidentialnominee in the 2012 elec-tion, Iowa Democrats arestill looking to increasecaucus turnout.

“… This is our 2012 cam-paign kickoff,” said SamRoecker, the communica-tions director for the IowaDemocratic Party. “…Democratic involvementwill lead to victories.”

There are more than1,700 precincts acrossIowa, all of which will hostDemocratic caucuses inwhich only registeredDemocrats are permitted toparticipate.

However, organizing andmobilizing potential cau-cus-goers with an incum-bent president is a tallorder, Roecker said.

“We have a full-time cau-cus director,” he said. “Wehave to find locations in allprecincts. We have beendoing training, talking tocounty parties, and making

sure they have what theyneed.”

In addition, the IowaDemocratic Party recentlyunveiled a new iPhoneapplication to help interest-ed Democrats find a caucuslocation.

However, Harvard gov-ernment Professor ThomasPatterson said, based onprecedent of past party-supported incumbent can-didates, the DemocraticParty can not expect alarge number of partici-pants on caucus day.

“Historically, we’re talk-ing about low turnout,” hesaid. “These contests areheld, but not many showup.”

In his second bid for theWhite House, Obama hasbeen challenged in his ownparty. Lesser-known Demo-cratic candidates, such asRandall Terry and Democ-ratic-independent convertHarry Braun, have bothcampaigned in Iowa. How-ever, they will not caucus inIowa.

“The way ours works isyou have to have 15 per-cent of the people in thecaucus who want to affili-ate with you,” said SueDvorsky, the Iowa Democ-ratic Party head. “You haveto be able to get your sup-

porters to the thousands ofcaucus sites across thestate. At this point, no onehas risen out of the Democ-ratic Party to challenge thepresident.”

In addition to Obamabeing uncontested in the2012 Iowa Democratic cau-cuses, Patterson said, thereare other key differencesbetween Obama’s 2008 and2012 presidential bids.

“It’s one thing to be a suc-cessful candidate, asObama was,” he said.“There was an enormousenergy behind the Obamacampaign in 2008, persuad-ing swing voters and thelike. As president, he’s pre-siding over an economythat’s kind of stumbling

along. It’s very hard tomaintain through the elec-tion all the energy thatwent into the first one.”

Iowa Democrats arelooking to do more thanofficially select PresidentObama as their 2012 presi-dential nominee. Roeckersaid Democrats would liketo expand their hold on theU.S. Senate and take con-trol of the U.S. House in2012.

“We’ve got people very

excited about organizingfor the Congressional elec-tion,” Dvorsky said. “… It’smore than just the presi-dential [race].”

Additionally, Roeckersaid anyone planning torun as a delegate to theDemocratic National Con-vention in Charlotte, N.C.,will throw her or his hatinto the ring on caucusnight. Individuals wishingto serve on precinct com-mittees will also be elected

on Jan. 3.Whether or not an indi-

vidual wishes to run as adelegate or serve on aprecinct committee, Roekersaid, all Democrats shouldattend a caucus.

“It’s a unique process,” hesaid. “It’s something youdon’t see in every state. It’sreally a neat opportunity tostand in a ring with peoplewho share your politicalbeliefs.”

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Incumbent Democrat Barack Obama speaks to invited guests at Trinity Structural Towers in Newton, Iowain 2009. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)

Personal InfoPresident Obama is theonly candidate in theDemocratic caucuses.Personal:Age: 50Alma mater: Harvard LawSchool (J.D.)Family: Wife, two childrenExperience:• 44th president of theUnited States• Senator from Illinois

Source: WhiteHouse.gov

Personal InfoAge: 68Birthplace: Harrisburg, Pa.Family: Third wife CallistaGingrich, no childrenExperience:• Represented Georgia inCongress for 20 years• Speaker of the House forfour years• Served on the DefensePolicy Board under PresidentGeorge W. Bush• Appointed to the UnitedStates Commission onNational Security in 1999

Source: WhiteHouse.gov

Personal InfoMore about the formergovernor of New Mexico:• Worked as a door-to-doorhandyman to make his waythrough college• Has scaled Mount Everest• Has two grown children• Served as governor of NewMexico from 1995-2003• Beat incumbent 50 percentto 40 percent in 1994 elec-tions• Re-elected in 1998 by a 55to 45 percent margin

Source: GaryJohnson2012.com

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