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CAT NAP Sharon praises Israeli slaying of Ramas head
BY LAURA KING lOS ANGELES TIMES JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sun day expressed satisfaction with Israel's latest killing of a Hamas leader, but Secretary of State Colin Powell cau tioned that such actions could Nasser ShlyoukhVAssociated Press prove to be an "impediment to An Israeli anny tank releases a progress" toward a troubled smoke screen as it patrols the U.S.-backed peace plan. main streets of the southern West Powell's comments came as he met in neighboring Jordan Bank town of Hebron on Sunday. with architects of the plan, army field commander he was known as the "road map." The for so many years, Sharon mediators urged all parties to praised his troops for hunting continue talks to try to over down Abdullah Kawasme, come what has been a rocky start for the U.S. initiative. Sounding much like the SEE MIDEAST, PAGE 3
Nle Wynia/The Daily Iowan Dory, a calico cat, takes a nap June 21 during the AdoptathOJ1 at the Iowa City Animal Services Licensing and Adoption Center.
'[Students] see it, it's cute, and they don't realize it is a 10- to i5-year commitment' Finding a home for furryness
BY SARA STRAIN large number of animals at prohibit them, and while sev ties for students to socialize THE DAllV IOWAN the shelter needing to be eral local property-manage and train the animals and adopted to the failure of ment groups declined to com give speeches about both the Twenty-seven orphaned some pet owners to spay and ment, several student/tenants center and the animals. dogs, cats, and rabbits found neuter their pets or to con looking for pets said that fees Courtney Vick, a VI graduate new homes June 21 as 27 sider the responsibilities can range from $300 to $600 student who has volunteered at owners added a new member involved in owning a pet. per year. • the center for two years, said to their families. The latter is typically a stu Even with the costs at she enjoys the experience. The Iowa City Animal Ser dent issue, she added. stake, at least one student Her activities range from vices Licensing and..Adoption "[Students] see it, it's cute, found pets attractive because walking and training dogs tc Lenter. 111 Kirkwood Ave., and they don't realize it is a of the college-student lifestyle. looking out for the general held its fifth-annual Adop 10- to 15-year commitment," "It's a I!tress reliever," said health of the animals. Vick lathOD for dozens of animals she said, adding that food and Courtney Swedberg, a UI said she spends approximately that have not been seot to continued health-care can junior who attended the two hours a week at the center. rescues. foster homes, or cost several 'hundred dollars Adoptathon looking for a adding that other volunteers other shelters. each year for just one pet. potential therapeutic friend. come in several times a week The lO-hour event featured Not only do pets demand a It is precisely the college and stay for up to six hours food. games, a rummage sale, major time commitment, but student lifestyle, however, because they thoroughly enjoy and. of course. lots of animals. they can also pose a financial that makes owning a pet dif the experience. Visitors wore permitted to burden. ficult, Goodman said. Goodman said events such play with the cats in a "cat Adoption fees at the cen "They're moving from as the Adoptathon, which room" inside the center, while ter are $25' for cats and $35 rental to rental, and the time raised approximately $4,000 the dog~ were admired from for dogs. There are also fees and energy can be tough: for the center, succeed because behind windows bearing for spaying and neutering she said. of both the employees and the their names and tidbits about animals, licenses for ani Her advice for students is to volunteers. their personalitie . mals ranging from $5 to $30, be realistic by adjusting to the But, while the Adoptathon . Whil ideally designed to and vaccinations, which can school and town before they was a success, she said, the hold 20 dogs and 30 cats, the cost up to $28 each year for think about getting a pet. shelter is still left with plen center held 30 dogs and 50 just one vaccination. She added that students ty of animals in need of good Nasser ShlyoukhllAssociated Press eats a of June 19. Tenants can also be serious about getting pets homes. Palestinians on early Sunday-look at the blood of Abdullah Kawasma,. tion Center Director Misha charged fines for having pets should volunteer at the cen E-MAil DI REPORTER SAAA STAAl" Ar. a Hamas leader in Hebron, at the site where he was killed by IsraeU Goodman attributed the in residences whose landlords ter, which offers opportuni- SAAA-STRAINOUIOWA.EOU soldiers in Hebron. According to Israali authorities , Kawasme was killed June 21 during an attempt by special forces to arrest him. Explosion rips Shelter .programs suffer state cuts BY ANNIE SHUPPY According to recommenda there's not necessarily concur THE DAILY IOWAN tions from the state, the rence from everyone." Iraqi oil pipline Domestic Violence Interven Councilor Mike O'Donnell Iowa City city councilors tion Program will receive echoed Lehman's sentiments. BY PATRICK J. MCDONNELL expect to approve a contract $22,800 and the Shelter "Any time you cut funding it with the state this week to help House, 331 N. Gilbert St., will is a concern," he said. "You're LOS ANGelES TIMES fund local shelter programs. receive $32,300. doing a thing that you don't HIT, Iraq - An oil pipelino fire possibly linked The Iowa Department of Four Oaks Inc. ofIowa, 1916 want to do, but you do it out of to sabotnge bum d out of control near this west Economic Development will Waterfront Drive, will be allot necessity." ern city unday, B U.. soldier was killed and provide $93,400 in funding to ted $11,400 from the grant, Councilor Connie Champion another was wound 'd in a grenade attack on a Iowa City in the next fiscal and Table to Table, 20 E. Mar said some of the reductions in military convoyouth or Baghdad. year for the Emergency Shelter ket St., will receive $22,800. funding for community pro Authoriti 111 here CAlled the blast t.hat rocked Grants, which represents a The city will also be allocated grams are not necessarily a th pipeline on the v ning of June 21 a deJiber decrease of more than $12,000 $4,100 for staff time and judgment of their importance al.() attack, but the commander of the U.S. garri from fiscal 2003. administration costs. but rather a way to even out the son in th llrCII lIaid it wa too arly to tell. "You have to be concerned Although agency directors amount of funding programs "We're working now to get the pipeline turned about [decreases in] funding, could not be reached Sunday, receive. off," said LL Col. II nry Ki venaar, the command but there's nothing we can do Tracy Hightshoe, an associate "We made major cuts in ing officer orihe 3rd quadron ofihe 3rd Armored about it," Mayor Ernie plarmer for community develop some programs, but we gave Calvary, bas('d nour this ngricultural town 90 Lehman said. "Our privy right ment, said cuts may cause some big increases to programs that miles northwcllt ofBoghdad. now is to make sure the money agencies to establish priorities were meeting the needs of the Th fir· burned even as Iraq re-entered the goes as far as it can." on how they spend money. city," she said. "This is the first world oil marke unday with its first shipment of Councilor Dee Vanderhoef "No matter how we allocate, year we've looked at the appro crud sine' the war. said Shelter House will see an there's some disagreement priations critically. Some pro Th gr nad ' Rssault Sunday in tho town of in.crease in funding next year, about if we allocated correctly," • grams are getting $60,000 while others are getting KhanAzad, 12 miles south orth capital, was the All Hilder/Associated Press and the Domestic Violence Lehman said, adding that the lal.() l in n ric of attacks that have left at loa8t $7,000." U.S. troops In a Humvee pasl by a burning 011 Intervention. Program will see city is very fortunate to have a decrease, noting that with money to run these programs. pipeline at Hit, 93 mllel northwest of Baghdad, the cuts in state funding, "We accept recommendl\tions, SH EXPLOSION, PAGE 3 following an explosion Sunday. "everyone is feeling the pinch." do what we think is right, but SEE SHELTER, PAG E 3
