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NOT ENOUGH KICKS FOR THE TWO OF US Iowa’s starting kicking spot is still up for grabs, and Daniel Murray and Trent Mossbrucker are in the midst of a battle for it. SPORTS, 12 TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010 Parties not so common By ALLIE WRIGHT [email protected] The numbers suggest Iowa City has not become house-party central, but many students say otherwise. In response to House parties concerns about in Iowa City house parties, the Iowa City Police Complaints from Department began this year and last: implementing • 31: Assaults and “Party Patrols” since fights for last week- students returned end of August 2009 to school. These • 6: Assaults and patrols, active fights for last week- Thursday, Friday, end of August 2010 and Saturday • 61: Loud-party nights, will focus calls for last week- specifically on par- end of August 2009 ties in residential • 45: Loud-party calls for last week- neighborhoods. end of August 2010 Iowa City Police CHARLIE ANDERSON/THE DAILY IOWAN Chief Sam Harga- Source: Iowa City Police Pedestrians board an Iowa City bus on Monday. The Iowa City City Council is looking into a plan that would extend bus service to include Sundays. dine said the new Sgt. Denise Brotherton patrol will consist of officers being paid overtime and won’t take away from other patrols. After this past weekend, police Council defers Sunday bus records show calls for service for house parties and disorderly behavior had decreased from 61 citywide loud-party Councilors said they need more information before voting on the issue. calls for the last weekend in August 2009 to 45 calls last weekend, according By MADISON BENNETT Sunday bus service investigation. to a press release issued by the Iowa [email protected] “I’d like to move in a direction where we City police. • Sunday bus routes would travel once per hour from find out whether we’re going to need it or we “There has been no increase in house 6 a.m. to 7:40 p.m. Iowa City residents hoping bus service can’t afford it,” Councilor Regenia Bailey said. parties,” said Iowa City Police Sgt. on Sundays will have to wait a little longer. • Routes included would be Lakeside, Westwinds, The city has felt pressure to implement Denise Brotherton. “We are proactively The City Council decided at its Monday Rochester, North Dodge, Broadway, Manville Heights, Sunday routes since volunteers submitted a night work session to push back the vote on Court Hill, Oakcrest, and Towncrest 900-name petition in April asking for an SEE PARTIES, 3 the busing issue — which was scheduled • Bus rates have not been raised in 15 years for tonight — because of a lack of conclu- • Iowa City Transit system has not changed since 1971 expansion to the transit schedule. The current routes include Monday through Friday routes sive information. Source: City of Iowa City Councilors said they were concerned from 7 a.m. to 10:40 p.m. and limited Saturday they may have to revoke a hastily made routes. Estimated ridership during the week decision to add Sunday routes if the move is 7,800 rides and 1,400 rides on Saturdays. proves to be too costly. The American Public Transportation One crash “[It] would be a very difficult decision for Much of the information the council had Association estimates that ridership would the council to make,” interim City Manager was based on comparing the Iowa City local decrease almost 25 percent on Sundays. Dale Helling said. bus system with national studies. Transit systems in Coralville and Director of Transportation Services City councilors reached the consensus the Dubuque have schedules that resemble Iowa victim Chris O’Brien said adding Sunday routes studies were too inconclusive to move ahead. City, but larger cities have offered expanded would cost taxpayers an additional They asked staff members to compile a $350,000 a year, not including revenue. comprehensive study for further SEE BUSING, 3 released By HAYLEY BRUCE AND SAM LANE [email protected] One of the two University of Iowa sophomores struck by a car on the UI toughens blood-alcohol stance evening of Aug. 27 was released from the hospital on Monday, while the other Students who register a 0.20 or higher blood-alcohol content level with a police student is improving condition. Chris Hunter and Accident report can be evicted from their residence halls. Brittany Lambert, both 19, were cross- breakdown By ARIANA WITT Baker, the UI associate dean of ing Governor Street • Aug. 27: Accident [email protected] students. The changes went at the intersection occurred, and UI soph- into effect Aug. 12. with College Street omores Christopher Changes to the University of The 0.20 blood-alcohol policy around 11:55 p.m. Hunter and Brittany Iowa Code of Student Life has been enforced, though not when they were Lambert were taken have spelled out the possible written, since 1999. struck by a car driv- to UIHC in an ambu- consequences for extreme stu- “This is the policy that’s been en by Iowa City resi- lance with “incapaci- dent blood-alcohol contents: an in place, so it’s best to inform dent Jamie Ellis, 28. tating injuries.” eviction from student housing. the students,” Baker said. Authorities found • Monday: Hunter The policy states students Students in housing are sub- both students uncon- released from the admitted to any Johnson ject to this rule regardless of sious but breathing at hospital in good con- the scene. They were dition; Lambert’s con- County emergency room with age or location, he said. The UI taken by ambulance dition is “improving,” blood-alcohol content of 0.20 or goes over records from the UI higher with a police report to UI Hospitals and according to a friend. police and the Iowa City police Source: UI officials, filed could be kicked out of Clinics. weekly looking for possible Hunter, a native friends/family of the their residence hall. students offenses, he said. of Marion, was It’s not a new policy, but this Iowa City Police Chief Sam CHRISTY AUMER/THE DAILY IOWAN released from the is the first time it’s been Hargadine said the UI obtains Shortly after the bars closed on Nov. 1, 2009, paramedics arrive at the scene hospital Monday afternoon, officials spelled out in the code, which blood-alcohol content of an accident. said. Lambert, of Overland Park, Kan., until this year, hadn’t been updated in decades, said Tom SEE BLOOD ALCOHOL, 3 SEE CRASH, 3 DAILY IOWAN TV INDEX WEATHER DAILYIOWAN.COM To watch Daily Iowan TV go online at dailyiowan.com or tune Arts 5 Opinions 4 Check out dailyiowan.com for web extras, including videos and photo slide shows. into UITV. The 15-minute newscast is on Sunday through Classifieds 10 Spotlight 2 88 70 Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., with reruns at 12:30 and 1:30 Crossword 7 Sports 12 31C 21C a.m., and 7:45 and 8:45 a.m. the following day. 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday, August 31, 2010 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Volume 142 Issue 48 From Miss Iowa to med school STAFF BREAKING NEWS Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey . 335-5788 Anne Langguth followed up attending Harvard with being crowned Miss Iowa. 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