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(Iowa City, Iowa), 2010-07-14 NEW FRONTIER The Cornhuskers’ impending conference change could open up the state of Nebraska for Big Ten recruiting. SPORTS, 10 WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2010 Magic Bus may lose spot Magic Bus representatives and residents will present their arguments at a forum next week. By LISA EGEBRECHT [email protected] Football Saturdays may look a little dif- ferent on one local street this fall. The Magic Bus, a popular local tailgat- ing landmark for years, is set to move from its traditional location at 817 Melrose Ave. to a more residential area at 110 Woodside Drive after Barkalow Associates Realtors bought the Melrose lot in August 2009. After anticipating concerns from the neighborhood regarding the move, the city decided to host a public forum at 5:30 p.m. on July 20 at the Iowa City Public Library, CHARLIE ANDERSON/THE DAILY IOWAN where both the Magic Bus representatives Incoming freshmen watch the Ensuring Student Success: Making and Supporting Good Choices presentation in the Bijou on Tuesday. The program deals with and residents will give feedback. issues incoming freshmen may face during their first year, such as alcohol and getting involved with student organizations. Doug Boothroy, the director of Housing and Inspection Services, said after the city sent a letter to residents on July 8 inform- ing them of the Magic Bus’ plans, he has received complaints, especially from the residents of Olive Court, a nearby street. Orientation program SEE MAGIC BUS, 3 tackles alcohol abuse The program suggests parents discuss alcohol with their college-student children. By COLLEEN KENNEDY As a part of the University DAILYIOWAN.COM aims to encourage parents to [email protected] of Iowa’s increased efforts to Check out video interviews have a conversation about alco- decrease students’ high-risk with parents and students hol with their student before As Rick Hopp sat in an alco- from Orientation’s alcohol- drinking, incoming freshmen he or she arrives at the UI. hol-education session on education session. During the 45-minute pro- such as Brian Hopp are Tuesday with son Brian gram on Tuesday, roughly 25 Hopp, he remembered his col- encouraged to attend a new It is the first summer the students and parents sat in lege days, when, he said, alco- Orientation program designed program, Ensuring Student the Bijou, listening to speakers hol overconsumption was not to educate students and their Success: Making and Support- treated as gravely. parents on making healthy ing Good Choices, has been FILE PHOTO/THE DAILY IOWAN held during Orientation. It SEE ALCOHOL, 3 Tim Wilcox shouts to his audience before a corn- Things have changed. decisions in college. eating competition atop the Magic Bus before the game against Penn State on Nov. 8, 2008. Young entrepreneurs get a jump Officials Kids in grades four to six hone their business skills at a UI entrepreneur camp. By KATE FOWLER hopeful [email protected] Abby Frerick is an aspiring entrepre- neur launching a handmade candy busi- ness; she is looking to prepare marketing on train presentations and make solid invest- ments to make a profit. The second application She’s also 10 years old. Rather than spend her lunch hour on for an Iowa City-Chicago Tuesday in a break room like some of her rail is due Aug. 6. more seasoned colleagues, the blonde- haired girl from Cedar Rapids spent By RYAN ROCCAFORTE lunchtime playing in the courtyard of [email protected] Pappajohn Business Building. Frerick, along with 40 other youthful Iowa Department of Transportation entrepreneurs, was taking a break from officials believe they will be successful in honing her business smarts at the Jacob- their second attempt to obtain a passen- son Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship ger railway from Iowa City to Chicago. camp that started Monday and runs After taking in feedback from last year’s through Friday. denied application, the department is The Jacobson Institute has been run- adding a new project to gain funding from ning similar camps since 1996, said Dawn the Federal Railroad Administration. The Bowlus, the director of the institute. Stu- application is due Aug. 6. BRENNA NORMAN/THE DAILY IOWAN dents who have completed grades four to Discerning Eye Optical owner Joni Schrup speaks to members of the Jacobsen Institute for Youth While there have been no fundamental six learn how to create and maintain a Entrepreneurship about building her business on Monday. Children in grades four through six learn about changes made to the application, the Iowa business through firsthand experience. businesses and business ownership in Iowa City. SEE RAILWAY, 3 SEE CAMP, 3 DAILY IOWAN TV INDEX WEATHER WEB CALENDAR To watch Daily Iowan TV,’s news updates go online at Arts 5 Opinions 4 Let us know about your upcoming event. Submit information to the DI’s new online dailyiowan.com or tune into UITV. The 5-minute summer Classifieds 8 Spotlight 2 93 75 event calendar and we’ll publish it there and on the Daily Break page. update is on Sunday through Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 Crossword 6 Sports 10 34C 24C To submit a listing, visit dailyiowan.com/pages/calendarsubmit p.m., with reruns at midnight and 8 a.m. the following day. 