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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 Friday, February 8, 2008 INSIDE Rove has UI HAWKEYES smother date Spartans, win seventh-straight By Brian Stewert Iowa senior Johanna THE DAILY IOWAN Solverson scores her 1000th Knowing that bringing such a career point as the prominent conservative figure to Hawkeyes pummel Michigan liberal Iowa City would spark con- State, 84-62, to remain tied troversy, the UI Lecture Commit- for first place in the Big Ten. tee withheld its announcement Sports, 1B that Karl Rove will speak on cam- Quit Mitt pus about his Republican presidential- years as the nomination hopeful Mitt “architect” of the Romney suspends his Bush administra- campaign. Nation, 2A tion until Thurs- day. Rove is set to Blissfully visit the UI cam- Rove pus on Feb. 17 for Former deputy ignorant is the an on-stage chief of staff and interview with UI senior adviser to way to shop Robin Svec/The Daily Iowan President Bush Uninformed shoppers are UI freshman Heather Tracy stands outside the College of Nursing on Thursday. The Minnesota native will return to her home state journalism Associ- generally happier with their ate Professor Frank Durham. purchases than informed because of cuts in undergraduate nursing admissions. The lecture, “Reflections from shoppers, researchers find. the Architect,” is part of the 2007- Campus, 4A 08 UI Lecture Series and will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 in the Smith, Lickliter to IMU Main Lounge. The onstage URSING SWITCH interview will be followed by an meet Saturday N audience question-and-answer First-year Big Ten coaches session. Tubby Smith and Todd Sharon Benzoni, the chair- Lickliter will see their teams woman of the UI Lecture Commit- take to the hardwood tee, said the group will bring Rove, Saturday in Minneapolis, By LaurenUPSET Skiba Nursing worriesS SOME the former deputy chief of staff and marking the first meeting THE DAILY IOWAN Watch Daily Iowan TV, Nursing senior adviser to President Bush, between the coaches since dailyiowan.com to learn more about Old Admissions Policies to the UI campus for several being hired. Sports, 1B In second grade, Heather Tracy’s UI students who are feeling anxious • 75 undergraduate admissions two reasons. sister was sent to the hospital for a after the College of Nursing altered its enrollment. times per year SEE ROVE, BACK PAGE Garden of eatin’ week. taking half as many undergraduate • Early admission with 3.5 GPA Ever since then, the now UI fresh- New Admissions Policies A UI student wants to create students and giving the remaining man knew she wanted to become a • 75 undergraduate admissions once a program that would allow spaces to master’s students who decid- Karl Rove Lecture nurse — and her dream took a step a year children in Iowa City to ed late to become nurses. “Reflections From The Architect” forward when Tracy got accepted to • Clinical Nurse Leader Masters participate in the growing “I was really mad,” Tracy said. “I • Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m. the UI. Program season. State, 5A was mad that they didn’t tell us the • Doors open at 6:30 p.m., east Now, only five months after moving • 75 graduate admissions once a year extremities of [the admission entrance only Darling Nikki to Iowa City, Tracy is planning on • IMU Main Lounge going back to Minnesota and trying process].” Iowa’s own Peter Parker, As long as these students have the “Truthfully, I think the students • Format will be interview with UI her luck there. should think about considering nurs- journalism Associate Professor Nikki Lunden, celebrates the Up until this year, the nursing nursing prerequisite, they can apply release of her fourth solo ing as a master’s option,” said nursing Frank Durham, followed by school accepted 75 undergraduate for what is called Clinical Nurse album, Depends on the Professor Kathleen Clark. audience Q & A students twice a year. But because of Leader Masters Program, which takes Weather. • Not allowed: large parcels, faculty shortages, the school is only 18 months to complete. SEE NURSING, 3A Arts and Culture, 7A handbags, bottles, cans, signs, cameras or recording devices, bags or backpacks, purses larger dailyiowan.com than 8.5 by 11 inches. For photos, videos, audio, blogs, and more, check us out online at: dailyiowan.com The UIHC proposes a project $850 MILLION Daily updates that could cost up to . Now check back