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page 11 page 10 page 5 page 12 page 14 The University of Iowa EDITOR Linzee Kull McCray Readers who wish to change University Relations Publications DESIGNER Kimberly Cooke their mailing address for 300 PCO, Suite 370 PHOTO EDITOR Tim Schoon Spectator may call Alumni Iowa City, IA 52242-2500 Records at 319-335-3297 Spectator www.uiowa.edu/Spectator Published by The University of or 800-469-2586, or e-mail Spectator Volume 42 • Number 1 • Fall 2008 Iowa for alumni and friends. [email protected]. University Relations Publications The University’s beloved waterway 300 PCO, Suite 370 Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2500 A River Ran Through It turned from friend to foe ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED or several weeks in June 2008, are evident across campus. It was one of the most catastrophic next five days, endangering nearly every campus life revolved around the All fall classes proceed as sched- events experienced on campus, with the building along its banks. On June 13, F rising Iowa River on the University uled. Although the auditorium remains Iowa River cresting three feet above levels University officials made the unprec- of Iowa campus. closed, Hancher is presenting 17 perfor- reached during record flooding in 1993. edented decision to suspend normal As the waters swelled, students and mances around Iowa City this academic Above-average rainfalls led to rapidly campus activities for a week to focus on faculty, neighbors and alumni, staff and year. Students occupy the previously rising river levels in late May and early flood preparation. strangers came together to build sandbag flooded Mayflower Residence Hall. And June, putting University officials on alert. By the time the Iowa River crested on walls around buildings; pass documents scholarly activities, cultural events, and Guided by a Flood Emergency Response June 15, every at-risk campus area had to higher ground at the Main Library; and creative work continue. Plan and lessons learned during the 1993 been fortified—thanks to the tremendous rescue artwork, costumes, musical instru- “We are a stronger, more vibrant flood, University teams worked fast to volunteer effort. The UI Museum of Art ments, and more on the arts campus. University and University community adjust to changing circumstances. collection, including Jackson Pollock’s It was an extraordinary effort to today thanks to the thousands of people Sandbagging operations intensified as 8-by-20 foot Mural, was removed. About protect the cultural treasures, history, who have sacrificed and contributed so the situation grew more dire, and faculty, 10,000 feet of shelf space was cleared at and knowledge at the heart of The much over these past months,” says students, staff, and volunteers made the Main Library. Dozens of pianos and University of Iowa. President Sally Mason. plans to relocate threatened offices, other instruments were rescued from Months later, parts of campus continue All told, the floods forced closure of research, books, and artwork. On June 10, the Voxman Music Building. to recover. Floodwaters punished buildings 20 buildings; relocated scores of depart- the Coralville Reservoir topped the “We’ve all pulled together to meet this and key utilities, scientific research, and ments and offices; soaked athletic fields; emergency spillway for the first time challenge,” said Mason in June. “Mother The Flood of 2008 performance spaces. But signs of progress and washed away untold research. since 1993, and river levels rose for the Nature, I think, has thrown everything she could at us. And we fought back What Happened?—page 1 heroically.” Unprecedented flooding wreaked havoc on the When the floodwaters finally began to UI campus tim schoon by photo recede, they revealed mucky, musty classrooms, labs, offices, and auditoriums. Who Helped?—pages 4–5 In Hancher, water had risen from the Volunteers massed on the banks of the Iowa River to basement, swamping more than a dozen help protect the University rows of seats. In the Music Building, at What’s Next?—pages 6–7 least seven Steinway grand pianos, Reacting and reassessing: the University moves forward fifteen Steinway upright pianos, two IN THIS ISSUE THIS IN harpsichords, several practice-type The Accidental Administrator—page 3 organs, and a Baroque organ sustained Wallace Loh retuns to Iowa as the University’s new provost damage. While challenges remain, cleanup has The Aftermath of Angolan Conflict—pages 8–9 proceeded faster than expected. The Professor finds healing after years of war inspiring, unprecedented efforts of so many people continue today, now focused Dearly Beloved—page 13 on building a stronger, revitalized UI research uncovers hindrances to newlyweds’ University of Iowa. happiness “I thank everyone who has been—and continues to be—part of our remarkable recovery,” says Mason. —Madelaine Jerousek-Smith Mid-June floodwaters surrounded the Art Fireworks