THE INDEPENDENT DAILY N EWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 NEWSPAPER • DAILYIOWAN.COM • TELEVISION 50¢ WHAT’S INSIDE: 2012 OLYMPIC WRESTLING TRIALS METRO Nurses at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are hon- ored for their service. Page 2 See if any of your friends got arrested this weekend. Page 2 Sen. Tom Harkin calls for more collaboration and research among colleges and different levels of government. Page 5 The Habitat for Humanity has partnered with the UI to build a net-zero-energy home. Page 5 OPINIONS Increase instruction time in schools. Page 4 Phil’s Day 2012: Thank you, Phil, for enhancing my educa- tion. Page 4 Tennessee’s science law: aca- demic freedom or monkey business? Page 4 SPORTS No Hawkeyes will wrestle in London this summer following Brent Metcalf’s loss during a finals match. Page 10 Check out photos from the Olympic trials this pat week- end. Page 8 Spenser Mango (left) wrestles Nikko Triggas in a 55-kg Greco-Roman preliminary match at the Olympic wrestling trials in Carver-Hawkeye Arena on April 21. Mango won the final in his weight class to make Team USA for the 2012 Olympics in London. (The Daily Iowan/Adam Wesley) Wrestling becomes human in Iowa City. Page 10 DAILYIOWAN.COM MORE INSIDE Hurdler returns to track after Log on to dailyiowan.com for complete See page 10 for a story on former Hawkeye Brent injury. Page 10 coverage of the trials, including dozens Metcalf, and page 8 for photos from 2012 U.S. Iowa baseball team beats of articles and many more photos. Olympic wrestling trials Penn State, 4-2. Page 10 ON THE WEB TODAY: IC welcomes recycling center UISG TEXT: Read more about how Iowa’s softball, golf, and tennis One Iowa City teams performed over the official said the weekend. East Side officers Recycling Center SLIDE SHOWS: Check out more photos from the Olympic trials project cost Iowa in Iowa City this past weekend. City $3.28 sworn in million. SLIDE SHOW: Iowa track and The UISG executive field dominates at the Musco By CHASTITY DILLARD [email protected] board will be announced Twilight Meet. today or Tuesday. Janel Hanmer said recy- VIDEO: UISG inducts a new cling is important for her chil- Ann McMillan recycles newspapers and magazines on Sunday. The East Side By ANNA THEODOSIS dren’s future. [email protected] Recycling Center held its grand opening Sunday. (The Daily Iowan/Jacklyn president and vice president. The Iowa City resident sat Couppee) on Sunday afternoon with her A free taxi service and I-Clicker rentals sons, Turing Zelsnack, 6, and will be the first initiatives to be completed DAILY IOWAN TV Huxley Zelsnack, 4, at the niture Project, which gives The project began in 2008 under the University of Iowa’s new stu- donated furniture to families but was pushed back follow- dent government leaders. To watch Daily Iowan TV go online new East Side Recycling Cen- in need. ing the flood. The center cost I-Party members Nic at dailyiowan.com. ter, 2401 Scott Blvd., listening to a story about conserving “It sets an example and the city $3.28 million and was Pottebaum and Jessie the Earth’s resources. serves to show the community fully funded by landfill tip- Tobin were sworn in Sun- “I think minimizing the about how we should think ping fees — revenue collected day as president and vice surface’s use is important to about constructing and oper- when people drop off materi- president of the student ating public facilities and al. my kids, because they’ve got government, as were their hopefully private facilities for “So no tax revenue was the rest of their lives and 39 senators. decades to come,” Mayor Matt used,” said Jen Jordan, Iowa Tobin their children’s lives to use Pottebaum said he and Hayek said during the cere- City’s recycling coordinator. Tobin will now split up the vice president what we have,” she said as mony. “It’s all money that has come tasks on their platform. Turing clung to her. Hayek said the facility will across the scale at the landfill “We’ll start micro-tar- Hanmer was one of roughly provide an array of opportuni- and people throwing stuff geting how we’re going to 40 community members who ties for community involve- away.” accomplish the platform,” gathered at the new facility’s ment, including partnerships The new center joins five he said. “The 13 or 14 of unveiling ceremony on Sun- with the school system and other drop-off recyclable facil- May, we’ll hit the ground INDEX day, which was Earth Day. full-service recycling ities in Iowa City, but none running.” City officials collaborated on Classifieds 9 Sports 10 resources. were located close enough to The newly inducted the six-year project with the The recycling center is the cater to the East Side. leaders’ projects include Crossword 6 Iowa Valley Habitat for Pottebaum Opinions 4 first in the state of Iowa to Jordan said showing people the Safe Ride free taxi president Humanity and its ReStore provide such extensive servic- what can be done on a small service, which allows any organization. es to the community, said scale is beneficial. student to request a taxi in WEATHER The facility is complement- Kumi Morris, Iowa City’s “[The center is] fewer than an emergency situation, and a diversity ed by many operations, architecture-services coordi- 2,000 square feet,” she said. campaign aimed at better integrating HIGH LOW including an environmental- nator. “It’s really the size of an aver- incoming freshmen. 63 41 education center, the Iowa “That’s really the goal of the age home, and we have a little “Right now, Elliot [Higgins] and Brit- Valley Habitat for Humanity site, to be an educational facil- tany [Caplin] are in the final stages of Mostly sunny, windy. ReStore, the Friends of His- ity as well as to have landfill toric Preservation Salvage diversion …” she said. Barn, and the ReStore’s Fur- SEE RECYCLING, 3 SEE UISG, 3 2 - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Monday, April 23, 2012 News dailyiowan.com for more news Sp tlight Iowa City The Daily Iowan Volume 143 Issue 186 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: 2 UIHC nurses singled out E-mail: [email protected] William Casey . 335-5788 Fax: 335-6297 Editors-in-Chief: Hayley Bruce . .. 335-6030 CORRECTIONS Sam Lane. .335-6030 Since 2005, 95 Call: 335-6030 Metro Editors: Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Alison Sullivan .. 335-6063 nurses from accuracy and fairness in the report- Luke Voelz . .335-6063 ing of news. If a report is wrong or Opinions Editor: misleading, a request for a correc- Benjamin Evans . 335-5863 UIHC have been Sports Editor: tion or a clarification may be made. 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The list is maintained by the Iowa Hospital Association and is culled from more Send address changes to: The Daily Heidi Owen. 335-5789 “A disease is a family dis- than 13,000 Iowa nurses. (The Daily Iowan/Ian Servin) Iowan, 100 Adler Journalism Building, ease; it’s not just an indi- Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2004. vidualized disease and said teamwork is important. the UIHC, she has helped Dolezal and Roberts process,” sai7d Roberts, the “We’re more like a team patients through every type serve as role models for UI vascular nurse coordinator with the physician. We’re of surgery imaginable. As a students, said Keela Herr, at the University of Iowa on the same level — we’re manger, she must know the associate dean for fac- TOP STORIES Hospitals and Clinics. “We part of a team,” Roberts how to balance patients ulty at the UI College of see a lot of patients come said. “We aren’t waiting for needs with staff needs. Nursing. Most-read stories on dailyiowan.com from Friday.