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BANK ON IT Brad Banks hopes his football skills camp becomes an annual event after holding the inaugural edition July 10 in Iowa City. SPORTS, 10 MONDAY, JULY 12, 2010 UI to appeal FEMA denial UI officials believe the university has a strong case for building a new art museum. By COLLEEN KENNEDY [email protected] The University of Iowa plans to appeal the Federal Emergency Management ROB JOHNSON/THE DAILY IOWAN Agency’s denial of funding Volunteers remove lumber to reuse in a walkway over a waterway on Sunday in Hickory Hill Park. A flash flood last month caused severe erosion in the park. to build a new Museum of Art at a new location. FEMA determined that the building is repairable, meaning damage from the True Hickory Hill gets helping hand 2008 flood did not exceed senior VP 50 percent of the cost to Sunday’s event was the first of several cleanups planned into the fall. replace the facility to its pre-flood conditions. UI Museum By KRISTIN CALLAHAN damage caused by last month’s DAILYIOWAN.COM Hickory Hill Park This causes the UI to [email protected] flash flood. of Art Check out a video clip of Volunteers work with the be ineligible for fund- Sunday’s trail maintenance volunteers cleaning up Flood replacement As a group of around 20 peo- Friends of Hickory Hills group ing for a new museum was just the beginning of a Hickory Hill Park. locations: ple trucked through Hickory to repair flood damage: to be built elsewhere, series of cleanup events in the according to the UI’s • IMU Hill Park on Sunday with • Coordinated cleanups in park planned throughout the FEMA appeal. • Figge Art Museum, wheelbarrows full of gravel, weather-related problems. response to last month’s flash summer and into the fall. But university offi- Davenport volunteers John and Sheri The Friends of Hickory Hill flooding The 185-acre Hickory Hill cials said they will • Studio Arts Building Gallo followed in their path, Park worked to counteract the • $40,000 to go to park park has existed for around appeal the decision, • Levitt Center stomping down any uneven damage brought on by heavy maintenance half a century, with many pro- arguing the building Source: UI Museum of mounds left behind. rains. Together, volunteers • Crushed limestone and water Art website cannot return to nor- “It is a great park,” Sheri posals calling for its develop- filled in large spots of erosion bars added to make the trail mal conditions because Gallo reflected, soaked from ment, including adding a park- with crushed limestone to safer the museum’s insurer, Lloyds of London, the downpour and taking a ing lot, ski slope, or a camp- make the trail safer to walk on • Environmental Science class said it will not provide coverage if the art- rest from the work. ground, according to the web- and then added water bars, helps out The Friends of Hickory Hill site. Instead, the area has which are designed to direct work returns to the previous, high-risk Park, dedicated to keeping the remained simple and natural. water off the trail to prevent Source: Christopher Voci, chairman of the location. popular park in good condition, This simplicity, though future erosion. Friends of Hickory Hill Park board “We cannot return the collection there worked with volunteers on appreciated by Iowa City resi- and have insurance for it, which is a key Sunday afternoon to clean up dents, has often resulted in SEE HICKORY, 3 SEE MUSEUM, 3 Grant to help Mason hits UI alumni circuit Mason traveled to five cities around the nation during two weeks in June. By JOSH MESSER San Francisco, Washing- far this year. Attendance Fund, which is funded by center map [email protected] ton, D.C., Burlington, Vt., at the events ranges taxpayers. Instead, the and Indianapolis. University of Iowa Pres- between 75 to 250 people, cost was covered by money “Most of the month of depending on the location. ident Sally Mason had June, I was traveling,” she from the UI Foundation, trouble staying in one told The Daily Iowan last None of the money for Alumni Association, and floodplains place in June, jetsetting week. “[It was] back and any of the trips came from from coast to coast for a forth all month.” the General Education SEE MASON, 3 The center will focus on approximate handful of alumni events. UI Foun- From June 13 to 29, dation floodplain maps covering smaller Mason traveled to five President communities. cities around the nation on Lynette university business, pri- Marshall, By TYLER HARRIS University of Iowa’s Iowa marily to meet with alum- who fre- [email protected] Flood Center ni, supporters, and donors quently The center, created after at four banquet-style Iowa residents will