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Volume 135 Issue 11 Scraping & chipping to' betterment BREAKING NEWS • STAFF Pltone: (319) 335-6063 Pulllltll.r: DeJ William casey ...... , ..•..335 ·5787 BY KATE BRASER recent nationa1 award-winning E-mail: [email protected] fix: 335-6184 Edltar: THE DAILY IOWAN projects include beautifying an ani Megan Eckhardt ...... 3 35·6030 putting fun fair mal shelter, on a CORRECTIONS M.,", Edllon: The intersection of Bowery Amanl lsmall ...... •... 335-6063 for disadvantaged children, and call: 335-6030 Sh~ and South Governor streets in assisting the elderly in landscap Kelley casino ...... •••. , 335·6063 Policy; The Dally Iowan strives for accu II)Ilnlonl Edllor: Iowa City was alive with the ing. Area Lutheran churches par racy and fairness in the reportino of caWIn Hennick ...... •335 ·5863 BYM~ grating sounds of sand scrapers ticipating in this year's event news. If a report Is wrong or misleading, Sports Edhor: ASSOC and paint chippers June 21, included Our Redeemer, 2301 E. a request for a correction or a clartfica Donovan Burba ...... ••.•••335 ·5848 while across town at Old Brick, a Court St., St. Paul, 404 E. Jefferson tlon may be made. A correction or a Ar1I a EntertaInment edItor: JERUSA different sound of improvement St., and Prince of Peace, Eighth clarification will be published . Aryn Henning ...... 335-6000 tanks shelle< was in the air - the soft. thud of Street and 18th Avenue, Coralville. Beth Herzlnger. . ...••.....335-6030 tinian militl dirt being pushed aslde to make "In past years, we've helped eld PUBLISHING INFO eo hourt EdItor: Anne Webbeking ...... 335·5851 Oaza late i way for fresh landscaping. erly [people] plant their gardens or Tho Dally Iowan (USPS 143.360) is published by Student Publications Inc., Copy Chief: three, witnl The source of all this noise and clean their homes before moving,~ 111 Communications Center, Iowa Beau Eiliol ...... 335 -5852 Prime MiniE progress was not a local developer said Roth, 18, a volunteer coordi City, Iowa 52242, daily except Dellvn EdHor: said Israel Cl or busy homeowners but approxi nator and recent City High gradu Saturdays, Sundays, legal and univer Anne Webbeking , ...•.....3 35·5855 ish settleme] mately 40 volunteers from the ate. She said the planning fur Join sity holidays, and university vacations. GllphlCl Editor: a U.s.-backe, Agatha Sm ~ h ...... 335-6063 Iowa City area who joined togeth Hands Day begins months before Periodicals postage paid at the Iowa Palestinil Amanda MayfThe Daily Iowan City Post Office under the Act of PtIoto Editor. er for the area's third-annual Join the event, which is typically held John RIChard ...... 335 -5852 tanks fired a Congress of March 2, 1879. Hands Day, sponsored by the third weekend in June. luke Arens works at Old Brick during Join Hands Day on June 21, a Whitney Kidder ...... 33 5·5852 at a group ( national day for volunteers to better their neighborhoods. Wtb Editor. the AlAqsa 11 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, 'This year, even the sky - a clear, SUBSCRIPTIONS 901 E. Second Ave., and local crisp blue that matched the T-shirt Tony PIlan ...... 335 ·5829 . affiliated , Call: Pete Recker at 335-5783 a.lnm Miniver: stream FatE Lutheran organizations. logos, stepladders, and paint trim interact with adults in her parish, it gives you a sense of satisfaction." E-mail: [email protected] Debra Plath ...... , ...... 335 ·5786 Join Hands Day is a national circling the aging one-story home Subscription rates: the norther she said - people she rarely sees As a committee member and AdvertIsing .In.. er: BeitHanoun event sponsored by America's on South Governor Street - because she is too busy with self-proclaimed group motivator, Iowa City and ComM/Ie: S20 for ore Jim Lsonard ...... 335-5791 semester, $40 for two semesters, $10 for military sou Fraternal Benefits Society seemed to be cooperating instead of school work and band practice. Roth directed newcomers to the CI,"lIIe. Adl MllllglI: intended to unite people of a)) summer session, $50 for full year Cr/stine Peny ...... 335-5784 condition of raining as in previous years. Karen Warner, a UI Hospitals stack of face tattoos and T-shirts initial indi ages in an effort to make their Out of town: $40 for one semester, CllUl.llon Mlneger: . This year, white T-shirts and and Clinics paint shop employee piled on a porch step. She sa:id $80 for two semesters, $15 for sum Pete Recker ...... 335-5783 troops did no neighborhoods better. tanned bodies were flecked with and the mother of Ericha, was the event is not only a means to mer session, $95 all year. D.y PIodlctlon M.lIIglr. Israeli fo] "I think if you give people the beads of sweat and chips of stationed on her knees atop a better her community but also a Sand address changes to: The Daily HeIdi Owen ...... 335-5789 tained a prt opportunity to serve their com white paint as volunteers sheet in the garage, surrounded way to prepare her for the new Iowan, 111 Communications Center, Night Produr:tIOll Mlnaglr. Hanoun for munity, they'll do it,~ said Jen repainted a low-income home. by paint cans and buckets for life she will soon begin atAugus Iowa City. Iowa 52242. Robert Foley .. ..•.•...•.• _335-5789 trying to pr Roth, who appeared to be the "I have not even gotten to paint mixing. She was happy this tana College in Rock Island, m. ans from fir group's personal cheerleader, so far, but I am having fun," said year's organizers were able to "If you are young, this is a nearby Israe sporting a blue face tattoo with volunteer and City High fresh use her expertise for the house chance to get involved, develop Four men the Join Hands Day logo paint man Ericha Warner. She said that painting project. your leadership skills, and help seriously in ed across her cheek. last year, she and fellow parish "My father was a painting cOn make important decisions affect CITY BRIEFS tors said. Every year, planners are given ioners helped a woman move by tractor, and I worked for him ing your community," she said. Deli• Mart faces Deli Mart officials were Earlier, ~ wide discretion in choosing what cleaning out her home. Participat before working for the UlHC," she E-MAIL DI REPORTER KATE 8 __ AT: unavailable for comment Cabinet thai types of activities to take on, but ing in the event allows her to said. "When you get done painting, I Cc::! @\V7to:\ time, money, @ 6~fQ'\ e;ru \..I \.9 effort and ru ~U \9\9 0 IOWA STATE I ISB&T Omine Bill PayTM BANK &TRUST You'll save paper, stamps, envelopes, checks, and time. Plus for IICOMPANY I every new Online Bill Pay customer, ISB&T will make a donation to 319·356·5600 • www.isbt.com Trees Forever"". Visit us today or online at isbt,com. Real Life Matters no The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, lowa . Monday, June 23, 2003 - 8 NEWS Powell warns against • ..335·5787 Defying U~S. road map, •..335-6030 .. . 335-6063 ., . 335·6063 Sharon OKs settlements impediments to peace ., .335-5863 BY MARK LAVIE dismantling militias and One of the ministers pro ., .335-5848 ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel removes dozens of set posed moving settlers from MIDEAST killed 35 Israelis and injured From the beginning of this nearly 150 others. The latest of tlement outposts. smaller settlements to Ariel, Continued from Page 1 still-nascent peace process, Presi .