THE INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 The Daily Iowan WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2007 WWW.DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ Gender Culver works to keep caucuses first gap in BY COLIN BURKE During the National Governor’s have no power to change the date — In the New England state, which THE DAILY IOWAN Association’s winter meeting, which any moves would have to come from holds the nation’s first primary, the opens on Saturday,Culver will focus on the Iowa Democratic Party. secretary of State has the power to Gov. Chet Culver has vowed to the importance of ensuring that Iowa’s While Anderson did not elaborate set the date of the event. Mean- keep Iowa first in the presidential- caucuses — scheduled for Jan. 14 — on what the governor would discuss while, Nevada will hold its caucuses crime nominating process, even if that remain first, said Brad Anderson, the regarding the scheduling of the on Jan. 19 — wedged between BY EMILEIGH BARNES requires scooting up the date of its governor’s communications director. Iowa caucuses, the spokesman Iowa’s Jan. 14 caucuses and New THE DAILY IOWAN caucuses — a move some say could Because the Democratic caucuses added that the governor would Hampshire’s Jan. 22 primary. trigger other states to reorganize are scheduled by the Democratic speak with New Hampshire Gov. Culver In the past 30 years, the number their election events. National Committee, Culver would John Lynch about the issue. SEE CAUCUSES, PAGE 4A governor of men who are victims of aggra- vated and simple assaults have disproportionately dropped com- pared with the number of women, according to a study recently pre- sented by a UI professor. First-time research indicates a gender gap in victims of violent crime, which has fluctuated since the 1970s, said the two study NEEDLEWORK heads, UI sociology Professor Karen Heimer and Janet Laurit- sen, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. “Nobody has looked at this,” Heimer said on Tuesday. “Isn’t that amazing?” The number of females assaulted nationwide didn’t begin to decrease until 1993, while the number of male victims has been on the decline for more than 30 years, according to their data. “Looking at victimization data nationally, men’s rates for crimes, including but especially aggravated and simple assault, have been dropping off since the ’70s,” Heimer said. “Women’s rates didn’t drop until ’93.” The two discussed their study, titled “Gender, Violence, and Victimization: Female and Male Patterns Over Time,” on Feb. 16 in San Francisco as a part of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. SEE CRIME, PAGE 4A STUDY FINDS A study of nationwide crime showed several trends and sex differences that include: • Female rates of victimization have remained higher than men for homicide and violence with intimate partners. • Today, men and women are near- ly equally at risk for robbery, aggra- vated assault, and simple assault committed by non-strangers. • Victimization of men in aggra- Beth Skogen/The Daily Iowan vated and simple assaults UI intermedia graduate student Shawn Reed embroiders in his studio at the International Center on Tuesday. Influenced by shrines and temples he saw in Japan, began to decline in the 1970s. he will combine sewing, embroidery, knitting and volcanic sand on a wooden shrine-like table that he will construct for an exhibition at Little Cakes Gallery in New • Victimization of women in aggra- York in the late fall. Reed’s idea came from the many drawings and sketches he has done, and he says there are interpretations of mythological and pseudo-reli- vated and simple assaults began gious themes present in the piece. “It is very much about the craft that comes from the interaction with the material,” he said. to decline in the mid 1990s. Source: “Gender, Violence, and Victimization: Female and Male Patterns Over Time” RIGHT-TO-WORK UISG VOTES TO SPLIT UI Student Government passes controversial new constitution Lawmakers consider BY DANE SCHUMANN bicameral entity. That would then be THE DAILY IOWAN divided into the UISG, representing undergraduates, and the Executive The current structure of the UI Stu- Council of Graduate and Professional fair-share measure dent Government would be in for a Students. major change if a new constitution According to the proposal, a com- BY ERIC RODRIGUEZ What that cost would be is passed during its Tuesday meeting is mittee was set up a year ago to “initi- THE DAILY IOWAN still up for debate in the implemented. ate formal separation between the Iowa House, but Dunham Gary Dunham, the secretary- The new constitution, which would undergraduate senates and the grad- said it could be the same fee treasurer for Teamsters Local McElligott create one group representing under- uate and professional senate.” The union members pay for mem- UISG graduate and another for graduate committee met during the past year to 238, is frustrated at nonunion bership, minus commissions president and professional students, passed discuss UISG’s possible new look. workers laughing at his fellow for union donations and amid numerous abstentions. Last night, the Student Assembly union members. political activity. “It’s completely irresponsible of passed the new constitution after a “I know most of the nonunion Teamsters in the private sec- most people in the undergraduate sen- flurry of debate and procedural moves. members take the benefits, and tor pay two-and-a-half times the ate,” said Graduate and Professional But some undergraduate senators some of them make fun of [the hourly wage per month to Student Senate member Taylor Heim. took issue with some of the procedural union workers] for paying for belong to the union, while “[The new constitution] is a fundamen- wrangling. it,” he said. Teamsters in the public sector tal shift in how we function … and “[The constitution] was bullied But that heckling may soon pay two-and-a-quarter times they tried to railroad it tonight.” through in the separations commit- stop if fair-share legislation being the hourly wage. Public mem- The new constitution, barring any tee,” said undergraduate senator Sean discussed in the Iowa Legislature bers pay less because they don’t Stark judicial intervention, would create Brady. “It’s against student interest.” is approved; the measure would pay for strike benefits. UISG vice the Partnership of Shared Govern- require nonunion members to president ments at Iowa, the overarching SEE UISG, PAGE 4A pay a fee for union services. SEE UNION, PAGE 4A WATER WORLD, ETC. PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE VIVE LE CINÉMA INDEX 52 11 C The UI’s new recreation center will Danny Wilcox Frazier, a UI alum and A graduate student starts a film Arts 7A © © feature many aquatic facilities, in DI photography coach, wins the series to change people’s Classifieds 4B Crossword 6B 25 -4 C addition to fitness rooms, basketball Duke Center for Documentary attitudes about French film. 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