launched from the University’s Hubbard Park on July 4 lit the sky above Old Capitol as the flood Building West (lower right), Museum of Art, waters of 2008 began to recede. The event—usually based in flooded City Park—offered a welcome taste and other buildings while breaching levees near the Iowa Memorial Union (top center). of normalcy during a historic summer, and marked the fact that campus and community had, together, Spectator come through the flood with spirits intact. Volume 42 • Number 1 • Fall 2008 photo by tom jorgensen fall 2008 Spectator The UniversiTy of iowa 1 Tippie College of Business Dental College Receives 82 percent of study participants got their Researcher to Investigate For the Record Celebrates 150 Years $1.5 Million for Renovation blood pressure under control, compared Knee Rehabilitations of Business Education Delta Dental of Iowa will contribute to 23 percent of controls. New UI research could lead to more “I’m always by the river and just Business education has been a part of $1.5 million to help renovate the 35-year- “In busy offices, physicians may have effective knee rehabilitation and deter- happen to be capable of helping.” the University of Iowa for 150 years, old Dental Science Building that houses only a small window of time with each mine which older adults with painful or Coming and the Tippie College of Business is the UI College of Dentistry. The $45-mil- patient, and their immediate concerns stiff knee osteoarthritis will be most likely Steve McGuire, professor of art celebrating that sesquicentennial. lion multiyear renovation project will take over,” Carter says. “These are to benefit from particular interventions. education in the College of Liberal “We’ve come a long way since the first transform the building by updating and complicated patients, and a team Neil Segal, assistant professor of Arts and Sciences, on the three Back business class was offered in the History expanding clinical areas, increasing approach improves our ability to adjust orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the incidents in which he has rescued people Department in 1858,” says Curt Hunter, classroom and student space, and their therapy and monitor their progress.” Carver College of Medicine, received a from the Iowa River during the past dean of the Tippie College of Business. upgrading dental research facilities. The five-year, $1.18 million grant from the 15 years (Reader’s Digest, Sept. 2008). college educates more than 80 percent Paul B. Beeson Career Development to Iowa “We’re now the largest and highest- ranked business college in the state, and of the state’s dentists, and its general Awards in Aging Research Program to “When someone dies in Oxford, we’re the largest educator of business and specialty dental care clinics receive Notice Anything Different? help advance treatment of knee osteoar- New provost big funerals are expected, as are leaders in Iowa. Certainly, that’s some- about 125,000 patient visits each year. thritis and to reduce disability in older casseroles.” thing to celebrate.” The Spectator staff hopes that you adults with this condition. Business education at Iowa traces do. Rising postal rates have created returns to a Stephen Bloom, professor of its roots to a history class called Moral Team Approach to Hypertension a challenge for us, and our response journalism in the College of Liberal Philosophy offered in the spring of Working together, physicians and has been to recreate Spectator. Nursing Efforts Improve place of potential Arts and Sciences, on a truism he 1858. The class examined what was pharmacists can more effectively control Thanks to the many wonderful Elder Care in Iowa learned in interviews with the people then known as political economy, which patients’ blood pressure, says Barry readers who responded to last Researchers in the UI College of Nursing of Oxford, Iowa, for the book The included elements of what would become Carter, professor of clinical and hospital spring’s online Spectator survey, are teaming up with staff members at allace Loh first set foot in Iowa more than 40 But first he completed a PhD in psychology at the Oxford Project, coauthored with Peter economics, finance, and commerce. pharmacy at the College of Pharmacy. we learned you enjoy reading about long-term care facilities in eastern and years ago, a college-bound teenager equipped University of Michigan in 1970, then studied ethnic and Feldstein, professor emeritus of Today, more than 14,000 Tippie An expert on hypertension, Carter University events and people. Our northeast Iowa to address two common W with limited English and $200 sewn into his religious conflict at the University of Louvain in Belgium. photography (Washington Post, Oct. 5). alumni are living and working in Iowa, develops models for collaboration new format was designed both issues of older adults in health care facili- jacket lining. Born in China and raised in Peru, he’d come He earned a law degree from Yale in 1974.