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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

INSIDE GGETTINGETTING THE THE DIRT DIRT UIHC-head search on Iowa State University study shows A search committee to find a new water quality can still be improved head of the UI Hospitals and across the state, for a price. By Janessa Ensinger on crops and animal waste. These Clinics was announced Monday. Lickliter pleased, THE DAILY IOWAN chemicals and waste soak into the By Clara Hogan soil, causing its release into THE DAILY IOWAN Timeline of events not yet ‘satisfied’ When you see green groundwater or to run off into The search for a new UIHC Coming off a solid win, Todd algae on the Iowa River, rivers and streams. Two members of the state head Lickliter says Iowa has don’t think spring, think The study determined how much Board of Regents will serve on plenty to improve before cha-ching. is already spent on conservation, the search committee to find a • Oct. 8, 2007 — Jean travleing to Purdue. A study from Iowa what the effects are of these meth- new leader Robillard, the UI vice president Sports, 1B State University Cen- ods, and what would it take to for the UI for Medical Affairs, tells Donna ter for Agricultural and improve the water quality to specif- Hospitals and Katen-Bahensky he and UI Rural Development ic standards. A 40 percent reduction Clinics. President Sally Mason have Lou Gehrig’s estimates it would cost in phosphates would trigger Jean Robil- decided not to renew Katen- breakthrough? Iowans $613 million to nitrates to drop by 31 percent. Cur- lard, the UI Bahensky’s contract. UI researchers have found a reduce phosphorus rently,phosphorus reductions range vice president • Nov. 6, 2007 — Katen- drug that extends the lives of runoff from farming by 40 from 25 to 58 percent depending on for Medical Bahensky resigns in a letter to mice with a certain form of percent across the state. the watershed. Nitrate reductions Affairs, Robillard. the paralyzing disease. This is in addition to the estimated range from 6 to 28 percent. appointed Robillard • Dec. 5, 2007 — Katen- Regents Campus, 4A $435 million already spent on con- Jeri Neal, the ISU Leopold Cen- UI vice president Bahensky’s move to head Robert Downer servation methods in the state. ter for Sustainable Agriculture pro- for Medical Affairs University of Wisconsin and Jack “This is obviously costly to do gram leader for ecological systems Hospital becomes public. State of transition Evans as two and probably not reasonable to ask and research for sustainable agri- • Dec. 13, 2007 — Gordon President Bush gives his farmers to ante up and do on their of the 21 Williams, a senior Duke culture, says the study proves panel mem- final State of the Union own,” said Catherine Kling, an ISU Iowans value water quality and are University official, becomes speech before Congress. professor of economics who worked bers, accord- interim head. willing to invest in it. She also said ing to an Nation, 2A on the study. • Monday — A search she thinks the state will use this e-mail he sent The study served as information information to make incentives bet- to hospital committee is appointed. Of plastics and for the public and for policymakers ter, which will help make more faculty, staff, to help decide whether more fund- gains in water conservation. and adminis- former UI President David paper ing should be available for conser- “I think it will be an investment tration Mon- Rothman Skorton in 2006, then-Regent vation through taxes or left up to The UI has received two that will pay itself off rapidly,” said day. UI internal- Teresa Wahlert headed the individual farmers, she said. grants that will help it Neal. Paul Roth- medicine head search and there were several Water in the state of Iowa is recycle plastics better. man, the UI regents on the committee. This affected by farming chemicals used City, 5A SEE DIRT, 3A internal-med- created controversy in the UI icine head, community, and people’s frus-

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