be travels Marshall the flooding in 2008, events, spokesman Tom with Mason able to bet- received $10 million in foundation ter deter- Moore said. to alumni Community Development “These visits play a key and donor president mine if and Block Grant money to fund how often role in providing addition- events, said the Iowa Floodplain Map- al support to the universi- these trips occur 10 to 12 they are ping Project. likely to ty,” he said. “She really times each year around Researchers will use the helps connect supporters the nation. experience a funding to create floodplain flood thanks Krajewski to the university and helps Mason typically attends maps of the 85 Iowa coun- five to 10 of these support- to a grant flood center them understand the lat- ties declared federal disas- est developments here.” er-outreach events annual- recently director ter areas during the 2008 given to the The locations Mason ly, Moore said, and she has SEE CENTER, 3 traveled to were Seattle, attended eight events so DAILY IOWAN TV INDEX WEATHER DAILYIOWAN.COM To watch Daily Iowan TV’s news updates go online at Arts 5 Opinions 4 Check out footage from this weekend’s youth football camp and watch a video dailyiowan.com or tune into UITV. The 5-minute summer Classifieds 8 Spotlight 2 81 63 feature of residents’ reactions to putting pianos downtown. update is on Sunday through Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 Crossword 6 Sports 10 27C 17C p.m., with reruns at midnight and 8 a.m. the following day. 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Monday, July 12, 2010 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan Volume 142 Issue 25 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Need a poem? Call the Dr. Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey . 335-5788 Editor: Fax: 335-6297 Brian Stewart . 335-6030 Dave Morice, otherwise known as Dr. Alphabet, will perform the impos- CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: sible in a City of Literature display at the UI Main Library. Call: 335-6030 Clara Hogan . 335-5855 Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editor: Nora Heaton . 335-6063 accuracy and fairness in the report- By EMILY WOODBURY old said. “But they should Opinions Editor: [email protected] sit back, relax, and enjoy ing of news. If a report is wrong or Mitchell Schmidt . 335-5863 the impossible.” misleading, a request for a correc- Sports Editor: tion or a clarification may be made. A typical poet might be Morice started doing Jordan Garretson . 335-5848 found in a coffee shop writ- PUBLISHING INFO Arts Editor: poetry marathons in Iowa Eric Andersen . 335-5851 ing in a notebook, but not if City during the 1970s as The Daily Iowan (USPS 143.360) is that poet is Dave Morice. published by Student Publications Copy Chief: part of the Actualist Poetry Inc., E131 Adler Journalism Building, Beau Elliot. 335-6063 While he may frequent Movement, of which he was Photo Editor: some of Iowa City’s coffee- Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004, daily a founder. Members gath- except Saturdays, Sundays, legal and Brenna Norman . 335-5852 houses, he is not limited to Web Editor: ered for poetry readings university holidays, and university pen and paper. He express- Tony Phan. 335-5829 and marathons. vacations. Periodicals postage paid Business Manager: es his art in many forms, His fondest memory of a at the Iowa City Post Office under the whether in a comic strip, a Debra Plath. 335-5786 poetry marathon was at a Act of Congress of March 2, 1879. Classified Ads Manager: coin with a symmetric sym- 1977 Lone Tree High foot- SUBSCRIPTIONS Juli Krause. 335-5784 bol including all the letters ball game, in which he Call: Juli Krause at 335-5783 Circulation Manager: in the alphabet, a 12-foot- wrote a poem on a strip of E-mail: [email protected] Juli Krause. 335-5783 Advertising Manger: tall top hat, or a strip of paper stretching between Subscription rates: poetry encasing an entire Renee Manders. 335-5193 each goal post. The cheer- EMILY WOODBURY/THE DAILY IOWAN Iowa City and Coralville: $20 for one Advertising Sales Staff: city block. leaders chanted poetry Dave Morice writes poetry on July 9. Morice will participate in a poet- semester, $40 for two semesters, $10 Bev Mrstik. .335-5792 “So many people are cheers while the football ry marathon in which he will try to write 10,000 pages of poetry in for summer se ssion, $50 for full year. Cathy Witt . .335-5794 born with visual talent or players held up the poem 100 days to celebrate Iowa City being a UNESCO City of Literature. Out of town: $40 for one semester, Day Production Manager: as writers, but Dave has for spectators in the stands.