at Hospitals working dailyiowan.com during the day for the latest news UIHC thinking big on the UI and Iowa City. Daily Iowan TV to decrease errors To watch Daily Iowan TV, An abundance of medical errors instill fear in about the future go online at dailyiowan.com or tune into UITV. The the public despite health-care institutions’ efforts. By Clara Hogan 15-minute newscast is on By Zhi Xiong THE DAILY IOWAN UIHC by the numbers Sunday through Thursday THE DAILY IOWAN AMES — Using a ballpark price tag of An increase in patients, a decrease of at 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., $700 million to $850 million, UI Hospi- space in the past two years with reruns at 12:30 and Most people will walk out of a hospital tals and Clinics officials told the state increase of adult critical 1:30 a.m. and 7:45 and without being subjected to a blunder. Board of Regents Thursday they want to care days. 8:45 a.m. the following day. But health-care providers do break 13 % build a new children’s hospital and a crit- the ancient promise to “first, do no ical-care tower, have all private patient Today’s webcast harm.” The Institute for Healthcare rooms, and make major renovations to Pediatric critical care • Proposed smoking bill Improvement estimates 15 million mis- existing facilities in the next 10 years. days have increased by • Men’s basketball recap takes occur annually, or 40,000 cases Jean Robillard, the UI vice president 10% every day. for Medical Affairs, said hospital beds are WEATHER “It’s on everybody’s mind, and people full and space is limited because of an increase of neonatal are almost scrambling to find things to increase in patients over the past few 15 % intensive care days. do to fix it,” said Mary Blegen, a profes- years, adding there is a “critical and sor in community health systems and urgent need” to build, demolish, and ren- director for patient safety at the Univer- ovate several facilities. financial officer.The hospital will not ask sity of California-San Francisco School Over the past two years, UIHC has the regents for any funding. of Nursing.. seen an increase of 20,000 patients, or 12 The regents were presented a map of Awareness of the problem has drawn percent. Robillard wants to add 350 new the hospital and its surrounding areas as response from hospitals. Thousands of Windy, mostly cloudy, beds over the next five years to keep up hospital officials explained the complexi- 50% chance of snow. health institutions, including dozens with that increase. ty of adding on to the building, which is from Iowa, volunteered for the Institute “We have more people coming from © surrounding by many important build- for Healthcare Improvement’s 100,000 community hospitals, an older popula- ings. The only feasible area to build on, 32 0 C 21 -6 C Lives Campaign, pledging to work on six tion that is requiring more health treat- © estimated 122,000 lives — and more they said, would be in the north/north- factors known to cause complications. than 1,300 Iowans. ment, plus we are offering a fuller range west area of the hospital, where the Cen- INDEX Certain goals were as basic as pre- Success encouraged participation in of services compared with past years,” he ter for Disabilities and Development and venting surgical site infections and ven- the subsequent 5 Million Lives said. “We need to compensate for this.” the hospital’s parking lot 1 sit. 6A Arts 7A Opinions tilator-associated pneumonia. By June Campaign. The budget for these projects would Classifieds 4B Sports 1B 2006, 18 months after its beginning, the come from hospital revenues and philan- Crossword 6B campaign exceeded its goal by saving an SEE ERRORS, BACK PAGE thropy, said Ken Fisher, the UIHC’s chief SEE UIHC, 3A 2A - The Daily Iowan - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, February 8, 2008 News dailyiowan.com for more news The Daily Iowan ISU intelligent-design Volume 139 Issue 135 BREAKING NEWS STAFF Phone: (319) 335-6063 Publisher: E-mail: [email protected] William Casey. .335-5788 Fax: 335-6184 Editor: Jason Brummond. .335-6030 CORRECTIONS Managing Editor: Call: 335-6030 Brittany Volk. .335-5855 prof loses tenure bid Policy: The Daily Iowan strives for Metro Editors: Geoffroy upheld his decision He was allowed to be present for accuracy and fairness in the reporting Emileigh Barnes. .335-6063 when Gonzalez appealed last the vote and to present regents of news. 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