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A TOUGH ROAD AHEAD. Va ndana PAGES 6 AND 7. Shiva THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015 THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ How life imitates wrestling Legendary Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable spoke about his new book at the Englert Theater on Wednesday night. By CODY GOODWIN [email protected] Wrestling is not easy, but neither is life, Dan Gable said. This is one of the many lessons he hopes read- ers take away from his new book, A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Sto- ries of Dan Gable. “This book, to me — it says a wrestling life, but it’s more than wrestling,” he said. “It’s about total life UI senior Quentin Hill sits at his desk wearing a yarmulke on Tuesday. A recent survey of college campuses found a surprising increase in the amount of anti-Semitism. and how you have to (The Daily Iowan/Sergio Flores) work through strug- gles, and that’s kind of like a wrestling match. It’s not easy.” Gable spoke in front of a small crowd Gable inside the Englert former coach ANTI-SEMITISM Theater on Wednes- day night, during which former Io- wa kicker Nate Kaeding hosted “An Evening with Dan Gable.” “Really, it’s a neat book. This is Dan’s first foray into literature,” Kaeding said. “To me, this is sort of ON THE RISE a collision of Iowa City’s two great- est natural resources: Dan Gable and literature.” Study shows anti-Semitism on college campuses Gable first talked about the Experiencing anti-Semitism in college book’s making, and how Scott More than half of Jewish students studying at nationally has reached a surprising high. Schulte — with whom he wrote the higher education institutions nationally have book — first approached him at reported an experience of anti-Semitism in the the 2012 Olympic Wrestling Trials last academic year. By BEN MARKS | [email protected] with the idea of a series of short stories. 54 percent of Jewish students n the past month, vandals painted swastikas on the walls of a Jew- Gable said sure, but didn’t think reported an experience of ish fraternity at the University of California-Berkeley and inside a Schulte would follow through. Not anti-Semitism on campus in the Idorm at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. long after the trials, Schulte called 54% first six months of 2013-2014. A study released this month found 54 percent of Jewish stu- Gable and they talked for about an dents reported having witnessed or been subject to anti-Semi- hour and a half. tism on their campus in the past six months, a number which “And in a matter of a week, five researchers said was surprising. typed-out stories came back to However, in Iowa City, one leader in the Jewish community me,” Gable said. “I was like, wow. I said there has only been a handful of such instances like those went through the stories, and they seen in California and D.C. — and most of these incidences are weren’t bad. But I had to change comments, as opposed to acts of vandalism. them all into my words. “In many cases, these are people who have never known Jew- “When I’m talking, and when ish people before,” said Gerald Sorokin, the executive director he’s talking, there’s two different 29% 10% of the Hillel House. “They may be well-meaning, but they don’t people. Even though he heard me Twenty-nine percent of students Ten percent of students said it have a good sense of what they’re saying.” on the microphone, it really wasn’t said the source was a single student. occurred in a college club or society. Sorokin, who has been executive director of the Hillel House for 17 what I wanted. I wanted it in my SOURCE: THE NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AMERICAN JEWISH COLLEGE STUDENTS years, said he has seen only a “handful” of examples of students receiv- voice. I wanted people to really Kristen East/The Daily Iowan SEE JEWISH, 3A SEE GABLE, 3A EpiPen bill passes Senate committee A Senate committee approved a bill As symptoms of an anaphylactic, or allergic, re- action progressed, the nurse got permission from a on Wednesday allowing the storage parent to administer the medication to the student, and use of EpiPens in Iowa schools. while an ambulance was on the way. “It happens very quickly; [the person] can die By ALEKSANDRA VUJICIC within a very short period of time, and if you admin- [email protected] ister the epinephrine, usually, they have relief with- in five to 10 minutes,” said Wheeler, who also serves When Laura Wheeler, a Cedar Rapids elementa- on the Iowa School Nurse Organization board and ry-school nurse, addressed a Senate subcommittee is a trained epinephrine resource school nurse for earlier this week, she told lawmakers of a true story Iowa from the National Association of School Nurs- that occurred in an Iowa school. es. The story was about a student who wasn’t aware And this is what can happen in rural communi- of having any allergies. The student came to the ties. nurse’s office after lunch with complaints of trouble A bill that would allow school nurses to keep breathing and weird changes in her hand color. The stock of and administer epinephrine auto-injectors, nurse had an epinephrine auto-injector on hand but commonly known as EpiPens, to students who ex- was legally not allowed to use it on the student. perience severe allergic reactions, was unanimous- SEE EPIPENS, 3A Photo illustration by Alyssa Hitchcock WEATHER DAILY IOWAN TV ON THE WEB INDEX HIGH LOW CLASSIFIED 9A 14 3 • SCAN THIS CODE CHECK DAILYIOWAN.COM FOR HOURLY DAILY BREAK 6B UPDATES AND ONLINE EXCLUSIVES. 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For motorists who drive It took top Iowa lawmak- roughly 15,000 miles a year ers and Gov. Terry Branstad in a car that gets 25 miles fewer than two months to per gallon, the new tax rate wield enough political force will cost them an addition- to pass the state’s first tax al $60 annually. hike on gasoline and diesel Sen. Tod Bowman, fuels in nearly 30 years. D-Maquoketa, one of the But despite its official more vocal proponents of start on March 1, the divi- the new 10-cent-per-gallon sive issue aimed at pump- gas-tax hike, said it was the ing more revenue into the report that helped motivate state’s infrastructure is him to whip up support for again raising new ques- the bill passage. The Burlington Bridge sits in its usual spot on Tuesday. A report by the Iowa Section tions on the heels of a new Bowman was a part of of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently found 1 in 5 bridges in Iowa are national report.