• 335-6030 JERUSALEM - Israeli Sharon adviser Raanan the second-largest settlement these was a suicide bombing on dent Bush and Sharon appeared • . 335,6030 tanks shelled a group of Pales Gissin said Israel would con a bus in the heart of Jerusalem to have had fundamentally dif in the West Bank, according wanted for masterminding a tinian militants in northern tinue construction in built-up to a senior Cabinet official, on June 11, a week after the ferent understandings of what . 335-5851 Gaza late Sunday, killing string of suicide bombings. peace plan was launched, which exactly would trigger the deci areas of settlements. Asked who briefed reporters. Kawasme was gunned down three, witnesses .said, after about the required freeze, he left 17 Israelis dead. sion to carry out such a killing. • ..335-5852 Sharon was then asked June 21 outside a mosque in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon noted that the Cabinet, in whether construction in Ariel Israel did not disclose specific The U.S. administration the West Bank town of Hebron, intelligence pointing to another seemed caught off guard by the ., ..335-5855 said Israel can still build Jew voting on the plan, attached was still possible, the Cabinet ish settlements in defiance of where he was the head of the imminent attack by the Hebron Israeli attempt on June 10 to objections. official said. Sharon responded local branch of Hamas'military a U.S.-backed peace plan. cell but said Kawasme had kill Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a high '" .335-6063 The "road map" starts witlt that there was no need to wing, Izzidin al-Qassam. Palestinians said Israeli played a key role in its activities. profile Hamas official who had a halt to violence, a crack make a big deal every time a "I ywuld like to thank the " .335-5852 He was believed to have served long been viewed as a political tanks fired at least two shells down on militant groups, the building permit is issued. "We security forces for last night's '" .335-5852 at a group of militants from as both an "engineer" - a bomb leader, primarily serving as dismantling of settlement just build," the Cabinet official successful and very important maker - as well as a handler to spokesman for the groulJ. the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, outposts, and leads through quoted Sharon as saying. action in Hebron," the prime ....335·5829 . affiliated with the main his young charges, recruiting Hamas issued fiery new three stages to a Palestinian Palestinians charge that minister told his Cabinet on them and then dispatching threats Sunday to retaliate for stream Fatah movement, in .. . 335-5786 state in 2005. Jewish settlements in the Sunday. "This was a vital them on deadly missions . Kawasme's killing - but at the the northern Gaza town of The plan is ambiguous about West Bank and Gaza Strip are action designed to provid·e In some respects, tl1e same time appeared to be keep Beit Hanoun. However, Israeli ., .. 335-5791 targeted killings. While it does a major obstacle to a peace security for Israel's citizens." Kawasme case is murky ingits political options open. military sources said on the not list them specifically as for agreement because they From the earliest weeks of because it is not clear that "If Palestinian blood is .,. 335-5784 condition of anonymity that bidden, It bans Israeli "actions encroach on land the Pales the 33-month-old Palestinian Israel deliberately set out to spilled, Zionist blood will be initial indications showed undermining trust." • tinians claim for a state. uprising, Israel has carried out ., ..335·5783 kill him. The army says arrest spilled, too," Rantisi vowed. troops did not fire shells there. Regarding settlements, the Settlers and their backers what it calls "targeted killings" was its preferred option - However, the group said Sun. Israeli forces have main ..•.335-5789 plan says Israel must dis don't dispute that, saying - more than 150 of them, by "that was the aim here," an day evening that it was still tained a presence near Beit mantle all outposts put up that one of their main goals the count of human-rights Israeli security source said. weighing a possible cease-fire, ....331)-5789 Hanoun for several weeks, since March 1, 2001 - more is to prevent the creation of a groups - of Palestinian mili Walking into Israeli com which the Palestinian Authority trying to prevent Palestini than 60, according to an anti Palestinian state. tants who, it said, were mandos' carefully laid trap, has been trying to negotiate, ans from firing rockets at a settlement watchdog group Last week, in a daylong con involved in planning or prepar Kawasme was mortally One of Hamas' key demands is nearby Israeli town. - and "freezes all settlement frontation, Israeli soldiers tore ing to carry out suicide bomb wounded before he had a an end to the campaign of what Four men were wounded activity." down a settlement outpost in ings, shootings, ambushes, and chance to fire a shot, according it calls assassinations. seriously in the shelling, doc Gissin.said the demand to the West Bank, scuft1ing with other attacks against Israelis. to Palestinian witnesses. In Jordan, the four archi tors said. freeze all construction is hundreds of settlers. However, Israeli human-rights groups, Israeli security sources said he tects of the road map for peace Earlier, Sharon told his unrealistic. the Cabinet official said one of which has lodged a legal was armed with an M-16 - the United States, the Unit Cabinet that settlement con "There can't be a total Sharon told the ministers that appeal against the practice, assault rifle and a pistol and ed Nations, the European struction in the West Bank freeze on any construction, some of the outposts Israel is say most of these deaths can brandished at least one Unio~, and Russia - called on and Gaza Strip should proceed because you can't freeze life required to dismantle are nec only be considered extrajudi weapon but did not open fire. all parties to end the escalating quietly, a senior Cabinet offi in those places," he told the essary for security. cial executions. Israeli security officials cycle of violence. cial quoted the prime minister Associated Press, Sharon has said many "It's essentially taking someone expressed satisfaction over They condemned "the brutal as saying. Israel TV's Channel In Sunday's Cabinet meet times that he will not compro and imposing the <\eath penalty having kept this strike "surgi terror attacks" that Hamas and 1 said Sharon told the minis ing, the debate on settlements mise over Israel's security, on him without giving him an cal" - which is far easier to do, other extremist groups have ters that settlement building began when several ministers indicating that he will not opportunity to defend himself in . one military source noted, waged against Israelis, but "isn't part of the road map, it's attacked Infrastructure Min carry out all the "road map" court," said Hannah Friedman, when the weapons involved are they also said the Israeli mili the executive director of the Com my personal commitment," ister Yosef Paritzky from the requirements over settle automatic rifles rather than tary's killing of "Palestinian mittee Against 1brture. Under the so-called "road moderate Shinui Party for ments. In the meantime, helicopter-fired missiles. Those civilians" undermines "trust 1b a greater degree than some map· for peace, Israel would saying he wants to draw up a peace activists say settlers were used in a wave of strikes and prospects for cooperation." have to observe the building plan for moving settlers to have put up eight new out other recent Israeli targets, the against Hamas militants in the Powell has consistently spo 43-year-old Kawasme appeared Gaza