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Wednesday, July 14, 2010 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Volume 142 Issue 27 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey . 335-5788 Going local, going slow Editor: Fax: 335-6297 Brian Stewart . 335-6030 CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: Iowa City chef supports local farmers and food artisans. Call: 335-6030 Clara Hogan . 335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editor: Nora Heaton . 335-6063 accuracy and fairness in the report- Opinions Editor: By LISA BRAHM ing of news. If a report is wrong or [email protected] Mitchell Schmidt . 335-5863 Kurt Friese misleading, a request for a correc- Sports Editor: tion or a clarification may be made. Jordan Garretson . 335-5848 Chef Kurt Friese, the • Favorite book: To Kill a Mockingbird PUBLISHING INFO Arts Editor: owner of Devotay in Iowa The Daily Iowan (USPS 143.360) is Eric Andersen . 335-5851 City, knows a lot about food • First cooking memory: Copy Chief: Stirring the raisin sauce with published by Student Publications — in fact, food is his life. Inc., E131 Adler Journalism Building, Beau Elliot. 335-6063 He has been in the food- his mother at the age of 3. Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004, daily Photo Editor: service business for 30 • Favorite meal to prepare except Saturdays, Sundays, legal and Brenna Norman . 335-5852 Web Editor: years, and the cooking for his family: Roasted university holidays, and university chicken Tony Phan. 335-5829 extraordinaire said he vacations. Periodicals postage paid Business Manager: quickly figured out where • Best memory at Devotay at the Iowa City Post Office under the Debra Plath. 335-5786 all the best, and the tasti- Setting the record for highest Act of Congress of March 2, 1879. Classified Ads Manager: est, food comes from. sales in one evening SUBSCRIPTIONS Juli Krause. 335-5784 “It didn’t take me long to Call: Juli Krause at 335-5783 Circulation Manager: Know someone we should shine a light E-mail: [email protected] Juli Krause. 335-5783 realize that fresh food is on? E-mail us at : Advertising Manger: Subscription rates: better food,” he said. “And [email protected]. Renee Manders. 335-5193 the closer that food is to my Iowa City and Coralville: $20 for one Advertising Sales Staff: Catch up with others from our series at semester, $40 for two semesters, $10 back door, the fresher that dailyiowan.com/spotlight. Bev Mrstik. .335-5792 for summer se ssion, $50 for full year. food is going to be.” Cathy Witt . .335-5794 Out of town: $40 for one semester, Day Production Manager: In December 1996, from and who raised it. $80 for two semesters, $15 for Heidi Owen. 335-5789 Friese and wife Kim Friese “And then there is the joy summer session, $95 all year. Night Production Manager: — who runs the business of seeing the dollar again,” Send address changes to: The Daily Bob Foley. 335-5789 side of all their endeavors Friese said of his self-pro- Iowan, 100 Adler Journalism Building, — opened Devotay restau- claimed nationalistic pride Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004. rant, 117 N. Linn St. of knowing the money stays “Everything I love about in the United States. food stems from [Kurt],” He said he soon found TOP STORIES Kim Freise said. himself trying to spread Most-read stories on dailyiowan.com from Tuesday. When Devotay opened, the word about local eating the only other business and all of its benefits. Kurt Friese knew selling The chef started Slow 1. City Council gives go-ahead on police substation local products was the New Food Iowa in 2000, mak- 2. 21-ordinance to be on November ballot Pioneer Co-op, 22 S. Van ing it the 19th chapter in 3. Carver-Hawkeye renovations on schedule Buren St. the nation. Friese now 4. Iowa lands second defensive end for 2011 “When I got into the ZANDRA FEIG/THE DAILY IOWAN serves on the Board of 5. That human touch missing on the Ped Mall business, restaurants were Devotay owner Kurt Friese sits in the restaurant on Monday. Friese is Directors for the Slow also an author, helped to found Slow Food Iowa and serves on the rated on how distant they Food USA, a grass-roots Board of Directors, and is editor-in-chief of the local food magazine got their ingredients from,” movement that links food METRO Friese said.
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