Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 2008-07-09
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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 Wednesday, July 9, 2008 INSIDE SAND COUNTRY Flood cost 1-2 punch leads the way Behind the play of Hawkeyes Wendy Ausdemore and up Kamille Wahlin, Hy- Vee/Pelling pulls out UI damages rise an 87-82 win in to a ‘tenuous’ Game Time $231 MILLION, action Ausdemore Tuesday in description North a figure officials Liberty. Sports, 10 say will continue Cycling through to fluctuate China during the In his third weekly commentary since arriving recovery process. in Beijing, DI reporter Nick Compton takes notice of the By Brian Stewart significance of bikes in the THE DAILY IOWAN Far East. Sports, 10 The estimated damage figure for the UI jumped more than Julie Koehn/The Daily Iowan $150 million to $231.75 million A broken tree limb sticks out of the ground in mounds of sand next to the Iowa River in City Park on Tuesday. Where there was once Tuesday after UI risk manage- grass in this area, sand now covers the ground in the wake of the flood. ment professionals and FM Global, the university’s main insurance carrier, compiled new Iowa Ave. bridge closed again figures. Those figures will probably A sinkhole approximately the size of a car stand- continue to rise as recovery ing on end forced local police to close the Iowa efforts progress. Avenue bridge Tuesday. “Everybody had her or his Police said the cavity’s presence just east of the own idea [on how high the fig- bridge indicated soil had washed out underneath the ure will be],” said Doug True, road. the UI senior vice president for The hole, which occupied part of the median in Finance. “Even this is a very the center of Iowa Avenue, was more than 4 feet in preliminary number. I wasn’t Messy library diameter and numerous feet deep. The sound of surprised, but on the other moving water emanated from the sinkhole. hand, I didn’t know exactly reopens Several pedestrians walked down the sidewalk what the estimates would be.” Not quite full-capacity, the UI across the street from the cavity around 11 p.m. University officials had pre- Main Library will open again Tuesday. Streetlights in the immediate vicinity were viously estimated that the today. Library personnel will off. The hole was surrounded by several orange traf- campus had suffered around continue to clean the facility. fic cones on one side and a permanent black chain $75 million in damages, but In total, 500,000 books are fence dangling waist-high on the other. the Federal Emergency Man- still in basement storage. Police tape blocked off the road on Iowa Avenue agement Agency requested the Metro, 2 near the rail bridge, stopping short of the sidewalk. UI compile a more comprehen- The hole was spotted Tuesday afternoon in the sive and detailed estimate by July 3. Coralville council median of Iowa Avenue. Officers then closed Iowa Avenue between Madison Street and Riverside SEE DAMAGES, 3 talks buyouts Drive, Iowa City police Sgt. Vicki Lalla said. Ben Roberts/The Daily Iowan A sinkhole sits in the median of Iowa Avenue near the English-Philosophy The group discusses the Lalla didn’t say when officials expected the bridge Repairs at UI to top $230 option at its Tuesday to be reopened. Building on Tuesday evening. Police have closed Iowa Avenue from meeting, but officials say — by Brian Stewart and Nick Petersen million Madison Street to Riverside Drive. See Metro, 3 for a comprehensive graphic they are unsure what areas that breaks down how much damage could participate. All buyouts individual UI buildings suffered. would be optional. Metro, 3 Guest Opinion Questions surround the Flood won’t stop Fitting the smoking rules Army Corps of Engineers’ flood preparations. Opinions, 4 sloth project UI officials work to implement the dailyiowan.com A team of UI scientists receives a $20,000 state-mandated For photos, videos, audio, blogs, and more, check us out online grant to continue the excavation of three smoking ban. at: dailyiowan.com giant sloths in southwestern Iowa. By Christopher Patton Daily updates THE DAILY IOWAN By Brian Stewart of geoscience. With a ban that will try to Now check back at THE DAILY IOWAN “I’m reason- dailyiowan.com during ably confident extinguish smoking on all UI the day for the latest news Seven years ago, Bob and that the waters grounds, sidewalks, and roads on the UI and Iowa City. Sonia Athen stumbled upon a are not doing a — including in the cars driven historic discovery in the back- whole lot of dam- on them — university officials WEATHER yard of their southwestern Iowa age to the sloth,” hope the campuswide prohibi- Becky Mnuk/The Daily Iowa home in Shenandoah. he said. “It’s dif- tion won’t require coercive While the state has banned smoking on the UI campus (among ficult to erode.” enforcement. other places), the sidewalks that run adjacent to city streets are Since then, a team of scientists Semken from the UI has been working to Flooding isn’t Jonathan Carlson, the owned by the city and are not subject to the ban. A map of which uncover and excavate the skele- always bad news UI professor cochairman of the UI smoking emeritus policy implementation team, sidewalks are covered by the ban and which are not is available tons of a giant Ice Age sloth and to the said he is confident most peo- at www.uiowa.edu/homepage/smoking/. two juveniles researchers said researchers with ple will voluntarily comply Mostly sunny, are unquestionably associated the Tarkio Valley Sloth Project; with the ban, which went into Citing jaywalking and park- turns out not to be the case, turning partly cloudy, with the adult. Semken said the bones from the effect July 1. ing in inappropriate areas as there’s always the possibility light winds. But when floodwaters swept now-extinct mammals were like- ly uncovered by the flooding in “What is being attempted by other ongoing law-enforcement that the UI police will issue © across the state, the site of the 1993. And the news of the 2008 the state law here is a culture issues on campus, he said he some tickets.” skeletal remains was covered by 86 30 C 61 16 C flooding at the site came within change,” he said. “It takes time expected smoking in prohibit- Though new no-smoking © roughly 30 feet of water. days of the news that the group for that kind of change to ed areas to be a similar prob- signs are not yet in place, Carl- INDEX Over the past two years, the had garnered a $20,000 grant become accepted and wide- lem. son said they have been area, which is intersected by a from the National Science Foun- spread — people shouldn’t “After we get the signs up, ordered. The signs will mark Arts 5 Opinions 4 creek, has flooded several times, dation. have an expectation that people will become more aware Classifieds 8 Sports 10 said the project’s leader Holmes henceforward they won’t see a of the new rules and follow Crossword 6 Semken, a UI professor emeritus SEE SLOTH, 3 smoker on a campus.” them,” he said. “But if that SEE SMOKING, 3 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Wednesday, July 9, 2008 News dailyiowan.com for more news Somewhat messy, but open The Daily Iowan Volume 140 Issue 22 BREAKING NEWS STAFF All floors of the Main Library are open, but the second-floor ITC and some Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. .335-5788 Fax: 335-6297 Editor: space is still unavailable. Emileigh Barnes. ... .335-6030 CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: Call: 335-6030 Nick Petersen . .335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editors: accuracy and fairness in the reporting Dean Treftz. 335-6063 of news. 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