Strip earlier this month, ke.n of Israei:s right to self ban in the coming months, Israel's Galilee region and the posts to replace 11 removed to fit the profile of a "ticking which killed six of the seven defense,in the fight against ter after the Palestinians begin southern Negev Desert. so far. bomb" - someone who poses an targeted men but also killed rorism, but he urged again Sun imminent danger unless stopped more than a dozen passersby day that Israel confine itself to by whatever means necessary. and wounded scores more. targeting "ticking bombs." He He headed the Hamas cell in Hamas is well aware that declined to say whether he con Hebron, a tight-knit group of the targeted killings - and sidered Kawasme to have been Explosion hits Iraqi oil pipeline young men, some of them soccer most crucially, their timing - BUcha case. buddies, blamed by Israel for have driven a wedge between TIMES rrm WIII7lR ROOIN WRIGHT CON11!IBUTED here rioted last month, ransack wounds were not considered carrying out attacks that have the United States and Israel. TO 7HtS REPORT FROM THf DEAD SEA, JORDAN. EXPLOSION ing the police station and setting life-threatening. I. Continued from Page 1 patrol cars on fire. Also near Hit, U.S. soldiers on Several inhabitants of Hit June 21 opened fire on a car that 17 soldiers dead since President linked the explosion to rumors failed to stop at a checkpoint, Local shelters face state funding cuts Bush declared major combat in here that Iraqi oil would soon be killing one Iraqi and wounding Iraq over May 1. The military sold to Israel. "They will never a'nother, Kievenaar said. The SHELTER programs in Iowa City. community realizes the get our oil," vowed Ziad Najeeb troops fired warning shots before provided no information about Continued from Page 1 "Housing is extremely importance of these agen who was suspected of carrying Rasheed, a 35-year-old restau· shooting into the car, he said. expensive in Iowa City. I cies, and we want to keep out the grenade assault or rant owner who applauded On Sunday, three distraught think it is the city's respon them strong." whether any assailants were what he viewed as a deliberate brothers of the wounded man O'Donnell went on to stress sibility to do what it can," E-MAIL 01 REPORTER ANHIE SHUPt'Y Ar. caught or killed. attack on the installation. arrived at the U.S. base near the importance of the shelter he said. "Everybody in the ANNE·SHUPPVOUIOW.... EDU U.S, officials have blamed It was unclear what effect, if Hit and demanded that their the string of attacks on Sad any, the pipeline fire .and shut sibling be transferred to a civil dam Hussein loyalists, trou down would have on supplies. ian hospital from the military blemakers, and foreign agita Area residents said they under medical facility where he was tors. However, protests and stood the pipeline carried crude taken for treatment. U.S. offi comments by ordinary Iraqis oil destined for sale in Jordan. cials explained that the man indicate that the U.S. occupa Officials have voiced fears could not be moved until his tion is widely resented, despite that the looting of oil installa condition stabilized. Court Hill a general sense of relief that tions and Possible acts of sabo "What kind of liberty is this?" to Saddam has been deposed. tage could threaten the full asked Hatem Mutar Bardi, 33, Hit, with a population of return of Iraq's major industry. a younger brother of the man. public library 40,000, is one of a number of Hit was also the site of a land "We want to see our brother, to largely Sunni Muslim towns mine attack June 21 that know that he's really alive. D to where opposition to the U.S. pres rocked a U.S. ffiilitary Humvee, TIMES !>TAT' WPl/TfR ALISSA J. RVBlN IN opening a mind. ence has been forceful. Residents injuring at least one soldier. His 8AG~DAD CONTRIBVTEO TO THIS REPORT. MIllions of people choose to ride public transportation every day. By doing so, they're able to do the things they want to do most. Like visiting the library or volunteering. And when people have the opportunity to do the things that better their lives, the whole community thrives. To find out more Information about how public transportation benefits both Individuals and communities, please visit www.publlctransportatlon.org. Wherever life takes you For route and schedule Information call 356-5151 www.legoY.org I, J 4· The Daily Iowan · lowa City, Iowa· Monday, June··23, 2003 QUOTE WORTHY I think if you give people the opportunity to serve their community, they'll do it. Jen Roth, a participant in the national . neighborhood.improvement effort, Join Hands Day. & enter 'Pastel i, Guest OpinIon ·The Daily Iowan Since 1868 IBriI Are we feeling duped yet? I EDITORIAL BOARD BYVIOY. MEGAN ECKHARDT Editor THE OM CALVIN HENNICK Opinions Editor A lot of silly things have been Why? Politics: The Democrats weapons Inspectors to have more I KELLEY CASINO News Editor said about Iraq's alleged arsenal of couldn't bear the thought of time, they think the U.S. teams The wide-op JESSE HELLING Editorial Writer weapons of mass destruction, Republicans' charging them with should have come up with some rolling plains, JOHN MOLSEED Editorial Writer such as that Saddam Hussein "losing Korea" so soon after China thing by' now. But this glosses over skies, the 8wayiJ CHRISTINE NICHOLSON Editorial Writer could be ready to launch them In ted with fence went communist. some important facts . The U.N. . Marcia Wegms 45 minutes. But perhaps the silli Lyndon Johnson turned U.S. inspectors did not have the benefit of tions reflect h EDITORIALS reflect the majority opinion of the 01 COLUMNS reflect the opinion of the signed author. est of all is the Republicans' Involvement in Vietnam into a full the touted U.S. intelligence that sup· Iowan land. 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It opinoins. Submissions should be typed and signed, month. Letters will be chosen for publication by the politics to point out that a couple and should not exceed 600 words in length. Abrief editors according to space considerations. Letters even though he believed he could is proper for our expectations about of months after the Saddam biography should accompany all submissions. The 0/ may be sent to the DJ at 201 N Communications not win it. Why? Politics: Again, he the U.S. search to be higher. regime fell, no unconventional reserves the right to edit for length, style, and clarity. Center or via e·mall at [email protected]. was trying to protect the As the Los Angeles Times weapons have been found. But to Democrats from the stigma of even wonder whether the war was reported recently from Iraq , "A being soft on communism. politically motivated is beyond the veteran U.S. intelligence official Note: Those presidents knew that Editorial pale. "How dare you suggest that a here said he is furious over the president of the United States their wats were unrelated to the inaccurate intelligence reports that would put American troops in security of the American people. have sent weapons teams racing Hatch's plan to stop downloads harm's way for political reasons?" U.S. entry was motivated by politics. to a series of empty sites. 'I'm sit· It shouldn't be necessary to So why should anyone have a hard ting here , and frustrated isn 't the prove that presidents are capable of time believing that President Bush word anymore,' said the official, is excessive and unconstitutional lying us into war. Real-life examples WOUld, let us say, bend the truth to who has a senior role in the hunt get us into war in Iraq? and spoke on the condition of Dropping an anvil on an anthill is one way to Why, then, should those who misappropriate are well known. Harry Truman took alleviate infe,tation troubles. However, most would music suffer immediate punishment, while those the United States into a war on the The preSident's apologists don't anonymity. 