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Winners’ circle FALLEN ONE Follow your team all the way to the champi- Junior receiver Paul Chaney onship with our intra- Jr.’s season-ending knee injury mural flag football play- motivated the Hawkeyes off bracket. SPORTS, 8 against Wisconsin. SPORTS, 8 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009 ACT gift to aid graduate students Fifty years and $5 million exchange between the ACT and UI. By CHRIS CURTLAND [email protected] The UI will be better able to support underrepresented graduate students as soon as next semester, thanks to Mon- day’s announcement that ACT Inc. is donating $5 million to the cause. The Iowa City-based testing company announced the endowment gift to the UI’s ACT Scholars Program at its annual meet- ing in Coralville on Monday. UI officials will use the funds to seek stu- dents underrepresented in the UI and Iowa City communities, especially blacks, Lati- nos, and American Indians, to become ACT Scholars, according to the program’s brochure. Scott Gomer, a company spokesman, said promoting diversity on campuses is a key DAVID SCRIVNER/THE DAILY IOWAN ACT mission. UI senior Sarah Phillips opens a map case in the Geoscience Library in Trowbridge Hall on Monday. Phillips has worked in the library since August 2008 “This is America — we look to gain atten- and also spends time studying in the Psychology Library. The UI will close four libraries, including the Geoscience and Psychology facilities, and tion and support for minority groups,”he consolidate them with other branches. said. “We [at ACT] help students across the country, and when we have the input from all those groups in America, it helps us all.” The ACT Scholars Program allows quali- fied UI students to pursue graduate degrees in a wide range of fields while simultaneously acquiring real-world expe- UI to merge 4 libraries SEE ACT, 3 In the era of Internet, branch libraries are becoming outdated and inefficient. Possible fields for ACT By LAUREN MILLS Psychology, Geoscience, and Physics Another student, UI junior John scholars [email protected] Libraries will leave their current facili- Yuhas, said the branch libraries are a ties to merge with other, larger libraries The ACT scholars can study: good place to study — far away from the A few quiet havens for the studious on campus. growing crowds in the Main Library. • Education will be lost this school year as the UI “I really don’t know where I’m going to “There are too many people there and • Business closes the doors to four branch libraries. study; I’ve been coming here since junior not enough space,” Yuhas said. “It is loud, • Human resources In an effort to cut roughly $1 million year,” said UI graduate student Maddie even on weekdays, and because it is • Information technology from the library budget and adapt to Armstrong as she sat at a computer in • Mathematics changing technologies, the Mathematics, the Psychology Library. SEE LIBRARIES, 3 • Statistics • Communications • Engineering ON DAILY IOWAN TV Watch a video report on the library merger at 9:30 p.m. on UITV. Source: “ACT Scholars Program at the UI” brochure Experts pooh-pooh pork worries HEALTH CARE UI researchers helped Officials decry confirm pigs had the flu. By SAM LANE health system [email protected] world, why is it only 38 per- Porky the Pig enthusiasts need Roughly 260,000 cent of Americans are sat- not worry. adults in Iowa isfied with the quality of Experts are assuring the public the health care they’re get- that pork is still not unsafe to eat uninsured. ting today?” asked UI law after the U.S. Department of Agri- Professor Sheldon Kurtz. culture, with the help of UI By KEVIN HOFFMAN Kurtz’s fellow panelists, researchers, confirmed on Monday [email protected] including UI Vice Presi- the first case of H1N1 influenza in A top UI Health Care offi- an American-raised pig. dent for Medical Affairs cial, along with state legis- “We’re saying the same thing Jean Robillard, echoed his lators, called for reform to we’ve been saying since H1N1 first criticism of the health- the country’s health-care surfaced in April,” said Ron Birken- care system’s current holz, the communications director system Monday. operations. for Iowa Pork Producers Association. Settled in the UI Main Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D- “You can’t get it from eating pork. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Library for an hour and a Iowa City, and Rep. Pork is entirely safe to eat.” Onlookers take photos of pigs at the Minnesota State Fair. The U.S. Department of half, UI and state govern- Renee Schulte, R-Cedar The announcement comes rough- Agriculture, with the help of UI researchers, confirmed the first case of H1N1 influenza in ment officials offered their Rapids, also participated ly two years after researchers at the pigs by collecting swab samples from swine at the Minnesota State Fair. perspectives and in the forum. UI and the University of Minnesota answered questions on The panel focused on began a pilot study looking at the swab samples from the nostrils of where the state exhibits its health care from around access, quality, and cost of transmission of diseases between pigs at the Minnesota State Fair, prized hogs. 50 local residents. the health care. pigs and humans at “swine shows.” located just outside St. Paul. The “If we truly have the best This fall, the researchers collected fair annually hosts swine shows, SEE SWINE FLU, 3 health-care system in the SEE HEALTH CARE, 3 DAILY IOWAN TV INDEX WEATHER DAILYIOWAN.COM To watch Daily Iowan TV, go online at dailyiowan.com or tune Arts 5 Opinions 4 Click on over to dailyiowan.com around 5 p.m. today to watch live video streaming of into UITV. The 15-minute newscast is on Sunday through Classifieds 7 Intramurals 8 63 54 Iowa City City Council candidates fielding questions during a UI Student Government- Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., with reruns at 12:30 and 1:30 Crossword 10 Sports 12 17C 12C hosted forum. Candidates Terry Dickens, Susan Mims, Jeff Shipley, and Dan Tallon are a.m. and 7:45 and 8:45 a.m. the following day. expected to address student-centered issues, such as safety downtown. 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Volume 141 Issue 82 Group goes green BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. 335-5788 The City Council would like to see an Editor: Fax: 335-6297 Kelsey Beltramea. 335-6030 eco-friendly city. CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: Call: 335-6030 Kurtis Hiatt . 335-5855 By NICOLE KARLIS holding a pharmaceutical Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editors: Alyssa Cashman . 335-6063 [email protected] collection event in which accuracy and fairness in the report- local residents could drop Clara Hogan . 335-6063 ing of news. If a report is wrong or Brian Stewart . 335-6063 The future of Iowa City off unused medicine. misleading, a request for a correc- soil will soon be in full Opinions Editor: ECO-Iowa City also tion or a clarification may be made. Shawn Gude . 335-5863 bloom with the help of a plans to grow a garden on PUBLISHING INFO Sports Editor: local organization — and College Street near College The Daily Iowan (USPS 143.360) is Ryan Young . 335-5848 the Iowa City city coun- Green Park. Iowa City published by Student Publications Arts Editors: Melea Andrys . 335-5851 cilors are diggin’ it. already has community Inc., E131 Adler Journalism Building, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004, daily Jake Jensen . 335-5851 ECO-Iowa City, a grant- gardens, including in Copy Chief: except Saturdays, Sundays, legal and funded local initiative, Wetherby Park and the UI Beau Elliot. 335-6063 impressed the city coun- university holidays, and university Design/Graphics Editor: Student Gardens. vacations. Periodicals postage paid cilors during their Mon- FILE PHOTO/THE DAILY IOWAN Kurt Cunningham. 335-6063 The group members at the Iowa City Post Office under the day evening work session Iowa City residents Jeanette Lalor (left) and husband Francis plant Photo Editor: have four broad sustain- Act of Congress of March 2, 1879. Amy Oleson . 335-5852 with its efforts to improve able goals they hope the tomatoes, zucchini, and squash on their plot at the Wetherby Park SUBSCRIPTIONS Web Editor: sustainability in Iowa city and the residents can Community Garden on April 16. ECO-Iowa City is working to add more Call: Pete Recker at 335-5783 Tony Phan. 335-5829 City. The group is one of work on before their fund- community gardens similar to the one in Wetherby Park. E-mail: [email protected] Business Manager: nine applicants from a ing is up next fall: energy Debra Plath. 335-5786 Subscription rates: Classified Ads Manager: pool of more than 500 conservation, urban storm Councilor Amy Correia Iowa City and Coralville: $20 for one said she’s concerned with Juli Krause. 335-5784 nationwide using a water, smart waste dispos- ECO-Iowa City’s semester, $40 for two semesters, $10 Advertising/ Circulation Manager: $57,000 grant awarded by al, and urban composting plastic bottle disposal, sug- for summer se ssion, $50 for full year. Pete Recker. 335-5783 the International City and local food. gesting plastic recycling goals for Out of town: $40 for one semester, Advertising Sales Staff: Managers Association to “We’re not trying to get bins be placed in all Iowa sustainability $80 for two semesters, $15 for Renee Manders.