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(Iowa City, Iowa), 2013-04-18 wavE of cHAos One locaL art teacher in the iOwa city schOOL district is engaging students — and winning awards — with the ‘magic’ Of st Op-animatiOn. 80 hOurs THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 THurSday, aprIL 18, 2013 NEWSPAPER •DAILYIOWAN.COM • TELEVISION 50¢ Locals back cigarette tax Lab adds new screening The Iowa Hygienic Lab marks 50 years of newborn screenings as they work to add a test for another syndrome. By staCey MuRRay [email protected] This year marks the 50th anniver- sary of newborn screenings for genetic disorders, and the State Hygienic Lab continues to trek forward with a new screening set to launch next month, potentially saving lives from a new disorder. “As time goes on, [SCID] will be ap- parent and can be devastating,” said Mike Ramirez, a clinical lab supervi- sor at the Hygienic Lab. “The worst case scenario is the child could die, and that’s why the screening is so valu- able.” The program is in the midst of add- ing another condition to its screenings. Officials estimate SCID, or severe com- bined immunodeficiency, affects rough- ralph allen smokes a cigarette in tobacco Bowl on wednesday. president Obama’s proposed budget includes a 94-cent increase in the federal cigarette tax. (the ly one in 60,000 children nationwide. daily iowan/Joshua housing) This number is only an estimate be- cause of the complexity of the disease. A proposed cigarette tax would increase the federal tax by 94 cents to help finance preschool plans. SCID is a deficiency syndrome where babies are born without T-cells — the basis of the immune system. If caught By BRent gRiffiths affect young smokers the most by either cigarette tax to $1.95 per pack. Thomas early, bone-marrow or stem-cell trans- [email protected] deterring them from starting or making Connolly, the owner of the Tobacco Bowl, plants can cure the deficiency. If the di- the price difficult enough to curb the 111 S. Dubuque St., said the increase agnosis lags, children are susceptible Some Iowa City smokers welcome a amount young smokers can buy. would be a “pretty stiff hike,” pushing to infections they are unable to fight proposed increase in the federal tax on “[The effect] is particularly true among some of his customers over their spend- off. These infections can lead to death. cigarettes provided the money goes to its the young if you can increase the cost — ing limits. The screening test is under develop- current proposed destination. it has a chilliness effect on people from “Usually, I lose about 5 percent in sales ment and the lab expects to launch it President Obama proposed a 94-cent the start,” said Christopher Atchison, the for every $1 taxes increase,” he said. within four to six weeks. increase in the federal cigarette tax as a director of the University of Iowa Hy- Connolly said he usually sees an in- But the program hasn’t been an easy part of his budget last week to help fi- gienic Lab. crease in alternative forms of tobacco development. nance the “Preschool for All” initiative Atchison, who was also director of the depending on what the tax targets. This “As with anything in the biological — a partnership with states to provide Department of Public Health from 1991- could include anything from electric ciga- research, implementing a new screen- preschool to 4-year-olds from low- and 1999, said he would generally prefer to rettes to cigars and chewing tobacco. ing test like this is a lot of work,” moderate-income households. see the revenue of such programs used to Mark Bennett, a local smoker and UI Ramirez said. “It requires getting a lot One health-care expert said research help smokers quit smoking. shows the proposed tax increase would The increase would push the federal sEE sMoking, 5A sEE sCReening, 3A Storm socks UI campus, businesses Focusing The University of Iowa experienced its first power on the outage since October. By Cassidy Riley cosmos [email protected] A new University of Iowa The storm that struck the Iowa City area Wednesday caused strife for the natural science course, University of Iowa campus and the city Origins of the Universe, will alike. At approximately 11:10 a.m. Wednes- be offered yearlong. day morning, Hillcrest Marketplace and the H400 wing of the building lost power after a transformer was struck by By Quentin Misiag lightning. [email protected] “This kind of stuff happens in the spring fairly regularly,” said Carrie Kis- Imagine knocking out all seven re- er-Wacker, assistant to the senior direc- quired natural sciences general edu- tor for UI Housing and Dining, said. cation credit hours in one class. Come Kiser-Wacker said there was a UI next year, with the introduction of the electrical distribution team working on ralston creek rushes by new pioneer co-op on wednesday afternoon. flash flooding was reported around Origins of Life in the Universe class at the situation right away. The power to iowa city as heavy rain and thunderstorms persisted throughout the day and evening. (the daily iowan/ the University of Iowa, this will become those parts of the building was restored adam wesley) a reality. by approximately 12:10 p.m. The UI’s Student Success Initia- “Any warmers’ or any coolers’ doors a whole lot.” he said. “[But] I think about another 15 tive-funded class combines faculty, were kept closed, so they maintained Kurt said it was only minutes after minutes after [the power was restored], teaching styles, and knowledge from the temperatures,” said Fred Kurt, the man- the power was restored they were able everything was pretty much OK to go.” Departments of Geoscience, Chemistry, ager of Hillcrest Marketplace. “We did to begin serving students again. The last time a UI building lost pow- Anthropology, Biology and, of course, As- have to throw some food out that was in “It is a major inconvenience when it’s the service wells, but it didn’t amount to during one of the major service times,” sEE flooding, 5A sEE CosMos, 3A insidE WEATHER dAily iowan Tv Classifieds To watch daily iowan Tv: 10B HIGH LOW • scan this code Crossword 6a 59 34 • Go to dailyiowan.com Opinions 4a • Watch UiTv sunday-Thursday Mostly cloudy, windy, 90% chance of Sports 8a rain/T-storms; snow possible at night. night at 9:30 80 Hours 1B 2A | The Daily Iowan • Iowa City, Iowa • Thursday, April 18, 2013 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Final library hopeful visits Volume 144 Issue 177 BreAkiNg NewS STAFF By lAureN CoFFey phone: (319) 335-6063 publisher [email protected] email: [email protected] William Casey 335-5788 Fax: 335-6297 editor-in-Chief Libraries are quickly Emily Busse 335-6030 changing, both dealing CorrectioNS Managing editor with new technology as Call: 335-6030 Sam Lane 335-5855 well as dealing with bud- policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro editors get cuts, and the Universi- accuracy and fairness in the reporting Kristen East 335-6063 ty of Iowa is dealing with of news. If a report is wrong or Jordyn Reiland 335-6063 a new change — finding a misleading, a request for a correction opinions editor head librarian to handle or a clarification may be made. Benjamin Evans 335-5863 all the university’s librar- Sports editors ies. puBliShiNg iNFo Benjamin Ross 335-5848 The final candidate, The Daily Iowan (USPS 143.360) is Arts editor John Culshaw, participat- published by Student Publications Alicia Kramme 335-5851 ed in a forum Wednesday Inc., E131 Adler Journalism Building, Copy Chief afternoon at the Bijou. Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004, daily Beau Elliot 335-6063 The search committee has except Saturdays, Sundays, legal and photo editors evaluated the four can- university holidays, and university Rachel Jessen 335-5852 didates over the past two vacations. Periodicals postage paid Adam Wesley 335-5852 weeks, and the earliest a at the Iowa City Post Office under the Design editor decision will be made is in Act of Congress of March 2, 1879. Haley Nelson 335-6063 the coming two weeks. TV News Director The candidate chosen University Librarian candidate John Culshaw talks to his audience in the Bijou Cinema on Wednesday. Culshaw is SubscripTioNS Allie Wright 335-6063 will replace Nancy Baker, the final candidate for University Librarian. (The Daily Iowan/Nicholas Fanelli) Call: Juli Krause at 335-5783 web editor the current University Li- email: [email protected] Tony Phan 335-5829 brarian. 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