'I feel almost duped .' • agree that such a method would be excessive. who swipe from shopkeepers have the opportunity Korean peninsula right after his have a glimmer of how ridiculous When are the American people No Orkin man he, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, to defend themselves in court? secretary of State told the world they sound. For example, they say going to start feeling that way? recently thumbed his nose at the fly-swatter Perhaps Hatch's personal economic interests that South Korea was outside Bush's critics are inconsistent SttflDOfll RlCHfoIIAN IS " SENIOR FELlOW AT approach of dealing with illegal Internet down are a factor. In additidn to representing the America's "defense perimeter." because, while they wanted the U.N . THE FUTURE Of' FREEDOM FOUNO"TlOII. loads. Beehive State in the hallowed halls of the During a June 17 Judiciary Committee Senate, Hatch moonlights as a composer of hearing, Hatch said he favored developing patriotic and religious-themed songs. In 2002, technology that would remotely destroy the he earned a reported $18,000 in royalties. computers of people who illegally download Monetary considerations notwithstanding, a music from the Internet. glance at Hatch's dossier shows that his 27- Aside from violating federal anti-hacking year-long career in the Senate has been fraught laws, Hatch himself admitted that, should such with extreme solutions. technology come into use, Congress would have During the 1980s, the senator supported to enact exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers. amendments to the Constitution that would These considerable hurdles are apparently have allowed states to pronibit abortion and insignificant when compared to the evils of formally allow vocal and organized prayer in copyright infringement in the senator's mind. all schools. In a 1999 speech before 'the However, few others are likely to share American Legion Legislative Rally, Hatch Hatch's view. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., one of extolled the virtues of a Flag Protection Hatch's colleagues on the Judiciary Amendment, saying, "We owe it to the veterans Committee, said in response to his proposal . who defended our flag, and we owe it to the that "some Draconian remedies would create American people who love our flag.» more problems than they would solve." What Hatch owes to the American people is One must wonder: Would Hatch also be in favor the protection of their fundamental rights, of develOPi~technOIOgy that would remotely among them due process. Punishing alleged destroy the de of people who steal items from criminals before they are duly convicted is far stores? The c' e of music piracy, while no less more detrimental to American society than egregious than shoplifting, is certsinly no more so. KaZaA ever dreamed of being. , ~_ttt I Jobless and broke in Iowa City! t is clear that you don't enjoy your job in was incompetent and unpleasant disparate global factors, such an empty boxcar and jumping in with your legs the least bit, not only because you mope and to please get out of her as SARS potentially stifling hanging out, scratching to get ahold 80 you can around and don't talk to anyone, but sight. trade with China, the war in . maybe make it San Francisco just to have a also because you go through the motions I had become a shelver at the Iraq fluctuating oil prices and hobo stomp on your hands and lOck you down I library when I was 14. It was my increasing tensions with into the ditch? Have you ever experienced a of your daily tasks with the unique lack of first job, and rve been working Europe, and 9 percent of man's breath stoppihg between your fingers energy of the genuinely unhappy. I don't know pretty steadily ever since then employers planning to elimi while you choke the life out ofhim because if if you're 80 bad at your job because you hate it with varying degrees of enjoy nate positions, forcing older you didn't he'd kill you first? Have you ever so much, or ifyou hate your job so much ment and success. That is, until adults into jobs traditionally experienced picking up your best friend from because you're so bad at it. I am firing you. now. rve been unemployed since held by students. face down in the muck and throwing rum on My only regret is that I didn't do it sooner. school ended, but it's not as if I All of this information was your back, carrying him 10 miles in pouring In all fairness, my boss at the Ames haven't done my part to try to very interesting, especially rain to Da Nang, only to step on a mine and Public Library had to be so forceful about find a job. rve canvassed the city, SHAWN conSidering that I just asked have both your legs blown off?" my termination because she had tried to subnritting applications to every the guy if I could mow his "Sir, you still have your legs, and it's obvious fire me twice before and I had talked my business with a "Help Wanted" SEBASTIAN lawn for 20 bucks. none of those thing happened to you." way out of it both times. sign and even several that didn't The nationwide statistics "Do I get points for creativity?" I promised: No more reading beginner who promised to "put my applica- mirror the current situation "Please leave. Now." biographies of Thomas Edison when no one tion on file." After upwards of 30 applications in Iowa City. Recently the Deadwood had a . I need a job. Desperately. At this point and four weeks of swnmer: nothing. Nothing. waitressing position available, and almost my funds are so low that my only hope for was watching, no more staring in paralyzed surviving is to enter into some kind of horror at mangled, chaotic shelves of The first few weeks of not having a job I was 150 people applied for it. It seems as if novel-semi-humorously-hanging-out-Dn-the everyone is looking for a job, and there is state of suspended animation. In a week I Goosebumps books for upwards of 15 min rabid competition for even the most menial will curl up in the fetal position in my utes, no more staging elaborate morality Ped-Mall-all-day-Slacker unemployed. Now rm depressive-pitifuLly-sleeping-all-day-because-l employment. refrigerator, attempting to slow down my plays with puppets about the dangers of have-no-reason-to-wake-\lp-Raymond-Carver Every time I filled out an application to vital life processes. I will put my r majning absolute power. I would be a model worker, wash dishes, and the establishment had a foodstuffs - largely spaghetti sauc , unemployed. Cheeri08, and canned fried potato s - into view each day as a new challenge, and truly I spoke to a professor of economics about blank for experience, I gritted my teeth and appreciate the opportunities that I was so a plastic bag that will serve as a makeshift my situation, and he told me that according wrote, "I don't have any experience, but I am placenta, providing me sustenance during fortunate to have. to the most recent quarterly report released very willing to learn. n I finally snapped when Of course, I was lying. I did the same my period of hibernation. 