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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 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- P and Ann trations were fueled after the h Morningstar looks o Williamson, a regents, as a whole, voted to t o terminate the nearly $200,000 I UI clinical l l to improve u search and start over. s assistant t r Hawkeye wrestler Ryan a professor of Rothman, who was involved t i Morningstar knows only his o endodontics, with the 2007 UI presidential n best effort will be acceptable b will head the search, said the regents will y at Minnesota and Wisconsin. R group. Williamson only enhance this search o b During the UI clinical assis- committee. Sports, 1B i n S first search to tant professor of v e replace endodontics SEE SEARCH, 3A c Certainly / T h e Compelling D a i l Riverside Theatre’s Doubt: A y POLITICS I o Nelle Dunlap/The Daily Iowan Parable offers an intense and w a questioning tale of possible n abuse, a perfect fit for the already intimate Iowa City theater staple. Arts & Culture, 7A dailyiowan.com Health officials pan For photos, videos, audio, blogs, and more, check us out online at: dailyiowan.com British study on sex Daily updates Now check back at A report in the UK purports to show that dailyiowan.com during the day for the latest news one’s college major shapes one’s sex life. Whitney Wright/The Daily Iowan on the UI and Iowa City. By Kelli Shaffner and the medical-student sexual- Daniel Ellsberg, famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers, speaks THE DAILY IOWAN UI students’ sexual partner number shows that the in Hancher Auditorium on Monday. During his hourlong speech, Daily Iowan TV behavior newspaper that introduced the he frequently compared President Bush with former President To watch Daily Iowan TV, Choosing a college or major study — The Varsity — is more Richard Nixon. go online at dailyiowan.com could determine your sex life, UK In 2007: interested in sensationalized or tune into UITV. The researchers have announced. • 24 percent had no sexual news than in the scientific expla- 15-minute newscast is on A recent study of 1,000 Cam- partner nation. Sunday through Thursday bridge University students found • 50 percent had one sexual Tanya Villhauer, the assistant at 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., the academically poor colleges partner director of Health Iowa, said that with reruns at 12:30 and have high levels of sexually • 12 percent had two sexual although she believes the study 1:30 a.m. and 7:45 and active students. partners is invalid, there could be some When U.S. 8:45 a.m. the following day. But some at the UI don’t take • 6 percent had three sexual worthwhile aspects. the study too seriously, contend- partners “I don’t know how serious some Today’s webcast ing that it isn’t • 8 percent had four or more disciplines are,” she said. “Some scientific and sexual partners might gravitate toward being Watch Daily Iowan TV to see any direct corre- Source: UI Student Health’s 2007 precise intellectually, and might presidents lie what the UI is doing to help lation between National College Health Assessment not have time. There might be students quit smoking. the number of Sex vs. summary truth to it, but I think it still President Bush is the equivalent WEATHER sexual partners academics depends on an individual.” and grades or Watch Daily Iowan — such as stress, relationship To make a solid conclusion on of a modern-day Nixon, area of interest TV at issues, and sicknesses — that the information given in the is hard to prove. dailyiowan.com also serve as a barrier to study would be “going out on a Daniel Ellsberg says. “I think they to learn more about academics. limb,” she said. By Terry McCoy Pentagon Papers to the the recent According to the study, the col- But, she noted, sexual activity nation through the New York should look at Cambridge THE DAILY IOWAN numerous fac- University sex lege that ranked second for aca- can be very healthy. Times and the Washington Very windy, cloudy, turning tors, including study. demics last year in an academic “I don’t think having sex just to Daniel Ellsberg was con- Post. Among other things, the much colder in the afternoon, have sex [is healthy],” she said. vinced he was going to 70% chance of snow/sleet, with how many sexu- ranking of UK schools — Christ’s papers dispelled the notion a return to wind-chill country. al encounters included alcohol,” College at Cambridge — had the Knox estimates that Student prison. For the rest of his life. that U.S. presidents are © Health buys an average of 80,000 said Renae Knox, a UI student largest number of virgins. Or at least 115 years on 12 always truthful. condoms to give away, even felonies. 34 1 C -2 -19 C and health-promotion assistant. It also purported to show that The 7,000-page document © though the facility reported in “They don’t have any of that mathematicians were most likely It was 1973, and Ellsberg, 2007 that 74 percent of students revealed the government’s to be virgins and that students who had worked on Robert INDEX information available.” had either none or one sexual often deceitful policymaking involved in medical studies had McNamara’s top-secret study Although knowing a correla- partner; 8 percent said they had process during the Vietnam Opinions 6A tion between GPA and sexual an average of at least eight of U.S.