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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 The Daily Iowan TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2006 WWW.DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT Simpler Death baffles friends, family BY LEAH DORZWEILER Jenn, an honor student and Iowa River outside his home- The death has baffled those THE DAILY IOWAN member of the West High town. close to Jenn, who had revealed baseball team, which is cur- Johnson County Sheriff no outward signs of depression. Friends, relatives, classmates, rently in the state playoffs, Lonny Pulkrabek said the pre- “I can’t see why it happened; neighbors, and teammates grew up in Hills and planned liminary report of Jenn’s cause there was no reason,” said AIDS streamed down Fairchild Street to study business at the UI in of death was drowning. An Michael Malmberg, Jenn’s best outside St. Wenceslaus Catholic the fall. The 18-year-old, who autopsy, performed by the State friend and lifelong neighbor. “I Church on Monday afternoon, friends said “always had a Medical Examiner’s Office in think it was a bunch of little each waiting patiently to pay smile on his face,” unexpect- Ankeny, likely won’t be com- stuff that just added up.” drug Jenn respects to Jeremy Jenn, a 2006 edly decided to end his life on pleted for about a month, he died July 14 Iowa City West High graduate. the morning of July 14 in the added. SEE JENN, PAGE 5 coming DRASTICALLY CUTTING THE FAT OUT BY KELSEY BELTRAMEA THE DAILY IOWAN Three years ago, Jeff Moore was a man living by the clock. Every four hours, an alarm would go off, reminding him it was time to take yet another pill. Diagnosed with AIDS in 1998, Moore was taking 32 pills a day to manage the disease. Now, because of the Food and Drug Administration’s last week approval of a once-a-day medication to treat HIV/AIDS, if he wanted, he would only have to take one. Atripla Tablets, the first one-pill, once-a-day HIV/AIDS medicine, are expected to be available for purchase in pharmacies as soon as August, said Kris Davis, a registered nurse practi- tioner with the UI Hospitals and Clin- ics HIV/AIDS program. The new pill, a combination of three widely used antiretroviral drugs, offers a simpler, less complex regimen for those able to take it. It combines the active ingredients of previously FDA approved Sustiva, Emtriva, and Viread. “This is the first of the antiretroviral therapies that have been available in one pill,” Davis said. “It’s kind of a land- mark from the days when patients were having to take 12 or 15 or even 20 pills at a time.” SEE DRUG, PAGE 5 UI really Laura Schmitt/The Daily Iowan Kevin “B.F.” Burt plays the blues in front of Terrapin Coffee Brewery in Coralville on Monday. Burt was a recent recipient of gastric-bypass surgery. DIET DIFFERENCES BY ABIGAIL SAWYER sity, Burt — known to friends as “Big feeling THE DAILY IOWAN Fat Burt” — felt his singing perform- A meal for a person on a A meal for a person who just had ance diminish and his energy wane. normal diet gastric bypass surgery Kevin “B.F.” Burt, a soul musician The steady weight gain since college, with a passion for hot wings, had the when he weighed 275, finally prompted its oats big-man blues. him to undergo a life-changing proce- At his peak, the local performer dure: gastric-bypass surgery. A Power Plant program weighed 402 pounds and suffered a “I didn’t do this to be a thin per- litany of health problems. High blood son,” he said. “I did it to be able to play basketball and go on walks with pressure. Sleep apnea. Asthma. And using oat hulls my daughters.” symptoms of diabetes. for fuel is saving the BV/DI Plagued with a family history of obe- SEE GASTRIC, PAGE 5 school money using a carbon-neutral source HISTORY OF BY MATT SNYDERS Space flight still controversial THE DAILY IOWAN HUMANS IN SPACE BY LAURA SHATZER in Science and Technology, UI administrators in charge of over- THE DAILY IOWAN the space pioneer noted the 1958: NASA begins operat- seeing energy use on campus are hoping high financial costs and ing. a kilowatt-hour saved will turn out to be More than three years risks of sending humans 1961: First humans in a kilowatt-hour earned. after the space shuttle into space in an age when space. “We’ve been conducting building audits Columbia was consumed in robotic technology is becom- 1969: First humans on the to see what we can do to increase energy flames as it re-entered ing increasingly advanced moon. efficiency,” said Jeri King, an assistant to Earth’s atmosphere, the and efficient. 