18 this a good by Manpower - America's largest staffing I submitted an application to be a cook at idea? Probably not. But unless 1 find a job mediocre job I always did, and I deserved to company - three out of four companies have Z'Mariks and they asked me for experience. soon, it's my only option. get fired. But I'll admit it was a tad unsettling planned to cut jobs or freeze hiring for the "Experience? Experience boiling a pot of Please e-mail me if you would like Lo se hearing the same kind, grandmotherly voice summer, contributing to the worst employ water and throwing noodles into it? No, I don't. my resume, or help me locate a larg plastic that read The Very Hungry Caterpillar at ment market since the early 1990s. He said But if you're talking experience, I've had plenty. bag. story time tell me in no uncertain tenns that I employer pessimism was related to several Have you ever experienced running alongside SttAWlil sn.un"" IS A 01 COLUMNIST. On the Spot What do you think of Orrin Hatch's proposal to remotely destroy computers that illegally download music? "Orrin Hatch "] don't agree; " I think Hatch " J think thal's a "II ii ' nol yet has let power we should be has a problem little bit nlsh." de idcd whether go to his head. able to download with his priorities." or not it' right He's lost all music." or wrong, you per pective; houldn'l he's a nut." dc~lroy it." M.n Sch.eler "lilY Bullerm.n Ron Wright Heidi HlrIIIl JOI Monln Iowa City resident Iowa City resident Iowa City resident Iowa City resident Iowa City resident ,t The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Monday, June 23, 2003 - 6 th ey'll do it. the national Hands Day. 'Pastel is the most direct medium. It is pure coLor, and it is the most forgiving of all media' The budget's the thing Bringing inner geography to light in Riverside's summer BY VIDYA MURTHY BY WIWAM SMITH The theater is also planning THE DAILY IOWAN a cabaret production on June THE DAILY IOWAN 30, that will feature many The wide-open s paces, the Riverside Theatre, known, actDrs from the Shakespeare rolling plains, the multi-hued among other things, for its Festival and some Riverside skies, the swaying cornfields dot. summer Shakespeare Festi regulars. ted with fences and barns - val, is facing a financial crisis "We're very proud of and Marcia Wegman's representa tbisyear. grateful for everyone's support tions reflect her love for the The company needs to raise in this matter. However, we Iowan land. $100,000 by Aug. 31 to stay still have a long way 00 go," While the images are infused out of debt. The nonprofit Estes said. with emotional warmth, and the company has suffered from a The theater has already viewer experiences a certain con significant decline in dona had to make internal cuts nection and recognition, Wegman tions this year. Riverside, 213 within the last year, but avoids maudlin sentimentalism. N. Gilbert St., owes $40,000 more cuts may be necessary, She does not romanticize but on a line of credit and needs Estes said. Although it was carefully composes her pictures $60,000 for production costs still 000 early to determine by pOSitioning each element in and expenses. Although the what kind of cuts might have the picture in quite a strict man theater is using a variety of to be made, she said, none ner, not unlike that of a mathe programs to raise the money, will affect this season's matician. The dappled surfaces cuts will have to be made if Shakespeare Festival. are achieved by the deft applica the $100,000 figure is not met. "We work pretty close 00 the tion of the pastels. "This is a serious situation, bone financially," said Ron "Pastel is the most direct Clark, a Riverside co-founder and it is happening 00 a lot of medium. It is pure color, and it is theaters in this bad economy," and co-artistic directDr. "When the most fOrgiving of all media," you're accusOOmed to a tight Wegman said of her pastel land said Amy Estes, Riverside's managing directDr. budget, any cuts we make are scapes, which are on display at going to be very painful." the Iowa State Bank & Trust, The theater has already initiated a number of pro The money made a t the 102 S. ClinOOn St. popular Shakespeare Festival Wegman has a deep fascina grams to help raise the money. Many local business does not count toward the tion with this medium and has $100,000 figure the group learned to marupulate it 00 her es are sponsoring a single night of the Shakespeare needs. Instead, spectators in advantage. Despite a prophecy attendance are asked 00 make made by her teacher that women Festival for $1,000. Buckle Down Publishing Co., 2308 contributions 00 the theater if could never make it as artists, they enjoyed the play. Wegman has not only disproved Hie Wynla!The Daily Iowan Heinz Road, is matching the price of each ticket sold with "The response to our situa the observation but has made a Marcia Wegman, who receivedan M.F.A. from Iowa in 1961 , works with pastels in her Iowa City home. tion has been pretty terrific," an equivalent donation. In significant contribution to the Clark said. "The community Iowa art scene. ~ addition, anyone who makes and our artistic friends are her basic training in fine See the work hanging here and this resulted in a series of numerous phoOOgraphs that she a donation during the festi Willle really helping us out. No one arts was in Oxford, Ohio, she got [Prairies Lights] - the one with images. takes. Still, the pictDrial surface val will be entered to win here is panicking, and we feel her graduate degree in printmak the cows. It's my favorite. Jim "llove the natural world, but I appears seamless, and the dis Riverside season tickets or very positive." ing from the UI. Iowa City has Harris liked it and borrowed it. It am not a plain-air artist. Also, in parate sections are smoothed and Shakespeare Festival mer E-MM. DI REPORTER WI.uAM 5Mmt At been her home since 1957. will bang here for a while. I love Iowa, you might have about three even hidden under the pure pig chandise. There will be WI love Iowa City; my only it when people I know tell me days of ideal weather in a year," ment, under the small, gestured three grand prizes for the WUlAM-lHMITHCUIOWA.EDU regret is it is too far from the they saw my work or they have Wegman said. dabs. The landscapes have a top contributors. mountains," she said. my work." Later, on a walking tour of calmness, a stillness, and an Estes said the troupe has Wegmans's life story is in fact In addition 00 the hundreds of the Lake District in England, apparent simplicity. already raised $25,000 inlthe closely intertwined with the his shades of pastels available, she she came back full of ideas for This is a hard-won quality that first week since the announce tory of downOOwn Iowa City. She also enjoys the supple quality of doing landscapes. This was the has taken the artist years to per ment of the budget crisis. was an entrepreneur for 35 years the medium. Of late, she has beginning. fect. Even as she has become Other sources of fund raising running the acclaimed store started to make her own pastels. She first worked on a series of more confident with her own rep include the naming of a chair Things & Things & Things, The subtle changes in a sky or in abstract coLlages, which became resentational skills, her desire 00 at the Riverside Festival where she sold everything: cloth the earth can only be depicted by quite successful. Slowly, the non constantly innovate has driven Stage. There are still more this wonderful medium, she says. ing, jewelry, frozen croissants, representational forms and her to do numerous things, such than 70 chairs that can be She also continues to experiment yogurt. Running a store while shapes became more recogniza as paper jewelry and figurative named at the outdoor venue, raising two children meant that with different papers and now ble as she continued to work. work. Wegman is also deeply which cost $400 a piece. Each she could not pursue painting for uses a specific sanded archival Numerous trips 00 Arizona, Ore named chair is given a plaque a Long time. However, the long paper for her works. gon, Utah, and the Rocky Moun involved in the local art scene and serves on the exhibition com with the name of the buyers or hiatus has in fact turned her into "For a long time, pastels were tains have also become occasions their personal inscriptiOns. a more mature arti t. not taken seriously. They were for articulating and firming her mittee of Arts Iowa City. Iowa City has become such 8 thought to be something that pictorial language. Her composi When it was time to leave, she natural setting for Wegman, she only Sunday painters used," she tional methods have become said with a smile, "Go see my has not felt the need to pursue said. more sophisticated. cows." Wegman's love for the galleries in larger cities such as In 1978, Wegman went back 00 Wegman's landscapes are not world she inhabits, the land that Chicago. being a full-time painter. Early mere "re-presentations" of the she depicts, and the flowers that "Why should 1 go there? Gal on, she started by drawing flow visible world hut are re-inven she grows are all infused. with the leries don't treat the artists too ers and working from photo tions of the documented reality. same emotional warmth. well. In any case, I like to know graphs that she tDok. Her garden She mixes, matches, and com E-MAIl DI RfPOllTER VDY" ~ AT. that my works find good homes. became a source of in!lpiration, bines diverse elements from the VlDVA-MUllTHYGuIOWA.EDU CERVICAL DYSPLASIA STUDY Healthy non-pregnant temales age 18 to menopause with a diagnosis of lSIL or ASC-US are Invited to participate in a 2-3 month study. 