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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 SPORTS Kids start H1N1 Special Ks According the recent two-deep, trial Iowa place kickers Daniel Murray and Trent Mossbrucker both have a chance to start in Parents were the Hawkeyes’ season opener on Saturday. 1B eager to enroll their children in Great expectations With ample experience on all H1N1 vaccine sides of the pigskin, Iowa coaches and players, are testing at the UI looking to earn another Children’s January bowl bid and improve on last season’s a 9-4 Hospital. campaign. 1B By SAM LANE RACHEL JESSEN/THE DAILY IOWAN [email protected] NEWS Iowa City resident Pete Hundy scans a special-education textbook at University Bookstore in the Old Capitol mall on Monday. It is likely that the bookstore will make eTextbook vouchers available next semester. Scientists at the UI say kids may need two International doses of H1N1 vaccine to students stay healthy. UI officials woo international With the start of clinical undergraduates, but graduate trials in children on Mon- students face financial E-texts roil market day, they began to study barriers. 2A whether this is true. The UI Hospitals and School board Digital textbooks Clinics, which has already A turbulent textbook market could mean tested the vaccine on Meet the candidates for the What you can do with a digital adult patients, enrolled Iowa City School District cheaper books for students in the future. textbook: elections, slated for Sept. 8. 4A 100 children ranging in By DANNY VALENTINE books. That means students • Search for specific words age from 6 months to 17 [email protected] potentially can access free text • Highlight years old for the newest Dirty water that they may customize. • Copy/paste sections into notes A local mobile-home park The way students at the UI and • Keep it on your lap top or phone New players seem to be crop- SEE H1N1, 3A struggles with sewage and across the country buy textbooks ping up every day, said Steven contamination problems. 4A is undergoing a digital transition. Vaccine trials at Bell, an associate university Ziegler thinks digital textbooks At Iowa Book, 8 S. Clinton St., UIHC librarian for research and will take over soon. e-textbook sales have doubled last All in all, the textbook industry Various combinations scien- ARTS & CULTURE instructional services at Temple year’s numbers. While the Uni- is in a great state of turbulence, tists are testing using both University Libraries who blogs Whitney Houston versity Bookstore offers some dig- textbook sellers agree. the seasonal flu and H1N1 about textbook prices. The web- no more ital options, officials said, e-text- “It seems to be one of the vaccines. book sales will likely become site Amazon, for example, recent- The pop diva finally releases I hottest areas in higher educa- • H1N1 on day 1 — H1N1 on day 21 — more prominent next semester. ly unveiled the Kindle, a digital Look to You, her first album in tion,” Bell said. seasonal on day 42 Digital textbook companies’ reading device. The primary reason for the • Seasonal on day 1 — H1N1 on day seven years, but the once- “If it catches on, we’re doomed,” movie star fails hard with this sales have skyrocketed across the changes: high prices for tradition- 21 — H1N1 on day 42 said Iowa Book manager Joe much anticipated release. 6A country — students are frequent- al texts. • Seasonal and H1N1 on day 1— ly renting or buying used books Ziegler. The Iowa City establish- While traditional sales still H1N1 on day 21 OPINIONS online, and some new companies ment would have to sell something • H1N1 on day 1 — seasonal and are providing open-source text- other than textbooks, he said. SEE TEXTBOOKS, 3A H1N1 on day 21 Public or private? Source: Patricia Winokur In light of continued efforts to regulate downtown bars, two DI Opinions writers weigh in on the proper role of a city government in crafting a LICENSE TO SERVE downtown. 