Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 2014-03-12
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INDY BOUND. PAGES 4B, 5B THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WILL VOTE ON A BILL TODAY REGARDING HIV CRIMINALIZATION LAWS. 6A WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2014 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ New virus threatens pigs Sexual assault reported A sexual assault was reported Tuesday, marking the ninth of the University of Iowa’s academic year. UI staff received a report form a student that she was sexually as saulted on March 2 by an acquain tance in a campus residence hall. This marks the seventh report on campus and the third in a residence hall. One attempted sexual assault was reported this fall just before classes began. The university released the infor mation to students in its first revised trigger warning. The alternations on the new language in the timely no tices followed protests from UI stu dents and suggestions from a listen ing post held by UI President Sally Mason. The new warning included a link to a message from the dean of stu dents regarding consent as opposed to the list of general policies for stu dents. It did not include whether the student intended to report the assault to law enforcement. Additionally, the university re A piglet interacts with her mother on Victor Strabala’s hog farm near Oxford, Iowa, on Tuesday. In June, Strabala’s hog farm was hit by the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert) moved the risk factors and circum stances associated with sexual as By DANIEL SEIDL The virus causes diarrhea and vomit GO TO DAILYIOWAN.COM sault. [email protected] ing in the infected pigs and has an ex TO VIEW A PHOTO SLIDE SHOW OF A — by Stacey Murray tremely high mortality rate, especially Iowa farmers may not be bringing in young pigs. LOCAL PIG FARM home as much bacon this year. “Nobody really knows how many pig A virus, porcine epidemic diarrhea vi lets have been killed by this,” Birken rus, spreading across America’s pig pop holz said. “This virus … pretty much Strabala said his farm usually has ulation has infected swine nationwide [has a] 100 percent mortality rate for around 2,500 pigs per year, so this loss since it first showed up in the United piglets.” represented about 20 percent of his States last year. This mortality rate can be especially herd. Physicians “This is [a virus] that’s very dead devastating for smaller farms. One of the main effects the virus may ly and very serious right now, and will Victor Strabala, a pig farm owner have on the pork-producing industry is have an effect on the industry,” said near Oxford, Iowa, said his herd became raising the price of pigs, and Strabala Ronald Birkenholz, the communication infected in June 2013. said he has been seeing this. adopt new director of the Iowa Pork Producers As “Everything under 1 week old, you “Hog prices right now are the highest sociation. “We just don’t know the ex pretty much lose,” he said. “I probably tent of the impact at this point.” lost 500 pigs.” SEE PIGS, 3A procedure By ABIGAIL MEIER [email protected] Specialists from different depart UI, Iraqi school collaborate ments in the University of Iowa Hos pitals and Clinics have collaborated to By MEGAN DEPPE provide an incision-free treatment for [email protected] patients suffering from achalasia, a dis order of the esophagus tube. As U.S. and Iraq relations remain Achalasia occurs when a mus complicated, University of Iowa officials cle where the esophagus and stom are hoping to encourage better relations ach come together — the esophageal with one university within the region. sphincter — does not relax as it should “Iraq is something we see on the news, during swallowing. and it’s almost always in relation to vi “When the bottom part of the esoph olence,” said Ashley Davidson, the Book agus doesn’t relax that muscle, it builds Wings coordinator. “We don’t always a lot of pressure in the esophagus think of people having their own daily and takes a lot of muscle to push food lives.” through the stomach,” Iannettoni said. The UI International Writing Pro “It’s like getting a really bad muscle gram and University of Baghdad collab cramp that keeps constantly squeezing orated over the past year to create six that doesn’t work.” short plays, five of which were screened He said patients with achalasia ex on Tuesday. perience heartburn and chest pain reg This project was part of the initiative ularly when eating and for some, have called Book Wings, which was started in unintentional weight loss. 2012. UIHC cardiothoracic surgeon Mark IWP Director Christopher Merrill Iannettoni said the institution is the said the program was originally created first and only center to adopt POEM, or to reset relationships between Russia Actors perform “Train of Death” for spectators and viewers via livestream in the Theater Building on Tuesday. This is the third year a per-oral endoscopic myotomy, in the the University of Iowa has put on Book Wings, which in the past has worked with schools in Russia and China. 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He said many Bev Mrstik 335-5792 Production Manager 335-5789 much of it,” Bartels said. er. We would be hitting our counties cannot use bonds Cathy Witt 335-5794 Heidi Owen Officials remain con- “If you include non-critical critical shortfall, but that and are unable to repair de cerned about Johnson Coun- roads, which I like to think means the entire burden ficient structures. ty’s infrastructure funding. of as being fairly crucial to of that is going on property “I understand you’re At the Board of Supervi- people who live here, work taxpayers as opposed to us- painting a kind of a doom sors informal meeting Tues- here, or go to school here, ers [of roads].” and gloom scenario, and day evening, officials from that would be about $1.6 bil- The county also receives it’s very real,” Sullivan said. the Johnson County Sec- lion for the state of Iowa …” $450,000 from the federal “But it also might be worth ondary Roads Department The county’s portion of government, but that could mentioning … we’re actu presented a five-year plan the $1.6 billion shortfall is disappear later this year ally way ahead a lot of the for road construction and $16 million a year for all if Congress does not pro- more rural counties.” maintenance. roads. However, for severe- vide an additional influx Bartels said the depart- The plan looked at cur- ly deficient road structures, of funds. Several future ment has been encouraging rent revenue productions, as highways, and farm-to-mar- projects depend on federal the state to shift the burden well as road and bridge proj- ket roads, the county only money.