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MMwaUl l I The Daily IOlYan - Iowa City, Iowa - Monday, June 23,2003 - 7 SPORTS 1Iundoy'la_ New Or ....,., ••, Tacoma Kerry McCoy (Bothloham. Pa.lNew \bric IIC). dec. New Yortt 69. CI1arfolt. 57 AMEllCAH LEAGUE Bo~ lmoro 9. AUanlo 3 OOahoma al Iowa Toity Thompeon (Cedar Fln •• lawalSuni Chi Cubs 2. Chi WhHe Sox 1 Darren Hauck/Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Blanked for Minnesota Twins left fjelder Jacque Jones can not catch a double by Milwaukee Brewers' Geoff Jenkins, ( seven innings by Bartolo Colon, the Cubs rallied for two runs in the Neagle (H) allowed three runs Bobby Abreu homered, and rookie MONTREAL (AP) - Roy Halladay eighth off reliever Damaso Marte to and six hits, fanning six in ' 6Ya Marlon Byrd hit his first home run of pitched into the ninth to win his I beat the White Sox. innings in his secOnd start of the the season. 11 th-consecutlve start and Vernon NO.0512 Colon had allowed just three hits in season . Jimmy Rollins also homered as Wells homered for the fourth seven strong innings and had a 1-0 the Phililes won for the fifth time ,in straight game to lead Toronto to vic ( lead. But after coming out to warm up BaHIliore 9, Atlanta 3 six games. tory over Montreal. in the bottom of the eighth, he was ATLANTA (AP) - Jeff Conine Pitching on three-days' rest for suddenly replaced by Marte (2-1) . drove in three runs, Luis Matos and Cleveland 8, Pittsburgh 5 the first time in his 100 career starts , ( B.J. Surhoff had two RBis apiece, PITISBURGH (AP) - C.C. Halladay (11-2) extended his team lansas City 5, St. Louis 2 and Baltimore avoided a sweep in record streak and the longest in the Sabathia propped up Cleveland's majors in six years. • ST. LOUIS (AP) - Jeremy Affeldt Atlanta. weary bullpen with a six-inning start, won for the first time in seven starts Conine had an RBI double in a and Matt Lawton drove in two runs, Florida 3, Tampa Bay 2 and hit an RBI single as Kan sas City four-run fifth inning, then drove in leading the Indians past Pittsburgh. MIAMI (AP) - Rookie Miguel beat SI. Louis. Baltimore's final two runs with a Cleveland shook off consecutive Cabrera hit an RBI triple, and Mike triple. 15-inning losses June 20 and 21 to Lowell homered to lead the Florida Colorlllo 5, Detroit 3 get 14 hits, 12 in the first six Philadelphia 5, IoSOI 0 Marlins to a Victory over the Tampa Super Student Specials DENVER (AP) - Denny Neagle innings. Bay Devil Rays on Sunday. worked six-plus Innings for his first PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Rookie Danys Baez worked a scoreless Cabrera's third-inning RBI triple ' $2 99 All You Can Eat victory of the year, and Charles Brett Myers pitched a three -hitter for • • Beef Tacos I ninth inning for his 16th save. off of a billboard in center field was SUN Johnson had a two-run single as his first major·league shutout, and the Marlins' only hit until the seventh Colorado beat Detroit. . Philadelphia beat Boston . Montreal 4, Torolto 2 \ inning. ~ MON' $1 00 Margarita. On The Rocks .. Spm-close r TUES' 50· Beef Hard Shell Tacos* ~ ." "WIth purcIIeM 01 • coke WIltre tile Watson works hard in music and BB waves art t Screw thing was going all right.," she with her sharp shoulders. Her glasses. "I'm just trying to bring ~ WED Fre.h Squeezed Sharpenl WATSON Drtvera5~~~OUndl S'Cooped Continued from Page 10 said. "It looks like 1'Il be headed hair wa s pulled back, tightly, some other people up. I think 'V : $1. 50 rn molding overseas next year, but 1 have into a single pony tail, allowing Jerica could be real good." Actra" Mlchete no idea where that will be." her eyes to connect with the Watson's subtle but confident '{;Jj TIme in history about doing music for real,· WatSon is working out every style made a contrast to the There was a gleam in Wat- audience, Explosive day. At an even 6 feet tall, she J-Dub was rocking the mike. fierce M.O.P' beat Raise It Up . THURS: 3-2-1 " 8On's eye when sh t.a.lkod about ~ Spm-CIOH ~ ~\ I l ~ I, , I I 8 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Monday, vune-23, 2003 HELP WANTED HELP WANTED GARAGEI SPORTS I;::==::::::::=:::;IASSISTANT needed for setting YARD SALE ------'--'------Construction appolnlments lor a Financial .::..:..::..:.::..;~~------.;;..------: Plennar In Iowa CRy. Call 9:ooa.m.-4 :00p.m. lor an Inlar· EQUIPMENT view. (319)35+6506, eK1. 7. Ask OPERATORS for Sar •. 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Monday, June 23, 2003 BRIEFS LlghHoot, Johnson Ex-Hawkeye drops beats en route to unknown honored with Medal BY FRANK KUPSCH art space, the were focused on Animosity, a of become a professional basket "I had a little microphone and THE DAILY IOWAN heat began to local emcee with sweat dripping ball player. She wants to do stereo," said Meder, who will increase. Deep from his forehead all the way music, too. begin dental school at the ill in Two Hawkeye athletes were As a gentle breeze carried a honored as recipients of the Big bass grooves down past the collar of his half "I've always loved music," August. "Jerica would come in soft folk melody through the apd breakbeats buttoned shirt. Former Iowa said Watson, who fini shed her and start frecstyling. She's Ten Medal of Honor for men's and Pedestrian Mallon the last day women's athletics on June 20. bounced off the women's basketball player Jeri playing career at Iowa in 2002. always had a great talent." of spring (June 20), a member of graffiti-covered ca Watson sat on the single step "I won my first talent show back Some of Watson's biggest fans Football player Andy lightfoot and the UI basketball family was softball player Kristin Johnson walls. Snare between the stage and the floor home in Milwaukee when I was have been her teammates. sitting in a room of hot jumping Watson drums rico- - thinking, waiting. 