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TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010 Hospital receives $1 million Dance Marathon’s donation supports renovations to promote collaborative cancer research. By EMILY BUSSE [email protected] The University of Iowa Dance Marathon is pledging a $1 million donation to help the UI Children’s Hospital revamp outdat- ed cancer-research facilities, UI Founda- tion officials will announce today. The gift is the student group’s largest sin- gle contribution to date and marks a shift in focus for the pediatric cancer advocates. While Dance Marathon has historically pro- vided pediatric cancer patients and their par- ents emotional support and day-to-day com- forts, including toys, meals, and activities, the RACHEL JESSEN/THE DAILY IOWAN decision to pay for a research Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research-Hydroscience & Engineering engineer Andy Craig (right) stands in the laboratory on Monday. The institute has been facility was just as important, working on figuring out how to successfully pass juvenile salmon through the Priest Rapids and Wanapum hydroelectric dams. said UI senior Kyle Walters, a member of the group’s alloca- tions committee. “It’s not just looking at Research aids Northwest salmon the bricks and mortar so much, it’s the potential and possibilities that could come Henderson Since 1983, the fish-passage research program has earned more than $40 million. from it,” said Walters, who was recently named the assistant dean By GRACE SAVIDES The UI has been on the forefront of DAILYIOWAN.COM executive director of Dance [email protected] fish-passage technology for the last three Watch a multimedia slide show from inside Marathon. “It’s a move in a new direction.” The $1 million donation — supplement- decades. The hydroscience and engineer- the research facility. Three scale models of hydroelectric ed by $400,000 from the Carver College of ing department recently renewed its con- Medicine — will go toward what campus dams designed by University of Iowa tract with Public Utility District No. 2 of researchers are good news medical officials say is a necessary reno- Grant County, Wash., which will provide Though the building where Weber and vation to the pediatric hematology and for salmon — and those $15 million to continue research into his colleagues work resembles a ware- oncology research facilities in the UI Med- who enjoy eating them. improvements to hydroelectric dams in house from the outside, the interior looks ical Laboratories. A team of researchers the Pacific Northwest. more like a cross between an aquarium In one hallway of that building Monday, from the Iowa Institute of In the Coralville-based James Street and a waterpark — full of rushing water decades-old rooms sat vacant. Old petri dish- Hydraulic Research- Laboratory on Monday morning, Larry and complex machinery. es, broken computers, lab coats, and dead Hydroscience & Engineer- Weber, director of the UI’s hydroscience Scientists originally thought salmon bugs lay collecting dust in the labs, which ing are trying to solve prob- have been untouched for several months. Weber labs, noted the UI and the Washington could swim through the dams’ turbines, lems posed by hydroelectric public-works company have been collabo- but later discovered those mechanisms Jim Henderson, an assistant dean of director the medical school, pointed out a dams to salmon. The dams rating since 1983. could leave fish disoriented, easy targets makeshift countertop made from a wood- can hinder the fish when “Because of our long history, we creat- for predators, Weber said. they try to travel upstream to mate and lay ed a lot of specialized knowledge no one en board, propped up on bricks that were eggs where they were born. else had,” he said. SEE SALMON, 3 “most likely from a lumber yard.” SEE DONATION, 3 LAST CALL Local forum addresses teen sexting City eyes Around 4 percent of teens have sent a sexual text message, one study says. By GRACE SAVIDES A Pew Research Study pub- exemptions [email protected] lished in December 2009 found 4 percent of cell-owning teens Kim Lamon-Loperfido wants aged 12 to 17 said they have to see local parents talk to their sent sexually suggestive, nearly from 21-only kids about sexting, or sexual nude, or nude images or videos text messaging. of themselves. Around 15 per- Bar owners may look into “I think a lot of parents or cent said they have received teens don’t know the potential such images of someone they dividing space to include harm that comes legally or know via text message. emotionally,” said Lamon-Lop- Though some schools in the underage patrons. erfido, a teen-health educator Iowa City School District have By HOLLY HINES for the United Action for Youth. sent home literature to educate [email protected] So Lamon-Loperfido and parents on the issue, the dis- other officials at the teen center, trict doesn’t have any policies Iowa City city councilors are examining along with Planned Parenthood, that specifically address sex- ways they could work with bars to desig- brought parents and young ting. Instead, sexting is covered nate underage areas in the establishments teens together in a forum on the under policies that address after the 21-ordinance takes effect in June. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY RACHEL JESSEN/THE DAILY IOWAN issue Monday night. At Monday night’s work session, coun- harassment and bullying. According to a 2009 survey, 39 percent of American teens admitted to The forum, called “Youth School Board member Toni cilors agreed to send a letter to local bar sending or posting sexually suggestive messages. Action Sexting, Technology, OH Cilek said the board has no owners asking if they are interested in the MY Talking With Teens in Tough plans to address the issue. idea and to see what the changes might Times,” was held as part of ado- Some school officials have had Principal Gregg Shoultz said it yet caught up to the advances of entail for individual bars. lescent pregnancy-prevention to deal with the problem, though. was treated as a sexual-harass- technology,he said. Councilors suggested dividing bars into month and covered such topics In one incident at Northwest ment situation and was resolved “I think there needs to be a drinking and nondrinking areas using as cyber-bullying, online safety, Junior High, 1507 Eighth St., lot more sophistication,” he walls or separate floors in the establish- through counseling rather than harassment, and etiquette. Coralville, sexually explicit pic- said. “We need to teach kids ments. But councilors also said they need- Nationwide, sexting has tures were distributed among punishment. He believes the fed- responsible behavior.” ed the input from bar owners first. become more prevalent as cell- students, though not during eral and state laws defining sex- phone use rises. school hours. ting as only pornography has not SEE SEXTING, 3 SEE EXEMPTIONS, 3 DAILY IOWAN TV INDEX WEATHER IN SPORTS To watch Daily Iowan TV, go online at dailyiowan.com or tune Arts 5 Opinions 4 This year’s Hawkeye football team pumped out six NFL draftees. What can we — into UITV. The 15-minute newscast is on Sunday through Classifieds 10 Spotlight 7 64 37 and the football program — expect to see in 2011? Turn to page 12. 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