7A WEB BONUS Video • A Daily Iowan TV feature on State may back city Dance Marathon • A point/counterpoint discus- sion on the role city officials should play in alcohol policies in license denials • The “Bitch Please” back-and- forth on Entourage’s comeback State authorities consider more than just a PAULA • A special teams focus in the week’s Football Forum and ratio when granting a liquor-license: They’re looking more video with the article FILE PHOTO/THE DAILY IOWAN for “good moral character.” Photo Dance Marathon event director Angie Kipp practices the moral dance • A slide show on the Spotlight in the IMU Ballroom for Dance Marathon 15 on Feb. 6. By NICOLE KARLIS Department of Inspections Second in a five- Iowa City feature on an inter- [email protected] and Appeals, who will part series national student’s sorority hand down a decision The Daily Iowan takes a experience The decision to deny within 40 days. closer look at the issue of MP3s Dance Marathon two Iowa City bars’ “Some cases they win, liquor-license renewals in • Juliette Lewis: “Noche Sin liquor-license renewals they lose,” said Lynn Wald- Iowa City. Fin” and “Fantasy Bar” ultimately falls with the ing, the administrator of • David Bazan: “Bless This state, not the Iowa City the alcohol agency. “Each Monday: Overview — A recap Mess” runners double City Council. case is judged by its own of events leading up to July’s In the past, the Iowa individual merit in the liquor-license denial DAILY IOWAN TV Alcoholic Beverages Divi- proper setting.” Today : Power — A look at The number of people signed up to sion has rarely stripped A judge will be looking the state’s involvement To watch Daily Iowan TV, go bars from being able to to see if these bars possess and reputation with liquor- online at dailyiowan.com or ‘run for the children’ with Dance serve liquor in Iowa City a “good moral character,” licenses tune into UITV. The 15-minute area. But officials say the which is written into state Wednesday: Motives — The newscast is on Sunday through Marathon in the Chicago Marathon City Council’s recent rec- law. The criteria making reasoning behind the Iowa Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 ommendation to deny up this phrase includes City City Council’s new p.m., with reruns at 12:30 and has doubled from last year. renewing two downtown status as an Iowa resident, approach to curbing underage 1:30 a.m. and 7:45 and 8:45 a.m. bars’ liquor-licenses will By EMILY BUSSE nitely days when they feel no convictions of felonies drinking the following day. [email protected] influence the state’s deci- on top of the world because in the past five years, and Thursday: History — Learn things go really well at an sion later this year. having a “good reputation,” For UI senior Sarah about bars that have appointment, and there’s Et Cetera, 118 S. among others. WEATHER Rinehart, completing the previously had their liquor just other days when it’s Dubuque St., and 3rd Base Based on Iowa City’s Chicago Marathon mirrors licenses denied not so great.” Sports Bar, 111 E. College newest guidelines, which the long battle children That’s why Rinehart and St., filed appeals last Friday: Looking forward — 72 48 with cancer face: there are require denial for any other UI Dance Marathon month with the alcohol bars with a ratio of more Hear about who will be next 22C 9C the ups, the downs, and the the Marathon officials are agency after the City to go up in front of the overwhelming relief once than one PAULA per ecstatic that 250 runners Council denied their council and what they are it’s all over. tied to the UI organization police visit, Jim Clayton, Mostly sunny, light breezes “You kind of experience liquor-license renewals on who serves on the Alcohol doing to prepare (thank your favorite are registered for the Oct. July 28. every emotion while doing 11 Chicago Marathon — Beverages Commission, Canadian). it because it is so long. On Oct. 23, the bars will said Et Cetera and 3rd good moral character. more than double last fight to keep the core of … You kind of feel like year’s final tally of 88. Base have shown the The definition of good INDEX their businesses — their you’re on top of the world,” The dozens of runners inability to control under- moral character is “very Arts 5,6A Opinions 7A she said, noting that she liquor licenses — in front age clients in their estab- open to interpretation,” Classifieds 4B Sports 1B knows a family dealing of an administrative law lishments. That, he said, Crossword with cancer. “There’s defi- SEE DANCE MARATHON, 3A judge from the Iowa 6B challenges the concept of SEE LIQUOR, 3A 2A - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday, September 1, 2009 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Int’l grad-student Volume 141 Issue 48 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. 335-5788 Editor: Fax: 335-6297 Kelsey Beltramea. 335-6030 CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: numbers fall in U.S. Call: 335-6030 Kurtis Hiatt . 335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editors: Clara Hogan . 335-6063 accuracy and fairness in the report- Bingxuan Wang, who research and teaching assis- Brian Stewart . 335-6063 International graduate-student ing of news. If a report is wrong or Zhi Xiong. 335-6063 joined the UI toxicology tants, it also affects families.