THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 The Daily Iowan TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2006 WWW.DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ HURRICANE KATRINA Not 1 year later, Katrina’s marks remain exactly a grind The Princeton Review ranks UI students no. 1 in studying the least BY BRYCE BAUER THE DAILY IOWAN When it comes to doing stuff, UI students aren’t, well, actually doing much. At all. A recent report from the The Princeton Review ranked UI students first in the nation for “(Almost) Never” studying but rated the university No. 9 for partying — the only other activity-related category in which the UI placed. While such reviews and other sur- veys that measure quality of life may lure media attention Rachel Mummey/The Daily Iowan around the Steven Parrott Karen Blomme on Monday sits in the kitchen of her Davenport home, where she and her husband moved after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their New Orleans home. The UI grad- country, many local Director of uate student is working on an M.F.A. in printmaking; she also teaches art at Bettendorf High School. officials University Relations BY ERIC RODRIGUEZ adjust quickly. dead and relocated more than 1 The couple escaped to Iowa say the CHECK OUT Her art was “simpler, more million families from the Gulf after Katrina hit, leaving rankings really don’t mat- THE DAILY IOWAN ter much overall. TODAY’S DITV focused, because I had less stuff Coast. behind a life built while NEWSCAST — Hurricane Katrina made Blomme studied art at the Uni- “I think they get people’s around me,” she said. “But now “It was awful; we were down attention,” said Emil AVAILABLE ON some parts of life simpler for I’m returning to a more chaotic [in New Orleans],” Blomme versity of New Orleans. Now CABLE CHANNEL finishing her studies at the UI, Rinderspacher, the senior Karen Blomme. style.” said, recollecting her experi- associate director of 17, CAMPUS 4, Blomme is one of 2,300 people The Davenport-based artist Blomme is a survivor of what ences in the Big Easy when the Admissions. “I don’t think OR DAILYIOWAN.COM — FOR OUR who, at one point, fled to Iowa lost the bulk of her art supplies FEMA officials call the third- hurricane pummeled the coast. students and parents STORY ABOUT THE KATRINA-DIS- to the devastating hurricane worst hurricane in U.S. history “We were in America, and it felt because of Katrina. choose a school based on PLACED ARTIST. “We have matched the culture that slammed into the Gulf — a storm that a year ago today like we were in a Third World their rankings.” Coast a year ago, and she had to left more than 1,000 people country.” SEE KATRINA, PAGE 4A And the university isn’t alone when it comes to appearing on myriad lists. The state of Iowa itself claims sixth in the nation in “most livable” and “healthi- It’s a wireless est” — as rated by a 2005 Morgan Quitno Press survey. Nor does Iowa City escape the listing, sorting, and fil- jungle out there ing. But despite thousands of hooch hoodlums at the UI, CHECK OUT DITV — CABLE somebody, somewhere is CHANNEL 17, PAST ELECTRONIC apparently learning … sort CAMPUS 4, OR of. DAILYIOWAN.COM SECURITY In 2002, USA Today — FOR MORE ON ranked Iowa City third UNSECURED BREACHES AT WIRELESS SEE SURVEY, PAGE 3A NETWORKS ON CAMPUS. THE UI BY MATT NELSON • In 1996, Joseph Hentzel hacked into the UI e-mail NO. 1 RANKED THE DAILY IOWAN system, infiltrating even the Your unsecured wireless president’s e-mail account. SCHOOLS IN He was charged with criminal router could be the most dan- mischief and criminal tres- VARIOUS gerous thing you bring on cam- passing and more than 2,000 pus. counts of electronic eaves- While conducting a recent dropping. IRREVERENT audit of the UI territory for • In August 2003, the Lindsey Walters/The Daily Iowan CATEGORIES wireless signals, officials dis- Internet infection Provost Michael Hogan stands in front of a bookshelf in his Jessup Hall office on Monday afternoon. Hogan covered a number of unsecured Blaster.Worm hit the UI cam- • Their Students (Almost) wireless routers running on the pus and infected hundreds of will deliver a speech titled “Clio and Me: The Story of a Diplomatic Historian who became Provost” in the Never Study: University of campus. Only half of them were computers. Information- Congregational Church at noon today. Iowa (No. 2: University of encrypted, the audit found. technology workers worked Mississippi) overtime to fight the bug. There are many dangers • Party School: University of • In May 2005, as many as Texas-Austin (UI: No. 9) associated with running an 30,000 credit-card and stu- unsecured wireless network. dent-ID numbers were • Lots of Hard Liquor: Anyone can log into the net- Life of books, degrees, Louisiana State University accessed from a computer in work and use bandwidth for the University Book Store, (UI: No. 12) anything, from e-mail access or but no identity theft or fraud • Teaching Assistants Teach instant messaging to down- was committed. Too Many Upper-Level loading child pornography, as • On July 12, a laptop that Courses: University of was the case with one Toronto contained M.B.A. students’ & a security clearance Illinois-Urbana/Champaign names, contact information, man in 2004. BY BEN FORNELL UI Provost Michael Hogan, vice president, F. Wendell Miller (UI: No. 14) and Social Security numbers • Lots of Beer: University of “If you live in an apartment was stolen from a UI faculty who will be delivering the first professor of history, and Provost; THE DAILY IOWAN Wisconsin-Madison and you have an unsecured member’s office in speech in the 2006-07 Iowa City for the latter position, Hogan wireless network, you’re more (UI: No. 15) Davenport. So far, no identity He has nine books, three titles, Foreign Relations Council lecture oversees five colleges and 41 exposed,” said Soura Dasgupta, theft or fraud has been Source: The Princeton a security clearance from the series on Wednesday, is a man departments and is considered to reported. State Department, and a piece of with a very long résumé. Review SEE WIRELESS, PAGE 4A the Berlin Wall. Today, he is the UI executive SEE HOGAN, PAGE 3A STORY OF O-LINE GIVE IT UP THE LION SINGS INDEX 75 24 C The Hawkeye offensive line returns a The Volunteer Fair is a better than fair Arts 7A,8A © TONIGHT © Mostly cloudy, wealth of expericence, along with one opportunity to show you care. 2A Classifieds 4B breezy, 40% Tall As Lions members apologize for Crossword 6B 59 15 C guy who has bigger than big shoes chance of rain/ neither their ratty suits or their sense Opinions 6B to fill. 1B T-storms of humor. 7A Sports 1B 2A - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Tuesday, August 29, 2006 NEWS The Daily Iowan Volume 138 Issue 48 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Fair stresses giving time Publisher: Phone: (319) 335-6063 E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. 335-5788 Editor: Fax: 335-6184 CHECK OUT DITV — CABLE CHANNEL Meghan Sims. .335-6030 CORRECTIONS 17, CAMPUS 4, Managing Editor: VOLUNTEER FAIR Call: 335-6030 Jane Slusark. 335-5855 OR Metro Editors: DAILYIOWAN.COM Some of the 80 organizations Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for accuracy and fairness in the reporting Mason Kerns. .335-6063 — FOR MORE ON that will be represented at Seung Min Kim. .335-6063 UNSECURED Wednesday’s Volunteer Fair, of news. 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