1986: Challenger destroyed the associate vice president for UI Facili- shuttle Discovery touched But for two of the seven during launch. ties Management. “This includes designing down Monday. During a 13- Iowa astronauts to work for 2000: First permanent new buildings and renovated space to be as day mission, crew members NASA since its 1958 incep- international space station efficient as possible. We’re approaching conducted safety testing, tion — one a pilot on the crew arrives. energy efficiency from a number of paths.” repaired the international Apollo 7 mission in 1968, 2003: Columbia burns up One particularly smooth and successful space station, and delivered the other a space-station during re-entry. path has been the Oat Hull Project. Last supplies and a third station veteran — human space 2005: First shuttle mission in two years. week, the Chicago Climate Exchange resident. flight remains invaluable. 2010: Shuttles will be Environmental Compliance Committee Yet the question UI “It’s part of the human Contributed photo/NASA replaced. — of which the UI is a voluntary member physics/astronomy Profes- spirit to go out and explore,” Astronaut Peggy Whitson works on a soybean growth experiment, — announced UI’s 2005 CO2 emissions sor Emeritus James Van former astronaut and Cre- were significantly lower than required in one of the many investigations she conducted during her six- Allen posed following the ston, Iowa, native Walter the committee’s agreement. According to month stay on the international space station in 2002. Whitson, Columbia tragedy lingers: Cunningham said. “They’ve UI officials, this success is due, in large who received her undergraduate degree in biology/chemistry from Is human space flight obso- always sent robots out part, to the Oat Hull Project. lete? ahead of us.” Iowa Wesleyan College, worked as a biochemist for NASA for sev- In an article in the sum- SEE OATS, PAGE 5 eral years before she was selected as an astronaut in 1996. mer 2004 edition of Issues SEE SPACE, PAGE 5 BV/DI RUNDOWN IN THE MONEY SOUTHERN SALT INDEX 88 32 C Money magazine puts Iowa City in Some old rebel flair are what Arts 3 © A DI sports reporter has a brilliant © the top 10 percent of “Best Places to Kentucky group Black Stone Cherry Classifieds 8 idea: Work out with cross-country Crossword 7 70 21 C Partly sunny, Live.” 2 adds to its brand of rock. Or maybe coach Layne Anderson. Ha-ha. 10 Opinions 4 breezy that’s old rebel flare. 3 Sports 10 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday, July 18, 2006 NEWS The Daily Iowan IC high among ‘Best Places’ Volume 138 Issue 31 BREAKING NEWS STAFF BY GRANT SCHULTE don’t want a lengthy commute. Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: THE DAILY IOWAN The reporters who compiled E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. 335-5788 the rankings whittled the town Fax: 335-6184 Editor: Money magazine’s influential list to 201 from the original 745, CORRECTIONS Meghan Sims. .335-6030 Managing Editor: “Best Places to Live” list ranks all with populations greater Call: 335-6030 Iowa City in the top 10 percent than 50,000. Cities with large Margaret Poe. 335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editors: of all towns the publication elderly populations were cut, as accuracy and fairness in the reporting examined in a nationwide Lee Hermiston. 335-6063 were places with “undesirable of news. If a report is wrong or mis- Mason Kerns. .335-6063 study, according to the latest characteristics” — negative job leading, a request for a correction or a issue, released Monday. Opinions Editor: growth, high crime, poor-per- clarification may be made. Laura Michaels. .335-5863 The home of the Hawkeyes forming schools, and high home PUBLISHING INFO Sports Editor: placed 74th based on a litany of prices, said Tara Kalwarski, The Daily Iowan (USPS 143.360)is Dan Parr. 335-5848 factors, from overall affordability Money magazine’s special-proj- published by Student Publications Inc., Tyson Wirth. 335-5848 to education to youth demograph- ects editor based in New York. E131 Adler Journalism Building, Iowa Arts Editor: ics and quality of life, according to Kalwarski said Midwestern City, Iowa 52242-2004, daily except Charlie Moran . 335-5851 a list published in the magazine’s towns — including No. 64 Cedar Saturdays, Sundays, legal and universi- Copy Chief: August 2006 issue. Iowa City also Beau Elliot. .335-6030 Rapids and No. 71 West Des ty holidays, and university vacations. ranked No. 5 nationwide for sin- Design Editor: Moines — generally ranked high- Periodicals postage paid at the Iowa gles, with 52 percent of the popu- Brittany Volk. 335-6030 Ed Bornstein/The Daily Iowan er than in previous years, because City Post Office under the Act of lation unmarried.