14 years old. And I've been . "I used to love making tapes were th is year's selections. bodies. The Medal of Honor is the con cheted front to Somehow, she manages to doing it ever since." for the team to listen to on our The music began at the water back as a group of bright, white keep cool. Former Hawkeye teammate bus rides," she snid. "That's ference 's oldest award and Is pre fountain and danced up to the sented each year to a male and lights focused all attention in Since being released by the Lindsey Meder fondly remem when I starled thinking more door of Public Space One on the dark, humid room onto a Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA female athlete In the graduating bers some of Watson's, aka J Dubuque Street. Inside and up stage raised a foot and a half off on May 5, Watson has added Dub's, early performances in a class at each university who has the stairs of the multipurpose SEE WATSON, PAGE 7 demonstrated proficiency In the ground. At 9:30, all eyes another dimension to her dream Slater Hal] dorm room. scholarship and athletics. Lightfoot was a starter at right GOLF guard In all 13 games of the Big Ten football co-champion Hockey Hawkeyes' 2002 season. He was also named co-Most Valuable Player on offense. An academic Teeing off on·cancer all-Big Ten selection, he was also coaching the recipient of the Forest Evashevski Scholastic Achievement Award. He was also Locals gather for best reason charity named a first-team Verizon legend District VII Academ ic AII BY JEROD LEUPOLD American selection for the third THE DAILY IOWAN straight year. The cloudless afternoon on dies at 69 Johnson started every game of her Hawkeye career at shortstop, hole 13 at Finkbine Golf Course was punctuated with phrases and she is the all-time Iowa leader in runs scored with 160. She con like "that's the wrong green" and BY TERESA M. WALKtR tributed to the Big Ten regular "another splasher." The water ASSOCIAT£D PRESS hazard left many philanthropic season and tournament champion hitters wet but couldn't. dampen NASHVILLE, Tenn. - team that went to the NCAA the spirit of the men-{)nly Ameri Roger Neilson, a Hall of Region V championship game can Cancer Society Pink Ribbon Farner who was the head and ended the season 44-15. She Classic golftoumament. coach of eight NHL teams was offered one of 50 invitations Thirty-nine teams participat to compete at the 2003 Women's and established one of the ed on June 20 to raise more longest resumes in league ffis.. National Team Selection Camp than $12,000 for research, edu tory, died June 21. He was 69. and was also named a first team cation, advocacy, and service ! He had been battling skin Verizon Academic All-American. programs to fight cancer. The Johnson was Iowa's female recip and bone cancer. He died at C sunny day, lacking all but the his home in Peterborough, ient of the Big Ten's first slightest breezes, allowed the I. Outstanding Sportsmanship Ontario, the Ottawa Sena· four-man squads representing tors said. award. local businesses to get together - by Katie low Neilson's death was pI for a good cause. "First of all, to play golf," said announced by NHL commis· Bruce Koot, a representative of sioner Gary Tyson involved with the Farm & Merchant Bank. Bettman 90 hotel altercation "Second of all, it's a great cause. minutes into UI Most of us have been touched by the NHL cancer one way or another in draft. NEW YORK (AP) - Mike family mem bers or friends." "We'll miss Tyson was released from a The cancer society has run you, Roger," Brooklyn police precinct on June the Pink Ribbon Classic for 14 Bettman told 21, hours after his arrest on years with the help of many the crowd, assault charges following a brawl sponsors. which stood with two men outside a hotel. "Our folks benefit, and we're Neilson The former heavyweight cham fora moment here to support it," said adminis of silence. pion, who Was charged with trator Ted Yank of Holden Can Neilson WM an NHL coach assault in the third degree, a mis cer Center. "Much of the money or scout each of the last 25 demeanor, walked silently past stays in the area. It's r eally a seasons but was unable to reporters standing outside the win-win situation for us." 84th Precinct io a driving ra in. Eight other organizations win a Stanley Cup. This year, Fans of the boxer shouted "Mikel sponsored the event with in he completed his third season Mike!" as he was led out by kind services and donations as an assistant with the Sen· police. reaching $10,000 including ators. H reached the Stanley Tyson, who will turn 37 on Westside Imaging, Hawkeye Cup playoffs 11 time in his Tuesday, was arrested at 5:30 Food Service Distribution, 15 seasons as a head coach. a.m. after a fight with two Mercy Hospital, Hawkeye 'There is no way to measure Pennsylvania men outside a Harley-Davidson, Mediacom, accurately the number of live hotel, police said. All three were KCRG, KXIC, and KKRQ. Roger Neilson touched, inside guests at the hotel. "Sponsors really make this a and outside the hockey world, success," said Sarah Heenan, during his lifetime of devo the cancer group's income-devel tion to our game," B ttman opment coordinator. "It's a great said in II statement. INSIDE way to get awareness to the Ottawa was Neilson's 10th community." NHL team, and the Senators' Among the incentives for out inability to win the Cup this standing golf skills included season was a source of consid prizes for sinking a hole-in-one. erable dismay for the players. Several holes boasted a give Ottawa lost in the Eastern away, including a 2003 XLH Conference finals to 1200 Harley-Davidson on the New 174-yard No. 13. Jersey in H ven games. His illness forced him to miss E'MAIL 01 REPORTER JEROD LEUPOLD Ar. 2 U. John Rlchard/The Dally Iowan [email protected]! so me games during th deep Twins pitcher forced to leave the Matt Kray tees 0" on the 13th hole of Flnkblne Golf Course, June 20 aftemoon In the Pink Ribbon Classic. est playoff run in Senators' game with a battered ankle. to See Page 7 Hy-Vee comes away all smiles in GT victory BY JASON BRUMMOND "The last couple of games, as a Solverson chipped in 14 points, THE DAILY IOWAN team, we have been like the 'sec seven rebounds, and three ond-half team,' so we just have assists for Westport in the losing MONDAY TV There is nothing more satisfy to put two halves together." effort. ing than a well-deserved victory VI sophomore Tiffany Reedy McCann, who scored 10 with significant contribution led Westport with 24 points and Early Wimbledon points in the win, feels that the TENNIS, from every team member. added eight rebounds. She summer league has been rounds. Noon ESPN . Well, almost nothing. thought her team was too care extremely helpful in improving Coralville Hy-Vee's second-hal f less with the basketball during CVS Charity Classic, her game. The Saginaw, Mich., GOLF, comeback victory over Westport the second half. native feels very fortunate that first round. 2:00 p.m. ESPN2. Thuchless Autowash, 96-77, in "We, had way too many league director Randy Larson Sunday's Game Time League turnovers," she said. COllEGE BASEBAll, started the women's league action was even better, and it Westport went into halftime three years ngo, and said the left team members similar to World Series Championship with a 44-37 lead, but Hy-Vee greatest way to improve is sim their sponsor's aisles: all smiles. came out blazing and quickly game 3. Calor Stanford vs. ply playing against Hawkeye After trailing for almost the took control. The team's defen Rice 6 p.m. ESPN ' teammates and opponents. entire first half, Hy-Vee made sive pressure and high-percent stunning improvements to take age shooting brought it back "I think my low post moves," BASEBAll, Oakland control of the game in the second into the game and eventually McCann said, speaking about Athletics at Texas Rangers. 6 half and go on to beat Westport. gave it the victory. On offense, the aspect of her game that she p.m. ESPN2. UNI star Amy Swisher led Hy Hy-Vee worked the ball around, has focused on improving dur Vee with 24 points, which waited for an open shot, and ing the summer league. "[I've included a 4-6 performance from took advantage of those oppor been working on] not dribbling behind the 3-point arc. tunities. It captured a 63-64 in the post, putting it up right "I think in the first half a lot of lead in the first five minutes of away and not hesitating." lim Langdo n! The Dally low~~ 93J&C READ. THEN RECYCLE our shots didn't fall ," said VI the second half and never lost it. E'MAIL 01 REPORTER JASON BRUMIIOIO Ar. Krlstl Faulkn.r 0' Bob's Your Unci. Call drives b.tween Natalie RI_ ------senior forward Becca McCann. U1 sophomore Johanna JASON-BAUMMONoGUIOW~.EDU and Kara Opp of HawkNesIOnllnl .com . l 75 !Ie f.