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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 PROVOST SEARCH Loh works on plan Retention news and new cluster hires are among Provost Wallace Loh’s upcoming announcements. By SAM LANE [email protected] By the time outgoing University of Iowa Provost Wallace Loh departs — like- ly sometime in early to mid-October — he hopes to gain approval for and begin implementing a new, overarching strate- gic plan. Officials will name an interim ‘Great provost sometime Opportunities, HAORAN WANG/THE DAILY IOWAN next week, and Bold Scott King, the director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, helps incoming graduate students during the Fulbright orientation on Monday. The they’ll recom- Expectations’ UI is one of eight universities in the United States to hold the orientation for Fulbright students. mend members for a provost Topics that will be search committee included in the UI’s by this Friday, strategic plan: past Faculty Sen- • Living-learning ate President communities UI hosts Fulbright orientation David Drake said • New dorm construction at a meeting • Graduate College Tuesday. programs On Tuesday, • Art and music Graduate students travel to the UI from 29 different countries for Fulbright orientation. Loh was on his building reconstruction By CATHRYN SLOANE Fulbright Gateway Orientation Timothy Barker, a UI international student way to Baltimore • Cluster hiring [email protected] at the UI and scholar adviser who coordinated this for his third of five • Internationalization week’s program. The students arrived on trips to the Uni- Source: UI Provost Wallace Loh Bellah Zulu’s life-long dream of studing The five-day event includes: early Monday afternoon; they will be here versity of Mary- in the U.S. led him from his home in Zambia land before he • Student panels until Friday. After Friday, the students will to the University of Iowa campus this week. takes over as the • Cultural workshops travel to their respective U.S. universities. “I’ve been waiting for a very long time for • Leadership sessions school’s president on Nov. 1. He couldn’t this,” said the 28-year-old, who was awarded “Many of these students are going to go on Source: Timothy Barker, international student and scholar adviser say the reason for his trip but said the a Fulbright award to study abroad. to become leaders in their own countries,” time off is included in his UI vacation The Fulbright program, which grants Barker said. “It’s quite an intense time.” time. Maryland pays for Loh’s flights around 1,800 scholarships to students out- entation for Fulbright students. This is the The program will include cultural work- and accommodations. side the United States each year, selected UI’s second year in the program. shops, leadership sessions, and student the University of Iowa as one of eight uni- Forty students from 29 different coun- versities in the nation to host a five-day ori- tries came to the UI for orientation, said SEE FULBRIGHT, 3 SEE LOH, 3 City Council cans GOP hopeful visits Iowa City PAULA ordinance The Libertarian-leaning Republican covered pot legalization and immigration reform. Five bars were denied liquor licenses By ADAM B SULLIVAN Gary Johnson [email protected] under the PAULA-per-police visit ratio. Former New Mexico Gov. His attention split Gary Johnson visited Iowa By MADISON BENNETT Five Iowa City bars were between the sidewalk in City on Tuesday as part of a [email protected] denied renewal of their front of him and the Black- three-day tour of the state. liquor licenses after the Berry in his hand, former • Governor of New Mexico from The Iowa City City ordinance was enacted in New Mexico Gov. Gary 1995 to 2003 Council voted unanimously July 2009. Three of those Johnson was halted by a • Vetoed 750 bills while in office and with no discussion bars appealed successfully young man as he walked • Climbed Mount Everest in Tuesday evening in favor of to the state. down Washington Street 2003 rescinding the PAULA- In July, the Iowa Alco- on Tuesday. Source: www.ouramericainitiative.com ratio ordinance. holic Beverage Division “Mr. Johnson?” the Under the ordinance, determined the per-visit- stranger said as the gover- the city could deny a bar’s ratio was not in compliance nor extended a hand. DAILYIOWAN.COM application for liquor- with state laws. “Thanks so much for com- Watch video of Gary license renewal if police According to the state, a ing to town. I’ll be at your Johnson at ROB JOHNSON/THE DAILY IOWAN www.dailyiowan.com. issued an average of more bar’s liquor license is grant- event tonight.” Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson speaks in Hubbard Park on than one PAULA per visit ed depending on whether It’s not an extremely Tuesday. The presidential hopeful plans on legalizing marijuana as to the bar during a given the bar has demonstrated common occurrence, the Tuesday between stops in well as introducing better documentation for immigrant workers. month. “good moral character,” politican said. Des Moines on Monday Though the ordinance is the rest of the nation ends first primary. which includes such factors “Well … let’s just say I and Davenport on Wednes- no longer in effect, the num- enjoy it when it does [hap- up taking Iowa’s lead and Johnson differs from as citizenship, lawfulness, day. He’s one of the first ber of PAULAs will still be a and financial standing. On pen],” Johnson said, a many mainstream potential 2012 presiden- taking New Hampshire’s Republicans; he supports factor in determining the contrary, the PAULA smile emerging below his lead,” Johnson said. Oakley shades. tial candidates to visit legalization of marijuana, whether councilors renew ordinance allowed dis- Iowa will have the says arming the Mexican bars’ liquor licenses, Mayor missal of a bar’s license Johnson visited the Uni- Iowa City this year. country’s first caucuses Matt Hayek said. Instead, it versity of Iowa campus on “People’s opinions mat- and New Hampshire the won’t be the only factor. SEE PAULA, 3 ter in Iowa simply because SEE CANDIDATES, 3 DAILY IOWAN TV INDEX WEATHER DAILYIOWAN.COM To watch Daily Iowan TV go online at dailyiowan.com or tune Arts 5 Opinions 4 Let us know about your upcoming event. Submit information to the DI’s new into UITV. The 15-minute newscast is on Sunday through Classifieds 10 Spotlight 8 82 70 online event calendar and we’ll publish it there and on the Daily Break page. Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., with reruns at 12:30 and 1:30 Crossword 7 Sports 12 28C 21C To submit a listing, visit dailyiowan.com/pages/calendarsubmit a.m., and 7:45 and 8:45 a.m. the following day. 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Wednesday, September 1, 2010 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Volume 142 Issue 49 Profs mull awards BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey . 335-5788 The funding, which had been cut, allows faculty to conduct research. Editor: Fax: 335-6297 Brian Stewart . 335-6030 By ALISON SULLIVAN for one semester for three Research Awards and Fac- CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: [email protected] Faculty awards years. ulty Scholarships directly Call: 335-6030 Clara Hogan . 335-5855 Several awards are available These and the faculty to the Development Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editor: University of Iowa facul- Regina Zilbermints . 335-6063 to UI faculty: scholarships are awarded Awards, he said. accuracy and fairness in the report- ty members expressed con- to the best researchers He said the Career Opinions Editor: cern about the fate of • Career Development Awards ing of news. If a report is wrong or Shawn Gude. 335-5863 • Global Scholar Awards because they receive three Development Awards are a misleading, a request for a correc- Sports Editor: research scholarship semesters spaced over core element in re-estab- tion or a clarification may be made. awards during Tuesday’s • Faculty Scholar Awards Jordan Garretson . 335-5848 three years to devote solely lishing the university’s PUBLISHING INFO Arts Editor: Source: Associate Provost Tom Rice Faculty Council meeting. to their research, officials research presence. The Daily Iowan (USPS 143.360) is Jennifer Downing . 335-5851 The number of Global said. After the school hit eco- published by Student Publications 80 Hours Editor: Scholar Josie Jones. 335-5851 UI Associate Provost Tom The Career Development nomically hard times, Rice Inc., E131 Adler Journalism Building, Awards and Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004, daily Copy Chief: Rice. Awards provide one semes- said, he views this process Beau Elliot. 335-6063 Career except Saturdays, Sundays, legal and This year, the Provost’s ter of paid leave. as a “major step forward.” Photo Editor: Develop- The amount granted in university holidays, and university David Scrivner . 335-5852 mental Office lifted the cap on the This puts the university vacations. Periodicals postage paid Career Development these awards wasn’t imme- Design Editor: Awards were one step closer to normal at the Iowa City Post Office under the Emma Barden. 335-5848 Awards, but will continue diately available Tuesday Act of Congress of March 2, 1879. cut during night. research levels that the UI Web Editor: the econom- to postpone any applica- saw prior to the financial SUBSCRIPTIONS Tony Phan. 335-5829 tions for the Global Scholar Some faculty disagreed ic downturn, crisis, he said. Call: Juli Krause at 335-5783 Business Manager: Cox Awards and Faculty Schol- with continuing to postpone E-mail: [email protected] Debra Plath.